Chapter 7How Honest Can You Be?

It was two days after Jes had returned from the hospital. She was still staying at Nathan and Haley's apartment and today was the first day she was allowed to go back to school. Even though it was a Friday, she was excited to get some normalcy back in her life. Her head was still spining from everything that had happened and everything she had learned. She had spent the past two days talking with her brothers and learning about her father. She learned exactly what Nathan had been talking about that day at the River Court. Dan was not a good person, at all. Jes sighed, she still wasn't sure what she was going to do about a place to live but she was 18, so she could basically do whatever she wanted. As Jes began to get lost her thoughts once again, the door to the apartment burst open.
"Good morning friend" Brooke said bouncing happily through the door with coffee in hand.
"Morning Brooke. How are you feeling this morning?"
"I am totally great! You know what I was thinking? I was thinking that you, me, Tutorwife, and P. Sawyer should have a sleep over tonight!"
"I don't know Brooke, what about the guys?"
"Yeah Brooke, what about he guys?" Lucas said walking through the door that Brooke had left open. Lucas shut the door and walked over to Brooke, circling an arm around her waist. Brooke pretended to pout because Jes had put a wrinkle in her plans. Lucas noticed the look on her face and leaned down to give her a kiss on the forehead.
"What would you say if I came up with a sleepover that could include the guys?" Jes asked.
"Oh that would be so great! Wait, are you sure it's possible?" Brooke asked with suspicion on her face.
"Of course it is. We used to it in New York everytime a new person came into the group." Brooke got on her phone to tell Peyton and Jake to get over to the apartment. Nathan and Haley wandered in upon hearing Brooke's renewed excitement. Peyton and Jake arrived a few minutes later to see the group sitting in a circle with a box in the middle.
"What's up guys?" Jake asked, taking a seat next to Lucas and pulling Peyton down on his lap.
"Well, now that you are here Jes can spill her brillant idea!" Brooke said clapping her hands.
"Alright guys, this is the question box and it goes with the question game. It's pretty simple, you come up with questions for different people. Then tonight we dump out the box and take turns reading the questions. You can ask anything to anyone but you don't have to put your name on the it, just the name of the person you are asking the question to. If the subject of the question is something you really don't want to talk about then you can pass." When Jes had finished the group just looked at her. Jes found herself becoming red, oh no, they don't like it, she thought.
"Jes that is a great idea," Haley said smiling. The rest of the group nodded their heads agreeing with her. The decided that they would dump the question box at 7PM at Nathan and Haley's. Each of the kids came up with numerous different questions throughout the day.

7 PM that night...

"Alright, who wants to do the honors?" Jes asked sitting between her brothers.
"I will!" Brooke said, causing each of them to laugh. Brooke dumped out the box and picked up a piece of paper.
"And the first question is...What to date has been the worst day of your life. This question is addressed to everybody." Brooke read
"Brooke starts since she read the question." Jes said, quickly realizing this was going to be the most intense game of question she had ever played.
Brooke thought for a minute. "The day I slept with Chris Keller. Lucas, your tun." Lucas responded immediately "The day I had my heart attack. Jes?" Jes took a deep breath. "The day my sister died. Nathan your up." Nathan looked at her. "Nice try, you had a sister?" "Yeah, she was two years older than me, her name was Amy and she was the apple of my mom's eye. Now Nathan it's your turn." Nathan realized that she wasn't ready to talk about it quite yet. "Fine, the day Haley left for the tour. Your turn Hales." Haley looked at Nathan and said "The day I left for the tour." Nathan cocked his head to the side "are you serious?" Haley put her hand on top of Nathan's. "Absolutely, I realize now that it was the biggest mistake I have ever made." Nathan felt a smile creep over his face and put his arm around Haley pulling her to him. "Peyton your turn," Haley said softly letting her head rest on Nathan's shoulder. Jake put his hand on Peyton's shoulder knowing instinctively what she was going to say. "The day my mom died. Jake?" Brooke got up and gave Peyton a hug and felt the tears welling up in her own eyes. "The day Niki took Jenny." After they had gone all the way around the circle the group stopped and looked at each other. They all knew that after tonight their relationship would never be the same, they would all be changed, but it would be a change for the better.