CHAPTER 15
It was half past twelve and they were all sitting in canoes in the middle of the lake. Brooke had come up with the idea as a fun thing to do as a group now, but typically she was the one having quite a few problems. They had a canoe each and it was actually turning out to be quite a lot of fun, apart from the moments where they thought the canoe was actually going to tip over and they had that split second of sheer panic.
'Who's idea was this?' Brooke yelled across the lake as her canoe wobbled.
'Yours!' Peyton yelled back.
'No one told me they were so freaking unstable!' Brooke yelled grabbing onto the sides of the canoe as it wobbled even more dangerously.
Lucas laughed and manoeuvred himself so that he could see Brooke. Everyone else, hell even Bevin were actually quite good at this. After all it was a still lake, no rapids that had to be manoeuvred around but Brooke had her hands gripped to the sides and her canoe was wobbling uncontrollably. Her paddle was slowly drifting away from the boat in the lake from where she'd abandoned them.
'Brooke, just keep still else you actually will fall in!' Lucas called.
'Come over here and help me then if you're so good at it!' Brooke said angrily, Chase turned around smiling and made his way over to Brooke picking up her paddle on the way.
Lucas jabbed the canoe next to him with his paddle, knowing full well that it was Peyton's, it wobbled a little and he instantly saw her stiffen as he stifled a laugh and got near enough to grab onto the side of the canoe. He pulled himself swiftly so that his canoe was alongside hers. She gasped and grabbed his arm as hers wobbled a few more times and then settled itself.
'Now look who's scared about falling in.' Lucas smirked.
'The water looks freezing.' Peyton shuddered. Lucas laughed leaning slightly into her to kiss her on the cheek while his hands gripped the canoe, she turned at the last second and his lips met hers with a smile.
'How can it look freezing?' Lucas smirked.
'Do you want to find out?' Peyton said raising her eyebrows at him. He grinned, a twinkle in his eye as he kissed her once more. Peyton had to admit that it was a relief to do this in public at last, not that she was a huge fan of PDA. She'd somewhat enjoyed their sneaking around, but when it came down to it, publicly was where she wanted their relationship to be. Her hands found their way to his cheeks as he used his strength to hold their canoes together. Then suddenly there was a shout of 'Get a room' from someone and a big splash of water landed on them, practically soaking Peyton through. She gasped as the freezing water soaked through her shirt. Quickly rotating around, she saw Nathan beside her a grin plastered on his face.
'I'm soaked through!' She groaned and Nathan's grin only became wider. He was quite close by so she decided to take a chance, quickly Peyton reached out and took a hold of Nathan's canoe and began to shake it a little.
'Peyton.' Nathan said, his smile slipping off his face to be replaced with a frown. 'Peyton, don't.' He warned but she only rocked him a little harder. 'Peyton! We're going to drown!' He yelped and Peyton lost all pretence and quickly pushed Nathan's canoe with all her might, it wobbled and wobbled then flipped over, his face vanishing under the water with a shocked look. He emerged seconds later spluttering as everyone turned to watch laughing.
'You're dead Sawyer.' He warned and she smirked cocking an eyebrow. He swam over to her canoe and quickly tipped her over so that she too was splashing into the water practically on top of him. She re-emerged spluttering and splashed him.
'Sure.' She said dunking his head quickly.
Lucas laughed at the interaction; it almost made him feel all warm inside. To know that his girlfriend was so close to his brother and his best friends made him feel all the more strongly about her.
By now everyone had turned around to watch as Nathan grabbed Peyton around the waist and dunked them both under the water before they began a furious water fight. Rachel screamed as water splashed at her and Brooke quickly tried to manoeuvre herself out of the way as water came flying her way.
'Hey! Hey, you two! Are you freaking crazy! It's like absolutely freezing-'
She was cut off as Chase rolled his eyes and pushed her canoe so that it too wobbled and tumbled over sending a shocked Brooke splashing into the water. Even Peyton and Nathan stopped to watch as it all seemed to happen in slow motion. Then Brooke had emerged and with surprising strength toppled over Chase's boat too.
'Let's tip over Lucas.' Nathan said leaning in close to Peyton quietly. 'One…two…three.'
The two quickly grabbed a hold of Lucas' canoe and pushed it over laughing and giving each other a high 5. Then Peyton felt two strong hands wrap around her waist and pull her flush against what she knew was Lucas' chest, she turned in the water, wrapping her arms around his neck grinning.
'Who would have thought my girlfriend and my brother would have joined forces against me?' Lucas said pouting as Nathan smirked.
'It's because, secretly, Peyton likes me so much better.' Nathan winked and Peyton laughed. 'Ahh, interesting…Haley's one of the only ones not in the water.'
He swam away quickly as Rachel was over tipped by Chase and Brooke, one by one they were all going to end up in the water at one point. Peyton turned her head back to Lucas to see that he was still pouting, his bottom lip stuck out.
'Hmmm, it is a hard one.' She said leaning in closer, 'But I think I might like you just a little bit more.' She said and Lucas grinned pressing a kiss to her lips before breaking apart when they heard a shout behind them, meaning that Haley had finally been thrown into the water. Sure enough when they looked around the canoes were all drifting around, abandoned and all ten of them were in the water.
'How come everyone looks so dry in comparison to me?' Peyton complained.
'That's because we didn't decide to have a water fight with hot boytoy over there.' Brooke said rolling her eyes at Nathan who cringed.
'Boytoy?' Peyton asked with a frown.
'We had this Boytoy auction thing for charity where we had to buy boys off the basketball team and Nathan stripped…' Brooke said quickly.
'And wrote boy toy on his chest!' Haley laughed and Nathan pushed her under the water.
'You stripped?!' Peyton exclaimed. 'Dude, I so wish I could have seen that.' Then she turned to Lucas. 'Did you strip?'
'Err… no.' Lucas laughed.
'Oh.'
'Why does Peyton sound disappointed?' Rachel laughed and Peyton smirked splashing some water at her before blushing a little.
'Don't worry; I'll give you a private showing later.' Lucas said sticking his tongue out cheekily at Peyton.
'Ugh.' Nathan said grimacing.
'I didn't need to know that dawg.' Skills added but Lucas shrugged and Peyton kissed him on the nose, with a grin.
Minutes later and they were all involved in a water fight again. The girls ended up the worst out of everyone, the boys decided to be mean (as Bevin put it) and gang up on them. They swam up behind each in turn and dunked them but Peyton and Haley, being last, put up a fight resulting in Peyton thumping Nathan squarely in the face.
'Oh my god! I'm so sorry.' Peyton said shocked as he recoiled backwards and everyone burst into hysterics.
'You hit me!' Nathan said, also shocked.
'I'm so sorry Nate, it was a reflex!' Peyton said although she couldn't help but let out a small laugh.
'Yeah, really sounds like it.' Nathan said scowling.
'Oh god, your nose is bleeding.'
Five minutes later and they were all squelching back towards the house, everyone completely soaked through. Nathan was walking with his hand clamped over his nose and his head tilted back, Haley's arm wrapped around his waist, Peyton at his side, holding his hand and guiding him Lucas holding her other hand, while everyone else tried to stifle their laughter behind them.
'I really am so sorry Nate.' Peyton said in a sincere voice.
'Lucas, watch out. She has a mean right hook.' Nathan said but he was smirking.
Lucas laughed and took in Peyton's depressed face, he rest his hand on her leg under the table and squeezed reassuringly. Nathan, Haley, Lucas and Peyton were sitting at the kitchen table, Nathan's nose finally having just stopped bleeding.
'You'd be on my side in a fight right?' Haley asked Peyton with a smirk then looked back at Nathan. 'Oh dear. Nate you have a black eye.' She giggled.
Peyton's head whipped around to look at Nathan, sure enough just under his eye was a blue slowly turning black bruise.
'Dude, you ok?' Skills said coming into the kitchen. Nathan turned around and Skills stopped dead. 'Dawg, she gave you a black eye!'
Peyton put her face in her hands and rested herself on the table before Rachel came in, completely dry and freshly showered.
'Right, I'm not having you dripping horrible lake water in my kitchen any longer. Go have a shower.' Rachel sighed when she saw that the four of them were still sopping wet, too preoccupied with Nathan. The four got up and Rachel let out a laugh, 'Nice shiner Nate.'
'Oh thank you Rachel.' Nathan said sarcastically as they trooped up the stairs.
Peyton turned as they reached their rooms with a pout; Lucas looked at her with a grin.
'I'll come into your room after a shower okay?' He asked.
'Sure.' Peyton said in a flat tone.
'Aww Peyt. Don't beat yourself up about it.' Lucas smirked and Peyton scowled. 'Sorry, that was too good to miss.'
Peyton gave him a dark look and went into her room, shutting the door behind her, more than ready for a nice hot shower.
Twenty minutes later she was walking out of her bathroom to see Lucas lying on her bed in the exact same place he was this morning, but this time with a silly smirk on his face.
'Am I forgiven?' He asked as Peyton sat next to him.
'Hmm, maybe.' Peyton said her lips involuntarily curling.
He leaned up and Peyton caught a waft of his cologne, he smelled really good. She met his lips halfway.
'Mmmm definitely forgiven.' Peyton smiled as Lucas chuckled against her lips but then she sighed.
'I feel terrible.' Peyton said and Lucas placed a hand on her thigh comfortingly.
'Peyt, it was an accident. And anyway Nathan's got beaten up before…not by a girl but-'
'I did not beat him up! It was one punch, it could have been any of you… he just happened to be there.' Peyton said her head drooping.
Lucas laughed and lifted her head up with his finger.
'Hey, put it this way…' He said looking into her eyes with such a warm face that her heart fluttered excitedly. 'You can punch me anytime you like.'
He let out another laugh and Peyton smirked, shoving him playfully. Lucas grabbed her hand, kissing her knuckles as Peyton said,
'With all of these little jokes, you'll have a lot of making up to do.'
Lucas re-arranged his face into a thoughtful expression.
'Well I better start now then.' He smiled, his hand resting at the back of her head to pull her lips onto his, her hair falling and tickling his cheek as they both let out a sigh of content, practically at the same time as they pressed feather light kisses to each other's mouths, before Lucas ran his tongue along her lips slowly and Peyton opened her mouth fully to him, her hand finding it's own way to his cheek. Lucas smiled inwardly; if the rest of the summer were like this…then he'd be more than happy.
Soooo, hello everyone. Thank you for reading and i hoped you liked the chapter. I still can't stop watching LP scenes from 607... especially the bed scene, freaking hilarious and Hilarie's laugh is infectious. Oh and at the end when Fergie comes by :P Someone showed me the other day a scene where LP's voices have been changed to chipmunk style, it is the bed scene and it's hilarious... if anyone wants to check it out...
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Makes me laugh every time, and yes i probably am sad! :P It's on youtube if the link doesnt work, by the way. Anywaysss thank you all for the reviews, please keep 'em coming.