Summary: Single mother with six kids whose ex-husband is her best friend. Yeah, cause that's exactly would sound great on a dating website.
Disclaimer: I only own the kids, but even that isn't enough for me. The title comes from a Carrie Underwood song by the same name.
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Cupid's Got A Shotgun
Chapter Three: And He's Pointed It At Me
"Brooke? You home?"
"Oh yes, Lucas. Just walk in without knocking." Brooke rolled her eyes dramatically. She wasn't really in the mood to deal with Lucas or anyone today. She was still simmering in her date from hell and Haley's persistence to just go on one more, this time it's a friend of Haley's.
"Well technically at one point, this was my house too. So does that count?" Lucas plopped down on her couch. He was driving around, wasting time and what better way to waste it then with annoying Brooke.
"You really need to do something." Brooke threw her magazine on the coffee table. "What can I do for you?"
"Nothing. I just didn't have anything better to do." Lucas shrugged smirking. Anything to annoy Brooke is good for him.
"Go be a father and do something with the kids." Brooke suggested. She just really didn't want to be in mommy mode tonight.
"How was your online dating life?" Lucas probed for answers. He probably wasn't going to get them, but he could try.
"Ask Haley if you want to know. I'm not talking to her." Brooke offered. "By the way, you're needed at Sully's school tonight."
"Umm why?"
It was last minute kind of thing, in Brooke's mind at least. Sully tried hiding things from the duo constantly. Brooke thought he was just embarrassed of them, but Lucas just suspected that his middle son wanted nothing to do with him. It wasn't always like that, though.
"Daddy," a freckled red-headed toddler stumbled running into his father's arms.
Lucas, who's smile shined brightly, reached down and grabbed the boy into his arms. "Sully." Lucas laughed getting a sloppy wet kiss from the boy. "How's my buddy today?"
"We work on cars?"
That was his favorite thing. Cars. Any kind, any model. He loved them.
"Not tonight, bud. It's basketball night."
With the mention of the sport, Sully's face fell. Unlike Patrick, Sully hated the sport. Brooke was thankful for this but Lucas was not.
"No ball."
"Yes ball, bud. I gotta go coach Patrick's team."
"I ready daddy!" Patrick ruined the moment for father and son as he came running in.
"Okay," Lucas smiled he didn't even get to say hello to his pregnant wife. "Go wait in the car, Paddy."
Sully snapped. His face turning red with anger and tears falling from his eyes. "No daddy! Truck!"
"Play cars with mommy. Mommy loves playing it." Lucas looked over and Brooke was waddling into the room.
Brooke looked gorgeous as can be. Her expanded stomach looked plump over the thinness of her body. Six-year-old Em stood tall next to her.
"Come on Lil' Man. I think I can be a good race car driver." Brooke encouraged. She understood Lucas's need to work hard to support their ever growing brood, but he also kept the important relationships going with one-on-one time with each child. Brooke reached for Sullivan who screamed and kicked as he held on tightly to Lucas. "Okay, let's go. Daddy will be home soon again."
"I'm sorry, Sul."
"Family night, and I can't go." Brooke smiled up at him. She hated going to the school. All the preppy mother's and father's who think they are smarter than everyone, and most of them are. Brooke was proud of how Sully was. How he was unique in his own way. "And well since I can't go, you need too go."
"I hate that fucking school." Lucas sighed. "Tell me again why we okayed him to go there?"
"Because he is too smart for his own good, Luke. We've been over this. Pay attention for once." She complained. "Gosh,"
"And where will you be?"
"Haley set me up with one of her friends. I'm not sure." She shrugged. "Haley's making me and you know how much she'll keep pecking till I give in. So I did."
"You're so killing me here, B." Lucas huffed running his hand through his hair. "Killing me in a slow and painful death. If I have to sit through family night, you should too."
"Well for once I have something more important to do than family night. You, Sir Lucas, are going to go and have a good time."
"What if I say I have a date?" Lucas offered.
"A date, with what your hand? Yeah, that's a normal daily date Lucas." Brooke laughed playfully.
"I have other girls to do that for me since you're not very helpful anymore."
"Gross, I do not even want to know." Brooke shook her head laughing. "That's too much information, Lucas Eugene."
"I'd always loved getting in Brooke Davis's pants." Lucas earned a nice slap to the back of the head. "I wish I could get use to that, but that fucking hurts!"
"Push out six kids and then talk to me."
-XO-OTH-XO-
"Family night? Why is this how I have to spend a Friday night? I had plans you know!" Emmeline complained. "I'm a teenager now, I have more important things to do then hang out at my annoyingly strange brother's school full of nerds for a family day."
"None of us really want to go." Lucas spoke. "We need to support your brother."
"But we technically are not even a complete family." Patrick spoke. "Who knows maybe Sully was adopted so we wouldn't need to go to those stupid family events at that stupid nerd school."
"Be nice, all of you." Brooke warned. While Lucas acted like one of their six kids, Brooke always was the only one standing up for Sully.
"It's okay Mom, I'm use to it." Sully shrugged it off pushing his glasses up his nose. This sadden Brooke. He looked so sad, but at the same time he looked content and so use to it.
"You sure?" Brooke questioned more for herself and only received a nod.
"I'm okay. I'll be in the car." Sully's shoulders hung as he walked slowly out the front door.
"All of you behave tonight. Especially you two monkeys." Brooke pointed towards Gwenie and Teddy. "Rosie, no wondering off and please watch what you say." So the middle daughter was picking up Brooke's horrible mouth and Haley's non-filtered mouth.
"I'll try but I can't promise you anything Mommy." Rosie tossed her locks behind her shoulder.
"Oh Rosie, you are so moving in with me." Lucas threw the nine-year-old over his shoulder.
"You all get in the car, I need to talk to your father." Brooke watched as the kids walked off with Gwen and Teddy chasing after them.
"Yes the Queen?"
"Cut the act, Luke." Brooke's emotions were all mixing together. Her nerves were mixing with her worry and anger for Sullivan. "Be nice to Sully."
"I am nice to him. He's just so different."
"He's a lot like you if you get to know him. Don't dis him and torment him like the rest of them do. He's himself, let it stay that way."
"A little tough love may make him realize that like sports is okay. Now I need to leave to go to this stupid family night for you as you parade around town with whatever guy it is of the week. Enjoy having your legs open." Lucas stunned Brooke walking over and slamming the front door.
Brooke stood there stunned. They haven't had any confrontation like this, ever. Even during the divorce. She pulled herself together quickly to get herself for this date.
-XO-OTH-XO-
She checked her watch before checking her make-up one last time before entering another restaurant. She shook her thought of Lucas's comment and pushed through the nerves to go inside and meet this mysterious man.
"You must be Brooke? Right?"
"Yes, and you must be Julian?" Brooke stood in awe. Haley's list of single male friends must be filled with hot male species of human.
This Julian fellow stood in a simple plaid button down and dark jeans. He had curly brown hair was uncontrollable and she just wanted to run her hands through his hair.
"So Brooke, tell me about yourself. I was told so many great things about you from Haley but let's see if they are true."
"Oh gosh. Haley told you things?" Brooke laughed embarrassingly; a blush color fell to her already rosie cheeks. "I am terrified at what she said. She told me some not so good things."
"Trust me it was all good things." Julian's smile lessened the nerves Brooke was having. "So she says you have kids?"
"Six annoying ones." Brooke teased. "I got to love them though, somehow." She was joking around. "They're crazy and sometimes I wonder why I had all of them but if I think about it, I don't think I can see myself without anyone of them."
"Six? Wow." He sat shocked. In the seconds of silence, Brooke's smile disappeared. She thought he was judging her on it; judging her on her kids. She was getting the nervous feeling in her stomach right about now. "I have one, a teenage daughter. I do not know how you handle six kids when I can barely handle the one. Tell me great mother, how do you do it?"
"Patients and laughter, and possible a bottle of wine a week." Brooke joked, or so Julian thought.
The rest of the night went like this. Jokes, laughs, smiles and conversations on getting to know each other happened. Before they knew it, three hours have passed and the conversation was still strong. Till Brooke's phone range.
"Excuse me one moment." Brooke walked away from the table. "Yes?"
"We kind of have a little dilemma right now." Lucas's voice was low and shaking.
"And what would that be, Luke, that you had disturbed me?"
"Sully kind of is missing. We came back to the condo and yeah, I thought he went to his room and he wasn't there. I went back to the school and no Sullivan."
"Kind of missing? What the hell did you do?" Brooke's voice rose. "Scratch that. I'll be there." She hung up the phone and walked inside sadly. "I'm going to need to head out."
"This date going that bad?"
"Not at all. Just a stupid ex-husband who lost a kid." Brooke shrugged it off. "But definitely call me. I'd love to see you again."
"I'd love you see you too." Julian, being a gentleman, walked Brooke out to her car. "Call me and tell me how tonight goes. I hope your kid is safe."
"Thanks, Julian." Brooke was about to climb into her car when Julian pulled her for a kiss.
"I'll be waiting for you, Brooke."
Brooke looked in her review mirror till she couldn't see Julian anymore. Damn her ex-husband for not being able to keep up with six kids.
Damn him right now.
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