hey guys! so first story on here for me (pretty exciting!) and huge thanks to my bestie for letting me take over for her! :) oh and as always i have no right to oth or anything involving it. read and review! let me know what you think and any ideas you may have for the story. enjoy :)
p.s. - it's set during end of season two and beginning of season three and i'll probably have a poll up soon to decide how the story will go with relationships. as of now though it will be brooke/nathan and lucas/haley friendships, with relationships as nathan/haley, lucas/peyton to lucas/brooke
There was only so much more she could take. As she gently placed her ipod headphone in her ear and put it on shuffle.
"I know I can't take one more step towards you,
Cause all that's waiting is regret.
And don't you know i'm not your ghost anymore.
You lost the love I loved the most."
Tears started to roll down her face. How could things have gotten this bad? She used to be so happy. The perfect boyfriend, an amazing group of friends, head cheerleader, the most popular girl in school...and then it happened. They had betrayed her, and tried to keep it from her. She didn't know where else to go, who to turn to.
"And who do you think you are?
Runnin' round leaving scars.
Collecting your jar of hearts, and tearing love apart.
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul.
So don't come back for me.
Who do you think you are?"
There was a gentle knock at the door. She glanced over at the clock, 12:37. Who in the world whould be up at this time of night, she thought to herself. After checking the peephole, she was a little surprised to see the person standing on the other side of the door.
"Nate, what are you doing here so late?"
"I came to check on you. Hales told me what happend," he replied simply.
She opened the door more to let him in. Being his old apartment he walked straight over to the couch as she grabbed two sodas out of the fridge and sat down beside him.
"I don't know what i'm gonna do Nate," she started. "I can't bare to see the two of them together, it would kill me. I don't know if I could ever forgive them for this."
He sighed trying to think of something to say. "Remember when we were little, and our dads went to the same country club? How we would always sneak out of the daycare center and hide behind the bar in our fort." She smiled and nodded remembering their happier times together. "Well do you remember what I told you after we snuck out and almost got caught?"
"That you'd always be there for me." She smiled.
"And that one day we'd get out of here and away from our crappy parents. Or in this case, crappy friends."
"Wait, are you seriously saying-"
Her cut her off, "Yes, pack your bags. We're leaving tonight."
"Nate! We can't! You have basketball, and High Flyers and I have cheerleading and we both have school. And how are we gonna get to wherever we go, I mean it's not like we have jobs or money? And then there's food, shelter, and I have very high standards I can't stay in no gross motel and - "
"Brooke! Slow down!" He laughed as he cut her off. "I don't care about High Flyers. Haley is gone to god knows where. I've got nothing here that's worth staying for. My dad still thinks I'm going to High Flyers though so he gave me enough to survive the summer on it. I'm leaving regardless. Are you in?"
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
She was a little skeptical at first. She tried to push all the bad things that could happen out of her head, and thought it really couldn't be that bad. She'd have Nathan, they could always get more money from either hers or his parents, she would be far away from Lucas and Peyton and she could actually enjoy her summer.
"I guess i'll start packing." She ran back to her room with Nathan following. She started throwing clothes and shoes out of her closet as Nathan picked up her cheerleading duffel bag. They stuffed anything and everything they could into it and with the size of her closet and other "necessities" they ended up using four other bags. He threw everything in the back of his SUV as she hopped in the passenger side. She grabbed a map out of the dash and closed her eyes randomly pointing to it.
"Valley Springs, California."
"Sounds perfect." He replied "Well, really anything outside of Tree Hill sounds amazing at this point."
"Where are we gonna live?"
"I'm sure we can find a decent and cheap hotel to stay at. If not we can go more south to Fresno and stay with my aunt and uncle."
"So we're really doing this?"
"I guess so. Just me and you, finally." He turned the key in the ignition and started to drive to his house so he could start packing his bags as well. They parked on the curb and as they were making their way up to his house they were met by a new couple walking down the sidewalk that made Brooke's stomach churn.
"Brooke, get in the house." Nathan said sternly. He knew Brooke all too well and she would either cry about Lucas or kill Peyton.
"Gladly." She took the keys from him after giving Lucas her sad face which she knew would kill him and Peyton her killer bitch eye that would make any person feel like total crap. Dan was on his way out and Brooke explained to him that she would be accompanying Nathan on his trip to High Flyers to 'visit her parents' which was the biggest load of crap but like always, Dan believed her. They hugged which made Lucas cringe but Lucas continued to walk up to his brother hand in hand with his new girlfriend.
"Hey, little bro. What's going on here?"
"Don't call me that. I'm ashamed to be related to you. And if you must know i'm leaving, and Brooke is coming with me. Not that either of you two give a rats ass as to what happens to the two of us." He spat out. "Oh and if your not out of here in a matter of five minutes i'm kicking your ass. It may be public property but my father being mayor in all, I own this. So keep moving."
Lucas was shocked to hear that come out of his half-brother's mouth. "Woah, calm down. It was a simple question, but we were just passing through. We're leaving now. I'm sorry."
"You shouldn't be apologizing to me." He walked off to his house to go help packing his belongings with Brooke leaving a distraught Lucas and Peyton.
Peyton spoke up first, "I think I need to go home."
"Ok, i'll walk you there."
"No. I wanna be alone. I'll be fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes," she sighed, "I need some thinking time." And the two walked in their seperate directions, brooding as usual.
And who do you think you are running 'round leaving scars? Collecting your jar of hearts, and tearing love apart. You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul. So don't come back for me.
Who do you think you are?