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Chapter 8
Planning a Party
Previously on, "The Not So Perfect Life"...
When they got to Brooke's house, they found nobody home, which ment Brooke's parents left for the rest of the week on their cruise.
"Just great, they didn't even leave a note or anything."
"Brooke, don't worry, I'm going to stay with you." Lucas said, helping her into her bed, one of the ones that was on the main floor of course, there was no way she would be able to climb stairs he first day home.
"Lucas, your the greatest boyfriend."
"Well, your the greatest girlfriend, Cheery." he said, sitting beside her and holding her hand. "Do you need anything?"
"Just you, to lay beside me and maybe kiss my owies better?" she said, putting out her bottom lip, pretending to pout.
Lucas laughed. "Your a strange girl, you know that?"
"But you love me, so its all good." she said, giggling.
"So, have you thought about names yet?" Lucas asked, kissing the fingers of the hand she had the broken wrist on.
"Yea, I like Kaitlyn."
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"How are my girls this morning?"
Brooke laughed. "She's fine, but I feel like dying!"
"The doctor said you'll be sore for a while." Lucas said, laying down beside her.
"Lay beside me all day."
"You know I will." he said, brushing the hair out of her face, but then, of course, the phone had to ring.
"No, don't answer it." she said, not letting him get up.
"Lucas, this is your mother, I know your there!"
"I have to answer that." he said, getting up fast and running to the phone.
"You owe me!" she yelled, from the bedroom.
"Excuse me?" he asked, poking his head back in the room. If anybody owed anybody, it was Brooke owing Lucas for not telling him she was pregnant.
Brooke just giggled. "Sorry."
Karen continued to ramble on...
"Lucas Eugene Scott!" Karen yelled.
"Hello." Lucas said, answering the phone.
"Eugene!" Brooke laughed.
Lucas put the phone to his chest. "Penelope!" he said, mocking her. That really got her to shut up.
"Mom, I'm sorry I didn't come home." he said, when he put the phone back to his ear, where Karen was just yelling at him.
"You can't just go and do whatever you want, you know!" she yelled, somemore. "You are not 18 yet, and I am still the boss of you, do you know how worried I was?"
"Didn't Peyton tell you I ws staying here?" he asked, confused.
"Yea, but that's not the point! I don't even know my own son anymore, what's going on with you, Lucas?" she asked, almost in tears. That definitly told Lucas it was time to stop hiding and go and tell Karen what was going on.
"Mom, I'll be home later today, I have to make sure Brooke is going to be ok here by herself."
"Oh, yes, I forgot, how is she?" Karen said, feeling sorry for her. "Peyton told me."
"She's going to be fine."
"That's good." she said. "Just come talk to me after, I miss my boy."
"I will, bye."
"I love you."
By this point Lucas was just getting annoyed. "I love you, too, mom, bye." With that, he hung up the phone and went back to Brooke.
"Is she worried about you?" Brooke asked, now sitting up in the bed and trying to put make up on.
"Yea." he said, laughing at Brooke. "What are you doing?"
"Trying to put make up on, but its kind of hard with this stupid cast."
"Brooke, you don't need make up, your not going any where today." he said, sitting on the bed and taking it away from her.
"I know, but I still want to look good for you." she said, putting her head on his chest.
"I think your beautiful either way. " he said, kissing her forehead. "Oh yea, I almost forgot."
"What?"
"I have to go tell me mom sometime today, she really wants to know why I haven't been home much lately." he explained.
"Do you want me to come with you?"
"No, you better stay here, your sore and you don't need this stress right now."
"You think she's going to freak?"
"I don't know, its hard to tell considering she's been through this, but then again, that might be why she would freak." he said, totally confused.
"Yea, I understand." she said, starting to laugh a bit. "Do you mind if we never tell my parents?"
"Why?" he said, laughing, also.
"They will stop giving me money if I tell them I'm pregnant."
"Right." he said. "Then maybe it is a good idea that we don't tell them."
"Yea..."
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Over at Tric, Peyton and Jake, and Haley and Nathan were trying to put something together for Lucas and Brooke. Kind of like a party for them, considering what they've been through in the last 5 months.
"Ok, this is what I was thinking." Peyton continued. "We do kind of the same thing that we did for your's and Nathan's wedding reception, except make it more of a baby shower/party type thing."
"Yea, and this time we won't say anything about it." Haley put in.
"But we can't do it until Brooke is better." Peyton said, writing stuff down. "And once Karen knows about the baby I will ask her to help, since she does work here."
"What should we do?" Nathan asked, about him and Jake.
Haley and Peyton looked at eachother and laughed. "Um, you guys are not going to be in charge of anything, except getting Lucas to Tric that night, because we know you would just screw everything up." Haley explained.
"Fine." Nathan said, satisfied.
"Yea, less for us to worry about." Jake laughed.
"Exactly." Peyton said.
"Ok, moving on..." Peyton continued. "A band?"
"It has to be something Brooke and Lucas will like, meaning, Brooke." Haley said, sarcastically.
They laughed. "Yea, I'm sure Lucas won't care as long as Brooke likes it." Nathan said.
"Ok, me and Haley can figure that one out." Peyton said, writing it down. "Decorations?"
"I think mine and Nathan's decorations are still in the back, but we'll need more." Haley put in.
"Yea, again, me and Haley will take care of that." Peyton said.
"What else is there?" Haley asked.
They thought about it for a second. "No alcohol." Peyton said, seriously.
"What?" Nathan and Jake, quickly, asked.
"Brooke can't drink!" Peyton said. "Do you know how upset she'll be if she sees people with alcohol around her?"
"Oh yea."
"Well how about we just don't drink." Haley said.
"Yea, ok, that might work."
"Nathan won't either." Haley said, looking at him, meanly.
"What? Why?"
"Ok, how do you like this." she said, coming up with an idea. "If you drink, no sex for a month."
Nathan just looked at her. "That's not funny."
"Same goes for you, too." Peyton said to Jake.
"Fine, we won't drink." they said, quickly.
The girls just laughed at them.
"And I take it that there isn't going to be any games, considering Brooke was the best at that." Peyton said.
"Yea, we'll have a band, that's good enough." Nathan said.
"Ok, so we got..." Peyton said, reading the list. "Me and Haley on...the band, the decorations, the food, and making sure we keep Brooke away from Tric until that night. You guys have...making sure you get them to come. And I will talk to Karen about it...and she will be in charge of the drinks, which we have already, and the presents."
"Sounds good, can me and Jake leave now?" Nathan asked.
"Yea, were done for now." Haley said, kissing Nathan, then Peyton kissed Jake.
"Don't go tell Lucas now!" Peyton said, jokingly.
"This is going to be so much fun, I just hope Brooke doesn't find out." Haley said.
"Yea, were going to have to be very careful about that, Brooke finds out everything."
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That night, Lucas asked Peyton and Haley to come over and keep Brooke company while he went and told his mom. Lucas was just going to stay home for the night, just to make his mom feel better and because Brooke needed to reconnect with Haley and Peyton, since she hadn't really talked to them about anything real in about 5 months.
"I have a feeling I'm not coming back tonight, so you guys get the whole night to do whatever it is girls do at sleepovers." he said, confused.
"Take your time, Luke." Peyton said, hugging him.
"Yea and were here for you, you know, if she kicks you out or something." Haley said, jokingly, and hugged him.
"Do you really have to tell her?" Brooke whined.
"Yea, I really have to tell her." Lucas said, in the same whiney voice.
"She's going to be really mad at me." Brooke said, starting to cry, she was really scared about this. This is what was going to make Karen hate her, if she didn't, already, plus her hormones were all out of whack.
Lucas took her and sat on the couch. "Brooke, stop crying...you know what? I don't really care what my mom thinks of you now, or anybody else...I love you, and thats what matters."
She stopped crying some and didn't say anything, just put her head on his shoudler.
He rubbed her back. "Now I have to go, but your going to have fun with Haley and Peyton."
"Ok, I love you, Broody."
"You too, Cheery." he said, giving her one last kiss, then leaving.
"Its pretty funny how he has to talk to you like your a baby." Peyton said, laughing.
"I am a baby aren't I?" she asked, laughing.
"Yea, but that's ok because Lucas understands you."
"Yea, your really lucky, Brooke." Haley said.
"We've all got great guys." she said. "Ohmigod, do you guys want to know the sex of the baby?"
"What is it?" they said at the same time.
"A girl!" Brooke said, happily.
"Aw, there's going to be another little Brooke running around." Peyton said, laughing.
"Have you picked out any names?" Haley asked, curiously.
"I like Kaitlyn, but were going to keep looking." she explained. "Speaking of the baby, she wants cookies, so lets go make some."
"So, what you mean is you want cookies?" Haley asked.
"Yea, but its a great trick to be able to have, you guys should get pregnant, too!"
"I think we'll hold off on that one, besides, that would take all the attention off of you."
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Lucas was just about to his house and a part of him wanted to just turn around right then and go back to Brooke, but he knew he was going to have to tell Karen sometime, even if the baby told her, but then he thought this was probably the best choice. He turned into the driveway and shut the car off, but didn't go in right away. He wanted to sit there for a second and think about what he was going to say. Should he just come right out with it? Or beat around the bush for a while? Whatever he was going to say, he had to be prepared for a long, long lecture.
He finally got out of the car and then went inside. Karen was sitting at the table drinking tea and waiting for him.
"Hi, Luke, what you have to tell me is bad, isn't it?" she asked, standing up.
"Mom, sit back down, I have a feeling we will be talking for a long time." he said, nervously.
"Ok." she said, uneasily.
"Ok, I'm not just at Brooke's because she was in a car accident." he started to say.
"Is it bad news?"
"It is bad news, if that's what you want it to be." he said, starting again. "She's pregnant, mom."
"Oh." she said, trying not to get upset
"Mom, you have to tell me what you think about that, because there's more."
"More?" she said, laughing, mostly trying to cover up how she really felt. "Hmm, well, the good news is it can't be more life-changing than that."
"She's known about this for 5 months now."
"What!" she said, standing up fast. "Why would she do that? Now you don't even have options! She's probably attached to the baby already and-"
"Mom, it's ok, we've already talked about this and we're keeping it."
"Yea, that's the right choice, Lucas." she said, hugging him. "Are you scared? She must be scared, I know how it feels."
"I think it will be ok, I just have to get a job, and she gets money from her parents...a lot of money."
"You'll be barely getting by! And where are you going to live?" Karen asked, still shaking.
"Haley and Nathan are emancipated, we could do that."
"Yea, your right, we are going to be talking about this for a long time." Karen said sitting down. They continued to talk for about an hour and a half, then they both went to bed, hoping that everything would be ok.
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2 questions: What should the baby's name be? And, what band should play at the baby shower/party thing? I reall, really, really want your answer! Please review!!! and let me know!:)