Hey guys I'm sad to say that this is the last chapter :( I really can't thank you all enough for sticking with me through my first story on the site! It's been quiete a journey :) Summary at the bottom of my new fic! LOVE YOU ALL!

xoxo kacey

Epilogue

It's been ten years since that summer and every morning I still look at the picture of us all on the beach. I remember how hard it was to say goodbye, how much we all cried. I remember everything about that summer because that summer was the start of the rest of our lives.

Lucas took classes at the community college just outside Tree Hill that winter, while working at Karen's Café and helping coach the Ravens. He transferred his credits to Duke the following year and shared an on campus apartment with his brother. He majored in English and is now a teacher and head coach of the Tree Hill High Ravens, living a healthy life.

Brooke spent four years out in UCLA, earning a degree in Fashion marketing. She showed up the day after her graduation on Lucas' door step, jumped in his arms and they have been together ever since. They married last summer and she runs a successful bridal boutique in Tree Hill. They are expecting twin boys in a few months.

Jake went off to NYU where he majored in law. He currently lives in a comfy loft in Manhattan and represents children's interests in family court.

Peyton spent a year at Boston University before dropping out and going out to LA with Brooke. She found her nitch in a record label and spends half her time at the company's New York office. She and Jake have dated on and off and are currently on again. Brooke swears that this is the one that will work.

Nathan and I found our way, though the journey wasn't easy. He played ball for Duke, but due to a knee injury in his junior year, was unable follow his dream to make it to the pros. He took it as a sign to follow his other dream, the one that would last him the rest of his life. He kept the promise he made to me on the beach that night. We got married the summer after his graduation and already have two beautiful children; James, who just turned four, and Natalie who will be two in the fall.

I never left Tree Hill. By the time I saved up a lot of money, I realized that my dream wasn't in a college education. It was staying in the place that I love, the place I would only have come back to anyway. Karen and I are partners in the café and plan to open an all ages club in the following year.

Deep down, we're all still those same six kids, drinking beer on the beach and singing carefree songs. There's still that unbreakable bond between us all that goes further than friendship.

It's that same bond that draws us all back to the beach house every summer.

It always will.

THE END

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