Your Mistake Killed My Soul

Rating: T for content

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Your Mistake Killed My Soul

Chapter Four: The Lies You Hide

It's not like Brooke never expected Lucas to fall in love again. She knew that he'd one day meet another woman and probably end up married living in a nice house with kids and maybe a dog or something—she figured somewhat of the same picture for herself. What she couldn't have ever expected was Peyton being that woman who Lucas married and had kids with.

She sat at on the stool before the countertop, her eyes threatening tears as she stared at the screen of Lucas's phone. Her snooping had led to a mass finding of Peyton—she was in his pictures along with a sadly adorable baby girl who resembled the Scott family so much, it was almost scary. Brooke knew it that it just had to be Lucas's baby, what with the curly blonde hair and the pale skin. The other thing that didn't seem to add up to Lucas was the baby's blue eyes. It was a shade of blue that was so natural it almost didn't seem real, like the reflection of the ocean blue.

"So this was what kept you from us?" Brooke mumbled to herself. Her voice wavered as she continued scanning the pictures. It seemed the little baby was growing right before her eyes through the number of pictures he had stored on his phone—but the baby never seemed to get hair. By—what looked to be— age four, she was still bald as a bat. Lucas had obviously had this phone for a long time considering the date of the baby pictures were a while back. If Brooke's math was right the age of the baby had to be about eight or ten. Yet, pictures suddenly stopped at age five. There were no recent snapshots of the little girl and there hadn't been since the age of five. Brooke found this somewhat odd through her furry. Perhaps he had ditched his baby with Peyton too?

"Hey," Brooke jumped at the sight of Lucas standing before her. Throwing down his phone, she tried to make it look like she hadn't been spying, though it was plain as day. "What were you doing on my phone?"

"Nothing," Brooke lied, suddenly regretting that she hadn't said anything about what she had found. As much as she wanted to know the truth, she didn't think she could handle the idea of knowing that Lucas and Peyton were living somewhere in New York with a little girl. It killed her. And hearing it from Lucas's mouth would only confirm her thoughts, making her feel even worse.

"Sure," Lucas said, picking up his phone and slipping it into his pocket.

Brooke raised an eyebrow at this, "Why take it away? You got something to hide on that thing?"

Lucas rolled his eyes, "My life is none of your business, Brooke."

"Okay, Lucas," Brooke stood up from her seat on the stool. "But it was your daughter's business."

"Hey guys!" the door opened swiftly as Haley cried out hello, a baby attached to her hip along with a set of twin seven-year-olds.

"Auntie Brooke!" the two girls cried out, running from their mother to Brooke. A smile crept the ends of Brooke's lips as she bent down to the two girl's level. They looked utterly adorable in their matching blue summer dresses with a matching bow in their hairs.

"Hales," Luke smiled at the sight of his good friend slash sister-in-law. "Hey there little girl," he said, taking little Catherine out of Haley's hands so that she could go and help Nathan. "How's this little cutie pie doin'?"

Lucas rocked little Catherine around, making silly faces at her. In turn, the little girl giggled and laughed. From Brooke's spot by the twins, she felt her heart turn jealous for her daughter. Kendall never got to have that experience with her father…

Evening. It was awkward for everyone in Karen's house to once again see Lucas. It had been so long since any of them had really gotten to see him. Yet, Brooke really didn't care about seeing him. She just wanted to know what it was he was hiding.

Lucas stood outside on the front porch, distant from the others in the house. Looking up at the stars he realized how much clearer they were in Tree Hill than in New York. He wondered if Kendall was somewhere up there, watching her father from up above. He hoped she was. He hoped she realized how sorry she was…

"Hey, Luke," Nathan stepped outside quietly, shutting the front door behind him. "Pretty cold tonight, eh?"

"Yeah," Lucas almost snapped, shooting Nathan a glance.

Brooke stood in front of the open window, ease dropping on the two brothers. She hoped that Lucas would reveal something to Lucas, perhaps something about Peyton or their baby. She figured it might feel better learning information about Lucas when he didn't know she was learning about it.

"Look man," Nathan sighed. "I know you're mad at me for what I did to Peyton, but that was a long time ago."

What? Brooke was totally confused about what Nathan was talking about. What did he do to Peyton? What did Peyton have to do with anything?

"Mad?" Lucas spat. "Try hate…no, no, despise you for what you did to Peyton. God, Nathan! What the fuck were you thinking? You knew Anna was sick, yet you pretended like nothing was wrong."

"Haley didn't even know about the affair—how was I going to tell her about Anna?" Nathan asked angrily, his heart pounding.

"But you knew Anna was sick," Lucas whispered. "But you played stupid. You're just like Dan."

"Look who's talking," Nathan shot back, walking back into the house.

Brooke leaned against the paneling of the window, slowly putting the pieces together of what she had just witnessed…

A.N: I know, these chapters are crazy short and I promise to write a good long one when I get the chance, but I haven't had the time to really sit down and write—which I apologize for! But I promise you a good chapter one of these days…he-he! Thank you for all the great feedback and I hope this chapter was a good one for y'all…Lucas has some serious secrets, eh? Lol!