Flash Backs
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"Nathan its time to get up," Hailey whispered into her husband's ears.
"Mmmm...." He said opening his eyes. "Don't you look perfect today." He said pulling her to him and kissing her.
"That's not going to work Nathan, I need to be at work in 20 minutes, and I can't leave until you're up." She said pulling the covers off of him in attempts to make him get out of bed.
"And why is that?" he said kissing her again.
"You know why Nathan. The kids, I'm not leaving a 4 year old and a 2 year old in a big house by themselves. Nathan gets makes even more trouble then you do. I haven't figured out how he manages that one." She said laughing.
"Sounds like I thought him well them." Nathan said now sitting up.
She grabbed his hand to pull him out of bed, only to have him pull her close and they started kissing. She loved when he was like this, he was so cute, and it was just like they were 16 again and in love for the first time.
"Nathan you know I can't resist you when you are like this." She said kissing him back.
"I know, why do you think I do it?" he asked her.
"Nathan get up, Nathan has already made one mess today, I'm leaving him with you and keep an eye on Paige, she's still trying to eat crayons and anything else she can get her hands on. I don't want her to choke." She said worried.
"I know Hailey, I will keep a close eye on her. I don't want her choking either." He replied.
"Ok good." She said kissing him and walking out of the room.
As soon as she left he laid his head back down in attempts to fall asleep.
"Nathan get your head off that pillow!" Hailey called from the kitchen.
"How does she do it?" he asked himself laughing and getting out of bed and getting reading for the day that lay ahead.
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"Daddy I'm hungry!" Nathan jr. said walking up to Nathan.
"Well what would you like?" he asked.
"Candy!" Nathan yelled. Mom is gone so daddy will let me have candy for breakfast. Nathan thought to himself.
"Candy? For breakfast?" Nathan replied. "Just because mommy is at work doesn't mean all the rules go out the window. You know you need to have something good for you." Nathan replied getting the cereal out of the cub board and setting a bowl down next to it.
"Are you sure daddy?" Nathan pleaded.
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"Lucas, its time for your bath." Brooke said walking into Lucas Jr's room.
"I don't want to mommy, I don't smell." Lucas said not looking up from the picture he was drawing.
"Lucas you went to the park yesterday with dad, and you went again today, its time for a bath." Brooke replied picking up the dirty clothes off the floor and placing them in the dirty clothes hamper.
"But I don't wanna." He said now just trying to get out of it.
"The water is all ready, it's going to get cold if you don't get in the tub. Now I mean it, tell me when you are ready and I will come and help you wash your hair." Brooke said walking out of the room.
"Daddy," Lucas said as his saw his dad walk past his room.
"What bud?" Lucas asked walking in the room.
"Do I have to take a bath?" he asked.
"Well are you dirty?" Lucas asked.
"No, and I just took one yesterday morning."
"Well then I guess not," Lucas said as he walked out of the room.
"Luke are you in the bath yet?" Brooke called up the stairs. She looked into the bathroom and noticed that he still hadn't taken a shower yet. "Lucas Scott Jr. I asked you to get into the tub 25 minutes ago!" Brooke said.
"But daddy said I didn't have to." Lucas said looking up at Brooke with his big blue eyes.
"Well I told you that you needed a bath and I mean it, I want you in that bath now." She said picking him up and bringing him to the bathroom.
"Lucas how could you?" Brooke said walking into the living room where Lucas was watching the basketball game replay of the night before.
"Huh? How could I what?" Lucas asked confused.
"Lucas was told he had to take a bath and then you told him he didn't have to?!" Broke said almost screaming at Brooke.
"I didn't know you..." Lucas said.
"Lucas I told him had to take a bath and then you go and tell him doesn't have to?! How does that make me look? He's always listened to me, even when he doesn't want to; he does what he's told. Now all of a sudden he disobeys me now that you're in his life!" Brooke yelled cutting Lucas off before he could explain.
"Brooke I said I didn't know." He said defending himself.
"I don't care if you didn't know. There was obviously a reason that he had to take a bath!" Brooke continued to yell at Lucas.
"Brooke what is your problem?!" Lucas asked walking up to her.
"My problem is you, you just think you can tell my son what to do! Well you can't, he listens to me!" Brook continued to yell at Lucas.
Lucas just stood there, confused. This had come out of now where. He thought that past couple of weeks had gone well. They were all moved into Lucas's house, and Brooke had several bids on her house in FL. He just couldn't figure out why she was so mad at him.
"What do you mean by that?!" Lucas said now getting upset.
"I mean he's my son!!!"
"Brooke he's my son too!"
"Oh yeah, you've been his father for what 3 weeks! Well you at least you beat Dan's record! So you must be some what better then him!"
"How could you say that! If anything you're the one pulling what Dan did, instead of ignoring your kids you took them away from me!!!"
"I had all the right in the world to do what I did. They are my kids!"
"Brooke why are you doing this?!"
"Because I don't want you to take my own kids away from me!!!" Brooke screamed, as tears started to flow from her eyes and she broke down. Pulling her hands to her face trying to stop the flow of tears. She couldn't handle it, all the anger and resentment she held toward Lucas since the moment she found out she had let lose. She had screamed, and told Lucas everything. She couldn't hind anything anymore. Everything was out in the open. There was no turning back from this point.
Lucas stood there; facing the one person he loved more then anything in the world, besides his own kids. Watching her scream at him, telling him all of her feelings. Everything that he never knew and everything he always knew. He just walked over and sat on the floor next to her. Hugging her, trying to be of comfort. He placed his hand on her chin and looked into her eyes. Those big brown eyes that held all the secrets that she ever kept from him.
She laid her head on his shoulder and just let the tears flow.
"Brooke, I wouldn't do that. It's me Lucas, trust me Brooke. I love you. I love Lucas and Leah. I don't ever want anything to happen to any of you. I want to be there to protect you and the kids." Lucas said hoping she could just trust him for once. She was never able to allow herself to trust him before, not since what happened back in High School.
"But Lucas I kept them away from you...for...for almost 4 years. You never knew they existed. I kept them from you. If I were you all I would be thinking about is how to get them all to myself. I wouldn't want them to be around me." Brooke said into Luke's arms.
"Brooke I would never do that. No matter what you did to me, I could never take them away from you. You were trying to protect them, and me. But you don't need to do that any more. I am here now.
Luke just sat and comforted Brooke while she cried. Finally after letting everything out, Brooke finally fell into a much needed sleep. Luke carefully picked her up in his arms. And walked into the house and up the stairs into their room and laid her down on the bed. Pulling the covers up onto her and lying down next to her. He wrapped his arms tightly around her, letting her know that she would always be protected.
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"Ok, I think that's everything." Lucas said shutting the overhead truck door to the explorer.
"Do you have to go daddy?" Leah asked as he picked her up.
"Yeah I do sweetie. I'm sorry. But I'll be back in just a month ok?" Lucas asked her. It was the first time since they moved in that the team was traveling.
Leah was shy when she first met Lucas, but she quickly warmed up to him. She was a daddy's girl. Everywhere that you saw Lucas there was Leah right behind him or in his arms. It would be hardest on her for him to leave.
Lucas loved to watch his dad play and was ok with him leaving, that just meant he got to watch him play on TV and tell his friends at pre-school all about how his dad played in the NBA.
"No its not daddy. I want you to stay here and play with me and Lukie." Leah said with tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry but I have to go for work." He said kissing her on the forehead and setting her down.
Brooke and Luke were trying hard to put what happened in high school behind them, and work things out for the kids, and them. They were in love, truly in love. They had never fell out of love. They couldn't deny their feelings for each other any longer.
"Yo Bro, hurry it up" Nathan said.
Nathan and Hailey were standing just a few feet apart from Lucas and Brooke saying their goodbyes. It was easier for their kids; they were use to it by now.
"So I guess I'll see you in a month then." Brooke said kissing Lucas.
"Yep, I guess you will." Lucas said kissing her back.
"Hey don't worry about it, I made it for almost 4 yrs on my own, we'll be ok for a month Lucas." Brooke said.
She noticed that he was apprehensive about leaving her and the twins for a month. She would be just fine though; it was Leah that she was worried about. She had kept herself from getting close to any guy before and now she a daddy's girl. She hoped that Leah would be fine in a couple days.
"I know, I'm going to miss you though." Lucas said.
After another 15minutes the car finally pulled out of the driveway. Payton, Brooke, and Hailey all stood in the driveway. Hailey holding Paige, and Broke holding a very upset Leah and Payton holding Jessica. Jenny, Lucas and Nathan were running after the car waving and having fun.
"That took long enough," Nathan said to Lucas in the car.
"Nate give him a break it was his first time saying bye to his kids." Jake said defending Lucas.
"Yeah but did it need to take that long?" Nathan said teasing Lucas again.
"Did you see Leah? I couldn't bear to leave her like that." Lucas replied.
"Don't worry it gets easier," Jake said.
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"Coming over still right?" Payton asked Brooke and Hailey.
"Yep," Hailey replied.
"What about you Brooke?" Payton asked a confused Brooke.
"Huh?" Brooke asked still trying to comfort a very upset Leah.
"When the guys go on the road, we get together and have dinner at each others house, that way we don't each have to make dinner for only a couple people." Hailey replied.
"And that way the kids all play and we get some peace and quite." Payton said and they all laughed.
Maybe Lucas on the road would be a little harder then Brooke thought. But I guess with Payton and Hailey it wouldn't be so bad.
Brooke worked everyday from Sept - June, but got the summer off since she was a teacher. Hailey was an Actress, she had only been in commercials so far, but that was fine with her since Nathan Jr. and Paige were still young. Payton decided that she wanted to stay at home with her kids instead of working, and Jake was fine with that.
Payton, Hailey and Brooke all walked through that grass and to Payton and Jakes' house.
"Jenny, come on, its time to go inside!" Payton yelled out, since Jenny was off running with the boys.
"Lucas come in!" Brooke yelled.
"That means you too Nathan!" Hailey yelled.
All three came running up to them. They all walked in, and the all the kids ran to the playroom to play.
"Brooke what time are you bringing over Leah and Lucas?" Payton asked.
Brooke had forgiven Payton, she trusted her. They were old friends but for some reason she was upset. She didn't want her kids being watched by Payton for an entire month all day long. She was jealous that she got to stay home with her kids while she worked. But when she moved from Fl Lucas had given her the option to work or to stay home with the kids.
Brooke loved her work, she loved working with High School students, since she was only 5 years older then her students, she felt that they respected her and could talk to her. She didn't want to stop teaching, and Lucas would be home with the kids, so why not she thought.
"Um...around 6:30am," Brooke said not sounding to sure.
"What's wrong Brooke?" Payton asked as they walked in the kitchen.
"What do you mean??" Brooke asked sounding innocent.
"I mean you sound unsure. What do you not trust me with your kids?" Payton asked almost shocked.
"No of course not Payton," she said not to sure on if she really did. "I just hate leaving the kids when I go to work, I mean its one thing leaving them home with Luke, he's their dad. But all the time in FL I hated leaving the kids with the nanny while I worked all day." Brooke replied.
"Well don't worry Brooke, Payton's a good babysitter." Hailey said and they all laughed.
"I trust you Payton, I mean you have been watching Jenny since what you were..." Brooke said.
"16," Payton said. "Just a couple weeks before Jake and I started dating."
"Now since I was kind of in Fl. I didn't get all the info on you and Jake." Brooke said with her face lighting up. "So someone fill me in on all the gossip I missed."
Payton just laughed.
"I don't know what you want to hear?" Payton said.
"I want to hear the whole story behind you and Jake, oh and then I need some Nathan gossip." Brooke said looking over at Hailey.
"Well..." Payton began.
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Flash Back
"Thanks again Payton for watching Jenny." Jake said as he walked in the door.
"No problem Jake, I love watching her." Payton replied.
"And she loves you." Jake said.
"So what did the judge say?" Payton asked after an awkward silence.
"I got full custody of Jenny." Jake said smiling.
"That's great Jake."
Jake just starred into Payton's mysterious eyes, she is too good to be true Jake thought. How could a girl like her like a guy like me that has a 10- month-old daughter?
Payton just looked back at Jake, she was falling for him. She promised herself that she wouldn't fall for him, his life was already hard enough with a daughter, he didn't need someone as mixed up as her to mess it all up.
Jake couldn't help himself he just leaned in and kissed Payton. They both had waited for this moment for a long time.
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End of Flash Back
"... and after that we just started dating. And right before graduation Jake proposed and I said yes." Payton finished. "10 months after we were married Jessica was born."
"Oh... a Honeymoon baby was she?!" Brooke said. "Now what about you and Nathan?" Brooke said turning to Hailey.
"I don't know what you want to know Brooke, but..." Hailey said
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Flash Back
"Are you sure?" Nathan said looking at a very distraught Hailey.
"Yes I'm sure Nathan." Hailey replied with tears forming in her eyes.
"Hailey don't cry, we'll work this out ok?" Nathan said rubbing her back. "Hailey I love you, and I'm never going to leave your side. I love you, Marry me Hailey?" Nathan said now on one knee.
"Nathan are you serious?" Hailey said looking down at him.
"Yes I love you and I want to be with you forever!" Nathan replied standing up and wrapping his arms around her.
"Of course I'll marry you Nathan!" She said as they kissed
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End of Flash Back
"We got married a couple weeks later." Hailey finished.
"Wow I missed a lot," Brooke replied.
"Yeah, you shouldn't have left Brooke." Payton said.
"I know, believe me I know. I thought about it everyday in FL, I also thought about coming back." Brooke replied.
"Then why didn't you?" Hailey asked.
"Well I was going to, actually I had decided on it, but then..." Brooke replied remembering that evening.
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Flash Back
"Lucas its time for bed." Brooke said as she walked into the living room where Lucas was laying on a pillow in front of the TV, glued to it. "Come on Lucas." She said just as she was about to turn off the TV.
"No mommy!" Lucas said standing up and running over to her. "You can't I wanna watch him play!" Lucas said climbing up on her lap.
"Watch who play Lucas?" Brooke asked.
"Him," Lucas replied as he got off of her lap and walked over to the TV pointing to him.
"Lucas Scott, has just scored another basket, that makes 25 points for Lucas this evening. His little brother Nathan is not to far behind folds with 21 points." The TV blared as they showed a close up of Lucas and Nathan on the basketball court.
Brooke just starred at the TV, never in her life had she expected to see Lucas on it, and Nathan and is that Jake Brooke asked herself as she saw Jake run across the screen.
"See mommy! Look he has my name!" Lucas said pointing to Lucas. "See Scott," he said pointing to the back of his jersey as it appeared on the screen. Scott and Lucas were one of the words that three-year-old Lucas could read. "I want to b e JUST Like him mommy!!!" He replied climbing back into her lap.
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Flash Back
"No matter what I did, I couldn't get him to go to bed until the game was over. He just didn't want to stop watching Lucas play. The next day he begged me to go out and buy Lucas's basketball card. I never expected to see Lucas and Nathan and Jake in the NBA. I didn't want to wreck Lucas's life, it looked like it was going so well, I mean 3 year old twins by his ex-high school girlfriend would defiantly do that." Brooke finished.
"That's where you were wrong Brooke," Payton said. "He loved you and didn't want you to leave, you telling him about his kids is the best thing that has eve happened to him besides dating you in high school."
Brooke was glad that they had talked about high school, and they knew what Brooke went through with the guilt of telling Lucas. Brooke was ok with Payton, she knew Lucas loved her and no one else, and this time neither of them would take no for an answer.
"I'll bring them by at 6:40am." Brooke said smiling.
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"Nathan its time to get up," Hailey whispered into her husband's ears.
"Mmmm...." He said opening his eyes. "Don't you look perfect today." He said pulling her to him and kissing her.
"That's not going to work Nathan, I need to be at work in 20 minutes, and I can't leave until you're up." She said pulling the covers off of him in attempts to make him get out of bed.
"And why is that?" he said kissing her again.
"You know why Nathan. The kids, I'm not leaving a 4 year old and a 2 year old in a big house by themselves. Nathan gets makes even more trouble then you do. I haven't figured out how he manages that one." She said laughing.
"Sounds like I thought him well them." Nathan said now sitting up.
She grabbed his hand to pull him out of bed, only to have him pull her close and they started kissing. She loved when he was like this, he was so cute, and it was just like they were 16 again and in love for the first time.
"Nathan you know I can't resist you when you are like this." She said kissing him back.
"I know, why do you think I do it?" he asked her.
"Nathan get up, Nathan has already made one mess today, I'm leaving him with you and keep an eye on Paige, she's still trying to eat crayons and anything else she can get her hands on. I don't want her to choke." She said worried.
"I know Hailey, I will keep a close eye on her. I don't want her choking either." He replied.
"Ok good." She said kissing him and walking out of the room.
As soon as she left he laid his head back down in attempts to fall asleep.
"Nathan get your head off that pillow!" Hailey called from the kitchen.
"How does she do it?" he asked himself laughing and getting out of bed and getting reading for the day that lay ahead.
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"Daddy I'm hungry!" Nathan jr. said walking up to Nathan.
"Well what would you like?" he asked.
"Candy!" Nathan yelled. Mom is gone so daddy will let me have candy for breakfast. Nathan thought to himself.
"Candy? For breakfast?" Nathan replied. "Just because mommy is at work doesn't mean all the rules go out the window. You know you need to have something good for you." Nathan replied getting the cereal out of the cub board and setting a bowl down next to it.
"Are you sure daddy?" Nathan pleaded.
"I'm sure." .................................
"Lucas, its time for your bath." Brooke said walking into Lucas Jr's room.
"I don't want to mommy, I don't smell." Lucas said not looking up from the picture he was drawing.
"Lucas you went to the park yesterday with dad, and you went again today, its time for a bath." Brooke replied picking up the dirty clothes off the floor and placing them in the dirty clothes hamper.
"But I don't wanna." He said now just trying to get out of it.
"The water is all ready, it's going to get cold if you don't get in the tub. Now I mean it, tell me when you are ready and I will come and help you wash your hair." Brooke said walking out of the room.
"Daddy," Lucas said as his saw his dad walk past his room.
"What bud?" Lucas asked walking in the room.
"Do I have to take a bath?" he asked.
"Well are you dirty?" Lucas asked.
"No, and I just took one yesterday morning."
"Well then I guess not," Lucas said as he walked out of the room.
"Luke are you in the bath yet?" Brooke called up the stairs. She looked into the bathroom and noticed that he still hadn't taken a shower yet. "Lucas Scott Jr. I asked you to get into the tub 25 minutes ago!" Brooke said.
"But daddy said I didn't have to." Lucas said looking up at Brooke with his big blue eyes.
"Well I told you that you needed a bath and I mean it, I want you in that bath now." She said picking him up and bringing him to the bathroom.
"Lucas how could you?" Brooke said walking into the living room where Lucas was watching the basketball game replay of the night before.
"Huh? How could I what?" Lucas asked confused.
"Lucas was told he had to take a bath and then you told him he didn't have to?!" Broke said almost screaming at Brooke.
"I didn't know you..." Lucas said.
"Lucas I told him had to take a bath and then you go and tell him doesn't have to?! How does that make me look? He's always listened to me, even when he doesn't want to; he does what he's told. Now all of a sudden he disobeys me now that you're in his life!" Brooke yelled cutting Lucas off before he could explain.
"Brooke I said I didn't know." He said defending himself.
"I don't care if you didn't know. There was obviously a reason that he had to take a bath!" Brooke continued to yell at Lucas.
"Brooke what is your problem?!" Lucas asked walking up to her.
"My problem is you, you just think you can tell my son what to do! Well you can't, he listens to me!" Brook continued to yell at Lucas.
Lucas just stood there, confused. This had come out of now where. He thought that past couple of weeks had gone well. They were all moved into Lucas's house, and Brooke had several bids on her house in FL. He just couldn't figure out why she was so mad at him.
"What do you mean by that?!" Lucas said now getting upset.
"I mean he's my son!!!"
"Brooke he's my son too!"
"Oh yeah, you've been his father for what 3 weeks! Well you at least you beat Dan's record! So you must be some what better then him!"
"How could you say that! If anything you're the one pulling what Dan did, instead of ignoring your kids you took them away from me!!!"
"I had all the right in the world to do what I did. They are my kids!"
"Brooke why are you doing this?!"
"Because I don't want you to take my own kids away from me!!!" Brooke screamed, as tears started to flow from her eyes and she broke down. Pulling her hands to her face trying to stop the flow of tears. She couldn't handle it, all the anger and resentment she held toward Lucas since the moment she found out she had let lose. She had screamed, and told Lucas everything. She couldn't hind anything anymore. Everything was out in the open. There was no turning back from this point.
Lucas stood there; facing the one person he loved more then anything in the world, besides his own kids. Watching her scream at him, telling him all of her feelings. Everything that he never knew and everything he always knew. He just walked over and sat on the floor next to her. Hugging her, trying to be of comfort. He placed his hand on her chin and looked into her eyes. Those big brown eyes that held all the secrets that she ever kept from him.
She laid her head on his shoulder and just let the tears flow.
"Brooke, I wouldn't do that. It's me Lucas, trust me Brooke. I love you. I love Lucas and Leah. I don't ever want anything to happen to any of you. I want to be there to protect you and the kids." Lucas said hoping she could just trust him for once. She was never able to allow herself to trust him before, not since what happened back in High School.
"But Lucas I kept them away from you...for...for almost 4 years. You never knew they existed. I kept them from you. If I were you all I would be thinking about is how to get them all to myself. I wouldn't want them to be around me." Brooke said into Luke's arms.
"Brooke I would never do that. No matter what you did to me, I could never take them away from you. You were trying to protect them, and me. But you don't need to do that any more. I am here now.
Luke just sat and comforted Brooke while she cried. Finally after letting everything out, Brooke finally fell into a much needed sleep. Luke carefully picked her up in his arms. And walked into the house and up the stairs into their room and laid her down on the bed. Pulling the covers up onto her and lying down next to her. He wrapped his arms tightly around her, letting her know that she would always be protected.
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"Ok, I think that's everything." Lucas said shutting the overhead truck door to the explorer.
"Do you have to go daddy?" Leah asked as he picked her up.
"Yeah I do sweetie. I'm sorry. But I'll be back in just a month ok?" Lucas asked her. It was the first time since they moved in that the team was traveling.
Leah was shy when she first met Lucas, but she quickly warmed up to him. She was a daddy's girl. Everywhere that you saw Lucas there was Leah right behind him or in his arms. It would be hardest on her for him to leave.
Lucas loved to watch his dad play and was ok with him leaving, that just meant he got to watch him play on TV and tell his friends at pre-school all about how his dad played in the NBA.
"No its not daddy. I want you to stay here and play with me and Lukie." Leah said with tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry but I have to go for work." He said kissing her on the forehead and setting her down.
Brooke and Luke were trying hard to put what happened in high school behind them, and work things out for the kids, and them. They were in love, truly in love. They had never fell out of love. They couldn't deny their feelings for each other any longer.
"Yo Bro, hurry it up" Nathan said.
Nathan and Hailey were standing just a few feet apart from Lucas and Brooke saying their goodbyes. It was easier for their kids; they were use to it by now.
"So I guess I'll see you in a month then." Brooke said kissing Lucas.
"Yep, I guess you will." Lucas said kissing her back.
"Hey don't worry about it, I made it for almost 4 yrs on my own, we'll be ok for a month Lucas." Brooke said.
She noticed that he was apprehensive about leaving her and the twins for a month. She would be just fine though; it was Leah that she was worried about. She had kept herself from getting close to any guy before and now she a daddy's girl. She hoped that Leah would be fine in a couple days.
"I know, I'm going to miss you though." Lucas said.
After another 15minutes the car finally pulled out of the driveway. Payton, Brooke, and Hailey all stood in the driveway. Hailey holding Paige, and Broke holding a very upset Leah and Payton holding Jessica. Jenny, Lucas and Nathan were running after the car waving and having fun.
"That took long enough," Nathan said to Lucas in the car.
"Nate give him a break it was his first time saying bye to his kids." Jake said defending Lucas.
"Yeah but did it need to take that long?" Nathan said teasing Lucas again.
"Did you see Leah? I couldn't bear to leave her like that." Lucas replied.
"Don't worry it gets easier," Jake said.
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"Coming over still right?" Payton asked Brooke and Hailey.
"Yep," Hailey replied.
"What about you Brooke?" Payton asked a confused Brooke.
"Huh?" Brooke asked still trying to comfort a very upset Leah.
"When the guys go on the road, we get together and have dinner at each others house, that way we don't each have to make dinner for only a couple people." Hailey replied.
"And that way the kids all play and we get some peace and quite." Payton said and they all laughed.
Maybe Lucas on the road would be a little harder then Brooke thought. But I guess with Payton and Hailey it wouldn't be so bad.
Brooke worked everyday from Sept - June, but got the summer off since she was a teacher. Hailey was an Actress, she had only been in commercials so far, but that was fine with her since Nathan Jr. and Paige were still young. Payton decided that she wanted to stay at home with her kids instead of working, and Jake was fine with that.
Payton, Hailey and Brooke all walked through that grass and to Payton and Jakes' house.
"Jenny, come on, its time to go inside!" Payton yelled out, since Jenny was off running with the boys.
"Lucas come in!" Brooke yelled.
"That means you too Nathan!" Hailey yelled.
All three came running up to them. They all walked in, and the all the kids ran to the playroom to play.
"Brooke what time are you bringing over Leah and Lucas?" Payton asked.
Brooke had forgiven Payton, she trusted her. They were old friends but for some reason she was upset. She didn't want her kids being watched by Payton for an entire month all day long. She was jealous that she got to stay home with her kids while she worked. But when she moved from Fl Lucas had given her the option to work or to stay home with the kids.
Brooke loved her work, she loved working with High School students, since she was only 5 years older then her students, she felt that they respected her and could talk to her. She didn't want to stop teaching, and Lucas would be home with the kids, so why not she thought.
"Um...around 6:30am," Brooke said not sounding to sure.
"What's wrong Brooke?" Payton asked as they walked in the kitchen.
"What do you mean??" Brooke asked sounding innocent.
"I mean you sound unsure. What do you not trust me with your kids?" Payton asked almost shocked.
"No of course not Payton," she said not to sure on if she really did. "I just hate leaving the kids when I go to work, I mean its one thing leaving them home with Luke, he's their dad. But all the time in FL I hated leaving the kids with the nanny while I worked all day." Brooke replied.
"Well don't worry Brooke, Payton's a good babysitter." Hailey said and they all laughed.
"I trust you Payton, I mean you have been watching Jenny since what you were..." Brooke said.
"16," Payton said. "Just a couple weeks before Jake and I started dating."
"Now since I was kind of in Fl. I didn't get all the info on you and Jake." Brooke said with her face lighting up. "So someone fill me in on all the gossip I missed."
Payton just laughed.
"I don't know what you want to hear?" Payton said.
"I want to hear the whole story behind you and Jake, oh and then I need some Nathan gossip." Brooke said looking over at Hailey.
"Well..." Payton began.
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Flash Back
"Thanks again Payton for watching Jenny." Jake said as he walked in the door.
"No problem Jake, I love watching her." Payton replied.
"And she loves you." Jake said.
"So what did the judge say?" Payton asked after an awkward silence.
"I got full custody of Jenny." Jake said smiling.
"That's great Jake."
Jake just starred into Payton's mysterious eyes, she is too good to be true Jake thought. How could a girl like her like a guy like me that has a 10- month-old daughter?
Payton just looked back at Jake, she was falling for him. She promised herself that she wouldn't fall for him, his life was already hard enough with a daughter, he didn't need someone as mixed up as her to mess it all up.
Jake couldn't help himself he just leaned in and kissed Payton. They both had waited for this moment for a long time.
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End of Flash Back
"... and after that we just started dating. And right before graduation Jake proposed and I said yes." Payton finished. "10 months after we were married Jessica was born."
"Oh... a Honeymoon baby was she?!" Brooke said. "Now what about you and Nathan?" Brooke said turning to Hailey.
"I don't know what you want to know Brooke, but..." Hailey said
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Flash Back
"Are you sure?" Nathan said looking at a very distraught Hailey.
"Yes I'm sure Nathan." Hailey replied with tears forming in her eyes.
"Hailey don't cry, we'll work this out ok?" Nathan said rubbing her back. "Hailey I love you, and I'm never going to leave your side. I love you, Marry me Hailey?" Nathan said now on one knee.
"Nathan are you serious?" Hailey said looking down at him.
"Yes I love you and I want to be with you forever!" Nathan replied standing up and wrapping his arms around her.
"Of course I'll marry you Nathan!" She said as they kissed
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End of Flash Back
"We got married a couple weeks later." Hailey finished.
"Wow I missed a lot," Brooke replied.
"Yeah, you shouldn't have left Brooke." Payton said.
"I know, believe me I know. I thought about it everyday in FL, I also thought about coming back." Brooke replied.
"Then why didn't you?" Hailey asked.
"Well I was going to, actually I had decided on it, but then..." Brooke replied remembering that evening.
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Flash Back
"Lucas its time for bed." Brooke said as she walked into the living room where Lucas was laying on a pillow in front of the TV, glued to it. "Come on Lucas." She said just as she was about to turn off the TV.
"No mommy!" Lucas said standing up and running over to her. "You can't I wanna watch him play!" Lucas said climbing up on her lap.
"Watch who play Lucas?" Brooke asked.
"Him," Lucas replied as he got off of her lap and walked over to the TV pointing to him.
"Lucas Scott, has just scored another basket, that makes 25 points for Lucas this evening. His little brother Nathan is not to far behind folds with 21 points." The TV blared as they showed a close up of Lucas and Nathan on the basketball court.
Brooke just starred at the TV, never in her life had she expected to see Lucas on it, and Nathan and is that Jake Brooke asked herself as she saw Jake run across the screen.
"See mommy! Look he has my name!" Lucas said pointing to Lucas. "See Scott," he said pointing to the back of his jersey as it appeared on the screen. Scott and Lucas were one of the words that three-year-old Lucas could read. "I want to b e JUST Like him mommy!!!" He replied climbing back into her lap.
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Flash Back
"No matter what I did, I couldn't get him to go to bed until the game was over. He just didn't want to stop watching Lucas play. The next day he begged me to go out and buy Lucas's basketball card. I never expected to see Lucas and Nathan and Jake in the NBA. I didn't want to wreck Lucas's life, it looked like it was going so well, I mean 3 year old twins by his ex-high school girlfriend would defiantly do that." Brooke finished.
"That's where you were wrong Brooke," Payton said. "He loved you and didn't want you to leave, you telling him about his kids is the best thing that has eve happened to him besides dating you in high school."
Brooke was glad that they had talked about high school, and they knew what Brooke went through with the guilt of telling Lucas. Brooke was ok with Payton, she knew Lucas loved her and no one else, and this time neither of them would take no for an answer.
"I'll bring them by at 6:40am." Brooke said smiling.
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