Hey Guys! So here is my new story… I was going to start after I was done with my final, but got impatient!

So Everything in the show has happened, except that Peyton and Lucas never got together. Him and Brooke stayed together after the accident, and during Psycho Derek and all of that. It takes place in the summer after graduation, but it will be flashing forward after this chapter, but will continue to have flashbacks throughout the story.

Well I'm done rambling! Hope you enjoy!

Intertwined – to be encircled with something else

Tree Hill, North Carolina – August 4th, 2007

Lucas pressed his lips against hers in an innocent kiss, and as he pulled back he saw the tears form in her brown eyes. His heart dropped and he pulled her into a warm hug as she held onto him and struggled to hold in the tears.

"You are going to do amazing things Brooke Davis." She smiled at his comforting words, and pulled back to look at him one last time, while surrounded by the busy people who were moving about the about in a hurried fashion. "You know this isn't goodbye."

She nodded, "I know, I just feel like it is. I'm moving to Los Angeles, you're going to New York. Nathan and Haley just had a baby. And Peyton…" Brooke's voice trailed off at the thought of her blonde best friend, and Lucas squeezed her hand comforting her, "It's just that everything is changing and I'm not very good with change."

Luke smiled and nodded, "Yea, but you are going to work on your clothing line and leave us all in behind in the dust."

She laughed but looked into his eyes, "That's not possible." She wrapped her arms around his neck one last time as they heard the last announcement for her flight, "Thanks for being there the last couple of years Lucas Scott."

With a kiss on the check, Luke watched Brooke walk onto the plane and leave him behind. He felt a tug at his heart, but he knew that it wasn't because his recent ex-girlfriend had just left; it was because she was right, change was here and he didn't know what to make of it. He finally turned around and walked outside into the humid heat of Tree Hill.

As he drove past all the familiar sites in his hometown, his mind wandered to Brooke and he smiled. They had decided that when she left, they would be over. If they both admitted it, they had been over long before she stepped on that plane. While they both cared for each other, they also both knew that what they had was never going to turn into anything more than a high school relationship. Brooke was gorgeous, funny and had a huge heart, but he knew that the connection he had with her was not even close to comparing to the one he had with… he stopped his thought, because he didn't want his mind to wander back to her… again.

But it was too late. His mind flooded with pictures of her. Her face bent down over her sketchpad as she drew out her inner thoughts and feelings. Her eyes closed and mouth open as she arched her back upward as he laid butterfly kisses down her stomach. Her watery eyes meeting his just before their lips met in a quick kiss, as they hid behind a book shelf in a deserted library. Every memory he had of her, he cherished deep inside his heart. Suddenly he felt overcome with the need to see her, the need to touch her and hold her close to him. His mind reeled from the thought of leaving her tomorrow for New York. Quickly, He turned his car around and headed in the direction of her house.

As he pulled in front of her house, he saw her there on the porch. She was sitting with her arms wrapped around her legs and her chin upon her knee. She looked pensive, lost; beautiful. He slowly walked up the few steps to where she was sitting, but she didn't make any recognition that he was there, so he broke the silence.

"Hi." It came out soft and reserved, and his heart began to beat faster as she turned to him and smiled.

"Hi." She continued to smile as she patted the empty seat next to her on her porch swing and he grinned as he took his spot. "She's gone, huh?" His smile faltered as he nodded. She nodded too and turned to look forward once again.

They sat there in silence, but it was comfortable. They never did need words to fill the time they shared. But she spoke after a few minutes,

"I can't believe she's actually gone." Without hesitation he pulled her hand into his and intertwined their fingers. She looked at him with a small smile, and whispered, "I can't believe you're going to be gone tomorrow." A tear began to fall down her cheek, and part of his heart broke, as it did each time she cried.

He reached out with his other hand and wiped it away, "Hey now, none of that." She let out a soft chuckle, and he continued, "I may not be here physically, but you know that I'll never really be gone from you."

She nodded and said the same words that Brooke had earlier, yet these seemed to touch him more when he heard them come from her small voice, "I know, but everything is changing. And people are leaving, and I think you know that I have a hard time with people leaving." She gave a slight smirk, and he laughed,

"What? you? Never." She laughed along with him, and he felt his pulse increase as she caressed his hand with her thumb.

"Let's do something." He said it suddenly and, she caught his eye quickly.

"What do you have in mind?" She said as she lifted an eyebrow suggestively. They both burst out laughing.

"I mean, let's get out of here. It's my last night in Tree Hill and I want to drive through it, savor the smell… I don't know, I don't know where I want to go, I just know that I want to go there with you." She felt like her heart was going to jump out of her skin as he stood and offered her his hand to join him. Their eyes connected and she hoped that he couldn't see the heat she felt along her skin. She smiled and grabbed his hand, because really, she was never one to say no to Lucas Scott.

-x-

And they drove. They had her hood down in her Comet and had their favorite songs playing in the back round as they sped down winding roads. He looked at her as the wind blew her soft curls away from her smiling face, and he honestly didn't know if he had ever seen someone so beautiful. They both felt the tension as they drove down the road they had first talked.

That's me inside your head.

Peyton laughed out loud at the memory that she knew he was thinking of too. He felt light-headed at the sound of her laugh and before thinking about it; he grabbed her free hand and placed a soft kiss along her knuckles. She felt dizzy with happiness at how right it all felt. He didn't even question it as they pulled into the river court, because he some how knew that she would take him there.

They stepped outside of the car and walked closer to the river, where they sat in the warm grass. Their hands found each other again as they watched the indescribable colors begin to set. They talked about everything and nothing at the same time.

She thought it was adorable as she watched him blush when she said, "I was only ever defensive and rude to you because it scared me how much you got me only after a few brief moments," of their budding relationship.

He wanted to erase all of her sadness when he saw it in her eyes as he said, "I had never felt more scared in my life when I was with you that day in the library, because the thought of losing you made my heart break into a million pieces."

"Do you ever wonder what would have happened if we hadn't ended things?" She said after a few quiet moments, in an unsure voice. He felt his pulse increase once again, and he turned and looked into her gleaming green eyes.

"Every day." The honesty in his voice was everything she needed and her heart filled with joy. He moved closer to her and her breathing turned rapid at the close proximity that they were in. He rubbed her nose against hers slowly and whispered, "Peyt," right before their lips collided.

The kiss was slow, as they both relished in the feeling of their lips upon each other, but then she ran her tongue across his lips, begging for entrance, which he gladly granted. Their tongues combined, as they both tasted each other. It was a taste that they hadn't realized how much they missed until then. And once they both got a taste, they needed more.

He gently pushed her down upon the ground, as he lay partly on top of her, their mouths never separating. She moaned as he pressed his arousal into her, and she ran her hands beneath the hem of his shirt, and up. She ran her fingers across the muscles his back had formed and pushed his shirt higher. He completed the task as he rose slightly up and pulled it off, throwing it aside. She sighed at the sight of his body. He was so beautiful.

He smiled as he leaned forward and placed kisses along her neck, and breathed in the vanilla that always accompanied her. God, he loved that smell. He needed more of her and he slowly lifted her tank top over her head and he swore his heart stopped beating at the sight of her bare chest, which glistened with the sweat that had formed from the summer heat and the heat their two bodies had made. He continued to place kisses down her stomach as he had that day in the motel room. Her mind was dizzy with desire.

He reached her jeans, and slowly unbuttoned them as her hand ran through his blonde hair, and he pulled them down, taking her underwear and shoes with them. He raised his head and looked down upon her naked body.

"God Peyt… your beautiful." She felt her eyes glisten with tears at the sound of sincerity in his voice. She sat slightly up and pulled his neck down so their lips touched again. And her hands moved down to his zipper, but she grazed her hand over his hardness before she took anything off, and smiled as he moaned, setting his hand on the ground next to her head so he could steady himself.

In a matter of a few minutes, he was naked too, and he kissed her again. They separated and he looked into her eyes, asking for permission, which she granted with a quick kiss to his lips. Their hearts raced as her took both of her hands and placed them over her head, their fingers intertwined. Before he entered her, he looked into her eyes and said what he wanted to all night, "I love you, Peyton." Her eyes widened and then he was in her, and they both moaned at the feeling of pleasure it came with.

All he could think of was how much they fit. How perfect it felt. And how he never wanted it to end. So he went as slow as he could, and he felt dizzy as he heard her moans. They began to move faster, and they moved, so they were both sitting up, her legs wrapped around his waist. He was close and he knew that she was too at the increase of her movements. He opened her eyes, and the site her saw made him burst with love. He kissed her, and pulled away to see her eyes open, staring into his soul.

"I love you, too." She whispered it so softly, but it was all they needed to go over the edge. When they finished, he laid her back down and moved to her side so he wouldn't crush her. They looked into each other's eyes, as he ran his hand up and down her back.

"Did you mean it?" She asked wearily. He smiled and kissed her,

"Yes. I always have." She couldn't stop the tears from falling and he kissed the sweet salt away as she whispered in his ear,

"I always will."

-x-

They held hands as they walked into her house and up the stairs to her room. As they walked through the door, she pulled away from him and sat on the edge of the bed. She buried her head into her hands and started to cry. He was immediately at her side, pulling her into him as she burrowed into his neck. She held onto him, as if that would stop him from ever leaving.

He pulled them both back and they were lying against each other. Her crying subdued, and she looked up into his eyes, as she moved to lie directly on top of him, her chin resting on his chest. He tucked a stray curl behind her ear, and kissed her forehead.

"We suck at timing, Luke." He let out a breath of air,

"I know."

"I don't want you to go."

"I know."

It was silent in the room, but their minds were loud with thoughts.

Luke spoke first, "I won't go. We can run away together. Rent some small house on the beach, sleep in late every day."

She smiled, " I could draw the ocean, as you write stories."

He grinned as ran his fingers through her curls, " Yea. And at night we'll cook fish and eat on our porch over looking the water."

"And make love every night." She said suggestively and he laughed out loud while he nodded his head profusely.

"So let's do it, Peyt. Me and you." He looked into her eyes seriously, and she smiled as she thought of how she could spend the rest of her life with this boy, but the smile was soon gone.

"Luke, you know I can't let you do that." His face fell, "You need to go to New York and write. You deserve that. You deserve to have all your dreams come true."

"But they won't mean anything without you next to me." His voice cracked with sadness, and she held back the tears as she responded,

" But I will be there, Luke. I will always be there with you." They kissed each other, and they could taste each other's tears. When they pulled apart, they both saw the love in each other's eyes.

"What will you do?" He whispered.

"I'll stay here and figure out what I want to do. But I can't leave Tree Hill yet, I'm not ready." He nodded, "But I'll be waiting for you."

He rolled her off of him, and turned so he was leaning over her, "God, I love you so much." As they kissed, they both knew it would be the last one for a long time, so they put all they had into it. They pulled back and he kissed her nose, and got off the bed and walked towards the door, but stopped and turned around as she called his name.

Their eyes connected, "I love you too, Lucas Scott. Please don't ever forget it." She said as she sat up on her bed.

He shook his head slowly, "Never." And then he was gone.

Peyton lie back on her bed and let the tears flow down her face as she touched her lips. She could still taste him, she could still feel him on top of her, in her. She knew things were never going to be the same, because she knew that her heart would always belong to Lucas Scott.

-x-

Lucas pulled away from his crying mom, and kissed her check.

"You be good, my boy." She kissed his check back as he nodded.

"I love you, Ma." She said the same, and then he was moving towards his gate. Away from Tree Hill. He suddenly got the urge to turn back and drive over to Peyton's house, and enter her room. He craved to see her sitting on her bed, sketching, just as he knew she was at that moment, and pull her into his arms and kiss her with all the love he felt. But he knew he couldn't do that. He needed to leave. He needed to form a new life. Yet, he also knew that a part of him would always belong in Tree Hill, as long as her heart remained there.

-x-

Tree Hill, North Carolina – May 30th, 2008

Haley squeezed Peyton's shaking hand as they stared at the telephone.

"I can't do it, Haley." Haley took a deep breath, afraid this was going to happen again,

"Yes, you can Peyton. You need to. You need to talk to him, to tell him." Her heart broke as she saw Peyton's eyes fill with tears. She gently grabbed Peyton's chin so their eyes found each other's, "I love you girlie, but you know you can't do this on your own. And you know you still love him. And you know he deserves to know."

Peyton smiled, "But I have you and Nathan."

"And you always will." She responded, giving Peyton a light nudge to the shoulder, "But you know that we can't replace him"

Peyton nodded and picked up the phone, dialing the number she had memorized so many years ago. Her heart rate increased with the sounds of the ringing. But it instantly calmed with the sound of his familiar voice,

"Hello?" She stayed silent, "Hello??"

"Luke."

His breath stopped for a moment, "Peyton?" He whispered.

"I need you, Luke." Her voice wavered as the tears fell down her face, and Haley immediately squeezed her knee reassuring her.

His mind filled with worry, "What's wrong? Are you ok?" She smiled at his immediate response to save her; he was still the same guy she had fallen in love with all those years ago.

"Come Home, Luke."

Those three small words were all he needed to start to pack a bag. He was going home to Tree Hill. He was going home to Peyton.

A/N: So what do you think??? I have a pretty set story line, but I still like suggestions! I also LOVE reviews, so press that button and make me happy! 