Phoebe sat at the table with the Scotts and felt very weird. Eating with her teacher wasn't her favorite thing to do. In fact she felt a little shy and didn't say a word. It was totally different meeting Haley in her class.

"Have you eaten your tongue?", Jamie laughed at Phoebe's behavior.

"No you idiot...", immediately Haley interrupted her.

"You know what your sister told you Phoebe. No cursing.", Phoebe looked angrily at Haley but then said, "Okay, sorry." The little girl besides Phoebe looked at her with big eyes. In fact the day was a very hard one for everyone. Every game Jamie wanted to play with Phoebe wasn't good enough for her. She was either too old for it or too female. But it wasn't long that Jamie showed her the fun world of being a kid. They ran around, played hide and seek with his sister, the Wii and even told horror stories at night. Jamie's little sister Lisa, who seemed to have chosen Phoebe as her idol, always followed them.

"Can Phoebe sleep at my place today?", Jamie asked this evening. They had really started to like each other's and wanted to spend every minute together.

At first Haley was a bit concerned but then she accepted it but unfortunately only for one night because Jamie told her such horror stories that Phoebe ran into Haley's and Nathan's room at night:"Mr. Scott, there is a ghost in the room".

Nathan looked tired at her and found a laughing Jamie in his bed, "Jamie, stop it." When he went back to his room he saw his wife guarding the girl with her arms in the bed and both sleeping deep. So he went to his son and decided to sleep there.

xxxxx

The next morning Haley woke Phoebe up when realizing that she was having a nightmare. Phoebe looked into Haley's eyes, it was weird lying in her teacher's arms and started to apologize:" You still have this nightmares, right sweetie?"

Phoebe nodded soundless. "Do you talk about it with Brooke?". Phoebe tried to get free of Haley's grip but she held her tight.

"No", she finally whispered.

"Kiddo, I think it's important that you talk. It's horrible what happened to both of you. And we all are there for you. Why didn't you go to your sister?"

"Because I hear her screaming every night too." With that Phoebe ran out of the room.

Sometimes she was like a new Phoebe. Like she was a child again or for the first time.

xxxxxx

When Brooke and Julian came back a week later they could not imagine what they were seeing. Phoebe was actually running around and having fun while laughing loudly. They had never seen her that happy. Suddenly she saw Brooke "Brooooke", she screamed and jumped into her arms, "I am so happy.", she smiled down at her sister. Then she saw Julian and ran into his arms as well.

"We got you something.", Julian said and gave her the present. Phoebe immediately took it and was stunned what it was, "This is a bathing suit by the line of Clothes over Bros. Your sis was making it the whole weekend only for you because you don't have one."

Phoebe loved it but then her face looked sad. "What is it? Today it's warm enough to go swimming.", he said and took her face, "right?".

"I don't like it. It's not my color.", with that Phoebe threw it on the floor and went into the house. Julian saw Brookes hurt face, "I'll talk to her." He had a pretty good clue why she did not like their present.

He went after Phoebe and caught her packing her stuff, "Kiddo, that was not very nice.", he whispered.

"Well, I don't fall under the genre of nice.", Phoebe said back and continued packing.

"Okay, can you tell me what is going on in that little head of yours?", he said and knocked on her head and smiled.

"Look, I just don't like it. Not all of Brooke's clothes are pretty okay. And I can tell what I want.", she stormed out of the room but Julian didn't miss seeing that she took the bathing suit with her. He had to smile a little.

He went outside and kissed Brooke on the forehead, "I think she needs a little time alone". Brooke looked sadly into his eyes and nodded. Sometimes her sister's mood could changed that fast and Brooke felt like she was not getting through to her.

"So, let's make dinner together", Haley smiled and took Brooke's hand. After one hour the fine meal was finished and Brooke looked for her little sister. What she found made her smile. Phoebe was wearing her bathing suit and talked to herself, "Okay, it cannot be that hard. I've seen many people do it." She touched the water with her feet and suddenly saw a small feet in the water. Lisa was sitting right besides her and smiled.

"Do you want to go swimming?", she asked with her little high voice. She was very smart for a 5 year old and admired Phoebe.

"No kiddo.", Phoebe said back and took an arm around her, "You're not allowed to be that near to the pool. You know that right?", Phoebe asked the little one who just smiled.

"I know but only if I am alone. And you can save me if I fall in".

Phoebe blushed, "Yeah right.", she stayed at the pool when Lisa ran into the house to grab some food. Then she saw another feet in the water- this time belonging to Brooke. Brooke didn't look at her, "Hey there. What are you doing?", she asked softly. At first Phoebe didn't answer.

"I like your bathing suit.", Phoebe whispered, "but..." Brooke took her arms around Phoebe.

"It's okay. I can teach you. It's not so hard."

"Fine, but not today!", Phoebe said and ran into the house again and left a smiling Brooke at the pool. She stood up as well and went into the house where the other ones were laughing and smiling at each other's. She definitely loved Tree Hill.