"Hello?" Brooke said groggily into the phone.
"Brooke Penelope Davis"
"Mother…"
"I heard that boy cheated on you…AGAIN" a cackle emerged from the phone.
"Yes, mother, what's your point?"
"I have a nice boy waiting for you here…"
"I bet that nice boy pays nice girls to make him feel nice every Friday night, mother, so NO, thank you" Brooke snapped.
"Well, dear, you were always a tad bit of a whore…I mean you've got an unbeatable body and a sexy personality but you are nothing more than a brainless slut…its sort of sad" her mother sighed.
"EXCUSE me?"
"What?"
"What did you call me?"
"Oh? A brainless slut"
"I can't believe you" Brooke whispered.
"How are those girls of yours doing? Corrupted all ready? Mini Brooke whores? I'm surprised social services hasn't taken them away from you yet"
"Well you were a worse mother than I can ever be" Brooke spat. "I'm surprised social services didn't take ME away"
"Point is, Brooke Davis, is that you have nothing going for you than double D's and a tight stomach. Stop trying to pretend that those girls mean anything to you or that that BOY will ever be anything but your sex toy" her mother snapped, hanging up.
"Brooke…" Haley said, hugging her best friend. "I CANNOT believe you're doing this!"
"I'm sorry, Haley, I have to-"
"You don't HAVE to do anything, Brooke…you two are MADE for each other. I knew it from the start"
"Divorce? Brooke that's so drastic…" Peyton pleaded with her best friend.
"Did that speech he made do nothing for you?" Haley asked.
"It did…it made me so sad. Listen" Brooke said, her voice shaking. "It showed me how much he loved me and how much I loved him. The fact that he would do something like that to me broke my heart over and over again. If we stay together, its gonna make the pain worse"
"Brooke, that has GOT to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard" Peyton said. "Look, I love you B. Davis, but you are head over heels, madly in LOVE with this guy. Why, WHY are you letting him go?"
"Because he pushed me away!"
"He didn't push shit away, Brooke, he cheated on you. And I am not justifying this by any means, but Brooke, he apologized. He's really trying to show you how much he loves you"
"You guys are not making this any easier" Brooke said, wiping tears. "Look, you guys, I AM madly in love with him. I could never feel the same way about any guy on the planet. But we are so OPPOSITE! We aren't meant to BE"
"Yes, you are…you are meant to be. You know it and I know it. Brooke the way you look at him and the way he looks at you…damn, I wish I knew what that feels like" Peyton said.
"Ok Brooke. Listen. It's gonna cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars to divorce the man you can't live without. Emily's gonna hate you for a while. Dayna's never gonna know what its like to have mommy and daddy living in the same house and you will be a single mother for the rest of your life, pining away for the guy that you loved and divorced because of ONE NIGHT. Now look, before you get mad, what he did was WRONG. SO wrong. I was horrified, upset, and embarrassed for you and I would feel the same way if Nathan did something like that. But he's apologized. You know Lucas. He wouldn't do something like that to you. He loves you and the girls so much…give him another chance, Brooke…try to work it out. In the end you'll know what to do" Haley said, hugging Brooke. "Peyt and I are both here if you need us, and we love you unconditionally, ok?"
"Ok…thanks" Brooke said, hugging both of them. They got up and left the room just as Lucas entered.
"Hey!"
"Hey Lucas" Brooke whispered.
"How are you?"
"How much of that did you hear?"
"Enough to know that you obviously don't wanna be with me anymore…" Lucas said.
"No, Lucas, that's not it! Damn it no one understands!"
"Well if you wanna be with me then why are you filing for divorce?"
"Because…" Brooke said, her voice cracking and the tears starting anew. "Because my mother called me this morning. And she told me I was a worthless and brainless slut. She said all I have going for me is a body. As horrified and hurt as I was, I realized its TRUE…you and the girls, you guys mean so much to me. You, Lucas Scott, are my entire life. And so are Emily and Dayna. But I can't give back what you've provided. I can't be the perfect mother or the perfect wife…I realized that the reason you went and slept with…her…was because I'm obviously not providing enough at home…that somehow I'm pushing you away…and if that's the case, then I don't wanna be a poison for my girls or you, I want you to live a happy life-"
"Oh…Brooke" Lucas said, pulling her into a hug. "You are not worthless, you are not brainless, and you are an amazing mother and wife. What happened that night, that was entirely my fault. I'm to blame for that. I didn't do it because you were doing something wrong, I did it because I was an idiot and drunk and god knows what else was going on…but it wasn't YOU, Brooke, it really wasn't. And you are not a poison- I'm not going to be able to LIVE if you leave my life, Brooke, and Emily will be heartbroken and Dayna won't have a mother…you are amazing, you need to know that"
"I…I'm not gonna file for divorce, Lucas, but we've got to stay separated for a while" Brooke said, tears making twisted trails down her face. "I need time to recover and…"
"I understand" Lucas said, kissing her forehead. "I love you more than life itself, Brooke Scott, and don't you forget it"
A few hours later…
"Audrey? Amy?" Nathan said.
"Nathan, no 'a' names!" Haley giggled, smacking him.
"Cant we just name her Haley and get it over with?"
"How incredibly uncreative, Nathan Scott. You put so much thought into Tristan but none into your little girl?"
"No its not that at all…lets continue looking"
"Oh, I just had an idea…"
"What?"
"I have a perfect first name, but you gotta pick the middle name…"
"Mommy?" Emily asked Brooke.
"Yes, sweetie?"
"Cans I have some rice?"
"Of course"
"Cans you feed it to me?"
"Sure…come here" Brooke said, letting Emily climb on her lap and settle in. She spooned some rice in her mouth.
"Mommy?"
"Yeah?"
"Wills you and daddy live together soon?" Emily asked.
"I don't know, baby, I don't know…"
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