"Ugh I'm not even close to done packing. And we're leaving tomorrow!" Rachel stuffed some more clothes into her luggage.

"I'm surprised you're even going I thought you said you were never going back."

"Well since I already missed the Brooke vs. Victoria showdown, I would rather not miss any drama and let's face it Tree Hill is drama central."

"Haha that it is. But I actually hope there's no drama this time."

"You're not serious. You really think there's gonna be no drama? Come on, once Saint Haley finds out about Brett there's gonna be some hell to pay."

"Ok your right about that." Brooke shrugged. "But after that lets hope there's no drama." Brooke chuckled.

"Damn you might be right about that." Brooke gave Rachel a questioning glance. "Peyton's not there." Rachel shrugged. Brooke just rolled her eyes. Rachel never hid her feelings about Peyton especially after Brooke and Lucas' second breakup.

"Be nice."

"Come on Brooke. Admit it, if Peyton found out Lucas had a kid with anyone else then her she would freak. Especially if it was with you."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Peyton wants what she can't have. Haven't you ever noticed that when Peyton can have Lucas she doesn't want him, and whenever you have Lucas she wants him? Once she founds out you and Lucas have a kid she's gonna want him." Rachel shrugged.

"Whatever that is not true."

"Think about it. Junior year: Lucas kisses Peyton; Peyton freaks. You date Lucas; Peyton wants Lucas. You break up with Lucas; Peyton doesn't want him. You date Lucas; Peyton wants Lucas. Lucas asks Peyton to marry him; Peyton says no. Do you see a trend?"

"Wait how do you know that Lucas asked Peyton to marry him?"

"What can I say; when Lucas tells you something, make sure he doesn't tell you in the living room." Rachel shrugged. Brooke just hit her with her pillow.

xxxxx

Lindsey was sitting at the table waiting for Lucas, who was ten minutes late. If she had to guess it would be either because of Brooke Davis or Nathan Scott. Lindsey laughed bitterly. How could she not know her fiancée had a son…a son with Brooke Davis! When she broke off the engagement she thought it was because Peyton was still in his heart, but instead it was Brooke Davis. But maybe, just maybe she was jumping to conclusions. It's not like Scott wasn't a common name. And Brooke must've been good friends to name him after Nathan. But the chance of any of this being true was slim to none.

"Hey Lindsey." Lucas said knocking her out of her thoughts.

"Hey Luke." She stood up to give him a hug. God she loved how he smelled.

"Sorry for being late." Lucas said pulling away from the hug.

"Its ok I haven't been here long."

"How've you been?" Lucas said as he looked at the menu.

"Uh I've been better. What about you?" Lucas smiled at the thought of Brooke and Brett, and Lindsey noticed.

"Good. Really good."

"Don't hide your excitement." Lindsey said sarcastically and somewhat bitterly. Lucas chuckled at her statement knowing that he couldn't hide his happiness. "Let me guess this has something to do with Brooke Davis?" Lindsey eyed him. He just stayed quiet trying to avoid her next question. "Are you guys back together?" Lindsey waited for an answer but Lucas didn't even look up from the menu. "I'm not gonna be mad if you guys are we've been broken up for over a month and a half." Again she waited for an answer and finally Lucas looked up from the menu.

"No we're not going out."

"What about Nathan?" Lucas looked up confused what would his brother have to do with this?

"What about Nathan?"

"Is he yours?" Lucas felt stupid of course she was talking about Brett. But he stayed quiet he wasn't sure how to answer. A part of him wanted to lie, but he knew lying always got him into sticky situations.

"Yes." Lindsey's eyes filled with tears.

"And you didn't feel the need to tell your fiancée."

"Ex-fiancée." Lucas corrected.

"Don't forget we were engaged Lucas. When were you planning to tell me you had a son? What after the wedding were you planning to say 'Hey by the way I have a 1 year old son with Brooke Davis.'" Lindsey said bitterly. Lucas didn't want to tell her he didn't know about Brett up until about a month ago. He didn't want Lindsey to think Brooke was a bad person. But he wasn't sure what to do.

"Lindsey I wasn't in his life back then." Lindsey gave him a confused glance. "It's complicated but it's not like I kept it from you on purpose. But I'm in his life now." Lindsey just nodded her head not wanting to go too much into details. She planned to tell him that she regretted breaking off the engagement, but she wanted to see how Lucas felt before she said anything.

xxxxx

Lindsey was sitting in her car with tears running down her face. Lucas was in love with Brooke Davis. He didn't come out and say it, but she knew. The way his face lit up when he talked about her. The way he described her personality. The way he described how beautiful she was inside, and out. She hated it; he spent most of their lunch talking about her. He loved her, he probably never stopped. Which meant that their relationship was a lie. She didn't want to believe that, she didn't want to think that when he held her that he was probably imagining Brooke. That when he kissed her that he was imaging Brooke's lips. She had never seen him that carefree and happy. She was sure that if he died right now he would probably die the happiest person in the world. And she was going to have to accept that she wasn't the reason for that.

xxxxx

Lucas walked into the loft happy as could be. His life was perfect he had a son, and he was returning home with his family. He had to admit that Brooke had something to do with his happiness. Her personality easily lit up any room she walked into. He walked into Brett's room looking for him or Brooke. He knocked on Brooke's door, but he didn't receive an answer. He carefully opened the door and saw Brooke and Brett on the bed sleeping. He smiled she was probably worn out from packing. He just looked at them and fell in love with the scene. He had a son and he had Brooke in his life. God she was beautiful, he could get used to seeing this everyday. He carefully tiptoed over to the side of the bed Brooke was laying on and laid next to her. He wrapped his arms around her and tried to fall asleep. It was proving rather difficult though because every time he took a deep breath he could smell Brooke's perfume. He had to fight the urge to kiss her. He slowly fell to sleep with Brooke etched into his mind.

xxxxx

Brooke slowly woke up. She had the best sleep she had in months. She was worn out from packing all day for her and Brett, but she was finally done. She moved slowly so not to wake Brett and realized that she had an arm wrapped around her waist. She opened her eyes and saw Lucas. She was surprised to say the least but oddly enough she felt perfect. She looked at him and saw the stubble coming out; he looked more handsome since she last remembered. She took a deep breath in and could easily smell his cologne. She kept taking deep breaths trying to memorize the smell. She felt him move and she opened her eyes and saw him looking down at her. What surprised her was that his face was moving closer to her and pretty soon his lips touched hers. She probably should've fought the kiss but she was actually kissing him back. Pretty soon the kiss got intense and Brooke moved her hands to his face to feel the stubble. Lucas moved his body closer to her to get more comfortable. Brooke had to admit that this was the best kiss she had, had in years.

xxxxx

Lucas pulled Brooke closer trying to get her as close to him as possible never wanting to let go. He was surprised at what was happening. He had to admit that he initiated the kiss, but he thought he was dreaming when he saw Brooke. He woke up and saw her there and he saw how beautiful she was and he did the only thing he thought he could do and he kissed her. He finally realized that it wasn't a dream when she moved her hands to his face. He was actually happy that it wasn't a dream. He had been wanting to do kiss her since he had gotten to New York and he had to admit that, that kiss was better than he ever could've imagined. He started running his hand up and down her side relishing the feel of her skin. He could feel her shiver under his touch. She moved her hands down from his face to his arms and started to feel his bicep. He knew that soon air would become an issue and that they would have to deal with the consequences of the kiss but he wanted to enjoy this moment. When he felt her pull away he knew that the consequences would come sooner then later.

xxxxx

Brooke moved her hands from his face to his arm. She was squirming under his touch. He kept moving his hands up and down her sides. She knew pretty soon they would have to remove clothing if he kept doing that. She started to move her hands from his bicep to his abs, but suddenly felt a little fist hit her in the back. That's when she remembered that Brett was right next them. She pulled away and looked over her shoulder and saw Brett smiling at them. She chuckled at the sight of the happiness on their son's face it was as if he knew his parents were finally working out.

"I guess someone wanted some attention." Lucas chuckled.

"Yeah you know your son always wanting to be the center of attention."

"Just like his mom."

"Hey!" Brooke hit on the forehead.

"OW!" Lucas rubbed his forehead.

"Stop being such a baby."

"I'm not a baby you hit pretty hard!"

"I'm sorry." She sighed. She kissed him on the forehead. "Better?"

"Yeah." Lucas whispered. Brooke looked at the time and realized that Brett was probably was hungry.

"I guess I should feed him. Which means you have to get off me." She playfully pushed him off.

"Jeez thanks." He joked.

"Well it's kinda hard to get up when you're on me."

"You didn't complain in high school." Lucas smirked.

"Hey!" Brooke hit on the forehead again.

"Ow!" Lucas rolled off her and held his forehead.

"You deserved that." Brooke picked up Brett and walked out of the room. Lucas just stayed behind and thought about everything that had just happened.

xxxxx

It was midnight and Brooke was listening to Lucas' heartbeat. They ended up in the same bed because Brett was crying for Lucas. He eventually fell asleep and they moved him to his crib, but for some reason they were still sleeping in the same bed. Lucas holding Brooke and Brooke curled up in his chest. One would think that after the day's events that things would be awkward between the two of them but it was as if the pieces had finally fallen into place.

"I can hear your heartbeat." Brooke whispered.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah it's actually pretty soothing." They were in a silence, but not an awkward silence it was as if they didn't need any words between them to understand each other. Lucas knew Brooke on a level that she was sure no one else knew. He understood her fears, her insecurities, but most of all he knew when she needed to be held and tonight was one of those nights.

"You know Brooke I think we need to talk about what happened today." Lucas said referring to the kiss.

"We do?"

"Don't we?" Lucas asked confused.

"I don't think so." Brooke whispered. "I don't want to jinx it." She said looking at him in the eyes. Lucas wanted to know where they stood. He wasn't sure if they were friends or if they were more. "I don't think we need a definition." Brooke said as if reading his mind.

"Ok if that's what you want." Lucas said. He suddenly felt the need to kiss her and on cue Brooke moved closer to Lucas. Lucas finally closed the gap between them. It wasn't rushed but sweet and slow. They finally broke apart and just stared at each other.

"We should probably go to sleep. We have an early flight tomorrow."

"Yeah I'm actually pretty nervous."

"Why?"

"Nate and Haley are gonna hate me." Her voice cracked.

"They're not gonna hate you." Lucas soothed. But she just gave him a skeptical look. "Nate isn't even gonna hear any words after Brett's first name." Brooke chuckled. "And Haley won't hate you; I don't hate you so she won't hate you."

"How are you so sure?"

"Believe me they could never hate you. Remember senior year?"

"What about it?"

"Well remember when you slept with Chris?" Brooke cringed when he brought up that incident. "I tried so hard to hate you. I wanted to hate you so much, but I couldn't. Every time I saw you all that anger flew out the window. So believe me its impossible to hate you." Lucas smiled at her. She had to admit somehow he made her feel better.

"Thank you."

"Anything for you. Now go to sleep we have to wake up extra early to go to the airport."

xxxxx

"Brooke lets go we're supposed to be there already!" Lucas yelled.

"I'm going!" Brooke yelled back. Lucas just chuckled, he probably should've been nervous but he told Brooke the flight took off an hour before the actual take off.

"Ok I'm ready to go."

"Yeah but we were supposed to be there 20 minutes ago and with traffic were not gonna get there in time." Rachel sighed.

"No we're good on time" Lucas said as he started taking the luggage into the elevator.

"How do you figure if we were supposed to be there in…" Rachel looked at her watch. "30 minutes?" Rachel said while she gave Brooke an annoyed glare.

"Hey it's not my fault that I couldn't remember which bag I put my mascara in." Brooke defended.

"Its ok we're not supposed to be there for another hour and a half."

"What! You lied to me!" Brooke yelled.

"It's a good thing too! We were supposed to be there 30 minutes ago." Lucas defended.

"Whatever you're lucky I'm not really mad." Brooke shrugged.

"Yeah only cause she got some last night." Rachel chuckled. Brooke widened her eyes in disbelief.

"We didn't sleep together last night!"

"Whatever, I saw you two walking out of the same room this morning."

"We didn't have sex last night. Tell her we didn't have sex last night." Brooke looked over at Lucas.

"We didn't have sex last night…not yet anyway." Lucas smirked. Brooke hit him on the chest.

"Hey!" Brooke yelled.

"Kidding." Lucas smirked. Rachel just laughed at Brooke.

xxxxx

Lucas, Brooke, Rachel, and Brett were getting off the plane. The saw Nathan and Haley and waved. Haley looked at Brooke and noticed that she was carrying a little boy. Brooke got butterflies in her stomach. All three had decided on a story to tell Nathan and Haley about Brett. They decided that they would say that Brett was just Brooke's. Then when they got home they would tell the truth, none of them wanted a scene in the middle of the airport.

"Brooke oh my god I've my missed you!" Haley ran over to Brooke and gave her a half-hug to not squish the baby in between them. "Who's this?"

"He's my son, Brett."

"Brooke you have a son!" Haley said in disbelief. "Why didn't you tell me?!" Haley demanded.

"I wanted to tell you Haley but things have been so hectic lately and I wanted you to meet him in person." Brooke said hoping it would end the scene that Haley was making.

"Brooke I thought I was your best friend?! How could you not tell me?!" Haley said making some people turn their heads.

"Haley I really wanted to tell you. But it never seemed like the right time I was busy or you were busy. I really am sorry Haley." Brooke said her eyes filling with tears. If Haley acted like this after finding out about Brett, Brooke could only imagine what she would say about Lucas being the father.

"Brooke I wouldn't have cared when you told me! You should've told me when you found out you were pregnant!" With every one of Haley's words more and more heads turned.

"Haley-"

"Haley lets not do this here." Lucas interrupted.

"Yeah Hales we'll talk about this at home." Nathan tried to calm down Haley.

xxxxx

They were sitting in the car in an awkward silence. Haley hadn't said anything since they had left the airport.

"You should've told me." Haley stated.

"I know, and I'm sorry. I don't know what else to say."

"Brooke it just hurts that you think you can't trust me." Haley's eyes filled with tears.

"I'm sorry." Brooke whispered as they reached the house. Haley walked out of the car and slammed the door behind her and walked to the backyard.

"Can you get Brett out I need to talk to her." Lucas just nodded his head. Brooke walked into the backyard and just stood next to Haley staring at the swimming pool.

"I'm sorry."

"I know you are. But that doesn't change anything."

"What can?" Brooke said facing Haley.

"I want you to trust me Brooke. I want you to be able to tell me anything. I want us to be best friends again." Brooke just stayed silent. "Can we go back to what we were like in high school?" Brooke hugged Haley and just nodded. Both of them were crying by now.

"I really am sorry."

"I know. Let's go inside before they think we killed each other." Haley chuckled as she wiped her eyes. They both walked inside and Lucas immediately went to Brooke's side.

"You ok?" He said as he eyed her.

"Yeah." She whispered.

"You know we don't have to tell them right now, we can wait."

"I actually think right now would be best."

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

"Ok." He took a deep breath suddenly getting nervous.

"Umm guys we actually have something we need to tell you." Lucas said.

"It's actually about Brett."

"What about Brett?" Haley asked suddenly getting nervous.

"Uhh Haley Brett's full name is Nathan Brett Scott." Brooke said trying to get them to understand. Haley just sat there dumbfounded. She wasn't sure if she understood what they were trying to say.

"Please tell me that's a coincidence." Haley said with pleading eyes.

"Haley what I'm trying to say is that Brett is Lucas' son." Brooke said nervously.

"What?" Haley said as if she didn't hear right.

"He's my son Haley."

"Dude you have a son and you didn't tell us?" Nathan said in disbelief.

"Don't blame Lucas he didn't exactly know." Brooke said shamefully.

"What!" Haley said.

"You kept his son from him." Nathan said getting pissed.

"Nate-"

"No did you?" Nathan said interrupting Lucas.

"Yes." Brooke whispered. Nathan just sighed trying not to yell at Brooke.

"Nathan-"

"No Brooke its one thing to keep it from us, but his own father?!" Nathan just paced the kitchen trying not to explode more on Brooke. He finally decided that he needed some air and walked out.

"Nate!" Lucas yelled but Nathan just kept walking. "I'll talk to him." Lucas ran after him.

"Haley." Brooke whispered. Haley just sat there dumbfounded.

"You kept his son from him?" Haley asked, but more to herself then Brooke.

"Haley-"

"Lucas has a son and you didn't tell him?" Haley said still talking to herself.

"Haley-" Haley put her hand up to stop Brooke; she needed to process everything that had just happened.

"Why would you keep his son from him?"

"Haley I was so confused and I thought he was still with Peyton and I didn't want to ruin what he had-"

"Why didn't you ask Brooke I would've been able to tell you that they weren't together anymore."

"I don't know Haley. I was planning to tell him, but…"

"But what?"

"I got scared." She whispered.

"Scared of what? Scared that Lucas was actually gonna get a chance to be a father? Scared that he was gonna do the right thing and actually help you with everything?"

"No scared that he was gonna hate me for ruining his relationship with Peyton. Scared that he wasn't gonna want Brett." Haley took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.

"What did Lucas say when you told him?" Brooke began to explain everything that happened that night from Victoria to Chris standing up for Luke to Brooke firing Victoria. "He said all that?" Haley asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, I was surprised too; I thought he was going to go crazy."

"Look this is between you and Lucas…maybe…maybe I shouldn't be getting in the middle. If he isn't mad I don't see any reason why I should be." Haley sighed.

"Thanks Haley." Brooke whispered.

"Brooke just no more secrets."

"No more secrets." Brooke agreed.

"So anything else I might need to know?"

"I've lived with Chris the last year and a half." Brooke shrugged.

xxxxx

Lucas chased Nathan and found him leaning on his car in front of the house.

"How could she keep her kid from you?!" Nathan yelled frustrated. Lucas didn't know how to respond he thought Haley was going to be mad but he didn't think Nathan would take it like this.

"Don't be so hard on her."

"What?! You're not serious!" Nathan looked at Lucas and saw that he was actually serious. "How could you not be mad?! She kept your kid from you! I would be pissed if Haley ever kept Jamie from me."

"Dude believe me the minute you would've held Jamie all that anger would've vanished."

"But how could she do that?! She took away your son…my nephew!"

"Nate I've already forgiven her."

"How?!" Lucas shrugged not knowing how to respond.

"I was mad, but…I don't know I just couldn't hold on to that anger. I wanted to be mad, I wanted to hate her but I couldn't."

"Why not she sure as hell deserves it." Nathan said finally calming down.

"She probably does but being angry doesn't change the past. It doesn't bring back the last year, all it does is make things worse and unfortunately Brett would be the only one that suffers; and I don't want that. Look so how about we go inside and you can meet your nephew?" Nathan took a deep breath and calmed down.

"Alright." They walked inside and saw Haley cooing at Brett. Brooke looked up at Nathan and gave him a remorseful look. Nathan just nodded his head as a sign he forgave her.

"So I guess I'm ready to meet my nephew." Haley walked over to Nathan and handed him Brett.

"Say hi to Nathan Brett Scott." Brooke whispered.

"Hey buddy you know you got quite a name to live up too." He chuckled. "I'm your Uncle Nate. I'm the one that's actually gonna teach you a decent game of basketball." He chuckled.

"He looks just like you Luke." Haley whispered as she ran her fingers through his hair.

"Nah I don't think so he actually looks handsome like his Uncle."

"Whatever." Lucas rolled his eyes.

"So I guess Jamie finally gets a cousin. Where is my god-son anyway?"

"I got him right here." Rachel walked in with Jamie.

"Please don't corrupt my son Rachel." Haley said.

"We were just having some bonding time." Rachel shrugged. "Tree Hill has gotten boring. I was hoping for some drama and nothing happened. Nobody got in a fight no bitch slaps no nothing." Haley frowned at Rachel's choice of words and signaled that Jamie was in the room. "Oh sorry kid don't say bitch unless you're talking about goldilocks." Rachel chuckled.

"Rachel!" Brooke yelled.

"Chill I was just kidding."

"Jamie come over here, I want you to meet someone." Nathan signaled him over.

"Who is that daddy?"

"This is your cousin Jamie." Lucas carried him and sat right next to Nathan.

"What's his name?" Jamie started running his fingers through Brett's hair.

"Nathan Brett Scott." Brooke said.

"Daddy he has your name!" Jamie exclaimed.

"Yeah you know how your middle name is Lucas well I thought it would be nice to name him Nathan." Brooke explained.

"Is he your baby?"

"Yeah and he's my son too."

"You have a son!"

"Yeah Brooke and I do."

"Wow! So can I carry him?"

"Not yet buddy but how about later when we're on the couch or something?" Nathan said carefully so not to upset Jamie.

"I guess…"

"Hey Jamie cheer up now you have a little cousin you can play with."

"Congratulations big bro."

"Thanks."

"I can't believe we both have families now Luke." Nathan said. "All you're missing is a wife now."

"Yeah I guess I am." Lucas said smiling at Brooke. Brooke smiled back and he winked at her.

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Ok so I know I took forever to put the chapter up but school has been kicking my butt. Also I know that Brucas started kinda fast but I was getting bored with them being apart. So please review they help me update faster.