"What are you doing here Julian?" Brooke sneered, thinking he had a lot of nerve showing his face here.
He talks right past her, into her living room."I'm here to see my son, I mean he is my son isn't he?" he spat in her face. "I mean it could be anyones, we only were together once."
Brooke hated the way he was talking to her, and would stand for it any longer. She put her hand up, and smacked him right across the face. "I'm not a hore. You're the only one that I had slept with in a long while. And what right do you have to come barging into my house with demands, well you can leave!"
"Not without seeing my son," sitting down on the couch making himself comfortable, on the couch.
"Well you lost that right when you walked away after finding out I was even if you didn't, he's in bed. If you were any kind of dad to him you would know that it's past his bedtime," she sneered, thinking he had a lot of nerve showing up after all this time.
Backs off, "Fine, I'll leave, but I will be back. He is my son, I have every right to see him."
"Over my dead body," she roared. "I will fight if I have to, there's no way I'm letting you into his life. He doesn't need someone that abandoned him."
"Oh like you're parents."
"Exactly," she said, staring him down, "I know what it's like and that's why I won't let it happen to him."
She slammed the door on him, and plopped on the couch. She felt like crying. Why now, she thought. Why after months of nothing, had he showed back up in their life?
"You seem quiet today, something wrong?" Peyton asked, noticing, Brooke seemed to be in another world.
"Sawyer's father stopped by last night, demanding to see him. I told him to leave. I mean he abandoned his son before birth. And the first word I hear from him in months is now. I don't want Sawyer to grow up in an unstable enviroment, where half the time his father isn't around, and too busy to call. I want more from him then I ever got." She refused for her son to relive her childhood. She wouldn't even wish that upon her worse enemy.
She had yet to reveal that she knew the father, no one had known about her dating in LA except for Chase. And that was because she never talked much about LA. A lot of the time, the place was sad place, well except for the few happy moments with Julian. She remembered how he had been when they had been together, and he defiantly wasn't the guy that Brook described, "Give the guy a chance, he may surprise you. And I'm not saying don't go into it with caution, but everyone deserves a chance to know their real parents." She had learned that from her own experiences, some of it had been good, and some of it not so good, but she never regretted it.
She knew her best friend was right. She didn't want to prive her son of that right, "You're right. Thanks , you're the best."
"Can I ask you something?" Peyton asked. It had been something on her mind since she come home.
"Anything buddy."
"Are you over Chase?" knowing that they never really talked about it. She knew before leaving Tree Hill where her heart lied concerning that boy, even if she hadn't been so willing to admit it.
"No," she said looking down at her lap. She didn't want her feelings for him, affect Peyton's relationship though, as she had let Peyton's honesty affect Lucas's and hers. "I think I will always love him, but I've seen how he's makes you happy, and that's what really matters to me."
"But Brooke I don't want any boy to come between us, if you're not okay with this, I want to deserve to be happy too." She was willing to give him up for her if she had to, even it meant she was sacrificing her happiness.
"It's fine Peyton," she tried to convince her, and herself. "He's given you that glow back; I could never take that away from you." She had done it in the past, and she wouldn't be that girl again, even if it meant she had to put aside her feelings. "You've found someone who loves you unconditionally."
"What about you? I want you to be happy!"
"I've got Sawyer; he's all I really need. And one day I'll find my prince charming, just like you and Hayley," she smiled. Deep down she still believed in happily ever afters, fairytale endings.
Brooke shows up at Chase's office. She sits down at his desk.
"What honor do I have to have the Beautiful Brooke Davis in front of me," Chase said, as he smiled at her. Still believing she had that natural beauty, and motherhood, had even made her more beautiful.
"I know we haven't talked much since I found out about you two..."
Chase openned his mouth to speak, but Brooke cut him off, "No please, let me finish. First I have to say, I'm always going to love you, you were the first guy to see behind the walls I put up, that I told my fears to, the only guy I really fully let into my heart, but I'm letting that go. You and Peyton deserve to be happy."
He smiled, "You do too." And he really did mean it, he always did believe she deserved the best. Even if that no longer meant with him.
"Promise me you will take care of her, cause I couldn't bare to see her hurt like Lucas has done to her, over and over again. I don't think she could survive another heartache."
Squeezing her hands, "I promise I will. She means the world to me. But you've got to do me a favor too."
"What's that?" wondering what he'd want her to do.
"Stop hiding that heart of yours. You've got such a big heart, but you don't let people close enough to see it. I'd would hate for you to miss out on something great because you were afraid."
Julian is sitting in his motel room, in a chair in the corner. Staring at an old photo, that was tucked away in an old book, that he had held on to.
A sad face came over his face, as he refected over the photo. He knew he should be over it, it was years ago, but there just was something about Peyton Sawyer, that made him unable to let go.
