Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday! Now its the chapter you've all been waiting for. But first, just a few things I should fill everyone in on. I'm ending this story (Shake) at Chapter 25. I was planning to go to 30, but after I wrote 25, it couldnt have ended any better. Anymore chapters and I would have been screwing with my perfect ending. Thats the bad news. Now for the good news! haha, I'm doing a sequel! Yes, you all know how I love sequels, and I feel like I could really take this story and these characters farther, just not at the ages and places I have them now. So we're gonna bump it up, and have them 21 or so. Anyways! The Sequel is called "Happy Someday" and it will be up shortly after this one is finished! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter... and please review:)

Taking risks is part of life, nothing good is ever handed to you, but when fate brings someone into your life, don't let people's opinions or your fear come between what your heart really wants. Its a scary thing to follow your heart and it is easier to just ignore it, but it's much scarier when you allow fear into your life because you could, miss out on everything you were meant for.

Brooke Davis rolled out of bed, only because she was forced too by her needy boyfriend. Only to be met in the den by an even needier Haley and her 1-week-old baby. After hearing this baby scream constantly for the past week, Brooke wasn't really sure she wanted a baby anymore. Hell, maybe she'd just make enough dresses to hire a nanny or something. Well that and figure out a way to sound proof the baby's room so she could get some descent sleep once in a while.

"Does he ever stop crying?" Brooke asked not believing the lungs on Haley's kid. It was a constant ear piercing screech almost that was about to drive Brooke crazy. She'd been over everyday with the baby and Brooke couldn't take it anymore.

"Only when he's eating"

"Well that's fun"

"Oh but Brooke this is your lucky day!" Haley said, trying to be as enthusiastic as possible. But considering how tired she was, she wasn't totally sure it was working.

"I get to go back to sleep? And not get up all day?"

"No, we have a present for you"

"Whose we?" Brooke asked, swearing that if the present had something to do with her getting to change the baby's diaper, she was going to push Haley off their balcony.

"Can you hold him for a sec"

"She doesn't do the baby holding thing, hand him here"

"Ok when you're dressed and ready read this card" Haley said handing Brooke what looked like a birthday card. She really hoped it was money, but considering how cheap Nathan and Haley were, she seriously doubted it.

"Is it my death sentence? Please say it is"

"No, its fun"

"Haley, I'm 8 and 1/2 months pregnant. Nothing's fun except sleeping and Lucas rubbing my back" Brooke whined just wanting the baby to stop crying.

"Lucas is part of the fun"

"Fine, but there better be food. I'm starving"

After throwing on a pair of Juicy's and some make up Brooke finally came back into the den and opened the letter. She was kind of disappointed to find only a blank piece of paper with an address scribbled on it. Haley was seriously on crack. Even if Brooke cared where the address leads too, it wasn't like she could just get in the car and drive there. Brooke had almost decided to just give up when Lucas finally came in.

"Ready?" Lucas asked grabbing his cell phone and car keys. Brooke didn't look amused sitting there on the couch with the letter.

"For what? Lucas tell me what she's doing"

"I cant"

"Why?" Brooke whined. She couldn't understand why Lucas couldn't just tell her. Her life sucked right now as it was, and this was just making things worse. Her legs hurt, her back ached and her feet were swollen. And now she was being tortured.

"Because it's a surprise"

After a good 10 minutes of begging, Lucas finally got Brooke into the car and told her he'd tell her on the way there. Of course he wasn't, but she didn't have to know that at the time. He, Haley, Rachel and Peyton had worked way too long on this surprise for it to get blown now. He was actually kind of shocked that nosey Brooke hadn't caught on to it by now. But then again she had been pretty miserable lately.

Lucas drove up to Nathan and Haley's apartment complex and helped Brooke out of the car and up the stairs. At this point she'd decided that she definitely wasn't speaking to him anymore and he was just trying to torture her until she couldn't take it anymore. Making her listen to that damn baby scream for hours and hours on end.

"Surprise!" Was all Brooke heard as Lucas opened the door to Nathan and Haley's apartment. She couldn't believe she hadn't caught on to this before now. She seriously had the best friends ever.

"What? You guys! Ugh I hate you so much! How long have you been planning this?"

"For like 3 weeks! I can't believe you didn't catch on"

"Yea, I really didn't care. Karen!" Brooke smiled seeing that even Karen had come to the baby shower. Everything around the whole apartment was decorated with greens and yellows and purples and most all of her friends were there, including Bevin and Skills.

"Hey Brooke, you've grown"

"Oh, thanks"

"So, what do you think?" Haley asked once Brooke had finished hugging everyone. Clearly Haley had been the one to set everything up. How she managed to do it with a new baby and all. Brooke would never know, but she loved her so much for doing it.

"Its all very green"

"Since you don't know what the baby is"

"Right" Brooke laughed, forgetting for a minute that Lucas was there and he still had no idea.

"Everything I got you is blue, don't worry"

"So what was with the funky address?"

"Well you can thank your boyfriend for this one" Rachel said raising her eyebrows at Lucas. Brooke was clearly so out of the loop here it was killing her. How had she missed all of this?

"I just stole the designs"

"You stole them! I knew a mouse didn't eat them!"

"And that's the address of the store that's selling your designs" Peyton said pointing to the envelope Brooke was still carrying in her hand from the house.

"What?"

"You've worked so hard on them the past few months, and so we took them and this store downtown really loved them and wants to pick them up"

"You deserve it" Lucas smiled, kissing his girlfriends cheek. Brooke didn't know what to say. She hadn't expected a baby shower; much less this… or what happened next.

"I think she's speechless"

"Pain"

"What?" Haley laughed, really not getting what Brooke meant until after she'd asked.

"In my back" Brooke said grabbing at her back, completely loosing her train of thought.

"Can we ever get through a baby shower?"

"Here, sit down"

"How many weeks are you now Brooke?" Karen asked, helping Brooke down onto the couch.

"Almost 34"

Brooke would have never imagined she'd be the one stuck with the 14-hour labor. 14 grueling hours of pain that even the drugs couldn't knock out. She'd never expected it to be this bad. Of course Lucas stayed with her the whole time, holding her hand and talking to her. And as much fun as it was trying to break her boyfriends hand during each contraction, she wasn't sure it was really worth the effort right now. Near the end, between contractions Brooke spent a lot of time explaining to Lucas how he was going to pay for this, and then during them she'd just give that up and decide she was just going to kill him for doing this to her.

People always told her the actual birthing process wasn't as bad as they made it out to be in the beginning. But Brooke clearly hadn't made it out to be as painful as it really was. Haley had spent hours telling her how it was so beautiful and peaceful having her baby but Brooke didn't really see it. She just couldn't understand why her baby was torturing her like this. She'd been a good mom so far, caved into every craving the baby wanted, bought it nice things, and even talked to it when she was home alone. But if the pain that the baby was causing her was any indication of what she'd done so far, clearly she hadn't done enough.

The baby was going to be early, but the doctors didn't seem too concerned. They'd explained to Brooke and Lucas that as long as the baby was breathing ok and weighed over 5 pounds they said it should be fine to go home with them, depending on how everything went. But Brooke still didn't like the word 'early' no matter what the doctors said. Then, to top matters off… if the pain of actually having the baby hadn't been bad enough as it was. The words that Brooke heard after the most painful 14 hours of her life almost gave her a heart attack.

"And you've got a beautiful baby girl" The doctor announced holding the baby in the air. Brooke almost choked on the doctor's words. Either the pain medicine they had her on was making her delusional, or the doctor had just said the baby was a girl.

"What?"

"It's a girl"

"No its not" Brooke said knowing good and well it couldn't be. Her baby was a boy. The baby's bedroom set up for a boy. It had all boy clothes. She wasn't having a girl.

"Yea Brooke, she definitely is" Lucas said kind of confused. From what he saw there was no mistaking that the baby was a girl.

"No, no I cheated and looked on the sheet! It said male!"

"Apparently you cheated wrong"

"Here's your baby" The nurse said handing Lucas the tiny baby wrapped in a blanket. He looked down at her for a second. Compared to Nathan and Haley's baby she was so small in his arms. And as much as he hated to admit it, she looked just like Brooke right down to the fact that she was already whining at him. Once he'd seen Nathan with his son, deep down he'd kind of hoped the baby would be a boy. But right then, standing there, holding his baby girl, he wouldn't have had it any other way.

"You weren't supposed to be a girl" Brooke whispered to the little baby Lucas was holding.

"I can't believe you cheated"

"Lucas"

"Brooke, don't cry I'm not mad" Lucas said, feeling pretty bad he'd upset her. At this point he didn't really care if she'd looked before hand or not. It definitely hadn't mattered.

"I'm not crying, it's a girl?" Brooke asked, finally realizing what had just happened. It had taken her a few minutes to realize she'd just had a baby, much less that her baby was a baby girl. The little baby in Lucas's arms was so sweet and beautiful. A little gross, Brooke wasn't going to lie but somehow she didn't really care. She hated to admit that all those things Karen and Haley had told her about having a baby were all true.

"Yea"

"I think I really wanted a girl"

"Sure you did, here" Lucas said, trying to hand the baby to Brooke.

"No, I might drop her"

"You're not going to drop her"

"She's so tiny, and thank god she's not a blonde" Brooke said letting out a sigh of relief as she held her baby. Brooke looked at her baby for a second and tried to comprehend it all. It seemed like just yesterday she'd found out she was pregnant and was dead set on not having kids. Now here it was, 8 and 1/2 months later and she was still pretty dead set on not having kids, she wasn't going to lie. But it was different with her baby. It wasn't like some kid that had been forced on her, like Brooke had been scared of. Here she'd only been holding her for a few minutes and she was pretty sure she already loved her more then anything else in her life.

"We did good" Lucas said stretching his arms back proudly like he'd actually done something. It made Brooke laugh, but love him that much more.

"We did"

"You did good, babe. I'm proud of you"

"Ok, we're going to take her now, get her all cleaned up and check her out ok?" The nurse said reaching to take the baby. Brooke didn't like the idea of this. Giving her baby to some strange nurse after only like 2 seconds of holding her.

"Now? I just got her"

"We'll bring her back"

"Wait, I need a picture with her first" Brooke said remembering what Karen had told her about remembering everything about the first time she held her baby.

"Ok, 1…2…3"

"Ok one more, a crazy one"

"You aren't" Lucas sighed, realizing his girlfriend was probably the only new mother in the world, that would insist on having a picture with her newborn baby, with her tongue sticking out.

"There, now I have something to send to every girl who ever wanted to date you"

"You're so thoughtful"

"Bye baby, Lucas go with her" Brooke said, motioning for Lucas to get out of his seat. She couldn't exactly get up but Lucas could and she didn't want the baby to get scared without one of them their with her.

"She's just right over there"

"I don't want her to be alone, go take pictures"

"Brooke, are you feeling ok?" The doctor asked. Brooke hadn't really thought about it until now, but she was feeling a little dizzy. She guessed that was probably a side affect of what she'd just been through.

"Kind of dizzy"

"We're going to put some oxygen on you now. You're bleeding a little bit"

"Is that bad?" Brooke asked. She really didn't like the tone of the doctors voice. The way she was trying to act overly nice like everything was just fine, when it really wasn't.

"We're working on controlling it, make sure she stays awake"

"Hey Brooke. 4 pounds, 15 ounces. 18 inches long"

"Aw, she's so tiny" Brooke laughed, watching in the corner of the room as Lucas took a million different versions of the same picture. But that was Lucas, and she was sure she'd be glad she had every copy one day.

"So Brooke, what's her name?"

"I don't know, Lucas gets to name her"

"Is she ok?" Lucas asked, walking back to Brooke's bedside to check on her. He noticed she was a lot paler than when he'd left, and kind of shaky.

"Keep talking to her"

"That's right, I do get to name her don't I?"

"Oh god" Brooke sighed, trying to shake her head slowly without getting any dizzier.

"Nora's nice, Sara, Alice"

"Or Romy"

"Romy?" Lucas asked, wishing she wasn't still stuck on that name. He'd even have agreed on Lola. But Romy?

"Or Madelyn"

"Madelyn huh…"

"Ok I'm calling it, lets get her set up for a D&C" The doctor said taking off gloves and scrubs.

"A what?"

"Lucas, Brooke's still bleeding. It's not a big problem yet and I don't want it to turn into one. We're going to take her into surgery, put her under a general anesthesia, stop the bleeding and she'll be as good as knew in 2 or 3 days. There's no cutting involved or anything like that. We need you to sign this"

"But" Lucas wasn't really sure what to do. Brooke had been just fine a few minutes ago.

"Lucas, we'll take care of her. My advice is take your baby out and show your family and friends. She's a tiny little thing but she's breathing just fine and crying like a pro. We'll take care of Brooke and come and get you when we're finished"

Lucas reluctantly signed the papers and then went back by Brooke's side. By the time he got there she'd gotten even paler and was crying. The nurse finished explaining to her what the doctor just explained to him, and then left them alone for a second while they got things ready.

"Hey pretty girl, you did so good" Lucas whispered wiping the tears from her face. He felt so bad for her. After everything what she'd been through, and everything she'd worked for today, she wasn't even going to get to enjoy holding their baby like everyone else.

"Lucas I'm scared"

"I'll be here when you wake up ok?"

"Ok" Brooke agreed and then let Lucas kiss her forehead, like he always did to comfort him. She really didn't see how this was fair. But then that was the story of her life.

"Ok, lets get her in"

"I love you, you know that?" Lucas asked, giving her one last kiss before they took her away.

"I love you too"

Lucas took a minute after they'd taken Brooke up to just breath and take in everything that had happened in the past day. He hadn't even had a chance until now to realize he hadn't slept in 24 hours. He may have fallen asleep right then and there if the nurse hadn't interrupted by handing him the baby.

"Mr. Scott, did you want to take her and show your family?"

Lucas stood there for a second to look at his daughter, now cleaned up with a pink hat covering her dark hair. He couldn't even begin to imagine how spoiled she was going to be. Actually he could, because he knew he was going to be just as bad as Brooke when it came to that aspect. After spending a few more minutes just looking down, in almost awe at what he and Brooke had made. He carried the baby out to the weighting room to show everyone.

"Let me see my grandson!" Karen shrieked before Lucas had barely made it past the door jamb.

"Sorry Luke we had to tell her! He's so, pink"

"Maybe they ran out of blue?"

"She told you all it was a boy" Lucas laughed, now seeing the reasoning behind all of Brooke's name game deals and blues and greens fetish.

"Sort of"

"Yea, not a boy"

"What? Brooke was so sure" Haley said, as confused as everyone else. Lucas guessed that Brooke had told everyone in the room that it was going to be a boy, except for him.

"Brooke just saw male, she didn't look to see that female was circled"

"Awe, She's so tiny"

"4 pounds 15 ounces" Lucas said realizing that the baby was ½ the side of Nathan and Haley's.

"How's Brooke? The doctor came out and said they were taking her to do a D&C. She'll recover fast. I had one with you. But she will need about a week to get back on her feet, so I'll be here"

"Thanks mom"

"So what's her name?" Peyton asked, anxious to hear what Lucas had come up with. She was pretty glad it had been a girl, because Brooke's name for a boy just wasn't fair to a kid. Meanwhile Lucas had probably come up with something classic from a book or an old play.

"Romy" Lucas sighed officially giving in, yet again to his girlfriend. He hated to admit it but she actually even looked like a Romy believe it or not. She definitely wasn't a Sara or a Jessica or anything common like that.

"What?"

"Romy Madelyn"

"You're kidding" Karen laughed, actually hoping her son was joking. The name had no meaning in it whatsoever other than Brooke liked it because of some designer.

"What happened to Laura Beth?"

"Brooke really wanted Romy, and she looks like a Romy"

"I hate to tell you Luke, but she looks just like Brooke" Haley laughed, stating the obvious. Other than having Lucas's olive green eyes, which babies usually didn't have and the same birthmark on her left arm that Lucas had, Romy Madelyn Scott was all Brooke Davis.

"And she's just as loud as her too"

"Romy?" Karen asked again, still trying to wrap her head around the terrible name.

"I can't get over how small she is. She makes Sammy look so big"

"Sam is big Hales. He's a basketball player"

"He's not even 2 weeks old" Haley muttered trying to ignore Nathan's basketball talk for at least the next 5 years with her baby boy.

"Can I hold her?" Karen asked reaching to take the baby girl from her son. But Lucas wasn't totally sure he was ready to give her up yet.

"In a second"

"Aw, you're attached already"

"Is Brooke happy?" Peyton asked, realizing no one had thought to yet ask how little Romy's mommy was taking the news of having a daughter.

"She really is, hold on I've got a picture of her holding Romy"

"I should have known"

"Can I at least hold her while you're getting the picture out?" Karen begged jumping at any chance to hold her new granddaughter.

"Just for a second"

"Is Brooke sticking her tongue out?"

"Oh yea, I think that ones for you Peyton" Lucas laughed remembering what Brooke had said about that picture. Only Peyton didn't seem to get the joke.

"Aw, she does look happy"

"Ok you can give her back now"

"Lucas, fine" Karen sighed, reluctantly handing the baby girl back to Lucas.

"She's definitely a daddy's girl"

"Until Brooke gets her hands on her"

Lucas showed off his daughter a little longer until the nurse came to get her so she could be fed. After that came the hard part. The waiting game. Waiting for the doctor to come and tell them how Brooke was doing. Finally after what seemed like waiting forever, the doctor came out and told Lucas he could go see her in recovery. So after making a quick stop by the nursery to pick up Romy, Lucas met Brooke back in her room. She looked a lot more alert than the last time he'd seen her, but was clearly still on some kind of painkillers judging from her good mood.

"Hey pretty girl" Lucas smiled sitting in the chair next too Brooke's bed.

"Hey"

"How are you feeling?"

"Drugged, you know it's not that bad. I see why Peyton likes it so much" Brooke said letting out a small laugh. Drugged or not, she was definitely still sore and tired.

"I brought someone to see you"

"Aw, my baby girl"

"Seems like everyone outside expected a boy" Lucas said, trying to look as shocked as possible while handing Brooke the baby. Brooke had pretty much toned Lucas out once the baby was in her arms but was still pretending to pay some kind of attention to him.

"Wow, really? That's crazy"

"It really was"

"Go ahead, just tell me her name so I can start coming up with some kind of nickname for my poor baby" Brooke sighed realizing what he was getting at. She guessed it was only fair that he got to name her; after all he had won fair and square. Even with her cheating.

"Good, I've already filled everything out, you've just got to sign off on it" Lucas smiled, handing her the birth certificate.

"Romy Madelyn"

"As much as I hate to admit it, she even looks like a Romy" Lucas muttered trying to act like he didn't like it. But it had actually really grown on him and couldn't imagine the baby being named anything else.

"Of course she does. Thank you Lucas"

"For what?"

"Talking me into having her" Brooke smiled deciding she definitely wasn't going to get emotional as she said any of this.

"I didn't talk you into anything"

"You practically begged"

"Ok maybe asked" Lucas compromised, knowing she was right. He had begged and pleaded and everything else in the beginning.

"Either way, I'm glad you did. Who knew we could have made this on a trampoline"

"You really think it was the trampoline?"

"Definitely" Brooke laughed, remembering what a hard time they had had with condoms that night.

"Yea, well she's never getting one of those by the way"

"Scared she's going to break her neck?"

"No I'm scared she's going to use it at 17 like we did" Lucas said, completely serious when he said it. He was also going to make sure to buy her a 2-seater when she turned 16 too, just so she had no back seat.

"Good point, she is our child"

"My thoughts exactly"

"But we do make pretty babies, too bad we aren't ever having anymore" Brooke sighed, but made sure that that last line got through Lucas's brain, and penis for that matter.

"Still? Even after holding her?"

"Nope"

"I guess it's a good thing she's perfect then" Lucas said, shaking his head. Brooke laughed so hard at this it made her sides hurt. Of course she completely agreed that they had the perfect baby. But just hearing Lucas sound like one of those proud dads was enough to make anyone laugh.

"God, we sound like biast Naley parents"

"Oh no see, we're just truthful. We can't help it if we have the best looking baby"

"Good point, I like the way you think" Brooke smiled. This was the easy part. Sitting here with her Lucas, gushing over their baby. The hard part wouldn't come for another week or so, when Lucas had to go back to class and Brooke was home alone with baby Romy… or worse, home with Romy and Karen. But for now, it was nice like this. Just having Lucas and Romy all to herself. Just the 3 of them.

Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.

It gives you something to believe in again.