Hey Guys
So thanks for reading last night's chapter. Okay, a couple people asked how I was going to write this since their all back at college, I'm not going to skip ahead we will see them all in classes. The only reason I skipped ahead from Thanksgiving to Christmas was because it was only a couple weeks but I won't do it with Christmas and Easter because it's like 4 months or something like that. And I will write Keith and Karen's wedding.
PaulineJ: Thank you for reading it. And I'm happy they're going to be in Boston together too.
clemonstigerchic: Here is your update.
DanaJaycee: It worked. You always have to say good bye to someone but like Peyton's drawing says 'People always leave…but sometimes they come back' in my stories they always come back.
MARIALAFFERTY: I still haven't planned out how many chapters all this particular story will be; all I can say is there probably be a sequel somewhere in the future. He had to be he had more motive than Deb did.
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)
A couple hours later Brooke and Lucas arrived in New York and made their way to the U-Haul rental place to get the small truck since Brooke didn't really have that much stuff. They would have gotten the trailer but with both their cars in Tree Hill they had nothing to pull it with.
"Are you sure you can drive this Lucas?" Asked Brooke.
"Brooke, I drive Keith's tow truck with cars hitched to the back I think I can drive a U- Haul truck." Said Lucas assuring his girlfriend.
"Okay, I just wanted to make sure. I just have never seen you drive something this big." Said Brooke.
"I know but I'm not letting you drive it." Said Lucas.
"I could drive it!" Said Brooke.
"Honey, I love you I really do, but driving our cars and driving this thing is totally different." Said Lucas.
"Fine, I let you drive but next time I'm driving." Said Brooke as she got in the truck.
"Okay. You should call Kristy and tell her that we're on our way so she can call Nick and whoever else is helping me." Said Lucas.
"Good idea."
"Hello?"
"Kristy, it's Brooke we just got back." Said Brooke.
"Hey, Brooke what's up?"
"Is Nick still willing to help Luke move my stuff?" Asked Brooke.
"Yeah, everyone is here actually we were waiting for you to call." Said Kristy.
"Great, we should be there in a couple minutes we had to go get the truck first." Said Brooke.
"Okay, I'll see you when you get here." Said Kristy.
"Thank you so much Kristy, this means a lot." Said Brooke.
"Brooke it's no problem, oh Sarah wants to know if you packed your stash?" Asked Kristy.
"Um, it's in the bottom drawer of my vanity. Tell her I'll be right there we just pulled on to the street." Said Brooke.
"Okay, I see the truck see ya in a couple." Said Kristy.
"Bye." Said Brooke.
"What's in your bottom drawer?" Asked Lucas as he parked in front of Brooke's dorm.
"Sarah's shirt." Said Brooke not wanting to tell him what was actually there.
"Alright let's get this done, because the sooner we do the sooner we get to Boston." Said Lucas as he shut Brooke's door.
"Okay, so what are you guys going to move first?" Asked Brooke as Lucas opened the back door of the truck.
"Come here." Said Lucas as he got into the truck.
"What?" Said Brooke as she climbed in.
"Here, I want to move the vanity, but first it's going to get wrapped in blankets so it doesn't get scratched up on the ride." Said Lucas as he handed Brooke some moving blankets.
"Okay, the vanity is the only piece of furniture that's mine other than the mini-fridge, in that room, the rest is in boxes so it should be a quick move."
"Did you strip the bed before you left?" Said Lucas as he helped Brooke out of the truck and grabbed his stack of moving blankets.
"Yeah, I packed everything before I left for Boston." Said Brooke as Lucas grabbed their luggage and locked it in the cab of the truck.
"I'll call Mike when we leave that way he can get the other guys to help me move you in." Said Lucas as he opened the door to Brooke's dorm.
"Hey guys, we made it finally." Said Brooke as she walked into Kristy's room.
"You guys made good time, how was the your Christmas?" Asked Kristy as she hugged Brooke.
"Good we all gave our niece the nosiest toys to torture her parents with, and just had fun with the family." Said Brooke.
"You do know getting her those kind of toys is going to come back to bite you in the ass someday." Said Kristy.
"Not as much at Nathan's will." Said Brooke laughing.
"Why what did he get her?" Asked Kristy.
"He got her this Tigger toy that tumbles and bounces around the room, at least Haley and us got her educational toys." Said Lucas as he sat down at the small table with the other boyfriends.
"Oh Brooke do you have that item for me?" Asked Sarah.
"Yeah, come on we'll go get it while the guys plan out what they are doing." Said Brooke as she walked towards her room.
"So what do you want to move first?" Asked Nick.
"Well, her vanity has to be wrapped in the blankets, so that and then the fridge, and then she has some boxes of her computer, clothes, books stuff like that." Said Lucas. "So I figure we can put the vanity and then the fridge in the back then put the boxes in."
"Sounds like a plan, who's helping you on the other end?" Asked Toby who was Sarah's boyfriend.
"A couple teammates. It should be pretty fast." Said Lucas.
Meanwhile in Brooke's room, she got the maxi from her bottom drawer for Sarah and then sat on her stripped bed.
"I still can't believe you're leaving, are you sure you can't stay. Maybe talk to your parents and convince them to pay for school again?" Asked Sarah.
"No, my scholarship here doesn't even cover the books besides I want to. This time away has been so hard for me, and I don't mean that you guys haven't been great friends, but Lucas means everything to me and if he is in Boston then I have to go where my heart is." Said Brooke.
"I know, so on a happier note how was it living with Lucas' grandparents under the same roof?" Asked Sarah.
"It was great so much easier than at Thanksgiving, we all had a ton of fun and just hung out." Said Brooke.
"Okay here we go let's wrap it and then I left the truck back open." Said Lucas as he, Nick and Toby walked in. "Brooke do you have any tape handy."
"It's right in front of you on the vanity." Said Brooke.
"Oh, I didn't see it okay." Said Lucas as he smiled at Brooke.
"I didn't say anything all I said was it was on the vanity." Said Brooke.
Lucas, Nick, and Toby had the vanity wrapped and ready to go in a matter of minutes.
"Okay on the count of 3 we'll lift it. 1…2…3." Said Nick as Lucas and Toby lifted their ends and started carrying it out the door. Just then Lucas' phone started ringing.
"Brooke can you grab the phone from my pocket, please?"
"Yup." Said Brooke as she reached into Lucas' pocket. "It's Jake. Do you want me to answer it?"
"I don't care tell him I'll call him later." Said Lucas as they went out the door.
"Hello?"
"Brooke? Sorry I must have called your phone by mistake." Said Jake.
"No, you called Luke's phone but he's on his way down to the truck with my vanity." Said Brooke.
"Oh, well I just wanted to let you guys know that we got home. So how was your flight any bloodshed?" Asked Jake joking around
"The flight was fine and there was no bloodshed we slept the entire flight." Said Brooke.
"I'm sure Luke is grateful for that." Said Jake.
"Yes he is."
"Okay well tell Lucas to call me later and I'll tell Peyton you said hi. Go help move some boxes." Said Jake.
"I will, bye." Said Brooke as she hung up.
"What did Jake want?" Asked Lucas as he walked back into the room.
"They just got home. And he said for you to call him later." Said Brooke as her phone started ringing.
"Hello?"
"Hey Brooke."
"Tutor Girl, what's up you guys back in Chapel Hill yet?"
"Yeah, we just got home, where are you?" Asked Haley.
"We're still in New York, Luke is loading the truck with a couple guys and then we are on our way." Said Brooke.
"Okay well then call us when you get there okay." Said Haley.
"You bet I'll talk to you tonight." Said Brooke.
"Okay, bye."
"Bye." Said Brooke as she hung up with Haley.
"Who's Tutor Girl?" Asked Sarah not ever hearing Brooke's nickname for Haley.
"Haley, she's one of our best friends and she is also Lucas' sister-in-law."
"Hales called?"
"Yeah, we have to call them when we get to the dorm." Said Brooke.
About an hour later Lucas was done loading the truck and they were saying good-bye to Kristy, Sarah, Nick, and Toby.
"We'll talk soon you have my email address, right?" Asked Kristy.
"Yeah, I do. Bye." Said Brooke.
"Okay, Bye." Said Sarah as she hugged Brooke.
"Thanks guys for your help with all this." Said Lucas.
"Hey no problem, it was our pleasure." Said Toby as the three men manly hugged each other.
"Okay we have to get on the road, Brooke let's go." Said Lucas.
"Bye, be safe call if you need us." Said Kristy.
"I will, let's go Broody." Said Brooke as Lucas opened the door for her.
"Just waiting on you Cheery." Said Lucas as he shut the door.
Brooke and Lucas were now on their way to Boston. They had just gotten on the highway that would take them to Massachusetts.
"So Broody, where do you want to sleep tonight your bed or mine?" Asked Brooke.
"I say we break in yours, mine's pretty much broken in already." Said Lucas.
"I agree, so what do you want to do on New Years' eve, go out or stay in?"
"Stay in, Hales, Nathan, Jake and Peyton are all staying in so I figured we could stay in and ring in the New Year twice." Said Lucas.
"That's a great idea." Said Brooke.
About 4 ½ hours later due to traffic Brooke and Lucas arrived in Boston. Brooke had long since fallen asleep during the drive.
"Hey Cheery, we're here you gotta wake up honey." Said Lucas gently waking Brooke.
"We are, already?" Asked Brooke not realizing she had slept the entire trip.
"You aren't a very good travel buddy you know that, you've been asleep for the past 4 hours." Said Lucas as he passed the Citgo sign outside of Fenway Ball Park.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to fall asleep on you it's just the driving puts me to sleep." Said Brooke.
"Hey it's okay. Just remember no falling asleep on me tonight, got it?" Said Lucas as he winked at her.
"Trust me I won't, I mean until after at least." Said Brooke matching his tone.
"Okay, I have to call Mike and let him know we are on our way." Said Lucas as he pulled out his cell phone and hit the speed dial.
"Hello?"
"Mike, it's Lucas. Listen can you find a couple of the guys? I just passed Fenway."
"You got man just call when you pull up." Said Mike.
"Thanks Mike I appreciate this." Said Lucas.
"Hey what are teammates for, you really think I'm going to let you move furniture by yourself?" Said Mike.
"Alright well I don't have to call you back just come downstairs I just pulled on to the street." Said Lucas.
"Cool, let me call some people and I'll be right down."
"Actually just meet me at my room I'm going to bring our luggage up first so that will give us some time to find everyone." Said Lucas as he parked.
"Cool see ya in a bit." Said Mike as he hung up.
Brooke and Lucas made their way up to their floor and Lucas unlocked both their doors to put each of their luggages away.
"I still can't believe this is happening are we really here Lucas?" Asked Brooke as she wrapped her arms around Lucas.
"It's real, we're here and we're together and nothing is going to change that." Said Lucas.
"I love you so much." Said Brooke.
"I love you too." Said Lucas as he kissed Brooke.
"Yo, Luke where are you?" Said Mike into Lucas' room.
"Right here, sorry I was putting Brooke's luggage in here."
"That's okay, hey Brooke."
"Hey Mike thanks for helping out." Said Brooke.
"Like I told Luke I wasn't about to let him move furniture by himself." Said Mike.
"So who did you find to help out?" Asked Lucas.
"I got Anderson, Martinez, and Miller, they are on their way right now."
"Good." Said Lucas.
"You really think it's going to take 5 of you to move my stuff in."
"No but the sooner we get it done, the sooner I can take the truck back, and we can start our life together." Said Lucas.
"Cheeseball." Said Brooke.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Said Matt Miller as he, Ayden Martinez, and Connor Anderson entered Brooke's room.
"Not much I've got a truck downstairs that needs unloading." Said Lucas.
"Great, let's go and get this done." Said Matt who reminded Brooke a little of Tim.
"Lucas, doesn't Matt remind you of Dim?" Said Brooke quietly into Lucas' ear.
"Yeah, but Matt's more tame than Dim is." Said Lucas.
"Okay, go start bringing my stuff up, I want to start unpacking while your bringing stuff up." Said Brooke.
"I'm going." Said Lucas as he left the room with the other four guys.
Brooke was happy she decided to do laundry before they left North Carolina that way she could just unpack it all a decide where to put it.
"No more buying clothes for a long time okay." Said Lucas as he carried in a very large box.
"Okay, I'll just make them instead." Said Brooke.
"Cool, so I'm going to get another box and be back."
A couple minutes later all the boxes were in and now Brooke's vanity and fridge were coming up. Lucas, Mike and Ayden were carrying the vanity and Matt and Connor were bringing in the fridge.
"Okay Cheery where do you want this and tell me fast before we drop it." Said Lucas.
"Right up against that wall." Said Brooke.
"Hey Brooke where do you want the fridge to go?" Asked Connor.
"Um, in that corner, thank you so much guys for helping out today."
"It's no problem really we were happy to help." Said Ayden.
"Well how about I buy you guys breakfast in the morning." Said Brooke.
"Sounds good to me see you all then." Said Ayden as he, Matt, Connor left.
"So Luke, I have an idea. Give me the keys to the truck I'll return it for you. I'm going out that way anyways." Said Mike.
"Thanks man, appreciate it." Said Lucas as he handed Mike the keys and he left.
"So we're alone no interruptions, so what do you want to do?" Asked Brooke as she once again wrapped her arms around Lucas.
"I see you made the bed. So how about you and I do a really good job of unmaking it." Said Lucas as he picked her up and carried her over to the bed.
"Hey just think we don't have to worry about the neighbors when we're in here." Said Brooke as Lucas laid her on the bed.
"That's true." Said Lucas.
Soon Brooke and Lucas were 'unmaking the bed' and having fun together. After they finished they decided that they should call their family and let them know they had gotten there safely.
"Hello?"
"Keith, it's Lucas I just wanted to let you and Mom know that Brooke is all moved in and everything is fine."
"Good, so how long did the drive end up being?"
"4 ½, and Brooke slept through the whole thing so I was quite lonely." Said Lucas as Brooke stuck her tongue out at him and he pointed his finger at her and gave her the watch it look.
"Well at least she's all moved in now so how many guys ended up helping you?"
"Um, I had 2 earlier and then I had 4 when we got here." Said Lucas.
"Okay, well I let you go. And I'll tell your mom that you called." Said Keith.
"Alright, later." Said Lucas as he hung up his phone.
"I gotta call Jake and Nate now." Said Lucas.
"Call Jake, I'll call Hales and tell we got here." Said Brooke.
"Good."
"Hello?"
"Hey Peyton, it's Lucas is Jake around?"
"He ran out to the store real fast." Said Peyton.
"Okay, well I just called to let you guys know that Brooke is all settled in and that we got here safe."
"Okay I'll tell Jake and tell Brooke that I'll call her tomorrow." Said Peyton.
"Will do, tell Jenny I said hi and to enjoy her toys." Said Lucas.
"Good bye Lucas." Said Peyton knowing what he meant.
"Bye, Peyton." Said Lucas.
Meanwhile Brooke called Haley.
"Hello?"
"Hey Boy Toy, I just called to let you know that Lucas and I made it safely and that I'm all settled in."
"Okay, I'll tell Haley she's asleep right now, so tell Luke I'll get in touch with him tomorrow sometime." Said Nathan as he looked over at his wife who was sound asleep.
"Will do, bye Nate." Said Brooke as she hung up the phone. "Nate said he'll call you tomorrow." Said Brooke.
"Peyton said the same thing."
Brooke and Lucas fell asleep soon after they hung up the phones both excited about what their future might hold for them.
