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"Uh..Brooke..I..I think I should uh take if from her," Peyton says as Brooke looks at her.

"You seem uh..a little um..angry." Peyton said, looking a little bit scared, not wanting to further anger a 3 1/2-month pregnant angry woman.

"Angry! I'm not angry!" Brooke yelled loudly, "I just want them to fix my damn dress!"

People immediately looked at Brooke and whispered to each other.

Brooke turned around, feeling a little bit embarrassed.

She inhaled and exhaled and then spoke to them. "Sorry." She turned to Claire. "I'm sorry..Claire. You see my dress doesn't fit and I'm pregnant and my wedding is in three days." She gulped. "So, I'm not doing so good." She gave out a nervous laugh.

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"But I'm trying to stay in this for that little boy and girl." She said as her voice cracked and looked out the window at her kids playing on their swing set. She really didn't want to put them through this.

"But Haley you need to be what's most important to your kids, a good mother."

"But then I can't help i that you have feelings for someone else, can I?" She paused, her eyes watering up

"I-.I tried." She said her voice breaking once again. She tried to look at Nathan through her watery eyes.

"I tried to be good enough for you." She looked back at the window, at her children laughing and running and playing in their backyard.

"So this wouldn't happen." She said.

Chapter 26

"Your dress...doesn't fit.. um. Okay! Then we obviously need to get to work!" Claire said, looking at them.

"Yeah." Brooke said, nervously.

"Alright..um, do you have the dress?"

Peyton held up the dress that was covered by a plastic bag.

"Okay. You want to keep this design, right? Because since we're fixing it, we could just start over. Or you could keep this design and we'd only need to get a little bit of extra fabric so it would fit you correctly."

"Oh, no, this is gonna be my dress!" Brooke exclaimed.

"Great." She said, smiling. "Now let me get the girls and we'll start working on this!" She said as she walked away from the counter and went in the back to find them.

Peyton and Brooke exchanged nervous looks and they grabbed each other's hands.

"So four years ago Whitey asked you to play on his team. Why didn't you?" Rachel asked Nathan as they sat down at the table in Nathan's kitchen.

"I had a son. I had to take care of him, Rachel, be a father. My dream had to wait."

"You gave up your dream for your kids. That's amazing, Nate. You must be an awesome father."

"Thanks." Nathan smiled at her. "You know, when people get to know you well, you're actually a really great person."

Rachel beamed and smiled. "Yeah, I guess I'm not that bad after all." She said, winking at him.

Lucas walked through the streets with his little sister, Lily.

"Luke it's your books!" She said, pointing to the many copies of Lucas' 3rd best seller.

"Yeah it is Lily. That's your brother's book."

"When I grow up, I want to be an author."

Lucas smiled. "We'll see."

"Just like you." She said.

Lucas laughed and smiled. He held Lily's hand and kept walking.

He looked out in the distance of the town he grew up in. Then he saw a familiar face, one he hadn't seen in 3 years.

"Mouth?"