Hey, sorry. I'm horrible, but my stupid computer was down Thursday thru Saturday because it kept blinking out of control. Then on Sunday and Monday the internet connection was down. So forgive me and thank you all for the reviews, I love them. Rachel back and I hope you enjoy this chapter. Lots of Brucas in the next chapter.

Brooke'sPov

Everything felt fuzzy. My mind was muddle of distorted images. Some I recognized, some I didn't. I opened my eyes slowly wondering what was happening. My vision was a little blurry, but I saw a figure looming over me. I blinked a couple of times til my vision was back to normal.

I groaned and wished I had kept my eyes closed as I discovered who the figure was.

"Hey, you're awake." Caden said smiling.

I looked at him disgusted and mumbled loud enough for him to hear, "No wonder I'm in the hospital." I said while looking around the room.

Caden just chuckled slightly at my comment. "Miss me?" he asks cocky.

I just stared at him and a while he looked away, smile fading and sat down in a chair.

I sighed frustrated then turn my head reluctantly to ask him a question.

"Where's Sam?"

"Oh," he says smiling, eager to talk, "she went to the restroom and that red chick went to get you some 'real food' as she put it."

The memories of why I was here and what happened before I blacked out came rushing back to me.

I immediately groaned, "Rachel." I said remembering.

"Call me, slut?" I looked up as Rachel walked through the door.

"What are you doing here?" I asked anger boiling in my veins. She looked down at her feet. Her hair was longer and it covered her face.

She looked down for just a second then looked up pushing her hair back from her face which had grown longer.

"Get up." She commanded looking at Caden. He looked at her as if she were crazy.

"What?" he asked bewildered.

"I said 'Get up.' That's the only chair you idiot and since I'm a lady, you should get up." Rachel explained herself.

Caden started stuttering and it made me giggle quietly. "What- I- it-, my, uh, my girlfriend is about to come back and I just, you know have to uh, save her a seat since she's a lady too."

Rachel sighed tired of arguing with him. She walked over to him, hit him in the head, and yelled at him to get up. Of course, Caden got up and that's when the door creaked open and Sam cam in with a bottle of green tea in her hand.

"Hey, you're up." She said walking over to me and pulling me into a hug.

"Yeah, and Caden's here." I say with fake enthusiasm looking her in the eye.

"Are you okay?" she asks ignoring my annoyance with Caden.

"Yes, I'm fine. You didn't call Luke did you?" She shakes her head no and I sigh in relief. Then I look over at Rachel with a wary expression. Everything quiets as I stared towards her. Rachel gives a level, unwavering gaze.

"What are you doing here?" I whisper not breaking eye contact.

"I missed Tree Hill and I missed my best friend. Speaking of my best friend, where is he? I've really missed my Nathan." She says with a teasing expression.

I chuckle and thought of what Haley would think of Rachel being here and talking about Nathan in the same way as she did when they were in high school.

"Seriously, though, I missed you. Oh, and don't worry, Sam filled me in on everything." She added in a matter-of –fact tone. I turned to Sam with a glare plastered on my face. She immediately turns and goes to Caden side avoiding eye contact with Sam.

"Sam." I yell, "I thought we discussed that you would tell anyone." Then I realized that Caden wasn't asking what we were talking about.

"Omg, you told Caden too. You know I hate him." The words accidentally slip from my mouth. I quickly cover my lips with my hands.

Caden looks down at his shoes, Sam looks at me in anger, and Rachel looks at her nails.

After a couple minutes of silence, ashamed I whisper, "I'm sorry, I don't hate you. It's just-"I was interrupted by someone coming through the door with a over cheery voice.

"Miss Davis." It was Dr. Walker. The doctor I went to see if I was pregnant, which I am not.

"How do you feel?" she asks checking the monitor next to my bed.

"Fine." I grumble.

"Okay," she sighs, "Ms. Davis, do you remember what happened?" I nod and she continues, "Well you black out because of stress, which is not good since you're pregnant and also-"I cut her off immediately.

"Wait, I'm not pregnant." I tell her.

"Omg, she is so in denial." Rachel says to Sam and Caden.

"No, I'm not, and I'm also not pregnant." I said indignantly.

"Um… sorry Brooke, but you're two months pregnant. Now, if you wish not to be pregnant then there are ways to terminate the pregnancy. For example, abortion is available, but Brooke drinking alcohol will just harm the baby in the long run." The doctor said in a soft voice, but I felt as if she was screaming at me.

When she mentions the alcohol, I drop my head in my hands ashamed. The doctor goes on to explain how I need to take care of my self and some vitamins she'll give me if I decided to go along with the pregnancy.

"I'm going through with it." I tell her as she starts to go into how I can terminate my child.

"Okay, um, let me just get some paper work ready for you to sign and I'll be back." She walks out the door and Sam turns to me with the look of hurt and anger.

"Brooke, why would you drink, when you know that you might've been pregnant? Where you trying to make it go away? God, how could you? If you didn't want the kid then just give it away like my mom did me. I'm sure he or she just might be luck enough to find someone who loves them." Sam walks out the door and I wince as she slams it behind her. She only called me Brooke when she was really mad and every time I felt as if I had let her down.

Caden soon followed after Sam to calm her down. Tears spilled down my cheek and I choked back a sob.

I turned towards Rachel and tried to calm myself so I won't get stressed out. "Brookie, why'd you drink it?"

"I don't know, well part of me didn't want to believe it because you know with Peyton just getting out of the hospital and I just didn't want things to be awkward between us and stuff. I just didn't want her hurt." I explained while Rachel looked at me like I was crazy.

"Brooke, why do you always feel like you have to hold yourself back for Blondie? Plus, from what Sam told me, she left so she has no reason to get mad. Also I've meaning to ask you who this Sam character is. Isn't she a little too young to be your friend?" Rachel asked with a slight smirk on her face.

I smiled widely proud that I get to tell our wonderful mother-daughter story. When I finished telling her what happened, I was so proud and I felt like one of those moms that love to brag about their children.

The doctor walked in with some papers and a bottle of vitamins. "Okay, after you sign these papers, then you should be ready to go." Dr. Walker told me.

"Alright." I responded.

Sam was nowhere in sight, so Rachel got her car and drove me to Nathan and Haley's house. I couldn't go to my house because it would make me feel alone and empty and going to Lucas' house was something I wasn't ready for if Lucas was there. Though I was a little nervous about Haley seeing Rachel here.

It was quiet for a moment then in a low whisper Rachel said, "I'm sorry, Brooke."

Surprised I jerked my head to the side toward her. "For what?" I asked curiously.

She took a deep breath and glanced at me. "For leaving and probable hurting and disappointing you. It's just that I already felt like crap and then Victoria comes bitching to me of how much of a hassle I was going to be to me and I just panicked. I'm sorry I took the money, too without saying good-bye or thanking you. It was good for me though. I, uh, I don't drink anymore, I'm not doing any drugs or anything. I've been clean for about 3 years. It was hard, but I got through it and of course I have you to thank."

"Oh, Rachel I'm happy for you. I'm glad you're back. Oh, now, since we both can't drink then we'll have to find some other way to have fun." I said narrowing my eyes concentration as we pulled up to Haley and Nathan's house.

"Oh my God, I can't wait til you get to see Jamie. He's adorable and my godson." I exclaimed brightly.

"Uh huh, I would ask who he is, but I've missed so much that I think that there are a lot of people I don't know that have been attracted to Tree Hill and its infamous drama that comes with it." We both laughed lightly at her comment as we walked to the door.

I knocked and Jamie answered. "Aunt Brooke, hey!" he had that Scott smirk on and then he noticed Rachel and said, "Who's this?"

"This, Jamie is Rachel. She's a friend of mine." I said stepping through the door.

"And of your father." Rachel said low enough that Jamie wouldn't hear.

"Jamie, who's at the door?" Haley's voice yelled from the kitchen then we heard the clicking of her heels as she came to see.

"Aunt Brooke and a friend." Jamie said plopping on the couch and went back to playing his PSP. Rachel sat in an armchair where Haley wouldn't see her until she came all the way into the room. I sat beside Jamie laying my hand absently on his hair.

"A friend?" Haley asked in confusion. She came into the room, but didn't notice Rachel still. Instead she came up to me and pulls me into a hug. "Sam told me what happened, well that you pasted out part. What did the doctor say?" She asks as I pull away from the hug.

But before I could answer, Rachel made herself known. "Haley, can't say hey?" Rach had a smirk on her face, she loved to push Haley's buttons. Haley quickly stood up facing Rachel.

"Miss me?" Rachel taunts.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.~David Russell

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