This story takes place after the season 2 finale, and pretty much explains itself from there. If you have any questions, just let me know. This is going to be slightly different from how the current season is going.

Chapter 1 –Anymore

I can't hide the way I feel about you anymore
I can't hold the hurt inside,

keep the pain out of my eyes anymore

Brooke Davis seemed to have it all, money, beauty, brains. She was the kind of girl that everyone wanted to be. The happy-go-lucky party girl, who looked and acted liked she didn't have a care in the world.

But, that was the Brooke Davis that she wanted everyone to see.

And appearances can be deceiving.

Too bad, none of her new friends could see that her smiles never reached her eyes, and that her laugh was empty. The happy-go-lucky girl that everyone adored was just an act.

Sure, she had a new life that most girls would dream of. She lived in a mansion on the beach, in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Southern California. She drove a brand new Mercedes convertible, and wore all the best designer clothes. She was wildly popular at her new school, and she had even managed to become the new head cheerleader within a month. She was adored by all the girls, had all of the right friends, and all the boys were already putty in her hands. She had everything that any girl could ever want.

But, Brooke Davis was missing the one thing she desperately needed to be happy. Her heart.

Unfortunately, she left her heart in Tree Hill, with the blonde haired, blue-eyed boy that had stolen it the first time she ever laid eyes on him.

Lucas Scott

He was the boy who had shown her how to love, who had seen the real Brooke Davis. The first boy she had ever let past the tough façade and party girl image. The same boy who had completely destroyed her, and broken her heart in the worst possible way. The boy who cheated on her with her best friend. But, he was so much more than the ex who had ripped her world to pieces. Over the last few months they had rebuilt their fragile relationship and become friends. He had stood by her, believed in her, and had made her believe that she could be more than just a pretty party girl. He had started to gain her trust again, and unbeknownst to her, had managed to find his way back into her heart.

A heart he once again crushed when he confessed his love for her before she left Tree Hill for the summer.

She had looked into his piercing blue eyes, and she did the only thing that her heart would let her. She ran. Tearfully, regretfully, she pulled away from the boy who meant everything to her, and left without a word. She had cried the whole way to her new home, cried the first week she was there, and she had come to the realization that he had her heart, back in Tree Hill. And pieces of a broken heart never make a person feel whole.

But what was she to do? Three months had passed, and she found herself starting school in California, starting over, and starting a life without the people that mattered most to her. She had the chance to go back, but didn't know how to face him. So when her parents had pushed for her to stay in California, she had given in, and gave up on the only place she had ever called home.

She had tried to pick up the phone so many times, tried to call the people whom she loved, but something stopped her every time. She couldn't face Lucas, she didn't know what she would say, she loved him, that was certain, but she was too scared to open up and let him back in. She couldn't tell Peyton, her best friend, that she wasn't coming back. She couldn't face how she left those who meant the world to her, so she chose just not to face them at all.

Instead, she did what she did best. She put on a fake smile, turned on the charm, and became the Brooke that only a select few had managed to see past. She once again became the superficial cheerleader, and tried not to think of what she had left behind.

Only every now and then she would sit down and remember life in Tree Hill, and only then would she cry, because she didn't quite know how she could move on. Lucas still had her heart, and she didn't know if she would ever get it back.

My tears no longer waiting, my resistance ain't that strong
My mind keeps recreating a life with you alone
And I'm tired of pretending I don't love you anymore

ANN: Song lyrics are from Tavis Tritt, and the song is titled 'I Don't Love You Anymore.

Don't worry the chapters will get longer. I am just setting it up. Please let me know what you think, this is my first attempt at writing fan fiction.