CHAPTER 14

Chase looked around cautiously; there was no one in sight. He walked up to Brooke and tapped her on the shoulder, looking around once more.

'Brooke.' He said but she shushed him. 'I think you might want to hear this.'

'Right now, I really don't.' She said. 'Where is everyone? Can't they hurry up?'

'Fine.' Chase smirked crossing his arms. 'I can't believe it though. Major gossip, I mean who would have thought?! I guess I'll just have to go and find someone else to tell.'

Brooke sighed, grabbed his arm and said quickly. 'No, no, no. Ok, ok spit it out then.'

Chase smiled, 'Well I was walking up the stairs to get everyone down for your meeting. What is this meeting about by the way?'

'You wanna hurry up a little bit. This story is so far not interesting me.' Brooke said rolling her eyes.

'Ok, ok. And I heard giggling, then I reached the top of the stairs and I swear I saw Lucas and Peyton kissing. But…'

'Wait what!' Brooke said her eyes lighting up. 'Lucas and Peyton? Kissing?!'

'Well yeah. But they must have heard my footsteps because they were apart before I could get a second look.'

'Damn those wooden stairs.' Brooke cursed but she was beaming. 'I knew it!'

'What do you mean?' Chase asked confused.

'All will be revealed.' Brooke smirked and drew her finger across her lips to indicate Chase not to say anything as Rachel, Skills, Lucas, Nathan, Peyton and Haley walked in and plopped themselves down on the sofas.

'So I have called this meeting to discuss what we are all going to do tomorrow.' Brooke smiled.

'What are you, the party organiser?' Rachel asked wryly.

'Yeah. We need a leader, and I have so kindly been elected.'

'By who, or was it done in secret?' Peyton asked smirking.

'By… me.' Brooke beamed. 'Anyway Peyton, I don't think we should start talking about secrets do you?'

She watched as Peyton sat puzzled but went a little pink as also Lucas went a little red, the others, however, looked confused as well. Everyone but Chase who also went red and placed his face in his hands shaking his head, Brooke smiled.

'So anyway, I've decided we're going to do a fun activity every day…'

'Do we get a say in this?' Nathan asked smirking.

'Erm…no.'

The girls sniggered, Peyton letting go of Brooke's jive against her before hand.

'So, I thought we could do a fun activity everyday. I mean there's loads of stuff to do around here.'

'In the woods?' Mouth said incredulously.

'Yeah, I mean, we have- we…there's a nice lake we could use.'

'Fun, with all the bacteria and god knows what else.' Haley exclaimed rolling her eyes.

'Well tough Haley James-Scott because tomorrow we are going canoeing!'

Peyton let out a huge snort of laughter and everyone looked at her, including Brooke who raised an eyebrow.

'I'm sorry, but Brooke Davis in a canoe, it's just kind of funny.' Lucas, Haley and Nathan laughed too.

'Oh you would laugh at Peyton's joke wouldn't you?' Brooke smirked looking at Lucas who looked back puzzled.

'Yes… it was funny.'

'If that's your story.' Brooke smirked. 'Anyway that is what we are doing tomorrow so everyone's dismissed.'

Everyone rose, groaning loudly at being on a lake all day.

'Chop chop, you all need your rest for tomorrow. And no room hopping tonight, people!' She said looking specifically at Lucas and Peyton who didn't seem to catch on.

Brooke watched as Lucas' hand went to Peyton's waist, she wouldn't have noticed any other time, the gesture was very subtle, but because she was looking, she saw.

'Things are about to get very interesting.' She smirked to herself as everyone filed out of the room.

Peyton crept into the kitchen, it was late into the night and pitch black but she didn't care. She opened the freezer and dug out some ice cream smiling to her self. It was the middle of the night but she'd had the weirdest craving for cookie dough. She grabbed a spoon from the drawer and lifted herself onto the countertop opening the lid, dipping her spoon in and taking a few mouthfuls.

'And what are you doing Ms Sawyer?' A voice came from the direction of the kitchen door and Peyton nearly fell off the countertop dropping the spoon with a clatter. Lucas laughed softly and walked over to her where she slapped his shoulder lightly frowning.

'That wasn't very nice. You scared the crap out of me!' Peyton said as Lucas stood between her legs grinning.

'Sorry, but it was better than just pouncing on you. I considered both.' He stated smirking and looking at her loose fitting strappy top and short shorts.

'Your not much better.' Peyton said eyeing his choice of clothing which were just his boxers. He grinned.

'What are you doing down here anyway?' He asked resting his hands on her thighs and leaning in a little closer.

'Eating ice cream.' She whispered their noses now lightly touching.

'Hmm sounds tasty.' He whispered back letting her pick up the tub and spoon some out with her finger. He smirked and licked it off nodding his head in approval before tilting his head and capturing her lips. His hand slid up her thigh and to her face to deepen the kiss. He chuckled softly and she broke away biting her lip and opening her eyes.

'Your tongue is cold.' He said and she smiled before they kissed again, decidedly more urgently. Peyton's hands made their way over his toned chest and broad shoulders to rest around his neck. He stepped closer so that he was pressed against the countertop between Peyton's legs and before they knew it his hand was creeping up her top and her legs had locked around his waist. Lucas' hand slid round to her bare back pressing her into him more and then returned to flit across her stomach, as their kiss seemed to deepen more and more…

'Right that's it. Guys, I'm sorry but I am NOT watching them have sex in my kitchen!' Then before Lucas and Peyton had even detached their lips the light had flickered on.

'Rachel!' Brooke scolded. Rachel, Haley, Brooke and Bevin were standing in the doorway watching them seemingly dumbstruck before Rachel had her outburst.

'Don't tell me they weren't going to do it!' Rachel said looking partly amused partly about to throw up and partly completely shocked, pointing at the two. Lucas quickly withdrew his hand from under Peyton's top, colour rising in both of their cheeks as she equally quickly dropped her legs from around his waist.

'I can't believe you were about to have sex in my kitchen!' Rachel exclaimed again, although now she quite enjoyed watching the two blondes squirm. Peyton groaned and buried her head into Lucas' shoulder so she didn't have to look at them all.

'We weren't.' Lucas said defensively putting an arm around Peyton's shoulders as her head buried deeper into his shoulder.

'We were eating ice cream.' Peyton mumbled against Lucas' shoulder so that it was just about distinguishable to everyone else.

'So funny. I didn't know your mouth was a freezer P.Sawyer!' Brooke scoffed grinning. Rachel and Haley giggled slightly.

'Look stop it. This isn't- it isn't-' Lucas started but couldn't seem to get his words out, he suddenly felt very naked, standing their in just his boxers with the four girls watching. 'Can you just leave please; we'll talk about this another time.' Lucas said quickly.

'Sure, we'll leave you two to it.' Brooke winked as the four disappeared from sight.

'You know, I think we might have ruined the mood.' Bevin said and Lucas and Peyton couldn't help but chuckle softly. Peyton lifted her head off Lucas' shoulder and he stroked her cheek with his thumb tenderly.

'Well I guess everyone knows now.' Lucas said.

'Yeah, probably not the best way for everyone to find out though.' Peyton sighed.

'At least we didn't have to go through actually telling them, they just saw-'

'-us half naked and making out. Yeah that's loads better, I get your point.' Peyton said sarcastically and Lucas chuckled.

'You win.' Lucas chuckled and picked Peyton up off the countertop and placed her feet on the floor.

They walked back upstairs and when they got to the top they jumped slightly to see Nathan, Haley, Brooke, Chase, Skills, Bevin, Rachel and Mouth.

'Well, well, well…' Nathan smirked looking at the two of them. Lucas took Peyton's hand and scowled at them all. They stopped outside Peyton's room with everyone still staring at them. They looked around nervously, and Lucas quickly kissed Peyton on the head aware that everyone was watching.

'See you in the morning.' He mumbled.

'Right.' Peyton said back and they opened their doors walking inside. When Peyton had shut the door she rested against it her eyes closed hearing sniggering the other side, she allowed a small smile even though she was mortified. Why hadn't they just told them?! This had been so much worse.

The next morning Peyton came out of her bathroom dressed to see Lucas lying on her bed dressed too, his legs half dangling off and propping himself up with his elbow.

'Hey.' He grinned. She walked over to him and sat down planting a kiss on his lips.

'Mmmm hi.' She breathed.

'Got over last night?' Lucas asked intertwining their hands.

'I'm still embarrassed but hey, it's not like we were naked and everyone knows now so no sneaking around.' She smirked.

'True.' He said leaning in closer so that he was whispering it in her ear. 'I was enjoying last night though.'

Peyton shivered as his hot breath tickled her ear. She turned her head to meet his lips. A knock broke through their 'good morning' and Lucas groaned.

'Déjà vu.' He said rolling his eyes. Peyton stood and opened the door, Brooke stood on the other side, she bounded in seemingly totally un-embarrassed about the night before.

'So, P-' Then she spotted Lucas lying on Peyton's bed, her mouth curved into a grin. 'Broody. Hey. So breakfast's ready you two. We'll see you downstairs.'

Then she skipped out again, throwing a wink at Peyton over her shoulder.

'Is it me or did she totally want to say something, but then she saw me and decided against it?' Lucas asked.

'Yeah, I thought that too.'

'Probably wanted to ask if I was a good kisser.' Lucas smirked.

'Ass.' Peyton smirked raising an eyebrow. 'Anyway she already told me about that. Apparently you're- average.'

'Ouch.' Lucas winced standing and walking closer to her. 'That's kind of harsh.'

'Yep.' Peyton nodded smirking. 'Actually it's quite funny really-'

She was cut off when Lucas' lips met hers in the most intense kiss, she melted into him, pulling his shirt to bring him closer to her as Lucas' hands went to her hips to steady them, his fingers brushing tantalisingly against the skin between her top and her jeans. All too soon it was over and she was left breathless.

'I definitely don't think you are.' Peyton said smirking and Lucas laughed wrapping an arm around her shoulders as they exited the room.

Peyton got butterflies in her stomach as they made it downstairs and rounded the corner towards the kitchen and felt herself tense up a little. Lucas stopped them and cupped her face, his blues looking intently into her eyes.

'I'm here.' He said briefly with a small smile and Peyton marvelled at how easily he could read her emotions through her actions, he kissed her sweetly and taking a deep breath they stepped into the kitchen.

Everyone was sitting there having breakfast and as they walked in eight pairs of eyes swivelled to their direction. Then eight identical grins swept onto each face, Lucas rolled his eyes.

'All right, I guess it's about time we told you guys…'

'You guess?!' Haley said loudly, then when everyone looked at her she blushed crimson.

'Peyton and I, well we're together.'

'As in a couple?' Bevin asked and practically everyone rolled their eyes apart from Skills who said,

'Yeah baby, now shh.'

Peyton chuckled and Lucas looked at her fondly, his lips curling.

'That's great!' Nathan said standing up and patting his brother on the back and giving Peyton a hug as Brooke and Haley practically overtopped the table in their haste to reach the two. They forced them into a four way hug and Lucas and Peyton banged heads several times as Brooke and Haley broke apart grinning. The others laughed as Lucas and Peyton rubbed their heads where they'd hit each other, looking a little bit startled but happy nonetheless as Lucas winked at her, his eyes shining with a happiness she hadn't seen in the time that she'd known him. It was nice to see and she imagined that she looked exactly the same, she felt as though a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She'd been worried about what people might say but everyone seemed happy and more importantly so were they.

First of all, i loved loved loved 607, weren't LP just hilarious and cute at the same time! NH were cute too and so were Owen and Brooke. But the LPness just made it for me, it was well written and really well acted... i just loved the light heartedness of their whole situation! 'Nice hands, Nice legs!' Ahhhh anyways now onto the story, i hope you enjoyed this chapter, more to come hopefully soon!

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