A/N: One Tree Hill is not mine

Pictures of the Past

Chapter 7

Haley opened the door and pulled her suitcase into the lounge room. She stared at the photos displayed. Haley felt that all the photographs she and Nathan had on display were incomplete. Her and Lucas without Nathan, Brooke and Haley without Peyton, a group picture taken senior year before Jake came back, Brooke and Peyton without Haley, the team after their junior year loss without Lucas. All pictures from the past and not one seemed to be right.

It always amazed Haley how much everything had changed since Lucas joined varsity basketball junior year. Without the guidance of Keith, Lucas and Nathan would still be strangers, Haley wouldn't be happily married or have a beautiful son, and Peyton and Brooke wouldn't have influenced their lives they way they had. Haley glanced at the photo taken senior year again. Lucas and Brooke were smiling happily at the camera, his arms protectively around her. Some would say that they didn't make sense as a couple, but the same could have been said for Haley and Nathan or even Peyton and Jake. Although they had different interests, it was the fire that was ignited in their hearts and in their souls when they were together that made them compatible. Mouth had once told Haley that Brooke and Lucas had the same hearts. If only they knew it was true she thought. As much as Peyton and Lucas seemed compatible from the outside, the broody cheerleader and the broody basketball player were anything but perfect. They were attracted to each other because they were so similar yet the passion just wasn't there. When they embarked on their relationship in senior year, Lucas was nursing a broken heart, and a bruised soul after, Brooke broke up with him. It was the comfort of Peyton that eased the pain, but eventually Peyton saw that they were not meant to be, and her heart had been in Savannah all along. They had finally satisfied what both of them wanted one time or another the past few of years, and after a year of being together, they broke up. Peyton moved in Savannah to attend the Savannah School of Art and Design, and eventually married Jake. Lucas, on the only hand, moved onto the one person that Haley couldn't stand, and once again, the picture was incomplete.

It seemed like Brooke and Lucas had been in limbo ever since they broke up senior year. Although Brooke had dated Chase, it is what she needed after getting her heart broken once again by the boy she loved. Chase had restored her faith in romance, and her heart to let someone else in again. But Chase just wasn't Lucas. Chase may have been kind, sweet and a complete gentleman, but it was Lucas' roughish charm and his way with words that had Brooke always comparing him to others.

Haley didn't understand Lucas' relationship with Rachel, and personally Haley thought he was just doing the same thing that he did with Peyton: hide the pain. Now with a baby on the way, Haley knew without a doubt that Brooke and Lucas were soul mates, all they had to do was realise it themselves.

"Well if it isn't my favourite girl" Nathan came in, dressed in his basketball gear

" Hi, husband" Haley said as she reached up to him, giving him a passionate kiss

"Hmm…maybe you should go visit Brooke more often if I can get a welcome like that" Nathan said cockily

"Hmm…maybe" Haley said as she kissed him again.

"Where is my beautiful son?" she said realising the silence of the house

" Mouth and Shelly are babysitting him for the day" Nathan said as they sat on the couch

"Ok" Haley said, wanting to have a little time to tell Nathan what transpired in New York anyway.

Haley explained from the start, how Brooke had left a message on their machine 7 months before, Brooke's last encounter with Lucas, to her ultrasound a week before.

"Wow, Hales, Luke is going to be a dad" Nathan said not quite believing the story Haley had just told him

"Well believe it, and we are going back in 2 months for the birth" Haley said firmly

"Ok, Hales, but what are we going to tell Luke"

"Nothing for the moment, let's just hope that he finds her and they sort things out" Haley said, thinking how stubborn Brooke could be " And considering Brooke now knows about his engagement, it's not going to be easy for her to let him in" Haley continued.

"Brooke!" Lucas said as she turned her heel and walked away

"Luke, give her time. She hasn't seen you since you left her naked in her bed-

"But-"

"No 'buts' Lucas! She doesn't deserve that, particularly from you! You know what; I could castrate you right now!! For someone so smart you are so stupid, Luke!" as Peyton whacked him across the head

Lucas stayed silent, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with what she was saying.

"Look Luke, this is her number and her address", as Peyton scribbled it on the back of a Starbucks receipt. "And you better be ready to start grovelling and explaining yourself…"and as she glanced Luke up and down… "And particularly why you are still with that skank" Peyton glared at Lucas, clearly showing her dislike to his fiancé

"Peyton, why are you helping me?" looking curiously at his ex girlfriend

"Because people who belong together find their way in the end"

With that Peyton was off, hoping that she would be able to catch up with her heavily pregnant friend.

Sorry it has been so long since i updated...i have been sick with the flu but i am upright and everything now!Please review and i will update tomorrow (I promise)!! xoxo