Hey you guys! I am getting soo behind on my writing… it sucks. I am taking college courses this year and apparently I cant JUST write about One Tree Hill…Then between that and extraing and everything else… it gets hard to keep up! But I wanted to thank you guys SOOO much for being sooooo cooperative with me! For always reviewing! Whenever I read you guys reviews I get this sudden urge to write more! I love you guys! Hahahaha anyway… Thank you SOOOO much! I know it's a pain having to wait sometimes a week for a new update but you guys never complain or rant about it and I seriously appreciate it! Thank you!

"Ok… so get this!" Brooke shrieked slamming the front door behind her. She couldn't wait to tell Lucas what a jackass professor she had, it felt almost like high school again when she had that really, really juicy gossip that she couldn't wait to tell him. Just him so he could smile and shake his head at her like he always did. Sadly, that probably wasn't going to happen today, since she had forgotten Peyton was there and Karen had decided to make an appearance too.

"Ahh… chill babe"

"No time to chill… and you're going to take that back after I tell you this!"

"Don't you just love living with 2 pregnant women?" Karen smiled patting Lucas's shoulder. Peyton had just spent the past 10 minutes before Brooke got home whining for some kind of cookie… Lucas was in for a long 4 more months.

"Hey… It could be worse! You could be daddy to both…"

"Ouch"

"Can I even get a word in, in my own flippin house? Thank you… back to me GUESS where my internship is" Brooke said, trying to build up the suspense. This was a lot easier when it was just Lucas, Peyton and Karen weren't understanding the whole 'try and look like the suspense is killing you when it really isn't' thing that Lucas always did for Brooke.

"Please saw Tahiti… please say Tahiti, don't you girls want to be Tahiti babes?"

"Yeahya"

"Not even close… try Tree Hill" Brooke sighed. Just saying it made her feel dead and bored.

"God… why? Kill me…"

"Hey! That's my line anyway you wanna know what's even worse?"

"What's that?" Karen laughed. She enjoyed watching the little show's Lucas and Brooke put on when one of then had news. Brooke's pure almost innocent excitement she always had when she was talking to Lucas, and then the way Lucas just smiled so laid back and happy… Karen guessed Brooke could probably kill someone and Lucas would find a way to forgive her, just judging from the way he looked at Brooke.

"I have to start March 30th!"

"The baby isn't due until April 15ish"

"I know! He says I have to work until the day the baby is born! Can you believe that jackass!" Brooke shrieked and whined at the same time and then plopped into Lucas's lap to get her dramatic point across… that and she was getting tired.

"So what are you going to do?"

"Show him I can… but believe me, we haven't gotten to the truly terrible part yet"

"It gets worse?" Lucas sighed raising his eyebrows at her and wrapping his arms around her stomach. To him all of this didn't really sound THAT bad. So they would have to go back to Tree Hill for the summer… He could hang out with Fergie, Skillz and everyone. Sure Brooke was going to have to work until the baby… it wasn't like she wasn't going to do that anyway.

"So much worse... Who is the worst possible person to be my supervisor?"

"Barney!"

"Worse than Barney Allie" Brooke giggled rolling her eyes at little Allie who was trying to join in on the excitement.

"That is bad…"

"Uh oh"

"Uh oh is right Chlo…Come on people… Guess! I know you were all remember the big bad villain in our high school years!" Brooke whined. Had they all totally forgotten who they hated? Apparently they had because this wasn't having the desired effect she had planned on.

"Other than me?" Peyton laughed, but it stayed silent.

"Funny…"

"Fine… Be that way… Its DAN!"

"You're kidding me… how?" Lucas asked… changing from his 'that's not so bad' serious face to his 'this sure as hell isn't happening' face.

"Apparently he does stuff there now… its Tree Hill, he has power, he can do what he wants!"

"Damn it… Be a supportive husband, be a supportive husband"

"Reminding yourself?" Brooke giggled kissing Lucas on the cheek.

"Trying hard too"

"What about his car dealership?" Karen asked. Obviously in as much shock as Lucas was. She figured she would know about something like this! After all she did live in Tree Hill… and Deb did pretty much tell her everything.

"Oh… apparently he still has it, but that wasn't enough, I guess he didn't feel he was doing enough evil for the world with just cars, now he has moved on to law"

"Ok… so looks like you too have a lot to talk about and deal with… I have to go with Karen to meet up with a possible adoptive family… they have a possible baby Hardgrove… why don't we take the girls with us? Give you too some alone time although judging from the fact you 2 are some how managing to have another one… I am guessing you get enough alone time"

"Actually if you wanted to take the girls that would be great" Lucas said figuring it couldn't hurt. He and Brooke could talk, rest, and shop since they did really really need too.

"Sure… I can show these people what a good mother I can be"

"Yea… you might wanna keep Lucas away from them then"

"Ouch…ouch…luckily I am in a good mood today" Lucas whispered tickling Brooke, who was apparently feeling funnier than him today.

"I bet you are… the baby's a boy by the way"

"Oh My God! Congratulations!"

"I've got my 3 beautiful girls… and now another man to converse with… its all good" Lucas laughed as Brooke rolled her eyes at him.

"What's he smoking?"

"I can't be happy?"

"No you can… but your killing the zin, see you're the Broody one, Brooke's the cheery one…. Oh no… I wonder if this baby will Brood like him" Peyton asked Brooke who was still giggling from being tickled.

"I was wondering the same thing!"

"And the little squinty thing he always does!"

"And the head scratching thing!" Brooke shrieked.

"I'm still here you know…"

"Daddy" Allie and Chloë both giggled.

"The girls think I'm funny"

"I think you're funny too babe… Allie, Chloë you're going to go with Yaya and Peyton and go play! Ok? And Mommy and Daddy are going to go get Christmas stuff… and then Santa can come and bring you a ton of presents! Yay!"

"Yay!" Both girls shrieked

"Ok… they're good and Hyper for you Karen… Enjoy!"

"Thanks…"

After Brooke had thoroughly dressed the girls in their coolest outfits she sent them off with Karen (Not willingly… apparently they were in a mommy mood, not a yaya mood) Brooke went upstairs to get ready to go shopping while Lucas turned on ESPN. Being married to Brooke, he had somehow become one of 'those' husbands. The guys who grilled out, watched ESPN… it was just too much. So after flipping the TV off he decided to sit and try and wrap his head around everything that was happening. First off… baby. It wasn't too scary now but he figured that when Brooke started to show more he would start getting that turning in his stomach like he did with Allie and Chloë. Brooke had been right… it wasn't going to be easy with 3 kids under 3. Infact when the baby was born Allie and Chloë were going to be in their so called terrible two's… although Lucas couldn't really wrap his head around that either. Everyone claimed Chloë and Allie were eventually going to start testing him and Brooke, and they were going to have to set down some real ground rules… but at this point in time he couldn't imagine having to discipline his baby girls. (Other than little things like telling them not to do something) He knew he was probably bias when it came to them but from what he saw both girls were VERY well behaved compared to other kids he had seen. Like James for example.

All of this thought about the girls growing up was starting to depress him. He needed to think of something else. He thought about reading but it just wasn't the same anymore unless he had Chloë, Allie and Brooke to read too. It seemed pointless when it was just him… He looked around the room and finally found something. A picture from Halloween last year. Brooke had spent god only knew how much money on custom made Princess dresses for the girls using their favorite colors, then had taken them to a hair dresser and had their hair done. At first Lucas had been kind of mad that Brooke had gone out and spent that much money on costumes and hair for toddlers… but of course after Lucas had thought about it and remembered that Brooke had parents who claimed Halloween was too juvenile and never let Brooke dress up for Halloween, he gave up and let Brooke do what she wanted with the girls that night… more for her sake than theirs. Sometimes he forgot she had never had a real childhood… so everything she was doing with the girls was new to her too. All the Barbies and baby dolls and My Little Ponies, she had just as much fun with it as they did.

There it was… this was starting to depress him again. He really had to think of something happier… so he looked behind last years Halloween picture at the Halloween picture from their freshman year in College. Definitely happy. He and Brooke were dating pretty seriously…but it was October, their first semester had just started good and they had both realized this wasn't going to be as easy as they had thought. Just like everyone had told them… college and High school were 2 very different things. College had different people, more freedom, everything Brooke had wanted forever and everything Lucas had been dreading. By Halloween Brooke of course had her groupies… Freshman and Sophomore guys who followed her like puppies, and then Lucas had what Brooke referred to them as 'His women'. Girls who were in his classes and looking to get their hands on the new basketball player. Of course Brooke and Lucas were both insanely jealous of the other ones new found friends, but neither said anything. Lucas assumed it was because their relationship was still pretty new and neither wanted to step on any toes yet. Needless to say during that October there were plently of fights and make-up sex. Both wanted to go out into the world and explore all the new people and Stuff College had brought into their lives… but neither wanted to do it without the other one.

By the time Halloween had come around both were feeling insanely insecure about their relationship… and were spending less and less time together for fear that one was going to realize that they needed to be alone to explore life on their own. Which meant when it came to the Halloween party… they went separately, with other people. Lucas had gone with Nancy Caraway and dressed up as a basketball player… he hadn't really been in the mood for anything too fancy without Brooke to pull it off with him. Brooke had found one of her groupies, Jared Mitchly… a basketball player (Who was dumb as a doornail) to tag along wit her as she sported her Hula skirt and coconut bra. Both had been totally miserable all night with their dates… until Brooke finally gave up and decided to piss Lucas's date off.

"Broody Scott" Brooke smiled as she stood between him and Nancy, leaving Jared off at the bar.

"Cheery Davis"

"And you are?"

"Nancy" Nancy smiled glaring at Brooke. Brooke knew that glare… it was the same glare she gave girls… any girl that got around Lucas.

"Uh huh… sure ok, Dance with me Luke?"

"Hey… he's my date"

"Really? Wow! I'm sorry… I didn't know, wait… yes I did, he's my boyfriend" Brooke said taking Lucas's hand. Lucas didn't object.

"Then why are you here with captain Underpants?"

"He's supposed to be superman… and I don't know, maybe he should come as Lucas why he's here with Malibu whore Barbie"

"Brooke, cheery… you wanna come talk to me over here for a second… great" Lucas whispered pulling Brooke into a corner. Not because of what she was doing to Nancy… he actually found that pretty funny… but seeing the tears start to form in Brooke's eyes, he decided they had better talk… now.

"What?"

"I thought we said…"

"We didn't say anything… we just did and I don't want to just do" Brooke started but she couldn't finish. He could tell she was really upset. Not her usual upset when she was mad or whiney… this time her face said it all, enough to make him feel like complete crap.

"Brooke, don't cry…"

"I'm not! I told myself you weren't worth crying over, that when you came to break up with me I wouldn't"

"Brooke… you think I'm breaking up with you?" Lucas asked. Everything was starting to make since…

"Aren't you? Nathan said it was only a matter of time before you realized that there's more to the world than me and Tree Hill"

"You know he told me the same thing, remind me to kill him later…Come here, stop crying… Don't you realize what you are to me...what you're always gonna be? You're the love of my life Brooke Davis… I don't want anyone else" Lucas whispered and then kissed her. Not their usual kiss, that soon after meant clothes flying through the air, but a real passionate kiss. The kind you see in movies, complete with him running his fingers through her hair and then wiping her tears away with his thumb.

"Not even Malibu whore Barbie over there?" Brooke asked leaning her forehead against his after their kiss.

"Especially not Malibu whore Barbie…she's not you"

Needless to say the make-up sex that night had been good…After that he and Brooke had decided that they would set aside time to hang out with their friends, only to find out that they had become each others best friends, so they were pretty much inseparable from that point on.

Karen and Peyton waited for Andy and Brandon in the driveway of the adoption agency. Karen had claimed that she wanted Peyton to meet the family that might possibly be giving her and Andy their baby girl… but Peyton knew the real reason why she was there. The unspoken matter of her baby. Everyone had been so excited and shocked with the news of Brooke and Lucas having another one… that even Peyton had started to forget that she was pregnant too. Not that that had bothered her. It was nice to feel happy again… even if it was for Brooke and Lucas and not for herself. It wasn't that she didn't want a baby… she had always kind of planned on having kids… but this was different. It was with a man who had destroyed everything she had worked for… taken away everything she had worked so hard to get back. Now she was broke, had no place to live and no job. Brooke kept telling her everything was going to be ok… that they would make it work, but Peyton wasn't sure.

"So… Are you happy to be a 'Yaya' for the 3rd time? Well almost" Peyton asked watching as Karen played with Allie and Chloë.

"Happy… pissed off. Don't get me wrong Peyton. I love Brooke and Lucas, I do. They make each other happy… they have 2 thriving, healthy, happy girls. But their 25 and with the hell they went through last time… I guess I'm worried more than I am anything"

"About the baby?"

"The baby… and Brooke. Last time it was just her and Lucas… If something happened she wasn't leaving 2 kids behind. Peyton she's 5 months pregnant and you cant even tell… that's not normal. She's too small and young to be putting her body through this" Karen sighed. This wasn't where Peyton had expected this conversation to go… maybe at most a little worry… but Karen was getting intense.

"But Erica or her doctor aren't worried are they?"

"I don't know… I don't think she'd tell us if they were. She was adamant with me about not having this baby, and I don't think it was because of work, or time… I think its because deep down she knows what I know. She knows that something about this isn't right. The doctors keep saying the baby is healthy. But has anyone said anything about Brooke? She was ready to do what she had to do until she talked to Lucas… and now I think she's doing it for him."

"You don't think she wants it?" Peyton asked quietly… trying to shield Allie and Chloë from some of this conversation. True they were only like 2 but there was no telling what they could pick up.

"I'm sure she does want it… you see her with those girls. She's happy. Having another baby will thrill her… but there is a difference between wanting something you can have… and something you cant. But hey… this could just be crazy 'yaya' worry… what about you? Any plans for that baby? Names?"

"If it's a girl… Anna I guess, after my mom and a boy, I have no idea…"

"You'll think of something…" Karen smiled. She could see the reluctant look in Peyton's eyes as she talked about her baby.

"What about you? If you get this baby, what are you going to name her?"

"Well if Lucas were a girl I was going to name him Mallory Brooke… but I think that might just go to Brooke's head… so I don't know. Andy and I will have to talk about it"

"Speak of the devil… they're here"

After 3 hours in Target, Brooke and Lucas finally finished some of their Christmas shopping. Luckily they were making some progress. 2 shopping carts worth, everything from Baby dolls to Dollhouses to a Barbie Jeep. At this rate Brooke was going to need to be paid for that summer internship.

"Its going to take them until New Years to open all of this stuff" Lucas laughed thinking about everything they had bought. It was crazy…

"So?"

"Ok then… what next?"

"Umm… they need a play house" Brooke said after a long pause. She had been thinking about it a while and it was perfect!

"What kind of play house?"

"One for the back yard! I might have to sick you, Nathan and Mike on that… a white one with a red door! Please…. Please! Luke… its perfect!"

"How big are we talking here?" Lucas asked doing his usual squint as he asked. He had seen this coming for a while… whether or not he could have it finished by Christmas… that was another story. Car's he could do… houses… not so much.

"Not too big… but air conditioner might be nice, and heat… and working lights…"

"I think we can handle that"

"Wow… that was easy… I only had to beg once! Wait… are you just being this nice so when it comes time to name broody jr. here you get first dibs?" Brooke asked squinting back at him as he drove. She was really enjoying this.

"No… why would I do that? Is that what you really think of me?"

"Luke…"

"Ok maybe a little…" Lucas laughed

"I knew it… have you called to brag to Nathan yet?"

"He wasn't home…"

"You kill me gorgeous. This is fun…" Brooke giggled propping her feet up on the dashboard and turning the radio from 'Float on' to some Backstreet boys song.

"Shopping?"

"Us… shopping together. I mean its always great with our precious little minions, but we haven't done this just you and me in a while… I've missed it"

"Me too…" Lucas smiled. All of this made Brooke wonder how she got so lucky… after everything she had done in high school she figured she was going to be in karmic hell for the rest of her life…

"So… Are you ready for Tree Hill?"

"So what are we going to do about Dan?"

"We could name the baby after him… I'm sure he'd love that" Brooke giggled. She knew he'd love that one. Of course she was going to let him name this baby… as long as it was something decent… she just couldn't tell him yet, what fun would that be?

"That's it… I'm definitely naming this kid, where too now?"

"We could go home… we still have some time before Allie and Chloë come back, we could lay out on the porch and you can read to me"

"Its like 10 degrees outside" Lucas said turning up the heat. Now that Brooke was pregnant again he didn't like her being out in the cold.

"You can keep me warm…"

At home Brooke got the blankets and met Lucas out in the hammock. They hadn't done this in forever! It had been too cold for a while for Allie and Chloë to lay out there with them, not to mention the fact that both she and Lucas had been working. Just as Brooke got out to the hammock the front door burst open…

"Mommy!" Was all Brooke heard after the door shut.

"Babies! How was your day with Yaya?"

"I miss you!" Chloë sighed hugging Brooke, and was then joined by Allie.

"I missed you too!"

"Daddy!"

"He's on the porch" Brooke laughed. She hoped they were always this excited to see her and Lucas after they had been gone. She didn't want that dread that she used to have at the site of her parents to kick in with them.

"It col" Allie whined snuggling up to Brooke

"Its VERY cold… are your fingers freezing?"

"Yeahya" Chloë giggled showing Brooke her little fingers.

"See"

"I see! Ah… that's cold! But guess what? I'll tell ya… I bought you some mittens!"

"Minens?" Both girls asked not wanting to get up for Brooke to show them. They seemed perfectly content on the floor in her lap.

"Come look! They sparkle…see?"

"Wow…"

"Wow is right…lets put them on…" Brooke said figuring to hell with the cold. She already had the blankets, it wouldn't kill the girls to lay outside for 10 minutes or so while Lucas read.

"Thank you" Chloë smiled in awe looking at her sparkly fingers

"You're welcome… Allie your turn"

"Thank you"

"You're welcome… my god I raised polite girls… how did that happen? Where's Yaya?"

"She cwry" Allie whispered putting her finger to her mouth

"Why?"

"She sad"

"Hey… she went home… talk about it later? I'm going to take a nap" Peyton said, staying just long enough to finish her sentence and then walked off.

"Brooke… come here! Look!"

"Lets go see what Daddy is whining about… could it be that he finally found the whore's for our whore house?"

"Yeahya" Allie giggled

"It's snowing"

"Look girls… let daddy pick you up to look" Brooke said handing the girls to Lucas so they could look up at the snow.

"Ah! Cold"

"We could have serious fun with this tomorrow…"

"Daddy… I cold" Allie whined forcing her face in Lucas's chest trying to get warm

"Me too"

"That's what we have the blanket for… come on"

"We rwead?" Chloë asked excitedly seeing a book in the hammock.

"Yep…" Lucas laughed tickling the girls before laying they down in the hammock.

"Ahhh"

"Ok girls… we are going to be strong… and not laugh tonight"

"Ok" Both girls agreed… still giggling from being tickled

"Why do I bother?"

"Because you love us!"

"We wove you!" Allie giggled climbing on top of Lucas, followed by Chloë

"Yeahya"

"Ok…. here we go. Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again"