Chapter 15

"Hey where have Peyton and Jake gone" asked Nathan. "Don't you think they should be back now?"

"Hunny I don't know, just bring me the dishes so I can wash them" said Haley, cleaning the kitchen up.

"Aunt Haley can we watch TV now" asked Maria.

"Sure sweetie, Luke could you take them in and make sure Sarah is resting" instructed Haley. "And Nathan you can help me clean up" Nathan groans.

"Orite come on girls lets go" said Lucas, picking Sarah up and followed Maria in to the living room. He placed Sarah on to the sofa with Maria and turned the TV on for them. "What do you guys wanna watch then?"

"Dora explora!" the both screamed, Lucas laughs puts it on. He goes and sits with the girls and his eye catches the portrait of Brooke, Rachel and Jake. Then he realized he's not seen Rachel yet, he wondered where she was.

"Hey girls do you know where Rachel is" asked Lucas.

"Mommy has gone on a very long trip, and isn't come back" said Maria.

"Orite ok… wait hold on mommy?" asked Lucas a little confused. "Your Rachel's daughter! Wow you learn something new every day then" Maria nods. "So where has Rachel gone then"

"Daddy says she has gone to heaven, god needed her that's why she can't come back" explained Maria. "Daddy doesn't like to talk about this"

"Omg" was all Lucas could say, he couldn't believe Rachel isn't here anymore, on top of that Rachel and Jake got together as well, everything was such shock to him, and wow this week most is the weirdest one he has ever had.

"Its ok, daddy says I don't need a mommy coz I have Brooke" said Maria plainly.

"And mommy says I don't need a daddy coz I have Jake" piped up Sarah,

"She said what!" gasped Lucas. At that moment Lucas was going to tell Sarah everything but knew if he did Brooke was gonna be mad, so he had to wait. He didn't want his daughter to think that she doesn't need a dad. Lucas decided to change the subject, because he started to feel a little jealous that Jake seemed to be taking his place in his daughter's life. "So Sarah what do you like to do?"

"I don't know play basket ball with Sam and Tom" shrugged Sarah. Lucas tensed up at the boys names.

"And who are these Sam and Tom" asked Lucas suspiciously.

"Our friends but Sam is Maria's boyfriend!!!" laughed Sarah.

"Is not"

"Is too"

"Is not"

"Is too!"

"Ok girls calm down, aren't you two like 6 years old, don't you think you shouldn't be playing with boys" said Lucas. He couldn't believe it, his daughter was hanging with guys and that too at young age as well, and he knew Brooke was too loose with this kind of stuff.

"Uncle Lucas you're just like daddy" said Maria rolling her eyes.

"Okay… Sarah please say you don't like guys either" begged Lucas.

"EW no boys have cooties" said Sarah.

"Yes buys have cooties and you shouldn't go near them either" said Lucas sternly. He decided to change the subject again; he was a little uncomfortable talking about boys with his daughter, especially when she was only 6 years old. "So Sarah I play basket ball too" he was glad he had something in common with her, but it was weird he thought that if he ever had kids then his son would be good a basketball not his daughter. But he was happy with her liking basketball, probably the fear her becoming a cheerleader would never happen.

Brooke reached the hospital, where she found out that Kyle had Sarah's reports so she headed to his office. She was glad to find him alone and not with a patient. Brooke knocked on the door and entered, Kyle looked up and smiled.

"Hey Brooke, im guessing you're here for Sarah's reports then" asked Kyle.

"Yeah" smiled Brooke as she took a seat in front of his desk.

"Ok then wait let me find them" said Kyle, going through his desk drawers and pulling out a red folder, he passed it to her. "Here you are… how's Sarah doing now?"

"She seems ok, but ive not spent much time with her this morning" said Brooke. "Let's hope she doesn't give us another fright like that again"

"That's good, and what about you… you seem tired" asked Kyle.

"Yeah well I was up all night, Sarah's father is in town" said Brooke

"What... wow" was all Kyle could say.

"Yeah, but you've already met him, Lucas" said Brooke.

"Oh Mr. Scott" nodded Kyle, looking a bit worried. "You do know why Lucas came to me right"

"Yes for a check up"

"You do know he has HCM, right" said Kyle.

"Yeah"

"You do know that HCM is genetic right" said Kyle

"Yes"

"Brooke do you not know where im going with this" said Kyle

"ok Kyle, I was cheerleader in high school, if I was bright then I wouldn't have got knocked up when I was 18 and would be the president by now" laughed Brooke. "You're gonna have to break things up a bit for me"

"Ok fine, im saying there's 50/50 chance Sarah might have HCM" said Kyle.

"What, you got to be kidding me" said Brooke going pale. "This cant be happening"

"Look Brooke, maybe I can be wrong but the only way we can find out is to get Sarah checked" explained Kyle. "You're gonna have to bring her in today, the sooner we find out the better"

"I can't believe this, I thought everything was going to be ok now" gasped Brooke. "Omg what are we gonna do if she does, I don't think I can handle that"

"Brooke, everything will be fine, just bring Sarah in at 3 and ill do the check up myself ok" said Kyle.

"Yeah err ok, ill go and get her then" said Brooke, getting up and leaving. She walked down the corridors and couldn't believe it her little girl could have HCM, she didn't want to believe this, she wanted all the problems to go away. She thought everything was going to be ok after Lucas knew about everything, and now she had to deal with fact that her daughter might have a heart condition. She was only a little girl, why did things have to happen to her.

Jake and Peyton were walking back from the cemetery, Peyton was a little shocked by the fact Rachel gave her life up for her own daughter, and she had Rachel all wrong. Peyton felt a bit jealous too, the fact that Jake loved Rachel and was engaged to her as well. She didn't know Jake would move on that fast and that too to Rachel, and also Rachel became that committed to some one was beyond Peyton.

"Listen Jake im sorry about all the stuff I said about Rachel" said Peyton. "I mean I didn't know her well and shouldn't have judged her"

"its ok, I know all about her past peyt and yeah I would have reacted the same way" said Jake. "But you should know she did change and wasn't the same Rachel she was back in high school"

"Yeah, I can see that" laughed Peyton. "Im still shocked that you two were engaged, I mean Rachel isn't the commitment type girl"

"Yeah, she told me that, but I found it cute the way she would get happy at every little thing, like one month anniversaries and all" laughed Jake as he remembered everything about Rachel. "The funny thing was when she was so nervous to move in with me"

"Move in… didn't you two live in the same house" asked Peyton a little confused.

"Yeah, I mean like moving in to my room, that was like a big deal for her" laughed Jake. "Brooke wouldn't stop making fun of her" Peyton laughed.

"Im glad that you're happy and that you moved on from me and Rachel" said Peyton. "You and Brooke go so well"

"Huh what… wait I think you go it wro-" began Jake.

"Its ok, im fine with it" said Peyton cutting in. "anyway come on everyone must be waiting for us" Peyton started to walk ahead leaving Jake behind. He really needed to sort the misunderstanding of him and Brooke dating, he decided to do it later, Jake didn't know why but he felt he wanted Peyton to know that there was nothing between him and Brooke. Jake started to walk after Peyton and fell in her foot steps, she turned and smiled at him and both of them headed back home. Jake opened the front door and walked in, followed by Peyton.

"Hey guys were back" said Jake walking in to the living room to find everyone except in Brooke in the living room watching cartoons with the kids.

"Thank god, where were you anyway" asked Haley.

"Just went to meet an old friend" said Jake.

"Ok, can we all please sit in the kitchen, I can't take these cartoons anymore" moaned Nathan. "They do the most stupid thing and except us to find it funny"

"If he is like this now, I wonder how he is gonna be when we actually have kids" muttered Haley, as all of them headed in to the kitchen.

"Hey we aint having kids yet, I don't think were ready" said Nathan

"Yeah but we were ready to be married when we were 16" said Haley sarcastically.

"So Luke, did you have your father daughter bonding then" asked Jake.

"Yeah, I can't believe I missed so much of her life man" sighed Lucas.

"Yeah well if it makes you feel any better, I tried to make Brooke tell you about Sarah many times" said Jake. "But damn man that girl can be stubborn" they all laugh.

"Yeah I also learnt that Sarah hangs out with boys" said Lucas seriously. "I know I've known Sarah for a day and shouldn't be that protective but I can't help it"

"I know the feeling man, try explaining that to Brooke" said Jake. "Those boys have shifty eyes; they use the evil cute charms and lure our sweet innocent girls in their traps"

"ok ill say this one more time, you two are crazy, they are only 6 years old!" exclaimed Haley. "Talk about over protective fathers". They all carried on talking and neither of them heard the door open and a crying Brooke entering the kitchen, they all looked up and Jake got up straight away and hugged her as she cried in his arms.

"Omg Brooke what happened" asked Jake. Brooke just cried even more, Lucas just watched them, he felt this weird feeling inside of him as he watched Jake hug Brooke, like he was jealous. "Brooke if you don't tell me what happened then I can't do anything". Brooke tried to say something but couldn't get the words right because she was crying too much.

"Ok all I got was a 'waaaaahhhh'" said Nathan trying as he mimicked Brooke. Every one threw him an evil look.

"Brooke, calm down just tell me watch happened" said Jake.

"Sarah… HCM… needs to be checked" chocked Brooke as she cried harder.

"Omg… Brooke its ok… we'll get her checked" said Jake trying to calm her down. "Nothing will happen to her I promise, common ill go with you"

"No Jake wait, let me go" said Lucas. "I need to know too". Jake stared at Lucas for a minute, deciding.

"Sure, you have more right" said Jake. "Brooke, why don't you get Sarah ready then". Brooke leaves and Lucas follows her out as well. Jake sits down on the chair. He couldn't believe it everything seemed to be going fine, they all got there friends back and now this has to happen. All he hoped that nothing would happen to Sarah.