Heather slammed the front door open causing Rachel to look up from her spot at the kitchen table. She watched her daughter almost amused as the young red head threw her backpack onto the couch, mumbling something that she couldn't exactly make out.

"So what exactly did your backpack do to you?" Rachel asked causing her daughter to freeze. Heather glared at her offensive backpack and walked into the kitchen.

"You know what I hate?" She asked her mother. "Blondes. They think they're sooooo special and perfect and God's freakin gift to us all." Rachel looked at her daughter not following in the least but realizing this had absolutely nothing to do with a backpack. Heather made her way to sit by her mother. "Seriously, though, they all think they're entitled and can just come back into town and pick up right where they left off. Who cares what happened while they were gone or what was about to happen. They're back in town and now it's all bow before me…the mighty blonde has returned. You know what else? She's not even that pretty." Heather paused for a second thinking about what she said. The short pause gave Rachel a little time to try and catch up. "Ok you know what? That's a lie. She is pretty. Beautiful in fact. In that perfectly imperfect I'm so cute I could soften the heart of the Grinch type way."

"Whoa," Rachel said putting her hands up trying to get Heather to slow down. "She who?"

"Jessica Jagielski," Heather answered simply taking a drink of her Vitamin Water.

"She's back?" Rachel asked confused.

"Oh you mean you didn't hear about the second coming?" Heather answered sarcastically. Rachel smirked at her daughters answer. "She came back this weekend in all her glory and called a meeting with her chosen ones." Heather added with a roll of her eyes.

"Ok so Jessica is back. Are you worried that she's going to start trouble with you and Logan?" Rachel asked knowing that Jessica and Logan had dated in the past. Heather shot her mother a yeah right type look which surprised the cheer coach. Heather studied her daughter for a few minutes before the pieces of the puzzle fell into place for her. "This doesn't have anything to do with Logan, does it?" Rachel said as more of a fact than a question.

Heather looked down her hands suddenly becoming very interesting. "Not exactly," she finally conceded.

"She's the one that called Charlie the other day?" Heather looked up at her mother a lost look in her eyes. Rachel simply nodded; the look explained everything that words couldn't.

"Always Brooke! It's always one of the brooding blondes before me." A seventeen year old Brooke yelled at her girlfriend as she paced the bedroom they shared.

"Rachel calm down. I'm sorry, ok? He just said that it was important and he's my friend I have to go." Brooke said as she put on a jacket.

"What am I not important? When was the last time he came running when you needed him? Huh Brooke?" Rachel asked seething, her hate for Lucas growing by the second.

"He comes when I need him, Rachel." Brooke said looking at her trying to make her understand.

"You know what? Fine go. He is Lucas Scott, god of all things." Rachel said leaving the room in a huff.

An hour later Brooke walked in the front door her purse hanging on her shoulder.

"How was the Almighty Brooder tonight?" Rachel asked bitterly walking out of the kitchen water in hand.

"He was fine." Brooke said as she followed the girl up the stairs to their bedroom. She stood in the doorway watching Rachel flop down on her bed. "He kissed me."

Rachel sat straight up her anger from before flooding back. "He what?!"

"He kissed me. But I didn't kiss him back Rachel, I swear." Brooke said rushing to sit beside the angry redhead.

Rachel took a deep calming breath. "What in the world possessed him to put his lips anywhere near you?"

"I honestly have no clue," Brooke said with a shrug.

Rachel rolled her eyes. "It's the blonde hair, I'm telling you he thinks he can get away with anything." Rachel said in all seriousness as she looked at her girlfriend. Brooke shook her head and laughed.

"You're something else," Brooke said kissing her.

Rachel shook her head and looked at her daughter again. Heather still had that same helpless lost look on her face; it was a look Rachel had seen many times before when she first started dating Brooke. As much as she didn't want to admit it, Rachel started to think that Brooke could possibly be right.

SoOF

"Hey Blondie," Brooke said walking into Peyton's art studio without knocking.

"Hey Brooke," Peyton said putting down her pencil and turning toward the short brunette. "What's up?"

"Nothing really," Brooke said sitting on the overstuffed sofa Peyton kept in the room. Peyton nodded and studied her long time friend for several minutes before she started to smile. Brooke looked at the floor knowing that she'd been caught. "Ok ok I wanted to ask you something." She finally said smiling at her sheepishly.

"Well go ahead," the artist instructed with a laugh.

"Let's say Charlie was dating someone that you didn't like and there was someone that you knew would be better for her…"

"Brooke…" Peyton said cutting her off before she could even get to her question.

"What?" Brooke asked innocently.

Peyton raised her eyebrow. "Leave it alone Brooke. Don't put your nose in it."

"You sound like Rachel," Brooke said scrunching her nose sounding defeated.

"Brooke!" Peyton said trying not to laugh. "If Rachel already told you to stay out of it, why on earth are you still toying with the idea?"

"Because Logan isn't right for her. Wouldn't you do anything you could to make sure that Charlie ended up with the right person?"

"You know I would," Peyton answered honestly not knowing that in Brooke's mind the perfect people for their daughters were each other.

"Alright then. I don't see how Rachel can just sit back and not do anything."

"Brooke, come on, you know that both Charlie and Heather can make their own choices. If you try and push her to someone else when she says she loves Logan, it's only going to cause trouble."

"I guess you're right." Brooke said with a sigh.

"Of course I am. I'm always right." Peyton said with a playful smile.

"Oh yeah how could I have forgotten," Brooke said with a laugh then looked toward the door when they heard the front door open and what sounded like two girls laughing.

"Heather?" Peyton asked looking at Brooke to see if her daughter was the owner of the second voice.

"Nope," Brooke said with a shake of the head. The two women sat looking at the door waiting anxiously to see who it was. Moments later the two teenage girls passed by the open door not noticing the women watching them.

"Jessica? Is that you?" Peyton asked shock evident in her voice.

"Hey Mrs. Scott," the young woman said as she came back to the room.

"How are you? Are you back for good?" Peyton asked wrapping the young in a tight hug.

"Yes ma'am. I'm going to be staying with my grandparents until I graduate." She answered; Charlie stood behind her a genuinely happy smile on her face. Something Peyton hadn't seen in months.

"Well it's good to have you back," Peyton said with a smile and a nod letting the girls go on their way.

"I guess living with Jake, Nikki, and Jenny got to be too much?" Brooke said in mock shock.

"Who would have thought?" Peyton added before sitting back at her desk.

"See J, more people are glad you're back than who want you to leave again," Charlie said with a smile and the two girls walked into her room.

"Yeah well I was always your mom's favorite," Jess said smirking at her friend as she walked over to the shelf, picking up a frame that held a picture of the two of them, at one of Lexi and Chris's parties. "You remember this?" She asked showing Charlie.

"Yeah. How could I forget?" Charlie said after moving closer to Jess and the picture.

"Say cheese," Lexi said over the loud music as she focused the camera on Charlie and Jessica.

"Cheese!" The girls said in unison before looking at each other and cracking up.

"That's gonna be a great picture," Lexi said after she rejoined her friends.

"Was there any doubt? I mean I was in it and Charlie was in it. Of course it'll be great." Jess said with a smirk.

"Be careful Shorty if your head gets any bigger you're going to topple over." Charlie said smirking at her short friend earning a laugh from Lexi and a slap in the arm from Jess.

An hour later that same night.

"What?" Logan asked his girlfriend not believing his ears.

"We're done. Over. No longer together." Jessica said pausing a few beats between each phrase hoping it'd sink in.

"You can't break up with me," Logan said a cocky smirk plastered across his face.

"I can and I just did." The short blonde said then turned and stomped off toward the backyard to get some air. Charlie followed her out the door.

"Hey what happened?" The taller girl asked as she finally caught up to Jess and they were far enough away from the house that the music didn't cause them to yell.

"I broke up with him," Jess said simply.

"What? Why?" Charlie asked confused looking Jess in the eye trying to figure out why she would have dumped him.

"Because," Jess said trying to avoid her gaze nervously.

"Because why Jess?" Charlie asked her concern apparent. Jess didn't say anything but looked back at her. "What? What is it?" Charlie asked looking down at the blonde causing some of her dark locks to fall in her face.

"Because C," she started, moving the hair out of Charlie's face. "He's not you," she said looking into Charlie's blue eyes; hear hand resting gently on her cheek. Charlie looked down at her a mixture of emotions playing just behind her eyes. "I want him to be you so bad, sometimes it hurts, he just isn't, C." Jessica said trying her best to explain, tears pooling in her eyes.

Charlie tilted her head a bit before placing her hand on the other girl's cheek. Jessica leaned her head into the touch, closing her eyes trying to commit the feeling to memory. Charlie ran the pad of her thumb gently across her cheek wiping away the tear that had escaped.

After a few moments Jess opened her eyes to a smiling Charlie. Jess smiled back, her eyes darting from Charlie's eyes to her lips then back again.

"You have got to be kidding me," Logan seethed from behind them, causing the girls to jump apart. "You dumped me for her?" He asked looking between the incredulously.

"No I dumped you because you're an ass." Jessica stated flatly taking a step toward her very angry ex-boyfriend.

"What? You couldn't live with just having my dad you had to steal my girlfriend too?" Logan accused ignoring Jessica completely.

"She didn't steal me you idiot." Jessica yelled as Charlie walked up beside her.

"Shut up," Logan snapped glaring at Jessica taking a threatening step toward her.

"Back off Cheddar," Charlie shot out stepping between her brother and friend. Logan rolled his eyes and stepped closer. "I swear to God if you take one more step I will break your hand."

Logan took a step back, the look in his sister's eyes telling him that she was nowhere near kidding. "Unbelievable. Un-fuckin-believable." He said staring at them one last time, his eyes full of distain, before walking off.

Charlie watched him stomp off then rolled her eyes before turning around to face Jessica. "You ok?"

Jess nodded in response. "Thank you for protecting me." She said wrapping her arms around the taller girl's neck.

"Anytime, Shorty," Charlie said with a smile before pulling back. Their eyes locked for what seemed like the millionth time that night in a searing gaze, neither girl able to look away. They stayed that way for what seemed like minutes, but in reality was probably only a few seconds, before Charlie closed the distance between them, their lips meeting in a soft kiss.

"It was a good night," Jess said as she put the picture frame back in its spot.

"Mmmhmm," Charlie said as she came up behind the girl and wrapped her arms around her. "I really missed you," the taller girl said kissing her neck.

"I missed you too, Baby," she said turning around to face the taller girl, finally being able to kiss her properly since she got back to Tree Hill.

So there ya go. Hope you guys liked it. So are Charlie and Jess really together? Tell me what you think. What I still need to clear up. I hope things about Jess are starting to make more sense now. Umm as always please leave me a review so I know what you think.