A/N: Finally we have an update. Completely sorry for not updating sooner, but something called life got in the way. I apologize, but I'm back and hopefully things will be great.
April
Part 3 Ch. 8: Much Needed Bonding
"Are you sure this is going to be a good idea? I could just stay at home with you and we can you know, do a little something something," Brianna says suggestively at her wife.
Skye chuckles behind her.
"I don't think so and besides of I remember correctly we did do a little something something last night for hours. So no more sex for you."
Brianna pouts and leans against the counter in the kitchen. Skye was leaning on the counter across from her.
"Why am I so hesitant in spending the day with my mom?" Brianna asks in wonderment.
"You and Brooke have a different type of relationship then most kids and their parents and it's because you are so much like Brooke that you two butt heads a lot and this time it just happened to really strain your relationship. And I hate that I am the cause of it."
Brianna shakes her head and quickly wraps her arms around her wife.
"Don't you think like that," Brianna whispers into Skye's ear. "I love you and you love me. Yes, it may not have been a conventional wedding, but we got there and we are in love and we are going to last. I can promise you that. I love you Skyler Evans and that's all that matters."
Skye pulls away with a teary laugh.
"It's just my insecurities. I'm sorry."
"If I have to tell you every day that I love and insure that I agreed to this marriage then I will do it because I am so in love with you Skyler Evans that it's crazy."
"As much as I love being in your arms, you have to meet your mom in a half hour."
"You just ruined my good mood."
Skye pats Brianna's upper arm.
"Suck it up and be the daughter you are supposed to be."
-I Need You Now-
Peyton leans against the doorway to her son's room and watches as Brooke sits on the floor with Evan.
"I have to spend the day with your sister. Now normally that wouldn't faze me, but our relationship has been strained."
"Bri, Bri…"
Brooke smiles down at her son as she places a green block on top of the red one.
"Anyway, I'm not sure how this day is going to turn out. I'm hoping that our relationship can be mended, but maybe I just. Maybe it was my fault, but I was just afraid. Now I might have lost her forever."
Evan looks up from his blocks and frowns at his mother. Evan pushes the blocks down and crawls into his mother's lap.
"No sad."
Peyton decides to make her presences known.
"That's right buddy, momma can't be sad."
Peyton sits down next to her wife.
"You both are a lot alike. Okay, both of you have your issues. Now I don't know what today will bring, but I just want you to know that I'm right here. I'll be here with our son while you spend the day with our daughter."
"Easy for you to say, you aren't spending the day with a hormonal teenager."
Peyton just smiles. Hopefully after this day things will go well for her daughter and wife.
-I Need You Now-
Brooke and Brianna had been walking around the mall for the last hour and they had only said a few words to each other. It was awkward for both women to admit their faults with what happened and both of them truly had their own mistakes in the mess, but neither woman was able to admit it.
Brooke and Brianna made their way to the food court and sat down at an empty table. Brooke decided to bite the bullet and start talking.
"Why is this so hard?"
Brianna bites the bottom of her lip and looks up at Brooke.
"I've asked myself the same questions every day and what I have come up with sounds stupid, but it's all I have."
"What's that?"
"There are things that you do that remind me of my mother. You roll your eyes at jokes and you have this presence that my mother used to have. Maybe I'm closer to Peyton because she's less like her, I don't know, but what I do know is that so much of you is like my mother and it hurts because I lost her and I don't want to lose you. I haven't been good to you and I'm sorry. It's all about me though it isn't you."
"Brianna, you don't have to continue. I understand."
Brianna shakes her head.
"You don't get it. I have never been good at the daughter thing even when my mother was alive. I was just never good at it. I'm working on it though."
"Before you married Skye I thought I was losing you and then you come home after your birthday and you're married and then I knew my fears were coming true. I was losing my daughter and you were the first kid that made me a mom and that means something to me. I get to be a mom because of you. I didn't want to lose you."
-I Need You Now-
"Wow, you really are going to upgrade the house. I mean it looks incredible now I don't see why you would want to upgrade it."
After their emotional conversation, Brooke and Brianna grabbed a ton of food and sat down. They had a lot to catch up on and they weren't going to do it with an empty stomach.
"It was the house I grew up, but now it's not just my home its Skye's as well and I asked if she wanted to upgrade the house and she said it didn't matter, but she wanted it so I decided that we might as well go for it. I just wanted to do them myself."
"That's a big undertaking. Are you sure you can do it because Peyton and I can help? We might even be able to get Nathan to help as well."
Brianna smiles.
"If I need help I'll ask, but this is something that I want to do for Skyler. She deserves that much."
"I was always rooting for you two," Brooke admits. "I may not have liked the fact that you two got married so young or that I wasn't there, but there is no denying that you love her."
"I'm sorry again. It was never planned. One minute we were having a good time, getting back to the way things were and the next morning we're married. I mean I still can't remember what happened. I just know that what we did was real and it was legal and that's really needed to know."
"I want to propose a rule for the both of us to follow. What happened in the past stays in the past? No more bringing up the drunken wedding or the fact that I wasn't there all you have to do is let me through you and Skye a "Congratulations you're married" party," Brooke states with a bright smile.
-I Need You Now-
After checking in on Evan, Brooke made her way into the bedroom. Peyton was sitting up in bed with the desk lamp on and she was drawing. Peyton smiles when she sees her wife enter the room. Brooke starts disrobing to get in her pajamas which consisted of a shirt two sizes too big for her.
"Considering it's almost ten o'clock I am assuming that you and Brianna have settled your differences at least somewhat?"
Brooke crawls into bed quickly.
"Yes we did. We aren't at full charge yet, but I'm thinking we were never 100 percent to begin with, but that's okay. We settled our differences and today things were starting to return to normal. I was glad that this day happened. I don't even know why I was so worried to begin with."
"You were worried because you're a mom," Peyton says as she places her drawing into the desk drawer and shuts off the lamp. Peyton crawls back into bed and snuggles against her wife. "All moms worry."
-I Need You Now-
Brianna sighed in content as she snuggled deep into the covers. The day was exhausting physically and emotionally, but for the first time in a long time, Brianna felt that things were on the right track.
Yawning, Skye turns over in bed and rest her head on her wife's shoulders.
"How was your day?"
"Exhausting," Brianna admits truthfully. "But we covered a lot and things are going to be relatively normal from now on. I can feel it."
"Well that's good. I'm glad you worked things out with your mom."
"Yeah and now she is planning a "Congratulations you're married" party for us."
"Huh?"
"I know, but I agreed anyway. She wasn't there Skye and just talking about it made her happy. I want to make my mom happy. Is that okay with you?"
Skye leans up and places a kiss on the underside of Brianna's jaw.
"Of course it is. I just don't want this party to be cliché is all. I want something different."
"With Brooke Sawyer as your party planner you are definitely in for something different."