Hey y'all! Here I am in Kennesaw, GA, enjoying my first week of sun! I know I said I wouldn't update while on holiday but it's been written so I might as well post it. It's probably not as good as the others, or at least different, and I had a change of mind about some details, because I think the great weather has gone to my head, but here it is…

Peyton counted the people in the room. Nineteen. But the one person she most wanted – needed - to be there wasn't.

She headed towards the door where Lucas and Samantha had just arrived with the girls. Her engagement party was about half an hour in and Brooke was still not there. Peyton had left a message on her machine, but so far she had heard nothing back.

"Um, everyone, I have an announcement to make." Jake tapped on his glass. "As you know, Peyton and I got engaged two months ago, and she is twenty six weeks pregnant with my child. At least, I hope it's mine." The guests cheered and some laughed. "Now, until yesterday, we thought it was a boy." He paused, in which time Jenny spoke.

"I'm getting a baby sister? But how-"

"Wait honey, I haven't finished." Jake smiled. "We found out at my gorgeous fiancée's scan yesterday that she is, in fact, carrying twins, a boy and a girl." The party started to clap, and Peyton smiled. When Bryony had started to squint at the screen and even called in another midwife to confirm what she thought she was seeing, Peyton expected the worst. It was a huge relief when it was announced that they had missed the second baby at the first scan because she was a lot smaller than the boy and was sitting behind him. It meant double the work for Peyton and Jake, but also double the love.

"So, we are finding it very difficult to decide on names that we both like. What my brother did when he had kids is, at the baby shower the guests wrote names they liked up on a whiteboard. Well, I'msorry if you have copyright on this or something Dave, but there are pens by the board in the kitchen, and everyone is welcome to join in. So, let's get on with the party!" Jake turned to Peyton and tilted his head. "How are you, honey?"

"Peyton tried a weak smile. "I'm okay." Jake looked around.

"Brooke's still not here? Tell you what, after the party, we'll drive over to hers and try and sort things out, yeah?"

"Alright." Peyton kissed him on the cheek. "I love you."

"Not as much as I love you." Jake kissed her back and turned to try and find his parents. Lucas joined Peyton.

"Hey, congratulations on the whole twin thing. Did Samantha tell you that she's pregnant too?"

Peyton shook her head. To be brutally honest, she found the woman pretentious, snooty and generally annoying, but she wasn't about to tell Lucas that. "Well, congratulations to you too."

"Thanks. Yeah, we found out the day of the whole Brooke thing."

"What Brooke thing?" Peyton sat down on one of the chairs.

"Oh, she didn't tell you?" Lucas sat down too.

"Oh, we… we aren't really talking much at the moment."

"Well, I'm not sure whether it's me who should be telling you, but we were about to go to a movie, and, well, she kissed me, and, um,I sort of kissed her back."

"Lucas! I mean, in high school it was bad enough, but now that you're married, with kids?" Peyton exclaimed.

"I know, I know, it was stupid. But we stopped before it got to anything. Promise. Which is why I haven't told Samantha, so don't go letting it slip."

"Ok. But generally people learn from their mistakes." Peyton smiled and left the table to look for Jake.

oooOOOooo

As the last guests filtered out, Jake put his arm around Peyton's waist and led her out of the living room and into the kitchen. He picked up the whiteboard, which was covered in names, both boys' and girls'.

"Well, looks like we've got a few choices." He looked at Peyton, but her mind was obviously on something else. "Peyton?" She jerked out of her daze and looked up at Jake. "Do you wanna go and check if Brooke's home?" he asked.

"Yes. Please." Peyton bit her lip.

"OK, let's go." Jake found his keys on the table and headed towards the front door. He turned the handle and opened it, but as he did, he saw a face he'd hoped he would never see again, and two sentences he'd hoped he'd never hear.

"Hi Jake. How's my daughter?"

Ok, so the boys names on the board were the ones we got a few chapters back (Alex, Ashton, Conway, Noah, Ollie, Sam, Tarrin, Tyler, Will and Zach). The girls ones are:

Alyssa

Anna (after Peyton's mom)

Casey

Darcie

Ella

Jemma

Kerryn

Lucy

Madeleine

and Molly

Pick one or two of each and put them in a review. We currently have 42 – let's get it up to 50. Come on, we can do it!