Brooke Davis stared at her wall in tears. She had just come back from a night out with her best friends Peyton, Nathan, Haley, and Lucas. There had been one addition, one girl that wasn't exactly her best friend. More like her worst enemy.
Annabelle Chalmers. Better known as Anna by the vast population of her love-struck grade. She was a British beauty with an enchanting accent and burning blue eyes. People referred to her lovingly as the "blue eyed British beauty". Brooke referred to her as the whore that had stolen her boy.
Truth was that Anna was a sweetheart through and through. She had irresistible charm, unsurpassable fashion sense, and a voice that would send any boy's nerves tingling. She had been incredibly friendly to Brooke when Brooke had returned from California to find HER as Lucas's new fling. But Brooke somehow couldn't find it in her heart to be the same big person and secretly plotted her downfall. Anna, however, didn't have a mean bone in her body.
Tonight, Anna and Lucas had looked almost as happy as Brooke and Lucas were before their dramatic breakup. And it had broken Brooke's heart into a thousand pieces.
The two and half months she was in California were the two and a half most horrible months of her life. Trapped under her mother's constant glare and her father's constant reprimand, miles and miles away from her best friend and the guy she loved. It was not the summer she had planned for herself. And then she had returned to find HER.
Annabelle Chalmers. The name rang through her head, and she remembered her first day back. Hey Brooke, have you met Anna? She's so sweet. Oh Brooke, meet Anna! Anna, this is Brooke. Oh Anna, Anna, Anna!
It was enough to make Brooke wanna catch a plane back to California. She almost did it when she found out that Miss Popular was dating a boy.
Her boy.
Brooke bravely wiped her tears and got up to go to the bathroom, but was stopped when her phone rang.
"Hello?" Brooke said into it, trying her hardest not to sound like she had just spent 2 hours sobbing.
"Hey you" Lucas deep voice resonated over the phone, making Brooke's knees go weak.
"Hey Luke" Brooke said nonchalantly. "What's up?"
"Nothing much, just bored. We didn't talk much tonight so I thought I'd give you a call"
"Oh" Brooke said, trying to sound friendly and congenial.
"So how's life, pretty girl?" Lucas asked.
Brooke's heart fluttered at the use of his favorite nickname for her.
"It's good, can't believe we're seniors already"
"I know…what colleges are you thinking about going to?" he asked her.
"Umm I really don't know right now…you?" Brooke asked.
"UNC sounds good, it's near home and it's a good school" Lucas said.
"Yeah…" Brooke said, playing with her hair and biting her lip.
"So do we have any plans for tomorrow?" Lucas asked.
"I think movies, maybe?"
"What time is good for you?"
"Anytime after 1"
"Oh, Anna said anytime before 1" Lucas said.
"Well its ok, we don't have to change plans for me" Brooke said.
"We don't have to change plans for her either" Lucas said.
"But won't she get mad that she's not there when I am?"
"Why would she?" Lucas asked.
"Doesn't she know about…our history?"
"She has some idea, but I didn't really talk about it with her…we've only been going out for a month" Lucas said.
"I just though she might be mad anyway" Brooke said.
"Oh, no she's not like controlling at all" Lucas said.
"Oh, like I was?" Brooke asked.
"I never said that" Lucas defended.
"You implied it!" Brooke yelled.
"Ok so I call for a nice chat with you because I've barely spoken to you in 3 months and this is what I get? An attack!" Lucas said hotly.
"And whose fault would THAT be, Lucas?"
"Yours! You've been so cold to me since you got back, I don't even know what's gotten into you!"
"What's gotten into me?" Brooke demanded. "I was surprised to find you practically married to a random British girl when I got back after you had told me that you loved me at TOTALLY the wrong time, Lucas!"
"I'm sorry, Brooke…" Lucas sighed.
"I don't care"
"I STILL love you, Brooke!"
"You can't say that. You're in a relationship"
"It doesn't mean anything to me"
"Right, just like ours didn't mean anything to you until you realized you couldn't get me back. YOU are a total case of ego, Lucas, and I want absolutely nothing to do with you. Have a nice life"
"Brooke, wait-" Lucas said. But she had hung up.
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