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Chapter 12

Nothing Yet So Much

Brooke crossed and uncrossed her legs nervously. She watched Karen shuffle busily behind the counter. Brooke caught her eyes carefully watching her and walked toward the booth at which she was sitting.

Karen sat across from Brooke and cautiously chose her words. "I got a message from Luke." Brooke said nothing and Karen began to anxiously wipe the table with a damp rag.

"You don't have to do that now, ya know." Brooke put her hand atop Karen's, "In all the time that Lucas and I have been together you have never approached me to small talk." She sipped on her water and looked back up, "So what makes today my lucky day?"

Leaning toward Brooke Karen said, "I know that you and I have never been... the best of friends..."

"To say the least." Brooke interrupted.

Karen sighed, "I also know that I want to be a part of your alls lives."

"Whose lives?"

"Lucas, Lilia, the new baby... you."

Brooke shook her head, "No," She played with her straw, "I don't... you can be in your sons life and you grandchildrens lives but..."

"Brooke Davis, he loves you more than life its self and opposed to popular belief I love you too." She paused and Brooke looked he in the eyes, "I understand than you are having some problems but..."

"Lucas has been perfect to me since Lilia was born... but part of me, the old me, just wants to go and be a normal college student and not tied down at all." She looked down, "Is that completely self-centered of me?"

Karen shook her head no, "I just think that you and Luke really need to sit down and talk everything out."

Smiling, Brooke nodded and watched Karen walk away. She called after her, "Karen?"

Karen quickly turned around, "Yes dear."

"There's more." Brooke said as she looked down at the table.

Haley had been watchin Brooke and the clock on the farthest wall very carefully. She drummed her fingers on the counter top. In seventeen minutes and thirty seconds she would leave and go to Jake's.

She crossed her arms over her chest and sighed. When the bell on the door ran Haley quickly turned her head. He stood a step inside the café searching for her. When he finally found her, he smiled.

A half smile crept across her face but she tried to push it away knowing that a smile from her was exactly what he wanted.

He walked toward her and she quickly turned away, walking into the kitchen. The bouquet of her favorite flowers that he had brought her sat on the counter as he followed after her.

"Haley, please I just want to talk to you," Nathan said as he grabbed her arm.

She glared at him, "Let go of me." She pulled her arm away and said, "You have no right to talk to me or expect me to want to talk to you after what you did to me."

Nathan put his hands on his hips and let out a long sigh, "Im sorry."

Haley laughed and stirred a pot of chicken noodle soup. "Oh please. You think that two words are going to make me forget everything you did?"

Under his breath he said, "I hoped so."

She heard him and retorted, "You hoped wrong." As she walked back to the counter she spotted the orchids on the counter and picked them up saying, "How nice." He smiled and she would have smiled back but she was too busy tossing the flowers into the tin garbage can behind the counter.

Haley saw Brooke laughing at what she had done. Karen handed Haley a plate of sliced cucumbers and cheese. Haley gave her a confused look. "Pregnant, remember?"

"Déjà vu. Seems like it was just yesterday she was craving hot sauce and pickles."

"Haley, go." Karen said pushing her on the back.

"Going, going." Haley sat the plate infront of Brooke, "Weird, but whatever."

Brooke looked up at her, "I was about to say the same thing about you."

The two friends narrowed their eyes at each other and then smiled at one another.

"So, whats new?" Haley asked leaning forward and putting her elbows on the table.

Brooke shrugged her shoulders, "I'm pregnant."

Haley rolled her eyes, "Like I said, what is new?" Brooke glared at her and Haley sat back, "Kidding, geez take a joke." Brooke smiled at her and Haley leaned forward once more. "So, boy or girl?"

Brooke filled her mouth with water so her reply was inaudible... for a reason.
Peyton bounced Lilia on her knee as she watched Lucas shuffle throughout the whole kitchen. She ran her fingers over Lilia's head and Lucas came into the living room area. "Just think she has to come back to Wake Forest sooner or later." Lucas looked up at her as he took a long drink from a bottle of root beer. "Her clothes are there."

"Oh, yeah, right." He sighed. "So... do you know where she is?"

Peyton tilted her head, "That would be betraying my friendship with Brooke and I am not going to do that to her. I have played the role of the betraying best friend enough times in my life."

He rolled his eyes at her, "What a load of help you are."

She covered Lilia's ears, "Asshole."

Lucas smiled at her gesture. He reached into Reed's playpen and pulled him out. Setting him on his lap he said, "I would like a son I think."

"You never know. Maybe it is, maybe it's a girl, maybe its bo..." Peyton quickly covered her mouth, "Uh oh."

His head whipped up at her, "What did you say?"

She put her hand to her forehead, "Nothing." She shook her head, "And yet so much."

He stood up, handed Reed to Peyton, and said, "Watch Lil for me will ya?"

"You don't know where she is!" Peyton yelled as he stormed out the door.

"I have an idea!" He called back.

She stood up and sat both Lilia and Reed on the couch. After she closed the door she sat back down on the couch, put her feet on the coffee table, and looked at the two playing babies, "I guess it's just you and me kids."