Hello everyone, happy holidays here is the last holiday chapter with a little bit of drama but it's all good fun. Thank you for the freaking sweet reviews and keep it up. Everyone have a really good holiday season and read and enjoy…

Brooke, Haley and Peyton were all sitting around Brooke and Haley's apartment chatting and eating.

"Oh my god guys, I'm so excited that tomorrow is Christmas Eve." Brooke said suddenly after all of them had a brief fix on the TV because there was a new commercial for men's cologne that had a super hot model in it.

"Oh I know." Haley agreed.

"Well except for the fact that my parents are going to be in here in less then two hours." Brooke said.

"Oh it's always nice to have them around." Peyton said sarcastically.

"Ok Peyton, sorry but I'm more worried about the Lucas encounters, I mean they've never met him before they just know he broke my heart." Brooke said taking out a chip and eating it.

"Yeah he's going to have a lot of fun meeting them." Peyton said.

"Do you think they'll like me?" Haley asked Brooke.

"Please Haley; you're like the daughter they've always wanted, if they were to ever actually want a daughter." Brooke said

"Oh, well good." Haley said settling back into her seat.

"I'm Brooke's messed up friend who they think goes and smokes pot in their bathroom." Peyton felt like she had to contribute that fact to the conversation.

"That's because you did." Brooke said.

"Ok that was one time, only once." Peyton said.

"It still counts." Brooke said hitting Peyton playfully on the arm as Haley laughed.

There was a knock at the door.

"I wonder who that is." Haley said as there was another knock.

"Impatient." Brooke said getting off the couch and walking over to the door and when she opened it she saw her parents standing in front of her.

"Oh Brooke, darling it's so good to see you." Her mom said and stepped up to hug Brooke followed by a short embrace from her father.

"Mom, dad, what are you doing here?" Brooke asked them.

"Did you get our message; we got on an earlier flight. And besides that's no way to greet your parents whom you haven't seen in ages." Her mom said stepping around Brooke into the warm apartment.

"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Davis." Peyton said letting out a little wave to them from her seat.

"Peyton, isn't it?" Brooke's dad Tom asked her.

"Yeah that would be my name." Peyton said.

"And who's this darling girl?" Her mother asked Brooke fixing her gaze on Haley.

Haley got off her seat "I'm Haley." Haley said holding out her hand and Brooke's mom took it immediately.

"Well it's very nice to meet you." Brooke's mother cooed.

"Brooke dear, did you decorate the apartment?" Her mother turned to face her and asked her.

"Yeah, Lucas and I did it together." She said smiling.

"Oh well it's very… quaint." Her mother said struggling to find a word that wasn't rude.

"Well thanks mom." Brooke said hearing the doubt in her mom's voice.

There was an eerie and awkward pause that filled the room.

"Well we just thought we'd stop by, are we still on for dinner tonight?" Her mother asked, Brooke's father was already enthralled with his palm-pilot.

"Yeah, sure." Brooke said feigning a slight interest.

"Good, and why don't you go ahead and bring that Scott boy along with you." Her mother added as she grabbed Tom's arm and led him to the door.

"Lucas?" Brooke asked her.

"Yes of course. Your father and I want to meet everyone you associate yourself with." She said. "Which reminds me, we were planning on going out for a nice dinner on Christmas and all of your friends are invited." Her mom said.

"Great mom, and on Christmas Eve we were all going to go over to Lucas's house for dinner." Brooke said.

"We'll talk about it tonight at dinner, call me later dear. Oh nice meeting you Haley, and Peyton it's always a pleasure." Her mother said and Peyton could have sworn she saw her roll her eyes as she turned to walk out the door. Once Brooke's mom and dad were safely out of the apartment Brooke let out a big sigh and leaned down against the door.

"So much pressure." Brooke huffed.

"Your dad seemed kind of out of it." Peyton said.

"Or just a little too into his work is more like it." Brooke said rolling her eyes and sitting herself down next to Haley.

"It will be an interesting Christmas." Haley said.

"Well Lucas and I are going to the mall, and I need to prepare myself to tell him he's having dinner with me and my parents tonight." Brooke said smiling out of how ridiculous this was.


Brooke had her arm intertwined with Lucas's and her head leaning on his shoulder as they walked though the busy crowds in the mall.

"So Brooke, what do you want for Christmas?" Lucas titled his head down as he asked her.

"Hmm, world peace." Brooke said and Lucas raised his eyebrows at her.

"Ok, maybe that's not exactly what I want." Brooke said. "Well what do you want?"

"I asked you first." Lucas said.

"What are you in second grade?... ok fine I want … god I don't know Lucas. You don't really have to get me anything." Brooke said.

"Yes, I do have to get you something." He said.

"Well, look your gift to me can be agreeing to do something with me tonight." Brooke said.

"Oh and what is that?" he asked her thinking it was sexual.

"My parents kind of want to have dinner with you and me tonight."

"That sounds awesome Brooke." Lucas said sarcastically.

"Shut up, ok I know it will suck but Lucas Please…" Brooke whined and pouted at him.

"Alright, I guess I'll have to do it sometime." Lucas said rolling his eyes but keeping his smile towards Brooke.

"Yes!" She screeched and jumped up kissing Lucas quickly.

"What time are we going?" He asked her.

"I'm not sure, um look I need to go change. How bout I call you later and tell you?"

"Sure." He said.

"Alright good." Brooke said "bye." She said and started to walk off but Lucas grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"No good bye kiss?"

"Oh sorry I forgot." She smiled batting her eyes at him before moving closer to him and kissing him

"Ok, now I really have to go." Brooke said. "Wait is that Madison over there?"

"Yeah, I think so." Lucas said.

Madison was staring into a clothing store window.

"I'm going to go talk to her." Brooke said.

"Brooke, wait." Lucas grabbed her arm to stop her "it's the holidays do you think you could hold off on being mean to her?"

"I'm not going to be mean, I just want to find out what happened at her party." Brooke said and slipped away from Lucas over to where Madison was and Lucas reluctantly followed her.

"Madison, hi." Brooke said.

Madison snapped out of her daze and turned to face Brooke with a look on her face that screamed confusion.

"Ok look I'm sorry, but I really don't feel like being hated on right now." Madison said.

"I just wanted to know what happened at your party?" Brooke asked her.

"What do you mean, you were there weren't you?" Madison said sort of cynically.

"Yeah and I saw that guy who was a little weird and then I saw you run through the house crying and Madison most people don't take the words 'its my party and I'll cry if I want to' literally." Brooke said.

Lucas let out a small sigh beside Brooke and slipped his hands into his pockets feeling uncomfortable.

"ok first of all Brooke it's not like you give a damn what the hell happens to me and second of all even if you did this is none of your business so you can just go back to being your normal bitchy self and leave me alone. I don't need anyone's fake pity besides you couldn't handle my problems your world is too perfect." Madison said getting a little louder with every word that came out of her mouth and by the end Brooke had backed away a few inches and Lucas was looking around at all the people that were staring at them.

"Ok whatever Madison think what you will but my life is anything but perfect." Brooke said getting really pissed off out how this was turning out.

"Right Brooke, let me guess you got your heart broken once or twice, aw that's too bad yeah I feel really bad for you." Madison said sarcastically "oh but look now you have Lucas so I guess everything's perfect again."

"Your right I did have my heart broken once and it changed my life." Brooke said stepping closer to Madison.

"Stop being such a drama queen Brooke, its not a big deal it happened and you got over it, I bet you anything my problems suck ten times more then yours do." Madison said standing her ground.

"Whatever, let's go Lucas its obvious Madison doesn't want any help, I guess your problems aren't that bad." Brooke said.

"Oh my god!" Madison yelled out of breath "why the hell do you care about my problems?"

"I'm just trying to help Madison, it's the holiday season."

"You can't just like me all of the sudden." Madison said.

"Don't give me crap about changing Madison, you kissed Nathan and now you're trying to change or whatever." Brooke said.

Madison laughed a little in spite of herself "that's not why I kissed Nathan." She said.

"Wow, you're unbelievable." Brooke said "let's go." Brooke grabbed Lucas's arm and dragged him away leaving Madison in their dust.


Nathan came over to the apartment while Brooke was out with Lucas, and Haley and Nathan were sitting on the couch together watching TV.

"Hey Haley, this is boring." Nathan said.

"Oh and what do you propose that we do?" she asked him smiling.

"Well we could go revisit our old room." He said returning the smile.

"oooh tis the season to be merry right?" she said laughing at him.

"Yeah." Nathan said taking Haley's hand and leading her down the hallway.

He opened the door and led her inside.

"So scandalous." She said as Nathan wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her in closer towards him.

"I know." Nathan said finally closing the space between them and pressing his lips against hers firmly. They slowly made their way over to Haley's bed. Walking and kissing at the same time was harder then it might seem.

They found the bed and stumbled down on to it.

"What if Brooke comes?" Haley asked him in between kisses.

"She can watch." Nathan said smiling.

"EW." Haley said settling herself underneath Nathan as he continued to kiss her. He moved his kissed down her neck and found her shirt where he began to slowly take it off. Haley who wasn't sure if this was the right time or not found herself not really caring because everything seemed right with Nathan. She kissed him again before removing his shirt and the two of them started to kiss again. Nathan was starting to take of Haley's bra when the both heard the front door open. "Haley!" A shrill voice that came from Brooke yelled.

"Shit." Haley said getting up and grabbing her shirt to put it on.

"Haley where is my shirt?" Nathan asked her.

Haley scanned the room and finally saw it she grabbed it and handed it to him. Nathan was putting it on in such a hurry that he sort of got stuck.

"Haley we need to have a serious talk about Mad…." Brooke entered her room to see Haley helping Nathan's shirt go down over him and both of them looked very flustered.

Haley and Nathan both stared at Brooke anxious to hear what she would say for some reason.

"Well I see you two are going to need some adult supervision or something." Brooke said and all of them started laughing.

"I'm going to go." Nathan said "I'll call you later." Nathan said.

"Ok bye." Haley said and Nathan took off towards the door.

"Haley, we so need to switch to the scrunchie system now." Brooke said.

"Yeah ok, what was it that you wanted to talk about?" Haley asked Brooke feeling a little embarrassed.

"Oh Madison is just a bitch but what else is new, anyway um never mind that I need to change for dinner tonight." Brooke said.


Brooke and Lucas stepped into the fanciest restaurant in Tree Hill and found her parents already at a table for four.

"Hello darling." Brooke's mother said as Lucas and Brooke tentatively reached the table and took their seats.

"Hi I'm Lucas." Lucas said holding out his hand and Brooke's dad took it first as if to check and make sure it was ok and then her mother took it next with a hidden disgust on her face.

"Well it's very nice to meet you, Brooke hasn't told us very much about you except for the fact that you broke her poor heart with that Peyton girl." Her mother said.

"Mom." Brooke said under her breath.

"Yes I did, and I can never forgive myself for that because it was the biggest mistake of my life, but I'm just glad your daughter is nice enough to forgive me." Lucas said and Brooke turned to genuinely smile at him. That was super sweet of him to say.

"Well our little Brooke is one of a kind." Her father said.

Barf, Brooke thought, why were her parents being so nice about her.

"Yeah I know." Lucas said and Brooke placed her hand on his leg under the table.

"Well I suppose we could order now." Brooke's mother said.

"What's good here?" Lucas asked around the table.

"Oh of course you wouldn't know." Brooke's mother said.

"What is that suppose to mean mom?" Brooke asked her.

"Only that Lucas probably has never eaten here before, I mean he's not Nathan honey."

"Yeah he's not Nathan mom and I wouldn't be dating him if he was." Brooke said

frowning at her mother.

"Speaking of Nathan, are you two still talking to each other?" Her mother asked her as if she had said nothing wrong.

"Yeah mom, we're still talking to each other. He's coming to dinner tomorrow and I'm planning on inviting him for Christmas." Brooke said.

"Well does Lucas know? I mean about summer?" Her mother asked her.

"I personally thought that would last, I mean you two had such chemistry."

"we were both drunk, and by the way Nathan is dating Haley now and this is totally inappropriate considering that I am in love with Lucas who is sitting right here and can hear every single condescending word that comes out of your mouth." Brooke fired off.

"It's ok Brooke." Lucas said quietly.

"No it's not Lucas. I think we should go." Brooke said getting up from the table and throwing her napkin down on her plate.

"Brooke please stop making a scene, just sit down and behave." Her mother said.

"Don't tell me to behave mother, we're leaving."

"But you haven't even eaten yet." Her mother said in one final attempt to get Brooke to stay.

"Well Lucas and I are going to go to Karen's café and have some good normal food, and don't think about following us because apparently mom that place is not good enough for you… Nothing is." Brooke huffed and then stomped out of the restaurant.

"uh nice meeting you bye." Lucas said quickly before following after Brooke.


Christmas Eve morning Brooke woke up and felt like she had a hangover, but she hadn't had anything to drink. It was time to consult with Haley. She got out of bed and put on a hoodie to walk into the living room. Haley was in the kitchen cooking something but Brooke didn't know what.

"What are you doing?" Brooke asked her.

"Making cookies for everyone." Haley said.

"It's kind of early." Brooke said.

"It's 2 in the afternoon." Haley said looking at Brooke suspiciously

"Are you serious I've wasted so much of Christmas eve day." Brooke said flopping down on the couch. Haley sensed that something was wrong so she sat down next to Brooke.

"What happened last night, you got in really late." Haley said.

"Well my mother turned into the biggest bitch ever saying all this really uncalled for stuff so I grabbed Lucas and we left." Brooke said.

"Oh, fun." Haley said.

"And then I went back to Lucas's apartment and we hung out." Brooke said.

"And by hung out you mean…" Haley said.

"Actually no, not yet." Brooke said.

"Really." Haley stated leaning back "wow."

"Haley I'm kind of scared." Brooke said feeling ashamed. "Sorry I know that's stupid."

"No Brooke, believe me if anyone can understand it's me. I mean I had to get married first."

"Yeah I'm definitely not doing that." Brooke said "I just feel like its different this time because I really want it to work." Brooke said just as there was a knock on the door.

"You don't need to feel ashamed Brooke." Haley said before standing up and opening the door to Madison.

"What are you doing here?" Brooke asked her joining Haley at the door.

"Brooke I'm really sorry about yesterday, I really shouldn't have said such rude things and I just want you to know that I just have a lot going on right now and… anyway I shouldn't have gone off on you like that you were just trying to help." Madison said.

Brooke didn't really want to forgive her but she felt like she should because it would be super-bitchy if she didn't.

"Yeah it's ok." Brooke said.

"And Haley, I'm still really sorry about that whole Nathan thing. It was a mistake and I just want you to know that I would never do that again ever not even if we were like the last two people on earth." Madison said.

"Ok thanks." Haley said sort of quietly.

"Alright well I just wanted to say that. Alright well merry Christmas, bye." She said.

"Bye." Brooke said and closed the door.

"She kind of makes it hard to hate her." Brooke said.


Brooke and Haley arrived at Lucas's house at around seven that night and Lucas came to the answered the door.

"Hey" Lucas said inviting them inside and helping Brooke with taking off her coat.

"Oh thanks, I guess I'm just too advanced with coat taking off I don't need any help." Haley said.

"Yeah guess so." Brooke smiled at they laughed. "Oh you know actually Haley we need to go get the presents out of the car." Brooke said.

"Ok, I guess I'll do it seeing as I still have my jacket on." Haley said tilting her head to the side and raising her eye brows "be right back." She said and ran out the door.

"Well now that she's gone." Brooke said wrapping her arms around Lucas's neck.

"Mhmm, let's hope dinner goes better with my mom then it did with yours." Lucas said.

"Are you kidding, I love your mom." Brooke said kissing him but then she pulled away "I think I'm going to see if she needs any help." Brooke said patting a distraught Lucas's chest before walking off to the kitchen.

Meanwhile Haley walked out to Brooke's car to get the gifts and cookies when Nathan pulled up. He got out of his car with two paper bags in his hands.

"Hey you." Haley said as he walked over to her.

"I would kiss you but my hands are occupied." Nathan said.

"Well mine aren't yet." Haley said leaning up and kissing him but they pulled away when lights came into the driveway, it was Peyton.

"Hi lovebirds." Peyton said also pulling out some bags.

"I see we all had the same idea." Haley said grabbing her own bags out of the car and the three of them walked into the house.

Once everyone was inside they all sat down around the big table and started serving dinner.

"God this looks really good Karen." Haley said.

"Oh I know you kids love food." Karen said "I'm just sad I don't get to cook Christmas dinner too, since all of you are going out with Brooke and her parents." Karen said.

"Oh actually Karen I don't think we're going to do that." Brooke said.

"Well I want to make dinner then." Karen said.

"Karen we can't ask you to make dinner for all of us two nights in a row." Peyton said.

"I'll help." Brooke said.

"Yeah me too." Haley added.

"Well then it's settled, Christmas dinner here tomorrow." Karen smiled and everyone dived into their food.

After dinner everyone was sitting around the in the living room and there was a fire going.

"Well kids, I'm going to go to bed you know Santa and I need to meet up later tonight so I need to get my rest." Karen said standing up.

"Good night mom." Lucas said

"good night Lucas." Karen said and she left the kids to themselves.

Once she was safely gone "I say we open our presents to eachother." Brooke said.

"Definitely." Nathan agreed.

"Ok Nathan mine to you first." Brooke said handing him a box.

"Alright." Nathan said ripping off the paper and opening to box to find his jacket inside.

"Oh my god." Nathan said "wow I thought I'd never get this back."

"Yeah it's pretty much awesome." Brooke said.

Everyone started opening up presents from each other and finally Lucas gave Brooke her gift. She opened it up and inside was a silver necklace that had a heart on it which was engraved with Broody and Cheery forever. Sure it was kind of cheesy but in that moment everyone else sort of escaped from Brooke and the noise left the room something about this gift that was really special.

"Brooke!" Lucas was shaking her shoulder.

"Oh sorry I must have just zoned out." Brooke said "this is really amazing Lucas."

Brooke said kissing him quickly.

"Well merry Christmas eve cheery, I love you."

"I love you too broody." Brooke said.

Alright cute ending please review and coming up they'll be back in school with more Steve blast from the past issues.