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Chapter One-A Happy Family

"We really shouldn't be doing this right now." Brooke said with a smile as Lucas kissed her neck.

"And why not?" Lucas asked, looking up at Brooke. "You're here, I'm here, and we're totally in love and hot for each other. We'd be damn crazy not to pass up this opportunity."

Lucas kissed Brooke's lips before moving back down to her neck. Smiling, Brooke said, "I agree. But you're supposed to be at basketball practice, and me at cheer practice."

"Eh," Lucas shrugged, smiling at her again. "They won't miss us. Besides, you've got enough cheer."

She smiled again and they continued making out. But before things could get anymore serious, Whitey had busted through the door to the basketball equipment room. Brooke and Lucas broke apart when he started yelling.

"What the hell is this?" Whitey yelled with a scowl on his face. "National Scott Make Out During Practice Day? First, I find the younger Scott brother and his Mrs. In the locker room, and now you two?"

Lucas and Brooke could hardly contain their smiles and Lucas said, "Sorry, Coach.

"I don't want to hear sorry! I want to see you running suicides in the gym, Scott. And I want to see you flipping your pom-poms, Miss Davis. Mow, move it, both of you!"

Smiling, Brooke led Lucas out of the storeroom…

"Wake up, pretty girl." Lucas whispers in Brooke's ear as he lay next to her in bed. He kisses her neck and remembering her dream, Brooke smiles and opens her eyes. She rolls over and faces Lucas.

"Good morning, Cheery." Lucas speaks again.

"Mmm…'morning, Broody." Brooke replies before kissing him. After a few minutes, when they stop, Lucas says, "Wow…what were you just dreaming about?"

"You, of course." Brooke replies. "I was dreaming about that time Whitey caught us making out in the equipment room during practice."

Lucas laughs and says, "Oh yeah, I remember that. One of my favorite memories."

They both smile again before cuddling closer together on the bed.

"So, last night will make for a pretty great memory, huh?" Lucas says with his wife's head resting on his shoulder.

"Yea, definitely." Brooke replies. "I just hope we remember it as the night we made a baby."

"Oh, come on, babe. Don't go sad on me again. We will get another baby. We just have to let nature take its course."

"I know, but we've been trying for months to get pregnant again. I really want to have another baby, Luke. I want Jess to have a sibling she can grow up with. I mean she's three and already so much like me. But I don't want her to grow up like I did, lonely and desperate for attention."

"She won't, Brooke. She'll be perfectly fine. Jessi is going to have a different childhood than you, a better one."

Brooke looks up at him and says, "Promise?"

"I promise." Lucas says before kissing Brooke again. But a tiny little tap on the door together interrupts their quiet time.

"Mommy…daddy…" their little girl's voice speaks outside the door. "It's me…Jessilin."

Lucas smiles and says to Brooke, "There she is, right on time. I knew we shouldn't have moved her out of that crib."

Brooke smacks him playfully and says, "Stop it. Go let her in."

"Okay." Lucas says, climbing off the bed, still dressed in his sweats and t-shirt.

"Hello?" Jessilin talks again. "I'm still waiting out here."

Lucas smiles again as he opens the door. A short, little girl with dark brown hair and blue eyes looks up at him, hands on her hips.

"Well, it's about time." She says before Lucas picks her up and kisses her cheek. Brooke smiles at them from the bed.

"What took you so long to answer the door? Jessi asks, staring into her father's same blue eyes.

"Sorry, Jess." Lucas replies. "Mommy and I were cuddling."

"Oh." Jessi says. "Well, I wanna cuddly with momma too."

Lucas puts her down and Jessi runs over and climbs onto the bed via the oak chest at the end of the bed. She crawls up to Brooke.

"Hi, Mommy." She says, smiling as she hugs her mother.

"Good morning, baby girl." Brooke replies.

Jessi pulls away and says, "Hey, I'm not a baby any more, 'member? I got a big girl bed. I a big girl now."

Lucas and Brooke both chuckle and Brooke says, "Yes, you are a big girl. But you'll always be our baby girl."

"Well…" Jessi says with a thoughtful look. "I guess that's okay."

"Hey, speaking of your new big girl bed." Lucas says. "Did you make it like I showed you?"

"Umm…" Jessi says, a grin spreading across her face. "I forgot. But I'll go do it now, Daddy."

"That's my girl." Lucas says, helping his daughter off the bed. After Jessi runs from the room, Lucas smiles at Brooke and says, "See, she has a different life already. She makes her own bed."

Brooke smiles and tosses a pillow at her husband, forcing a chuckle from him. He sits back on the bed, glances at the clock on his nightstand, looks at Brooke and says, "Well, we should probably get up and get ready so we can get over to Nathan and Haley's."

"Oh yeah." Brooke said. "James' birthday. This is going to be a tough day for them. Do you really think we should go over there? I mean, are you sure they don't want to be alone with Cooper and Katie?"

"No." Lucas replies with a somber face. "Nathan asked everyone to come over and help him out with the kids and talk to Haley. You know, get her to talk to people. She's hardly been out of the house since what happened to James."

"I know." Brooke says as she sits up higher in bed. "But I don't think she's going to find it any easier today."

"Probably not. You're right, I know. But Nathan's my brother and Haley's as real a sister to me as Kelcee is. I can't stand seeing her or Nathan go through so much sadness and anger and guilt. I have to help them through this…in anyway that I can."

"I know, baby." Brooke says, rubbing his back. "I know."