Brooke lays on her bed, thinking about everything that has happened. She doesn't feel like going to school. She doesn't want to see that two-face cheating jackass, also known as, Mr. Chavez, the English teacher.
Rachel enters the room just finishing her shower.
"You're gonna be late, you know?"
"I don't care. I don't even know if I'm going."
"Oh, come on! You can not skip school. State Championships are coming up. Besides, it's gonna be fine. I'll be right there to back you up." Rachel says referring to the recent event between Brooke and Mr. Chavez
"Wow.. I can't believe you just said that." Brooke says shock that Rachel was actually acting like a friend.
"I know me neither. Come on, get your fat ass up and get changed." she says walking out the door.
"Hey, where are you going? Aren't you going to wait for me?" Brooke says as she gets up and starts walking towards the bathroom.
"Umm.. no. I have something to do. I'll see you later." With that, she leaves.
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Brooke arrives at school and is on her way to park her car in her usual spot when out of nowhere a speeding car comes and cuts right in front of her.
"Come on! I don't need theis right now." she says pissed off. She gets dragged out of bed, Rachel leaves early, and now she is running late. She did not want to go to school in the first place. She's so into her thoughts that she doesn't notice Lucas standing there witnessing the whole thing.
Lucas watches the guy continue on what he was doing not caring that he could have almost hurt someone. He walks up to him.
"Hey! What the hell is your problem?" Lucas screams. The guy turns around with a smile on his face.
"What? Did I do something wrong?"
"Umm.. yea. Are you blind or there's just something wrong with your head? You could have hurt someone and you don't even care." Lucas continues screaming unaware that people were starting to watch the whole thing. By this time, Brooke has found a new spot and is walking towards the school. She sees them and starts walking towards them hoping to stop whatever they are doing.
"Oh, that chick? I didn't hurt her. Besides, who cares? It's every guy for himself, right?" He laughs.
"You think this is funny?" He laughs harder.
Lucas has had enough. He lunges towards the guy and punches him square in the jaw. The guy fights back and punches Lucas as well. They continue their fight and Brooke rushes to them.
"Lucas, stop it!" she screams and at the same time she tries to pull Lucas away.
"Lucas!" she tries grabbing his arm, unsuccessfully.
The guy was about to punch Lucas again, but Lucas dodges it. Instead, he punches Brooke instead. She falls backwards from the impact and her lip starts bleeding. She touches it noticing the blood as well. She stands up ans starts walking into the school.
Lucas gives the guy one last punch and rushes towards the school.
"Brooke!" he calls, but she keeps on walking.
"Brooke!" he tries again, but all she does is walk faster.
"Brooke!" he finally catches up to her and grabs her arm turning her around.
She stares at him expressionless.
"Are you ok?" he asks worried as he sees the bruise forming on her lip.
"I'm fine." she answers nonchalantly and gets away from Lucas' grip.
He grabs her again, "Brooke", he says sternly. He knew she is lying to him. He could tell that there was something bothering her and it wasn't just about the fight earlier. There's more to it. She wasn't her usual cheery self. She was brooding... that's his job.
"I'm fine alright" she says annoyed and starts heading to class.
Brooke arrives to homeroom only seconds after the bell rings. Lucky for her, the teacher was running late as well. She sees Rachel and takes a seat next to her.
"Thanks for leaving early, slut."
"I had stuff to do. What the hell happened to you?" she asks as she sees the bruise forming on her lip.
"Oh, it's nothing. I ran into a little accident that's all." Brooke says trying to get out off the topic.
"So, what was so important that you had to come to school early?" Brooke asks wanting to know what got her friend so eager to get to school.
Rachel was about to answer when their teacher comes in and starts taking attendance.
"You're not off the hook yet, bitch." Brooke whispers as the bell rings and they head to first period.
Brooke is both happy and sad she has English first. Happy because after that class she won't have to see that jerk's face anymore and she has Haley and Rachel in that class. Sad because Lucas and Peyton are also there and she has to sit in that room for 45 minutes listening to that jerk talk.
She enters the room and takes a seat next to Haley.
"Hi."
"Hey, what happened to you?"
She shrugs it off as Mr. Chavez enters the room. He looks at her direction, but once he saw Rachel giving him a glare, he turned away.
As she gives Rachel a look, she catches Lucas staring at her. Their eyes connect but she turns away not willing to put her through all that pain again. She broke up with him. Yes, but she still loves him so much. She just let him go to avoid anymore pain and hurt that he may cause her. She's afraid that he might realize he loves Peyton and leave her again.. like before. She wasn't gonna put her self through that. She's done with all the heartbreak.