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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 week went by quickly, Peyton finished the strip on Wednesday while Jenny took a nap and when Jenny woke up they went over to THUD to submit it. On Thursday Peyton finished painting the room before she started the mural. Brooke and Haley came over on their day off and helped Peyton do the touch ups.

"Peyton this is the perfect shade of pink." Said Brooke.

"Thank you one of the reasons I picked it was because all the other shades reminded me of Pepto-Bismol or cotton candy." Said Peyton.

"That is bad." Said Haley.

"So what do you need us to do?"

"Just touch ups today, and then this weekend Jake's parents are taking Jenny for the entire weekend. So I can work on this all weekend." Said Peyton.

"Well you know if you need help with it to call me." Said Brooke.

"Thanks."

The weekend came and Peyton had sketched the start of the mural on the wall. Jake, Lucas, and Nathan had brought all the furniture over from his parent's house for the room, which they had already brought upstairs.

"Looking good there." Said Haley as Peyton started painting it.

"Is it? I mean this kind of stuff really isn't my thing but it's for Jenny so I'm trying." Said Peyton.

"I looks awesome Peyton." Said Brooke.

"Thanks."

"So what color are the curtains?"

"Lilac, it's the only color I thought would go well in the princess room." Said Peyton.

"It'll look nice, so do you think she has any clue what is going on?" Asked Brooke.

"No, all we really told her was that when she comes back she'd be sleeping in her own room. Instead of ours." Said Peyton.

"So tomorrow is that day." Said Haley.

"What day?" Asked Peyton.

"Anniversary of the fire." Said Brooke.

"Oh, that day."

"Did Royal and Mae call you or Luke?" Asked Haley.

"Yeah, Mae talked to Luke. And you know Lucas can't say no to her, so we're going. Please tell me you are?"

"Mae pulled out the 'I know he wasn't the best father, but he was still your father.' Crap on Nathan." Said Haley.

"Does Mae have any idea what Daddy Dearest actually did to them? I mean, he ignored Lucas his entire life, pushes Nathan so far he almost died and then basically gives Lucas a death sentence by cutting off his meds. Not to mention that he used to hit on Brooke even when either one of them was standing right next to her."

"She knows, but it was still her son. And she wants us to go to the grave with them and then out to a late lunch or something." Said Haley.

"Is it going to be like this every year on the anniversary, because it's like a lie? Did you see what they put on the stone? 'Beloved husband, son, brother, and father' when Lucas and Nathan saw that I thought we were going to have to pick them up from the ground they were laughing so hard." Said Brooke.

"Well it's not like we could put what we really thought of the guy on his headstone." Said Peyton.

"Why not I would have." Said Brooke with a laugh.

"So what time do you have to go?" Asked Peyton.

"We have to meet at Deb's at 2 I think." Said Brooke.

"Is she going with you?" Asked Peyton.

"Yeah, she couldn't get out of it either." Said Haley.

"So are you and Brooke going with the grandparents tomorrow?" Asked Nathan.

"Yeah, I couldn't say no even though I really, really wanted to." Said Lucas.

"Nothing like going and living the lie of two grieving sons to set up a good meal." Said Jake.

"And the funny thing is even the headstone tells a lie, 100 years from now people are going to look at that stone and say 'Wow he was so young and he must have had a lot of people that cared about him'." Said Lucas.

"Little do they know that he was the worst guy to ever be around." Said Nathan as they moved Jenny's dresser up the stairs.

"It isn't really even the fact that he ignored my existence, or how he treated Nathan and Keith, it's the simple fact of how he treated my mom, Deb, Haley, he hit on Brooke even if one of us was standing there, but all he cared about was himself."

"I only met him a couple times and even I couldn't stand the guy." Said Jake.

"Be happy you only met him those times, Luke and I actually have his DNA." Said Nathan.

The next day was the day that the boys dreaded, it was the day that they had to put on the faces of sons that missed their father, but they knew they didn't.

"Hey you ready yet?" Asked Brooke.

"Not really, I don't want to go Brooke." Said Lucas.

"I know you don't, I don't want to either. But we have to for your grandparents, no matter how bad of a guy he was, he was still their son, and as much as we really hate to admit it you and Nate are their only real connection to him still." Said Brooke.

"I know, I just hate the fakeness of it, pretending that we miss the guy that just didn't care how much he hurt anyone. You know."

"I know, I absolutely know that feeling I did it everyday in high school." Said Brooke.

"So I guess we should head over to Deb's now." Said Lucas.

"Let's go and get this over with." Said Brooke.

Brooke and Lucas drove over to Deb's house and let themselves in. The drive over was silent both knowing how much the other hated to do this.

"Hello?" Said Lucas as they walked in.

"Hey, bro." Said Nathan as he came in to the foyer.

"Hey, so where are the grandparents?" Asked Lucas.

"Kitchen, Brooke you look nice."

"Thanks, well I'm going to go say hello." Said Brooke as she left the boys alone.

"I still can't believe we're doing this after everything he put this family through." Said Nathan.

"I know what you mean. I tried to get out of it, I told Brooke I didn't want to come." Said Lucas.

"Well just think after this we don't have to go there until next year." Said Nathan.

"True, but it just feels weird to me. I mean Dan did nothing for us except give us each other and me a heart condition." Said Lucas.

"Well at least he did something right." Said Nathan with a laugh referring to the comment about giving them each other.

Meanwhile in the kitchen, they were talking about what had been going on over the past week or so.

"So what did you guys do this week?" Asked Royal.

"We just had movie night, and we've all been working at the garage and café. Nothing out of the ordinary." Said Haley.

"Well that's good and how are Peyton and Jake?" Asked Mae.

"They're good they are actually working on Jenny's room today." Said Brooke.

"Jenny's room?" Asked Mae.

"Yeah, Um they are turning the extra room into a princess room for Jenny, because right now she is sleeping in Peyton's room with them." Said Haley.

"Well that will be precious, who picked the theme for it." Asked Mae.

"Jenny, Peyton asked her what kind of room she wanted and she said a princess room so Peyton is doing a mural on the wall of a far away kingdom or something like that and the boys moved the furniture in yesterday." Said Brooke.

"Well you'll have to take some pictures when it's all finished and set up." Said Royal.

"We will do that."

A couple minutes later everyone made their way out of the house and set off for the cemetery.