TWO WEEKS LATER

Brooke straightened the clothing racks in her store. Everything in her store, Brucas4Ever, was brand new, including the building. It had taken her some time, but Brooke had finally gotten a business up and running with a name she thought of with her heart. she even had her own fashion line.

Brooke designed clothing for female children, teens and adults. With more adult and teen clothing than children and infants, Brooke's fashion line, Clothes Over Bros, featured only clothes for adult women and teen girls. However, Brooke was trying to design more children's clothes. She was proud of her line and her business, as were her friends and family. Brooke got many customer and she had excellent employees who were more like friends.

After straightening the circle rack of women's jeans, Brooke made her way to the back of her store and behind the long desk where people purchased the clothing and other girly items like purses Brooke also made. As she reached the desk, one of her employees, Kate Thomas, entered the store.

"Hey Kate." Brooke said with a smile when Kate was a little closer.

"Hey Brooke." Kate replied happily. "How's it going?"

"Pretty good. How are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm a little tired. My five year old was up all night sick and my husband is out of town."

"Awe…" Brooke said sympathetically. "Well, you can go home early today. I'm closing up and 5:00 tonight."

"Oh, really? Why?"

"I have my ten year high school reunion to go to tonight."

"Wow. Sounds fun."

"Yeah. It should be."

Kate walked to the back room and Brooke continued her work at the desk. Then she walked around the store offering to help her customers find something. She helped a few then returned to the desk to check customers out. After taking payment from the last customer in line, Brooke looked over at the front entrance and noticed her mother-in-law and daughter entering, Lilly holding Karen's hand.

"Hi Mommy." Lilly waved with her free hand.

"Hey." Brooke returned as her family got closer to the desk. Lilly ran around the desk, her pony tail bouncing and hugged Brooke.

Brooke lifted her daughter onto the counter top.

"So did you two have fun at Molly's party?" She asked both Lilly and Karen.

"Yeah, it was so fun." Lilly said excitedly. "Nanna had fun too, huh?"

"Yes, I did." Karen replied, smiling. "It was pretty good for a five year old's party."

Brooke chuckled then said, "Well thanks for taking her for me. I had too much to do here today before the reunion tonight.

"Sure, I'm always happy to spend some time with her. We're going to have fun tonight too, aren't we Lilly?"

"Yep. Lots."

"What are you going to do?"

"Deb and Aaron invited and I and Larry over to hang out and play cards. We haven't seen each other since the day they got back and even then we didn't get to talk much. And since they are watching Haley and Nathan's kids and Keith and I are watching Lilly and Larry is watching Emma, we thought it was a great time to get together."

"That does sound fun."

"Yeah, well I have to go to the grocery store and pick up some stuff to take over tonight. But I will see you guys later."

"Okay." Brooke replied as Karen began walking towards the door. "I'll bring her by around 7:00."

Haley was finishing applying lipstick when Nathan entered their bedroom.

"Wow…" Nathan said amazed. "You look incredible."

Haley looked over at him, smiling.

"Thanks. You don't look too bad yourself." Haley closed her lipstick and walked over to her closet. "Did you get the kids over to your mom's okay?"

"It was a bit of challenge, but yes. Are you almost ready?"

"No, I am ready." Haley replied after slipping on black dress sandals to go with her short black dress. "Let's go."

"No, wait, we're not ready yet." Nathan said before smirking. "You forgot to kiss me."

He leaned down and kissed her lips romantically and Haley kissed back at first. But after a minute, Haley stopped and said, "We, um, we have to go."

She walked out of the bedroom, leaving Nathan standing alone and confused.

After leaving Lilly with Karen and Keith, Brooke drove over to Peyton and Jake's to meet them before going to the reunion. She knocked on the front door and heard Peyton yell from inside.

"Come on in, Brooke."

Brooke entered through the screen door and joined Peyton, Jake, Jenny, Larry and Emma in the living room.

"Hey guys." She said. "Hey Mr. Sawyer."

"Hello Brooke." Larry replied as he took Emma from Jake. "How are you doing?"

"I'm great." Brooke replied. "How about you?"

"I'm just fine. I'm finally getting some time to append alone with my youngest granddaughter."

He kissed Emma's cheek and she smiled. Peyton smiled and said, "We're almost ready, Brooke.i just have to get Emma's bag for my dad."

"Oh, I'll get it honey." Jake said before walking down to Emma's bedroom.

"So are you all looking forward to this reunion?" Larry wondered aloud.

Peyton nodded her head. "Yeah, I guess. It'll be cool to see all our old friends again."

"Yeah, it will." Brooke agreed.

"I'm excited too." Jenny said. "I'm glad I get to go."

"You know Jenny," Peyton said with another smile, "many of our old friends and some other people that we went to high school with who we might run into tonight, all ready know who you are."

"Really? How?"

"Well, when we were about…well, I guess we were nearly 17 and you were about six months old, your dad introduced you to a room full of all his classmates and us at an open mic night at Karen's Café. That's the first time I met you. And we all fell in love with you."

"Wow." Jenny smiled. "That's pretty cool. I was popular before I even knew it."

Everyone chuckled and Jake returned with a black and pink diaper bag.

"Here you go." He said to Larry. "Everything she needs is in there."

"Thanks." Larry replied as he took the bag and draped it over his shoulder. "I'd better head over to Deb and Aaron's now."

"Okay, Dad." Peyton said as she hugged her father and kissed his cheek. "Thanks for taking her tonight."

"Of course. I'm always happy to."

Peyton kissed Emma's cheek and said, "I love you, Em. You be good for grandpa, okay?"

"Bye, bye." Emma waved.

Jake walked up and kissed Emma's cheek too.

"I love you, princess." He said. "I'll see you in the morning, okay?"

"Wuv you, Da-da." Emma blew Jake a kiss and Peyton smiled.

"Okay," Larry said. "We'll see you tomorrow. You guys have fun tonight."

Larry left and everyone else stood together in the living room.

"So ladies…" Jake said with a smile. "Are we ready to go back to high school?"

Peyton gave a weird look and replied, "Well when you put it that way…"

"Okay, let me rephrase that. Are we ready to go party like we're in high school?"

Peyton and Brooke laughed and Jenny said, "Yeah, let's go!"

"All right!" Jake said happily, slapping his daughter's hand before they all left the house.