Everyone had settled into their new homes for the next few months. Well, they didn't have much to do in the first place as everyone's apartments came full of the furniture and things they would need so they only needed to bring clothes and a few other bits. It had been a close call the night before and Kim was constantly sending messages into their group chat to convince someone to go down with her to see if it was truly the people from her favorite book. UGH, she was gonna kill Lucas for writing that book. She knew who was there. She had spent so much time with each of them to know who they were. She knew that the guys would go down their all the time to play a game and they would even bring along the smaller boys half the time. She wanted nothing more than to go hug them Nathan, Lucas, clay and for some reason, Keller was their sat talking away with Chase, now that she shook her head laughing at.
The whole unit had been given the remainder of that week off and told to have a fresh start on Monday, which gave her 5 days, 5 days to tell them and hope they don't hate her from keeping it from them. No one had anything food wise in their places yet seeing as they only got there the previous night so they all thought to go out and get something and it now had her in panic mode. They were meeting in a little over an hour and she knew this town like the back of her hand making the fact there are only two cafes in town, one she part owned and she sure as hell wasn't going to allow her team inside Tara's cafe.
Jay came into the room and could tell just by the way she was pacing around the floor she was stressed. She wanted to tell them and he knew that for a fact, she just didn't know how and that scared her a little. They both knew she needed to tell them and probably very soon as they were most likely about to go to her cafe filled with people she sees as family, and that's what lead her to this. She had messaged everyone to come to hers and Jays place before they went out leading her to freak out even more."Oh god!... ugh why am I like this telling them but I was perfectly fine telling you and Ruzek. I mean I told Ruzek... with no problem" Erin stood there with her hands in her face dreading hearing the knocking and the fill of people in the apartment.Jay removed her hands and gently pulled her into his chest trying to cal her. "hey.. hey it's going to be fine, they all care about you, and even if they're not at first they will come around, they all love you Er"And with that came the knock at their door reviling Atwater, Burgess, and Ruzek. After a few minutes, Hank turned up followed by Al and Antonio strolling in very shortly after. They were all confused but Hank who lent against the kitchen counter and Adam giving sneaky thumbs up from behind Kim.
"What's up with this 'meeting' thought we were all gonna go get some food" Kim was fidgeting, Everyone knew it wasn't the food she as bothered about she just wanted to see as much of the town as possible "well um...umm.. I kinda gotta tell you all something" They could all tell by the way Erin began to stutter that it was something they should probably listen to which automatically had them all shutting their mouths wondering what it could be. Even Al and he knew everything."Okay so do any of you actually know that I'm not actually properly from Chicago?"With them all shaking their heads she had begun to carry on."well umm...im actually from here. Tree hill" "wait. what?!" Kim had pure confusion written across her face along with the rest of them that didn't know."yeah. I was born in Tree Hill, North Carolina. I grew up here until the age of 17 when my dad was put away for fraud and my mother went of with the first person she could find. well, that actually happened when I was 16. I lived here for another year with a friend and her dad, and another friend and his mom, and then two others separately as roommates until I kinda had enough of everything here and decided to go anywhere for a fresh start, which lead me to Chicago. My dad's case was well known as it happened at a huge company and I knew people would recognize my name, so I started to use the name Erin Lindsay officially changing it when I was 18, which was shortly after I moved in with Hank and his family. And well that's kinda a long story cut short."They stared at her. She just kinda blurted it all out not meaning to."Your Brooke!" and with that everyone's gaze snapped over to Kim."Your Brooke! As in Brooke Davis! Right?" "How did you figure that out from that?" Ruzek along with everyone else was amazed by that."Adam, you know how many times I've read The Unkindness Of Ravens right?" Erin was tense and anxious waiting for a real reaction and while everyone was occupied by Adam and Kim, Jay had notice and slipped his hands into hers for comfort.Antonio was the one to break it for her once he saw how it was affecting her. He walked up bringing her into a reassuring hug."You know its nothing to be scared of right? it's your life. your childhood. I mean we all have things that we haven't told each other about when we were younger so why should this be different in any way. Even with a different name Erin or Brooke, if Kim guessed right, your still one person and that's a person we all care about. No. Matter. What." And with that Erin hugged him tighter crying into his shoulder while everyone joined waiting their turn. She was shocked and relieved, she at least expected someone to be pissed but no it was the complete opposite.Once released Kim dragged her by her hand to the couch looking like a child on Christmas begging to know more.
