Chapter 6! THANK YOU GUYS SOOOOOO MUCH for these reviews! You have no idea how much they help! I love writing this story so much and its so awesome that people like reading it! Anyway Thank you! And please keep it up!
Brooke walked into the coliseum to find Lucas. She was going to wait until he got home to talk to him but she was feeling too jittery to just wait… Her whole body felt different to her now. Just the fact that something was growing inside her was creeping her out so much she tired not to think about it. Whenever someone made a comment about a baby growing inside them it always reminded her of a fungus and she swore it was never going to happen to her. Which now just proved her theory… never say never. The coliseum was quiet… just the way she liked it. The games here were always loud and noisy, and she never got to see Lucas with all of the screaming fans mobbing her boy toy. Quiet was defiantly better. It reminded her of the time they had driven up here to see a Bobcats game their sophomore year in college.
It was Lucas's birthday and Brooke had searched everywhere to get the un-buyable tickets to that particular game and finally she was able to pull some strings to get them. So of course she bought them thinking maybe he would take a friend or something… but no, of course with her luck he wanted to take her…so since it was after all his birthday she agreed and went.
"So this is it?" Brooke asked not at all impressed, but trying to act it for Lucas's sake. He was excited and she didn't want to ruin it for him.
"This is it… god, last time I was here was when Nathan and I drove up for that game junior year" Lucas laughed looking at the coliseum
"Hey, where was I?" Brooke asked trying to sound like she felt left out
"Benefiting with Felix in Haley's bed if I remember correctly"
"Right…Well at least now I can benefit with you in Haley's bed!" Brooke giggled. Ever since the slumber party Haley, Peyton, and Anna hadn't let her or Felix live what they had done down.
"Then she'd be doubly grossed out"
"I washed the sheets!"
"So you say…" Lucas laughed shaking his head at her, her craziness made him smile. The fact that to her risks were something that should be taken was what had made him fall in love with her.
"Wow… imagine if she knew what we did last time we were there"
"She WOULD kill us and that's why she is never going to know and we are never going to speak of it again"
"It would be something to tell her grandkids!" Brooke giggled. She couldn't wait for Haley and Nathan to have a baby so she could corrupt it.
"Ok lets go…"
"Wait! Broody… we have like an hour" Brooke whined not wanting to go in yet. Basketball games weren't really her thing so she was trying to put this off as long as possible
"Don't you want to get food and stuff?"
"Hmm, not really… Lets do something crazy we'll always remember every time we see this place!"
"Like what? Have sex in the parking lot?" Lucas asked. He wouldn't have been at all surprised if she had said yes, and knowing them they would have done it
"Hmm, no that's too cliché"
"Bathroom?"
"Come on Lucas! Be creative!" Brooke snapped fidgeting in her seat trying to think
"You be creative, and fast because I want to see this game!"
"Help me think"
"Sex in the bushes?" Lucas asked just saying random places
"Ew no! And who says it has to be sex?" Brooke asked.
"Brooke, Cheery I love you but with you everything is about sex"
"I resent that! But fine… you want it to be about sex… it will be sorta" Brooke giggled deviously. He could tell she had a plan… which probably wasn't a good sign considering where they were.
"What do you mean?"
"You are going to sneak into the cheerleaders locker room and I am going to get into the guys locker room… and whoever gets the most phone numbers wins!"
"Brooke! We can't get in there!" Lucas laughed
"Who says? You could totally pass for a basketball player and I could totally be a cheerleader! Luke… it isn't like you aren't going to be playing here one day anyway! Think of this as a warm up for when you are playing here!" Brooke begged, this was exactly what she had in mind for them to do
"You really wanna do this?"
"Why not?" Brooke asked shrugging her shoulders
"Ok Cheery! Your on!"
Things had not ended well. They had both somehow managed to get into the locker rooms and get phone numbers… getting out of the locker rooms had been the problem. Who knew the locked the doors after the game started… and even though they missed ½ the game Lucas still to this day claimed that it was his best birthday ever.
Now 3 years later and here Brooke still had to shoo away those same pesky cheerleaders from Lucas. She walked into the gym where Lucas and Mike were in the corner shooting and laughing about something. He looked happy, just the way she liked to see him.
"Mrs. Scott" Brooke heard a voice say, it was Greg… the head coach for the Carolina Bobcats, the man who could either make or break Lucas's basketball career, so Brooke always tried to be extra nice to him, for Lucas's sake
"Not yet…"
"Have you 2 not set a date yet? What are you waiting for?" Greg chuckled
"We had one, now I'm not sure it's going to work… life keeps getting in the way" Brooke laughed. Greg was a nice enough guy, but very nosey
"I know how that is…you look well, Lucas treating you good?"
"Of course" Brooke smiled.
"Glad to hear it… How was Chicago?" Greg asked now focusing all of his attention on Brooke, completely ignoring the practicing boys
"Interesting… I got in late last night and I have barely even seen my boy toy today!" Brooke said trying to sound pitiful. Greg didn't need to know that she had spent the whole day with Lucas, maybe if he thought that they weren't seeing each other enough then he might give Lucas a break.
"Wanna see something funny?" Greg asked turning to face Lucas
"Sure"
"Watch that boys face when he sees you're here" Greg smiled pointing to Lucas
"Ok"
"Scott, I've got a present for you!" Greg yelled. As the words came out of his mouth and Lucas saw Brooke a big smile came over his face as he ran over
"Did you see that smile? That's what we call the million dollar smile around here, and he only does it when he sees you" Greg laughed
"What do you call that look on Mike's face?" Brooke giggled looking over at Mike
"Stupidity, longing, wanting, but mostly stupidity"
"Nice…"
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Lucas asked giving Brooke a quick kiss
"Shopping got old… thought I'd come say hey, catch up with Greg" Brooke laughed
"You bought the top didn't you?" Lucas asked. He knew exactly what she had done as soon as he left…
"I had too! Luke, it was begging me… so what if I can only wear it for like 2 more months… I can wear it after too! Luke, that top needed me!" Brooke giggled, then decided that making excuses wasn't going to work so she decided that kissing him might work better
"Is there something you 2 want to tell me?" Greg asked
"We're going to have a baby" Brooke said finally after having a stare down with Lucas about whether or not they should tell.
"Congratulations! It's about time… maybe this will get you 2 moving on that wedding date! You know what Scott? I love this woman of yours so I am going to be generous today… It's the last practice before Christmas… go home, take her to dinner, celebrate, all that fun stuff… I'll see you at the game next week"
"Really?" Lucas asked, but Brooke wasn't surprised. Greg was a family man with 4 kids of his own
"Yes… now go before I change my mind…"
"We're gone… Thanks Greg" Brooke smiled walking out with Lucas hand in hand
Peyton stood in front of the mirror holding up to skirts. She hated skirts… She had been trying on outfits for an hour and still found nothing. She had to look better than his girlfriend… Whoever this girl was, she was going to wish that she had never started dating Lucas Eugene Scott, if Peyton had her way. She thought about calling Brooke to ask her what she should wear but then changed her mind. Brooke didn't need to know any of this, she seemed to have enough going on in her life right now and would probably just get mad at Peyton for trying to hurt this girl.
"You're wearing a skirt?" Mary asked shocked
"Yea… I wanna look nice!" Peyton laughed. Sometimes she didn't think Mary understood how big of a thing this was for her
"Peyton… were you wearing a skirt all of those times you dated Lucas in high school?"
"I never wore skirts in high school"
"Then don't wear one tonight, Peyton if he thinks you've changed then he might not feel the same way about you he use too" Mary said, and it hit Peyton that she was right… she didn't need to parade around Lucas like some desperate wanna be. She just needed to be her
"I don't even know how he use to feel about me… I mean yea we dated but" Peyton started but Mary broke in
"But what?"
"But whenever we weren't actually physically on a date he was always hanging out with someone else" Peyton sighed. It was like once they were dating Lucas didn't care anymore; he wanted to hang out with everyone but her
"Like who?"
"Nathan some, and Haley but mostly Brooke"
"Wait… so those 2 were friends after you guys cheated?" Mary asked. She just couldn't get enough of this
"Yea, it took a while but they got over it… it was high school"
"You lived in a screwy town Peyton… when did you guys date?"
"Mostly Jr. year after the whole Jake thing… he flip flopped between Anna and I… " Peyton laughed
"Not Brooke?"
"Just friends, He never really cared about her like that and even if he had she would have been to scared to date him again"
"Screwy" Mary laughed
"Tell me about it… Cargo pants?"
"Hell yea, what about Graduation? You 2 didn't get drunk and sleep together or anything did you?" Mary asked. She was reading way more into this than Peyton wanted
"I was so high back then I wouldn't remember if we did"
"This shirt" Mary laughed throwing a black shirt at her
"Really?"
"Yea… when he sees you he is going to fall to the ground begging you to take him back"
"If you say so" Peyton sighed…
Brooke and Lucas laid outside on their hammock talking. It was Lucas's favorite thing to do with her, especially in the winter with blankets when they had nothing important going on, they could lay outside looking up at the sky and play Brooke's favorite game "What does that cloud look like". They had been laying outside for about 10 minutes in complete silence. Lucas could see that Brooke was deep in thought, thinking about god only knew. The sun was setting and it was getting colder by the minute, but neither of them cared… that was their spot.
"You're brooding" Lucas laughed running his fingers through her long auburn hair
"What? I don't Brood… you brood"
"Usually, but your brooding right now… what wrong?" Lucas asked. Brooke had on her "look" The look she put on whenever she was nervous or upset but too afraid to bring it up.
"Nothing… its just, I think it just hit me that we're going to have a baby" Brooke sighed, she was all of the sudden shaky and nervous about this whole thing, and she never got shaky or nervous.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, I knew we were and all but it just hit me that it is actually going to happen"
"Nervous?" Lucas asked the obvious
"Terrified"
"Why?"
"Because from now on… forever! I'm going to be someone's mother" Brooke said quietly. Saying it out loud made it even worse… how was she supposed to be someone's mother and take care of them? She could barely take care of herself
"Are you regretting it?" Lucas asked nervously. He for the first time in a long time had no idea what was going to come out of her mouth
"No… its not really a sad terrified, more of a happy terrified, like when we started dating again"
"I guess that's a good thing" Lucas laughed feeling relieved
"It is…and you know it"
"Feel better?"
"Much… we should go get ready, what did Mike say?" Brooke asked. She couldn't wait for tonight when they put Peyton in her place…
"He can't wait, and he also says I should break up with you and date Peyton so he can have you"
"He's crazy… god, pull me up" Brooke whined trying to stand up from the hammock
"Too many Ding Dongs?"
"Nope, today it was Cream Cheese in Chili"
"Ew" Lucas gagged
"It was really good… god this place is a wreck, I think we bought too much"
"We? Try you… go put that top you bough on, I wanna see it" Lucas laughed. He knew her showing off her top would make her feel better
"Its hott! I am so wearing it tonight"
"26 bags" Lucas yelled into the bedroom. He couldn't believe how much they had bought
"What?"
"26 bags from baby stores"
"Yea I know! Ok how does it look?" Brooke asked coming out in her red fitted top. Defiantly not something your average mother would be would wear out, ever… but Lucas liked it.
"Ok I take that back. I am very glad you bought that top"
"Really?" Brooke giggled wrapping her arms around his neck
"Yes…"
"Then my mission was accomplished… Ugh your groupies are banging on the window… when are they going to learn to use the door?" Brooke asked looking down at the basketball court where Lucas's basketball buddies were waiting for him
"When the grow a brain maybe"
"I think they want me to flash them" Brooke giggled
"We really need to get some blinds"
"Awww but then our creepy neighbors wouldn't have anything to entertain them at night! Oh Phone… I'll get it… you get dressed handsome" Brooke said running to the cordless phone
"Will do"
"Hello?" Brooke answered out of breath
"Brooke!" Haley screeched
"Tutormom! How is pregnancy treating you?" Brooke asked. She had forgotten all about Haley being pregnant too. That might be the thing that made this whole pregnancy thing interesting for her
"Yea, ok whoever called it "morning" sickness needs to be shot because I throw up non-stop!" Haley whined
"Ugh, that sucks… how far along are you again?" Brooke asked… she was hoping maybe, just maybe she wouldn't have the whole morning sickness thing
"16 weeks"
"Ah, I'm 14…" Brooke whined
"What? Brooke your pregnant?" Haley shrieked
"Yes!" Brooke shrieked back. Lucas was in the bedroom covering his eardrums
"Oh My God! Brooke! Oh My God! How, well not how, but I thought you were like the anti-baby?" Haley asked out of breath
"It's a long story but yea apparently not so much anymore!"
"What does Lucas think?"
"He's excited! We shopped all day… Oh My God and get this! Peyton is here! Peyton… It's a long story, but when the hell are you getting your ass up down here to see us?" Brooke asked. She really missed Haley… although she would never admit it to Lucas, just for the reason that he loved to pick on her for being friends with her
"How about Christmas?" Haley asked
"Are you serious?"
"Yea, see Dan and Deb want us to spend it with them, but my parents want us to spend it with them… and we don't want to go to either, but we would like to at least see them but we need a place to stay…"
"We can shop!" Brooke shrieked
"Sure!"
"Anyway, I gotta go… and like no one knows about me being pregnant yet so can you kinda keep it quiet? Like really quiet?" Brooke asked, but she wasn't really worried. Haley wasn't one for gossip …which was a total drag when they were hanging out and she knew nothing… but for once it might just pay off
"Of course! I'll call you later"
"Bye!"
"Haley…" Lucas asked
"How did you know?" Brooke giggled straightening the collar on his shirt. She had to make sure he looked his very best tonight.
"I had to decipher all the screaming but then it came to me"
"They wanna come stay with us Christmas…"
"Sounds good… ready to go?" Lucas asked. He was ready to get this over with.
"Let me get my coat"
Peyton waited at the restaurant. She was all of the sudden very nervous when she saw Lucas walk in. Something in the pit of her stomach sank… but where was this girl? Lucas was walking in alone… Maybe they had a fight? Or were driving separately? Whatever it was there defiantly wasn't a girl with Lucas.
"Peyton… hey" Lucas smiled sitting down
"Lucas… where is this woman…"
"Well see, here's the thing… by woman I meant"
"Lucas sweetie! What have I told you about coming out in public with that shirt" Mike shrieked as he walked to the table and sat down. He had playing gay down so good he was even fooling Lucas
"He's a man" Lucas said flatly
"Your gay?"