I DON'T OWN ANYTHING SO DON'T SUE ME I'M JUST TELLING EVERYBODY HOW THIS SHOW SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED SINCE SEASON 3 & BEYOND

One Tree Hill

My Version of Season 3... But when Brooke comes back she doesn't just 'date' Lucas she wants to just be friends with him... Why? Because during the summer Peyton talked to her telling her she had major feelings for Lucas. So Brooke immediately put her feelings aside so Peyton and Lucas could be together. But Peyton has been telling Brooke that she knows Lucas has feelings for her so that way Brooke wouldn't think that Lucas wanted to be with her anymore. Lucas has tried contacting Brooke but can't get through, while busy helping Peyton with finding her birth mother. Haley James-Scott is back in town and Chris Keller has followed her! Brooke and Haley are now living together and Nathan is having a hard time adjusting to having his wife back. Meanwhile a certain face that everybody thought was gone shows back up again...

Hey everyone! So I think this is definitely one of my favorite chapters I have ever wrote, probably because this was my favorite episode. So many Brucas moments it was amazing! Anyway, We are totally coming to a wrap in season three and i'm real excited to do season four. Just one thing, I've never re-watched season four! Once was more than enough for me so i'm basically going to read each episodes' summary and then go off on that route(: THANKS FOR REVIEWING, FOLLOWING, ALERTING, AND FAVORITING! YOU GUYS ARE SPECTACULAR! ANYWAY HAPPY READING!
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Chapter Eighteen: When it Isn't Like it Should Be

Brooke was trying to pack with her rocking boot cast on and was officially about to give up when Lucas came knocking on her bedroom door.

"Need help?" Lucas asked as he walked towards his beautiful girlfriend and kissed her cheek.

Brooke looked at him and frowned. "You have no idea, at this point I don't even want to go Rachel's cabin."

Lucas chuckled and folded her jeans and put them into her suitcase for her, and went to her dresser and picked out his favorite pajamas that she had.

Brooke watched as he folded everything for her and put it in her bag and she smiled. "Thanks, Luke. Oh so how is Keith doing back home?" She asked completely forgetting that Keith went back home yesterday.

Lucas smiled and nodded. "He's doing good, hates that his arm is in a sling but he's good. He can't remember who shot him though, he knows that it wasn't Jimmy but that's it."

Brooke sighed and shook her head and reached for his hand as he began zipping her bag. "At least he's okay."

Lucas nodded and picked up her bag and carried it to her living room. Brooke followed him, annoyed with the big cast that was on her foot.

"Two more weeks than this comes off." She muttered as she plopped onto the couch.

Lucas laughed a little and joined her putting his arm around her. "Hm, good. I miss my practice without watching you in that short little skirt cheering."

Brooke giggled and kissed him. "I know, just sitting on the bleachers and watching you isn't cutting it for me."

A car horn honked outside and Lucas stood up first and helped Brooke up. Brooke smiled at him and asked, "Are you going to be a great boyfriend and carry your girlfriend's bags to the car?"

Lucas smiled and kissed her cheek as he opened her door. "Of course, how bad would I look if I didn't do that?"

"Very." She told him and quickly tried to get over towards Haley.

Peyton and Jake were standing near their car they were going in and watching amused as Skills was trying to get an overly large suitcase into Haley and Nathan's trunk.

Bevin and Rachel pulled up and smiled at them. "Hey, you guys ready?" Rachel asked everyone and laughed a bit at seeing Skills trying to put his suitcase into a very small trunk.

"Skills, what do you have in there? We are only going to be there for two nights." Bevin said shocked.

Skills looked at her and scoffed. "I got my pillows, my cds, my clothes, and shoes."

"Pillows?" Haley asked looking at Nathan.

"Think less rustic." Rachel told them.

Nathan moved the drivers seat so Brooke and Lucas could get in.

"You need help?" Lucas asked watching his girlfriend struggle getting in.

Brooke looked over at him as she was bent down from the waist and pouted. "Please."

Lucas chuckled at her and helped her get in and then plopped himself in next to her. Nathan and Haley got in and Haley and Brooke both started complaining about the cold.

"Turn on the heat." Brooke said practically in Lucas' lap and his arms wrapped around her.

"Yeah, Nathan. Turn it on. What the hell are you waiting for?" Haley snapped at him and pulled her coat tighter around her.

Nathan looked over at his wife and rolled his eyes but put the heat on full blast. "Better sweetie?" He asked rubbing her arm.

Haley nodded. "Much, thanks."

Brooke stayed snuggled into Lucas and looked up at him. "Is this gonna be a long ride?"

Lucas shrugged. "It's about an hour, hour and a half. Why don't you go to sleep?" He asked her kissing her forehead.

Brooke nodded and relaxed against him, letting the beat of his heart put her to sleep.

At the Cabin

Lucas and Brooke were sitting in the room they picked out and were relaxing a bit after what they had just did.

Brooke was rested against Lucas' naked chest and sat up on her elbow and looked down at him.

"So what are you going to do today?" Brooke asked him as she played with his cheek with her other hand.

Lucas shrugged and kept his eyes closed as she continued to play with his cheek. "Probably go out riding ATV's with Nate. Said he had something to tell me."

"Ooh, boy gossip. That's how you know it's good." Brooke told him smiling at him.

Lucas chuckled. "Yeah that'll be that day. Nathan Scott is gossiping like a school girl."

Brooke giggled at him, and kissed him softly. Hoping that this weekend could put the horrors and pain of everything behind them.

Bevin and Skills were outside on the porch with a hot cup of coffee.

"Man, Bev, I don't know why you insist on coming out here so my balls freeze off." He grumbled as he took another sip of his coffee.

Bevin smiled at him and rested her head on his shoulder. "I like fresh air before sex." She told him and giggled at how he tensed up.

"Then, baby, what the hell we still doin out here?" He asked about to get up but her hand on his arm stopped him.

Bevin shook her head. "No, not right now." She told him putting her head back onto his shoulder. "Besides you love basketball, don't you play on the river court in this weather?"

Skills scoffed and shook his head and was silent as he drank his coffee.

Peyton and Jake were cuddling in the hot tub and enjoying the warm water and steam even though it was freezing outside.

"God, I want this hot tub." Peyton moaned as she let the jets and Jake's rubbing hands relax her.

Jake chuckled and kissed her forehead. "Well when we are rich and have our five story mansion we can get three hot tubs like this." He told her smiled at the giggle that came from her.

"And how are we getting rich?" She asked him turning around and straddling him in the hot tub.

Jake smiled and rubbed her thighs underneath the water. "Well, you are going to get rich by producing the best music and your amazing art work and I will be pretty fucking rich with being a pro basketball player and all."

Peyton smiled and kissed his lips softly.

"I could hold you in my arms forever, and it wouldn't be long enough." Jake whispered to her.

Peyton giggled again, loving the feeling he gave her whenever he spoke like that. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Haley was sitting on the couch leaning on Nathan who was watching the television. "You think it was a good idea to come up here?" Haley asked him.

Nathan looked down at her. Well he was going to propose again so hell yes, but it wasn't like he could tell Haley that. "Sure, why? What are you thinking?"

Haley shrugged. "Just because of..." Haley trailed off to a knocking on the door and Rachel ran out of nowhere to answer it.

Cooper was on the other side of the door with a small smile on his face when he saw Rachel. But that smile died when he saw Nathan and Haley on the couch.

"Hey, Uncle Coop." Nathan said unsure.

Rachel grabbed Cooper's hand and ran up to her bedroom. "We'll talk there." She told him as they went up the stairs.

Upstairs

Rachel sat on the bed while an upset Cooper was pacing furiously.

"You invited me here when everybody else was coming?" He asked her. "How stupid could you be?"

Rachel frowned at him. "I don't know why you're freaking out. So a high school student invited you to her cabin this weekend, um, hello your nephew is here. You can be like a chaperone."

Cooper scowled down at her. "Are you ever serious?"

Rachel sighed. "Listen, I'm sorry. I invited you here before everybody else. I think Mouth might have over-heard the conversation. He asked me who I just invited and I thought fast and said Nathan. And then the invitations went out."

Cooper sighed and rubbed his forehead, but Rachel smiled a little and got up. "You like me." She told him, not a question but a statement.

He chuckled. "Yeah, I like a senior in Tree Hill." He said sarcastically.

"Yeah, you do." Rachel said smirking at him. "Me."

Cooper didn't say anything, he just stared at her.

"Listen, Coop, I got four more months until my eighteenth birthday. I'm only a minor for that much longer." Rachel told him smiling a bit and the face he gave her.

Cooper played with her hair and shrugged. "And until then, nobody has to know." He told her like that made up his mind. "And I guess it helps that you're a little cute."

Rachel scoffed and looked up at him. "Rachel Gatina is not cute. She's sexy, gorgeous, amazing, even perfect will do. Not cute."

Cooper chuckled and leaned down and fused their mouths together.

Nathan looked down at his wife who was dozing on his lap, he needed to get her ring. He carefully uncurled her left hand and took it gently off and quickly put it on his fist when she started moving. "I'm gonna go upstairs and take a quick shower."

Nathan nodded and watched as she sat up. "I'm gonna go out with Luke for a bit, so I'll see you when I get back." He told her standing up and kissed her lightly. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Brooke was walking down the steps holding onto Lucas' arm, she really didn't want him to go out. This was supposed the be their time, not him and brother bonding time.

"Lucas." She pouted at him as the approached Nathan. "I'm going to be so lonely here." Brooke told him sadly.

"Pretty Girl, I'm only gonna be gone for like an hour." Lucas tried to tell her. "And then you will have me for the rest of the day." He promised her.

Brooke scoffed. "So, I'm on the back-burner?"

Lucas sighed and his hands framed her face. "Brooke, I will be gone one hour. With Nathan. I got stuff to tell him and he has stuff to tell me. Besides you ditch me for Haley all the time."

Brooke glared at him. "That's different."

Nathan walked up to them and smiled at Brooke. "You know my Uncle Cooper is here. He's in the kitchen with Peyton and Rachel. You should go say hi."

Brooke squealed and clapped her hands. She patted Lucas on his chest and beamed up at him. "Have fun." She told him before running off to the kitchen.

Lucas frowned over at Nathan. "Should I be worried?"

Nathan shrugged. "Don't think so. I'm pretty sure there is something going on with him and Rachel. But come on let's go before Brooke comes back." He told him and they both walked to the door and over to the garage.

Jake was sitting in the kitchen with Skills watching their girlfriends and Brooke, and Rachel fawning over Cooper.

"Man what does that guy have that we don't?" Skills asked a little upset at watching his girlfriend bat her eyes at Cooper.

Jake chuckled a bit and looked over a an angry Skills. "Money, good looks, mansions, and apparently he is so delicious looking." Jake said and that earned a weird look from Skills. "No, that's what Peyton said." Jake quickly defended.

Skills rolled his eyes and then stared at Jake. "Wait you're still with Peyton? Even after all that stuff with Lucas?"

Jake shrugged and nodded. "It was a long time ago. She's gotten over him, I hope. And we've been happy really happy."

Skills stared at him like he grew two heads. "Two weeks ago is a long time ago?" Skills asked him like he was stupid.

Jake squinted at Skills and frowned. "What are you talking about?"

"Man, I'm talking about when Ellie died, Peyton ran over to Lucas' house told him and they were making out or whatever and Haley walked in on them. Then Lucas and Brooke broke up and I guess everybody is okay now." Skills told him and frowned at the look of wonder on Jake's face. "Man, you really didn't have a clue?"

Jake shook his head. "Nobody told me."

Skills nodded and exhaled loudly. "Yeah, that's how it is around here. So many damn secrets, and everybody is hiding them."

Jake nodded and now stared at his blond girlfriend who was eating a cookie that Cooper has just made. Why would she kiss Lucas and not tell him? And how did he not find out about it?

Lucas and Nathan were out in the woods sitting on the now off ATV's. Nathan pulled out Haley's ring from his coat pocket and handed it over to Lucas.

Lucas frowned but took it and looked over at Nathan. "You stole Haley's wedding ring?" Lucas asked and laughed a bit while handing it back.

"I'm proposing to her again. I know she always wanted that dream wedding and I want to give it to her." Nathan said smiling a bit while holding the ring in his hand.

Lucas smiled and nodded. "That's nice, Nate. So when are you going to do it?"

"Was thinking about doing it the last day we were here." Nathan said while shrugging. "You know figure that we can really end this weekend on a good note." Nathan gave the ring back to Lucas and got a confused look. "Listen, if I hold onto it she'll find it."

Lucas looked at him with raised eyebrows. "And when Brooke finds it? She's going to totally freak out." Lucas said although his voice betrayed him that the thought saddened him a bit.

Nathan frowned, he heard it. "What?"

Lucas shrugged and put the ring into his pocket and looked at Nathan. "Before me and Brooke broke up I got a ring, for Brooke. I want to propose to her, Nate."

Nathan's eyes widened a bit. Brooke was his best friend and he didn't want her getting hurt again. "You think that's a good idea?"

Lucas nodded without hesitation. "Yeah, I already know she's the one I want to spend the rest of my life with, it's just that I gotta wait for her to catch up."

"Well you can't really blame her when you're always sneaking around with her best friend, she's got a right to be a little skeptical of everything you do for a while." Nathan told him, still a little bitter to the whole situation.

Lucas nodded and looked down accepting that. "Yeah, well, I will wait for her to realize that. I was actually thinking of doing it when we win that season's last game. I was gonna have her apartment all made up with her favorite flowers and have some candles lit, and then pop the question."

Nathan smiled a bit, just seeing the wistful look on Lucas' face showed him he was serious. "Well, I hope everything goes okay until then."

Lucas nodded and looked back over to the direction of the cabin. "Yeah me too."

Bevin was coming out of the bathroom when Skills cornered her and was glaring a her.

"What?"

Skills narrowed his eyes at her. "How come you can be all over Cooper and you get so pissed off at me whenever I check out another girl."

Bevin rolled her eyes with a smile on her face. "Because, baby, I wouldn't leave you for Cooper. He already has a girlfriend." She told him and kissed his cheek before walking down the stairs.

Haley was freaking out when Brooke saw her.

"Hales? What's going on?" Brooke asked her as Haley kept crawling on the floor and was looking for something.

"My ring." Haley said frantically. "I fell asleep with it on and now it's just off. I noticed when I got out of the shower."

"Did it maybe fall down the drain?" Brooke asked as her eyes widened at the glare she received.

"Don't say that." Haley warned her. "Don't say that. I do not need my ring in the plumbing system."

Haley's head shot up when she heard the familiar hum of the ATV's. "Shit, Nathan is back! Do you think he'll notice?" Haley asked standing up and putting her hands in her pocket.

Brooke looked over at Haley with a doubtful expression but shook her head slightly.

"You're a terrible liar, Brooke." Haley told her as soon as the door opened and Lucas and Nathan walked in.

Brooke skipped over to Lucas and wrapped her arms around her neck and kissed him lightly. "You're back." She told him as if he didn't know.

Lucas nodded and kissed her forehead. "Come on, let's go upstairs for a minute. Got something to tell you."

Brooke nodded and sent Haley a sympathetic look and followed Lucas up the stairs.

Now in their room

Lucas pulled out the ring and watched Brooke's face go from confused to surprised.

"Are you proposing? Because Lucas this is really Nail-y." Brooke said looking at the golden ring in front of her.

"No, no, Brooke this is Haley's ring." Lucas told her watching as a frown now marred her lovely face.

"Why do you have her ring?" Brooke asked confused.

"Because Nathan wants to do a re-proposal give her the big wedding she always wanted." Lucas said loving the dreamy smile that came onto her face.

"Oh, that's so romantic." Brooke said kissed his lips softly.

Lucas smiled and put the hand on with the ring in it on the back of her head and deepened the kiss.

Brooke couldn't help but feel the slight disappointment when Lucas said that it was Haley's ring. Of course she knew that he wouldn't propose with everything that had just happened, but she couldn't help but feel let down that the boy she loved wasn't proposing.

Jake was sitting outside on the porch just thinking. He was just waiting to see is Peyton could tear herself away from whatever she was doing with Lucas to actually look for her boyfriend.

Soon enough Peyton came out in her pajamas and sat down next to him. "Hey, why are you out here? Everybody is going to be eating dinner soon."

Jake nodded and looked over at Peyton. "So how's Luke?" He asked her casually watching as a weird smile covered her face.

Peyton shrugged with a smile. "Um, good. I guess."

"So what was that fight you had with Brooke about?" Jake asked her.

Peyton looked at Jake confused. Why was he asking about all of this stuff? "Oh you know, just girl stuff." She lied, hoping to God they could just drop it. But he was acting strange.

"No, I don't know Peyton. Just tell me." Jake told her watching as a range of emotions played on her face.

Peyton frowned and opened her mouth but Rachel came out onto the deck. "Hey you guys, food's done." She told them before going back inside.

Peyton and Jake stood up and walked into the house without another word spoken.

Everyone was sitting in the sitting room after their dinner. Rachel and Cooper were on one end of the sofa with Peyton and Jake next to them. Bevin and Skills were on the love seat. Lucas and Brooke were sharing a seat in the recliner, and Haley and Nathan had made a seat made of blanket in the corner.

"So guess who I caught Brooke-ing herself in the rooms today? Rachel asked with a smirk towards Brooke.

Brooke glared at Rachel and turned beet red. Everybody started laughing at that and her reaction. "You said you wouldn't tell anybody." Brooke snapped at her.

Rachel shrugged. "Oops."

Bevin smiled. "I Brooke myself all the time." She said nodding and everybody looked at her with hidden smiles on their faces.

Skills looked at her frowning. "Do you know what Brooke-ing means?"

Bevin nodded. "Yeah."

Skills looked incredibly uncomfortable and shifted himself on the couch. "Baby, you keep talking like that, and I'll be Brooke-ing myself."

Brooke's eyes widened and she put her hands up. "Can we please stop calling it that?" She asked fighting back an uncomfortable laugh and leaned back onto Lucas.

Peyton smiled a bit and chuckled. "Yeah call it what it really is, masturbation."

Nathan laughed a bit at that and chuckled. "Yeah see all the guys here don't need to do that."

Haley turned around and looked at him with raised eyebrows. "You keep talking like that and you'll need to pretty soon." She threatened.

Lucas smirked. "See I don't have that problem because Brooke practically jumps me every time we are alone."

Brooke turned her head and glared at him, but didn't argue. Everybody in the room knew it was true.

Everybody had a great time that night, it seemed as if they were best friends there entire life. Even Rachel and Brooke were getting along which had to be a good omen, but nobody was stupid. Anybody who looked close enough could see unresolved problems and tension among them, they were just waiting for the dam to break.