In the kitchen, Haley was picking everything she could from the fridge and placing on the counter while Taylor was leaned against it, and watching.

"You sure you don't some help with that?"

"I got it" she said while continuing.

Taylor rolled her eyes, "Then why you want me here?"

"What?" Haley asked finally stopping to look at her.

"You know, Lucas' a big boy now. If he wanted to talk to his brother alone all he had to do was ask instead of putting up all this charade with you."

Haley sighed shaking her head, "It's not that. Look" she pointed to the cabinet above the sink, "I do need your help. Could you find some napkins for me?"

"Napkins?" Taylor repeated and then shook her head going to the cabinet. There was a long and awkward silence between the two sisters that was broken by Taylor's sigh. "So… since we're all back in town again, what do you think about a double date? Me, Luke, you and Nathan?"

Haley glanced at her and started to laugh while placing the food on a platter. Taylor scoffed and shook her head.

"You're laughing. I thought you'd be more serious about this."

"I'm laughing 'cause I can't believe you're serious about this."

Taylor crossed her arms and frowned, "Why not? You're with Nathan and I'm with Lucas and we're all family so I don't see why not!"

Haley saw the look on her sister's face and her smile faded, "You're serious. Oh my God" she forced a laugh, "I don't know what's worse, this lame attempt of bonding or you trying to steal my life by chasing everyone I care about!"

"What are you talking about?" Taylor asked offended and starting to raise her voice.

"First Nathan and now Lucas… it's starting to become a habit, Tay."

"I'm trying to reach out to you, Haley!"

"Now?" Haley seemed amused even thou she wasn't really, "After all these years of you caring less and less about me or the rest of our family?" she stopped and took one step towards Taylor, staring at her, "If I remember you correctly, the day you left Tree Hill for the first time you said it was for good and without turning back. You hated here and you hated us. Isn't that right?"

"Look, I made a mistake, ok? I was young! But I came back later."

"And left again. And again."

Taylor had an angry look on her eyes, "You shutting me out didn't help either."

"When did I do that? I was always here. I helped you when you needed! Even thou I shouldn't have."

"If it were for you I wouldn't even know I'm an aunt! I found out cause Lucas talked about once with me thinking I already knew it. I had to pretend my sister cared about me enough to call and say I had a niece. But no…"

"Oh, don't make me laugh more at you, Taylor" Haley almost shouted, "Like you cared! You never called, not once, during all those years to check and see if I was even alive! And don't make me start on our parents. Do you even know where they are?"

"You know what? My relationship with our parents it's only my business."

"You're sad, Taylor" Haley said setting the napkins on the platter next to the food and shook her head, "You always have been."

"Just because I'm not as perfect as you are, no one ever gave me credit for anything and just assumed I'd be a big mess in everything I did."

Haley stared at her sister for a moment and then sighed shaking her head, "Don't blame people around you for your own issues, Taylor. Honestly…" she leaned both hands over the counter, "No one ever thought less of you until you started to act like it. But even then, we just started to feel sad for you, but never thinking less. Just feeling sad cause we knew you could do better if you wanted to" she shrugged, "I guess now it's too late."

Holding back what it was clearly angry tears, Taylor put her hand on her back pocket and took out a box of cigarettes. She shot one last stare at Haley and walked towards the back door.

"I need a smoke" and left.

Back in the living room, Nathan had finished slicing the turkey and was now sitting by the table with Lucas by his side and Peyton and Brooke across the table from them, all talking. Haley walked in with the platter on her hands.

"The food has arrived" she said placing in on the table.

Lucas took a deep breath to smell the food, "It all smells so good, Peyton."

"Thanks" she replied smiling and arranging the food on the table to place the turkey in the middle of it.

Brooke peeked from over all the food and made a noise while smelling it, "What's in that turkey that smells funny?"

"Oh it's not the turkey" Peyton said picking up the tray with cranberries, "It's the cranberry sauce."

Covering her mouth with one hand, Brooke squeezed her eyes, "Ew! Put it away from me" she said waving the other hand in the air to make Peyton put the tray away from her.

"What's the matter with my cranberry sauce? It's good!"

"Brooke can't stand cranberry" Haley explained while taking the tray from Peyton's hand and placing it across the table.

"Since when?"

"Since ever" Brooke answered and turned to Haley, "Thanks Tutor Mom."

Peyton watched them a little confused, "How come I didn't know that?"

"Brooke and I were roomies for a while, remember? 24/7 living with her and you get to know all about her" she said while taking some mash potatoes and putting on her plate, "Well, not exactly 24/7 after she started dating Lucas again cause then…" she felt Nathan's elbow hit her rib lightly and stopped talking.

Lucas was staring at Brooke as she stared at her own plate. With a sigh she stood up at once and excused herself to leave the room.

"Sorry" Haley mumbled to Lucas as he shook his head.

"It's ok."

"Do you want me to go talk to her?" Haley asked already getting up, but Lucas made her stop and sit down again.

"No, I'll go."

Lucas followed Brooke back to the porch and stopped a few steps behind from where she was standing up. She had her arms crossed and was staring across the street and breathing heavily, but trying to calm down. Lucas put both hands on his pants' pockets and sighed quietly.

"Brooke…" he said on a whisper loud enough for her to hear.

"Don't, Lucas" she said still staring across the street avoiding looking at her, "Just don't say anything, ok? It's better this way."

He took a few steps foreword and stopped by her side, looking at her as she kept her lost stare. Arching one eyebrow, Lucas nodded slowly.

"Alright" he sighed again, "So we'll just stay here. In silence, if that's what you want."

There was a brief moment where they were indeed standing there in silence but then Brooke shook her head and turned to Lucas beside her with her arms still crossed and without much patience.

"Okay, we can't stay like this!"

"That's what you wanted."

"No, Lucas. That's anything but what I wanted" she was now staring at him fully facing him and gesticulating, "This whole Thanksgiving reunion thing that we did and I thought it'd be an opportunity to start over. For us to start over again, nothing of this turned out to be what I wanted."

Lucas gave a genuine smile to her, like she had just said the one thing he was waiting the whole day to hear.

"That's what I wanted too, Brooke."

"Yeah, but" she crossed her arms again a little teary and looked away, "We can't have that."

"Sure we can" he said on a whisper and leaned to touch her face with one hand while smiling to her.

She closed her eyes for a moment to feel his hand against her cheek but then softly stepped back and shook her head to him.

"We can't. You're with Taylor now."

"But she doesn't mean anything" he said grabbing her by the arms to turn her back to face him again, "You do. You're the one who's supposed to be mine forever, remember?"

Mad with the fact that Lucas was underestimating his relationship with Taylor, because it meant a lot from Brooke's point of view, since she was the reason they couldn't be together, and with the fact that Lucas was willing to trade Taylor for her just like that, touched a nerve. It made Brooke flashback to years ago when he was willing to do the same but by trading her for Peyton. She smirked ironically.

"Me or Peyton? Cause you told that to her too, remember?" watching Lucas' reaction, she took two steps back and raised her voice, angry, "You should really review your idea of forever then, Lucas! 'Cause you can't have two of them!"

Standing by the opened front door, Peyton was watching the scene with one hand over her pregnant belly. Neither Lucas nor Brooke knew for how long she was there, but judging by the expression on her face, they could tell she heard more than she should have.

Sighing deeply, Peyton whispered almost to herself, "I can't believe this…"

"Peyt…" Brooke had a sorry look on her face and was now moving towards her friend by the door. But before she could reach her, Peyton quickly turned around and stormed inside the house. "Peyton" Brooke shouted walking in right after her. Lucas entered following them but as Brooke heard him calling out Peyton's name too, she turned around angry, "You stay here."

"But I want…" he couldn't finish the sentence cause Brooke had already turned around and left the dinning room, heading towards the room. He was about to follow her when he heard his name.

"Lucas?" Taylor came in from the kitchen, seeing her boyfriend chasing Brooke.

He turned around and faced her with a guilty look on his face.

"What are you doing going after her?"

"Nothing" he answered instantly and turned to Haley who was still sitting by the table next to Nathan with an urgent look.

"Don't look at Haley, look at me" Taylor said with her hands on her hips, but he kept staring at his friend.

Haley shook her head and waved one hand in the air, "Oh no. Don't look at me like I'm supposed to rescue you from the situation."

"I'm not" Lucas said looking straight at Haley afraid to see Taylor's reaction.

"Stop staring at me" Haley said on a tone of voice that sounded like she was about to laugh, "I'm serious now."

But unlike Haley, Taylor was pretty much serious and had her arms crossed now and was still staring at Lucas when she walked next to him.

"I asked you a question."

"Haley…" he called her again ignoring Taylor.

Getting serious too, Haley frowned, "She's right next to you, Lucas. Talking, you know?"

He closed his eyes and then turned to face Taylor, "What? I was going to talk to Peyton with Brooke. She's…"

"She's what? What can she be that needs both you and Brooke?"

"I don't know!" he turned around again, "Haley, c'mon" he was making a head sign to show he wanted to go to the room where Brooke and Peyton was.

"Don't Haley-c'mon me, Lucas" Haley said standing up and walking around the dinning table and leaning on a chair closer to Lucas and Taylor, "You can't treat her like this and expect me to help you. All and all she's still my sister."

Raising one eyebrow, Lucas scoffed, "Now you remember that?"

"This is not fair."

"Hey, don't talk to her like that" Taylor interfered and made Lucas laugh.

"Oh, now you two are bonding."

Haley frowned, "Why are you doing this?"

"We're best friends since forever and you hardly ever talked to your sister, any of them for what it matters, and now suddenly you're choosing her?"

"That's exactly my point! We do know each other since kids and the Lucas Scott I knew would never say the things you're saying now. What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing" he said finally calming himself down, "I guess I just changed. We all did."

"Some of us didn't" Haley said staring at him, sounding a bit disappointed.

"Is that right?"

"Yes."
"So everything's fine the way they always were? With you and Nathan and all? Nothing different with you?"

Haley raised one eyebrow and Nathan leaned back to cross his arms against his chest while glaring at Lucas. Shaking her head, Haley sounded calm.

"Everything's the way everything always were."

Lucas shrugged, "So you didn't have a nervous breakdown a couple of years ago?"

Haley and Nathan exchanged looks and she quickly glanced at Taylor who was quietly standing close to Lucas and looking down. Nathan sat up straight on the chair.

"You don't know what you're talking about" Haley tried to sound firm.

"Oh, I do. My mom told all about it back then. Of course no one bothered to tell me anything, but then again I guess that's normal since 'family' in this family doesn't actually mean all that much" he turned to Taylor, "Right?"

"Lucas, please…" Taylor whispered trying to make him stop.

"What?"

"You don't know what happened, Lucas" Haley sounded a little teary but tried to keep her cool, "It wasn't something I wanted to share with anyone."

He nodded for a while, "I can see why you wanted to keep from people that you didn't want your own daughter anymore."

Haley felt her knees shake and leaned both hands on the table. Nathan suddenly stood up and stepped ahead from Haley, "That's it, Lucas. You've gone too far and you better stop now."

"That's not…" Haley tried to talk and Nathan put one arm around her while still staring at Lucas across the room.

Seeing Haley's reaction, Lucas shook his head and shrugged, "You see, Hales? We've all changed."

Taylor frowned and sounded angry, "You're such a jerk."

"Then what are you doing with me?" he asked back more angry than her and stormed out of the room, going out through the front door.