Chapter 5

"Girls its time to get changed, everyone will be arriving soon" said Brooke, entering the living room to find them watching tweenies.
"5 more minute please" piped up two voices, their eyes still glued to the TV.
"Fine". Brooke joined them and instead of watching with she carried on admiring her portrait. She looked closely at Rachel's smiling face; Brooke missed that smile so much.
"It's finished Aunt Brooke" said Maria, breaking Brooke's trance.
"Huh… lets got, hurry" said Brooke ushering them out the room.
"Race ya "said Sarah running ahead of them. Rachel ran after her.
"Girls be careful" screamed Brooke trying to keep up with them. "Cork it they're so fast"
Brooke uses the words cork it instead of damn it just to be safe around her daughters, so they would pick any bad language from her. She found the girls in their room taking out the weird guy clothes Jake brought for them.
"I thought you guys could wear pretty little dresses yeah?" asked Brooke knowing the answer.
"Nooo" said both of the girls.
"Daddy says dresses show are feegoors too much and the icky boys take vantage of us" said Maria smartly.
"You mean figures and advantage" asked Brooke laughed. "Sweetie we don't listen to your daddy coz he is crazy and doesn't know anything".
"Ok, girls are smarter so we will listen to you" said Sarah; taking two white dresses out with pink designs on. Brooke helped them into their dresses and did their hair.
"Mommy I like Michael from tweenies and want to mway him" said Sarah plainly. "And then we can play peek a boo all the time"
"Of course that's what married couples do Hun" laughed Brooke. "Plus he is a teddy bear I don't think you can marry him, and don't let Jake find out you want to get married. He'll freak".
"Why not mommy, why can't I marry a teddy bear" asked Sarah. "He is a boy and you suppose to marry boys"
"Err ill tell you when your older" said Brooke. Brooke finished doing the girls hair and they heard the door bell go, to devils went running down the stairs with Brooke after them. Brooke opened the door to find Haley, Nathan, Jake and jenny. She helped Jake with the bags.
"Geez Haley what have you brought with ya" panted Jake. "Your only here for the weekend".
"I hate to leave my stuff behind" said Haley hugging Brooke. "Now be a dear and put them in our room"
"Of course I loooove to" said Jake sarcastically taking the luggage up the stairs.
"Happy birthday Brooke" said Nathan giving her a hug too.
"Thank you now where's my present" said Brooke getting straight to the point.
"You've still not changed have ya" laughed Nathan pulling a small box wrapped in pink paper. Brooke opened it carefully and opened the box; which was filled with pink tissue paper. She moved everything aside to find a gold locket shaped as a heart. She opened and gasped to find pictures of Sarah and Maria when they were first born.
"Aww thank you guys" gasped Brooke hugging both of them. "It's lovely"
Brooke examined the necklace and notices there was a scratch mark on it.
"Hey there's a scratch mark on this" looking closely at the necklace.
"Damn it, we thought you won't notice" curse Nathan. "But then again you're Brooke"
"So what happened to it" asked Brooke putting it on.
"Well Lucas came round and he picked it up" explained Nathan. "At that time it had the pictures in so I said I got for Haley and that is had… um naked pictures of me in it so he wouldn't open it."
"Oh my god Nathan that's sick, why would you buy something like that for your wife" exclaimed Brooke laughing at his story.
"Hey it worked, he dropped it and didn't get to see the girls pictures so that wouldn't lead to awkward questions" smirked Nathan knowing that would shut her up.
"Nathan shut up" said Haley. "Brooke show me the gift Jake got for you". Brooke led Nathan and Haley to the living room and showed them the portrait.
"Awww that is so sweet" said Haley. "Aww Brooke you're so lucky to have Jake as your best friend"
"I know" smiled Brooke
"Why can't you be like Jake Nathan" said Haley suddenly hitting him on the shoulders. "Why can't you buy sentimental gifts for me too".
"Ow, I can be sentimental" said Nathan rubbing his shoulders. "Last time I brought you a beautiful vase"
"Beautiful, it had a bloomin basketball on it" exclaimed Haley.
"Hey at least I brought it for you" argued Nathan.
"For me, it looks like you brought for yourself" snapped Haley.
"Look Brooke, would you stop giving ideas to my wife" said Nathan.
"Hey it's not my fault you two have issues" laughed Brooke at the pair. "I wonder how you got married".
"Hey we love each other" said Nathan hugging Haley. "What kind of perfect marriage is there with out fights huh?"
"Well cant you guys be happy with put fighting" asked Brooke.
"Nope coz that's what sad couples do" said Nathan.
"Ok can we forget this and get the birthday dinner ready before the rest of the guest come" said Haley pulling the two in to the kitchen to help her. "Jake get you a-bottom in here". She nearly was gonna say ass but realised Brooke doesn't like bad language any more because of her daughters, Jake came down. Haley gave them things do, as seemed she was in charge of everything.
"Nathan cut the onions" ordered Haley, stirring the pot on the stove.
"But hales I don't want to cry" moaned Nathan.
"Do as I say Nathan or you'll have nothing to cry about" warned Haley pointing a chef's knife at him.
"Okay honey put the knife down and ill do as you say" said Nathan.
"Thank you sweetie, now the onions are in the veg basket, bottom" instructed Haley.
"I swear to god Haley, you don't even live here and you know your way around" said Brooke laughing. "I lived here for five years and still don't know where some stuff is"
"Its perks of being a wife and having control of everything" smiled Haley. They all carried on talking, when Sarah and Maria came in.
"Mommy can we go and play outside with Sam and tom" asked Sarah. Sam and Tom are the neighbour's twins, who were Sarah and Maria's friends.
"Yes sweetie you can and please don't hurt them this time" pleaded Brooke.
"Sowi mom but Tom tried to kiss me" said Sarah. Jake who was cutting the onions with Nathan, dropped his knife.
"He did what" exclaimed Jake. "I knew it, that boy had shifty eyes the moment I met, he was no good"
"Jake calm down" said Brooke
"Oh im gonna pound his bottom" said Jake. "He tried to kiss my daughter".
"Jake your not gonna do anything to that little boy" warned Brooke. "He is only 5".
"Daddy what the big deal" asked Maria. "Sam kissed me and I didn't say anything"
"Oh my god I think im going to faint" panted Jake. "Brooke this is all you influence".
"No Jake I am calm about these stuff" said Brooke calmly. "You're just protective"
"Well some one has to be protective" said Jake. "You don't know how these little boys' minds work, and I know coz I was a boy".
"And you still seem to act like one" exclaimed Brooke. "Jake im telling you one more time they are only 5 years old".
"And at a young age, boys have weird thinking" explained Jake. "I swear we guys used to imagine girls naked"
"WHAT when you were 5 you imagined girls naked" exclaimed Brooke. "Jake that is sick, you were one twisted boy"
"What know that came out wrong" said Jake. "I meant boys are bad news"
"Can we go yet" asked Maria impatiently.
"Yes dear you can" said Brooke. The little girls sped out the backdoor before anyone could call them back.
"Brooke"
"Jake"
"And you guys say we have issues" chuckled Nathan. Brooke threw are raw carrot at him. "Ow that's hurts"
"You deserve it Mr Hotshot" said Brooke.
"Guys stop throwing the vegetables we need it for dinner" said Haley, getting frustrated.
"Sorry hales" muttered Brooke.
"Anyway Brooke who's coming to dinner then?" asked Haley.
"Um Mandy and Kyle" replied broke
"Ooh you and Kyle still together then" said Haley. "Its good you moved on with your life"
Jake looked up at Brooke and smirked, Brooke glared back at him.
"Um actually we're… not together anymore" said Brooke. "We, well I decided to be friends"
"What!" said Haley wide eyes "Guys get out; I need to talk to Brooke".
"aww it just got intresting"mumbled Nathan as Jake pulled him out the kitchen.
"broke what are you doing" exclaimed Haley. "After years you finally gave someone a chance and you blow them away"
"Hales, it just wasn't working"
"Brooke you have to move on" said Haley.
"Look I know Kyle is a great guy but there's no connection" said Brooke
"Brooke im sick of you're connections" said Haley. "You don't seem to want to connect with anyone"
"Look Haley we decided to be friends, we were better off" said Brooke. "Anyway im happy and I don't need a guy to be complete, as long as I have you guys"
"Fine, but he has moved on so should you" said Haley.
Brooke didn't say anything after that. She knew Haley was talking about Lucas. Kyle was a great guy and he loved Sarah, he didn't care about Brookes past or anything plus he was doctor and always managed time to spend with Brooke and Sarah. But she just didn't love him, she may have liked him but with what happened to Brooke, she found it hard to trust guys. Anyway Kyle came out to be a better friend then a boyfriend, so Brooke was happy in the end.
"Dinners ready" said Haley. Brooke came and hugged her.
"im sorry" she said,
"its ok Brooke" said Haley hugging Brooke back. "I just want you to be happy tigger"
"Im always happy" said Brooke. "Look im still the cheery broke but just matured abit"
Haley laughed; they both got the table ready and got Sarah and Maria in to. They all went in to the living room where Jake, jenny and Nathan were watching TV. Jake straight away started asking the Sarah and Maria questions.
"Did those two stupid boys try to kiss you guys again" questioned Jake.
"No dad, we play basketball" said Maria rolling her eyes.
"Ok good" smiled Jake. "So who won?"
"Me and tom" piped up Sarah. "Sam and Maria aren't that good, ok Sam is but Maria aint"
"That's coz I like cheerleading" said Maria. "I want to be a cheerleader when I go up"
"Oh my god" gasped Jake. "My worst night mares come true!"
"Aww sweet, that's good me and Aunt Haley were cheerleader too" said Brooke.
"Brooke would you stop encouraging her" snapped Jake
"Jake what's wrong with being cheerleaders" asked Brooke. "Rachel was one"
"Yeah but cheerleaders are bad news" said Jake.
"Hey" both Haley and Brooke said.
"We both were cheerleaders and we came out fine" said Haley.
"Oh really, ok lets recap, Brooke was cheerleader and slept with anything with legs" said Jake. "And after you became a cheerleader you got married to the worst player ive ever met"
"Hey I wasn't the worst player, in fact I was the best, all the girls wanted me!" defended Nathan. Haley looked at him with her eye brows raised. "I love you Haley"
"You better" threatened Haley.
"Ok let's forget this cheerleading thing until they get to high school" said Brooke.
"Fine" scoffed Jake. They heard the bell go; Brooke got up and answered it. Mandy and Kyle arrived at the same time. Mandy is Brooke's boss, at the little boutique where Brooke works. They both wished her happy birthday and gave her, her presents. They all seated at the table and had dinner together. Every one had a great time and it was one of the best birthdays Brooke ever had.