Hey Guys
So today we hit magic number 51. Thanksgiving has come and gone now and in a few short weeks Christmas will be here. Oh joy, oh bliss. Not much to say today, so I will get on with my Thank yous:
Jeytonlover: Thank you for the review once again, and I love that you are enjoying this story.
Michaelsita: I was laughing when I wrote the 'booty bag' scene; I tried to come up with a way to embarrass the guys a little. And the parts when they all checked in with each other I do that every time I leave my sisters to come home. If I don't I get called soon after.
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)
It was a couple weeks later and Brooke was busy packing her dorm room in preparation for the move to Boston. She and Lucas had decided that after their trip back home they would take a one way back to New York and rent a small U-Haul and drive to Boston.
Peyton and Jake were busy Christmas shopping for Jenny in Seattle and decided to get most of their other family members little shopping in; the rest of the stuff could be bought in Tree Hill.
Nathan and Haley were also preparing for the holidays and decided to get all of their shopping done early. Haley was in charge of wrapping the presents while Nathan was busy writing out the cards for them.
"Should we use nicknames or real names this year?" Asked Nathan jokingly.
"Real names, your grandparents are going to be there, oh that reminds me." Said Haley.
"What?"
"Broody and Cheery." Said Haley.
"Yeah, you better call Brooke and tell her."
"Hello?" Said Brooke breathlessly.
"Gee, what did you do run a marathon?"
"No I went to check my mail with out the cell and when I heard it ring I ran in." Said Brooke.
"Okay, as long as you and Luke weren't… you know." Said Haley.
"Lucas is in Boston, Hales I'm actually leaving in about two hours to go see him."
"Got ya, Nate you can't call your brother this weekend." Said Haley.
"Why?" Asked Nathan walking back into the room.
"Brooke's going to see him tonight."
"Okay."
"So what's up Tutor Girl?" Said Brooke laughing at Haley and Nathan's comments.
"Well Nathan and I were talking about how to address the presents and decided that since the grandparents are going to be there it would be better if we wrote real names on the cards."
"Lucas and I had the same talk already." Said Brooke.
"Okay, it's just so whoever passes out presents knows who they go to."
"So, other than that what's up?" Said Brooke.
"Not much how'd your shopping for Lucas go?" Asked Haley knowing Brooke was having a hard time shopping for him.
"I'm still trying to get it done, I'm hoping that I'll get some ideas this weekend, but other than Broody everyone else is done."
"Well that's good." Said Haley still astonished at the fact of Brooke's power shopping. "So what's with the trip to Boston this weekend, I mean aside from the obvious." Said Haley.
"I have some papers to sign at the school and then I have to take Broody shopping for Jenny, I swear the man can pick the perfect gifts for everyone else, but he has no idea what a little girl could want." Said Brooke remembering Lucas' suggestions.
"Why what did he want to get her?" Asked Haley almost scared to know.
"Um, let's see sports stuff, cars, things like that."
"Men, I though for sure Lucas would know what to get her." Said Haley.
"Me too, I had to convince him to let me help shop for her, but he said he has everyone else done." Said Brooke.
"Well that's good so when do you leave to go to Tree Hill?" Asked Haley.
"Um, since I'm all done with classes Lucas and I are leaving right after his game on Friday, which depending on how his game goes could be a good thing or a bad thing."
"He'll be fine, I'm surprised he's not playing at all during Christmas week." Said Haley.
"I don't know who schedules the games but I'm happy that they gave another team Christmas."
"Okay, so you are going to Boston today by what?" Asked Haley knowing Brooke's trouble with flying.
"I'm taking a bus there and Luke is meeting me at the station."
"Well, that's good because I can't imagine you flying alone I've seen Lucas' hands after a flight with you."
"Yeah, actually one time I got him so bad he bled a little." Said Brooke.
"Ouch."
"Yeah, Hales I'd love to talk a little more, but if I'm ever going to make it to Boston on time, I have to leave now."
"Okay, call me when you get there." Said Haley.
"Yes, mom I will." Said Brooke sarcastically.
"Funny."
"Bye." Said Brooke.
"Bye." Said Haley as she hung up the phone.
Brooke's five-hour bus ride from New York was boring and she couldn't call Lucas except to tell him that she had reached Massachusetts. They had gotten to the out side of Worcester and got stuck in traffic due to a 4-car pile up. Brooke didn't know how long they would be there, she figured that she would only be a couple minutes late not the 30 that she actually was. They finally reached Boston and Lucas was getting worried then he heard the announcement.
"Attention please the 5:30pm shuttle from New York City has now arrived." Said the woman over the intercom.
"Finally." Said Lucas to himself as he made his way over to the gate. He spotted Brooke getting off the bus and gathering her suitcases.
"Hey, I was getting worried, what happened?" Asked Lucas as he hugged Brooke and then took her suitcases from her.
"I'm sorry, there was a 4-car pile up just outside of Worcester, I would have called but every time I took out my phone I got dirty looks from people." Explained Brooke.
"Hey it's okay, while I was waiting I went and got a 'Sports Weekly'." Said Lucas.
"Good to know you weren't so worried you were pacing." Said Brooke knowing Lucas' habit when he got worried about something.
"If you had given me a couple more minutes I would have." Said Lucas. "So what do you want to do tonight, go out to dinner or a movie?"
"I kind of just want to stay in tonight if that's okay and order take out or something." Said Brooke tired after her ride.
"Okay, I'll get the menus from the guy next door." Said Lucas.
"You don't have any menus at your place?"
"Not the good ones, I only have the ones that get taped to my door, the guy next door however has every place in Boston that delivers to the dorm laminated in one of those expandable folders."
"Are you serious?" Asked Brooke.
"Yeah, the only thing is it cost a buck to rent it." Said Lucas.
"I want to see this thing so much I'll go half with you." Said Brooke laughing.
"Okay." Said Lucas as he hailed a cab to take them to the dorm.
When they got to the dorm and walked in he asked a couple guys if his neighbor was in.
"Hey guys, is Noah around?" Asked Lucas.
"Uh, yeah up stairs, I think." Said one of the guys.
"Thanks." Said Lucas as he and Brooke made their way upstairs to Lucas' room once they put her bags in they decided to get the menus from Noah.
"Who is it?" Said a guy through the door.
"Noah, it's Lucas I need to rent your menus, man." Said Lucas thinking this was the most absurd thing he ever thought of.
"Here ya go everything is in alphabetical order." Said Noah as he opened the door and refused to take Lucas and Brooke's money.
"Cool, thanks I bring it back in a little while."
"Keep it Merry Christmas." Said Noah.
"You sure?"
"Yeah, I got more that I'm making right now." Responded Noah.
"Thanks man, Happy Holidays."
"So did you get it?" Asked Brooke as he walked back into the room.
"Yeah, Noah said it our Christmas present."
"Okay, so what do you want to get, Chinese, Pizza?" Asked Brooke as she looked through it.
"Chinese sounds good." Said Lucas as he checked his email. "Hey Peyton and Jake sent pictures of Jenny if you haven't seen them yet."
"No, I checked my email right before I left and I didn't have anything." Said Brooke.
"She's too precious. Nice one of Jake sleeping." Said Lucas.
"Wait, Lucas he has make up on. How much you want to make a bet Jenny found her way into Peyton's make up?" Said Brooke laughing.
"This is too good not to call Nate for." Said Lucas as he picked up the phone and called Nathan.
"Hello?" Said Nathan.
"Have you checked your email in the past couple minutes?" Asked Lucas.
"No why?"
"Check it, Peyton sent pictures of Jenny."
"Okay, oh Hales wants to know if Brooke got there safe since she hasn't called yet."
"Are you here safe?" Asked Lucas.
"No, Nate help he's keeping me here against my will."
"Drama Queen." Said Nathan mouthing to Haley that she was.
"Oh, he just called you a drama queen." Said Lucas as Brooke sat on his lap.
"Thank you Nathan for the compliment." She said into the phone.
"Oh my god, red is so not Jagielski's color." Said Nathan as he laughed into the phone and then showed Haley who fell off the couch she was sitting on.
"Yeah, no kidding that's what he gets for falling asleep with a two year old wide awake." Said Lucas.
"You know Peyton was egging her on too." Said Nathan.
"Oh, of course. I would have." Said Lucas.
After Lucas and Nathan finished talking Brooke decided it was time to order the food for her and Lucas, it had gotten to the point in their relationship that she didn't even have to ask him what he wanted. And he didn't have to ask her either. She then remembered the phone call a couple weeks ago after his team meeting.
"So where's the booty bag?" Asked Brooke.
"Um, under the bed I think." Said Lucas as he changed into sweats.
"I still can't believe the coaches gave you guys this stuff." Said Brooke as she pulled the bag from underneath the bed.
"I can't either, well at least we'll never run out." Said Lucas.
"That's true." Said Brooke looking at all the different colors that were now spread out on the bed.
"Some of the guys actually started selling theirs for like a buck a piece." Said Lucas.
"Are you serious?" Asked Brooke with a laugh.
"Yeah, now will you put the rainbow back in the bag, please the food is here." Said Lucas as he opened the door to the delivery guy.
"$18.30 please?" Said the delivery guy.
"Here you go keep the change." Said Lucas as he hand the guy 21 bucks.
"Thanks have a good night."
"You too." Said Lucas as he shut the door when he walked back to the bedroom area he saw Brooke thinking about something. "Okay what are you thinking about?" Asked Lucas.
"Tonight, what color you want?" Asked Brooke.
"Can we eat, please?" Said Lucas trying not to laugh at Brooke at that moment.
"Yeah, I guess." Said Brooke as she looked through the bag for her food.
"And to answer the question, Blue." Said Lucas as he hand Brooke her containers.
"Okay, I'm happy now."
"Good." Said Lucas still trying not to laugh at their conversation over the booty bag.
After they finished dinner the couple decided to put the booty bag to good use after all that's what it was there for, Right?
