a/n: Just a short drabble that came to me this past weekend when I was drinking with the girls. And to everyone who has been following my Brachel fics I am working on the next installment but my clever little plot bunny seems to be in the mood for time traveling and wants to jump 18 months into the future. Not a very long time but there is so much that can happened in 18 months and I don't want to magically gloss over any details and jump the shark, oh well we'll see. This is set during the 'For Tonight You Are Only Here To Know' episode.
Model Misbehaving
The bottle of non-descript brandy was nearly gone, passing back and forth between the five women stuck in the high school library. Twenty minutes ago Peyton and Lindsey had called an uneasy truce between the war of words after Lindsey's devastating recollection of her father's last moments on earth. With the fight knocked out of their bodies, Mia has somehow convinced her fellow prisoners of circumstance, into playing a game of Truth or Dare.
Round one seemed pretty simple with Haley doing three shots then balancing on one foot for a whole minute. Round two became a bit more daring as Mia was challenged to climb the highest bookcase in the library, suffice to say she only made it to the third shelf before the bookcase began to tremble under her weight. The young gangly girl proved herself to have catlike reflexes and managed to tuck and roll without sustaining any injuries. But the game didn't come to a screeching halt until round three when Brooke revealed her big Truth.
"Tell a dark hidden secret?" her raspy voice repeated as she turned the request over again and again in her mind. "Oh, I've got one" she announced to the group, bouncing excitedly in her chair "every Thursday for almost two years Rachel would come up to my office and we would have sex on my desk while Victoria was in budget meetings! Okay, Lindsey your turn truth or dare?"
"Whoa, whoa back it up a second Davis, did you just say what I think you did?" Haley asks nonplused.
"Well yeah," Brooke says feigning confusion "Mia asked me truth or dare, I answered so now it's Lindsey's turn."
"Brooke, did you honestly think you were just gonna drop a bomb like that and not expect to give us any details?" Peyton interjects, "Not graphic details but just a general….what the Hell man?" it was meant to be a joke and might have fooled everyone else but Brooke knew better. She could see past the grin on the blondes face and read the seething rage burning in her jade colored eyes.
"Please, fess up I'm not the only one here who has ever experimented, well disqualifying Haley who's been married since she was like five."
"Hey!" Haley gives an indignant shout snatching the bottle from Peyton's loose grasp.
"I let Connie Dimicco get to second base once." Mia admits
"I had a three-way with the president of my sorority and her boyfriend during rush week." confessed a tipsy Lindsey as she commandeered the bottle. "What about you Peyton, any hot girl on girl action you want to share with the group?"
They say a vacuum in physics is a space completely empty of matter but cannot be achieved on earth. Peyton feels as if her world is imploding upon itself and looking at Brooke, her best friend for nearly fifteen years, the first person she shared the most poignant life experience with, she can't help but wonder if that night all those years ago ever meant to Brooke what she holds sacred in her heart. "Um, yeah just once…but it was nothing special." Their eyes connect and she feels a tiny slither of satisfaction in the momentary flash of hurt in the brunettes hazel gaze.