"Brooke!" Lucas called out to his fiancée from the front of Clothes over Bros. The front of the store was empty and no one was in sight.

Brooke was working on sketches in the back of her store. She popped up from her drawings when she heard Lucas calling out to her. She quickly slid out of her working stool and raced out to the front.

Brooke stopped in the doorway when she saw Lucas standing in the front of the store. Lucas stretched his arms out wide for Brooke and she ran straight into his arms. He caught her and lifted her into the air.

"I've missed you handsome!" Brooke kissed Lucas' soft pink lips over and over.

Lucas put Brooke back down onto her feet but kept his arms wrapped around her.

He'd left Tree Hill for two weeks to continue to book tour in Vegas. He'd cancelled the rest of his book tour to deal with the Peyton incident. However, the book wasn't doing as good as expected and he needed to bring attention back to the book so his book tour was rescheduled.

It had been a two months since the Peyton incident. The couple spent the first two weeks holed up in their small bedroom in Lucas' home. But after the first two weeks of lying in bed Brooke slowly started to sketch again and get back to work. Her motivation helped Lucas get out of bed and start coaching again.

Brooke went back to working at the store after working from home four three weeks. She began to spend most of her days at the store while Lucas traveled on his book tour for his book, The Comet.

"I've missed you too!" Lucas released Brooke from his tight grip. "You don't know how good it feels to see your smile again. And I actually get to see your smile in person and not over Skype."

Brooke laughed and playfully nudged him, "Is it worth the wait?" She grinned wider than normal but couldn't hold back her laughter.

"Totally worth it." Lucas laughed with Brooke and plopped down on the white couch in the middle of Brooke's store.

The couple spent Brooke's lunch hour laughing, catching up and cuddling one another.

"Okay I better get going." Lucas groaned loudly as he stretched out his legs and arms. "The boys miss me down at practice. I'm head coach and I miss more practices than anyone else." He shook his head and stood up from the couch.

Brooke pouted but stood up with Lucas. She hugged him tightly, "Well get going so you can rush home to me!" She kissed him goodbye and watched from her store's window as he drove off towards the high school.

It felt good to me back into their normal pace. After the Peyton incident, Brooke agreed to sit down with Peyton in a therapist room. The two women shed a lot of tears and got passed their problems but Brooke wasn't ready to let Peyton back into her life as a friend. Brooke thought Peyton needed a lot more help especially since her biological father was back in town trying to get to know her.

Brooke felt bad for Peyton but for a long time Brooke felt nothing but anger towards her old friend. She'd done the worst thing you could possibly do to someone besides kill them. But soon after Brooke realized that her anger for Peyton was holding her back from being completely and truly happy in life so she let go all of the anger and frustration and forgave Peyton.

"Brooke! That was Victoria calling and she is coming to Tree Hill." Millicent informed her boss as she hung up the phone.

Brooke winced at the sound of her mother's name, "Why?" She hadn't spoken to her mother since her move back to Tree Hill. Victoria was against the move completely and tried with all of her power to stop Brooke from moving to Tree Hill.

"She says she wants to check in on the store." Millicent answered. Millicent despised Victoria Davis. She didn't understand how a mother could treat her daughter more like a business partner and have such little respect for their own child when their child was Brooke Davis.

Brooke let out a heavy sigh of frustration, "That woman is and will always be a pain in my ass."

"Well maybe one day she will grow a small little inkling of a heart and not be such a cold bitch..." Millicent trailed off when someone walked into the store.

A gothic teenage girl walked into the store. The thin girl with purple highlights looked to be about sixteen years old.

"Well hello." Millicent greeted the new customer. "Looking for a make-over?"

The teenage girl shot Millicent a violent look so Millicent backed off and walked away. Brooke turned her back to check her phone, but out of the corner of her eye she saw the young girl stuffing clothes from the racks into her bag.

"Hey!" Brooke grabbed the girl's bag. "Stealing is not okay with me! Maybe you try next door or maybe you should try paying for it."

The young girl tried to knock down Brooke and get her bag back but Brooke pushed the girl down onto the cold marble floor.

"I wasn't stealing!" The girl said as she managed to get back onto her feet. "I was going to pay for it."

Brooke laughed in disbelief, "Get out right now and never come back or I'll be happy to call the police and have your little ass arrested."

The girl reached for her bag but Brooke shook her head, "You're not getting this back. Now leave!" She pointed to the glass doors on her shop.

"Bitch!" The girl said underneath her breath as she walked out.

Brooke rolled her eyes and dumped the contents of the girl's backpack onto the floor. Nothing but Brooke's clothing spilled out. "That little theft!" She thought to herself as she cleaned up the wrinkled pile of clothes.

xoxo

"Does daddy know we are here?" Juliet asked her mom as both girls walked towards the old gym."

"Nope! We're gonna surprise daddy!" Brooke kept hold of her daughter's hand as they reached the gym.

Juliet and Brooke pushed opened the heavy doors of the high school's gym. Lucas, Nathan, and Skillz were all standing on the sidelines coaching the Ravens' basketball team. Haley sat in the bleachers grading papers from the Language Arts class she now taught full-time at the high school.

"Brooke?" Haley called out from the bleachers.

Brooke smiled and put her index finger to her lips, "Juliet wants to scare her father."

Lucas heard this and spun around, "I knew I heard my girl's behind me."

Juliet pouted and crossed her arms over her chest, "Daddy! I wanted to scare you?!"

Brooke and Lucas laughed at their five year old daughter.

"Maybe next time." Lucas laughed and kissed the top of Juliet's auburn colored curls.

Juliet raced over to her cousin Jamie; who was playing around with the high school basketball team. Lucas kissed Brooke and Haley made a choking noise behind them.

"Get a room!" Haley said with a laugh as she pretended to cover her eyes with the paper she was grading.

Brooke laughed, "Maybe later!" She winked at her fiancée and sat down on the cold bleachers beside Haley.

"I'm so glad to see you two bouncing back." Haley commented on the passion the couple still had toward one another.

Brooke nodded slowly and watched Lucas move around the court with his players, "Me too. The Peyton thing was really hard on us in so many ways."

"I'm glad she decided to get herself some help! She deserves to be happy." Haley added quietly.

Brooke glanced over at Haley, "She deserve happiness and now that she is getting help I finally feel safe. I didn't feel safe around Peyton, that's why I never took Juliet around her. Something about Peyton just always felt so off."

"I felt the same way but I thought it was just me being silly and paranoid." Haley admitted. "She did date Nathan!" She added with a laugh.

"She just gave off a bad vibe. She's a good person she just needed help to erase all that darkness she was holding onto since both of her mother's died." Brooke added with a shake of her head.

Lucas stood on the sidelines and listened to the ladies' conversation as he pretended to be writing down plays on his clipboard.

Brooke's opinion only made Lucas love her more than he already did. She had an amazingly big heart and he was happy she didn't let darkness cloud her heart like Peyton did. Lucas still held some anger toward Peyton since the incident but Brooke was helping him through it. He was just hoping he wouldn't have to see her anytime soon.

xoxo

Peyton had been seeing a therapist twice a week for two months. The sessions were starting to help her put her life back together. Her life no longer consisted or revolved around Lucas Scott. She'd broke things off with Julian and was now working on her marriage with Jake. She was also back in the studio actually working and signing new artists to her label, Red Bedroom Records.

"Peyton are you happy?" Dr. Rhines asked Peyton at the end of the session.

Peyton quietly thought about the question, are you happy? She thought through her life; she was with the man she truly loved and who truly loved her, she was working to make her record label bigger and better, and she was finally getting all of the darkness out of her life that had been there since she was a child.

She began to nod slowly, "I am happy doctor!" She smiled softly.

"Are you truly happy?" Dr. Rhines asked.

Peyton's smile got even wider, "I'm truly happy and I've forgiven myself for everything I've done."

Dr. Rhines smiled at how much her client had changed, "You're a whole new Peyton Sawyer. I'm proud of you for taking the reins of your own life and turning things around for the better."

"Thank you!" Peyton hugged her therapist and left the session.

Although she was done with her intensive therapy she was still going to see Dr. Rhines once every two weeks to help keep the darkness out of her life and heart. She was ready to be happy and fun Peyton Sawyer again.

She got into her car and sighed heavily, "First stop Brooke Davis and Lucas Scott." Peyton thought to herself.

Peyton was working on apologizing to everyone she'd ever wronged. Lindsay and Peyton had already met up in New York and the two women were now good friends.

Brooke sat down in therapy with Peyton and had forgiven Peyton but was not ready to Peyton's friend again; she wanted that relationship back. She also had a lot of apologizing to do with Lucas. He'd refused to go to therapy with Peyton and was ignoring all of her calls and texts to meet up with her.

They were the last piece of the puzzle for her full recovery but they were also the hardest pieces to fix and put back together.