Chapter 2: Only Fooling Myself

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Author's Note: Wow, I expected to write and get this up sooner, but I hope you all like it. Thank you all for the reviews, all of you are amazing and your reviews are what keep me confident enough to write more! I also really apologize for the shortness! For some reason it looks longer on what I'm writing it on, compared to on here. But the next chapter will definetly be longer!

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"The case of Allison and McKenzie Scott has now come to court," The judge's loud voice boomed over the court room.

Allie sat beside McKenzie as she wrung her hands, not having a good feeling about what's going to happen. Beside them sat their Aunt Haley. Her deep brown eyes clouded with the loss of one of her best friends. Her dark brown hair was up in a bun. Little pieces of hair framed her face. Haley, with their Uncle Nathan, and cousins Jamie and Erica lived back in Tree Hill, so they didn't get to see her much.

On McKenzie's left was Sam. The person probably taking Brooke's death the hardest. They sat on the right side of the court house. In front of them sitting beside his lawyer was Julian, the only reminder of the car accident were the few scratches, cuts, and bruises, which were now healing.

On the right of the court room was none other than Lucas Scott and his lawyer.

"Your honor, in all fairness, Allison and McKenzie are Mr. Scott's children, flesh and blood. They just lost their mother, its only right they not lose their real father too-" Lucas' lawyer sure knew how to pull the veil over the judge's eyes.

"Objection!" Julian's lawyer raged.

The judge let a deep sigh out," Okay Mr. Williams, what is your reason?"

"If you look at the second document in the folder, it is a signed statement with Lucas Scott's signature, handing over his rights to the girls when they were born." The judge nodded as Julian's lawyer, Remington Williams pleaded his case before continuing," McKenzie and Allison have never seen or heard from Mr. Scott who lives many miles away. As far as they are concerned, Julian has been their only father. This man has just lost his fiancée, why take two of his daughters away from him too?"

The judge actually looked sentimental before Lucas' lawyer cut in again," Your honor, as I understand from my client's mother, Brooke Davis had written up a will before her untimely death marking the girls' godmothers..."

The security guard handed a folder up to the judge with the will in. The judge placed his glasses on his nose and read silently the will of Brooke Davis.

"Here it is, oh, well this is unusual...it reads here, Allison Peyton Scott's godmother is Peyton Sawyer, is there a here?" The judge looked up as Peyton, her blonde hair still curly, but now more shoulders length, stood up.

"It's Peyton Scott now, but I'm Peyton Sawyer," She told him.

"Well since it's a signed will, custody of Allison Scott will be arranged under Peyton Scott," The Judge stated," As for the custody of McKenzie, Mrs. Haley James-Scott?"

Haley stood up," I resign from custody, leaving it to Julian; I can't take her away from her family."

Haley was sitting on the bench outside of the court room with McKenzie and Allie while court let out of session. Sam had mentioned how she had to use the bathroom, but they knew it wasn't only for that. Julian walked out of the doors with a sad smile on his face.

"Thank you Haley," He thanked the older brunette with a hug.

"It's no big deal," She replied as they broke the hug. Julian was on the verge of tears which were never very common on the man's face.

"I tried everything I could Allie, I can't do anything, the Judge said you have to go live with Lucas and Peyton," Julian admitted to both the girls.

"NO!" Allie screamed as tears started streaming down her face. She made a quick run for the bathroom, ultimately ending up bumping into somebody instead.

"Hey!"The person exclaimed, surprised at the sudden body contact before realizing who the person was," Allie, what in the world are you doing."

Allie eyed the ground, recognizing the voice as her older sister, Sam, but not wanting her to see her in distress like this.

"They sent you with Peyton...didn't they?" Sam questioned the blue-eyed brunette in front of her.

A meek nod from Allie was the only reply.

"Look it's not as bad as it seems. When I was younger, Peyton was actually a pretty cool person. I think you'll really like her. And you know that's who got Mia's singing career started. And you'll have a little sister too..."Sam tried to cheer Allie up as best she could even though she believed it was right for her to have to move.

It was a few days after Julian had dropped Allie off at Peyton's when he was sitting across the empty dining table eating dinner with the missing presence of Brooke sharply aware.

"Kenzie, I have to tell you something," He stated breaking the painful silence. Ever since the judge had made her twin sister go somewhere else miles away she blamed her father (Julian that is) for it.

Julian took the returning silence as a welcome to go on dropping the bomb," What would you say about movie to Tree Hill?"

McKenzie said nothing as she slammed her fork down beside her table and stomped upstairs. A few seconds later he heard her door slam.

"Well that went well," Julian stated looking at Sam (who had brought Nahla and Ian over for dinner to hopefully fill up the void that was painfully awaking in their lives right now) with a somber face.

"Why did Kenzie get so mad grandfather?" Nahla asked in her sweet little 4-year old voice tilting her head to the side making her brunette pigtails bob a few times.

Julian looked at her for a moment. He was surprised at how much, even though Nahla was blood related to Brooke, looked so much like her. With those big brown eyes and the cute dimples that formed whenever she smiled or was confused.

"She was just upset Nahla, and remember what I said about the grandfather thing," Julian told her, smirking with a playful smile to brighten things up in the room.

"I know Julian; I was just trying it out!" Nahla exclaimed her eyes lighting up for a second before going back to eating her dinner.

Ian glanced up at his twin sister before looking solemnly back down at his food. He always knew what was going on, and right now he realized his grandmother was never coming back and neither would his Aunt Allie.

It was a few hours later and McKenzie still hadn't come out of her room. Sam had planned on staying the night and had successfully got Nahla and Ian to sleep in record time in the guest bedroom.

She now walked down the stairs to see Julian packing his and Brooke's items in the living room.

"So you were serious about moving," She stated more than questioned.

"Yeah, it's hard to be in this house anymore without Brooke, and with Allie gone, Kenzie needs someone to talk to and I think Haley or maybe even Mia would do her good," He told her still packing.

"You realize it's probably going to be twice as hard for you because its Tree Hill…you know with Brooke memories all over the place," Sam told him. She guessed it might have been a little harsh but this had always been her way of dealing with death and Julian knew it.

"It probably will be, but it's the best thing for McKenzie right now," Julian assured her. Now if he could only do the same to himself.