Hey Guys
Sorry about the slowness of the Chapters lately, blame it on the holidays but they are over and we are here now so on with the welcomes, Brucas03 welcome to our family.
Brucas03: As I already said Welcome to the family. I hope you keep enjoying the story.
DanaJaycee: I hope everyone is feeling better, what kind of dog did you get? And of course there's a drinking contest their home for a week.
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Team Frank: Don't they always…
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)
The next day Larry drove to the airport to wait for the arrival of Peyton, Jake, and Jenny. He was happy that they would be home for the holidays. When Peyton left for college he decided to make sure that he would be home for every holiday when he knew that she would be home for. He still worked out sea, but he made sure that if any of the kids had an event at their schools he would be there. He not only attended the parents weekend at Brooke and Lucas' school he also went to Nathan and Haley's and three weeks after Easter, himself, Deb, Lorna and Bruce would be flying up to Seattle for Peyton and Jake's.
"Attention Flight 480 from Seattle, WA has now arrived." Said the announcement.
Larry got up and walked over to where he told Peyton he would meet them after they landed.
"Dad!" Said Peyton.
"Hey Sweetie, how was the flight?"
"Fine." Said Peyton as she hugged Larry.
"Hey Jake, how are you?"
"I'm good the flight here gets shorter every time." Said Jake.
"Gampa!" Said Jenny as she leaned from Jake to Larry.
"Hello Princess, were you good for Mommy and Daddy on the plane?" Asked Larry as she picked Jenny out of Jake's arms.
"Yes." Said Jenny.
"Well that's good because you are going to stay with Grandma Deb and me tonight while Mommy and Daddy go out with your Aunts and Uncles." Said Larry.
"I see them too?"
"You'll see them in a while." Said Peyton.
"Okay." Said Jenny as she laid her head on Larry's shoulder.
"She didn't get her nap yet." Said Jake.
"Well, she can sleep all she wants." Said Larry as he rubbed her back.
Larry and the kids made it out to the car and he buckled Jenny into the car seat that sat in his backseat. After they got on the road they talked about their classes and how different people in the town were doing. Larry asked about their plans for the night, to which Peyton just told him they were going for dinner and after that they weren't sure.
Meanwhile Brooke made her way to Deb's to show Haley the finished party favors and to put the finishing touches on them. When she got to the door she knocked and waited for someone to answer.
"Brooke, you know you don't have to knock on the door anymore." Said Deb as she let her in.
"I know, I just didn't want to walk in on anything that might scar me for life." Said Brooke.
"I told them to keep it in the room." Said Deb.
"I wasn't talking about Nate and Haley, I was talking about you and Larry." Said Brooke jokingly.
"Larry went to go get Peyton, Jake, and Jenny at the airport and they should be back soon." Said Deb laughing.
"So is Haley home?" Asked Brooke.
"She ran to the store for something real fast she should be back soon." Said Deb.
"I'm back." Said Haley as she walked in the front door.
"Hey Tutor Girl." Said Brooke.
"Hey, I got the extra ribbon and glue sticks so we can put the finishing touches on the favors." Said Haley.
"Is everything upstairs?" Asked Brooke.
"Yeah, I'll go get it." Said Haley.
"So have you assembled the favors yet?" Asked Deb.
"I did a couple just to see how they would look. But I have about 6 or so that need to be assembled and they all need the ribbon and to be filled." Said Brooke.
Peyton, Jake, Larry, and a sound asleep Jenny arrived at Deb's house about twenty minutes later. And saw that Brooke's car was in the driveway.
"Come here munchkin." Said Jake as he lifted Jenny out of the car seat.
"Sweepy." Said Jenny.
"I know go back to sleep honey." Said Jake as he rubbed her back.
They walked into the house and heard the laughter coming from the kitchen and decided to check that out first before trying to figure out where to put Jenny for the time being.
"Hey Honey." Said Larry as he kissed Deb when he walked into the kitchen and grabbed a cookie that was on a plate on the counter.
"Hey." Said Deb.
"Hey Guys." Whispered Peyton as they walked into the kitchen.
"Hey, why are you whispering?" Asked Brooke not noticing that Jenny was sound asleep on Jake's shoulder.
"Jenny's asleep." Said Peyton as she hugged Brooke, Haley, and Deb.
"Jake I set up Jenny's playpen in Lucas' old room for now." Said Deb.
"Okay, thanks." Said Jake as he turned and took Jenny upstairs.
"How long has she been asleep?" Asked Brooke not used to not being almost knocked down by Jenny.
"Since she saw Dad at the airport, she said Hi he picked her up and within minutes she was sound asleep on his shoulder." Said Peyton.
"Aww. Okay so we have the favors all we need to do is assemble them and fill them and then everything for the party is done." Said Brooke.
"Hello?" Said Lorna as she walked into the house.
"We're in the kitchen Lorna." Called out Deb.
"Hey girls, Hi Peyton where's Jake and Jenny?"
"Jake's upstairs putting her down for a nap in Luke's old room." Said Peyton.
"Okay, well I talked to everyone that we invited and they all said they would be here and everything is set." Said Lorna.
"Great now all we have to do is finish the favors and we'll be totally finished."
"That is my cue to steal Jake and to go find the men." Said Larry.
"Peyton, here is the monitor. She is sound asleep and should be for quite awhile." Said Jake as he came back in the kitchen. "Hey Mom. How are you?"
"I'm good sweetie, now go away."
"Jeez I'm home for 20 minutes and you're already trying to get rid of me." Said Jake.
"Yes, I am. We're going to do stuff for the shower so I figured you would want to go find your partners in crime." Said Lorna.
"You're right, you guys have any idea where they are?" Asked Jake to Brooke and Haley.
"Uh, try the garage or the River Court I heard both be mentioned before Luke left." Said Brooke. "If you want take my car."
"Thanks, what time are we going out tonight."
"Around 8." Said Haley.
"Okay."
"Hey Jake if you find them at the Court. Make sure Luke isn't pushing himself please?" Asked Brooke.
"I will don't worry." Said Jake as he kissed Peyton and left the kitchen with Larry in tow.
"I thought you said he was doing good with everything?" Asked Deb.
"He is, just the temptation is there, he hasn't been able to play outside ball since before everything happened and now that we're here, I'm just afraid he's going to take a chance thinking he'll be fine." Said Brooke.
"Well, Nathan won't let him do anything to jeopardize his health." Said Haley.
"I know I'm just a worried girlfriend I guess." Said Brooke.
"And you have every right to be honey." Said Lorna.
Jake didn't have to worry about playing the Dad card with Lucas because he found his friends at the garage fixing a car together.
"Hey you got room for one more?" Said Jake.
"Hey, man how are ya?" Asked Lucas as he gave him a manly hug.
"Not bad I'm under orders to make sure you aren't pushing yourself." Said Jake as he and Nathan did their manly hug.
"Brooke or my mom?" Asked Lucas.
"Brooke." Said Jake.
"We almost did go man but I just didn't want to take that chance yet." Said Lucas as he went back to fixing the car.
"Hey you don't need to explain it to me." Said Jake.
"So what are the girls doing?"
"Some thing about party favors, I was putting Jenny down for a nap when they started talking that stuff. Oh they want to leave around 8 tonight."
"Cool, at least they nailed down a time." Said Nathan.
"So are we going to be victorious tonight or are they going to win like last time?" Asked Lucas.
"How much can you drink?" Asked Nathan.
"I'll be fine, we'll win tonight." Said Lucas.
The boys finished the cars they were working on and headed home to get ready for their night out. They decided to all meet at Deb's since Jenny would be staying there for the night.
"Hey guys, you know you can just come in right?" Said Deb.
"Yeah, we just being polite and ringing the door bell." Said Lucas as he and Brooke walked into the house.
"Lucas, you used to live here. This is just as much your house as your Mom and Keith's is." Said Deb.
"I know, and I should be used to it by now, but it's still odd to me." Said Lucas.
"I know, seventeen years of your father being the ass he was, cannot be made up in two since then, it'll get easier with time." Said Deb.
"Thanks Deb." Said Lucas.
"Your welcome, any time I can call Dan an ass is a good day." Said Deb with a smile.
"That's one of my idea's of a perfect day too." Said Lucas.
About twenty minutes later they were in the cabs on the way to the Chinese resturant to begin their night out.
