Brooke managed to wrangle all of the kids into the house. The boys were led by Phoenix into his room and Jenny went in to her room sulking all the way.
It was only Brooke and Brody left in the living room.
Brooke watched the retreating figure of the little girl and followed her.
SHe watched as Jenny grabbed a large book off of the shelf, plob on the bed and beging to flip the pictures.
Brooke recognized the book and started to open her mouth when she heard Jenny start talking to the book,
"Hi, Mom and Dad, I know I'm talking to a book but your in it so it's like I'm talking to you. I wish you were here.Then I wouldn't have gotten into that fight today. I think this Brooke lady wants to replace you--"
Brooke set down Brody and then sat on the bed. "I would never want to do that, sweetie. Your parents were amazing and no one could ever be good enough to take their place."
Jenny looked at Brooke, "So you did know my parents?"
Brooke smiled, "Yeah, Peyton was my best friend we did everything together, like shopping and sometimes homework. And your dad was one funny guy. You know there was this one tine I was mad at Lucas and you dad set us up and we started dating again."
"Are you guys gonna start again?"
"Mabye, would you be cool with that?"
Jenny thought for a moment and nodded her head.
"Uncle Lucas still likes you."
"How do you know that?" Brooke chuckled at the girl.
Jenny flipped to pages of the scrapbook towards the back. The last picture had been taken probably the week before Jake and Peyton had died. Jenny was on Jake shoulders. Jake had one arm steading his daughter and the other was wrapped around a very pregnant Peyton. Haley had taken a clue from Jenny and was piggyback on Nathan. And then there was Lucas and Brucas wrapped in each other's arm looking at each other with that look, the one that is impossible to describe.
Jenny pointed to the picture, "That's you right? He still looks at you like that."
"How about you get ready for bed, little miss matchmaker."
In twenty minutes she had Phoenix and Jenny asleep and had taken the liberty of laying Nolan down in what appeared to be the guest room. Brody was still content to lie in his carrier besides the couch were Brooke sat, slowly drifting to sleep waiting for Lucas.
She woke up the next morning and her eye caught sight of the wall clock: 9:45. She jumped concern that she had slept that late and remembering where she was at. She looked next to her and saw that Brody-and his carrier-were gone. She went down the hallway, Jenny nor Phoenix nor Nolan were in bed. She frantically made her way to the living room, and the phone, when she saw a note next to the phone.
BROOKE,
I KNOW YOU'RE GOIN TO KILL ME, FOR SCARING YOU LIKE I PROBABLY DID. I ALSO KNOW THAT YOU NEEDED THE SLEEP. SO I ALSO TOOK THE LIBERTY OF DIGGING THROUGH YOUR PURSE, AND GETTING YOUR HOTEL KEY AND MOVING ALL YOUR STUFF TO THE GUEST ROOM-IF YOU HAVE ALREADY NOTICED-PLUS, I FIGURED THE BOYS COULD A CHANGE IN CLOTHES--AND BRODY NEEDED SOME SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THE DIAPER AREA. WE'RE PROBABLY AT BREAKFAST RIGHT NOW, I'LL BRING YOU BACK SOMETHING. HOW ABOUT YOU GET READY AND WE'LL GO SEE HALEY AND THE GIRLS (YEP, TWINS--SADIE ANN AND BREANNA GRACE?
SEE YOU SOON,
LUCAS She smiled and made her way to the guest room not knowing that Lucas had almost written love before his name. She got ready choosing to pick one of her less conservative "mommy outfits" consisting of a white shirt, black tank and jean jacket that went along with a pair of black sandals. She was just touching up her make up when she heard the front door open and the sound of Jenny coming to her, "Nolan, let me help you get your jacket off."
"Jenny, we'll be leaving soon, don't worry about that."
"Alright, Uncle Lucas."
Brooke smiled and made her way out. Lucas looked at her and smiled,
"Blueberry muffin and slice of ham."
"Thank you, Lucas, you didn't have to--"
"But I did."
"Yes you did."
Brooke went to kiss him on his cheek, but she caught sight of Jenny smiling broadly, and so Brooke reaimed the kiss to his lips. It was deep and it was real.
--Thanks goes out to Tardychick06, OTHLover04, and x3Tinkerbell07 for the names, I did take the liberty of changing Briana to Breanna 'cos it seemed a little bit odder than the norm--Thanks again.
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--Oh This is the last chapter for this one but there is a sequel coming soon...I've already got the first three chapter rough drafted--If you have any special requests or suggestions let me know