Episode 17 Ch. 3 Surprise

Peyton and Lucas are sitting in the car. Lucas is smiling, "We finally know what we're having."

"Yeah," she was smiling too. "When are we going to tell everyone?"

He squinted, "I was thinking that we let it be a surprise to everyone else."

"A surprise."

"Yeah it would be fun for us to know and no one else. We would have a really big secret."

"Lucas you aren't very good with keeping secrets especially something this amazing," Peyton laughed.

"I can keep a secret."

"Fine we'll see how this works, but I'm not promising you anything. Brooke can be very persuasive when she wants to know something," Peyton told him.

"We'll try. I mean that is all we can do."

She sat for a moment and then asked, "Are you happy with the news Luke?"

"It is exactly what I wanted it to be of course I'm happy," he leaned over and kissed his beautiful wife. All his dreams had come true.

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Michelle is at home when Becky comes busting through the door, "Mom," she screamed.

"What's wrong?" Michelle was in panic when she was met by her daughter. "Honey."

"I get to go on tour," she screamed.

"Tour," Michelle was worried.

"Yeah but I'm not going to go unless you say it is okay," she was praying that it was going to be okay.

"How long would you be gone?"

"Probably the whole semester, but maybe not that long. Mom this is an opportunity of a lifetime."

"And you really want to do this? What about school?" Michelle didn't know if she wanted her little girl to leave.

"I can take my work with me, and communicate with my teachers by email. Please mom I want this more than I ever wanted anything," Becky pleaded with her mom. "But I won't go if you don't want me too."

"You should go," Michelle told her reluctantly.

"Really?'

"You have to go Becky. This is too important for you to miss," Michelle hugged her daughter. "I am so proud of you Becky."

"Thanks mom." All of her dreams were finally coming true.

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Jacey is sitting on the couch thinking about Keith. She picks up her phone and dials his number. It rings and rings and she gets his voicemail, "Hey Keith I was just thinking about you and thought that I would see what you were doing. I think we need to talk. I miss you. Call me later bye," she closed her eyes. Things were not good between them, and she wanted them to be better. She needed them to be better.

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Peyton was upstairs sitting on her bed. Her brother and his family were about to come to her house. She was so excited about the family being together. She had invited Grace and her dad, but her dad had work to do. She picked up her phone to call her son. She and Keith hadn't really talked in a while, and she was hoping that he would come home when she called.

She also gets his voicemail, "Keith I just wanted to tell you that your Uncle Derek will be here soon, and I would like you to come home. So please just come home. I love you Keith."

She hung up and was very upset. She was trying to get through to her son but none of her tactics were working.

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The scene changes to Keith and his buddies. They are sitting around drinking and talking. Keith is enjoying himself. He looks at his phone, and then puts it back in his pocket. He takes another drink of his beer and smiles at his new brothers.

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Chase and Isabella are drinking hot chocolate at the café. "Thanks for this," Isabella told her big brother.

"I'd do anything for you little sis," Chase smiled at her. He knew that she was going through a lot, and he wanted to be there for her.

Isabella sighed, "I can't believe that I screwed up so bad."

"This is not your fault Isabella, and you've got to stop thinking that okay. I think you should talk to mom," he tried to encourage her.

"I doubt that I'm her favorite person."

"She doesn't blame you for this."

"But she should," Isabella put her head in her hands.

"No she shouldn't," he yelled at her. "Mom loves you, and I think that you should talk to her. It would be best for both of you."

Isabella didn't say anything. She and her mom hadn't talked that much since the kidnapping, and she was sure that her mom hated her.

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Brooke still had Sophie in her arms. Nathan walked upstairs, "I see our little girl is sleeping."

"Yeah she's so beautiful."

"Why don't you put her down and come take a walk with me?" he wanted to get Brooke out of the house.

"I don't think that is such a good idea," Brooke told him never taking her eyes off of her daughter.

"Brooke she's asleep, and you need some air."

Brooke whispered loudly, "Don't tell me what I need Nathan."

"But."

She cut him off, "But nothing….I don't need you telling me what I need to do. I want to hold my daughter while she is asleep and that is exactly what I am going to do."

She got up from the chair and left the room. Nathan sighed. He was getting more and more worried about her as the days went by.

Deb walked in, "I just saw Brooke carrying a sleeping Sophie around the house."

"She doesn't want to put her down," Nathan told her.

"Nathan this isn't good. This isn't good for her and it is most definitely not good for Sophie."

"I know that mom, but just give Brooke sometime she's going through something major. Her mother kidnapped her daughter."

"Yeah and Victoria is in prison for what she did. She's not going to hurt anyone in this family ever again," Deb told her son. She was worried about him.

"It's gonna take her sometime. I'm willing to wait."

"What if she slips into a depression Nathan?"

"We'll handle it mom, but I'm gonna wait and see. That's all I can do."

"You need to talk to her Nate," Deb hoped that he was listening to her.

"What I need to do right now mom is protect Brooke and my family. If this is how she handles things then I'm okay with that, and you should be too." Nathan walked out of the room. Deb shook her head and sighed. She knew that Brook was headed down a bumpy road if she did not talk about what happened.

I know that some of you really wanted to know the sex of the babies, but I'm going to reveal it later on in another episode.

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