This is the sequel to 'I Never Meant to Hurt You'. It picks up where the other story left off in Vegas. I have a note at the bottom so please read following the story...It's very important (but don't read it before...it'll spoil the chapter...sorta)!!
"I'm actually going to miss Vegas." Brooke said as they drove past the big sign said 'Leaving Las Vegas'.
"I'm not." Lucas said truthfully, "I miss Tree Hill."
"I don't miss Tree Hill at all. I can't wait to get out of that hell hole." Brooke tossed her brown hair around.
"And what you want to move to Las Vegas. That'd be a great town to raise a kid." Lucas said sarcastically looking in his rearview mirror at their sleeping child.
"I'm just saying that it'd be a nice change." Brooke shrugged also looking back at baby Braden.
"Yeah all the drinking, drug and sex we need." Lucas laughed, thinking of Braden growing up around all of that. Just thinking about it made him shudder.
"We had our fair share of part of that, Mr. Scott." Brooke touched his arm playfully.
"That we did Mrs. Scott." Lucas said trying to keep his eyes on the road.
They drove silently for a while before any sign of civilization. It was a small town quite like Tree Hill. It made Lucas home sick just driving through it. As they drove by the people seemed to stare at them knowing that they too were small town people.
"I'm hungry and I have to pee." Brooke said out of the blue.
"Brooke, we just left. We've still got hours ahead. Can't you wait a little longer?" Lucas said firmly.
"That's all the reason to go now." Brooke said pointing out a tiny diner off the main road. Lucas reluctantly pulled in not really wanting to stop. They needed to get across the country in two days and at this rate there was no way they were going to make it.
"I really got to go. Meet me inside, babe." Brooke said as she leapt from the car and ran towards the diner.
"I think you're mother's crazy do you know that?" Lucas said opening the back door to bring Braden into the diner, "But then again we wouldn't love her any other way."
Brooke got into the bathroom and it was empty. She liked the privacy. She had had to pee so badly and she was so glad when she finally went. All of a sudden she felt nauseous and ran back into the stall to throw up. Maybe it was like that Montezuma's Revenge thing, except something from Las Vegas.
"I hope you didn't get sick from the food here." A woman said as Brooke emerged from the stall she had gotten sick in.
"Nope don't worry," Brooke said wiping her mouth, "I didn't even eat here yet."
"Good, I wouldn't want a law suit." The girl looked about Brooke's age.
"You don't have to worry about that." Brooke looked at the girl's reflection. She looked similar to someone she once knew but pushed the thought out of her head.
"Well, I hope you feel better." The girl said wiping her hands on a paper towel and then disappeared through the door.
"I hope so too." Brooke said to herself smoothing her clothes out and tucking her hair behind her ears. She walked out into the main part of the diner to find Lucas with Braden in his carrier.
"Hey my two favorite guys." Brooke said sitting across from the duo.
"Hey hun," Lucas said handing her a menu.
"So what looks good?" Brooke asked scanning the menu. She wasn't as hungry as she used to be a few minutes earlier.
"I'm going to get a burger." Lucas said closing his menu.
"Maybe I'll just get a salad." Brooke said closing her menu too.
"I thought you were starving?" Lucas asked quizzically.
"I am but I got to get my figure back." Brooke said thoughtfully. She was almost back to the shape she was in before Braden but she still had some way ago.
"Brooke, you're not fat." Lucas said glancing over her reopened menu.
"Let's not discuss this now." Brooke said putting her menu back down.
"Hey folks," The familiar cheery voice snuck up behind them, "I'm Madison and I'll be you're waitress. Could I get you something to drink?"
"Madison?" Lucas said examining the girls face.
"Yes," Madison looked over her pad, "Lucas?"
"What are you doing here?" Lucas questioned. They hadn't seen her for almost a year and then in some diner in some small town they run into each other.
"I work here." Madison's jaw dropped, "What are you doing here?"
"We're going back to Tree Hill from Vegas." Lucas still couldn't believe that the girl that disappeared from their lives with just a note was standing before them.
"What's in Vegas?" Madison didn't understand.
"We got married." Lucas motioned to Brooke.
"In Vegas? Who's bright idea was that?" Madison joked.
"Mine actually." Brooke now realized why she had looked so familiar when they were in the bathroom.
"Oh, well that's cool." Madison knew she screwed up royally again, "Oh my god. Is that your baby?"
"Yeah, his name's Braden." Lucas said proudly tilting the carrier to face Madison.
"Man I leave and the excitement begins, right?" Madison joked making faces at the tiny baby.
"I guess you can say that." Lucas shrugged.
"God, it's been a long time." Madison said fiddling with her pad.
"Why'd you leave anyway?" Brooke wanted to know the facts. She wanted to find out why she had to leave and make Peyton a wreck.
"I just needed to get out of there." Madison really did not want to talk about this, especially here. She had started anew in this small town and no one knew her horrible past.
"I thought Peyton was your friend though." Brooke needed to find out for Peyton's sake.
"She was, or is." Madison really needed to get back to work, "This little reunion has been great but I really need to get your orders."
"Sorry," Lucas said shuffling through the menu to find what he was getting, "I'll have a cheeseburger with onion rings and a Coke."
"I'll just have a Caesar salad and water with lemon." Brooke was suddenly not hungry anymore. Just thinking about Madison made her sick. That same nauseating feeling rushed over her again, "I have to go to the bathroom Luke."
She ran to the bathroom and again began throwing up. What was going on? Madison couldn't possibly be making her this sick. Yeah, Madison had almost ruined her relationship with Lucas and she had totally crushed Peyton but that wouldn't make her sick.
She looked at her reflection in the mirror. Brooke looked so pale and sick right now. Of course Brooke had to get sick when they were on a two day road tip. She wasn't the type of girl who liked to rough it anyway. She liked four star hotels and room service not small run down motels with resident workers.
She didn't want to worry Lucas so she went back out to their table. She wished they could just hop on a plane and fly back home but they were tight on cash so they were stuck to driving.
"You okay?" Lucas asked, stopping his tickling of Braden and held Brooke's hands across the table.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Brooke lied. She felt like crap.
"Are you sure? You look a little pale." Lucas said squeezing her hand.
"I'm not feeling too good but I'll live." Brooke tried to put a more convincing face.
"You're positive?" Lucas didn't like when either of his favorite people in the world weren't feeling their best.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Brooke put on the most convincing face she could and she prayed it would work.
"Okay baby." Lucas rubbed her hand one more time as Madison set their food in front of them.
"Here you go. Let me know if you need anything else guys." Madison said as she hurried away. She didn't want to have to explain herself to them; she didn't need to explain herself.
"I never realized how weird that girl was." Brooke said pushing her salad around.
"Yeah, she is acting a little strange." Lucas didn't like talking about someone behind their back.
"A little strange?" Brooke eyed him questioningly.
"Well I don't know," Lucas said taking a bite of his burger, "We've haven't seen her in a year. A lot has changed."
"Exactly." Brooke nodded in agreement, "Let's let the past be the past."
"And let's just start a new future." Lucas nodded again, "You haven't touched your salad."
"We'll get it to go. I'm not very hungry anymore." Brooke said getting up, "I'm going to go change him and then we can go."
Brooke took Braden out of his carrier and grabbed his bag and went back into the bathroom. Braden had always hated getting his diaper changed and began fussing all over the changing table. Brooke had mastered how to hold him down and change him at the same time.
"You just like to make things difficult don't you?" Brooke spoke to Braden as if he was a person around her age.
"People used to say that about me." Madison had appeared in the bathroom next to Brooke, "But I guess it's true right?"
"I wouldn't know." Brooke didn't know what to say to this girl.
"Yes you would." Madison tickled Braden, keeping him occupied so Brooke could finish changing him, "I've caused many problems for the thrill."
"So the thing between me and Lucas was just for a thrill?" Brooke could not believe that she was saying this. Madison had tried to break Brooke and Lucas up for fun.
"I've done many things I regret okay. That probably ranks at number one." Madison fixed her hair using the mirror as a guide.
"I've done things I've regretted too. This," She lifted Braden up in her arms, "was one of them, but if I didn't have him I wouldn't be the same person I am today."
"People say it's our mistakes that shape us." Madison applied some Chapstick and rubbed her lips together to spread it evenly.
"I guess they're right." Brooke played with her own hair while juggling Braden. Her stomach began churning again and her skin went pale, "Can you hold him for a second."
Brooke didn't even wait for an answer. She just threw Braden into her arms and leaned over the toilet, emptying whatever was left in her stomach. She came back out and splashed her face with some cold water before taking Braden back.
"I don't know what's going on." Brooke said turning to Madison.
"Could I take a guess?" Madison was now looking back at Brooke.
"Be my guest." Brooke sifted Braden to her other side.
"Could you be pregnant again?" Madison was taking a risk with a question like that.
"Oh god." Brooke gasped. She would've fainted if she weren't holding Braden.
"Does that mean I guessed right?" Madison really didn't want to be right. The thought of her Lucas having babies with Brooke made her sick.
"I-I don't know." Brooke managed to get out. They had been so careful so that this wouldn't happen again.
"I could be wrong." Madison offered. She hoped she was wrong.
"I hope you are." Brooke spoke the words Madison was thinking, "I have to go. Maybe we'll see each other soon. Peyton would probably really like to see you too."
"Please don't tell her you saw me. I'll come and see her when I'm ready." Madison said with pleading eyes.
"I won't tell her unless she asks which she probably wouldn't so you're safe. You know where to find us." Brooke said leaving the bathroom.
Lucas was waiting by the cash register trying to keep busy. He hated waiting especially when they needed to make up so much time. They still had to drive across the country and make it in two days especially if they wanted to enroll in the community college.
"Yeah ready handsome?" Brooke asked switching Braden again.
"Yes, let's go already," Lucas said impatiently.
"Alright, alright, chill out." Brooke followed Lucas out to their car.
"We just got to get home now. We're never going to make it for registration day." Lucas said hurriedly opening the door for Brooke to put Braden in the car seat and strap him in.
"We'll make it Lucas." Brooke said climbing into the front passenger seat, "We could just call your mom to fill them out for us."
"She's mad at us, remember? We left her with out so much of a good bye and hey we're getting married." Lucas reminded her.
"She'll get over it." Brooke was getting sick and tired of Lucas complaining about how mad his mother was. He was eighteen years old and still answered to his mother.
"Brooke, what's been up with you this morning?" Lucas said at a stoplight before they got to the highway, "You're starving but you didn't eat. You've got a major attitude. What's up?"
"Nothing Lucas." Brooke said focusing at something outside her window.
"You are good at so many things but you aren't good at this whole lying bit." Lucas just sat there wanting to know what's going on, "Brooke, you know you don't have to lie to me. I'll love you no matter what's going on."
"God Luke, just leave me alone okay." Brooke snapped. She really didn't mean to but she just wanted to think.
"Whatever Brooke." Lucas turned all his focus on driving. Brooke could tell that Lucas was now mad at her which she hated even more.
"Luke, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you like that. I've just got a lot on my mind right now and I just want to think about things." Brooke said sweetly.
"Things that you can't share with me right?" Lucas hated that Brooke had these secrets that she kept from him.
"It's not even that big of a deal. It's probably nothing but I just want to think." Brooke didn't want to air the fact that she could be pregnant again.
"I don't get why you just can't tell me what's going on in your head." Lucas shook his head, "I tell you everything and you, well, don't."
"Luke, you're making a big deal out of nothing." Brooke hated when they fought.
"No Brooke you're the one blowing things out of proportion. All you have to do is telling me what's with you today and this would all be over." Lucas raised his voice to a level unacceptable for him to do.
"I don't know what's going on Lucas. I wish I did." Brooke began crying. After being pregnant she found that she cried a lot easier and she was a lot more open about showing her tears.
"Now I know something's wrong Brooke." Lucas reached his hand over to rub her thigh, "Tell me, baby."
"I might be pregnant again." Brooke blurted out without thinking and the look on Lucas' face said a thousand words, "But I'm not sure so I wasn't going to tell you until I was sure."
"Just say that one more time." Lucas shook his head in disbelief, "I want to make sure it wasn't just a dream."
"I think I'm pregnant again Luke." Brooke let more tears fall.
"But you're not sure." Lucas needed to make sure he had heard everything right. He wasn't even eighteen yet and he might be the father of two.
"Right, I'm not sure yet." Brooke confirmed for him.
"Well we got to go make sure." Lucas said turning the car around, driving back towards the small town they had just left. He pulled into the parking lot of a small drugstore. Neither of them got out of the car. Neither of them wanted to face what could possibly be coming.
"We have to do this now." Brooke finally said opening her door and climbing out. She opened the back door and unbuckled Braden from his car seat.
"Let me take him." Lucas appeared next to her, prying the baby out of her hands.
"Let's do this." Brooke said reaching for Lucas' free hand. She felt so safe knowing he was around to protect her.
They walked through the store hand-in-hand. They walked straight to the aisle that held what they were looking for. Brooke grabbed an assortment of different kind of tests; the pee on the stick and the pee in a cup kind.
"I'll be out in a few minutes." Brooke said disappearing into the bathroom. She was freaking out. She was only seventeen and a mother. She couldn't have another one; she was too young for one.
Brooke did what she needed to do for all five of the tests and just sat there and waited. She had taken five tests when she found out she was pregnant with Braden and she knew that this way would be as error proof as she could get. The minutes ticked on as each test revealed the results. One after another they were finished and held Brooke's fate. One after another they each said the same thing. It was relieving just knowing the truth. She cleaned up her mess and exited the bathroom not knowing whether to be happy or sad.
"Well?" Lucas had been waiting outside the bathroom restlessly holding an equally restless baby.
"They all confirmed it," Brooke put on a weak smile, "We're having another one."
Okay so this is like a prologue...I didn't want to go through the whole pregnancy thing again so the next chapter will be the future where the new baby is born...Also there will be some more with Madison...maybe she'll be returning to Tree Hill...not sure where this story is going so give some suggestions...I will work in everything I get...
All the reviews from my last story were appreciated but I would like suggestions of improvement and things you liked and disliked as well as suggestions...if I don't get anything like that I will have to stop writing...so if you don't want that to happen read, review, critique and suggest anything you want...please tell me if you don't like it...I like the criticism.
Thanks all for reading this!