Brooke sighed and pushed a piece of her hair out of her face as she starred at the blank page in front of her. She was supposed to be working on her sketches for Fashion Week yet she didn't feel inspired. She hadn't properly designed anything since Nathan left almost a week ago.

Flashback

Nathan walked into the living room his cell phone clutched in his hand. "Who was on the phone?" Brooke asked looking up from the movie she was watching with Adam.

"That was my manager."

"Oh what's up?" He looked down at his hands and sighed, he knew that this was going to cause a fight. He had promised that he wasn't going to work that much during the summer.

"Nike called and offered me an endorsement and my own shoe."

"Nathan's that great!" Brooke exclaimed getting up and hugging him. Nathan hesitantly hugged her back hoping that she didn't completely blow up at him for what he was going to say next. "When do start with them?" Brooke pulled away from Nathan and stood in front of him a happy smile spread across her face.

"I have to leave tomorrow and fly out to New York." As soon as the word 'tomorrow' left his mouth her smile fell.

"For how long this time?" She asked the smile slipping from her face a frown

"I don't know a week or two." Brooke turned away from him and walked over to Adam bending down.

"Adam, can you stay here and watch your movie like a good boy?" Adam looked up at Brooke and nodded smiling when she kissed his forehead. Brooke walked past Nathan and into the kitchen silently telling Nathan to follow her.

"Brooke," He started watching her walk towards the sink and turn around the anger burning in her eyes.

"First off I'm so happy about Nike. But I didn't sign up to be a single parent Nathan. Summer is the only time that I actually get to spend time with you and don't get me wrong I'm so proud of everything you've accomplished but I'm getting tired of this. I'm tired of having to tell Adam every day that you don't mean to be gone so much that you're just doing your job. I'm tired of having to juggle everything by myself and go to the doctor's appointments by myself. I love you Nathan but I didn't sign up for this when you got signed. You were supposed to help out and be here."

"Brooke I'm trying. What do you want me to say? Oh sorry Nike but it's summer so I can't work with you I promised my wife that I would spend time at home. I didn't say anything when you were gone doing your fashion stuff in New York while I was at Duke. I didn't say anything when you missed our anniversary because you had a fitting for some show. I know that you didn't sign up for any of this but I'm hoping that you would support me and least cut me some slack. I promise that I'll tell Peter that this one is the last one for the rest of the summer."

"Oh for the rest of July until you go back to working out every day and doing drills with the team? That's great Nathan. You'll be here for what 2 weeks until you go back to being Nathan Scott NBA Superstar and I'm stuck at home 5 months pregnant with a 2 year old. That's real great Nathan I'm glad you figured that one out."

"What do you want from me? Do you want me to quit basketball so I can be here all the damn time?"

"No but I want you to at least try and spend time with your family Nathan! I want you to actually spend some time with your son instead of a few hours here and there between endorsement deals." She shot back falling into the chair in front of her.

"I am trying Brooke but I can't just say no to the endorsement deals that would make me look like an asshole."

"Oh well we can't have the Great Nathan Scott's image be ruined." She replied running a hand through her hair before standing up and walking passed Nathan towards the front door.

"Where are you going?" Nathan asked following her and stopping in the middle of the hallway her hand now on the handle of the door.

"I don't know but I can't be here right now."

"Brooke."

"No Nathan it's too much stress and in case you forgot stress and pregnancy don't really mix. I'll be back in the morning before you leave." She turned back towards him and sighed before opening the door and leaving the house. Nathan stood frozen in the hallway starring at the door almost as if starring at it would make Brooke come back. He stood there for a few minutes before Adam walked over to him tugging lightly on his basketball shorts.

"Mommy?" Adam asked looking up at Nathan with a look that broke Nathan's heart.

"Mommy just went to visit Aunt Peyton, she'll be back I promise." Adam nodded putting his arms in the air asking Nathan to pick him up. Nathan smiled and picked him up walking back into the living room to watch the movie still in shock that Brooke had actually left during an argument.

End of Flashback

Brooke shook her head ridding her mind of the thoughts of that night. Just thinking about it made her angry. She should've stayed and tried to work things out then maybe she and Nathan would be talking. It had been a long 2 weeks without speaking to him; she didn't even know when he was coming home. That thought alone made her sick to her stomach. Sighing Brooke pushed the sketch book away from her and stood up walking out of her office and into the kitchen. Standing in the middle of the kitchen she couldn't be in the house anymore, she needed to get away. "What you really need is to see your husband." Brooke said to the empty room the plan immediately forming in her head. As she began pacing the length of the living room she dialed Luke's number hoping that maybe Nathan had called him.

"Hello?"

"Luke it's Brooke, has Nathan talked to you?" She asked turning around and walking towards the other side of the room.

"Not since you guys had that fight why?"

"I was just wondering."

"Have you talked to him?"

"No I was too mad at him when he left and I didn't want to be the one to call and apologize. Now I'm worried, I thought for sure by now he would've called and at least let me what was going on."

"Well Brooke why don't you call him?" Luke asked glancing over at Peyton who was also on the phone.

"I don't think he'll answer the phone Luke." Luke sighed rubbing a hand over his face.

"Of course he'll answer the phone you're his wife."

"Luke you weren't there you didn't hear what I said to him."

"You're right but Nathan pretty much gave me the gist of what went down in the Scott household that night."

"I'm such a bitch." She muttered finally giving up her pacing and falling into the couch tears welling up in her eyes.

"You were angry Brooke and you had every right to be angry, the fight was bound to happen at one point or another."

"But I left Luke, I walked out in the middle of the argument I never do that." She wailed letting the sobs finally take over her body.

"Brooke you need to calm down, it's not good for you or the baby. Please just take a deep breath and calm down. Nathan understands why you left and he understands why you were angry."

"Then why hasn't he called? I think I really screwed up this time Luke, maybe he's grown tired of me and decided that he's going to leave me."

"Brooke! Nathan would never do that and you know that."

"Actually I don't know that. He's probably in New York or wherever talking to his lawyer on how to get out of this marriage quickly and quietly."

"Brooke." Luke started trying to find the words to change her way of thinking.

"No Luke don't bother, if it's going to happen then it's going to happen and there's nothing I can do about it. He deserves someone better anyway, but I'm wasting your time so I'll just let you go and I'll talk to you later." She hung up before Luke could protest and he sighed resting the ear of his cell phone against his forehead. He looked up when Peyton sat down across from him a questioning look in her eyes.

"She's completely breaking down. He hasn't called her since he left and she doesn't think that he'll pick up the phone if she calls and she thinks that he's in New York trying to file for divorce. The icing on the cake is she says he deserves someone better than her." Luke said filling Peyton in the on the conversation that he was still trying to wrap his mind around.

"Maybe I should go talk to her."

"I think the only one that's going to change her mind would be Nathan but he's not answering his phone."

"Do you really think he would do that?"

"Do what?" He asked finally removing his phone from his forehead.

"Leave her."

"No at least I hope not." He replied lightly kissing her as she muttered something about heading into the office to pick up some things. Luke watched her walk out of the front door and starred at his cell phone for a few moments before he picked it up and dialed his brother's number hoping that he actually picked up the phone. When Luke heard Nathan's message come on he wanted to hunt him down and ring his neck. "You really need to call your wife because she's stressing out and freaking out thinking that you're off somewhere filing for divorce and saying that you deserve someone better. So please just call her and talk to her, I don't know how much longer she's going to keep it all together before she cracks and that's not good for the baby. So dude call your wife." Luke hung up the phone and hoped beyond hope that Nathan would finally listen to him and call his wife.

Nathan was in a meeting with 'his shoe team' as they were called when he felt his cell phone ring. Looking down at him he sighed when he saw Luke's name on the screen, he, for a moment, had thought that it was Brooke calling him. Finally when he set his phone down when it stopped ringing and tuned back into the meeting his thoughts resting solely on his shoe and what still needed to be done. As he walked out of the meeting Nathan stopped dead in his tracks as Luke's message played.

"Nathan what's wrong?" Peter, his manager asked coming up next to him.

"I, uh, have to get home."

"What's wrong?"

"I have to fix things with Brooke." He replied turning towards the slightly older man with hope in his eyes that he could go home.

"You're wife is more important so I'll finish things up here and we'll figure things out after that. I'll book you on the next flight out of here." Nathan thanked him and raced out of the building hailing a cab back to the hotel. The entire flight back to Tree Hill he couldn't help but think about what was happening at home.

Brooke sat alone at the kitchen table since Luke had insisted on spending time with his nephew since Peyton and Jess were off having a 'mommy-daughter' trip together in Hawaii. She looked at her stomach smiling slightly as she rested her hand on the top. "What should we eat for dinner? Let's see we had pizza last night and pasta the night before so what should we dine on tonight?" She asked herself as she looked through the fridge to find nothing good to eat. As she closed the fridge her ears perked to hear the front door opening and then closing. For a moment she panicked but decided to face the intruder and made her way into the hallway that led to the front door. Out of all the people that would come into her house she was not expecting to see Nathan standing in the foyer his bags next to him on the left and two white bags in his hands.

"I'm so sorry that I didn't call and that I didn't stay to resolve everything. I would never go off somewhere to file for divorce and if you think that I could ever find someone remotely better than you then you don't know just how perfect for me you are." Nathan ranted as he made his way down the hallway towards her. As he got closer Brooke was hit with the scent of hamburgers and instantly smiled.

"Did you stop by Karen's?" She asked looking solely at the bags that were in his hands.

"I didn't know if you ate or not so I stopped to get some burgers, do you want one?" He asked holding up one of the white bags. She nodded grabbing it from her hands and turning. She didn't take one step before turning back around and crashing her lips onto Nathan's catching him a tad bit off guard but he recovered quickly wrapping his arms around her. "I'm so sorry."

"I'm sorry too, I overreacted and you're right I should be more supportive and from now on I'm going to be behind 100% and if need be after the baby's born we'll start going together, we can make some of them little family vacations."

"That would be great and Peter called while I was on the way home and he's told everyone that I'm burnt out and need some time off. He's even talked to the coach and I don't have to report till the end of August. So I'm all yours till then." Brooke smiled and kissed him again happy that for now they had things figured out. "I love you." He whispered as she pulled away she smiled and lightly kissed him again before going back into the kitchen to eat her burger.

"I love you too." She finally replied after they had been eating for a few moments. They were going to fine, they had just overcome a major hurdle and they were now stronger than before. Yes they were going to be fine.

A/N: Well it's almost the end of the story, there are only 2 chapters left and I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. More updates will be coming after the 11th since I'll be off of school for a month.