LucasHey, when did you get here?
I don't know, like an hour ago.
Lucas
You know you could have woke me up.
Luke… what is this? (holds up the ring box) I couldn't bring myself to open it but, uh I've just been sitting here thinking about how much I love you.
Lucas
Well… I wanted it to be a surprise but uh. Peyton, I love you and I want us to be together forever.
Lucas
I know it's a bit sudden okay, but yesterday was a great day. And I'm sitting on the bus and I realize that none of my great days in my life matter without you. You're the one I want next to me when my dreams come true. You're the one I want next to me if they don't. As long as I have you nothing else matters.
There's… it's just not as simple as all of that okay. I mean there's a lot we have to talk about.
Lucas
I know that but we'll figure out all the details when we get back to Tree Hill.
Okay I know that's home for you and I miss it sometimes, I do, but for me Tree Hill is two dead moms and a psycho stalker and some really painful memories. You know I actually had to move out to Hollywood to get away from all the drama. So right now this is my home and the only thing that's missing is you.
Lucas
Then I'll move here.
No god. Luke, honey, Whitey believes in you and Nathan needs you and if I ask you to walk away from your dream you're gonna wake up one day and you're gonna resent me for it. The same way I would feel if you asked me to leave LA.
Lucas
Peyton you get people coffee and deliver mail, you were doing more than that in Tree Hill.
Well I love you for believing that but I have to prove that to myself. I mean… you see that's the thing, and we both have so much we wanna do with our lives and were only nineteen.
Lucas
And Nathan and Haley were a lot younger than that.
Okay well we see how easy that's been. Come on…in another year.
Lucas
Peyton! We've seen each other three times in the last year. We go days without talking. We trade few emails. We've already grown so far apart. Who knows where we'll be a year from now.
Luke if you can't trust that our love can make it one year, I don't understand how we can be talking about forever right now!
Lucas
You're saying no.
No! I am not saying no, I am saying not now. I want to marry you someday. Hey don't do that, don't pull away from me. Okay I want us to be together. I love you so much.
Lucas
Just not enough...
Okay. Can we take this back? Can we just pretend like you never woke up, please?
Lucas
I don't think we can.
I'm afraid that this conversation is going to end with…
Lucas
Goodbye...
Don't! Come here. Our dreams are going to come true Lucas. My music and your novel. It's gonna happen, I know it.
Lucas
I saw your lights on, which isn't that surprising, I mean I know how hard you work. You know, you haven't been yourself lately Peyton. I mean not the Peyton I remember.
Well, I haven't been that Peyton for three years.
Lucas
What's going on?
Okay. I went by my old house, there's a teenage girl living there now. She showed me my closet door, and you know what that said? Lucas and Peyton, True Love Always. Always Lucas, that's what we were supposed to have until you showed up in L.A. three years ago and ambushed me.
Lucas
If by ambushed you mean proposed to you?
Oh, yeah, out of the blue! A proposal that was driven by some insecurity that I have never been able to understand!
Lucas
Insecurity? Right. Let me tell you how you get "Always" Peyton: when a man asks you to marry him, you say yes. You don't say no and call him insecure!
I never said no! I said that I loved you and that I did wanna marry you some day and, oh God, Luke! I wanted you so bad - but you gave up on us.
Lucas
I... I gave up on us?
Lucas
By proposing I gave up on us?
No! By not waiting you gave up on us, and you know that's the truth!
Lucas
That's great Peyton! [screaming] You wanna talk truth, let's tell the truth!
Lucas
You gave up on me! That's why you didn't say yes, you didn't think I could do it! You didn't think I could get my novel published, maybe you just didn't care, because it wasn't about you, or what you wanted.
Well, if that's the truth, if I never cared, (picking up a copy of the many she has of Lucas's novel), then how come every time I see this stupid book I buy it, [picking up another three copies], every stupid damn time Luke. [Screaming, she starts throwing the books at Lucas] You said I was great! You said I could be great! You said we were destined to be together, you said it to the world, you said it to me and I wish you never had because you did not mean any of it!!!
Lucas
[raising his hands up in surrender and disbelief] I'm gonna go. [He starts walking away]
Okay, you know what? I'm gonna pay rent. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'll figure it out, cause whatever this is, I don't feel right about it.
Lucas
It's called me being nice to you.
Lucas
I don't know, maybe you're right.
Lucas
Why are women so screwed up?
Lucas
How did you know?
Because she's sending you a drink with a check in it.
Lucas
Yeah, we're having a tough time with the whole friends thing. How did you two do it so easily?
I make everything look easy.
Lucas
Nate.
Peyton and I were never in love.
Lucas
Yeah, well Lindsey is mad at me too.
Yet you seem more upset about Peyton.
Lucas
Hi.
If you wanted to break my heart there were a thousand ways you could have done it. You did not have to propose to Lindsey to hurt me.
Lucas
It didn't have anything to do with you. It's just .. weird timing.
Lucas
I know that it must seem like ...
NO! Don't marry her Luke!
Lucas
Peyton you can't...
Am I crazy? Do you not feel what I have felt every day that we've been apart for the last three years? Because I have felt there is this vital piece of me that's been missing. And I tried to fill it, Luke. I tried to fill it...with work and friends and music. And it stayed empty until last night when you kissed me. And my entire universe snapped back into focus. Lucas, look me in the eye & tell me that that kiss did not feel exactly the same as it felt three years ago.
Lucas
I'm in love with her, Peyton.
Hey… think maybe Whitey will let you out of practice early so we can catch a movie?
Lucas
What are you doing Peyton?
Just pretending for a second that we're still seventeen and nothing's changed. Would you believe I actually met a girl who lives vicariously through us? At least us in the book.
Lucas
Sure I do. It was a great story to be a part of, but it also took place a long time ago.
I know. I didn't come here to rehash the past. I was reminded today in a roundabout way that the most perfect act of love is sacrifice. It's what Keith did for Karen; burying his feelings for her for all those years so he could be a good friend. I love you Lucas. And I think I have since the first moment we locked eyes and it is going to suck but if what you want is for me to let go then I'm gonna do it. Be happy Luke. I want that with all my heart. [kisses his hand and walks away]
Lucas
Morning.
Lucas
Yeah, I know. If I'd have known he'd be here for a week, I'd have cleared my mom's room
Have they even seen each other this week?
Lucas
No. I don't think they've spoken.
Right. Last thing I want Haley worrying about is throwing a bachelorette party when her marriage is strung.
Lucas
Skills could do it. I mean, he is so excited for my bachelor party.
Lucas
Hey. Look, I hope you don't feel too 'slided by the set-up.
To be honest, I kinda expected it from you guys, you being you and Lindsey. Your hearts are in the right place. You picked the right person to spend the rest of your life with, Luke.
Lucas
So did you.
MMinister
Lucas Eugene Scott, do you take Lindsey Evelyn Strauss to be your lawfully wedded wife? Do you...
That's what I'm talking about!
I'm sorry. I'm... I'm sorry, but you just... you can't, because I love you and because you fixed my car.
Remember that day? Because that day changed everything and I didn't know it at the time. But when you fixed my car, you fixed my heart. And when you proposed to me two years ago, I just wasn't ready. And I was lost and scared, so I said 'someday', but someday's now Luke, it is. Someday is now and I love you. Please don't leave me again. People always leave. [back to reality and as a voiceover] At least that's what I should have said, instead, I said nothing and he said:
Lucas
I do.
LLindsay
[reading from Lucas' second book] It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn't understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again... And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. [drops the manuscript into her lap]
Lucas
Linds.... It's just a story... So what, Peyton's car is a comet you know... This is crazy! I love you.
LLindsay
I love you too, Lucas, I do and I always will. But your heart's conflicted and... I think I've always known it. I guess I was hoping someday... I could be your comet. [Sets the manuscript aside] It's an epic love story, Luke. But it's just not ours. [Takes her ring off and puts it on the manuscript] And neither is this.
Lucas
Lindsay, please, you can't just leave.
LLindsay
People always leave Luke, you of all people should know that.
It was a comet, Luke. The boy saw a comet.
Lucas
Okay...
The boy saw the comet and felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him.
Lucas
Lindsey I love you, but this isn't the time for a book review okay?
What was the first day you ever talked to Peyton?
Lucas
Lindsey...
Lucas
Her car broke down.
The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning. I'm sorry Lucas, I can't marry you.
Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want. Everything you want.
Lucas
Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true. You never know where the next miracle is going to come from, the next smile. The next wish come true.
But if you believe that it is right around the corner. And you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it. To the certainty of it.
You just might get the thing you're wishing for.
The world is full of magic. You just have to believe in it. So make your wish. Do you have it?
Good. Now believe in it. With all your heart.
Lucas
Lindsey. She’s the first thing I think about everyday. How is she? Does she miss me like I miss her? How do I get her back? And then another day without her begins.
Brooke. Oh My God, I have to pee!
What day is it? What time is it? What the hell did I drink last night?
Hm, Millicent, you smell so good. I have to go to work. Sure I guess I could be a little late. What do you mean I’m fired. I wasn’t even that late. How am I going to pay my rent? Would you like fries with that sir?
Jamie. God my girl's hot.
Lucas
So you got her a purple monkey, huh? Just like you had.
Lucas
Of course, I do know some things about you, Brooke Davis. And you’re gonna be a great mom.
You think she’ll like the purple monkey?
Lucas
I think that she’s gonna love the girl that gives it to her.
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