Finding Herself

Chapter One

Summary/Introduction

This story is A/U. Brooke Davis is the new girl at Tree Hill High School, her family used to live in LA, but they moved to Tree Hill because Brooke's step mother thought that Brooke needed to get out of the LA party scene. Brooke is a party girl, she sleeps around, drinks too much, and has a bitchy attitude, and hates her step mother. Her dad and step mom are never home, they're always away for some cruise or out in Las Vegas wasting their money on cocktails and expensive dinners.

Peyton Sawyer is the most popular girl at school and she is dating Lucas Roe (Nathan and Lucas are not brothers in my story. Karen and Keith are married, Keith is not related to Dan Scott, the only reason he knows Karen is because he knew her in High School and has been a close friend to the family ever since.) Peyton never dated Nathan, but they're good friends because they've known each other ever since they were in Elementary School. Lucas, Nathan, Tim, and Jake are all best friends and really great basketball players. Peyton does not cheer. Haley James is Peyton's best friend and she wants to date Nathan, but they are not officially dating yet, they've only kissed once at a party during a game of Truth or Dare. Haley is smart, but she isn't as nice. Peyton, Haley, Lucas, Nathan, and Tim are the "Popular Group" of people at Tree Hill High. They all have the nicest cars, the nicest clothes, and they all are attractive.

Nathan Scott is a player, and does his fair share of sleeping around as well. His parents, Dan and Deb Scott don't get along that well. His dad is always pressuring him to be better and better, and is always trying to intimidate him. His mom is never around because she is always at "business meetings" or so she says. Nathan parties and drinks as well as the rest of his friends and is known to throw really great parties.

Brooke Davis stepped into her new mansion with her suitcase in hand, "Where's my room?" she said with no enthusiasm or excitement in her voice what so ever.

"Well, there's a master bedroom for your mom and I, and then there's two guest rooms and then other big room, so I'm guessing the other big room is for you pumpkin." Brooke's dad said as he walked into the living room and sat on the big black leather couch.

Brooke walked up the stairs, "She's not my mother and don't call me pumpkin," she said to herself, she wished that she had the courage to say it to her father's face but she knew that if she screwed up with her father then she would be going to live with her grandparent's in their smelly old house. She walked into her new room and saw that her stuff was already in there, and the walls were pink, "Pink my favorite color," she said rolling her eyes and flopping herself down on her big bed. She knew that this was going to be hell.

Brooke's stepmother Tara stood in the doorway of Brooke's room, "So, how do you like Tree Hill?"

"It's definitely not LA," Brooke said as she started unpacking her clothes.

Tara walked over towards Brooke and started helping her unpack her stuff, "I think you'll like it here Brooke, you won't be around the same crowd of people as you were before."

"What do you mean crowd of people?" Brooke asked slamming her drawer.

Tara sighed and shook her head, "Don't start your temper tantrums now sweetie."

"Get the hell out of my room," Brooke said with her back turned towards her step mother.

Tara walked out of the room, "You have school tomorrow Brooke, and make sure to make a good impression the first day."

"Bitch," Brooke said under her breath. The truth was she hated Tara with a passion. Everything about Tara made her nauseous, her voice, the way she looked, her bitchy attitude, and pretty much her whole personality. 'I don't have time to think about her,' Brooke thought to herself. She got into the shower and picked out what she was going to wear to her first day of school. After she had decided what she was going to wear she went to sleep, instead of hearing music from different mansions like she had always heard in LA she heard silence, something Brooke was not used to.

Brooke was having the worst dream ever; she had gone to her first day of school naked, Brooke was just about to head into school in the nude when her alarm woke her up from the nightmare. 'Get a hold of yourself Brooke,' she thought to herself as she applied her make up and put on her clothes. She walked downstairs and saw a note on the kitchen table:

Brooke,
Had to go on a business trip, we'll be back in a week or so.

Love, Mom and Dad


"Mom and dad?" Brooke said rolling her eyes, "Right." She drove her silver Mustang to school, it was her baby and she almost jumped out of her pants when her dad showed it to her. She needed to make a good impression even if all these kids were hicks. She drove up to the school and saw a least a dozen nice cars, "Okay so maybe these kids aren't all little farmers," she said to herself as she found a spot to park. She got out of her car and headed to the school, she saw the little groups of kids form as they all stood outside and talked about god knows what. Brooke saw the Goths, Jocks, Preps, Art freaks, and one group of kids that looked like the popular kids. They were all dressed nicely, the boys were hot and they girls were beautiful, they all looked pretty nice, but Brooke wasn't trying to make any new friends in this place. She walked past them and heard one of them whistle at her.

"You're new," a brown haired geeky looking boy said to her, "Hi, I'm Tim Smith."

'What a joke,' Brooke thought to herself, "Hi, I'm Brooke Davis," she said as nicely as she could without coming off as a fake.

"If you need anybody to show you around I could definitely show you some things," Tim said winking at her and obviously hitting on her.

A blonde girl with curly hair came to Brooke's rescue and slapped Tim in the back of the head, "Tim she's obviously not interested," she said rolling her eyes as Tim walked back to his group of friends, the blonde girl refocused her attention on Brooke, "Peyton," she stated sticking out her hand.

Brooke shook her hand, "Brooke," she said. Brooke liked this girl, she didn't exactly know why, but there was a good vibe about this Peyton chick, "Thanks for helping me with that kid," she said smiling.

Peyton laughed, "No problem, Tim thinks he can get into any girl's pants. He can't see when a girl isn't interested."

Brooke laughed, "I hate being the new kid," she said looking around at all the unknown faces.

Peyton saw the hurt in the brunette's eyes, "You can hang out with me and my friends, and they're all nice." she said trying to help.

"I don't want to feel like intruding or anything," Brooke said not sure if she should take up the offer or not.

Peyton put her hands on Brooke's shoulders, "You won't intrude, believe me."

Brooke smiled, "Thanks, I'll see you during school I have to go to the principal's office and get a tour around the school, but I guess I'll see you during lunch." she said finally starting to feel accepted.

Peyton winked at her, "See you at lunch Brooke." and she gave a little smile and walked towards her group of friends.

'At least she remembered my name,' Brooke thought trying to make this experience as positive as possible. The whole time her and this Peyton girl were talking she couldn't help but notice a gorgeous brown haired boy watching them. He has muscles so he definitely played sports and had beautiful brown eyes. 'Maybe this school won't be as bad as I thought,' Brooke thought as she walked through the doors and into the principal's office.

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