AU. Brooke Centric. Brooke lives a fairy tail life. Royalty, riches, and unwanted fame fill her life. What happens when old friends come home and Brooke's life is thrown threw a loop. Love, friendship, and confusion are set in her future.

AN: I hope you guys liked the first chapter and make sure you read and review and thank you to Amanda aka OTHretard for helping me out. She beta's my story for me and it makes a whole lot of a difference. As most have you guess the couple is toss up between Brucas and Brathan. I myself am a huge Brucas fan but I have grown to love Brathan as well so I still haven't decided whom she is going to end up with. Who knows it might be both of them. lol

Disclaimers: I do not own anyone from One Tree Hill.

Twice Upon A Time
Chapter 2: Coming Home

The day had come and 3 years had past since the last day she had seen her friends all together again. This was where most of her excitement was coming from instead of the fact that today she had turned 21-years-old. Everyone in the kingdom would be at her party tonight just to honor the fact that she was now not 20 but 21. Although the young women loved the attention she thought it was a silly thing to go threw so much trouble for her. Her father had promised the biggest party anyone had ever seen and that his little princess was going to have the night of her life. Indeed it was going to be a night to remember but she had idea what was to lie ahead.

Pulling on the white gloves that reached her elbows she gracefully slipped on her jewelry and smiled into the mirror. For once she was happy with what she saw in the mirror. A dress she herself had chosen. It was a ball gown in the deepest shade of blue. The top draped on her shoulders lightly with small silver embroidered lilies up the side. She was in every sense perfect on this night. Her chestnut hair was pulled half way up the rest left dangling elegantly on her shoulders in curls. At the top of her head sat the finest tiara from the crowned jewels collection.

A loud nock came from the door that startled Brooke. "Come in."

The door opened to reveal her father. There he stood with a sad smile on his face.

"Hi Daddy," she said as she turned back to look in the mirror. "What's with the look Dad?"

"Nothing Princess, it's just that you've grown up so fast." He walked into the room further, closing the door behind him. "Happy Birthday Princess."

"Thanks Daddy." Brooke turned around to face her father and she noticed that he was holding something behind his back. "What's behind your back?"

He smirked, "Curious one aren't you?" He pulled the gift from behind his back. "Happy Birthday."

"Oh what is it?" Biting her bottom lip she took the gift and opened it fragile paper slowly. A black box lay at the bottom and she pulled it from its place. A look of question lied in her eyes as she looked back up at him. Opening the box her eyes grew bigger in shock. "Daddy?"

"It was your grandmothers. Grandpa wanted you to have it for your 21st birthday."

"It's beautiful." Brooke pulled the large sapphire and diamond necklace from the box and looked at it in awe.

Archibald stepped closer to his daughter taking the necklace from her and putting it around her fragile neck.

He looked into the mirror at her reflection. "They would be so proud of you Brooke."

Brooke smiled holding back that handful of tears that filled in her green eyes.

"Well it's time. I'll see you down there." He kissed her cheek and left the room.

Brooke looked herself over in the mirror one last time. It was time. Stepping down she walked to the door and flipped the lights off. As she walked down the hall she could hear the noise of the party ahead and a million thoughts raced through her pretty head. Before she knew it she had come to the end of the hall where the doors to the party awaited.

"Are you ready your highness?" Asked a guard who stood waiting to open the door for her.

"It's Brooke and yes I am ready."

The room on the other side grew quiet. "Now presenting your crowned Princess Brooklyn Catalina Angelica Raquel Davis."

The crowd cheered, the double doors pulled open, and Brooke stepped threw them with elegance and smiled at the crowd before her. The crowd grew quiet as her mother and father joined her. Taking a class of wine Brooke's eyes began to scan the room.

Archibald stepped forward. "Today we are here to honor this young women beside me. I remember the day she was born. She had a head full of brown hair and those stunning green eyes. She looked up at me and just smiled and I knew from that day I was in big trouble. That little girl grew right before me every day. I saw her go threw struggles and I saw her go threw pain, but threw it all she showed such strength and love I could never imagine where it had could come from. Now she is this stunning young woman. No longer my little girl." He turned to Brooke with a proud smile. "Brooke I am so proud of the women you have become and I know some day you will be great leader. I love you Princess." Raising his glass he took a deep breath. "To Brooke."

"To Brooke," the crowd echoed back.

"Now let the celebration begin."

Brooke glided down the stairs to join the guest who waited eagerly below.

Watching from a distance stood none other then Lucas Scott. His breath caught in his throat at the very sight of her. It seemed she was even lovelier then he had known. He watched as she mingled gracefully with all the people who surrounded her.

"Go say hi."

Lucas jumped at the voice and turned to see none other then Jake grinning behind him.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Lucas said with a smirk as he continued to stare at Brooke.

"Just go." Jake pushed him on to the floor.

"Fine."

Lucas walked over to Brooke, her back was to him, and he whispered into her ear. "Hey Cheery, Happy Birthday."

She stopped her conversation immediately and turned around. "Lucas!" she leaped into his arms and hugged him tightly. "I missed you Broody."

"I missed you too pretty girl." He whispered as they pulled away.

"I…" she began but was cut off by yet another senator eager to congratulate her on her birthday.

"Happy Birthday your Highness."

Brooke frowned at Lucas mouthing 'I'll find you later,' to her.

She nodded her head in understanding and Lucas headed off to find some of the others. Lucas instantly spotted Peyton getting a drink and headed over to her. "Hey Pey."

"Lucas! Good to see you. So have you asked her out yet?"

"What?"

"Oh don't play stupid with me Lucas Scott. You've liked her since the day you met her you've just been to chicken to say anything."

Lucas kept quiet and grabbed himself a cup of punch.

"Oh please do not pull the Scott silent treatment with me I know better." Peyton tossed her blonde curls over her shoulder and shook her head. She watched as Nathan swiftly appeared out of nowhere and sidled up to Brooke. "Oh well it looks like at least one Scott might be stepping up to the plate."

Lucas's eyes went instantly back to the pretty girl on the edge of the dance floor, who was now being approached by his brother as they spoke.

It wasn't hard for him to spot her. She was the most beautiful girl in the room and everyone knew it. He walked slowly towards her taking in every single one of her best features. Then she saw him her eyes lit up and this made a cocky grin come across her face.

"Excuse me," she said politely before brushing up her dress and hurrying over to him. "Nathan!"

"Happy Birthday Gorgeous."

Brooke smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck tightly and hugged him. When she finally releases him she stepped back and took a good look at him.

"Miss me?" Nathan asked cockily.

"Wow and some things never change do they Scott. Your still the cocky little charmer aren't you?" Brooke pinched his cheek and then laughed lightly.

Oh how he had missed her laugh. He never realized how much he really liked her until this very moment. Every other girl he had met in the last 3 years couldn't hold a candle to this girl. Smart, funny, and probably the most gorgeous women to walk this planet any guy would be lucky to have her.

"So how are you?" She asked curiously.

"I'm really good even better now. What about you how has your birthday been treating you?"

"Amazing, but you want to hear a secret I was more excited about seeing the old gang again. I've missed you all terribly."

"Well its good to be home."

The music struck up loudly and Brooke and Nathan turned to the view what was going on at the front of the ballroom. Their Brooke's father stood with a microphone in his hand.

"Right now I would like to get my beautiful daughter Brooke up here to have the first dance. Brooke sweetie where are you?" He spotted her and waved her up towards him. "Get up here."

"Well duty calls. Save me a dance sporto."

"Anything for you Brooke," he called after her as she pushed threw the crowd towards her father.

He turned around to see Peyton and Lucas standing by the punch bowl talking. Peyton saw him and smiled at signaled for him to come over. Looking around he heard the band strike up behind him signaling the first dance of the night.

"Hey Peyton." Nathan hugged her small frame lightly. "Good to see you."

"You too Nate. Lucas here was just telling me how you and he are going to be moving into the castle with Jake. That should be cool."

Lucas looked at his little brother. Well not exactly little but technically Lucas was older by two minutes and he was the older brother. Jake had made the offer to the both of them and they both obliged immediately. Both knew it was a great opportunity to get closer with Brooke after being away for so long. Lucas zoned out the conversation that was going on with Nathan and Peyton as his eyes fell upon Brooke glided across the dance floor, her dress flowing all around as she moved. Others had joined the pair on the dance floor and Lucas noticed Jake dancing with Haley. She had changed. Her once brown hair was a shimmering golden blonde now. According to Jake she was doing great traveling Europe as now world famous opera singer.

"What do you think Lucas?" Peyton asked cutting his thoughts short.

"Huh?"

"See I told you he wasn't listening."

"I was just wondering how you liked school but you were completely spacing out on me," Peyton simply replied her eyes went to Brooke and she shook her head.

The song ended and soon Jake and Haley joined the growing group around the punch bowl. This of course made Brooke giggle a bit but she contained herself when she finally reached the group.

"Brooke!" Peyton and Haley squealed together as both girls moved towards the birthday girl to hug her tightly.

"Hey you guys."

"Happy Birthday Tigger," Haley said with smile.

Peyton smirked, "Happy Birthday Brooke."

"Oh boy what is with the smirk? What did you do now?" Brooke was quick to ask by just the sight of that smirk.

"Nothing. It's just good to see you."

Jake stepped forward with the usual small smile on his chiseled face. "Now if you girls don't mind I want to wish my favorite cousin here a happy birthday."

Both girls rolled their eyes at Jake and stepped away from Brooke. Brooke gave Jake the look and he chuckled before hugging her.

"Happy Birthday Cuz."

"Thank you Jakey boy."

He groaned at the very sound of the name. "Oh no not that."

"Oh, don't think I forgot."

"Well for the record I think you made quite the hall this year." Jake nodded to the table by the cake where all of the presents laid. It was bigger then any other year before.

"Oh wow I didn't even notice." Brooke was honestly surprised by the size of the pile that had accumulated on the table.

Brooke and Jake shrugged and returned to the small group.

"What do you say we grab a table and catch up," Nathan suggested. Everyone nodded there head and went to the nearest empty table and took a seat. Brooke sat between Nathan and Lucas. Jake sat between Lucas and Peyton and Haley sat next to Nathan.

Haley was the first to speak up once they had all reached the table and made themselves comfortable. "So how was school you three?"

Lucas, Nathan, and Jake had gone off to school together and had been the only ones who stuck together. The three looked at each other.

"It was fun," Jake answered.

"It was okay," Lucas added.

Nathan looked at both of them and shook his head. "It was great but it's nice to be home."

"What about you Haley. Your a big Opera star now and all." Jake asked interested what Haley had been up to.

"Well it was a dream come true, I loved every minute of it which is why I'm really excited to tell you guys that… well…. I got the leading role in a production here. So no more traveling. I'm home"

"Oh Haley really?" Brooke felt a great excitement whelm inside her at the very thought that one of her best friends would be home now. "I'm so happy for you."

The group continued to talk about all that they had done on their time apart from one another. Some exciting stories had come across and some funny as well.

Brooke looked over at Lucas and caught his eye he looked at her, she smiled that million-dollar smile at him, he smiled back, and for a minute they were oblivious to those around them. "Do you want to dance?" Brooke asked nervously. She wasn't sure what was coming over her right now but all these feelings about Lucas Scott where filling her mind.

"Yeah." He answered as he stood and took her hand in his.

Brooke rose from her seat and everyone else oblivious to them had now noticed. "Where going to go dance."

Lucas led Brooke to the dance floor a more then charming smile on his handsome face.

"So how was school really?"

"It was okay but I'm not going to lie, I missed home a lot but most of all I missed you Brooke."

Her eyes softened as she looked up at him. A faint smile lay on her mouth and surprisingly a small pink color pulled over her cheeks. Yes Brooke Davis was blushing. "Oh really?"

"Yeah."

"I missed you too Luke."
She stared up into his piercing blue eyes. They seemed different. He seemed different. Brooke wasn't sure what had gotten into her but she was looking at Lucas Scott in a whole new light. He wasn't just Lucas Scott her good friend but her feelings were extending further then that now it seemed.

"I don't know if Jake has mentioned it to you yet, but me and Nathan are moving into the castle."

"Really?" Her distinguished green eyes lit up. "That's great."

He nodded his head with a small smile on his face. They glided across the dance floor their eyes locked in an intense stare with one another.

"Oh, Lucas I have to show you something."

"What?"

"Well if your going to live here your going to have to see what they put in while you were gone. You didn't honestly think that everything would stay the same while you were gone did you."

He didn't think that all. Obviously with the change in the girl in front of him he knew things had changed. Shaking these thoughts through he nodded.

"Follow me."

They stopped dancing and Brooke took Luke's hand and led him to a pair of doors. Checking quickly to make sure no one was watching her she slipped out the door taking Lucas with her. They walked down a darken hall till the reached a pair of glass doors. On the other side you could see the absolute brilliance that lied on the other side. A balcony that was covered in vines that were entangled with small lights sat before them. Beyond that you could see a brilliantly designed garden with waterfall and fountain all of which were lit with lights.

"Its amazing isn't it. It's the best at night like this." Brooke opened the double doors and they stepped out onto the small balcony. She led him to the railing of the balcony and they over looked the garden.

"Wow Brooke its perfect."

"Yeah I know it so beautiful."

Lucas looked at her. The moon and dim lights of gardened glowed onto her lightly tanned face. Her green eyes had a magnificent glint in them, as she stood mesmerized by the garden. "Yeah its really beautiful." Of course he was speaking more about Brooke then the garden. His voice was airy and dream in a sense.

Brooke looked back at him a smile came to her face. "You want to go down to the waterfall?"

"Uh… Yeah."

They walked down the stone steps and were quickly surrounded by flowers of all sorts. Lilies, daisies, and roses filled the garden. They gave off a sweet scent and the clear sky showed all the stars in plan view to them. Walking a bit further the came to a small bench that sat before the waterfall. Brooke sat down and Lucas followed and sat down beside her. The two sat in silence taking in the view. Brooke's eyes turned to Lucas. He looked so peaceful. He felt her eyes on him and looked back into her sparkling green eyes. Their faces where close and Brooke could feel the heat of his breath on her soft skin.

"Lucas… I…"

"Shhh…" He put his finger to her lip and she smiled. Taking his finger away he replaced it with his lips and two shared the slowest, softest, sweetest kiss that anyone could share. Both of their minds where racing like crazy but in this moment it felt like everything was in slow motion.

The sparks where they're that was apparent by what both parties where feeling at the very moment. Finally the lips separated from each other and Brooke opened her eyes slowly to look up at him. Him. The boy she had known for so long. He was so perfect in this very moment because when she looked into those ice blue eyes all she saw was adoration.

AN:I know a cliffhanger and who doesnt love one of them right. I'd like to thank one last time OTHretard for betaing my story for me she is a great help. Also R and R I love hearing what you guys think and if you have any ideas. Who knows they might just end up in the story.