-1Lucas pulled up to the house and put the car in park. He turned and looked in the backseat at a sleeping Isaiah and then at Hannah who was engrossed eating the cookie that she'd been given on the way home. Brooke got out of the car and opened the back door to get Isaiah's car seat.
"Welcome home handsome boy" Brooke gushed as she lifted the carrier out of the car.
Lucas got Hannah out of her booster seat and took her hand as they walked up the steps and into the house.
"Dada…play?" Hannah asked looking up at Lucas.
"After you nap pumpkin" Lucas picked Hannah up once they reached the front door and he carried her back to her nursery and put a diaper on her before putting her in her crib.
"No dada I big girl" Hannah protested puling at the plastic tabs on her diaper.
Lucas smiled down at Hannah "I know you're a big girl baby you're almost 2 years old but you know you wear a diaper at nighttime and naptime so that you don't go potty in your nice clean bed…mommy would be so mad at daddy if he let you sleep in bed without a diaper on"
"No nap" Hannah protested and shook her head.
Lucas sighed and rested his elbows on the side of the crib and looked at Hannah. "Hannah you know its naptime…I know you're tired you've been up since 7 and it's almost 1 so I think you need a nap"
"No nap"
"Hannah daddy doesn't care…daddy's had a long morning and daddy has some work he has to put together some things for Isaiah so you have to take a nap" Lucas yawned and stood from where he was leaning and started to walk towards the door.
"NO DADA" Hannah stood up in her crib and screamed before watching Lucas walk for the door. She threw her self back down on the mattress and started sobbing.
Lucas shut the door and leaned against it before sighing to himself "Terrible two's here we come"
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Lucas walked into the kitchen and found Brooke standing at the table looking at Isaiah who was still in his car seat.
"What're you doing pretty girl?" Lucas walked up behind Brooke and wrapped his arms around her and resting his chin on her shoulder.
"Just how perfect that everything is now…I'm just so glad that Isaiah is home now" Brooke leaned back into Lucas and closed her eyes. "Is Hannah ok?'
Lucas sighed and nodded "Yeah she's just being a little bit stubborn today"
"You don't think it's cause of Isaiah do you?"
"No Brooke I really don't I think she is just like you she just wants her way and she gets upset when she doesn't get it"
Brooke slapped Lucas on the hands playfully "I do not pout when I don't get my way"
"I've got about a dozen high school memories that would differ but if you say so"
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TWO MONTHS LATER
"Happy Birthday Hannah" Jamie and Lily cheered and clapped their hands after singing happy birthday to her for the 5th time that day.
Brooke smiled sadly as she looked at her baby girl sitting at her Fisher Price picnic table. It felt like just yesterday Hannah was being placed in her arms for the very first time and now her baby girl was already two. In the last month she'd learned so many new words and she could talk so well to only be two. Brooke looked across the yard at Lucas who was talking to Jake and Nathan. Lucas was holding Isaiah against his chest so that the little boy was facing away from him looking at everything that was going on around him. Brooke couldn't believe that he was already two and a half months old, even though he'd spent the first two and a half weeks of his life in the hospital he was a normal baby. If there ever was a clone of Lucas it would be Isaiah everything from the dirty blonde hair to the dimpled chin and the deep blue eyes that were always brooding when he seemed to be thinking of something.
"Are you ok?"
Brooke looked over her shoulder at Haley who took a seat next to her on the patio furniture. Brooke shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah…I'm ok…it's just so weird to think of Hannah as two"
Haley nodded and took a bite of birthday cake. "I know….look on the bright side she's potty trained and early potty training doesn't run in the Scott family…Deb once told me that Nathan wasn't potty trained until he was almost 4"
Brooke looked at Haley and the two friends burst out laughing. "Four…jeez"
"What's so funny?" Peyton asked taking the seat on Brooke's other side.
"They were probably talking about me" Rachel sighed and took a seat next to Peyton. "I can't help that I'm fat ok…I'm pregnant"
Brooke shook her head at Rachel "We aren't even talking about you Rachel…chill"
"I hope that Rachel and Mouth's daughter is just like Rachel so she'll know the hell that she caused while we were all in high school" Haley teased and laughed as she took another bite of cake.
"Shut up Haley"
Peyton laughed as she looked from Haley to Rachel "I heard you and Mouth picked out a name…what did you guys decide on?"
"I don't want to tell you guys" Rachel shook her head and ran a hand over her small baby bump.
"Rachel please…do it for me it's Hannah's birthday and I'm depressed" Brooke pleaded and stuck out her bottom lip.
"Fine but don't laugh…it's Abigail Katherine"
"Aww…that's beautiful Rachel" Everyone gushed.
"Can I call her Abby Kate?" Brooke asked.
"It doesn't matter what I say…you're going to anyway" Rachel shrugged her shoulders and picked at the cake on her plate.
"What's wrong Rachel?" Peyton asked looking over at the red head.
"I'm just afraid to give birth….does it hurt a lot?"
Haley, Peyton and Brooke all three looked at each other before simultaneously stuttering the word "No"
"You guys are such liars"
"I remember when I was in labor with Emily…Jake kept trying to rub my legs and back and I was just like "Jake, just get the hell off of me you've done more than enough already" and then when I was in labor with Hayden he passed out in the delivery room…I mean imagine lying on a table spread eagle and the one person who is supposed to remain calm is lying on the floor…it was quite a night…I mean honest to god they had to give him oxygen" Peyton reminisced.
"I remember that…poor Jake…he was white as a sheet when he came into the waiting room" Brooke announced.
"Yeah but it was his first son he was just a little nervous" Haley assured. "I remember Nathan being a champ when Jamie was born but he cried like a baby when he first saw Leah"
"Luke cried when Hannah was born…although it might be because I was squeezing his hand so tight I almost broke his fingers…and everything with Isaiah happened so fast that we really didn't have time to comprehend everything that happened"
"Yeah but Isaiah was no bigger than a minute when he was born so you had to push what like once and he was here" Rachel said from across the table.
"It was more than once Rachel…tiny or big it hurts all the same" Brooke folded her arms across her chest and sat back in the chair.
"I just don't see how something so big can come out of something so small my vagina will never be the same again" Rachel looked over at Mouth who was now holding Isaiah and furrowed her brow. "This is all his fault…I should kick him in the balls"
"Rachel it's going to be just fine"
"Look mommy" Hannah said walking over to Brooke with a dandelion in her hands.
"Oh wow sweetie…you have to blow on it ok…take it out in the yard to daddy and he'll help you" Brooke said looking down at Hannah.
"Ok….DADDY" Hannah called and took off going down the patio and through the yard to see her father.
Peyton and Haley both laughed and looked at Hannah. "She is too cute Brooke…she's going to be such a heartbreaker" Haley teased.
"No…I'm telling you guys that Hayden and Hannah are going to be the future "It" couple of Tree Hill High…then they'll get married and Brooke and I will officially be related… back in high school before you came along Haley I was going to marry Nathan and Brooke and I were going to be sisters in law" Peyton announced to the table.
"Yeah…that just worked out didn't it babe" Haley smiled and looked over at the highchair where Leah was eating she shook her head when she noticed that her baby girl had cake everywhere but in her mouth.
"Oh Lee…mommy's glad she took your pretty summer dress off before you ate"
Leah looked over at Haley and held out a fist full of cake for Haley to eat. Haley bent forward and pretended to eat the cake her baby handed her which sent Leah into a fit of laughter.
"She's just like you Haley…a "tutor girl" in training" Brooke replied.
"You know what I was thinking you know what would be really fun?" Haley said turning her attention back to her friends at the table.
"What?" Peyton asked
"If we all went back up to "Old Smokey's Campground" we could get baby sitters and just go for the weekend"
"I thought Brooke and Lucas weren't welcome there anymore" Peyton raised an eyebrow and looked at Brooke.
"Shut up Peyton…I don't know I don't feel right leaving Isaiah behind" Brooke looked over at Mouth who was still holding Isaiah.
"Brooke he's going to be fine, besides I think that we all deserve some time with each other we deserve it and I want to do something fun with you guys before I have to go back to teaching I mean this school vacation is only for a week" Haley explained.
"I don't know if Jake and I can get off of work" Peyton said looking at her kids to make sure they weren't fighting.
"Peyton you and Jake both own your own businesses you two can do whatever the two of you want" Haley argued.
"Well what about Nathan?…how's he going to get off of work?" Peyton asked.
"Nathan writes his sports article from home…and I have to go back to work next week…Lucas is done with all the meetings for his new book and Clothes over Bro's is closed on the weekends, and Mouth isn't at the station on the weekends, and Rachel doesn't work so it's no big deal…please It'll be fun" Haley pleaded.
"What'll be fun?" Nathan asked walking up to the table with Lucas, Jake and Mouth.
"Going to "Old Smokey's Campground" for the weekend without the kids" Haley said.
"I'm down with it…Luke and I can make our kick ass chili in the Dutch oven" Nathan offered.
"Sounds like fun" Mouth said.
"I'll go if can take the camper" Rachel explained.
"Rachel the whole point of camping is that you sleep in a tent" Mouth tried to explain to his wife.
"Mouth need I remind you that I'm pregnant ok…you did this to me so I don't think it's too much to ask for me to not have to sleep in the dirt"
"I was pregnant with Hayden when we went camping last time" Peyton said "And I slept in the tent"
"Well that's cause you're a glutton for punishment" Rachel shot right back.
"All I remember is Brooke and Lucas having sex all night" Nathan sighed.
"Shut up man…I didn't say anything when you and Haley had sex in Clothes Over Bro's the other night" Lucas shot looking over at Nathan.
Haley's face turned dark red with embarrassment and Nathan hung his head along with her.
"You guys had sex in my store?" Brooke asked almost childlike.
"Brooke it was only in the backroom and I am so sorry" Haley offered an apologetic glance.
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"I can't believe that we're leaving them" Brooke sighed sadly as she looked down at Isaiah who was sleeping in his car seat.
"Pretty girl it's only for the weekend…and we're going to have fun" Lucas wrapped an arm around Brooke's slender frame and kissed her temple gently.
"I know I just hate leaving him and Hannah…work is different but this is for two days and three nights" Brooke looked over at Hannah who was playing with Lily and Andy.
"I promise Andy and I are going to take care of them Brooke…you know I'm not going to let you down" Karen assured walking into Brooke and Lucas' kitchen carrying a duffle bag full of Hannah and Isaiah's clothes and things that they'd need for the weekend.
"I know you won't…I'm just sad" Brooke looked at Lucas and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Yeah but Hannah and Isaiah always have fun at Ma Maw Karen's" Karen gushed.
"Ma I don't know how to tell you this but Isaiah sleeps the whole time we're at your house" Lucas teased.
"Lucas, I didn't ask for your opinion…I was talking to your wife" Karen teased right back.
"I just don't want to miss anything" Brooke pouted.
Lucas pulled Brooke into a hug and nuzzled her ear "They'll be fine baby…besides I plan on keeping you pretty busy this weekend so you're not going to have too much time to worry about anything"
Brooke pulled back to look at Lucas and she frowned when she saw Nathan and Haley pull up in the driveway and honked the horn. "Our ride is here"
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Brooke looked blankly out the window as Nathan drove down the road to get on the interstate. They had just left Wal-Mart after picking up way more than what they needed for the trip. Wal-Mart is where everyone decided to meet. Jake drove his mustang for old time sake so there was literally no room in his car for anything else but him and Peyton. That didn't top Mouth and Rachel who showed up in an RV the size of a tour bus. The thing was so big that Mouth had to park it all the way at the end of the parking lot while they went in and shopped for groceries. They were now back on the road and Lucas sat in the front seat with Nathan and helped navigate as they drove down the freeway.
"Brooke are you ok?" Haley asked looking over at her sister in law.
"Yeah, I'm just thinking about Hannah…she sat at the door and just sobbed when Lucas and I left…I could hear her screaming for us all the way outside"
"Brooke she's going to be ok…I'm sure she's having fun with her grandma and grandpa…at least she cried for you we dropped Jamie and Leah off at Deb's and neither one of them could care less that we left" Haley said a little depressed.
"The two of you need to stop…we are going to have fun this weekend" Nathan said looking at Brooke and Haley in the rear view mirror.
"I've tried to tell them that Nathan they just don't want to listen to me"
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So I hope you guys liked this chapter. There's this campground in NC that's by the theme park "Carowinds" and we stay there in May when I go to the "Coca Cola 600" and it's always really fun I was thinking about it today so I thought I'd write a few chapters about "Old Smokey's Campground" . Anyway I start back to college on Tuesday and I am just so excited that I could vomit. The way I feel about going back to school is the way I feel about Leyton as a couple. NO JOKE I have a biology class that starts at 4:30 in the afternoon and DOES NOT END until 9 pm. I read on the OTH forums that they haven't come to a full agreement to whether or not this will or won't be the last season of OTH something about they have until sometime in early 2009 to make the final decision so that cheers me up a little bit. It makes my Brucas faith a little stronger but then I think Mark being the cruel, mean man he is sometimes that he'll have Brooke and Lucas get together if there was as season 7 and then have like precious Peyton get breast cancer and then have Lucas run right back to her. Would that not suck? I mean not that that's going to happen but it just sounds so "Mark" to me. Another problem I have with this supposed "Leyton" engagement is remember back in season 3 when Peyton went to see Jake and she asked him if he wanted to get married? Well she didn't have any problem proposing to him, but yet she said "not right now" AKA "NO" to Lucas. So that just proves my idea that Peyton is using Lucas as her crutch. She's not in love with him she's in love with the "idea" of him…she's in LOVE with Jake. You know what else…I don't think anyone really likes Peyton. I don't think Karen likes her as much as she likes Brooke. I think Haley and Nathan just tolerate her being around cause if they liked Peyton so much SHE'D be Jamie's godmother…not Brooke. Lucas is the ONLY one that likes Peyton….him and Mia. I LOVE Hilarie don't get me wrong I think Hilarie is so great and she's hilarious…I just don't like Peyton. I also don't like the fact that Mark's painted Brooke into this corner where even if she did admit she still had feelings for Lucas that she'd be the bad guy. I think that it should be like "Dawson's Creek" where Peyton being the "Dawson" in all of this realizes that the love that she and Lucas share is a love from their youth that while at one time was cherished it's now platonic. That the true soul mates of "One Tree Hill" are "Brooke and Lucas" both being "Pacey and Joey" a love that grew into a friendship and then a romance that is true and can stand the test of time. Lucas and his "Love rectangle" reminds me of the trailer for "The Notebook" in love there's the person you long for (Lindsey) the person you settle for (Peyton) and the person you're meant for (Brooke). Just a thought though…anyway I'm open to idea's for what you guys would like to see happen at "Old Smokey's Campground" Love you guys and I look forward to your reviews.