Hi, Hi another chapter for you my dears. Thanks to Rocklesson86 and Guest for the reviews of the last chapter :) see you all next Friday :) Remember early updates this month. My weekends are busy :) Also thanks to Rocklessson86 for pointing out I had the football not Basketball team. Damn It Google!

Chapter 3

Peyton Scott looked up as she saw her husband walk into the sound booth, smiling at the young artist she was working with she told her to try out what, she had suggested while she went to see why Lucas was here. She knew he, had had something to do at his parents place today and if here was here, it could mean one of two things.

"What happened?" Peyton asked as she came into the sound booth, Lucas looked up and sighed before he held up a file.

"He found them; where they moved to after they left Seattle at least. Savannah, Georgia well that's where they were, he found a forwarding address to a friend of theirs. It's where they went, when they left here. But Nathan's Wikipedia stated that, at least we now know that's true. " he said frowning Peyton lent on the sound mixing desk, she was about to ask what had gotten him this worked up, this was information they knew, stuff they kept from Karen but they all knew it like a well read book.

"They have a kid, Peyton. I'm an uncle. Nathan kept his private life private, and he did it extremely well because when I looked at the first page of the file. There it was looking at me, a birth certificate. I've never seen or found mention of any children. Hell there is hardly any mention of Haley, let alone a kid. I didn't look at anything else because it's all in a file that is all about Haley. It didn't feel right to actually find out anything more, Lydia and Quinn should be the first to know and if they want to tell us, well that's up to them" Peyton smirked she now knew why her husband was here. He needed a pep talk before heading over to the James house.

"You are doing the right thing, they need to know. Does your mum...

"Know she's a grandmother? No she refused to hear anything to do with Haley, she didn't flip out and leave the room, which is a good thing and what dad and her therapist wanted to see, but I know that if she ever does find out, she'll kick herself or someone else mostly likely dad. But you know Nate and Hales they've been so intertwined their entire lives it hard to have one without the other. I know he went to Stanford, and we all know he played for the Sonic's, that was really weird pretending I didn't know that. But it was what dad wanted. I still don't think mum has found that DVR recording. I hate lying to her, I really do there have been so many times that she could have seen that, Nathan and Haley are happy and healthy. Ok so I didn't know they'd started a family but still, I at least knew snippets. But with mum's depression, dad didn't want to make things worse so we never told her; we kept it all from her no matter what it was." Peyton nodded, she knew why Keith had told everyone not to mention that Nathan did sometimes get mentioned in sports news. Karen would have gone nuts, and well let's face it, she had gone pretty crazy on her own. She didn't need snippets into the life her middle child was leading without her.

"Have you got all that off your chest now? Because you and I both know that Lydia will thank you a million times over for that file. I know it's been weird, and I know there are days were it feels like she hates us all but Luke, remember she lost a husband and a daughter in the same month. I'm still surprised at just how strong she is, I could have sworn she would have done exactly what Karen did, and let's face it none of us would have blamed her if she did. But she didn't; Lydia James in my book is super woman and you can tell her that if you like." Lucas smiled and nodded before getting up out of the chair he had been sitting in. Kissing the top of Peyton's head he went to leave, but not before sticking his head back into the door.

"You also might want to fill Brooke in, and I say you because we both know at least she'll listen to you and won't come after you with whatever she had in her hand and try and kill you with it" Peyton glared at him before he left, leaving her with the hard job of course, not that his would be a walk in the park but really leaving, Brooke Davis to her, well this should be fun. Leaning on the sound board she hit the talk back button.

"Mia, take an hour for lunch, then we'll get back to it. I have to duck out for a bit" she said Mia looked up and nodded, before waving goodbye.

Brooke Davis looked up and smiled as she saw her best friend walk into her small home grown boutique, she had, had offers by her mother and others to make Clothes Over Bro's internationally known but Tree Hill was home and she liked the exclusivity of having a brand that wasn't well known. A few Celebs here and there would wear her designs but it wasn't a multimillion dollar company by any means. Walking around the counter with her cup of steaming tea Brooke kinked an eyebrow at her friend's rather unexpected visit. Peyton owned and ran a small but rather successful record label and at this time of day she was normally over there dealing with some temperamental artist and not half way across town visiting her best friend.

"To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?" she asked. Peyton sighed Brooke had the right to know and if she didn't tell her, no one would, and well a bitchy Brooke Davis was never a good thing.

"I uh I have some news and I well I don't know how your going to take it at all but, if I don't tell you and you find out some other way I know you'll kill me for it. So as a test to see how well Karen can take things when she isn't on such a high dose of meds, Keith and Lucas hired a detective to find Nathan– Peyton stopped when Brooke turned and walked away she was afraid something like this would happen. Brooke hadn't taken Nathan and Haley's leaving very well in fact she had closed her self off to the rest of the world for a month after they left and it was part of, but not the full reason why C.O.B was called Clothes Over Bros. Deciding to walk after her friend Peyton headed out to the back of the store to see Brooke sitting at her desk still clutching her mug.

"Look I know you think that they are the two worst people on the planet but really Brooke, you know Haley as well as I do, in fact you know her better than anyone. She wouldn't have done this lightly and-

"And what Peyton up and leave her family and friends? Seven years Peyton and now you're telling me they are home?" Brooke asked Peyton shook her head and walked over to her friend resting a hand on her arm and shook her head.

"No, they aren't home. They were in Savannah after Nathan hurt his back and left the Sonic's. They moved again I'm guessing, not sure where, their forwarding address was to a friend of theirs in Savannah. They also have a kid, and Lucas wanted you to know that. I know you scoff and roll your eyes every time someone mentions them, and I know you haven't paid attention to what Lucas or Mouth, or any of our friends have found out in the past. But Haley was your best friend and Lucas thought you should know that, she had a child, what you do with that information is up to you. But you can't say I never told you; now I have to get back to work. I'm sorry to dump that on you. But I know you B Davis you would have killed me sometime in the future for not telling you." said Peyton quickly giving her friend a hug before walking out.

Brooke sat there thinking. She remembered the day like it was yesterday she was meant to go shopping with Haley that day instead she found out her very best friends had run away, not only that Nathan one of her other best friends and Haley's boyfriend had run as well. Brooke had first thought it was a joke, but as hours turned into day and days turned into week, and so on before she knew it the anniversary of that day had arrived one whole year, her friends had been missing for one whole year. Sure any of her other friends she probably would have believed they had run off to join a band or something else as stupid but Haley, her tutor girl. No she had never would have believed that.

Peyton Scott sat in her car and looked at the store front beside her, Brooke she knew was still hurting and Peyton knew if it had been the other way round that day she too would more than likely still be a little hurt. Whatever it was that had made Haley and Nathan run must have been something terrible. Something that running away was the only option for them because anything else was just too hard to comprehend. Sure Nathan had been the bad boy of the Scott family for a few years. Always doing things to get attention from others, but after he started dating Haley he became the stand up guy, the guy every girl at Tree Hill High wanted to date. Peyton was sure if it was any other girl he wouldn't have changed there was just something about Haley that made everyone want to find the best in themselves, it was just who she was and Peyton missed that she missed her friends and in laws; yeah even if she had known that for the better part of a year, it was still weird to think about Nathan and Haley being married; maybe it had something to do with not being there to see it but it was still something hard for her to believe.