Hello Yesterday ch.3 Inside the Memories

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Jamie and Sawyer sat on the couch, drinking their chocolate milk, Jaime's from a glass, and Sawyers from a sippy cup, as they watched cartoons. While Skills and Julian sat next to them opting for two beers as their beverage of choice. Jaime watched as the roadrunner sped away from one of the coyote's traps, when a laugh from Mouth's room, which he and Millie relocated to, caught his attention. Suddenly a thought popped into his head. "Julian?" he said turning his attention to the man next to him. Julian slowly pried his eyes away from the episode of Looney Tunes © that he was watching perhaps more intently than the children it was intended to occupy, and looked at Jaime, signaling he'd heard him. "Why are you marrying Aunt Brooke?" he asked.

Slightly puzzled by the sudden inquiry, Julian set his beer down on the table, giving Jaime his full attention. "Because I love her." he said simply "Why?" he asked

"Just wondering." Jaime said simply. "What else?"

"Well, she makes me happy, and we have a lot of fun together."

Jaime nodded thoughtfully as he got up from the couch, carefully sidestepping Sawyer, who's eyes were still glued to the television and proceeded towards Mouth's room. He gave a knock on the door, waiting until he heard Mouth say 'come in' before opening it.

"Hey Jaime." Mouth greeted

"What can we do for you?" Millie said

"I was just wondering, are you guys gonna get married?"

"W-what?" Mouth tittered

"What made you ask that?" Millie asked, now blushing

"Well you love each other, right?" Jaime asked and Mouth and Millie both nodded "And you have lots of fun together, right?" and once again they both nodded "And you make each other happy, right?"

"Yeah." Mouth replied "But Jaime, it takes a lot more than that to make a marriage work." He explained

"Well what's it gonna take?" Jaime asked and Mouth and Millicent looked at each other silently searching one another for answers.

"Man, what's it gonna take to get you out of my face?" Nathan asked shaking his head at his friend who kept pestering him.

"But I'm bored, Nate." Clay complained

"We'll be in Dallas in an hour." Nathan said

"I can't wait that long." Clay dramatized

"What are you, nine?" Nathan said and Clay rolled his eyes and stared out the window of the plane for a few seconds before turning back to Nathan, who was reading his text book.

"What are you doing?" Clay asked.

"The same thing I was doing when you asked me 10 minutes ago, studying. I have a test coming up." Nathan said, his eyes still focused on his text book.

"If Kellerman's such a hard ass, why'd you take his class?"

"Because you told me that-"

"That's not what I meant. I mean there was an easier teacher, why didn't you pick him?"

Nathan closed his book and looked at Clay. "Because man. All my life it was drilled into my head that basketball was the only way I'd ever make something of myself. My dad, he would always push me to be the best. Then I'd push myself just to get his approval. And before Haley came along, I didn't even know there was life outside of basketball.

Then I started to think about, if I maybe wanted that life. You know, away from the pressure. But when it came down to it, I realized I did love the game, the thrill of the crowd, people counting on me, and when we won a game, they'd look at me like I was some kinda hero. And that's when I knew, that all the hard work and the challenges I had to deal with paid off, because it made me better, it made me stronger. And that's why, I'm taking his class , because he makes me work hard, and he challenges me."

"I still don't get it." Clay said

"I take that back, you're not nine, you're five."

"I am no- hey, peanuts." Clay said as the stewardess handed him a bag "I love these things." he excitedly ripped the bag open and started munching on them.

Nathan once again shook his head at his friend and sighed as he opened up his text book.

Quinn sighed as she closed her magazine, and set it back on the table with the other she had read as she sat in the waiting area outside the room where her meeting is going to take place. She looked up at the clock, 5:05 was the time. An hour past when the meeting was supposed to start. When she got there, the secretary told her Mr. Bigley, the man she was to meet with was in a conference call. Since then she'd just been sitting there, waiting and reading magazines.

"Miss James?" Mr. Bigley's secretary said

"Yes?" Quinn answered

"He's ready to see you now."

"Oh ok thank you." Quinn said and got up and walked into his office.

"Quinn. Sorry to keep you waiting. I got hung up." He said and closed the door behind her as she came in.

"It's okay." Quinn smiled.

"Alright, so let's get down to business." Mr. Bigley said and sat down at his desk and pointed to the chair in front of it, for Quinn to sit in.

"Okay, here's my portfolio." she pulled out a flat case and handed it to him. "These are the some of the shots from my trip to Africa."

"Hmm." Mr. Bigley said as he mulled over the photos. "They're great Quinn. They're really great. Unfortunately I just don't have any work for you right now." He said and Quinn's face fell. "But this summer, however, I do need someone for an assignment in New Zealand. Are you interested?"

"Yes. Absolutely." Quinn nodded fervently

"Good. You got the job."

"I uh thank you!" she shook his outstretched hand. "Really thank you. This is unbelievable." She smiled

"Unbelievable!" Peyton gaped. "Dan and Rachel?"

"Yep she hooked up father of the year and they ran this whole televised forgiveness scam."

"Oh I caught a glimpse of that on t.v. one day. I had no idea Rachel was behind it."

"Neither did I at first. Then she dragged her skanky grave robbing ass back here, and blamed me for the money she stole after Bitchtoria chased her off. Then tried to fix everything with a check."

"And?" Peyton asked

"I tore it up and threw it in her face."

"I wish I'da been there to see that." she joked "So what happened between you and your mom?"

"What?" Brooke asked

"You called her 'Bitchtoria'."

" Don't they have newspapers where you and Lucas ran off to?"

Peyton rolled her eyes and smiled softly "Is it about Clothes Over Bros, cause I know about that."

"She lied. Well she and Millie. But mostly her. She lied to our investment bankers, and to me. And a lot of people lost money because of it." Brooke sighed "But she told everybody it was her fault then she went jail, turns out it was for the headlines, and I sold the company and gave away my money to pay everybody back. And when I told her what I did, she told me I was stupid, and you know, I'm beginning to think she was right."

Peyton reached out her rubbed Brooke's back. "Brooke Davis, you are not stupid. You, are smart. And you're strong, and you're gonna find your way back from this, you're gonna be just fine, I know you are."

"Thanks Peyton." Brooke said softly then cleared her throat. "On a happier note, where's that charming little girl, Sawyer Brooke Scott?"

Peyton smiled at Brooke's resilience "She's with Mouth and Skills."

"Aw I wanted to play with her and teach a game."

"What game?"

"The 'Say Brooke Davis is the most beautiful girl in the world and you get a cookie' game."

"Don't poison my daughter." Peyton joked and Brooke laughed "And don't worry judging from what was going on in that bedroom when I got here, it won't be long till you and Julian have your own kid to spoil."

"Actually we won't."

"What?" Peyton said confused

"I thought I was pregnant a while back it turns I wasn't, and that.. I can't have children."

"Oh Brooke. I'm sorry."

"Me too." Brooke said quietly "But um I've been dealing with it, so I guess, for right now, I'll just have to stick with spoiling Jaime and Sawyer, who I need to see more of."

"I know, I know." Peyton groaned light-heartedly "So what else has been going on?"

"Let's see… Nathan quit basketball."

"Knew that."

"Haley's pregnant."

"Knew that too." Peyton chuckled

"Hmm what else? Oh Millie had a drug problem, Julian and I broke up for a while, Haley went on tour ,Nathan and Jaime went with her, and no they didn't bump into Chris Keller, um one girl got pregnant and said it was Nathan's baby and tried blackmail him, I got arrested, got in a car accident, the levy broke, Julian's been getting a lot more work as a producer, he's making a documentary, um oh Haley's older sister Quinn and Nathan's agent Clay well first of all they hooked up, then got shot by a crazy psycho stalker." Brooke said nonchalantly

Peyton stared at Brooke blankly trying to process what she told her. "Wow. It's amazing what you miss -

"When you don't call, write, text, send a smoke signal or make any kinda contact at all? I know, funny huh?" Brooke said sarcastically and Peyton narrowed her eyes

"It's not funny Lucas!" Haley yelled at a still laughing Lucas.

"I'm sorry Hales but yeah it is. I mean you slap..Renee?" He looked at Haley confirmation of the name

"Or 'slut'. Whatever you want to call her."

"Alright so you get arrested for assault and battery and once you get in the cell, you have an 'enlightening' conversation with some of Tree Hill's finest prostitutes?" Lucas held back a laugh

"They weren't all prostitutes! I think one of them robbed the fountain by the park."

"Oh well that's much better." Lucas said sarcastically "You know Hales I think that jail was good for you. I mean you really need to learn the consequences of your actions. You can't go around slapping people, I mean it was fine in high school but we're adults now." Lucas jokingly lectured and slapped him on the arm. "That's exactly what I'm talking about. You really need to-" He was cut off when a pillow suddenly collided with his face. "Ow! Hey!" Lucas shielded himself with his hands as Haley kept swinging her pillow "You're so violent." He laughed right before a well placed smack in the back of the head set him sailing of his place at the edge of the bed and onto the floor.

Haley tossed her pillow aside "Luke?" she bit back a laugh "You alright?"

"Ugh." he grunted as he got to his feet. "You're lucky you're pregnant." he rubbed his head and winced

"I'm sorry." she chuckled sympathetically "Let me see it."

"Nah I'm fine." he dismissed with a wave of his hand and Haley coughed in response. "Which reminds me, I'm here to take care of you, you need anything?"

"No I'm fine."

"I beg to differ."

"You usually do." Haley said

"Are you saying I'm argumentative?"

"No." Haley gave an appeasing smile

"I think you are."

"Well you are starting an argument right now." Haley pointed out

"No I'm not." Lucas said

"Yes you are." Haley disagreed

"No I'm not. You're starting the argument." Lucas countered

"How?" Haley inquired

"Because you, just..are." Lucas said clumsily

"Wow and you're a writer?" Haley ribbed and Lucas sneered

"Very funny. You have a real future as a comedian." Lucas said caustically

"Thanks for the vote of confidence, friend." Haley gave Lucas a pat on the shoulder then quickly grabbed a tissue " Achew!"

"Bless you." Lucas said prominently

"Thank you." Haley mumbled from behind her tissue. Noticing Lucas' smirk she added "Don't gloat." and Lucas laughed.

"Well well." Quinn said as she entered the room.

"Hey." Lucas greeted as he got up.

"Hey stranger." Quinn smiled and hugged him. "What are you doing here?"

"Just in for a visit." Lucas said as he reclaimed his spot on the bed

Quinn nodded

"How'd your meeting go?" Haley asked

"Great. They offered me an assignment for this summer."

"Congratulations." Haley smiled

"Thanks." Quinn smiled back. "So how're you feeling?"

"Fine." she shrugged

"Stubborn." Lucas fake coughed

"Gee Lucas I sure hope you don't have what Haley has." Quinn played along

"No I'm fine." he said then faked a gasp "Maybe I do have what Haley has."

"Shut up Lucas." Haley grabbed the pillow and held it up, silently threatening to hit him again and Lucas put up his hands in surrender.

" Oh this brings back memories."

"What does?" Lucas asked

"You two sitting on Haley's bed, talking, being dorks." Quinn gestured to the two of them. "Do you remember how dad would get? He'd be like 'Do they have to hang out in her room?'"

"Oh yeah, then mom would say 'They're 7 years old what do you think's gonna happen?'"

" 'Boys only have one thing on their mind.'" Quinn quoted, deepening her voice, impersonating her father.

" 'We've known that boy for years, he's a nice boy.'" Haley made her voice higher, impersonating her mother

" 'Lydia, there is no such thing as a nice boy.'" Quinn quoted

" 'Jim, Haley and Lucas are best friends nothing's going to happen.'" Haley said and Lucas chuckled

"And of course right after your mom would calm him down, Taylor would run in yelling 'Lucas kissed Haley! Lucas kissed Haley!'" Lucas mimicked and Haley and Quinn laughed "Then they'd split us up. Your dad and I would have our 'man to man' talks out on the porch-"

"And mom would lecture me in the living room."

"And your dad made me a member of the 'hop' club." Lucas recalled

" 'Hop?" Quinn asked

"Hands Off Property." Lucas chuckled

"And mom gave me the talk." Haley recounted

"And who would've thought, that for all those years, they worried about the wrong Scott ." Quinn said and everybody laughed

"You know, looking back on it, your dad was pretty lenient. I mean I don't know how I'd react if there was some boy in Sawyer's room." Lucas said

"Aww you sound like such a dad." Haley said

"You look like such a mom." Lucas said nodding to Haley's stomach.

"Wow doesn't it feel like it happened fast? I mean we're both married, you have a 2 and half year old daughter, I have an eight year old son and another one on the way. Doesn't it feel like just yesterday we were up on the roof of Karen's Café throwing water balloons at each other?"

"Or playing mini golf, and I'd always beat you." Lucas said

"Okay that never happened."

"No I distinctly remember winning every game."

"Yeah, in your dreams."

Lucas thought for a second "That gives me an idea." he got up off the bed

"Where ya goin?" Quinn asked

"I'll be right back. I've got Nathan's car." Lucas said as he left.

Alright that's chapter 3! The 4th and last chapter will be up soon! Please leave reviews! I love em, they're awesome oh and once again, they can be anonymous. Okay so.. Message me, let me know what you think. Please and thank you. (: