Episode 2 Ch.4 It's My Party

Nathan is still sitting with Lucas. "You know you are supposed to be helping me here."

"I don't know what you want me to say."

"I don't either. I just I need to hear some words of encouragement or something."

"You need to make a choice. You need to decide what is more important to you. It is obvious that you can't handle both."

"I love basketball and my family. I don't know why I can't keep both."

Lucas squinted his eyes, "You know when you first started coaching you would come home whenever you could, but then after you won that first championship that's all you wanted. Things changed for you Nathan, and you can't expect your family to just deal with it anymore."

Nathan glared at him.

"Maybe things are falling apart for you because you are letting them fall apart."

"Thanks a lot Lucas…You weren't any help at all." Nathan walked to the door.

"Where are you going?"

Nathan didn't say anything he just walked out of the room. Andy took a look at Nathan and walked into Lucas' room. Nathan didn't even speak to Andy he was so mad that Lucas didn't tell him what he wanted to hear.

"Hey…"

"Hey Andy…you know you don't have to stay."

"Peyton gave me strict orders to stay with you until she got home."

"Thanks…. I just wish that I could get my life back."

"You will."

"I feel like I'm dead. This isn't living."

"Yeah well you need to stay in this bed in order to live Lucas. You can't stress or overexert yourself."

Lucas just nodded. He hated hearing all of that. He just wanted someone to tell him that he could run a marathon if he wanted, but he would probably never hear those words ever again.

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Peyton is in her studio at TRIC. She holds her head and takes a pill. She looks as if she is going to pass out. Keith comes in.

"Mom, are you alright?"

"Yeah baby I'm fine."

"I think you should take a break."

"I can't take a break."

"You've been really tired lately. I know you think you have to do everything, but I'm here for you mom."

"I know that baby boy I know that. And I love you for that, but I'm fine. Everything is fine."

Keith nodded but he didn't believe it. He knew that she was lying to him.

"I'm glad that you moved back home to help though."

"I'd do anything for my family."

Peyton smiled at her son. He had really grown into a great young man.

"How's Elizabeth? She usually calls to talk about school, but she hasn't in a while."

"She's good. She loves school, and she's hoping to be home soon."

Everyone thought that she was studying at Gilmore College for an extra year. Elizabeth didn't want anyone to know about her pregnancy, not even her twin brother.

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Noah and Elizabeth are sitting on her couch. "Could you hand me the photo album that's on the table?"

"Sure," Noah did as she asked. "Here you go."

She pulled out a picture. "That's my baby."

"Whoa…" Noah smiled. "Do you know the sex?"

"It's a girl." Elizabeth told him. "I have these dreams about her. I have dreams about me raising her and then I have these nightmares where I want nothing to do with her. I call her the devil child."

"You would never do something like that. You have a huge heart Elizabeth, and I think that if you kept your little girl you'd be the best mom in the world."

"I just can't do it," she started crying. "I've thought about it, but I can't do it. I can't take the chance that I would miss treat her. I want do that to my child."

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Brooke walks into the jail to see Isabella sitting alone. She looks uncomfortable, and Brooke never wanted to see her this way. "Hi…"

Isabella just looked at her mother. She was hoping her Aunt Peyton would have come, but she figured that her mom would come instead.

"Did you post my bail?"

"Yeah and I talked to the judge. You are coming home with me where you have to live for six months."

"Excuse me…"

"While you are with me you will do community service, and I will enroll you into the community college. You will take at least twelve hours."

"No…."

"Then I guess you like jail…"

Isabella looked at her. "Fine….but as soon as my six months in hell are up I'm moving back to New York."

Brooke nodded. She hoped that after six months she wouldn't want go back to her life in New York. She hoped that she would be happy in Tree Hill again.

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Alright let me know what you thought. I know it was short, but there are six chapters this time.