JUST YOU AND ME

2. All today's Glory

The next day wasn't how he expected it to be going. He had almost forgotten that he was supposed to have an interview with someone from the Peoples magazine with Lucas. That is, until Lucas called and barked out his ear drums. Plus at ten he was supposed to help Marc select his new personal assistant.

Great.

Fredrick had already sorted out his cloths for him while he took his shower. After that he got ready immediately, did his usual routine and drove off. He parked his car besides a black Escalade since he noticed that it belonged to Lucas and walked into the L' Amour restaurant. It was one of the hottest restaurants in LA and Lucas loved to eat there. He saw Lucas talking to a red head, who he guessed was from the magazine.

Lucas spots him and waves him over to their table.

"Sorry I'm late," he said as he shook hands with the red head. "Traffic was a bitch!"

Lucas rolled his eyes before he and Nathan shared a brotherly hug. "Yeah…tell me about it," he said sarcastically.

"I thought I just did," Nathan countered which caused the red head to laugh while Lucas slapped him upside his head. "Hey! Watch it!"

"Hi I'm Sonia McPherson and I'll be conducting the interview," she said with a brilliant smile. "So let's start off with the one question I know you must have answered way too many times…how did you feel at the time when you discovered the both of you were brothers…half brother at that?"

"I knew that was coming," Lucas muttered with a smile. "Well I remember feeling like shit!"

"Right back at cha!" Nathan hailed and bumped fist with Lucas, leaving Sonia to watch them in amusement. "Look, I was only ten when I found out Lucas and I were brothers and at the time, it didn't feel good…it was like an unexpected break in my life at the time,"

"I felt the same…I mean I though my dad was some coward that ran away from his responsibilities," Lucas said seriously before smiling mischievously. "Not only was he a coward…turns out he was a Man-Whore,"

Nathan and Lucas watched Sonia mischievously as she tried to hide her laughter with an unexpected cough.

"Sorry about that…so Nathan I heard from the grape vine…"

"You mean that jobless guy with a camera out side my house, yesterday?" Nathan said playfully while she giggled. Lucas could almost feel himself gag into his mouth as he watched the flirt.

"But seriously you boys got your mothers a house!" Nathan and Lucas blushed at this. "Rumour has it that it cost more than six million dollars…what have you got to say to that?"

"How on earth do you people hear these absurd stories!" Lucas said in mock fury while Sonia laughed.

Nathan just rolled his eyes. "Yes we got them a house…truth is, it was Luke. He wanted his mum to move to LA but she refused. So if the mountain refuses to go to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain,"

Lucas released his breath as though he had been holding it for a while. "Thank God he got it this time," he said and Nathan hit his arm. "He's right. Nathan's mum and my mum became inseparable when his parents divorced…so we decided to keep it that way. It was my idea but we did it together,"

"So how has it been like having two mothers to go home to in Tree Hill?" Sonia asked after she jotted into her note pad.

"All I have to say to any man in our situation is…don't piss your mother off. Especially if you have two of them under the same roof," Nathan said and they all laughed.

"Okay let's move forward…So Lucas how did you feel about your break up with Shirley Raymond? I mean you guys were together for over two years! People were already hearing wedding bells,"

"Wedding bells? I thought I was hearing the 'It would be over before you know it' bell," Nathan said with mock innocence while Sonia stiffed her giggles and Lucas trying to ignore him.

"Don't listen to him…Shirley and I realised that we are better off as friends since we had goals and our schedules were hectic because I have a book coming out and she has filming in Italy, so it was hard…" Nathan rolled his eyes as if saying 'leave it to Lucas to go into the emotional bullcrap'. "I really wished that we could overcome our hectic schedules and come closer together but it only tore us apart…"

"I thought you said it was the sex," Nathan interrupted again and Lucas glared at him. He raised his hands. "Just Kidding,"

"Nathan I don't need to ask you about your love life seeing as you don't have one,"

"Hey I do!" he snapped in mock anger.

"No you don't," Lucas said to him before looking at Sonia. "He has a sex life,"

"At least I have one!"

"Very mature Nathan…very mature,"

"Do you guys do this all the time?" Sonia asked with a bright interest.

"Do what?" they both asked at the same time.

"Bicker and tease yourself till one of you gets tired,"

"Who says we get tired," Nathan replied coyly.

Lucas coughed and said "Man-Whore" before coughing again. Nathan and Sonia heard this of course and she laughed out loud while Nathan glared at Lucas dangerously. "I'm just kidding…don't listen to me,"

"Lucas, are you ready for another love in your life?"

"Of course Sonia…I love love, you know?" Lucas said to her with a wink.

Nathan snorted. "Who's the Man-Whore now?"

"Nathan you just signed a four year contract with the Lakers…why?"

"Well Sonia, so many people have asked me that and I'll tell you want I told them…Lakers has always been the love of my life. Until I have another love of my life…it's gonna stay right were it is,"

"Which by the way means it going to be there forever," Lucas mock whispered to Sonia, pretending not to let Nathan hear.

Sonia watched the Scott brothers go into another bickering competition. This had been her eighth interview with another celebrity and she had never felt so free like she was with the Scott boys and she loved it.

After a couple of question, joking around and the flirting the Scott boys were having with Sonia, she thanked them for their time and left. Lucas had promised Nathan that he would join him at Marc's office to select his personal assistant.

"Why I'm I doing this again?" Lucas asked as he sat with Nathan in his car that was parked in front of Marc's office.

"Because I'm your brother…and you love me," he said rather smugly and walked into the main office with Lucas.

"Lucas! Haven't seen you in a while!" Marc said as they hugged each other. "I'm still your publicist, you know? Try getting into trouble like this one over there," he said referring to Nathan.

"I'll try," Lucas said and clapped his hands. "Where are the groupies turned personal assistants?"

Five minutes later, they three of them sat down as they watched countless men and women, boys and girls come in an give their reasons why they were good for the job.

"As your personal assistant, it would be good if you visited the church every Sunday and visit lots of church activities because the end is near. You want to go to hell?" an uptight lady with black hair and thin lips said to them. They looked at themselves before turning back to the woman and shaking their head furiously.

"Oh My God! Oh My God! You are Lucas Scott…I have like totally read all your books and I have to say you are a genius. I loved Changes...I think it was. ANY WAY! I consider it a classic and a must read for every gay man out there. I think Merissa was a B I T C H for not allowing Thornton and Tay be together!" an overly neat man with spiked hair and sharp glasses said.

"But Thornton and Tay were never gay…they were in love with Merissa," Lucas said as he tried to ignore Nathan and Marc snickering quietly.

"Oh," was all the man said before slumping devastating back into the sofa.

"so I tried out being a model but they told me I was too fat so I lost a lot of pounds but they told me I still looked fat! Can you believe that?" a black woman that weighed about three hundred pounds said.

"No! No!" the three of them said at the same time. "You look great!"

"Superb!"

"Gorgeous babe," Marc said with a wink and watched as their entire compliment got the best of her.

"I'm trying to be a lingerie model," a twenty some thing year old blonde said while completely oblivious to the three young men goggling at her almost exposed breast. "I need this job for the cash, you know? I mean I like have to maintain this hair and this breast," she ran her hand slowly down the middle of her breast while they boys stiffed their groans and crossed their legs to hide their other member. "Do you understand?" she asked still oblivious.

"You have no idea," Nathan said huskily without skipping a bit. When she left Nathan turned to Marc immediately. "I want her,"

"Me too," Marc said painfully.

"Me three!" Lucas followed suit.

"Not like that you morons…okay maybe but that's beside the point," he got up and faced them. "She's the one…my personal assistant!"

"No Nathan…" Marc said

"Why?"

"Because she's going to go from your personal assistant to your personal shag-buddy," Lucas concluded

"Okay…what's wrong with that?"

"Everything," marc sighed heavily. "Look we have one more person before tomorrows' batch,"

"If I see one more psycho…I'll shoot myself," Nathan moaned

"Me you both," Marc and Lucas both said.

"Hi…I hope I'm not late," they turned to see a sandy blonde lady that wouldn't be much younger than them with an infectious smile. "I'm Haley…Haley James," her smile turned downwards slowly when her eyes went down to their lower body. Lucas, Nathan and Marc followed her eyes and almost choked on their breath. "Oh My God,"