A/N-So this is the new Baley story I mentioned in an author's note in my story Two Worlds Collide. This is the longest first chapter that I have done so hopefully you all enjoy it. Most of this chapter is flashbacks, but I needed a back story to start the actually story so here it is. REVIEW AT END PLEASE!
Chapter One: Where does it start?
Brooke Davis and Haley James stood in front of each other with tears in their eyes. It was two days after their high school graduation and nothing changed between the two lovers.
"So, this is it. You are just going to leave."
Brooke shrugs her shoulders.
"Haley we want different things. We want to go to two different schools. It's just the way it has to be."
"But what about us?" Haley asks through her tears.
"There is no 'us' at least not anymore."
Haley nods her head and steps closer to Brooke and places something in her hand.
"Goodbye Brooke."
Brooke watched Haley walk away and then looked at the symbol in her hand. It was a symbol of a promise. A promise of forever only the promise didn't last very long. And it sucked.
That moment was when it all changed for me. I lost my first love and I didn't think I would find that love again mostly because I wouldn't let it. After my heart wrenching break-up with Haley there was really only one person who could help me get through it. My best friend, Nathan Scott.
Nathan Scott walks into the bedroom of his best friend's room and sees her crying. He sits down on the bed next to her and Brooke buries her face into his shoulder.
"Haley and I broke up."
"The hottest couple in Tree Hill broke up, but that's like insane."
Brooke hits him in the chest and pulls away from him.
"You're supposed to make me feel better."
Nathan puts his hands up in defeat.
"What happened?"
"I got accepted to NYU."
Nathan smiles and hugs Brooke.
"That's awesome Brooke; it's your dream school."
"I know that, but Haley doesn't want to leave North Carolina."
"Oh! You two were headed down different paths then?"
Brooke nods her head.
"It hurts Nathan. She was my everything."
Nathan brings Brooke closer to him and soothes her.
"Hey, it will be okay Brooke who knows maybe in New York you will meet a great girl and be able to fall in love again."
"Not like Haley," Brooke mumbles.
The truth was I don't think I could ever love anybody like I loved Haley. I guess it had something to do with my first love. They say that nothing can compare to that, but someone got close, really close.
I first met her my second year at NYU she was a transfer from some college that I can't think of at the moment, but the moment I met her we became the best of friends.
Brooke turned the corner while she was reading her book and bumped into someone at the same time knocking all of their stuff to the ground.
"Oh my god I am so sorry," Brooke said quickly as she gathered the other person's books.
"It's okay, I should probably watch where I am walking," the red head said with a laugh.
Brooke looks up and smiles.
"But I was reading."
The girl sticks out her hand and Brooke shakes it.
"Rachel Gatina."
"Brooke Davis."
Rachel smiles and hands the book that Brooke was reading to her.
"Lessons by Kim Pretikel…great book."
Brooke smiles at the new girl and nods her head.
"Absolutely."
"I should probably go, but I'll see you around."
That was a turning point for me. Rachel and I become friends shortly after that and we did everything together. When Rachel kissed me for the first time about 2 weeks later I knew I was a goner.
Brooke and Rachel were in Brooke's dorm room studying when Rachel stopped writing and looked over at Brooke. Brooke stopped what she was doing and looked at her friend.
"What are you looking at?"
"You are so beautiful do you know that," Rachel says as she blushes and lowers her head to the bed.
Brooke smiled gently and brought Rachel's head back up.
"That was a very nice thing for you to say."
Rachel blushes again.
"I meant it."
"Well you are beautiful as well."
Rachel chuckles and moves closer to Brooke's lips and softly kisses her. Brooke stays still. When Rachel pulls away she starts to have a mini break down.
"Oh my god Brooke I am so sorry…I shouldn't have done that I am so stupid."
Brooke starts to laugh and she puts her hand on Rachel's arm.
"Rachel its okay I wanted you to do that."
Rachel smiled shyly at Brooke.
"You did."
Brooke nods her head.
"I did. Now come here," Brooke says with a smirk as she grabs the back of Rachel's head and brought their lips closer together.
That was the start of our relationship and I have to say that it was a pretty good one at that. It didn't take us that long to say I love you and it didn't take us that long to make love either. We continued to date for that entire year until the unthinkable happened. I didn't think it would be a possibility for us. I didn't know what Rachel's view on it was, but I was glad to find out that it was the same as mine.
It had been the perfect night already. It was their 1 year anniversary and Rachel had everything planned for awhile. The first went dancing at a local club and then ate dinner at a nice cozy restaurant and now they were walking hand in hand along the beach. When they arrived to the place that Rachel wanted them to be Rachel stopped Brooke.
"Brooke, I think there are things that I have to say to you and I hope that you will listen."
"Of course I will baby, what is it?"
"This last year has been the best time in my life and I fell for you and I fell hard. I know in my heart that I will love until the day I die. Now I don't know if this is the best way to ask this, but here it goes. Brooke Penelope Davis, will you do the honors in becoming my wife?" Rachel asks as she holds out the engagement ring to show Brooke.
Brooke has tears in her eyes and as soon as she wipes them away she kisses Rachel softly and leans her forehead on Rachel's.
"Yes," Brooke whispers.
That was a great night for me. As soon as we were engaged I called Nathan up and told him the good news. He was so happy for me and he told me he knew I was going to find love and he was right. Rachel and I sat down and started planning our wedding. We decided we wanted something small and not very expensive considering we were college students. I knew that I was going to make my own dress mostly because I found that I had a knack for fashion design. The ceremony was small and we liked it that way. Rachel's parents showed up and so did her sister Danielle. Danielle was 5 years younger than Rachel so she was 15. Rachel's parent's names are Steven and Stacy. Nathan and my parents attended on my side, Richard and Victoria Davis. I didn't really remember much about the wedding itself only that look in Rachel's eyes the moment that I said 'I do' it was complete and utter love.
We spent 2 weeks in the Bahamas for our honeymoon and we never left the hotel room except for like three nights other than that it was just me, Rachel, a bed and lots of sex. I had a hot, sexy wife. It was great.
It took only a few months and then we were discussing the next steps. It was children and when Rachel brought it up it was completely out of the blue.
Brooke and Rachel were lying in bed in each other's arms and Brooke's head was on her wife's chest.
"Do you want kids?"
Brooke stops tracing small patterns on her wife's stomach and looks up at her.
"I do, but where is this coming from?"
Rachel smiles and shrugs her shoulders.
"I know that it is fast, but I guess I've always wanted to be a mom even when I was little. I really hope that you want that too because I think it would be great to have a mini you running around our newly bought house."
"Why can't we have a mini you running around?"
"Because I don't want to get fat," Rachel says with a pout.
Brooke kisses Rachel softly on the lips.
"It's a good thing that I want to get pregnant isn't it?"
Rachel smiles and kisses Brooke deeply and passionately.
"We're really going to do this. We're going to have a baby."
Brooke smiles and rest her head back on Rachel's chest.
"We're having a baby."
That was a great day for us. We got everything prepared right away. First we told our families and then we told our friends. We went to the doctors and secured an OBGYN for Brooke and then we had the discussion on donors. Out of the blue Rachel said that she wanted Nathan to be the donor only if he was interested in being an uncle and not hold any rights against us and he agreed which made us all happy. We began the procedure and 3 months later we were sitting in the bathroom waiting for the test results.
Rachel was pacing back and forth asking the same question over and over again.
"Is it positive?"
Brooke sighed for the 14th time.
"I don't know yet. I haven't looked."
Rachel stops pacing and kneels in front of Brooke.
"Baby, whatever the test says it's going to be okay."
Brooke nods her head and picks up the stick sitting on the sink. She looks at the test and nods her head. She places it back on the sink and takes Rachel's hands in her own.
"We're going to be mothers."
Rachel smiled brightly and kisses Brooke softly and then moves to Brooke's stomach and kisses it as well.
We were pregnant and we were super excited about it. Everyone started taking bets on whether it was going to be a boy or a girl and all Rachel and I said was that as long as the baby came out healthy that was all that matters. During our first ultrasound we got to hear the heartbeat and both Rachel and I had tears in our eyes. We also both decided that we didn't want to know the sex of the baby until he or she was born.
I was six months pregnant when we decided to think about names for our unborn child.
"How about Adam?" Rachel suggests as she looks through a baby name book.
"Um…no."
Rachel sighs and closes her book.
"Well than what do you suggest?"
"Ryan."
Rachel looks at her wife with a raised eyebrow.
"Boy or girl."
"Doesn't matter."
Rachel slowly nods her head.
"That's okay I guess, but I thought we already decided on a name for a girl."
"Okay, so if it's a girl we can have Ryan be the middle name."
Rachel smiles and nods her head.
"We still need to think of boys names."
"I have a feeling that we won't have to."
"Better safe than sorry babe."
3 months later I was in labor ready to give birth to our baby and let me tell you it isn't a walk in the park and who ever thought of having babies without drugs were seriously insane because it hurts like a mother fucker.
"Rachel I can't push anymore," Brooke says as she breaths erratically.
"Yes you can sweetie just one more push and our child will be here okay, and it will be all worth it."
"Alright, one more push Mrs. Davis."
"OH MY GOD!" Brooke says before one more push that aloud a small baby to exit the birth canal.
Cries of a newborn filled the room and Brooke rested her head against the pillow.
"Congratulations mommies. You have a beautiful baby girl."
"You did so good baby," Rachel whispers to her wife after she cuts the umbilical cord.
The nurse hands the baby to Brooke and she and Rachel look down at their daughter all nice and clean.
"Welcome to the world Samantha Ryan Davis."
"She's so beautiful just like her momma," Rachel says with a smile.
Here I am 13 years later and I never believed it would happen to me. I don't know when it started, but it did and now I guess Rachel and I had enough. I guess some things don't last forever. The worst part in all of this is that our daughter Sam is going to suffer the worst. She's caught in the middle and you never want to be in the middle. You don't want to have to choose sides. It sucks not just for her, but for all of us.
I guess this is where my story actually starts.