Thanks for the reviews last chapter and sorry for the kinda long update but enjoy
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Brooke strolled across the street with Emma humming in her arms. Brooke was still tired; she was tired of the talk with Mick but also just tired in general. She tossed and turned all night and as she starts moving around her body is really starting to hate her for it.
They walked into the small café a small bell going off alerting the waitress someone was there as the dark headed woman looked up with a sweet smile. "I'll be right with you honey." She smiled and Brooke nodded as she looked around the small place. There were many tables though they weren't really full, but that didn't surprise Brooke since it was only 7 in the morning. But the place was comfortable feeling, even though it was, what Brooke guessed kind of a little restaurant it had this home feeling, a feeling Brooke hadn't ever experienced before but figured it would feel something like this.
"Here you go Keith, your regular mess of heart attack on a plate." The older woman laughed handing the older gentleman a plate covered in food.
"You know Karen referring to your own food as heart attack on a plate may not be the way to go about things. I mean seriously what makes you think I will come back for a thing as a heart attack." The man chuckled making the older woman, who Brooke heard name being Karen laughed.
"Yeah I am very concerned that you are going to stop coming around." She rolled her eyes as she walked over where Brooke was at. "Sorry about the wait." She apologized.
"Oh no its fine we were still looking at the menu." Brooke smiles shifting Emma in her arms.
"Well who is this gorgeous little thing?" Karen asked.
"This is Emma." Brooke introduced, "Emma this is umm…"
"Karen." She smiled taking Emma's little hand with a smile, "Well hello sweetie you are adorable." She smiled as Emma snuggled into Brooke's arm.
"Emma can you say thank you?" Brooke asked shifting Emma to look at her.
"Tank you." Emma mumbled clearly losing all her energy from before.
"Sorry she isn't normally the shy type, she is kind of like..Err..." Brooke paused not sure if she wanted to say her, since that would make Emma her daughter, which of course she is but still you don't want a stranger in a small town knowing you're a single mom, an 18 year old single mom.
"Mommy I sweepy." Emma whined and Brooke looked at Karen who just kept staring at her.
"I know baby girl I am just getting you your food." Brooke tells her rubbing her back and quickly ordering her the food. Karen doesn't say anything, doesn't make a comment just takes the order and heads to the back while Brooke stands trying to wipe of the embarrassing feeling and the feeling of wondering what the woman behind the counter thought of her.
"I was seventeen." Karen smiled handing Brooke over their food and Brooke looks at her confused. "When I had my son, I was seventeen." She clarifies.
"Fifteen." Brooke whispers moving a sleeping Emma to her other arm.
"Why don't you sit down?" Karen offered pointing at a couple chairs.
"No I must really get home; I mean I need to… I don't want…" Brooke stutters not really sure what she was trying to say, not sure how really to word I don't want the world knowing about my daughter.
"I have a baby pin in the back Emma can nap in and you can sit and eat." Karen all but ordered in a mother tone taking Emma before Brooke could object.
"Ok…" Brooke whispers to herself as Karen walks off and Brooke questions why she just let a stranger walk off with her baby. Yet this woman was different, she liked this woman in the short 10 minutes she talked to her, she trusted her.
"Now I want you to eat." Karen said walking over to Brooke who sat at the bar.
"Not to be rude or anything but why...why are you being so nice to me?" Brooke asked taking a sip of her coffee and hoping she didn't offend Karen in some way.
"Because you have dark circles under your eyes. Your body is in the stage of hating you because it's so tired. You probably spent most the night thinking about how you were going to get through the next day. How you are going to do everything you want to do and still raise that precious girl in the back. Your clearly still in high school which means in an hour you have to sit through 6 hours of pretty much hell…" she says making Brooke laugh, "And because you're doing all this on your own."
"How did you…"
"Because I again had a son at 17. I spent countless nights, blaming his father for leaving, blaming myself for getting pregnant and then hating myself knowing I could never give the one thing I loved most everything he wanted and needed. I lived on my own, worked my ass off but it never seemed to be enough. I always seemed to fall short of it all and no matter how hard I worked, the hours I put in I seemed to always struggle. And as everyone else's life went on around me…"
"Yours stopped." Brooke finished and Karen just nodded, "I'm not like ashamed of her." she whispers rubbing her finger along the rim of her coffee cup, "I just sometimes wish just for a day that I could just be an 18 year old high school student, not an 18 year old single mom in high school."
"Trust me you don't have to explain to me anything. I love Lucas more than anything but it doesn't mean that there wasn't days I just wanted to be a teenager one more day." Karen smiles patting Brooke on her hand, "Speak of the devil." She says and Brooke sees her entire face light up.
"Hey mom." Brooke hears someone say turning around to see who it is and her eyes widen recognizing him from the day before.
"Shit." she whispered turning in her chair real quick, "Please don't say anything." Brooke begged Karen before Lucas got over to them and Karen just gives her a look but doesn't say anything before Lucas is by their side.
"Can I have a coffee please?" Lucas smiled leaning on the counter and dragging out please which made Brooke smile some since it sounded just like Emma when she asks her for something.
"Sure thing I will be right back." Karen nods heading off into the back.
Brooke just sits there focusing on her coffee cup as Lucas stands there leaning on the counter drumming his figures on the counter, "Hey I know you." she hears him say and Brooke just nods taking a long sip of her coffee. "I take your phone call didn't go well."
"Yeah I'm sorry about that I didn't mean to come across so…" Brooke pauses thinking for the right word since she did come across a little, "bitchy."
"Oh don't worry about it." He says waving his hand at her, "I mean you're hot so it's completely excused." He tells her making her blush some. "Lucas." he smiles reaching out his hand.
"Brooke." She smiles taking it.
"So you're new?"
"Umm…yeah yesterday was my first day. I actually skipped my last period so I am not too excited to go today." She laughs.
"Nahh don't worry. What class do you have that you skipped?" he smiled taking a seat next to her and Brooke takes him in. His smile is gorgeous, his hair is the cutest cut, a little long but not too long and he has the most gorgeous piercing blue eyes. Everything pretty much the opposite of her ex, well minus his eyes but still they are a little different.
"I umm…" Brooke trailed off trying to remember what he asked, "Oh umm...it was just gym."
"Oh well then I wouldn't worry. Coach is pretty laid back about it but how about I help you out. Meet me outside the gym and I will personally introduce you into the Coach and will take full blame for making you skip." He grins placing his hand on his chest.
"Well thanks but that's ok. I mean I don't want to get you in trouble."
"Oh please Coach loves me." he laughs, "So seriously just meet me." he says again and Brooke smiles since it's kind of like he is begging but not really begging for her to meet him. Lucas just didn't seem like the really begging for a girl type.
"Umm…well ok if you want me too sure." Brooke shrugs as she finishes her coffee.
"Oh I definitely want you too." He smirks and Brooke just kinks her eyebrow at him. He was cute, really cute but she could tell there was more to this guy then his little sweet persona right now, way more.
"Here you go sweetie." Karen comes back handing him his coffee.
"Well thank ya mama I am off to school." He smiled giving her a kiss on the cheek, "And Brooke I will see you later." He winked walking out.
Brooke watched him go with a small smile before turning in her chair shaking her head but then looking up at Karen who had her eyebrow raised looking at her, "Oh no that wasn't what you think." Brooke tells her quickly, "He just umm…he just was saying that because he was going to help me with the coach in gym…I mean it's not like he wants to see me later as in see me see me." she rambles.
"I didn't say anything." Karen smiled as she wiped off the counter.
"I know but I mean I wouldn't do that. I mean I wouldn't go out with a guy, I mean not that he is a guy he is you son. And not that he isn't cute because he is gorgeous I mean he is gorgeous for your son. Not that you aren't gorgeous so its shock your son is gorgeous or anything because you are both very attractive, she rambles and just smiles nodding her head "But I have Emma and I mean I don't want a guy and I don't want you to think I am going to be like after your son because like I said I have Emma." She tells her and shakes her head staring at her cup, "I mean…"
"Brooke I didn't say anything." Karen smiled but then both heard a cry of a small child made her look back.
"Oh that's Emma. I better go get her." Brooke smiled sadly standing up and walking over to her daughter picking her up, "Mommy's got you." she smiled patting Emma on the back making her stop crying some and snuggle to her mother's shoulder, "Umm…thanks Karen for you know the talk and the food and stuff." She smiles at the older woman who nods.
"Us single mom's half to stick together. See you later honey." She smiled and Brooke nodded walking out to her car and running home to drop off Emma before heading to school.
Brooke felt guilty walking into school, she really wanted to find Haley and Nathan and apologize she was rude yesterday. She knew she should have told them she was leaving but she was freaked about if Emma was hurt or something and Emma will always come first. She also made a mental note to get Haley's number just in case she needed to run after promising to meet again.
She also thought about Lucas as she walked into the school. He was so amazingly sweet but she knew there was so much more to him then a cute sweet face, because as sweet as he seemed no one that cute and charming is as sweet as they seem. There was definitely more to him and for some reason she wanted to know, wanted it to be gym already just so she could see him, talk to him.
"Fancy seeing you here." she heard a deep voice say and smiled some turning to see Lucas, then feeling a little freaked how he did that right when she was thinking about him.
"Well I told you I had school here." she smiled holding her books close to her chest as she talked to him, well not really talk more like stare at him.
"May I walk you to class?" he smiled and Brooke was just about to say yes when some way to perky blonde bounced over almost knocking her out of the way to talk to him.
"Lucas I have been looking for you all morning." The perky girl smiled up at him and Brooke just kind of looked at her then Lucas, then sorta figuring him out a little.
"Umm…hey Claire." He said not too pleased with her being there. He was really trying to get Brooke to walk with him and Claire popping up on him kind of ruined that plan.
"So I was wondering what you were doing after school or even now I mean if you want to skip I am totally for that." she told him and Brooke just started to wonder if she was invisible or something because other then smashing Brooke from in front of Lucas she hasn't even looked at Brooke and Brooke though wanted to go through senior year in the new school invisible this wasn't exactly what she meant.
"You know Lucas…" Brooke spoke and the girl whipped around to look at her, "Thanks for the offer but I think I am just going to walk myself." She half smiled as she started to walk to class.
"No Brooke wait!" he called scooting past Claire to catch up with her, "I want to walk you."
"No its fine you seem busy plus I have to find someone before class so I'll just see you later." She smiles and he just kind of nods a little disappointed he can't walk her.
"But you're still going to meet me before gym right?"
"Oh umm…sure I'll see you then." she smiles patting his chest and walking off.
Though she wanted to see and talk to him she was kind of glad that weird perky blonde came up since she really wanted to find Haley and liked she hoped when she turned the corner lucky her Nathan and Haley were both standing by a locker and laughing.
"Umm Haley…" She called and they both turned around with smiles on their face, but Brooke thinks the smile was more for the fact they were around the people they love instead of really her so much.
"Brooke hey." Haley greeted grabbing a notebook out o her locker, "We missed you yesterday."
"Did you get lost on your way back to the lunch room?" Nathan teased making Brooke small and relax some.
"Yeah about that I'm really sorry. I tried that phone call and some things went…well they weren't ok and I needed to head home. I was going to find ya'll but I didn't know where and I don't have your number." She kind of frowns and they both laugh as Nathan holds out his hand, "What?"
"Give me your phone silly girl." He laughed and Brooke mouthed an oh grabbing it and pulling it out "So here is both mine and Hales number which means no excuse for standing us up next time." he jokes programming both his and his wife number into her phone then calling both theirs as they saved Brooke's.
"Ok I won't stand you up ever again." she laughed also saving their numbers.
"Oh no…" Haley frowns looking over Brooke's shoulder at her best friend.
"What?" Nathan asks following his wife's gaze and seeing his brother and laughing, "Oh know looks like big brother has found his new little friend for the week." He laughs spinning the dial on his locker and opening it to get his books.
"Huh?" Brooke says confused turning to see Lucas, but not just Lucas but some girl, some girl that was different then earlier.
"That's Lucas he is my best friend and I love him but he isn't that great lately with girls." She frowns, it somewhat upset her that her sweet best friend became a small man whore as soon as he hit the peck in the popular status. It was like once she calmed down Nathan Lucas just got all riled up and now he is sometimes worse with girls then Nathan was. It upset her because though he was still the same amazing guy she loved to her all the other girls not so much.
"What you mean?" she asks still looking at the boy in question.
"Hey Hales I need to run and see coach real quick I'll see you later. Love you." Nathan said quickly before his wife got into the whole Lucas changing speech so with a kiss he ran off to the gym before class started.
"But anyway umm Lucas wasn't really in the popular group, I mean neither of us were but then his Uncle talked him into playing basketball for the school and at first he was still just Lucas you know. The Lucas I have been best friends with since I was 7 but you see him and Nathan are half brothers with a longer weird story then this one. They fought at first and I started to date Nathan and they started to get along but then Lucas just seemed to become a little wild, you know different girls all the time, parties every weekend. You should listen to Nathan and Luke's mom talk most Saturday mornings. I think Nathan is a little tired of lying for him." Haley frowns shutting her locker.
"Well I mean all guys go through that stage." Brooke kind of shrugged and trying not to frown at the fact Lucas was playing his little game on her.
"Yeah…" Haley frowned even more and it was clear to Brooke she worried about her best friend but before she could say anything else the boy in question walked up.
"Hey Hales Brooke," Lucas smiled walking up to them, "How is my favorite little sister in law doing?" he smiled wrapping his arm over Haley's shoulder.
"She is fine BIL how are you doing?" she half smiled, a smile that Lucas clearly saw.
"Haley what's wrong? Did Nathan do something because I swear I will kick his…"
"No Lucas everything is fine." She told him quickly. Though she knew Nathan and Lucas were become good friend he was still over protective of her and still put her above his own brother.
"Ok good."
"But umm how do you know Brooke?" Haley asked changing the topic quickly because she didn't want to let her best friend knowing that she was slowly become a little disappointed in him.
"I meet her yesterday. Helped her fine cell service." He smiled over at her.
"Yeah but Hales I got to go class I will umm see you later." Brooke said quickly pretty much completely ignoring Lucas.
"Ok just meet us at lunch I'll see you during second."
"Yeah second." She agreed walking off and trying to shake the feeling of Lucas's eyes on her the whole way down the hall.
Ok sorry its short but I hope you all review and tell me what you all think
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