Okay so I promised you an update by Friday so here it is...the beginning of this chapter is a little weird but I was idea-less I guess and just needed something to get my creative juices flowing...the drama begins at the end of this chapter and I can't wait! So read and review...update on Monday!
"You guys need to go to school!" Brooke was pleading more than telling. They were her babies and high school was not for babies, "These are the best years of you lives!"
"Can't we be home schooled?" Bella whined like Brooke, "No will have to know we're even here."
"Since when do you not like attention?" Brooke was exhausted from arguing. She's go to sleep fighting and wake up in the same state, "You're Brooke Scott's, most popular girl in school's daughter. You're an attention whore!"
"You don't understand." Braden mumbled under his breath.
"Excuse me mister?"
"You're not a Scott kid. You're parents and family weren't internationally known!" Braden didn't care about school. He would go and make the best of it. He hoped it would be his education that would get him somewhere.
"I'm sorry you're spoiled brats!" Brooke knew it was not easy being perfect but they didn't complain when they were spending money effortlessly.
"Mom I'm too tired." Bella whined. The truth was her parents constant fighting kept her up every night. Unlike Braden she couldn't just drone it out with loud annoying music.
"Maybe you should get to bed earlier." Brooke jumped into motherly mode. Brooke was clueless that her kids heard them every night. Lucas and Brooke thought they did a good job keeping their arguments to the confinement of their bedroom on the opposite side of the house.
"I'm just not used to this town and it's sounds yet." Bella lied, "The smallest things seem to keep me up."
"Well I'm sorry to hear that but everyone else adjusted just fine." Brooke checked her make-up in the rear view mirror. She wanted to make a good impression on the kids principal though she had a feeling her kids weren't going to have any problems.
"Just one more day home." Bella begged, "Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top."
"Bella," Brooke felt herself caving under the soft gaze of Bella's puppy dog eyes. It was just so hard to say no to her children when they had Lucas' eyes, "Alright!"
"You are the bomb Mom." Bella smiled widely kissing her mom lightly on the cheek. Brooke made an illegal U-turn in the middle of the road getting honked and not so nice gesture and words thrown at her.
"Just don't tell your father." Brooke eyed her children. She didn't want this to turn into another reason she and Lucas fought, "Be good my babies! Don't kill each other!"
"Later Mom." Braden kissed Brooke quickly and ran inside the house. He was immediately on the phone even before Brooke made it out of the driveway.
"Hello?" The comforting, familiar voice answered after the third ring.
"Jen, I don't know what to do anymore." Braden sighed into the phone.
"They still going at it?" Jenny asked full of concern. She was updated daily on the Scott's situation as she filled Braden in with the new drama of Tree Hill.
"It seems to be a daily routine now." Braden was so torn between everything. The drama of Tree Hill and now the one of his new 'home'.
"I'm sorry Braden. Wish I could be there with you." Jenny admitted truthfully, "Things aren't clearing up too nicely here either."
"Damn Dan for all he's done to us." Braden seriously felt like crying, though it was something he would never admit, "What did I do to be born into this goddamn family!"
"Don't say that Bray. You know you love your family more than life." Jenny pulled him back to reality, "Plus you would've never met me."
"You never know." Braden shrugged, "Maybe we're soul mates destined to find each other. Maybe the people upstairs just wanted to make it easy on us."
"You're so optimistic." Jenny laughed at Braden's reasoning, "Listen, I got to go and help mom with the twins. They still haven't grown out of their prank stage. Mason's got the house booby trapped."
"Be careful. Cameron is the tricky one." Braden laughed missing all the Tree Hill groupies.
"Yeah, I'll call you tonight." Jenny promised before she hung up. Braden was left to wonder what would happen until tonight. Normally he would be over there helping spending almost every waking minute with Jenny. It was weird to be out of the loop.
"Tigger, I know when something is up." Haley readied herself to listen to whatever was on Brooke's mind.
"Tutorgirl, when did we get to know each other so well?" Brooke sighed, relieved she had someone other than Peyton to complain to.
"Doesn't matter. Now stop changing the subject and spill." Haley was impatient as she juggled the phone and her squirming toddler in her arms.
"It's Lucas." Brooke said finally.
"Wow, I could've told you that one." Haley knew all the stress that was on the relationship. She was there when they decided a move would hopefully make it easier for everyone to move on after all that went down, "Let's go Tigger. I have things to do."
"More important than listening to your bestest sister-in-law's problems." Brooke pouted.
"Actually, yes." Haley laughed and waited as she cleaned her daughter's face that was covered in what she had for lunch.
"Alright," Brooke gave in. There was no putting off this conversation, "Lucas is just so distant. I don't know what to do anymore. He won't talk to me and when he does our conversation ends up in a fight."
"Well work it out." Haley said flatly. She had already run out of advice for Brooke, "Slip into something sexy and rock his world."
"I don't think that will work. He's barely looked at me lately." Brooke paused to think, "Am I old and fat or something?"
"Brooke you look as good or even better than when you were in high school. You don't have to worry about that." Haley laughed at Brooke ever getting fat or old, "Make him an offer he can't turn down."
"Got any ideas?" Brooke asked drawing a blank.
"What happen to Tree Hill's very own whore?" Haley joked at the old label. They both knew it wasn't completely true but they still had a laugh.
"She grew up." Brooke said somberly, "I guess I'll talk to you later."
"Remember to rock his world." Haley said before being able to return to her own life.
"Hello kiddies." Brooke burst through the front door with bags on her arms, "I'm home!"
"Is there anything in those bags for me?" Bella inquired seeing the amount of bags that hung from her mother's arms.
"Maybe," Brooke smiled slyly, "Were you good to Braden?"
"Aren't I always mother?" Bella batted her eyes lightly, looking extra innocent.
"What the hell?" Brooke gave up, "Here you go."
"CDs?" Bella fished through the bag for something better, "I got a bunch of stinking Cds?"
"Yup," Brooke nodded with pride, "I'll even let you play them extra loud tonight."
"Oh great." Bella rolled her eyes, "More fighting?"
"What do you mean honey?" Brooke didn't realize her babies her constant arguing with Lucas, "You hear it?"
"The whole neighborhood probably hears you guys." Bella shrugged, "Face it Mom, you're a loud mouth."
"Good to know I guess," Brooke's heart was breaking. She never wanted her kids to go through the things she did when her parents had been home, "But no more fighting. Making up is more like it."
"Oh gosh," Bella clamped her hands to her ears, "TMI Mom!"
"You asked." Brooke snickered as she sauntered into the kitchen to prepare dinner for Lucas. She had decided on a very mood setting dinner for the couple. Chocolate, strawberries, whipped cream; a really nutritional dinner.
"I knew you couldn't stay away from me." Gabby said as Braden walked through the door.
"I really like pizza." Braden leaned against the counter, watching Gabby wipe it down with a rag.
"And when were you going to tell me you're famous?" Gabby was quite pleased that she figured out her mystery.
"I'm not famous." Braden shook his head. He figured he could stay incognito forever but this girl had blown his cover already.
"Okay famous by association." Gabby came out from behind the counter and sat at the same table they had the other day, "Well it was funny. I was watching some TV last night and MTV News announced that the father of Lucas and Nathan Scott was found dead in his dealership. A tragic fire. Then they flashed a picture of the happy families and who was front and center. None other than my very own Braden Scott."
"Whoa what about Dan?" Braden wasn't sure if he'd heard right.
"Oh God," Gabby looked horrified, "You didn't hear?"
"Obviously not." Braden gripped the table.
"It was just on like an hour ago." Gabby felt like she had overstepped her boundaries. She'd only talked to Braden one other time before and now he looked like she killed his puppy.
"I've got to get home." Braden stood up and ran out of the pizzeria. Had his parents kept this from him? Do they even know?
Bursting through the door he found Bella walking around with headphones on. He ran past her to get to his parents room. He didn't care what was going on but they had to know.
"I wouldn't go in there." Bella hung the headphones around her neck, "They're making up."
"Great, just freakin great!." Braden stomped back down to his room and slammed the door. He cranked up his own music to forget about the world.
The suspense might kill you until Monday but trust me it get's even better then...maybe even worth the wait! Maybe if I get a lot of reviews I might update a day or two earlier (hint hint)