Chapter 5

"Okay, guys we have exactly …, Three minutes until Julian arrives with Brooke!" Haley said loudly to everyone, as she glanced at her watch.

The entire room of guests, started moving frantically around Nathan and Hayley's house, adding the finishing decorations to the room, and getting into their hiding places.

Moments later, Julian pulled up outside the Scott's house, with Brooke sat next to him, wearing her new outfit he had brought her for her birthday.

"I thought we were going to meet a producer about your movie" Brooke asked confused.

"That's why you told me to dress up." Brooke said looking down and her new dress.

"We are, I just need to borrow some cufflinks of Nathan." Julian said pointing to his shirt, which indeed had no cufflinks in place.

"Oh, okay then, want me to stay here" Asked Brooke.

Julian glanced at his watch, 7:30pm, bang on.

"No, come in with me, you may as well say hello to Hales why were here." He said, a smile appearing on his face.

They both got out of the car, and in the corner of his eye he saw the curtain flinch at the window, and the lights go off. He held in a laugh.

"Are they in? The house looks dark." Brooke asked, curious.

Julian opened the front door, and pulled Brooke into the dark, quiet living room. He let out a small cough in his throat, and suddenly the whole room seemed to come alive.

"Surprise!" Everyone cheered, as someone turned the lights on.

Brooke stood with her mouth wide open, speechless.

The room was decorated with candles, flowers, balloons, and banners. On a table in the back of the room, there was a huge birthday cake surrounded by more food, and bags of presents.

Brooke looked around, a huge grin appearing on her face as she met the eyes of all of her friends. Then she saw Peyton, barging her way through the crowd, her arms wide open.

"Oh my god! Peyton!" Brooke almost screamed, running into her best friends arms.

Everyone in the room cheered and clapped as the friends were once again reunited.

After the hugs and greetings with everyone, Julian silenced the room, for Brooke to make a quick speech to all of her guests.

"Well, what can I say, what a surprise!" Brooke said laughing. The guests started laughing along too.

"I honestly wasn't expecting this, but I just want to say thank you so much, to you all, thank you for being here. I love you all. All I can say now is, enjoy the party!" Brooke said, making everyone cheer along with enthusiasm.

She linked hands with Julian, and let him guide her to Nathan and Haley. Peyton followed, with Lucas slowly trailing behind with Sawyer in his arms.

"Thank you both so much." Brooke said, throwing her arms around them both.

By this point, both Peyton and Lucas had joined them.

"Luke!" Brooke squealed, as he passed Sawyer to Peyton, and hugged Brooke.

"Brook Davis, it's been too long." He whispered smiling.

The reunited gang all started talking and laughing at memories. Shortly, more friends were joining the conversations. This was the perfect time for Julian and Nathan to move away from Brooke. Once sure she wasn't in view, Nathan passes Julian a small squared box.

"You ready man?" Nathan asked, biting his lip, nervous for his friend.

Julian opened the box, and looked at the ring he and Nathan had picked out earlier in the week. He smiled, remembering how long it had taken them to find a ring they both agreed would be perfect for Brooke.

"I'm ready." Julian said closing the box, and putting it in his trouser pocket.

"Nice call on the ring, by the way." He added, laughing.

Nathan too laughed.

"We found the right one in the end." He joked, and turned Julian to face Brooke's direction.

We a light push from Nathan, Julian had started walking over towards Brooke. Everyone around her, knowing what was about to come, parted slightly, leaving a clean line for Julian. Brooke looked up, to see Julian looking straight at her. He held his hand out to her, which she took, and the then pulled her away from her friends, and stopped her in the centre of the room.

A confused Brooke, looked around giggling, as she saw a wide circle of space had been created around her and Julian. A moment later, Julian got down on one knee. Brooke looked at his face, and with realisation, she gasped.