Peyton and Lucas turned to look at one another and then back at Cassie who was now propping her leg up on a pillow as she laid back on the bed, still glaring at the two other people in her room.

Neither Peyton or Lucas knew what to say, but the obvious thing.

"Cass, how did you know?" Lucas asked as he entered the room and sat down on the edge of his sisters bed, remaining calm.

"Thats not important." Cassie said. "What is important is that someone tell me the truth, since apparently everyone has done nothing but lie to me for the past few weeks."

"What are you talking about? Everyone lying to you?" Lucas asked confused.

"You and Peyton lying to me about your relationship, and I just found out Nathan's been using me." Cassie said.

"He did what?" Peyton asked.

"I don't want to talk about that, that has nothing to do with you." Cassie spat. "I want to know whats been going on between you guys, behind Brooke's back."

Peyton sighed and looked at Luke. "We may as well tell her Lucas."

Lucas nodded, looking his sister directly in the eye so she would know he was telling her the truth. "Cass, I'm really sorry you had to find out this way, I didn't want to drag you into this."

"Drag me into what Luke?" She asked raising her voice another notch as she spoke. "God, stop treating me like a little kid, I'm your twin sister, I'm not a five year old who needs to be protected from the monsters under my bed."

"I wasn't trying to protect you from anything." Lucas said. "You didn't need to know about this because it really has nothing to do with you. Peyton and I started seeing eachother because we couldn't deny our feelings for eachother any longer."

"Well then why didn't you just tell Brooke the truth and break things off with her before you and Peyton got together?" Cassie asked, getting more angry with her brother then she had ever been before. "Why did you have to drag Brooke into this mess?"

Lucas looked away from his sister, not sure how to respond. He shrugged his shoulders before he spoke. "I guess I'm just being a guy. We screw up. I screwed up...big time." Lucas admitted. "I've never been more sorry about anything in my life."

Cassie looked at her brother, studying his facial expression. She decided he looked sincerely sorry, so she softened a little and looked at Peyton. "What about you, what do you have to say?"

"I don't know what to say to you that Lucas hasn't already said." Peyton said. "I'm sorry that you got involved, Cassie, I really am. But Luke and I really want to be together." Peyton said and smiled at Lucas.

Cassie had to admit that her brother looked like he was truely happy for once. She decided that what he and Peyton were saying about their feelings must be true. "Ok fine, I understand that your feelings got to be too much, and I guess I can see that you two are good together but did you have to lie to Brooke? I mean does she suspect anything?" Cassie asked.

Both Peyton and Lucas shook their heads. "We haven't mentioned anything to her." Peyton said. "At least I haven't."

Cassie looked at Lucas. "Luke?"

"I just broke things off with her, I didn't tell her why though." Lucas said. "We really don't want her to find out."

Cassie looked at them like they were both crazy. "You guys don't think she is going to find out about the two of you, when she see you together at school? Are you really that clued out? This is freakin' Tree Hill were talking about, everyone knows everything about everyone else. Gossip spreads in this town like wildfire. There's no way you guys can keep this a secret for that long."

"Well then there's nothing we can do about that. But can you please promise not to mention it to Brooke?" Peyton asked. "I will talk to her, sorry we will talk to her and break the news to her gently."

"What are you going to tell her?" Cassie asked. "You going to tell her that her best friend is a lying skank? You going to tell her that her that the boy she was crazy about turned out to be nothing more than a typical guy...cheating on her with her best friend."

Lucas glared at Cassie and then looked at Peyton to see tears in her eyes. He looked back at Cassie, anger written on his face. "Cass, I get that your pissed, but you don't need to take it all out on Peyton, this was mostly my fault. Take it out on me." Lucas said.

"I want you guys to leave, god I can barely even look at the two of you." Cassie said. She was angrier then she'd ever been in her life and she was feeling betrayed because it seemed like everyone she cared about had lied to her in some way.

"Cassie please, can't we just forget this happened?" Peyton cried. "Can't we still be friends? I'm already going to lose my best friend when this secret comes out. I don't want to lose you too."

Cassie darted a look at Peyton. "You should have thought about that before you got together with Lucas behind Brooke's back. It's too late Peyton, after this I don't think we can ever be friends again." She looked at her brother. "And Luke...I looked up to you. Your my brother...now I don't know if I'll ever see you the same way again."

Lucas looked down. He hadn't known his sister would take this so personally. All he could think about was that if Cassie felt this way, he didn't even want to think about how Brooke would react to the news. Little did he know he and Peyton weren't going to have to wait long to find out. As Cassie said rumors spread like wildfire around Tree Hill, and it would only be a matter of time before Brooke found out.

"Just go." Cassie said to the two of them. Her tone was one of a mixture of anger, hurt, and betrayal.

Peyton and Lucas both nodded. Before leaving Peyton placed a cd on Cassie's bed side table.When the two of them left, Cassie took one look at the cd and chucked it across the room. It hit the door and broke apart. Cassie leaned her head back on the pillow and cried, wanting the world to just go away. But reality always seemed to have a way of sneaking back and biting her in the ass, it seemed.

Cassie heard her cell ringing in her bag which was on the other side of her bed. She sighed, grabbing her aching abdomen as she tried to reach over and grab her bag.

She pulled the phone out.

"Hello." She answered.

"Cassie, its Nate. I just wanted to call and see how you were doing." He said.

Cassie rolled her eyes, she couldn't believe he was still trying the nice act on her. "Like you care." She said.

Nathan was taken aback. He and Cassie had been on good terms the last time they talked at the hospital. "Cass, you ok? Did something happen?"

"Yeah you happened." Cassie snapped. "Why'd you do it Nathan?"

"Do what?" Nathan asked not having a clue what she was talking about.

"Why'd you use me and Haley just to get back at my brother?" Cassie asked.

Nathan's eyes widened. She had found out his original plan...Haley must have told her. God, he was such an idiot. He needed to make sure she knew that his plan had changed after he got to know her, now he wanted to be apart of her life.

"Cassie...god I can't believe she told you." Nathan said.

"Funny how Haley seems to be the only one who wants to tell me the truth now." Cassie yelled. "You know what Nate, I don't care to know why you did it, just don't bother calling me or even talking to me again." She said and with that hung up the phone and cried herself to sleep.