A/N: Sorry it took so long to update. It took me a while to write this chapter because I didn't know what I wanted to happen and it's crazy with like three different storylines, but I think the next chapter will be the last one AKA THE WEDDING! This chapter is 12 pages and almost 3,000 words. YAY!
It was a few days later. Haley, Nathan and the kids were all back in Tree Hill and school for the kids.
"Guess who?" Katie asked putting her hands in front of her boyfriend's eyes. It was the first day back since Thanksgiving break and she hadn't seen him in a week.
"That gets a little old don't you think?" Lars asked, turning around to face her.
"Did I do something?" She asked, confused.
"I just need a little privacy" He said walking away. She walked over to Michelle and Lily who were laughing about something. They looked concerned when they saw the look on Katie's face.
"Oh my God, what's wrong?" Lily asked, pulling her cousin into a hug.
"Lars just blew me off and I have no clue what I did. When I left for last week we were fine. Maybe he's mad because I didn't call him. My cell phone broke"
"He's being a jerk" Michelle said.
"Who's being a jerk?" Jenny asked, walking up to them.
"Lars" Michelle answered rolling her eyes.
"Well, who cares about him? There's less then a month until the wedding and we need dates. So, to avoid any boy stealing I wrote lists of which guys each of us gets and we can switch it up if we want" Jenny explained excitedly.
"Well, I don't know about you three but just because my boyfriend is being jerky, that doesn't mean I'm available, so feel free to keep my list Jenny" Katie said as they walked to class.
"Are you over whatever what was wrong with you this morning?" Katie asked sitting next to Lars, who was sitting alone, at lunch.
"What makes you think there's something wrong with me?"
"I know what's wrong. Look, I couldn't call you because my cell phone broke and I don't have your number memorized because it's in my contact list. I thought about you the whole time I was away. It's not that big of a deal. You've forgotten to call me before"
"What makes you think I'm mad at you?"
"You're acting like you are. You're not even looking at me right now"
"You know, I really don't like a clingy girlfriend"
"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that! Now, tell me what's up"
"Nothing is up. Can't you accept that I don't feel like talking to you?"
"I'm just concerned"
"No, you're getting into someone else's personal business"
"I'm your girlfriend. It's part of the job description"
"You're extremely close to being fired"
"Look, I'll accept that you don't want to talk to me. That's fine. It's just my parent's wedding is coming up soon and I thought we would go together"
"You're fired. I'm not going to the wedding" Lars said and walked away.
"You're breaking up with me!" Katie called after him.
"For someone with such not-blonde hair, you catch on slow"
"Yeah, well, you have really lame one-liners!"
It was after school. The four girls were at Jenny's and Lily's house.
"I can't believe he actually dumped with no explanation" Katie said sadly.
"Well, luckily…I have just the thing to get over him with. I decided not to do the list thing so I put a bunch of names in a hat and we each get five guys to choose from. I guess we can just go in the order we're sitting in. Katie, you first"
"Landon Reed, Mark Schwann, Steve Jackson, Jeremy Bauer, and Will Camden" Katie said reading off the five names she picked.
"I got Logan Smith, Sean Cameron, Jimmy Brooks, Aaron Macintyre, and Ethan Craft" Lily said reading off her list.
"First of all I'm offended that I drew three blacks and only two whites. That is totally stereotypical Jenny Jageilski. Luckily I understand this is a random process and here is who I picked. Terrance Stone, Ronnie McAdams, Andrew Farber, Toby Isaacs, and Ryan Cooley" Michelle said.
"I picked Evan Wood, Michael Gleeson, Aubrey Trodden, Chris Wash, and James Murray"
"Wait, Lily, did you say you picked Sean Cameron?" Katie asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, he's cheated on all of his girlfriends. Jenny, why on earth would you add him to the hat? He deserves an award for the amount of girls he's cheated on" Katie said kind of angrily.
"I meant to write Sean 'Caperon'. It was a mistake"
"Good, because Sean Caperon is really cute" Michelle said smiling.
"No, I picked Sean Cameron not Sean Caperon, who I can't stand"
"Lily, you've been cheated on before. Why would you want to go through that again?" Jenny asked.
"Maybe he's changed. So, what do we do with these five guys? Are we supposed to take them all?" Lily asked, changing the subject.
"No, tomorrow talk to each of them alone and then decide"
"Well, there's no way I'm not taking Terrance" Michelle announced.
Next day at school
"Katie, wait up!" Katie turned when she heard a voice call her name.
"Lars, I don't have time to deal with you"
"Will you just hear me out?"
"Why would I do that after you were such a big jerk yesterday?"
"Because I'm sorry"
"I can't believe you. Ugh, I have to get to class"
"Let me walk you"
"I'll walk myself, thank you" She said sarcastically and walked off.
"Hey, what's up?" Lily asked flirtily, walking up to Sean Cameron at his locker.
"Just thinking about you" He said smiling.
"Really? That's interesting considering we barely talk to each other" She responded with a laugh.
"Well, when you're a popular senior, there's not enough for every girl" Sean said cockily.
"Oh, I thought you were a junior"
"Well, you thought wrong, but that's okay because girls don't need to be right all the time"
"Are you sure about that because most of my life I've been right about pretty much everything and it's worked out pretty well" She said with a smirk.
"Oh, it has, has it?"
"I guess that's intimidating to most guys"
"You'll be happy to know I'm not most guys"
"Yeah, well most guys don't cheat on like five of their girlfriends"
"Uh…"
"I'm so sorry Sean! Sometimes I just say things without thinking and that was stupid of me. I should go…"
"No! Actually, do you want to hang out this Friday?"
"Hmm….why don't I get back to you on that?"
"What's your number?" He asked. Lily took out a pen and wrote her phone number on his hand, then walked away. She then walked over to someone else whose name she'd drawn: Logan Smith. Before she could get there though she saw a girl go up to him and kiss him on the lips. Luckily, Aaron was in her next class and she knew he was single. She sat next to him. There was a substitute so everyone was pretty much doing there own thing.
"Unbelievable. I think the substitute actually thinks we're doing our work" She whispered to him.
"She's definitely my favorite substitute. I always get detentions for talking in this class" Aaron whispered back.
"I know"
"I'm sorry about what happened last year"
"Don't mention it"
"No, I got caught up in having a girlfriend and treated you badly. I shouldn't have treated you like my…messenger"
"Messenger? You treated me more like a servant and we were only in eighth grade and I wasn't even your girlfriend really, but don't worry I'm willing to put that aside. Just don't mention it again"
"How about I make it up to you and take you out this Saturday?"
"That would be nice." Her plan was shaping up great. Jenny had put four jerks in that hat and she'd drawn them all. And she would make sure those five guys learned their lesson.
"Hey Jenny"
"Hey Kevin"
"So, I heard your looking for a date for the wedding" Kevin said nonchalantly.
"I was, but the guys I want to go with have girlfriends or are jerks" Jenny had a feeling she knew what Kevin wanted, but he was her step-sister's cousin. Their dads wouldn't be okay with it at all.
"Do you think we're related?" Kevin asked after a few seconds of silence.
"Not really, but people think we are"
"Well, the only way I'm "related" to you is that your stepsister is my cousin, but it's not like you're related to Lily by blood"
"Tree Hill has some messed up family trees, but I think ours is definitely the craziest" Jenny said laughing.
"By far…"
"So, have you beaten up Lars yet?" Jenny asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"As Katie's brother it is your duty to beat up guys who are jerks to her"
"Well, David and I are thinking about cornering him in a dark alley at night" Kevin joked.
"Could I watch? I never really liked him" Jenny joked back.
"You know I was joking, right?"
"Yeah…"
"So, did you go see your mom yesterday?"
"I knew you were going to ask that"
"How'd it go?"
"My Dad took me. I got there and she had this whole other life. She's married and has three little kids. The thing is she never told me she was married or had kids any of the few times I talked to her. So, Dad and I get there and her little girl lets us in. the three kids are playing by themselves and I don't see Mom, Nikki, whatever anywhere. She and her husband come in when they hear my Dad calling them. She looked totally out of it and she said she had completely forgotten I was coming. The house is such a mess, I was hoping she would make it all special for me…but she didn't even remember. My Dad left us alone for about an hour after Nikki pretty much begged him to. She was so high and ignored her kids half the time they tried to talk to her"
"Wow Jenny, I'm sorry" Kevin said giving his friend a hug.
"Hey, Haley, is Dad home yet?" Kevin asked later that day when school was out.
"No, but is there something I can help you with?"
"I just had something to ask him. Did you ever know my mom?"
"Wow, I wasn't expecting that. Kevin, nobody really knew your mom, your Dad barely knew her"
"Do you think Dad would let me find her?"
"Do you really want to know her? She abandoned you"
"Maybe it was a mistake. She could have been forced to give me up. Dad probably makes it sound worse than it really is"
"Have you ever actually sat down and talked to him about it?"
"No" Kevin responded right as Nathan walked in.
"Talked to who about what?" He asked.
"Here's your chance" Haley said patting Kevin reassuringly on the shoulder.
"What's going on?"
"I was just asking Haley if she about my mom"
"Why would you want to know about her?"
"Jenny got to see her mom this weekend"
"Yeah and Jake told me that it didn't go well at all"
"You at least owe it to me to tell me something about her"
"I can't-"
"Come on, at least show me the letter she supposedly left you"
"I lied to you. No, I lied to everyone. I'm sorry"
"What does that mean?"
"Kevin, you're my brother. My and Lucas's brother"
"What!" Kevin shouted angrily.
"What's the yelling for?" Haley asked walking in.
"Hales, get David and Katie. We're having a family meeting" Nathan said, cursing himself for letting out the secret he had kept for so long.
A few minutes later they were all sitting at the kitchen table. Kevin was shooting a guilty Nathan dirty looks. Katie, David, and Haley looked confused because they had no idea what was going on.
"There's something I have to tell all of you. Don't interrupt me just listen…and you can hate me when I'm done. I know I said Kevin was left on my doorstep, but he wasn't. And he's not my son with some random girl; he's my brother. Dad-I mean Dan cheated on Mom before their divorce was final and got some other woman pregnant. He didn't want anyone to find out and he didn't even love the woman he got pregnant. One day I went to his beach house to yell at him for ruining my life and he told me he would leave me alone for the rest of my life if I did something for him. And that something was to save another boy from feeling the way me and Lucas had. We did it for you Kevin. We wanted you to have a good father and know that you always have a Dad's- I mean my support. You may not see it right now, but I have been way more of a father to you than Dan Scott has ever been"
"Does my other brother know?" Kevin asked angrily.
"Lucas…..yeah, I told him three years ago when Dan returned to Tree Hill"
"So, my whole life has basically been a lie?"
"That's not true"
"How can you say that to me with a straight face!" Kevin shouted standing up. He turned around and started to walk out of the room. The rest heard the door slam. A few minutes later Nathan got up and said he was going to go after him.
"No, Dad; let us" David said as he and Katie got up and left too.
"Haley, please say something" Nathan pleaded when David and Katie had left.
"I don't know what to say. I can understand why you didn't tell me at first because we weren't exactly on speaking terms, but you could have told me after we got engaged or something"
"The truth is sometimes I just forget"
"Forget, what?"
"That Kevin really isn't my son. He's just so much my son in every other way, you know. I can go months without thinking about the fact that Dan is his real father and then something will remind me of the fact that Kevin's really my little brother. And when he asked me about his real mother something came over me and I just blurted it out"
"I'm so sorry you had to keep that a secret for so long" Haley said kissing him.
"How did I go without you for so long?"
"I wonder the same thing"
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Kevin knocked on Lucas's door angrily. Brooke opened the door.
"What's wrong?" Brooke asked with concern.
"Where's my brother?" He asked angrily, walking inside.
"David's not here"
"Apparently David is my nephew, not my brother. And I guess that would make you my sister in law" Kevin explained, still mad but calming down.
"Are you okay? Do you need some water? Come in the kitchen; I'll get you something" She poured him a glass of water and he drank it in a few gulps.
"What's going on?" Lucas asked walking into the kitchen.
"Nathan told me that Dan is my father and my whole life is pretty much a lie"
"Oh…..I'm sorry. He wanted to tell you but I convinced him to wait until you were 18. We thought it would be easier once you were older" Lucas explained apologetically.
"Well, it's not!"
"Am I hearing things right? Dan is Kevin's father?" Brooke asked confused.
"Dan got a girl pregnant and didn't want to make the same mistakes with Kevin that he did with Nathan and I"
"Dan Scott actually wanted to protect his offspring? That's a surprise" Brooke said.
"Dan and Nathan did it to protect you. They wanted you to have a good father"
"What am I supposed to do now? Move in with my biological father?"
"No, you need to talk to your Dad. By Dad, I mean Nathan"
"I will. Thanks for the talk"
Kevin returned home to find Nathan on the phone talking to someone asking if they had seen Nathan. Haley and David and Katie were standing around him.
"Hey" He said walking over to them.
"Never mind, he's back" Nathan said to whoever he was talking to on the phone.
"Where were you?" Haley asked.
"I was at Lucas's"
"Can we talk alone?" Nathan asked the other three. They left knowing they could just eavesdrop through the door.
"Did you actually adopt me or did he just give me to you?"
"I adopted you, but it was a closed adoption"
"Why did you take me? You were 18 and already had twins"
"Because if I didn't take you, he would have messed you up worse then Lucas and me put together"
"Then I should be thanking you instead of yelling at you like I did before"
"You were mad and it makes sense"
"Where do we go from here? Now that I know, am I your son…or am I your brother"
"You're still my son and we don't have to tell anyone else as long as you don't want to. I don't want you to feel like you don't have parents because of this"
Yeah, I know"
A/n: Okay, I'm ending the chapter there. I know it's rushed, but that's because I have to get off the computer soon. I was going to have a storyline with Lars though but that can be next chapter and then the wedding after that…
Oh, and please please answer this question: what should Nathan and Haley's wedding song be?