Lucas hurried to answer Brooke so he could continue to explore her lips, her mouth and taste her tongue. His hands quickly went down to her hips then to her buttocks which he grabbed almost like a starving man.

_ LUCAS : Oh Brooke, I missed you so much !

Brooke shivered with pleasure to feel him already hardening against her dress, his hands also wanting to explore her. Like an irresistible need, Lucas pinned her against the wall while continuing to kiss her languidly. The fire had rekindled and neither of them was able to put it out anymore... Like five years ago.

Lucas lowered his mouth to the fragile and already burning skin of Brooke's neck, who tilted her head back. Unable to resist, she closed her eyes, moaning with desire and her breathing accelerated more and more. Her whole body was waiting for his caresses, every inch of her skin was yearning for his fingers, for his mouth... But Lucas had quickly returned to her mouth to dive back in, their moans being in perfect harmony.

_ BROOKE : We might be seen here... What if we went to the bathroom ?

Lucas' lips pulled away from hers with difficulty, but his eyes burned hotter than ever when he looked into her.

_ LUCAS : There's no way I'm going to make love to you in the toilet, Brooke... As beautiful as they are.

His words flattered Brooke but they didn't calm the fire burning inside her, quite the opposite.

_ LUCAS : Come with me...

Lucas took her hand to lead her forward, snuggling against her back as he closed his arms around her. He led them forward together to the door that wasn't a bedroom, inhaling Brooke's scent at the same time.

_ LUCAS : Perfect... Dark, intimate and discreet...

He didn't wait any longer to move Brooke's hair aside and come to kiss her neck, lick her and nibble her. His hands became just as active and expert as his mouth, they lifted Brooke's dress while caressing her hips. Once Brooke's dress was subtly lifted, Lucas' hands had come to knead her breasts, leaving her indecently exposed of the bottom. He kneaded her breasts with greed and lust while moaning with pleasure behind her. Lucas' erection was getting stronger and stronger and for good reason, Brooke was caressing him firmly.

_ LUCAS : Fuck Brooke... I want you so bad !

His hands left Brooke's chest to rest on her bare hips, he rubbed himself happily and vigorously against her. Brooke then turned around to be in front of him... She put her hands under his jacket.

_ BROOKE : I want you too, Lucas... Now !

Lucas smiled ... But he put his index finger under Brooke's chin to raise her towards him.

_ LUCAS : I won't make love to you here either, my dear ...

Brooke's eyes narrowed in incomprehension ... What was he playing at !?

_ BROOKE : So where !?

_ LUCAS : Patience, Brooke ... We'll have a bed to do things properly ...

And as he sensed Brooke was puzzled, he leaned closer to her ear. His breath was hot and ragged.

_ LUCAS : But I'm going to try to convince you to spend the night with me later... I'm going to make you so crazy with desire that your whole body will stay on fire until our moment... Because you're way too important to me for me to take you savagely and haphazardly here, Brooke...

His nose brushed against Brooke's skin and his hand had moved down her panties.

_ LUCAS: I'm dying for it, you have to believe me, but I want it to be special... Like it always has been between us... And I also want to take my time, Brooke... I want to enjoy every second I have with you.

His hand was now caressing the fabric of her lingerie... And he ran his finger all along her slit.

_ BROOKE : Mmhh...

_ LUCAS : I want to hear you moan and even more... I want you to be able to scream your pleasure without paying attention to the decibels.

His palm pressed, moving back and forth against her vulva which grew wetter and wetter. Brooke undulated her pelvis, impatient.

_ LUCAS : We'll be in the same boat, you and me... A real torture. I'll think of you, you'll think of me... I'll only think of you and your body, and you'll only think of me and my hands on you... Or my tongue...

And Lucas inserted a finger under the elastic of Brooke's panties and then got on his knees. Quickly, he pulled her panties down her thighs, caressing them at the same time. Brooke was simply unable to fight, and she even spontaneously raised her leg so that he would remove it. She even surprised herself by putting one of her legs on the edge of the shelf, impatient, totally submissive. She then felt Lucas' warm palms rest on the top of her thighs, one on each side. He moved his thumbs in small circles near her entrance as if to prolong the torture. Brooke remained silent but her increasingly choppy breathing spoke for her, she needed to feel him against her. And finally, she felt Lucas' breath between her thighs then delicately part her lips with his fingers, making her moan loudly. A little lick and Brooke felt like a big jolt of electricity in her lower stomach. It was divine. He then moved his tongue gently but firmly towards her clitoris and Brooke tilted her pelvis in symbiosis. Her emotions and feelings were confused but her body was more than lucid and her sensations more stimulated. The back and forth of Lucas's tongue was deliciously faster and still as expert, and she squealed with pleasure.

_ BROOKE : Oh yes Lucas... It's so good...

Brooke's sex could no longer escape him, Lucas took advantage of it to intrude as deeply as possible inside her. His tongue then returned to torturously swirl around her increasingly swollen and beating bud. Brooke's panting breaths and her moans of pleasure came to split the silence that reigned in the dark closet. Quickly, her thighs even began to tremble more and more and she felt the sap rising in her whole being. At the imminent arrival of this burst of diffuse pleasure, and while her body savored the arrival of the release, Lucas slowed his movements until he came to breathe again on her sensitive sex, gorged with blood and need. He moved back up to her level and his smile had something bored but also very mischievous. His hand nevertheless came to rest on Brooke's hot and wet vagina which was just asking to find her stimulation again.

_ LUCAS : The rest will be for tonight, Brooke...

_ BROOKE : You're not going to leave me like this... Are you ?

_ LUCAS : You know as well as I do, if not better, that if I bring you to orgasm... There will be no more... I'm dying to make you cum against my mouth or my fingers, Brooke. But what I want even more is to make love to you, eyes in eyes.

_ BROOKE : But nothing prevents us from doing that later, Lucas ...

_ LUCAS : You say that now ... Because you really want to cum ... But if I give you an orgasm now and we go back to the party ... I am sure that your conscience and your morals will necessarily take over, my love. While if I leave you full of desire for me ... I increase my chances of living this moment that I care so much for.

Brooke couldn't really blame him. But she was really frustrated to stay like that, so excited.

_ BROOKE : Don't do that, Lucas ... I want it so bad right now ...

_ LUCAS : Oh me too, if you knew. If you knew how much I dreamed about it ... And actually, I dreamed about something else ... Don't blame me, Brooke ... I really want to spend part of the night with you, against you...

_ BROOKE : And in me especially too ...

_ LUCAS : I've been dreaming about it for years ... And it could be, more than ever, that it is about to come true, this dream.

Touched by his words, Brooke tried to play it as casual as possible.

_ BROOKE : I didn't know you missed me so much...

_ LUCAS : Oh no ? I thought I was clear though... So I promise to prove it to you even more later.

_ BROOKE : What if I decide to pass on it after all ?

_ LUCAS : I'll do everything I can to make sure that doesn't happen.

_ BROOKE : But what if it does happen ?

_ LUCAS : I'll court you until you finally give me another chance.

_ BROOKE : When !? You're going back to Paris tomorrow night, Lucas!

_ LUCAS : But I'll be back soon... And you'll become my one and only goal.

_ BROOKE : Do you really mean what you say ?

_ LUCAS : Of course... Do you doubt it ?

_ BROOKE : A little, yes ... I don't understand how you can be so sure of yourself after so many years ... I mean ... You and I, we lived something strong certainly but very short also. We might imagine that it would work between us when it could be a real disaster ! Lucas... Trying without guarantees... I have too much to lose in this.

_ LUCAS : And don't you think you have a lot to gain too ?

_ BROOKE : You... You always have a big effect on me, really a big effect...

_ LUCAS : What I just did to you may have something to do with it...

_ BROOKE : You already had a big effect on me before that... Which is why I ended up here with you.

_ LUCAS : Are you telling me that your little surprise visit this morning was, in fact, voluntary ?

_ BROOKE : No ! No, really not ... But you must have seen how embarrassed I was...

_ LUCAS : I would have rather said troubled ...

_ BROOKE : Embarrassed, troubled ... If there was one bedroom I didn't want to find myself in, it was yours!

_ LUCAS : Why ...?

_ BROOKE : Because I'm still attracted to you !

_ LUCAS : That doesn't sound like good news... But I'm quite happy about it, me... Relieved even.

_ BROOKE : But... But I can't see my whole life again for a simple attraction, Lucas...

_ LUCAS : I can wait, Brooke... I can wait for you and let you take the time you need.

_ BROOKE : I... I don't know. I think at this point, the only thing I know is that I really want you.

_ LUCAS : That's a good first step... And then maybe it'll stop there after... Maybe not...

_ BROOKE : I already know it'll stop there after, Lucas... I prefer to warn you...

_ LUCAS : I could make do with that, Brooke. I'd rather have that than nothing at all...

Brooke could see in his eyes that he was hoping for more but that he was trying to make her believe otherwise.

_ BROOKE : We'll see that later... But it could also be that I decide that it stops there now...

_ LUCAS : If you don't want to anymore, I think you know that I won't force you to do anything... Never.

_ BROOKE : I know, but I'm afraid you're hoping for nothing.

_ LUCAS : Don't worry, I've gotten over much worse than that... But that doesn't mean I won't continue to turn you on tonight as soon as I get the chance.

Brooke knew she shouldn't feel this way, but the idea pleased her and excited her in advance. Her body having already decided to obey her completely and give in to her desire... Her reason still held a little water.

_ BROOKE : We'll see if you're good enough, then... Shall we go back?

_ LUCAS : Kiss me first... You never know... This could be the last time.

Without any hesitation, Brooke cupped his cheeks with her palms to pull him to her. Lucas let her do it, smiling. Quickly, their tongues wrapped around each other... They became sensual, caressing, full of promises. Each movement increased the waves of desire that animated them... They smiled at the same time as their mouths welded together. Brooke savored this sensation... That of the intensity of his desire and hers, that of the brazier that resumed... If she could, she would stop time... To let herself be forever bewitched and enchanted by his kisses... For his mouth that had the best taste on earth... By his smell that was like an existential drug... By her eyes through which she felt the most beautiful woman in the world and above all the most desired ... Through this heart that had decided to be so courageously honest at the risk of finding itself broken again. All that scared her on the other hand, was already knowing that he was the right one. And she knew that a choice would have to be made even if she would prefer to avoid it.

But for now, she let herself be intoxicated by the intensity of her reunion and everything it awakened in her. Both in terms of her feelings and her body, which only reacted through him.


Even though it had been hard to part, Brooke and Lucas were back where the festivities were in full swing... But the gentle warmth still present in the hollow of Brooke's kidneys didn't seem to want to leave her... Lucas' eyes either. He didn't miss an opportunity to look at her with envy, which didn't help at all. And that was how the end of the meal went.

Brooke felt particularly fragile, vulnerable and totally in love. She tried to avoid and deny Lucas' gaze that she felt all over her on numerous occasions... And even if she didn't share this eye contact, it didn't mean the sensations weren't there. A ball of fire and desire continued to radiate in her belly, despite her failed attempts to distract herself. Dessert time approached and with it the famous cake cutting and the festive atmosphere that grew a little more... And as if this wedding wasn't already atypical enough, Jake, Nathan and Skills got ready on the small stage.

_ JAKE : We're not going to change... We like to play and this is the perfect opportunity to get the party started. My dear... Nathan, Skills and I have composed something just for tonight, just for you... I hope you like it because for the occasion, I'm going to sing a song.

Everyone shouted and applauded while Peyton was already very emotional. The boys tuned their instruments and the music started. And Jake let himself be accompanied by dynamic but delicate pulsations at the same time.

_ JAKE SINGS : Oh my love... Don't worry... We'll take it one step at a time, because that's how you and I work. Before your eyes and thanks to you, my world has changed... Just as much as me... Now that we've found each other... I'm not going to let you go... For eternity... And if you want my opinion, it's still not enough... For eternity... Not yet enough...

Brooke could only acknowledge that Jake was a true artist... His voice sounded magnificent. But what touched her even more was his eyes staring into Peyton's... As if nothing existed around. And Peyton's were filled with tears of happiness and admiration, joy and love. Caught up in the pure emotion of that moment, Brooke naturally turned her face towards Lucas. The words of the song resonated more for her then; "I'm not going to let you go anymore... For eternity...". As she kept her gaze on Lucas, her eyes locked with his, a whole bunch of emotions invaded her body... Joy, fatality, emotion, desire... Lucas's gaze was warm but deep... Tender and sparkling. He didn't just look at her, he saw her. She saw him too, she only saw him in fact... And the butterflies began to dance and twirl inside her belly.

_ CAMERON : Mom !?

Her son's voice brought Brooke out of her contemplation and this still suspended moment a little abruptly.

_ BROOKE : Excuse me, my angel... Are you okay !?

_ CAMERON : Yes, but I would like to come on your lap to eat my cake... Would you like to ?

And even though her limbs were cottony, Brooke immediately moved to make room for her.

_ BROOKE : Of course I do! Come here!

_ CAMERON: Uncle Jake sings well, huh !?

_ BROOKE : I agree with you !

_ CAMERON : It's too bad Julian sings like a saucepan !

Brooke couldn't help but hold back a spontaneous laugh.

_ JULIAN: Thank you, Cam!

_ CAMERON : You're the one who always says it and I don't mind, you know...

_ JULIAN : Phew! But why is it a shame, then!?

_ CAMERON : Well because when you marry mom... You won't be able to sing her a song like Uncle Jake.

Brooke looked at Cameron, half amused, half embarrassed... She swallowed as her thoughts were taken up by someone other than Julian.

_ JULIAN : Except that your mom loves me for other things than my singing talents... And fortunately! But you know, I would be able to take singing lessons for her... To offer her that...

Brooke's heart sank and she tried not to look at Lucas or Julian. She was consumed by guilt.

_ CAMERON : You're going to have to take a lot, then !

Fortunately, Cameron's humor lightened the atmosphere and the air that had become almost unbreathable for Brooke.

_ JULIAN : We could take some together to make a nice surprise for mom that day, what do you say !?

But that was without counting on Julian's kindness which broke Brooke's heart a little more.

_ CAMERON : Can I mom ?! Can I take singing lessons with Julian !?

A little taken aback, Brooke smiled shyly at her son then she addressed Julian to dissuade him...

_ BROOKE : Uh for that, you would have to first make your request... This conversation seems a little rushed...

She immediately regretted what she had just said when Julian rewarded her with a knowing wink in response. To her dismay, she read it as a future promise... A promise that would have flooded her with happiness and impatience two days ago... But which today would ring false and mendacious. Brooke looked away as if to escape reality and the truth. In a few minutes, the butterflies that radiated her stomach transformed into guilty and shameful knots. She lacked appetite when it came to enjoying her piece of cake alongside her son who was enjoying himself. But that didn't mean she regretted what had happened with Lucas a little earlier. What put her in such a state was finally realizing that she was reconsidering her plans... That the love and desire she felt for Lucas was surpassing what she felt for Julian. That she was going to have to choose between an uncertain but galvanizing and terribly tempting future... Or a peaceful and soothing future with a beautiful person who also loved her with all her strength.

Brooke was snapped out of those distracting thoughts when everyone was invited inside for the opening dance... But she was immediately thrown back into it when Julian invited her to join the bride and groom on the dance floor. The slow dance inevitably invited Julian to put his hands on Brooke's body and the sensation was almost unpleasant for her. It wasn't so much that she felt repulsed by him, not at all. But she felt like she could feel Lucas' hands on her. A while ago, she had hoped that his hands would continue to caress every part of her body... And it wasn't Julian's hot breath that made her shiver but the memory of Lucas's... Intoxicating. While Brooke's face was lodged near Julian's, she saw Lucas in front of her... He was dancing too... With Lindsay. And there, it was a new emotion that took hold of her... Easily identifiable as it made her head heat up. Brooke's throat tightened with jealousy and she stared at Lindsay's waist on which Lucas' hands were chastely placed. Her eyes then went up and when Lucas found himself in front of her, their eyes locked directly. His gaze for her was almost sad, melancholic... But also filled with a disarming force. It was as if he were speaking... As if he were saying; " I dance with her but it's you I want…".

Besides, as soon as the last notes rang out, Brooke gently moved away from Julian so as not to feel this uncomfortable contraction anymore... And while she was expecting more dynamic music to replace the previous one, it was yet another slow song that resonated in the room.

_ LUCAS : I bribed the DJ to play a second slow song in a row... Are you dancing with me ?

While Brooke was dealing with the shivers caused to her, Lucas had already turned his head, casually, towards Julian.

_ LUCAS : Still okay with me dancing with your girlfriend ?

_ JULIAN : As promised... I'm going to get myself something to drink! Can I bring you something?

Brooke barely processed the fact that he had just asked a question that needed an answer. Lucas had already taken care of delicately hugging her waist. Brooke nodded quickly to Julian.

Brooke immediately recognized Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin

_ LUCAS : Do you know why I asked for this song, Brooke...?

_ BROOKE : Because it reminds you of me ?

_ LUCAS : Not even... Although I could always find something to think of you in any song, I think...

_ BROOKE : Why then !?

_ LUCAS : Because this slow dance lasts almost eight minutes... Eight long minutes to spend with you, Brooke...