The girls finally arrived at the wedding looking like the past few hours of panic, despair and bawling hadn't just happened. They'd shouted and screamed at each other, they even came close to pulling each other's hair, but it was all forgotten when riding up in that white limo. All the girls, excluding Karen, who was riding in a horse and carriage five minutes away, got out of the limo as it pulled up to the outdoor wedding service. The bridesmaids were dressed in cream, silk dresses and everyone else looked pretty good too. Brooke was the last one too get out of the limo, but the first one that Lucas really noticed. She closed the door to the limo, and Lucas began walking towards her quite slowly but he kept eye contact all the way.

"…You look…erm, you look" he began to stutter "…You look…" again, he just couldn't seem to find the words

"Absolutely gorgeous?…" Brooke finished his sentence for him "…Yeah, I know" she said, confidently. He smiled at her and agreed with the fact that she looked good "So, when did you guys get here?" she asked, making conversation with him while they waited for Karen to arrive

"…Err, about…err,…20mintues ago" he said, still staring at her. He obviously wasn't really interested in what she was saying, just what she was wearing, he continued to look her up and down

"…Come on, stop it, Luke" she said, nudging him in the stomach. She didn't want him to stop of course, she'd waited years for Lucas to look at her like that again, and despite what she might say and want people to believe, she never wanted it to stop

"…I'm sorry" he apologised, still looking at her "It's just been a while since I…saw you looking like that" he said, looking up to her face for the first time since she emerged from the limo. They both smiled, hugely at each other and held their gaze, Nathan and Haley then came over and broke the stare

"Ok, we were just stood over there and Nathan seemed to think that you were just checking her out" Haley said, pointing at Brooke. Judging by her choice of words, Haley clearly wasn't holding anything back "And, I said that that's ridiculous…" Haley said, whilst Brooke threw her a look, obviously offended by Haley's thoughts that Lucas wouldn't be checking her out "…because, although Brooke looks really nice…" Haley continued, saying the latter for Brooke's benefit, it worked judging by the smile that appeared on her face "…Lucas doesn't see her in that way anymore…so he suggested we come over and ask you…ya know? To see who was right?"

"So, you just put me through 10seconds of embarrassment by asking me if I was checking out my ex-girlfriend, who I havent seen or spoke too in three years…so that you and hubby over there could see who was right in some dumb argument?" Lucas said, in a jokingly manner

"…Yeah. So?…" Haley asked

"So? what?" Brooke said, raising her eyebrows

"So, who was right?…" asked Nathan, clearly not letting this one go. Lucas then looked at Brooke, she started to smile.

"I wasn't checking her out…" Lucas said, trying to close the subject.

"Ha!" Haley said, in Nathan's ear

"Oh…my…god!" said Brooke, looking at Lucas "You were SO checking me out…it was like there was an overseas satellite link between our words…it took you that long to respond"

"Ha!" Nathan said, in Haley's ear

"I might have glanced in your direction once, or twice…but I wasn't checking you out…" Lucas said, getting more embarrassed by the second. Skillz and Mouth then walked over

"Hey dawg…the word on the street is that you've been vibeing on Miss. Davis again" Skillz said, patting Lucas on the shoulder. Lucas just let his head drop into his hands, wondering how something so small got made into something so big. The others, on the other hand just laughed at his reaction

Karen and Andy had said their vows, made their promises and officially become man and wife, they had had their first dance, drank a fair amount and were celebrating their new life. Sure, it'd taken her mind off the life threatening disease that was slowly taking over her body, but sooner or later she'd have to go back to the life she'd grown so afraid of, a life of loneliness, emptiness and unhappiness. She sat at one of the white tables at the outdoor wedding party, the thoughts of what she'd done wrong, the things she'd missed took over her mind. Her eyes began to fill with tears, just at that moment the moment she needed him most, he appeared. But she didn't want him to see her like this, she didn't want him feeling sorry for her, or becoming suspicious that something was wrong so took the compact from her purse and tried too compose herself as he sat down beside her

"Hey…" he said, softly. Not realising anything was wrong, until she looked up from her mirror, her eyes were red. Not a puffy, noticeable kinda red, but Lucas noticed when anything was wrong "…What's wrong?" he said, lifting her chin so he could look her in the eye

"Oh…nothing, I'm just be a total girl" she answered, making yet more excuses. She didn't want to lie to him, she hated lying to him, she didn't want to lie to any of them. But in a weeks time, she'd be going back to her life which was so distant from this one, in more ways than one

"…Oh, right. Weddings?" he figured that's what had got her so emotional "You were always a sucker for them…" he said, putting his arm round her. A song then came on, and Brooke immediately looked up as she remembered that this was the same song that was playing in the car, the day she left Tree Hill, the day she made the biggest mistake of her life.

"Hey, you wanna dance?" Lucas asked. Brooke nodded and he took her hand and led her over to were other people had taken to the floor. She rested her head on his shoulder, and he kissed the top of her forehead. The last time she heard this song was three years ago, yet the feelings she felt back then were exactly the same feelings she was feeling now, except for one difference. Three years ago she had forever to fix her mistakes, to live with no regrets, since then forever has become a whole lot shorter