Hey everyone, sorry I didn't update sooner but I got really busy with stuff and well yeah, and I hate to say but this week is going to be even worse, its like the last week before finals so all the teachers are giving their freaking test so yeah… thanks for the reviews but please more please they mean a lot anyways hope you enjoy…
"No, Carmen plane girl, what would you think if we adopted her?" Brooke asked him.
"What if we adopted her?" Lucas asked her, almost pretending to still be confused.
"Come on Lucas, you know what I mean." Brooke said.
"Uh, Brooke do you really think that's a good idea?" Lucas asked her.
"Why not? She's nice and we already know her, well I know her a lot more then you but I mean I can't find a reason why we shouldn't." Brooke said.
"I can." Lucas said taking Brooke's hand into hers. "You just lost a baby, and Carmen could just be a replacement." Lucas said.
"A replacement?" Brooke asked him dumbfounded "god Lucas I'm not just forgetting about out baby, she wouldn't be a replacement I just really want a child." Brooke said.
"What about all those years when they are a baby and all the things we get to do like teaching it to walk and talk." Lucas said.
"Other people adopt and skip those years, and it's not like I can't get pregnant again." Brooke said.
"You don't know that." Lucas said.
"The doctor said a year, will you stop trying to put me down?" Brooke asked him shaking her hand out of his.
"Look I'm sorry I just don't think this is the best timing for this sort of thing." Lucas said trying to think sensibly and he had a feeling about Carmen, like the fact that she ran away she might have a few more problems then Brooke and himself could handle.
"Well I do." Brooke said.
"Brooke, come on." Lucas said trying to get her to see his opinion.
"I don't want to talk about this anymore." Brooke said coldly and lied down on the bed facing away from Lucas.
"I'm going to go get your soup." Lucas said.
"I don't want it; I don't want anything from you." Brooke said.
"Brooke." Lucas said softly.
"Can you please leave Lucas, because if you don't I will." Brooke said still facing away from him.
"Ok, please call me if you need anything." Lucas said and slowly got up; he hated not being able to be there for Brooke.
"I won't." Brooke said.
"Right." Lucas said slowly closing the door behind him and walking out into the living room.
Once Lucas was gone Brooke got out her cell phone and called Haley.
"Hello." Haley answered.
"Hey." Brooke whispered.
"Brooke?" Haley wasn't sure who it was.
"Yeah it's me. I have a question for you?" Brooke asked her whispering.
"Where are you?" Haley asked her.
"In my room." Brooke said like that should be pretty obvious.
"Why are you whispering?" Haley asked her.
"Because I want to." Brooke said, not wanting to fill Haley in on everything that had happened with her and Lucas, she was ready to get to the point.
"Ok what is your question?" Haley asked her.
"I was wondering, um what exactly is the deal with Carmen like is she up for adoption?" Brooke asked her.
"Well…" Haley said confused "we don't know what happened to her parents so there's still a mandatory waiting period before she can actually be considered for adoption, that's what all the kids are in my agency, they move when they can be adopted or put into foster homes whatever." Haley said.
"What's a waiting period?" Brooke asked her.
"She still has a week till she moves agencies, if her parents don't show up in a week, which I'm assuming they won't, then she'll be available for adoption." Haley said.
"Interesting." Brooke said.
"Brooke, and forgive me for asking, but are you thinking about adopting Carmen?" Haley asked her, scared to put that idea in Brooke's head in case that wasn't what she was talking bout.
"Yeah actually I was." Brooke said leaning over onto her back.
"Have you told Lucas?" Haley asked her.
"The adopting part, yeah the calling you part no." Brooke said hesitantly.
"And I take it that's because Lucas doesn't think that's a good idea." Haley stated.
"Yeah." Brooke said a little suspicious "do you think it's a good idea?" Brooke asked her eager to hear her answer.
"Well it's kind of soon." Haley said.
"See, that's exactly what Lucas said and I think it's soon but who cares I was about to have a kid anyways." Brooke said throwing her hands up in frustration.
"I just don't want you to forget about the baby that you had." Haley said.
"Oh my god, I'm not that terrible of a person. I mean do you guys honestly think that I would forget about the child that I carried and well miscarried." Brooke said "because if you do then that's…" Brooke would have continued but she heard Lucas opening the door so she quickly hung up the phone and Lucas walked in right as she was putting her phone on the side table.
Lucas stared at her for a second "were you just talking to someone?" Lucas asked her.
"It's none of your business." Brooke said, that was a good response she thought.
"Ok, look Brooke I'm sorry." Lucas said really wanting to know who and what she was talking about but he wasn't about to push this.
"Whatever." Brooke said staring up at the ceiling.
"Brooke I do not want it to be like this between us, especially after what has just happened." Lucas said starting to walk to her.
"I guess your right." Brooke said.
"I love you, and if you want to look forward into this adoption then I'll support you, but I'd rather not make any crazy decisions right now." Lucas said sitting down at the foot of the bed.
"Ok." Brooke nodded her head in agreement "thanks." Brooke said smiling.
"You're the most important thing to me so, anything I can do for you I will." Lucas said.
"Since when have you turned into a soap opera actor?" Brooke asked him.
"Since I fell in love with you." Lucas said.
"And let me guess, that was the first time you saw me." Brooke said smiling.
"No actually, the first time we had sex." Lucas said.
"Uh, shut up." Brooke said hitting him playfully.
"What? Is being good in bed a bad thing?" Lucas asked her.
"No of course not but… ok I guess that how I reel guys in." Brooke said shrugging.
"Ha, ha you're so funny." Lucas said.
"Oh by the way that was Haley I was talking to on the phone." Brooke said.
"Yeah I had a feeling, so are we already the parents of Carmen?" Lucas asked her.
"No…" Brooke said giving him a look "I just asked her about some of the details." Brooke said.
"Ok." Lucas said.
"Don't worry; I just want to find out if it's even possible." Brooke said putting a hand on Lucas's shoulder for comfort.
"And is it?" Lucas asked her.
"In a week it should be." Brooke said smiling
"What do you mean?" he asked her.
"well there's like a waiting period to see if her parents ever like return because they don't know what happened to them, and after a week that will be over so then we can adopt her." Brooke said clapping her hands together excited.
"But we haven't made that decision yet, don't you think we should be in a house with some more rooms and stuff before we get a kid?" he asked her.
"Well yeah I guess…"
"And if you've got Carmen on your hands your not going to have very much time to decorate out house." Lucas said hoping this tactic would work.
"Yeah but I don't think Carmen can wait that long." Brooke said.
"But maybe by the time we get all that done you'll be able to have kids again." Lucas said taking her hands into his.
"You really don't like this Carmen idea do you?" Brooke asked him tilting her head to one side.
"I'm just not sure it's the best thing to do right now." Lucas said.
"Alright, well I'm going to sleep, we can talk about it tomorrow." Brooke said sighing and lying down in the bed. Lucas feeling bad sweetly laid the sheets over her.
"Good night Brooke." He said smiling at her.
Brooke couldn't resist him.
"Good night." Brooke smiled to herself and drifted off to sleep.
Brooke woke up the next morning and walked into the kitchen excepting to find Lucas sitting at the table eating something, but he wasn't there. However there was a note; she picked it up and it said that Lucas had gone to the grocery store. She was about to eat some cereal when there was a knock at the door. She walked to the door as more incessant knocking came about and finally she opened it to reveal… Peyton.
"Oh my god!" She almost screamed before jumping out and hugging Peyton. "I haven't seen you in so long." Brooke said smiling widely.
"I know, I'm so sorry Brooke, I heard about the baby and everything." Peyton said hugging Brooke again.
"Well come in." Brooke said taking Peyton's hand and dragging her into the apartment.
"Yeah, ok." Peyton said sort of depressed.
The two of them sat down on the couch in the living room "so what's up Peyton, where have you been that you couldn't talk to me?" Brooke asked her.
"Brooke, we don't need to focus on my troubles right now, yours are more important." Peyton said.
"Ok, I really appreciate that but I just don't want to talk about that right now. I'd be much happier talking about you." Brooke said.
"Well, for one Jake and I are getting divorced." Peyton said then she looked down at her hands.
"Peyton Sawyer what did you just say?" Brooke couldn't believe what she had just heard.
"Jake and I are getting divorced." Peyton said slowly to make sure that Brooke would understand it this time.
"No, you've got to be kidding me you two were like so hot for each other" Brooke said.
"well yeah but we had our problems Brooke." Peyton said.
"Oh my god, Peyton I am so sorry." Brooke said hugging her friend again.
"I really didn't want to tell you after everything that's happened to you." Peyton said.
"No Peyton, I'm so glad you told me. God do you need anything, a place to stay for awhile?" Brooke asked her.
"No Jake already has another apartment for him and Jenny, so I'm just staying at the same old apartment." Peyton said.
"Oh, Peyton, you can't stay there if you do everything will remind you of jenny, and where you and Jake had sex…and you just can't stay there." Brooke said.
"Well it's fine for now." Peyton said.
"What happened, I mean why this sudden divorce and everything?" Brooke asked her staring at her quizzically.
"You know a bunch of little things leading up to big things, with Jenny and her school and my job and his job and I don't know but we didn't feel right together. We're not on bad terms though… well I don't see us ever being friends again but you know we don't hate each other." Peyton said.
"But I know you were really close to jenny, are you still going to see her?"
"Yes, of course… actually we haven't talked about that but I hope so." Peyton said
suddenly coming to the realization that she might not get to see Jenny very often. Her thoughts were interrupted by Lucas walking into the apartment grocery bags in hand.
"Brooke you'll never believe who I saw at the store…" he stopped when he saw Peyton there.
"Peyton." He said putting the groceries down quickly and walking over to hug Peyton.
"Who did you see?" Brooke asked him.
"um, Jake." Lucas said.
"Oh, let me guess he told you the news?" Peyton asked him.
"Um, yeah I'm really upset about that, and sorry." Lucas said.
"Yeah, I'm pretty upset too." Peyton said sitting back down on the couch. "Look I really need to go, um court divorce stuff." Peyton said.
"Aw, no Peyton you just got here." Brooke said.
"I know, look I'll call you guys later and we can talk more about you two." Peyton said
"bye." She said trying to put on a smile for them but inside she was just depressed.
Brooke and Lucas walked her to the door and said good bye.
Brooke closed the door and leaned into Lucas "what are we going to do about them?" Brooke asked him.
"Nothing, there's nothing to do. Besides we've got too much stuff to do for ourselves right now." Lucas said stroking Brooke's hair.
"I know, but they were Peyton and Jake and jenny, not Peyton recently divorced and no longer talking to Jake and Jenny." Brooke said.
"Yeah, let's not worry about them though. I called Haley and we're meeting her at her work to talk about this whole situation." Lucas said.
"You did what?" Brooke looked up at him surprised.
"You heard what I said." Lucas said smiling down at her.
"Does this mean you are becoming more inclined to adopting Carmen?" Brooke asked him.
"I don't know, maybe but let's just go meet with Haley Ok?" he asked her putting his hands on her shoulders.
"ok." She said happy "sure thing, I'm going to take a shower." Brooke said.
"That's not an option." Lucas said.
"Why would you say that?" she asked him.
"Because I have to take one with you." He said.
"Oh, I see, well I guess." She said pretending for it to be some big burden.
"Let's go." She said.
Brooke and Lucas walked into Haley's office.
"Hey hales." Lucas said.
"Hi guys." Haley said motioning for them both to sit down.
"So what's the deal?" Brooke asked her wanting to get to the point.
"Brooke come on, we're not on speed here." Haley said.
"sorry" she took in a breath and paused for a minute, while Lucas and Haley both exchanged glances then looked back at Brooke "so what's the deal?" she asked them.
Haley let out a small laugh "well it's basically the same story I told you last night." Haley said.
"So basically she's up for adoption." Brooke said leaning back in her chair.
"Well, I guess yeah her parent's probably won't be showing up in the next week so I suppose you could say that." Haley said.
"Ok, Lucas let's chat." Brooke said leaning over and whispering at him but then glancing at Haley who was watching them "Haley, make yourself useful don't you have a job to do around here?" Brooke asked her jokingly.
"ookk." Haley said like she was backing off, just as her phone rang.
"Saved by the phone ring" Haley said to herself as she answered.
"So Lucas my lovely lover what do you think about all of this." Brooke whispered to him.
"Well I don't know, I mean I don't want to say yes or no right now but let's just wait a week." He whispered back.
"But are you leaning towards or against the idea?" she asked him.
"Towards." He whispered.
After hearing this Brooke jumped up from her seat and shouted "yes!"
"Brooke, god calm down." Lucas said gently pushing her back down in her seat.
Brooke sat there smiling waiting for Haley to get off the phone which she finally did.
"Ok, well Lucas and I have basically made out decision." Brooke said.
A look of apprehension spread across Haley's face.
"Wait, before you tell me there's something you should know." Haley said.
"Ok, well what?" Brooke asked her not expecting a worry in the world.
"Carmen's parent's are here, and their ready to take her home with them."
Oooh, uh oh this could be bad for Brooke, coming up
Carmen's parents want Carmen back