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Chapter 6 Remembering

"Lucas OMG what are you doing here?" Brooke asked.

"Well hello to you too…I came to see you."

She smiled. "Well I'm glad you did. Come in." he did.

"Nice house."

"Thanks…so you came to see me huh?"

"Yeah. I couldn't get you off my mind once you left." Lucas said

"Well that's sweet." The doorbell rang again. "That must be Kate."

"Oh did you have plans? I'm sorry I called a couple times but you didn't answer."

"It's ok. Don't worry about it." She opened the door.

"Hey are you ready?... and you have company." Kate said when she saw Lucas.

"Yeah, Lucas this is Kate. Kate this is my sister in law/ best friend/ business partner."

He smiled. "It's nice to meet you."

"You too." Kate said "Well Brooke and I were going to dinner, if you want to join us." Kate suggested.

"Yeah Lucas come with us." Brooke said

"Sure."

They go to a burger place and talk for hours. "You wrote 'Never Before, Never Again?" Kate asked

"Yeah, it told the story of what happened to all of us in high school." Lucas said

"Whoa, all that stuff actually happened?"

"Most of it yeah." He said

"That was an amazing book. You have to write a sequel." She said

"I might one day." He said

Kate looked at her watch "Ok I better go. Lucas it was nice meeting you."

"You too." Brooke followed Kate to the door.

"Kate you don't have to go."

"Yeah I do. You two need some alone time…he's a nice guy Brooke."

She looked over at Lucas. "Yeah he is." She said playing with the ring around her neck.

"My brother would want you to be happy." Kate hugged her friend and left.

Brooke went back to the table and sat down. "Well you've won Kate over."

Lucas laughed. "That's good I guess." Brooke nodded. "So um…are you upset that I just showed up?" he asked

"No I'm kind of glad you did."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I missed you Luke." He held her hand

"I've missed you too."

"I should really go get Leila, do you want to come back to the house with me?" she asked

"Yeah."

While Brooke was putting Leila to sleep Lucas looked around the living room. Brooke had always had a million pictures, he saw her in a wedding dress and figured the guy with her was Travis. There was pictures of her and Kate and Travis. Pictures of Brooke while she was pregnant and a sonogram picture of two babies next two it was a picture of Brooke and Travis both holding a baby. He heard Brooke coming downstairs.

"Well she's finally asleep." Brooke said

"That's good. You still a love for pictures I see."

"Yeah I do. It's an obsession I guess." Brooke giggled.

" Is this Travis?" he asked pointing to the picture on the table.

"Yeah. That's Ryan." Brooke said holding up a picture of both the babies.

"He was gorgeous." Brooke smiled and nodded. "Have I ever told you how incredibly strong you are?"

"Brooke rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah I'm Wonder Woman."

Lucas laughed. "You know what I mean, if I was you I doubt that I would be able to get up in the morning. But you have you keep on going."

"I have to for Leila."

"Are you happy?"

"Forward tonight aren't we? Um I think I am yeah. Or at least I'm not as miserable as I was."

"That's good I guess. You deserve to be happy Brooke."

"So do you. Date a girl, have some sex, something." Lucas laughed at her comment.

The next day they went to lunch. "No way I can't believe that you had it removed." Brooke said looking at Lucas' arm.

"I had to. Once you reach a certain age a tattoo looks stupid"

Brooke laughed "Oh really?"

"Well yours will always be sexy, but mine was stupid."

"Lucas I thought I taught you how to have fun. I leave Tree Hill and you resort back to your old ways."

He shrugged "What can I say."

"Hopeless, Lucas you're hopeless."

"My mom keeps talking about you. She told me that I should come here and make up for every stupid thing I ever did."

"Well that's a lot of making up.' Brooke joked

"Yeah it is. I wouldn't know where to start." Lucas said

That night Brooke was laying in bed thinking about Lucas. What could he do to make it up to her? She didn't know. She started thinking about what happened between them. Brooke's parents wanted her to move to California once again she was trying to convince them to let her stay.

Brooke was sitting on the bleachers at the Rivercourt with Mouth while Lucas and the guys played. "And Lucas for the win." Mouth said

"You go Broody." Brooke said kissing him.

"Look at that he wins and gets the girl, there's just no losing for this guy." Skills said they other three guys walked off leaving Brooke and Lucas alone.

"Ugh I don't know what I'm going to do if I have to leave you." Brooke said

"Brooke."

"I mean my parents are so stupid, they think I'm wasting my life staying here with you."

"Maybe you are." Lucas said

"What are you talking about?" she asked

"Look at us Brooke do you really think that we have a future together?"

"Yeah I do. I see us going to the same college, getting married and having kids. Don't you?" she asked

"No I don't. Brooke we don't have a future together, we're too different. We both need different things. Things that we can't give one another." Brooke started to cry.

"I can't believe you said that."

"Brooke." He reached out to touch her.

"Don't touch me." She pulled away. "I can't believe you Lucas, you string me along again and now you tell me this. I can't believe I gave you another chance. You told me you loved me." She ran to her car crying.

Brooke wiped a tear from her eye and bit her bottom lip, things certainly were bad then.