Hey People, thanks for the story alerts, and reviews, yes, I know there is a lot of unanswered questions. But they all will be revealed as the story go's on. Thanks for reading... This chapter will give you guys insight to how Brooke and Julian met, and to Leyton's break up somewhat.

Hope you enjoy this chapter..

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Cindy :)


FORGIVENESS AND LOVE.

Chapter 2.

Brooke walked into the restaurant and immediately spotted Lucas. She walks over to him, " I was a little surprised to get your text." She stands next to the chair across from his.

" You look beautiful." He compliments her on her stunning red dress.

" Boy, I always look beautiful... and it's a Brooke Davis one of a kind" she says, giving him a wink. " So I thought you had a meeting and a flight back to Tree Hill tonight."

Lucas stands up to pull her chair out for her, " It seemed that there was some miscommunication with my editor and me, " he tells her as he sits back down. " I thought she said we had another meeting, and I swear she booked my flight back home for tonight, but it's actually first thing in the morning. So I figured why not catch up with you some more.."

After telling Haley about Brooke and Julian, and sending the picture to her, Haley said, he should see her again, and press her for details on how she met Julian. He was just as curious as Haley was, to know that Julian has been seeing Brooke for three years, and that he has been with Peyton for four years, Julian knows about Brooke and Peyton's friendship, he knows that Brooke went off to New York, and that the girls haven't talked in years, Julian has read his book, so it didn't really make sense to Lucas or Haley, it's not like Brooke was some girl he met at a club, or something. It was like he went looking for her on purposes. But why,was the questioned Lucas was asking himself.

" Well I'm glad you text me, I was actually planing a boring night at home."

" I thought Julian was coming home tonight?" Lucas says, trying to keep his voice at a normal pitch. Home he thought, does Julian consider Brooke's home his home, or the home in Tree Hill, that he and Peyton share with their three-year old.

" Sadly, no, he couldn't get a flight out till late tonight. So I guess you will have to wait till next time you're in town to meet him."

" That's to bad." he says in a relief tone. He wasn't ready for the conflicted that he knows will happen, once Julian knows, he knows, about his affair. " So how did you and Julian meet?" he questions as he pours himself a glass of wine.

Brooke smiles, as she sips her ginger ale. " Well, you remember earlier, when I said Julian was a movie produce?" Lucas nods, so she can go on. " I got a call from someone in his office, wanting me personally to be the designer for his new movie. "

"Wow, Bet that shocked you."

" Yeah it did, I never been asked to do a movie before, at first I was going to back out of it, but my mom, insisted that I should do it, " Brooke rolled her eyes, " Saying it would be good for the company, and all that jazz, so I agreed, the movie was being filmed in LA, which on a good note, meant I got to spend sometime away from my mom.."

Lucas smiles, but his mind is still trying to piece together when this happen, " So was you guys friends first, or did you just jump right into dating?"

" When I got to LA, Julian met me at the airport, and I know you're going to say this is crazy, but once we locked eyes, I swear it was love at first sight.."

Lucas looks down at his plate that the waitress just put in front of him, Thinking how much he wanted to punch Julian, not only is Julian ruining Peyton's life, but he's ruining a girl who has always found it hard to trust or to believe in love.

" He kissed my hand, and I got all weak in the knees, we worked together for like four months, on the movie, spending ever moment we could together, He had just gotten out of a relationship, this girl he was with for like six months, decided to move back to her home town, and left him broken-hearted. " Lucas about choked on his wine, as Brooke spoke. " You okay?"

He closed his eyes, taking a moment to himself, before answering, "yeah, must have went down the wrong pipe.." he tells her, So when Peyton moved back to Tree Hill, and Julian told her he had to stay in LA, he was already seeing Brooke, Well, not actually seeing her, but he was talking with her. his mind is all over the place as Brooke continues to talk.

" He said, I fixed his broken heart, I made him realized that what he had with this Elizabeth chick, wasn't really love."

Elizabeth, Lucas said to himself, so he used Peyton's middle name, nice one Julian..he thought, as Brooke went on, " After the movie ended, Julian and I spend this amazing night together, I wished he could have stay all weekend with me, but he said his mom was sick and she needed him to come home. "

Lucas kept stuffing his face with food, trying his hardest not to reveal to her the truth, hearing he used his dead mother as a reason make him sick to his stomach.

" We text and called each other daily, while he was away, I don't know how it happen but I fell for him pretty quick. At first I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, you know, for me to find out he was a control freak, married, or child abuser, a player... Anything, but the days went by and I just realized he was the one, he was the one I've been looking for. " She pauses, " He came to me at a time, I was just about to give up on love, figuring it was best to stay single, and be the one night stand girl, but then one of the girls that work for me said,

" A guy out there was meant to be the love of your life, your best friend, your soul mate, the one you can tell your dreams to. He'll brush the hair out of your eyes. Send you flowers when you least expect it. He'll call to say goodnight or just cause he's missing you. He'll look in your eyes and tell you, you're the most beautiful girl in the world, and for the first times in your life, you'll believe it. And she was right, Julian is that guy for me Lucas, I can't believe how someone I only knew for four months, could change my life, like he did, after that night we spend together, I knew there was no going back, and we've been together ever since." She smiles, as she took a sip of her ginger ale again, " I never been this happy, "

Lucas reaches for her hand, squeezing it gently, " I'm happy for you, I really am, you deserve to be in love and to be loved.." he tells her in a truthfully voice, cause he means it, he wants nothing but happiness for his ex girlfriend, He wants her to continue wearing that huge smile, but it kills him to know that her dreams and her happiness is about to come to a stand still, heartbreak is around the corner for her, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. "Does he travel a lot? Julian?" He asks, already knowing the answer, but wondered if it bugged her as much as it did Peyton.

" Yeah, which sucks, I get to see him every other week, so that's good.. And next month he is suppose to take some time off work, and spend the whole summer with me, Three whole months, just us two.. I can't wait..."

Lucas was a lost for words, Julian was going to spend the summer with Brooke. He wondered what excuse he was going to give Peyton for being gone for so long.

Brooke took a bite her food, " Enough about me and Julian, Let's talk about you.."

"There's really nothing to talk about, I'm a writer, I still live in Tree Hill, I'm head coach of the Ravens.."

" No way..."

" Yeah, for the last few years now, Skillz is the assistant coach, he helps me out a lot, especially when I'm in the mood to write, or when I got to be up here for meetings.."

" God, seeing you again, and hearing you talk about the Raven's and Haley, Peyton, really makes me miss home.. "

" Tree Hill hasn't been the same since you left."

Brooke gives him a small smile, she puts her fork down, and takes another sip of her drink, before asking the questioned she's dying to know the answer to. " Luke, what happen between you and Peyton?"

He's a little taken back by her question, not shocked cause he knew it was coming. " We just broke up."

"Bull Luke, you two were so prefect for each other, and so in love, I don't get what happen, ever since you told me earlier that you two wasn't together, I've tried to come up with a reason, or understanding, but I kept coming up empty, So please tell me what happen..."

Lucas sighs, as he thinks back to that day, " It happen at the airport the day she was leaving for her internship."

flashback five years ago.

They were standing in the middle of the busy Tree Hill airport, Lucas was holding her closely, knowing this was going to be the last time he touched her for three months. "God, I'm going to miss you.." Peyton just smiles, as she stares at his chest, " I'm so proud of you, you're going to do great.. "

" I'm a little nervous, I can't believe they picked me to intern for them, "

" I can, because your awesome, and talented, you're going to rock at this..." He tells her as he kisses her sweetly, " I hope three months fly by, "

She closes her eyes, knowing now was the prefect time to do what she had plan to do. " Lucas, I love you, I do and...

" I love you to.." he interrupts her.

" I know, " she says, as the tears start to fall. " I think we should say goodbye.."

" No, goodbyes, are for people who will never seen each other again, we will see each other, right here in this spot in three months.." he tells her as he kisses her forehead.

" I'm not coming back..." she whispered, as she looks at her hands that are on his chest.

Lucas's eyes widen, " What are you talking about? What do you mean you're not coming back?"

" I've given it a lot of thought, and I decided that Tree Hill isn't what I want anymore, there's nothing here for me anymore."

Lucas steps back, hurt expression echos cross his face.. " I'm here Peyton, I'm not going anywhere."

" I know this is hard to understand, and I know your going to hate me, but I have to do this. " She cries, as people stop in look at the couple. " I need to find myself, and I can't do that with you.. I got to go my own way, for a while. Be by myself for a bit, do some thinking, get to know myself.."

"LAST CALL FOR FLIGHT 234 TO LA..." The announcer says

" No..." He yells, cause everyone to stop in look.. " I can't let you do this, Peyton we are suppose to be together.. I don't get where this is coming from, you was fine last night, Why are you doing this?" he asks, as a few tears fell from his eyes..

" I don't belong here anymore Lucas, I want more, I want things that Tree Hill can't offer me, I want to start over, I want to go to LA, and begin a new life, leave my old life here.. "

" Leave me behind to." His voice is full of angry and hurt.

" Yes," she says hesitantly, it was silently killing her to say this to him.

He looks down at the floor, as he tires to process what she's saying, " What about our future? The one we started to plan together, marriage, kids, careers, everything we spend the last months talking about... "

She closes her eyes, hating herself for doing this to him and to herself, but knowing this is the right thing to do.. " We wasn't meant to be Lucas, we had our time, and it was...fun...it...meant a lot to me..." she says, as she starts to cry harder. " I gotta go..." she lifts his chin up, staring into his soulful blue eyes one last time.. " Your always be in my heart..." she whispers before kissing his lips softly..

Lucas closes his eyes, as she kisses him, knowing this is a goodbye kiss, he keeps his eyes closed, as the kiss ends, when he does open them seconds later, she is walking away from him, she never looked back, just kept walking. Taking a piece of him with her.

End of Flash back

Brooke's heart broke for him, " Wow, airport break up, didn't see that one coming." she says, in a joking tone. " I don't really get it, I mean she was so in love with you, something just doesn't make sense, why she would end things like that out of the blue." she said, knowing her old friend, like she did, something had to make Peyton decided that her and Lucas wasn't meant to be.

" I don't know, I'm still as confused as you are, it's like she threw the towel in on us, without really given us a try, and she still till this day can't tell me why." He down his glass of wine, as he thinks back to that horrible day. " I called her for two months straight, she never called me back, she changed her number, so I started to email her, everyday, telling her how I missed her, or that I still love her, or that Haley missed her, I wrote about all kinds of things, just to see if she would write back..."

" Did she?"

" No, " He says in a sad tone. " Six months after our break up, is when my book got published, I emailed her that day to, thinking this would make her email me or call me, but she didn't.."

Brooke knew that he was still hurting, and still missing her, " How do you do it?" she asks,

Lucas cocked in eye brow at her, " Do what?" he wondered what she was asking.

She titled her head, giving him her sad eyes, and sad smile, " Be friends with her, without telling her your still in love with her. Does it hurt? to watch her with someone else, to see her raising a family with someone else? To be around her man, her daughter, It's got to be killing you." She tells him, knowing he's hurting. She leans back waiting for him to say, he isn't in love with her, that he moved on and all that crap. He surprises her, when he says..

" It's hard, really hard..." he admits for the first time out loud. " I see them, together holding hands, kissing, laughing, and I wish it...

"Was you." she finishes for him.

He nods, " It's like she forgot all the plans we made together, she said, she needed time to find herself, but it's funny, how she used that time to have me replaced.."

"How long has she been with her fiance?" She wondered, what the guy was like, Did Peyton love this new guy as much as she loved Lucas.

" Four years, "

"So you guys were broken up a year before she started dating him?"

" Yeah, she met Ju..." he stops himself, realizing he was about to say Julian.. " I mean Jay, she met Jay in LA." he said, covering up his sip up.

" Is he good to her? Does he treat her right?"

That was a hard question to answer, before knowing what he knows now, he would have answered that questioned with a yes, foreshore, he's great to her, but now, knowing he cheating on her, he wasn't to sure how to answer that question.. Lucky, Brooke's phone rung, so he didn't have to say anything..

" Sorry, It's my psycho mom.." She tells him, as she excuses herself away from the table.

Lucas sat there staring off into space, thinking about Peyton, Anna, Brooke, Brooke's unborn child all the ones that will be affected by this secret, he now holds, a secret he doesn't want to hold. One he wishes, he never found out.

" Well, I hate to do this, but there's a problem at the store, so I gotta go.." Brooke says, as she collections her stuff.

" Oh that fine, It was good seeing you, I hope we can keep in touch." Lucas says, as he stands up..

"Me to, Please give Peyton and Haley my number have them call me, I miss them, I miss you all.." She says, as she hugs him... " You better call me next time you're in town.." she warned him

" I will, I promise."

"Bye ..." She says, with a wink, as she walks away...


It was a little after midnight, Brooke was half asleep, when she felt a hand on her hip, she turn her head to the side, " Your home..." she whispered, AS she see her boyfriend sitting behind her.

" Yep, I'm home sweetheart, I missed you.." He said, as he kissed her lips..

" I missed you to, " She said, as she rolls over on her back, " I'm so happy you came home early, "

"Me to." he said as he kissed her again, His hands move to the straps of her teddy, and he starts to remove it.." I really missed you...God, you're so breathtaking..."

She smiles, as he talks to her and his hands make her feel good, " Oh wait, baby, You won't believe what happen today." she says, as she sits up a little..

" Mmm.." he whispered against her neck..

" I run into an old friend.."

He kicks off his shoes, not wanting to talk, he wants to make love to his beautiful girl it's been so long, "That's good.." he replies, hoping she would quit talking an enjoy what he's doing to her.

She lays back,. as he pushes her legs apart, " You." she beginnings, but his fingers are making her forget what she's trying to say..."Baby, remember my friends I told you about back in Tree Hill.. She finally manges to say.

Her words stop his actions, he looks down at her, " Um...yeah... What about them..." he asked, in a calm tone. wondering where she was going with this.

" I ran into Lucas Scott today... I told him all about this amazing guy I'm seeing, I even send him a picture of us, so he can show my two girlfriends back home, how handsome my man is..." Julian's eyes widen, his mouth went dry, he sat back on his knees, staring down at his girlfriend, his face went for his normal color to ghost white in seconds,,," baby, you okay?"