CHAPTER 7

The next day dawned cloudy but stickly warm. It was a Saturday but still Karen had left for work, Peyton felt a little sorry for her. She worked every hour god sent, all for Lucas and his well being. She picked up the note that Karen left and studied it. Just then Lucas walked into the kitchen; she looked around quickly and froze, abruptly turning back towards the letter lying on the kitchen worktop. Lucas also froze, noticing suddenly that she was there. He rubbed his eyes slightly and pushed a hand through his hair.

'Is that a note from my mom?' He asked nonchalantly.

'Yeah.' Peyton said relieved. 'She said she's working till quite late tonight so we're going to have to get ourselves something for dinner.'

'All right.'

It grew tense again and neither wanted to bring up the subject of last night.

'So, Haley's just rang me and asked if we all wanted to go to the movies? There's this new flick out, apparently, that she wants to see.' Peyton said quickly.

'Oh right, yeah, sure. I'll just go and… get ready.' And Lucas ambled back out of the kitchen.

Peyton let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding. Oh God. This was bad, this was bad, this was bad. It was forever going to be awkward now, she could just feel it. Sighing she walked to her room, intending to get dressed and ready for the day ahead.

'Oh purlease, we have to have popcorn!' Brooke countered looking at the man serving them. Lucas, Peyton, Brooke, Nathan and Haley were all waiting in line for refreshments at the cinema and at this point the other four were looking away embarrassedly as Brooke took on the guy behind the counter.

'I'm sorry but we have none at the moment, we'll have to go and-'

'What kind of cinema doesn't have popcorn?' Brooke asked looking at Peyton, who looked back shaking her head a little alarmed. Clearly Brooke wasn't in one of the best moods today.

'Well, we can't just magic it here; it has to be made…' The man said smirking and this seemed to send Brooke over the top.

'Don't smirk at me! That's it; I want the number to the manager of the cinema!' Brooke said as the other four rolled their eyes embarrassingly.

'Erm well we are a multi national company so the-'

'Ok fine, I want your boss' number then!'

'I'm sorry, but I can't really do that, maybe if you-'

'Right! I'll write a letter, and I will put you in personally for refusing to sell us popcorn. I mean, seriously what kind of cinema is this?!' Brooke cried.

In one swift movement Peyton, Haley, Lucas and Nathan had grabbed Brooke and steered her out of the way as a line of people grumbled their annoyance.

'Expect a letter from me complaining, Mister!' Brooke all but shouted.

'Brooke, shut up!' Haley said.

'Yeah, it's only darn popcorn and we're making a scene- sorry correction, you're making a scene!' Peyton pointed out.

'Well Brooke does get a little grouchy without popcorn.' Lucas smirked putting a piece into his mouth; he'd bought the last box.

'Oh ha ha.' Brooke said sarcastically and when he carried on laughing she tipped the box out of his hands, smirking. His face looked shocked as Peyton, Haley and Nathan laughed.

'Looks like none of us are having any popcorn now.' Peyton said smirking.

Peyton couldn't concentrate on the movie at all, Nathan and Haley understandably wanted to sit together and Brooke refused to sit next to Lucas because of the popcorn fiasco. Therefore she had to sit next to him, with Brooke on her other side. Needless to say she wasn't quite as focused on the movie as she should have been with Lucas sitting next to her. She kept looking out of the corner of her eye to peer at him and swore that every time she did he would turn slightly, as if he'd been looking at her too.

In truth, Lucas couldn't concentrate either, he could smell lavender and as he shifted his elbow to the opposite arm rest, the one nearest Peyton. He realised that it was her hair, she had lavender, vanillary smelling shampoo. He inhaled and swore it made him just the slightest bit high. He felt all floaty all of a sudden and felt very hot under the collar.

Shaking his head slightly he went into a daydream about Peyton and her hair. He was just running a hand through it and tilting her head up so he could kiss her when someone swatted his arm impatiently.

'Come on! The movie's finished.'

Grumbling, he fell out of his stupor and stood up realising as he did so that his pants seemed a little on the tight side. He looked down shocked.

Oh God. No. This can not be happening! He thought angrily to himself, holding his coat in front of his crotch.

They shuffled outside Lucas dawdling a little behind them cursing himself. Peyton's hair bouncing off her shoulders also was doing nothing to relieve his situation down there so he cursed her too. They walked outside and he was dismayed to see that it was raining.

This is so not my day! He frowned.

Nathan gave Haley his jacket quickly as the downpour continued. Brooke however didn't have one and neither did Peyton.

'Luke, as your not actually wearing your jacket can we borrow yours?!' Brooke asked.

'Err No!' Lucas stuttered uncomfortably shifting his jacket.

'Come on!' Peyton said. 'Please!' And she gave him the most adorable puppy eyes he'd ever seen, his hand twitched as if to hand her the coat but he quickly rectified himself.

'I'm cold!' He said defiantly.

'Luke, come on. You know what girls are like, and anyway you aren't actually wearing it!' Nathan agreed.

Lucas gave Nathan a pleading look but he didn't seem to get it as he strode forward and grabbed the coat out of Lucas' hands, throwing it over Brooke and Peyton's heads as they ambled on.

He swore he nearly had a heart attack at that point but luckily no-one seemed to have noticed, after all it was getting dark pretty fast because of the rain. And it was now so thick that they could hardly see feet in front of them.

They made it home in double the time it would have taken usually. However the rain had acted like a cold shower on Lucas and he was pleased and relieved to find that his pants seemed comfortable again. Lucas and Peyton had further to walk than the rest as their house was further from the cinema. They'd just dropped off Nathan and Haley after Brooke and were now walking back, the rain still hammering down around them.

'Come under here, you've gotta be freezing!' Peyton shouted pointing under the jacket where she was taking refuge.

'No, it's ok. I'm fine!' Lucas shouted back, afraid of what might happen if he got too close, although he looked like he'd just jumped into a swimming pool.

'Fine!' Peyton said taking the coat off her head and tossing it back to Lucas. 'You're soaked through, wear it!'

'No, no! I don't want you to be ill!' Lucas answered passing the jacket back.

Peyton swiftly pulled him to her and swung the jacket over themselves as they walked on. They were uncomfortably close but Lucas did feel a lot warmer, he swore two minutes before he was suffering from hypothermia. They reached Lucas' house quite quickly after that and practically ran inside pulling Peyton in with him and slamming the door behind them. They slipped slightly and he nearly went flying but Peyton held onto his arm tightly. He looked down at her face, she was soaking wet even with his jacket, and he imagined he didn't look much better.

'I'm freezing.' Peyton mumbled. Ironically though, under his intense gaze she felt uncomfortably hot. Lucas rubbed his hands up and down her arms trying to generate some warmth and Peyton cursed him in her mind. His face was perhaps inches away from hers as she looked up she saw a raindrop run from his hair down his face and over his lips. Hey eyes kept flicking upwards to his then down to his lips again and Lucas leaned in a little closer. She looked into his eyes and was mesmorized, their lips were mere a breath apart and she licked hers in anticipation. Just at the moment the phone rang and they jumped. Lucas moved quickly to answer it.

Peyton suddenly felt cold again, their excitement had definitely washed that feeling away or maybe it was just Lucas pressing himself against her.

'No mom, stay at the café. I don't want you driving back in this, it's like a storm! Yeah, we'll be fine, don't worry. Just stay with Deb and I'll see you tomorrow I guess. Love you too.' She heard Lucas say quickly.

Peyton looked up as he put down the phone sloppily, water dripping everywhere. Lucas looked up at her with a small almost nervous smile,

'Looks like it's just you and me tonight.'

Okay so the reason it's took me longer to update is that i wasn't completely sure with this chapter, i've kept changing it but this is how it's staying now! So i hope you like it. And i realised that in my other update i didn't say anything about 602 :O Well not as good as 601 for me, but LP jumping on the bed was cute :) 603 i thought, was amazing! One LP scene but we got an 'I love you' from Lucas! (squee!) Anywaysss can't wait for 604 and i also can't wait for feedback from this chapter, if anyone would like to give any :) Thank you again for the awesome reviews!