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Entering the kitchen with Samantha on her arms, Haley found Lucas sitting by the kitchen's counter and with a lighter on his right hand that he had tapping against the counter. She cracked up a soft smile watching him.

"If the question you're thinking is rather you should light it up or not" she shook her head, "Don't."

Turning around to see her friend with her baby girl on her lap, Lucas smiled back at her and stood up to hug her, "I wouldn't." He smiled at the little girl, "How you both doing, little sis?"

"We're good" she said glancing at her daughter and then back at him, "And how's my big bro and his incestuous relationship with my big sis doing?"

He chuckled, "So you've heard..."

"Yes, I did" she forced a smile that quickly faded, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"We haven't exactly been close for the last few years, so I didn't know how to tell you."

Sitting Samantha on the counter, Haley put one arm around her to support her and the other one she placed on her waist as she talked to Lucas, "It shouldn't matter how long we don't see or talk to each other, Lucas. We're friends first of all. That hasn't changed."

"Yeah, I know" he glanced down and then tilted his head staring at her, "And how's your husband?"

"Your brother" she corrected lifting her eyebrows, "is in the living room." She looked around, "And where's my sister?"

"In the bathroom."

"She can find her way back to us" she picked Samantha up and grabbed Lucas' arm leading him back to the living room where the others were.

They walk back together to the living room and Lucas went straight to Nathan and hugged him, patting him on the back.

"How you doing, little brother?"

Nathan hugged him back, "Pretty good. And you, man?"

"Good too" he sighed and glanced at Brooke who was sitting by the table but once she saw him looking at her, she stood up and walked off to the front porch. They all see it but no one says anything 'til Taylor's back from the bathroom.

"Oh, you're all here" she saw Haley and Nathan, "You're here too!" she went to hug Nathan who was closer to her and then she went to her sister who had the baby still with her, "How you doing, Haley?"

She just nodded, "I'm fine. And you?"

"I'm great!" she said with enthusiasm.

Peyton jointed her hands together and then turned to Taylor, "I'm going to need some help in the kitchen. Can you help me?" Without waiting for an answer she grabbed her arm and they walked off to the kitchen.

Samantha started to move on Haley's arm and whined, "Mommy..."

"Oh, I know, baby" she turned to Nathan, "She needs to take a nap. Can you grab her bag in the car? I forgot to bring along."

"Sure."

"And bring the pumpkin pie from the back sit too!" she told him as he left the house. Winking at Lucas, she left to find a room where she could put Samantha to sleep. As he was left alone, Lucas took the opportunity and calmly walked out of the house and met Brooke sitting by the porch's bench and dazing off. He took a sit next to her while she kept staring at nowhere.

"I thought it was gonna be nice to see you again." She finally broke the silence.

"And wasn't it?" he asked looking at his own hands on his lap.

"It was" she turned to face him, "It is."

He saw the look on her face and shivered inside. She was obviously disappointed at him and he couldn't bare that look on her face. He shrugged a little and shook his head.

"Brooke..."

"Please, Lucas" she interrupted him, "You own me nothing. I can't expect you to own me anything after all these years with basically no communication what so ever." She forced a chuckle with her last words.

They heard fast footsteps and saw Nathan jogging towards the house with the bag on his shoulder and something wrapped up on his hands. He passed by them and gave a nod before entering the house again. Lucas nodded too and then looked back across the street. Brooke put both hands next to her legs, on the bench while sighing. That was awkward. She never seemed to lose track of words around him, but she just guessed that almost ten years later, some things changed.

"So..." Lucas sighed.

She looked at him pressing her lips together. He put his hand inside his shirt through the shirt's collar and pulled his necklace out. Brooke took a look at it and recognized it from so many years ago. She smiled at him.

"It's the last thing I ever gave you."

"Yeah" he looked down on himself to look at the necklace hanging from his neck, "You told me it was a family jewel and it had to die in the family. So you were giving me to make sure we'd see each other again, even if it was just for me to give it back to you." He hesitated for a moment and then took the necklace from his neck and handed to her.

She shook her head, "Just keep it."

"It's ok" he smiled looking at her, "I'm not planning to leave you again anytime soon."

Looking down, Brooke smiled too and then looked back at him more serious, "What about Taylor?"

"Taylor and I have an understatement. She'd stick around to help me to move on with my life and I'd help her to... well, move on with hers. Get her a job and all."

"That's it?" she frowned, "But I thought you were..."

"We are" he added, "But that came later. It's nothing we planned or that we give much thought to or anything."

"Lucas" she didn't want to sound like she was encouraging him but she couldn't help herself, "You can't be in a relationship with someone if you don't care enough. It's just not right."

"Like you never did this before?"

"I did do it" she sounded offended, "But I don't anymore. It doesn't feel right."

He felt somewhat ashamed of the situation. He thought that by saying that he would make her see that Taylor wasn't what it matter to him. She was. But that clearly backfired. They stood in silence for a moment 'til Brooke's cell started to ring. Reaching out to her back pocket, she took the cell phone out and flipped it open to glance at the screen where both of them could read 'boyfriend calling'. She quickly closed it, but Lucas had already read.

"Is that the someone you care about now?"

She stared at the cell phone and then looked at him with a sorry look, "Lucas..."

He lifted one hand in the air to make her stop, "Good to see I'm not the only one who has moved on." He stood up to walk back in.

Standing up too, Brooke tried to stop him, "That's not fair, Lucas."

"Yeah" he turned around to walk away, "Whatever, Brooke."

He left and she stood there alone. She glanced back at the bench to pick her cell phone and saw the necklace there.