Hey you guys! So I just got home from Miami! Fun fun… now it was time to update! Like I said… these next couple weeks might be crazy when it comes to updates so I am SORRY! I am going to update as much as I can and as often as I can I swear! It all just depends on the surgery and all that sun stuff lol! So bare with me! I'll get it up! Thank you guys soo much for reviews… I LOOOVE them! They inspire me to write! Haha anyways you guys enjoy this chapter! I will try and get one more up before my surgery! Luvies
Brooke skipped into the house where Lucas was sitting on the couch brooding… much more than usual. Not that she blamed him… he definitely had some reasons to Brood. Between the baby, and Peyton, and basketball and everything else his poor brooding head was probably going crazy… But that was her Lucas. She expected nothing less.
"Hey boyfriend, fiancé, whatever you are to be these days…" Brooke giggled plopping down into Lucas's lap so that she could kiss him
"Cheery" Lucas smiled pulling her towards him
"Sorry I'm late… serious ice cream craving on the way home. This kid is demanding already… Then the traffic was seriously terrible… some kind of concert was going on …Miss me?"
"Of course…"
"How was your talk with Peyton?" Brooke asked. She wasn't sure if she really wanted to know the answer considering the look he had on his face though
"She went home to think things over…I think I am more pissed at her than she is at me though"
"Why?"
"She thinks the world revolves around her…" Lucas sighed running his fingers through Brooke's silky hair
"What? That's crazy…the world doesn't revolve around her, it revolves around me and that's a proven fact… Broody, you know how she is… she'll deal with it in her own way and get over it… lets think happy thoughts… like the thoughts I was having about us in a hot tube on the way home…"
"Were we naked?" Lucas asked kissing her
"Of course… and then Mike had to go and ruin my fantasy… asking me if we had picked out a name for the baby"
"Mike…" Lucas said shaking his head. Mike was always messing up him and Brooke's fantasies with his stupid questions
"If it's a girl we can name it Female like famalee"
"Your terrible"
"I know… I just hate it when people ask all these questions…it freaks me out" Brooke sighed laying her head on Lucas's chest close to his heart
"How come?"
"Lucas this is seriously going to change our lives…"
"Having 2nd thoughts?" Lucas asked nervously. Brooke had seemed kinda unsure about this whole thing since she had come home, and that was making him more nervous than the thought of a baby was
"No… I think its just nerves… more shopping might help"
"How did I not see that one coming?"
"You know you love me and my obsessive shopping…" Brooke giggled
"Yes…"
"Even when I have gained like 500 pounds and I cant see my feet anymore… you have to take me shopping"
"Of course" Lucas laughed kissing her forehead
"And let me sit on you like this?"
"We'll see"
"And we have to go shopping tomorrow" Brooke said getting excited again. Shopping made her forget about anything that was making her nervous, or mad or upset, I mean it was shopping!
"For what?"
"We still need a ton of stuff… a crib, a changing table, a dresser, a rocking chair, a um… ok whatever else babies need… I might need to call tutor mom and get some help with this"
"Or you could wait until they come next week…" Lucas whined
"Never… you aren't getting out of shopping with me tomorrow…because we have a doctors appointment first and you have to come"
"Do I have too?"
"Yep…" Brooke giggled taking pleasure in his not wanting to go. Doctors offices and hospitals creeped him out to the max she knew, but he was not making her go to this appointment alone, there was no telling what they were going to do to her
"Couldn't you have made it later, so we could I don't know… sleep?"
"What fun would that be?"
"We haven't slept in ages" Lucas whispered kissing her
"And according to this book that was at this store, after we have this baby we aren't going to sleep for even longer!"
"How much longer?"
"Until this kid is like 18" Brooke giggled running her fingers through his hair
"Oh God…"
"But you say that with a smirk…" Brooke smiled. Lucas made his little cracks about the baby, and so did she… but they were both excited and they each knew it
"Come on…" Lucas said pulling Brooke off the couch
"Where are we going?"
"To fill out your hot tube fantasy" Lucas smiled pulling her close to kiss him. Living here with a hot tub definitely paid off
"Oh Yay! All of it… even the naked part?" Brooke giggled wrapping her arms around Lucas's neck
"When have I ever cut you short in a fantasy?"
"And we wonder how I got pregnant"
Peyton sat in front of her computer trying to get as much information as she could about both Lucas and Brooke over the past few years. So far all she had found was that Lucas and Brooke had both graduated from Carolina. Lucas had gone straight to play for the Bobcats, while Brooke was in Law School. There was a lot of technical information about them but no juicy gossip, nothing that could get them into a fight or cause them to doubt "them". Nothing that is until she found a certain e-mail address.
"Ha! I found it!" Peyton screamed hitting the print button on the computer
"Found what?"
"The thing that may, just may get me Lucas"
"What is the thing?" Mary asked sitting down next to Peyton
"Ok, Brooke has some serious commitment issues, she CANT stay with just 1 guy…"
"But didn't you say that she didn't sleep with anyone else the whole time she was with Lucas in high school"
"Yes but that was high school, college had to get to her" Peyton laughed deviously
"So what is the thing?"
"Her old roommates e-mail address! She will know what Brooke really did in college"
"That's evil…" Mary smiled
"I know… desperate times call for desperate measures"
"Wow"
"What should he E-mail say?" Peyton asked opening a blank e-mail
"Tell them the truth, that you are Brooke's best friend and you are looking to make a toast at her wedding… you need the good and the bad"
"That's not the truth"
"It will be when you become very friendly with Lucas and Brooke, and get invited to the wedding" Mary smiled
"And then crash it?"
"Exactly"
"Wow… and I thought I was evil" Peyton laughed looking at the e-mail. It was starting to make her stomach turn thinking about what she was doing to the love of her life and her best friend. But she couldn't have the best of both worlds, so she was going to have to choose. This wasn't high school. Ho's over Bro's didn't apply anymore.
"You are… just not as evil as me… ok now write"
Lucas sat in the Jacuzzi. He was making a mental note to remember to write a letter to whoever came up with the idea for a Jacuzzi later to thank them. Of course Jacuzzis had sentimental meanings to him and Brooke. Some of their most important talks had happened in Jacuzzis. Where most couples would sit by a fire together, and snuggle… not Lucas and Brooke. Brooke always had to be in some sort of water when she was having a serious conversation. Lucas always thought it was because it made things less serious, since Brooke hated anything serious, but she would never say. The most memorable "conversation" they had had in a Jacuzzi had happened about 3 years ago.
They had been "Conversing" as Brooke put it in her parents Jacuzzi, AKA making out. Of course her parents were still pretty much broke, but they were slowly making their money back, but since the business was pretty much dead… they were home a lot more… which drove Brooke totally insane. Sure she and Lucas were both away at college but when they were home together she liked them to be alone.
"Ok question, what was that?" Brooke asked pausing the make out session
"What was what?"
"That?" Brooke whispered nervously
"What?"
"That noise…"
"I have no idea" Lucas laughed kissing her again
"Lucas, wait a heard a noise"
"Brooke, there isn't much we can do about whatever it is considering we are both naked in here"
"What if it is like a robber?" Brooke asked sliding closer to Lucas
"In Tree Hill?"
"Fine… what if it is Dan then… here to try and"
"And?" Lucas laughed putting his arm around Brooke
"Give you some more brothers"
"Your crazy you know that?"
"Yes and that's why you love me, now shut up and kiss me before I get too freaked out and want to go inside" Brooke giggled pressing her lips up against his
"I can do that"
"I heard it again… did you hear it?" Brooke said after they had been making out for a few more minutes
"No… I am trying to make out with my girlfriend, not listen for Dan"
"Maybe it isn't Dan… maybe its Deb, or Anna… Oh Crap"
"Brooke…" Lucas whined giving up
"Stop acting like I guy… what if it's Felix, stupid Blue Power ranger cat"
"It's not Dan, or Deb, or Felix, or Anna… it's just you and me and the hot tub" Lucas whispered kissing her again now that she was calm
"Oh Brooklyn… is that you" a voice yelled from the house
"Oh God… its worse" Brooke cried pulling away from Lucas
"Your parents"
"Yes…why is it they have no interest in my life all through high school when I was screwed up and confused… and now I am finally happy and together and they have to ruin everything"
"That's what parents do I guess" Lucas whispered giving Brooke one last kiss before slipping his bathing suite back on
"If we're ever parents… we won't be like that"
That line in particular was stuck in Lucas's head. All the things they said they wouldn't do over the years and now it was like it was all thrown out the window. Starting with saying they weren't going to have children. The thing that got him was Brooke looked 10 times calmer than he did, and she was the one who had said NO CHILDREN. She just sat there, going on and on about all the stuff they had to buy and do while he pretended to listen.
"Lucas, are you listening?" Brooke asked waving her hand in front of Lucas's face
"Uh huh…"
"So your ok with the fact that this baby is Tom Brady's and not yours" Brooke asked very seriously
"Yea sure"
"Right… I knew you would understand! Snap out of it Luke, we have sex and then you zone me out… Me? Of all people, I will not have it Broody" Brooke giggled kissing him
"Sorry… Just thinking"
"Brooding"
"I was not" Lucas laughed kissing her back
"Yes you were and you know it, throw me my suite, we need to get to bed…"
"Why? We could stay here all night" Lucas smiled pulling Brooke close
"Because I would like to be ½ way awake tomorrow at the doctor, so she can tell me all the creepy things that this kid is going to be doing to be"
"Since when are you the sensible one?"
"Me sensible? Never… I'm marrying you aren't I?" Brooke giggled slipping on her top
"How is that not sensible?"
"Don't get me started Broody… lets go, sleep!"
"Fine… but I am going to remind you of this night one day when you don't want to sleep and I do" Lucas whined trying to make one last attempt to keep her in the tub
"Luke, love of my live, sexy man whore…" Brooke giggled
"What?"
"Carry me?"
"You are so lazy" Lucas laughed climbing out of the tub. Brooke was definitely lazy… but a good lazy.
"You love me and my laziness! Please?" Brooke begged. She knew he was going to do it. He always did.
"Piggy back ride work?"
"Yes…"
"Hop on…" Lucas said once he was dried off. The last thing he needed was to slip and fall and kill them both
"You're the bestest Broody!"
"You're going to break my back…"
"Hope not… let's work those muscles so you'll be strong enough to give me and the baby a piggy back ride" Brooke giggled kissing his ear
"Kill me now"
"Hmmm maybe, and then the baby and I can live large off your insurance"
"Why am I marrying you again?" Lucas asked threatening to drop her in the pool
"Because you knocked me up… we both know that's the reason"
"Right…so how come I asked you 6 months ago?"
"Because you can tell the future…" Brooke giggled as Lucas walked into the elevator with her still on his back
"Can I?"
"You're going to be a good dad Broody" Brooke smiled
"You think?"
"I know…" Brooke giggled. She had no doubt in her mind that Lucas was going to be a great dad… which made her worry more and more about how she was going to be as a mom.
"You're going to be a good mom Cheery"
Karen sat at the dinner table with Andy and his friends. She felt so out of place, all their talk of Australian politics and college days was boring her to death. She had no choice but to think of Lucas. Just 1 more day and she got to see her baby. Less than that really, they were leaving first thing in the morning. Even sooner than that if she had anything to do with it.
"So are you 2 sure you cant stay another day? Really, they are having a Carolina game tomorrow and we have tickets" Ross, Andy's friend saif flashing 2 tickets in front of them
"We really cant… Charlotte beckons"
"Love, maybe you should call him to make sure he is there before we just pop in like this"
"Of course he is there, its basketball season" Karen laughed feeling her forehead get hot. Andy wasn't supposed to be doing this. He knew how much she wanted to see Lucas.
"Its also almost Christmas"
"Who are you going to see in Charlotte?"
"My son Lucas, he plays for the Bobcats" Karen said proudly.
"Lucas Scott? Use to play for Carolina?"
"Yes! You know of him?"
"We saw him play all the time! We even sat with his little lady one night" Ross's wife laughed getting pink in the cheeks
"His little lady?"
"I forget her name, sweet pretty thing though… talks non-stop. We couldn't even watch the game"
"She was a sweetie, she was very smitten with your son…"
"That's good to know" Karen smiled feeling relief sweep over her
"But this has been about 3 years back…"
"Lucas doesn't keep women for long…" Andy laughed
"Andy!"
"What? In the 3 months before you and I left he had dated 3 different women"
"He was just keeping his options open" Karen said glaring at Andy giving him her "your so dead" look
"Well he is 23"
"Exactly…"
"What?" Andy asked
"Never mind… I am just going to get ready for bed"
"Its 7:15"
"I'm tired" Karen snapped throwing her fork down. The stress was definitely starting to get to her, sleep would so her good
"Alright love, in the morning then?"
"Bright and early"
"She's a keeper Andy!" Ross laughed
"I think so too"