“Peyton Sawyer will become Peyton Scott. Lucas wrote this in the 8th grade. I remember him talking about her constantly and not just in the 8th grade. In the 9th grade, and the 10th grade, and the 11th grade, and finally in our Junior year Lucas gathered up his courage and talked to Peyton for the first time right here at this lake… and she was a bitch. He said, ‘Haley! I talked to her!’ and when I asked him if the fantasy was finally over if he could finally admit that Peyton Sawyer was human after all, and he said, ‘No. Peyton Sawyer is not human. She’s an angel, and she’s my angel. I believe in true love. I believe in love at first sight. I believe love conquers all. That doesn’t mean that there’s not going to be hard days or difficult things to deal with because there will be. Finding that person who does it for you and knowing that, that person loves you back just makes everything so much easier. Peyton Sawyer will become Peyton Scott…that was the dream and here we are 10 years later and we all get to witness today a dream come true.”