"Dead serious?" Haley asked Brooke.

"Dead serious" Brooke confirmed. Her eyes were swollen and puffy from all the crying she had done. After lots of yelling, crying, and talking, Lucas and Brooke had ended their almost 6 year relationship.

Brooke knew she was being stubborn. But she was afraid. Ohio would mean Lucas being busy all the time and her not having any friends there. Ohio would mean new people, a new life, and she couldn't handle leaving home. She was too young to be doing this.

"Brooke, you have got to reconsider! What about Audrina? She'll miss her daddy so much!"

"She'll see Lucas" Brooke said. "If he comes down here"

"Brooke, you are being ridiculous. Babe I love you but you'd be living in such comfort and with the love of your life…sure, you'll miss North Carolina, but come ON!" Haley said.

"I came here for some sympathy, Haley, not another lecture" Brooke said. "I'll leave you to your work" she got up.

"I don't know what demon's possessed that woman!" Haley said to Nathan after Brooke left. "She's being so weird…she wouldn't normally act like this about moving!"

"She's scared" Nathan said. "She's leaving behind everything she knows and going with Lucas to a foreign place where she doesn't belong and I know Lucas and Brooke have raw passion for each other but they're also very different and she's unsure about their relationship. It's not easy on her, Hales"

"I never thought of it that way" Haley bit her lip.

Meanwhile…

At Brooke and Lucas's, a lot of packing was going on. Since the house was owned by Brooke, she didn't need to move out. She was being the best sport she could as she watched the love of her life packing. He had a sullen and depressed look on his face and anything basketball related he would look at for a moment, sigh, and put in a box.

"Do you need any help, Lucas?" Brooke asked. She hated the formality that had come between them.

"No, thanks though" Lucas said. Normally, Brooke would've been chugging diet sprites and Lucas would've been complaining about how lazy she was. But now, Brooke was sitting with her legs folded neatly looking down at her nails and lowering the TV volume incase it was bothering Lucas and Lucas was fully dressed, not his usual shirtless.

"I hate this" Brooke said. "What happened to us, Lucas?"

"I don't know" Lucas turned around and sighed. Sitting there looking tired and forlorn in her t-shirt and sweatpants with her curly mess of hair piled on top of her head, Lucas realized for the first time how beautiful his ex-girlfriend really was. "We were fine"

"No, Lucas, there were underlying issues" Brooke sighed. "I wish I didn't feel the way I do about all of us moving, but I do"

"I know…what about me seeing Audrina?" Lucas said.

"You know I would never stop you" Brooke said. "You're welcome here anytime"

"Yeah" Lucas smiled. "I really love you a lot, Brooke. Us not being together is going to take a lot of getting used to"

"I know it is…but this was bound to happen eventually, right?" Brooke said.

"Yeah" Lucas said, looking down. "So are we gonna set up some dates where you can fly up or I can fly down?"

"Yeah" Brooke said, fishing around behind the couch for the calendar.

"How about I come down the first and last weekend of every month and you can come in the middle?" Lucas asked.

"That's expensive" Brooke said.

"I'll fly you up and down, don't worry" Lucas said.

"Yeah, with that 4 million" Brooke said a little coolly.

"Yeah" Lucas looked away. He was flying up on Saturday, which was in 2 days. And he was going to sign the contract that night. And then just like that, he'd be a player on the Cavs.

"Daddy!" Audrina yelled, toddling in quickly.

"Hey baby girl" Lucas said softly, seeing mini Brooke running towards him. He bent over and picked her up. "How're you?"

"Good" Audrina giggled, patting Lucas's cheek.

"What have you been up to?"

"Barbie!"

"As per usual" Lucas laughed, kissing her. "So are you excited to come see daddy next week?"

"Yeah!" Audrina giggled. "I see Ohio!"

"Yeah!" Lucas laughed. Inside, his heart was breaking. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. They were all supposed to be moving up and they were all supposed to be excited about Ohio. But now, it was Lucas all by himself, leaving the two people that meant the most to him behind.

An hour later…

"Nate, I'm going out with Brooke!"

"Ok…why?" Nathan asked.

"She wants to let Lucas spend some time with Audrina and she's really sad right now and she just wants some girl time I think" Haley said. "Anyway, I'll see you in a few hours"

"Ok, have fun" Nathan kissed her and Haley waved goodbye.

"Thank God you're here" Brooke said when she got into the car 10 minutes later. "I had to get out"

"How's it going?" Haley asked sympathetically.

"Not so good…we're all formal with each other and like…I hate it" Brooke said. "I wish we didn't have to break up but even Lucas agreed that it would've happened eventually and it would've happened in Ohio and then I would've been stranded there"

"Yeah" Haley said. "Brooke, I'm so sorry this has to happen…I mean you guys were like the golden couple"

"I know" Brooke said. "And I'm worried about Audrina"

"She's unusually perceptive for a two year old, she'll know something's weird" Haley said. "But she'll be ok"

"I know she's just so USED to me and Lucas kissing in front of her and saying I love you and being Mommy and Daddy that like…I don't know" Brooke said. "And Lucas is leaving Saturday…Haley I have a child with this guy. How am I going to tell him goodbye?"

"Its going to be difficult, Brooke. Both of you knew that when you ended this relationship. The next couple weeks are gonna be hard. Its gonna be weird that he's not lying next to you or he's not there or whatever…but you know what you have to do. You have to move on. I know he's played such a big role in your life. I know what it's like, believe me. Been there, done that. You just have to move on"

"It'll be hard" Brooke said. "I'll do it. I did it once, I can do it again"

A/N: Short chapter, but review anyways!