Still overwhelmed by what she heard from her son, Peyton Sawyer was sit in her living room. She was waiting for Brooke to come. She did not know how to handle all of this. As soon as they got home, Charlie went upstairs and Peyton called Brooke. His son was not happy and she felt like it was her fault. The time has past slowly but Brooke Davis finally made it to her best friend's house. The brunette seemed worried when she entered the house.
"You scared me P. Sawyer." She said. "What's going on?"
Peyton sighed. "I'm the worst mother ever."
"Uh oh. Something went wrong, am I right?" Brooke asked as she sat beside her friend. "I mean, something went wrong with Charlie."
"He sort of blamed me because he doesn't have a father." Peyton spat. She seemed shocked but mostly, sad. "He's so brillant Brooke. He's a little boy but a vulnerable one."
Brooke put her arm on Peyton's back. "Stop it. Don't blame yourself for this. You were seventeen, you were scared."
"I definitively fucked up everything." The blond-haired woman admitted. "I should have listened to you."
Brooke sighed. "Listened to me about what?"
"The day that Charlie was born, when I called you. You told me that I should call Lucas to tell him all the truth." Peyton breathed heavily. "I wasn't able to do it. You broke up with him because you said that you felt like a friend, not like a lover. I'm sure he was sad. I did not want him to be destroyed."
"Lucas is a strong guy, a good one. He would have understood, especially when his own father ran away from him when he was a baby." Brooke explained to her best friend. "He would have been there for you and for Baby Sawyer."
Peyton and Brooke spent a full hour talking about everything that could scare the blonde-haired mother. Lucas was Charlie's father and she could not change anything about it. Even if the little boy looked a lot like his mother, he had Lucas' eyes. When Brooke left, Peyton joined her son in his bedroom. He was laying on the floor and drawing something. She sat beside him and looked at her son's drawing.
"What are you drawing?" Peyton asked softly.
"That's me, Jamie and Nathan when we went to the amusement park." He just said.
Peyton sighed. "Will you give it to Nathan?"
"Yes mom." He nodded. "I like Nathan, he's cool."
"I'm going back to work tomorrow but what if I ask Nathan to stay with you this week? You could play with Jamie every day." Peyton questioned her son. She knew that he would enjoy the proposal.
"Really? Please mommy!" The kid dropped his coloring pencil.
"Just for this week, I need to find you a babysitter." Peyton explained.
"That's perfect!"
She knew exactly how to make him happy. Peyton stoopd up and looked at her son with tears in her eyes. He was so beautiful, so perfect. She got back downstairs and called Nathan about her idea. He accepted it with job. Since he got his accident, he couldn't do anything but taking care of his son. Having another kid with them would be perfect, especially for Jamie. And both boys are getting along.
When she woke up the next morning, Peyton was terribly not motivated to go back to work. She woke up her son who looked pretty excited to spend the whole day with his friend Jamie and Nathan. When they were both ready, the blonde-haired woman drove her son to the Scott's house. Charlie dropped a kiss on his mom cheek and joined Nathan who waited for him outside. Peyton smiled at her long time friend.
As soon as she got to the Clothes Over Bro's store, she looked already fed up. Brooke was sat behind the counterdesk and smiled when she noticed her best friend.
"We're only opening in thirty minutes and you're already here, wow!" Brooke joked. "You should be employee of the month."
Peyton laughed. "I just drove Charlie to Nathan's so I decided to come here."
"Good decision." Brooke said. "We got a lot of work in front of us today, especially you. You need to update the website, look at the December magazine and make sure that every it looks beautiful. Also, make sure to answer every emails about the Winter collection because Millicent won't be able to do it today, she has so much more to do."
The blonde-haired seemed done with everything. She had a big day ahead. Peyton suddenly remembered how much she hated to work in an office. Clothes Over Bro's saved Peyton Sawyer for four years but was ready to move on.
Around noon, Brooke asked Peyton to go out for lunch but the blonde-haired declined. She had so much to do and she did not want to quit the store at 8pm. Surprisingly, Peyton has been quiet all day long. When she was about to leave around 5pm, she stopped in front of Brooke.
"I.. I wanna thank you for the job, ." She said softly. "But these two weeks off showed me how much I hated it."
Brooke seemed surprised. "Oh. I.. I don't know what to say Peyton, I thought you loved it."
"It was cool at first but I think it's time to move on." Peyton explained. "I'll end the whole week then I'm done."
Surprised by Peyton's decision? Do you think that Brooke is upset?
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