"Lucas do we really have to sit here and do this?" An annoyed Haley asked her best friend and brother in law.

"Yes." He whined similar to Tyler's whine. Haley rolled her eyes and continued.

"But I love you. You can't do this to me."

"I have to, she is my soul mate, and you were just a one night stand." Haley choked on the drink she was sipping, she couldn't believe he just said that.

"Lucas! You can not have that in here." She protested.

"Why not?" He asked her.

"First of all it's totally soap opera written and secondly give me a break. He would not say that to her." She said throwing down his script.

"Oh, now you're an author too. Hales I didn't know you were so well rounded." He said sarcastically, she rolled her eyes and stood up to waddle to the kitchen. She came back with a snack, and handed on to Lucas before sitting down across from him.

"If your gonna act like that then you can take your script to someone else. Nathan maybe? Or what about Peyton or Jake? Oh no, Lucas I had the best idea, make your class act it out, and leave me alone." She told him laughing; he was keeping this script a secret. He wanted to start writing for a new show on the CW network and they asked him to submit a script, after they had read a few of his novels. He was so excited but thought that he would jinx it if he told everyone, so he entrusted her, his loyal best friend.

"Shut-up! What do you know about it anyways, I can make him say whatever I want." He said handing the script back to her.

"What do I know? HA! I have read this stupid script with you since the day you started it, and I know these characters backwards and forwards. They are based on the six of us, I know they are, you can't hide that."

"They are not!"

"Please, there is a girl, Hilary, who by the way is my favorite and a guy, Lance who have been best friends since grade school, IE you and me. Then you have the popular girl, Bonnie or Brooke as I call her. The popular guy, Neal who's obviously hands down Nathan. The tortured yet popular girl, Peyton but in here she's Paula, oh and lets not forget the jock slash single father, John who is actually Jake. All you need now is to put in there that the two guys are half brothers, have a teenage wedding, and you better make sure I don't sue your ass." She said laughing at the hurt look on his face, but he had all but put their names in the script and then tried to play it off like it wasn't based on them.

"Haley, these people are totally different."

"HA! Ok, but I'm still standing by the fact that your character, Lance, would never say that to Paula."

"He would."

"No, Lance he wouldn't. Lance at this point in the story is completely in love with Paula, and she feels like she is betraying her best friend, Bonnie, by sleeping with you." She said showing her frustration.

"Well maybe I don't want it to be like our life. I'm trying to mix it up."

"I so told you that it was based on us. Look, listen to a viewer, Lance has not had one ounce of ass hole in him this whole series, and you want to now make him say the most horrible thing a guy could say to a girl. Never gonna fly."

"It's my show."

"A show that will never make it to the air, if you keep crap like this in it." Haley looked over at him, and he was staring at her in disbelief. "I'm not taking that back. I don't mean to hurt you, but you wanted the truth. Another thing that you could do is make Neal say it. He's the ass."

"Neal isn't dating them. Besides what would you have him say?" He asked conceding.

"I would have them decide that they would tell Bonnie together."

"And then he gets into a car accident and slips into a coma, or what?" Lucas deadpanned, Haley burst out laughing.

"Luc, come on." Haley was about to give him another suggestion when she heard the garage door open. She handed the script back to Lucas, so he could hide them in his bag.

"Hon, we're home." Nathan called closing the door behind him.

"We're in the living room." She called back. He walked in with Tyler on his heels. He leaned down and kissed his wife and then glanced between his brother and his wife.

"What's going on?" He knew something was up, but could put his finger on it. When he suggested that they all go out to dinner, Haley and Lucas turned him down, initiating the suspicion. Haley had originally claimed she had already eaten, and Lucas said that he wasn't hungry, so he and Tyler left for dinner.

"Nothing, we were just talking about when Lucas and Peyton hooked up and broke Brooke's heart." Haley said giving him a fake pout.

"Which time?" Nathan said, causing him and Haley to laugh and Lucas look very unhappy. "Sorry." He said through the laughter, not really looking sorry.

"Hey dad, when are we going up to see the Knicks play?" Tyler asked Lucas. Lucas had promised Tyler Knicks tickets for his birthday, which was coming up soon.

"Whenever I can get the tickets for. I'm gonna look into the tomorrow at work." Lucas responded, Tyler plopped down next to Lucas on the couch.

"What are you doing this summer?" Tyler asked his dad knowing that his dad had the summer off.

"I'm gonna try and get the novel I'm working on finished." Lucas smiled.

"Oh…" Tyler said sadly.

"Yea, but I think I'm going to squeeze in a couple of Road trips."

"Really?" Tyler said with his eyes lighting up. Lucas nodded. "Where?"

"Where do you wanna go? It's me and you." Lucas asked him.

"China!" Tyler yelled. Nathan and Haley laughed.

"I don't think we can drive to China." Lucas said looking at his son concerned about what he was being taught in school.

"I know dad," He said whining just as Luc had earlier, "I just really want to go to China."

"We'll have to see about that one. But how about we go to Hershey, PA?"

"What's there?"

"It's where Hershey chocolate is made. They have a big theme park and they have hotels with chocolate everything."

"Sure, if you want to." Tyler said not sounding too convinced, but Haley's eyes widened with excitement.

"I wanna go!" Haley said. "Actually let's go now, this baby is craving chocolate." She said rubbing her stomach. "Doesn't that sound fun Nate?"

"It sounds like a big cavity waiting to happen." He said seriously, and when he realized everyone was staring at him he put on a smile.

"When did you become a grouch?" Lucas asked him.

"I'm just not having a good day. That's all." He said standing up. "I'm going to go lay down. Good night."

"I'll come with you." Haley said looking concerned. Once they were in their room with the door closed she turned to him. "What's wrong?"

"The Knicks didn't offer me as much as I hoped for." He said sighing. They were hoping that he would play for the Knicks so they could come down to Tree Hill on the off-season.

"What about the Lakers? So what, if we have to move across the country." Haley said trying to be optimistic.

"They haven't even submitted an offer yet." He said frustrated.

"We were there 3 months ago. Isn't that unusual?"

"Yup, and we have this situation to thank for that. No doubt Brooke convinced Steven not to give me an offer."

"I don't think she would do that. She's not that kind of person. Maybe this is the way the Lakers work."

"I love you and I love that you are trying to be optimistic, but it's not how any team works. And you don't know what went on behind closed doors between Brooke and her husband. I'm staying on the Hornets, forever." He rolled away from her and closed his eyes.

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On the way home from the game, Brooke was driving alone and decided to give Peyton a heads up. She dialed information and got the number to her house. Surprisingly it is the same number it has always been.

"Hello?" A breathless man answered, must be Jake.

"Jake?" Brooke asked.

"Yup, who's this?"

"Brooke, Brooke Davis. You know from…" She said immediately regretting it; she must sound like an idiot.

"I know who you are Brooke. How's it going?" He said cutting her off.

"I'm great!" She said a little too eager. Why was she so nervous? "How are you?" She said calming her voice a little.

"Oh, I'm good. I was just chasing these kids around the house."

"Yea, congratulations. Haley told me you had a boy." Should she have said that? It isn't really his son; uh she was acting like an idiot. She continued to think to herself.

"Thanks, I love him. Nathan told me about your daughter."

"Yea, she's a great girl. Um…is Peyton around?" She asked realizing that she was getting closer to the house, and didn't want Steven to know she was on the phone.

"Yup, and it's perfect timing she just walked in the room." She heard his muffled voice telling her who was on the line.

"Really? For me?" She heard Peyton asked him surprised. "Brooke?" She said into the phone.

"Hey Peyton. How's everything?"

"Good, I'm just a little shocked to hear your voice." She said being honest.

"Peyton lets not lie. You hurt me, you betrayed me twice, and threw our friendship out the window. You…"

"Brooke!" She said cutting her off. "We don't have to lie, but lets not go through the laundry list of our mistakes either."

"Sorry, I got a little off topic. With all of the past things, imagine my surprise when I get a phone call, and was asked to name one person that I could completely trust. Someone who wouldn't spill my secret, and…and…your name came out." Brooke finally let the words leave her mouth.

"You trust me?"

"AS many times as you have stolen my boyfriend, and as much as we fought, you would have never spilled anything I asked you to keep quiet about."

"I can't even begin to tell you how sorry I am for all of that."

"You don't have too. It was a long time ago and I'm over it."

"Can we go back to the way it was?" Peyton asked her, her voice cracking.

"No."

"Ok, sorry…"

"Not because I don't want to, but because I'm not that person anymore, and neither are you. What I can say is that I want to start over, become friends as the people we are today and not the people we were back then. I don't want to forget our history, but lets put it behind us."

"I'll take it."

"Good, I'm glad I have someone to talk to."

"Me too, B-Davis. Oh you got married, we should use your new last name." Peyton said excitedly.

"Oh no, B-Boudreaux would never work." Brooke said making her and Peyton laugh. "Can I ask you a huge favor?"

"Sure, as long as it's not illegal." Peyton said, and Brooke could tell she was grinning on the other side.

"I was left in a will, and this lady wants to give me some secret document. Her lawyer has to personally hand the key to the safety deposit box to someone I trust. And I personally have to pick it up, and I'll be there at the end of the week for the hearing."

"That's confusing, why can't he just send it too you."

"That's what I said, but he is adamant about not letting it get lost in the mail." She trusted Peyton, but she still didn't want to talk about her husband to anyone.

"What's the secret about?"

"I have no idea."

"Who's the lady?"

"I met her once. She lived a few towns over." Brooke said leaving out the part about it being her husband's ex-wife.

"Who are we hiding it from?"

"Everyone I assume. She said that once I read the secret that I'm supposed to fix it, make sure everything is right again. Who knows what that means."

"Ok, the secret is safe with me."

"Thanks P-Sawyer."
"Hey…before you go I want to give you some advice."

"What's that?"

"I can hear in your voice that your unhappy, so could Haley. So I'm telling you to take your daughter, and divorce that scum of a husband you have and move home."

"You don't know him."

"See, you didn't even try to deny that he was scum."

"He's not…"

"Too late. Take my advice."

"It's complicated."

"Tyler should be here, with his mother, father, adopted sister and the rest of his family. You and Luc should work things out."

"Haley told me he was in love with someone."

"Yea, with…"

"It doesn't matter." Brooke said cutting her off.

"By the way I was talking about working things out about custody, not about getting together. That just proves to me that you do still have feelings for him."

"I do not! I love my husband." Brooke protested.

"Ok, I'll leave it alone. Both of your secrets are safe and I'll call you later." Peyton said still grinning.

"Thanks Peyt." Brooke said and clicked off on her phone. Peyton Sawyer would never change, at least not with her. She would have to see how the woman acted around everyone else.