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CHAPTER 31
"Bye," Jake pouted as he stood at the doorstep.
"Bye babe," Haley said a she leaned down to leave a lingering kiss on Jake's lips.
She pulled away and laughed because Jake kept his eyes closed as he savored the kiss. When he opened his eyes he continued to pout.
"Come on," he pleaded. "Let me stay."
"No Jake," Haley said firmly, yet had a smile on her face.
"Why not?" he whined.
"Because you need to hang out with your friends," Haley said. "And I do too..."
"Fine," he said defeated.
"Thank you," she said. "And thank you for moving my things in."
"You don't have to thank me for that Haley," he said. "I just didn't want you girls to be working when you should be having fun."
"I'm gonna miss you," Haley said softly.
"Me too," he smiled.
She gave him one more quick peck before telling him her goodbye and shutting the door.
Haley then went to set up while making sure not to step on Jenny, who was sleeping on the living room floor.
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"Nate I have to go," Brooke said as she tried to pull her arm away from Nathan's grasp.
"But I don't want you to," he said sadly.
"Babe...it's just one night," she said. "I'll be back tomorrow."
"Okay fine," he said sadly, then he looked up hopefully. "Can I at least drive you there?"
"Yeah you can," she said with a laugh.
"Great!" he exclaimed. "Just let me go find my keys."
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"Thanks for dropping me off Chris," Peyton said from her seat as Chris stopped the car in front of Jake and Haley's house.
"Yeah, it was no problem," he said with a smile as he turned to look at her.
"Hey Chris, I've been meaning to ask you something about my friend Felix..."
Immediately the smile that Chris had on his face was gone, replaced by a frown. "What about him?"
"Did he come to see me?" she asked.
Chris sighed as he looked down at his lap. "Yeah he did...he said he was sorry for leaving."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know...I guess I was intimidated by him," he admitted. "He had flowers and..."
"Hey," Peyton interrupted. "You don't have anything to worry about, I'm with you, nothing and no one is gonna change that."
"Okay," he nodded, assured that he overreacted.
Peyton leaned over to his side of the car and gave him a slow kiss.
She pulled away and Chris had a slight smirk on his face.
"Have fun," he said but then put on a fake serious face. "But not too much fun."
"Gotcha," Peyton said as she said her goodbye and exited the vehicle.
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"Lucas take this damn thing off me," Taylor exclaimed in fear.
Lucas looked at her like she was crazy. "It's only a blindfold."
"You know that I don't like darkness," she whimpered.
"You're still afraid of the dark?" Lucas asked in surprise. "I thought you got over it."
"Yeah well, I didn't," she huffed as she crossed her arms.
"Come on," Lucas said gently as he took a hold of her hand and interlaced their fingers. "I'm right here...besides we aren't that far away."
"Okay," she said gently.
Then they began to walk.
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Peyton was about to knock on the door but she heard a car pull up behind her so she turned to see Brooke getting out of the car, leaving a very sullen Nathan Scott.
Brooke walked up to her and then she turned to Nathan's direction and made a 'shoo' motion which succeeded in having Nathan drive off...very slowly.
Brooke shook her head in amusement. "He is such a weirdo."
Peyton agreed as she saw someone come up to them.
"Hey," Anna smiled
"Hey," Peyton smiled. "Anna this is Brooke...Brooke this is Anna."
They said their hello's then Peyton knocked on Haley's door.
After a moment, there still wasn't an answer. So Peyton checked to see if the door was open, and it was.
All three girls stepped in to look for Haley and stopped when they found her.
She was sleeping on the floor with Jenny.
Peyton turned to Brooke. "What now?"
"We wake her up," she shrugged.
"How?" Anna asked.
Brooke got a mischievous smirk on her face. "I know exactly how."
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Jake and Nathan were shooting some hoops at the Rivercourt.
"So why did Lucas cancel?" Jake asked as he bounced the ball.
"He said he was going to do something Taylor," Nathan said as he took the ball away.
Jake stopped. "Wait...so it's only gonna be us?"
"I guess so," he answered, not really caring.
"I'm calling Skillz and the rest of the guys," Jake said as he took out his cell.
"Make sure Mouth brings his swivel chair and some duct tape," Nathan said with an evil smirk.
"Good idea," Jake said with a smile as he put the phone to his ear.
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Chris was walking along the park when he heard someone.
"Hey!" he heard someone yell out from behind him so he turned to see Felix come up to him.
"Uh...hey," Chris said confused as to why this guy was coming up to him.
"Your Peyton's friend right?" Felix asked.
"Well actually..." he started.
"Can you tell her something for me?" Felix said quickly.
"It depends..." Chris said. "What is it?"
"That I really want to be with her, and if she could give me a chance," he said nervously.
"I can't do that," Chris said coolly. "You're gonna have to tell Joe."
Felix scrunched his eyebrows together. "Who's Joe?"
"Joe mama," Chris said before turning to walk away.
Felix turned him back around angrily. "What's your problem?"
"You can't have Peyton," Chris said simply. "She's with me."
Felix eyed him up and down. "Not for long."
They both glared at each other before walking their separate ways.
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Haley woke up to an aroma that she knew well.
She opened her eyes and saw that three girls were seated on the couch...eating macaroni and cheese.
Brooke saw Haley wake up and smirked, as did Peyton, but Anna just tried to hold in her laughs.
"Haley, you should have woken up earlier," Brooke said. "We just finished all the mac and cheese."
Haley's eyes widened. "R-really?"
"Sorry Hales," Peyton said. "It's just that I couldn't't get enough of Brooke's macaroni and cheese...it just tastes soo goood."
Haley's eyes widened even more. "Brooke made it?"
"Yup just like old times," Brooke said. "Too bad you weren't awake to enjoy it with us."
"B-but you guys still have some in your plates," she said.
"Well it's not like we can just give you some from our plate," Peyton said. "It just won't be the same for you."
Haley sat up and said quickly, "Yes it will."
"No it won't...you need a whole plate to have the same experience," Brooke explained.
Haley pouted and turned to look for Jenny, but she was gone.
"Where's Jenny?" she asked as she turned back to her friends.
"Oh she's eating her mac and cheese in the kitchen," Brooke answered.
"Jenny got some too?" Haley asked in shock.
"She was awake," Peyton shrugged.
"So you didn't save me any?" Haley asked like a child.
She continued to stare at her friends with her big brown eyes and pout.
"Brooke I can't take it anymore," Peyton muttered.
"Yeah me neither," Brooke said. "Hey Haley."
"Yeah?"
"We left you a bowl on the counter."
"Yay!" and with that she ran into the kitchen.
Anna looked at her as if she was a lunatic, but still laughed.
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"You okay Mouth?" Nathan yelled.
Mouth was on the floor, along with the chair that was taped to him, and he gave Nathan a thumbs up.
Nathan, Jake, Mouth, Skillz, Fergie, and Junk were all at Nathan's house...well Nathan's driveway, and they were using Mouth to knock over the garbage cans.
Skillz ran over to get Mouth and he pushed him back over to everybody else.
This time Junk was the one that pushed him and when they heard the satisfying crash of the cans falling over they all cheered.
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"Mommy like the mac and cheese," Jenny giggled from across Haley at the kitchen table.
"She sure does," Peyton agreed as she walked into the kitchen with Brooke and Anna in tow.
Haley had a lot of mac and cheese in her mouth and it was visible.
"Be careful there Tutorgirl," Brooke said as she walked up to Haley. "You might choke or something."
Haley swallowed what was in her mouth and looked at Brooke with a dreamy smile. "But it's soo goood."
"Hey that's what I said," Peyton said with a laugh.
"I think you've had enough," Brooke said as she took the bowl away from Haley.
"Aww," she pouted and crossed her arms.
"Be happy you got some," Brooke told her as she put the bowl away.
Peyton observed the way Brooke was acting and smiled. "Well look at you Brooke...being all motherly and stuff."
"Nah," she said with an embarrassed smile. "You really think so?"
"Totally," Peyton said.
Haley nodded vigorously, but then let out a yelp.
Brooke was at her side in an instant. "What happened?"
"I mit by longue," Haley mumbled as she brought her hand up to her mouth.
"What?" Peyton said.
"She bit her tongue," Brooke answered. "Are you okay?"
Haley nodded as she felt her tongue sting a bit, but it was slowly going away.
Peyton then realized that she still hadn't introduced Anna to Haley. "Hales this is Anna; my friend from back home...Anna this is Haley; the mac monster."
Haley glared at her playfully, but Anna just laughed.
"Come on," Brooke said to Peyton, Haley, Anna, and Jenny. "Let's go eat some ice cream while making fun of cheesy chick flicks."
"Okay," Peyton, Haley, and Anna answered happily.
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"Guys! guys!" Mouth yelled. "No more!"
They all looked at him.
He wasn't hurt...at least not that badly.
He got a couple of bruises on his arm but that was about it.
"Come on Mouth," Junk whined.
"No," he said firmly. "Either we stop altogether or one of you trades places with me."
They all looked at each other.
Jake raised his hand. "I vote Nathan!"
The others agreed.
"Actually this is kinda getting boring, let's go watch a movie or something," Nathan said slyly as he began to walk into the house.
The others shrugged and followed.
Mouth was left all alone on the driveway, still taped to the chair.
Then a harmless looking poodle came up the driveway.
Mouth looked at it uneasily. "Nice doggy."
The dog got closer to Mouth and then began to growl and bite his jeans.
"Guys help!"
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The movie had ended, Jenny had fallen asleep on the floor again, and the four other girls were seated on the couch with Anna at the edge, Peyton next to Anna, Brooke next to Peyton, and Haley at the other edge next to Brooke.
"Now what?" Anna asked.
"Oh I know," Brooke exclaimed. "Let's talk about our first kiss."
"Oh come on, you already know my first kiss," Haley said.
"No I don't," Brooke disagreed. "Now spill."
Haley sighed. "Fine...it was at a 7th grade party."
(Flashback)
"Haley come on!" yelled one of her friends. "We're gonna play a game!"
Haley walked over to her, where everyone was gathered outside a closet.
Another girl started to speak, "This is how the game goes, a guy and a girl are going to be locked in that closet for seven minutes...and then...whatever happens, happens."
This time a guy started to speak, "We have all the names of the girls who are participating in one hat and all the guys in another...the guy and the girl who are going to be in the closet will be chosen randomly."
The guy stuck his hand into the hat and looked at the name and walked out of the room to go get the chosen guy.
The girl took her hand out of the hat and walked over to Haley. "Your up."
Haley's eyes widened. "Are you serious?"
The girl nodded and pushed Haley into the closet.
Haley stood in the dark until another person came into the closet.
She couldn't't see him clearly, but he seemed as nervous as she did.
"Um...hi," she said.
The boy recognized the voice but he couldn't't quite remember exactly who's it was. "Hi."
"So..." she started.
"Yeah..." he said.
"Have you ever done this before?" she asked, trying to break the tension.
"No," he said. "You?"
"No," she repeated.
Now silence took over.
That was until they heard someone yell out, "5 more minutes!"
"I guess we should do something," he said as he started to get closer to Haley.
"Yeah," she muttered as she watched him get closer.
The boy got closer and she leaned up so that they met in the middle for a chaste kiss.
They pulled away slowly and Haley smiled. "What's your name?"
"Jake."
Just then the door opened and Haley was pulled out by a very angry Lydia James who started yelling at her for being in a closed space with a boy.
Haley turned around, desperately trying to find the boy that had kissed her.
(End Flashback)
"Jake was your first kiss?" Brooke said shocked.
Haley shrugged. "I guess so...I never did actually see his face."
"It was so Jake," Peyton said.
"I agree," Brooke said with a confident nod. "But as mysterious as this is let's get on to my first kiss."
Haley rolled her eyes. "Wasn't your first kiss Lucas?"
Brooke scrunched her face in disgust. "Ew! No!"
"Then who was it?" Haley asked.
"Nathan..."
(Flashback)
A six year old Brooke was at school hoping to find the boy that had the 'accident' at the cafe.
She was on the playground and looked around.
Then she saw him, seated on a bench next to the handball courts.
She walked up to him. "Hi."
Nathan looked up with a smile but it soon went away when he saw who it was. "What do you want?"
"I'm sorry about what happened..."
Nathan just scoffed.
Brooke still continued. "I hope this makes up for it."
She leaned down and gave him a nice wet one, right on the lips.
They pulled away and smiled shyly at each other until Nathan saw some of his friends coming and he wiped his lips disgustedly. "Ew! Girl cooties!"
"What?" Brooke said confusedly.
"Don't talk to me again," he said quickly as he walked away and left her there.
(End Flashback)
"And then he became a jerk until he got with you," Brooke said with a shrug.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Haley asked.
"You had already told me you liked him," she answered.
"Whoa," Peyton and Anna said simultaneously.
"It's like you guys were meant to be," Peyton said in awe. "Haley and Jake...Brooke and Nathan."
"Yeah," Brooke and Haley mumbled.
Brooke then shook her head. "Okay enough of the fate stuff...who was your first kiss Peyton? Chris?"
"No, actually," Peyton looked at Anna. "It was Felix."
(Flashback)
There was a circle of boys in the middle of the park and a ten year old Peyton walked over to see what was going on.
In the middle of the circle there were two bigger boys beating up another boy about her age.
Peyton pushed through the boys to get to the middle. "Hey!"
The two big boys looked up. "What do you want?"
"Leave him alone!" Peyton yelled as she pushed the boys and tried to help the one that was getting beaten up.
"Why should we?" one of them said obnoxiously.
"Because it's not nice," she said as she got the boy on his feet.
"Whatever," the bully said as he turned to his friend. "Let's just go."
The circle broke away and only Peyton and the boy were left.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
He just nodded as he rubbed his elbow. "Thanks."
"No problem," she smiled. "So what's your name?"
"Felix."
"I'm Peyton," she said."So what did you do that made them want to beat you up?"
"I told them to stop picking on my little sister," he said bitterly. "They're just a bunch of jerks that have nothing better to do."
"I'm glad you're okay," she said.
"Yeah," he mumbled. "Hey Peyton, you think we could maybe hang out some other time?"
"I'd love that," she said as she leaned down to give him a kiss.
In her mind it was completely platonic.
In Felix's mind it was hope for the future.
(End Of Flashback)
"My brother was your first kiss!" Anna exclaimed.
"It was a friendly kiss!" Peyton retorted.
Brooke and Haley watched the two friends bicker.
But then Haley heard Brooke whimper in pain so she turned quickly.
"What's wrong?"
"The...baby," she got out before passing out.
"Oh my god call an ambulance," Haley yelled.
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"This is so beautiful Lucas," Taylor gushed as she stared at the ocean in front in her.
She and Lucas were seated on a blanket with a picnic basket near them.
"Thanks," he said shyly.
"Aw you are just so cute Lucas Eugene Scott," she teased as she pinched his cheek.
She let go of his cheek and leaned in to kiss him but they were interrupted by his cell phone.
"Hold on," he mumbled as he put looked at the name on his phone and answered with a smile. "Hey Hales, what's going on?"
Haley told him of Brooke and his smile went away. "What?...Well have you called Nathan?...Okay I'll do it, just get her to the hospital, fast. Okay, bye."
Taylor was worried. "What happened?"
"Brooke just passed out...something about the baby..." he said as he put the phone to his ear again.
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Mouth had tears coming down his face as the rest of the guys stared at him. Mouth was seated on the couch with tons of blankets on him and he was shaking.
Nathan laughed. "Mouth it was just poodle."
"No," he whimpered as he hugged the blankets tighter. "That thing was evil."
The rest of them laughed.
Then Nathan's phone rang.
He looked at the caller id.
"Hey Luke you'd never guess what happened," he started but then he stopped smiling when Lucas told him what was going on. "What?!...W-well is she o-okay? I'll be right there."
The rest of them saw him start to leave.
"Yo what's going on?" Skillz asked. "Where are you going?"
"Something's wrong with Brooke," he said. "I'm going to the hospital."
And with that they all went to the hospital.
Nathan just had two things on his mind.
Brooke and the baby.
The end of chapter 31
A.N: Yes this chapter had it all; fun, laughter, and drama. And I hope you review, cause I think this is the longest chapter I've written. So yeah...please review!