Summary: People told them they were crazy for doing what they did. People said it would be hard and difficult, yet they saw it as another adventure thrown their way. This is a journey they will be going down together, one step at a time.
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Like We Weren't Crazy
#9. Two Months Later
Two months. The babies have been home for two months and it's been two months since a full night of sleep.
"What time is it?" Lucas moaned not even opening his eyes.
"Seven." Brooke sighed. "They're hungry, Luke."
"I got this one." Lucas kissed Brooke's forehead and climbed out of bed. They rotated on the late night feedings. It was the only way either one would get more than two hours of sleep a night.
"You sure?" Brooke looked at Lucas who stopped in the doorway. "I mean I can help you."
"Yes, baby. You go to sleep." Lucas shut the door behind her and made his way down the hall to the nursery. Walking in he let out a sigh.
Audrey was screaming her little lungs out and kicking her feet while Gemma just sat in their shared crib staring around the room looking for Lucas or Brooke. Keith slept peacefully still, always the sleeper of the group and baby Issy screamed just as much as Audrey did.
"Audrey Halia, you little attention grabber." Lucas laughed lifting the oldest into his arms. "Can't you be calm like your sister or sleep like your brother? Huh?" He rocked back and forth across the room. "I need sleep, baby, everyone needs sleep. Please stop crying."
Lucas sighed as it took some time to prepare four different bottles and slowly placed Audrey on a feeding pillow before grabbing Gemma and Isabel and doing the same to them. "So baby girls, we need to have a talk." Lucas always tried giving them a talk when he was alone with them. The talks ranged from no sex till they're thirty to how amazing basketball is. "Let's talk about boys, my girls." Lucas paused. "Boys are not to be in your lives till you're thirty. Got it? No boys at all. I'll have a heart attach if you bring any home."
Lucas watched the girls suck on their bottles and smiled. In the past two months they all four grew tremendously. Making Lucas really think that they all grow in a flash and he had to enjoy it all. "You girls better stick together and make sure your brother doesn't end up with any tramps who just want him for his handsome Scott genes."
"I don't think they're really know what you're talking about, Broody." Brooke made her presence known. She was standing listening to him the minute he walked into the room.
"You need to start young with them. They will learn eventually that the only men they need in their lives are me and Keith." Lucas smirked. He liked to think that these girls will never need any man like they need him in their lives, but he knows that will all change. For now he could imagine.
"Oh really?" Brooke reached into Keith's crib and grabbed him. "How's my baby boy doing?"
"He's the best one out of these babies. How in the world does he sleep through every freaking thing?" Lucas smiled at the picture in front of him. "I wish I could sleep like him."
"He's got my sleeping ability." Brooke smirked and Lucas let out a small laugh. He knew it was true. When Brooke was tired, before the babies came, she'd sleep through anything. "Can you believe that today is the day they should've been born?"
Thinking back to the past two months and all the memories that came along with it made them both realize how easier it might have been if they where born on their due date- an impossible task in itself but still. The first week home was enough to cause Brooke to have a breakdown. Two days after Audrey and Keith came home, Isabel followed and then one week then Gemma followed. That night was the night Brooke broke down.
"They won't stop. I've tried everything!" Brooke cried out. She was at her breaking point and it hasn't even been one night yet. In her arms, Audrey and Gemma laid screaming their little lungs out and in Lucas's arms, he held one sleeping Keith and a screaming Isabel. "I can't do it."
"Brooke," Lucas placed Keith in his crib. "They're probably screaming because you're freaking out. They feel it."
"I'm not good at this!"
"Yes you are, Pretty Girl. I know you are." Lucas tried to reinsure her but he didn't think it was working by the look on her face. "Give me Audrey."
"Which color was she in again?" Since Gemma gained weight the differences between the identical twins was slim to none.
"Pink?" Lucas guessed, in reality he didn't remember. The whole being up at three in the morning with three screaming babies did that to him. "Wait no, purple. Audrey's in pink, Gemma's in purple and Isabel is in green. Right?"
"I think..." Brooke paused. "Why does this feel like the whole full house concept? I should know who's who, Lucas."
"Gemma's in pink and Audrey's in green. Isabel's in purple." Karen walked into the bedroom. She stayed over twice a week for some extra set of hands for the newish parents and at times like this she knows they are happy for it. "You two sleep. I got these three."
"Karen, I can't." Brooke smiled gladly handing over who she hope's was Audrey. "They just won't stop. Why is Keith quiet all the time and these three won't stop?"
"Because Keith is a little Luke. He did the same thing, terrified me all the time." Karen let out a smile. "Relax, both of you. These babies are acting fine."
"I've been trying to tell her that." Lucas sat of the bed. Soft whimpers fell out of Isabel's mouth as she was curled in a ball on Lucas's chest.
"How'd?" Brooke looked stunned. Here she was holding a screaming baby while everyone else had the babies quieting down. "Why can't I do this right?"
"Brooke," Lucas pulled her back. "Relax. I think it's the whole heart beat thing. Remember the doctor said it's a comfort to them to hear a heart beat. Try it." Lucas encouraged her. She laid her head on the pillow that felt like heaven right now and put Gemma on her chest. The baby started silencing in seconds.
"See, now relax a little. You guys got this." Karen smiled placing Audrey in the crib. "Get some sleep." Karen walked out of the room.
"I don't know how they know everything and I can't seem to get it right." Brooke whispered trying not to wake up the sleeping angel.
"We're both new at this, baby, it's going to take some time." Lucas kissed Brooke's cheek. "Get some sleep. I got them." He brought Gemma onto his chest. "I mean it, Brooke. Sleep."
"I love you Lucas Scott, you know that right?" Brooke's eyes felt like a million tons and slowly shut.
"I love you too, Brooke Scott." Lucas watched her fall into sleep and smiled. "Okay my pretty girls, we need to make mommy less stressed. You two should sleep when you are supposed to sleep. Understand? Follow your brother?" Lucas kissed their foreheads before slowly wrapping their tiny bodies in his arms and placed them into the pack-and-play that sat on either side of the bed.
"I think it's time to celebrate these four. Don't you think so? Maybe grill some burgers and have everyone over? It's almost the end of summer anyway and we haven't used the pool once. Let Jamie and Lilly get good use of it. Everyone wants to see them."
"I think it sounds like a great idea." Brooke smiled. "Maybe we should tell everyone today. I mean no one knows, Luke. I liked it just being you and me there but I want them all to know so I can stop pretending to be to busy to plan a wedding."
"I think today is going to be great."
-XO-OTH-XO-
Standing in the backyard, Brooke knew today was the perfect day to do this cookout. The babies, who were actually sleeping or just being content being held where being shown off proudly. Haley was holding Gemma. Peyton took a hold of Isabel. Rachel took a hold of Audrey and declared she was going to corrupt her to become a miniature version of Brooke and her in high school. Brooke gladly took a hold of Lydia who was giggling and laughing in her arms.
Karen and Victoria ran to the store together- shocking everyone- saying we needed a cake to celebrate the babies. And of course Lilly and Jamie agreed.
The boys- Lucas, Nathan, Andy, Mouth, and Skills along with baby Keith- stood around the grill talking about manly things. Lucas grabbed Keith out of Brooke's hands the moment everyone started arriving saying it's time for Keith to get away from all the girls. Brooke rolled her eyes and laughed at him.
"They still small, Aunt Brooke. They're no fun." Jamie pouted. He was okay sharing the attention with his parents with his baby sister but now everyone is gushing over these babies and it made him upset. "Why can they play?"
"Not for a while still, Jimmy-Jam." Brooke roughed his hair up a bit. "Eventually they'll be looking up to you, Lilly and Lydia."
"Brookie," Lilly looked up at her.
"Yes, Silly Lilly?"
"Can I hold one?" Lilly never got a chance to hold her nieces and nephew before. They all told her they were too little still.
"Who do you want to hold, baby cakes?" Brooke teased using a playful nickname.
The five-year-old though long and hard for a second, she even brought her finger up to her head to look like she was thinking. "Gemma!"
"She's your favorite, isn't she?" Brooke traded babies with Haley. "Come on Lil, let's go sit and you can hold her." The duo walked over to the out door couch and sat down. "You need to support her head, okay? Can you do that?" Lilly eagerly nodded her head and smiled wide. Brooke placed her daughter in Lilly's arms. "There you go."
"She tiny, Brookie!" Lilly smiled and Brooke's heart melted. She loved seeing Lilly hold her daughter, Lilly's niece.
"She won't be like this for long. Soon she and the rest of them will want to play and will look up to you."
"You think so?"
"I know so, Lils." Brooke snapped a quick photo of the duo and knew it was going to be one of her favorite photos.
"Now we want to see our grandkids!" Victoria screamed rushing into the backyard. "I want to see those babies."
"Now that is a sight you never will see before." Nathan laughed smirking slightly as he sipped on his beer. "Your mom and Bitchtoria, hanging out and getting along? In what world have we been in?"
"She's not that bad." Lucas let out a dry laugh. "Okay, so together they're like grandma overload. I'm keeping Keith from all those girls. He's surrounded by them enough."
"That lady is pretty hot, dude." Skills chugged some beer.
"Dude, that's my mom and soon-to-be mother-in-law." Lucas laughed at one of his oldest friends. The conversation drifted from hotties, as Skills called them, to basketball and other sports. Just the manly thing a sleeping Keith needs to be around.
Lucas's eyes kept darting back to Brooke's green eyes. She'd smile and send a playful wink his way. It was getting closer and closer to the time they'd spill the beans but till then he'd wait and flirt back and forth with her.
"I think lunch is served." Lucas placed the tray of hamburgers and hotdogs down at the picnic table. "Before we all eat though, there's something Brooke and I need to tell you." Lucas turned his attention to Brooke as they had a conversation with their eyes to see who would come out and say it.
"Please tell me you're not pregnant again." Rachel joked around. "I mean I personally loved see you all fat and all." After receiving a few stares and a death glare from Brooke she continued. "I'm just kidding, duh."
"Well, everyone. Besides today being the day the babies were supposed to be born, we have news for everyone." Brooke paused and looked to Lucas for some advice. She reached down and grabbed his hand for support.
"Guys, just spill it already." Nathan was impatient. "I'm hungry."
"We kind of, sort of, got married." Brooke shrugged holding up her left hand that held a diamond wedding band.
Silence. That's all that was returned.
An update in two days? Yippy for you guys! I'm on a senioritis moment and do not want to do work, so I write. I have to finish all my stories before I start my MSW program in the end of May so I have to write. I hope you all enjoyed this! Just one chapter left, I think. It's that or I continue this story but have the babies like older so I can do more with their characters. Up to you guys! Let me know though!
Thank you time, AKA my favorite time!
LoVePJandBrucasLover: thank you! Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Dianehermans: I wanted it to be just the two of them. With everything going on, I thought it would be best that way. They could be a complete family then!
Sandygirl: Glade you approve of it! It means a lot to hear that! I wish I could've wrote the last couple of seasons of OTH everything revolving around Peyton would be nothing. She'd never come back after four years. Lalalalala. In my head that's what happened. Now help me decide what to do next. Either continue this one, but have it a few years down the road or just do an epilog one-shot and end it on that! I need help! If I do continue it, maybe write a sequel to it with the title "Let's Go Crazy One More Time". Idk. I'm having many ideas and need help!
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