Alright, I'm sorry for the delays lately. As it turns out any wrong move on my part can get me kicked out of school so I'm walking on a thin line there, my great-grandfather died this past september 11th (great luck huh?) and the today I found out that one of my best friend who is going through a really hard time is getting sent away like... tonight probably. I am not sure what effect all of this chaos is going to have. Sometimes when bad things like this happen I throw myself into my writing, other times I pull away from it... I don't know, it's just really really hard. My friend having to leave is just complicating things.... so um yeah. Can't bring myself to do the x's and o's today...
Jules
I'll miss you babe
I'll try to update as soon as I can.
Chapter 7: "I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn"
----- The next morning, New York
"They should be here soon!" Haley said referring to the social workers as she brushed Kylie Rhea's hair furiously.
"OW MOM!" Kylie complained
"Where are the girls?" Haley asked Nathan.
"They're still sleeping in the attic." Nathan said as the doorbell rang.
"Hi." Haley said as she pulled the door open to reveal an older woman with graying hair.
"Hello, I am looking for Mr. and Mrs. Scott." The woman said
"Oh, that's us, I'm Haley, and this is my husband Nathan."
"Hello, I am Barbara Walsh." The woman introduced herself.
"Come on in." Nathan said opening the door to reveal the three of the kids, who happened to be the twins and Kylie Rhea standing behind them.
"These are the twins Gabriel and Jacob, and this is Rebecca." Haley introduced them.
"Hello children." She said giving them a good look over.
Good thing the night before Haley had thrown each child in the bathtub personally.
"Would you like us to show you around?" Nathan offered.
"No, I can show my self thank you." She said heading upstairs.
The carpet going up the stairs was soggy, water sloshed beneath their feet.
"What is this!" Ms. Walsh asked pushing the door to the bathroom open to reveal Cassie and Kylie arguing with one another
"I told you to only flush one at a time!" Cassie was yelling at Kylie who stood in the bathtub with the plunger in her hand to stop from getting wet.
"Well they're small!" Kylie argued back
"What is going on here?" Haley asked, Nathan had run down to the basement to turn off the water.
"Kylie's hamster's babies died and she decided to flush them down the toilet!" Cassie said
"We did it with the fish!" Kylie argued back again
-------- River and Hannah sat on Rivers bed still both thinking about what had happened the night before. Cody on the other hand was still asleep in Logan's bed, making a big drool mark on her pillow.
"Whatcha thinking about?" River asked
"Nothing." Hannah said a little too quickly. She took a deep breath and then attempted to recover from the slip. "Just about how screwed up Cody is."
"What do you mean?" River asked
"She seems to be under the impression that I have a thing for you." Hannah said rolling her eyes and laughing nervously. She was unsure what to think when River didn't do the same.
"What would you think if I did… yanno, have a thing for you, … kinda…" River said looking away from Hannah
Hannah swallowed hard… she had tried not to think about this conversation. She never actually thought that this would come up.
"I don't know…" Hannah said honestly "Do you?"
River nodded slightly still looking away from her friend.
"Yeah, I guess I do." Their eyes met and then darted away from one another. "Do you, um, feel the same way?"
"I don't know…" Hannah asked as River leaned in and kissed her, right then the door opened to reveal a woman that neither of them had seen before. "Oh my god!" Hannah said jumping up from the bed.
River turned away from the lady blushing. Luckily Nathan and Haley weren't with her because they were tied up with the flood that was occurring downstairs.
"Um, hi, I'm Hannah…" She said rocking from foot to foot.
Right then Cody woke up and rubbed her eyes to see this awkward scene in front of her.
"Dude, it seems like you just walked in on the two of them making out…" Nobody responded, "oh…" Cody said sighing and lying back down. "Just pretend I'm not here." She said turning over
Haley and Nathan appeared behind Ms. Walsh.
"And this is our second eldest daughter Hannah, and her friend River." Haley explained.
"I see." Ms. Walsh said. "Well I think I'm done here." She said smiling and walking out
"Well wait, did we pass?" Nathan asked
"Someone will be calling you later with the results." She said leaving.
"Well she was only here a little bit, maybe we did alright…" She said hopefully getting a hug from Nathan.
Hannah stood watching the scene mentally beating herself up for possibly jeopardizing the review.
------ Tree Hill
The door bell to Karens house rang a couple of times followed by couple of soft knocks.
"Ugh.." Spencer grumbled as he fell out of bed, his curls making a mass on his head. As he made his way down the stairs in his boxers he furiously itched the stubble on his chin. "Coming." He yelled. He put his forehead on the door and closed his eyes momentarily before he swung it open.
"Hey Curly!"
"Jenny…" Spencer said shocked when his girlfriend threw her arms around his neck.
There she stood in front of him, Jenny Jagielski, soul mates since age four. They had so many good times together, smearing peanut butter and Jelly in each others hair when their dads got locked out of the car, and when he and Jenny tried to sneak out Jennys senior year and Spencer slipped on a patch of ice and broke his arm… but the best time had to have been their first kiss in Spencers tree house, Spencer had been eleven at the time, and Jenny just twelve.
"This is a surprise!" He said about to pull her into a kiss.
"Ew!" She said jokingly pushing him off of her. "Morning breath!" She said smiling
Jenny was just shorter that Spencer and had light brown hair just past her shoulders and dark brown eyes. She wasn't too much of a tomboy, or at least not as much of one as you would expect her to be having grown up with her father.
"Sorry." Spencer said covering his mouth for a second before planting a sloppy kiss on her.
"Ew! Totally disgusting Curly, I hope you enjoyed that because that's all that you're getting." Jenny said tossing her bag in the corner.
"So what are you doing here?" Spencer asked covering his arms over his bare chest.
"I just thought that I would surprise you. I knew that you'd be working a lot while you were up here but I can't resist a man in an apron." Jenny said winking and nudging Spencer with her hip. "Where's Karen?" Jenny asked looking around.
"Away at some convention or something. She should get home soon, I don't know when but soon." Spencer said
Aspen wandered down the stairs with Logan trailing close behind.
"I'm hungry, Spencer make me food!" Aspen begged.
The two stopped short when they saw Jenny.
"Surprise surprise." Logan said winking at the two before going over and giving Jenny a big hug. She had been like her older sister.
"Hey Lo." Jenny said squeezing her tight. "How have you been?" Jenny asked
"Oh yanno, the norm, school, tutoring, meeting my birth mother." Logan rambled off.
"Really?" Jenny asked raising her eyebrow
"Really." Logan responded.
Then Jenny turned to Spencer.
"Go brush your teeth, we need to have girl talk!" Jenny ordered with a grin
"Fine fine!" Spencer said walking up the stairs with his hands above his head. "I thought that my girlfriend was coming to visit me and instead she ends up with my cousin, I see how it is."
---- Peyton sat on her bed sketching when there was a knock at her door.
"Come on in." She said.
The door opened and there was Tessa. They liked to think of Tessa as the reasonable child, at times painfully normal. Spencer was always brooding or playing basketball, Gunner was always so… angry, and Cody, god knew what went on with her, but Tessa, she was just an all around good kid, besides the fact that she was sick.
"Mom, someones on the phone for you." Tessa said.
"Do you know who it is?" Peyton asked sitting down her sketch pad.
"Nope, she didn't say." Tessa said leaning against the door frame.
"How are you feeling?" Peyton asked
Tessa shrugged
"Alright I guess." She said "I'm going to go lay down." She said closing the door when she left.
Peyton took a second and then picked up the phone.
"Hello?" She said
"Hey Peyton." The voice responded.
"Hey, hang on a minute." Peyton said sitting the phone on her bed and then looking out the window to make sure that Lucas's car wasn't there. "Brooke, I'm back." Peyton said holding the phone back up to her ear. "What's up?"
Peyton had gone back to LA sometime after Spencer was five and Logan was three. She couldn't forget what she saw the day that she was there with Haley. What she saw Brooke was doing for money… so she made some mistakes, everyone had, but in the end they were still best friends, and Peyton always knew that there was no way that she could ever completely cut Brooke off of her list.
"I met Logan." Brooke said in one breath.
"What!" Peyton said shocked
"Yeah, in Tree Hill."
"What are you doing in Tree Hill?" Peyton asked still surprised
"I decided to move back, I thought that it would be better for Katia to grow up there then in LA, but that's not the point. I met her!" Brooke said
From her voice Peyton could not tell if she was excited or terrified.
"How?"
"At the park, she was sitting next to me on a bench." Brooke said waiting to hear Peytons thoughts, but when Peyton said nothing she continued. "She looked exactly like the pictures that you sent me, just older."
"She looks exactly like you…" Peyton said "What are you going to do?"
"I don't know. I don't want her to think that I don't want to get to know her because I do, but I don't want Haley and Nathan to think that I am trying to take her away either because that's not what I want to do… What do you think that I should do Peyt?"
"I can't tell you what to do Brooke. I have no idea what it's like to be in your position, but when all of this comes out it's not going to be pretty. If people find out that we have been talking for the past 13 years…" Peyton said
"I know, I know that Nathan would be furious with you."
"It's not even that Brooke. I really don't regret that I went out to LA to see you, and I don't regret that we still talk."
"Well then what do you mean?" Brooke asked
"I don't know…" Peyton said sinking back into the pillows of the bed. Peyton glanced out of her back window and saw flames. "Um Brooke, gotta go, I see fire in the back yard which means Gunner was there. Love ya, bye!" She said hanging up the phone quickly and then running outside leaving Brooke with a dial tone.
"What am I going to do…" Brooke said to herself hanging up the phone.