Ever feel like that feeling when a certain activity makes you feel like you damn well ran a damn marathon and you just barely survived the obstacles?

Or that feeling when you feel that rippling nausea effect at the pit of your stomach from enjoying one too many rollercoaster's that were a little bit too past your comfort meter?

Or simply that feeling where you feel like your going to combust from the amount of energy being sucked from your stomach, gasping for breath yet it seems like the earth is just not on your side and is torturing you with its thickening way of providing air into your system?

Nathan and Lucas Scott never knew how that felt like yet they were damn well sure they could now.

The Scott brothers had spent all morning finishing the well-expired act of finishing the nursery, something they had been planning to do yet failing un-successfully by Peyton's involvement.

Luckily for them, Haley had decided to make things easier by taking the heavily pregnant girl shopping, unknowingly for Peyton finding a present for her unknown baby shower/ bridal shower.

Needless to say, both Scott brothers were completely and effortlessly drained.

Who knew figuring out colors, textures, furniture and shit would be that hard to do?

Once again, one of the mysteries in the world that would forever be unsolved.

They both sucked in some air, pulling the fridge door open before grabbing a few beers and slumping tiredly into a chair.

They both knew they weren't exactly make-it people as they were fix-it people so the task was a little hard to do and took up a lot of space to do..

Although they wouldn't actually admit that … They were Scott's for Pete Sakes.

"Thanks a lot man, Thanks to you, I don't ever think I'll be able to play basketball again." Said Nathan, jokingly. Referring to his tired muscles.

"Again? God, you would've thought being in a wheelchair would've ended that position a long time ago." Retorted Lucas teasingly, laughing as his brother stuck his tongue out at him. " Oh real mature, Nate."

Nate laughed, eyes twinkling with mysteriousness before responding." Only you would know." He deadpanned, laughing as his brother feigned a shocked expression.

He looked around the room, smiling at the pictures hoisted on the wall, all different ranges from all the different people placed in each photograph. There were some of Lucas, Peyton and Kaylee as a family both goofing off and charismatic, him, his wife and Jamie with them, Brooke and Chase added into the mix.

He spotted a few from Kaylee's previous birthday, the laughable family pictures of his brother, his best friend and his niece, the joking pictures of Jamie, Lilly and Kaylee together, even some pictures of Dan until finally his eyes landed on a picture of him and his brother, alone.

His thoughts consumed him and he prompted himself to think farther, thinking of the times when he absolutely despised his brother due to his father, yet now was the totally opposite.

As corny as it sounds, he actually couldn't think of not having his brother in his life, the bond they formed was one too strong.

"God, can you believe I used to hate you." He murmured, shaking his head with disbelief.

Lucas's eyes twinkled with remembrance. "Ah freshman year and above, you wouldn't even look at me."

"You were the enemy." He smirked, teasingly. "Besides I was Mr. Popular, Luke. We popular kids don't hang with dorks."

He laughed, squinting his eyes with disbelief. "Did you ever think we'd ever be here, where we are now, bonding…"

"Ask me freshman year and I probably would've said hell no." He retorted, before smirking. " But now, well you just can't get enough of me."

"Of course, Nate. Just what would I do without you." He muttered sarcastically, laughing as Nathan murmured a simple 'beats me' before taking a swig of his drink.

"Speaking of people we can't live without how is my darling neice and my best friend?"

"Honestly. We are all working on getting the whole incident behind us." He started." Kaylee's getting her cast off today which leads a whole lot to the whole ' road of recovery thing' and Peyton is due soon, so I'd say we're good."

"Two weeks to go, man." Murmured Nate, referring to the baby coming. "Nervous?"

"Extremely." Deadpanned Lucas with wide eyes. " I mean, don't get me wrong I'm excited and all but the thought of actually being a father to this keith makes me scared to death."

"You make it sound like you've never been a father before." Nathan pointed out. " You do know this is baby number two, right?"

"I've think I've accustomed to the whole father role a long time ago, yes." He agreed, shrugging." I just- this is completely different, I mean I wasn't there for most of Kaylee's childhood which gives me a major setback.. Apart from the occasional babysitting for both Jamie and Lilly, I don't have a clue on how to handle new born baby's." He sighed. " I just can't help but get this nagging feeling in my head that I'm not going to fill up to his needs… the parenting books don't really help either."

"Dude, Haley was convinced Jamie was going to grow up with two heads because of those." He laughed, watching as Lucas laughed alongside him." Look, yeah you weren't there for Kaylee when she was growing up but you honestly rock that girls world, Luke. You're an awesome parent when it comes to her and I know that you'll excel with this rocker when he comes out too." He smirked. " Plus, bonus points is you got 'Superhero Peyton' coming in to the rescue 24/7. "

Lucas nodded agreeing-ly, Nathan smirking beside him that he could almost envision the quirky retort that would come flying out of his mouth.

"I should know, I had her first." He continued, chuckling as his brother shook his head, throwing the plastic apple that lay on the kitchen counter.

"Dude, that was so lame." Laughed Nate, referring to his brother's choice of item to retort with causing Lucas to roll his eyes, embarrassed.

"Shut up."

Nathan laughed before standing. " Well hopefully a game of basketball will help you get your head back in the game. " He smirked. " You turning girly on me isn't really a sight Peyton would love to hear."

"Very funny." Lucas rolled his eyes, leading his brother towards the door. Nathan halted in mid-step.

"Hey Luke!" He called out, watching as his brother whipped around to face him. " You'll be okay."

Lucas nodded, with a smile. " Yeah, I think I will."

--

Time droned by effortlessly yet both Haley and Peyton didn't seem too mind, them both too enthusiastic enjoying their time, being occupied with each other and taking comfort in the fact that soon, really soon, them both, would be officially family.

Haley smiled, taking a slurp of her soda. Both she and the blonde beside her had resorted back to the recording studio, spending their time commenting on Mia's new albums, joking around and Haley torturing Peyton as she complained about the lack of work and how she felt totally out of her element.

All in all, she was joyous to the fact that she had decided to take the high road and apologize for not being there for Peyton back in the day when Lindsay had still been around and was involved with her best friend.

As much as she thought she hadn't been judgmental, she realized she had and after getting spewed by Brooke on her wrongs, was glad she corrected them and Peyton was fortunate enough to accept it.

She just couldn't imagine not having Peyton in her life.

Could you just imagine Lucas and Peyton getting married with the both of them not okay with each other?

Can you say awkward?

"Hey yoo-hoo!, Miss Haley James Scott." Chanted Peyton with arched brows. " Coming back from the dead any time soon?"

"Ha-ha, very funny. I seem to remember you tend to do that a lot." She teased, bumping her shoulder with the blonde opposite her.

"Exactly, that's my job, you.. Not so much." Haley laughed in response, shoving her shoulder lightly. "What's going on in that head?"

"Nothing." She sighed, shaking her head in disbelief. " God, can you believe where we are at this point in our lives?"

"Truthfully, hell no." Her lips quirked to one side. " I was the broody cheerleader, Luke was the abandoned loner child, I would've never expected us having two kids before we even married, hell getting married at all.. I didn't even think dating was an option."

"You think you have it bad, had you asked me when I was ten if I would've gotten married to Nathan Scott, my best friend's ass of a brother my freshman year only to fall in love with him, have a child senior year with him , I would've called you a lunatic and snuffed you across the face."

"Snuffed?" Peyton rose her eyebrows, muffling her laughter from Haley's use of terminology.

Haley shrugged, waving her hand dismissingly. "You'll be surprised how much kids at Tree Hill say it, nowadays."

Peyton shook her head. "You just get badder and badder every day, huh?"

"Look who's talking Miss Record labelist, your whole high school years just screamed bad ass."

"Yeah." Laughed Peyton, placing a slender arm over the brunette's shoulder. " You know what I think, I think, no matter how we got here or how long it took us to get here, we each ended up with the right people and that the people we are with are those we are meant to be with."

Haley shook her head, regarding Peyton with an amused expression. " When'd you become so optimistic, Peyton Sawyer?"

"The minute I laid eyes on my little girl." She retorted softly, Haley mirroring her expression with overwhelmed eyes.

"They grow up so fast, don't they?" Haley murmured, emotionally. " I mean, it seems just like yesterday I was getting Jamie out of his daily naps on the bathroom floor."

"Oh, I know what you mean. Kaylee despised underwear till the day she turned two, girl used to run around naked singing Hedley's songs, every single day. We had polices coming in once or twice due to all the complaints."

Haley laughed, Peyton joining in as well, them both ironically shaking their head from the peculiar little person that is Kaylee. That girl sure was a girl like no other.

"And now here you are popping out another one!" Cried Haley, overwhelmingly, smiling adoringly.

"Surreal right? But at the same time, Its like, I can't imagine my life turning out differently, I mean seriously.. What if I had married Nathan?"

"Gross, what if I had married, Luke. I mean, everyone already thought we were dating freshman year anyway?" She pointed out, accusingly raising her eyebrows towards her.

"Dude, that was Brooke."

"Mhmm." Chuckled Haley, before squeezing her friend into a hug. " Either way, I think little mini Keith- great choice in the name by the way- is so lucky to have a badass rock star mama, like you."

"Thanks." Giggled Peyton. " You know what, you're kind of cool, Haley James Scott."

"You too, Sawyer. You too."

--

"Daddy, can we see it yet?" Moaned Kaylee, little hands gripping her parents hand as her father lead her towards their so called surprise.

Lucas had taken the role of taking Kaylee away from school early that day in order to get to her doctor's apartment early before hurriedly taking the both of them to the studio where Peyton had been waiting patiently, bored out of her mind because her companion in crime had gone him earlier that day.

The doctors appointment had gone well, them finally taking off the pink cast that took space of Kaylee's leg which had the little girl pouting a little bit, shrugging as they threw her a questionable glance before telling them that she liked the color and that she wouldn't have her classmates draw on it no more when she was bored or when they were supposed to go to sleep for nap time.

They'd gone home, strapping themselves with belt buckles once seated into the comet when Lucas had announced that he had a surprise for the both of them, his responses being a loud groan and a loud cheer.

It was obvious as to who the groan belonged to… As she had told the many of them before, Peyton Sawyer hated surprises.

Obviously the surprises that passed by her life, were one too many.

But reluctantly, she found herself anticipating the surprise, because of course, Lucas Scott was a man of many things but when he had a trick down his sleeve, they turned out to be one that will honestly rock your world.

"You ready to have your world rocked?" He aired out, peering down to look at the blindfolded figures behind him.

There was a collection of cheerful yes and a collection of begrudging no's before Lucas laughed and opened the door, hurriedly shedding the blindfold that prevented them from seeing the beauty that he and his brother had created.

The look on their faces was all worth the energy.

It was a mixture of green and blue, both fitting for Keith and also, something they noticed was a blended mixture of both Lucas and Peyton's eye color. The nursery was filled with lots of boys clothes and accessories all courtesy of Brooke Davis who had even managed to attach a little praising gift in exchange, warning the little unborn kid not to thank her for hooking him up with his clothes and making him look style and hip… at least before they corrupted him.

She even went so far as to add blue customary plume baby booties, the clothes over bro's exceptional logo on them.

There were basketball stuff all throughout the room, as expected and a collection of photographs from each member of the group, so that the child could be surrounded with the pictures of his loving family and friends.

There was even the added bonus of music floating through the room, the chanting tunes of Nickel back gracing their ears.

Honestly, the whole thing had Peyton barreling into an emotional spiral and she could feel the tears welling in her eyes.

Curse her damn hormones.

"What do you guy's think?"

"I- It's beautiful, Luke." She cooed softly, eyes transfixed on the blue, bright dimple Velour kid's robe that read 'I love mommy' . She couldn't begin to describe how she was feeling, it just made the thought of having another child in a few weeks seem all the more real.

Kaylee nodded in agreement, looking around in awe. "Keith is gonna love it." She smiled hugely. " And look! There's a rocking chair too so I can be the best big sister ever and read stories to him."

Peyton walked over to the rocking chair, closing her eyes to envision Keith in her arms, her catering to him as he cried for his every need, she got a flashback to the times in L.A where she used to do the exact same thing to Kaylee, mindlessly focusing on instinct and not knowing how to handle a newborn baby, it amazed her still how far she had come in life.

She was having another one for fuck's sakes.

Lucas couldn't help but grin, imagining Peyton hold their baby in her arms, cradling him and giving him the same exact affectionate love and care she gives to their already loved one, she was such a great mother and he couldn't help his heart from racing that much more. Just the thought of him cradling their child on that rocking chair had him getting all emotional and girly about it.

Kaylee raised her hands up, silently asking to be carried and Lucas obliged, knowing all to well that she was getting way to big to be carried baby-like yet opting otherwise, the two of them walked over to Peyton, getting comfortable as they surrounded her.

"Do you think Keith will like me?" Mused Kaylee, head titled, shyly peering up at her parents.

"Of course he will, who wouldn't love you, you beautiful girl." Lucas responded, pressing a kiss to her neck, both parents smiling as she giggled cutely in response.

"But how could he love me if he's gonna be so tiny and havin' to listen to me talk all the time, I've heard myself and I have a loud voice, Uncold Nate told me so!" She retorted smartly.

Peyton and Lucas laughed, shaking their head in disbelief from the child they produced. "Well yeah, but that just makes them amused and want to cling to you more." Advised Peyton. " I remember when you were a baby, you were always looking around, blinking wildly and gurgling sounds whenever someone so much as walked into the room, I basically had to pretend to fall every few minutes just to get you to stop bobbing your head all the time, people actually thought the little thing would break."

"It's not my fault I was stubborn, mama. I was just a whee little baby." She told her mother sassily, indicating with her fingers how small she was.

"And you still are too, stubborn I mean." Lucas laughed comically. " With a huge appetite too, I seriously wonder how you stay so tiny."

"Fast me-at-bo-lism."

"Metabolism, baby." Corrected Lucas, laughing as Kaylee huffed in response, rolling her eyes at her father.

"I knew that already, daddy. Its why I said it."

Peyton crackled in laughter as Lucas looked perplexed from her sassy words, patting his cheek affectionately with her hand, telling him not to worry and that her father had told her she was the same way when she was a little kid.

"Great, does that mean I'll be expecting temper tantrums soon?" He teased, stroking her blonde curls back.

Peyton smirked in response. " Oh lots baby, Be afraid. Very afraid."

"Well then, its fair to say she'll get chicken-y legs to match, huh? Just like her mother." He taunted, watching as her eyebrows arose.

"Not fair! You use that for everything." She moaned.

"Do not, you just can't admit you lost." He bragged, wiggling his eyebrows in a manner that made Peyton laugh before pressing his lips to hers in a languid kiss.

Kaylee stood there stumped, looking back and forth between her parents before shaking her head and looking down at the heavy bulge her parents carried.

"I know." She whispered, with a nod. " Our parents are weird, but don' worry, they're pretty cool once you get to know em' and they love you lots and lots.." She shrugged. "And if that don' work out, well you have me to straighten you out, k?"

Seriously, her mother was a chicken?

Well then, that was a serious question for next time. For now, she had sibling bonding to tend to.