CHAPTER 2: THE TEA PARTY

Chapter 2's Characters:

Cara Gellar Keller

Haley James Scott

Brooke Davis

Peyton Sawyer

Lindsay

It's a beautiful sunny day, the sun is shining brightly in the home of Chris Keller and his wife, Cara. She wakes up and sees her husband staring at her. "Good morning." She tells him. "Morning," he tells her. "You're so beautiful when you sleep. You know your nose wiggles." "Really, I didn't know that." She says touching her nose and getting comfortable on the bed. Her stomach is getting huger by the day, she can feel it. She sits up, while he stays laying down. He gets a little nervous because he doesn't want Haley and her friends talking about him to his wife, even tough she already knows what they are going to say about him. She's seen it all, she knows every single detail their is to know about Chris. He looks at her, she looks at him. "You know, Chris is a little nervous about you going to this get together." He tells her, "Please stop being nervous, we're not going to talk about you. And you know how much I hate the third person, thing. Gees, Chris, I thought you out grew that." She tells him, getting out of the bed, grabbing her robe and putting it on. "You're going to have a good day, you're going to spend time with our kids." She says walking to the bathroom that's connected to the room, "Don't you mean, your son and my daughters." Cara gets mad at him and walks back into the bedroom. "How many times do I have to tell you, you're his father now, it doesn't matter if he's not yours biologically. He's your son! It's like your my fourth child or something. This is why you married me huh, because I always made your decisions." She says walking by the bed, raising her voice a little but not too loud. "Yes, that's why, and because you could handle me, no other girls could stand me. I'm sorry, i'm Shia's father. Not that jerk of an asshole who left you. He did leave you, right?" He says as she walks back to the bathroom, she just ignores the question...

Haley is wearing a nice outfit that fits her body good, she's putting finger sandwiches on the counter next to the little bottles of water and the tea pot. She's got her counter and table set up really nice for her and her friends. The first to arrive are Brooke and Peyton. They knock on the door both looking just as good as Haley looks and they are excited to be spending time with their good friend. It's been almost 4 years since they've seen each other. Right when Haley opens the door and they walk in they all share a hug and are excited to see each other. After they split up, Haley shuts the door and looks at them. "It's so good to see you girls." "I missed you, Tutor Mom." Brooke tells her. Peyton heads straight towards the sandwiches. "Not Tutor anymore. It's Teacher." Haley tells them. "Really" Brooke and Peyton say together, excitedly. "Yeah. Finally." Peyton says while eating a sandwich. "Don't eat all the food, Peyton. We're missing two more people." "Who's coming?" Brooke says, "Two more..." Peyton says... Just as she does, there's a knock on the door. Haley opens it and they see Lindsay. Peyton eats the last piece of sandwich she was holding. "Lindsay's here guys." She then says and walks by the couch leaning on the back of it. Lindsay and Haley share a quick hug, just as they do, Cara walks up to the door, she's wearing a nice little sun dress that shows off her stomach. She looks Haley and her friends. "Hi." "Um...Lindsay, Brooke, Peyton. This is Cara Keller." "It's nice to meet you." Cara shakes shaking all their hands. "Lindsay.." "Brooke..." "Peyton...Damn your huge." "You should've seen me yesterday. At least I looked normal." "When's the baby due?" Brooke says wanting to get to know Cara. "In a few months. I can't wait for this little sucker to be born. His father's really excited." Haley shuts the door and then looks at them. "Why don't we all sit down?"

The girls are sitting down in the living room. Cara's sitting on the couch comfortably with Brooke, Haley and Lindsay are sitting on the love seat and Peyton's sitting by herself. "This is actually my forth. I have a son and two daughters. I love my kids. " "How do you and Haley know each other?" Peyton ask Cara, Brooke's grabbing her drink, she's sipping on some water in a glass. "Haley went on tour with him. We met back then when I was just a mother of one. Have you met Chris Keller?" Brooke almost drops her drink. "Chris Keller, is your husband." She says a little weirdly. "Yeah. I've known him my whole life. And I sorta knew that eventually we were going to get married. He told me about you two, he tells me everything." Brooke's in shock. "You know I only slept with him because I was lonely at the time. And I was tired of waiting on Lucas. Also, I was a little horny." "Ok. That's nice to know." "He would always talk in the third person. Does he still do that?" Haley says wanting to know that. "No, well only when he's nervous. Like this morning, he thought that we were going to talk about him the whole time." Cara says and then takes the last bite of her sandwich. "So, your a stay at home mom. What's that like?" Lindsay says changing the subject, since she doesn't know Chris Keller and wants to get to know Cara. "Well, it's fun for the most part. When we were in California I was always busy with the kids and helping Chris with his music. But he decided to stop singing but the paparazzi were still following us around and taking pictures of the kids at school and stuff. Some guy even told everyone that I was pregnant before I could tell my family. That's why we wanted to move. And I remember Tree Hill being a quiet beautiful place. So we came here." Cara feels her son kick. "He just kicked." "Really, can I feel?" Brooke says getting close to her, putting her hand by Cara's stomach. Cara puts Brooke's hand on the spot where he kicked and he kicks again a few seconds later, Brooke feels it. "I felt it. Wow." "Have you thought of a name for this one yet?" Peyton ask. "Not yet, I think i'm going to let Chris pick out his name, as long as he doesn't go with something stupid. I think i'm better with picking out children's names and letting him just agree." "Do you have pictures?" Lindsay ask. "Yeah." "Let me see. Let me see" Brooke says getting excited. Cara pulls out her wallet and the pictures of the kids together. "That's Shia, Page and Ylisabette." She says pointing them out to Brooke who looks at them and falls in love each kid. "They look like you. Especially Shia. I don't see Chris in him at all." Cara and Haley get a little concerned look on their faces, Haley remembers the story of his father. "I bet this one's going to look like Chris." Haley says.

Later that day, the girls had fun bonding and getting to know Cara and Lindsay more. Brooke even wants to go shopping with Cara and meet the little ones. Everyone is falling for Cara and her care free personality. Haley even mentioned a baby shower. At the moment Brooke's walking Cara to her car, as Lindsay, Peyton and Haley start cleaning up. "Are you sure I can't stay and help?" Cara ask Brooke. "We've got it. Just go home, relax. And start thinking of some cute baby names. And don't forget we're going shopping Friday." "Got it. It was really nice to finally meet you. All of you. Lindsay seems like a nice girl. How long have you known her?" Brooke looks at Cara, "Not that long. She's dating Lucas." "Lucas. Your ex." "Yeah and Peyton's. She's still in love with him." "Ouch...that must hurt. To see the man you love in love with someone else." "Yep." "Bye, Brooke." Cara says hugging Brooke. "Bye." Cara gets into her car and starts it up.

View on Cara at home, sitting in the bathroom, on the floor, she has Chris' guitar on her and a notebook right next to her. "I'll love you from afar..." Cara sings in a beautiful voice. "Baby. The kids are sleeping. What are you doing in there?" Chris says on the outside of the bathroom door. "Writing..." He walks in and looks at her, the guitar on the floor now. "Your trying to write while you're pregnant." He says trying to make a joke. "I got inspired. How much do you love me?" "Two much..." he says holding up two fingers... "I'm not even recording anymore. What's inspiring you?" She doesn't have to make up an excuse. "Life. I'm ready for bed. Can you help me up?" "Sure." Chris helps his wife get up, she walks out the bathroom. "Can you pick that up for me?" "Sure." Chris picks up the note book and starts reading the song his wife just wrote. It's called "Love You From Afar."

End of Chapt 2.

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