Chapter 21! YAY! Fun fun fun! This one is pretty long and I tried to give everyone a good amount of screen time. I am going to Atlanta this weekend so I don't know when I will have the next update up. I will try and put one more up before I leave but it just all depends! I'm just so busy! LOL Anyway hope you guys like! ENJOY and please review!
"Brooke…" Haley whispered tapping Brooke on the shoulder
"What?"
"Come on…"
"Where?" Brooke whined pulling the covers back over her head
"Downstairs"
"Why, its 3:00 in the morning"
"No its not" Haley laughed looking at the clock
"What time is it then?"
"3:12 in the morning…"
"Tutorwife… die" Brooke groaned sliding closer to Lucas
"Brooke…"
"Make Lucas go"
"He is sleeping" Haley whispered looking over at Lucas who was scratching his head
"So am I…"
"Not anymore"
"Tutorgirl…" Brooke whined louder to get her point across
"Come on…"
"This better be good"
"It is" Haley laughed handing Brooke her robe
"I mean seriously good… like Brad Pitt good"
"Peyton and I have a plan?"
"Do you remember the last plan you and Peyton had?" Brooke asked glaring at Haley as she tried to get her hair up
"Yes…"
"And what was it?"
"To wait you and Lucas out until you broke up so Peyton could date him" Haley giggled
"Great…"
"Brooke…"
"Brooke go" Lucas groaned turning over
"Lucas! Whose side are you on?"
"Hers… I wanna sleep"
"You'll pay for this broody…" Brooke sighed throwing her pillow at him
"Go…"
"Come on…"
"Are you guys coming?" Peyton yelled from the stairs
"Who all is in my living room at 3:00!"
"Someone who could be very helpful to this whole situation"
That word. Situation. It made Brooke cringe. Since when had her family become a situation for some judge to deal with? Apparently since 4:00 yesterday afternoon when their so-called lawyer had told them there actually was a chance they could loose him to Justine. "Foster families are families to look after the child until it can be re-united with a family member or be adopted." She had said looking Brooke and Lucas straight in the eyes. Since then Brooke had come up with 2 plans to make everything work. 1, sleep with the judge, or 2 run away to Mexico. Lucas didn't seem content with either plan so she had to later throw them out the window.
"Ok… close your eyes" Haley said blocking her view
"Why…"
"Because its kinda a surprise"
"I hate surprises" Brooke giggled trying to be a pain
"Just do it" Haley laughed
"Brad Pitt had better be standing in my living room"
"Brooke!"
"Linda! Your not Brad Pitt!" Brooke screamed running to hug Linda
"No…"
"That's ok you were my second choice! What are you doing here?"
"So its midnight right? And I am reading to Kenny and Josh and I get this phone call from these 2 crazy girls saying they knew you and you needed some help, so of course I hung up on them. Then they called back like 20 times and finally I believed them!" Linda laughed
"YAY!"
"I know!"
"Wait… how is she supposed to help the situation?" Brooke asked totally confused
"Brooke, Jeff and I have 2 adopted children and 1 foster… we know how these things work"
"So you can help?"
"I can try!" Linda smiled hugging Brooke again
"This is great! I knew I made friends with you guys for a reason!"
"Uh huh…" Peyton laughed
"Where are Jeff and the kids?"
"Home… in the bed"
"Lucky them" Brooke whined
"Mommy… why awre you yelling?" Maddie asked walking sleepily down the stairs into Brooke's arms
"Maddie go get in the bed with Daddy"
"Winda!" Maddie shrieked seeing Linda
"Hey sweetcakes… Look at you!"
"This is our house!"
"I see" Linda laughed
"You has hair!"
"I know…"
"No more rainbow hair?" Maddie asked sadly seeing Linda's plain black hair
"Nope… all my new hair grew in so no more rainbow wigs"
"Oh…"
"I hear you have a brother" Linda said trying to change the subject to something happier
"I has 2 brothers!"
"Wow…"
"And a gianticamous Frosty!" Maddie squealed
"She still isn't over him?"
"Nope…"
"Maddie… go wake daddy up" Brooke whispered giggling
"Why?"
"Because if I don't get to sleep he doesn't either"
"Carter is alweady doing it" Maddie whispered back
"Nice… I bet he wants to play basketball! HA! That's what he gets…"
Lucas laid in bed trying his hardest to make Carter fall bask asleep but nothing was working. All he wanted to do was play basketball… convincing a 2 year old that basketball at 3:00 am wasn't the best idea wasn't easy.
"Dada… ball" Carter whined jumping up and down on the bed making in impossible for Lucas to go back to sleep
"No… sleep"
"Ball"
"Sleep" Lucas whined putting the blanket over his head
"Pese…ball"
"How about we make a tent with the sheets instead, and then sleep?"
"Tent?" Carter asked confused
"Yes!"
"Nowa…"
"Yes…" Lucas sighed pulling Carter down onto his chest
"Ball…"
"Did your mother put you up to this?" Lucas asked finally giving up
"Nowa"
"You know its 3AM?"
"Free?" Carter repeated holding up 2 fingers
"This is impossible…ok, go get your tennis shoes, but we are only playing for a little while"
"Daddy! Winda's here" Maddie squealed running into t he bedroom past Carter who was running to get his shoes
"I don't wanna know… not now… I wanna play basketball and then sleep… go get your shoes Ladybug…"
"Why?"
"Cause your playing too" Lucas said pulling her up into his arms
"Do I has too?"
"Yes…"
"Can I do slam ducks?" Maddie asked thinking hard about how much she really wanted to play
"Dunks? Yep…"
"Can I wear my Princess dwress!"
"You can wear whatever you want" Lucas said putting her back down on the floor
"And my black tomato shoes?"
"What?"
"The shoes from the black tomato movie!" Maddie giggled
"Your Dorothy shoes from the Wizard of Oz?"
"Did it has a black tomato?"
"It had a black tornado ladybug" Lucas laughed flipping on a shirt
"Shoe!" Carter yelled running back with his tennis shoes with little basketballs on them
"Carters back"
"I'll go get rweady!"
"You go do that… god its 3AM…" Lucas sighed slipping Carters little shoes onto his feet
"Tie"
"I'm tying dude"
"Ank you!" Carter smiled once Lucas had them both tied
"Your welcome… go tell mommy what we're doing"
"What the heck is going on?"
"I have no idea… I never have any idea… I just do what I am told" Lucas sighed helping Carter onto his feet
"You guys do know its like 3:00" Amber laughed rolling her eyes at Lucas
"Yes we do, thanks Amber"
"No problem uncle Luke"
"You 2 wanna play basketball?" Lucas asked nnow putting his own tennis shoes on
"At 3:00?"
"We'll pass"
"Can we play playstation?" Austin asked figuring it was worth a shot
"Why not… everyone else seems to be awake, except Emma"
"Emma's awake" Amber sighed shaking her head
"What's she doing?"
"Crying…"
"What the hell? Why?" Lucas asked. He was so confused and tired he wasn't even sure he wanted to know
"I don't know… I never know why Emma is crying these days! She cries about everything"
"You're her brother… maybe you should ask?"
"And have to listen to her boy troubles and how she is scared she is going to be flat chested? No thanks… that's what you and mom are for!" Austin laughed
"When you go downstairs to raid the fridge tell Maddie and Carter I'll be down in a second"
"Where are you going?"
"To talk to your sister…" Lucas sighed looking down the hall at her room light
"Why… you are just going to have to hear about how she is going to end up a flat old maid alone with like 27 cats"
"Austin…" Lucas said seriously trying not to laugh. Austin was right, poor Emma was so emotional right now everything was a crisis
"Just repeating what she tells me every night"
"She definitely has your mothers dramatic side…"
After listening to Madison yell from her bedroom for help looking like a princess for 5 minutes Brooke left Carter downstairs with Linda, Peyton and Haley to go help her before she tried to do something crazy like curl her pretty blonde hair. By now every light in the house was on including Emma's where she and Lucas were talking in her bedroom. Brooke made a mental note to find out what about after she finished helping Maddie.
"Ok ladybug… what's the deal?" Brooke asked walking into Maddie's room where she was struggling to get her zipper zipped
"I want to look like a princess"
"But you are a princess… so you always look like a princess"
"Mommy…" Maddie whined knowing what Brooke was trying to pull
"Ok… ok turn around…"
"Zip me"
"I am zipping… ok all set" Brooke smiled pushing the hair out of Maddie's face
"Thank you mommy!"
"Your welcome…"
"I love you" Maddie giggled hugging Brooke tight
"What do you want?"
"Will you do my eyes like Emma's?"
"Sure… why not, hand me the eye liner which I know you already have in your hand" Brooke laughed seeing the eyeliner
"Here"
"Silly… close your eyes"
"Finished?" Maddie asked
"Yep! Beautiful!"
"Like you and Emmy?"
"Just like me and Emmy…now go downstairs and wait for daddy ok?" Brooke asked trying keep from yawning
"Ok"
After Brooke got Maddie squared away she walked down the long hall to Emma's room where she was crying in Lucas's arms. Here hormones were so out of whack lately it was totally blindsiding both her and Lucas, especially poor Lucas who had no idea how to help Emma with most of her problems but he wanted to so bad. No matter how old she got or how many other children they had Emma was HIS baby girl and the whole growing up thing seemed to be harder on him then it was on Emma.
"Hey… what's wrong?" Brooke asked sitting on the other side of Emma
"Sorry…I just felt like crying…"
"Aww Emmy, crying is ok"
"Why do I feel like this?" Emma sniffled laying her head back on Lucas
"Like what?"
"Mad at the world"
"Because your basically 13…" Brooke laughed wiping a tear from her cheek
"Its normal?"
"Totally"
"Daddy… make it go away" Emma said starting to cry again
"Ha! Emmy baby that isn't going to work…" Brooke laughed
"Daddy made the chicken pox go away" Emma giggled wiping her face
"Wow… you know she means it when she calls you daddy Luke…"
"Swear to me I wont stay an A cup forever"
"Emma… look at your mother" Lucas said seriously
"DD baby…" Brooke smiled
"But Karen doesn't have any! What if I get her genes!"
"Then we'll buy you some…" Lucas laughed
"No big deal" Brooke sighed
"Wow…"
"What?"
"I wonder how many dads out there actually tell their daughters they'll buy them boobs" Lucas laughed realizing what he had just told Emma
"Only the good ones"
"Feel better?"
"A little…" Emma smiled sitting up
"Will basketball help?"
"Like we use too?"
"Only against Princess Maddie and Carter" Lucas laughed
"Is Linda really here?"
"Yep… she has a plan!"
"A legal plan?" Emma asked remembering Brooke's crazy Mexico plan
"Hey! My plans could have been legal…"
"Ok lets go before Maddie and Carter do something crazy"
"K, let me go get my tennis shoes" Emma said running to her closet
"We'll meet you down there"
"That was… interesting" Brooke laughed once they got out of Emma's bedroom
"There are no words"
"There are words… give it 3 years! Then there will be no words"
"Oh God…" Lucas sighed
"You did good Luke, most men would just leave it up to the mom when their daughters got like this"
"I'm not most men"
"I know and that's why I love you!" Brooke giggled kissing him before heading downstairs
"At least Emma is a good kid"
"I don't worry about Emma, Maddie… she is going to give us gray hairs I have a feeling, but not Emma"
By 3:45 everyone was outside. It was really warm for a December night, an un-common 70 degrees. Maddie was prancing around in her princess dress and ruby red slippers refusing to touch the ball, Carter was refusing to let go of his ball and Lucas and Emma were playing one on one while Nathan and Jake played Amber and Austin at the other goal. Meanwhile Brooke, Peyton, Haley and Linda sat on the picnic table watching and talking.
"So we had to fight to keep Kenny… even though he adopted him form Africa his mother came all the way here to try and get him" Linda sighed
"So what happened?"
"The judge saw that he knew us as his parents and up-rooting all the way to another country where he was going to be poverty stricken and exposed to AIDS"
"Yea but Justine isn't from Africa and she has a rich lawyer mother" Brooke whispered. This conversation was making her feel week in the knees.
"So what? She got pregnant young and then abandoned her baby"
"Yea but"
"But what? Carter loves you guys and he is doing well here, in his mind you're his parents and he's your son. They judge will look at that" Linda smiled comforting Brooke
"But don't some judges like to pair the family back together"
"She abandoned him once, whose to say she wont do it again… its one thing to have a baby while your on drugs or drinking and then clean up your life to get it back. Its another to abandon it like she did"
"I guess" Brooke smiled still not feeling much better
"Brooke, look at there, you see that?" Linda asked pointing to Carter, and Lucas
"Yea…"
"That little boy has no idea there is anyone else out there but you guys, and when the judge interviews him that is going to show"
"It better" Brooke laughed nervously
"It will"
"OK lets talk about something happy for a while…"
"Baby names!" Brooke squealed looking down at Peytons stomach
"Not again Brooke…"
"PLEASE Peyton! You know you want to let me name this baby! PLEASE"
"You have 4 kids who you got to name!" Peyton laughed
"Hey, technically I only got to name 2! Carter was already named and I was too drugged to name Maddie… hints why her middle name is Tallulah! Peyton! I come up with awesome names! Emmalyne? Austin? Those are great!"
"What do you have in mind…" Peyton sighed rolling her eyes at Brooke
"If it's a boy, you should totally name him Cruiser"
"Why?"
"Because that's a good name?" Brooke laughed
"What about for a girl… I mean we used the good names on Britt… Anna Brittany after both Jake and Is moms"
"Brooke!" Brooke squealed
"Right…"
"Haley Brooke!" Haley cut in
"Haley!" Peyton laughed
"Why couldn't it be Brooke Haley?"
"I wanna give it a name with meaning…"
"All mine have meaning… Amber is Precious Jewel, Hannah and Dana both mean Grace of god, Sally Princess means , and Nate means gift of god"
"Uhm, ok well that is technical… Emmalyne because it sounded cool, Austin because it went with Emma, Madison because Emma named her and yea…" Brooke laughed
"Emmalyne…" Linda sighed shaking her head
"I was 16! Besides that is a totally awesome name"
"What awre we talking bout?" Maddie asked climbing into Brooke's lap
"What to name Peyton's baby"
"Wesley!"
"Wesley? Why Wesley?" Haley laughed
"Causes its from the Princess Bride"
"I actually like that!"
"What? You are going to let my 4 year old name your baby?" Brooke whined
"Its better than Cruiser!"
"Fine… I guess I am just going to have to get a dog and name it Cruiser"
"We can buy a baby!" Maddie giggled
"Yea…" Peyton agreed
"I would hit you if you weren't pregnant…"
"That didn't stop you with Brittany"
"Maybe that's why she is the way she is!" Haley laughed
"Hey!"
"Sorry"
"OK next question…" Brooke sighed
"What?"
"Isn't Dan getting tired of watching the kids?"
"Probably" Peyton laughed
"You guys have been here for 4 days"
"Tired of us?"
"No… its like having free babysitters with Nathan and Jake, a cook with Peyton and a maid with Haley… I have to do nothing!" Brooke giggled kissing Maddie's forehead
"You do nothing anyway"
"Yea but now I feel less guilty about it"
"Mommy your silly" Maddie laughed
"I know…" Brooke smiled and then there was a long pause. They were all thinking the same thing, but Haley was the first to ask
"When's the first court date"
"Friday"
"We're here as long as you need Brooke" Peyton smiled hugging Brooke
"I know…"
"Brooke, come play!" Lucas yelled
"He just wants to watch me loose… NO!" Brooke giggled
"Come on"
"I'm sleepy!"
"I'll wake you up!" Lucas laughed helping Carter make another shot
"Mama!"
"I'll be back… I've gotta go kick Broody's ass"
"You think she will beat him?" Linda asked laughing
"Are you kidding me? No… but he'll let her win"
"Why?"
"Because he loves her. I asked him once why he let her win every time" Haley smiled
"What did he say?"
"He said it was because she smiled when she won and when he made her smile he had won too"
"Cheesy…" Peyton gagged
"I'm not going to lie to you guys… what there getting ready to go through is either going to make them or break them…"
"But you said…"
"You don't tell a mother there is good chance she could loose her baby… you just, don't"
"So you lied?" Haley whispered
"I comforted, pre-paring for the worst starts tomorrow"
"Is that necessary?" Peyton sighed
"Its 50/50 at this point…Justine could win"
Spoilers: Haha yea… ok 9 chapters left! Things heat up with Evil woman (Carter's mother) Peyton and Jake get some bad news, Haley gets an offer she cant refuse, Lucas deals with pressures from his coach and Dan, Lots to come… all leading up to the end! How depressing… ENJOY and as always… Please review!
