OK you guys… here it is! The LAST Chapter of Sugar & Spice! I know… it hurts, believe me its KILLING me to post this. But all good things must come to an end sadly… and plus! Now I get to post Chaos Theory! Which I am totally in love with right now might I add? So a little summary about it. They're all in College… Brooke, Lucas, Peyton, Nathan go to NYU and Haley goes to Yale. MAJOR brucas… then some Naley, Jeyton, and Pathan too… I'm giving it all this story… (Except Leyton… sorry I just cant do it) Anyways… my Beta readers really like it so far! So I think you guys will too! Keep your eyes pealed for it in the next few days.
Ok… now I want to give some thank yous… firstly… Kaela! Without her I could have never written this story… seriously, she can cure writers block faster than anyone I know! Secondly… YOU GUYS! You're seriously the best reviewers out there… it always makes me nervous to start a new story… for fear I wont have the same reviewing base I had for the last one! But you guys rock so much… I'm not worried! Some of you have followed me from my very first one… reviewing EVERY Chapter, for A LOT of Chapters. Thank you SOO much! You guys have no idea how good your reviews make me feel! I hope you enjoy this last Chapter… and please check out my new Story "Chaos Theory" when I post it! I love you all! Now I have to go cry…
-Jordan
Brooke Davis… Scott sat on the couch and watched as the snow fell outside the window. Christmas music was playing softly in the background, and she could hear Lucas, Allie and Chloë laugh as they tried to teach Rylan to say Merry Christmas… but the poor little guy, being only 1 and ½ couldn't come anywhere close. She watched in amazement, and wondered how she had managed to get so lucky. Christmas always made her think about these things. Growing up she had never really had a real Christmas. Of course there were always presents under the tree, just never a family to go with them. Just as Brooke got up to turn off the radio and join Lucas and her babies, "Merry Little Christmas" came on.
"Brooke… what are we doing?" Lucas whined as Brooke drug him through the freezing cold downtown of Tree Hill, past The Café, the school and everything else… until they finally stopped at the ice skating rink. It was all lit up for Christmas, and Brooke looked so cute and happy standing there with her pink cheeks and shivering… Lucas didn't have the heart to tell her he hated ice-skating.
"What does it look like Broody? Ice skating!"
"We're gonna kill ourselves"
"You said you'd do whatever I wanted" Brooke whispered excitedly. She loved ice skating, and the snow and just the cold in general. Christmas was the one time of year she could always count on to turn out Ok… it was like no matter what was happening in her life, or anyone else's… when Christmas came, none of it mattered until January.
"I figured you take me somewhere I don't know… warm? With drinks"
"And miss watching you fall on your ass? Never…"
"Fine… but your going down with me" Lucas smiled pulling her out into the ice with him. This way maybe she could forget he wasn't wearing skates… and it gave him an excuse to hug her.
"At least you'll cushion the fall… and keep me warm"
"You know what else we could do to stay warm right?"
"Yes… and we do that a lot, its Christmas Eve Luke, Please" Brooke begged. He hadn't seen her beg like that in a while. Especially when it involved something that had nothing to do with making out or sex. She seemed so sweet and innocent tonight, like a little kid excited about Christmas.
"You just have to be so damn pretty don't you?" Lucas asked rolling her eyes at her.
"Hints the nickname I guess"
"How does this get us to talk again?"
"Maybe we do too much serious talking you and I… tonight, its all fun" Brooke smiled…waiting for him to fall on his ass. At least that would be hilarious, what was ice skating without someone wiping out? And she sure as hell wasn't.
"Ok…"
"Now kiss me"
"That I won't argue with… what's with you tonight?" Lucas asked after kissing her.
"Nothing… Its just this is our first Christmas together, like really together and I want to remember it… so one day when we're old, we can remember how much fun we had tonight… what songs playing right now"
"Merry Little Christmas"
"So for the rest of our lives, when we hear this song. No matter what we are doing… we can remember how happy we are right now, right?" Brooke asked hugging him to keep warm.
"Right"
And from then on… whenever she heard that song. She thought of that night. There for a while Brooke had found herself listening to it, even when it wasn't Christmas… just to make herself feel better about something. Before the 2nd verse of the song had even started Lucas had already made his way over to the couch to sit with her. It never failed.
"You actually remember" Brooke said, trying to sound shocked as Lucas wrapped his arms around her.
"Of course I do, that was the night I think I might have actually broken my butt bone"
"And you whined about it for a week… I remember"
"It hurt" Lucas laughed remembering that night… although usually he tried not too.
"Try having a baby sometime"
"We do this every year"
"It wouldn't be Christmas if we didn't… so how's Rylan coming with Merry Christmas?" Brooke asked changing the subject.
"Lets just be thankful we aren't Jewish and he doesn't have to say Happy Hanukah"
"Poor little guy…"
"My mom will be here with the food soon… she says she has a surprise for us" Lucas sighed. The look on his face didn't look good, then again why should it. Karen's surprises were never that great, and usually more trouble than they were worth.
"Maybe it's a pony!"
"Not you too…"
"What? I always wanted one and I never got one" Brooke giggled
"Allie and Chloë insist that they were so good this year, they're getting a pony"
"Well then we'll just have to get them one"
"Sure… in fact we'll get them each one" Lucas smiled. Brooke hadn't expected that… she'd been telling him for 3 months now they needed a horse and he hadn't budged a bit, now he was offering to buy 2.
"Really?"
"Yea… you want one too?"
"Yes!" Brooke said in a "Duh" tone.
"My Little Pony's aren't they called? Those little plastic things are great aren't they? A guy must have invented them to save all the rest of us from having to buy our wives and daughters pony's"
"You're mean… I guess it was a woman who invented the work "No" for sex huh?"
"Ouch…" Lucas laughed as Brooke hit him with a pillow.
"Burns doesn't it?"
"We're here!" Karen yelled from the side door, followed my Brandon carrying armfuls of food.
"Yaya!"
"Did you brings us a present?"
"Why would I do that?" Karen asked all 3 of her grandchildren with a dumb look on her face. They all, including Rylan seemed shocked.
"Cause its Christmas silly"
"Is it really? I totally forgot…"
"Then what's that?" Allie asked pointing to the plastic bags Karen was carrying.
"Sorry girls, too small to be a pony"
"What abouts a cow?" Chloë asked getting excited.
"A cow?"
"Then we can haves lots of milk"
"You know what's better than a cow?" Brooke asked getting up off the couch and walking over to the girls and Rylan so she could get on their level.
"What?"
"A pepsi machine…" Brooke whispered tickling all 3 of them until they squealed.
"Brooke… you've got to stop giving them caffeine… you're going to stunt their growth"
"They were drinking pepsi out of bottles at 1 and ½… the damage is already done"
"We wont be giving Brenna any Caffeine" Karen muttered under her breathe, purposely loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Is Breenna a cow?" Allie asked excitedly bouncing up and down with her sister.
"Brenna?"
"Andy…"
"Oh My God" Was all Brooke or Lucas could muster when Andy walked in, holding the hand of a little girl.
"Ever think about giving us heads up on these things?"
"How old is she?" Brooke asked waving to the little girl who looked terrified.
"6"
"Hi! I'm Brooke… and I'm going to totally corrupt you" Brooke smiled making the little girl laugh some.
"Hands off…"
"Whos dat?" Allie asked deciding to be shy and hide in Lucas's lap.
"Dat? You've been hanging with Skillz and Bevin way too much baby… that's Brenna"
"Ok… for our next surprise"
"More?" Brooke asked worried what the next one was. Karen was on a roll for once; leave it to her to probably ruin the whole thing.
"Karen did you buy out the adoption agency?"
"Hi Brooke"
"Or maybe just that place where they lock up lousy parents" Brooke sighed seeing what came through the door next. Her parents.
"Brooke… they came on their own free will"
"And you couldn't have told them I died or something?"
"Brooke" Lucas whispered taking her hand.
"Mommy who is that?"
"You have a beautiful family Brooke"
"Hey guys… what do you say we go shake the presents under the Christmas tree again?" Lucas asked deciding to get the kids out of the room before Brooke totally lost it.
"Can I shake the big one?" Allie begged getting excited.
"Sure"
"Come on mommy" Chloë said taking Brooke's hand
"I'll be there in a second baby"
"Brooke, its so good to see you"
"Don't…" Brooke sighed, trying not to get upset. After all it was Christmas and she refused to have it suck this year.
"Brooke"
"What do you want?"
"To see you, how you're doing. We know we've made mistakes Brooke, but are you going to punish us for the rest of our lives for it? I'm sure you've made mistakes… as do all parents" Brooke's mom whispered.
"I've never 'mistakenly' forgotten one of my children's birthdays… or 'mistakenly' told one of my daughters she was a brainless slut"
"Brooke… we never… at least until"
"Right… that started when I was 13, sorry" Brooke said in a sarcastic happy voice.
"Brooke"
"I'm not doing this again… Its Christmas and my children are waiting for their mother"
Brooke stormed into the other room where Lucas was laying on the floor with children piled on top of him… probably a wrestling match or something, she didn't even want to ask at this point. She was more interested in finding out how much Lucas had to do with this.
"Before you say anything, I had no idea" Lucas said as Brooke started to open her mouth. He knew exactly what she was going to say and he was going to stop her before she even started.
"You swear?"
"I'm not that mean, besides you know I don't like your parents"
"Why do they always do this? They can't choose some normal day, always some day special day the feel the need to ruin" Brooke sighed laying down on the floor next to Lucas, where she was tackled by all 3 children.
"Tickle us"
"Begging to be tickled? How did we let them get this desperate?"
"Ahhh" All 3 kids squealed as Brooke took turns tickling them
"You're not going to like me for saying this, but maybe you should just talk to them… once and for all. Brooke, I've watched you struggle and worry and feel so unsure about things since I've known you, just because of them. Maybe its time you hey some closure"
"Closure?"
"At least prove to them that they didn't totally ruin your life, if they're as mean as you say they are then that will piss them off, and if they're not… maybe it will help you both" Lucas said trying not to get her too upset, especially since she was having so much fun tickling Allie, Chloë and Rylan.
"Do I have to do it tonight?"
"I think tonight's perfect…"
"Will you come with me?" Brooke finally asked giving up arguing. He was always right when it came to this stuff and she hated it. Maybe if she just agreed and didn't mention it again he'd forget.
"Of course"
"Can we open presents now mommy?" Chloë begged handing Brooke a box
"Ok… here's the deal my little minions, you can each open 2"
"2? Why not 1"
"Because every parent says you can open 1… and I think that ruins the fun, they can open 2" Brooke smiled handing them each 2 presents. It wasn't like 2 was going to mess up anything… she had gone kinda crazy this year when it came to Christmas shopping and had bought way too much.
"If you say so"
"Rylan… don't eat the paper, come here" Brooke laughed pulling Rylan away from his present.
"Is his present paper?"
"A Barbie!" Allie squealed hugging Brooke
"Because you 2 were definitely deprived when it came to Barbie's" Lucas laughed shaking his head at how excited they got at the site of Barbies, Barbies he was going to end up dressing and undressing 100 times for Allie and Chloë while they played.
"I got one too!"
"Wow… that makes what? 200?"
"Luke…stop picking on them" Brooke handing him Rylan who was still trying to eat the paper.
"Are you guys going to come and eat or what?"
The dining room table was full of everything from Turkey, and ham… to Chicken salad and Macaroni. Karen had definitely gone all out to please everyone's tastes. Not that she didn't have a lot of people to please… between Brooke, Lucas and their 3… and Karen, Andy and their 2, Keith and Jules with their boys, Peyton and Jake with Jenny and Anna, Haley and Nathan with James, Whitey, Deb, and Brooke's parents, it was a pretty crowded table.
"So… have these youngins been good this year?" Whitey asked after everyone was pretty much finished eating. So far everything had been calm… other than a few remarks made my Brooke's mother of course.
"Of course they have…" Brooke smiled winking at Allie and Chloë who were trying to build houses with their food.
"Speak for your own… James tried to shave yesterday"
"Anna ate baby powder, and Jenny tried to pierce her own ears"
"I was asking Karen about you youngins" Whitey laughed, making everyone else laugh.
"Well lets see, Peyton locked Anna in the car my accident… with the keys, Jake forgot Jenny from school 3 times, Haley and Nathan let the Christmas Tree fall on James, and Brooke and Lucas got locked out of the house Naked… twice"
"Sounds about right"
"I lockded the door" Allie giggled crawling into Lucas's lap
"We remember Allie… believe me"
"I helped her" Chloë added feeling left out
"How old are they now Brooke?"
"This many" Allie said holding up 3 fingers
"3?"
"Almost this many"
"Rylan is 1" Chloë said pointing to her little brother.
"Are either of your names Brooke?"
"No silly! I'm Chloë"
"And who was my question too?" Brooke's dad asked sternly.
"I don't like you" Allie whispered glaring at the man
"Me either siser"
"Um… whose finished and ready to go in the den and play?" Peyton asked knowing better than anyone now bad things could get with Brooke and her parents… and considering the way Brooke's dad had just spoken to her children, Peyton had a feeling things were getting ready to get ugly.
"Those are some well mannered girls Brooke" Brooke's mom laughed sarcastically.
"They're 3" Brooke finally said gritting her teeth.
"At 3 you knew when a question was directed towards you"
"At 3 I was too scared to open my mouth to say anything…Lucas, take them in the other room"
"Nowa" Rylan cried not wanting to leave Brooke's lap
"I'll be there in a minute baby… go with daddy"
"Your kids don't like us" Brooke's dad laughed once everyone was gone, like it was funny.
"They're smart kids"
"Don't treat us like that Brooke! We came to be a part of your life"
"No… you came to invest, you came because you found out the dealership was doing better than Dan's and wanted to invest… or because Karen was actually in my kids lives, and the thought of someone like her beating you… it drives you crazy. You ignored me for the better part of my life, and I actually used to feel sorry for myself because of it…Do you know what I went through after I had my girls? Just because I was terrified of becoming you, but I guess now that I think about it I'm lucky. You know why? Because I will never have to worry about comparing myself as a parent to either of you" Brooke said trying to keep her voice down.
"How's that?"
"Because I have nothing to compare it too. You can go now"
"Go?" Brooke's dad asked actually looking confused. Brooke couldn't believe this.
"I don't want you here, Lucas doesn't want you here… my children don't want you here"
"You think we want to be here?"
"No… if I did I wouldn't be telling you to get out… but we both know you don't want to be here… so please just do what you've been doing my whole life, and leave me alone… leave my children alone, and my husband" Brooke whispered opening the door for them.
"If we leave now… you're not our daughter anymore"
"Maybe that's the closure I need"
In the living room all the kids were playing and laughing, expect Allie and Chloë who were waiting patiently by the door for Brooke to come in. Seeing them standing there like that when she walked in was enough to break her heart. But made her feel so good at the same time.
"My girls" Brooke smiled hugging them both
"My mommy"
"Why aren't you playing?"
"We are waiting fors you" Chloë said handing her one of the Christmas poppers Whitey had brought.
"I love you guys"
"Mommy… we're girls" Allie laughed
"Come here…" Brooke sighed rolling her eyes at her girls and hugging them
"Are you sad?"
"Nope… why would I be sad?"
"Cause your mommy lefted" Chloë whispered hugging Brooke again.
"And your daddy"
"Yea… I guess they just didn't love me as much as daddy and I love our babies"
"Is that a lot?" Allie asked patting Brooke's cheek to comfort her.
"Soooooo much, now lets go play? Ok?"
"We love you too mommy"
"I know…" Brooke smiled kissing both her girls, before leading them back into the living room with everyone else.
"Nowa" Rylan giggled as Lucas tickled him.
"Yes dude"
"Nowa"
"What are you 2 arguing over? And Lucas better question, why are you arguing with our 1 year old?" Brooke asked sitting down beside Lucas.
"So we couldn't get Merry Christmas… but we got this, come on man… say it for mommy"
"Nowa"
"Please?" Lucas asked, pretty much begging at this point.
"Ho ho ho"
"That is the cutest thing ever! Rylan… come here!" Brooke giggled hugging her baby boy.
"Oh wait… 3 ho's I get it"
"Ha Peyton… you're funny"
"So…" Lucas sighed putting his arm around her. He didn't want to ask… just incase it really hadn't gone well, but he figured if it wasn't but so bad, she'd tell him.
"Closure hurts, but at least I wont ever have to deal with it again"
"I'm sorry babe…"
"I'm not" Brooke smiled leaning back onto his chest.
"Alright, we're gone… see everyone tomorrow?"
"Us too…"
"Bye guys" Brooke waved and watched as everyone left. Finally…
"You girls have to get to bed…" Lucas said once everyone was gone.
"Why?"
"Or Santa wont come"
"Daddy… he already came silly" Chloë laughed pointing to the Christmas tree with Presents scattered from one end of the room to the other
"I knew we shouldn't have put the presents under the Tree yet"
"Luke… those are just the presents from us, the Santa presents are still in our closet"
"How much money did you spend?" Lucas asked taking another look at the presents.
"Who wants to give daddy his present?"
"Way to change the subject…"
"I do!" Allie said climbing into Lucas's lap
"At least let us give you ours first"
"Fine…"
"Rylan what is it?" Brooke whispered while Lucas and the girls went to get her present.
"Duck"
"A duck?"
"Or a cow" Chloë laughed running back into the room with a bag.
"Uh huh…woah… way too light to be a cow"
"Open it mommy"
"Its paper…Oh My God" Brooke gasped once she actually opened the paper. Leave it to Lucas to come up with the most unique but awesome present ever! She looked the paper over back and forth to make sure she was understanding what she was seeing.
"Blue" Rylan pointed to the paper.
"I think it's more of a present for the kids… this way they don't have to be so squished in the back seat together"
"It's a convertible… Lucas this looks just like my bug… I loved that car" Brooke whispered still not able to find the exact words.
"I know…"
"And it has 7 seats! How?"
"I've got some friends…" Lucas smiled kissing her. He was glad she liked it, because the strings he had to pull to have a 7 seater convertible punch buggy made, weren't easy to find.
"I love your friends! Thank you…"
"Give daddy his"
"Ok… here" Brooke said handing him her present.
"A Dvd? Brooke this better not be porn"
"Far from I'm afraid" Brooke sighed putting the DVD into the player. She had friends too. The Song "The Sun" By Maroon 5 started playing as soon as she hit play. It was Lucas's favorite song… so it fit perfectly. Besides? What was better than a DVD about them? Other than a car of course…
"After
school
Walking home
Fresh dirt under my fingernails
And I
can smell hot asphalt
Cars screech to a halt to let me pass
And
I cannot remember
What life was like through photographs
Trying
to recreate images life gives us from our past
And sometimes it's
a sad song"
"No! I told you go screw yourself Lucas!"
"Brooke! I'm not playing this game"
"Uh huh… is that what you told Rachel?"
"I'm sure Chris heard the same thing…"
'Nice… bring him into this"
"Peyton… Turn the Camera off!"
"But I
cannot forget
Refuse to regret
So glad I met you
Take my
breath away
Make everyday
Worth all of the pain that I
have
Gone through
And mama I've been cryin'
Cause things
ain't how they used to be
She said the battles almost won
And
we're only several miles from the sun"
"This is baby Allie…and there's baby Chloë. This is their first day home and everyone's so excited… especially the proud parents who are over there…"
"You're going down Scott"
"We'll see about that Davis-Scott"
"Spraying each other with whipped cream…could you 2 at least behave for Allie and Chloë's video… here come say something to them"
"Allie, Chloë… I'm going to give you some very important advice right now…something to remember the rest of your lives… If you ever get caught up in a whipped cream battle, wear goggles"
"Nice Brooke, Lucas anything important you would like to say to the video"
"Goggles are good…but they wont help you if you do this"
"Lucas! That's cold! Ah! Down the shirt is cheating! So is ice! Your so dead"
"When social services takes you away one day girls, this is why"
"Moving
on down the street
I see people I won't ever meet
Think of
her, take a breath
Feel the beat in the rhythm of my steps
And
sometimes it's a sad song"
"I Brooke, take the Lucas… to be my Husband"
"I Lucas, take the Brooke… to be my wife"
"But I cannot forget
Refuse to regret
So glad I met
you
Take my breath away
Make everyday
Worth all of the pain
that I have
Gone through
And mama I've been cryin'
Cause
things ain't how they used to be
She said the battles almost
won
And we're only several miles from the sun"
"There are the men of the family…pimpin in the Lexus, because today is the day when Dan Scott Motors officially goes down..."
"I wanna pimp mommy"
"Why are we pimping?"
"Because today its Daddy's dealership, and his is gonna kick Dan's ass"
"Oh… Hi daddy"
"Lucas! Watch out for that… pole"
"The
rhythm of her conversation
The perfection of her creation
The
sex she slipped into my coffee
The way she felt when she first saw
me
Hate to love and love to hate her
Like a broken record
player
Back and forth and here and gone
And on and on and on
and on"
"I now pronounce you husband and wife… you may kiss the bride"