One Tree Hill 8X18: Quiet Little Voices (Patreon)

So, I was sort of annoyed by this episode. It felt too much like a clip show. (Although, to be fair, I didn't really mind reminiscing about long ago Naley). And, I was also annoyed that I was right. I didn't want to be right. I wanted Brooke to have that baby so badly.

Both Haley and Chloe are in the hospital about to give birth. However, Brooke and Julian decide not to tell anyone as they don't want to steal Haley's thunder. Clay and Quinn are there to keep an eye on Jamie while Nathan is in with Haley.

Jamie has decided he wants to make a book about how to navigate life for Lydia and so, we spend a bit of the episode with flashbacks as we talk about things that have happened. Again, this was kind of annoying. Just tell me a story. We don't need to rehash what's already happened.

At one point, Julian is hanging out by the nursery looking at the babies, and there's another guy there doing the same thing. He tells Julian his girlfriend is having a baby and he's not sure if he's ready. Julian gives him some quick advice and that should have been that. But later, we find out that his girlfriend is actually Chloe. And, with him by her side, she decides she wants to keep the baby. Meaning Brooke and Julian go home without one. You know with two births this episode, there was zero chance they were both gonna go as expected.

As Brooke is crying and Julian is trying to comfort her, Nathan comes out and tells them that Haley had the baby. Brooke plays off her tears as being happy for them, but god was my heart breaking for this poor girl. All I want right now is for everything good in the world to find it's way to Brooke.

Um, also, wasn't it just, like, two episodes ago that Quinn was freaking out at the thought of marriage, and now she's ready to have babies?