sentences:  Peyton develops feelings for Lucas Scott in the first season, but frequently tries keeping them to herself since he was consistently off-and-on with Brooke for the first four seasons.Her adoptive mother died in a car accident when she was young, and her adoptive father works out on the sea, which leaves Peyton on her own for most of the first four seasons.She met her birth mother Ellie Harp near the end of the second season, however she also dies from cancer by the middle of the third season.