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Chapter 18: "And you know I see right through you"

It seemed like forever before Brooke re-entered the room. Peyton and Haley tried their best not to think about what Brooke had just done.

"So what are you guys here for again?" Brooke asked walking through the door.

"You're daughter. I don't think she's Lukes." Peyton said

"Oh, all these years later and you are still going after Luke." Brooke said

"Jesus Brooke! We are not in high school anymore! We are adults! I am just trying to look out for the best interest of your child since obviously you are not doing so!" Peyton challenged her former best friend.

Brooke sat down on the couch and looked at her friends… well old friends.

"Look, I never meant to hurt anyone. Honestly I didn't. I can't take care of a child." Brooke said.

"That still does not answer the question." Haley said

"The answer to the question is I don't know. I never went to the doctor when I was pregnant with Logan… I just kinda… I don't know. Winged the whole thing."

Wow. Peyton thought. Even when she was pregnant with Spencer and had nothing she had gone to free clinics. How could Brooke neglect a child like that? Even if she didn't want it?

"So you don't really know around what time you got pregnant?" Peyton asked

Brooke shook her head no.

"When Logan was born she was really small. Either she was born pre-maturely or I carried her the whole nine months and she was just under developed… We were not quite sure which."

Peyton and Haley both took deep breaths. That was the last thing that they expected to hear.

"Look, I don't want to screw up your lives. If it helps Nathan and Lucas are the only two possibilities."

Haley nodded.

"I love my daughter. She deserves better than me. Better than this life." Brooke said looking around. "The only thing that I ask of you is to not hold my mistakes against my daughter. I know that you and Nathan and married and all." She said looking at Haley, "but if she turns out to be his… just please, treat her like a mother would. And I know that you would Peyton, I mean, if she turns out to be Lucas's, whatever is going on with you and him. I know that you will be there for her because that is just the type of person that you are."

Both women looked at the floor and nodded.


"I know that it's not fair to ask you to go out on a limb for me…"

"It's alright Brooke." Haley said grabbing the door knob "We should be getting back now."

"See you around." Peyton said awkwardly to her best friend.

"Yeah." Brooke said nodding. "See you around."

Peyton gave her a weak smile before exiting behind Haley.

That night Jake, Jenny, Nathan, Logan, Lucas, and Spencer all crowded into the hotel room. Jenny, Logan, and Spencer all squeezed into the one bed, while Jake, Luke, and Nathan all tried to squeeze unsuccessfully onto the sofa bed.

Nathan woke up to find that his brother was not next to him. He walked to the other room to find his brother in the air chair by the bed watching the children sleep.

"Can't sleep?" Nathan asked

"Nah." Lucas said

"Worried about tomorrow?" Nathan asked

Lucas nodded.

"I know that Spencer is my son. There is no question there. But I may be the father of another child too, it is just so much so fast, yanno?"

"Tell me about it." Nathan said. "I held a baby for the first time this week, and then found out that this baby might be mine! It's crazy how this world works…"

"I guess we're turning into Dan Scott's." Lucas said

"Never. That's not us." Nathan said. "We would never leave our kids…"

"So that means if Logan is yours-"

"I will take care of her." Nathan said cutting his brother off. "Sure it will be hard. But it is worth it. I see all that Jake gave up for Jenny… and he doesn't regret it a bit."

"Yeah, Jake sure is Super dad." Lucas said laughing, looking at the make-shift diaper that Jake had made Logan since they forgot them. "But I'm sure it took him awhile to pick up." Lucas said

"Yeah."

Nathan said nodding his head up and down.

"How do you think Hales will take it if Logan is mine?" Nathan asked

Lucas thought for a moment. As her best friend he knew more than anyone how unpredictable Haleys behavior could be.

"I don't know man." Lucas confessed. "But I don know that she loves you, and that… well I think that right there is enough."

"You worried about Marcy?" Nathan asked

Lucas shrugged.

"Stuff with me and Mar felt so right at one time in my life."

"Well you did ask her to marry you." Nathan pointed out.

"But then Spencer and Peyton came into my life. And Peyton, … god I thought that I would never see her again…"

"Are you trying to tell me that you want to hook up with Peyton!" Nathan asked

"Hook up, is so high school sounding. I don't know. I am just attracted to her. I love her."

"Do you just love her or are you in love with her?" Nathan asked his brother.

"I donno…" Lucas confessed. " How can I be in love with someone else when I am in love with Marcy. My freaking fiancée!"

"Maybe you are not as in love with her as you think."

"Who Peyton?" Lucas asked

"No. Marcy. Marcy is a great girl, I am not trying to say she's not. But you and Peyton have history." Nathan said

"Well you and Peyton have history too, but you're not in love with her." Lucas challenged his brother.

"That's because in high school, even when we were dating, Peyton and I never loved each other. Not how you two did anyway." Nathan explained.

"Oh my god…" Lucas said.

"What?" Nathan said looking around.

"I am in love with Peyton!"