Skylar wakes up to the sound of her mom singing to Lucas as she tucks him into the bed, she winces as she sits up right in the chair watching her mom take care of her brother.
"Open your eyes Lucas. Come on, honey." She says as she runs her fingers through his hair.
"Mom?" Skylar says quietly as to not startle her "You okay?"
"Yeah honey I'm fine." Karen says giving her daughter a small smile before turning back to her son. Her eyebrows scrunch together when she sees something, lifting up Lucas's sleeve to reveal his tattoo. "Is there anything that didn't change while I was gone?" she asks, Skylar shrugs.
Karen and Skylar both look towards the door when they hear knocking to see an old man standing there wearing a Ravens jacket.
"How's he doing?" he asks as he walks into the room
"The same." Karen says before turning towards her daughter "Skylar this is Whitey. He's Lucas's basketball coach."
"Hi." Skylar says with a small awkward wave, Whitey nods. Sensing that they need to talk Skylar makes an excuse about going to get something to eat before standing up and walking out of the room.
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Karen and Skylar are sitting on either side of Lucas, Skylar sitting sideways in a chair with her legs hanging over the side while reading Julius Caesar and Karen reading the sports section of the newspaper out loud to Lucas.
"You a big basketball fan?" Brooke asks as she walks into the room carrying a sign, both Karen and Skylar look up from their readings
"Its important to Lucas, So I like to try and keep up." Karen says
"Yeah I know what you mean." Brooke says as she takes down one of the hospital pictures and replaces It with her sign. "I'm suffering through Salinger for him. Would it kill a guy to read a little Jackie Collins?" she says making Skylar chuckle.
"Did you make that?" Karen asks as she walks over, Skylar sits up more in her chair so she can see the sign better.
"Yeah." Brooke says as she hangs it up "I figured it'd be nice for Lucas to have when he wakes up." She says as she steps back, Skylar stands up and walks over to stand by her mother, looking over the sign. It says 'Get Well Soon' on it at the top with a variety of pictures of Lucas and her all over.
"That's s a bear creek game. And um those are coasters from the place where I kicked his butt playing pool." Brooke says pointing out different pictures, Skylar chuckles
"He always did suck at pool." she says making Brooke let out a small smile
"Nothing from the tattoo parlor." Karen says, Brooke's smile drops and Skylar has to bite the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing.
"Okay, that's totally on me. He's so serious all the time." Brooke says "I thought a tattoo might lighten him up."
"And you couldn't take him to a comedy?" Karen asks, Skylar snorts struggling to not laugh causing her to get a glare from her mother.
"So you're not a big tattoo fan?" Brooke says
"Not on my son, no."
"I'm sorry…honestly." Brooke says "I think I could probably set myself on fire, and my mom wouldn't notice, so its kind of hard for me to remember that some moms would."
Skylar stares at Brooke and gives her a small smile, knowing that there was a whole different side of Brooke Davis besides the popular girl in school.