Chapter two

Tree Hill's Hospital.

"Hey Brooke." Julian greeted Brooke with a sigh of relief.

"Hey yourself."

"Thanks for coming. She becomes frustrated already. She keeps telling that she's ok and wants to go home. But the doctor said that she had to stay here for a couple days, they want to make sure that she and the baby are both healthy to be home. And she gets angry with me cause I agreed with him." Julian said in one breath.

"Ok first just breathe Julian and second I'll be here for a whole day so I'll keep her company." Brooke laughed at the tension on his face. "You're a wonderful husband, you know, just second mines." She commented as Julian shaked his head with a big grin on his face, following her to his wife's room.

"Knock, knock!" Brooke made sounds as she stuck her face into the room.

"Finally, there's a new face." Peyton said as she placed her iPod on her thighs.

"Don't you the most miserable mother alive!"

"How can me not when they take my baby away to who know where and I'm stuck on this bed since forever." Peyton complained.

Julian slowly took the place beside her on the bed as Brooke sat at the bottom "Peyt, I've told you already that they had to take her to the babies' room, they'll take good care of her, I promise, I've just been back from there." He said, stroking her mess of curls softly.

"I know but I miss her so much." Peyton pouted, looking up at him.

"Hey, how about I'll take some pictures of her for you every 1 hour?" Brooke suggested.

"Good idea Brooke, how can I not think about that before?" Julian exclaimed

"Obviously, I'm way smarter than you are."

"That means a lots to me Brooke, thanks so much."

"Gee, no thanks. I really don't like the feisty Peyton much." Brooke said as Peyton rolled her eyes


"So, how about her name, you guys already have one right?" Brooke asked curiosity.

"Yah, we had her name since we knew she's a her, and decided name her after my mom. Anna Baker…actually, it's Anna Brooke Baker." Peyton replied, looking sincerely at Brooke.

Opening her mouth for a quite minute then exclaimed in disbelieve. "Really! You name her after me? God Peyton. I don't know what to say."

"You shouldn't be that surprised; you're her godmother already, right! Brooke, if it wasn't you, Anna and I wouldn't be here all save and sound. This is the least way to show how thankful Julian and I are to you." Peyton said, taking Brooke's hands in hers.

"Thanks so much P, it means a lot to me." Brooke smiled brightly, taking Peyton in for a hug. "By the way, do you realize that our girl gets bigger every hour?"

"Good, at least I'm not the only crazy one here." Peyton replied as they both burst into laughter.


Tric that night

"Is it because you're too happy to have a daughter or you're enjoying the night without Peyton!"

"You're so funny Luke." Julian grinned as he passed Lucas a bottle of beer. Tric became their favorite spot when their wives had a girl's night. They could talk and joke about everything without any judgment from the other. They became good friends since Peyton and he moved to the house next to Lucas and Brooke's. He used to live in LA but after marrying Peyton, he decided to move to Tree Hill because Peyton's record studio was there and he already loved that small town. The two young families had dinner with each other almost every day, and Julian had them take a look at Peyton when he left for a business trip due to his movie producer career. Peyton's mother died in a car accident when she was eight and her father also passed away 2 years before. So he was the only family she had left. She always joked about her ability to attract with bad things and he would never forgive himself if anything happened to her when he was away. He was glad that he had someone to trust with his wife.

"Do you know there's a moment I was going to give up on us, Peyton and me?" Lucas looked at him with wide eyes in disbelieve because he knew how much Julian loved Peyton. "But a friend told me that if you really loved someone you had to love all of her unconditional. I love her so much, you know and I'm glad that I chose to follow my heart that day. The first time I let eyes on our daughter, she's so beautiful and innocent and I couldn't help but feel ashamed. Ashamed for the doubt that I've ever had …"

'What does that mean? Is Julian the father or…him?' Lucas lost in his thought 'Peyton once told me that I might be the father, maybe Peyton herself doesn't know either. God this is so mess up. If I didn't fuck up things with her at the first place then we would be the happy family now.' Lucas immediately kicked himself for his last thought. How could he think like that when they all happy married to another person…but it wasn't the happy they once had with each other…but again Julian and Brooke didn't have to know about that.

"They're everything to me. We'll be a happy family, Peyton, Anna and me all three of us." Julian continued as he took another sip of beer.


Tree Hill hospital that midnight

Walking into the dark room, Lucas quietly sat onto the chair next to Peyton's bed. He looked tenderly at her peaceful sleeping face, the moonlight was casting it's pale silver light through the window just above her head onto her messy blonde hair made she looked more like an angel than ever. 'God she's so beautiful.' He couldn't help leaning forward for a better look, then lifting his hand to caress her face.

He still loved her and he admitted now, but he couldn't act on that love either. They all married then, it wasn't high school any more that you could do what you please to, it's about your responsibility to the person you loved and loved you. If he still were the Lucas a year ago he would have taken Peyton and Anna away with him despite the fact that she might be Julian's daughter, but he's a different person now, he had promised himself to be a better version for her. But what was the point of all of it when he couldn't have her in the end. He didn't know any more. And he only had himself to blame for.

Along their 2 years as best friends and four years relationship as a couple, she was always the one to give and he was always the receiver one. She had loved him in the first place but he was so blinded by the light of his own to realize that he loved her too, the night she gathered all of her courage to tell him that she loved him, he walked away on her. Then at the state championship, he came to realize that she was the one he wanted next to him when all his dreams came true, they became couple right after that.

They didn't when to college after graduated from high school, she worked for a record label in town and he became a coach assistant for Tree Hill high basketball team. They had their own dreams to chase and they also had each other. But the problem was there were always other girls around him. Did he love her? Hell yes, so much actually, but he didn't think faithful was an important thing in a relationship. But he always came back to her, so as long as she didn't catch him by her own eyes then she would be ok with that. She had lived her life with one closed and one opened eye for 4 years then she came to realize that she would never be enough for him and her love wasn't enough for them any more. So she do the thing that she thought was the best for both of them, she gave up. After 3 months since their break up, he swore to himself that he had to be a better person for her and for them. But…he was too late.


One year ago.

tbc

Thanks all of you who review or read my story. It means a lot to me. God I'm not good at English so I have to gather all of my courage to post this fic. So please bear with me.

Thanks again.

P/s all of you are right about Anna's father.