Peyton walked into Brooke's house holding Sawyer on one arm and two diaper bags on her other shoulder. Brooke ran out into the living room.

"Wait, was the door unlocked?"

"No, I had to use my key."

Brooke sighed. "I forgot we made you and Lucas keys to the house. I'm always afraid some weird person will come and attack us or something."

"No, just psycho mama on the warpath."

"Psycho mama, how are you psycho mama?" Brooke took Sawyer and placed him in the playpen with Leighann.

"I tired to let it go but we were in a restaurant and I freaked out about something Sawyer was eating and some crazy guy told Lucas that his wife is a crazy mom."

"So you take what some psycho jerk tells you as truth. Come on, you are the most level headed person I know. What else is bothering you? If you didn't let Ian Banks ruin your life, then why let some random jerk do it?"

"Lucas and Karen were talking and without talking to me, Lucas said he would love to move in with Karen, Andy and Lily…in Australia."

"Wow, that's major P. Sawyer. Why would he say that, did you even mention one time that you wanted to move there?"

"No. I did say it would be nice to see Karen a little more often but I meant more than birthdays and holidays, not permanently."

"Well what do you really want?"

"Is it too crazy to want it all?" Peyton started to ramble. "I mean in high school, it seemed when Lucas and I would get married have a family, Karen and Keith would be here and Lily would have everything."

Brooke sat down beside Peyton on the couch. "Honey,. Keith isn't here."

"What?"

"You said Keith."

"No I…yeah, I did, didn't I?"

"Keith was like a father to Lucas. Maybe it's too hard for him to be in Tree Hill, he had the plans of Keith and Karen being married too, in the house you live in now, with a baby. Maybe he wants something different."

"What about you, Haley and Nathan and…my life is here."

"But your heart is with Lucas. And my heart is with my family too. I'm not saying we're always going to live in the same town, but we'll always live in each other's hearts, and that's what matters. That's why there's email, text messaging and late night cell phone calls to tell your best friend she's pregnant."

Peyton looked at Brooke's face. "You're pregnant….again?"

"Yeah, shocked me too, I thought Sam was pregnant." She saw Peyton's look. "Okay, long story."

"What did Julian say."

"That he loves me and our family, no matter what."

"So, another baby. Now I really can't leave, you're gonna need me."

"And Lucas needs you honey. Talk to him."

"I should." Peyton looked at the babies sleeping in the playpen. "But our babies, they're best friends already."

"And so are we."

The next day Brooke showed up at Peyton and Lucas' house, Lucas answered the door leading to the bedroom.

"Brooke, we do have a front door."

"And this is it. Really Luke, your front door is like the backdoor. I think I've thought of this more as the front door than the back door. But that is beside the point. Where's Peyton?"

"She's out with Haley, you can come in, what are you holding."

Brooke smiled brightly. "My wedding dress."

"I thought the fashion show would be at your house."

"Usually yes, but since Julian can't see me before the wedding, I don't want to take a chance of him coming home and seeing me in it."

"You try it on, take it off, thirty minutes, tops."

Brooke rolled her eyes when draping the dress across the bed. "Luke, you are so not a woman."

"And a few people are okay with that."

"No, I mean there is so much more than trying it on. I get to wear it for the first time, Peyton and I get to talk about what dress we wanted to get married in when we were teenagers. How we thought we'd end up with different people. It's an entire day."

"ANd I thought getting married was just going up there saying 'I Do' and we're done."

"And that's why you're in the tux. Getting married in a church for a girl is jut the tip of the iceberg Lucas. There are so many things we get to do. Like an all day spa day with the girls, talking about our children, our sex…"

Lucas interrupted. "I get the point, Brooke. Guys just don't do that stuff."

"Sure you do, it's rolled up into a bachelor party."

"Oh, yeah, the bachelor party. A man's right, or so I've been told."

Peyton with Haley carrying Sawyer with Jamie behind them walked down the hallway into Lucas' bedroom.

"Now they used the front door." Lucas walked out, leaving the girls alone.

Peyton plopped down. "What front door thing is he talking about."

"He wonders why people hardly ever use the front door when the back door seems like the front door. We had a long, pointless, boring conversation about it. Really, I think he just wanted to talk about something."

"Hey, where's Leighann?"

"With daddy."

Haley sat on the other side of Brooke. "I heard the stork visited mama again."

Brooke turned her head quickly to Peyton. "You told her?"

"Best friend, no secrets, sorry."

"I was going to tell you anyway. I was just surprised I was pregnant instead of Sam." Both Peyton and Brooke spoke in unison. "It's a long story."

"Long story or not, baby number two before baby number one turns one? A little fast there, don't you think."

"Hey, I wasn't the one who had chocolate cake for dinner."

Peyton laughed. "I warned you B. Davis."

"He looked so cute doing the dishes and…okay, it's my fault I'm pregnant."

Haley crawled on the other side of Peyton. "I remember when Lucas was in ninth grade, he found out that chocolate is the biggest aphrodisiac and right before the first game you were cheering at, he made sure Karen made him the best chocolate cake."

Peyton slightly blushed. "So that's why he gave me chocolate candies as a 'I'll be watching you' present, and it did creep me out."

"Creepy Lucas, only way they come."

Brooke got out her cell phone and they all leaned in for a picture. "How great is this, still friends even ten years later."

Haley looked at both of them. "No…sisters."

An hour had passed and Brooke was still in the other room putting her dress on.

"Come on Brooke, you've been in there an hour."

She called out from the bathroom. "Well baby is already making he grow and this dress does not stretch. You figure it out."

"Come on out, let's see."

"No! I look horrible!"

Haley laughed all the way to the bathroom door. "And we are the ones who have seen each other in our worst moments. I was being moody over Nathan and Peyton was Peyton Marie Sawyer. Come on Brooke, what about this sisters pact we made not even a couple of hours ago."

"That was before I got fat!" The noise stopped and the door opened slowly. Brooke was crying and trying to hold her dress up.

Haley turned her around. "So if I tug at this zipper, it's not gonna rip is it?"

"No, I don't think so. At this rate, I might as well get married in a Mumu since I can't stop getting pregnant." Brooke stood straight up. "Chocolate. I need chocolate."

She went running towards the kitchen, Peyton quickly behind her. "Whoa! Wait a second mama…wedding dress, chocolate, not a good mix."

"Thanks Peyton, I needed a second." Then a second passed by and Brooke started to undress herself in the kitchen, only to reveal she was wearing her outfit she had on previously.

Haley and Peyton studied her, Haley looked her in the face. "What are you wearing?"

"My clothes, why? Do I look fat in these too?" She said with chocolate on her hands.

"No, but what about wearing your dress without your clothes on."

Brooke looked down. "I did this so I would know that if I did grow, I would still fit in my dress."

"You're getting married in a week Brooke, you can't go but so much. I didn't start really growing until I was four months along with Jamie. You'll be fine. Now go in there, and come out wearing that dress naked." Haley, without words, handed Brooke a couple of napkins. "And I'm the one with a five year old."

Twenty minutes later, Brooke came out of the bathroom in her dress, crying…and smiling.

They both got up, Peyton crying. "Brooke…that is perfect. When did you make this?"

"Yeah. Don't laugh but I made this when Lindsey was about to marry Lucas. I just knew I was going to get married to some day and all the feelings and emotions were kicking in. And since Bitchtoria pissed me off so much all I had was my company, so I made this."

Haley hugged her. "It's gorgeous, sweetie, really. Makes me want to get married all over again."

Peyton nudged her. "You know, third time is the charm."

"So it's not too much."

Peyton nodded. "No, in fact, look in the mirror." Peyton walked her into the bedroom, and at the full length mirror. "I'd say is pretty damn perfect."

Brooke's wedding dress .

Brooke started to smile.

Julian sat down at the same table as Lucas.

"Julian? Last time we sat here…well let's not go over the past."

"I sort of wanted to talk to you about the future."

"As in…"

"The wedding."

"Yeah, very nice invitation. Pink with pink trim ribbon, it was so you, I can feel it."

"All Brooke. All I'm doing is showing up. It's her party and I get the girl."

"Nice, so, what's on your mind about this wedding thing."

"Look, the way we started, you had every reason to hate me."

"And I still do, remember, we don't have a movie because of some jackass director your father hired."

"Yeah, you still do have a reason to hate me."

"Yeah, so why are we even talking again?"

"Because despite the fact we have over a million reasons to hate each other, I need a best man for the wedding."

Lucas started laughing. "You think that after everything that's happened, even though that you are great to Brooke and I have Peyton that I want to be your best man."

Julian started to get up. "Just as I thought."

Lucas stood up in front of him. "I'd be honored."

"Really, even after you jackassed your way into being a bigger jackass."

"Well after you came to town, tried to get Peyton back, I had to do something."

"So, you'll do this."

"Yeah…for Brooke."

"And Lucas Scott never stops coming through my life."

"Okay, whatever that means."

"Just be at Vinetti's tomorrow at noon."

"I have to wear a tux."

"Wedding, tux, weird combo isn't it?"

The next day Haley asked Brooke to pick up Jamie from school, she had a dentist appointment.

"Hey handsome, how was school."

"it was okay, Miss Lauren smiles at Uncle Skills all the time."

"She does, are they dating?"

"Not yet, but it's only a matter of time." He smiled.

"You're very sure of yourself, aren't you."

"I guess. The way daddy looks at mama. That's the way Uncle Skills looks at Miss Lauren. Daddy says it's true love the way he looks at Mama."

"That's true. Honestly, I can't remember a time when your daddy didn't look at your mama without that true love look."

Brooke pulled out of the school pickup line and stopped at the corner.

"Jamie, I heard you like a girl named Madison."

"She's my girlfriend." Jamie smiled.

"Oh, she is, and why haven't I met her yet. I am your aunt."

"Daddy said I should test the waters first, whatever that means."

"Test the waters? Does your daddy know your five?"

"Yeah, he said it's okay to date girls…but Mama doesn't think I should yet."

"Well, what do you want to do?"

"I want to go to a movie with Madison."

"Well, as long as you pay, it's a date."

"But my allowance isn't enough."

They got to a stoplight, Brooke handed him some cash. "Now if that doesn't get you into a movie, then all is lost on real entertainment value."

"Thanks Aunt Brooke, you're the greatest."

She patted his head. "So are you."

"Where's Leighann?"

"She's with her daddy today. I wanted to talk to your daddy about something today, so it worked since Mama wanted me to pick you up since she had a dentist appointment."

"Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot."

They pulled up to the house, Haley's parked out front.

"I thought Haley wasn't supposed to be home yet?"

They walked in, Brooke using her key. Jamie threw his backpack on the couch.

"I'm gonna get some ice cream, you want some?"

"Nah, I'm gonna go talk to your parents."

"Okay."

Jamie went into the kitchen and Brooke went upstairs. She heard the laughing and found Nathan and Haley in the study.

"Hey, just wanted to let you know that Jamie is home, safe and sound. I thought you had a dentist appointment."

"Oh, I did, that's right, um…she canceled. What do you know. Just when I got there, the office was closed. I'll have to reschedule."

"Oh, well, I'm glad I caught you both. I wanted Julian to be here too, but it just doesn't seem like we can be anywhere in the same spot at the same time these days."

"What's up, Brooke?" Nathan closed the playbook.

Brooke pulled up a chair. "I know this is supposed to be done before the baby is born, but I was told I was a godmother after Jamie was born, so it's fitting. Julian and I want you both to be Leighann's godparents."

They both smiled, Haley ran over and hugged Brooke. "I'm honored, really, we both are."

Nathan stood up. "Really Brooke, that's great."

"I thought you both would be pleased."

"What about baby number two?"

Brooke glared at Haley. "Don't tell everyone, now Lucas is gonna know, everyone's gonna know before I…wait, you knew, didn't you?" She looked at Nathan.

"Yeah."

"Whatever happened to privileged best friend information?" Brooke glared at both of them.

Nathan sighed. "Privileged Husband Card trumps any Best Friend Card any day. Just ask Luke."

"So that's how this husband and wife thing works."

Haley latched onto Nathan. "Yeah, it's a pretty great thing we have going here."

Jamie ran into the room. "I can run up all the steps in ten seconds." He wiped away the chocolate icing from his mouth.

Nathan scooped Jamie up in his arms. "And who let you have ice cream."

Brooke raised her hand. "Guilty, I just had to get to talk to you and I forgot…sorry."

"Don't worry, Jamie has ways of finding out numerous times that it takes him only twenty seconds to get up the stairs."