Serious fan: you have me a little confused with your review...what do ya mean about Lucas being dumb...so lost but thanks for reviewing...lol...getting hooked on reviews even though I don't get it...didn't think I made Lucas really dumb but guess I was wrong.
So here's the next chapter my friends. I'm trying to ease all the characters together so they all form bonds and all. I will try to do a chapter the way I did the other one everyone liked but it's no guarantee. Give me your thoughts and suggestions and as always REVIEW!
"I'm going to the store. Do you guys need anything?" Kirsten said after knocking on the door.
"Just some baby foods." Brooke said after thinking, "but I can go out later and get them."
"With what money?" Kirsten added knowing Brooke was broke.
"Point taken." Brooke said defeated.
"I have money." Lucas said pulling out his wallet.
"No, the condition of you guys living here is that you save up and don't pay a thing until you graduate high school." Kirsten knew what it was like to be a mother so young. She had Seth when she was seventeen.
"I know!" Brooke was tired of hearing the speech. She had tired to pay for so many things in the past weeks she had been staying with the Cohen's but she always got the speech.
"Alright I'll see you guys later." Kirsten said leaving. The trio was again left alone trying to keep each other company. It was still awkward between Brooke and Lucas. Neither really knew what to say to each other anymore.
They couldn't say that they wanted things to be like they were because obviously they weren't that strong to overcome their problems. They needed to start a new relationship with a new respect for each other.
"What do you want to do?" Brooke finally asked breaking the silence. She had been staring at Lucas and the way he had instantly bounded with Adam. It was so strange how one minute Adam didn't know his father and now all of a sudden he was there to stay or that was what Brooke figured.
"I don't know. You've been out here longer than I have." Lucas really didn't care what they did. He only cared about making things better for all of them.
"We could go to the pier or the beach or both." Brooke suggested standing up. They had just been lying around all morning since Haley left.
"Sounds good to me." Lucas said following Brooke towards the door grabbing a diaper bag on their way out.
"And where are you two love birds going?" Seth said walking out toward the pool in his bathing suit.
"To the beach for your information." Brooke said sticking her tongue out at Seth. Seth and Ryan were the closest things she ever had as far as siblings go. She liked the feeling she got when they teased each other or just fought like all the other siblings did.
"Sex on the beach?" Seth raised his eyebrows like he knew everything.
"Seth!" Brooke said smacking his arm.
"What it's a drink!" Seth said. "I'm in party mode okay. The biggest bash in Newport is tonight!"
"Don't play dumb with me Seth!" Brooke said warningly. Ever since Adam came along Brooke had this motherly tone with everyone. She was a normal almost seventeen year old anymore.
"I don't have to play dumb I am dumb." Seth said with a wide toothed grin, "I'm blonde at heart, as my mother always tells me."
"Okay, anyway." Lucas said not feeling comfortable. He hadn't really bonded with either Seth or Ryan and he planned to keep his distance. They did act like Brooke was their little sister, taking on the protective older brother roles and that scared Lucas. Ryan was a pretty tough guy and Lucas didn't want to get in it with him.
"Play good kiddies." Seth said lowering himself in the hot tub. It was one of those rare occasions that Seth Cohen had alone time and he was just going to relax until the party later, "You guys should so come to the party tonight."
"I think Summer is so rubbing off on you." Brooke mocked Seth's girly remark.
"We were meant for each other." Seth smiled just thinking about him and Summer.
"Yeah I feel the same way over here." Lucas said trying to connect with Seth on something. Lucas figured if he got in with Seth, Seth would talk Ryan into liking him too.
"Dude, I'm sorry but I just don't feel the same way. My heart belongs to someone else." Seth grabbed his heart and closed his eyes, "I'm sorry if I led you on in anyway."
Brooke burst out laughing, "Luke you so just set yourself up for that one."
"Laugh it up now you two. Just remember this later." Lucas said pulling Brooke along toward the front door.
"Party?" Seth yelled after.
"Maybe." Brooke yelled over her shoulder, "I'll tell you later."
Adam sat in the sand throwing it all around him getting everywhere possible. It was going to be hell cleaning him tonight.
"They don't have beaches like this in Tree Hill." Brooke said closing her eyes, soaking in the atmosphere. Lucas turned and looked at her just as a sea breeze blew her hair back. It reminded him again why he loved her so much.
"I think about this a lot. I don't miss Tree Hill on bit. Too many bad memories. I guess it was good for me to just start over." Brooke watched as Adam tried to crawl away but instinct kicked in and Lucas grabbed him before he could get anywhere.
"But what about all your friends? Don't you miss them?" Lucas didn't understand how you could just pick up and disappear and not miss anyone.
"What friends?" Brooke didn't expect Lucas to grasp the fact that she really didn't have any friends.
"Um, me, Peyton, Hales, Nathan, Teresa. Do they ring any bells?" Brooke didn't seem the same anymore. Something about her was different. He couldn't figure out if she had distanced herself or she was at peace with her inner battle.
"They never liked me Luke. They never really knew me." Brooke shook her head and looked out onto the horizon, "No one did. And it's not their fault that no one knew me. That was all my mess but still it hurt that they just didn't care to try."
"What do you mean I didn't know you?" Lucas couldn't believe that Brooke Davis, the most popular person in school was saying she had no friends. Everyone wanted to be her friend or be like her.
"I didn't let you know me Lucas because I was scared that you wouldn't like me." Brooke never took her eyes off the horizon, "I'm not this materialistic wild child that I come off as."
"I knew that all along Brooke." Lucas touched her should empathetically, snapping her out of her trance.
"Yeah you knew me better than anyone but I still didn't trust you. I couldn't and I was right not to trust you." Brooke's tone turned low and bitter. People had betrayed her all her life and didn't even think about how much it had damaged her mentally. Her parents were never there. They probably didn't even know she was gone. Her friends were backstabbing and twofaced. Ultimately she was alone until she was blessed with Adam who, though he was only six months, had taught her so much about life.
"I don't blame you. I used to not trust myself. But I've truly changed Brooke and I've been noticing that you've changed a whole lot too." Lucas rubbed his hand through his hair, "We're two different people than we were a year ago. We just have to start this whole thing over."
"I didn't trust myself either. I prided myself on being the town slut but truthfully you were the first person I'd ever slept with." Brooke stared now at Lucas.
"I knew that too." Lucas brushed a hair off her face, "I knew a lot of things about you that you didn't even know."
"Oh really?" Brooke's lips curled in a smile, "Like what?"
"Well, when you think really hard and concentrate you do this little thing where you scrunch your face and bite your lip." Lucas smiled thinking of that face.
"That's not something special about me. Anyone could've picked up on an expression." Brooke realized that she did make that face a lot.
"Ah well I can't think of things on the spot like this." Lucas blushed a little wanting to give up on this game.
"Lucas Scott cracks under pressure." Brooke said loudly, "That hasn't changed."
"I do not crack under pressure." Lucas protested standing up and lifting Adam high in the air.
"Looks like I know something about you that you don't know." Brooke teased scrunching her face in a teasing smile.
"I'm very in-tune with myself. I know everything there is about me." Lucas said seriously walking towards the pier.
"Okay Scott, keep telling yourself that." Brooke laughed running to catch up to her boys.
"Oh I will." Lucas pushed her away from him playfully and she pushed him back.
It was like being on the beach brought them back together after the year that had passed between them. The year they had lost was erased and it was again just the two of them, plus Adam of course.
"What time is it?" Brooke said not having her watch with her.
"Almost three. Why?" Lucas said adjusting his watch.
"It's Adam's nap time." Brooke reached for Adam as they reached the car. It had been a long few hours for Adam and he was pooped, falling asleep in Lucas' arms.
"It's been a long couple of weeks for him. He's just not used to everyone that's around him. He seems to want to know everyone and everything." Brooke said as she closed her eyes in the passenger's seat.
"It looks like it's been a long couple of weeks for you too." Lucas said glancing over at the exhausted Brooke.
"I guess it has. The Cohen's are amazing though. I'm so lucky I found them." Brooke smiled with her eyes still closed. If she hadn't found them she didn't know where she'd be right now.
"I think I'm going to take a nap too." Brooke said flopping on the bed after laying Adam in his playpen, "Will you be alright without me for a few hours?"
"Hours?" Lucas joked, "I think I'll make it through somehow."
"Good cause I wasn't going to change my mind." Brooke smiled and wrapped herself in the sheet. She was out before Lucas could say anything else.
"Hey Seth, Ryan." Lucas said seeing them sitting outside at the patio table.
"Hey Luke." Seth waved and Ryan just stared. Lucas knew it was going to be a long few hours.
Okay so I'm trying to work a relationship between the boys since the girls already have one. Ryan and Lucas will start off shaking but I think they'll make good friends with all the brooding they both do. I don't know maybe one brooders enough
Next to come:
Seth, Ryan and Lucas' afternoon together
To party or not to party, that is the question!
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