Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that the next chapter is the last one for this story. I decided to end it, writing six stories at the same time can get little stressful and confusing. I think this story had run its course. I hope you all continue to support me and read my other stories.

I will also be ending Moving On & Holding On soon.

I'm working now on the next chapter of A Baby Changes Everything, hope to post it soon.

Also, to the ones who keep sending me new story ideas. I just wanted to let you know that I do like your ideas, lots of them seem pretty good. But I can't start a new story at this time, like I said it difficult to keep updating when you have so many stories going. So for now I'm going to focus on the ones I have going, maybe after I finish a few of my other stories I'll consider writing one of you guys ideas.

Thanks for reading and reviewing, I would also like to thank the ones who give me their opinion on the questions I asked in the last chapter, It meant a lot.

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Cindy : )

Prefect Match

Chapter 24

Peyton stirred and stretched as she roused to the real world once again. She picked up the aroma of cinnamon-spice, fresh blueberries and other spices he mixed into the pancake batter…spices and fruits she loved when mixed that way and covered in maple-honey syrup over a topping of creamy butter.

The faint clang-clanging of a plate, spatula and what may be the skillet being moved around on the stove top reached her ears. She shook her head and gave off a silent sigh while her eyes danced with laughter; she knew the disaster in the kitchen that often happened with Lucas doing the cooking. Still, it's the extent of the effort he went to that made her love him all the more.

Her eyes slowly travelled to the hand that lay in front of her on the pillow. She noticed the diamond ring on her ring finger and smiled slightly, at the memory, they got engaged last night, well not last night early this morning, she can't believe it actually happen, last night she went to sleep in Katie's bed thinking they were over with, planning on going back home and trying to move on, never did she think that hours later he would be down on one knee.

She looked at the clock, hardly believing it was noon, she has never slept that long, but then again they didn't really go right to sleep after he purposed, after getting the girl clam down and back to bed, the couple made love over and over in the early morning hours, before drifting off to sleep around eight.

She smiles widely as she gets out of bed, grabs some clothes and heads for the shower.

A few moments later, Lucas's sharp hearing had picked up the nearly silent footfalls of Peyton coming down the steps and toward the kitchen. He turned his head to see the loving smile she bore for him, and the wild, mischievous delight that played in her eyes. He scan her body, loving that she decided to wear a dress, She shook her head in stark silence as he shifted from place to place, flowing between each with the grace of long-practice and experience until they had become second nature.

Patiently bearing with him, Peyton clapped her hands and silently laughed with each maneuver was finished. He danced and flowed between the kitchen and the small table; placing stacked pancakes, plates and syrup, silverware and small cups upon the finest of china saucers, plus a steaming pitcher of the spiced tea they shared each morning.

"My lady I have made a most excellent breakfast for your Excellency to dine upon this morning," he said with a courtly bow to his beautiful girlfriend.. His smile beamed like the sun, filled with love, as he realized she wasn't his girlfriend anymore, she was now his fiancé...

" Well thank you fine Sir." she says, as she bows to him. She then came over and wrapped her arms around his bare waste, then ran her hands up and down the iron-hard muscles of his body.

" Morning baby." he said, as he bends to kiss her

" Don't you mean afternoon?" she teased when they broke apart.

He just shrugged his shoulders and kissed her again, " Your breakfast is getting cold, come on." he said, as he walked her over to the table, he sat down in the chair, then pulled her onto his lap. She just smiled, as he picked up the fork and feed her.

"Mmm.. that's good." she said, as he continued to feed her, " Where is everyone?"

" Out on the beach, I believe, "

She nodded then notices the draws on the table " What is that?" she laughed, as she looks at the drawing, its one big stick person, and tow small stick people.

Lucas laughed, " Our daughters, are making your wedding dress, and theirs, so I hope you don't have a problem wearing a pink grown, cause that's what they're planning"

She laughs out loud, before taking a drink of her tea, " I really don't care what color my dress is, I'm just happy you're going to be my husband." she whispered, as she kissed him. " I can't believe we're engaged, "

He cups her face, " Well believe it, I am so in love with you Peyton Sawyer, I can't wait to make you my wife." they kiss a bit more.

She finished her breakfast, then asked him to come for a walk with her, they walked around town holding hands, and laughing, she stops once the get to the docks, " We need to talk." she says, as she sit down.

He swallows hard, wondering what she had on her mind. " What's wrong?" he asked as he sit beside her, grabbing her hand.

" Nothing is wrong Lucas, " she tells him in her serious tone, giving him a little peck, " There are somethings I think we need to talk about."

" Like what?"

"Well, first off, this.." she says, as she raised her hand. pointing to her ring, a confused look crossed his face. " Did Nathan buy my ring?" she asked, already knowing the answer. She remember the conversation they had about money, the other day.

He closed his eyes, " Peyton... "

" Lucas I will pay Nate back when we get back home, "

"No, you won't" he said loudly, causing people to stop in look at them. "Sorry, didn't mean to yell, Peyton I can't let you do that."

" You can't let me? I'm not asking for your permission Lucas, I'm just telling you, I can't wear this knowing Nate pay for it, "

" Peyton, I will pay Nathan back, someday, somehow, " He said, as he let go of her hand. " I can't let you do it, the guy buys the ring, not the girl"

"Lucas Scott, we are not back in the fifths " she said, giving him a look, " There is nothing wrong with a girl paying for her engagement ring, or her wedding band. I really have no problem doing it."

" Please let me handled Nathan," he begged.

She rolls her eyes, " Lucas, we are getting married, its suppose to be fifty\ fifty. What mine is yours I want you to feel like you can come to me if you need anything, I love you, I want to share my wealth with you and Katie. "

" Peyton " he began to protest.

She put her finger to his lips, " look, I will let you handle Nathan and never bring up this subject again, if you promise me one thing." she paused, " that you will come to me when you or Katie need something, or want something. And you won't feel like your living off me, cause you're not. I know you love me for me and not my money. I see it in your eyes every time you look at me, I feel it in my lips every time you kiss me."

" I promise, " he whispered, as he lean over kissing her sweetly.

" Good" she said, as she laid her head on his shoulder, " now, we need to talk about Josh."

" I know." he sighed. " what do you think we should do?" he asks as he reached for her hand.

" I think we should take him in." she told him honestly. She sat up looking at him. " he's Katie's brother, he's about to lose his mom. He deserves to be with people who will love him, and it's Christina last request."

He nods, " I know..." he said then started to play with the ring on her finger. " what about us?... We want a baby, you said so the other night. You still want that right?"

" I want to have your baby, someday. But we can hold off for a few years, I don't mind. I will be happy as long as you, Katie, Kelly and Josh are happy.? We can always Have a baby later in life. "

" your amazing, you know that?" he tells her in an awe voice

" so I've been told." she teases, before pecking his lips.

They sat their in silents for a while, before Lucas spoke again. " do you we tell Katie about her mom and Josh?"

"Well...to be honest...in my opinion I don't think we should." He ached his eye brow at her, " I think she is to young, and she doesn't even know her, Christina doesn't even want to meet her, so telling her that her mom is in town, and she just told us she is dying, but she doesn't want to meet you. Will hurt her, why put her through that?"

" Yeah, I get that...What do we tell them about Josh? We can't just walk in with a baby and say we found him and decided to take him back home with us."

She smiled, a little..." No, we can't do that, they are curious six years olds they will have tons of questions..."she bit her lip, as she thought for a moment. " We can tell them, that his mom is real sick and she can't take care of him and asked us to, "

" You think that would work?"

She shrugged, " I don't know, I think we should go back and sit down and have a little talk with them, and try are hardest to answer any questions they might have. We can always tell them the truth when they get older, I just feel their both to young to understand the situation."

" Me to, "

" One more thing before we go"

" What?"

" Why didn't you tell me you were a writer?"

He closed his eyes, " I'm going to kill my mom, " he shakes his head, " I'm not a writer, I wrote one book for Katie when she was like a year old I believe, and a few poems about dreams and sleeping crazy things like that...No big deal."

" First off., your mom didn't tell me, the girls did, I readied the book to them last night when I was putting them to bed, and second off you are a writer, an amazing one, Luke that book is really good. Why haven't you sent it off?"

" Please like anyone would read it."

" A bet a few thousands of kids around the world would. It would make a really good children's book."

" Peyton, it doesn't even have pictures its ...

" We draw some" she said cutting him off. " We can come up with a title, I can draw the pictures and we can send it out, I have a good friend back in New York who is an editor, I will run it by her just see what she says, it she doesn't like it, then I drop that subject to...please..." she said, as she batted her eyelashes at him...

"Fine, you can send it to her."

They walked back into the beach house, and see the girls laying on the floor watching tv.. " Hey Mama, Hey Lucas." Kelly said, as she turned to face the couple.

" Hey baby, " Peyton said, as she sit down beside her. " Katie, honey could you please turn off the tv, we need to talk to you girls."

"Okay.." Katie said, as she clicked the tv off, "Are we in trouble?" she asked her dad, as she sat down on his lap.

" No angel, Peyton and I just need to tell you girls something, so we want you to listen carefully, and asks all the questions you want."

" We're going to go upstairs and leave you guys alone." Karen said, senses the family moment coming.

" No, please Karen and Dan, sit we want you here to, Lucas and I have made a decided that involves everyone in the family." Peyton said, as Karen and Dan sat down on the chairs across from them.

"Well, first off.. we got some news that we think you both will be very happy about." Peyton told them,

Both girls eyes widen, "What? tell us?" the both said, in an excited voice...

" When we get back to home, we decided to live together...

" Really?" Katie asked, with a huge smile.

" I like our house mama, I don't want to move." Kelly said sadly.

" Oh no baby, we aren't moving, Lucas and Katie are going to move in with us," Peyton said, as she watched her closely, " Is that okay with you?"

" That's awesome!" she yelled, " like we get to share a room and everything...

"Well, no..." Peyton said, as she turn to Katie, " Remember, when you first came to my house and you saw Kelly's room." Katie nodded, " You told your daddy you wanted a room just like hers." Katie nodded again, this time with a huge smile, she knew where this was heading. " Well, I have worked on making that for you, your own room, it's all painted now, Uncle Nathan is supposed to put all the furniture in there before we get back, so it will be already for you."

" My own room, with green walls and drawing like you did Kelly's room?"

" Yes, honey it exactly the way you told me you wanted it."

"Thank you Peyton, " she cried as she throw her arms around Peyton's neck...

" Your welcome baby," Peyton said, as she hugged her back tightly.

" We can leave the bathroom doors open so we can talk to each other every night.."Kelly said,

" That would be so cool." Katie said, as she pulled away from Peyton. " Did you hear grandma, I'm going to have my own room its going to be green and I have a bathroom that connected to Kelly's room, ain't that cool.."

"It sure is sweetheart..."Karen said, sending a wink to Peyton.

Lucas smiled, " So I take it you both are happy about the four us living together?"

" Yup..." the yelled,

" Good, now we have something else to talk to you girls about.."

" Is it about the wedding." Katie asked as she stood up,

" yeah cause we want to be in it." Kelly chimed in.

The couple share a knowing look, " We would love for you both to be apart of our wonderful day," Peyton said, as the girls started jumping up and down. " but lets talk about the wedding later, now we have something kind of important to talk about." She looked at Lucas, " Go ahead."

Lucas pulled out his cell, and opened up his pictures, he had text Emily earlier and asked her to send them a picture of Joshua, so the can show the girls. " Well, when we get ready to go back home, we will be taking home someone else with us."

Both girls smile faded, " What do you mean Lucas?" Kelly asked, as she sat down on the coffee table, staring at her mom and Lucas,

" You girls this is Joshua," he said, showing the girls the picture. " he's coming back to live with us."

Their eyes widen, " Why? " Katie asked,

" Don't he got a mama." Kelly asked,

" His mom is real sick, and she can't take care of him anymore, honey, so we thought that we would take him in since he doesn't have a mommy"

" So I don't have a mommy, why does he have to move in with us." Katie asked, still staring at the picture.

The couple exchanged looks, " Well, sweetheart, you might not have a mommy, but you have a daddy, who loves you, Joshua doesn't have a mommy or a daddy." she told her, watching both girls for their reactions.

" He doesn't have a daddy either, why?" Katie asked innocently

" Because not all kids are as lucky as you girls, some are born with mommy's and daddy's to take care of them, and some are born with just a mommy, or just a daddy. Then there are some who are born without anyone, and that's Josh...he has no mommy, no daddy, no grandma, no grandpa, no aunt Haley, no uncle Nathans, he had no one.."

" This sad" Kelly said, with a frown

" So your going to be his daddy?" Katie asked Lucas,

" Kind of" Lucas said,, not knowing how to answer that questioned, " Are you okay with that?" she didn't answer, she just looked at him.

" Katie, see we want to adopted Josh, so we can be his mommy and daddy, and you girls will be his big sisters, "

" Big sister?" she questioned.

" Yes, since Lucas and I are getting married, that makes us all family, and that means you girls will be sisters, and Josh will be your baby brother."

" That is so cool" Katie said, causing all the adults to laugh, " I always wanted a sister and brothers, he will be a Scott like me?"

" Yeah, he will be a Scott," Lucas told her, not telling her he was already a Scott. "Just like Peyton will be a Scott, when we get married." He said, as he looked over at her.

Katie smiled, " We be like one big happy family, all of us Scotts..." she said, as she looks over at Kelly who was staring down at the floor. " Whats wrong?"

Lucas and Peyton turn their attention to Kelly, noticing she was crying, " Baby, whats wrong?" Peyton asked, as she kneel in front of her.

" Your not going to be Sawyer anymore, " she said, sadly, " I don;t want to lose you mama. I don't want you to be a Scott, I want you to stay a Sawyer.." she cried, looking up into her mama's eyes..

Peyton's heart broke, " Baby, you will never lose me, you are my world, " she said, cupping her face. " I love you so much Angel, " she smiled " I will stay a Sawyer for you. I won't change my last name."

Lucas stood up in kneeled down beside Peyton, " Kelly honey, you know I love you right." she nodded, " Good, I love you and your mom so much," he said, looking at Peyton. " And with your moms permissions,... I would like to adopt you."

" What does the mean?" Kelly asked, as she looked back and forth between her mom and Lucas.

Peyton was staring hard at Lucas, he wasn't to sure what she was thinking, he was really hoping he wasn't stepping out of line here. " It means that I want to be your dad, I want you and your mom to be a Scott."