Authors Note: I know it's short but I have a paper due tomorrow that I should really be working on instead of this. I know a lot of you thought that the whole Lucas/Peyton/Lisa thing is kinda creepy so hopefully this makes it less creepy. I think I've watched one too many Maury's. Anyways, please R/R. Thanks. Oh and go check out NathansRaven new story "The More Things Change the More they Stay the same". It's a Naley and fantabulous.

Chapter 14

Brooke stared at Lucas like he had grown a second head. She could not believe what he had just told her. It was beyond strange, it was beyond comprehension, it was beyond belief.

"So?'

"So what?"

"Am I going to get an explanation or what? I think I deserve to know what's going on. After all, I'm in charge of your kids while you're gone." Lucas sighed, he hated talking about this part of his life.

"Peyton was my high school sweetheart and Lisa is her twin sister. We all grew up together and Lisa never really fit in. We invited her places and hung out with her because she was Peyton's sister, but she never really clicked with anyone except Peyton. And she was always kind of jealous of Peyton. Anyways one night in high school I got really drunk and Lisa took advantage of this. I could tell them apart when sober, but when I was drunk, forget about it.

"So Lisa got a hold of me and things started happening. Luckily Peyton found us before anything really happened. Needless to say she was pretty pissed. Lisa got upset ran out of the house and disappeared. She ran away. Peyton was devastated. So anyways, we graduated, went to college, you know the usual. Peyton and I got married and then had Jason. When Jason was a year old Peyton was on her way to meet me for dinner. She was running late and ran a red light. Her car got hit and she died instantly. I fell apart completely. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I felt like my life was over, Peyton was my entire life and now I was all alone. Then Lisa showed up. She had heard about Peyton.

"She was different now. She wasn't so socially awkward, she was smart, funny, and most of all there. I was emotionally fragile and she came and picked up the pieces. I think I fell for her because she looked and acted like Peyton. I guess I really thought she was Peyton. I don't want to say she tricked me, but we then got together. We ended up sleeping together and she got pregnant with Francis. I was still depressed so we stayed together. Things were good until about a year ago. She started to change or maybe my eyes were opened. Either way we split up and she said she didn't want Francis anymore. I hadn't heard from her until yesterday."

Brooke sat there letting everything sink in. It was weird and kind of twisted but in a way understandable. She had never experienced what Lucas had and couldn't say what was right or wrong in the situation.

"I'm sorry. It sounds like your life hasn't been so easy." Lucas shook his head.

"Just when things were getting good again and becoming normal this has to happen. Why couldn't she just leave well enough alone? She never wanted Francis. I always suspected she got pregnant just to keep me or whatever. I might not love her mother but Francis is my baby girl. I would die if I ever lost her. And as terrible as this seems, sometimes in my head I think she's Peyton's and mine."

"Well I've got your back whatever goes down. I can see why you were reluctant to hire a new nanny."

"I'm just sick of women leaving. It's not fair to the kids or me." Their conversation was interrupted when a tearful Francis walked outside. "Baby what's wrong?" Lucas paddled over to the side.

Francis took her thumb out of her mouth long enough to announce that she missed Max. Brooke had to keep from laughing. She got out of the pool and wrapped a towel around herself.

"Baby girl, Max is fine. He's staying with Nancy at her house with her dogs. Remember Booger and Spurkey? He's playing with them and they're having a big dog sleepover." Francis walked over to Brooke and sat down in her lap.

"Do you think he misses me?"

"Of course he does. But he's having a good time so we shouldn't worry." Lucas watched the two of them interact. Brooke was more motherly to Francis than Lisa had ever been. Suddenly Brooke burst out laughing.

"What?" Brooke stood up and Francis rested her head on her shoulder.

"Francis says that it sounds like Nathan and Haley are jumping up and down on the bed and she can't sleep." A grin spread across Lucas' face. They had been married only two days and instead of a honeymoon got an entire family. The girls said goodnight and left Luke poolside to think.