Ok guys…new chapter tehe…fun stuff! Ok yah so basically, they're still in California…next chapter's gonna be in October and its gonna be kinda…not good or fluffy at all, its gonna be pretty bad but remember this forever: Brucas is my life, so I'd never do anything to them lol…ok on towards the chapter!

"Ok Lucas take care of my baby, ok?" Brooke called over her shoulder as she climbed into the limo, ready for a day of shopping on Rodeo Drive with the girls.

"I will Brooke…" Lucas laughed, waving goodbye.

"He better" Brooke laughed, leaning against the leather seats of the limo. "I love shopping on Rodeo Drive!" she giggled. Haley, Peyton, and Alexis nodded and laughed.

"True Brooke" Alexis giggled.

"I know…she shops way too much"

"Hey! I'm resenting this!" Brooke said, pouting. "But its true" she giggled.

"It is!" Haley insisted. They got off at their first shop and started, as Brooke called it, power shopping.

"This is so cute!" "I have to have this!" and "Does this make my butt look big?" was all the girls heard from each other, their mountain of purchases getting larger and larger as they progressed from shop to shop.

Clothes were bought, as were shoes, suits for the guys, clothes for their children, jewelry, lingerie, watches, sunglasses, makeup…Brooke, Peyton, Haley, and Alexis could not get enough of Rodeo Drive.

"I think I got some good stuff" Brooke commented.

"Same here" Alexis said. "I needed new clothes" she said.

"Yah…me too" Haley said. "Plus when I'm with Brooke, it's like the shopping mania becomes contagious"

"Tell me about it…I don't think I've spent this much money in my life" Peyton said.

"Chill, P Sawyer, you know you can…it's not a biggie"

"I know…I feel bad though"

"You shouldn't!" Brooke said, slurping her smoothie.

"Right" Peyton giggled. Brooke giggled too and they threw out their trash and set out to do more shopping.

"Amazing how much shopping one person can do" Alexis laughed, slumping down into the limo seat on the way home. "I am so exhausted!"

"But we have to Jacuzzi!" Brooke giggled.

"That we do…massaging Jacuzzi" Alexis sighed thinking about it.

"I remember when I was pregnant with Madison I was so mad that I couldn't hot tub or Jacuzzi" Brooke reminisced. "But now I can!" she giggled. Ashton turned into the driveway of the house and the girls got off, leaving the shopping bags for Ashton to take out.

"Mommy!" Madison cried, running towards Brooke and jumping into her arms.

"My baby…" Brooke said, hugging and kissing Madison. "And my other baby" she giggled, kissing Lucas. "How was your day?" she asked. Lucas looked a little worried and he kissed Brooke back and whispered "Can we talk?" he asked.

"Uh huh" Brooke said, confused. "Hey Maddie mommy and daddy need to have a grown up talk, can you go play with Catherine for a little while?" she asked. She was always straightforward with Madison, never lying or telling fibs about what was going on. She hated people lying to her and she wasn't gonna lie to anyone either. Madison nodded and ran off to find Catherine. Lucas led Brooke into the guest bedroom and they sat down.

"Lucas, you didn't cheat on me did you?" she asked, half joking. Lucas cracked a smile and shook his head.

"No Brooke" he laughed. "But this is pretty serious. Now I know we're away from home, but Madison's been different for a little while, and I think you probably noticed this like I did and I know you said it but she's not eating right and she was tired and clingy today and she's been getting a lot of colds and stuff as far as I can tell. And she's constantly complaining about headaches and sore throats and she was so whiny without you today…I'm worried, Brooke" Lucas concluded with a sigh.

"Yah…I know what you mean" she said, running her hand through her hair. "She's been different lately, I agree with that. We can look into it as soon as we get home, but for right now we'll keep an eye on her" Brooke said. Lucas nodded and gathered Brooke in his arms.

"I just don't want anything to happen to my baby girl, you know? She's my first and I don't wanna screw up"

"I know Lucas" Brooke said, closing her eyes and leaning against Lucas. "I know"

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"Brooke, Lucas, we're going to the beach!" Peyton called.

"Ok coming!" Brooke yelled back, quickly slipping on her bikini. "Is Maddie downstairs?"

"Yah she's all ready but she wants you!" Peyton yelled. Brooke and Lucas exchanged looks and walked down the stairs. Madison ran up to Brooke and Brooke picked her up.

"My baby!" Brooke giggled, kissing Madison. "Ready to go to the beach?" she asked.

"Uh huh" Maddie giggled. "I's gonna make a sand monster!"

"You ARE?" Brooke asked, carrying her out the front door.

"Uh huh and names it Target" she giggled.

"Silly Madison" Lucas laughed.

"Silly daddy" Madison countered, giggling and blowing him a kiss. Lucas shook his head and trudged through the warm sand. Madison jumped down and ran off to find a good spot to make her sand monster. Brooke sighed and lay down on her towel, feeling the dying sunlight cast semi warm light on her stomach.

"I could fall asleep" Brooke said.

"I know…" Peyton murmured from her towel. She was almost asleep when she was woken by Catherine, Anthony, Madison, and Brooke dumping a lot of cold water on her. "You guys I'm gonna get you!" she yelled, getting up and running after Brooke and the kids. Everyone watched in amusement as Peyton chased Brooke, Catherine, Madison, and Anthony around the beach and into the water, throwing sand clumps at Brooke and water at the kids.

"We won!" Brooke high fived the kids as Peyton admitted defeat and stuck out her tongue.

"I'll get you next time" she said, flopping down. Brooke sat down and Madison crawled into her lap 20 minutes later.

"Hey baby don't you wanna go play with kitty cat?" Brooke asked.

"No" Madison said, burying her face in Brooke's shoulder and sniffling. Brooke could feel hot tears on her collarbone from Madison's crying and it alarmed her a lot.

"Hey baby doll what's the matter?" Brooke asked, exchanging a concerned look with Lucas and stroking Madison's hair. Madison sniffed and didn't answer and Brooke got up and carried Madison to the patio that faced the beach. Lucas followed quietly. She lifted Madison's head and wiped the tears on her face. "Baby tell mama and daddy what's wrong" Brooke said softly.

"I don't feels good" she sobbed, rubbing her eyes and sniffling. Brooke nodded and knew she couldn't get anymore out of Madison so she just hugged Madison and let her fall asleep in her arms while pushing the swing lightly with her foot.

"Lucas, I think something's actually really wrong…we know her, and we know she's not like this"

"I know…" Lucas said with an extremely worried look on his face. "Maybe she's just sick"

"Yah, I hope" Brooke said, glancing down at Madison fast asleep, her body moving up and down with her even breaths. "I don't want my baby to be sick"

"I know…" Lucas said, putting his arm around Brooke and kissing her. "I'm sure she'll be fine though"

"Yah" Brooke said. "I hope"

"Hey Brooke is Maddie ok?" Peyton asked, coming up onto the porch.

"Yah she's sick I think…me and Lucas are worried that something more is wrong but we don't know…we're gonna need to check it out when we get home" Brooke sighed.

"Well I'm sure she's fine" Peyton smiled, sitting down on the chair across. "Do you wanna Jacuzzi?"

"Uh…Madison?" Brooke said.

"Hmm yah if she's asleep you can put a baby monitor in her room and we'll be able to hear her" Peyton said.

"Yah go ahead Brooke you need a break"

"No you've been with her all day, you need a break I'll stay with her" Brooke said.

"How about you both come, and we'll put her in the pool house room?" she asked. They nodded and Lucas carried Madison to bed and laid her down. Brooke and Lucas kissed her goodnight and covered her with the blanket and headed down to rinse off the sand and get into the bubbling Jacuzzi. Now, the sun was setting on the beautiful California coastline and everyone had their children asleep with Alexis watching them, falling asleep herself. Karen sipped her margarita and splashed some of the water.

"This is too relaxing" Jake mumbled, feeling the hot water bubble around him.

"I know…so how was you girls' shopping day?" Karen asked.

"Good…we totally corrupted your daughter" Brooke giggled.

"Well she needs clothes now that she's gonna get married" Karen looked miserable saying that.

"I cant believe our little sister is actually getting married" Nathan said to Lucas.

"I know!" Lucas said. "Madison's never getting married"

"Neither is Catherine" Jake insisted, taking a sip of his margarita and sighing. "Or Jenny"

The girls laughed and exchanged looks but each secretly knew that their heart was melting at the thought of how overprotective and cute their husbands were being over their daughters and sisters. Brooke giggled and splashed some water at Lucas, who was immediately jolted out of his thoughts.

"You look really pretty" he said. Brooke smiled to herself. She hadn't heard such an innocent compliment since high school.

"You look cute" Brooke giggled.

"Not my son…" Karen groaned.

"Haha" Brooke giggled. She leaned against Lucas and closed her eyes for a second when she heard a familiar, oily, annoying accented voice.

"Well, well, well if it isn't Brooke Davis…oops, I meant Scott" the voice sneered.

"Omg Felix what the hell are you doing here?" Brooke.

"Getting you back…I cant live without my future wife" Nathan got a furious look on his face, as did Lucas.

"Man if you don't shut up and leave my property right now, I'll kick your ass all the way back to military school" Nathan snapped.

"Oh, poor Nathan is going to hurt me" Felix mocked. "I'm here for Brooke. Lets go Brooke"

Brooke looked at him like he was venom. "I'm not going anywhere with you, scumbag! What makes you think I'll ever think of you as anything but a cockroach?"

"Because I know you want me" Felix said, grabbing Brooke's wet arm. Karen gasped and Haley and Peyton looked shell shocked. Nathan, Lucas, and Jake jumped out of the water and grabbed Felix. He tried to fight them off but Nathan, Lucas, and Jake, all three basketball players with uncannily strong upper body strength, were no match for scrawny Felix. They beat him up pretty badly and sent him on his way. The entire time, Brooke, Peyton, Haley, and Karen were watching in awe. Andy looked uncomfortable and torn between beating up his daughter in law's perpetrator, or setting a good example and trying to talk things out. But Nathan, Jake, and Lucas had taken it upon themselves to defend Brooke and Felix limped away looking bitter and well…hurt.

"Lucas…" Brooke said, looking anxious.

"He deserved it" Nathan spat. "He deserved every bit of it"

"I agree" Lucas said, and Jake nodded.

"Ok well I think its time to sleep" Karen insisted. Everyone nodded and got out of the Jacuzzi. Haley and Peyton knew what they were gonna do, so they just followed Brooke and Lucas up to their bedroom. After Brooke made sure Madison was asleep and kissed her and Lucas goodnight, the three girls gathered in the game room and flopped down on the soft carpet with blankets wrapped around them ready to talk.

"So…Felix…wow" Haley said.

"I know! I cant believe he showed up in freaking California!" Brooke said indignantly. "I'm so upset!"

"But he got his ass kicked" Peyton giggled. "By our husbands"

"Luke is SO protective, Madison's gonna hate it when she's older"

"Unless there's another little Scott running around the house that Lucas could pay attention too" Haley hinted.

"I want more kids, and so does Lucas, but Madison is more than enough for right now…maybe when she's a little older" Brooke said.

"Yah...what about you Peyton?"

"Kitty cat and Jenny are enough for me…of course; if I do happen to have a kid or change my mind…we'll see"

"I think Anthony needs a little sibling"

"Wait…is he getting one?" Brooke asked suspiciously.

"No, no I'm not pregnant Brooke" Haley laughed. "I'm saying I definitely see it in my future"

"Well that's good…babies…" Brooke laughed. "Madison was a good baby"

"Yah all of our children were good babies…we lucked out" Haley said.

"We did" Brooke said. "We should compare what we got today" they nodded and all got their bags from their rooms.

"I love that pink shirt Brooke"

"I know and those embroidered jeans…tutor girl you are smoking!" Brooke giggled.

"I like these heels; wouldn't they be adorable with like a short jean skirt?" Peyton said.

"Peyton they make you look taller than you already are!" Brooke laughed. "But they're cute as hell"

"We are too hot to be mothers" Peyton giggled. "I mean look at us!" they all glanced in the mirror.

Peyton saw a curly blonde with a nice smile glancing back. She knew she used to look like a basket case covered with issues head to toe, but now she saw a real person…a mother, a friend, a hopeless romantic, a married woman with so much going for her. She saw herself.

Haley saw the girl she had stared at so many times over the last 27 years but never really saw until today. She knew she had a type established, Haley James Scott, the motherly, kind, hardworking type. But she knew Peyton and Brooke saw her for so much more than that.

Brooke sighed as she glanced into the mirror. She knew every guy out there wrote her off as a slut and every girl wrote her off as a slut but secretly wished they were her. But when she looked in the mirror, Brooke didn't see that. She saw Brooke Scott, Lucas Scott's wife, Madison Scott's mother, Brooke Scott- a real woman with real emotions.

"You know you guys, I'm so glad you guys are my friends, no one understood me like you do" Brooke said.

"Same here…you guys see me for so much more than I appear" Peyton. "I'm not just a psycho basket case"

"Of course not Peyton!" Brooke said, hugging her. "Plus you're past that stage" she giggled. Haley nodded and they all talked for a while, and they all fell asleep eventually, knowing that they were understood completely by at least 2 people in the world, if not more.

A/N: Ok I know this chapter was short, and it may seem completely useless, but some of the things I mentioned were important for the next chapter so yah but um the chapter sucked major but oh well review anyway! Next one will be slightly depressing but better written lol. Oh and the reviewer who suggested Nathan and Lucas beat up Felix- thanks! Haha it worked out really well! I didn't know whether you wanted your name posted personally so I thought I'd give you credit and hope you knew I was talking about you lol…and they were in LA because they won free tours and Nathan has a beach house there and well, if I was them, I'd seize the opportunity to take a spontaneous trip across the country lol! But yah review even though this chapter sucked major. Thank you so much!