Sorry guys! The last chapter had a major blooper! At the end where Victor was on the phone with "Mrs. Scott" It was supposed to say "Mrs. Davis" lol. I am just so use to typing Mrs. Scott I didn't even think twice about it hahaha. Anyway so sorry about that.
This chapter is one of my famous building up to something really big chapters... and NO Brooke is not pregnant. I got asked that like 10 times! Why? I have no clue... No more children for Brooke and Lucas until they are like at least 25. But it is something pretty big and stuff...lol
Thank you guys for all the awesome reviews! You know how much I love them! It lets me know people are actually reading so I will write until I get no more reviews! Hahaha Hope you like this chapter!
Victor walked up to Brooke and Lucas's front door carrying the flowers. It was going to be harder than he thought to get Brooke away from Lucas and her kids. But from the way her parents talked about her she use to care about nothing but boys, booz, and sex. And as everyone knows no one really ever changes. So maybe he could change her back to that, that is if she had really only cared about that stuff. With his luck all of that was just a mask of how she was really feeling. This was how he knew he had been taking way too many physiology classes. Now he just needed to focus and knock on the door.
He knocked and waited for a minute. There was rustling and then finally the curly blonde from the mall came to the door.
"Yea?" Peyton asked looking overly annoyed. She was already in a bad mood from her phone call with Jake and the fact that she had had to listen to Brooke and Lucas for the past 20 minutes wasn't helping any.
"I was looking for Brooke?"
"Yea, she and Lucas are... well we are going to say they are asleep, that sounds better than the truth" Peyton laughed
"So she wasn't lying when she said that they have a good sex life"
"Brooke doesn't lie about anything... You want to come in? It's freezing out there!" Peyton shivered
"Sure..."
Victor came in and sat the flowers on the table. If Brooke was busy then he could at least try and get some information out of Peyton. If they were as close as he suspected she would know everything about Brooke and would probably tell him more then Brooke ever would.
"Trying to seduce Brooke Davis with flowers? You must not know her well" Peyton laughed pointing to the table
"She doesn't like flowers?"
"She only likes Lucas flowers. Its sick really, when they were dating the first time he gave her these flowers and no guy had ever done that for her so she was all excited. She talked about it for weeks and showed them off to everyone. Then they finally died and she was depressed. So all the guys in school decided to give her flowers hoping that she would want them. She got so annoyed with it she made an announcement over the intercom saying she only wanted Lucas flowers. It was hilarious... only Brooke" Peyton laughed
"Right, so I should probably throw these away?" Victor asked looking over at the roses on the table.
"Yea... fast, so are you like trying to seduce Brooke or something because that's probably not the best idea since her husband is home, even if he wasn't I don't think she would budge. Believe me if she is anything like Lucas was today she wont"
"You tried to seduce her husband?" Victor busted out laughing
"I love him, I think" Peyton laughed. After drinking a few of the fuzzy navels in the refrigerator she was feeling pretty good.
"I love Brooke..."
"But they love each other... Its crazy how the world lets people like Brooke and Lucas be happy but screws people like us over"
"It doesn't have to be that way... we could turn it on our favor. I mean Lucas is a guy! Offer him sex and he's all yours. Brooke she is a girl, I give her pretty things and she's mine... Simple" Victor laughed. Not his usual laugh, but a new laugh. A laugh almost saying that there was hope yet that he would get his Brooke.
"Or complicated" Peyton joked
"Look, you want Lucas right? And I want Brooke... We just have to work at it"
"Wait... I think someone is coming... Come to my room, we can talk more there" Peyton said pulling Victor up the stairs to her bedroom.
"I swear I heard someone talking!"
"Brooke, sweetheart, love of my life, no one was talking! Lets just go back to bed!" Lucas laughed. It was freezing and he was in nothing but his underwear, same with Brooke.
"Don't sweet talk me Lucas Scott! You think I'm crazy don't you?"
"No, but I do think we should so back to bed" Lucas whined
"I'm not tired now! Sex always gives me energy! Lets talk" Brooke said dragging him over to the couch not noticing the flowers on the table.
"Brooke... I'm tired"
"It's only 10:00!" Brooke giggled putting her feet in his lap
"Ok what do you want to talk about?"
"Do you think we will still be like this in 60 years?"
"Sitting here with your smelly feet in my crotch, I really hope not" Lucas laughed
"No, I mean do you think we will still be us? I mean I just don't want to be one of those people who never know what they want in life. Love, I found you. Family, I have 2 great kids. But a career? I have nothing" Brooke said ignoring his comment. For once she was trying to be serious. This whole job thing was really starting to get to her.
"Brooke, You will find something and I will support you in whatever you want to do" Lucas comforted
"Even if I want to be a pole dancer?"
"Like I said, I will support you in almost anything you want to do" Lucas laughed.
"Ok... now I am just depressed. Lets go to bed" Brooke whined turning around and putting her head where her feet were.
"Come on... the real bed is calling"
"No... I wanna sleep right here" Brooke said plainly. If only she could find a career where she could be stubborn. Her life would be perfect.
"Brooke... Don't make me carry you"
"You're going to have too!" Brooke giggled wrapping her hands around his neck kissing him
"Or we can just sleep here"
"And make out?" Brooke whispered trying not to giggle like she use too when they were in the 10th grade. Still, every time she kissed him she got butterflies in her stomach like it was the first time all over again.
"And make out..." he echoed
Peyton and Victor tiptoed into the living room early so that Brooke and Lucas wouldn't hear them. They had stayed up all night plotting and planning how they were going to win their "love" back. Ultimately coming up with nothing substantial. Everything they had come up with worked for one of them but messed up the other ones chances.
"You know I have heard of sleeping on the couch but I thought that was usually a 1 person deal" Victor whispered
"Yea... With Brooke and Lucas nothing is a 1-person deal. Kinda makes you wanna puke" Peyton laughed
"Don't worry, well get them. You wait" Victor smiled hugging Peyton bye
Victor had barely been out the door 10 seconds when Brooke opened her eyes and looked over at Peyton.
"Hey Friend! Your up early"
"Yea, Couldn't sleep... but you know I think I am going to go and try and get some..." Peyton smiled leaving Brooke and Lucas in the den.
"That was weird... Lucas wasn't that weird?" Brooke asked shaking Lucas to wake him
"What?" Lucas groaned
"Peyton... she is acting weird... Weird like when you 2 were cheating on me weird... Lucas is there something you want to tell me?" Brooke asked still shaking him
"Yes... I am tired. Peyton is just having problems with Jake, she will get over it"
"Or she wont" Brooke said
"Do you have to make everything hard?" Lucas asked rolling over so she couldn't get to him
"I don't know... Do I?" Brooke giggled. She wasn't sure why he was going back to sleep. Emma and Austin were going to wake up any minute and start screaming for food and Dawson's Creek. Then it was just going to be another long day of taking care of children and watching TV shows where the actors were 23 playing 16 year olds. Today she wanted to do something fun. Not like Sex fun, or shopping with Peyton fun. More like what she and Emma use to do before they moved.
"That's it! Lucas Emma and I are having a bonding day and you are Austin are too. Get up!"
"Austin and I are bonded... we both want sleep"
"Ok... Well I am going to go get Emma... Austin is here with you and Peyton! Bye" Brooke yelled in Lucas's ear but he still didn't budge. She wasn't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing that he was becoming more and more cooperative with her and her silliness as he called it.
Brooke walked upstairs into Emma's room where she was sprawled out across the bed with Bella. She couldn't believe she was almost 3. It seemed like just yesterday she and Lucas were 2 terrified 16 year olds who had just found out they were pregnant. Now they were 2 terrified 19 year olds well almost 20 year olds, who still had no idea what they were doing.
"Alright Emmalyne Katherine Scott! Get your cute butt up!" Brooke said tickling the little girl
"No..." She whined
"Emma... come on! Please! We are going to go shopping and have a girls day!" Brooke said excitedly
"No..."
"Ok... I guess I will just have to go all alone and be sad. I might even have to go to Cold Stone all by myself" Brooke said covering her eyes and pretending to cry.
"I wake Mommy!" Emma giggled hearing that there would be ice cream in the picture.
"Good... Now lets go pick up some boys"
"What bout daddy?" Emma asked worried
"Were not going to keep the boys... we are just going to look at them, now lets get you dressed hott"
"Okay!"
Lucas laid on the couch listening to Emma and Brooke's conversation. It cracked him up how Brooke talked to Emma as if she were Peyton. She had always talked to her like she was a friend, maybe because Brooke so desperately wanted to be close with her mother, or maybe because that was the one true friend that Brooke had, someone to love her unconditionally and she could tell anything too with out being judged. Of course she had Lucas for that too but they both had their secrets. Austin was different though, that was her baby. She cooed at him and talked in a baby voice to him all the time. There was no growing up with him. If anyone even mentioned Austin dating girls or driving Brooke freaked saying that no girl was ever going to date her baby boy and break his heart.
He had spent hours trying to figure out why it was so different. His mom's theory had been that Brooke just liked girls better. But Lucas knew that wasn't true. He liked Haley's theory better. Haley said it was the way it was because Brooke grew up with Emma. She was like a girlfriend to her. But by the time they had had Austin she had been in the real world some and she had experienced life more. Whatever it was, she was a better mother to both of them because of it.
"I am starting to see why Brooke called you Broody..." Peyton laughed
"What? I'm just thinking... is that a crime?" Lucas asked shoving his blanket to the end of the couch
"No"
"I thought you were going to try and get some sleep"
"I tried but the shrieking of Brooke and Brooke Jr. weren't going to let that happen" Peyton laughed pulling out a box of cereal.
"God she is just like Brooke isn't she?" Lucas asked
"I don't wanna be around during her teenage years"
"God please don't say Emma and Teenage in the same sentence... It gives me a headache" Lucas laughed
"Alright Broody! Emmy and I are off!" Brooke yelled from the entrance hall
"Bye!" Lucas yelled back
"So what are you and Austin going to do today?"
"Hang out here I guess... Wanna hang with us?" Lucas laughed.
"Well I was going to go out with all my cool friends but I guess I can stay here with you guys... Whatcha gonna do?" Peyton joked
"Well considering he is like one we will probably just sit around and play."
"Sounds good to me!" Peyton laughed. This would be a good time for her to bond with Austin like she had with Emma. Plus she and Lucas could spend some time together while he was napping.
"Dada" Austin called from his crib
"You fix the food, I'll get the kid!" Lucas said running upstairs to get Austin who was shaking his head making his blonde hair swish.
"Hey man... You want to party with Peyton? She cant rock as hard as Mommy can but she isn't that bad" Lucas laughed picking Austin up out of his crib
"Mama" Austin grinned
"Sorry buddy, mommy has left us guys to fend for ourselves."
Brooke and Emma drove towards the mall with the radio blasting on Bob 93.3.
"We're shopping?" Emma asked bouncing up and down in her car seat
"Of course we are girlfriend... where too first?"
"To Navy!" Emma said pointing to Old Navy
"Alright... if we must!" Brooke laughed pulling across the road.
They spent their day shopping and talking girl talk. Emma rambled on and on about Cooper and how he thought she was hott. And how they were like Dawson and Joey, not Joey and Pacey. Making that very clear to Brooke about every 3rd sentence. By 3:00 they had hot almost every store they could possibly hit and decided that they should head back home.
"We have to go home?" Emma whined hugging her new baby doll
"Yes... I worry about Daddy and Austin home alone. No telling what they will get into! Know what I mean?" Brooke laughed. She was glad Emma was having fun with her. She couldn't remember a time ever when she had had real fun shopping with her mother, even if she did buy her stuff.
"Is daddy a bad daddy?" Emma asked looking down at the floor of the car
"God no? Why would you ask something like that? You couldn't get a better daddy than the one you have!" Brooke said pulling into the Starbucks drive through.
"Cause Ms. Ashton sayed that daddy was bad for me, I want coffee!" Emma said like it ws no big deal. Brooke on the other hand was totally shocked and could not for the life of her figure out where this was coming from.
"Emma... Look at me. Your daddy loves you and Austin more than anything in this whole wide world times a gazillion! He would do anything in the world for you, Austin and me... You know that?" Brooke asked running her fingers through the little girls long hair.
"Yes... He give me ice cream" Emma giggled
"That's right, and next time Ms. Ashton says something like that you tell her to go and screw herself... Got it?" Brooke laughed
"Got it...I want coffee"
"We will have 2 tall chocolate Brownie Frappuccino's and a crumb cake"
Lucas and Peyton sat on the floor in the den with Austin. Peyton had been trying for hours to get him to talk to her for hours but he would say a word. She thought maybe if she could break through his strong silent exterior then maybe Lucas would be impressed but so far no luck.
"Come on Man... talk to Peyton. You talk to Mommy all the time" Lucas coaxed
"Mama!" Austin grinned
"Since when did you turn into a Mommies boy on me huh?" Lucas asked tickling him.
"He's just shy like you... Isn't it about time for his nap?" Peyton asked looking at her watch
"Probably... ready to read buddy?" Lucas asked pulling him up into his lap and grabbing The Winter Of Our Discontent off the coffee table
"You read him that and Brooke approves?" Peyton laughed
"She likes this book... ok well she read this book, but Austin likes it, don't you man? It's because you're cool" Lucas said flipping to where their bookmark was.
"It's strange... He is just like you and Emma is just like Brooke. Did you 2 like train them or something?"
"No... it just kind of happened. I mean Emma isn't just like Brooke. She has some of me in her too. She loves to look at books and eat chips and catsup. Brooke can't stand either of those. Austin got his stubbornness from Brooke, if you haven't noticed"
"It's strange how things worked out. 4 years ago if you would have asked me if Brooke Davis was going to be a mom I would have said hell no! She just wasn't the type. I guess she proved me wrong" Peyton laughed
"She proved us all wrong at some point."
"Right... Like the doctors when she had Austin?" Peyton asked
"They told us I don't know how many times that we couldn't have another baby and she told them they were wrong"
"And they were... wow imagine if you guys had another one! As much sex as you have it does have to boost the odds some right? I mean Brooke is Miss Anti Birth control"
"Hey guys! I'm home!" Brooke yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Mama!" Austin squealed struggling to get out of Lucas's lap.
"There's my boy! Was daddy fun?"
"Of course I was... but I did notice at some point when I wasn't looking you turned him into a Mama's boy" Lucas laughed kissing Brooke. He couldn't help but think about what Peyton had said though. What f Brooke did get pregnant again? They couldn't have 3 kids.
"Just like his daddy" Brooke said kissing back
"Sex is bad" Emma said pointing her finger at them twitching her nose
"Yes it is" Peyton agreed.
The rest of the day went on as normal. Brooke, Lucas, Emma, and Austin had their usual flour fight leaving poor Austin looking like a ghost. They had asked Peyton to play with them but she they got the picture when they noticed she had the same look on her face as Karen had had that night she caught them skinny dipping.
While Brooke and Lucas were playing their "game" Peyton went up to her room to call Victor.
"Hey Victor... It's Peyton, Look I thought of a great idea. The Blue vs White game is tomorrow and I thought that maybe you could come and sit with us. I have a plan" Peyton said on his answering machine.
"Ah! Lucas Scott don't you dare!" she heard Brooke yell from the hall way
"You better run!"
Just listening to this made her feel sick. They were so disgustingly happy and here she wanted to breakup this happiness. This was her best friend in the whole wide world and here she was trying to screw up her life once again. But why should she have to wait around to find her happiness? She shouldn't... Brooke had always gone after what she wanted... no matter who it hurt. Maybe it was just time for her to do the same thing.
Brooke started the water for her shower after they had put the kids to bed. She loved the way the hot water felt against her skin. It was like it was washing away all her stress and anger at the world.
"Hey Luke... wanna join me?" She yelled thinking she already knew the answer.
"Cant..." Was all Lucas said
"Cant or wont? Lucas... What's wrong?" Brooke asked sitting beside him on the bed. He was doing more than his usual brooding
"Maybe we have too much sex"
"Take that back right now Lucas Scott! That is not possible!" Brooke giggled
"I am being serious Brooke, I was rocking Austin to sleep a minute ago and I realized he is about the same age Emma was when we found out we ere going to have him"
"Yea... Your point being?" Brooke laughed
"What if you get pregnant again?" He watched as Brooke's smile faded and her face grew solemn. He and Brooke hadn't discussed this since they had had Austin and it was obviously still a touchy subject.
"I'm gonna go take my shower" Brooke said standing up and ignoring his question
"Brooke..." Lucas whispered grabbing her hand and coaxing her back onto the bed
"I cant Lucas... we know this"
"We couldn't with Austin either... I'm just saying maybe we should take some kind of precaution. We can't have 3 kids Brooke... we just cant" Guilt filled his body as he saw tears stream down her face.
"I know, and we wont... we cant. Ever. Why is this all of the sudden an issue?"
"Peyton had me thinking today and" Lucas started but Brooke broke in
"And now you are getting advice from Peyton about what my body can and cant do... fine" Brooke whispered trying to hold back her anger and tears.
She walked into the bathroom leaving Lucas alone in their bedroom and shut the door. She just needed to cry and get it all out. It wasn't like she wanted another baby. She could barely take care of the 2 she had. It was just the fact that she couldn't have one. Even when they were older and more mature and decided that maybe they might want another one. It couldn't happen.
She sat with her back against the door and cried for a while, then just sat there waiting until she knew Lucas was asleep. Finally she after there hadn't been any movement in the bedroom for a while she washed her tear stained face and opened the door quietly finding Lucas asleep on the bed. She climbed in next to him trying hard not to make any noise. As upset and mad as she was at him he did need his sleep since the game was tomorrow.
Peyton woke up and looked at her alarm clock. It was 9:00 and still quiet in the Scott house. Something was defiantly wrong. She walked downstairs to the kitchen were Emma was lying in the couch with Austin watching Charmed waiting for Dawson's Creek to come on. Lucas was reading by the fireplace as usual and Brooke was in the kitchen writing something.
"Morning... You guys are quiet" Peyton laughed. There was no answer, just silence.
"Ok... what's going on?"
"Nothing" Brooke and Lucas said that he same time.
"Yea... ok well I am going to get some food for the after party tonight. Emma, Austin why don't you come with me?" Peyton asked taking the toddlers hands
"Bye" Peyton said. Neither Brooke nor Lucas even looked up from what they were doing.
The door slammed and Brooke looked up from her paper.
"We have to talk about this Brooke" Lucas finally said not being able to stand the silence
"No we don't"
"Yes we do... we talk about everything, even stuff the other one really doesn't need to know" Lucas laughed
"No we don't"
"Brooke... what's wrong?"
"No we don't" Brooke responded not even thinking
"What?" Lucas laughed
"Lucas... Why when I tell you that nothing is going to happen you doubt me but when Peyton tells you it isn't you believe every word of it?"
"It wasn't just Peyton... It was everything lately. Do you know what every person in my classes do on the weekends? They get rid of all the stress. They call home to Mommy and Daddy and get money and their biggest worry is whether or not they get an A on a paper. But we don't get that and I'm not asking for it...I just... I can't deal with us, and the kids, and school, and basketball and the worry you might get pregnant all at once. Its just too much"
"You don't have to Lucas! You're stressed because you think too much. Come on..." Brooke said pulling him towards their bedroom
"Brooke... sex is not going to help this"
"We aren't having sex..." Brooke laughed taking her shoes off
"What are we doing?"
"Jumping on the bed" Brooke giggled climbing up onto the bed and jumping.
"Why?" Lucas laughed
"Because you need to be a kid... and you cant be stressed for tonight, and if it makes you feel any better I will call the doctor and get the patch or something because I'm not giving up sex with you...and you cant make me!" She said bouncing up and down
"Really?"
"Nope... its for your health and I don't want you to die... now JUMP!"
Spoilers: BIG, BIG, BIG Stuff coming up. Peyton and Victor decide what their plan will be. The big game! Back to Tree Hill for a week... Birthdays galore! Please Review!