Note: This story takes place after Brooke leaves town.

Will go back and fourth every chapter from now, to past. Will say at the top weather 17 years after Brooke leaves town, or right after.

The town was small, but it would do: it would have to do. I don't have any other choice but to make this work. If I wanted to give us a chance I would make do with what I can.

Brooke had been driving for almost 5 hours now, and she finally reached the small town of Bostic North Carolina. She had finished the last day of school, she said her goodbyes to the few people that she was still talking to, and got into to her already packed car and started driving. It was a long trip after an exhausting last day of school, she had been up most of the morning with morning sickness and then had to finish packing the car and head off to school. Make that the entire past month she had been waking up with morning sickness.

She was now a little over 4 months pregnant, and was really starting to show, but she tried to hide it as best she could without wearing big clothes, that would give it away more then the stomach its self.

The whole school saw her as this slut-cheerleader that got everything she wanted, dressed like a slut, spoke like a slut, cheered like a slut, that was until he came into her life. He was Lucas Scott, half brother to her best friends boyfriend, well now ex-boyfriend and best friends to his new girl friend.

It got messed up, and fast, she knew her friend was falling hard for him, but she pushed him away and she caught him. They hit it off great and started going out, she knew he was only doing it because of Payton but she didn't care. But then she started to fall for him herself, she loved him, she knew she did. But she wasn't sure how he felt.

And then he was in an accident, a bad accident they lost him once but then he was in a coma for days. She was there by his side everyday. His mom back from Italy and they met for the first time. She didn't get along with her own mom too well and thought maybe she could get another chance with his. It worked she was nice, and liked her from what she could tell.

He finally woke up, and life was perfect. Until he told her the truth, he had been cheating on her with her best friend, Payton! But he didn't tell her, she caught him at her house, then that's when they confessed to what was going on.

She couldn't forgive him, there was no way he could actually expect an apology from her. He cheated on her! There was nothing worse then cheating on you with your best friend!

Actually there was, cheating on your pregnant girl friend with your best friend. Only he didn't know, she had just found out, and hadn't told him. She couldn't tell him, it would break his heart. He grew up living with just his mom. His dad had abandoned him even before he was born. His mom was just 18 when she had him, 3 moths later his half brother was born and his so called father took him, but left him in the dark. They grew up enemy's that was until his best friend started dating the half brother.

It was all so messed up, one best friend dating the enemy half brother. The boyfriend cheating on his pregnant girlfriend with her best friend. Sleeping around with good friends kids no good mothers, of course that was something else entirely.

How had life gotten like this? It was so easy. It is like I am watching my life go by from someone else's eye. None of this is happening to me, I just loved to party no more then that. It couldn't be happening, I just want my life back. Brooke thought to herself as she sat in her car in front of her friend Josh's house.

When she had told him all about what had been happening, he knew she needed a way out of Tree Hill, and offered her a room at his house.

They had been good friends when they were younger; he was 3 years older and had graduated the year before. He had moved to a small town in NC, called Bostic to go to an art school that was only a 30 min drive from there.

She wanted to escape Tree Hill, there was no other way of escaping without going to live with Josh, she didn't mind she loved Josh like a friend, and he loved her back the same way. She knew he would help her through her pregnancy and that he would be there for her if she needed him.

"Are you just going to live in your car, or are you going to actually come inside." Josh called from him doorstep.

"Huh" Brooke asked confused, she had been thinking about Lucas when his voice brought her back to reality.

"I said are you coming inside?" he replied walking towards the car.

She got out and gave him a hug, it was good to see him, it had been a year since they last saw each other, that was the day he left for Bostic, there had been tears in her eyes as she watched him drive down the street and turn the corner.

Josh opened the door and walked down the hall with her bags, she followed admiring his house and the insides.

"Well hers your room Brooke," he said setting her bags down on the bed with no sheet covers. "I know it's not much to look at now, but well its you. I know you will have this room looking better then the house in no time." He told her with a grin on his face.

"You know me all too well Josh, thanks for this, for everything you've done." Brooke said giving him another hug.

"Well you haven't seen everything yet," he said grinning and walking back into the hall, he stopped in front of the door that was next to hers. "I give you...the nursery." He said opening the door.

"Oh my gosh Josh!" she said when he opened the door. The room was a light but bright yellow, there was a white crib in the corner, and next to that was a white wicker rocker. On the other side of the room was a white changing table and white armoire. "Its perfect Josh!" she said hugging him, practically knocking him over with excitement.

"Its no big deal, I just wanted you to know that I hope you stay for a while, and I will be here for you and your baby, and that I don't ever want you to feel like you need to leave, Brooke your like a sister to me, and I love you just like that."

Brooke now had tears in her eyes, she felt the same way about him, he was like a brother, she hoped that he would be there for her even after the baby was born, but even helping her through the pregnancy was more then she ever thought someone would do for her. "Josh I can NEVER EVER thank you enough for doing this for me, and you are just like a brother to me, so I guess you're stuck with me." She replied batting her lashes at him.

"That's fine with me, but there is one thing I was hoping you would do." He said walking over to the rocker and sitting down. She walked over and sat on his lap.

"What is it?" she asked looking at him.

"Tell the father," he replied knowing this conversation could lead to one huge fight, "Please."

"Josh! How could you say that! You know what he did to me! He cheated on me with my best friend!" she yelled at him standing up and backing a couple steps from him, she was worried that if she stood too close she just may reach up and slap him.

She didn't understand how one second she could feel like she owned her future to him for what he was doing for her, and the next want him to go to Hell along with Lucas.

"Brooke, I want you to be happy, you know that. I know what he did to you was beyond words, but not telling him about his own child that, that's well Brooke it's not right. He has a right to know about his own child." He replied walking over to her.

"I can't Josh, I know if I talk to him, we'll just start fighting, I don't want that. I don't want him even knowing where I am, I just need some time to think, but I will tell him sooner or later." She replied calming down a bit.

"Sooner rather then later please Brooke, and why don't we go grab a bite to eat, I'm hungry an did know if I'm hungry you must be starting." He said with that same grin he had on several times already she arrived.

She playfully hit him in the stomach, "I am eating for two you know." She replied as he said ow.

They decided to order pizza for dinner, since neither of them felt like attempting to cook. They sat and talked while they ate their pizza, talked about the year since Josh moved from Tree Hill. Josh explained that he had found a high school for unwed mothers that she could attend. It would provide childcare during the school day for only 5 dollars per child, but they only had enough room for 35 kids a day because of money costs. If you came late and the childcare was already full then you wouldn't have any other option but to get your homework for the day and go home. Brooke thought this really wasn't fair to the mom's; many of the moms lived on their own and didn't have very much money, most on welfare. This wasn't the case for Brooke. Although her parents were upset that she left Tree Hill to move to Bostic they thought that the school was a good thing for kids "like" Brooke. Her father made a donation to the school of 25,000 dollars. That allowed them to build onto the school and to the day care area, now they could hold 55 kids now, and the school only had 45 kids total. That would even allow the school to grow and take in more unwed teens that needed and wanted to further their education. "Brooke are you coming?" Josh said knocking on her bedroom door. "Yeah...I'm coming," she said getting up from her seat on the floor next to the toilet and opening the door. "Feeling sick again?" he asked when he saw her. "How could you tell?" she said sarcastically. He just grinned and said, "cause you look like Hell, well lets just get going ok? Are you going to make it to school?" he asked. "Yeah I'll be fine, lets go."

Brooke followed Josh out to the car. It was her first day at the new school, and honestly she didn't want to go.

Brooke walked in and saw a couple girls holding a sleeping baby. There was a little girl no older then 3 on the floor screaming that she wanted a "ookkie," which Brooke took as a cookie. The mom was trying her best to calm the little girl down by telling her she could have on later, it didn't look like it was working too well.

"Hey you must be new," a girl with Blonde hair, said when she noticed Brooke.

"Yeah I am, how could you tell?" Brooke replied not sure if she really wanted to be talking to anyone, she still felt like crap from morning sickness.

"Well first of all, no kid by your side, and most start before their kid is born, and you look like you've had your face in a toilet all morning." She replied switching the baby to her other arm. "Well I'm Cassie, and this is my daughter Lily." She said.

"I'm Brooke," Brooke replied.

"So what's your story?" Cassie asked.

"Well my boyfriend dumped me for my ex-best friend," Brooke replied with a sarcastic smile on her face.

"Oh, ouch, that's gotta suck."

"Tell me about it."

"So he just left you pregnant for the other girl?" Cassie asked.

"Actually they're not together because she still wants to be friends. And when he found out he wanted to be there for me, I didn't want him there for wrong reasons so I told him I lied and left town. Haven't talked to him since, its been about a month." Brooke replied as they started walking towards the day care.

"So he doesn't know?" she asked as they entered the day care and she set Lily into a crib.

"Nope, and its going to stay that way as far as I'm concerned.

"Where are you living then?" she asked as they left eh room and were walking back down the hall.

"A friend of mine graduated last year, and he is letting me live with him."

"I wish I had a friend like that, my parents have no money and so I had to get two jobs to pay for the things Lily needs."

"My parents really don't want anything to do with me, but they send me money and give me what they think I need, which is more then enough. I think they are trying to bribe me so I won't tell any of the precious friends that their no good slut of a daughter is 16 and pregnant. But my dad did make a donation to the school for 25,000 dollars."

"You mean your dad is Mr. Davis? The one that donated all of that money?' she asked shocked.

"Yeah, I got him to, it wasn't too difficult, and I thought that way more people can go to school here."

"Well it's helped, I haven't had to miss school once since they added on. Well we better go that was the 2nd bell."

The day seemed to go by slowly for Brooke, she just wanted to get home and rest, and she was getting tired more easily as her pregnancy progressed.