Title: To Be Loved 25/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@hotmail.com) but if you want a response back from during the week email me at (cha005@latech.edu)
Disclaimer: these characters belong to One Tree Hill except for Margaret or any other characters you don't recognize.
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: This is my first One Tree Hill Fic but email me if have any comments please email them to me. Ok someone was a little confused and they couldn't understand how Lucas could have kids but still be in high school. Ok when Lucas, Nathan, Haley etc are in high school in the past and when they have kids that's in the future. Remember how Dan has a date of death that's not current? That's evidence that at the time that was the future. Any other questions just email me. Ok since we now know Jake's daughter's name is Jenny, I'm changing Grace's name to Jenny. Hey I'm looking for a beta reader? Anyone want to help?
(To Be Loved by Curtis Stigers)
"Mind
your manners
Watch your weight
Be a good boy
Just behave
What's wrong with you?
Settle down.
Keep your two feet on the ground.
Stand up straight
Sit up tall
Never falter
Never fall
Stay in school
Make the grade
Never fail
And never fade"
"Why are there so many places set?" Dan asked Deb.
"You asked for the family and well this is how big our family is."
"Why do I get the feeling this dinner is going to hell?"
"Because you know you deserve Hell." Deb said.
"Wow it looks like we're serving the whole town!" May said as she entered the dinning room.
"Well you know Dan is related to most of the town." Deb said.
"What a sense of humor my wife has." Dan said annoyed.
"If you like that humor." Royal said.
"So who's all coming, Deb?" May asked.
"It's a surprise." Deb said smiling.
"I don't like surprises." Royal said.
"I know either does Dan." Deb said.
"Deb, is something wrong?" May asked.
"Oh no. I'm really looking forward to tonight's dinner. I can't wait." She said as she took a sip of some wine she had poured.
"Why do I get the feeling that this will be one of those nights we never forget." Royal said.
"Believe you won't forget it. At least that's the plan." Deb said.
"Dan has she lost her mind?" May asked.
"I'll say yes." Royal said.
"How much longer?" Kendall asked Jenny.
"About a minute."
"God the wait is killing me."
Jenny heard the front door slam. "Great Haley and Nathan are here." Jenny said.
"Oh shit!" Kendall said panicking.
"Calm down. I'll just throw it away."
"Wait!"
"What?"
"If you throw it way before I know…"
"We don't have time, Kendall." Jenny said as he took a handful of tissue and wrapped the test up and threw it away. "Come on." Jenny said dragging her out of the bathroom.
"What are you two still doing awake?" Jake asked.
"Um…" Kendall started to say nervously.
"Talking, so I guess you are here to get us all how about the two of go wake up the kids, come on Kendall." Jenny said as she started dragging Kendall upstairs.
"Stop!" Nathan said.
The both turned around.
"So close." Kendall told Jenny.
"Shut up." Jenny said.
"What exactly is going with you two?" Haley asked.
"We're just tired. So do you want us to get the kids or not?" Jenny asked.
"Not yet. You know if it wasn't so late we'd press the issue but forget it. We'll discuss this in the morning." Jake told Jenny.
"And you two are going to discuss this with me tomorrow, right?" Kendall asked Haley and Nathan nervously.
"No that's actually what we wanted to talk to you about. We talked to your brother and he said that he's ok with you, Sam and Chad staying at the house as long as you watch the kids. Jake will pick you up in the morning for school and I'll get you after school. Luke will be staying the night a few nights to get some rest. But of course he says it's up to you." Haley said.
"Sure that sounds fine I guess."
"Look if anything goes wrong you can call any of us or since Jake live so near by just go over. If any of the boys won't listen to you just tell them we've given you power to ground them and if they don't believe you then you'll just get me or Jake to come over." Nathan said.
"Ok so I'm basically going to be a parent to them?"
"In a way yeah." Jake said.
"I guess this will be practice for you." Jenny whispered to her.
"But that doesn't mean you can do what ever you want. Luke agreed to this because he trusts you. Don't make him regret this because he if does believe me you will be dealing with all of us." Nathan said warningly.
"Great so can we get the kids now?" Kendall asked.
"Yeah sure." Haley said.
They started up the stairs again.
"You aren't going to tell your father are you?" Kendall asked Jenny worried.
"Of course not but you need to talk to one of them."
"Well since I'm now an adult too I don't think I need to."
"Temporally an adult and if I tell me dad that nothing is going on, he'll know I'm lying and eventually they'll want talk to you."
"Well until then I'm not talking to anyone."
"What exactly are you so upset about?" Jake asked Margaret as they stood outside the door.
"Him, he's got me so upset." She said as she pointed at Lucas.
"What exactly did you do to her?" Brooke asked.
"I just offered her something."
"The way she acting you'd think you offered to kill her." Nathan said.
"Well I didn't."
"What exactly did you tell her because she's looks like she's going to hyperventilate." Haley said worried.
"Look Margaret if I take the offer of the table will you calm down?" Lucas asked.
"Really you're serous?"
"Yes I'm serious."
"Then yes if I don't have to worry about that then I will calm down."
"Good because you need to be calm before you go in there." Nathan said.
"Fine, the deal is off the table."
"Now will either one of you tell me what the deal was?" Jake asked.
"No." They both said quickly.
"Dad?" Andy asked as he came into the house. "Aunt Kris?" He asked.
"The old bird left for the morning. I'm in the living room trying to watch the Spanish Wheel of Fortune." Andrew screamed.
"Come on don't be nervous." Andy told Margaret.
Andy walked into the living room with Margaret. "Dad I brought someone to see you."
"Who?" He asked not looking away from the TV.
"Your daughter."
"Don't tell me you went out and married another gold digger."
"No um… I meant your biological daughter."
Andrew turned around. "Maggie?" He asked.
"Hey dad." She said as tears started to down her face.
"Go get your sister some Kleenex, Adrienne." Andrew said. Andy left and then Andrew turned to Margaret. "Maggie you… what's wrong?"
"Maggie… I remember when I was really little and you calling me that."
"Well I always thought you looked more like a Maggie. Any way why are you here?"
"I had to come and see you before…"
"I died?"
"Yeah."
"Well I'm not going any where's any time soon so you wasted a trip."
"No, I didn't and you may not want to see me but I want to see you and I'm not leaving till you talk to me."
"Well then you better be ready to get settled."
Margaret looked at the wall. "That my baby picture. You kept it."
"Well I figured there was no reason to throw out a perfectly good picture frame."
"You know I don't believe you."
"Don't believe what?"
"That you don't want to see me. My son and daughter have tried that act when they're mad at me but I don't believe them either."
"You've got a daughter?"
"Carrie and a stepdaughter named Jenny."
"You still married to that Scott kid?"
"No we divorced a few years back. I married this guy named Jake Jagielski."
"Oh is he good to you?"
"I thought you didn't care." Margaret said smiling.
Andy came back in and gave Margaret a tissue. "Dad you should see the pictures Margaret has of her kids."
"You keep them with you?"
"Well I brought them with me so I could show my sister." Margaret said smiling.
"Well this food is good, Deb." May said as she ate.
"Actually Karen made it. I just brought it." Deb said.
"Well this is good Karen." May said.
"Thank you. You know I think that's the first kind word you've said to me in years." Karen said.
"So dad how was the drive down here?" Dan asked.
"Fine. I mean if I had know how bad thing were here I would have come down earlier." Royal said.
"Well I wanted to call you." Keith said. "But Dan wouldn't let me."
"And why was that Danny?" May asked.
"Things aren't that bad." Dan said.
"Ok really? Well your step-daughter is unwed and pregnant. You son seems to hate you. Your well Lucas and his mother seem to have squeezed their way back into our families lives and I'm not sure what to say about the guy with the baby." Royal said.
"Lucas and Karen didn't squeeze their way back into this family. They've always been a part of this family! I just happed to be the one with Karen now." Keith said.
"What so you can get her pregnant with another bastard child?" Royal asked.
"I'm not a bastard child!" Lucas said defensively.
"Don't bother getting upset by what Royal says he's not worth your time." Karen said.
"And grandfather it only seems that father I hate my father since he hates his." Nathan said.
"Nathan that isn't true." Dan said.
"And what about you? Going to explain yourself?" Royal asked Margaret.
"Why should I? I'm having too much fun watching this. You know you pushing away the only family you have." Margaret said smiling.
"You must be spending lots of time with Karen."
"I live with her."
"Well no wonder you think it's ok to be pregnant and unmarried."
"Actually I'm engaged and pregnant."
"What?" Deb asked shocked.
"You didn't know?" Royal asked.
"No I didn't tell her. I figured this would the best time to tell all of you. I'm engaged to Lucas Scott."
"You're what?" Karen asked shocked.
"So he's the father?" Royal asked.
"Yeah I am." Lucas said.
"Ok what's going on here?" Jake and Brooke both asked confused.
"You all heard it. We're engaged to be married." Luke said.
"Margaret Jackson you better explain yourself right now!" Deb said mad.
"Same goes for you Lucas!" Karen said.
"Fine let's talk."
"Hey can we talk?" Jake asked Jenny as he came into her room where she was packing her book bag.
"Yeah you promised we'd talk about last night anyway. I figured you'd meant it."
"Well you know me, never one to break a promise. So want to talk about what was really going on last night?"
"I can't dad. I promised I wouldn't."
"Promised Kendall?"
"Yeah and she really needs a friend right now."
"Jenny if she's in trouble you really need to tell me."
"It's not my thing to tell. I have no right to tell you. Kendall needs to decide on her own to tell whoever she decides to tell."
"Is she in any serious damage?"
"No more than you and Margaret have ever been in."
"What exactly is that supposed to mean, Jenny?"
"Nothing by the way when exactly is Margaret supposed to be back?"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"I just know she'd talk to Margaret if she was here."
"Why can't she talk to the rest of us? Are we all chopped liver?
"No it's just well her brother is her brother and Peyton is in the hospital and she barely knows you. And Nathan well this isn't something she's feel right talking to him about. And Haley is sweet and all she feels like Haley will tell her brother before she even gets the words out."
Jake sighed. "Fine Margaret is calling tonight at seven if Kendall is here she can talk to her."
Jenny got up and hugged him. "Thank you so much."
"No problem. You know I'm more confused now then when I came in."
Jenny laughed. "Thanks. That's a talent of mine. I'm good at confusing people."
"Personally I wouldn't be so proud of that."
Deb, Margaret, Nathan, Karen, Keith and Lucas were all outside talking.
"Ok what exactly is going on here?" Deb asked.
"You heard it. We're engaged." Margaret said who was standing next to Lucas.
"This has got to be a joke. My sister and brother are getting marred." Nathan said.
"That's what I'm praying for." Karen said mad.
"Well it's not a joke. Believe me. We wouldn't joke about something like this." Luke said.
"You do know you and Lucas can't get married with out their signatures right?" Keith said.
"Actually we only need Karen's signature. I'm old enough to get married." Margaret said.
"But you can't if I lock you in your room!" Deb said mad.
"You wouldn't."
"Try me!"
"Look Mrs. Scott we didn't agree to this just to make you mad." Lucas said.
"You shut up! Because right now I'm having trouble not killing you." Deb said. "Why don't you deal with your own mother first!"
"Lucas, how about you talk to me and your mom for a second?" Keith said as he led Karen and Lucas away from the rest.
"So are you going to explain this?" Deb asked.
"Are you going to calm down?"
"I don't think I can."
"Mom how about you let me talk to her first and then maybe you could be calm by then." Nathan offered.
"Sure you can."
"Sam, Chad get up!" Kendall screamed as she turned up the radio loader hoping it would get the guys out of bed.
"I'm only getting out of bed, if you've got food to put in my belly." Sam said smiling as he ran into the bathroom still in his PJs.
"We've got twenty minutes till Jake gets here. Like I have time to make breakfast."
Chad came into the hallway carrying some chocolate candy and sugar concoction in a bowl. "Don't worry I made my own."
"Oh God." Kendall said as she bathroom ready to throw up. She banged on the door.
"I'm busy!" Sam screamed back.
"Sam if you don't get your ass out of the bathroom this very instant, I will kill you!" Kendall yelled mad.
Sam opened the door. "Wait till I tell dad what you just said!"
"That's if you live long enough." Kendall said as ran into the bathroom and threw up.
"Now I'm glad you didn't make the breakfast, you probably would of thrown up on it." Sam said laughing.
"I'm going to kill you!" Kendall said as she started to chase him.
"Wait Sam stop running." Chad said holding him back.
"She's going to kill me." Sam said.
"No she won't. Kendall can I take a shot at getting him to get ready?"
"Sure, why not? I'm going to go finish getting ready." Kendall said walking off.
"Thanks bro for saving my life."
"Yeah well I personally I want to kill you myself." Chad said hitting him on the head.
"Hey that hurt! Why'd you do that?" Sam asked shocked.
"Because if dad was here he'd do so much worse. And you know that."
"Your point?"
"You promised dad you'd be good and do what you're told and have you don't that?"
"No but he never said I had to listen to her."
"Sam…"
"Ok fine I'll got get ready but I'm hungry."
"If you can get ready in ten minutes, I'll give you what's left of this."
"Ok I'm off." Sam said running off to his room.
"Kendall you can relax he's getting ready." Chad said as he started to come in her door. "You ok?"
"I'm fine. I just can't see how you can eat that stuff."
"Well I kind of grew up it. You know this isn't the first time I've seen you throw up since you've been back home."
"Your point?"
"I think your sick."
"No I think you're crazy. Personally I'm probably right."
"Fine I'm crazy but that doesn't mean that I'm wrong. I mean what if you are sick?"
"Then I'm sick."
"Look I know you don't think I care about you but I do just promise me you'll consider going to a doctor?"
"If your promise not to tell anyone I might be sick."
"Fine."
"Shouldn't you be out there?" Royal asked Dan.
"No, I think I better just leave." Dan said as he left.
"So Mr. and Mrs. Scott this has been an interesting dinner. Hasn't it?" Brooke said.
"Who exactly are you?" Royal asked.
"I'm Brooke Davis, Lucas's girlfriend,"
"I thought he was engaged to Margaret."
"Apparently he is but she's got a boyfriend too."
"That would be you?" Royal asked looking at Jake.
"Yeah. I'm Jake Jagielski and this is my daughter Jenny."
"Of course you have to have a daughter."
"And who are you dear?" May asked Haley.
"Haley James, I'm Nathan's girlfriend and Lucas's best friend."
"Well can you three tell us if what Margaret said is true?" May asked.
"Well to be truthful we didn't know they were engaged to till she said it." Haley said.
"You mean you didn't know she was pregnant?" Royal asked.
"No we knew that." Jake said.
"And you're her boyfriend so why aren't you the father?"
"Well I've really only been her boyfriend since she's been back."
"And Lucas was your boyfriend before this?"
"No he didn't have a girlfriend before this. I'm his first."
"And so those two just sleep together with even dating?" Royal asked.
"That's not what we said." Haley said.
"Well then why did you say?"
"That those two are engaged and her child is a Scott by blood and name."
"In other words yes?"
"If that's what you get out of it then fine."
"What is the hell does that mean?" Royal asked mad.
"You know you've got to eat something." Luke said.
"Yeah something. This crud isn't even edible." Peyton said.
"Don't make me start having to treat you like one of the kids and have to feed you."
"You wouldn't."
"Wouldn't I?"
"This is crazy. I'm a grown adult!"
"Who's acting like a little kid."
"Well she's always been good at that." Larry said as he came into the room.
"Dad! Save me from him!" Peyton said as she saw her father.
"Luke it's good to see someone is making sure my daughter eats." Larry said as he shook Luke's hand.
"But it's not easy she's quite stubborn."
"That she is." Larry said smiling as he went over to his daughter.
"I'm not hugging you if you're siding with him." Peyton said.
"Oh give me a break and a hug while you're at it." Larry said as he hugged her.
"How did you find out I was in the hospital?" Peyton asked.
"Brooke called me and as soon as I could get in I came in."
"Well I'm glad you're here."
"Ok do you want me to leave so you two can talk alone?" Luke asked.
"That would be great." Larry said.
"No problem. I'm going to stop by the house. Is there anything you need?" Lucas asked Peyton.
"I made a list. It's by my purse. But add some real food to the list."
"I'll work on it. It was nice to see you Larry, take care of her for me."
"I will." Larry said as Lucas left.
"You know I was so worried when I got Brooke's message."
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry you."
"It wasn't your fault. And I should be worried I mean my little girl is in the hospital."
"But I'm ok for the most part."
"Then why don't I believe you."
"Because you know me to well." Peyton said and sighed.
"So what's really wrong?"
"I'm just having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I lost a child."
"So did your mother."
"Wait what are you talking about?" Peyton asked confused.
"Not that long after you were born your mother became pregnant again but for some reason you miscarried your brother. After that we were told she couldn't have anymore kids."
"I never knew that."
"Well I should of told you but we agreed there was no reason to."
"Family medical history? I mean if I had known there was a history…"
"You would of just been more nervous. There really isn't anything you could of done to stop it."
"And if I had my daughter instead of Sam you would told me then? So I could of warned her?"
"It wouldn't of done any good. If you would of know what would you have done anyway?"
"I don't know maybe I would of tried adoption instead."
"You can still do that."
"That's besides the point. I should have been told!"
"Maybe I just wanted to forget it ever happened. Have you ever thought about that?"
"But Mom couldn't could she? Is that why she killed herself?"
"Your mother was in an accident. She didn't kill herself."
"Are you sure of that? Or is that just something else you decided to forget?"