"Hey, Peyton!" Brooke knocked on one of the double doors to her friend's recording studio office at the back of the all ages' club, Tric.
Peyton Sawyer sat behind her wooden desk in the corner of her office. Piles of paper work sat on her desk while Chris Keller sat on the edge of the wooden desk.
"Oh hey, Brooke!" Peyton looked up from the paperwork she had been filling out to finalize her taking back full control of her record company, Red Bedroom Records.
Peyton started the record company after arriving back into Tree Hill when she was just twenty-one years old. But after marrying Lucas Scott, Peyton had gotten pregnant and been too sick to work so she'd handed full control of her company over to her best friend, Haley Scott. Haley remained with full control after Peyton and Lucas moved to California shortly after Sawyer's birth.
"Chris Keller!" Brooke greeted the boy with a single nod of her head and a purse of her thin lips.
The musician stood up from his spot on the edge of Peyton's office desk. "Brooke Baker!" He wrapped his long arms around the brunette's waist. "I knew you'd come to your senses and come to me."
Brooke laughed, "Notice how I greeted Peyton before I greeted you."
Chris shrugged his shoulders. "So you saved the best for last! You've always had great taste."
Brooke placed her hands over Chris' chest and gave it a gentle pat. "Oh, Chris. It is never going to happen between us!"
Chris sighed heavily and tightened his hold on Brooke's curvy hips. "You mean again?"
Brooke remained silent but shot Chris a look that made him drop his hold on her hips.
He placed his glasses over his brown eyes. "Chris Keller has always been able to take a hint!" He disappeared behind the double doors of Peyton's brick office.
"He has not changed a bit since I first met him in high school!" Peyton rolled her hazel eyes.
Brooke laughed and took Chris' spot on the edge of Peyton's desk, "I've grown used to him. He isn't that bad once you get used to him!"
"Haley said the same thing." Peyton clicked her pen closed and sat it down on the paper work she'd just finished signing. "So what's up?"
Brooke shrugged, "I just thought I'd come by and check up on you! I haven't seen you in like two weeks."
"I've been kind of busy with trying to get the record company back from Haley and Chris' control." Peyton leaned back in her office chair. "But I just finished the last bit of paper work so I'm free to catch up!"
Brooke clapped her hands together and smiled. "Good! We can catch up while the kids are in school and at practice."
"Can you believe Sawyer actually joined the cheerleading squad?" Peyton got up from her office chair and gathered up her pea coat and matching tan studded purse.
"You joined the cheerleading squad for your mother and she is doing it for her mother!" Brooke smiled and linked arms with her best friend. "Like mother like daughter."
Haley waltzed into the brick walled office out of breath, "Am I too late?"
"You're just in time for our girls' day out!" Brooke said with a reassuringly nod. "Is Quinn still coming?"
Haley frowned and shook her head. "She is experiencing some morning sickness so she decided to stay home for the day and lie in bed."
"Pregnant people are no fun at all!" Brooke held out her hand to Haley. "Well she is gonna miss out on one hell of a day."
Haley slapped her palm against Brooke's and the two women linked fingers. "What did you plan for us to do today?"
Brooke bit down on her bottom lip as a smile pulled her lips up at the corners. "You will just have to wait and see! I want you both to be surprised."
"That phrase always ends in someone getting arrested!" Peyton laughed. "Haley's wedding shower, remember?"
Brooke shrugged her shoulders and led her two best friends out of club Tric. Sitting in the cement parking lot of the club was a large white party bus.
"Oh goodness! This is even worse than I thought." Peyton laughed and dropped her hold on Brooke' arm.
"What is this, Brooke?" Haley stood with her hands on her hips outside of the large white bus. "Are we partying like rockstars today?"
Brooke stepped onto the party bus ahead of Peyton and Haley. "Come inside and you'll see! It is awesome in here."
Haley and Peyton looked at one another before slowly climbing onto the large bus.
The bus was decked out with a full bar and a pole stood in the middle of the aisle of black leather seats.
"Brooke, what in the world is all of this?" Haley found a seat inside of the bus. "This is crazy!"
Brooke had already been seated by the bar searching for champagne for the women to drink. "We are thirty-six year old women!"
She found the champagne and she filled up three champagne glasses filled with the bubbly drink.
"So?" Peyton took a seat next to Haley. "So, we're thirty-six!" She took a glass of champagne.
"We act like we're already in our forties." Brooke scooted to the edge of her seat and handed Haley a glass of champagne. "For a few hours let's just act like we're young again. Life is short!"
Haley hesitated before she scooted over to the edge of her seat and grabbed the glass from Brooke. "I'm in! I could use a little fun in my life right now."
Peyton looked at the two faces of her best friends and smiled seductively. "Oh, I'm so in!"
Brooke held up her champagne glass. "Here is to a day filled with young fun!" She laughed.
"Cheers!" Peyton and Haley shouted out in unison as they clinked glasses with one another.
"Oh my goodness. I can't believe this place is even still open." Peyton gaped at the sight of the lingerie store that sat in the down town of Tree Hill.
"So much has happened in this store!" Brooke opened the door and moved aside to let Haley and Peyton walk inside. "Both good and bad!"
"Yeah like you sending me and Nathan here for our first date after you tried to break us up!" Haley looked around the tiny lingerie shop.
Brooke laughed and shrugged, "You can just call me the match maker of Tree Hill because I take full responsibility for Naley!"
"You are not why Nathan and I are together!" Haley laughed.
"I totally am. If I wouldn't have set up that date you would have never forgiven Nathan and I know for a fact that it was the night that you fell in love with him." Brooke playfully stuck her tongue out at Haley.
Models interrupted the girls' conversation as they exited from the three dressing rooms and all of them were decked out in lacy lingerie.
"Now this sight looks familiar!" Haley smiled. "Now are you sure you aren't trying to remake the night of my bridal shower?"
"Yes Hales because my world revolves around you!" Brooke laughed and walked a circle around the models to get a good look of what they each had on. "This is so we can make our men happy…" Her eyes fell upon Peyton's broken smile. "And for you, Peyton, this is to catch you a good man!"
Peyton's mouth dropped open. "I am perfectly happy being single."
"Since when?" Brooke blurted out before she could stop herself. She covered her mouth with her hand, "Forget I said that! Totally lost my filter there for a second!"
Peyton pointed her index finger at Brooke and opened her mouth to say something, but Haley stepped in between both women.
"I'll take this one." Haley turned Peyton's body towards the model wearing the sheer lace robe over a matching black night gown. "What will you have?"
Peyton was distracted momentarily by Haley turning her away from Brooke. "I like the blue bra with the purple lace. I guess I like the robe too!"
"And we will take it all!" Brooke pulled out her debit card and handed it over to the cashier. "Box up three of everything."
"You are making Nathan one happy man!" Haley leaned against the counter where the cashier was ringing up Brooke's card.
"How? Am I modeling all of this for him tonight?" Brooke joked. "Now I'm pretty sure he'd appreciate that and think you were a pretty cool wife!"
Haley hit Brooke on the butt with her clutch purse. "I know he would, Miss Sex Tape!"
Brooke winced at the memory of her and Nathan's high school hook up and of the night all of their friends found out. "I was hoping everyone had forgotten about that because I totally had!"
"Doesn't it feel like we're sometimes swingers?" Peyton asked with a laugh. "I mean like we all keep dating the same set of people: Nathan, Lucas, and Julian."
Haley shook her head. "I've only been with Nathan! You two keep swapping life partners."
Brooke and Peyton both dropped their mouths open but as they looked at one another their mouths began to slowly close.
"That is kinda true!" Brooke and Peyton mumbled in unison.
A knock sounded off on the glass window of the tiny boutique. Lucas was standing on the other side with a crew of people surrounding him.
"Quick! Hide the stuff." Brooke whispered to the store owner who was helping box up the women's new purchases.
The tall dark skinned woman did not budge. "I rented out the store to a Lucas Scott so he could film a few scenes for his show here."
Brooke rolled her chocolate brown eyes. "Thanks for warning us, Claire!" She grabbed two bags and headed outside to her waiting boyfriend.
"What are you doing here?" Lucas leaned down and kissed Brooke on her lips.
"Buying something to spice these old ladies' up a bit!" Brooke nodded her head towards Haley and Peyton who were standing a few feet behind her. "What scene are you filming here at the boutique?"
"I can't discuss that with you!" Lucas winked down at Brooke. "Did you buy something for me in there?"
"I totally would have but I didn't know that you wore bras!" Brooke said sarcastically. She pulled down the shoulder of her blouse and revealed her bra strap. "I bought this for you though. You excited yet?"
Lucas' blue eyes widened at Brooke's seductive behavior. "I am indeed!"
Brooke playfully pouted. "Too bad our next date isn't until this weekend."
"It's times like this that I wish we were married or at least living together so I could come home and just see you!" Lucas brushed his lips against Brooke's. "Wanna sneak away?"
Brooke laughed. "Your ex-wife is standing behind us and I'm pretty sure she can hear us right now!" She kissed Lucas and smiled up at him. "I'll see you later."
She re-entered the white party bus with Haley and Peyton, each woman carrying two bags full of new lingerie.
"You and Lucas are so cute together." Haley commented. "It's about time you two ended up together!"
Brooke smiled from ear to ear as she fell down onto her seat on the bus. "I know right! I waited a long time for this."
Peyton cleared her throat and began to look through her pursue.
"Oh I'm sorry Peyton." Brooke sat up straight in her seat. "We were being so insensitive!"
"What?" Peyton laughed and casually waved her hand in the air. "It's totally fine!"
Brooke reached across the wide aisle and took Peyton's hands into her own. "I'm dating your ex-husband!"
"So?" Peyton shrugged her shoulders. "You two started dating after Lucas and I decided to divorce, not while we were married."
"I could never do that to you…" Brooke trailed off as she realized what Peyton had meant by her comment.
"But I did do that to you." Peyton finished Brooke's inner thoughts. "I feel bad because I did it to you multiple times but silly me couldn't take a hint. Lucas kept going back to you because in the end it's supposed to be you and him, not me and him."
Brooke pulled Peyton into a hug. "You really shouldn't feel bad. It helped me and it gave me the chance to find such an amazing love in Julian! It also gave me Jude and Davis, my two greatest loves."
Peyton pulled away from her hug with tears in her eyes. "I've never apologized for forcing my way into Lucas' life and pulling him away from you."
Brooke gently took Peyton's warm face into her hands. "You shouldn't be apologizing to me. It was so long ago!"
"Ugh, it got so depressing so fast!" Haley sniffled into a wet tissue. "Today was supposed to be our fun day out with the girls."
Brooke laughed and slid back into her seat. "You're right! No more tears ladies." She wiped her fingers over her dry cheeks. "Now let's have fun!"
"What is the next stop on this tour of fun?" Haley asked. "Please don't let it be the strip club!"
"We are thirty-five year old women! That means we are way too old to be sliding down a pole anywhere that isn't our bedroom." Brooke shook her head. "We are going to the spa next."
All three women cheered in unison. The party bus pulled in front of the spa and the women climbed off of the bus.
"I haven't been here since my bachelorette party." Brooke smiled sadly as she read the sign above the glass double doors leading into the spa.
"Are you going to be okay going in?" Peyton asked. "If not we can go someone else!"
Brooke peeled her eyes off of the spa's green and white sign. "No, I'm fine!" She took both of her best friends into her arms and sighed sadly. "I just miss him sometimes and I feel guilty for being so happy with Lucas."
"Brooke, you shouldn't feel guilty about anything!" Peyton said. "Julian would want you to be happy, healthy and smiling wide."
"And you're all three of those things." Haley brushed Brooke's auburn colored hair behind her ear. "I haven't seen you smile this big in such a long time! You got to love and live with both of your soul mates."
Brooke smiled sadly as a tear drop fell down her cheek. "I never thought of it that way!"
"Yes you lucky bitch!" Peyton laughed. "You always told me that we all have at least two soul mates and look at you now! You got both of them."
Brooke laughed and wiped away her tears. "You're right. I'm pretty damn lucky!"
"Thanks for rubbing it in our faces!" Haley teased.
"Says the girl who met her soul mate in high school," Peyton exclaimed.
Brooke nodded in agreement to Peyton's comment. "You are pretty lucky Hales! You and Nathan found each other so early and you both just knew that you were done looking for the one."
"My life is pretty amazing!" Haley playfully gave herself a pat on the back. "But it wasn't all easy. Nathan and I were pushed so hard that we almost gave up and annulled our marriage."
"No one was gonna let Naley split up!" Brooke squealed. "Never gonna happen."
Haley laughed. "Well this time no one is gonna let Brucas split up either. Sorry Peyton!"
Peyton playfully gave Haley a push. "Thanks for the reminder!" She laughed. "You guys I'm fine with Brooke and Lucas being together! And I'm okay with being single for a little while."
"Well today let's make you pretty so you can find yourself a man! You already have the lingerie for the first sex night!" Brooke began to pull her two friends inside of the luxury spa.
Brooke, Peyton, and Haley were escorted to a room to get their nails and feet done first before their massages.
"Wanna play the what if game like we used to in high school?" Brooke asked.
Peyton and Haley both laughed. "Sure!" They said in unison.
"Okay I wanna go first!" Brooke clapped her hands together. "What if Jake comes back to Tree Hill?"
Haley shrugged. "I'd say hello!"
"I was asking Peyton!" Brooke reached over and pushed Haley in the arm. "Peyton?"
Peyton bit down on her bottom lip and smiled. "I'd ask him to marry me!"
"What?" Brooke squealed. "Already? Why?"
"When you find the one, you find the one! You wouldn't want to keep them waiting for someone else to take." Peyton said.
Brooke squinted as she thought about Peyton's words. She knew Peyton was right. "Okay it's your turn!"
"What if Lucas walked through that door…" Peyton nodded toward the door, "And proposed to you right...now?"
Brooke opened her mouth to answer but before she could the door cracked open and Lucas poked his head around the door.
"Brooke?" Lucas whispered.
