I don't know why I am updating so fast, but I am.
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." -Jane Howard
"Brooke?" I answered the phone one morning. It had been about two weeks since Grey had gotten engaged. I kept trying to get her to come home just for a visit but she has said no every time.
"Yes?" I mumbled with my eyes still closed.
"I think I'm outside your house" Well that woke me up. I'm sprung up in my bed making Lucas groan telling me to go back to sleep. I stumbled out of the bed to see a very pretty black classic Chevy Impala. I saw people sitting in it with big glasses and hats on and my jaw dropped.
"Holy Shit" My eyes were probably the size of saucers.
"What could have you up at six in the morning?" Lucas grumbled covering his face with a pillow.
"Grey" I said racing down the stairs taking two steps at a time, swinging the front door open to see Grey slowly stepping out of the car.
"Hey" She said softly. She looked nervous. I jumped off the porch and ran up to grabbing her and bringing her into a tight hug.
"I missed you big sister!" I smiled and she hugged me back just as tight.
"Keep it in your pants, Cookie" I looked up to see Devon standing behind her and my jaw dropped again.
"You're so big!" I said surprised. When Devon left he was tall and had some weight on him. Now he looked like a model he was so ripped.
"I know" He chuckled and I jumped into his arms.
"Isn't she supposed to be mad?" A voice asked that belonged to Beck Upton. It was surprising Grey was with him, not that he wasn't amazing looking. It was just that when we were younger she always talked about she would marry a guy with hazel eyes, black hair, and scruff on his face. The boy had scruff but had light brown almost blonde hair and honey brown eyes. She was crazy about him because she just stared at him.
"I'll be mad later" I told him shaking his hand.
"Brooke, I want you to meet Beck, my fiancé" Grey giggled at fiancé and I introduced myself.
"Brooke, I also have someone you should meet" Devon smiled widely and I then noticed a small woman still in the car. She stepped out and stood next to Devon. When I say little I mean little. I mean I consider myself average size and she was a few inches shorter than me. She was beautiful though. She had long dark brown hair that flowed down her back and crystal blue eyes. She looked like she was naturally tan and she had a huge smile on her face.
"Hi, I'm Delilah" She said kindly.
"Brooke" I told her.
"She's my wife" Devon told me and my jaw dropped for the third time. It was then I noticed the flowy blue dress she wore poked out showing her very pregnant belly.
"You're married?" I asked and he nodded. "How the hell did you get her? No offense Dev, but she is beautiful" I told him honestly and they all laughed.
"Yeah, I know. She is smart too. She is a doctor" He told me proudly.
"Aren't you lucky" I teased, "Have you guys seen Easton yet?"
"No, why?" Grey asked confused.
"Him and Raine have a son" I told them and now it was their time for their jaws to drop.
No way and nice were the responses. Nice being Devon's who got a lazy slap in the chest from Delilah.
"How old?" Grey asked.
"Turned three in April" I said.
"Awesome" Grey said with a clap of the hands. She was so giddy and I turned to Beck.
"You sure you want that forever?" I asked and he smiled widely and nodded.
"I want to see Nathan!" Grey all but yelled.
"Go see him"
"He isn't here?" Devon asked confused.
"No, I moved out. I live with my friend Rachel. Remember the mall?" I asked Grey and she nodded, "The redhead" Her mouth formed an 'o' shape.
"Well, get him here. We have to be careful so no one sees us" Grey told me and I rolled my eyes.
"Stupid famous people" I grumbled telling them to go inside and they took off the hats and glasses.
"You live here?" Devon asked astonished.
"Yeah, so?"
"It is really big"
"Devon, you live in multi-million dollar house" I told him in a duh tone.
"So… we all wanted to live together"
"Holy shit. Why are Beck Upton and Grey Simon in Rachel's house?" I looked up to see Felix standing there pulling a shirt over his head.
"Who is that?" Devon pretty much growled.
"Rachel's boyfriend. Felix if I tell you this you can't tell anyone, anyone!" I snapped and he gave a slow nod obviously in shock. "This is Devon Davis, his wife Delilah" I started with them because they weren't famous. He nodded as he sat on the bottom step like he didn't want to get to close.
"And the other two are just look-a-likes, right?" He asked staring at Grey.
"No, that is Grey Davis and her fiancé Beck Upton" I said and he went speechless again.
"Grey… Davis? " He said slowly and I nodded.
"You are Grey Si- I mean Davis' sister?" He asked and I rolled my eyes and nodded. "And she is marrying Beck Upton" Me and the four people behind me nodded.
"Does Rachel know?" He asked and I jerked my head up and down. "Lucas?" I nodded again. "Peyton, Quinn, Haley, Clay-"
"Clay and Jake don't know. Alex does" He nodded in understanding and then we heard someone moving around upstairs.
"Oh my god, she came home" We looked up to see Rachel standing there in her pajamas, "Sorry about the mall thing"
"It's cool I deserved it." Grey grinned and Rachel sat next to Felix.
"Wait, I don't remember you" Rachel pointed to Delilah.
"I'm Delilah, Devon's wife"
Rachel looked at me. "Devon's wife?" She mouthed surprised and I nodded.
"She has seen home videos, Dev" I told him.
"Oh…" Grey and Devon laughed.
"Where's Lucas?" Rachel asked and I pointed to my room.
"Lucas?" Devon asked confused.
"My boyfriend"
"Why is there a boy in your room?" Devon snapped and I rolled my eyes.
"He is my boyfriend Devon. I'm going to go call Nathan and Easton and mom and I guess others" I grumbled pulling out my phone.
"Hello?" was grumbled very much mine was earlier.
"Hello big brother. Where are you?" I asked.
"Raine's"
"What were you doing at Raine's?" I smirked and saw Grey and Devon's eyes go wide.
"Sleeping. I stayed late with Bobby. I slept on the couch; get your mind out of the gutter. Why are you calling me at six thirty?"
"Guess who is at my house"
"Santa Clause" He guessed annoyed.
"No, Grey"
"No she isn't"
"Devon is, and Beck Upton.. Ooh and Devon's pregnant wife!" I smiled into the phone.
"Now I know you are lying. Devon would never get married"
"He doesn't believe me" I handed the phone to Grey.
"Easton!" She squealed. He said something that made her smile get big. "Bring Raine and your baby!"
"Is she always this happy?" Felix asked and we all nodded.
"They are coming. I'm going to go call Natey" She skipped out of the room and I rolled my eyes.
"It's like she is a child" Felix observed.
"You get used it." I told him.
"Babe, I'm going to sit down. You're daughter is killing me" Delilah told Devon and he smiled at her kissing the side of her head and she wobbled out.
"When did you get married, Devon?" I asked cordially.
"About a year ago. When I left I went to this college and took a few classes. I met her in one of them and then she got a job in California and I wasn't going to let her go so I let her in about Grey and she accepted it. I was going to send you an invitation but I didn't have your address or anything" He explained and I shook my head at him.
"It's okay. I'm not mad, not anymore" I told him honestly and he smiled giving me another hug. "What do you do?"
"In the hospital that Delilah worked at, I worked with special needs kids. You know I just hang out with them and stuff. I'm not a doctor or anything I just like them knowing they have someone to talk to"
"That's awesome" I grinned.
"Are we seriously going to act like Beck Upton isn't standing there?" Felix broke the sibling moment and I groaned.
"Shut up Felix. This is Beck, my sister fiancé. Don't look at it like he is famous. He is a human being" I told him completely not fazed by the guy.
"It's alright. I am used to it" Beck said with a small smile.
"Natey is on his way with Haley. Mamma is coming as well" Grey said floating back into the room.
"We need to talk Grey" I told her grabbing her arm and pulling her passed Felix and Rachel and up the stairs to my room. I walk into see Lucas sitting up in the bed yawning.
"What is the big deal?" he asked and I grabbed his arm.
"Grey, Lucas. Lucas, Grey" I rambled as I pushed him out the door and locked it.
"That is your boyfriend?"
"That is my boyfriend" I repeated flopping onto the bed.
"Way to go Brookie" She said giving me a high five.
"Way to go on your fiancé." I replied and she giggled.
"He is amazing Brooke. I'm so in love." She said with a giddy tone.
"You look amazing Grey. You have gained weight" I observed. When we were younger Grey had the hardest time putting on weight so I am glad she looked so healthy.
"Well thank you" She curtsied.
"Tell me why you can't move back" I said with a serious tone and she sighed.
"I knew that was coming. First off, it isn't because of the show because it was cancelled"
"Cancelled? But it was a good show and people seemed too really like it and on-"
"I know, I know, but there was this huge scandal with the director and Matty and I just didn't want to be part of all that so I quit and they can't have Saving Grace without Grace. Well when I quit Beck followed because hello, he loves me… and because Matty is his best friend the director was saying awful things about Matty and Beck wasn't having it" She explained with her normal hand gestures.
"You can do other things, you know?"
"I know. I mean I love acting so much, but doing it as a job ruins the love. I have decided I'm going to go to college and become a drama teacher" She told me.
"That's awesome Grey, then why haven't you come home?" I was confused.
"Remember how mom had a kid, right before her and Dan got married" She started and she nodded, "He made her give him up, she didn't want to but Dan is very intimidating as you know" She said looking at my now non casted arm. I got it off earlier than I was supposed to only a few days ago, they said it was fine but I did have a nasty looking scar from when they had to set it and stuff.
"Yeah…"
"Well, Dan made them take him faraway and the foster home was great and kept him where he met his wife." She told me and I nodded. "His wife was the daughter of the last foster home he was in daughter. They had a beautiful baby girl"
"Had?" I asked.
"I had a private investigator search for him because I just wanted to know. I always wanted to know and I finally had enough money to do it. He died… two years ago." She had a single tear in her eye and she wiped it quickly. "Car crash, he and his wife both were killed. Well, their daughter Melanie didn't have anywhere to go and since I am her aunt I adopted her. I finally found her about a year ago and I adopted her. Well there have been legal issues but I got her and I literally couldn't come home and until I knew she was mine"
"Grey…"
"That facebook page wasn't mine. I found it and then just laugh at what these people would say and I didn't really care about who made it and I saw what you had said and I just started crying. Beck came and couldn't figure out you were so I told him everything. He got really mad not understanding why I would lie and he left, told me we were done. I lost it, because you hated me, Beck didn't want me. So I got drunk and made a mistake and Beck came back the next day telling me he was sorry and that he loved me and that we were going to be okay" She was telling me everything. Every little thing I always wondered about.
"Where's Melanie? Why haven't they shone her in magazines?"
"I didn't want her dealing with that, so I keep her inside and she is never seen with me outside. She is with Delilah out of the house because people don't know Delilah… or Devon. They never take pictures of Devon. Right now though, she is with Matty and his boyfriend at the hotel." She told me.
"Why didn't you bring her here?"
"I wanted to make sure you didn't hate me because I didn't want her around that"
I nodded trying to take everything in. "So you don't hate me?" I asked.
"I have the tattoo" She smiled and I nodded.
"Me too" I pulled my hair off my neck to show her.
"Yay!" She clapped excitedly, "I am going to call Matty"
"How old is she?"
"Two and a half. She was only a few months old when they died. Matty is a great uncle"
"Does she know?"
"They gave me pictures of them so I can show her but she calls me mommy… and Beck daddy. I didn't think he would be okay with that but when I told him I was adopting her he said sign me up. I can't believe I thought he was cheating on me after everything we have been through"
"Why didn't you keep in touch Grey?" I asked hurt.
"I wanted to, but by the time I got the courage to call, you were gone. I thought she doesn't want to be found and I thought you hated me and I thought it was better if you just forgot about me. I thought Nathan would be better without me and I knew that you guys didn't want it known who I was. Then people told me you wouldn't want me and wouldn't want to have anything to do with me and I started to believe them. Beck told me to just talk to you. I thought you wanted privacy"
"I'd rather have my sister than my privacy" I told her with honesty making her have tears well up in her eyes.
"I missed you so much, Blossom" She cried running up and wrapping her arms tight around me.
"I missed you too, Bubbles" I replied.
"I'm sorry, I never wanted to hurt you" She said with a shaky voice.
"Let's forget about it. Just like we used to, forget about the fight and the last three and a half years. Let's forget" I said and she nodded.
"I can do that" She told me wiping her tears away.
"Come on, you gotta retell your story and get our niece here" I smiled and she nodded.
Everything just felt easier. The rest of the family got here and everything was explained, people yelled (Nathan), people cried (Mom and Grey), and Devon got punched much like Easton did. Devon glared at Lucas because he knew he came out of my room this morning and Rachel and Felix sat on the stairs while we sat in the living room and watched a Davis reunion.
At the end of the day, Nathan wasn't speaking to anyone and Devon was still getting stares for getting someone as pretty as Delilah and had a good job.
"Welcome to the family" My mom beamed hugging Delilah tightly and then the same to Beck. The doorbell rang and I answered it to see Matty and his boyfriend holding a little girl.
"You must be Brooke" He grinned stepping in.
"You must be Matty… and you are?" I looked at the bigger man. He wasn't fat but he wasn't thin either.
"Cam"
"Nice to meet you and welcome to the Davis family" I smiled and the little girl in his arms curled into him.
"Melanie, this is your Aunt Brooke" Matty said twisting her to look at me. She had strawberry blonde hair that fell in ringlets framing her face, big blue eyes and was wearing a cute white dress.
"Hi" I waved before ushering them in and into the living room.
"Matty!" Grey said excited running over to him, "Melanie!" She picked the little girl out of his arms and Melanie instantly wrapped her arms tight around her.
"Mommy" She said in the same tone Grey had talked.
"Mamma, this is Melanie Jane. This was your son's daughter" Grey smiled as mom teared up.
"She is beautiful" She whispered and Melanie looked up at her.
"This is your Grandmamma, Melanie" Beck said walking up to her. She hesitantly reached for mom and she gladly took her into her arms and turned to see Bobby standing there. She put her hand out and Bobby took it.
"I'm going to spend time with my grandbabies" She said happily and they walked to go sit back into the living room.
"The gang is all back together, guys!" Devon said with that weird voice that should scare most and he noticed Nathan still sitting away from us. He tries not to remember his drunken night a few weeks back. The only person that is a Davis he talks to under the age of thirty is Bobby.
"Why does he not like you Brookie?" Devon asked and I shrugged.
"I don't know. He blames me I guess"
"But you aren't the reason we left and neither is he. That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard" Grey said confused as we stood in a small circle.
"Yeah, I know. I thought it would get better after me and Lucas got together. Lucas is his best friend but he just ignores me now."
"Don't worry, we will work on him" Easton patted my head and I smiled.
I thought I would angry when they all came home, but I couldn't. The second I saw Grey and Devon standing there every ounce of anger evaporated because I just wanted them back. It was an amazing feeling. Having them all back. It made me feel refreshed and like everything was going to be okay. On the other hand, it meant that the carpet was going to be pulled out from under me.
Now that scared me.
Just because everyone is home does not mean it is over. There is still this really big thing that I have been hinting at since chapter like three.
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