With a worried look on his face, Lucas gently held Peyton by her shoulders, rubbing her with his thumbs.

"What is it?!" Lucas asked, his face creased with worry.

Peyton smiled to herself and let out a small laugh. God she loved him. She loved how obvious he made it that he was totally in love with her. Almost as much as she was with him. Whenever she made a statement like "I need to talk to you" or had the slightest look of worry on her face, Lucas always thought the worst and jumped to conclusions. But then, who could blame him. I mean who could blame you when your wife seems to always need saving… from psycho stalkers and school shootings…

"It's nothing like that Lucas… it's just…." Peyton paused… how could she word this. She knew Lucas was happy here… but she also knew that Lucas would do anything for her and Sawyer… yet, she didn't want to make this move unless he wanted to too..

'You know I love you right?!" Peyton said.

"And you know that I would do anything for you and be anywhere you want me to be…"

"Peyton…" Lucas interrupted. His face was full of confusion. She knew that he had no idea where she was heading with this conversation.

"I want to move back to Tree Hill" Peyton blurted out. Quickly she continued

"Lucas I know you love it here, I know you love your team, and that you are writing here which I think is great. That means so much to me that you are writing. But it just doesn't feel like home here. It doesn't feel like where we belong. I want Sawyer growing up knowing the type of friendships we had. Knowing where she belongs in the world and most of all I want her growing up knowing her family. Her Uncle Nathan, Aunt Hayley and her cousin Jaime and… Lucas Scott! Are you laughing at me?!" Peyton smiled and playfully hit him.

Lucas smiled at her and gently kissed Peyton.

"I'm not laughing at you Peyton. I'm laughing at your timing. There's something I haven't told you either. This book I'm writing… it's about Keith. Well… kind of. Before we left Tree Hill… just before Sawyer was born, Jaime and I spent the day together. He was helping me fix up the Comet. You know… the day I found you making those tapes…" Lucas paused. It still pained him to even think of the possibility that he may have lost Peyton. The thought scared him out of his mind.

"Jaime and I went through everything in that box. It was our whole lives up until then. There was also so much of Keith in there. Since then, I've been thinking about him a lot. I want him remembered for the man that he was… the uncle he was to me… and the uncle I hope of being to Jaime. So I'm writing about Keith. About our childhood growing up with Keith and all the things we did together."

Peyton smiled. She knew how much Keith meant to Lucas. How much he was a father to him, and how, even now, in some ways Lucas still couldn't cope with the fact that he was gone. For him to write a book about Keith…. She couldn't put it into words.

Lucas continued "I'm finding that some of the things, some of what I want to write, I just can't get the feeling of it here in LA. While I love my coaching job, I don't love it as much as I loved coaching the Ravens. I got a phone call from them last week. They are looking for a new head coach and asked me to return. With that, and wanting to fill in the gaps a little bit with this book, I was trying to find the right way to ask you if you wanted to return to Tree Hill".

At this point both were grinning at each other. Peyton laughed and kissed him.

"Oh Lucas! Why didn't you tell me all of this!? I would have made you get that sexy ass back in the car and drive us all back to Tree Hill before you could say another word!"

Lucas laughed. "I guess I wasn't sure. I figured you loved it here… and if you didn't… I didn't want you to get your hopes up about returning to Tree Hill before it was final."

Peyton smiled, hugged Lucas and said "We're going home"

"We're going home" Lucas confirmed.