Archways and Endings

A/N: I feel like I'm telling 3 stories at once and that they are all layering and I have to make sure they match up perfectly. I really should be writing things down. Yet I don't. (So hopefully I don't mess up. And hopefully by the end I make perfect sense.) Thanks for your sweetness guys. It means so much.

Ipodder: I'll never give you any information in a chapter unless it is somewhat important. I'd say follow those instincts. Also thanks for being the first to comment chapter seven.

Dolcegrazia: I hoped you enjoyed the chapter dedicated to you. I really think that teenage Lucas should put some ice on it. Lol.

Team Sophia: YAY. I'm so glad your back. I always love a BLers insight because I want to make sure I'm writing them correctly. So hopefully in your eyes I'm doing just that.

Lalez: Aww thanks Sabine. I do feel special and I love you for it.

Chapter Dedicated to: Cayt326 and SV. Y'all are the best:)

-Kelsey

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Eight: Hurricane Coming All Around Us

June 3, 2017

Charlotte, North Carolina

Paige

We really shouldn't be driving in this weather. We really shouldn't be driving at all. It's raining so hard you can't see anything through the windshield. I'm sitting in the passenger seat of the car but I still am getting carsick with all the swerves and quick movements of the car.

"Mom!" I shout as the nausea rolls in my stomach in waves. I really feel like I'm going to loose the contents of my stomach.

"What?!" She says adjudicated and turns to look at me quickly before settling her eyes on what she can see of the road.

"Oh god! You're going to be sick. Aren't you?"

"I sure as hell feel like it."

"Don't say that." She says and merges over to the other lane.

"What.. hell? Hell, hell, hell, hell, he…."

"Paige Karin Scott enough!"

She reaches her hand under my feet and spits, "Grab the wheel."

I reach over quickly and she soon emerges with a bucket.

"If you're going to be sick, be sick in here." And she hands me the bucket and turns her attention back to the barely visible road.

I'm surprisingly okay with this. This whole leaving Tree Hill after everything. I don't know if mom and I are running away or if we are running scared. And the only reason I saw we is because I'm along for the ride, obviously.

"Paige, you alright?"

"Still feeling sick."

"You aren't pregnant are you?"

I laugh like it's the funniest thing I've heard in ages.

"Are you?"

"No Mom. You have to have sex to get pregnant. And I'm not having sex." I roll my eyes as I hear her exhale with relief.

It's raining so hard and all though we are so far from the coast I know these to be the remnants from hurricane Elizabeth that rocked the coast a few days ago. It wasn't that bad at home. And all though we had rain it didn't seem like this. I guess perhaps when you're snuggled up in your bed with The Fray hanging in the background nothing seems as violent as it does when you're in the car with your mother the day that her divorce from your father was finalized.

"I'm sorry about what happened in court today."

"I'm sorry too." I say sadly.

There's is small silence and all that is heard is the windshield wipers wiping and the rain pouring down.

"Are you happy mom?"

"Yes," And she looks over and catches my eye as a shoot her a doubtful look.

"No. No Paige I'm not happy."

"Then why'd you do it? Why'd you and Daddy get divorced?"

"Paige, I will love always love your dad. But…"

"But what?"

"You know how I told you we were going to take a little trip?"

"Yes. Stop trying to change the subject." I say getting a little annoyed.

"Paige," She breathed "I'm not trying to. The history between Dad and I is complicated."

"Okay," I push trying to urge her on.

"And I'm ready to really tell you about what I was really like when I was seventeen and I'm ready now to share that past with you. I'm ready to share all of it with you. I want to show you why it all went wrong."

"Like right now?"

"Not exactly," She says giggling. I huff and she places her hand on my thigh.

"First we are going to get some food in our systems before we die. And then we are going to stop somewhere to sleep before heading to our final destination."

"Where is that?"

"Nashville." She says biting down on her lip.

"And did you pick that place off the map or?"

"No there's a reason." And her words halt and she turns off on to an exit for food and lodging.

"So Nashville?"

I watch her profile as I repeat the city again. She seems to light, like a feather, and with one gust of wind she could just fall off the face of the earth.

"Nashville." She repeats.

-TBC-

A/N: This chapter just wrote it self. And all though it was short it is a look into the future. But it happens before chapter one. What could that mean? What's happening? Oh I know that you are all rocked with confusion. And maybe that's the way I like it. Haha. Please do me a really nice favor and review. [And yourself considering you get the next chapter faster, duh! ;)]