It found them that night they stood on Lucas’s doorsteps, while he and his pretty girl exchanged “I upendo yous” for the first time. It found them in the rain as he explained to her the difference between her and Peyton is that he loves HER, that he wants to be with HER not Peyton, his reason he told her “ because wewe kink your eyebrows when you’re trying to be cute. Because wewe quote Kmo even though I’ve actually never seen wewe read. Because wewe miss your parents, but wewe never admit that! And because I’ve aliyopewa exactly two of these embarrassing speeches, and they’ve both been with you. And because we’re both gonna get pneumonia, but if you, need to hear why I upendo you, I can go on all night! upendo followed them through the good and the bad times, sometimes it appeared as only a glimmer maybe as a brief memory of the way things were, au how they could have been… other times it claimed the spotlight, such as it did when upendo caught up with them years later in NYC while they road in that carriage, effortlessly explaining their future as a power couple… “He is going to be a famous novelist, and I’m going to have a fabulous fashion line.” She alisema to the carriage driver…”But we are still going to have time to have a big family, he added… “Two boys, and a girl” she affirmed, “And I’ll coach little league” he replied gazing into her eyes, ”Uu! And I’ll bake treats for the team, she shrieked… “or buy them,” she admitted, ”And we will spend our summers in our beach, pwani house.” He proposed. “And winters in the southern France” She added, “It won’t matter where we are, as long as we are together” He proclaimed…they both looked at each other smiling. It was clear in that moment how easily upendo found Brooke and Lucas and how quickly they could fall back into that feeling…but the fear of that realization hit even harder, and that night Brooke and Lucas vowed to pour themselves into their work and tried to songesha on with their lives. As fate would have it, years later Brooke came back to mti Hill. She and Lucas fell right back into old habits of comfort and assurance, but when hardships and heartache threatened to break these two, it was their upendo for each other that found them on the brink of disaster, pulled them together, and would eventually save them as upendo once again found its way to Brucas… as they sat on her kitanda she realized how lucky they were to have each other and began to address him “we’ve been through a lot the two of us…but I know I wouldn’t have made it through a lot of those days with out you.” “Here,” she said, she handed him Angie’s purple monkey as he was about to leave, “I upendo you, Lucas Scott, wewe know that?” “I upendo you, too, Brooke Davis” He alisema before he walked out of her house.
Yes…Brucas will always upendo each other, and that “look” they share is all the evidence I need… She is vulnerable, yet beautiful, brilliant, and brave, in his eyes alone…and he is the guy, the only guy, she would have Lost it all for… their upendo story reminds me of how true Brooke’s words were when she spoke at Naley’s wedding, when she alisema “Love is not upendo which alters when it alteration finds. When life gets hard, when things change, true upendo remains the same.” There are no truer words, IMO, to speak of the upendo that Brooke and Lucas share than those that Brooke borrowed that siku from Shakespeare. And as she looked at Naley that day, and told them that “they made her feel safe…because they gave her hope, that feeling that everything's going to be okay and that there's going to be someone there to help make sure of that.” Well, Brucas gives me that hope, that feeling that no matter how hard wewe try to push it away, deny it, au hide from it…love finds a way in…you can’t control it, and even time won’t extinguish it…once its there and settled, its there forever, engraved in the hearts of those who share it.
