A/N: Wow! Thank you so much for all of the reviews! Well I won't keep you waiting since the end is near, so enjoy this chapter! I think you all will like it, if you know what I mean!

Chapter 11

It was the day before graduation, and everyone could not sit still. Teachers were anxious to get the seniors out and the seniors were anxious for getting out. No more school at Tree Hill High for them, they were done!

Nathan and Haley walked down the hallway hand in hand whispering things in each other's ears, probably about the baby and how much in love they are.

Brooke was coming down the same hallway as them and all she could do was smile. She loved Nathan and Haley so much and she only wanted them to be happy, but it seemed like they already were.

"Brooke!" Haley exclaimed and broke apart from her husband for a moment. "I haven't talked to you in forever! How are you holding up?"

Haley pulled Brooke in a hug and Brooke gratefully accepted. "I'm just holding."

"Have you talked to Lucas at all?"

"Oh yeah, I talked to him yesterday while we were out for coffee and before his girlfriend Peyton took him away from me." Brooke explained.

"He's back with Peyton?" Haley exclaimed.

Brooke nodded, "But it's okay because the kiss was a mistake anyways. I'm sure he would agree with me if we ever talk about it."

Haley sighed, "He didn't tell you it was a mistake though right?"

Brooke shook her head.

"Good," Haley began, "Because I bet he doesn't think it was."

Brooke just tried to ignore the situation completely.

"Okay, enough talking about Lucas!" Haley exclaimed and put her arm around Brooke, "Were graduating tomorrow!"

"Whoo," Brooke replied in complete monotone.

"Okay, because of your attitude, were hanging out after school. You're fricking Brooke Davis for goodness sake and you're going to have some fun on the last day of school!" Haley yelled.

Brooke looked at her, shocked. "Those hormones are really kicking in aren't they?"

At the end of the day Brooke was found back at her locker, feeling like her whole world was being ripped away from her, and she didn't mean Peyton and Lucas.

She was graduating high school and she was going to college. She was nervous as hell and she didn't how she was going to deal with all of it. She was lucky that she found a college around here, so she would be here for Nathan and Haley's baby upon hearing the news that she was a godparent. She just hoped that everything would work out for her, but like all the other times, she had huge doubts.

"Hey Brooke," Lucas exclaimed.

Brooke jumped, "You scared me, Eugene!"

Lucas held a hand up, "What did I tell you yesterday about my middle name?"

She put her hand on her chin in wonder, "That you loved it?"

"Haha very funny, Penelope."

Brooke flinched, "Okay fine, no middle names for the either of us, since we obviously don't have the greatest ones."

"Deal," they both said and shook on it.

"So the reason I came over here was to ask you if you wanted to do something after school. It's the last day so I wanted to know if you wanted to blow of some steam and stress." He suggested.

"I already have plans with Haley," She told him nonchalantly.

Lucas couldn't hide his disappointment, "Oh okay. Well how about after?"

"I'll call you if I'm free." She told him and then closed her locker, waved good bye and walked through the doors.

Haley was waiting for Brooke at Brooke's car. She told Nathan what they were doing and Nathan was fine with it, now being able to get some things done that he needed.

"Hey tutor girl," Brooke greeted as she got in her little baby blue bug.

"Hey Brooke, what's wrong?"

"Oh nothing, Lucas just asked me to hang out today and I told him I had plans with you. It's like why isn't he spending his time with his girlfriend?"

Haley had one idea.

"Who knows?" Haley told her, deciding not to bring up how its obvious Lucas still loves her.

"So where do you want to go?" Brooke asked.

"This is about you relaxing so you pick the place and I…well I will just have to deal with it."

"Okay fine, but I'm not going to do too much walking, considering you're very pregnant tutor mommy."

"Sounds good to me."

It was now late in the afternoon and Lucas was at Peyton's. He wished Brooke had been available today because he always pictured the two of them enjoying their last day at Tree Hill High together.

But here he was, staring intently at his phone, hoping that Brooke will call and tell him that she wants to hang out with him now.

He was shaken out of his thoughts when he heard Peyton mutter something.

"What?" He asked.

"Just go after her." She repeated, more clearly this time.

"Go after who?"

"Don't play dumb Lucas; we both know you don't want this." She told him like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Brooke? You think I want to go after Brooke? Peyton no, you're wrong." He reassured himself and her. But even he couldn't deny it any longer, he was slipping.

"No Lucas, you're wrong for denying your feelings. I see the way you look at her and I know that you have your little jokes and little pacts with each other. You both connect in a way that we never could… with true love." She said it sadly, but she had known this for a long time.

"No Peyton, you're wrong. You're the one I want to be with remember? It's you that I see next to me when all of my dreams come true." He began to grow frantic.

"Lucas, I couldn't forget that speech if I tried, but the bottom line is, were just friends. That's all we'll ever be. And…I'm fine with that."

"Why because you have Jake?" He snapped.

Peyton sighed sadly and thought about the chocolate haired boy, "I don't have him."

"You're right," Lucas finally whispered, "This isn't right."

She nodded, "I know."

"I guess I just wanted this to be right so everything didn't get so complicated." He admitted.

"I did too," She replied.

"I'm sorry Peyton."

"Don't worry about me; I have my own problems to deal with, like getting Jake back." She said slightly laughing, "Go to her."

"Thank you." He said and ran out of Peyton's room, into his car, and immediately called Brooke's cell phone.

Brooke and Haley decided to do a little shopping and then plop down on a bench for some pretzel's and ice cream.

"You and Nathan are going to be fine." Brooke told Haley.

"I know we are, I'm just excited to start our new life together." She gushed.

"I would be too if I were you."

Haley turned to her, "Hey Brooke, we never told you who the other godparent was did we?"

She shook her head, "No."

"Okay well then don't get mad, but we picked Lucas."

Brooke just sat there; it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Haley waved a hand in her face, "Brooke?"

"Just tell me that the only reason you did it was because it was in the best interest of your kid and because you and Nathan are very close to him."

"That's why we did it." Haley replied even though she picked Lucas for another reason Brooke did not list. She hoped that if she picked him, they would get back together.

"Then I'm okay with it."

"Good," Haley said, relieved. "Hey, what time is it?"

Brooke pulled out her phone; she had 18 missed calls and 10 new voicemails along with 5 text messages.

"Whoa, who is calling me?" She wondered aloud.

Haley looked down at her phone, "Someone wants to get a hold of you."

"Brooke?" Someone said quietly.

Brooke's mouth almost dropped to the floor, "Chase, what are you doing here?"

She shoved her phone in her purse, now knowing who had been making all of the calls.

"I wanted to talk to you."

"Okay," Brooke began and told Haley she would be right back, and then pulled Chase away from her.

"The way we ended things were really bad and I just want to fix them. I don't want to be away from you Brooke I want to be with you."

"Chase, you said that you still liked me but couldn't be with me. That pretty much tells me that I disgust you."

"No, no it's not like that. I just…had a bad experience with cheating, that's all. I want to be with you Brooke." He explained.

"I know you had a bad time with your last girlfriend but I wasn't like her because I didn't cheat on you. But you still put your judgments on me."

Brooke sighed, "Look, I'm not mad at you I just can't be with you."

"Is it because of that Lucas guy?"

Brooke looked down at the floor. Well, that was partly it.

"Are you in love with him?" Chase urged.

The burning question. Was she really in love with him or not? Although they went out for coffee and she only went to make him mad, she ended up having a great time. She loved their jokes they had together, she loved annoying him, she loved making him nervous, she loved being with him, she loved hi-

Him. It was true. She loved him; she was in love with him.

"Yes," Brooke replied quietly, "I am."

He looked down, "Oh."

"I'm sorry Chase, but I can't be with you. Friends yes, but with no benefits."

"If that's what you want," He laughed, "Then I'd like that."

"Me too." She hugged him one last time and when she pulled away, she knew that she would still have contact with him; she was going to try as hard as she could to keep in touch.

They both walked away and Brooke went right back to Haley, with her mouth wide open.

Haley jumped from her seat, "What! Tell me! What did he do, like propose to you or something? Speak!"

"I told him that I loved Lucas. I told him that I was in love with Lucas."

Haley smiled. "It's about time Brooke."

Peyton ran all the way to Jake's house, hoping he didn't disappear again.

"Jake?" She yelled while knocking on the door. She prayed that his parents didn't open the door.

She didn't stop knocking until the door flew open and she took a couple steps back.

Sure enough, Jake opened the door and looked at her, confused.

"Peyton…what are you-?"

"I'm in love with you." She said cutting him off. She couldn't stop smiling.

"You're what?" He asked, wanting to hear it one more time to make sure it was real.

"I'm in love with you Jake Jagelski and I want to be with you and Jenny."

Jake laughed, "What about your boyfriend?"

"We decided it wasn't working because our hearts were somewhere else."

"And you just realized that you're heart lies with me?"

"No," She began, "I've known it all along. I was just too scared to admit it."

"But what about college…and-"

"Already taken care of. I've never told anyone this but I applied to that little art school in Savannah so if you decide to move back there, I'll be with you. And I applied to schools around here of course so if you want to stay here I'll be here again." She said, sounding proud of her early thinking.

Jake was speechless. He really was in her heart, all of this time.

"So, what do you think?" She asked him with a grin.

"I think how can I say no to the girl I'm in love with?"

She laughed, her smile growing by every word he was saying. "You can't."

He laughed and scooped her up into his arms, kissing her all over her face finally happy on where they stood…together. He finally reached her lips and it felt like the world stopped, and they were melting away.

Peyton finally found her happiness, and it lied in Jake all along. She parted her mouth, allowing Jake's tongue in and wrapped her arms tighter around his neck while his arms were tightly around her waist.

They broke apart breathless, both grinning like a smitten couple.

"So, now that we are together and all of the drama is over, what do you want to do my dear?" Jake asked in an old classic movie voice.

"Live happily ever after." She told him and jumped at him again, while they stumbled back into his house, both grateful that his parents weren't home.

Brooke arrived at Rachel's around 8:00 at night and changed into her pajamas as soon as she got in. She was so tried from today and from all that had happened. I mean she goes shopping with Haley, finds out that Lucas is a godparent with her, and then Chase comes and tells her he wants to be with her. And to top it all off, she admitted that she was in love with Lucas.

She couldn't believe it herself.

The doorbell rang furiously and she ran down the stairs to see who was at the door at this time. She was slightly scared so she grabbed the closest thing to her, which was an umbrella and held it with defense.

She slowly opened the door and once it was fully opened, she still had her eyes closed.

"Brooke!" She heard a voice yell.

She screamed and tried to jam the umbrella into the guy's stomach. The guy deflected it with ease.

"Brooke, it's me! Lucas!" He yelled.

Brooke dropped the umbrella and put her hands on her hips.

"What are you doing here?" She demanded.

He loved how she wasn't embarrassed in the least bit.

"Did you get my calls?" He asked her.

"What calls?"

"The calls I left on your cell phone. I was calling you all afternoon." He said.

"Those calls were from you?" She asked, now completely confused.

He nodded, "Yeah, who else would they be from?"

"No one. And no I didn't listen to them yet." She said keeping her hands firmly on her hips.

"Well please do whenever you have the chance," He told her sarcastically.

"Is this the reason you came here?" She asked harshly.

He shook his head.

"I have to talk to you." He told her, out of breath.

"Okay, about what?"

"I'm in love you with you Brooke Davis."

Brooke had to hold onto the wall to keep her from falling.

Okay well here it is! There's only one more chapter left and then the story is finished! I might just update it tonight depending on how many reviews I get. I hope you liked it and please review!