Story Info:
This is kind of a combination of OTH and LUX. It's different from othlvr16's Father Unexpected (which is really good). In season 1 when Brooke thought she was pregnant with Lucas' baby, she was. They gave the baby up for adoption. Sixteen years later, their daughter finds Brooke because she needs their signatures to get emancipated. Instead of getting emancipated, she ends up in Brooke's custody. Brooke is engaged to Julian. Lucas won't be a big part of this story. He, Peyton and Sawyer are traveling the world.
Main Characters:
Brooke: Brooke owns Clothes Over Bros and it is doing well. She's engaged to Julian. They met when he was in town producing Ravens. The only difference is that Sam wasn't around.
Julian: Julian owns his own production company in Tree Hill.
Sam: Sam is Brooke's daughter. Her personality is a combination of Sam's personality and Lux's personality (from LUX). Sam and Lux are pretty similar in my opinion. They're both sarcastic, rebellious and grew up in foster care because their parents didn't want them.
Jack: Jack is Sam's best friend. He's in foster care.
Tom: Tom is Sam's boyfriend. He's loosely based on Bug (from LUX). He grew up in foster care. He's an eighteen year old high school drop out. He has his own apartment.
Haley: Haley still got pregnant with Jamie senior year of high school. She's happily married to Nathan. She teaches English Literature at Tree Hill High School.
Nathan: He retired from the NBA and is coaching basketball.
Jamie: Jamie is about two years younger than Sam so he's 14. He's a lot like Lucas was in high school.
Prologue:
Brooke POV:
This can't be happening. I can't be pregnant right now. I'm still in high school.
I park my car near the river court. I know I'll find Lucas here. I don't want to see him. I really don't want to talk to him ever again, but I know I have to tell him.
I loved him and he cheated on me with my best friend, Peyton Sawyer. He's now my ex-boyfriend and Peyton's now my ex-best friend. The anger and hurt are still raw as I walk to the bench Lucas is sitting on.
"I need to talk to you," I say.
"OK," Lucas replies.
"I think I'm pregnant," I blurt out.
"What do you mean think?" Lucas asks.
"I mean I'm late," I reply. I look at him meaningfully for emphasis. "Like late."
"Did you take a test?" Lucas asks.
I shake my head.
Lucas gets up and moves closer to me. We used to be so close. Now I don't want to be on the same planet as him.
"Look, we have to know. Maybe it's just a false alarm, you know? Come on. The drug store is still open. We'll do it together," Lucas says.
I nod. Just a week ago I didn't think we'd ever do anything together again. Now we're doing something that could change both of our lives forever together.
I take the pregnancy test in the bathroom while Lucas waits in my bedroom. I sit down on the toilet seat and wait for the indicator to change. I don't want to wait in my room with Lucas. The indicator finally changes. I hold my breath as I look at it. It's positive. I don't know what to do. No matter what I do nothing will ever be the same again.
I can't believe this. I never thought I would be one of those girls who got knocked up by some loser in high school. I'm Brooke Davis.
I walk out of the bathroom and show the pregnancy test to Lucas.
"It's positive," he says.
"My God. I'm pregnant," I manage to say in between sobs.
"Come on. I know you're still mad at me, OK? But I'm here for you. We'll go to the doctor in the city tomorrow. I'll take you," Lucas says. Of course I'm still mad at him. He cheated on me with my best friend! He just expects me to get over it and play nice. He makes me so mad!
"I'll take myself," I say. I'm not going anywhere with him.
"I'm just as scared as you are, OK? But I want to help," Lucas says. I don't want his help. He's the last person I would accept anything from right now.
I go to the doctor by myself the next day. I hate being alone. My parents are never home so I spend more than my fair share of time alone. This is something I never thought I would have to do alone. I've never felt more alone before in my life.
Lucas is waiting outside the clinic after my appointment. "So what happened?"
"The nurse said she'd call me with the results," I reply. I don't have anything else to say to him.
Later Lucas finds me at school and asks me for the hundredth time if I've heard from the nurse. I haven't. We start fighting. We can't be civil to each other anymore. I can't forgive him and he doesn't understand that.
My phone rings and we both fall silent. I answer it. "Yeah, this is Brooke." Lucas doesn't take his eyes off me as I listen to the nurse on the other end of the line. "OK. Thank you." I hang up and lock eyes with Lucas. "Trust me, it's yours."
"Look, don't shut me out of this, OK? We can deal with it together," Lucas says.
"We're not together, remember? You dodged the bullet just in time," I say.
