Hey all! Thanks for the great reviews for this story. I forgot to mention before, most all of my stories are written to a song. The titles are a lyric to a song, if not the actualy name of the song, and each chapter is a lyric as well. It helps me to write to the tone of the song and the feeling of each chapter. This story is the song One Headlight, by the Wallflowers, released way back when in the 90's. It's an amazing song, you should check it out. When you click on the story chapter thing you can see each lyric and read them together and see the song. I decided that it would be a cool thing to do. An original idea.

READ, REVIEW, REQUEST! (and when I say requset I mean, what do YOU want?)

xoxo Jules

Chapter 5: "Of a broke heart disease"

Logan felt like she could not breathe as she headed back to her grandmothers house. Once she got there she collapsed on the front porch, the hot summer sun beat down on her face. If she were back home her mom would be telling her to put on sunscreen right now… Oh Haley, what was she going to do? Wait, should she even freak out about this whole thing? Chances were that Brooke didn't want anything to do with her, she didn't before! She had a new daughter now, and Logan had a mother, they were both happy… right…

The door behind Logan swung open to reveal Aspen.

"Lo, what the hell are you doing outside in this heat? You're gonna get crispy! Come inside!" Aspen yelled from the doorway. "Lo?" Aspen called again. "Lo?" She said again as she quietly closed the door behind her and went to sit on the step next to her best friend. "What's going on hun?"

Logan shrugged, her eyes filling to the brim with tears.

"Talk to me Logan." Aspen said gently shoving her side.

"I saw her today."

"Who?"

"Brooke." Logan spoke her name as though it was poison even though she didn't feel that way. "I talked to her…"

"Does she know?" Aspen asked

"Well she does now! I was so stupid Asp. I'm doing fine without her! I have an amazing mother, and I do these things without thinking and I end up hurting everyone!" Logan said allowing the tears to spill from her eyes.

"I wish I could make it better babe." Aspen said putting her hand around her friends shoulder

"I think I have a way that we can…" Logan said looking at Aspen winking and then dragging her into the house

--- Cody walked into her house to find her mother in the kitchen.

"Hey Co-Co, where have you been?" Peyton asked

"I was out with Hannah." She said propping herself on the kitchen counter.

"Have you bee smoking Cody?" Peyton asked looking at her daughter accusingly

Cody's head shot up. She thought that she had been outside long enough to air off. Quick, time for a cover up.

"No, 'course not mom. We went out to lunch and we had to sit in the smoking section because everywhere else was full." Cody said quickly.

"Good." Peyton said. "Hey look, I'm going to need your help around here this summer since Spencer's gone and all. Gunner has been acting like he has no common sense and Tessa has been really sick lately."

"Is Tess going to be alright mom?" Cody said genuinely concerned.

"Of course." Peyton said nervously. She hated the thought of her children in pain. "Why do you have on a long sleeved shirt? It's burning up outside."

"I missed the weather on the news last night, I thought it was going to rain." She lied again.

"Why don't you go change?" Peyton suggested

Cody shrugged.

"I don't feel like doing anymore laundry. Besides, I'm going to stay in this afternoon, it feels like an icebox in here." Cody said "Early menopause?" She smirked

"Well it must be REALLY early seeing how I'm a over 10 years away from that." Peyton said returning to her sketch.

"All of my friends moms are totally menopausal." Cody said.

"Well then just be grateful that this mother had you when she was… younger, and you'll be out of the house by the time that hits." Peyton said winking.

"Haha." Cody said as she retreated to her room.

----- Back in Tree Hill; Logan and Aspen laid on the bed in the bedroom that Karen had set up for her grandchildren's visits.

"Why do all bad things start with men…?" Aspen asked looking at the ceiling.

"Huh?" Logan asked as she rolled off of the bed

"Yanno, menstruation, menopause… menstrual…"

"Dude… menstrual and menstruation are the same thing…" Logan said turning to face her friend who was pondering the statement.

"Na uh, it's like, I donno, menstrual is how you get during the act of menstruation…" Aspen stated as more of a question than a statement.

"…gotcha…" Logan said giggling. "We are so totally stoned right now…"

Aspen rolled off the bed onto the floor next to Logan.

"So," Aspen began, "this is what you meant by ease the pain?"

"It worked didn't it." Logan said laughing

"Cha…" Aspen agreed

Spencer listened from outside of the door. Logan had been acting differently since she got home from her walk. Something must have happened and Logan fixed it in the only way that she knew how, getting high.

When she was upset she just used to throw herself into school work, and would focus on bringing her A to an A. She was truly her mothers daughter. But now it seemed all that she was was a façade. A confused, lost, girl that was masquerading as the perfect student, the perfect daughter, the prized tutor…

Spencer was broken out of his thoughts when the doorbell rang. He tip-toed away from the door down the stairs. He looked out of the peep hole but didn't see anyone there. He opened the door, standing to the side of the door was a woman but the lost look in her eyes revealed her as a child on the inside.

"Um, if you're looking for Karen she's not around." Spencer said.

Brooke studied the boys face. When she looked at him she saw Lucas and Peyton staring back at her. The curly hair, Lucas' droopy broody eyes, Lukes mouth…

"Um, I, I was actually wondering if Logan Scott was staying here."

"Um, yeah…" Spencer said, and as he looked at the woman it finally clicked "Brooke." He said turning and heading up the stairs.

Alright, now the resemblance between Spencer and his father was scaring her, it wasn't even in body, but it was in mannerisms and the tones of his voice.

"Thanks Spencer." She said as she watched the boy walk away.

Spencer stopped dead in his tracks.

"How did you know my name?" He asked turning to face her again.

"It doesn't matter." Brooke said.

Spencer shook his head as he walked upstairs. He didn't like her being all cryptic. It reminded him of Cody. He missed his little sister.

He knocked on the door to the room where Aspen and Logan were several times before anyone opened it.

"What's up?" Aspen asked as she bounced back over to the bed.

"Um, Logan, Brooke is downstairs." Spencer said.

"Wha- WHAT?" Logan said rolling over on the floor so that she was now on her stomach.

"Yeah."

Logan and Aspen looked at one another.

"Um, okay." Aspen said standing up and fixing her shirt. She glanced at Spencer and Aspen quickly before she slowly headed downstairs. "Remember to breathe, remember to breathe." She chanted as she made her way downstairs. She was still high, she felt like she was floating.

Brooke looked around at all of the pictures. She smiled. Peyton, she missed her a lot. There was one of she and Luke with their arms full of curly blonde haired children taken quite sometime ago. And then there was the one with Nathan and Haley, obviously married now. There were several kids in the picture but Brooke lost count after five.

"Hey." Logan said from the stairs entering the room.

"Hey." Brooke said from where she stood.

------ New York

"What time is River coming over?" Eleven year old Kylie Rhea asked Hannah as they sat at the table.

"Soon." Hannah said. They usually harassed Logan like that, but now since she's away Hannah had to fill in the role of the eldest.

"Aspen went to Tree Hill with Spence and Lo right?" Thirteen year old Cassie asked.

"Yeah." She said pushing the food around her plate before she took another bite.

Nathan walked in dragging Gabe, on of the twins behind him. He looked angry.

"What wrong Dad?" Twelve year old Rebecca said.

"Did Jacob brake something again?" Kylie Rhea asked

"I'm not Jake I'm GABE!" Gabriel yelled from where he stood behind his father. Kylie could never tell the twins apart.

"Whatever." Kylie said as she took a heaping bite of potatoes.

Right then Haley walked in with Jacob trailing behind her.

"Sweet, what'd ya brake?" Jacob asked running to his twin.

"My left arm, again!" He said showing off his cast.

"Boys are so stupid." Rebecca said shaking her head and rolling her eyes.

"God, they probably think that we're like beating them or something, this year alone Jacobs been in there seven times!" Haley said.

"The time he fell off him bike, when he put his hand on the hot burner." Hannah said.

"The dog bite." Cassie reminded them. "The time he cracked his tooth in half."

"When he tried to fly off the garage and then landed on Gabe." Kylie Rhea said shooting her brother a glare.

"They both went to the hospital that time." Rebecca said smiling.

"Well yeah, thanks to the troublesome twosome we're having a routine home study tomorrow." Nathan said getting a worried look on his face.

"Does that mean that we have to clean?" Kylie complained.

"Come on guys, be serious!" Nathan said

"I was!" Kylie said putting her head in her hands.

"Calm down Nathan, we didn't do anything wrong, we just have children that lack common sense." Haley said shooting a glare around the group before breaking into a smile. "How'd you brake it anyway Gabe?"

Gabe looked at Jacob.

"Yanno how we were building that Tree House on our own?" Gabe asked him

"Yeah." Jake answered

"Well I tested it…"

Haley and Nathan looked at one another each throwing their hands in the air. Right then Cody and River came in.

"What'd we miss?" Cody asked smiling.

Haha, I love ending with fun stuff from Cody. I think I might try leaving off with her saying dumb things eachtime. Since she's based off of me, yes, anything extremely dumb she does or says I most likely have, like last chapter "Let's pierce my belly button," needless to say that my belly button is now pierced. Haha.

About the social worker thing with Haley and Nathan, it's not serious or anything like they're gonna get thier kids taken away, I just think that I am going to need serious comic relief the next chapter after the whole Brooke, Logan storyline and so they will provide!

xoxo Jules

READ, REVIEW, AND REQUEST!