Chapter Four:

Karen didn't say anything for a minute she thought back to that night…

It was a few nights after Keith's death. Lucas wasn't home and Karen was sitting in the living room looking through old photos, mostly the ones of Keith. Karen got up when she heard a knock at the door. She opened it to see Dan standing there. She was about to close it in his face when he held the door back before she got to.

"What do you want Dan?", she said coldly.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing", he said letting himself in.

"Why would you care? You don't care about me and you never cared about Keith"

"I did care about Keith, he is my brother Karen…we might not have always gotten along but I still cared"

"You can try the crap with someone else Dan, cause I'm not falling for it…so you can just get out"

Dan ignored her and went and sat down where she had been sitting and picked up the photos she was looking at and starting looking at them himself, "You know Karen…it's okay to just let it all out"

Karen went and sat down beside him and took the photos away from him, "Get out Dan"

Dan looked up at her, "Now we both know you don't really want that", he leaned over and kissed her.

Karen pulled away immediately, "What the hell are you doing"

"You know you want this Karen…you have for seventeen years", he leaned closer to her, "and don't you think it would help?", he moved in to kiss her again. For some reason this time Karen didn't pull away this time. Maybe it was the fact that she was upset about Keith and wasn't thinking clearly, but she kept kissing him. Then one thing led to another…

Dan started getting frustrated, "Karen if you don't start talking, I'm leaving"

Karen looked back up at him, "I'm pregnant…and the baby is yours", she chocked out.


Lucas was the one who talked to the doctor. He listened to what the doctor had to say, "Okay, thank you", he hung up the phone and went and sat beside Brooke and didn't say anything.

Brooke looked over at him, "So…what did he say?", she asked nervously.

Lucas looked over at her and grabbed her hand, "That we are going to be parents"

Brooke looked back down with tears flooding from her eyes. Lucas grabbed her and pulled her close to him, "What are we going to do Luke…I can't be a mom"

Lucas kissed the top of her head, "I don't know Brooke, but we will figure it out…together, okay?"

Brooke just nodded and buried her head into Lucas.


Haley rubbed Nathan's cheek with the side of her hand, "Nathan I know it's kind of unfortunate that both of us got accepted into the colleges we went to go to already, and I know they are halfway across the country from each other…but we have plenty of time to worry about that okay. Let's just get you home and we can talk about it later, okay?"

Nathan nodded and smiled a little; "Okay…" he leaned in and kissed her.

Haley kissed Nathan back but when she did she saw Deb standing in the doorway crying out of the corner of her eye so she broke away from the kiss.

Nathan looked at Deb confused, "Mom, what's wrong?"

"Cooper…he…he…died", Deb chocked out.


Rachel woke up seeing wires all around her. She didn't know where she was at…suddenly she remembered everything that had happened. Rachel noticed the doctor on the other side of the room. He saw that she was waking up so he walked over to her, "Ms. Gatina…do you know what happened?"

Rachel coughed a little then opened her eyes fully, "Yeah, I remember a little"

"Well you've been a serious car accident. You have a few broken bones, but other than that you seem to be healing okay. I have to ask though…we're you informed that you were pregnant?"

Rachel looked up at the doctor and nodded a little, "I thought I was but I didn't know for sure…is the baby okay?"


Peyton was sitting in her room drawing a sketch. She stopped for a moment and just looked at it and then ripped it up and threw it away. How could she be such an idiot? Even if she did feel for Lucas as more than a friend why would she ever even think of telling Brooke when she knew how Brooke would react? She knew now telling her was the wrong thing but there was no going back now. Yes, she did have feelings for Lucas and she probably always would but that didn't mean she wanted to take him away from Brooke or anything like that at all. She and Brooke's friendship meant more to her than her feelings for Lucas, even though it didn't seem that way. Peyton got snapped out of her thoughts when she heard her doorbell ring. She got up and went downstairs thinking it was Brooke there coming to collect more of her things she left behind when she packed everything up. Instead when she opened the door she didn't Brooke standing there it was someone else.

I'm sorry it took so long to update I will try and update sooner next time.