My Front Porch Looking In
Brooke Davis closed the dishwasher and turned it on. Lucas would be home from work really soon. Thank God. The kids were acting like heathens. Hadyn, the oldest at five, had just flushed one of her brothers toy soldiers. Again. Wyatt, the only boy in the trio was now screaming at her about it. Paige was refusing to get dressed which was becoming an every day thing. They were driving her insane. Still she loved them more than anything else in this world.
"Mommy, can I have a Popsicle?" Hadyn walked into the room and smiled at her mom. Brooke nodded and handed her one watching as she struggled to get the paper off.
"Here babe, let Mom get it."
She pulled the paper off and handed it to the blonde girl. She looked so much like her dad it was crazy. She acted like him too. More serious than the younger two, already developing a love for books, and she was quite the prankster. Her eyes were that milky blue color that guys would melt under in a few years.
Paige ran into the room, naked as the day she was born two years before.
"I want a Pop too Mom."
Brooke knelt down and handed her one, rubbing her black curls out of her eyes. She had startlingly bright blue eyes and ivory skin. Lots a people mistook her for Nathan's child. She had Brooke's personality though. Stubborn and a little self involved. Plus the liking to be naked thing.
Suddenly the door opened and Lucas walked in. Brooke managed to fit in a kiss before he was taken over by the three little monsters. Wyatt had walked in, a basketball tucked under one arm and a hat covering his red head. Somehow he had come out looking like Brooke had slept with carrot top. Yet he was funny and sensitive. And those freckles were too cute.
"Did you have a good day babe?"
Lucas nodded and took a bite off Paige's Popsicle. The girl giggled. She was definitely Daddy's girl. Lucas was the new head coach at Tree Hill High. Nathan owned Scott Motors now and Haley just had there first baby, Micah. The kid was adorable. But loud, very loud. Peyton and Jake had Jenny and there little boy Owen and she was pregnant with a third.
Brooke was so surprised that at only twenty-five they all had these great families. It was more than she had ever wished for. She, Haley, and Peyton all stayed home now. Well, Haley was a teacher during the school year and Peyton still sent art into various places. Brooke couldn't do anything other than deal with these kids for now. She smiled at the scene in front of her. Lucas was on the floor with Wyatt on his lap, Paige trying unsuccessfully to push him off and Hadyn begging her Dad to read her the next chapter in a Wrinkle In Time. Even though her house sounded, looked, and at times smelled like a circus, she wouldn't trade it for the world. All of a sudden Lucas looked at her like he had just realized something.
"Why is Paige naked?" She just laughed.
Chapter Two: Friday Night Dinner Chaos