"Jeez, I didn't think that everyone would come here for the fireworks. You'd think people would stay at home" Nathan complained as he waited for a parking attendant to direct him on where to park.
"Nathan, they have just as much a right to be here as we do" Haley shook her head and looked in the backseat at Jamie and Leah who were looking out the window at the people who were carrying lawn chairs and blankets past the car.
"I know they do, Haley" Nathan sighed. He hated that he'd gotten dragged into seeing the fireworks at the beach. He didn't understand why they couldn't have just set them off at their house like normal people.
"I'm going to call Brooke and see where she and Lucas are sitting. That way we'll save some time and be able to enjoy more of the festival" Haley bent down to get her purse and heard a cry from the back.
"Ouch, stop Leah, that hurts" Jamie furrowed his brow at his little sister who currently had some of his skin pinched between her thumb and forefinger.
"Dat's my toy" Leah said as she pointed on Jamie's lap to the stuffed rabbit.
"I was just picking up for you" Jamie said. He jerked his arm away from Leah and rubbed it inspecting the mark that Leah had left there. Instead of giving the stuffed animal back to Leah he threw it down on the floor and looked out the window.
"MINE" Leah screamed again and reached for Jamie grabbing him by the hair and pulling as hard as she could.
"STOP IT" Jamie shouted as he smacked Leah on the hands.
"James Lucas Scott don't hit your baby sister" Haley scolded as she reached into the back seat and pulled Leah's hands off of Jamie.
"But mom, she is the one who started it" Jamie defended.
"Jamie, she's only 2. Honey you know better than that" Haley said. "If you and Leah can't get along then we're just going to have to cancel the 4th of July and go home"
"Oh please, yes, let's go home" Nathan pleaded as his request went unacknowledged by his wife.
"You can't cancel the 4th of July" Jamie said furrowing his brow at Haley.
"Then keep your hands to yourself" Haley warned as she picked the stuffed bunny up off the floorboard and handed it to Leah.
"Fank you" Leah said as she reached for the bunny.
Jamie looked at his sister and rolled his eyes when she looked at him and laughed. He folded his arms over his chest and closed his eyes when he felt the stuffed bunny hit him in the back of the head.
"MOM!"
"Peyt, I don't think we're going to need all of this stuff" Jake said from the back of the car where he was unpacking the trunk.
"Jake, we will. We need the blankets to sit on and I promised that I'd b ring the coolers" Peyton explained as she unhooked Hayden from his car seat and lifted him out of the car to stand beside of Jenny and Emily.
"Then why do I need to bring all these lawn chairs?" Jake asked.
"Because we're going to sit in them" Peyton said as she shut the back door of the car and walked to the back of the car.
"But you just said we were going to sit on the blankets" Jake sighed as she looked at Peyton.
"Jake, we have 3 kids with us; they're going to need somewhere to sit. They can't sit on the hot sand all day" Peyton rolled her eyes and put her sunglasses on.
"You don't need to get hateful" Jake said.
"I'm not getting hateful, you're the one who is being hateful" Peyton looked beside her to get a headcount and make sure all 3 kids were still next to her.
"You don't need a blanket for me, I'm going to be with my friends" Jenny explained.
"Jenny, you're not going with your friends. You're going to sit and be with your family. It's a holiday, you see your friends all the time" Jake said looking at his daughter.
"Dad, I am 10 years old" Jenny looked at Jake and pushed her blonde hair behind her ears.
"Exactly, you're 10 years old. I think that's reason enough for you to not go up the crowded beach with kids I don't even know" Jake finished unloading the back of the trunk and shut it.
"Dad, you're not being cool right now. Mom?" Jenny said looking from Jake to Peyton.
"Jenny, your dad is right, you're too young to be going off with your friends" Peyton said looking at her daughter.
"Fine, but I'm not hanging out with the babies all day" Jenny folded her arms over her chest and looked down at the ground.
"Remember how excited we were when she learned to talk?" Jake asked.
"Yeah, what happened?" Peyton leaned down and took Hayden by the hand and grabbed a few bags and put them over her shoulder before grabbing Emily's hand.
"Rachel, I think that we could have gone without Abby wearing a bikini, I mean she's one." Mouth sighed and looked at Rachel who was rubbing sun block all over Abby's tiny body.
"Marvin McFadden, I for one am appalled that you would say that" Rachel said as she looked at her husband. "I think she looks beautiful"
"I didn't say she didn't look beautiful, I'm just saying that we should give our daughter a little bit of modesty." Mouth said.
"Mouth, chill out. It's a cute suit. Other parents dress their kids like this" Rachel said as she lifted Abby up from the ground and pulled the baby's dark red hair into hair elastic on the top of her head.
"Other kids aren't my daughter" Mouth explained.
"You know, you're kind of annoying when you are home and not off doing your on location sports remotes" Rachel sighed and shook her head.
"Well, you're annoying when you do a lot of things" Mouth sighed. He could feel the sweat already forming at the back of his neck. It was going to be a long and hot day and it wasn't even noon yet.
"You don't think I'm annoying when we have SKYPE sex and you watch me strip for you" Rachel said unaware of the couple who were walking by them as she finished getting Abby ready for the beach.
Mouth shook his head at the couple who gave him a disgusted look and took off towards the beach. "A little bit louder next time, Rachel"
"Aw, Marvin are you blushing?" Rachel asked as she turned and looked at her husband.
"No…I'm not…I'm just…hot" Mouth said looking down at the ground.
"Aw, baby do I make you hot?" Rachel asked as she held Abby on her hip and looked at Mouth.
"Not really, it's the weather" Mouth said as he held his arms out to Abby who smiled at her father and reached for him.
"Dada" Abby said as Mouth took her from Rachel.
"Yeah, I'm your dada. The one who's going to save you from being corrupted by your mommy" Mouth said making a face at Abby that caused her to laugh.
"I'm not going to corrupt her, not before kindergarten anyway" Rachel said as she pulled her own hair into a ponytail and looked in the mirror before looking back at Mouth.
"You know, that scares me Rach, it really does" Mouth sighed but he couldn't help but smile at his wife.
"You knew it when you married me, baby" Rachel said as she grabbed her and Mouth's stuff and Abby's bag. "Let's hit the beach. I need to show the girls what a body is supposed to look like after a baby"
Mouth shook his head and looked at Rachel before looking at Abby. "Please, be a clean teen, ok?"
"No, no" Abby said shaking her head.
"Yeah, that's what I thought" Mouth kissed Abby's nose before following Rachel up the beach.
"Brooke?" Lucas asked. He looked over at his wife who was busy sketching a new design into her sketch pad.
"Brooke?" Lucas said again. He watched as Brooke hurriedly sketched in her notepad and ignored him.
"BROOKE" Lucas yelled.
Brooked looked up from her sketch pad and at Lucas who was watching her. "What?"
"Everyone is here now. Do you want to stop sketching?" Lucas asked
"Yeah…" Brooke said looking down at her design and then closing the sketch pad. "Sorry"
"What are you sketching, anyway?" Lucas asked as he took a seat beside of his wife.
"Nothing really, just a design idea that I had for this fall" Brooke said.
"Oh, you ok Cheery? You seem kind of out of it today" Lucas said.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just didn't sleep to well last night" Brooke confessed.
"I'm going to take the kids down to the water" Lucas said as he got up from his towel and wiped his sand covered hands on his swim trunks.
"Be careful, don't let them out of your sight" Brooke said as she watched Lucas walk over to where Hannah and Isaiah were playing in the sand.
"I will" Lucas said shaking his head.
Brooke looked over at Haley, Peyton, and Rachel who were working on their tan.
"Bitch, would you relax? Lucas isn't going to let anything happen to your kids" Rachel said turning her head to look at Brooke.
"I know it. I just have a lot on my mind" Brooke said softly.
"Anything you want to talk about?" Haley asked
"Not really" Brooke said she looked away from her friends and then at the ocean as the waves hit the beach.
"You sure?" Peyton asked pushing herself up onto her elbows.
Brooke was quiet for a minute and then looked at Peyton "You know that guy Julian?"
Peyton nodded and waited for Brooke to continue.
"Well, I think that he's spying on me" Brooke confessed.
"What makes you say that?" Haley asked joining the conversation.
"I don't know. I just always feel like I'm being followed. And anytime I'm out there is this black car that is never too far from where I'm at" Brooke explained.
"Brooke, I don't think Julian is that kind of guy. I mean in the time I've known him he's been nothing but a gentleman" Haley said "Plus, he went back to LA to finish up the documentary he did on Nathan"
"Yeah, I'm just paranoid I guess" Brooke said "He was a really nice guy"
"He wanted your body" Rachel said.
"What?" Brooke said.
"The guy wanted you" Rachel said. "I'm surprised he didn't try to make a move on you. I mean when he came to talk to Mouth about Nathan he was in the living room looking at this picture of you. He was like a heavy breather phone call. I'm surprised that he didn't drop his pants and whack it all over my picture frames"
"Rachel!" Peyton said and looked over to make sure Jenny and Emily weren't in earshot of what Rachel had just said.
"Peyton it's true" Rachel argued "The guy was weird"
Haley shook her head "He was not; I mean he was from LA. Things are just different there"
Brooke shrugged her shoulders "I'm just glad that we don't have to worry about seeing him anymore"
"Did something happen with Julian, Brooke?" Haley asked
"No, nothing happened. Like you said he was a nice guy, I'm just stressed out over Dan dying and Hannah and Isaiah have been fighting like crazy lately. It's enough to make me lose my mind" Brooke said.
"You know what we need?" Rachel said sitting up and taking her sunglasses off of her head.
"What's that Rachel?" Peyton asked.
"Well since you asked, Peyton" Rachel started "We need to do a girls weekend"
"A girl's weekend? Rachel, please get real" Peyton said.
"What?" I don't know why I'm friends with lame ass girls like you all" Rachel scoffed.
"Who would watch the kids?" Haley asked.
"Ummm….gee…I don't know Haley…If only we had a responsible person who lived with us and slept in the same bed as us. I just don't know" Rachel said sarcastically
"Do you think the guys would watch the kids an entire weekend by themselves?" Haley asked.
"Of course" Rachel said "We could all go up to Charlotte for the weekend and shop and see a show or go to a club. Something where it's just us girls"
"It's not a weekend bender, Rachel" Peyton said.
"Didn't call it that Seyton" Rachel rolled her eyes.
"Ok, Rach-ho" Peyton shook her head and went back to reading her magazine.
"I'll go" Brooke said "I'm sure Lucas can handle two kids by himself for a couple days"
"That's my girl" Rachel said.
"Me too, I'm in" Haley said "I mean someone has to be the voice of reason on your endeavor"
"What about you, Peyton?" Rachel asked.
"Well, if everyone else is going to" Peyton said.
"Don't kill yourself to go now, Peyton" Haley joked.
"This trip is going to be awesome" Rachel said as she put her sunglasses back down and laid back down on her towel.
"You've got it bad for this girl don't you?" A voice from behind Julian said as she watched him look at the video tape of Brooke on the beach.
"You have no idea how bad" Julian said as he felt the female presence come up behind him.
"I have to say, I was surprised when Dan called me a few weeks ago. I'm just glad he introduced us" The girl said as she sat beside Julian on the couch.
"It's a shame he's dead now, he's not going to be able to see the fruit of his labor" Julian said as he looked at the girl sitting next to him.
"I don't know what you have against Lucas Scott, he's really not a bad guy" The girl said.
"You don't understand, guys like Lucas Scott treat girls like shit and they get away with it. Girls like Brooke fall at his feet and guys like me are left to lick their wounds" Julian said pressing rewind on the remote in order to watch the video again.
"You know you're going to tear an entire family apart?" the girl said.
"And you aren't? Don't start having second thoughts. You're the one who agreed to this plan to begin with" Julian said.
"Whatever, I'm going to my room" the girl said getting up from the couch and walking to the door.
"Tree Hill isn't going to know what hit it. The Scott Family is about to crash and burn" Julian said to himself with a laugh.
"Goodnight Julian" the girl said as she opened the door.
"Goodnight Lindsey" Julian said before pressing play on his remote control.
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So how did you guys like the new episode last night? I have to say that I teared up at times. I saw where Sophia said that there'd be no Leyton back for the Brooke and Julian wedding. If you hear something those are my tears of joy. Anyway, I hope you guys liked the chapter and if you have any suggestions just let me know… Thanks, Ashley