I'm borrowing Lorelei and Christopher from Gilmore Girls. They're the same from Gilmore Girls (Lorelei got pregnant at 16, ran away from home, Christopher is trying to find himself and is not fully there for Lorelei and their daughter Brooke.) There's no Luke, Stars Hollow, or Rory in my story. Brooke is their daughter. This story goes with the Naley story with the same name. Later on when the Tree Hillers meet these characters, the story will merge into one.

Prologue: Princess Brooke Penelope Davis

Four-year-old Brooke Davis smiled when she saw where her mom had taken her. It was a sunny afternoon and Brooke had just finished her first day of pre-school.

"The beach?!" Brooke squealed with delight.

"Of course. You were such a good girl today and it's so nice out," Lorelei Davis replied. Brooke was Lorelei's pride and joy. Although it wasn't an ideal pregnancy, Lorelei being 16 and all, she couldn't imagine her life without Brooke. The bright eyed, energetic little girl with the cutest dimpled smile was Lorelei's world.

"Did you like school?" Lorelei asked as she looked for a parking space.

"It was alright. There were lots and lots of kids there. I drawed, and played blocks and stuffs," Brooke answered looking towards the ocean.

"Did you make any new friends?"

"Well, we all sat in a circle and the teacher made us say our names, but I didn't remember nobody's name."

Lorelei chuckled. "I'm sure you'll get to know everyone soon."

Lorelei parked her car and went to un-strap her daughter from the car seat. She grabbed Brooke's hand and headed for the beach.

"Mommy, can I go make a sandcastle?"

"Sure sweetie, but what are the rules?"

"Don't talk to strangers and if someone tries to grab me scream as loud as I can," Brooke recited with ease.

"That's my girl," Lorelei beamed. "I'm going to be right here, don't go to far ok?"

Brooke nodded and skipped a few feet away from her mom. She anxiously began stuffing sand into her pail.

Lorelei watched her daughter play, thinking about their situation. Brooke's father, Christopher Hayden, had proposed to her after she delivered Brooke, but Lorelei wasn't ready, and she was fairly certain that Christopher wasn't ready either. They lived in a society where pregnant teenagers were not allowed and that informal arranged marriages were a must. Lorelei and Christopher's parents had hoped that one day they would be married, and although the news of the pregnancy did come as a shock, both sets of parents found solace in the fact that at least Lorelei was pregnant with Christopher's child. Lorelei ran away from her parents home almost a year after Brooke was born and three years later she never looked back.

Times were hard for the first couple of years, but somehow Lorelei managed to build a stable environment for Brooke to grow up in, without the comfort of her parents money. She kept in contact with Christopher and he spent the major holidays with them. Lorelei had a strained relationship with her parents, but lately they had been civil to each other. She had recently begun taking Brooke to visit her parents once a month.

Lorelei was lost in her thoughts and didn't notice a man sit next to her.

"Do you mind if I sit here?" The man asked.

"No, no go ahead."

Lorelei look towards Brooke and noticed that there was a little boy standing by her, while Brooke ignored him. Brooke looked up to her mom and Lorelei nodded as if to say 'you can talk to him'.

"Is she your daughter?" The man asked.

"Yeah." Lorelei smiled.

"She's beautiful."

"Thanks. I'm Lorelei Davis," Lorelei introduced herself and stuck out her hand.

"Keith. Keith Jaglieski."

"Hi," Jake Jaglieski greeted. He was here with his dad, Keith, and noticed the pretty little girl playing by herself. He too was playing by himself and went to her with the intention of playing together.

Brooke ignored the boy standing by her and continued to unsuccessfully build her castle. She'd been stuffing sand into her pail as a mold, but it would collapse as soon as she removed the pail.

"The sand needs to be wet if you want it to stand up. That's what my dad always taught me when we built sand castles," Jake informed.

Brooke looked up to the boy for the first time, and then looked to her mom. Her mom nodded her head and Brooke finally spoke to the boy in front of her.

"I'm Princess Brooke Penelope Davis."

"You're a princess?" Jake asked in amazement.

"Uh-huh." Brooke nodded her head. "My dad says I'm a princess and he calls me princess."

"Wow."

"What's your name?" Brooke asked.

"My name's Jacob Alexander Jaglieski, but you can call me Jake. Only my dad calls me Jacob Alexander Jaglieski when he's mad at me."

"Oh. My mom calls me Penelope when she's mad at me. I only see my dad sometimes," Brooke said sadly. She was a daddy's girl, and every time Christopher would visited her she would hope and pray that he wouldn't leave.

"I don't have a mom," Jake informed sadly.

"Everybody gotsa mom."

Jake just shrugged his shoulders. "What do moms do?"

"Well," Brooke began. "They do everything that dads do. They take you to the park, and buy you ice cream, and pick you up from pre-school."

"Well, Karen sometimes picks me up from kindergarten, and buys me ice cream, and she takes me to the park."

"Then Karen's your mom!" Brooke said excitedly. "Wait, what's kindergarten?"

Jake smiled. He was glad that Karen was his mom. "Kindergarten is where big kids get to go where they learn all kindsa stuff. I used to go to pre-school but then I got too big."

"How old are you?" Brooke asked.

"I'm this many," Jake said showing her five fingers.

"Oh, I'm only this many." Brooke sighed showing Jake four fingers.

"C'mon, let's go see if we can get water so our sandcastle will stand up." Jake grabbed Brooke's hand and trotted to where Lorelei and Keith were.

"Daddy," Jake said to Keith. "Can we have some water for our sandcastle?"

"Sure kiddo. But first, who's your friend?" Keith asked looking to Brooke.

"Oh, this is Princess Brooke Penelope Davis. She's my new friend."

"Wow." Keith smiled impressed. "A real princess?"

Brooke nodded and smiled shyly.

"I'm Keith," he introduced herself to Brooke.

"Hi Keith. That's my mommy," Brooke said pointing to Lorelei.

"Oh, we're old friends. And who's this handsome little boy?" Lorelei asked as she ruffled Jake's curly hair as he blushed.

"This is my new friend Jacob Alexander Jaglieski," Brooke informed.

"Well, here's some water," Lorelei said as she gave the kids a water bottle each. "Go build your sandcastle."

Brooke grabbed Jake's hand and skipped off to where she left her pail.

"You're son's adorable."

"Lorelei, you seem like a really nice lady and all, but I have a girlfriend, who I love."

Lorelei tried to hold her laughter in, but she couldn't. She burst out laughing. "I'm sorry," she apologized as she wiped tears of mirth from her eyes. "I wasn't hitting on you."

Keith chuckled uncomfortably. "I know," he scoffed.

Lorelei continued to laugh. "Jake is very adorable."

"Sorry, I just… every time I come here with Jake women always say he's adorable before they hit on me and I just thought, you know," Keith explained.

"No harm done." Lorelei's laughter died down. "So girlfriend huh?"

"Yup," Keith said with a smile.

"Jake, do you want to be my best friend?" Brooke asked as they built their castle.

"Sure!" Jake nodded excitedly. He never had a best friend before.

Brooke smiled back. "That means that you're a prince because I'm a princess."

"Ok!"

"Brooke," Lorelei called out. "Time to go, Momma has to go to school."

Brooke and Jake ran back to Keith and Lorelei.

"Aw," Brooke exclaimed. "Do we have to? Me and Jake are best friends!"

Lorelei smiled. "Well, you have to go to Karen's. You can see Jake another time, I promise."

"I hate Pucas." Brooke scowled. "He's mean to me and never ever wants to play and he pulls my hair and says that I'm not a Princess!"

"Brooke, what did I say about calling people names?" Lorelei scolded.

"Sorry," Brooke apologized forcibly.

"Ok, say bye to Jake and Mr. Jaglieski."

"Bye Jake," Brooke said and gave Jake a big hug. "Bye Mr. Jaglieski."

"Oh, you will not believe the day we had today Kare," Lorelei greeted her best friend Karen as they entered the café Karen owed.

"Well, considering I rarely believe anything you say, I believe you," Karen joked. Lorelei had the tendency to embellish stories.

"Funny," Lorelei deadpanned. "Hey Brooke, why don't you go find Lucas?"

"Fine," Brooke huffed as she stomped off to find him, but then ran back to give Karen a hug.

"She has got to be the sweetest little girl," Karen gushed.

"Yeah, well, if you went through 24 hours of labor, you wouldn't think she was so sweet."

Karen chuckled. As much as Lorelei complained about giving birth to Brooke (which she did a lot), she knew Lorelei loved Brooke with all her heart. "Do you think they'll get married?" she asked, referring to her son, Lucas, and Brooke.

"Right now, Brooke thinks Lucas is the scum of the earth, but I did promise her hand to him when they first met."

Lorelei and Brooke stumbled upon Karen's Café a year ago when it first opened. Lorelei was looking for a job, and Karen was looking for a waitress. Karen and Lorelei hit it off and altough Lorelei quit after six months of working to go back and get a business degree at the local college, they remained close.

Lucas and Brooke were another story. Lucas took one look at Brooke and was hooked. He asked Lorelei if he could marry her, and she laughed and said yes. Brooke on the other hand was not so impressed with him. She introduced herself as a Princess and he told her she wasn't a Princess, which set the tone of their relationship for years to come. Brooke took offense to that, which began her hatred for Lucas. Lucas, in true four-year-old fashion, started picking on Brooke as a sign of affection.

"They're so cute together though," Karen cooed.

"I say Brooke realizes that she loves Lucas when she's 17," Lorelei said.

"17?! That's way too long. I say 15," Karen countered.

"Actually, I think that Lucas might have a little competition. She met a cute little boy today that she became instant best friends with," Lorelei said. "Is it wrong that we're betting on our kids' futures?"

Karen thought for a moment. "No," she said while shaking her head. "So Brooke made a friend?"

"Yes, which is part of the story I was trying to tell you when I walked in here. You always manage to make me forget what I'm saying! Anyways, back to my story. So I'm sitting on this bench watching Brooke and this man asks me if he can sit there. Of course I say yes, because, it's not my bench. Anyways, this cute little boy started playing with Brooke, and then they both come up to us. Turns out the boy was his son, so I tell him that I think he's cute. The guy totally blows up and says that he's not interested, which was ridiculous because a) I don't recall hitting on him and 2) I wasn't interested in him like that, not that he wasn't good looking or anything, but because… well, just because," Lorelei finished.

Karen looked amusedly towards her friend. "When do you breathe?"

"Really? I tell you my story that I've been waiting to tell you the whole ride here and that's all you have to say? No, 'Oh, Lorelei, maybe you should have given the man a chance, because what if he's the love of your life and you just let him get away?'" Lorelei finished animatedly.

"Maybe you should have given him a chance. What if he's the love of your life?" Karen parroted.

"Eh, he has a girlfriend. Sooo, big plans tonight?"

Karen blushed. "Yeah, the kids are finally going to meet each other."

"I really don't get the logic in this. So you've been dating this guy for almost a year, who by the way I have not met nor do I know his name, and your kids haven't met yet? And are you sure it's alright that Brooke's here, because I don't have to go to class today."

"We didn't want the kids to meet and get attached because what if it didn't work out? And yes, it's fine that Brooke's here. And yes, you have to go to class today."

"Fine." Lorelei pouted that could only be described as one mirroring her four-year-old daughter. "So, are you finally going to let me in on mystery man's name?"

"His name's K-"

"Oh my god," Lorelei interrupted. "It seems we can add stalker to weird guy's list of oh-so-appealing traits."

"What?"

"The guy from the beach just walked in here."

Karen turned towards the door and saw Keith Jaglieski with his son Jake. She smiled.

"That's the guy from the park?"

"The one and only. Hey, I know I don't work here anymore, but please please please let me serve him!" Lorelei begged.

Karen got a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Sure."

Lorelei walked over to Keith and Jake while Karen watched in fascination behind the counter.

"Stalking me now?" Lorelei asked as she sauntered her way towards the father and son. "I thought you had a girlfriend."

"I do," Keith responded confused. "She works here. What are you doing here?"

"Really?" Lorelei question. "She works here? Because I've practically lived here since the moment it opened and unless you're calling yourself a pervert then I doubt your girlfriend works here."

"She does work here," Keith insisted.

"She can't work here. Because the only person that works here that you could legally date is… KAREN!"

Keith and Lorelei turned to Karen. She was smiling and waving at the two.

"That was just not funny," Lorelei said.

"Yeah it was. Lorelei, meet Keith, my mystery man. Keith, meet Lorelei, my best friend."

"Well, as much as I love being embarrassed by you Karen, I have to get going. Brooke," Lorelei called out. "I'm leaving now."

Brooke ran out of the back room and into her mom's arm. "Do you have to go mom?"

"Do I have to go Karen?" Lorelei mimicked.

"Yes, so you can open that Inn you wanted, or become the designer that you wanted, and so you can buy a house near mine so Lucas and Brooke can grow up and eventually get married," Karen said listing all the things Lorelei wanted. Although Karen was only five years older than Lorelei, she couldn't help but feel motherly towards her friend.

"The things I do for you kiddo." Lorelei smiled at her daughter. "Love you Cookie."

Brooke giggled at the nickname. "I love you too Mommy." Lorelei set Brooke on the ground and left.

"Jake!" Brooke said finally noticing Keith and Jake. "What are you doing here?"

"That's my mom," Jake said pointing at Karen stunning both Karen and Keith.

"See I told you you gotsa mom. C'mon, we can go play with Lucas."

The two kids left a dumbfounded Keith and Karen in the café.

"Is that alright?"

"Are you okay with that?" They asked at the same time.

"I would love nothing more than for you to be Jake's mom." Keith smiled and kissed Karen.

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PS I know that Lucas wasn't in the Prologue, other than being mentioned by the others, but I promise that he will be in the other parts, and is a major character.