A/N- So I have had an updating issue as of late. I haven't been really in the writing mood and when I was I took the chance to finish Turn Around. So yeah, thanks for the reviews. I really appreciate them. This is my favorite story that I have going right now. I have another idea for a story but I don't know if I want to write because I don't have time for one thing and I never see stories do well when they use the premise. But I might still write it. Please review.

Forwards and Backwards

Chapter Six

"Your husband," Stephan repeated slowly as he looked at Brooke in her tearing eyes. Brooke had not told him a lot of things but he never thought that any of these things might be a husband. That's why that Lucas guy seem to know so much about her, he was the serious boyfriend from high school. "Brooke, do you have anything to say?"

"I don't know what to say, it's true," Brooke said as she continued to cry.

"Tell me why you have never told me this," Stephan said as he let himself into the hotel room and sat down on the couch sitting in the corner.

"Um, where do I begin?" Brooke said as she began to wipe the tears from her face. "Do you want everything about my life, beginning to end?"

"The short version for now," Stephan said.

"Met Luke in high school, he cheated on me, we got back together, stayed together, got married, I left and then I met you," Brooke said briefly.

"I got that much, but why?" Stephan asked. He wanted to know why she hadn't told him about being married. Why she thought she had to hide it. He just wanted to know why.

"I guess I thought that you would think less of me because I got married in high school and then left him for no reason," Brooke said vaguely. She knew why she had not told anyone about the marriage but she was not about to admit that to Stephan. She had always hoped for her and Lucas to get back together.

"Brooke, you know that's not true," Stephan said sweetly taking her into a hug.

"So do you still want to get married?" Brooke asked as she sniffled slightly.

"Of course," Stephan said sweetly, "As long as those papers get signed right away."

"They will be," Brooke said reassuringly.

"Okay then, have any more secrets?" Stephan asked slightly flinching.

"Um, I was a slut before I met Lucas, drank a lot, and I can't think of anything big," Brooke said almost jokingly.

"And how is that funny?" Stephan asked looking at the smirk on Brooke's face.

"Because I am not anymore," Brooke said raising a single eyebrow.

"Okay, we will have to sit down sometime soon and spill all of our dirty secrets," Stephan said with a half smile on his face revealing his single dimple.

"Okay," Brooke said as she walked towards him and gave him a simple kiss on the cheek. She wasn't quite ready to replace the last real kiss yet.

Lucas angrily shut the door as he walked into his apartment. Katie was sitting on the couch reading a magazine. He looked at Katie and barely acknowledged her presence and left the room. Katie stood up and followed him into the kitchen. When Lucas was in a bad mood Katie knew better than to bug him but today she could not let it be. With Brooke being back in town, Katie was more than a little bit paranoid that Lucas was going to cheat her, even if Brooke was engaged. "Luke, what's wrong?" Katie asked as she placed her small, manicured hand on his shoulder.

"Nothing," Lucas said pulling away from her touch.

"Lucas," Katie pleaded, "Please just tell me what is wrong."

"Katie, not today," Lucas said as he sat down on a bar-style stool at the kitchen counter.

"Lucas," she repeated. She and Lucas had been dating for one and half years now and he still never told her what he was actually feeling. More than a little bit did it make Katie mad. She wanted to have an emotional connected relationship.

"Kate, just don't go into all of that shit about how our relationship is not emotionally connected as it should," Lucas said reading Katie's mind.

"Okay, I guess I will just go home then," Katie said with a slightly bitter tone and grabbed her coat and car keys and walked out the door, and left Lucas to drown in his own thoughts, more specifically the thoughts of a certain girl.

"Peyt," Haley called from the kitchen, Peyton, Haley, and Jake were still sitting around Noah and Haley's living room. "How did you plan your wedding?"

"Um, we got a wedding planner," Peyton began as Haley came back into the room. "And she helped us through all of the steps."

Haley passed both Peyton and Jake their drinks and took her own and went sat back down in her chair, "That's what I was thinking about doing, but I wasn't sure if that was the way to go." Haley had her wedding pictured perfectly in her head. There were lots of flowers everywhere, preferably orchids. The main color of the wedding would be white, but each white would be in a different fabric, lots of lace, and lots of silk, the accent color would be a pale blue. There would be three bridesmaids, all dressed in slightly different styles of blue silk gowns, one strapless with a full short skirt, one halter with a long skirt, and one with a single shoulder that went to the ground. Her dress would be strapless with a low back made from white lace and silk. The groomsmen would wear traditional suit with a blue vest and Noah would wear something quite similar as would the ring bearer. The flower girls would wear simple white dresses with large blue sashes around the middle.

"What are you think about there," Peyton said interrupted Haley's plans for her dream wedding.

"Planning my wedding," Haley said smiling. "I officially ask you Peyton if you would like to be my maid of honor."

"For real?" asked Peyton.

"Dead serious," Haley replied. Peyton and Haley had become very close friends over the past years, with Brooke no longer around it was only them left and they actually did have a lot in common.

"I officially accept your offer," Peyton said smiling and gave Haley a hug, "You're getting married!"

"I am marrying Noah," Haley squealed. She was marrying Noah. The man of her dreams, well at least some of her dreams.

A/N- So I know it was kind of short but I don't want to really go any further in this chapter so I am ending it here. Please review. I really appreciate it.