A/N-This took a little longer so I apologize for that…I've just been dealing with some stuff…anyways, here is the next installment.

Chapter Five: Guests Part Two

The bell above the door rings and Millie and Brooke look towards it.

"So, is this the place where I can get a Brooke Davis original?"

Brooke smiles as she looks at the brown haired woman standing in her store.

"Haley!"

Brooke runs over to Haley and snags a hug from her friend.

"Haley Scott, what are you doing here?"

Haley smiles sadly and Brooke and Haley walk over to the couch and sit down.

"I told your husband that I would come when you called and I realized that you probably wouldn't call so I decided to fly out for a few days."

"You didn't have to do that Haley," Brooke says as she rests her head on her shoulder.

"Yes, I did."

"Where are your husband and son?"

"At home," Haley says before looking at Millicent. "Hey Millie."

"Hi Haley, Brooke, I'll give you two sometime I guess. Just call me if you need me."

Brooke nods her head and Millicent grabs her purse and walks out the door. Haley turns to Brooke and sighs.

"How is Samantha?"

"Honestly, I will get these days where she tells me some things and then others I don't get anything. Haley, she doesn't even come to me with her nightmares anymore she goes to Julian."

Haley hugs her friend closer to her.

"Brooke, it might have something to do with the fact that you were the one to talk Julian into letting her date that ass. She doesn't want you to feel bad."

"She can let me feel bad as long as she talks to me."

"It doesn't work like that tigger. Jamie told me that Sam is dealing and that she's going to be okay."

Brooke raises her head from Haley's shoulder and nods her head.

"I guess as long as she is talking to somebody."

"Where is she anyway?"

Brooke smiles.

"With Kelsey."

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"I just don't get it," Sam says with a laugh.

Kelsey looks at Sam and smiles.

"What is there to get?"

"Why would anyone want to become a therapist? I mean if you look at it, they're paid to listen to other people's problems. I just don't get it."

"Sam, they help people."

Sam raises an eyebrow.

"Not always."

"That maybe true, but is it helping you?"

Sam shrugs her shoulders.

"I don't know. I mean I've been going for awhile and I still don't know if it is helping."

Kelsey takes on a serious facial expression while asking this question.

"Then, why do you go?"

Sam bits the bottom of her lip and thinks.

"It's the one thing that I can control. He took everything from me Kelsey and he took the one thing that I can't ever get back and it sucks. Every girl has a fantasy about how they are going to lose their v-card you know?" Sam watches Kelsey nod her head. "But I don't get that. I thought I was going to be in love and it was going to be romantic and candles all over. Now I can't have that. He took that from me."

"Do you want to know what I think?"

Sam nods her head.

"You can still have your first time. Technically speaking you can't, but who says. I think the people that call themselves born again virgins are dumb. IT was a choice for them, but what about the people that didn't have a choice? What I think is that you can still have your first time because you didn't have a choice and this time you will have a say in it."

Sam nods her head and sighs.

"Maybe,"

Kelsey grabs Sam's hand.

"Not maybe, you will."

Sam grips onto Kelsey's hand tighter.

"You can't promise me that Kelsey. They haven't found him yet."

Kelsey opens up her arms.

"Come here."

Sam slides next to Kelsey and lays her head in Kelsey's lap while Kelsey runs her fingers through Sam's hair.

"Everyone was wrong," Sam states as she sighs into Kelsey's lap.

"Wrong about what?"

"You, you're actually sweet."

"Just for you," Kelsey whispers.

"What?" Sam asks before closing her eyes.

"Nothing," Kelsey says as she smiles down at the girl in her lap.

~~~/~~~/~~~

"Besides Sam I want to know how my friend is doing, so, how are you Brooke?"

Brooke shrugs her shoulders and looks around the store.

"Honestly, things aren't going so well."

Haley looks at Brooke with sympathy.

"Tell me about it."

Brooke shrugs her shoulders and sets her hands in her lap.

"Things are slowing down with Julian and apparently my company is tanking."

"Brooke, I'm sorry."

"How bad is it Brooke?"

"We have money for now. Our loans got paid off the first chance we got and then we set money aside for Sam, but for most of my life things have went the way I wanted them too, until now."

"Have you talked to Julian about it?"

Brooke shakes her head.

"Not on my part, no, but he told me he didn't want to get back to work until Sam was doing alright."

Haley nods her head and brings up a question she didn't want to ask, but she had to.

"Have you talked to your mom?"

"Not until I fired her from my company which was when Sam was 10."

"Brooke, that's seven years."

Brooke glares at Haley.

"I know that Haley, but my mother wasn't ever around so I got used to it."

"Maybe what your company needs is new eyes and besides you have other priorities, you have Sam."

"I really do not want to do this Hales."

"What Brooke?"

"Talk to my mother whom I haven't spoken to in seven years."

A/N-As of now I have a banner for this story, but all props go to Miguel51 for getting bored and doing the banner for me. Give props to Miguel151 because I really like it.

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