Hey Guys
Okay so I was a little late posting last night's chapter and for that I'm sorry… not much else to say here. So to PaulineJ thank you for the complement it makes me feel good when someone likes my style. So thank you and now on with Chapter 14.
Love,
Emily
(Mark Schwann and the WB own the characters depicted in this story I don't own anything… I wish I could say I owned the show but I don't)
Brooke and Lucas slept until the ringing of Brooke's cell phone woke Lucas up, thinking that it was one of the girls he answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hello, who is this where is my daughter." Said an older gentleman.
"This is Brooke's boyfriend Lucas, Mr. Davis." Said Lucas as he tried to sit up but could because Brooke was lying on his chest.
"Well, is my daughter there?" Said Mr. Davis irritated that this man was answering his daughter's phone.
"Yes, she is but she's still sleeping. Can I have her call you back?" Asked Lucas really hoping he would say yes.
"No I need to talk to her now or I would have called later." Said Mr. Davis.
"Okay, hold on." Said Lucas dreading was he was about to do. "Hey Brooke, honey wake up you have a phone call." Said Lucas as he stroked Brooke's cheek.
"Hmm?" Said Brooke.
"Your father is on the phone." Said Lucas.
"Oh god." Said Brooke as she sat up and pulled the covers over he like he could see through the phone. "Hello?"
"Brooke, where are you and why did that man answer your phone!" Yelled Brooke's father.
"Hi, Dad. I'm fine how are you?" Said Brooke.
"Brooke, I asked you two questions and you better answer them young lady."
"Fine, Tree Hill and because I was asleep and he heard the phone." Said Brooke annoyed.
"What are you doing in Tree Hill? Didn't your mother tell you that we were coming to New York for the holiday and imagine the surprise we got this morning when we got to your room and you weren't there." Yelled Mr. Davis again.
"And I told Mom that I had other plans for the holiday, what did you expect me to do anyways Thanksgiving was yesterday Dad, just sit in my room and get take out." Yelled Brooke matching her father's tone.
"You should have called and told us you were leaving the state."
"Why, you and Mom never told me that you were, besides you have no control over what I do. I am almost 19 years old."
"We most certainly do have control over what you do Brooke, we are the ones paying for your education, and so we sure as hell have control over what you do."
"Not anymore, I'm transferring from NYU to Boston University after Christmas, you and Mom won't have to pay for my non- productive major any more." Said Brooke throwing their last conversation back at him.
"Oh, and how do you expect to pay for this new college?"
"I received confirmation on my Scholarship the other day." Said Brooke.
"What in the world would BU give you a scholarship for?"
"I will be doing what I did best in high school, something I won a couple competitions for."
"And what was that?"
"Cheerleading and you would know that if you were around longer than a day to actually listen to me." Said Brooke.
"If you are going to continue with this charade of that major that you chose and this ridiculous obsession with cheerleading, well I'm afraid your mother and I can't support it."
"What do you mean you can't support it?" Said Brooke hoping her father would just get to the point.
"I mean if you go on with your choices to do these things, your mother and I have no choice, but to tell you starting in January you will officially be supporting your self, no more monthly allowance."
"Fine, I have been waiting so many years to say this, when people ask you how many children you have tell them that you have a daughter that would rather never see you again than have some silly monthly allowance." Said Brooke as she squeezed Lucas' hand for support.
"Fine, Brooke have it your way. The only familial connection you will continue to have with this family is your trust fund which you were set to receive at 21, you will now not receive until you are 30." Said Mr. Davis.
"Fine by me, Good Bye Father." Said Brooke as she hung up her cell phone.
"Are you okay?" Anticipating a breakdown.
"Amazingly, yeah I'm fine, the only way those people were my family was by blood and name, you are my family by heart and choice." Said Brooke as she resumed her position on Lucas' chest.
"I am so proud of you, you know that. It takes a lot of guts to do what you just did." Said Lucas as he rubbed her back.
"I'm proud of me, too. I should have done it a long time ago. They're going to give me money until January so that will give me enough time to find a job." Said Brooke.
"Well, you know if you need anything you can always ask me." Said Lucas.
"I know." Said Brooke.
A little while later Brooke and Lucas went out to the kitchen and told Keith and Karen of the phone call, where they immediately went into parent mode and told Brooke that she was their child now and if she needed money or anything else they would help her.
"Thanks you guys I really appreciate it but I'll be fine." Said Brooke thankful for her family.
After her discussion with Karen and Keith, Brooke and Lucas decided to meet up with everyone at the café. And enjoy the last couple days before they got separated again.
"Well, well, well nice to see you haven't broken up yet because of what was the excuse last time?" Said Jake as Brooke and Lucas walked in.
"Shut up Jake."
"So I tried to call you this morning but all I kept getting was voicemail." Said Peyton.
"I'm sorry I heard the call waiting but I was arguing with my father." Said Brooke.
"What happened?" Asked Haley.
"I disowned them, and they pushed back my trust fund." Said Brooke.
"Wait a minute, what do you mean you disowned them?" Asked Nathan.
"I told them I never wanted to see them again." Said Brooke.
"What brought this on?" Asked Peyton.
"They told me that if I continued to major in Interior Design they wouldn't support me, so I told them that they didn't have to." Said Brooke.
"Wow, looks like you guys had an eventful morning." Said Haley.
"You know believe it or not, it was liberating." Said Brooke. "I finally said everything I've wanted to say for so many years and in one 20 minute conversation it just all came pouring out. I felt good."
"Well, then I think we should celebrate." Said Nathan.
"I am not going out drinking with you all again." Said Haley.
"Why don't we just have like a movie night or something." Said Lucas.
"I'm in, where would we have it though?" Asked Brooke.
"Why don't we do it at my mom's?" Suggested Nathan.
"Would she go for it?" Asked Lucas.
"Couldn't hurt to ask. Hey Mom?" Asked Nathan to Deb who was working behind the counter.
"Yeah?"
"We were wondering if it would be okay, before we all leave if we could have a movie night at your house?" Asked Nathan.
"Sure, who's we?"
"Mom, it will only be Hales, me, Jake, Peyton, Luke, and Brooke and probably Jenny." Said Nathan.
"I was kidding Nathan. I knew who you were talking about, when do you want to have the movie night?" Said Deb.
"Um, hang on let me find out." Said Nathan as he turned around and walked back to the table.
"So?" Said Haley.
"She said yeah, what night?"
"Well, we leave on Sunday." Said Brooke of her and Lucas' departure.
"So don't we." Said Jake.
"So why don't we do it on Saturday and then we can all leave for the airport from there on Sunday."
"Why not, it's our last night, next time we'll all be together will be Christmas." Said Haley.
"Is it okay that we bring Jenny since we're leaving from your mom's?" Asked Peyton.
"Yeah, Jenny's one of us, of course she's coming I'll even get 'Finding Nemo' at the video store." Said Nathan.
"Aww, Nate you getting soft in your old age?" Asked Lucas getting back at Nathan for the comments from the night before.
"Who's the older one again, Luke?" Said Nathan.
"Okay, let's not get into this again." Said Brooke.
The kids spent that night with their parents, at Keith and Karen's Brooke and Lucas decided to cook dinner for Keith and Karen as a way to thank them.
"So where do you think we will all be 5 years from now?" Asked Brooke as she chopped veggies for the spaghetti sauce.
"What do you mean?" Said Lucas as he was cooking the meat.
"I mean where do you see all of us, you know what are we doing, jobs, living, ect." Said Brooke.
"Well, let's see you and me would be living in a nice house somewhere, married living next door to Hales and Nate, with Peyton, Jake, and Jenny across the street. At night all the neighborhood kids come out and we play basketball or street hockey in the middle of the street until the moms or wives call us in. You are designing houses and consulting on how best to decorate the newest office building, I'm teaching at the local high school and making a bunch of teenagers reading all my favorite books, Nate has his own Physical Therapy clinic, Peyton has her artwork in all the major galleries in the area, Hales is Jenny's teacher, and Jake has placed all his cases in good homes, like ours." Said Lucas.
"You've really thought this through." Said Brooke as she wiped some tears away.
"You're crying?"
"I'm chopping onions."
"Brooke I already put the onions in the sauce." Said Lucas smirking.
"Then what the hell am I chopping?" Said Brooke with a laugh.
"I have no idea." Responded Lucas. "So where do you see us all?"
"Wherever you are." Said Brooke as she hugged Lucas.
The kids finished making dinner and served it to the parents and just spent the night joking around and sharing memories of Lucas and Brooke time living there.
At Larry's house he and Peyton made dinner and remembered things from Peyton's childhood.
Deb, Nathan and Haley ordered in and just watched movies all night they even got Nathan to watch 'The Notebook' somehow. After they watched that Nathan got them to actually watch 'Pearl Harbor', but Deb and Haley didn't mind since Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnet were in it.
The night ended with every one sleeping soundly and wondering how they were all going to handle the separation again.
