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In God's Hands

"Lucas!" Kieth threw open the door to the cafe and found Lucas tearing the inside apart.

"Hey uncle Kieth" Lucas smiled. He walked over to Kieth, dusting himself off.

"Do you mind telling me why you are ripping apart your mother's cafe?" Kieth spinned around taking it in. The tables that used to be strategically placed were all pushed to one side and the counter that stood in the centre was currently being destroyed.

"You know, at first I had no idea what to do with place, I only knew I wanted to keep the place. But I also knew I could never keep it running and I wouldn't let someone else run the place, it just didn't seem right. Then Brooke left me, and something inside me told me to get her back. I didn't know how I was going to do that either, so I thought a lot about it. If I want her here with me, then she needs a job and I know that she'd never give up designing so I'm going to make her a store to run, just like she does in Boston, but here in Tree Hill, with me" Lucas smiled. Kieth wasn't convinced that Lucas hadn't gone crazy. In one day his nephew decides to rip apart a cafe that has been a part of him for his whole life just didn't make sense to Kieth. But he knew Lucas was just acting out of love, something that never seemed to make sense anyways.

"Lucas, I think your intentions are good, but do you even know what you're doing?" Kieth surveyed the mess. He knew Lucas could build cars, know them inside and out, but building a store is completely different.

"Well not really, I'm just praying I do things right" Lucas laughed to himself. Yes, Kieth thought, my nephew has gone insane.

"You know, Haley is worried about you"

"She shouldn't be, I'm finally out, getting over things, getting Brooke back" Lucas went back to work realizing that his time talking with Kieth was taking up too much precious time for work.

"Hello?" Haley ran to the phone after putting Brighid down for a nap. Nathan had gone to the river court to release some stress with a few of his high school friends.

"Hey Haley, it's Kieth again"

"So how is he? What is he doing?" Haley got right to the point.

"Well I haven't completely ruled out that he's gone insane, but he's building a store for Brooke so she can live and work here in Tree Hill. He's insanely in love. More so insane I think." Kieth laughed to himself.

"How does he know that she'll even move back here?" Haley asked.

"I guess he just believes that this will make her come back" even though Haley couldn't see him he shrugged.

"Well for his sake I hope he's right" Haley sat down on her couch and curled her legs underneath her.

"Yah, me too" Kieth nodded. "I should get going, I insisted I help this poor kid so I should probably get to that"

"Oh, alright. Well tell him I say hello and that he truly has lost his mind" Haley smiled.

"I will, oh and Hales?"

"Yah Kieth?"

"Maybe that flight on Saturday should be pushed back a little. This may be taking up most of his time"

"Yah, for sure. Just keep an eye on him Kieth" Haley hung up the phone and slapped her head in her hand. "God, Lucas, what on earth is going on with you" she said aloud to no one.

Brooke was finally back to work and feeling more stressed than ever before. She'd just closed for the day and was now sitting in the back of the store alone. She looked around at her clothes hanging on racks and displayed on the walls. They were beautiful, she knew that, but they weren't selling, they weren't enough to pay her bills. She took in a deep breath before grabbing the large sign off the counter and walking up to a window in the front she stuck the sign in plain view. FOR SALE in big white letters on a big red sign took up space in the display window. A small tear escaped and she held the rest in. She had nothing now. She didn't have her job, she had no family and she didn't have Lucas. He hadn't called her, and she knew that he knew she was home. She wondered if he even still loved her. Everyone swears that he still had feelings for her, she just assumed they were right, maybe they were wrong, maybe she was too. She couldn't wait around for him, not forever.

The soft couch in her living room was inviting and she flopped onto it with a blanket and the remote for the television. Flipping mindlessly through the channels she stopped when her phone rang. Looking around for her cordless phone she eyed it on the table in the kitchen. Jumping up to grab it she didn't even check the ID of the caller before pressing 'Talk'.

"Hello?" she answered. For a moment no one replied. She could hear breathing and she knew. She knew it was him. "Luke?" she managed. Just the thought of him brought tears to her eyes.

"Hi" he whispered. He wasn't even sure why he had called out of the blue but after working all day he just needed to hear her voice.

"Why are you calling?" it wasn't harsh, she genuinely wondered.

"I, uh, I needed to hear your voice, I guess" she smiled. "Brooke?" she remembered that she didn't reply so she quickly recovered.

"Yah, yah that's good, it's good to hear your voice too"

"Good" she could hear the smile in his voice.

"How are you?" she asked. She sat on he couch again and grabbed a pillow to hold on to. She fiddle with its corners nervously.

"Well, honestly, I was a mess there when you left--"

"I'm really sorry about that" she cut him off. She was sorry.

"I don't think you are Brooke, or else you wouldn't have done it. I needed you and you just left so quickly without an explanation" his voice was getting louder and harsher even though he didn't intend for it.

"Lucas, I am sorry. But I felt like we were both getting trapped! I was trying to help you, but everytime I got close you just pushed me away! What was I supposed to do? This is hard on me too!" Now she was standing and her voice was quivering.

"You were supposed to stay! Stay here and fight like you always do Brooke! I needed you, and you left"

"Well if you needed me so badly you shouldn't have gotten mad at me for trying to help you! I tried Luke, I really tried but it just didn't matter! I came there for you because I love you!" she screamed into the phone. Realizing what she just said she stopped, almost stopped breathing. The silence on the other line was enough for her.

"What?" he said after moments without speaking.

"Nothing" she said almost in a whisper.

"Do you mean it?"

"I'm not having this talk with you over the phone Lucas," she avoided his question. "I know I left you Lucas, and I'm sorry I hurt you but I knew you'd be okay. I was there for you when you needed me, but now I need someone and I want that someone to be you. But the guy I left isn't the you that I know, so when you find him, tell him I need him, okay?"

"Brooke, I--" he heard the dial tone on the other line and sighed. He knew she was right, he hadn't been himself since his mother had died. He could fool only some and she definitely wasn't buying it. He looked put together on the outside, he looked 'okay' but he wasn't. He knew that and she knew that. He needed to get better before he could help her. Help her. What was bothering her so much that she needed him so bad? He promised himself to get better just for her. For once in his life he'd save her like she'd done for him so many times now.

He crawled into his bed and went to sleep. He'd finish that store for her whether it killed him. He was going to be there for her and he was going to get her back. After seeing her here in Tree Hill he knew he could never let her go. He just hoped she'd hold on long enough for him.

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