Hello, everyone! Happy holidays! Here is the second half of chapter 18 that I promised you ages ago... I'm nor sure if I will be able to update again over break because I going to Hawaii and I don't think the hotel I am staying at has free wifi... regardless, I will definitely write a chapter and get it posted when I get home. Anyway, enjoy this chapter. i had some problems with the flow, so let me know what you think!

disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own any part of One Tree Hill... That's all Mark.

"BROOKE!" Julian called down the hall to his fiancée.

"I'm hurrying!" She returned.

"Well, hurry faster! Your don't want to be late to your own wedding, do you?"

"Ok. I'm ready." She said as she stepped into the hallway.

"Well, you look beautiful, Brooke Davis."

"It's almost Brooke Baker to you, Buddy." She threw her arms around him and planted a kiss on his lips.

"Are you sure you are okay with this? I know you always dreamed of having a big wedding…"

"Julian, all I want right now is to be married to you. It's a dream come true."

"God, I love you."

Peyton was preparing lunch for her and Lucas while Lucas was feeding Sawyer a bottle. Ever since Jake left, Peyton found herself distracted and unable to focus on anything other than him. She knew that she didn't have feelings for him. How could she? She was happily married with a beautiful daughter. But, that didn't mean that she wasn't worried about him.

"Hey, P. Scott… you ok?" Lucas questioned tentatively, carefully easing her out of her trance.

"Yeah, yeah… I just have a lot on my mind."

"What about?" Lucas pulled out a chair at the kitchen table and motioned for her to join him.

"Not much… Just busy…"

"Peyton, I don't buy it… what's going on?"

"I'm worried?"

"What about? Jamie's getting better, Sawyer is beautiful, I'm here… What's there to worry about?"

"Jake. I'm worried about Jake."

"I see."

"It's not what you think, Luke. I don't have feelings for him. He's just a good friend and I'm worried about him."

"That's all?"

"That's all." She held up her finger for a "pinky swear" and he interlaced his with hers. "I want to go see him, Luke, " she continued, "I just want to make sure he is okay."

"Ok. Well, do you want Sawyer and me to come with you?"

"As much as I would love to be with you two, I feel like I have to do this on my own… can you understand that?"

"Peyton, you do what you need to do." Lucas got up with Sawyer and planted a kiss on Peyton's forehead.

"Hey, Luke? I love you." Lucas nodded his head in agreement and took Sawyer to her room to go to sleep.

Nathan and Haley were lying together on the couch in their living room. For the last several weeks, they had made a point to spend every possible moment with each other, Jamie and Kayla. Thankfully, Nathan's coaches were understanding and allowed him to have as much time off as he needed, which also allowed for them to spend more time together.

"Hales?" Nathan whispered into her ear, sensing that she was almost asleep.

"mmhmm…" she replied sleepily after having been lulled practically to sleep by Nathan's breathing.

"Haley, will you go on a date with me tonight?"

"I don't know, hot shot, does that mean we are going steady?"

"I'll take that as a yes…. Hales, I know we want to spend a lot of time with Jamie, but I figured we could use a night just for the two of us."

"That sounds so good to me…"

"Good. I was also thinking, that maybe we should wait to tell Jamie about the transplant until we know that you are a definite match… I just don't want to get him excited until we know for sure."

"Yeah. That's probably a smart idea… should we tell Kayla yet? She's older… she would understand better…"

"I don't know… I don't want Jamie to think that we were hiding something from him…"

"I think we should tell her. She is part of this family and she deserves to know what is going on."

"Ok… we'll talk to her the next opportunity we get."

As if on command, the front door swung open and Kayla came parading in, in an unusually up beat mood.

"Haley?" Kayla called though the house.

"We're in the living room, Kay."

"Guess what?!"

"You aced your chem. test," Haley replied excitedly.

"I got a 'B'," Kayla wrinkled her nose.

"Hey, that's really good! You worked really hard on that. You should be proud of yourself. How did the empirical formulas go?"

"Thanks to you, I got 100 percent on that section!"

"Sweet! I'm so proud of you, Kayla. I knew you could do it!"

"Ok, well, you are going to be even prouder of me when I tell you what I was REALLY excited about."

"Ok…"

"I got the lead in the musical!" Kayla exclaimed. "I'm Fanny Brice!"

"Ahh! That's amazing!" Haley jumped off the couch to give her a hug.

"I couldn't have done it without you, Hales. Thank you so much."

Not wanting to miss an opportune moment to share their news with Kayla, Haley decided to jump right in. "Hey, Kay, wanna grab a seat? Nathan and I have something we want to talk to you about…"

"Sure…" Kayla replies uneasily, "Am I in trouble?"

"You are not in trouble," Nathan reassured her, "Haley and I are both so proud of you. We couldn't ask for a better addition to our family. We just wanted to talk to you a little bit about what is going on with Jamie…"

"Is he okay? Did they find a donor?" Kayla questioned.

"Well, sort of…" Haley replied, " You see, Jamie is moving up to donor list, but there is still no real time frame for when a donor will become available…"

"So, what are we going to do?"

"Nathan and I have decided that I am going to donate to him…"

"Kayla, I know this is a lot to comprehend right now… but, I promise both Haley and Jamie will be fine. We are going to make sure they are."

As Kayla's eyes began to become red and puffy, Haley got up from Nathan's side and joined Kayla on the other couch. "Shh… it's going to be okay, Kayla… I promise," Haley soothed her.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Kayla asked, her voice breaking slightly.

"Well, actually," Nathan replied, "We are looking for a babysitter tonight!"

"Oh. I see. You just took me in so that I could be your personal nanny whenever you needed one. At least I don't swim topless." Nathan and Haley both chuckled at her comment. "Seriously, though," Kayla continued, "I would be more than happy to watch Jamie for a few hours."

"Thank you, Kay," Haley replied.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Next chapter, you can expect to see the Naley date, the Peyton/Jake confrontation and get some insight into what role Victoria and Dan played in the first Brulian wedding.

Happy holidays! Don't forget to review!