"Lucas Eugene Scott!" Brooke squealed as she raced down the spiral staircase in her home.

It had been a four months since her late husband's funeral and life had gone back to normal for Brooke and the Baker twins.

Jude and Davis were back in school and began to made it onto the junior league basketball team after being convinced by their Uncle Lucas to try out. Brooke was back to working in her children's boutique, Baker Man, while also spending some time working at the café that she still owned half of with Haley Scott.

Lucas and Sawyer had officially moved back to the small town of Tree Hill. Lucas was in works to take over Julian's show, Unkindness of Ravens, for it's final season. Lucas and Sawyer stayed with Brooke and the twins because Karen, Lily, and Andy decided to stay in Tree Hill for the remainder of the year. Lucas finally found a home for him and Sawyer to live in.

"I got you!" Lucas laughed and grabbed Brooke by her waist.

Brooke and Lucas were not officially together. Brooke felt that it was too soon after her husband's passing for the two to become a couple. She did; however, want the two of them to explore their feelings for one another so they began dating non-exclusively.

"Okay, you got me!" Brooke stopped fighting Lucas' soft touch, "Why are you forcing me to say goodbye to you?"

Lucas laughed and released his hold of her waist, "It is a ten minute walk to my new house, Brooke! You can walk there and call that your exercise for the day."

Brooke plopped down her couch and pouted, "That is so much further than walking just down the hall to see you."

Lucas sat down on the couch beside Brooke and pulled her into his arms. "I will be over here every day checking in on you and the boys anyways."

Brooke laughed and buried her face into his chest, "I know! I know!" She pulled herself up so she was sitting upright on the couch. "You ready to get going? If we're going to have the house ready by the time Sawyer gets out of school we're gonna rush the painter and movers."

Lucas checked the time on his black wrist watch. "Yeah let's go!" He pushed himself off of the plush white couch in Brooke's formal living room. He stretched his hand out to her so he could help her up from the couch.

She slapped her hand into his palm and allowed for him to pull her off of the couch, "Let's go get this done!"

"Walking or driving?" Lucas dangled his car keys in the air.

Brooke snatched the car keys away from him, "Driving! Of course."

"Then let's go!" Lucas draped his arm over Brooke's shoulder and the pair walked out of the large white house towards Lucas' old red Mustang that sat at the end of Brooke's driveway. The Mustang was once Keith's but Lucas now cherished it as his own.

"I've grown to like this car." Brooke tossed Lucas the car's keys, "But I'm still afraid to drive it."

Lucas laughed and caught the keys mid-air. "Why?" He ran around the car and opened the passenger side door for her. "Ladies first!"

"Thank you, handsome!" Brooke smiled and climbed into the vintage car, "Because I would break it into a million and one pieces and Keith would be mad at me from heaven." She laughed and pulled her seat belt over her chest.

Lucas ran back around the car and got into the driver's seat. "I'd be mad at you from Earth for Keith!" He turned on the car and within second they were driving down the street towards his new home.

Brooke hit him in the arm but she stared at his profile. "Why am I crazy about you, Lucas Scott?"

He glanced over at her as he pulled into the driveway of his new home. "Because it's always been us!"

"What?" She asked, confused.

Lucas unbuckled his seat belt so he could turn in his seat to face her. He took her hands into his own. "It's always been us! That day after we won the championship, I made the mistake and walked away because you were convinced that Peyton was the one for me and so was everyone else."

"It was the way you looked at her, Luke." Brooke thought back to their senior year of high school. "She was always the one thing that could tear us apart."

Lucas gave her hands a gentle squeeze, "She wasn't the one that was pulling us apart. It was me and my doubt that you loved me."

"What?" Brooke squealed, "You doubted my love for you? Why?"

He chuckled at her high pitch scream. "You pushed me towards Peyton at the championship." He held his index finger up. "After Nathan and Haley's wedding you broke up with me after learning about a kiss that went on between me and a dying Peyton."

Brooke pulled his finger down from the air, "A kiss always means something! Our kisses always meant something."

"I know that now." Lucas looked down at their joined hands, "But I really thought you gave up on us when you came back to Tree Hill. I was hoping you came back to be with me but I soon realized that you hadn't come back to be with me."

"But I did, Luke." Brooke frowned as tears formed in her eyes. "I came back to see if you would have me but Peyton got to you first."

Lucas shook his head slowly, "That night Peyton called you from Vegas to say that we were getting married that was supposed to be the other way around."

"What?" Brooke's frown disappeared.

He took a deep breath before continuing. "I called you first that night but you never answered my call and after three missed calls I assumed it was because you were avoiding me after we told each other we loved one another earlier that day. I called Peyton because I was so convinced that I could fall in love with her again."

Brooke hit her hand against his chest, "That was the dumbest decision you could have ever made!"

"Ouch!" Lucas rubbed the spot where she hit him on his chest. "It doesn't seem like it was too bad of a decision. I mean I got a Sawyer Brooke out of it and you got Jude and Davis!"

Brooke smiled sadly and placed her hands over his chest where she'd hit him, "I forgot about that part." She whispered.

A knocked sounded off on the window of Lucas' side of the car.

"Mr. Scott?" The painter had been waiting at the new home for almost twenty minutes for the couple to exit from the red Mustang.

Lucas rolled down the window, "Yes?"

"I need you to open the door so I can get started on the upstairs rooms." The painter informed Lucas.

Lucas glanced over at the time on his dashboard and his eyes widened, "Wow. I'm sorry!" He turned off his car and climbed out.

Brooke followed Lucas and the painter up the three stairs leading to the front door. "So what colors did you bring?"

The painted nodded over to his collection of paint waiting on the white porch. "Black, Grey, Pink, Red, and Tan?"

Brooke clapped her hands together, "That sounds perfect for the entire upstairs!"

"Pink?" Lucas questioned as he walked inside.

Brooke ignored his questions and led the painter upstairs. "This is the room we want to start with." She was standing in the middle of Sawyer's new bedroom.

"What colors are we looking at?" The painter swished gum around in his mouth.

"Sawyer would hate an all pink room!" Lucas stood in the doorway of the empty bedroom.

Brooke shushed him, "I would never do that to her! I know how much she is like her mother but I also know that she possess an edge of her Aunt Brooke inside of her dark soul!"

Lucas laughed and crossed his arms over his chest. "So what colors?"

"I want do red walls." Brooke opened up the double door closet, "I want you to paint these double doors black but I want to brighten up the inside of this closet by adding a touch of grey. And in cursive I want you to write her name in pink paint!"

"Brighten up?" The painted squinted.

"She is a dark soul." Brooke's hands flew up to her chest, "Trust me! That is light for her."

Lucas laughed, "Are you sure this is what she wants?"

"I asked Sawyer before she left for school this morning. She wanted a room just like her mother's." Brooke gave a shoulders a shrug. "But I wanted to give it a twist with the name in the closet."

"How does she know what Peyton's room used to look like?" Lucas asked.

"I have pictures! Duh, you know from the set of Julian's show." Brooke still felt a pinch in her gut when she spoke of her late husband's name.

"Can I get to work now?" The painter asked as he began to unroll the protector for the windows and floor.

Brooke and Lucas left the bedroom so the painter could get to work on painting Sawyer's bedroom. "The furniture should be here soon."

Just as Brooke finished her sentence there was a knock on the front door.

She raced down the stair case and jumped down from the stair case to the front door. "Please, come in!" She greeted the movers as she moved aside to let them inside of the empty home.

"I think we need music so we don't get bored." Lucas playfully suggested as he and Brooke unpacked boxes that the movers left behind.

"That sounds like that could be fun!" Brooke stood up from opening a box that was labeled kitchen. She pulled her phone out from her jean's back pocket and pressed play after a few silent moments.

"You make my heart beat faster…" The lyrics played from Brooke's iPhone.

Lucas looked up from unpacking a painting when the song began to play, "Is this what I think it is?"

Brooke smiled widely and nodded, "The song that played on our first date when I kicked your butt in pool!" She moved her hips in a circle to the beat of the catchy song. "It's the way you smile..."

Lucas fell to his knees, "You've got me on my knees!" He mouthed the words to Brooke.

She began to dance around him but he soon got off of the floor and began to dance with her to the pop song.

"They certainly are weird!" One of the movers said before leaving the house with his coworkers.

After the song went off Brooke melted into Lucas' arms. Both adults were breathless after their silly dance with one another.

"We're so old!" Brooke laughed as she tried to catch her breath. "We can't dance like we used to."

Lucas laughed, "I saw that you still had some moves left in you!"

Brooke playfully shook her body. "Why thank you!"

The painter cleared his throat from the top of the staircase. "I finished the first bedroom!"

Brooke and Lucas looked at one another and both began to laugh.

"Let me show you to the other bedroom." Lucas managed to get out between laughs.

Brooke sat down on the bottom stair to caught her breath, "Don't let him talk you into doing pink!" She called up the staircase after the painter.

A pillow tumbled down the stairs and hit Brooke against the back.

"Lucas Eugene Scott!" Brooke called out but before she could dash upstairs to chase after him the front door to the home opened.

"Aunt Brooke?" Sawyer dropped her black backpack on the wooden ground next to the black front door.

Brooke's eyes widened at the sight of her niece, "What are you doing home so early?"

"I always get home at three-thirty." Sawyer closed the front door. "Is my room done yet?"

Lucas raced to the stairs once he heard his daughter's voice coming from downstairs.

"It isn't ready yet but it will be after you come back from the ice cream parlor." Lucas called down the staircase.

"I'm on it!" Brooke linked arms with the short blond girl standing at the front door. "Let's walk!"

Sawyer turned on the heel of her combat boots and left out of the new home with her Aunt.

"So how was school?" Brooke walked down the sidewalk with Sawyer.

Sawyer shrugged her shoulders, "Boring as always."

"I always found school to be boring too so I found ways to make it fun." Brooke bit down on her lip as she thought back to high school. "On second thought…"

Sawyer laughed and shook her head. "I know all about the wild side of Brooke Davis!"

Brooke pretended to be shocked, "Of course your mother would tell you about that."

"Actually my dad and Jamie told me about it!" Sawyer informed Brooke.

The two girls walked through the parking lot and into the small ice cream parlor on the corner of their block.

"Mint chocolate, please." Brooke ordered for herself.

"I'll just have chocolate!" Sawyer ordered after Brooke. "So did you have fun today with my dad?"

Brooke looked up from eyeing the different ice cream flavors in the window of the counter. "Moving boxes isn't always fun!"

Lucas wanted to wait to tell Sawyer about him and Brooke's new relationship because he wanted them to become exclusive first.

"I'm sure you two took a break from moving boxes." Sawyer raised an eyebrow.

Brooke laughed, "What do you know about that?"

"I know that my dad is crazy about you." Sawyer sat down at the nearest round table to wait for her ice cream.

"What?" Brooke grabbed their scoops of ice cream before taking a seat across from the teenager.

Sawyer thanked Brooke before taking her chocolate ice cream, "I see it in the way he becomes dumb founded whenever you walk into a room! And I see the way his face lights up when you laugh at his jokes."

Brooke almost choked on her mint ice cream, "You notice all those little things?"

"Please, Aunt Brooke! I am thirteen not three." Sawyer said with a smile. "And I also know that you two are hiding your relationship from me and the twins."

"You know too much!" Brooke said with a laugh.

Sawyer's smile disappeared as she leaned toward Brooke, "I'm really happy that you two are together."

"You are?" Brooke asked.

Sawyer nodded her head once. "My mom and dad were never as happy as you and dad are when you're together! And I want both of my parents to be happy because I know they aren't getting back together this time."

Brooke almost cried at the girl's sweet words, "When did you become so wise?"

"I think I get that from my Aunt Brooke!" Sawyer said with a playful wink.

"I think so too!" Brooke took Sawyer into a tight hug, "I'm proud that you carry my name."

Sawyer held up her spoon in the air, "That reminds me! Do I keep calling you Aunt Brooke now that you're with my dad?"

Brooke couldn't help but laugh. "I don't know! How about we go ask your father?"

"Oh I can't wait to see the look so his face when I do ask him!" Sawyer leapt up from the table.

Brooke and Sawyer dashed back to the house.

"Oh Lucas!" Brooke called up the staircase once they were inside, "We're back."

Lucas came running down the stairs at the sound of the front door opening. "Everything is ready now!"

Brooke stood at the bottom of the stairs with her arms crossed while Sawyer stood with her hands on her hips. Both girls had deep frowns on their faces.

"What?" Lucas frowned.

"She knows about us!" Brooke tried not to laugh as she forced the frown upon her face.

Sawyer took a step forward, "That's right I do! And I want to know one thing?"

"What is it?" Lucas sighed.

"Do I keep calling her Aunt Brooke?" Sawyer asked with a laugh.

Brooke dropped her mean posture and laughed alongside her niece.

Lucas clutched the breasts of his button down shirt, "You two almost gave me a heart attack! You both know that I have a bad heart."

Brooke and Sawyer took Lucas into a group hug. "We're sorry!" They said in unison.

"So are you okay with me being with your Aunt Brooke?" Lucas asked his daughter.

Sawyer squinted up at her father, "So I do still call her Aunt Brooke?" She ran around her father and up the stairs to her new bedroom.

"I guess this now means we're non-exclusive." Brooke whispered against Lucas' lips.

Lucas smiled widely, "I've been waiting to hear those words!"

"Oh. My. God!" Sawyer yelled from her new bedroom.

The teenager's yell forced Lucas and Brooke to run up the stairs to see what was going on.

"I love my room!" Sawyer hugged Brooke, "Thank you." She turned and hugged her father.

"Thank Brooke." Lucas draped his arm over Brooke's shoulder. "This was all her! I just unpacked a few wall decorations."

Brooke shrugged, "I'm just that great!"

"You really are!" Sawyer planted a kiss upon Brooke's cheek, "Dad! Marry her and quick before someone else takes her away from us."

Lucas and Brooke both choked on laughs as they locked eyes.

"I don't plan on going anywhere so no worries or rushing." Brooke managed to get out past the lump forming in her throat.