Summary: This is a Naley, Brucas, Jeyton story, but with a few twists and turns. Everyone lives in Apple Valley, Minnesota where Lucas, Nathan and Jake play basketball for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Haley and Nathan live together with her niece and nephew and her/their daughter. Brooke and Lucas live together with his son and her daughter. Peyton lives with Jake and Jenny, and Peyton is six months pregnant. (Read the rest of the story if you don't understand!)

Disclaimer: I own nothing. I wish I did because I would be filthy freakin' rich, but I don't. Except for the characters that are made up in my silly mind. Those I own… haha… my slow plan to take over the world!

Author's Note: Once again, we are skipping forward in the lives of our favorite six-pack… It is now November 19th, and it's one year from the day that the guys and the girls met each other… yay! So let's see… Just an age/time catch-up: Haley is 24, Nathan is 25, Ryan is 9, Summer just turned 4, Jaymie is 7 months. Brooke is 24, Lucas is 26, Alison is 3, Tyler is 17 months. Peyton is 25, Jake is 26, Jenny is 7, and Peyton is 7 months pregnant. Yeah… I think that's it… BTW, I had chills through ALL of Wednesday's new episode! I was jumping around and singing at the top of my lungs during the theme song… My husband said he filmed it on his cell phone, but I think he's lying… I hope, anyways! So, yeah, loved it!

I also wanted to report that I broke 50 reviews and that is AAAALLLL you guys! I absolutely LOVE getting reviews! It's my favorite part of putting out a new chapter. You all make me so happy! Sniff sniff… Anyways, I'm really glad you are all enjoying the story. I know it's unconventional, but you all seem to like that… lol… What can I say? I'm unconventional…

OK, enough talking. Here's Chapter Nine!

Enjoy!

Lucas woke up to the sound of Alison coming into his and Brooke's room. He glanced over at the clock and frowned, confused, when he saw that it read 2:13 AM. "Ali, what are you doing up, honey?"

"Daddy, there's somebody knocking at the door and ringing the doorbell. It woke me up."

Lucas jumped out of bed, which woke Brooke up. "What's going on?" she said, sleepily, looking at Brooke and Alison.

"Alison, stay here with Mommy," said Lucas, reaching behind the bedroom door and pulling out a baseball bat. He turned at glanced at Brooke. "There's somebody at the door. Stay here. I'll be right back."

Brooke nodded and pulled Alison into bed with her, comforting her because she got scared from the way Lucas was acting. Lucas went downstairs and slowly made his way to the door where he could hear someone knocking frantically. He looked through the peephole but couldn't see anything, so he cautiously opened the door and peeked out. He saw a pretty brunette woman standing on the other side. "Can I help you?"

"Yeah, I need to talk to Brooke Davis. She lives here, right?"

"Uh, yeah, but…" Lucas started, but was interrupted.

"Please. I really need to talk to her. She knows me, I promise."

"OK… Come on in, I guess. I'll go up and get her. Just hang out for one second." The woman nodded and Lucas headed up the stairs and into his bedroom. "Brooke, there's a woman downstairs waiting for you. She said you would know her…"

Brooke looked confused. "OK…" She picked up Alison, who had fallen asleep again, and walked into her bedroom and laid her in her bed, then grabbed Lucas' hand and walked slowly down the stairs. Who could be looking for her at two o'clock in the morning.

As she walked into the living room, she saw exactly who it was. "Anna!"

The woman turned from the pictures she was looking at and smiled. "Hi, Brooke."

"What are you doing here?" asked Brooke, walking up and hugging Anna tightly.

"Well," said Anna, hugging Brooke back, then stepping back. "My best friends all up and leave me and move to some town in Minnesota. What do you think I'm doing here?"

"Oh my God. I am so happy that you came. I've been missing you. Haley and Peyton have, too. We were actually just talking about you the other day. How have you been?"

Anna nodded and bit her lip. "I've been… OK. Better at times, worse at times, but over all OK. So…" she looked at Lucas, then back at Brooke and mock-whispered, "Who's the stud?"

Lucas and Brooke laughed. "This is my boyfriend, Lucas," said Brooke, grabbing Lucas' hand and pulling him forward.

Lucas and Anna shook hands. "Hi, nice to meet you," said Lucas.

"You, too," said Anna. "Brooke, you did not do him justice."

"Uhh…" said Lucas, looking uncomfortable. Then they heard Tyler crying. "I'm gonna go get Tyler… you two talk."

"OK, honey. Bring him down here before you go back to bed, OK?"

Lucas nodded and went upstairs to take care of Tyler while Anna and Brooke talked. Ten minutes later, he walked back down the stairs carrying Tyler and feeding him a bottle of formula. As he walked towards the living room, he heard Anna talking. "And Lucas looks like a good guy for you… definitely not my type, but he's cute."

Brooke laughed. "He really is… He makes me so happy. Lucas is… everything that I have ever wanted in the love of my life. And he could be your type… I mean, you still swing for both teams, don't you?"

Anna was about to answer, but Lucas walked through the door, and Brooke stood up. "There's my two favorite men in the world!" she said, taking Tyler out of Lucas' arms and kissing him on the cheek. "Anna, I would like you to meet the other man in my life. This is Lucas' son, Tyler Nathaniel Scott." Anna held out her arms and took Tyler and cuddled him. Lucas and Brooke watched her for a second, then Lucas decided he was going to go back to bed.

"It was really nice to meet you, Anna, but I have basketball practice tomorrow, so I gotta get my beauty sleep."

"Good night, babe," said Brooke, kissing Lucas, who said goodnight, then went up to bed.

Brooke and Anna stayed awake for another hour or so before Brooke told Anna she could stay the night in the guest room if she wanted, which Anna gladly accepted. Brooke laid Tyler in his crib, then crawled in bed next to Lucas and fell asleep.

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"Ryan, honey, you have got to get out of the shower. You've been in there forever. You take longer in the shower than I do." Haley walked back into the kitchen as she heard Ryan turn off the water to find Summer trying to feed Jaymie raw bread dough. "Summer! Please leave Jaymie alone! She does not want to eat dough, OK? Take Denny out into the backyard and play with her or something." Summer giggled and called Denny outside with her, finally leaving Haley alone for five seconds. "What is going on with these kids today? Is it a full moon or something?"

Haley turned on the TV in the kitchen as she continued to make bread. She wasn't really paying attention to the news that was on seeing as how Jaymie was crying and pulling on her pants trying to get her attention. She finally handed her a plastic bowl and a mixing spoon to occupy her and turned her attention to the news for a second. What she saw, though, absolutely shocked her.

"Nathan! Nathan, come out here right now!"

Nathan heard Haley shout from the room where he was trying to get ready for basketball practice and walked to the kitchen. "What's up, Hales? I'm trying to get ready for practice."

Haley just pointed at the TV screen, speechless, and Nathan turned towards it to find a picture of Dan staring out at him from the screen. "As reported earlier, a man was arrested from his hotel room in Apple Valley this morning. Dan Scott was taken into custody for murdering his fiancé Nicki McCarthy (didn't know Nicki's real last name, and I think Jenny McCarthy's a ho just like Nicki, so it fits… lol). As of now, Scott has not admitted to or said the reasons for the murder, but police say he was their only suspect on the case. " With that, the reporter switched to another topic, and Nathan turned off the TV with his mouth open.

Haley was speechless just like Nathan. Finally she put her hand on his shoulder. "Nate? Are you… OK?"

"Uhh… yeah… I think so… I just…. Wow. I don't know what to say. I don't know whether to be happy or upset."

"Honey, it would be OK to be upset. I mean, he's your father," said Haley, looking cautiously at Nathan.

"Yeah, I guess I should be. But I'm really not. I guess maybe I'm just surprised."

"Do you think Lucas knows?" As she finished saying that, the doorbell rang. "I think that would be a yes." She started to walk out of the kitchen when she saw Ryan streak past towards the door. "Ryan? Where are you…?"

"Uncle Lucas! Aunt Brooke! What are you guys doing here? Who's that? Come on Ali. Come on Tyler. Summer's in the backyard playing with Denny. Who are you?" Ryan overwhelmed Brooke and Lucas with questions, while Anna smiled uncomfortably. The kids got tired of waiting and took off to the backyard. On the way through, Ryan ran into Haley. "Mom, Aunt Brooke and Uncle Lucas and some strange lady are here." Then they ran outside to play with Summer and Denny.

Haley walked into the living room turned around watching the kids. "Hey guys," she said turning around and shaking her head. "I don't know what's gotten into… Anna!"

"Uhh… nothing's gotten into me, Haley," said Anna jokingly. "How are you? I've missed you!"

"Oh, I was going to say Ryan, but you surprised me. Hi! I'm good. I've missed you, too! What are you doing here? Oh, Luke, you might want to go in the kitchen and talked to Nathan…"

"OK…" said Lucas as he walked away.

"Come in. Come in. What's going on?" said Haley bringing Brooke and Anna into the living room. She heard Jaymie start to fuss. "Oh, I'll be right back." She ran into the kitchen and took Jaymie from Nathan, who was in deep conversation with Lucas, and walked back into the living room. "OK, I'm here. So what's going on with you? What have you been up to?"

"Umm… well, I haven't been up to much since Cynthia and I broke up…"

"Oh, I'm so sorry, Anna."

"It's OK," said Anna, shrugging her shoulders. "It was actually a long time coming. But it worked out OK, because now I'm able to come visit all of you!"

"We're so glad you're here, Anna. Peyton will be too, when she hears. She's at the doctor with Jake's daughter because she's getting her cast off today, but we'll see them when we drop the kids off at school," said Brooke, then turned to Haley. "So Hales, what's going on with Lucas and Nathan?"

Haley was about to answer when Lucas walked into the living room followed by Nathan. "Haley, did you tell Brooke what happened?" asked Lucas, sitting down next to Brooke.

"I was about to when you guys walked in," said Haley leaning her head on Nathan's shoulder as he sat down next to her.

"What? What happened?" asked Brooke.

"Uhh… Dan's in jail," said Lucas, who couldn't help but let a smile show on his face for a second.

"What! How! Why!"

"For killing Nicki," said Nathan.

"He KILLED Nicki!" asked Brooke, shocked.

"Yep. He killed her in the hotel that they were staying at and now he's in jail," said Lucas who couldn't hide his grin anymore and glanced at Nathan who also had a smile on his face.

"Honey, that's… I don't know… Can this be great?"

"Yep. It sure can," said Lucas.

"Well, then this is great. Do your moms know yet?"

"We don't know. We haven't talked to them yet. Right now, though, we need to take the kids to school and then Luke and I have to head for practice," said Nathan. He looked across the couch and finally saw Anna there. "Hi. Uhh… sorry to be rude, but who are you?"

All the girls laughed. "I'm Anna. Brooke, Haley and Peyton's friend from Vegas," said Anna, smiling at Nathan and then at Lucas. "So, who's Dan?"

"Come on, we'll explain on the way. Right now, we've got to round up all of our children," said Haley, standing up and handing Jaymie to Nathan before walking into the backyard with Brooke and Anna. "Ryan, Summer, Alison, let's go. You've got to get to school. Where's Tyler?"

"He's playing in the dirt over there," said Summer, pointing at Tyler sitting on the ground with dirt all over his clothes and face.

"Oh, honey, what did you do?" laughed Brooke as she picked Tyler up and tried to dust him off as well as she could, then shook her head and walked inside after the kids.

"So, Haley," said Anna. "There's a lot of kids here. How do you do it?"

"Well, as you know, only three of them are mine. And it doesn't bother me. I love having everybody here. When Peyton and Jake are here, we have Jake's daughter Jenny also, and Peyton is going to be having a baby in about two months, so there will be even more kids."

"Wow," was all Anna could say.

Haley laughed. "Yeah… But it's fun. I wouldn't change my life for anything. I'm really happy."

"That's good, Hales. I'm glad to see you happy. I mean, I know we weren't as close as you are with Brooke and Peyton, but I could tell you weren't happy in Vegas," said Anna.

"Yeah. I guess just too many bad memories and things back there. Made it too hard to move on with my life, you know? But Nathan is awesome. He's the best thing that's ever happened to me. We're getting married soon. We don't have an exact date set yet, but it will be soon."

"Congratulations! That's great. Well, hopefully I will be invited."

"Of course you will, Anna! So how long are you here for? I plan on getting to know you even better while you're here."

"Well," said Anna. "That's actually kind of an interesting question. I'm not so sure of the answer myself…"

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"Jen, I'm so proud of you. You were so brave in there," said Jake as he walked out of the doctor's office holding hands with his daughter and his other arm wrapped around Peyton.

"Thanks, Daddy. But it wasn't that big of a deal. It didn't hurt bad or anything. But my arm looks funny," said Jenny, showing her arm to Peyton and Jake, who laughed.

"Yeah," said Peyton. "Your arm is going to look funny for a little while, but it will go back to normal. So are you ready to go to school?"

"Yeah! This girl from my class, Marissa, is working on a project with me today and I think we're going to become friends."

"That's great, honey," said Peyton.

All three of them climbed into the car and headed off to the school to meet up with everyone. They all thought it was important that both Mom and Dad were there to drop the kids off in the morning. Sometimes they were all there in the afternoon, but usually it was either the moms, the dads, or just one person, depending on what everyone's schedule was like that day. When they pulled up to the school, they saw everyone waiting for them. They climbed out of the car and Peyton saw Anna.

"Anna!"

"Peyton!" said Anna, hugging her friend. She had met Peyton and Haley through Brooke because they worked together, but she had always been closer to Peyton than the other two.

"What are you doing here? What's going on with you? How have you been?" asked Peyton. Anna, Haley and Brooke all looked at each other and laughed because Brooke and Haley had asked the exact same thing. They all linked arms and walked into the school giggling, leaving the guys trying to figure out this new "girly thing" and wondering how Anna was going to effect their lives.

Author's Note: OK, sorry it took me ssssooooo long to update this chapter. Some of you know why, some of you don't, but let's just say there was a family emergency. Then, for the last few days I've been out of town visiting my ex-step-siblings (long story), so I haven't been able to update, but here it is! I'm not too happy yet with Anna's character, so I'm going to have some drama unfold around her. And I'm really glad Nicki's dead. I'm still trying to think of how Dan killed her, but I will come up with something by the next chapter. If you have any suggestions, let me know. Please reply and tell me what you think!

Good day or good night, whichever! And thanks for reading!