Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been going to the lake a lot. I've got a job babysitting all summer for 3 different people, don't know how I got stuck with that, but I'll try to write as much as I can when I'm home. Anyways, here's the next chapter. Hope you like it. Enjoy!

Chapter 20

Perfect Family, Perfect Job, Almost A Perfect Happy Ending

It had been 2 weeks since both babies were home and the new parents were exhausted. They spent the 2 weeks staying up late and taking care of them. It was now March 5, the day Lucas and Nathan were going to find out if they made it into the basketball program in Charlotte. It was a training program for young basketball players to improve their skills. They were only choosing 12 players out of the 200 that applied from the area, but Whitey said they had a good chance. The good news was that they would get paid because a lot of the people that made the team would have to drive to practises 3 times a week, but the bad news was that Haley and Brooke were worried about having to be with the babies on their own a lot...

"Cheery, did I get a phone call yet?" Lucas asked when he got home from shooting hoops with Nathan at the River Court.

"No." she said annoyed. "Thank god."

"Brooke?" Lucas asked, hugging her.

"What?" she said tiredly, whining into his chest.

"You don't want me to get the job do you?" he asked.

"I do, because then we get money...but then your going to leave me all the time and I'm scared to be with Braden alone, he's good when his dad's around. I get all upset when he's upset and then he gets even more upset and it's just so hard and-"

"Brooke." he said, inturrupting her troubling speech. "You are great with Braden and he loves spending time with you. I won't be gone that much and when I am home I will help out more than I already do and maybe sometimes you, Haley, and the babies can come watch me and Nathan, and by the way, we don't even know if we made the team yet."

Brooke put her forehead against Luke's. "You will." she said, then kissed him.

"Thanks, Brooke." he said, laughing. "Is Braden sleeping?"

"Yea, I just put him down." Brooke said, walking back to the dishes she was doing. Of course they were the ones that couldn't go in the dishwasher. Brooke isn't the kind of person that would do dishes when she could just put them in a dishwasher. "Yunno, he's beginning to become a little brooder like you."

"Well then, I guess your going to have the perfect opportunity to get him to be more like you if I get that job." he explained.

"Great, now I'm all excited." she said, sarcastically.

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"Nathan, guess what!" Haley screamed when she ran into the nursery where Nathan was putting Gabriella down for a nap.

"Shhhhh!" Nathan said quietly, pointing to Gabby. "She's sleeping!"

"Oooo sorry I forgot, but I just got so excited when I listened to the messages on the answering machine." she explained. They were out at the store so she had to check them when they got home.

"Why?" he asked confused, shutting Gabby's door behind him.

"Come and listen for yourself!" Haley said, she was practically exploding with excitement.

Nathan pressed the button to replay the message.

"Hello, this is Jason Coloski from the Basketball Training Program in Charlotte, I would just like to say congratulations, you made the team. We loved your reseme you sent in, it was the best one, I thought. Give me a call at this number whenever you get a chance and I can give you the information you will need to get started. Congratulations again, and I hope to here from you soon."

Nathan was smiling really big as he listened to the message. When it was over he picked Haley up and kissed her then screamed. "Yes!"

"I knew you could make it!" Haley said, proudly.

"I'm going to give him a call right now." Nathan said, excitedly.

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Ring...ring...ring...

"Oh Lucas, can you get that, I'm feeding Braden right now." Brooke yelled from the nursery.

Lucas came running from the bedroom. "Hello?"

"Hello, this is Jason Coloski from the Basketball Training Program in Charlotte, is this Lucas Scott?"

"Yes." Lucas said, excitedly.

"Well Lucas, I just called to inform you that you will be joining our team this season, congratulations."

Brooke then came in and saw that Lucas was very excited. "Oh my god, I can't believe this, thank you so much!"

Lucas smiled and nodded a yes to Brooke. She gasped. "Braden your daddy got a job!" she said excitedly, talking to her son that obviously didn't understand why his mother was freaking out.

"No problem, you deserve it. The first practice is tomorrow night."

"Alright, I'll be there." Lucas said, happily. "Oh, I promise you won't regret this, thank you again."

"I know I won't, see you tomorrow at 5."

"Alright bye."

Lucas hung up the phone and turned to Brooke who was just as excited as him. She went over to him with Braden and hugged him. "Congratualations, Luke!"

"Thank you." he said, taking his son.

"So, whens your first practice?" Brooke asked, toning down.

Lucas' face suddenly went serious. "Tomorrow at 5."

"Are you serious, that soon?" She said, sadly.

"It'll be ok, Brooke, you and Braden won't be alone together for that long. Anyways, if he cries so much that you have to call my mom that'll be fine, she loves spending time with him." Lucas explained, comforting her.

"I know, but now I'm not going to see you that often because of stupid basketball." she said, pouting.

"Remember Cheery, we get money, lots of it." Lucas reminded her, laughing.

"Oh yea, then maybe we can afford a better vehicle that will get you to Charlotte 3 times a week in one peace." she explained sarcastically, then kissed him.

"I'm going to give Nathan a call. Since I got into this thing, he obviously did, too." he explained, dialing his number.

"Hey, man!" Lucas said, happily. "I just got awesome news."

"I know, so did I." Nathan said, just as happy.

"Did you get the information and stuff?" Lucas asked.

"Yep, we can take my car tomorrow, I'll pick you up." Nathan said.

"Alright, how does Haley feel about this?" he asked.

"She's happy for me, but worried about being alone with Gabby for the first time, especially with her colic and stuff." Nathan explained.

"Yea, Brooke's worried, too." Luke said. "Here get Haley on the phone and her and Brooke can make plans to watch them together or something."

Lucas handed the phone to Brooke.

"Hello, Tigger." Haley said.

"Hey, Tutor-mom, so you could like come here tomorrow night and we can watch Baby Broody and Baby Tutor-girl until the guys get back. Then they can tell us all about it."

"Alright, sounds like a plan." she said, excitedly. "And Brooke."

"Yea." she said.

"Don't call my baby, Baby Tutor-girl...ever, it'll give her a bad rep when she gets into school." Haley said, trying to sound annoyed.

"Oh fine." Brooke said, trying to sound sad. "Now stop talking so me and Luke can go...um...yunno...celebrate."

"Ha, ok...no more info." Haley said, discusted. "See yea tomorrow."

"Bye." Brooke said, hanging up. Then she went over to Lucas and grabbed Braden and put him into his crib.

"What are we doing, Brooke?" Lucas asked, trying to pretend like he didn't know.

"Why else would I put Braden in his crib at 2 o'clock in the afternoon?" she asked laughing evily, then kissed Lucas and practically dragged him by the collar of his shirt to the bedroom.

"Have I told you how much I love you lately?" Lucas asked, smiling.

"Nope." she said, kissing him again.

"Well I really do." he said, pushing her onto the bed. She just laughed.

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The next day...

"Hey, man are you ready?" Nathan asked, when he opened the door to Lucas and Brooke's house.

"Yea, I just want to say good-bye to Braden." Lucas said, picking him up. "Come here, little man, be good for mommy, don't be a little devil like you always are."

"That's nice, Luke." Brooke said, sarcastically. "Now give me my kid and leave already."

Lucas handed Braden back to Brooke, then kissed her. "See yea tonight girls."

"Have fun." Haley said, shutting the door behind them.

"Hey, now what do we do?" Brooke asked.

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About 2 hours later Nathan and Lucas got to Charlotte and went to where they were supposed to go. The gym was huge, and there were a lot of people around.

"Nervous yet?" Lucas asked.

"No, not at all." Nathan said, sarcastically.

"Ha, yea." Lucas said, in the same tone.

Right after that, a man walked up to Lucas and Nathan and shook their hands. "Well, you two have got to be the Scott brothers."

"Yea, that's us." Nathan said.

"Hi, I'm the guy you talked to on the phone yesterday, Jason Coloski, you can call me Coach Col."

"Do you guys want to come over here and meet the rest of the guys that you will be playing with?" Jason asked.

"Sure." they said, dropping their bags on the the floor.

There were 10 other guys on the court talking. "Hey guys, these are 2 more very talented players that will be joining us this season, this is Lucas." Everybody shaked Luke's hand. "And this is Nathan." Everybody shaked his hand, too. Everybody introduced themselves and got aquainted, then about half an hour later they got a tour of the building. Then they got to change into their new jersey's and stuff and played a game, with Coach Col splitting them into teams. He wanted to see what they could do before he got into any hard core training.

They played for about 2 hours and then got a schedule with their practises on it.

"Ok, I just want you guys to know that this practise was a meeting kind of thing. I promise it'll get harder." Jason said laughing.

"Oh great." one of the guys said.

"Good first practise, I'll see you guys on Friday." he said. Their practises would be held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. Brooke wasn't going to like the Friday night practise because her and Luke would go out, but they would just have to make it saturday instead.

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When Nathan and Lucas got home, it was around 10:30. Brooke and Haley were passed out on the couch, so they decided to wake them up, but not nicely, of course.

They jumped on the couch right beside their wives and yelled until they woke up. "Wake up, wake up!"

Brooke and Haley woke up startled and they both shrieked. "What the hell are you guys doing?" Brooke asked.

Nathan and Lucas just laughed. "It's not funny, I think I just had a heartattack." Haley said, hitting Nathan.

"Ok sorry, but you guys looked so cute and were peacefully sleeping we just had to ruin it." Nathan said, still laughing.

"Yea, so how was it?" Lucas asked, sitting beside Brooke.

"Pretty good, except for Haley's little devil child that wouldn't stop crying. I finally got Braden to sleep and then Gabby started up." Brooke said.

"Hey, she can't help it, she has colic, just be lucky your son doesn't have it it's so painfully annoying!" Haley said, tiredly falling into Nathan's chest. She looked exhausted.

"It probably didn't help that she was over here." Nathan said, getting a sleeping Gabby out of the play pen. "Come on Hales, you look exhausted, let's get my 2 girls home to bed."

"Ok, see you guys, thanks for letting us crash here for a while." Haley said, hugging Brooke, then Lucas.

"No problem, anytime." Brooke said, putting her head on Luke's shoulder.

Nathan and Haley left and Brooke and Lucas went upstairs to the bedroom.

They got into bed. "How was it?" Brooke asked, curiously.

"Pretty mellow, but it was just the first day, the coach said it'll get harder." Lucas explained.

Brooke nodded. "When's your next practise?"

"Friday." Lucas said. He knew what was coming next.

Brooke groaned. "Damn, I wanted to do somethingwith you on Frday night."

"Ok, how about we go out on Saturday, all day, as a family." Lucas said, taking Brooke's hand.

"Yea, as a family." Brooke said, smiling and snuggling up to Luke. Yea, they had a family. It felt pretty good to her.

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That chapter was short but the next one is going to be longer. I have some ideas swimming around my head right now on what I want to do in the next chapters, oooooooooo I'm getting freakin excited thinking about this, but I'm not going to tell you anything, you will just have to wait and see:)

I want to do a sequel when this story is done, like taking place when the babies are like 3 then jumping to them older because I can do more with their characters if their older and it would be more interesting to see what they are like. Does anybody like that idea? Please review:) and let me know!