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Chapter 5

"Did you talk to Haley?" Peyton asked, as she walked up behind Lucas.

"No, I got her voicemail. I'm going to go over there tonight though." He said. "Did the store have it?"

"They sure did." She showed him The Cure's new album. "They also had this." She un-wrapped the plastic bag to show him his book "An Unkindness of Ravens".

"Peyton, you didn't have to buy my book." Lucas told her.

"I know, but it's such a great book. I just had to buy it."

Lucas smiled. "You're really great, you know that?" He kissed her.

"So I've been told." She laughed. "Okay, I have to get home." She looked at her watch. "I have to meet with a band early in the morning. But, I really enjoyed spending the past few weeks with you, Lucas Scott."

"I enjoyed spending it with you too, Peyton Sawyer-soon to be Scott." He kissed her long and hard.

After coming up for air, Peyton blushed. "I can't believe we're getting married!"

"You're going to make me the luckiest man alive." Lucas said.

"Okay, luckiest man alive, I have to get home. I love you."

"I love you too."

Lucas watched as Peyton got into her car and drove away. He got into his car and headed to Nathan and Haley's house. As he drove through Tree Hill, he breathed the night air. He was happy to be home. The book tour was great. He traveled to a lot of cities, but there was no place like home. As he pulled up to the stoplight, he looked to the right. He noticed that his mom's café had been turned into a new store. Even though Karen closed down the café and moved away with Andy, Lucas felt sad that it wasn't there anymore.

Karen's Café was one of his favorite places in the world, besides the River Court and his uncle Keith's Body Shop. The light turned green, but he still sat there staring at the store. A feeling of nostalgia washed over him, as he remembered the nights like this, when he, Haley, and his mom would sit at a table and talk about the books he read.

The light turned red. He looked at the new name of the store. "Clothes Over Bro's" He thought it sounded familiar. When the light turned green again, he drove away.

…

"Guys, stop running around the house! Someone is going to get hurt" Brooke yelled after Jamie and Sebastian. They were running all around the house, playing Star Wars. She picked up a basket of dirty laundry and headed to the laundry room. Haley was cooking dinner in the kitchen, as she also told them to stop running around the house.

The doorbell rang.

"Jamie, go see who's at the door." Haley told him, as she checked the oven.

"Mama, my name is Luke Skywalker!" he said as he battled Sebastian with his lightsaber toy.

"James Lucas Scott, go see who's at the door!"

"Okay." He said in a low voice. "I'll be back Darth Vader! You will not rule this empire!" He said to Sebastian, with a dark voice.

"Ha, ha, ha! Silly Skywalker, you have no chance to defeat me!" Sebastian said as he ran away with his lightsaber.

Jamie ran to the door and looked through the glass window. When he saw who it was, he opened it.

"Jamie! What's up buddy?" Lucas asked, as he walked into the house.

"Hi Uncle Lucas, bye Uncle Lucas." Jamie took off running to find Sebastian.

"I missed you too." Lucas said sarcastically. He closed the door and followed the smell of pot roast into the kitchen. "Hey Hales, did you know someone turned mom's café into a new store?" He asked.

"Lucas!" Haley said nervously.

"Wow! No one missed me while I was gone?" He asked.

"Oh, sorry." She said as she gave him a hug.

"Okay, I just put a load in the washer, and these are the clean towels." Brooke said as she walked into the kitchen. She dropped the basket of folded towels when she saw Lucas standing there.

"Brooke?" Lucas said in a shocked voice.

Brooke just stood there with her mouth open, completely in shock.

She heard a shrill cry and Sebastian came running into the kitchen. "Mommy, it hurts!" He cried as blood trickled from his thumb.

Lucas stared at Sebastian. He didn't know what it was, but something made him feel instantly connected to the little boy. He looked back to Brooke. Brooke still stood there in shock. There were so many feelings running through her body all at once. A feeling of hatred, a feeling of surprise, a feeling of joy, and then back to a feeling of hatred.

"Mommy, it hurts so bad!" Sebastian jumped up and down, waiting for his mom to do something.

A feeling of urgency surged through her body and Brooke finally turned her attention to Sebastian. She looked at the cut on his thumb. It wasn't as bad as it seemed. "Come on Sebastian, let me fix it." Brooke took him and left the kitchen.

Lucas carefully watched them as they left. He felt like he was dreaming. The girl that he loved had left him 4 years ago. And now she was back…with a son? He turned around and looked at Haley. She was sitting on a chair, avoiding eye contact with him.

"Haley, when-"

Ding!

"That's the timer. I need to check on the food." Haley quickly walked over to the stove.

Lucas followed her. "Haley, when did she come back?"

"Is this seasoned enough?" Haley ignored his question. She held a spoon to his mouth.

"Haley, when did she come back?" Lucas asked her again.

"Can you put a few juice boxes in the fridge for the boys? The adults are going to drink wine." She ignored him again.

"Haley!" He yelled at her.

"She came back a few weeks ago." Haley said softly.

"A few weeks ago? And you didn't call me and tell me?" Lucas was devastated when Brooke broke up with him in high school. He didn't think the break-up was that severe until he found out that she left Tree Hill. He confided in Haley a lot during the break-up. He broke down and cried and told her how much he loved and missed Brooke.

"That wasn't my place to tell you." Haley explained.

"And I guess it wasn't your place to tell me that she had a son?"

Haley swallowed a hard lump in her throat. They were approaching a dangerous topic. "I didn't even know she had a son until I convinced her to come back. She never mentioned that to me over the last 4 years!" She blurted out.

"What the hell! You've been talking to her since she left!" Lucas was beyond mad.

Haley got quiet. She knew she slipped up.

Lucas went on with his tirade. "You knew I missed Brooke. I couldn't eat or sleep. When I asked you if you knew where she had gone, you told me no. When I asked you if you had spoken to her, you said no! But you lied to me! We're supposed to be best-friends! Best-friends don't keep secrets from each other!"

Haley was upset now. "And boyfriends don't cheat on their girlfriends with their girlfriend's best-friend! Twice! Why do you think she left in the first place!"

Lucas was shocked. He didn't think she was say something like that.

Brooke walked into the kitchen. She heard everything. "Haley, can you give us a moment to talk?"

Haley simply nodded her head. She turned the oven off and then she left the kitchen.

"So, you missed me?" Brooke asked Lucas.

"Every day." Lucas stated. He had to pick and choose his words carefully.

"If that's true, which I doubt that it is, why didn't you ever call me?"

"Because I knew what Peyton and I did was wrong. I figured that you didn't want to talk to either of us."

"Peyton called me while I was away." Brooke put her hands on her hips.

"I didn't know that."

"You never cared to find out. You never cared about me."

"What do you mean I never cared? You never cared to tell me that you were moving away!" Lucas got angry again. "One day you were screaming and crying at me at Nathan and Haley's wedding, and the next day everybody in class is asking me, "Where's Brooke?" You just took off."

Brooke looked at him like he was crazy. "You didn't honestly think that I was going to stay around and be everyone's joke, did you? Look at the stupid girl that fell in love with Lucas Scott. The same guy that's banging her best-friend!"

Lucas just shook his head. "You're being childish. Just like it was childish for you to move away and not tell me!"

"Oh, I'm being childish?" Brooke was seething.

"Yes!" Lucas was just as mad.

"I MOVED AWAY TO HAVE YOUR CHILD!" Brooke snapped.

Lucas felt like someone had just knocked the wind out of him. As he slowly re-gained his composure, he asked, "What did you say?"

…

"Aunt Haley, who is that man in there arguing with my mommy?" Sebastian was upset.

"That's my Uncle Lucas." Haley was glad that Jamie answered before she could.

"Come on guys, let's go to the pool." Haley said, as she quickly took the boys outside. They didn't need to hear any more of the argument.

When they got outside, Haley put the floaties on the boys. She wrapped Sebastian's hand with a plastic bag and told him not to get it wet. The boys jumped into the swimming pool. She heard Nathan's car pull into the driveway.

"Nathan, hold up a second. Come here." She told him before he used the front door. He opened the backyard fence and walked to the pool.

"Hey Hales." He kissed her on the lips. He could tell it was something wrong by the way she kissed him back. "What's wrong? And why are they in the pool? It's 8:00 at night."

"We're out here because Brooke and Lucas are in there 'talking'. She used air quotes.

"Eww!" Nathan scrunched up his face. "They better not be 'talking' on my new recliner."

Haley laughed. "No, they're not having sex, they're arguing."

"Oh. About what?"

"About Sebastian?"

"What about Sebastian?"

"Oh." Haley realized. "I forgot to tell you that Sebastian is Lucas' son." She whispered.

"What?" Nathan couldn't believe it. Haley nodded.

"What do you mean you forgot to tell me? How long have you known?" Nathan asked.

"Brooke told me couple of weeks ago."

"You should've told me. Now Luke is going to think I kept that from him."

"We shouldn't be the ones arguing." Haley said.

Nathan threw his gym bag on the ground and sat on a beach chair. He pulled Haley onto his lap. They both stared at Sebastian in the pool. "Well, if you actually look at him, he does look like Lucas." Nathan said,

"I know, right?" Haley agreed.

…

"Sebastian is your son!" Brooke shouted.

"Are you just saying that because you're mad at me?" Lucas asked. He didn't want to believe this.

"Yeah! I had sex with myself and got my own self pregnant! " She said sarcastically.

Lucas picked up on the sarcasm. He dreaded on asking her this next question. "How do I know that he's mine?"

Brooke's heart broke and it shattered into a million pieces. "I can't believe you would ask me something like that."

"Oh come on Brooke! I've seen you in different magazines with different guys. And now I'm supposed to believe that he's mine, because you say he is?"

Brooke slapped him. "SCREW YOU LUCAS!"

He looked at her in disbelief, and then he walked away. When the door slammed, Brooke broke into tears.

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