The Comet

This is my favorite scene from One Tree Hill.

Here's another link Lucas and Peyton fight

Peyton: “Lucas and Peyton, True Love Always”. Always Lucas, that’s what we were supposed to have until you showed up in LA three years ago and ambushed me!

Lucas: If by ambush you mean proposed to you?

Peyton: Oh yeah, out of the blue. A proposal that was driven by some insecurity I have never been able to understand.

Lucas: Insecure? 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.

Peyton: I never said no! I said that I love you and I did wanna marry you someday. And God! I wanted to so bad! But you gave up on us.

Lucas: I gave up on us?

Peyton: Yes!

Lucas: By proposing I gave up on us?

Peyton: No, by not waiting you gave up on us. You know that’s the truth.

Lucas: That’s great Peyton! You wanna talk truth? Let’s tell the truth. YOU gave up on me. That’s why you didn’t say yes. You didn’t think I can do it.

You might wonder why this is my favorite part when it is obvious that they are fighting. It’s been four or six years after they graduated from high school. They have lived different lives after that. They have their own stories but as promised four years ago, everybody decided to come back to their home, Tree Hill because there is only One Tree Hill.

         Lucas is engaged to his book editor Lindsey whom he “fell in love” after breaking up with Peyton. Peyton came back for her best friend, Brooke, who came back for Tree Hill because she’s tired of her life in The Big Apple and misses the old Brooke. When Peyton saw Lucas at the historical court, she confessed how much she loves him. (They were together after high school and then broke up.) Apparently, she had no idea that he is committed to someone. She just heard him saying, “Peyton, there is someone.” I can imagine the pain in her eyes, and Luke’s too. They did not talk for a long time after that.

          When they had the opportunity to confront each other, my favorite scene happened. I just love the fact that Lucas is engaged to someone else and Peyton decided to forget about her feelings but when their paths crossed, boom! Their feelings exploded! They were not together yet they were mad and fighting over the past, the reason why they broke up in the first place. Just when I thought Luke has found a new love and Peyton had decided not to fight for her love. The reason that they are fighting is because they are still madly in love with each other and they hate it that they are not together. He was mad because she ‘rejected’ his proposal. She was mad because he easily found a ‘Peyton replacement’.

            During that time, Lucas was supposed to write a book but he cannot seem to find the inspiration then all of a sudden after coming back to Tree Hill and seeing Peyton, everything went back. He was writing again. Lindsey thought it was because of Tree Hill. Hence, The Comet -- Lucas Scott’s latest book. Everybody thought it was science-related. Then Lucas-Lindsey wedding came. Peyton was by her car, cannot seem to come inside the church, Lindsey saw her and decided to talk to her, to fix any bad memories between them. They walked back towards the church. Just before Lindsey walk down the aisle, she realized she don’t have with her the bouquet of flowers or the veil (I can’t remember which one exactly). She remembered talking to Peyton by her car so she might have left it there. She was right. She found it in Peyton’s car which also happens to have the name encrypted in it, Comet.

             

The Comet. It was Peyton. It was all about her all along. It is a love story. It was their story. -C