Hey, here's the next chapter! Just to refresh your memory...Haley and Peyton are planning the party for Brooke and Lucas at Tric. Lucas and Brooke know the sex of the baby, but they are still trying to come up with a name and they are still working on looking for an apartment, but for now they are staying at Brooke's house because her parents are out of town...

Chapter 9

I Love Our Crap Hole

"Oh, Lucas, look at this one!" Brooke shrieked. For the last week her and Lucas were trying to find an apartment that was just enough money so they could afford it, but Brooke of course would love the apartment before she looked at the price and that usually ended with her pouting and Lucas feeling bad that he couldn't give her what she wanted.

"Brooke, look at the price." he said, laughing.

"Oh, fine." she said, frustrated. "We might as well live in a box on the side of the road!"

Lucas laughed, then pulled her into a hug. "Yea, well at least we'd be together."

"What if we never find an apartment, Lucas?"

"Then we might just have to think about telling your parents so they can help us out, you know my mom can't afford to get us an apartment." he explained.

"If my parents find out I'm pregnant they won't buy us an apartment, they won't even let me stay here anymore!"

"Then you might want to lower your standards for the apartment."

"Can we talk about something else, please!" she said, getting off the internet. If she looked at one more apartment she was going to freak, that's all they were doing the whole day so far.

"We could argue about Mini Brooke's name some more." Lucas said, pointing to Brooke's stomach that was actually pretty noticable, now that she was able to wear clothes that showed it off.

"I don't know, I'm starting to like the name, Mini Brooke." she said, sarcastically. "It has a ring to it, don't you think?"

"I wouldn't want to name a kid Mini Brooke, and you know why."

"Fine, I like Kaitlyn." she said, crossing her arms over her chest. That was the name Brooke wanted the whole pregnancy so far, but Lucas thought it was to original and everybody new a Brucas baby could never be original.

"I like Megan."

"Aw, that's cute, Lucas!" she said, then gasped, which usually scared Lucas because he knew it ment she had an idea...

Over at Tric, Peyton was getting things ready for the party. They decided to have it on Saturday night and it was already Thursday, but all they had left to do was book the band and hang more decorations. Brooke was starting to wonder why Haley and Peyton were being so weird for the last week, so they had to have it as soon as possible.

Haley would have been with Peyton, but she had something she needed to do. Her and Nathan were getting information on this house, well it actually wouldn't be fair to call it a house, that was right beside their apartment building. It was really small, but cute, and if Brooke and Lucas decided to live in it, they would be right next to Nathan and Haley.

The only real problem with it was the fact that no one was in it for a long time, so it stunk and it needed a good cleaning up, but it would be better than living in a homeless shelter.

Nathan and Haley were in the house with the landlord, checking it out. "So, do you think they will go for this?" Nathan asked, wiping some dust of the counter, with a discusted face I might add.

"Uh, Lucas might, we'll have to work on Brooke, though." she said. "That's why I thought we could call him and make him come over here and look at it, without Brooke, just so we could clean it up before Brooke sees it, if he decides to get it."

"Ok, I'll give him a call."

Ring, ring...

"Hey, man." Lucas said, answering his cell, and completely interrupting Brooke and her great idea.

"Hey, Luke, would you mind coming over for a couple minutes, this is really important." he said, looking at Haley and trying not to laugh.

"I was just busy with Brooke, but I guess I could come by, quickly." he said, looking at Brooke, and mouthing "I'm sorry".

"And, Lucas, don't bring, Brooke."

"Alright." he siad, confused. "See you in a minute."

"What's that about?" Brooke asked, annoyed. "I'm not finished talking, you know."

"I know, I'm sorry, Brooke, let's just continue this later, I'll be back in about an hour." he explained, grabbing his coat.

"Ok, I'll talk to you later, babe."

"Love you." with that, he got in his car and drove over to Nathan and Haley's.

"Hey, Luke." Haley said, hugging him when he got out of the car.

"Hi, Hales, what's up, guys?"

"We have something to show you, but don't say no right away." Haley said, taking him next door.

"What are we doing here?" he asked, confused.

"What would you think about living in this house?" Nathan asked, laughing.

Lucas laughed, too. "Are you serious? I don't know if you haven't noticed, but it's discusting in here."

"We thought we could get everybody together and fix it up, and it's in your price range, too." Haley explained.

Lucas looked around and thought for a second. "Ok, let's just look at this dump." he said, laughing.

Back at home, Brooke was getting really bored, she usually wasn't by herself, so she decided to call, Peyton. "Hey, hoe."

"Hey, Brooke, what's up?" she said, laughing. She didn't even have to ask who it was, Brooke was a very obvious person.

"Absolutley, nothing!" she said, whining. "Lucas had to go see Nathan...are you still at Tric."

"Yea..." Peyton said, nervously, the last thing she needed was for Brooke to come there.

"You've been working a lot, lately."

"Yea, um, Brooke, what do you think about The Fray?" Peyton asked, quickly, just to change the subject, well at least that's what Brooke thought.

"They're pretty good, why?"

"Nothing, just wondering." she said, writing "The Fray" down as a band she had to call, she had another one, but she didn't want to ask Brooke about another band, that would just be weird. "Hey, I gotta go, I'm really busy."

"Ok, talk to you later, Peyton."

Over at, "The Dump", Lucas just finished looking at the house, which consisted of the kitchen, where they started, then living room right next to it, then the hallway from the living room, where there was the bathroom, then the bedroom and then a small closet at the end.

"So, what do you think?" Haley asked. "Cute, huh?"

"Yea, I guess if your into being able to walk around your house in 10 seconds, like, literaly." he said, trying not to look so creeped out. "But I guess it's better than nothing, and it's a good starting off point."

"So, your getting it?"

"Might as well. This way were close to you guys and me and Brooke won't have to take care of a baby in a homeless shelter." he said, sarcastically. "Now we just need to clean it up, there's no way Brooke is seeing it like this."

"Ok, you can go talk to the landlord, he's outside right now, I'll sweep and Nathan can dust."

"No, I'll sweep, It's more manly than dusting." he said, jokingly.

Haley laughed. "Fine."

Lucas looked around again. "Oh my god, I can't believe I'm doing this, you know Brooke is going to freak, right?"

"Yea, probably, but at least you'll have a place that's yours, where you can take your baby when it's born." Haley explained.

Just the thought about the baby was enought to make Lucas smile.

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That night, Lucas got home a little later than he told Brooke, well actually 2 hours later than what he told Brooke. He definitly had some explaining to do.

"So what were you doing that you were 2 hours late?" Brooke asked, hugging him when he came in the door.

"You really need to learn how to be by yourself." he said, laughing.

"Lucas!" she said. "So, where were you?"

"Nathan needed to show me something..." he said, then Brooke started walking to the bedroom and Lucas grabbed her arm and pulled her into his chest. "And I'm going to take you in the morning and show you."

"Oh." she said, giggling, and kissed him. "Then we better go to bed now, but I guess we could make out first, you know, like we used to, it will just be more of a challenge though, considering my wrist is in a cast and I have a watermelon sticking out of my stomach."

"Oh, we'll manage."

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The next morning, Brooke woke Lucas up, ready to go see what he had to show her. She loved surprises, especially when they were for her.

"Are you ready yet, Lucas?" she asked, yelling from the kitchen.

"Yea." he said, coming out of the bedroom. "But, Brooke, don't get too excited...please."

"Is it not a good surprise?"

"No, it's good, but it's not really- you know, let's just go and then you'll understand what I'm talking about." he explained and they left the house.

"Lucas." she said, nervously. "This doesn't sound good. You didn't call my parents did you?"

"No, not even close." he said, laughing.

"Why are we going to Nathan and Haley's?" she asked, recognizing the way they were driving.

"Brooke, you know what the doctor said, if you get to stressed out or to excited you'll go into pre-term labour. Do you want that?"

She just crossed her arms over her chest and looked out her window. "Oh, so we are going to Nathan and Haley's."

"No, but we are going next door." he said, helping her out of the car.

"Lucas-"

"Brooke, don't even say anything yet because I know what your thinking." he said, opening the front door.

"But-"

"Brooke, I bought this house."

Right then her jaw dropped and she was speechless. "This has got to be a joke. Your going to take me to the real house now, aren't you?"

"Uh, no...but that surprise would have been so much better." he said, thinking about it for a minute.

"You think." she said, getting a little upset. "Luke, how could you?"

"Brooke, can I just say what I've been rehearsing since I bought this house?"

"This better be good." she said, folding her arms over her chest again and then leaning on the counter.

"I know this place is a crap hole, but I think we can make this work, you know, with some paint and then you can do whatever else you want with it-"

"How about burn it down." she said, starting to get tears in her eyes.

Lucas just gave her a look. "I know your upset right now, but I think it'll grow on us...and you can't just always get what you want in life or else what would be the point? And, Brooke, the only thing I care about is getting a roof over your head and making sure we have a place to bring our baby when it's born, I mean, would you want to live at my house and make her live at grandma Karen's?"

"No." she said, laughing, then Lucas wiped a tear off her cheek.

"I love you, Brooke, and that's all that matters to me." he said, hugging her. "So, what do you think?"

"I love our crap hole." she said, laughing. "And I love you, thank you, Lucas."

"Anything for you, Pretty Girl."

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Please Review! That was a short one, but the next one is gunna be so much longer. It will be the party, and everybody working on Lucas and Brooke's crap hole...and if you were wondering why i did that, its because I didn't want them to get a nice house. They get a nice house in all the brucas fanfics I read and I wanted to change it up a bit. lol Thanks for reading, guys! xoxoxo