A/N: I just realized why someone mentioned that the thread of the story was screwed up! The site won't allow my page breaks. Annoying! I keep trying but it isn't working, but I will try to make the breaks and subjects as clear as possible so that it doesn't get confusing when I go from one thing to another. I'm trying to figure it out but even when I try to edit it on it doesn't work.

And my next agenda for today is how a lot of you are asking me to keep Brooke a live. Now, I'm not giving away the ending here or anything because I'm still not sure about the way I am going to end it but is it really completely unacceptable if kill Brooke in this one story?

And lastly, are any of you open to reading Harry Potter fan fiction? If you are I'd like to invite you to read and of course review. All you have to do is click on my name to see what I've come up with already.

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apologize in case I forgot something or left someone out.

Lucas was helping Brooke out of the hospital that afternoon.

"Hey, that's mine!" Lucas glared at Brooke as she took a bite of his ice cream cone. They

were seated in the family room

"So?" She licked her lips and smiled.

"You're mean." He pouted and Brooke didn't say anything. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." She yawned. "Just really sleepy."

"Sleep." Lucas put his arms around her.

"Okay, I'm just going to take a little nap." Brooke whispered as she closed her eyes.

She was constantly tired and didn't really have as much energy as she used to. Lucas just

watched her as she slept.

Brooke woke up to the sound of the doorbell. She knew that she wasn't in her in he

room.

"Lucas, wake up." Brooke nudged him.

"Huh?" Lucas looked at her. "I fell asleep."

"I know that nap knocked us both out." Brooke yawned but the doorbell wouldn't stop

ringing?

"Come on, butthead." Brooke yawned and stood up from the couch and walked to the

door. She opened the door and her eyes shot open.

"Brooklyn," The voice came from the door but Lucas couldn't see who it was. Lucas

went to her.

"Mom," Brooke was obviously shocked. The woman put her arms around her daughter.

"I was so worried." She saw Lucas and her expression changed. "Who is this?"

"This is my boy friend, Lucas." Brooke held onto his arm. "Luke, this is Sarah, the

woman who gave birth to me." Brooke rolled her eyes.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Lucas put out his hand.

"Likewise," She smiled. She didn't look at all from the way Brooke talked about her and

described her. Sarah Davis-Harper looked like she walked out of a JOANN magazine.

She was wearing khaki pedal-pushers and a white polo. She looked like a soccer mom to

be exact. "Are you okay?" She looked at her daughter and put her hand on Brooke's face.

"I'm fine." Brooke pulled away as she closed the door. "Where's your husband?"

"He and Sydney went to book a flight to Europe."

"Wow, and I thought you were actually going to be able to stay here even for just a day."

Brooke said dryly.

"Actually, we'll be here for two." Sarah ignored her daughter's attitude. "We're going to

take you to a doctor there."

"Whoa." Brooke's eyebrow raised. "You aren't taking me anywhere."

"Brooke, all we have to do is," Sarah continued.

"Fuck it mom!" Brooke's voice rose. "I'm graduating next week!"

Sarah looked at Brooke. "I didn't know."

"I figured as much." Brooke bit her lip. "Why don't you go back to wherever you came

from. Don't start to be a mom to me just because I am dying."

"I should go," Lucas motioned for the door. Brooke looked at him and he could see the

sadness in her eyes. "I'll call you later." Brooke nodded her head.

"I'm going to my room." Brooke turned her heel.

"No you aren't." Her mom's voice was not something she was used to hearing.

"You can't walk in here and pretend that you've been a mother to me." Brooke glared at

her. "I'm seventeen and I've lived my life without anyone telling me what to do. And I'm

not about to start listening now. So if you want to play mommy-mommy, you go right

ahead just don't make me you baby. So excuse me but I have to recuperate from this

horrible conversation that we always have when we see each other."

Brooke's mom stood there. She hadn't seen her daughter in three years and she knew it

was her fault but was Brooke that jaded? Brooke's mom had a secret that no one knew of

and sometimes Sarah just wished that she could blurt it out so that her daughter could

understand.

Brooke was upstairs in her room fuming from her mother's appearance. Brooke had

prepared herself for this but she felt like strangling her mom for pretending.

"Why do I have such a crummy mom!" Brooke screamed.

She knew her parent's had never been married and that they even despised each other for

something Brooke didn't know about. After Sarah had Sydney, Brooke's dad took her

here to Tree Hill. She was only three years old. She was happy here but she always

missed how her mom used to play dress-up with her. Brooke basically raised herself

because her dad was working all the time. Her world crashed when he died when she was

only nine-years-old, that was the first time she saw her mom in six years. She

remembered that her mom hugged her and said that she had to stay in Tree Hill. And

since then Sarah had sent Brooke a lot of au pairs to look after her in North Carolina but

Brooke got rid of them when she was thirteen. The last time her mom came to visit was

when she was fourteen. Sure, Sarah sent Brooke to travel but she usually sent Sydney to

travel with her so that the sister's could spend time together.

As soon as Lucas got home his mother had told him that Brooke had already called. He

decided that he would call her as soon as he was washed and dressed but when he got out of the bathroom Brooke was already seated on his bed.

"Hey." Brooke greeted him.

"I was just going to call you." Lucas hugged her. "How'd it go?"

"Same old shit different visit." Brooke sighed.

"Well maybe you should give her a chance. Maybe this whole situation is giving her a different outlook."

"Maybe you should give Dan a chance." Brooke frowned.

"That's a different," Lucas began.

"No it isn't." Brooke cut in. "Lucas, my dad's been dead for years now and not once has she tried to get me back."

"Okay," Lucas rubbed her shoulder.

"I mean, she could care less." Brooke bit her lip. "I know what she's after. She's after my trust fund. The lawyer said that dad left me with a lot of money."

"I'm sure." Lucas nodded.

"That's probably what she wants." Brooke concluded. "She wants to pretend to take care of me so that when I die she get all the money I'm supposed to get when I turn eighteen. The lawyer told me that I wouldn't ever have to work."

"Brooke, maybe we're being a little over the top here." Lucas said.

"Hey, you're supposed to be on my side here." Brooke said softly.

"I am on your side, B." He put one arm around her. "But don't you think you're accusations are a little over the top. Give her the benefit of the doubt."

"You don't understand." Brooke whispered. "No one really does."

"What is it?" Lucas asked.

"She's never been there." Brooke cried on his shoulder. "That woman is as much a stranger to me as she is to you. I've never spent an entire day with her."

"You must be joking."

"I'm not." Brooke wiped her eyes. "When she's in front of me I have the urge to just run and hug her but then she mentions something that just throws me back. Like, this morning she could care less if I graduated. She thinks she can just take me when she wants to and put me back when she's had me for too long. My mom has never been to any of my PTA's, plays, competitions and there are so many other things I can come up with." Brooke looked at Lucas with a pained expression. "She's never spent a birthday with me."

"I thought you and your dad didn't move out until you were three?" Lucas asked.

"It's not like I can vividly remember my first, second or third birthday." Brooke rolled her eyes.

"Come on lets get you home." Lucas put on his T-shirt.

"No." Brooke said in a baby tone.

"No?" Lucas asked. "And what do you suppose we do?"

"There's always the court." Brooke shrugged. Brooke was attached to the riverside court. It was the only place where she felt truly at peace. Plus, it totally reminded her of Lucas. It was her sanctuary when she found out about Lucas and Peyton.

Lucas put out his hand for her to take. "Then lets go."

"I want to walk." Brooke bit her lip.

"But Brooke we both know how tired you get when you walk around too long, except of course when you're at the mall." Lucas was dead serious.

"But," Brooke pouted.

"Just this once." Lucas sighed. He remembered the first time Brooke wanted to walk to the court, on the way home she was whining because he didn't think about bringing the car.

"Yeah!" Brooke clapped her hands and giggled. "I love you." She bit her lower lip and wrinkled her nose.

"I know." He tapped her nose.

"Good." Brooke smiled and nodded her head. "Now let's get."

The walked hand in hand to the riverside court. Lucas' mind seemed to be on other things.

"It doesn't bother me, Lucas." Brooke put her head on his shoulder.

"What?" Lucas looked at her confused.

"Me dying." Brooke smiled.

Lucas looked at her. "How'd you? Did I say anything?"

"No," Brooke shook her head. "But you seem to be somewhere else and you haven't let my hand go. It's starting to get numb."

"I'm sorry, baby." He kissed her hand. "How are you feeling?"

"Physically or emotionally?" Brooke blinked.

"Both."

"Physically, I've been better, emotionally, I'm drained." Brooke sighed. "I'm scared."

"Of what?"

"Not being with you." Brooke's eyes filled with tears. "That's all I'm worrying about right now. If you weren't with me I could die tomorrow and care less."

"I live for you too." Lucas kissed her forehead.

"You still have your mom, Keith and Haley. I have no one."

"You have me, always."

"I know." Brooke smiled. "And I feel like I'm going to lose you."

"Never."

"Where have you been?" Sarah had her arms crossed across her chest.

"Out, duh." Brooke rolled her eyes and headed toward the stairs.

"Do not ignore me." Sarah shook her head.

"Why? You ignored me." Brooke rolled her eyes.

"I gave you everything. I never ignored you."

"You gave me material things mom. Did you ever wonder that maybe I didn't want the latest Adidas shoes but my mother at fifteen?" Brooke raised her voice.

"I loved you the only way knew how."

"You never loved me mom. You provided for me, that's it!" Brooke yelled. "Don't you dare defend yourself because I am not afraid to fight back."

"Why is it that when we see each other the only thing we talk about is what a bad mother I am. It's always an argument." Sarah yelled.

"This is going to be the last argument." Brooke's face flamed.

"Okay, you always have to have the last word so throw it at me." Sarah said sarcastically.

Brooke kept quiet for a moment with only sadness showing in her eyes. Brooke bit her lip as a tear finally trickled down her cheek.

"You would have saved so much money if you just loved me."

A/N: I'm sorry it took so long. Its just so many things are happening right now. Guess what you guys??? My team is in the championships! Our game is next Saturday, wish us luck!! Please review.