CHAPTER 6

The four arrived at Rachel's house a little later than they should have, they'd decided to walk to Rachel's instead of driving after all they didn't know what kind of state they'd be in when the party had finished. They stepped through the door and were instantly hit with music and people. It seemed the party was in full swing and a lot of people already looked a little on the drunk side.

'P.Sawyer! Tutor Wife!' Brooke yelled coming up to them and hugging them both.

A couple of days ago Brooke had stated she was tired of calling Peyton simply 'Peyton' so had fashioned her new nickname; P.Sawyer. Peyton didn't really mind, it was different to what everyone else called her at any rate.

'Hey B.Davis.' She said back.

'Ohhh I like that, it's so much better than Brooke. B.Davis and P.Sawyer!'

'Brooke are you drunk?' Haley asked, Brooke was somewhat slurring her words.

'A little tipsy, the alcohol is flowing like water tonight.' Brooke said happily pushing a paper cup into Peyton's hands, then getting another one for Haley.

'Drink up, drink up!' She said and Peyton took a gulp of her drink. It burned her throat as it went down and she vaguely wondered what was in it. Haley coughed and spluttered as she swallowed hers. Nathan and Lucas took gulps too, Lucas grimacing a bit at the taste.

Brooke pulled Peyton with her and set off trying to wade through the sea of people in the house to introduce some to her.

'This is Tim.' Brooke said and then whispered so only Peyton could here. 'He's a bit dim.'

'Well well Peyton is it? Your one fine piece of-'

'Just say she's hot Tim.' one of his friends answered, stepping forward with a smile directed to Peyton.

'Andy.' He said holding forth his hand. Peyton went to shake it but he pulled her in close instead and whispered something in her ear, Peyton blushed slightly then chuckled a little. This wasn't her usual behaviour, but it seemed that whatever was in that drink had gone straight to her head. Lucas having watched the whole thing felt angry, the guy had no right! Pulling Peyton in like that! The way she blushed and giggled to him was making his blood boil. Okay Lucas, chill. He warned himself draining his drink, the alcohol burning his throat fiercely and picking up another one.

Hours later and Peyton ambled over to where about ten people sat, Nathan and Haley, Brooke and a guy named Chase, Skills and Bevin (who she'd been introduced to earlier), Rachel (who she'd also been introduced to), Lucas, the guy she'd met earlier called Andy and another guy she didn't know. She joined the group, wearily wondering what they were doing.

'Come join in Peyton, we're playing spin the bottle!' Brooke shouted cheerily. Peyton sat down a little wearily next to Haley. She wasn't really bothered with these games to be honest, but the only four people she really knew at the party were sitting in this little circle. How bad could it be anyway? Brooke rested the empty bottle of vodka on the table and span it, its point landed on a guy called Chase, she beamed and kissed him. Some moments later they broke apart Brooke looking very pleased with herself.

She glanced at Peyton who raised her eyebrow, smirking and Chase span the bottle too, it landed on Haley.

'Ok, no tongues people!' Nathan said as Chase leaned in and gave her a sweet kiss on the lips.

Haley then span the bottle and it landed on Lucas.

'Ew. She's my best friend!' Lucas said disgustedly.

'Yeah, I am so not doing this.' Haley agreed.

'Oh come on!' Rachel said. 'It's spin the bottle, just do it.'

Lucas leant forward and so did Haley,

'You try anything and I'm never talking to you ever again.' Haley said warningly and the whole group laughed. They both leant forward and shared a friendly peck.

Five minutes later and the bottle landed on Peyton, she looked up to see who'd spun it and was met with the guy she'd been talking to earlier. Andy smirked and leaned across the table to kiss her. Lucas watched intently, it was an innocent kiss, there were no tongues and it went on just the right amount of time, but he still felt a stab of jealousy. As the two broke apart and returned to their seats around the table there was a wolf whistle from Nathan and Peyton laughed shoving him, Andy was looking very smug as though he thought he had a chance with Peyton now. Lucas lowered his eyes to squint darkly.

A little while later and it was now Lucas' turn to spin the bottle, it stopped and he looked up to see who it was pointing to. To his horror and slight delight, it was pointing right at Peyton. Who only just seemed to have noticed, she bit her bottom lip considering whether she wanted to do this at all. Before she had the chance to duck out of it Lucas had leant over the table. He was going to show them, show that ass of a guy that Peyton didn't want him. Suddenly Peyton's heart was beating twice as fast as normal and she was somewhat scared that someone would notice.

She looked into his eyes and saw that they were quite calm and somewhat reassuring. She leaned in the rest of the way and their lips met. It was a slow brush of lips together but it sent tingles up and down Peyton's body. Not aware of putting it there, she suddenly felt her hand on his cheek. It was sweet and tentative but Lucas felt himself wanting more and decided to take a chance. Maybe it was the alcohol running through his blood, making him feel more daring but he placed a hand gently at the crook of her neck bringing her closer to him and swiped his tongue delicately across her bottom lip; to say she was surprised was a bit of an understatement. But just that simple move had sent her into some sort of overdrive and after being hesitant for a few more seconds surrendered her mouth to him, his tongue meeting hers.

There were a few looks of surprise from the circle of onlookers as they blatantly saw Lucas' tongue enter Peyton's mouth. Haley looked at Nathan, raising her eyebrows.

'Rachel, isn't it just meant to be a kiss-' Bevin started but Rachel put a hand over her mouth saying,

'Shhhh!'

Brooke looked almost as surprised as Haley and Nathan; the three shared a brief look. This was so un-like Lucas.

Lucas smiled against her lips as she opened her mouth to his. Suddenly he was soaring; he didn't want this to end. They were both now blissfully unaware of everyone sitting around the table and the fact that they were in a room full of people. Even the music seemed distant to Peyton, like it was somewhere far away. Lucas teased Peyton's tongue with his own for several moments before he suddenly realised what he was doing, he opened his eyes abruptly and drew back quickly, giving her a quick sweet kiss as a sort of 'sorry' and settling back to where he was sitting. Peyton was left a little surprised at the abrupt ending but realised as she too opened her eyes that they had at least another ten pairs watching them so she leant back too. They were both blushing, aware that the kiss had gone on far too long and was far heavier than any other.

'Okay so…' Rachel said breaking the stunned silence; she eyed Peyton, new found respect rising for the girl.

Nathan looked from Lucas to Peyton and back again as though analysing. He was really surprised, it was very un-like Lucas. In fact he generally hated public displays of affection; it was something he'd told Haley and Nathan many a time, hoping that they'd get the hint. But Nathan had always argued that Lucas felt this simply because he'd never been in love and that when he found that special someone they'd all have to deal with his PDA because love was a wonderful and complicated thing. That was the most in depth conversation they'd had as brothers and realising what they were talking about they grew a little bit embarrassed and dropped it to do something extremely manly. As they said afterwards talking about their feelings and love was all a girls' thing. They hadn't talked about it since but now Nathan wondered how Peyton really could have already changed their summer.

The group gradually fell back into the game, with the occasional glance towards either Lucas or Peyton, whose cheeks were still a little flushed.

An hour later and Peyton was walking around the house a drink in one hand, the other twirling a necklace around her fingers. All around her were teenagers who looked absolutely wasted, and even the ones who were still dancing looked definitely worse for wear.

'So, I wanna see what all the fuss is about?'

Peyton turned, to be met by Rachel.

'What fuss?' She said, almost defensively.

'Oh I see what they mean, there's a certain feisty quality about you.' Rachel nodded and Peyton snorted.

'So two weeks in and you and blonde boy are already playing tonsil tennis.'

'I seem to remember you kissing that guy, what's his name, oh yeah skills. Oh and Lucas, that's right and Andy. It was a game Rachel.' Peyton said rolling her eyes, a slight smirk on her face.

'Sure, see I'm a slut, you don't have that excuse. You two have so made out before.'

'We haven't.'

'Right.' Rachel nodded not believing it for a second. 'You had sex yet?' Rachel asked hoping maybe, to force her into a confession of some sort.

Peyton nearly dropped her drink.

'No!'

'So you're telling me that you've been alone with him in his house and nothing's happened. Am I supposed to believe that?'

'Yes.'

'So there's been no stolen kisses in the bedroom, or the… shower.' Rachel said raising her eyebrow. 'No, 'I-need-to-have-you-now!' moments?'

'No.' Peyton said laughing now.

'All right, I'm just asking.' Rachel shrugged. 'You can't blame me; it did look pretty intense, far more than any other kiss tonight.'

Brooke then decided to join them; she looked at Peyton with a slightly gleeful expression.

'Woah, P.Sawyer what's going on with you and broody?'

'See. Proved my point.' Rachel grinned.

'It was spin the bottle, that's what you do in spin the bottle!' Peyton said rolling her eyes.

'Ok, we were playing spin the bottle. But you two took it to a whole other level. I thought at one point that you were gonna start ripping each other's clothes off! I mean if that's what you do when playing spin the bottle in LA then can I come to the parties? They sound like fun.' Rachel asked cocking an eyebrow.

'Yeah, P, it was hardly spin the bottle. More like, 'lets see who resists the impulse to mount the other'!'

'Oh come on. Are you serious? I don't get involved in most LA parties because they are exactly like that.'

'Okay, you are now officially my new best friend. Tell me when you go back to LA and I'm coming with you, I want to get introduced to this party scene!' Rachel winked.

Peyton laughed and Brooke said seriously,

'Wait and me! I wanna come too!'

Rachel rolled her eyes pityingly and walked off, giving Peyton a swift wave goodbye.

Lucas sat on the stairs with a cup in his hand, he was brooding and he knew that sooner or later Haley would come to see him. Sure enough she fought her way over and sat down next to him.

'So buddy, what's up?' She asked.

'You're going to ask about spin the bottle aren't you?' Lucas asked sighing.

'Well, it was…kind of…intense.'

'I don't know what came over me all right. One minute we were just kissing and then the next-'

'You were sticking your tongue down her throat?'

'Oh god.' Lucas said feeling totally uneasy. He hadn't meant to, it just kind of, happened. However there was a part of him that couldn't feel guilty, she'd reciprocated and, boy it had been a good kiss.

'Don't worry about it. It's probably the alcohol; you have gone through quite a bit Luke.'

'It's the holidays!' Lucas said looking over at Peyton who had just finished talking to Rachel and Brooke. Haley followed his gaze.

'Luke, just be careful okay.'

'What do you mean?' He said defensively.

'She's only here for a few months, don't get in too deep.'

Haley patted him on the shoulder and walked away leaving him still looking at Peyton and in deep thought. But for once he never needed Haley's advice less, don't get in too deep. That was stupid, it was a crush that had resulted in one kiss which was part of a game anyway, it wasn't like he was going to fall in love or anything…

Sooo what'cha think? All of the other chapters have kind of been building up to this but i'm not so sure about this chapter. Hmmm anyway if you did like it maybe you might want to let me know because reviews are like birthday and christmas at the same time! LOL

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