I know I'm the absolute worst at updating, im so sorry! I hope you guys enjoy this update & I'll try not to make you wait as long for the next! Enjoy xo
Over the next few days Brooke and Lucas had been packing up his stuff to move to her place. They really didn't need too much help from their friends moving since he wasn't taking everything; he basically was just cleaning out his room. All furniture and stuff in the kitchen was his moms and she would need it when she came back. He started pulling boxes of stuff of out his closet; mostly old stuff from high school, his jersey, sweatshirts, basketball. He continued to pull stuff out, reaching to the top shelf to grab a small box, he smiled looking down at it his hands. Walking over to his bed he sat down and blew some dust off the top before opening the box. It was Brooke's letters. He had forgotten he had even still had them, but was glad he did after all this time. Thumbing along the tops of them his smile widened as he thought back to the night she gave them to him.
"Taking a break already?" Brooke said walking into the room seeing him sit there. She laughed seeing the goofy smile on his face when he looked up at her. "what?" she asked sitting down next to him. Then she saw the box in his hands and looked back up at him, "you kept them?"
"Yeah. I mean, I guess when we broke up I wasn't ready to let go, they were tucked away on the top shelf of my closet."
Brooke took the box out his hands and smiled looking between him and the letters. "It feels like forever ago."
"It kind of was," he said taking her hand, "but somehow we still ended up here." She nodded as he leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her lips.
"Hey! I came over to help you move, not watch you two make out," Nathan said interrupting from the doorway.
"You're actually here to help get this place ready for my mom," Lucas said as he got off the bed and walked toward his brother.
"Whatever, I still didn't sign up front row seats to your make out show."
Brooke got up and closed the box of letters. She started clearing out the rest of Lucas's closet while Nathan and Lucas took the boxes to the car. The plan was to have him completely moved out by the time his mom got back. They also wanted to fix his room up for Lily. Brooke had so many ideas on paint color and dressers; she still had a few stuffed animals left over from Angie too. Haley came in as Brooke was packing up the last box and smiled, "you know you're really stuck with him now? We're not moving him back out." Both girls laughed and Brooke nodded, "you're really happy aren't you?"
Haley asked seeing the smile Brooke wasn't able to hide.
Nodding again, she replied, "I am. For the first time in way too long I'm really happy."
"Good," Haley said wrapping an around her friend. She looked around the room then back at Brooke, "do you have any ideas for what you wanna do in here?"
"Too many," Brooke laughed.
"Just wait until you and Luke have a baby," Haley joked, but knew her friend would have a great time with a nursery. When she had Angie she bought her everything and anything baby related she could, she knew she would want to buy all that & more for her own baby.
Walking over to the now empty closet Brooke smiled, "I wanna make her some clothes; have her closet filled with C/B designs before they get here."
"I think she'd like that."
"I hope Karen doesn't mind, that we're doing this."
"I think she'll be grateful," Haley said walking over to stand next to Brooke. "What are you guys gonna do abut the door?"
"I thought about that, I think she's too young to have a door to the outside world, or vice versa, maybe we'll put the dresser in front of it?"
"That's a good idea."
"What's a good idea?" Lucas said walking back in the room and wrapping his arms around Brooke.
"Brooke was just telling me some of the stuff she has planned for Lilly," Haley replied with a smile, "I'm sure you're excited for them to be coming back."
"I am. I'm glad my mom got to travel and see the world, it's what she's always wanted, but I'm glad she's gonna be coming home."
"I'm glad she's gonna be running the café again," Nathan added, half serious, Karen's Café definitely wasn't the same without Karen.
Brooke and Lucas were finally back at her house, well their house now, Brooke smiled at the thought. They had finished bringing in his boxes, they just had to find a home for everything. They'd figure that out later though, right now they were too tired. They had spent the whole day clearing out his old room and filling it back up with stuff for Lilly. Brooke had also started sketches for an exclusive kids line just for Lilly.
She was happy with the way the room had started to come together, thinking back on the paint colors they had picked out and dressers they bought. She couldn't wait for the little girl to see it. As she sat on the couch, she was focused on her sketches, using bright colors that the little girl would love.
Lucas smiled from the island in the kitchen as he watched Brooke work. He couldn't believe that this was real, he had to pinch himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. He had actually moved into Brooke's house; they were really together. He walked over and plopped down next to her on the couch, kissing the side of her head. She looked up for a minute and smiled before continuing to color. Luke watched her for a couple more minutes before grabbing his laptop. He figured he would get some writing done, he did have a deadline. And for the first time in too long he felt at ease and his mind was clear.
Brooke smiled to herself as she heard the keys on his laptop, as he wrote away, pouring word after word, sentence after sentence onto the page. She liked this, them working side by side. She liked the thought of this being a regular thing. She thought back to what Haley had said earlier about her being happy, she really was. She used to think she wouldn't ever really be happy. That she would just go through moments of happiness, but they would never last. But now, thinking about her future with Lucas she knew it would and that thought was enough to make her heart burst.
They spent about an hour and half working side by side, until Lucas saw Brooke yawn out of the corner of his eye. He finished his last sentence before closing his laptop and snuggling into her. He rested his head on her shoulder and sliding his hand over her stomach. She laughed and briefly looking up from her sketchpad, before lightly patting his head, "awwe, is baby tired?" she joked.
"Hey, I saw you yawning, you're tired too."
"Maybe a little," she said muffling a yawn, causing them both to laugh.
"Come on, let's go to sleep, you can finish this tomorrow," Luke said trying to pull her off the couch.
Finally giving in, she put her stuff down on the coffee table and followed him into the bedroom. She had changed when they had gotten home into some sweats and a tank top, so she just got in bed, while Lucas went to change. He came back wearing grey sweat pants and a white t-shirt, but he pulled the shirt off before climbing in bed next to Brooke.
Kissing the side of her head, he snuggled up against her smiling. He was tired, but he couldn't stop smiling, he kind of felt too happy to sleep. Brooke could feel him smiling and laughed, turning to look at him. "Ok, what? What has got you grinning like that? I thought you were tired."
"I am, but…"
"But what?" she asked kinking her eyebrow.
"This is a big deal," he shrugged.
"What is?"
"This. It's our first night together, well living together."
She laughed, "awwe, honey." She leaned in and kissed him softly. She loved how excited he was about this, it put all of her fears at ease. If she was being completely honest, she was excited too, they were really moving forward. He really chose her and they were planning their life together and this was the beginning.
"I love you," he said pulling her closer to him, as she wrapped her arm around his stomach and rested her head on him.
"I love you too," she replied and kissed his chest before closing her eyes.
The next morning when Lucas got up, he found Brooke standing at the kitchen island, sipping her coffee and reading over the final draft of this months "B Davis" magazine, since she had the final editing say. He grinned and walked over, sliding his arms around her waist, "good morning," resting his head on her shoulder.
"Morning," she smiled, she could get used to this. "How'd you sleep?" she asked continue to flip through the pages.
"Good, better than I have in a while."
"Good," she smiled, turning in his arms. He leaned in and kissed her deeply, they stayed like that for a few minutes, until Brooke pulled away with a small moan. "As much as I would love to stay here and make out with you all day, I have to go."
As Brooke walked back into the bedroom to finish getting ready, Lucas followed behind. "You could just stay home, it's not like you'd get in trouble, you own the store," he laughed, pulling her onto the bed and rolling on top of her. He began kissing up and down her neck, distracting Brooke momentarily, before she pushed him away.
"Yes," she said getting up from the bed and heading into the bathroom to check her hair, "but I still have to run the store." Grabbing her bag, she walked out of the room, as he followed behind. "Besides, you have a meeting at the school," she quickly peck his lips before heading toward the door, "I'll call you later, love you."
And with that, Lucas was left staring at the front door, he chuckled to himself, shaking his head. Yup, this is exactly how he wanted everyday of his life to be.
Luke was ready to leave about an hour later, when he heard a knock at the door. "Hales, what are you doing here?" he asked seeing his best friend as he opened the door.
"I thought we could car pool, it being your first day back and all," Haley smiled, gesturing toward her car. Lucas nodding, locking up the house, then following her to the car. "So? Are you excited?" she asked as she started up her car.
"I'm not officially back yet Hales," he laughed, at his friend's excitement.
"Yeah, but you will be. You're a Ravens legend, plus you coached before, there's no way they're not gonna let you come back."
At the store, Brooke was going over inventory and listening to Millie read ideas off of Pinterest on things to do for a little girl's room. She was so excited to finish Lilly's room. They had worked some on it yesterday, but she was anxious to get everything done, especially since they had no idea when Karen would actually be coming home.
"This is cute," Millicent said showing Brooke the picture of the purple dresser with flowers outlined on it."
"It is, but I want something to pop, we already have purple paint for her walls, we don't need the whole room blending together," Brooke said going back to her list.
"Why don't you just go to the store and buy stuff?"
"Well we're buying some stuff, but some of the colors we want we'd have to order, so we're improvising…it's a good thing Luke is good with his hands," she said that last part more under her breath, walking into the back room. Before Millie had a chance to say anything back, the bell to the store rang and her jaw dropped seeing who had walked in. When Brooke came back to the front of the store, her jaw briefly dropped as well, but the she quickly shot out a "what are you doing here?"
"Brooke, don't look so surprised, I told you in New York you'd be seeing more of me. I do have some stake in this company you know," Victoria said taking a seat on the couch.
"No, you don't. I fired you and had my lawyers write you out, you don't work for me or this company anymore."
"Fine, fine," Victoria answered waving her hand in the air, as if she wasn't really listening, "but I am still your mother. And you're going to need me."
"I've done fine on my own for years, I don't think I'll start needing you now."
That hit a little closer to home and Victoria got up, spitting back, "Oh please not this again, come on Brooke, when are you going to grow up? I did the best I could." Brooke rolled her eyes at her mother's attempt at an excuse, "fine, but I'll be around for a while. Which is really worse for me, I mean who would want to come back to this God awful town anyway?" And with that she left the store, leaving an angry Brooke shaking her head in disbelief and a silent Millicent standing next to her. Things were going to get interesting.
"Brooke?" Lucas asked coming into his mom's house, they had agreed to meet there after work so they could work on getting everything ready. "Brooke?" he called again when she didn't answer. "Wow," he said walking into his old room, finally spotting her, "you've been busy."
Brooke looked up and nodded seeing come into the room, "long day," she said before putting the last decal on the wall. Taking a deep breath, she looked around the room, pretty proud of herself, "what do you think?"
"It looks great, but I thought we were supposed to be doing this stuff together?"
"Sorry, I just had to do something, this was the perfect way to get my mind off of things."
"I see that. How did you get so much done in just a few hours?" he asked looking at the almost finished room, all that was left for him to do was putting up shelves and putting things together.
She shrugged, turning to face him, "I just came in and started working and didn't stop."
"Well, I think you earned a pizza break," he said kissing the side of her head and following her into the kitchen.
They both sat down and started eating, staying quiet at first, but Lucas broke the silence, seeing the look on Brooke's face, as she chose to keep her eyes focused on the pizza box while she at. "Ok, what happened today, I don't think I've ever seen you this quiet," he joked, getting a small smile from the girl sitting next to him as she met his gaze.
"My moms here, in Tree Hill I mean. She stopped by the store today."
"Yikes. What does she want?"
"Good question. She said she was here for the company, but I think it's more than that, she didn't even fight me when I told her she didn't work for me."
"Maybe she wants to make things right?" Lucas asked trying to be optimistic.
Brooke looked up at him in disbelief, "seriously?"
"You never know, maybe she regrets the the time she's missed with you, I mean the company, working for you, was kind of her last tie…maybe you should give her a chance?"
"Fine, sure, I'll give her chance. We'll have her over for dinner, that way she can tell me how much she hates you and what a waste I'm making of my life, why don't you invite Dan over too, make it a real party." She said lashing back, but seeing the look on his face when she said Dan's name, she felt bad. "Sorry…It's just that every time I give her a chance she proves to me that it wasn't me that she cared about at all. It's always something with her."
He gave her a sad smile and took her hand, "look, no matter what she's here for, you can handle it, you're Brooke Davis, you can handle anything. And whatever you can't handle alone, I'm here."
Leaning in, she kissed his lips softly, nodding as she pulled away. "Ok, I could use some good news…how did your meeting go?"
"It was great, they're gonna have me shadow a couple of games, so I can get to know the team, but I start Monday."
"That's great," Brooke said a huge smile on her face, seeing the one on his. She was happy he had basketball in his life again. She knew how much the game meant to him and even though he couldn't play anymore, she loved that he could still be apart of it.
"Alright, why don't we go finish up Lilly's room," the blonde said getting up, cleaning up their pizza mess. "I was gonna call Nate and ask him to come over and help," he said as they walked back into the bedroom, "but I don't think we need it," he joked pulling Brooke into him.
She smiled looking up at him, her chin resting on his chest, "I think we can handle this."
When they had finally finished up and got home, Brooke couldn't wait to take a shower, she was sweaty and had purple paint all over her by the time they were done. Luke was sitting on the bed typing away his next chapter, when she came out, a towel wrapped around her body, another in her hand drying her hair. Looking up at her, he completely lost his train of thought. "What?" she asked walking over to her dresser.
"Nothing," he smiled, "come here."
"Ok?" she said arcing her brow. When she made her way over to the bed, he pulled her down and rolled on top of her playfully and tickled her, causing giggles to come from the brunette. "Stop it," she said in between breaths and laughs trying to push him off. He stopped his tickling, but didn't remove his hands, instead he began to rub them up and down her leg and began kissing her neck.
He grinned as her heard a moan escape her lips, he continued to kiss her, moving further down her neck, that was until his phone rang. He let it go for a while, but once it began to ring again, he let out an aggravated moan and grabbed it. Brooke laughed at his frustration, but she was pretty disappointed by the timing of the call too. "Hello," Lucas answered, without even looking at who was calling, disappointment evident in his voice. That changed however as soon as he heard who was calling him. "Mom, hey."
Brooke smiled at the change on Luke's face. She also stood up, fixing her towel, she knew that this call probably wouldn't be a short one and they wouldn't be picking up where they left off.
After getting changed, she went into the living room to grab her sketchpad and pencils to work on while he was on the phone. Taking a seat back next to him, now in a pair of fuzzy purple pajama pants and his grey hoodie, she began to work on some new designs.
When Lucas finally got off the phone, he he turned to look at Brooke, "My mom's coming home this weekend," he said smiling from ear to ear. "She wants to have dinner at the house. I didn't tell her about me moving in here, I figured we could surprise her surprise her with Lilly's room and the way we fixed things up for her, then tell her."
"You think she'll be ok with it?" Brooke asked outing her sketchpad on the night stand next to her and snuggling into Lucas.
"Us living together? Yeah, I don't see her minding that too much," he laughed putting his laptop away, not really understanding why she would ask that. They were adults and his mom loved Brooke, plus they were engaged, which he hadn't quite told her yet, but still he knew that his mother would be happy for them.
"No, I meant with you not living there. Maybe she was counting on the extra help."
He nodded seeing her point, lying down, he pulled her into his arms, her head resting on his chest, he kissed her hair, "I think she'll be fine. Besides it's not like we're that far away, I can go over and help her whenever."
She nodded against her chest, closing her eyes. She couldn't wait to see Karen and Lilly, she just hoped that Karen wouldn't have a lecture for them from all of their surprises.
Again im sorry for such a long wait, i literally work everyday and it's really hard to find time to update and write. Thank you guys for your interest and for continuing to read my stories, hope this chapter was worth the wait :)...reviews always welcome of course xo