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Chapter VI: Survivor
A few days had passed. Brooke was trying to get some design ideas down on paper but she wasn't having much luck. All she could think about was Lucas. She was feeling a little better so she decided to write him a letter, she knew that she wouldn't be able to say half of the things she wanted to say to him if she saw him face to face. She had only written a couple of lines when the home phone rang, Nathan and Haley were both at work and Jamie was in kindergarten so she picked it up.
"Scott residence" she said as she picked up the phone.
"Hey Brooke it's Haley. Look I'm gonna be a little late today so I was wondering if you could pick up Jamie. Nathan isn't answering his phone, I left him a voicemail but I don't know when he's gonna check that so could you do it?" Haley said on the other end, it sounded like she was running a marathon.
"Uhh sure I'd love to do it, I'm actually really bored so.." Brooke responded.
"Great! Okay bye" Haley exclaimed before hanging up.
Brooke sighed as she continued writing the letter. After she was finished she checked her watch, it was nearly time to pick up Jamie so she wrapped up her letter and put it in an envelope. A few minutes later she was at Jamie's kindergarten.
"Hey I'm here to pick up James Scott" she said to a middle-aged woman.
The woman turned around and looked at Brooke with a disapproving glare. "And who are you?" she said.
"Oh sorry I'm Brooke Davis, Jamie's godmother. And you are?" Brooke said while taking off her sunglasses.
"Susan Riley. Jamie's teacher. His mother didn't say anything about you picking him up when she dropped him off this morning." Susan said glaring at Brooke.
Brooke was getting annoyed with this old hag. "That's because she didn't know, she called me a little while ago and asked me to pick him up because she's stuck at work."
"Fine." Susan replied and called Jamie's name.
Jamie came out running with a drawing. "Aunt Brooke what are you doing here?" he said with a smile on his face.
"Hey tigger, mommy couldn't pick you up right now so she called me. We are going to do something really fun together okay?" Brooke said smiling at her godson.
Susan snorted and then walked into another room.
Brooke rolled her eyes when she left the room and picked up Jamie's bag, then she took his hand and led him out to the car.
They drove around for a bit and then Brooke bought Jamie an ice cream. The letter was in her purse. She drove past a couple of mailboxes before finally stopping at one and pulling out the letter. She looked at it and wondered whether she should mail it or not.
She looked at Jamie in the backseat. "What do you think? Should I mail it or not?" she asked him.
"Who is it to?" he said with chocolate chip ice cream all over his face.
Brooke sighed. "It's to your uncle Lucas. I don't know if I should send it because it might make him sad."
"Don't send it, I don't want uncle Luke to be sad" Jamie said while licking his fast melting ice cream.
"I know you don't sweetie.." Brooke looked at the letter still conflicted. Then her cell phone rang. It was Nathan.
"Hi Nate, what's up?" Brooke said the moment she answered.
"Actually it's Haley, we're both at home now so you can bring Jamie home" Haley blurted out in one breath.
"Uhm okay..sure we'll be home soon" Brooke said grinning.
"I wonder what your parents were doing?" Brooke said with a small laugh.
"I don't know" Jamie said barely getting the words out because he was so busy licking his ice cream.
Brooke wanted to give Nathan and Haley some alone time so she brought Jamie home after half an hour. The pair walked into the house and noticed there was no sign of Nathan and Haley. A little thump came from the bedroom followed with some laughing. Jamie wandered into the living room so Brooke walked up to the bedroom door and swung the door open. "GOTCHA!" Brooke yelled.
Nathan was lying on the floor with boxers on and pants half way up his thighs, he was laughing so hard that he couldn't get them on. Haley was on the bed wearing a bra and panties trying to get a tank top on but was also laughing so hard that she couldn't.
"Well well what do we have here?" Brooke said raising an eyebrow.
By this point Haley had laughed so hard that she had tears in her eyes: "Oh my god Brooke we're sooo sorry" she said followed with some more laughing. Nathan got up from the floor and buttoned his pants. Then he put on a t-shirt, the whole time smirking like an idiot.
"We were just having some fun. Thanks for picking up Jamie" he said while walking past Brooke.
Brooke looked at Haley who had managed to get her tank top on and was now looking for her pants. "You know if you guys need some alone time you can always ask me to babysit, it's really no bother." Brooke said plopping herself on the bed.
Haley sat down next to her. "Thanks but we didn't plan this or anything. I was stuck at work for real and then Nathan just surprised me at my office. When we got home you had already gone to get Jamie so we just thought we'd have a little fun." Haley couldn't help but smile a little.
"Haley James-Scott you dirty girl!" Brooke said hitting Haley on the shoulder. "Well I'm happy you're happy."
"Thanks tigger, but I would be a lot happier if you were happy too." Haley said.
"I'll get there, I just need to get over Lucas. I don't know how to do it though." Brooke said while looking down. She couldn't think of any way to get over the love of her life.
"I think you need closure. You need to tell him exactly how you feel and how much he hurt you in order to have some closure. Without that you'll never get over him." Haley half-whispered.
"Yeah maybe you're right..I also need my stuff from our apartment. God I still can't believe that he left me for another woman. I mean sure he had been distant for a while but the thought he might be falling for someone else never entered my mind" Brooke said. She thought about the letter, should she send it to him?
Haley gave Brooke a quick hug: "It's gonna be okay, Nathan and I will help you every step of the way alright?"
"Thanks tutor-girl." Brooke said to her best friend.
A yell came from the living room : "Why is my son covered in ice cream?!"
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Author's note: So this chapter was kinda uneventful but I promise the next one will be big:)
