Brooke took a step back and tilted her head to the side. She took in the sight of the white wedding gown that was sitting on a life sized mannequin.

She heard heels clicking around the front of her children's boutique, Baker Man. She'd open the boutique with Julian and her parents as partners right before her sons' first birthday.

"I'm back here." Brooke called out to whoever was wondering around the store.

The boutique was closed so she knew it had to be one of her friends or her mother who was in town for her soon to be wedding day.

"Oh, Brooke!" Haley poked her head around the corner. "Your dress looks beautiful!" She walked into the back room and greeted her friend with a tight hug. "You finished it pretty fast considering the fact that you decided to have two dresses instead of one just last week."

Brooke smiled and bit down on her bottom lip as she stared at the dress. "Well I did have motivation to finish if you know what I mean." She nudged Haley in the side.

Haley covered her ears with her hands and shook her head. "I do not want to hear about how you want to jump my best friend's bones!"

Brooke laughed and mouthed the words instead. "Your best friend is a hottie and I want to jump his bones like yesterday."

Haley closed her eyes and dropped her hands from her ears. "God, you are so gross."

"Oh let's not forget how you used to see Lucas in that very same way." Brooke reminded Haley of her high school crush on Lucas.

Haley rolled her brown eyes and plopped down onto the lavender sofa sitting in the center of the room. "That was so long ago! I was only sixteen at the time."

Brooke sat down on the couch beside Haley. "The truth is I just can't wait to marry him. I can't wait to see him waiting for me in his tux at the end of the aisle."

Haley's hands flew up to chest and covered her heart. "Excuse me if I begin to cry during the ceremony but my two best friends are finally getting married after all this time." She wrapped her arms around Brooke and pulled her close.

"Finally is right." Brooke said with a laugh. "I've been waiting for this day to come for a really long time which is how I came up with the fairy tale as our theme for the wedding."

"Speaking of your wedding day..." Haley smiled and jumped up from the couch. "You called me here to try on my dress so let's see it!"

Brooke smiled and clapped her hands together, "I totally forgot about that." She slid open a pair of doors and stepped inside. The darkness swallowed her whole but she stepped back into the light holding two dress bags. "Don't be shocked."

She hung up the dress bags on the back of the door that led to the dressing rooms and stepped aside.

Haley unzipped the first bag and a long white gown was revealed. "Are these your third and fourth wedding dresses?"

Brooke shook her head. "I want my bridesmaids to all wear white and black. The colors of the wedding are black and white after all."

Haley began to nod her head slowly. "So I'll be wearing white?"

"You think it's too much?" Brooke asked nervously. She wanted everything to turn out perfect for her fairytale wedding.

"I'm just surprised that you are willing to share the spotlight with your bridesmaids." Haley answered. "That's all!"

Brooke pretended to choke on a laugh. "Oh I will still be the one that everyone is looking at on my big day no doubt about it." She brushed her brown curls from her shoulders. "Now go get into your dress." She snapped her fingers at Haley.

Peyton knocked on the wall of the backroom and Millicent McFadden stood behind her.

"Are we too late?" Peyton walked in and gasped at the white dress hanging on the door. "Please don't tell me you are seriously going to wear three dresses on your wedding day? I thought two was going to be enough?"

Brooke sighed and rolled her eyes. "That is Haley's bridesmaid's dress."

"We are wearing white?" Millie asked.

Brooke took the other dress bag off of the back of the door. "No, you are wearing black!" She pushed the bag into Millie's arms. "Now both of you need to go get dressed."

Peyton took a seat on the couch and she pulled a magazine off of the white coffee table. "I can't wait to see this."

Brooke sat down on the edge of the coffee table and she pulled the magazine from Peyton's hands. "Are you sure you are okay with not being in the wedding party?"

Peyton laughed and scooted to the end of the couch so she could take Brooke's hands into her own. "I told you a million and one times already that I'm okay with it. I understand how mean people will be when they see the ex-wife of the groom walking down the aisle."

"I feel silly not letting my best friend be in my wedding because of what other people will think." Brooke said with a soft sigh. "You weren't able to be in my first wedding and I would love for you to be in my second wedding."

Peyton smiled and gave Brooke's hands a squeeze. "I would love to be in your wedding but I would never ask you to make me a dress for me this close to the actual wedding day. That is being a burden."

"Well good thing…" Brooke got up and ran out of the room to retrieve Peyton's bridesmaid's dress. "Good thing I already thought to make you a dress for the wedding."

Peyton's mouth dropped open. "Is Lucas okay with this?"

Brooke handed Peyton the crème colored dress bag. "Lucas wants me to be happy and he wants me to have my best friend as my maid of honor so he agreed to let you be in the wedding."

"Wait? Maid of honor?" Peyton gasped. "You want me to be your maid of honor?"

Brooke smiled widely at her best friend. "I've already had my best friend, Haley, as my maid of honor the first time so why not have my other best friend as my maid of honor this time?"

Peyton smiled and both she and Brooke began to jump up and down in excitement.

"I'm assuming you told her that she is going to be your maid of honor?" Haley came out of the dressing room wearing her white silky bridesmaid's gown.

Both Peyton and Brooke stopped bouncing up and down when they got their first looks of Haley in her dress. Both women gasped.

"Hales!" Brooke squealed. "You look gorgeous."

Haley began to twirl on her bare feet in the floor length gown. "I thought I was going to hate the bow but I actually love it." She grazed the white bow sewed onto the bust of her strapless gown. "You did good, Brooke."

Brooke playfully took a bow. "Why, thank! Millicent McFadden needs to hurry her butt up and get out here so we can see her in her dress." She called out to her other best friend and former assistant.

Millie came twirling out of the dressing room and smiled. "Do I look as good as Haley?"

"You wish!" Haley teased Millie.

"Oh hush you two. You both look amazing." Brooke wrapped her arms around her friends. "This is going to be one of the wedding photos." She looked at their reflection in the mirror. "The only thing missing is you P. Sawyer so get in there!"

"I'm going! I'm going." Peyton scurried off into the dressing room to try on her white gown.

Brooke paused from finishing the hem of the dresses. "Oh. My. God! You guys?"

"What's wrong, Brooke?" Haley asked, worried.

Brooke dropped her sewing needle and shook out her hands. "I'm getting married in three days!" She squealed.

"You scared us half to death, Brooke!" Peyton almost yelled but she couldn't help but smile at her friend's excitement. "Congratulations bride to be."

"Not only am I getting married to the man of my dreams but I get to have all of my best friends surrounding me on my big day." Brooke stood up from her position on the wooden floor of the back room and she held her arms out. "Group hug ladies!"

Haley, Millie, and Peyton all joined together and hugged their best friend. "We love you B. Davis!" The three women all said in unison.

"Hey pretty girl. How was your day?" Lucas kicked off his boots at the door to their bedroom before he climbed into their round bed. He planted a gentle kiss upon the lips of his fiancée.

Brooke sat in bed with the covers pulled up to her chin and she held in her hands Lucas' first book, The Unkindness of Ravens. She didn't pull her attention away from the words on the pages as she kissed him back. "I had a lot of fun today. The girls look amazing in their dresses."

"The guys all look great in their suits especially the Jude and Davis!" Lucas smiled and waved his hand in front of Brooke's face. "Earth to Brooke Baker?"

Brooke marked her place in the book before sitting in down in her lap. "I'm sorry I just got into reading your first book."

"You've never read it before?" He asked.

Brooke bit down on her bottom lip. "I only read the bit you showed me before I moved off to California after we graduated high school. I was afraid it would make my heart ache for you even more."

Lucas picked up the book from her lap. "Well how do you like it so far?"

"I love it." She brushed her lips against his. "I especially love the part about you making the shot that night at the River Court when Rachel asked you to prove that you and I were meant to be together."

"You can't change destiny." Lucas said with a nod as he looked back on the day. "It looks like she was right. You really can't change destiny." He took Brooke's hand and led kisses up her ring finger until he reached her engagement ring.

"Too bad it's taken us this long to figure that all out!" Brooke said with a smile. "But better late than never."

It was a warm night in Tree Hill, North Carolina. Brooke Davis had made the mistake of setting up the boy draft. Every girl on the cheerleading squad got one pick at a guy and no other girl could touch him for the remainder of the school year.

Rachel Gattina challenged Brooke and won Lucas in the boy draft while Brooke ended up with the infamous Chris Keller. Each girl had to set up a date after the draft had been set in motion.

Since Rachel won Lucas, they had to go on a date with one another. Rachel set up a date at Lucas' favorite spot in the town of Tree Hill, the River Court.

"Brooke is the one for me." Lucas exclaimed to Rachel as they hung out on the bleachers at the outdoor basketball court.

Rachel rolled her brown eyes. "Why?"

Lucas gave his shoulders a shrug. "I just feel it."

Rachel was sick of hearing Lucas gush about Brooke so she decided to pull his attention away from Brooke and onto her. The friends played horse for almost an hour until Lucas won.

"Can we call it a night?" Lucas tossed Rachel the basketball.

"Or we can play a new game." Rachel said seductively as she caught the basketball in her hands. "How about strip basketball?"

Although he found her attractive, Lucas did not see Rachel in the light so he passed on the opportunity to see her naked.

"I'm gonna pass!" Lucas answered.

Rachel felt annoyed, "Because of Brooke? Who is on a date with Chris Keller?"

Lucas remained silent as he tried not to give into Rachel's pettiness.

"Take your shirt off, Luke." Rachel took a step toward the jock.

Lucas frowned. "Rachel…"

Rachel rolled her eyes and cut him off, "I'm not gonna touch you! I'm trying to make a point."

Lucas hesitated but obeyed Rachel's wishes. He peeled his shirt off of his back.

"You say that Brooke is the one for you." Rachel walked behind Lucas and took the shirt from his hands. "You say she is your soul mate." She draped her arms around him. "If that is the case then you will be able to make this shot blindfolded." Rachel tied the shirt around Lucas' eyes. "Call upon Destiny and make the shot."

Lucas laughed. "This is crazy, Rachel."

"It's your destiny!" Rachel called out to him. "You can't miss. Can you see me?"

Lucas shook his head, "No!"

Rachel began to dance around the court to make sure Lucas could not see her through the shirt tied around his face. "Follow my voice." She began to back away toward the court's goal. "Brooke is the one. Make the shot. You can't change destiny."

Lucas listened closely to Rachel's voice but he had no doubt that he would miss the shot, but he was still going to try because he knew Brooke was the one for him. He dribbled the ball a few times before shooting the ball off into the air. The sound of the ball going through the hoop took him by surprise. "What happened?"

"It went in." Rachel said from the side of the court.

He ripped the shirt from his eyes to see if she had told him the truth. "Brooke is the one." He thought to himself. "I knew it!"