Ok you guys may not like the beginning but all I have to say is KEEP READING.
Ok I had a whole different chapter written for this one but it just seemed SO fake and goody, goody when I finished I decided to rewrite and do something a little more realistic about what 2 college students who are parents day might be like... Mostly Brooke's. Someone asked why Brooke and Lucas were always acting so young and immature. Well the way I see it is Parents or not they are still 19. Plus they are Brooke and Lucas. The story wouldn't be as interesting if I focused only on them raising Emma and Austin. They are still kids themselves and I try to make that obvious. Hope you like it! The real drama will continue next chapter! You guys know how I love Drama! Thank you guys so much for reading! Please review and tell me what you think!
"Victor...We can't do this... I, I'm married" Brooke said leaning away from Victor's kiss. His hair was so soft to the touch and his skin so rough.
"So... Didn't you say he cheated on you? Come on Brooke, just one more time... You enjoyed it last time," Victor begged seductively. His big striking green eyes were so hard to resist. That had been what she had caved too the time before this.
"Victor we cant... really really can't. I love Lucas, He is my soul mate... My god we have 2 kids"
"Dawson and Joey were soul mates and Joey seemed perfectly happy with Pacey" Victor said leaning in for another kiss but Brooke didn't turn away this time. His lips were different than Lucas, smaller and had a rough texture.
"Victor... What if Lucas finds out?"
"He wont" Victor said continuing to kiss her.
"But"
"Shhh" He comforted laying her down on the fluffy bed.
"I think someone is coming"
"Brooke... Your being paranoid! He is in class remember? Just calm down" Victor said running his fingers through her hair
"Brooke... Brooke! Wake up" Lucas yelled walking into the bedroom.
"Ah what! I'm... Oh thank god" Brooke said looking at the clock realizing it was just a dream.
"Thanking god for waking up... are you ok?" Lucas laughed sitting down on the bed beside her.
"Yea... Fine... Are Emmy an Austin awake yet?" Brooke said wiping her eyes
"Austin was up at 5:00... I figured I would let you sleep considering you kicked me all night last night... with all that moving you couldn't have possibly slept well"
"Thank you" Brooke said sitting up and kissing Lucas.
Brooke had only been to class once with Victor and was having dreams about him. What did that mean? Usually she didn't read into her dreams since most of the time they involved smurfs chasing her with pitchforks or something crazy like that. But this one had felt so real. Like she was actually there. She was just thankful that the dream hadn't brought her any pleasure... then she would really be worried.
"I better get going... Class awaits"
"Right... Its Tuesday I get to sleep in! Have fun Broody" Brooke said trying to be as cheery as possible. Part of her was paranoid that he knew... even if it was only a dream; Lucas was very perceptive for a guy.
"I have to go buy books after class and do little things like that... I probably wont be home until after practice, and yea... I don't think Austin is going to sleep anytime soon... Considering what I have him for breakfast" Lucas laughed kissing he on the forehead one last time then running towards the door.
"Lucas Scott I swear if you gave him chocolate ice cream again... Lucas! Your gonna pay for this when you get home! Your little friend people are coming for dinner remember?" Brooke yelled after him.
"Mama..." Austin yelled from his playpen. Mama being the only word he ever said Brooke was starting to think that Lucas was bribing him not to yell for daddy when he was upset.
"Coming" Brooke, yelled back stumbling down the stairs.
Lucas walked towards the big brown history building. History had to be his least favorite class next to geography. In high school he would find himself zoning out during these classes to think about Brooke or Peyton... whichever one he was pining over that day. But here he really had to pay attention.
He walked into class just as the professor stood up from her desk. It startled him making him drop his cell phone, which went smashing onto the stone floor.
"Welcome to class. My name is Dr. Smith. Everyone please take a syllabus from the table and read" The tall lady sand blandly. This was just Lucas's luck to get the most boring professor there was for his least favorite subject. Now he was really going to have problems concentrating.
Brooke was dressing Austin when the phone rang for the 5th time if the past 2 hours. First Haley had called to ask all about her day and give the latest news on Amber. Then it had been Peyton wondering when Brooke was going to get homesick and come home, then a telemarketer, and finally Deb calling to see if she had talked to Haley. There was no telling who it was this time.
"Hello" Brooke all but yelled into the phone.
"Brooke... how are you" Karen asked on the other end.
"Still a immature mother..."
"Funny... I was just calling to make sure everything was ok... I haven talked to you guys in a while" Karen said sadly.
"Yea... about that Lucas said he wasn't going to call until he was more mature... and he wasn't sure that was ever going to happen" Brooke laughed.
"Not living with you its not...how are my grand babies?" Karen asked quickly
"Wild as usual... Emma is sleeping still, she was up late watching TV and Austin is somehow managing to get everything I put on him today dirty... How's Nick?"
"He has a check up today... Look tell Lucas to call me..." Karen said hanging up.
"Nice to talk to you too Karen... Austin your Meme is a loony" Brooke said tickling the little boy.
"Mommy!" Emma yelled down the hall.
"And your sister is just loud... Whaty?" Brooke yelled back
"I stuck!" Emma cried.
"Stuck?" Brooke didn't even want to know. It amazed her the things Emma managed to get herself into.
"In the potty"
"What!" Brooke yelled running to the bathroom to find poor little Emma with her foot stuck in the toilet.
"Oh My God... You have to be kidding me!" Brooke said almost laughing.
"Its no funny" Emma whaled.
"Baby what happened?"
"I twry to bush my teef and and" Emma cried even harder.
"And you climbed the potty to get to your toothbrush and fell in" Brooke finished for her realizing what had happened.
"Baby don't cry... I'm right here. We are going to pull it out ok?" Brooke said hugging Emma tight to try and stop her from crying.
"Don't-t cu-ut myyy foot o-off" Emma cried.
"No... No we aren't going to cut anything off I promise!"
"Mama..." Austin yelled from his room.
"Ah damn it! I left Austin in his room alone... Look Emmy I will be right back... Don't move"
"No Mommy... I scared" Emma cried grabbing onto Brooke for dear life.
"Emma I have too... Let go... I will be right back" Brooke said pulling her little hand.
"Mommy" Emma whaled as Brooke ran down the hall to Austin's room where Austin had gotten hold of the baby powder and dumped it everywhere. He was pointing and grinning like he had just done something good. It was all over his face gathered in clumps around his mouth.
"Austin... No! Look at me... Did you eat that? Please god, tell mommy you didn't eat that." Brooke begged pulling a very white little boy up off the floor and putting him on her hip, Emma still crying in the background.
"Austin... stick out your tongue... Show mommy your tongue" Brooke coaxed sitting the little boy on his changing table.
"Mommy..."
"Damn it! I can't do this!" Brooke yelled carrying Austin to the bathroom where Emma was now almost dangling from the toilet still stuck grabbing at her wrist.
"What now?" Brooke asked putting Austin in the bathtub where he couldn't get away.
"You left me"
"I know... I had too baby I am so sorry, what did you hurt?" Brooke asked pulling poor Emma up trying to jiggle her foot out.
"My-my arm"
"God... Emmy... Its huge, did you fall on it?" Brooke asked almost in tears, finally freeing her foot.
Emma managed to shake her head yes crying louder by the second in pain as Brooke looked at the very swollen arm.
"Alright... Lets take you and Austin to the doctor, and pray that that isn't broken and baby powder isn't toxic... Let me call daddy" Brooke said in a panic reaching for her cell phone, which wasn't there.
"Great... That's just great... Ok Um" She was trying so hard to hold back her own tears her eyes were burning. She wasn't good in these situations. Nothing like this ever happened when Lucas was alone with both kids but somehow when she was they got taken away by social services or ate baby powder and somehow managed to get stuck in a toilet and hurt their wrist. This was why people had always told her that she didn't need kids... she could barely take care of herself.
Lucas browsed the book section at Scullys. Between him and Brooke they needed 10 pounds of books.
"Can I help you sir?" A girl said from behind the counter
"Um... No thanks, actually how much is that?" Lucas asked pointing to a Carolina Cheerleading uniform that was about Emma's size.
"Ah, The famous cheerleading uniform.... Its $25.00" The girl giggled.
"Its cute, Emma would love it" Lucas smiled. It was something cute she could wear to some of his games coming up since Austin already had a million Tar Heel shirts. Plus he knew it would drive Brooke crazy that she was wearing Carolina and not Duke.
"Emma... That is the cutest name! How old is Emma?"
"She will be 3 in a few months, She loves to play with her mother's old pom-poms and show me little cheers." Lucas laughed.
"Well Emma is a very lucky little girl to have such a sweet big brother" The girl said smiling and flirting.
"Right...here you go" Lucas said handing her a 20 and a 10. Even though it did drive him crazy how people always said little comments like that, he found it easier not to get into the whole ordeal with a complete stranger.
"Thank you... you have a nice day!" She smiled handing him his change and the uniform.
"You too"
Brooke dialed Lucas's cell phone for the 8th time still not having any luck. She didn't know if she should just take them to the ER or what. Part of her was scared to wait and the other part of her worried about dealing with 2 children under 2 in an Emergency Room alone.
"Alright... Emma does it still hurt" Brooke asked pulling the ice off and looking at Emma's tiny wrist which was now turning all sorts of colors and getting bigger by the minute.
"Yes" Emma cried.
"Ok then... No Austin... Look at me... Stick out your tongue." Brooke said turning to Austin.
"I can't tell! Damn it! Alright... lets go"
"Gwo where?" Emma choked out.
"To the ER" Brooke said trying to carry Emma in one arm and Austin in the other.
"No..." Emma cried. She hated doctors with a passion.
"No Emmy... It's the ER... Maybe you will see Carter" Brook lied carrying them to the car.
"An Abby?"
"Sure why not" Brooke said trying to get her keys out.
"Ok... Austin, You have to not complain about sitting in your car seat... do you hear me baby? I really need you to be mommies sweet little boy right now." Brooke said trying to get a struggling Austin in his seat.
"Hey Man? We still on for tonight?" Jeff asked seeing Lucas walk into the gym.
"Yea... But I will warn you... Brooke is cooking, you might want to eat before you come" Lucas laughed.
"Its cool. Linda is cooking some kind of casserole thing to bring...She loves to cook when she feels like it"
"Yea... Brooke doesn't like to cook... Now shopping that is defiantly Brooke's strong point" Lucas said pulling his shirt off.
"Linda was never really one for shopping... She enjoys the simple things in life, she kind of has too, woah dude, what happened to your phone?" Jeff laughed.
"My idiot professor scared me to death before class and I dropped it."
"It's blinking something about having 8 messages..." Jeff pointed.
"Yea I know... Its really messed up. I don't think I have ever had 8 messages on this phone alone... much less at the same time. I will just steal Brooke's phone tomorrow" Lucas laughed walking into the gym.
"Alright boys... Lets get this thing started... As you know we have our famous Blue vs. white team game coming up in less than a month. For those of you who don't know what is it is when I assign you each either blue or white and the two teams will play each other. We have more people at this game than we have sometimes at real season games so it better be good... Here are the team captains. Lucas Scott... You are Blue team captain... Mark Daniels White team" Roy said throwing Lucas and Mark each a ball.
"Great" Lucas said catching it.
"Dude that is like an honor!"
"More like more work... I barely have time to sleep as it is now" Lucas complained.
"Well... Take my advice, Coffee" Jeff laughed
"Hey... can I use your phone to check my messages? I haven't called Brooke all day. She is probably pulling her hair out about now."
Brooke waited as the doctor look at Emma's wrist.
"Well I can tell you it's broken...how many places or if h needs surgery I don't know... I want to get an X-ray and we will know more from there. Now how did this happen again?" The doctor said patting Emma on the head
"I fell in the potty" Emma said showing the doctor her still wet pants leg.
"God how could I let this happen!" Brooke said wiping baby powder from Austin's mouth
"Sweetie... You're not a real mother until your kid has broken something..." The nurse laughed comforting Brooke.
"You look warn out and in my opinion you are way too young to look like that... You shouldn't have to worry about this stuff. How old are you?" The doctor asked seeing how tired and upset Brooke was.
"Um 19" Brooke said wiping a final tear from her cheek.
"Yea...19 and 2 kids can do that too you I guess, it looks like you have your hands full here, Does the father or fathers help out any?" The doctor asked now concerned about Brooke's health.
"Lucas, yea we're married. He's great but this whole college and kids thing is new to us. We're still trying to work out all the kinks."
"Right well...Are you two using birth control?" The doctor asked.
"We don't have too...Look I didn't come here to get interrogated. You don't know Lucas and I or anything about our lives" Brooke said. This was why she hated doctors. They always thought that everything was their business when really they had no idea what they were talking about half the time.
"You don't have too? Is that what you said before each one of these kids? Sweetie I know I don't know you but the second you brought these kids in here their lives became my business."
Brooke wanted so badly to just take her kids home. Her kids... she had already had to deal with hundreds of times. People deciding that because of her age she wasn't a fit mother. So what if she was 19. That didn't make her any less of a mother. These were her kids... hers and Lucas's and the day they decided to keep Emma they also promised to be better parents than both of theirs had been. Nothing about their ages changed that.
"Look... I know you are worried about my kids... But they are fine, they are happy and loved and totally spoiled rotten."
"What about when you have 4 more kinds before you are 25? Sweetie I am not trying to upset you I am just trying to show you the reality of things" The doctor said finishing up on Emma's arm.
"The reality of things? Reality is when you have a baby at 16 and then find out because of complications there is only a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that you can have another baby. Reality is when the unthinkable happens and you do get pregnant again but this baby is born do early he almost doesn't live. Reality is when all of your friends are going to prom and you have to stay home because your daughter has an ear infection and only wants her "mommy" or on graduation you cant go because you are waiting to find out if your little boy is going to live or not. You don't have to show me reality." Brooke said totally loosing it.
"Daddy!" Emma said pointing to the door.
"Brooke... I got your messages what happened?" Lucas asked grabbing and hugging her tight having just heard her little speech.
"Emma got her foot stuck in the toilet, and then I went to see her and I left Austin in his room so when I went back to get him he had dumped all the baby powder out and tried to eat it and then Emma slipped while I was with him and broke her wrist and I tried to call you but you didn't answer and Lucas how could I let this happen?" Brooke sobbed into his chest.
"Brooke... Look at me." Lucas said pulling her away from his chest.
"Its not your fault... Their kids, when I was their age I ate mushrooms out of the yard and you know why?" Lucas asked wiping her tears away.
"To give your poor mother a heart attack?" Brooke asked.
"No... Because I wanted to be like Super Mario... and it didn't matter how many times she told me not too... I still did it. And it wouldn't have mattered if she were 19 or 40 telling me that... I still would have done it" Lucas laughed
"What happened?"
"I had to get my stomach pumped... Then 3 weeks later I did the same thing again but this time when I went to run away from my mom I tripped and broke both my wrists" Lucas laughed again
"How is that funny?"
"Because I did that and 1 million other things like that when I was little and I'm still alive" Lucas comforted. He felt so bad for Brooke. She had had her doubts about being a mother and had spent endless nights worrying about Emma and Austin. Which meant he had told her time and time again how she was going to be fine. She was the best mother those kids could ever ask for. It just worried him that she didn't know that.
"He ate baby powder?"
"Yes..." Brooke said wiping her eyes.
"I swear that boy is missing an enzyme or something! When we were at Taco Bell last week he say there for 20 minutes and chewed on a pack of hot sauce" Lucas laughed.
"Ok well Emma's X-rays are back" The doctor said hanging up the phone.
"It looks like she just cracked it... We'll put her in a cast for 4-6 weeks and she'll be good as new"
"Where Carter?" Emma asked getting frustrated
"Yea... I kind of told her that if she cooperated she could see Dr. Carter" Brooke giggled
"Emma... Carter is doing drugs again so he is back in Atlanta" Lucas laughed.
"Abby?" Emma asked swinging her feet from side to side.
"Yea she is in AA... Too many beers" Carter continued.
"Swory Awson... We no see Carby" Emma said patting her sleeping brother on the back with her good hand.
"What color cast would you like Emma?" The nurse asked showing her a color pilot.
"Please don't say pink, Please don't say pink," Lucas begged.
"Pink!" Emma squealed.
"She does that just to make me mad"
"Come on Broody, what do you have against Pink casts?" Brooke asked.
"I had to wear them on my arms for 6 weeks when I broke mine"
"You chose Pink!" Brooke shrieked
"I was like 4! I thought it was pretty... Brooke it's not that funny! Brooke I grew up with just a mom and Keith... Brooke stop laughing"
"It is that funny" Brooke laughed.
They finished Emma's cast and discharged her about 8:00. Brooke slept the whole way home being totally warn out from all the drama of the day along with poor little Austin. Emma on the other hand chattered to Lucas about Cooper and how she was going to give the potty a spanking when she got home. Finally they pulled into the driveway.
"Mommy!" Emma whispered in Brooke's ear.
"What..." Brooke groaned.
"We awre home" Emma said patting her on the head with her cast.
"Ouch... Where did daddy go?"
"He take Awson to sleep" Emma said bouncing up and down
"Aren't you ready to go to sleep?" Brooke asked pulling Emma to the front seat with her and hugging her tight.
"No... We watch Nip Tuck"
"I thought you weren't supposed to remember watching that... remember our deal?" Brooke laughed
"Yea... Ms. Ashon sayed that a bad show"
"Really? She said that? Ok Emmy lets go watch Nip Tuck and you can tell her all about it tomorrow morning" Brooke said smiling her devious smile.
"Owe we can pay Barbie's"
"It's a date! Run inside and go get up your house... But don't take all the good stuff!" Brooke said kissing her on the head.
"Ok" Emma said excitedly running towards the house past Lucas.
"Where is she going?"
"Our daughter just chose Barbie's over Nip Tuck" Brooke laughed.
"You think you can get her in bed by 10:00?"
"Of course I can... Why?" Brooke asked.
"Because I stopped at Food Lion on the way home and got some whipped cream" Lucas laughed.
"Lucas Scott! You dirty boy! She'll be in bed by 9:00"
Spoilers: What is Victor really up too? More about Jeff and Linda, Brooke and Lucas get a visit from the past... and NO it has nothing to do with Laney! lol I am tired of her. Plus they find something interesting on their doorstep... and Oh I forgot the REALLY BIG thing has to happen. Please review!
(Thanks to my Beta Courtney!)