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Chapter 10 The Ball Is In Your Court

Brooke and Lucas take Leila to the park for a picnic. "She's an amazing baby. She can sit up and is almost ready to crawl and she babbles a lot."

"Well that is because she is my child. She's seven months old most babies that age can sit up and can usually crawl or close to it."

"Well what can I say I'm not very experienced with babies."

Brooke laughed "You have a niece and nephew."

"Yeah, but I'm the uncle I go and visit not more then that."

Brooke rolled her eyes. "Well I'm going to have to seriously think about dating you then huh." she joked.

" About that, I know that you still have to figure things out. I'm going back to Tree Hill to see my editor. So that will give you a couple days to figure things out. I'll give you that time."

"When are you going?" she asked

"Day after tomorrow. You can take all the time you need, I'll call you in a couple days and just let me know if you want me to come back or not." Brooke nodded.

She at her desk thinking about what Lucas had said. It was up to her. What did she want? That was easy, she wanted to be happy and she was happy with Lucas. But how could she put her heart on the line again she not only had to think about herself and Lucas, Leila was important too. Her thoughts were interrupted by Kate coming over and sitting on her desk.

"Hey you, nice trip?"

"Huh?" Brooke asked

"You were a million miles away."

"Yeah sorry. I've just been thinking about Lucas."

"Well he's easy on the eyes. I wouldn't mind thinking about him either."

"He told me that the ball is in my court."

"Ooh an assertive man I like." Brooke rolled her eyes.

"I don't know what to do."

"Brooke you're so melodramatic. You know what you want. Your heart knows, stop thinking and feel."

"That sounds so easy. Travis has only been gone a few months."

"Yes and I miss my brother, just like I know you do. But the two of you weren't happy we all know that. The kids changed you and neither of you were the same person the other fell in love with. Lucas loves a different Brooke then Travis did. Give it a shot." Kate got up and walked off.

That afternoon Brooke went to the cemetery. She put flowers on both Travis' and Ryan's graves and sat down at the bench that was by them. "Ok Travis I don't know if you can see what's going on here. But if you can I need your help. I know that things were messed up between us at the end, but I did love you. We had two beautiful kids together. Well Lucas is here, we were in love many years ago, and now he makes me happy Travis, really happy. He's great with Leila. I need your help you could always make me see something that I had missed. Should I let him in or should I push him away?" Brooke leaned down to brush some dirt off Ryan's grave when she felt her necklace come off. She picked it up off the ground and looked at it, the clasp had broken. Brooke rolled her eyes. "Travis is this your weird sign?" she put the necklace in her pocket.

"Come on Travis you know I wanted something more concrete, I didn't want to have to think about it." She sighed. " I know you're taking care of Ryan. I hope you're watching Leila, she's amazing watching her grow, everyday she discovers something new…Thanks Travis." She got up and went back to her car.

Lucas was in his hotel when there was a knock on the door. He was a little shocked to see Brooke there. He smiled at her "Hey, I wasn't expecting to see you tonight."

"I know. Can we talk?"