This is not my first fanfiction but even so I get nervous and anxious to know if you guys are reading and what you're thinking about it. So please, be so kind and review whenever you can! Thanks
Oh, and the title of the fanfic is the title of a song from Aqualung.
Disclaimer: I do not own OTH but if I did we would get picked for another season and I'd keep BL together forever just to make my sister super happy! Plus, I'd make sure that Nathan was shirtless 80 per cent of all episodes.
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It's the year of 2016. It's been ten years since the 2006 Tree Hill High School Class graduated and it's been five years since their last meeting all together. For those past five years, our beloved group of five friends hasn't seen each other.
Nathan and Haley moved to New York after Nathan received a very generous offer from a basketball team and since Haley hadn't decided yet where she was attending to college, she took the opportunity and singed up for NYU.
Lucas had been living with Keith in Charleston since after he finished college. Life in Tree Hill didn't seem to have much to offer him after graduation, so he and Karen decided it was gonna be better for him to persuade his dreams elsewhere. He's been there for almost 6 years.
After her High School graduation and her civilized and yet heartbreaking break up with Lucas, Brooke moved to California to live with her parents again while attending to UCLA.
Even far from all her friends, Peyton decided to stay in Tree Hill. Odd enough, since her artistic abilities were something that could take her far from there if she wanted to. Instead she chose to stay in town and help her dad. Shortly after her High School graduation, Ellie got really sick due to her disease and passed away almost a month later. Peyton's dad even thou didn't have much contact with Ellie before she ever showed up in Tree Hill, developed a good and prosper relationship with her and felt, more than he expected, her lost. With all that, Peyton didn't even had the courage to leave her father alone, so she attended to the local University and continued her life there, as she could.
It was a warm Thursday afternoon and the turkey was starting to smell really good inside the oven while Peyton was walking around the kitchen, checking the other things around. She grabbed a bunch of plates and walked to the dinning room to place them around the table when the doorbell rang. Taking a deep breath, she walked calmly towards the door. The first guest. Fixing her dress – gosh, she hadn't been in one of those in forever – she reached the doorknob and turned it.
"Hello, friend" Brooke said with a smile on her face and as she had just seen Peyton the day before, although she hadn't seen her in at least five years.
Peyton responded the smile with another one. "Hi, Brooke" she opened her arms and hugged her friend for a long moment. Brooke broke the hug as she felt a bump against her.
"What's that? Peyton Sawyer got fat?" she teased as she took a better look at Peyton and gasped for a moment, "Oh my God... Peyton, you're pregnant!"
"I know" Peyton said taking one step back to make room for Brooke to come in.
Stepping in, Brooke couldn't take her eyes off the belly, "You're so pregnant! When did this happen?"
"About six months ago" she said closing the door.
"C'mon, you know what I meant! Who's the lucky guy?" Brooke asked now more curious than intrigued.
Peyton shrugged while taking a sit and watching Brooke do the same, "There's no guy."
"Ok, I know you couldn't have done this by yourself. Tell me!" she asked pleading.
"There's really no guy. I went to the sperm bank, chose a profile and a few weeks later... this happen" she said with both hands over her belly.
Brooke stared at her for a moment or two trying to figure her out, "You have got to be kidding me with this."
Peyton started to laugh when they heard the beep from the turkey in the oven. She got up on a jump and pointed to the kitchen.
"Oh! Saved by the bell."
Watching Peyton leave the room, Brooke stood up and started to chase her to insist on the pregnancy story, but the doorbell rang again. She stopped halfway and sighed, talking to herself.
"I'll get that" she turned around and walked back to the living room while heard Peyton shouting.
"Would you get that?"
"I'm on it!" she replied reaching the door.
Still a little dizzy about the recent news, Brooke didn't even realized that was probably another guest at the door. She opened it up at once and froze at the sight of Lucas standing outside, just as surprised as she was. He was different. Not better or worse, just different to her. He had longer hair and his beard could've been better shaved. But that was all she could see as she couldn't exactly move for a couple of seconds 'til she saw him smiling warmly at her.
"Hi, Brooke."
"Lucas..." she said on a whisper and then felt his arms around her, hugging her. She closed her eyes on a sigh and put her arms around his neck, feeling his heart beating almost as fast as hers. They took a while on the hug 'til she realized they were standing there for more time than they could be before it started to get awkward.
"So..." she looked around, a little uncomfortable, "Why don't you come in?" she asked walking back in and waiting for him to do the same.
He walked in after her and as she was about to close the door, he glanced outside. "Actually..."
But before he could finish, they heard a voice shouting from outside.
"Wait!"
Brooke was holding the door open and couldn't quite believe her eyes. That was definitely her but why was she there? The girl jogged to the house and stopped by the door, catching her breath and holding a bottle of wine in the air.
"We forgot about the wine, hun!" she said looking at Lucas and then turned back to Brooke standing next to her, "Brooke!" she said surprised, "I can't believe this" she hugged her still holding the bottle of wine.
Brooke stood still as she was being hugged not sure what to do and just patted her on the back as she broke the hug, "Taylor..." she said mostly trying to convince herself and then turned to Lucas with a confused look, "She's Taylor."
Lucas looked down and then back to her, nodding, "Yes. I know that."
"Haley's sister, Taylor" she specified.
"We all know that" Taylor said smiling and showing her the wine, "Where can I put this?"
"Brooke? Who was it?" Peyton asked walking back in from the kitchen and seeing Lucas next to the dinning table.
"Hey, you!" she went to hug him.
He hugged her back and then turned to her belly, "How are you two?"
"We're good" she answered with a proud smile on her face.
Brooke frowned, "Wait a minute. You knew about her being pregnant and I didn't?"
"I came by to see my mom a couple of months ago and ran into her."
"Oh..."
"Hey, Peyton" Taylor said finally getting Peyton's attention who, so far, hadn't seen her there.
"Taylor?" it sounded more like a question while she glanced at Lucas, "Is she with you?"
Without waiting for Lucas' response, Taylor went to hug her, and that went pretty much like the one she gave Brooke. Still being hugged by Taylor, Peyton forced a smile at Lucas.
"What's going on?"
Taylor finally let her go and put the bottle of wine on the table. Brooke took a sit by the sofa praying for all of that just to be a bad dream. Peyton had a hand on her waist and was staring at Lucas who looked around but couldn't exactly hide. With Taylor by his side he started on a low tone of voice.
"We've been dating for almost a year now."
"Isn't this wild?" Taylor asked a little too hyper, "I've known him for like, ever, and never really saw him, you know? He was Haley's geek friend!" she giggled, "But now... what do you know?" she put one arm around Lucas' waist and hugged him tight.
Ignoring Taylor's comment, Peyton kept staring at Lucas, "Why didn't you tell me about her last time I saw you?"
"You didn't?" Taylor asked looking at Lucas, now more serious.
Scratching the back of his head and glancing at Brooke, quickly, Lucas shrugged to Peyton, "I don't know. I guess I just saw you for such a short time and nothing can beat the pregnancy thing, so... I must've forgotten. Or something."
"How could've you forgotten about your girlfriend?" Brooke asked as a tease but somewhat seriously staring at Lucas who looked the other way.
"Yeah, how?" Taylor asked frowning at him as well.
He scoffed embarrassed at them, "Ok I can't handle the three of you together" he took Taylor's arm from him and walked towards the kitchen, "I need some water."
Brooke crossed her arms against her chest and leaned back on the couch, frowning. Taylor glanced at her and then turned to the kitchen, "Excuse me" and left after Lucas.
Peyton took a sit next to Brooke and patted her on the leg, "So... how's the reunion so far?"
Shaking her head, Brooke pressed her lips together, "I can't believe this. How didn't I know about this? No one knew!"
"I know" Peyton shrugged, "I didn't know either."
"This can't be happening" she whispered.
The doorbell rang again. Both of them stared at the door and Peyton mentioned to stand up, but she was stopped by Brooke's hand.
"Allow me" she stood up and walked to the door to open it. She saw Nathan and Haley standing side by side. She quickly checked to see if they still had their wedding ring. Yes! Then she glanced at Haley's stomach. Double yes! They were still together and she wasn't pregnant.
"Oh, thank God!" she said before hugging them both at once.
They both laughed at the same time.
"It's nice to see you too, Brooke" Haley said patting her on the back.
She let them go and glanced at them again, "You guys have no idea how happy I am to see you like this, just like the last time I saw you" she turned to take a better look at Nathan, "Well, you used to have more hair around this area around here" she said pointing to his head, "But that's ok I guess."
"Thanks" he said now concern about his hair, "But how are you doing? You look the same as the last time we saw you too."
"That's cause I am! What's with people getting pregnant and dating your sister?" she asked looking at Haley who had a confused look.
"My sister?"
"Lucas' dating her!" she said on 'I know!' tone.
Haley gasped and Nathan wasn't much better either. She shook her head, "When did this happen?"
"Apparently, last year" she said turning her back to step inside again when she hear a little kid crying and turned around, "What's that?"
"I'll get her" Nathan said to Haley turning around and claiming down the porch's steps. He walked around the garden to the little girl who was sitting on the grass and crying loudly. Once she saw Nathan walking towards her, she stretched her arms so he could pick her up.
"Daddy!"
He took her in his arms, the two years old little girl, and walked back to the door where he found Brooke shaking her head.
"Oh, no, no..." but once she took a better look at the little girl she couldn't help smiling, "Oh God..." she put one hand over her heart, "Haley, she's beautiful."
"I know" Haley said proudly watching Nathan with their daughter, "Her name's Samantha."
"Hey, Samantha" Brooke baby voiced the girl who giggled at her, "Oh! She likes me!" she giggled back waving.
"Yeah, she does" Nathan took Samantha's chubby little hand and waved at Brooke, "Say hello to aunt Brooke."
"No, don't make her call me aunt! It makes me feel old."
Haley chuckled and took Brooke's arm as she stepped in with Nathan and little Samantha. They got to the living room and saw Peyton who stood up to greet them.
"Oh my God, your belly's adorable!" Haley said while putting her hands on Peyton's stomach.
"Hello, I'm up here" she said pointing to her own face.
Haley put one hand over her mouth, "I'm sorry!" and then hugged her, "I missed you so much."
"Thanks" she broke the hug but still held Haley's hands, "You're the first person who says that to me today and you're the last to get here."
"Oh, Goldilocks!" Brooke went to hug her, "I missed you too!"
"Yeah, right" Peyton laughed and then went to greet Nathan.
"And who's this adorable little person?"
With one hand on her mouth, Samantha silently stared at Peyton but started to giggled once she tickled her on the tummy.
"Hi, Sam" she teased the girl with more tickles.
"Hello!" Brooke put both arms in the air, "Am I the only one who doesn't have a subscription of the Tree Hill gossip news around here? How come I didn't know about Peyton being pregnant and Samantha being... created?"
"Well, you just live very far away" Haley tried to explain but Brooke shook her index finger.
"That's not a good reason."
"We're all family" Nathan started, "Me, Hales and Luke. So the family news kinda runs in the family and once it gets to Karen..."
"It gets to me" Peyton completed.
"But you didn't know about... Taylor" she said the last word with much concentration since it didn't seem to come out easily.
"That's cause Luke doesn't share" Haley said picking Samantha from Nathan and looking around, "And where's he anyway?"
Peyton pointed to the kitchen and Haley walked off without saying anything.