Author's Note: Okay I know that I have kinda been lacking in the brath-ness...again. And i am truly, madly, and deeply sorry...yes just like the song. But I hope this chapter makes up for it. Soo...let's get to it.

Disclaimer: Zilch/Nada is mine.

Anyywhoo...

Let's get on to the chapter...

CHAPTER 23

Haley opened the door with Taylor and Lucas behind her. But she was slightly disappointed when she saw who it was.

"Hi guys," Brooke squealed happily, while Nathan waved.

"Oh it's just you," Lucas said distastefully.

"Nice to see you too," Nathan with a laugh as he walked into the house after Brooke.

"Sorry," Haley said. "We thought you were Peyton."

Brooke immediately got jealous. "What? Why?"

"Relax Brooke," Haley responded as she closed the door. "We just wanted to know who her new boyfriend is."

"Oh," Brooke said dumbly.

Everyone just stood in silence until Taylor broke it.

"So..." she drew out with a smile. "If you're preggers and you know it, clap your hands."

Everyone laughed but Brooke immediately smacked Nathan on the back of the head.

"Ow," he exclaimed as he rubbed the back of his head. "What the hell did you hit me for?"

"Because this..." she pointed at her stomache. "Is your fault."

Before he could respond the doorbell rang once again.

This time Lucas ran to the door and opened it.

"Hey Luke."

"Oh hi Jake," Lucas grumbled as he stared at the boy with the toddler resting on his hip.

"Not the pleasure it used to be huh," Jake smirked.

"Whatever," Lucas grumbled as he opened the door wider for him to enter and closed it once he did.

Taylor walked over to stand next to Lucas while Jake walked over to Haley and greeted her with a kiss.

"Ooh Jake, let me hold Jenny," Brooke said as she held her hands out to him as he pulled away from Haley.

Jake handed Jenny over to Brooke with a smile.

"Hi Jenny," Brooke cooed as she tickled her stomache.

Jenny giggled as she waved.

"So what are we waiting for?" Jake asked as they stood by the door.

"We're waiting for Peyton, but it doesn't look like she'll be here anytime soon so let's just go watch a movie," Haley said as she began to walk into the living room.

"I agree," Lucas said as he began to follow her, pulling Taylor with him.

Jake shrugged and followed as well.

"Okay, I guess," Nathan said as he went to enter the room.

"Let's go Jen," Brooke told the little girl in her arms as she went to follow her friends.

Brooke walked in to find Jake and Haley already situated on the couch, with Jake leaning on the arm. Lucas was laying back in a recliner with Taylor on top of him, her back to Lucas's chest, and Nathan was sitting next to Haley on the couch patting the spot next to him, motioning Brooke over.

She sat down next to him with Jenny on her lap. "So what are we watching?"

"Who cares? Just put something in," Lucas said.

Brooke looked at Haley with a look that said it was time to mess with Lucas, so Haley smiled devilishly, got up, put a movie in, and sat back down as she looked over at Lucas. "Who cares...right Lucas?"

"Right," Lucas smiled, but it soon went away as he realized what movie she put it. "Haley take that movie off."

"Come on Lucas, who cares?" she smirked knowingly.

"Haley," Lucas whined.

"Nope," she said. "Watch the movie Lucas."

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Lucas had his head in Taylor's shoulder and refused to look up at the screen.

"Luke come on it's over," Brooke said with a laugh.

"No," came Lucas's muffled reply. "I don't believe you."

"I can't believe you're afraid of clowns," Nathan said. "I'm ashamed of you."

"Give me a break!" Lucas exclaimed. "He eats people!"

"Yeah but that doesn't mean all clown's are like that," Jake said reasonably.

"Oh yeah? well..." Lucas stuttered. "Well...um..."

Lucas looked around for something to help him. "You shouldn't even be letting Jenny watch this!"

"While that may be true," Jake said. "She isn't scared of him, her fear is Chucky, in her eyes no killer clown is going to be worse than a killer doll."

Lucas looked at Jenny who was still sitting on Brooke's lap. "Is this true?"

Jenny nodded with a smile, oblivious of what she was asked.

"Hales just take the movie off," Brooke said with a slight laugh. "I'm sure we scared Lucas enough."

Haley nodded and stood up to take out the movie, then she sat back down. "So what do we do now?"

"Truth or Dare?" Brooke asked with a smile.

"No," they all exclaimed with wide eyes.

"Jeez, it was just a suggestion," Brooke said as she crossed her arms and leaned on Nathan's shoulder.

"Why don't we just tell stories?" Jake asked.

"What kind of stories?" Lucas asked.

"Ooh how about embarrassing ones?" Taylor asked excitedly.

"Oh you mean stories from our past?" Brooke asked with a laugh. "No thanks."

"Oh come on Brooke, this sounds like fun," Nathan said.

"Fine," she relented. "But Haley I swear I'll kill you if you say anything."

Haley just grinned. "We'll see."

"So who's gonna go first?" Taylor asked.

"I'll go," Nathan volunteered.

"Alright people Nathan's going first," Haley said.

"This was about a week ago," Nathan said. "Brooke and I went to the store to buy some baby stuff..."

(Flashback)

"Nathan look at this it's so cute." Brooke said as she held up a baby shirt.

"Brooke why are we buying baby clothes? We don't even know if it's a boy or a girl," Nathan said.

"But I want to," Brooke whined. "Besides I'm only buying unisex colors, so it doesn't really matter."

"Fine do whatever you want, but I'm gonna go somewhere else, all of this stuff is making me feel girly," Nathan said as he began to walk away.

"No wait," Brooke exclaimed. "I want you to see this other cute little shirt I saw."

She walked over to the clothes rack.

"It was somewhere in here," she mumbled as she rifled through the clothes.

She looked around to other racks and spotted it. "Aha."

She walked over to it and grabbed but so did another pair of hands.

Brooke looked up to find a snobby looking blonde staring back at her.

"Let it go I saw it first," the blonde said.

"No I did," Brooke argued back.

"Bitch, you better let go," the blonde said.

Nathan saw their commotion and ran over to them.

He looked at the blonde. "Escuse me, but I don't think you should be stressing her out."

"And why not?" she asked, faking curiousness.

"Because she's pregnant and-" Nathan was cut off.

"Yeah well so is my mom, and she wants this shirt, and this bitch isn't going to get it, so just let go," the blonde said snappily.

Brooke let go of the shirt and the blonde gave her a triumphant smile, but Brooke just punched her straight in the face.

The blonde was on the floor holding her nose.

Nathan looked down at the girl with a sad smile. "You should have let me finish, I was going to say, because she's pregnant and she can kick your ass."

Brooke blew the hair out of her face and looked down and the blonde. "Tell your mom she can have the shirt."

Brooke walked away with a huff with Nathan following closely behind.

"We are never shopping here again," Brooke said.

(End Flashback)

Everyone was laughing except Haley who stared at Brooke with shock. "Brooke! You're pregnant, you shouldn't be fighting."

"Oh come on Hales! She was totally asking for it!" Brooke exclaimed. "Besides it's not like Nathan is setting a good example."

"Hey what's that suppose to mean?" Nathan said.

"Remember what happened when we went to the park last week?" Brooke asked.

Nathan stayed quiet.

"Let me refresh your memory Nate..." Brooke said.

(Flashback)

Brooke and Nathan walked up to a table and Brooke set the stuff she had on the floor while Nathan put a mantle on the table.

"Hey Brooke pass me the food," Nathan said.

Brooke bent down without bending her knees, unintentionally sticking her butt out.

Nathan didn't notice until he saw a guy pass and stop with a stare that Nathan knew too well. So Nathan looked down at Brooke and got mad. He didn't voice his anger because he knew Brooke would get even angrier so he let it be.

Instead Nathan looked at the guy with a look that would kill and he went away as quickly as he came.

"Hey Nate," Brooke said, still looking through the bags. "What are we eating first?"

"Uh..." Nathan said as he spotted another guy. "Whatever you want."

He gave that guy the same look but he didn't move.

"Okay," she said. "How about the sandwiches?"

"Yeah sure," Nathan said distractedly as he saw the guy come closer.

"What's wrong?" Brooke asked as she heard the tone of his voice.

"Nothing," he said.

Brooke stood up straight and looked at him. "You sure?"

Nathan nodded as he stared at the guy, who was coming from behind Brooke.

The guy came closer and tapped Brooke on the shoulder, but this act alone angered Nathan so he tackled him.

"Nathan!" Brooke screeched in horror.

They guy yelled, "Stop! Stop!"

Nathan got up and let his breath even out.

Brooke recognized the guy on the floor, "Oh my god Brad."

Brooke helped him up and Brad stood up slowly. "Hi Brooke."

"Who the hell are you?" Nathan asked angrily.

"I'm just an old friend," Brad said as he rubbed his elbow.

"How'd you know it was me from behind?" Brooke asked.

"Your panties looked familiar," Brad shrugged.

"Watch it pal," Nathan seethed as he was about to tackle him again.

"Nathan stop!" Brooke yelled

"Why?!" Nathan yelled back.

"He's gay!"

(End Flashback)

"Oh my god," Haley said. "You tackled Brad?"

"You know him too?!" Nathan exclaimed.

"Well yeah, we've known him since third grade," Haley said. "Right Lucas?"

"Yeah," he nodded. "How is he anyway?"

Brooke smiled. "He moved back to Arizona, he said he was only here because he was visiting his grandmother and-"

"Can we not talk about him?" Nathan asked.

"Sure," Brooke said. She looked over at Haley and Lucas and mouthed 'later' to which they smiled and nodded.

"You know, you guys are both abusive people," Jake said.

"Yes I know, that's why we are perfect for each other," Brooke smiled.

Nathan smiled back down at her.

Lucas fake gagged, Taylor smirked, Jake smiled, and Haley laughed.

"Okay guys give me Jenny before you start to make out," Haley said as she held her arms out towards Brooke.

"Fine here," Brooke said as she handed her the toddler.

"Hi mommy," Jenny laughed as Haley put her on her lap.

"Is she still calling you that?" Lucas said.

"Obviously," Haley said with a smile. "I think it's cute."

"I can't wait to hear our child call you mommy," Nathan said as he looked over at Brooke.

"Me neither," Brooke said with a smile.

And then the doorbell rang...

Again.

The end of chapter 23

A.N:There ya have it! I'm kinda running out of ideas, in case you haven't noticed, and I'd appreciate any ideas you guys send my way. So please review!