Finally! Here's your next chapter:) I have to tell you this is going to be the last chapter until thursday probably because I'm going to my grandma's on tuesday and I won't be home until thursday. Sorry, but I'll try to make this a gooder! So without anymore interruptions, here it is...

Chapter 19

Crying Babies

"Nathan, come get your daughter!" Haley yelled from the living room. Her and Brooke were with the babies talking and Nathan and Lucas were putting together more furniture for Gabriella in her room.

Nathan rushed into the living room. "Why, what's wrong?" he asked in a panicky voice. Nathan had been very over protective of his little girl ever since they brought her home 2 days ago.

"Nothing, its just that she's crying and its annoying me." Haley said sarcastically, handing the baby to Nathan.

"Ha funny." he said in the same tone. "I'll put her in her crib and she can see what guys talk about when their wives aren't around."

"Ha funny." Haley said, mocking him.

"Hey, take Braden too." Brooke said, handing him to Nathan.

"Don't drop them." Haley said jokingly.

Brooke and Haley went back to talking about there usual girl stuff and Nathan went to put them both in the crib.

"What this time?" Lucas asked as he looked up from the instructions he was reading on how to put together a baby swing.

"The girls think we should have to take these 2 now." he said putting them down gently.

"Oh really. " he said getting up off the floor and walking over to the crib. "That's ok, I like being with these cool kids."

He rubbed Braden's tiny stomach as he made gurgling noises.

"They kind of look alike." he said.

"Are you saying my baby girl looks like a boy?" Nathan asked pretending to be offended.

Lucas just laughed. "I'm getting nervous, they're probably going to cause more trouble than us when they're teenagers."

"Yea, I better make sure Gabby doesn't meet anyone named Lucas." Nathan said sarcastically.

"I better make sure Braden doesn't meet anybody named Brooke." Lucas said, laughing. "Becuase we know how bad that could be. Braden will come home one night drunk with a tattoo."

They both laughed then got back to work. Putting a baby swing together wasn't as easy as they thought it would be.

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Meanwhile, Peyton was cleaning her house before her and Jenny went over to Haley's.

"Mommy, can I howp you?" Jenny asked, when she came into her bedroom.

"Sure." Peyton said, while she made Jenny's little bed. "You can pick those toys up and put them in your toy box."

"Otay." she said, running over to her pile of toys.

She picked up some toys then stopped. "Mommy?"

"Yes, babe?" Peyton asked turning to her little girl.

"When's my daddy gunna come home?" she asked, throwing her arms up in the air confused.

Peyton stood there and shut her eyes tight, she almost went the whole afternoon not thinking about it. She was going to start crying because Jenny looked so upset, but then she thought, she couldn't do that, it would make Jenny even more sad. She decided to explain it to her.

"Sweetie, come sit down beside me here." Peyton said, patting a spot beside her on the bed. Jenny got up onto her bed and listened attentively.

She took a deep breath. "Your grandma told you what heaven was remember?" she asked.

Jenny nodded.

"Your dad is there now." she said.

"I know, but when is he gunna come home?" Jenny asked, starting to cry.

"Sweetie, he's not." Peyton said, also starting to cry. She didn't know how else to say it. "I'm sorry, honey." She hugged Jenny tight while she sobbed into her chest.

"I...miss...him." Jenny said between her uncontrolable sobs.

"Me too, baby girl." Peyton said, rocking Jenny back and fourth.

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That evening at Haley's house, the five friends were having supper. It was kind of like a family/friend thing to welcome both of the babies into the new twisted, dramatic world they, unfortunatley, created for them. Peyton and Jenny had just got there and everything was ready and they were ready to eat.

"Hey P. Sawyer, Jenny-poo." Brooke said when she answered the door. "Come on in."

"Hi, Aunty Bwooke!" Jenny screamed. "Wherw's Baden and Gab...Gab...the ovwer one." She couldn't really pronounce Gabriella, so she gave up.

Brooke laughed. "Braden's napping, and Haley is feeding Gabby."

"Ooooo, Wherw's Uncle Lucas and Uncle Natan?" she asked looking around with her big blue eyes. "I wanna pway wit dem."

"In the living room." Brooke said pointing down the hall.

"Oh, she's very energetic today, sorry." Peyton said laughing, walking into the kitchen with Brooke where Haley was feeding Gabriella.

"It's ok, I can't wait until Braden's like that, it'll be sooo cute!" Brooke said, getting excited.

"What'll be so cute?" Haley asked. She had just finished feeding Gabby.

"When Braden is in his terrible two's phase." Brooke said sitting down.

"Yea, Jenny's really hyper today." Peyton explained, also sitting down.

"That'll be cute, but then they grow up." Haley said. "You better not turn out like Brooke." she said, talking to her baby girl that was kicking her arms and legs around.

"Hey!" Brooke said. "What's wrong with me?"

Haley and Peyton looked at eachother and started laughing. "Oh nothing, I just ment...um...well, look at that, it's time to eat!"

Peyton and Haley both got up and went towards the living room.

"Come on, monkey, it's time to eat." Peyton said, putting out her hand to Jenny.

"No! Me go wif Uncle Lucas!" she said all dramatic, putting her hands on her hips.

"Oh don't give me that attitude little girl, I see you've been spending to much time with Aunty Brooke." Peyton said, laughing. "Luke, looks like somebody really likes you."

"Well, who doesn't?" he said sarcastically. "Come on munchkin, you can sit next to me." He picked her up and they all headed into the kitchen. Brooke went to Gabriella's nursery though so she could get Braden who was making a fuss. Then Haley and Brooke put the babie's in Gabby's play pen that was in the kitchen so they could keep an eye on them.

All through supper, while the adults were talking, Jenny was jumping off her chair and running over to the babies. That wasn't making Peyton happy, though.

"Jenny, get your skinny little butt back here now and finish eating!" Peyton said. She didn't like being mean to Jenny, so she tried hard not to make a loud tone with her.

"But..um...I wike dese babies!" she whined.

"I know, we all do, after your finished eating you can play with them." peyton said,

"Fine!" Jenny said madly, going back to her chair with her bottom lip out.

"She's driving me crazy." Peyton whispered to Haley who was sitting beside her.

"It's ok, were here to help, she's just at that age." Haley explained.

On the other side of the table Lucas was telling Jenny stories about what happens when you stick your bottom lip out. "...and then it gets so long that you trip over it."

Jenny gasped, then sucked her lip in her mouth and put her hand over it and everybody laughed.

"Ok, maybe I lied to you a little, but mom doesn't like it when you do that." Lucas explained.

Jenny took her hand down. "Oh, dat's good, you scarwed me Uncle Lucas."

"Hey, Uncle Lucas." Brooke siad, mocking Jenny. "Looks like your a natural at this dad thing, hopefully you will be just as good with your own kid."

He smiled at her and everbody continued eating. After supper, Peyton let Jenny play with the babies for a while, then they went home. Brooke, Lucas, and Braden went home shortly after so they could get Braden to bed.

"Baby boy, I bet your tired, you had a long day." Brooke said as she put pajamas on him.

"Yea, that's the first time we ever took him out." Lucas said, taking him from Brooke and putting him in his crib.

"Maybe we shouldn't have kept him out all day." Brooke said, worried.

"He's ok." Lucas said. "Let's go watch a movie."

"Ok, but I get to pick." Brooke said, running out of the room.

"No chick flicks!" Lucas yelled.

"Why not?" she said sitting by the movie stand. "You got to watch your guy movie the other day."

"Well...that's differnet." he said, trying to think of an excuse.

"Why?" she asked, smiling. She knew he didn't like it when people asked 'why' after everything.

"Because...because...it just is." he said, plainly.

Brooke put in 'Along Came Polly' and they settled on the couch. Brooke put her head on Lucas' shoulder and he put his arm around her and pulled her in closer. Throughout the movie Lucas kept trying to kiss her neck.

"Stop it." she said, giggling. "I'm trying to watch this."

"You've seen it." he said, continuing to kiss her.

"I don't care." she said, giggling more and trying to get away.

"I don't care, either." Lucas said, joining in on the laughing.

She finally gave up the fight and shut the tv off with the remote and threw it on the floor, never breaking the kiss. They hadn't been intimate in a while because they were so busy with Braden, that they decided to take advantage of the fact that he was sleeping, quietly.

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Over at Nathan and Haley's it was a different story...

"Hales, go to bed, you look exhausted, I will get her to stop crying and put her to bed for you." Nathan said kindly. Gabriella had been crying nonpstop for the last hour, it was like that every night, she cried for 3 hours every night at the same time. She had colic, the doctor told them that when they went for her check up the day before. So really the only thing they could do was stay with her and rock her and let her cry until the 3 hours was over.

"Are you sure?" Haley asked, tiredly.

"Yea, you go get a good night's sleep." he said, rocking Gabby back and fourth. "You deserve it."

"Ok, night baby girl." Haley said, kissing gabby's forehead then Nathan's lips. "You too."

"Night, I'll be there when I'm done here." he said, sitting down in the rocking chair. He knew it was kind of a woman thing, but he didn't care. He wanted to be there for his kid more than anything.

Eventually, Gabriella stopped crying and Nathan put her in her crib. "Night, baby girl." He shut the light off and went to his and Haley's room, where he found her fast alseep.

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The next day Jenny wasn't so cranky, so Peyton was happy about that. Larry was home for a while so Peyton brought Jenny over to her former house so he could look after her. It was a great oppertunity for him and Jenny to bond. On the way over Jenny kept asking Peyton questions about her 'Grandpa larry'.

"Wiw he wike me, mom?" she asked from the backseat.

"Yes, I no for a fact that he'll like you." Peyton said, surley.

"We awre gunna have lotsa fun!" Jenny said, excitedly.

"Yes you are, my dad is a fun guy." she said, smiling at Jenny through the mirror.

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"When did you finally get to come to bed last night?" Haley asked, curiously. They were in the kitchen making breakfast and Haley was feeding Gabriella.

"About 2 hours after you went to bed." he said, flipping a pancake.

"Oh, sorry about that, Nate." she said, feeling bad that she went to bed early.

"It's ok, you deserve to get a night off, your the one that had her." he said sitting down beside her with a plate of pancakes.

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Over at the other Scott house, Brooke was feeding Braden and Lucas was making breakfast, too.

"Hurry up, I'm hungry." Brooke said, pretending to sound annoyed.

"I'm hurrying, Brooke." Lucas said. "Am I like your slave or something?"

Brooke smiled. "As long as I have to feed him, your feeding me."

"Well, I can't really feed him can I?" Lucas asked, laughing.

"No, I guess not..." She said, continuing to feed him.

"He's pretty lucky." Lucas said, trying not to laugh.

Brooke caught on fast. "Lucas!"

"What?" he asked laughing, knowingly.

"Errr, I'm going to call Haley now, see how her night went." Brooke said picking up the portable.

The phone started ringing...

"Hello?" Haley asked.

"Hey, tutor-mom, what's up?" Brooke asked, cheery as usual.

"Me and Nathan are just eating breakfast, what about you?" she asked.

"Same here, except Lucas is making discusting comments about me." Brooke said smiling and sticking her tongue out at Lucas.

"What?" Haley asked, confused.

"Nothing, how was your night?" Brooke asked, changing the subject.

"I don't know, Nathan let me go to bed, but from what I hear she was pretty cranky." Haley explained.

"Oh, that sucks, at least you didn't have to deal with it." Brooke said.

"But I will for the next 3 months!" Haley said, annoyed.

"It'll get easier, Hales." Brooke said. "Well, I better let you go, Braden's starting to be fussy."

"Talk to you later." Haley said hanging up.

Brooke hung up the phone, too.

"I was thinking we could go out tonight, and my mom could come over and watch Braden." Lucas suggested, taking him from Brooke.

"Ok, I'll call her later." Brooke said. "It'll be fun to get away from the house and just be with my Broody for a while." She smiled, kissed him and skipped up the stairs to her bedroom.

"Well Braden, your mom is back to her usual cheery self." Lucas said, talking to his son.

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"I will be back at 2." Peyton said. "Be good, Jenny."

"I wiw, me and Gampa awre gunna have fun!" Jenny said, from Larry's arms.

"Yes we are." Larry said. "Don't worry about us."

"Ok, see you guys later." Peyton said opening the door.

"Have fun at school." he said, waving.

"Can we go cower now?" Jenny asked.

"Sure we can color." Larry said, putting her down. She ran to get the crayons and a coloring book for her and Larry.

"You cower dis pichure and I wiw cower dis one." Jenny said, pointing to the 2 pages.

"Ok." Larry said, taking the page out of the book.

They started coloring and Jenny was telling Larry all the fun stuff that her and Peyton did. Jenny really liked Larry, she said she liked having him for a grandpa.

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That evening, Brooke and Lucas were going out to a nice resturant outside of Tree Hill. It was new so they hadn't been there yet. Karen was coming over to watch Braden until they got home.

"Ok, if you need anything at all you can call my cell, Lucas' cell, and Nathan and Haley are at home, so you can call them, too." Brooke explained worriedly. She was nervous to leave Braden for the first time.

"Brooke, you see there's this guy, his name is Lucas, he's my son and I raised him all on my own." Karen said, sarcastically.

"I'm sorry, I'm just scared to leave him." Brooke said, pouting.

"Brooke, he's in good hands, we have to go before we lose our dinner reservation." Lucas said, rushing her out the door.

"Bye, baby!" Brooke yelled from outside right before Lucas shut the door.

Later at the resturant...

"Maybe I should just call and make sure everything is going ok." Brooke said, pulling out her phone.

"Brooke, let them bond." he took her phone away from her. "He's fine, I promise."

"How would you know?" Brooke asked, sadly.

"Becasue the woman he's with is my mother and she did a good job raising me, didn't she?" he asked, comforting her.

"Yea." she smiled, and leaned over and kissed him. "This was a good idea, we needed a break, I love Braden so much, but I'm getting so stressed out by all the crying."

"I know, the worst will be over soon though, then we get to enter the toddler phase where he's learning how to walk and talk and he's all over the place, it's going to be so much fun." he said, sarcastically.

"Joy." Brooke said, putting on a fake smile.

A little later they got there food and started eating. They were having a great time, talking about the times they used to have together before they had a kid to look after. But back at home it was a different story...

"Shhhhhh!" Karen was trying to calm Braden down by rocking him back and fourth slowly because he was crying. He probably wanted his mom and dad and on top of that, he was reallt tired. "It's ok, baby, shhhhh."

She tried singing to him and he stopped crying. She used to sing to Lucaswhen he was that age and it always helped put him to sleep. It was working on Braden to because he fell asleep really fast. Karen then put him in his crib and shut the light off.

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When Brooke and Lucas got home, Karen was sleeping on the couch. They both just laughed at her, Brooke went to go change and check on Braden and Lucas tried waking his mom up.

"Mom." Lucas said calmly, poking her shoulder.

"...Oh, hey, your home." she said as she sat up from her sleeping position.

"Yea, how was Braden?" Lucas asked sitting beside her.

"He was a little cranky but I fixed that." Karen said, smiling.

"How?" he asked, curiously.

"I sang to him, like I used to for you." she explained.

"That worked?" Lucas asked.

"Yep, he's just like you." she said.

"I'll have to tell Brooke that, even though she sings like a cat dying." he said, laughing.

"I heard that." Brooke said, as she walked down the stairs then went into the living room. "I don't sing very well do I."

"Nope." Lucas said, plainly.

"Well, I guess I'll be going." Karen said. she got up and hugged Brooke and Lucas. "Thanks for letting me stay with him tonight."

"Anytime, you did a good job." Brooke said, letting her mother-in-law out.

Brooke yawned. "Let's go to bed, Broody."

He put his arm around her shoulder. "Good idea, Cheery."

"God, were like an old married couple." Brooke explained, discusted. "Were going to bed at 9:30."

"Hey, were always up late with Braden, it's not our faults." Lucas said, jokingly.

"Oh well, I love him." Brooke said, smiling. "I love you, too."

Lucas kissed her. "I love you too, babe."

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Oh my god! I didn't know how to end that, I hate it when you just can't ever end it! lol Well I hope that's good enough. Next update will be like thursday or friday. Please review:) Luv ya's!