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Okay, so I just need to tell you something quick about this chapter. When it gets to the present time part (2015), it skips about 2 months from the last chapter. I wrote it down there, too, but incase you miss it I wanted to tell you here.

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What's True

Chapter 15 -

--2010--

The doorbell's ring echoed throughout the house, and even without getting up to check, Brooke already knew who it was.

Lucas.

He had called her earlier, and even though she hadn't picked up, he left a message informing her that he'd be stopping by. He wanted to see their daughter. He needed to see her, and he did have the right to.

"The door's open." She shouted, as the tiny infant squirmed in her arms. She lowered her head to kiss Rylie's forehead, in attempts to calming her down a little.

"You know you should really lock your door." Was the first thing he said as he made his way into the living room where Brooke was seated.

"Thanks for the tip."

He nodded and inhaled deeply, stuffing his hands in his pockets. It was very awkward.

"So...this is the new house?"

She nodded; no words came out.

"How is everything?...I mean—."

"What do you want, Luke?" She cut him off.

"Brooke..."

"What, Lucas?"

"I wanted us to be a family. The three of us." He sounded so desperate. "I mean, I proposed to you...and you said no."

"I said no because the only reason you proposed was because I was pregnant. How many times do we have to go over this, Lucas?"

"That's not the only reason, Brooke. God. I thought what we had was important to you. I thought it meant something. It meant everything to me."

"We weren't even together!"

"Okay...and I didn't get the point of it then, and you know what? I still don't understand!"

--2015--

-About two months after the last chapter-

Brooke sighed contentedly as she repositioned her sunglasses so they were now on top of her head so she could keep a better eye on Rylie who was a few feet away, attempting to build a sand castle. Moments before, the young girl had ordered Lucas to go find some more seashells so when the sand castle was finally finished, they could decorate it with the shells.

"Hey, pretty girl." Brooke smiled at the nickname as her eyes trailed away from her daughter right to where Lucas stood in front of her. "How's the tanning going?"

"Okay, I was able to get some color. How's the sand castle going?" Brooke asked as both she and Lucas turned their attention to their daughter who was patting mounds of sand to the continuously growing castle.

"Well, that's our fifth attempt." He stifled a laugh. "But after the fourth time we just realized we needed to move it further away from the shore. I think we got the hang of it now."

She nodded. "Thanks for this, Luke. It was a really great idea. We all just needed to get away for a little."

"Anything for you, pretty girl. But I better be getting back to Rylie before she starts to think I abandoned in our sand castle we got going there. And plus, I can't keep her waiting on these." He replied, lifting up a small bucket filled with seashells.

"Have fun." Brooke said right before Lucas bent down to her level where she was sitting on the beach chair to give her a quick kiss on the lips.

"Daddy, come on!" Rylie's high voice broke the two apart.

"Duty calls."

Brooke nodded and pulled her sunglasses back over her eyes as she watched Lucas walk away through the tinted frames of her glasses.

She was happy. Finally. Because now they were a family, all three of them, together.

And she had to admit, at first she was a bit apprehensive about it. She wasn't sure if they had rushed into things, and even if they hadn't, things still had the chance of not working out.

But so far, things seemed to be going great.

Brooke and Lucas took off from work and took Rylie out of school for a few days to go on a family vacation. Because they never really had that before. And that's where they were now, at Wrightsville Beach, just enjoying the beach and the nice weather that went along with it.

Rylie seemed to be much happier, too. And it truly was no surprise. All she wanted all along was to grow up with both her parents, and now that's what she was getting.

It had been a long, hard, -sometimes very hard-, journey. But they managed to make it.

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"Well she's out like a light." Brooke walked out of the beach house they were occupying and onto the balcony where Lucas was seated. She sat next to him and he wrapped his arm around her.

"Yeah, well, I thought she would be. She had a lot of fun today."

"Yeah...we all did." She nodded and leaned her head against his shoulder.

A few minutes passed as they both looked out onto the starry sky.

"I love you, you know that?" He nudged her causing her to stir out of her trance.

She gave him a smile, nodded, and then replied. "I love you, too...I, um, actually have something I need to tell you." She said, thinking now would be the perfect time to tell him something that had been on her mind for the past few days.

"Really? 'Cause well, I have something to talk to you about, too. But you can go first..."

"No, no. You can go."

"Alright..." He took a deep breath. "Okay...Well, you know I love you. So much. And I'm so happy that we're finally together after everything that has happened. And we have Rylie, and our life just can't seem to be any more perfect. I am still so mesmerized by the fact that we've been through hell and back and we've still managed to be the same people when we're together. And there's nothing that will make me happier than if you become my wife."

"Lucas—."

"Wait. I don't have a ring now, because I wasn't planning on doing this until we got back home...But I just felt this would be the perfect time. I love you, Brooke Davis. Will you marry me?"

"Wait..."

He looked at her in shock. Was she going to turn down his proposal...again? "Brooke, I don't think I can handle another no."

"Just listen...Lucas...I'm...I'm pregnant."

His eyes doubled in shock at her revelation. "You're what now?"

"We're going to have another baby, Lucas." She nodded hesitantly.

"Oh my god."

"Do you still want to marry me?" She asked, half jokingly, half seriously.

"Oh, Brooke." He said and pulled her into a hug, kissing her hair. "That's amazing! Wait, so that's a yes?"

"Of course!" She exclaimed. "Of course I want to marry you."

They were going to do things the right way this time.

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–Melissa