Author Note: I am so, so, so sorry for the lack of updates. I am terrible I know. I have been out of town and I have had an extreme case of writers block. I didn't have a clue where I wanted this story to go. Thank you to everyone who gave me names, they are all wonderful! Thanks for continuing to read this story, I definitely appreciate it!

Chapter 14

She carefully watched the door as she chewed on her straw. It was almost as if she knew he was coming. She probably did. They always knew what the other was thinking, even when they weren't together. It was that whole soul mate thing, Brooke guessed.

There he was wearing the same clothes he had on the day she left. He probably hadn't showered or slept since. He caught her looking at him. Sighing, full of relief he walked toward her.

She watched him slid into the booth across from her. He sat his elbows on the table and lowered his head into his hands. She wanted to lean in toward him, tell him that she was sorry, that everything would be okay and she would never act like that again. She couldn't, she didn't want to run the risk of it being a lie.

He didn't say anything and she was getting nervous. Maybe he didn't want to be with her anymore. Maybe he was her to tell her that it was never going to work. Brooke was getting upset. She felt sick.

Lucas felt sick too. He wondered if all this was happening for a reason. He wondered if some higher power was trying to tell them that they weren't supposed to be together and that it why everything that had happened to them in the past had happened.

They knew what each other were thinking. He looked up at her and their eyes met. Brooke wanted to look away. Those eyes that she had fallen in and out of love with so many times were looking at her with the same love that had been there forever.

She almost smiled at him, but instead said, "You know that I love you Lucas Scott." She put her hands atop his and smiled at him.

Her dimpled grin sent chills up and down his spine, "What do you think?"

Brooke looked over at Karen who was so obviously watching them. Karen quickly turned away, as if she had never been looking in the first place. "I think we are having twins. What do you think?"

"I think Peyton told me."

"That bitch." She pulled her hands away from his and crossed her arms.

Lucas leaned back in his seat, "Well, she didn't really tell..."

"Oh." She slumped her shoulders and placed her hands on he stomach, "You know we have a lot to talk about."

He nodded his head and started to slide out of the booth. She put her leg up onto the booth across from her, not allowing him to leave. "We are going to talk about this now."

Lucas moved back across the seat and put his hands on the table, "You start."

Outside the café, Haley was trying to get her car unlocked. "Damnit." She said under her breath struggling to get the key out of the lock. A hand reached from behind her, gave the key a wiggle and released it.

The male figure dropped the key into Haley's hand and leaned up against the car. Haley opened the door saying, "You never give up do you?"

He watched her climb in and said, "What can I say? I'm persistent."

Out of her rolled down window, Haley said, "You shouldn't use words you can't spell." She raised her eyebrows at him and started to back out.

He walked with the car, "Come on Haley. I told you I was sorry."

"Nathan, I thought I told you I don't care."

"Well actually you said something along the lines of 'you think two words are going to make me forget..."

She shook her head at him and started to pull away. Before she could successfully drive away, he did the unthinkable. "Nathan Scott! Get off the hood of my car."

"I am not going to get off until you accept my apology."

"Okay, fine, accepted."

He slowly climbed off the hood of the car, "How do I know you are telling the truth?"

"Trust me. I trusted you, but then again look what happened."

Nathan was off of the car and Haley hadn't pulled away, which was amazing. "Haley I'm sorry. It was a fling. Eliza and me..."

"Eliza and I..." Haley cringed at her words. "God, I feel like I need to wash my mouth after saying her name..."

"She wasn't that bad Haley."

Haley scoffed at him, "I thought you were trying to get me back, not put in a good word for her. You are unbelievable Nathan, unbelieveable."

She started to drive off again, but he stopped her once more, "It was a one night stand..."

"That lasted four months..."

"Haley, listen...."

"No Nathan, you listen, I am not going to take you back, there is nothing you or anyone else could think of to make me want to get back together with you. Nothing."

He watched the car pull away once and for all and reached into his pocket, searching for his cell phone. He only knew one person who could help him get her back. Brooke.

Brooke too busy getting her own life back on the right track to answer her phone. Lucas was becoming irritated with the obnoxious ring so he insisted that she answer it. She shuffled through mounds of objects in her purse until finally finding her cell phone. "Hello?"

"Brooke?"

"Nathan?"

"I need you're help."

"I'm a little busy. Hey, weren't you just at the café?"

"Yeah, but I am calling about Haley."

"She was here too." Brooke felt confused, "Wait, you were talking to her."

"I know, this isn't about that."

"This isn't about Haley?"

"No it is."

"Okay you've lost me." Brooke looked up at Lucas, who was giving her a befuddled look. She shook her head at him. "Nathan can't this wait? Really, I am right in the middle of something."

"Yeah, fine whatever. I see how it is."

"Okay, good, I'm glad."

"Cya."

"Bye." She quickly closed her cell phone and threw it back into her purse, "Sorry." He nodded and gave her a smile.

"So a boy and a girl?" Brooke nodded and Lucas continued, "I can't... wow."

She smiled, "Who knew?"

"Definitely not me."

"Me neither." She leaned toward him, "Listen Lucas I love you more than this whole world and I am so sorry for being... a bitch, for a lack of a better word, sometimes and I don't think that we would keep on ending up together if it wasn't meant to be. I mean, if we weren't meant to be."

What Brooke was saying was like music to Lucas's ears. She watched him reach into his pocket. Brooke took a deep breath knowing what was about to happen. He looked up at her before his hand was visible. She nodded at him. She was ready. He was ready. It was really going to happen.

Peyton stood at the window watching people pass by. Seeing a familiar face made her heart lurch. She walked toward the door. Peyton felt as if she was going to be sick. It was Eliza.

"Daniel!" She yelled as she picked up Lilia and Reed and ran into the backroom. Daniel was lying on the bed, asleep. She shook him and heard a knock at the front door. "Daniel, get up. Someone is at the door."

He said in a groggy voice, "Since when are you scared to open the door?"

"Since I met Eliza."

He wrinkled his eyebrows at her.

"You idiot, Eliza is at the door. Go answer it!"

He slowly got off the bed and retreated toward the door. He turned the doorknob to see her standing there. She surprisingly looked good. Her blonde hair was a darker shade of honey and her shirt was unbelievably tight. Just the way Daniel liked them... on her. He studied her as she walked in the front door.

A nervous Peyton, carrying Lilia and Reed on her hips, stumbled into the living room. She made sure not to look at Eliza as she grabbed her keys. She headed out the front door. Daniel asked her where she was going and her reply was, "Out."

Daniel closed the door and Eliza made herself comfortable on the couch. She crossed her legs, exposing her entire thigh and showing just the tiniest bit of her boy short underwear, and let her Michael Kors sandal dangle off of her dainty foot.

He sat across from her and said, "Is that Pamela Anderson on you shirt?"

Eliza smiled, grabbed her breasts, and said, "My role model."

Daniel gave her a disgusted look, "What are you doing here Eliza?"

"Daniel, Daniel, Daniel." She got up off the couch and walked toward him. She leaned over him and whispered into his ear, "I figured the sex..." She leaned away and shook her head, "Wasn't that good." She laughed at her own comment, "I mean not that it could be," She sat on his lap, "especially after being with me."

He pushed her off, "There was a reason I lied to you."

Reaching into her purse that sat on the side table, Eliza pulled out a cigarette and put it in her mouth, "But it wasn't because of the sex."

"Get over the sex," He said pulling the cigarette out of her mouth.

She gave him a disgusted look but tried again. Running her hands over his face she said, "Come on Dan." She kissed him on the cheek, "Once more... for old time's sake."

"I am not going to have sex with you out of pity." He looked at her and then at the door. "I think you should leave Eliza, actually, I know you should leave." He got up off his chair. Handing Eliza her purse he said, "Here's your purse, here's five dollars for gas, and there's the door. I expect you on the other side of it in less than five seconds."

Eliza stormed out of the door and Daniel called out to her, "Thanks for dropping by. It sure was fun." He slammed the door and was glad that Peyton wasn't there.

Authors Note: So what do you think? Do you like where I am going with this story or do you hate it? Do you like that Haley is not letting Nathan back so easily after what he did to her? Are you glad that Lucas and Brooke seem to finally be happy? Tell me! I need to know! HeHe