“Suddenly, it was as if the roar of the crowd, the echo of the final buzzer, the cheers of my teammates were all sounding from a thousand miles away.  And what remained in that bizarre muffled silence was only Peyton. The girl who’s art and passion and beauty had changed my life.  In that moment my triumph was not a state championship but simple clarity; the realization that we had always been meant for each other and every instinct to the contrary had simply been a denial of the following truth: I was now, and would always be - in love with Peyton Sawyer.”