Occasionally, when we talk to “One Tree Hill” star Sophia Bush, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. We mean that as a compliment — after nine years of watching the show, the place where Sophia ends and Brooke Davis begins has become less defined.

Sophia knows the feeling. “We were shooting a scene in the finale and Brooke was revisiting the high school hallways,” she says. (The high school sets were rebuilt for the final episodes… so prepare your kleenex and wine supply now.) “I walked in there and it was like everything I’d ever experienced as Brooke Davis and also as myself, all my best days… all my worst days… as a young girl making mistakes and a young girl having great success– whatever it was, it all came back to me and it was incredible emotional.”

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We would like to take a moment to congratulate Sophia & her Crowdrise fundraiser for F Cancer. They have officially won the Firefox Challenge. The current total raised stands at over $117,000. You can still donate as a congratulations to all the hard work that is being done to beat cancer.

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Confession: When Sophia Bush tweeted her final photo from the “One Tree Hill” set on the night that the series wrapped for good, we started crying. In public. It wasn’t exactly our finest moment.

While the series may have ended for Sophia, though, we can look forward to 13 final episodes with Brooke Davis (and the rest of the gang, of course) before we officially say goodbye. We were lucky enough to visit Sophia and her co-stars in Wilmington back in September, when we sat down with Sophia and got the scoop on her last weeks with B. Davis.

When Season 9 begins, we meet Brooke in a very happy place as she and Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) bring back a bit of nostaglia for themselves — and the fans — at Karen’s Café. “It’s great that she and Haley have come together to start this café. Joy and I were having so much fun that first episode,” Sophia says, sitting with us in the “Naley” house living room set as thunder raged outside the studio. “We had this whole rhythm down — how we would move, and where we could keep our aprons, and what we’d do to make it look like we’d done it a million times already. That’s really great for [Brooke], and it’s such a tie to the community and where she grew up. Brooke, more than anyone, has wanted nothing more than to be in her home. So I love her having that, and I love Brooke and Haley having that partnership, because they’re such good friends.”

If you’re envisioning sunny café scenes that recall Season 1, you’re not far off — but things in Tree Hill never stay too simple for long. If you didn’t already know, Brooke’s father, played by Richard Burgi, is finally making an appearance this year after being MIA for way too long. She’ll also revisit a terrifying face from her past when Xavier (Devin McGee), who assaulted her in Season 6 and later went to prison for killing Quentin, returns to Tree Hill. Through it all, though, Brooke’s priority remains her new family, as we saw her and Julian (Austin Nichols) welcome twins Davis and Jude in the Season 8 finale

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