Authors Note: I know I probably should not be writing another story right now but I had this idea and could not help myself lol. I hope you all enjoy this story, and please review it means a lot. I got this idea while watching the television show Wife Swap on Lifetime, it occurred to me 'what goes on behind the cameras, or what could go on', you don't have to have seen the show to understand this story.
Summary: Each week form across America two families are chosen. This week the Davis-Keller Family from Miami Florida, fashion designer mother of two young sons and wife Brooke Davis-Keller is sick of being taken advantage of by her player husband, and wants to be appreciated. 784miles away in Tree Hill North Carolina lives the Scott family. Stay at home writer father and husband Lucas Scott is tired of being both mother and father to he and his wife Peyton's two young kids. He is hoping this experience will make them come full circle as a family and she will take a more active role in her children's lives. This is going to be Brooke/Lucas Point of view most of the time but sometimes it will be narrators Point of view.
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You Call It Madness But I Call It Love
Chapter One
The Davis-Keller Brood
Twenty-seven year old Brooke Davis-Keller sat at her home and Miami Florida just having finished packing up her suitcase. Brooke lived an okay life, not perfect, not horrible, just okay, with her husband Chris Keller and their two young sons Jaden Michael Davis (6) and Kyle James Davis(2) . That was the problem she didn't want okay. Brooke and Chris met in college and became fast friends. One night Halloween to be exact, Brooke found out her boyfriend of five years had been cheating on her for nearly three years. Sad and angry she went out and drank her heart out. Drunk and in pain she slept with the first guy who she came across… Chris. The next morning Brooke didn't know what to do, she quickly got up and left Chris's dorm and tried her best to avoid him over the next few weeks. Obviously he did not mind because he did not try to call once in the two months she avoided him like the plague.
--Seven Years Ago Brookes POV--
"Rach what am I gonna do, I am only twenty years old and I haven't even graduated yet, I'm not in a relationship! It was a one night stand, I can't be pregnant" I screamed at my best friend Rachel sobbing!
"Brookie come on I'll be there for you everything is gonna be fine I swear, but first you need to call Chris" Rachel said rubbing my back soothingly.
"But Rach what do I say" I asked?
"Just tell him the truth he deserves to know, maybe he's not as big of an ass as we think" she told me.
I sighed whipping the tears from my puffy red eyes and nodding my head knowing she was right.
--currently narrators POV--
Brooke told him that afternoon that she was expecting his child. He surprised everyone by telling Brooke he would like to start an actual relationship with her, after all they were going to have a child together, and would be a real father for their baby. Elated Brooke agreed. Their relationship was a very rocky one, as all had already known Chris was a major player, he constantly cheated on Brooke and because of the pregnancy Brooke put up with her, for her baby's sake. Seven months later Brooke gave birth to a beautiful healthy little boy whom she named Jaden Michael Davis. Over the next few years their relationship traveled once more on the same path. Chris constantly cheated on her, and he also spent about as much time with their son as the neighbor did. Some times were good though, there would be the occasional day when Chris would play the loving boyfriend/father bit, but it wasn't very often. Four years later Brooke had had it.
--Four Years Later Flashback--
She came home from a long day at work to find her house completely silent, and with a four year old little boy that was odd. She looked in all the basic rooms living room, bathroom, kitchen, dining room. Next she walked into her son's room. "Jaden there you are wheres daddy" Brooke asked walking in to give the child a hug. That's when she saw it a baby carrier and infant little girl was sitting on her sons bed. "Jaden Michael Davis, where in the hell did this baby come from" I shouted!
"Her name is Rachel Dad said shes my sister" Jaden answered smiling his dimples showing.
There was no doubt that Jaden was hers, Chris on the other hand you would need a DNA sample to prove it. Jaden was the spitting image of Brooke, he had dark brown hair, bright green eyes, and dimples that could light up an entire room. Jaden wasn't into music like his father well he liked music but just totally not the country crap Chris liked he listened to stuff neither of his parents did. Jaden like Brooke had to look perfect before going places, but one thing Brooke didn't know where he got his true passion even at four years old was basketball he had been in a children's league since he could hold a ball.
"Jaden I'm gonna take the baby for now you clean up your room, and where is your father" Brooke asked picking up the baby carrier trying not to show her little boy how angry she was.
First Brooke went and sat the baby in the living room then she walked into her and Chris's room to find him on top of some skanky looking girl, his hand up her shirt, making out. "Chris, what in the hell" Brooke screamed?!
"Brooke babe I um, your home early" was all he managed to say.
"Duh, and care to explain this to me" I say pointing at him and the slut in my bed.
"I um…" he stuttered.
"Okay if not her, than what about the fact that you were using my four year old little boy as a babysitter for this slut's baby so you could get lucky, or if not even that how about what he called the slut's baby… his sister" Brooke screamed!
"Well first of all bitch I'm not a slut, secondly it is his sister, Rachel is Chris's daughter" the lady said.
Brooke paused for a second and then sighed. She quietly and calmly said… "Chris get out, I'm done" and walked out of the room.
--End of Flashback--
Two months later Brooke found out she was pregnant with her second child. She agreed to let Chris move back in if, and only if he promised to change. Things didn't change at all, and seven months later when she gave birth to a second son Kyle James Davis, Chris wasn't even there. Once more he promised to change and so they thought about it and considered maybe if they got married it might better their relationship. Oh how wrong they were. Two years later still nothing had changed and except for the fact that now Chris was an absentee father of two instead of one and an ass of a husband instead of boyfriend. Brooke just wished for once she would be appreciated by her husband. That is why she was doing this. She was going to be on the television show Wife Swap. It was her last hope, her last chance.
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Coming Up Next: What about the Sawyer-Scott brood
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