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"Who will find out they are brothers?" Nathan repeated

"Mom, who is that man?" Lucas asked

Haley and Peyton pushed through their brothers to come into the door and came to face with the sad faces of their mothers and the anger faces of their fathers.

Haley walked over to her mother and asked, "Mom, what is going on? Who is that man?"

Karen just looked her daughter. She didn't know what to say

"Is somebody going to tell us what is going on?" Peyton asked with a worried look on her face

Keith and John looked at each other, then at their wives. Karen and Deb nodded their heads. Keith looked coldly at Dan as he walked towards Nathan and Lucas.

"Dad?"

"Nathan, Lucas" Keith started. This was going to be the hardest thing he has ever had to do. He took a deep breath and continued. "We just found out some news, that we think you need to know."

"Uncle Keith, just tell us"

"Your father has a genetic disease and it is highly likely that you have too. He is dying"

"I don't understand. Whose father?" Lucas asked

"Both of you"

Lucas and Nathan just looked at each other in confusion.

"What do you mean?" Nathan asked

At this time, John chose to jump into the conversation. "Nathan, you and Lucas share the same biological father. You two are not cousins, you are brothers"

Lucas just looked his dad, his mom and then at the man standing in the middle of the room. He couldn't believe this; they had been lied to their whole lives. Tears started welling up in his eyes but he wouldn't let them fall.

Nathan had the opposite reaction to hearing the news. He wanted to run. Instead, he decided to scream.

"How could you?!?!?!" Nathan screamed

Deb walked towards her son and tried to touch him, but Nathan refused. "Don't touch me. You lied to me"

"Nathan-" Deb started to say, but before she could say anymore. Nathan ran out the door of the café and right into Jake

"Whoa Nathan" Jake said as he looked at the face of one of his best friends. "What is wrong, man?"

"Move man" Nathan said as he walked around Jake " I have to get out of here and away from them"

"Away from who?" Jake yelled after Nathan as he ran down the street

Back inside the café, Haley and Peyton stood stunned. Peyton walked over the Haley and put her head on her shoulder. She couldn't believe what she had just heard.

"Why-" Lucas started to ask, but he couldn't find his voice

Karen stepped away from the girls and walked cautiously towards her son " Lucas, please"

"Is he?" Lucas said pointing to Dan

"Is he your biological father?" Karen asked, when Lucas nodded his head "Yes, he is"

Lucas just looked at the man standing in the middle of the room with a cold stare. He didn't want to even look at him. He had heard the stories of how he had left his mother when she was pregnant with him. Lucas walked past the man towards the back of the café, as he did he looked at his sister.

Haley stood there beside Peyton as she locked eyes with Lucas tears started streaming down their faces. Haley was crying not only because of the hurt she could see in her brother's eyes, but because she could feel the sadness in the room.

Haley looked at where her brother had walked. She wanted to go after him, but she knew that he wouldn't want her too. When he wanted to talk, he would find her.

Karen turned from where she had been standing in front of Lucas to face Dan. "I surely hope that you are happy."

Dan who had been standing in the same spot silent looked right into Karen's eyes and said, "they had to know"

"Get the hell out of my café." Karen yelled

Dan looked at Deb, then back at Karen and walked out the door

As soon as the door closed, Karen burst into tears.

Keith walked over to his wife and pulled her into a hug talking softly in her ear. "It will be ok."

"What kind of genetic disease is it?" Peyton asked

"Pulmonary fibrosis" John answered as he looked at his daughter

"That can kill you." Peyton responded with tears coming to her eyes.

Nathan stood in the middle of the River Court bouncing the basketball that he had found. He could not believe this. They had lied to him.

He shot the ball at the basket and missed. As the ball came down, Lucas caught it.

"I guess we had the same idea" Lucas said

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