Alexis2106: Nothing happened to Peyton. You will see her in this chapter for just a little bit.
Naleylover87: I know right, they are soooooo cute. Haha I wish we actually go to see them grow up, but then the show would have lasted forever.
NALEY23alwaysforever: The couples are not yet determined, but will slowly develop. Maybe we will just have a mess of relationships, but in the end everyone will end up happy.
A Bunch of Scotts
The breeze of her home town blew through her blond curls as she stepped out of her car. The car that had been such a big part of her life, such a big part of her relationship with her now husband. Peyton slammed shut the door to the comet and smiled at her husband who shut the driver side door. She kept her eyes on him with a smile as he walked towards the back and got her bags out of the trunk, the small, but still useful trunk.
"I missed them," she mentioned, as her husband finally stood next to her and they began to walk towards the house. "Are they home?"
By the date, and looking at the sun, Peyton knew exactly what today was. It was the beginning of the school year party. She would never forget those parties. She started every year with Nathan in a fight, and with a temporary break up, which only lead to him sleeping with some random girl that night. But the last year of school she had attended the party with the love of her life. Lucas.
"Yeah, they should be home," he responded to her question, opening the door for her. He the rolled her suitcase towards the house and saw his youngest running down the stairs as if there were someone trying to kill him running behind him.
"Mom!" One single word was all he needed to say as he ran towards his mother and pulled her to a tight embrace. Little Keith had really missed his mother. She had only been gone for about 3 days, but to him those trips she took really made him realize how important it was to have her home.
Holding tight to her youngest Peyton smiled. She loved that regardless of his age Keith continued to be just as affectionate as he had been as a child. With a light, feather like kiss on his head she said, "I missed you, my baby."
Keith pulled away from his mother and looked at his dad. The look in Lucas' eyes let the young boy know exactly what his father was asking. Rolling his eyes at his protective father he shook his head. "No. Sawyer is not gone yet. And no, she won't let me go." The last part of his sentence came out with anger. Keith was angry that his older sister was not letting him go to the party with him.
"Keith, you're still young. Sawyer is only trying to protect you."
"Mom!" he exclaimed, taking her words in. "I am not a baby. I may be the youngest, but I should still get to have fun. Come on, tell her to let me go. Please. Please. Please." Keith continued to beg.
Peyton looked at her husband for help, but all Lucas did was stare at her. This was her decision, and he was not getting in the middle of it. Every time he said something Peyton would go against it, and then she would tell him that she had hoped that he had backed her up. He was a pro at this marriage thing now.
"Dad, please," young Keith continued to beg. "I will be really good, I promise. Besides, I'm sure Lydia will be there, and so will Jude, you know you can trust them. Plus!" he said pointing up as if he had a question, "it's at uncle Nathan and aunt Haley's beach house."
Lucas still would not answer. He continued to look between his son and his wife. There was no way he was going to say what he was thinking. He would not tell her that she probably did the same thing at his age, that she also wanted to go out to a party that everyone in school would also be going to. But he didn't. He kept it to himself. He only watched.
"Fine," she finally gave in. "I was hoping you would be staying home with us, and we could watch movies, and make popcorn," she looked at him with sad eyes, "but if you really want to go-"
"YES!" the young boy jumped in excitement. "Thank you. Thank you," he said as he threw himself on his mother to give her a big hug. "I love you," he told her giving her a smooch on the cheek.
Peyton smiled as she saw her son running up the stairs to get ready for the party. She looked at Lucas with a soft giggle as she saw Keith lightly run into Sawyer on his way up.
"Hey, mom," the oldest said casually. She smiled at her mother as she walked over to her and gave her a light hug. "How was the trip?"
"It was good," Peyton said, "I found this really good band. They're still thinking about my proposal, but they said they would come to the studio in two weeks."
"Awesome." The young blonde was just like her mother when it came to music, both extremely passionate about it. Music was one of the many things the two females shared interest in.
"Oh yeah, I am so excited."
"Well, I guess I will leave you two to your music talk for a bit." Lucas looked at his daughter, "make sure you wait for your brother before you go."
Sawyer began to nod when she registered her father's words. Both Lucas and Peyton smiled when she realized that she would have to take her brother, and Sawyer's face fell with anger.
"You'll be fine," Peyton let her daughter know patting her back, "Come sit with me for a bit."
The younger blonde did as told and followed her mother towards the living room, where her mother would be telling her all about the trip, and all about the new band that she was hoping to sign with the label.
Jamie was ready to go. Dressed, keys in hand, and just about to walk out the door. He was ready to let all his friends in to his summer house for the big party to initiate the school year. This was his senior yer, and with that it would be the last initiation party he would be able to throw.
Turning to look in the mirror one last time before walking out Jamie saw his sister walking down the stairs, like him she was ready to go to the party, a party that in his eyes she had not been invited to. His is tempered flared at the sight of his younger sister wearing the extremely short dress at the moment.
"Where are you going?" Jamie asked, now his hands in his pockets. He knew that his sister would not be going to the party, especially not dressed the way she was.
Lydia continued to walk down the stairs and joined her brother with a playful smile, "With you silly."
"Uh… No… Lydia you can't go to this party, you're-"
"Stop," she silenced him with the one word, "Jamie, I'm a big girl, and everyone else is going. So come on."
Jamie let out a grunt of frustration and looked at his younger sister, "Lydia, come on. I can't let you go to this party."
"I'll tell dad," she threatened her older brother with a mischievous smile. "I will Jamie, don't test me."
"No need," he told his sister, "I'll let him know for you." The tables had turned. Jamie knew that his father would give anything his sister wanted to her, but he also knew that if he told him that Lydia wanted to go to a party full of senior boys in that scandalous dress she was wearing, then his father would surely side with him.
Both siblings stared at each other as to test each other to see who would be budge first. The stare down continued until Lydia finally dropper her shoulders letting out a frustrated sigh. "Fine," she said, "If I change, will you let me go?"
Jamie thought about it. He knew it wasn't fair for him to leave her behind when he had been to the same parties at her age. But then he thought about what guys wanted, and she was his little sister. It was a difficult decision for him to make.
"Fine," he let her know, he pointed his finger at her as a warning, "you wear pants, and make sure you take a jacket. No two piece swimsuits, and you stay where I can see you." Jamie saw his sister nod with a huge smile on her face, "All night Lydia."
"I promise." She clapped her hands in excitement and walked over to her brother pulling him to a tight embrace. Letting go of her brother she ran up the stairs to change. She knew there would be a compromise to be made in order for her to go, that was the reason why she had picked the dress she did when telling her brother she was going with him. Lydia knew her brother better than anyone else, and she knew how to get what she wanted with him. With Jamie, it was always a compromise, and she had found the formula to swing it her way.
"You ready?"
Looking at his brother with a glass of orange juice in his hand Jude gave Davis a confused look. Sipping his juice and setting the glass down after a few sips, "for what?"
Davis gave his brother a confused look. He jumped and sat on the counter and looked at his twin brother. "Come on, Jude. The party is today. You know that."
"Not going."
That was all Jude said before he grabbed his glass of juice and made his way towards his bedroom. Unlike his twin brother Jude thought of life as more than just party. For Jude school was important, and he didn't care much for parties and having fun.
"Come on, Jude. You told Lydia you would go."
Jude turned to look at his brother, "seriously dude? Come on, you know I don't like this crap."
Davis smiled knowing that his brother would take some convincing before he goes. Being a party boy himself, Davis knew what went on at these parties. Even though he was younger than most of the other guys at the parties, that never had stopped him from going before. With a mischievous smile he looked at his twin brother. "Come on, there'll be tons of girls. You need to get a girlfriend, get a life. Come on, bro."
"Davis, quit trying to make me go. I told you, I don't wanna go. I have a ton of things to do." Jude let his brother know taking seat on his bed. Jude pulled out his laptop and opened the computer to get to work.
Davis walked over to his brother and shut the computer looking at Jude straight in the eyes, "Don't make me bring out the big guns."
Jude stared at his twin confused. Davis stared at him with his pressing smile while pulling out his phone. Davis began to click things on his screen until he got to the name he was looking for. Not long after the phone was on his ear and a female's voice was coming through the speaker. "He won't go," Davis said, "he said no, according to him he has too much crap to do."
Jude watched his brother as he stretched out his hand to hand the phone to him, whoever was on the phone was wanting to speak with him. Jude took the phone and brought it to his ear, slowly and hesitantly he answered, "hello?"
"So what's this I hear about you not going to the party?"
His hesitant face changed quickly at the sound of the voice on the other side of the phone. "Come on, Lydia, you know I don't like this kinda stuff."
"You have to come, Jude. Ellie, and Lindsey will be there… Please come, please. Please. Please. Please. Please… you know I'll keep going until you say yes, right?"
"Fine, I'll go. I'll see you there."
"Yay!" She exclaimed on the other side of the phone, "I'll see you guys there."
The call was dropped and Jude threw the phone to the feet of his bed. He looked at his twin brother, "You're good."
"I know" Davis said, walking out of the room, "Make it quick I'm leaving soon. Chuck's picking me up and 15."
Shaking his head in disbelief Jude stood up and began to get ready for the party. He wasn't going to change much, he would just change from his sweat pants to jeans and maybe a t-shirt. He would also make sure to take his swimsuit, considering it would be the beach house and they had a pool there.
The party was in full swing. Kids all over th house dancing and playing drinking games. People swimming in the pool, even a couple just playing games and other things at the beach. There was also a small fire going on at the beach for anyone that just wanted a moment to relax, not that many of the people around would want that.
Lydia saw the door swing open and one of her best friends walk through. She creamed loudly and ran over to him jumping on Jude as he caught her. "You came!" she yelled, pressing a kiss on her cheek and let put her back down.
"I told you I would come," Jude would say. He walked along with Lydia and the other guys he had arrived with, which included his twin brother, Chuck, and Jacob (skills oldest son).
Everyone split up and enjoyed their time a the party. Some playing drinking games, some just looking for a good hook up for the weekend, and some just dancing and having fun.
Jamie looked around his house with a smile on his face. The last initiation party, and so far it was a success. He could see all of his friends having fun around the house. Chuck, along with Jacob, Davis, and Nathan were playing beer pong in the dinning room. They were using the table with red cups everywhere, and tons of bottles of beer laying around, some cans as well were on the floor. Looking at that Jamie knew that tomorrow he would have tons of fun cleaning the house. NOT.
"Hey," Jamie heard her voice and turned to his girlfriend, giving her soft kiss.
"When you get here?" he asked her, holding her close.
Madison pulled away and let her brown eyes look straight into his blue ones, "are you having fun yet?" she asked, biting her lip.
Jamie and Madison had an off again on again relationship since they were kids. Thought they had not acted upon anything they felt until they were 15, they both knew that someday they would end up making it work. Not to say that the road to the relationship they had now had been easy, with all the breakups and dating other people and lots bumps along the way. Still, they were now together, and thought it had only been three months ago that they got together, it felt as if they had been in this relationship forever. Maybe it was because of their strong friendship as kids, or maybe it was because somehow they were destined to be together. But here they were, and it felt really good.
Madison leaned closer to him and gave him a passionate kiss before they pulled away and looked around. She held his hand and began to pull him away. She had other plans in mind for the night, not just drinking and dancing around.
"Madison, I can't go far," he pointed out looking at his sister, who was taking with Lindsey, Jude and Ellie.
Madison let out a soft grunt, "Come on, Jamie," she said holding on to his waist and looking up at him. "She'll be fine, Lydia's a big girl."
Jamie contemplated whether he should go with his girlfriend or stay and watch his sister. It didn't take much to have him make up his mind. Jamie looked down at the girl who was holding on to him and her eyes just made him fall at her feet.
He nodded and pressed a light kiss on her forehead, "let's go."
Madison gave him a peck and smiled while taking his hand, "Let's go."
"Hey curls!"
Sawyer turned around when she felt his hand spank her. The tall, curly haired blonde glared at Nathan with the look of death and quickly smacked him across the head. "Don't you ever spank me again, got it?" she threatened
Nathan looked at her with the look of fear, he lightly nodded. "Just having some fun." His tone was of fear, and his friends around him could tell.
"Don't be like that, Sawyer," Davis chimed in, in defense of his friend. Though Nathan was 3 years older, him and Davis had always gotten along.
Sawyer shook her head and continued to walk with her red cup in hand. She was going to forget it. Her parents had made her bring her younger brother, which she really didn't care about Keith coming along, but that only meant that she couldn't be as careless as she was hoping to be. She needed to make sure Keith was fine, and that he didn't fall into the wrong crowd.
"Hey Sawyer!" Lydia said spotting her cousin. Full of enthusiasm she pulled her to a hug.
Sawyer looked at her younger cousin, who was dressed very simple for what usually Lydia wore. Sawyer, like her younger cousin had always had pretty clothes to wear, all given to them by their aunt Brooke. Difference being, Sawyer didn't care much about it, she preferred to have fun and wear what was comfortable to her. While Lydia always picked the prettiest dress, the highest heals, the matching purse, and the accessories to go along.
"What's with the outfit?" Sawyer asked.
Lydia pouted lightly, "Jamie."
"Figured, he is so protective."
"Tell me about it" Lydia said, taking a sip of her own red cup. "He made a huge deal because I was wearing a dress. The blue one I wore to your last birthday, remember."
"The short one?" Sawyer asked, raising a brow. She saw her cousin nod and continued, "I would have made you change too."
"You guys are so…" she let out a grunt, "I swear you and Jamie are like parents, you're worse than my parents. Not even my dad makes a big deal about, and trust me he got mad one time because I wore my hair too curly." With one last grunt she left the cop on the small side table near her and ran out of the house in anger.
Sawyer watched as her cousin walked out on her, the blond long waves bouncing as Lydia made her steps further and further away. Shaking her head she took a final sip from her cup and sat it on the same table as her cousin had done so earlier.
"She's such a drama queen."
Sawyer turned around only to see Chuck standing behind her. He politely handed her another red cup full of beer. "I come in peace, I promise" he joked.
Sawyer took the cup from his hand and smiled at him. Raising the cup to him and clicking them together so took a small sip. "Why are you here?"
"It's a party, isn't it?" he joked
She shook her head with a smile at him, the cup close to her lip. Throughout the years they had shared some time together because of Jamie, but other than that they had nothing in common. Sawyer didn't really enjoy the company of Chuck. He was a wild child who loved to be the center of attention, and that was something that just wasn't her.
"What was that about?" he asked, pointing towards the way Lydia had ran with his head.
Sawyer shook her head, "she's just drunk."
"Trust me, she's not," he mentioned, "She's been drinking water or soda all night."
"Well, then she's PMS," Sawyer let him know, "she freaked out because Jaimie's controlling her and I asked her about her outfit. Just a spoil daddy's girl, trust me."
Chuck laughed lightly, "Come play with us."
Sawyer raised her eye brows, "beer pong? I don't think so."
"Come on," he pushed, "I saw you play last party, you were awesome. These guys could really use a beating."
She shook her head once more, "Please" he begged.
"Only if we do teams, I saw you last time too, you're not too bad yourself."
Chuck nodded and began to walk towards the dining room where the beer pong was set up. He was excited to see how this would end. Sawyer was pretty good at the game, hardly ever missing a shot. Then again, she was in the girls' basketball team at their school, so she couldn't be that bad at aiming.
Jude was just hanging with the girls. Dancing a little, having fun, just letting lose. He never did that stuff, he was always so uptight, always so worried about school, and grades, and pleasing his parents. But this. The dancing, the having fun, the not caring was something he was really starting to like.
He was super into the song and the beat and dancing along to it when he saw Lydia running away from Sawyer. He leaned closer to Ellie and Lindsey and yelled above the music, "I'm gonna go check on Lydia!"
Lindsey nodded at him and continued to dance, she turned around quickly and began to dance with the guy behind her, her curly hair bouncing everywhere as she jumped around. However Ellie shook her head and grabbed Jude's shirt and pulled him closer.
"She'll be fine, just let her be!" she yelled, trying to get him to stay. She held Jude closer and danced with him.
Jude felt that he should have gone after Lydia, she was one of his best friends after all, but Ellie was not letting go. He nodded and just continued to dance along with Ellie. The girl seemed to be very into the song, and she continued to get closer and closer to him.
Jude danced along with her, and continued to move along to the music with his friend. He had never really thought about it, or even thought about Ellie as anything more than just a friend, but right now all he could think of was how good it felt to dance and to live in the moment, live in it with Ellie.
"I'm at a party, and I am playing video games."
Keith laughed at Logan when he mentioned that they were playing video games. Both guys had walked down to the basement game room as soon as they had arrived, and soon after they were both very into a game on the xbox.
Both boys had attended a party, however both of them had done nothing at the party other than play the video games. Logan was there to have a good time, but when he saw Keith walking down towards game room he followed along. And for the past 3 hours, both boys had been doing nothing more than clicking the keys on the paddle vigorously as they yelled at each other.
"Who cares dude, there is plenty more parties to go. This one is just the beginning," Keith mentioned, hitting the keys on his controller.
Logan let out a soft laugh, knowing that his friend was right. "Let's hope we don't spend the next couple parties down here."
Both boys laughed at the comment and continued to play, they would go back up and enjoy the party later.
Lydia sat on the sand at the age of the fire. Her shoes next to her and her jeans rolled up to her calves. She sat there blankly staring at the fire, thinking about her previous conversation with Sawyer. She knew it was childish of her to have ran out, but Sawyer was just like her brother, both always telling her what to do and not to do, and frankly she was sick of it.
She heard the footsteps approaching and slowly turned around to look at the guy walking closer to her. Lydia lightly smiled at him, "hey."
"Hey," he said, taking a seat next to her. "Why are you out here all by yourself, Lydia?"
Lydia shook her head and continued to stare at the fire, "I just needed some time alone. You?"
He smiled with his pearly white teeth at her and replied, "same. I got timer of the same old games."
"What, you done playing beer pong with your best friend?"
"Chuck kinda changed me for Sawyer."
Lydia stared at him. She had known him since she was a little girl. Andre spent much time at her house playing with her older brother. Both boys had been best friends as long as she could remember. She was aware of the circumstances as to how the boys had become friends, and she was glad that Andre had Jamie to support him through the hard times of losing his brother.
"So," he said, "what's the real reason you're out here?"
Lydia turned to him. She and Andre had never really spent much time together. Sure he had gone on vacation with her family, and he spent a lot of time at her house, Andre usually spent his time with Jamie, it was nice to talk to him thought, he seemed to really care.
"Sawyer, " she grunted, "she makes me so mad, just like Jamie. They treat me like a baby, and sometimes it sucks." She looked at him and saw that he was quiet and looking at her asking her to continue. "I know that I'm younger than them, I get it, they just want to protect me, and Keith, but shouldn't I make my own mistakes. Shouldn't I able to do dumb things just like they did?"
"They just care about you." He pointed out.
"I know" she said softly, looking at him, "I just want to be my own person sometimes."
"And you are, Lydia," he said, "you're an amazing girl. You cheer, you plan amazing parties, you care about your family, you are a very special girl, and they know that. That's the reason why they protect you so much."
Lydia smiled at him as his hand still held her chin asking her to look at him. She knew Andre was a nice boy, but she had never had any sort of deep conversation with him. "Thank you." She looked at him and pulled him to a light hug. She slowly pulled away from him and let her head rest on his shoulder as his hand rubbed her arm and they stared in to the fire.
"I should go check on my sister." That was all Jamie said. He continued to rub his fingers up and down her arm as she laid next to him.
He felt her hand running up his chest and playing with small patterns made by her hands. "She's fine, Jamie, you really need to let her be her own person."
Jamie let out a sigh, "I know."
Madison shook her head and lifted her body a little so that she was looking at him the eyes, she stared straight into his blue eyes, "I don't think you do," she said. Slowly she grabbed the sheet and wrapped it around her body as she stood up. "You and Sawyer treat her and Keith as if they were babies." Madison continued to walk around the room picking up her clothes, and finally looked at him with a sweet smile, "you guys really need to trust them, and you really need to let them make their own mistakes."
Jamie looked at her with a smile. He registered her words, but they were not being stored in his mind. All he could think of was her. Madison was now his girlfriend, after all they had been through and they were finally together.
She smiled at him one more time and turned around walking towards the bathroom, "I'm gonna get dressed, you're not even listening to me."
The bathroom door closed and he let out a loud laugh, he shook his head and got up as well. Jamie knew that he should be getting back to the party. It was his party after all. And even though he did understand what Madison was saying, he was still going to protect his younger sister no matter what, and he still needed to go down and check on her.
After getting all his clothes and getting dressed again, he walked out to the balcony that looked out to the ocean and the back yard. He could see the many people swimming and having fun with the loud music, and a couple of kids just running around. But the one thing that grabbed his attention was the small fire just off the back yard, right on the sand and close to the shore of the beach. It only took one look for him to see who it was, and for him to be able to make out the two shapes. It was. Yes, his sister and his best friend by the fire.
There you go, another chapter.
I know everyone was all over the place, but they will come together and it won't be so messy as you continue reading. Let me know what you would like to see, because there is much more to come. Thanks again for reading, and don't forget to review.