Chapter 22! I am going to do my best here! I just got back from having about 12 needles in my back so I am not in the best of moods! But I am going to try and get you guys something up before I go to Atlanta! Because after today I wont be able to write again until Wednesday! It sucks… I know. I figured I would make this chapter happy and full of questions since the next 8 are going to be busy and full of drama since I have them all planned out… hahah for once. Usually I just sit down and start writing… having no idea what is going to end up happening. I wanna thank you guys SOO much for putting up with me and my writing during these stories! It means a lot that you guys take your time to read them! Thank you so much!
QA time!
Q: Are you doing another sequel to this?
A: No! Hahaha NEVER AGAIN! Hahaha This story is about warn out… as much as I love it I have so much trouble writing these last few chapters its terrible! My new stories will be similar… Brooke and Lucas are young (1 they are in high school and 1 they are a little older, early 20's) but they will have absolutely NOTHING to do with the Brucas trilogy hahaha they are their own stories-D
Q: The whole Emma thing confused me… what was the deal with that? Why was she crying?
A: OK… I'll admit… it confused me too after I wrote it, but the way I see it is Emma is 12. Even though she is Brooke's child she is still insecure about her looks and her life… just like every other pre-teen. I know I use to cry for the dumbest reasons and it drove my parents INSANE hahaha
Ok! Now for Chapter 22…Muhahahaha (Sorry that just sounded cool)
Brooke and Haley sat in the doctor's office with Peyton. They had been so busy dealing with courtroom drama and trying to figure things out Peyton had had to cancel her doctor's appointment 3 times. Finally Brooke decided no more and forced her there making Haley tag along. Since Jake was away on a business trip (His boss was so mad that he was taking so much time off work he sent him to Texas for 2 weeks leaving Peyton under the care of Brooke and Haley) Brooke decided they could be like some kinky 3-some couple and creep the doctor out. Haley and Peyton weren't exactly going for the idea but it made Brooke smile.
"Brooke… you have chill bumps" Haley laughed looking at the tiny bumps on her bare arms
"No I don't"
"Yes you do! Look at your arms"
"This place creeps me out" Brooke whispered pulling her coat over her arms. She hoped this showed Peyton what a good friend she was because she didn't do this for just anyone.
"Why?"
"Why do you think?"
"Uh… they take you out back and beat you?" Peyton laughed putting down her book
"No… every time I come in here I remember that first doctors appointment…"
"Oh that sucks"
"Very much so" Brooke whispered looking at the picture of some stupid furry bunny on the wall. It was the same picture they had had up there 13 years ago
"But it got happier right?"
"Once I had her…"
"I went to a different doctor with mine" Haley laughed
"Fun…"
"You think its possible to run out of conversation?" Peyton asked picking her book back up. They had spent so much time together lately their conversations were starting to get shorter and shorter
"Yes"
"Because I think we have done it"
"Me too" Brooke sighed staring back up at the creepy bunny
"Peyton… Mrs. Scott… both of them… oh lordie" The doctor laughed walking in the room
"Calm down… we're just here as friends"
"Thank god… this world doesn't need anymore Scott children running around"
"And this is why I went to a different doctor" Haley whispered rolling her eyes at the doctor
"So how are all of you? Brooke how are Lucas and the kids?"
"I wouldn't know… see Peyton, Haley and I are now a couple…" Brooke smiled putting her arm around Haley… now this was a cure for boredom
"Brooke…"
"You guys are so boring… their good… Lucas is a home with all 4 of them… maybe I will run into Brad Pitt on the way home and fun off"
"You haven't changed a bit now have you?" The doctor smiled looking annoyed
"Never"
"Peyton, how have you been feeling?"
"Not the greatest. I think I am gaining 10 pounds a week!" Peyton laughed throwing Brooke her book hoping it would keep her quiet
"You are a little bit big for this stage in the pregnancy… but it could be a number of things… no reason to worry"
"Are you eating well?"
"She cleaned out our refrigerator…" Brooke giggled to Haley
"Hey! I am eating for 2"
"I didn't say that was bad P. Sawyer"
"You know that isn't my last name anymore" Peyton whined
"You will always be P. Sawyer to me!"
"Ok lets take a look here… Baby looks good… getting big… Peyton, have you been tested for gestational diabetes?"
"No… what's that?" Peyton asked changing to a very serious tone
"Its just when the mother develops a case of diabetes while pregnant… a lot of woman get it…"
"No… I haven't"
"Well we'll run a quick blood test… don't worry"
By 11:30 Lucas was ready to pull his hair out. It was like Emma, Austin, Maddie, and Carter decided that as soon as Brooke was out of the house… that was when they were bored, or sick, or whiney. Never giving him a second to relax or sleep late or anything. He could only imagine how Nathan felt… at home with 5. At least they were at home now… and he had his house and his children back to himself… now only Peyton was there which was nice since she helped Brooke keep her mind off of things and Brooke helped her.
"Daddy!" Maddie squealed running into Lucas's arms just as he had finally gotten Carter settled on the couch watching Teletubbies. He knew Brooke was going to kill him but it was the only thing that kept him entertained.
"What?"
"Austin hit me!"
"No I didn't!" Austin yelled from the kitchen
"Yes he did! Look!"
"I don't see anything" Lucas laughed kissing her arm
"That's because there is nothing there?" Austin sighed glaring at Maddie
"Was I bevable?"
"Believable?" Lucas asked putting her down on the floor
"Uh huh"
"Yes…" Lucas sighed giving into her… it was pointless to argue with a 4 year old… especially when he knew he wouldn't win
"See! I tolded you I was a good actress!"
"God…"
"God can't hear you daddy… talk louder" Maddie whispered
"Maddie…sweetie… I thought you were sick"
"I am"
"Then why aren't you in bed?" Lucas asked picking her up and hanging her upside down over his good shoulder
"You believeded me again!" Maddie giggld
"Maddie!"
"Whatie?"
"Your nuts…" Lucas laughed
"Like a squirrel?"
"You know what mommy use to call squirrels?"
"What?" Maddie giggled trying to break free from Lucas who was now tickling her
"Squellers"
"That's silly!"
"Mommies silly" Lucas laughed sitting her on the couch beside Carter
"Can we go ride Bob tomorrow?"
"Nope… it's going to rain"
"The nextest day?" Maddie begged hugging Lucas so that she seemed sweeter
"Nope…court date"
"But Bob is lonely…"
"Bob is a horse" Lucas sighed
"Shh! He might hears you Daddy! Then he will runs away from home and be losted for ever and never know who he really is!"
"Emma…"
"What?" Emma laughed sitting down beside them
"No more Dawson's Creek for her"
"Agreed"
"Dad there's nothing to do" Austin complained joining them on the couch
"Its Christmas break… you can think of something"
"What did you do on Christmas break?"
"At what age?" Lucas laughed
"Um… our age"
"Haley and I usually found some kind of trouble to get into…one time we were blowing up bottle rockets, which I will add are totally illegal in North Carolina… and we almost caught Dan's house on fire"
"Oh my God! What happened?" Emma shrieked
"We ran like hell and never did it again"
"What did you do when you were older?"
"How much older?" Lucas asked know exactly where this was going
"Like high school"
"And that you guys are still too young to hear about"
"That's ok… mom will tell us later" Emma laughed turning off Carter's teletubbies
"Dad… please take us somewhere fun"
"Pese" Carter begged still in a trance
"Now you guys have Carter begging and he doesn't even know what you are talking about…"
"Daddy"
"Ok… get your coats…" Lucas sighed giving up. He obviously wasn't going to win when he was up against 4 kids
"Yes!"
"Where are we going?" Maddie asked jumping up and down on the couch
"It's a surprise"
"Is it a toy?"
"Nope…" Lucas said stopping her jumping
"Another brother?"
"NO"
"Um"
"No ums Ladybug… coat…" Lucas laughed helping her and Carter down
"But?"
"No Buts"
"Daddy" Maddie giggled
Brooke, Haley and Peyton waited while they ran Peyton's blood work. Haley was entertaining herself by grading papers and Peyton was looking though a book of baby names still looking for a middle name, which left Brooke completely alone in, her boredom. She was "supposed" to be looking over court documents but it was all like a foreign language to her, which wasn't a good thing since just 2 days from now they had to be in a court room righting for Carter. Thankfully Linda was at the courthouse right now dealing with legal matters to help them in the case. So that at least put Brooke's mind at ease a little.
"This sucks" Brooke whined blocking Haley's papers so she couldn't grade anymore
"Shhh"
"Tutor girl… its Christmas break"
"So?" Haley laughed making red marks on Brooke's hand
"Cant you just like say, ok… I don't like you… you get a C?"
"Subjective grading?"
"Yea… sure" Brooke giggled stealing her pen
"No"
"Guys! I'm Bored… I should have brought one of my funny children… they are entertaining"
"What do you think about Robert?" Peyton asked ignoring Brooke's whining
"Huh?"
"As a middle name?"
"Someone kill me now" Brooke cried leaning her head on Haley, blocking all her light
"Ok… the lab called… the machines are down right now but I will give you a call as soon as we get them, ok?" The doctor smiled helping Peyton up
"Thanks"
"Can we go to the mall now?"
"Yes honey and then we will go get you some ice cream" Haley mocked talking in a baby voice
"Shut up"
"So anything I should do until we know?" Peyton asked looking worried
"Just keep doing what you have been… any problems call me Ok?"
"Thanks"
"Mall…" Brooke giggled throwing Haley's papers in her bag
"After you get your phone"
"Hello?" Brooke asked answering her pink sparkly phone
"Its Linda"
"Hey"
"Want some good news?" Linda asked excitedly
"Please"
"The judge on you guys case… he is all for re-uniting parents with their children"
"Ok Linda… sweetie that's BAD news" Brooke said slowly
"Let me finish… but he was 3 adopted children of his own… so he sees both sides!"
"Yay?"
"Yes YAY! That's awesome!"
"Oh then YAY!" Brooke giggled. She tried to sound excited for Linda's sake but she really wasn't. She had sworn to herself as soon as this started that she wouldn't let anything get her too excited… just incase she ended up getting hurt
"I couldn't get in touch with Lucas…"
"No telling"
Lucas helped Maddie and Carter up the stairs behind Emma and Austin to the Put-Put green on top of his mom's café. He couldn't believe they had been here for almost 5 months and he still hadn't brought them up here to play. Of course he and Brooke were a little scared after their "Incident" there so they did avoid it for a while… just incase. In the daylight it looked just like it always did… only with a few leaves scattered around the holes.
"Wow" Austin said in awe looking at the amazing golf course
"You and Tutor girl made this!"
"What is this?" Maddie asked totally confused
"It's a put put course"
"Put put?"
"Like golf?" Lucas laughed handing her a ball
"Golf?"
"You are way too sheltered…"
"Can we play?" Emma asked grabbing a putter
"That's what I brought you here for"
"LOOK DADDY! Its what they kill people with!" Maddie shrieked seeing the golf club
"Ok… not sheltered enough apparently"
"What do I do with them?"
"Oh My God this is sad… ok you hit the ball…" Lucas laughed
"Like this?"
"No Lula! You hit the ball into the hole! Not into the ground" Emma giggled at Maddie's desperate attempts to figure the game out
"This is ball abuse!"
"Its not ball abuse… the ball isn't real" Lucas laughed showing Maddie how to hit the ball
"Daddy! The ball can hear you! Be nice"
"Maddie…" Brooke smiled walking towards them, she could only imagine what Maddie was worried about now
"Mommy!"
"Hey Baby girl!"
"Mama!" Carter shrieked
"Hey Cheery… how did you find us?" Lucas asked hugging her once all the kids had made their way back to the game
"Driving downtown… 5 people standing on a roof… figured it was a safe bet, Maddie what are you doing?"
"Daddy is abusing his balls! He is hitting them with a killing stick!"
"Brooke… that's not funny" Lucas said stopping her before she said anything about the comment by kissing her
"How is that not funny? That has to be the funniest thing I have heard all day" Brooke laughed breaking away from the kiss
"Don't you dare expand on her comment"
"Fine… but only because I love you and you asked nicely… Maddie that was great"
"What?" Maddie asked confused
"Nothing… come here, how was your day?" Lucas asked pulling Brooke over to the bench with him
"Boring… I missed you"
"You 2 are gross" Austin gagged
"Well if we weren't so gross you wouldn't be here"
"Lets just play"
"What is Carter doing?" Brooke asked squinting at Carter who was trying to dribble the golf ball
"Trying to play basketball with the golf ball…"
"Nice… Carter I wanna play too"
"Ball" Carter smiled handing Brooke the ball
"What color is it?"
"Bwue"
"So smart! Not only are our kids hotter than Tutor wives kids! But they're smarter! How did we manage that?" Brooke giggled handing the ball back to Carter
"Your mean today Cheery!"
"Me? Never… Sorry the boredom was getting to me… so are we going to play or what?"
"Where's Peyton?" Lucas asked secretly hoping she was gone for good. It wasn't that he didn't like having her there… she kept Brooke company and was great to watch the kids… they had just had non-stop people in their house for the past few months and it was getting annoying
"Haley is dropping her off later"
"Have fun at the mall?"
"Of course I did…Linda called" Brooke smiled leaning up against Lucas
"Good news"
"Later… but yea"
"Lets go!" Emma yelled getting annoyed with all the waiting
"You guys play… we'll watch"
"Are you going to kiss?" Maddie giggled
"Maybe… you got a problem with it Ladybug"
"Nowa"
"Good…" Brooke smiled winking at Maddie
"Your silly mommy"
"Silly…"
"Yea" Maddie laughed petting her golf ball
"Go play"
"Wow" Lucas said after a long pause
"What?"
"Its kinda crazy…"
"What is?" Brooke asked totally confused.
"15 years ago when we met… did you have any idea we'd end up like this?"
"Together?"
"Yea… and happy" Lucas smiled
"Who says I'm happy?"
"Your funny…"
"I know" Brooke giggled kissing him
"Are you ready for this?"
"This and what it could do to us?" Brooke sighed
"For better, for worse right?"
"Right…"
Spoilers: Ok so forget every other spoiler you have read because last night I sat down and I figured out the rest of the story like a good person hahaha. A lot is the same… the next 4 or 5 chapters are going to be dealing with court battles… Christmas break, Emma and Boys, Austin and Maddie, ect. Then about chapter 28ish will be Peyton and her baby, Lucas dealing with Dan and his coach and what he really wants, Brooke being Brooke bonding with Emma… all that fun stuff, finishing up with Keith/Karen/Nick. Then 29 will be some serious closure! And Emma's 13th birthday… and then 30 is a surprise! So that's a general map of how things are going to go from now on… things could vary but that's the basic jist! Enjoy and please review!
