Chapter 49: What the Hell!

Peyton and Brooke are on the dance floor and Haley and Nathan join them. The four dance and dance. They laugh and have a great time. Peyton and Brooke are dancing when another couple bumps into them and Brooke falls into Peyton. The woman who bumped them turns around and looks at the two.

"I'm so sorry" the woman says gasping "Brooke?" she adds

Brooke's face fell "Olivia?" she asks in reply

"Oh my gosh!" The other woman says grabbing Brooke and kissing her.

Peyton just stands looking at the love of her life engaged in a kiss with a woman she has no idea who she is. Nathan and Haley notice and both their faces drop.

"Oh boy" Nathan says "I think things just got a little more interesting"

"I think you're right" Haley says

All that Peyton can see is that Brooke is not pulling away from the other woman. In fact, she engaged in the kiss more and Peyton's heart fell.

All of a sudden Brooke pulls away and slaps Olivia across the face. Peyton jumps at the sound of Brooke's hand connecting with the other woman's face. A huge smile crosses Peyton's face when she sees that and she lets out the breath she didn't know she was holding.

"What the hell was that for?" Olivia says rubbing her cheek

"You can't just go around kissing people!" Brooke said angrily as she turns to look at Peyton "I'm so sorry, baby" Brooke says moving closer to Peyton.

Nathan and Haley move closer to the situation.

"You never minded me kissing you before" Olivia said with her hand still on her face

"That was before" Brooke replied

"Before what?" Olivia said in a very bitchy tone

"Before Peyton" Brooke says with a huge smile on her face grabbing Peyton's hand

Peyton just stood there wondering what in the hell was going on. Nathan and Haley did the same. There was an awkward moment of silence before Nathan spoke.

"Hi, I'm Nathan and this is my wife, Haley" He says holding out his hand to the woman standing in front of them.

"I'm Olivia Emerson" the woman says holding out her hand.

Haley's face drops "The designer!" she says with excitement in her voice

"Yep" Olivia says with a smile

"Oh I love your stuff!" Haley says holding out her hand

Olivia shakes it and then turns her gaze to Brooke. "So are you going to introduce me to the reason you slapped me across the face?"

Brooke took a deep breath "I'm sorry I slapped you. It was just a natural reaction."

"It's ok" Olivia says looking Peyton up and down.

Brooke grabbed Peyton's hand "Olivia, this is Peyton Sawyer, my fiancé"

Olivia's mouth dropped "Fiancé?"

"Yes" Brooke answered "We're getting married at Christmas"

Peyton didn't make any movement towards shaking Olivia's hand. In fact, she didn't make any movement at all. Brooke notices Peyton's stillness and squeezes her hand. Still nothing.

Olivia quickly regained her composure and held out her hand "Olivia Emerson" she says with a smile

Peyton drops Brooke's hand and takes the extended hand "Peyton Sawyer"

"Nice to meet you" Olivia said with a lump in her throat

Peyton just nods. Nathan and Haley could feel the tension and they didn't know what to do.

"Olivia, come on" a woman says from behind her "It's getting late and we have an early morning."

Olivia turns to look at the other woman "I'll be right there. Why don't you go and have the driver bring the car around"

"Ok" the other woman says as she walks away

Olivia turns back to look at Brooke "I'm in town for a few days." She says pulling out a card and writing something on the back "Give me a call. It looks like we have a lot to catch up on" she adds giving Brooke the card and looking at Peyton "I'm sorry about kissing your fiancé. The last time I saw Brooke she was unattached and having fun"

Peyton didn't say anything she just nods to the woman in front of her.

Olivia pauses for a moment and then she sighs "Well good night"

"Good night" Brooke says and Olivia heads towards the door.

Brooke turns to talk to Peyton but can't because Peyton is nowhere on the dance floor.

"Where'd she go?" Brooke asks Nathan and Haley

"My guess is back to the table or the bathroom" Haley says "Who was that?"

Brooke sighs "It's a long story. One I'd rather not get into until I find Peyton"

"We'll help you look for her" Nathan says started to walk off the dance floor

The three look for Peyton around the bar, in the bathroom and outside without any luck in finding her.

"Where could she have gone?" Brooke says with worry in her voice

"I don't know" Haley says with the same worry

Nathan starts laughing

"what's so funny?" Haley snaps

"we are. She's probably up in her office. I'm laughing because we didn't even think to look there"

"I'll go see" Brooke says heavy heartedly "If I don't return she's there and we're hashing this out"

"Good luck" Nathan says

"Thanks" Brooke replies

Brooke heads for the stairs and Peyton's office. She gets up there and she finds Peyton sitting at her desk. She takes a deep breath and walks in.

"Hey, I've been looking everywhere for you" Brooke says

"Well, you found me" Peyton says in a harsh tone

"I thought you might be ready to go home" Brooke adds softly

"If you want to go home go ahead I'm doing some work now that I'd like to finish"

Brooke sighs. It was going to be harder than she thought to break the silent treatment.

"No, that's ok. I'll wait for you" she answers walking over and sitting in the chair across from Peyton

"Fine" Peyton says in a harsh tone

"Are we going to talk about what happened downstairs?" Brooke asks

Peyton doesn't reply

"She's an old friend, Peyt"

Still nothing

"She helped me realize that I was into women"

Peyton just shakes her head

"Peyt, talk to me"

"What do you want me to say?"

"I don't know. Yell, be upset, do something"

"I don't have anything to say" Peyton says returning her gaze to her paperwork

"Don't you want to know about us?"

"Nope" Peyton says coldly

"Peyton…" Brooke says in a sad voice "That kiss meant nothing. She just surprised me that's all"

"K" Peyton answers

Brooke sighs. She knows that she isn't going to get anywhere with Peyton right now until she cooled off so she decided to just let it be for now.

"I think we should probably go home"

"I'm busy, Brooke"

"Well, I'm not going home alone because the kids will worry"

"Fine" Peyton says standing up and collecting her things. "Let's go" she says practically running out of the room. Brooke followed and they went downstairs to find Nathan and Haley.

"You guys ready?" Brooke asks

"Yeah" Haley says "I'm tired"

"Me too" Peyton says looking at Haley "Let's get you home, preggers"

The group leaves the club and head back to Peyton and Brooke's house. Peyton walks into the house and straight into her bedroom. Brooke and Nathan follow. Nathan walks over to the couch where Sam and Jamie are sleeping.

"Hey kiddo" He says picking him up

"Hi daddy" Jamie says half asleep

Sam wakes up and looks at them "Oh, hey guys" She says

"Hey" Brooke says

She stands up "I'm going to go to bed"

"Ok" Brooke says "Good night, sweetheart"

"Good night" Sam says walking up the stairs

Nathan looks at Brooke "Well good luck tonight" he says

"Thanks" She says sighing "I think I'm going to need it"

Nathan laughs "I know you're going to need it"

Nathan gives Brooke a hug and walks out. Brooke locks up the house turns off the lights. She then heads to her bedroom. Peyton was already in bed. Brooke sighs and gets ready for bed herself. She climbs into bed next to Peyton who moves away from her.

"We're going to go to bed angry?" Brooke says

Peyton sighs "I don't want to talk about it right now, Brooke"

"Peyton, come on"

"No Brooke you come on"

Brooke sighs "Peyton, at least let me explain"

"Why?"

"Because you're mad at me and it wasn't' even my fault"

"You kissed her!"

"I was taken back."

Peyton sits up and looks at Brooke "Listen Brooke I think it's best we both just go to sleep right now and talk about this in the morning"

"No, we should talk about this now!"

Peyton just lays back down and Brooke sighs again. She knew she shouldn't push Peyton or she's cause her to be mad even longer.

"Good night, honey" Brooke says "I love you"

Peyton didn't say anything.

Both women fall asleep and sleep all night until they are woke up by the crying of their daughter.

"Ug" Brooke says stretching. "What time is it?"

"I don't know" Peyton says yawning "Too damn early for her to be up"

"I'll go get her" Brooke says as she gets up and walks out of the room.

Peyton looks at the clock and it reads 3:30 am.

"Shit" Peyton groans to herself

Within a matter of minutes Brooke returns to their bedroom carrying Emma.

Peyton sits up "What's the matter?" she asks

"She's just really fussy" Brooke says

Peyton looks at Emma "What's the matter baby girl?" she says getting up

"Maybe she's hungry?"

"Maybe" Peyton says

"Should I make her a bottle?"

"Yeah"

Brooke hands Emma to Peyton "I'll be right back"

Peyton takes Emma and gets back into bed "What's the matter, honey?" she says again rubbing her back

Emma just fusses and Peyton rocks her back and forth humming. Brooke returns with a bottle and hands it to Peyton.

"Do you think she's ok?" Brooke asks

Peyton gives Emma the bottle and she stops fussing and starts drinking it "Yeah, I guess she was just hungry. I wonder how she ate for Sam"

"I don't know. I didn't ask her"

"Me either" Peyton says as she continues to feed Emma

Brooke sighs "Well since we're up do you think we could talk about early?"

"I'm really not in the mood to talk to you right now, Brooke"

"Peyton, come on. This is silly we should be able to talk to each other"

Peyton looks at Brooke "Silly?" she says and Brooke knows she should have kept her mouth shut "Silly! You kissed another woman and you think I'm being silly?"

"No, I think you're being silly because you won't talk to me about it"

Peyton just sits quietly feeding Emma.

Brooke sighs "Fine!" she says laying down with her back to Peyton "If you don't want to talk about it we won't talk about it!"

Peyton continues to feed Emma stewing about Brooke and that other woman!

"We were together" Brooke says "In New York. We hit the red carpet together and had fun but that was it"

Peyton didn't say anything.

"It wasn't love, Peyton" Brooke says

"Did you sleep with her?"

Brooke couldn't lie to Peyton she took a deep breath "It wasn't love, Peyt."

"I see" Peyton says putting Emma on her shoulder to burp her "I'm going to take Emma back upstairs"

Brooke didn't know what to say "Ok" was all she could think of.

Peyton was gone for a while and Brooke started to worry. She gets out of bed and heads upstairs. She walks into Emma's room and sees Peyton asleep in the rocking chair with Emma on her chest. Brooke quickly ran downstairs and returns with the camera. She takes a picture of her two girls. She then walks over and takes Emma from Peyton and lays her down.

Brooke softly shakes Peyton "baby, come back to bed"

Peyton groggily looks up at Brooke "I'm mad at you"

Brooke smiles at her "I know you are but you know sleeping in this chair is going to kill your back"

"So what!" Peyton says softly

"Peyt, come on"

"Fine" Peyton says standing up

The two walk downstairs and get back into bed. Peyton lays on her side with her back to Brooke. Brooke lays next to Peyton and wraps her arm around her.

"Come on, baby. We both have others in the past. Why does it matter so much?"

Peyton sighs "Because you kissed her. I mean really kissed her"

"baby, it meant nothing. You're everything to me. Don't you know that by now?"

"I thought I did" Peyton says

"Don't go there baby" Brooke says kissing Peyton's neck "I love you with all of my heart and you're the only woman for me"

"But not the first"

"Peyton" Brooke says "Stop! She was a fling."

"My head knows that but my heart"

"Baby, look at me"

Peyton turns and looks at Brooke "There is no other woman for me. You are the most wonderful thing in my life. You and the girls are my world and no one can change that. Please don't be mad at me anymore. I can't take us fighting. I love you!"

Peyton sighs "I love you too" she says "I just…"

"No" Brooke says "All that matter is that we love each other!"

Peyton doesn't say anything and Brooke lowers her head taking Peyton's lips in hers. "You still mad at me?"

"No…" Peyton says "I'm not mad at you anymore."

"Good" Brooke says "can I have a kiss?"

Peyton smiles and kisses Brooke. Brooke deepens the kiss by sliding her tongue into Peyton's mouth. Peyton kisses her then pulls away.

"I'm not mad but I'm not giving you that. I still have the thought of you and Olivia in my mind and I'm going to have to sleep that off"

Brooke sighs "Far enough" she says laying down "I love you"

"I love you too" Peyton says rolling onto her back. Brooke lays her head on her stomach and Peyton puts her arms around her. In minutes, the girls are back to sleep.

They awake to find Sam making breakfast. "Morning, you two" she says smiling

"Morning" Peyton says "What are you making?"

"Pancakes" Sam says smiling

"Cool" Brooke says

"So what's going on today?" Sam asks clueless to the previous night's fiasco

"I have to go to work" Brooke says

"Me too" Peyton also replies

"So I guess that leaves me on munchkin duty"

"No, I can take her with me" Peyton says

The family ate breakfast and then went on their way. Brooke was sitting in her empty store looking around. Julian's movie was over and now she was once again unemployed and hated it. She wanted to make clothes and she needed to figure out what she was going to do. She walks over to her desk and sits down pulling out her sketch pad and starts drawing an outfit for Emma. A huge smile on her face and the door to the shop opens.

"It's lunch time already" she says looking at her watch

"It can be"

Brooke's head shot up at the voice and the smile faded from her face.

"Olivia" she says "what are you doing here?"

"Well since I saw you last night you're all I could think about so I did a little research and found you" She looks around the shop "The place is empty"

"The place is closed" Brooke says

"Why what happened?" Olivia asks walking over and sitting across from Brooke

"I just decided that my family was more important and my mother didn't agree so I sold her my share of the company"

"Brooke you loved this company"

"I love Peyton and the girls more"

"But all your work and your passion"

"I have a different focus now"

"That's a shame you're so talented"

"What are you doing here, Olivia?"

"I told you I wanted to see you"

"I don't think that's such a good idea after your little kiss last night"

Olivia smiles "Are you says that you didn't like kissing me?"

"No, I didn't!" Brooke says "I'm in a committed relationship… Getting married… I don't walk around kissing other women"

"Yeah, that whole committed relationship thing is throwing me for a loop. You weren't that type of girl in New York"

"I had a lot going on in New York"

"Did you tell your girlfriend about us?"

"There wasn't an us, Olivia!"

"Really, Brooke, there wasn't?"

"No and I'd appreciated it if you'd stop saying there was"

The door opens again this time Peyton is standing there. "Oh" She says in surprise "I didn't realize you had company. I thought we'd go to lunch"

Brooke stands up "No, Olivia was just leaving so lunch would be great"

"I was?" Olivia asks

Brooke see the hurt in Peyton's eyes and she hated seeing that she hated it even more that she put it there.

"Peyton, right?" Olivia asks

"Yeah" Peyton answers

Olivia stands up "And who's the little sweetie in your arms?"

"Emma" Peyton says

"She's beautiful" Olivia says "Is she yours?"

"She's ours" Brooke says

"Wow, you sure moved fast once you get here" Olivia response

"Well it was nice to see you again Olivia but we're heading out to lunch" Brooke says

"Oh, ok well I guess I better let you go" Olivia says

It was awkward in the room now and no one knew what to say or do.

Peyton sighs "Would you like to join us?"

Brooke's mouth drops open when she hears what Peyton says. Everyone waits in anticipation for Olivia's answer.