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One Tree Hill

Season Four

Summary: Nathan and Haley are now married, and on their way to having a baby. But what if a something tries to get in between their happily ever after? Lucas and Brooke are happier than ever, but something always ruins that doesn't it? Peyton's brother is now in town and Jake and her are no long together, what happens when Jake starts to have feelings for someone he knows he shouldn't? What happens when Peyton starts to develop feelings for somebody she shouldn't? Someone other than Haley is pregnant, but who? Brooke, Rachel, or Peyton? Brooke is having some issues with the future, what will become of her and Lucas. What will she do with her life? Will her and Lucas really stay together? Will her mother finally come around? Drama never seems to end in Tree Hill...

Hey everyone! So lately i've been getting guests reviews who aren't very nice... surprise surprise. Well good thing I really don't care what they say. :p it would be completely different if they had an account and were a LOYAL reviewer but they're not. So to the one who said my spelling is SO horrible... well usually i update when i'm working on about 2-3 hours of sleep, know that slowly but surely i'm trying to go through all the chapters and fix them. SECOND Guest Reviewer saying that it's harsh to kill the baby off in that way and if i'm going to kill puppies next? Ummm, obviously you weren't thinking logically and I would NEVER wish death upon a baby but this is a fictional story. and if you actually bothered reading some of the chapters before the last one you would see that when Peyton was ALMOST raped by psycho Derek I didn't write that, because I couldn't put myself in that place. I've had a miscarriage before. I know what it's like to lose a baby. Not using that as sympathy but news flash this stuff happens in real life. and no I won't kill puppies. if you haven't noticed i haven't even written about any animals yet, but thanks for the great idea! ;D We're going too see Puppy Scott soon! Anyway sorry about the rant... really am. but i hope the rest of you enjoy my story and if anything bothers you PM me or review me under your name and we can talk about what you don't like. Just like some of you have done. SO KEEP ON BEING AWESOME REVIEWERS!
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Chapter Thirty-Seven: Prom Night as Hater High
Chapter Thirty-Eight: You Call it Madness, But I Call it Love
Chapter Thirty-Nine: It Gets the Worst at Night
Chapter Forty: The Runaway Found
Chapter Forty-One: Ashes of Dreams You Let Die
Chapter Forty-Two: The Birth and Death of the Day

Chapter Forty-Three: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

Brooke was laying down in her room of her apartment, feeling more alone with everything. She had her two pictures she had of Allen she and Lucas had taken and his sonogram pictures next to her. She was laying on her side in her pajamas slowly going over his tiny frame in his incubator. She couldn't quite believe she lost her baby.

She lost her baby. And nobody could even begin to understand how she felt.

Somebody knocked on her door and Brooke sighed and looked to her bedroom door. She gave the smallest smile, but it was the first time she had smiled in a long time.

"Hey, Brooke." Mouth said. "How are you doing?"

Brooke gave a laugh and shrugged. "I just lost my baby, how do you think I feel?"

Mouth nodded. "Yeah, okay. Stupid question." He said and began to walk toward her bed. "Can I sit?"

She shrugged. "Well, if you're planning to stay you might as well."

Mouth grinned slightly and sat down, the side Brooke was facing, and looked down at what she was looking at. "This what you've been doing since last week? You haven't been in school."

Brooke shrugged. "I haven't felt like seeing people. I wouldn't be able to stand all those people looking at me in pity when they don't know me."

"Well you have to come tomorrow." Mouth said and looked at Brooke in disbelief when he saw her wary and tired expression. "No, Brooke, c'mon! Everybody wants you there and Haley is giving her speech and I know for a fact Peyton will be thinking of ways to try and escape and Luke..." Mouth trailed off and let out a short sigh. "He misses you."

Brooke let out a dry laugh. "Yeah they care so much." Brooke said nodding. "That's why I haven't heard from anyone but Peyton and all's she's done is sent me one lousy text."

Mouth frowned slightly. "Brooke, I'm sorry about all of that. I am. But you didn't really give anybody the chance to help you. I mean, you didn't even tell us who attacked you." He said quietly while now looking at the floor.

Brooke narrowed her eyes at him. "You remember that web cam website, Watch You Watch Me, Peyton used to go on?"

Mouth nodded. "Yeah then that psycho found her and pretended to be her brother and tried to rape her."

Brooke just stared at him. Letting him come to his own conclusions about it.

"Brooke..." He trailed off, and looked at her sadly. "It was him?"

Brooke nodded. "Yep." She said dejectedly. "He was the man truly responsible for killing my baby. And I lost everything because of him and you know what truly sucks? Is that nobody even found him. He left with nothing to worry about. He's not going to suffer over my loss."

Mouth stared at her and rubbed her leg. "Brooke, I had no idea."

Brooke shrugged. "How were you supposed to know? You couldn't have possibly guessed that he was the one behind it. As far as all we knew was he left after attacking Peyton."

Mouth shook his head though. "No, if I had just came sooner, I could have stopped it."

Brooke looked at him with a small frown. "Mouth, I'm grateful for when you found me." Brooke admitted. "You saved me. You did. Even though my baby might have died from the attack by you saving me when you did you gave my baby a chance at life. And I will always be grateful for that."

Mouth smiled slightly and nodded. "You don't have to be. I just feel like I could have done more."

"Don't." Brooke said in a hard voice. "Don't think that way. I have and it's gotten me nowhere. Besides Allen didn't die from being premature only. He had HCM and he was crying and twisting to hard when they were trying to set him up to his feeding tube again after he tore it out. His heart was already strained and put under all that pressure..." Brooke trailed off and wiped a tear that fell.

Mouth took Brooke's hand in his and kissed it. "I'm sorry Brooke."

Brooke nodded. "Me too."

Lucas was sitting in his mom's café while she was filling out orders. Deb should have been there but she was going to the hospital everyday, trying to find out when Dan would wake up and, as she put it, put his sorry ass behind bars.

Karen worried about him, and he knew it. He just didn't know how to reassure her he was okay. How could he be? His fiancé-was she even that anymore?-wouldn't speak to him. He lost his baby, and it was his fault. How was he supposed to deal with that guilt? Because of his stupid hero complex, to be there for everybody except the person who mattered most to him, he lost something irreplaceable.

"Are you excited to graduate?" Karen asked leaning on counter slightly once she came back. "I was talking to Haley the other day. She seems nervous about her speech."

Lucas shrugged. "Yeah." He said and that was it.

Karen sighed and took his hand. "I've also talked to Brooke." She told him and watched as he jerked his head up from his coffee.

"What did she say? Is she okay?" Lucas asked hurriedly. As far as he knew, nobody has seen Brooke or talked to her. Peyton sent her a text that went unanswered.

Karen shrugged. "She's better. Not as angry anymore. She's just upset now, very sad. She's thinking about not going to graduation, but I'm trying to talk her into it." She assured him.

"That's good." Lucas said while he nodded his head. "She was so excited about graduation. She said it would be a big 'screw you' to everyone whoever doubted her."

Karen smiled. "I think you should go see her." Karen said. "If I was in her position, God forbid, but I'd want Keith with me. No matter how much I would say I didn't."

Lucas sighed. "I'm kinda scared she'll rip my head off. And she'll have every reason to."

Karen looked at Lucas and gently ran her hand through his hair. "Lucas, you can't do this alone. You're both hurting and you both need to heal each other."

Haley was sitting in her bedroom, rubbing her ever-growing stomach while a blank notebook and a pen sitting in front of her. But she couldn't even begin to try and think about what to write for her speech. All's she could think about was Brooke and what she said.

Nathan knocked on the door and Haley jumped slightly in surprise but gave him a smile as he went into their bedroom. "You okay? You weren't about to have this creative burst and I totally ruined it, right?"

Haley shook her head. "No, I wish I could get a creative burst though. Make this whole thing a lot easier. It's just writing this seems so irrelevant, with everything that's happened."

"Hales." Nathan said and sighed. He walked toward the bed and sat next to her.

Haley shrugged and looked at him. "What? It is. You can't tell me that somewhere in the back of your mind you partly feel responsible."

Nathan looked at her and then closed his eyes and hung his head.

"That's what I thought. It does seem stupid that do to my stubbornness Brooke lost her baby. And I was stupid enough to be mad at you for sleeping with Rachel when we weren't together. You left with her and Lucas thought he should make sure I was okay instead of staying with Brooke." Haley shook her head. "I shouldn't have made such a big deal of it."

Nathan looked up at her and gently rubbed her stomach. "It's not your fault. It was a terrible thing that happened and I wish it never did, but it's nobody's fault. Especially not yours'."

"Then why do I feel this horrible?" Haley asked him.

"Because you're pregnant and you have all these emotions you're feeling at once and I'm not pregnant so I don't understand half of what you're feeling." Nathan said and brushed part of her hair back that escaped her ponytail. "Just stop, please. It can't be good for you, or the baby."

Haley sighed. "I know. It's just hard not to think about."

Peyton was sitting in her room slowly folding her clothes and putting them in a suitcase. In two weeks Chris and her were planning on going to L.A. but she had no idea if she would be able to go. How could she leave Brooke?

"You almost done?" Chris asked walking into her room and made his way to her bed.

Peyton shrugged. "Not really. I still have to put all of my records and paintings away. Not to mention the rest of my clothes."

"Better get moving on that." Chris chided and smiled at her. "Two weeks goes by way to fast."

Peyton nodded. "Yeah."

Chris frowned and walked over to where she sat on the floor near her closet. "You okay?" He asked sitting down next to her. "You're kinda quiet."

Peyton shrugged. "On a scale of one to ten how mad would you be if I didn't go to L.A. with you?"

"Why wouldn't you come with me?" Chris asked her and then a look of realization came over his face. "Brooke."

Peyton nodded. "I just can't leave knowing my best friend isn't in a good place. I mean, she just lost her baby. I can't leave her."

"Peyton, I know she's your best friend but you can't let her make decisions about your life." Chris said gently.

Peyton scoffed. "She's not. I haven't even talked to her."

Chris leaned forward and kissed her forehead. "Just don't make any decisions right now. We still got two weeks. And I'm hoping you'll be on that flight with me." He told her and then stood up. "But, right now I gotta go to the store. Stop by at around one for lunch?"

Peyton nodded. "Yeah sure, I'll pick up some burgers and we can eat there."

Chris smiled. "Alright then." He said and winked at her on his way out.

Lucas found himself standing outside of Brooke's apartment more nervous then he thought he would be. He raised his hand to let himself in but then stopped. He didn't know if he was allowed to just walk in anymore. So he knocked.

He waited a few minutes before the door opened revealing Mouth.

"Oh hey, Luke." Mouth said surprised.

"Hey." Lucas said equally surprised. "What are you doing here?"

Mouth shrugged and stepped outside and shut the door. "Just wanted to check on Brooke. You know, make sure she's okay."

Lucas nodded. "Yeah. I never had the chance to thank you. For helping Brooke out."

"You don't have to thank me for that." Mouth told him softly. "Brooke doesn't either."

Lucas nodded but pulled him into a hug. "Just, thanks Mouth."

Mouth smiled and patted his back and released him. "If it helps, your welcome. But I gotta go. Bevin's having a Jake crisis and what not."

Lucas nodded. "Yeah, good luck with that."

"You too." He said indicating with his head toward Brookes' apartment.

Lucas nodded and watched as Mouth walked away and Lucas blew out a breath. Lucas opened the door and shut it behind him quietly. He took the very familiar steps to her bedroom and looked in the open door, where he saw Brooke laying.

She was laid on her back above the covers and stared at the ceiling. If she knew he was there she didn't give anything to indicate she was willing to start a conversation with him.

"Hey, Pretty Girl." Lucas said quietly and walked inside her room.

Brooke tilted her head and a small smile came to her face. "Hey, I wasn't expecting to see you. Like at all, anytime soon. Not after how I freaked out on you."

Lucas shook his head. "Brooke, I'm not mad at you. Nobody is."

"You guys have every right to be. Especially you. Lucas I'm sorry." Brooke told him and her voice cracked slightly at the end as tears pooled in her eyes. "I'm so sorry."

Lucas frowned slightly and carefully made his way toward the bed and climbed on top of it, laying down next to her. "Hey, don't be sorry."

Brooke shook her head and when his hand came in contact with hers' clutched it tightly in her own and pulled it to her chest. "I am. How can I not be? I was cruel and it wasn't fair of me to yell at you like that. You're hurting to."

Lucas kissed her hand softly and looked at her. "Brooke. It's okay. I'm not mad at you, at all."

Brooke let out a shaky sigh but didn't say anything else on the matter.

"So what have you been doing while you've been hidden away from everyone?" He asked her while playing with her hair.

Brooke laughed slightly. "Nothing, absolutely nothing."

"Really?" Lucas asked amused. "Nothing?"

Brooke shrugged. "Yeah, nothing. I just looked at pictures."

Lucas looked confused so Brooke reached into her night stand drawer and brought out a small brown box. "This has all of Allen's stuff." Brooke told him and handed it to him.

Lucas smiled slightly. "This is what you've been doing?" He asked taking out the pictures and looking at the one by one.

"More or less." She said and shrugged. "The farthest I've gone from my bed is in my kitchen. And that's only to get my coffee. I went to Karen's like three days ago while you guys were all at school."

"Yeah my mom told me she saw you. What's this I hear about you not going to graduation?" Lucas asked looking up from the pictures and at her. "I want you there."

Brooke sighed. "Luke, I'm just not up to it."

"But you've been looking forward to this for as long as I've known you." Lucas said and lightly touched her cheek. "Haley would want you there."

"Have you talked to her?" Brooke asked him quietly, and he nodded. "How is she?"

"She's fine and so is Nathan and the baby. She's just worried about you. We all are." Lucas said and smiled slightly.

"Well, I'm fine." Brooke said smiling slightly.

Lucas frowned a bit though. "You still never told me who hurt you."

Brook looked down at her lap and shook her head. "It doesn't matter they left and I don't think that, that person is coming back anytime soon."

"Brooke, I can't help you if you don't tell me what I need to know." Lucas said with a pleading voice. "I want to help you."

Brooke looked at him. "You want to help me?" She questioned.

"Of course I do."

"Then just hold me and tell me everything is going to be okay. And we are going to get married and be happier then we ever were when we do." Brooke said and smiled when pulled her to his chest after closing the box and putting it down.

"I love you so much, Brooke, and everything is gonna be okay. Sooner or later things are going to get better." Lucas promised her and kissed her head.

"I love you too."

Peyton was sitting in her comet with Chris driving toward Tree Hill High School. It was kind of strange she almost felt sad, this was probably going to be the last time she would be parking in this exact spot, her spot.

"You ready to get this over with?" Chris asked and smiled at her.

Peyton nodded and got out of the car. She walked over to his side where he got out and smiled. "I can't believe we're graduating."

Chris laughed and threw his arm around her shoulder and kissed her head. "Yeah who would have thought? We actually did it."

Peyton laughed a bit and nodded. "I hope Brooke's here." She said.

"Well Lucas did text you saying he was going to get her to come and not to worry about it." Chris told her. "Just let him work his magic, she'll be here I know it. Brooke Davis wouldn't miss this."

Nathan walked into the gym looking for Haley among the various other students. He finally found her though at the head of the line at the table helping everybody find their correct gown.

"Hey there." Nathan said as he walked over and put his hand on her lower back.

Haley turned around with a smile and stretched slightly to kiss him. "Hey, what are you doing in here? I thought you were spending some more time with Deb." Haley said once she pulled back.

Nathan shrugged. "I got bored. I can only take so much of my mother. Cooper was with her and so was Rachel and I can't deal with her being all over my uncle in front of me."

Haley grimaced. "I can't deal with her being in front of me at all."

Nathan grinned down at her. "Makes two of us. Anyway wanna help me out here." He said indicating to the gowns on the rack.

"What? No, you have to go to the back of the line." Haley said and pointed to the back of the line.

Nathan frowned. "What? Hales, In case you forgot I'm your husband. I am exempt from those types of rules when it comes to things my wife is working on. Believe me, everybody knows this."

Haley rolled her eyes. "Alright, c'mon."

"Hey how's your speech coming? You never told me if you finished or not." Nathan said as he took the gown she gave him.

Haley shrugged and gave a small nod. "It's done."

"That's it?" Nathan asked with raised brows. "Not gonna even give me a hint?"

Haley shook her head. "Nope, you get to be surprised just like everybody else. Now don't come back in here unless you see Brooke."

Cooper was standing with Rachel by himself while Deb excused herself to go into the gym to go see Haley.

"Shouldn't you be in there?" Cooper asked, with a slight frown on his face.

Rachel shrugged. "I guess, but that line is way too long and I'm kind of waiting for Haley to come out before I go in."

Cooper chuckled slightly. "Just because Haley has been hormonal lately doesn't mean she'll go and attack you because she doesn't really like you."

Rachel gave a tight smile, Cooper still didn't know that she and Nathan had slept together and she was going to keep it that way. "Yeah, well you can never be too sure. Besides, I don't want to ruin graduation for everybody."

Cooper grinned at her and kissed her head. "Awe, Rache, you really are a sweetheart."

Rachel smirked and kissed him. "Yeah, but keep that to yourself."

Lucas walked with Brooke to the school from his house. She spent the night and her and Karen made dinner while Keith and Lucas watched the game in the living. It was if nothing had happened and like it was old times, and it was nice.

"Are you nervous?" Brooke asked while subtly moving closer to him as they walked.

Lucas grinned down at her and shrugged. "I'm nervous about what's going to come after this."

"No." Brooke whined and looked up at him. "You're not supposed to be, you're supposed to have all the answers. You're supposed to reassure me everything is going to be okay."

Lucas kissed her forehead, as the school came into view. "Pretty Girl, just because I'm nervous doesn't mean that I can't tell you everything is going to be okay. Because it is, after this tomorrow is a brand-new day and we can start everything together."

"I don't think I wanna go to California with Peyton." Brooke said and sighed. "I really don't want to leave you for that long and I don't think me and Chris can live that close together. I can't stand the guy."

Lucas smiled slightly. "I would go with you. Publishers are everywhere."

"I know, I just don't wanna go though." Brooke said shrugging.

"Well, if you don't wanna go, I'm not going to force you or make you go." Lucas said. "I'm kinda glad. I think my mother would be mad if we left and went that far away."

Brooke nodded. "Let's not test that theory."She said as someone from behind suddenly wrapped their arms around and scooped her into a hug.

"Brooke! You're back!" Nathan said picking her up and hugging her.

Brooke giggled slightly when he put her down. "I know, I am back." She said and gave him a proper hug. "I've missed you guys. Where's Haley?"

"In the gym." Nathan said and started walking with them toward it. "So how are you feeling?" Nathan asked carefully, not wanting to send her into a full on Brooke-attack.

"I'm better." Brooke nodded. "How's Haley doing?"

Nathan smiled. "She's great. I think she's nervous about giving her speech though."

Brooke shrugged. "It's freaky being up there. By the way, you look incredibly sexy in that robe of your's." She said while giving him a once-over.

Nathan smiled. "That's what I thought too."

Brooke walked into the gym and found Haley leaning over some papers on the table in front of her and placed her hand on the table. "Got two more gowns in there?" Brooke asked.

Haley immediately looked up and smiled. "Brooke, you're here." Haley said surprised and went across the table and hugged her as tight as her stomach would allow.

"So I've been told." Brooke said amused but hugged her back. "Hales, I'm sorry about what I said..." Brooke trailed off.

Haley pulled back and shook her head. "Forget about it. Emotional day. Anyway, let's get you and Lucas your gowns." She said looking over Brooke's shoulder to where Lucas came into the gym.

"So how's your speech?" Brooke asked as Haley flipped through different gowns on the racks.

Haley shrugged. "It's done. But it took forever for me to finally get. I had no idea how hard it would actually be."

"Well, maybe that's why you're valedictorian. Because you're super smart and you're able to come up with something amazing." Brooke said as Lucas made his way to where they were. "What took you so long?" She asked once he was next to her.

"My mom and Keith just drove in. I told them where Deb and Cooper were so they could sit by them." Lucas said. "Oh and I ran into Peyton she's looking for you."

Brooke smiled. "Okay, just let Haley find my gown and I'll go find her."

"Here you go." Haley said handing Brooke her gown. "I'll see you out there." Haley said and waved slightly as Brooke walked out. "How is she really?" Haley asked handing Lucas his gown.

Lucas nodded. "She's better, a lot better. She feels horrible about what she said to us. I tried telling her it's okay that nobody was mad at her but Brooke is Brooke..."

"Yeah, I get it." Haley said. "So I think I know a way for you to get her feeling even better."

Peyton was sitting in the chair that her in it and jumped slightly when two hands covered her eyes. "Guess who?" A raspy voice whispered.

Peyton turned around and smiled. "Brooke. I'm so glad Lucas was right." She said as Brooke moved a chair slightly so she could fit between them and sat down in the chair next to Peyton.

"Why? He promise I'd be here?" Brooke asked.

Peyton nodded. "Yep. Convinced me if I let him take care of you and talk to you he'd get you too come here."

Brooke smiled. "Yeah he got me to come. So I heard you were looking for me?"

"I wanted to know when you wanted me to come over to help you pack." Peyton said and rolled her eyes. "Because Chris is getting antsy because we're leaving in two weeks."

Brooke looked at Peyton sadly. "Peyton..."

"You're not coming, are you?" Peyton asked her and nodded. "I kinda thought that, but I didn't really know."

"I'm sorry." Brooke said. "I just, I have had so much happen to me. And I know I should be thinking about Clothes over Bros but right now I really need to work on me."

Peyton put her arm around Brooke. "It's okay. I figure if we don't go and take a year off before anything major I can really get a feel for owning a record label."

"Wait, what?" Brooke asked surprised.

Peyton looked at Brooke with an amused smile on her face. "You really don't think I'm going to go to L.A. without you, right?"

"No, Peyton you should go." Brooke said and smiled. "Just because I'm not doesn't mean you won't have a great experience. Just think now when you and Chris have wild monkey sex you can be as loud and as expressive as you want without me hearing it."

Peyton laughed. "Actually we haven't really gotten that far yet."

"Wait, what?" Brooke asked shocked. "I'm honestly surprised, the way he looks at you. God, it looks like he can't wait to get you into the first place he's alone with you to have his naughty way with you."

"Well, we haven't." Peyton said and shrugged. "There just hasn't been a right time."

Brooke smiled and looked at Peyton. "Well, I'm sure that time will come soon." She said and looked up as the teachers and principal began to gather all the students."

"We should get going." Peyton said pointing. "Don't want to ruin our big day."

Haley calmed her breathing and the butterflies in her stomach as she made her way onto a stage with a smile. "Thank you Principal Turner." Haley said smiling slightly at the principal. "Distinguished guests, parents and this years graduation class: My best friend reminded me of a quote by William Shakespeare that seems appropriate… "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads onto fortune. But omitted, and the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take then current when it serves - or lose the ventures before us." I think what the quote means, is that life is short, and opportunities are rare. And we have to be vigilante in protecting them, and not only the opportunity so succeed, but the opportunity to laugh, to see the enchantment in the world, and to live. Because life doesn't owe us anything, as a matter of fact, I think that we owe something to the world. Now is the time for us to shine. A time when our dreams our in reach, and possibilities vast. Now is the time for all of us, to become the people we've always dreamed of being. This is your world, you're here. You matter. The world is waiting…"

Brooke smiled and started clapping while standing up with everybody. She laughed slightly when she heard Nathan yell, "That's my wife!"

Soon after that they were all getting their diplomas, Brooke got hers and she was in a euphoric state. There were so many things she was feeling but she was just smiling, it was like she couldn't show any other expression on her face.

Pretty soon though she was standing at the exit of the building waiting to see Lucas, who was probably with Haley, Nathan, and Peyton. Just her luck she's the one who has the last name beginning in the front of the alphabet. There was a tap on her shoulder and she turned around with a frown, and quickly rolled her eyes when she saw who it was.

"What do you want?" Brooke asked in a tired voice.

Chris shook his head. "Nothing. I just wanted to say I'm sorry, for everything."

Brooke looked at him strangely. "Thanks." She said skeptically.

"Yeah, and I wanted to ask you about L.A. Are you coming or not?" Chris asked, in a curious tone, he didn't ask it in a mean tone, he simply wanted to know.

Brooke slowly shook her head. "I just need to worry about me and Lucas right now. I can't do that in L.A. if I'm working on my company."

Chris nodded. "I get that. But can you not let your decision sway Peyton's? Since we've been talking about this she's been excited to go. I know you not going is going to have some affect on her."

"Yeah, I know. I told her that she should go without me." Brooke told him and crossed her arms. "I really think she's going to go with you anyway so you don't need to worry."

Chris smiled slightly. "Despite everything, I do think you're a good person Brooke. And since I'm with Peyton I don't think we should hate each other, or at least we should get along."

Brooke nodded. "Yeah." Brooke said with a grin. "We always said we would get along with each others boyfriends no matter how much we don't like them. So, I think we can just have a fresh start."

Chris stuck out his hand and nodded. "Deal."

Brooke shook his hand. "Deal, so who's going to be taking my bedroom. I mean, we already put a deposit down on the apartment."

"Well I'm assuming you'll visit. You and Lucas can have that room."

Brooke grinned. "I like that idea." She said and looked to her right and smiled when she finally saw the trio coming. "Finally." She groaned.

Lucas smiled at Brooke and gently picked her up in a hug. "We did it, huh?" He whispered in her ear and kissed her head.

Brooke nodded excitedly. "Yes, and I can't wait to celebrate." She said in a husky tone and smirked up at him.

Lucas frowned slightly though. "No, Brooke. Doctor said none of that for another five weeks." Lucas said while idly rubbing her stomach gently. "Besides I have a surprise later on for you."

"Really?" Brooke asked ecstatically. "What is it?"

"Well, it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you. Now c'mon let's go to the river court, that's where we're meeting up." Lucas said taking Brooke's hand in his and walked out of the building.

Brooke looked around. "Oh, wow. They all left already? I didn't even get to see Haley again."

Lucas smiled down at her. "Her back was hurting so she wanted to go and Peyton was worried so she brought Chris with her."

"And you didn't tell me?" Brooke asked hurt. "Just because that happened doesn't mean I don't care about Haley."

Lucas looked down at her, now completely serious. "Brooke, nobody said you didn't. I just wanted some time alone with my fiancé. Is that so wrong?"

Brooke sighed. "Well, no." She admitted. "But still." Brooke pressed on as they continued to leisurely walk to the river court. "I would like to know that next time."

"I promise." Lucas told her and tightened his hold on her hand. "So I was thinking, your apartment."

Brooke groaned. "I know. I have to call my landlord and talk to him about not putting it up for rent and that I'm staying. I'll even pay him three months in advance." She told him as the river court came into view. "I thought you said they were here?" She asked confused.

"Yeah they're on the beach though." Lucas explained leading her there. "So what if I told you not to call your landlord."

Brooke looked up at him thoroughly confused. "Why wouldn't I call him? Unless, you're hinting that you want me to leave?"

Lucas shook his head. "No, no. It's just what if I wanted to live with you?"

Brooke smiled. "Really?"

Lucas looked down at her, with his blue eyes sparkling down at her. "Yeah." He said as they came onto the beach and he turned her toward a white beach house sitting on the sand.

Brooke stared at it and then looked at him with surprise her mouth slightly open. "You got us a house?" She asked in disbelief.

Lucas grinned down at her. "More like Cooper got it for Haley and Nathan and they don't wanna living on the beach, besides they're going out hunting anyway."

Brooke smiled and squealed. "Oh my God!" She yelled running toward the house.

Lucas chuckled and followed her into the house. He walked up the steps and opened up the screen door that led to the porch. The porch was nice and spacious, having a love-seat in it. He walked past it and opened up the newly white painted door and left it open, letting a breeze come in.

He heard talking and laughter coming from the living room and he walked into the living room, which was down the hall from the door, and he found Brooke hugging Haley tightly while talking to Nathan over her shoulder.

"This house is amazing, Luke." Peyton said standing by him and gave him a cup of coffee. "It's beautiful."

Lucas nodded. "Yeah, I know. Brooke was actually thinking about calling her landlord to see if he wouldn't put her apartment up."

"I bet you're glad she didn't call yet, huh?" She asked smiling. "I just can't believe that I'm going to L.A. without my best friend." Peyton said and sighed. "We've been talking about this forever."

"I know you have." Lucas said. "But I really think this is what Brooke needs. She needs to finish healing."

Peyton nodded. "I know it's best for her. It's just weird. I've never gone more than a week without seeing her."

Lucas laughed. "It's not life she won't visit. Knowing her she's going to be dragging me there with you too many times."

"Is it selfish of me to want that?" Peyton asked.

Lucas shook his head. "Not at all. Especially because it's going to be weird without you here, not being able to walk a couple of streets down to your house to listen to some music."

Peyton sighed and hugged him. "I'm gonna miss you, Lucas Scott."

"I'm gonna miss you too, Peyton Sawyer." Lucas said hugging her back before releasing her. "Although I think Chris is missing you more at the moment."

Peyton nodded. "Probably." She agreed and walked over to where he sat on the couch and immediately pulled her into his lap and squeezed her tight.

Skills then walked in with Bevin, Jake, Mouth, Rachel, and Cooper behind him and shouted. "Now there's a party here." He said excited.

Brooke pulled Cooper off to this side and grinned up at him. "Thank you so much for letting us live here."

Cooper shrugged and smiled down at her. "No problem, I already had this property for a while, whenever I came here and didn't want to stay and Deb's or at a hotel I needed somewhere to stay."

"Still, you could have told Haley and Nathan no but you didn't. And it means a lot to me. And Lucas."

Cooper pulled her in for a hug. "It's no problem at all."

Rachel pulled Brooke out of the hug and looped her arms with her. "So whore, what's up?"

"Well, I was just thanking your amazing boyfriend for letting us live in this house he bought." Brooke said grinning.

Rachel shrugged. "Yeah, he can be too nice. Doesn't know any better by letting some whore live in the house he just bought?"

"Well, too bad he doesn't know not to put his dick into something that's been used one too many times." Brooke shot back with raised brows.

"Look who's talking." Rachel said and shook her head. "Seriously though, there's two bedrooms upstairs. The bedding of the guests' bedroom should be a dark blue, since I like that color the best."

Brooke looked at her in surprise. "I thought you were going to New York?" She asked confused.

Rachel nodded. "Yeah, but chances are he's gonna get on my nerves a lot and I can't exactly trash our place since I live there to." She said while staring at Cooper with a smile.

Cooper rolled his eyes. "Rache..."

Rachel laughed slightly. "Yeah, so when you moving in?"

Brooke shrugged. "I guess I'll start packing up tomorrow. Maybe we'll be in here by the end of the week." She estimated. "I can't wait to be able to lie out on the beach and tan."

"Me either. And what's great is you can go naked and nobody will see you and you won't get those trashy tan lines." Rachel said while pulling the sleeve of Brooke's tee shirt and nodding. "Yeah like those."

Brooke slapped her hand away. "Please..."

Later everybody was standing outside on the beach with a small fire going and they stood around it. Jake was standing near Bevin sipping at his drink, Skills was near Rachel occasionally looking like he had to stretch to try and 'make a move on her' but Cooper would slap him away. Brooke and Mouth were standing next to each other although Lucas had his arm around her and Haley was standing near Peyton while Nathan seemed to be arguing with Chris the importance of basketball when Haley got everybody's attention.

"Okay, everybody, listen up!" She yelled so everybody would be quiet. "Let's make a promise right now, that no mater where we are in four years we'll come back here. Just drop anything we have to do and four years from today we'll all come back here and just be together again."

"That's actually a good idea." Peyton said nodding. "Who knows where life is gonna take us."

Brooke shook her head. "I don't want us to drift apart if we can help it."

Lucas kissed the side of her head and closed his eyes breathing in his scent. Things were already changing, whether they liked it or not.

And he wasn't so sure if everybody was ready for what could be coming.

So, I'm sorry for the little rant and delay.. Although I hope this freakishly long chapter made up for the wait and rant(: SO, I am NOT ignoring Brooke's attack or Dan's alleged crime but I figured great way to end! So since I've ended season 4 I'll start season 5 soon... but I don't even have the first chapter started so I may be late again next week... As for now ignore any errors you see EVENTUALLY I will get to fixing the chapters, even putting better space between them so you can tell the scenes apart better.. ANYWAY REVIEW AND HAVE A LOVELY WEEK!(: