"Brooke Penelope Scott!" Lucas called out to his wife of almost a year as he stood in the doorway.
Brooke whirled around, revealing her round baby bump. "Yes husband?" She placed her hands on her hips and tilted her head to the side.
Shortly after their honeymoon, Lucas and Brooke were gifted with the surprise of a pregnancy. It was the perfect way to top off their fairy tale.
"It still feels good to hear you call me your husband." Lucas walked into their unborn child's pink nursery and planted a kiss upon Brooke's lips.
"Can I start calling you baby daddy now that I'm nine months pregnant and she is almost here?" Brooke brushed her lips against his. "It has a certain ring to it don't you think?"
Lucas laughed but shook his head. "You are not allowed to starting calling me your baby daddy ever. I prefer to be called your husband and father of your children."
Brooke pretended to pout her full lips but her Jude and Davis darted into the baby girl's nursery.
"Mama, we finished our rooms." Jude said breathlessly from his run down the stairs and across the house.
Davis nodded in agreement to his brother. "Wanna see them?"
"Cover her eyes dad!" Jude pointed at Lucas before he turned and led his family upstairs to his new bedroom.
Brooke and Lucas both agreed on buying a new home for a fresh start to their marriage and new family. Although the boys had once shared a room due to their close bond, they now wanted to show how old they were getting by separating their spaces.
Lucas led a pregnant Brooke up the carpeted staircase while he kept her eyes covered with his free hand.
"Why doesn't Luke have to cover his eyes?" Brooke asked as she felt around.
"Because he and Aunt Haley helped us with our rooms so they've already seen them," Davis answered his mother.
Brooke frowned in confusion. "Haley helped out too? I didn't even know she was here."
"Yup, I did." Haley answered after she stepped out of Davis' bedroom. "And it is because of my help that they look amazing."
"Hey!" The twins squealed in unison.
Haley laughed and casually waved her hand in the air. "I was only kidding boys. Everyone knows that you inherited your mother's creative gene." She stepped aside to allow Lucas to guide Brooke into the first bedroom.
"Ta-dah," Davis said as his step-father slowly began to uncover his mother's eyes.
The room had an outer space theme to it. Stars and Planets were painted onto the black walls of the bedroom while the bed was shaped as a rocket.
"This looks amazing, Davis!" Brooke smiled as she took in the sight of the bedroom.
Davis smiled proudly. "Thank you mama."
"Okay, it's my turn now." Jude spoke up from his position behind his parents. "Come and see how I did my room!" He began to pull his Aunt Haley out of Davis' room and toward his own.
Brooke and Lucas followed behind Haley and Jude toward Jude's new bedroom.
"Welcome to my new room." Jude flipped on the light and stepped aside to allow his family inside the large bedroom.
The theme of the bedroom was a racetrack. Jude's red bed was in the shape of a race car while his closet resembled a pit stop.
"This is amazing!" Brooke squealed at the sight of the bedroom. She rubbed her round stomach and sat down on the race car shaped bed. "You think you could grow up in here?" She pulled Jude into her lap.
Jude nodded his head. "I can grow up wherever as long as we're all together as a family."
Brooke began to fan her eyes. "I'm way too hormonal for your kind words right now." She laughed and wiped away her tears with the back of her sleeve.
"When is the baby coming?" Davis sat down on the bed beside his mother and brother. "She completes the puzzle to our new family."
Brooke sighed lightly and cradled her stomach in her hands. "Actually I think she is coming right now!"
"What?" Lucas shouted in excitement.
Brooke nodded once. "I think my water just broke and I'm having contractions."
"Ew! On my bed mom?" Jude jumped up from his mother's lap and ran out of the room to retrieve a towel.
Lucas helped his wife off of the bed and Jude rushed over began to dab the water mark his mother left on his new bed set.
"Don't make fun of your mother." Lucas scolded Jude.
"It is kinda gross though." Brooke looked over her shoulder at her son. "I'm sorry honey but momma can't help where and when her water breaks. Your little sister is just so anxious to come out."
Jude waved his hand. "It's alright! Just go have my little sister already so we can finally meet her." He called out to his mother.
Lucas scrambled around the house getting the nursery finalized while Brooke showered and changed.
Haley watched after Jude and Davis while still keeping Brooke calm during the labor.
"We're about to have our baby." Brooke smiled into the camera her husband had pointed at her. She turned to the side to showcase her baby bump. "I'm going to miss being pregnant but I can't wait to meet you Aria." She waved at the camera.
Lucas smiled widely behind the camera. "Let's do this! Let's go have our first baby girl."
"First? First and last." Brooke corrected him. "Our family is big enough."
"Haley, are you sure you don't mind watching the boys for us?" Brooke asked as she wrapped her arms around her best friend.
Haley shook her head and smiled. "Go and have my little niece and we will be there to check on you in the morning." Her eyes began to water with tears.
"Please don't cry Hales!" Brooke pleaded as tears began to stream down her pink cheeks. "I'm still pregnant so I'm still hormonal and emotional about every little thing going on around me."
Haley smiled and wiped away Brooke's tears with her thumb. "I don't know why I'm crying but we need to stop crying so you can go and have your baby already."
"It's like you're pregnant. One pregnancy after another." Lucas said sarcastically but his mouth dropped open as Haley shot him a look. "You're pregnant?" He mouthed to her.
Haley nodded once but turned her attention back to soothing Brooke. "Let's not have the baby on the carpet of your nice new home." She began to push Brooke in the direction of the front door.
"See you in the morning momma." Jude kissed his mother's stomach and Davis followed suit.
"Can you believe we're having a baby together?" Brooke asked Lucas as she climbed up into the hospital bed after getting changed into her pink and white polka dotted hospital gown.
Lucas looked up from the camera's viewfinder and shook his head. "Can you believe we're married and having a baby? Did you ever think this would happen?"
Brooke honestly shook her head but smiled. "I could only hope that you would open your eyes and see that I was the one for you but I wasn't gonna throw my best friend under the bus to get you to see that we're soul mates. People who are meant to be be together always find their way in the end."
Lucas chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "I just had a flashback to our little moment in the rain."
Brooke laughed and took a deep breath to distract herself from the contraction happening in her lower stomach. "That day was pretty fun and would have made a pretty epic love story for someone to write about."
"It does make an epic love story. It makes our epic love story." Lucas took Brooke's hand into his own and kissed it. "I fell in love with you all over again that night in the rain."
"I fell in love with you that night too." Brooke smiled weakly as tears began to sting the back of her eyes. "Remember our break up?"
"Which one?" Lucas smirked. "Because I remember them all too well."
Brooke laughed and gave his hand a squeeze as another contraction began to tighten up her round stomach. "The one after Haley and Nathan got married."
"That break-up never made sense to me." Lucas admitted as he wiped sweat from his wife's forehead.
"It was the hardest thing for me to do." Brooke sighed heavily and pressed her forehead against his. "But I wanted you to sort out your feelings for Peyton and then come back to me like you had in the past."
Lucas brushed his lips against hers. "And I did come back eventually."
"Well the fact that you came back at all is all that matters to me." Brooke began to laugh but her laughter was stopped as her contractions grew harsher. "I think it's time to push." She said through gritted teeth.
Lucas jumped up from his seat at her bedside and raced out into the hallway to retrieve a nurse to check Brooke's labor process.
After being checked it was determined that Brooke was ready to begin pushing so they sent her to the labor room where she began the long process of pushing out her first born daughter.
"I'm sorry I can't be more of a help to you right now." Lucas kissed Brooke's forehead.
Brooke shook her head between pushes. "You'll be able to change every dirty diaper while I'm in recovery from all of this and that thought alone is help enough."
"I love you for still having a sense of humor while you're in labor." Lucas grabbed her hand in time for her to begin pushing again.
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. The countdown continued as Brooke pushed.
"It's a girl!" The doctor shouted as they placed Aria on a towel that rested across Brooke's breasts.
The sound of their daughter crying sent relief through the veins of both Lucas and Brooke.
"She looks just like you!" Lucas gushed at the sight of the newborn after he cut her cord and the nurses cleaned her off. "That is such a relief."
Brooke laughed. "You would make a pretty girl honey." She cradled her newborn daughter in her arms. "We made this miracle and she is a beautiful miracle despite her looks." She looked up at her husband.
Lucas leaned down and kissed Brooke's forehead. "This just makes our relationship so much more special and destined to happen."
"We've always been destined to be together, huh?" She smiled and looked down at their daughter. "Our history all of a sudden makes so much sense today."
"It was all leading up to this very moment." Lucas finished her thought. "Aria Haley Scott!"
For the rest of the night Brooke and Aria's hospital room was visited by family and friends, and it all continued the very next morning.
"Where is she?" Haley walked into the hospital room with Jude and Davis following closely behind her. "They have been staring at her picture all night."
Brooke smiled and nodded toward the glass bassinet that carried Aria. "She just fell asleep after I fed and burped her."
Jude and Davis pressed their noses against the glass as they observed their sleeping little sister.
Haley smiled and placed flowers in Brooke's arms. "Well congrats momma!"
"Congrats god momma." Brooke hugged Haley. "I hope you don't mind that we named her after you."
"What?" Haley squealed but covered her mouth, afraid that she'd woken up the baby but took a deep breath as the Aria remained asleep.
Lucas smiled widely. "Aria Haley Scott will be her name until she gets married in forty or more years."
"Why would you do that?" Haley grabbed Lucas by the wrists and gave him and Brooke a group hug. "Do you guys love me that much?"
Brooke laughed. "We do love you that much and I love how amazing of an aunt you are to Jude and Davis so we figured that we'd say thank you in the most amazing way possible."
Haley began to wipe her tears away with her bare fingers. "Can you believe that one day so many years ago you thought that I was too low on the social ladder to be your friend? And I thought you were a crazy slag."
"Okay! Time to go boys." Lucas led Jude and Davis out of the hospital room.
"I was dumb back then!" Brooke shook her head. "But I'm glad I was wrong about you because you became my best friend and I've enjoyed being by your side watching you and your family grow."
Haley smiled. "Speaking of growing families…"
"You're pregnant!" Brooke shouted at her. "I knew you were emotional and crazy for a reason."
"Crazy?" Haley pouted. "Have I been acting crazy?"
Peyton knocked on the door of the hospital room to catch Haley and Brooke's attention. "Congrats new mom and new mom to be," She walked into the room and greeted both of her friends with hugs.
Brooke grabbed Peyton by the wrist. "Did I just spot a sparkly diamond? Are you and Jake engaged?" She noted about the large ring taking a place on Peyton's ring finger. "When did this happen?"
Peyton shrugged her shoulders as she admired her new engagement ring. "Jake and I have been really hitting it off since you and Lucas' wedding. And my pregnancy only sped up the process of us getting married and moving in together."
Both Brooke and Haley dropped their mouths open. "You're pregnant and engaged?" They asked in unison.
Peyton smiled widely and nodded once. "Four months and two days pregnant to be more specific."
Brooke began to squeal. "Both of my best friends are pregnant at the same time! You bitches couldn't have made this happen several months ago when I was still at least in the middle of my pregnancy?"
Everyone laughed but the laughs soon quieted as Aria began to wake up from her deep slumber.
"I got her!" Haley carefully picked up her newborn god-daughter. "I can't wait to experience this all over again with my third child."
Peyton and Brooke watched Haley cradle Aria in her arms.
"Did you think this is how our lives would have turned out to be like when we were in high school?" Peyton asked.
"I never thought that I'd be married to my best friend's ex-husband and I never thought that we would have such a big family together." Brooke answered. "What about you, Hales? Is this how you saw our lives turning out?"
Haley shook her head. "I always saw Lucas marrying Brooke and Peyton marrying Jake, but I never saw us all being in Tree Hill and having babies at the same time. I thought Brooke's career would take her across the world and I thought you, Peyton, would leave Tree Hill the first chance you got only to never come back."
"Tree Hill is my home and no matter how hard I try to stay away I just can't." Peyton shrugged.
"This place holds so many memories." Brooke added. "Both good and bad memories but I'd never trade them for any other place in the world. I feel at my safest when I'm home and I want my children to experience everything Tree Hill has to offer them."
Jamie walked into the hospital room. "What is that saying you always told me mom? There is only one Tree Hill…"
"And it is your home." Haley finished her son's sentence. "No matter where you go or who you become this place will always be your home."
[Five Years Later]
"Aria Haley Scott," Brooke called out to her daughter. "You are going to be late for your first day in kindergarten."
Aria came darting down the stairs with her new sparkly backpack on her shoulders. "Do I look pretty mama?" She posed at the bottom of the staircase.
Brooke smiled and picked up her daughter. "You look beautiful and stunning and graceful!"
Aria smiled proudly up at her mother. "Thanks momma. I learned from the best."
"No problem sweetie." Brooke sat her five-year old daughter back down onto her feet.
The bus sounded its horn off outside their home.
"You have fun on your first day of school and remember where your teacher is at all times." Brooke squeezed her daughter tight. "Go give daddy a kiss goodbye before you leave."
Aria blew her father a kiss as she ran out of the front door and onto the large yellow school bus awaiting her arrival at the end of the driveway.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Brooke turned to her husband.
Lucas nodded slowly and became to charge at his wife. "We're alone for eight more hours."
"Exactly!" Brooke squealed and ran up the staircase of their home.