"Happy birthday to Jude and Davis! Happy to you." The entire crowd sang the happy birthday song at the twin's fifteenth backyard birthday party.
Brooke had her arms wrapped around both Jude and Davis as they stood in front of the family party where their separate cakes had been set up on a table. One cake was space theme while the other was south western themed just like their bedrooms had been when they were children.
"How does it feel to be fifteen?" Brooke asked Jude as she brushed his long brown hair out of his chocolate brown eyes.
Jude shrugged his shoulders. "It feels great but it would feel even better if I knew I would get the chance to learn how to drive this year so I can get a car for my birthday next year!"
Brooke laughed and nudged her son in his side with her elbow. "Well then it is going to be a great year for you and Davis then. I hope you have fun because momma isn't going to be the one teaching you how to drive."
Jude pumped his fist in the air due to his excitement over the good news from his mother and raced off to share the exciting news with his twin brother who had gone off to socialize with their family members.
"Aunt Brooke, guess what?" A soft spoken voice came from behind Brooke and along with the voice came a gentle tug of the hem of her skirt.
Brooke twirled around on the heel of her ballet flats to see who the voice belonged to. "Well hello Miss Lucy Bob!" She kneeled down to become face to face with Haley and Nathan's youngest daughter. "What is it?"
Lucy smiled brightly at her god mother and slowly brought her hand around from her back. "I found a pretty flower in my mama's garden that made me think of you." She opened Brooke's hand and placed a daisy into her palm. "Do you like it?"
Brooke squealed at the sight of the perfectly plucked flower. "I love it because it came from you and because you remembered that it is my favorite flower." She scooped the four year old up into her arms and began to twirl her around. "And I love you, Lucy. You are the best god daughter anyone could have."
"Are you trying to steal my daughter again?" Haley walked over to Brooke and cross her arms over her chest. "Because this time I might let you can have her!"
"Mom!" Lucy squealed from her place in Brooke's arms.
"What?" Haley smirked at her daughter who was sitting upside down in her aunt's arms. "You told me the other day that you love your Aunt Brooke as much as you love me maybe even more. And I'm sure she would love to have you."
"Funny…" Peyton walked over to her friends. "Anne told me the same thing about her Aunt Brooke! Are you paying these girls to say that they love you?" Peyton teased Brooke.
Brooke sat Lucy up right on her two tiny feet and released her from her solid hold. "Don't be jealous guys. I am just one kick a…" She reached down and covered Lucy's ears. "One kick ass aunt!"
The women all laughed together. Their laughter attracted the attention of their husbands.
Lucas was the first to wrap his arms around his wife of five years. "What is so funny over here?"
"I hope its not about Jake's new haircut." Nathan playfully teased the older male of his new buzz cut as he pulled his wife into a tight hug. "Because we all agreed how much we like it."
Jake frowned and ran his fingers over the top of his head. "I like my new haircut. What's wrong with it?"
Peyton laughed and took her husband's hand from atop of his head. "Don't worry honey we all love your new haircut." She stood on her tip toes and kissed him gently on his lips.
"I still can't get over how cute you two are together." Brooke noted about the couple's loving embrace. "I've been rooting for the two of you since high school and I know I'm not the only one." She looked around her circle of friends.
Everyone agreed with nods of their heads.
"We all knew back in high school that this is how our lives would turn out to be." Haley added. "Just look around at what we've all created." She nodded toward their families hanging out together in her backyard as they all celebrated Jude and Davis' birthday.
Sawyer sat on the lap of her new older boyfriend, Chuck Scolnik, while Chuck looked up at her with love written in his eyes and a wide smile spread across his pink face.
James and his fiancée, Madison, sat at the edge of the pool with their feet dipped inside the cool water.
Jude and Davis both had their girlfriends on their arms while they talked by the grill and sipped on bottled root beers.
Aria ran around the yard with her cousins Lucy and Anne with Barbies clutched in all of their tiny hands.
"We wouldn't have this large close family if things didn't turn out the way they did." Haley finished her train of thought after she looked around Brooke and Lucas' backyard.
Brooke looked around the yard that was filled with her family. "You are so right, Hales! This is exactly how I saw our lives turning out to be."
Brooke still ran the café with Haley while also still running her children's boutique, Baker Man. She regained control of Clothes over Bros but put her mother in charge of the company so she would have as much time as possible to spend with her family and friends.
Lucas went from writing bestselling novels to writing scripts for movies and television shows after finishing up a movie based on Julian's show, An Unkindness of Ravens.
Jude was the star of the Tree Hill Raven's football team while Davis ruled the basketball court every Friday during one of his games. Both boys were now high scorers in the sports they played so well.
"I always saw us cuddling our husbands and standing around watching while our children ran around us." Peyton said before planting another kiss on Jake's soft, pink lips.
Peyton regained control of Red Bedroom Records and the first artist she signed when she had full control back was her husband, Jake Jagielski and his band. She also signed Chase Adam's wife Alex Dupre.
Sawyer was dating Chuck Scolnik and working as an executive assistant at her mother's record company. She was now working on having a child after discovering that she had the cancer gene and that her fertilization could be jeopardized if she waited to have any children at a later point in her life.
Jennifer moved to California to live with her mother, Nicole, to help keep the woman on the right track after her second stint in rehab.
"And we ended up with our soul mates." Haley said with a bright smile and a nod of her head.
"Haley and I have been betting on who would end up together since we were in high school." Nathan added with a laugh.
"What?" Everyone squealed in unison.
Haley and Nathan looked up at one another and burst into a fit of laughter.
"Well who won?" Brooke asked out of curiosity.
Nathan slowly began to raise his hand in the air to claim the title of winner. "I predicted you and Julian getting married, but I also predicted you getting back with Lucas somehow. Although I could have never predicted how it would happen. The reason for it is kind of sad."
"Meanwhile I predicted Jake and Peyton eventually finding their way back to one another like they had in high school." Haley chimed in.
"Everyone knew Naley was going to make it to the end." Lucas said. "There was no doubt about it in anyone's mind."
"Except Rachel Gattina!" Brooke said with a rolled of her eyes.
After divorcing Dan Scott and running off with all of his money, Rachel found herself alone and depressed. She lost everything after she began abusing drugs again but she sent herself to rehab on the last bit of money she had left, and there she found her husband and the father of her two sons and daughter.
"She couldn't tear us apart! No one can." Haley looked up at Nathan and caressed his cheek with her finger. "I'm lucky to have found my soul mate at sixteen years old." She though out loud. "We've been through so much but our bond only ever gets stronger never weaker or breakable."
"The greatest pleasure in life is having the person you love, love you back." Nathan smiled down at his wife. "And of course making wonderful babies with that person is a plus as well. I mean just look at our kids!" He laughed.
Haley laughed and peeled her eyes away from Nathan's deep brown eyes to see where they kids were.
James had proposed to his childhood girlfriend, Madison, after the two reunited shortly after Peyton and Jake's wedding. James now worked as a sports broadcaster while Madison worked as a magazine reporter for Clothes over Bros. They were excited to start their new life off as husband and wife.
Lydia was happy being single while she focused on keeping her GPA high and her boss of her tutoring job happy.
"Sorry we are late!" Quinn walked into the backyard with her son and daughter running ahead of her. Her husband, Clay Evans, entered the backyard after Quinn.
"We are late because she changed her dress like five times." Clay playfully teased his wife.
Their son, Logan Evans, walked out into the backyard behind his parents. "It was both of their faults." He added before dodging a blame slap on the arm from his stepmother. "She changed her dress a bunch and he wouldn't stop watching TV!"
Clay and Quinn got married in a courthouse just an hour after Clay regained custody of Logan and Quinn adopted him. They had a wedding the following year with all of their family and friends present. Years after their wedding they found out they were expecting their first child together, a son whom they named Bob Evans.
Three years after giving birth to Bob, Quinn gave birth to Daisy Bob Evans.
"Well you know family affairs like this don't end after just one hour. We tend to go on all night." Haley said with a wave of her hand before she hugged her older sister.
"Good so we're not late then?" Millicent held the hand of her husband, Mouth McFadden while their daughter, Brooke, led the way out to the backyard.
Brooke squealed at the sight of her god daughter. "Brooke, you look amazing!" She kissed the young woman's cheek.
"Good enough to be the new Brooke Davis?" Brooke McFadden asked.
Brooke Scott laughed and shook her head. "Not until I am old and grey or dead because I will always be fabulous."
Brooke McFadden worked under Brooke Scott's mother, Victoria Davis, at Clothes over Bros. She was on the team as the new co-designer.
"Why does Brooke have so many children named after her?" Peyton teased.
"I thought we established this earlier, P. Jagielski? It is because I'm a kick ass aunt to all of my baby boys and girls." Brooke Scott gave her god daughter a tight squeeze before sending her in the direction of her cousins.
"We do love you Brooke." Mouth winked at his close friend.
Mouth and Millie's show had been cancelled after being on the air for almost five years. Mouth went back to reporting sports while Millie went back to school to become a publicist for the stars, her first client becoming Alex Dupre.
"Brooke has changed so much from the girl I used to share secrets with in my bedroom." Peyton said with a nod of her head.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"She is so much stronger and trusting." Peyton smiled. "Overall she has become an amazing woman who I am proud to name my children after."
"And one kick ass aunt!" Haley added with a laugh.
Brooke felt tears beginning to sting the back of her eyes so she began to fan them away with her hands. "I love you guys so much! Each and every one of you." She opened her arms wide for her friends to join her in a group hug. "We've all been through so much and I can truly say that when I look around this circle of friends all I see are people who have had my back since day one."
"I'm glad I was wrong about you." Haley wiped tears from her wet cheeks. "I thought you were this stuck up cheerleader who had sex for fun and so wrong for my best friend."
"Well you were right about one thing." Brooke wiggled her eyebrows.
Everyone laughed together.
"But it turns out you are so right for my best friend." Haley's voice cracked. "Total opposites but yet so much alike."
Brooke stepped toward Haley and pulled her into a gentle hug. "I love you Haley James!"
"Haley James Scott!" Haley playfully corrected her best friend. "I love you too Brooke Scott."
Brooke squealed at the sound of her last name. "It still gives me goose bumps to hear people call me by my last name even after all this time. I always knew I would marry you, Lucas but it felt so good to finally be able to just do it and call you my husband."
"I got distracted there for a moment but I found my way back to you." Lucas said in an apologetic tone of voice.
Brooke wrapped her arms around the neck of her husband. "People who are meant to be together always find their way in the end."