Mony19- I know you're waiting for Brooke and Gloria to talk and I promise you'll get it soon. I just finished writing that particular chapter and I hope that when you read it, you'll enjoy it.

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Chapter title is "Let It All Out" by Relient K.

Chapter Seven: Let It All Out

Brooke and Haley stayed at the café, Haley working and Brooke sitting there bored out of her mind until Haley threw her a towel and made her work. It was watching the two sisters work and banter with each other that made the customers smile as they finished their dinners. Soon the café was empty with only an hour until closing.

"So where's Karen?" Brooke suddenly noticed it was just the two of them plus the cook in the kitchen. "I thought she came everyday."

"Yeah," Haley nodded as she started washing some of the dishes. "She left right before you came in, said she had some errands to do." Haley shrugged as she glanced at Brooke, "I told her I was fine to close, it's not like I haven't done it before."

Brooke suddenly realized just how much her sister depended on Karen and the café. "You're in here a lot, aren't you?"

Haley gave her a look, "I work here." She slowly raised her eyebrows to herself as she turned back to the dishes before muttering, "It's a good thing I'm the smart one."

"No," Brooke laughed. "I mean just hanging around and stuff."

Haley shrugged, "Karen's been more of a mother to me that our own mom has and Lucas has been my best friend since I was 8, this place is just like home to me."

Suddenly, before Brooke could respond, the doorbell jingled and in walked two people neither girls wanted to see.

Haley's eyes widened in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

Brooke whirled around in her seat and her eyes hardened as she saw her father standing there with Lydia James by his side. "You guys just can't take a hint can you?" She stood up and walked around the counter so she was standing next to Haley.

"We need to talk to you girls." Lydia started as she moved toward the stools.

Mark nodded as he sat next to Lydia. He watched as his daughters got closer together on the other side of the counter and he had to smile. Though having just found out, they seemed to be dependent on each other and no matter what happened with the four of them, Mark was glad that his twins had each other. "And no running away this time."

Haley suppressed a smile as she glanced at Brooke who could only glare at her father. She sighed as her gaze went back to her parents. "What do you want?"

"Mark told me that he wants the two of you to live with him," Lydia began to explain, her eyes pleading for them to listen. "But I also want you two to live with me."

Brooke let out a short laugh. "I'm not living with either of you." She nudged Haley who could only look away. "I know that Haley hasn't made up her mind yet but that's my decision as of now."

"Brooke," Mark inched closer to the girls. "Don't you think that's a bit drastic?"

"No," Brooke told him shortly. "I actually don't."

Lydia sighed. "I know that the both of you are angry with us and it's understandable but do you really want to act like this when we can just solve everything right now?"

Haley raised an eyebrow, "Solve what?"

"The living situation," Mark explained slowly.

Brooke rolled her eyes. She seriously couldn't believe her parents were this dense. "Have you not been listening for the past five minutes? I told you I'm not living with either of you." She paused. "Especially after you lied to us this whole time."

"We didn't technically lie to you," Lydia caught eye contact with Haley before Haley turned away. "We just never told you."

"Besides, it seems to me like you two weren't the best of friends before anyway," Mark shrugged. "We guessed it just seemed like the right thing keeping you separate."

Haley just shook her head as the words kept spewing out of his mouth. It seemed like he just kept digging himself further and further into the little hole he had created for himself. "That's not the point. The point is that both of us would have liked to know that we were twins!"

Brooke glanced at her sister as her voice got consistently louder. She had never heard Haley get so angry at another person before. She had heard from Lucas that Haley was the kind of calm screamer that brought on guilt whenever she was angry at someone.

"Haley," Lydia said calmingly. She reached a hand out but quickly pulled it back when she saw that Haley was obviously not in the mood.

Brooke linked her arm through Haley's bringing her sister closer to her. She could see Haley trying to calm herself. "I think you should leave."

"We are not leaving until everything is settled!" Mark resisted the urge to slam his fist down on the counter.

"Is that it then?" Brooke shot back. "Just the living situation?"

Lydia and Mark exchanged glances. "We figured you two had some questions for us."

"Why?" Haley finally spoke up since her little outburst. She didn't look at any of the three people in the room. "Why did you split us up?"

Mark sighed, "I was young and when Gloria told me she couldn't have kids and Lydia said that she was going to have twins, I figured that we could each have one." He took a breath, "I never could have imagined that it could have been like this."

Haley nodded, understanding at least his part. "But why didn't you ever tell us?"

"That was mutual I guess," Lydia jumped in, glad that her daughters seemed to be willing to talk. "We thought it would be harder for everybody if the two of you knew especially since we didn't want anyone to know about our affair."

"I guess that's understandable," Brooke thought out loud. "I just wish we could have known sooner." She smiled at Haley, "I could have had my twin with me through everything."

Haley grinned back before turning back to her parents. "How was it that no one knew?" She glanced at her mother, "John would have been 13 when we were born, if he came to visit the 'baby', wouldn't he have seen two?"

Lydia's small smile disappeared. "Brooke was born premature so when everyone came to visit, they only saw Haley because Brooke was in the NICU."

Both girls stayed silent as her words washed over them. Suddenly Brooke knitted her eyebrows. "Is that why Dad chose me to take with him? Because your whole family had already seen Haley?"

Mark sighed as he glanced at Lydia and then back at Brooke, "To be honest, yes, but I didn't even see Haley after you two were born, and Jimmy had already taken a liking to her." He shrugged softly. "When I saw you lying there in the NICU Brooke, I just couldn't take my eyes away, you were so small and all I wanted was for you to get better."

Brooke was trying to stop the tears that were threatening to escape. She hadn't expected that honest an answer from her father.

"Dad knew about you two?" Haley jumped in. She didn't notice the pained look come over Mark's features for the split second that she called Jimmy James her father. Brooke, however, did catch it and she knew that no matter how long they had been separated, Mark did love Haley. "He knew that I wasn't his child?"

Lydia nodded slowly, "He knew." She watched Haley slump into the small stool that was sitting there behind the counter. "He loved you like one of his own Haley, even if you weren't biologically his, he overcame that."

"Wait a minute, does that mean that Haley's older?" Brooke's eyes widened as the thought came across her mind. She glanced down at Haley and sat down next to her in the small stool.

Mark had to smile, "Haley's older by 3 minutes."

"Ha," Haley stuck her tongue out at Brooke. "Told you I was older."

Brooke rolled her eyes at her sister before turning back to her parent's. She took a good look at both of them before speaking again. "I know that you two came in here with the idea of having Haley and I live with one of you but as for me, I know that I can't right now, maybe later on, maybe never, but for now, I'm gonna stay with Peyton."

Haley watched her sister as she spoke then turned back to the people sitting in front of her. "I haven't decided anything yet so for now I'm still going to live at my house and until I come to a decision, that's where I'm going to stay."

Lydia nodded as she stood up. "I understand that and I'm not going to force either of you to do anything you don't want."

"I don't want you living by yourselves," Mark spoke up. "And my home, as well as Lydia's, is going to be there whenever you want to come home."

Brooke smiled up at her father for the first time in days. "Thanks Dad."

The two parents nodded at their teenage daughters before leaving the café, leaving the two girls alone. Haley let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and Brooke stood up and began to pace the small café. "You think we're doing the right thing?"

Haley sighed, "I have no idea."

Brooke nodded but didn't say anything. She glanced out the window into the vast darkness as her thoughts swam chaotically in her head. "Me either."