"Mama, what is that?" Sophia questions as she points to the ring on Brooke's finger.
Brooke smiles at her daughter as she sets the plate of eggs on the table. The other adults in the room smile.
"Well baby, last night your father proposed to me."
"Cool," Sophia says as she bites her eggs.
The adults all laugh and Sophia turns to them with a frown.
"What?"
Her response just made the adults laugh louder. Sophia rolls her eyes and goes back to eating her eggs. Brooke rubs her back.
"Okay, so what are we going to do today?"
"I don't know about you, but I am going to take my little girl on the boat to fish," Lucas says with a smile.
Brooke rolls her eyes and turns to Haley.
"Do you care for some time with the girls? I'm sure the guys would love to take Sophia and Jenny on the boat?"
"Count me in," Peyton says as she flashes a smile at her boyfriend.
"Me too," Haley responds.
"Looks like we have everything planned," Rachel says with a bright smile, "I'll walk down to the lake and get everything situated."
Brooke watches Rachel walk out the back and she frowns. Brooke turns to Lucas.
"Can you watch her?"
Lucas nods his head and Brooke walks out the door.
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"Rachel, are you okay?" Brooke asks as she walks down the dock. Rachel's feet were hanging off of the edge as Rachel sat down.
"I'm fine Brooke, everything is okay."
Brooke sits down next to Rachel.
"What's going on?"
"I've just been thinking a lot about my child. I wonder what he'd look. It's just hard sometimes. I've talked to people, but it doesn't help."
"Rachel, if it's too much I can take Sophia home."
"No, don't do that Brooke, you're here getting away from each other and a bonus celebrating your engagement. It's alright."
"Alright, we'll I'll leave alone for awhile friend."
Rachel looks up with a smile.
"Friend?" Rachel questions.
"Friend," Brooke conforms.
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"Do you want to hold the pole for daddy?" Lucas asks Sophia as he sits behind her in the boat.
"Yes," Sophia says with a grin as she keeps her hands on the pole.
"Alright so hold on tight."
"This is weird," Nathan says as he watches Jake and Lucas with their daughter's.
"What's weird Nate?" Jake asks as he gets Jenny settled.
"You two are fathers. I'm the only guy in the group who's not one."
"Don't rush into it man, trust me, it's hard," Lucas says. "It doesn't matter if you're married either, it just makes it harder. I love Sophia, but it was hard."
"I don't want to rush into it either. I mean I have the scouts and stuff to worry about. Having a kid right now would just ruin everything. I'm cool with being the Uncle," Nathan says with a smirk.
Sophia hands the pole to her dad and walks to where Nathan is sitting.
"I love you Uncle Nafan."
Nathan wraps his arms around Sophia and places her in his lap.
"I love you, too, Sophia."
Lucas and Jake smile as Lucas's pole begins to move.
"It looks like you got something Lucas," Jake comments.
"Sophia, come here."
Sophia hurries over to her father and grabs the pole.
"Are you ready?"
Sophia nods her head with a smile.
Lucas reels his line in and Sophia squeals when she sees the fish.
"Get it daddy, get it."
Lucas pulls the fish into the boat with a smile on his face.
"Excellent."
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"Are we completely pathetic?" Haley questions the group of girls.
"I don't know, I mean I rarely ever get the chance to hang out with you. It's just me and my daughter."
"I don't have many friends so I don't know what the hell I'm doing," Rachel says with a shrug of her shoulders.
"I don't care what we do. I'm just glad that we are all hanging out," Peyton mentions. "I think we all needed this. We've been through so much together and on our own. We all needed this."
"Can you believe how far we've come in a few short years? Have you pictured life like this?" Haley questions.
Brooke shakes her head.
"I know for a fact that I didn't. Don't get me wrong, I love my life now, but before it was just me and my many one nighters and I had one best friend," Brooke glances at Peyton. "Then Lucas stepped onto the basketball court and everything changed."
Haley laughs and nods her head.
"For so long it was just Lucas and I. We grew up together. The moment Keith asked Whitey to give Lucas a chance was the day everything changed even for me. I started tutoring Nathan and then I fell in love with him while my best friend fell in love with Brooke. I get married Lucas has a child. Peyton gets Jake and we befriend Rachel. We survive a school shooting and everything is fine maybe even better. I wouldn't change anything for the world."
The girl's in the room smile at Haley's little speech and Haley blushes. Peyton pats Haley's knee.
"It's alright Haley, we all love you."
"You guys suck."
The girls laugh.
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"Get ready to have the most magnificent fish you ever ate," Lucas says with a grin as he sets two plates on the table, one for his daughter and the other with his fiancé.
Brooke bites into the fish and smiles. Lucas was right it was magnificent.
"Oh my gosh, this is so good."
Lucas smiles and nods his head. He turns to Sophia who had just put the fish in her mouth. Sophia spits it out quickly.
"Yucky," Sophia says as she pouts.
Brooke puts her hand over her mouth to stop the giggles. Lucas pouts and sits down next to his daughter.
"Do you want anything else baby?" Brooke asks as soon as she gets a hold of her giggles.
"Mac and cheese, please," Sophia says with a toothy grin.
Brooke grins and picks Sophia out of her chair.
"Why don't you go and ask your aunt Haley to make you her special macaroni and cheese."
Sophia nods her head and runs out of the room. Brooke turns to Lucas with a smile.
"It will be okay Lucas. So, we know she doesn't like fish. It's actually good to know."
"How can she not like fish?"
"I don't know Lucas."
"Oh well, at least you liked it," Lucas says with a grin. He grabs Brooke and places her in his lap. "We go home tomorrow. I have to tell my parents about this wonderful news."
Brooke turns her head and smiles.
"Considering my parents don't ever show up, I'll just have to be with you to tell your parents. You can also tell your mother you are moving out and moving in with me. We are engaged to be married and we have a daughter besides your mom has two babies to take care of. Her oldest son should be with his family."
"I couldn't agree more."
Lucas leans in and kisses Brooke softly on the lips.
A/N: I need ideas people…I've run out of my pre-writing and ran out of ideas…I need to bring in aspects of season 4 of One Tree Hill into the story so please send me some of your favorite moments or something entirely knew. It would really help maybe if I get enough then I'll have an update next week otherwise it's two.
