A Breath of Fresh Air

Summary: Takes place after Lucas gets dropped off by Rachel at Brooke's apartment after the Fantasy Boy Draft Date.

Rivercourt meetings -chapter 1

Lucas opens the door to Brooke's apartment after his Fantasy Boy Draft date with Rachel. He opens Brooke's bedroom door and sees her wake up as he walks in.

When they lock eyes, he just gives her a smile and shrugs his shoulders, as if to say, "
I couldn't help myself from seeing you."

Brooke begins to sit up in her bed when Lucas sees Chris Keller's body rise up also, and put his arm across her body while smirking at Lucas. "Brooke?" Lucas says with pained eyes. "Luke, I can explain," Brooke says persistently as she gets out of bed and walks toward Lucas.

She reaches out to touch his arm and when she does, he pulls it back so quickly it's like she burned him with her touch. "Don't touch me!" Lucas exclaims.

Upon hearing this, Brooke's eyes well up with tears. "But Luke…" she says until Lucas cuts her off, "Don't Brooke, just, how could you do this? Especially with him?" he asks her, tears starting to form in his own eyes.

"It was a mistake Luke, I'm sorry!" she says as she tries to reach out for him arm again. "I said don't touch me!" He screams, as Brooke quickly retracts her hand from being near him again. "As a matter of fact Brooke, don't talk to me either. I don't want to hear your voice anymore."

"Luke," she says but once again, he cuts her off. "But hey Brooke, lets look at the upside of this," he says in his normal voice. "What are you talking about?" she says confused.

"You don't have to worry about getting too close to me or being exclusive because believe me, that's NEVER going to happen! Bye Brooke, have a good life," he says bitterly as he walks out of the room and slams the front door on his way out of the apartment.

Chris then walks up next to her after hearing the front door slam signaling Lucas' exit. "What have we done?" Brooke asks Chris while still staring at the door Lucas noisily retreated through.

"Well the question is, what haven't we done?" he asks cockily while moving his eyebrows up and down in a suggestive manner.

"Chris, shut up! I just ruined my chances with the only guy I've ever loved, because of you!
Why do you always have to screw up people's relationships? First Nathan and Haley's, now mine and Lucas'?"

"It's not my fault all the ladies want me," he says with a huge smirk on his face. "Shut the hell up Chris, just leave!" Brooke yells at him while going to various places in the room to pick up the clothes that had been thrown across the room in their drunken haze the previous night.

"Hey what are you doing with those," Chris asks Brooke. "Making you leave," Brooke says while smiling. "I was going to leave! Put my clothes down Brooke!" he says while following her through the living room toward the front door.

"Yeah, well, somehow, this gives me more satisfaction," she says as she walks outside the front door, walks to the edge of her apartment's overhang, and tosses his clothes over the railing. "Hope you can find them okay," she says while smiling at him just in his boxers, walking back into her apartment, closing the door and locking it in case he tries to come back in.

"Brooke, it's dark out here! How am I supposed to find my clothes?" he asks sounding worried. "I'm sure you'll figure something out. After all, you keep telling me how smart you are. Oh and watch your back, there tend to be coyotes out at night. Night Chris!" she says while turning off the porch light and going back to her room to try to think about how to try to get Lucas to forgive her.

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Meanwhile, Lucas had just slammed the front door out of Brooke's apartment, still not believing what he had just witnessed. Figuring even if it was about 4 in the morning, he needed to go to the river court to take out some of his aggression.

After practically sprinting all the way from Brooke's apartment, trying to get away from there as fast as he could, Lucas was pretty tired, and to top it all off, he hadn't had a wink of sleep and his heart was starting to hurt. He decides to lay on the court for a little while to think to himself.

"I can't believe she would do this to me, especially with the guy who almost ruined Nathan and Haley's marriage," he thinks to himself. After thinking for a while, he feels his eyes get heavy and before he can make a move to go home, he falls asleep in the middle of the court.

A few hours later, he wakes up hearing a basketball being dribbled on the court. He figures it's only about 6:30-
7:00 because the sky wasn't very bright yet. Thinking Nathan would be the only one besides him up at the crack of dawn to play basketball he says "Don't you have anything better to do with yourself than play basketball?"

"No, not really," he hears a female voice say. Hearing this unfamiliar voice, he quickly rises to his feet and turns around to find a girl who looks to be around his age staring at him with a basketball in hand.

"Who are you?" he asks her. "The girl who just moved in the neighborhood. Who are you?" she asks him.
"The guy who has lived here forever." he answers her. "Well do you have a name?" she asks. "I think I got one of those when I was born. Didn't you?" he asks playfully.

"How about this. If you tell me yours, I'll tell you mine," she says to him while all the time smiling. "Fine. My name's Lucas Scott," he tells her. "Well Lucas Scott, my name is Emily, Emily Parker," she says.

"Well Emily, what are you doing out here so early in the morning?" Lucas asks her questioningly. "I moved in last night and couldn't sleep very well so when I woke up, I remembered seeing this court as I drove in and decided to come play a little." she explains.

"What about you? I saw you taking a little nap when I was coming up. Your not homeless are you," she asks jokingly. "Um no actually, just fell asleep I guess. But anyways, you play basketball?" he asks doubtingly.

"Yeah, don't I look like I play?" she asks while smiling at him. "Um no offense, but no, you don't." he says slowly.
And she really didn't, she was about 5'8", blonde hair that was currently in a ponytail, blue eyes resembling his own,
and he had to admit, a really nice body. (an: Emily looks like Kirsten Dunst in Bring It On)

"Well Scotty, can I call you Scotty? Good. I'm going to go since I didn't really tell my parents I was leaving the house so….if there not asleep when I get home, I might be in some trouble," she says all in one breath. "Sure, I better get home too, I haven't seen or talked to my mom since yesterday morning, so she's pretty much going to beat me when I get home," he says jokingly while smiling at her.

"Well, I guess I'll see you in school tomorrow," she says to him. (an: I don't know which day of the week that the Fantasy date was on so I made it a Saturday night) "I guess you will. Bye Emily," he says watching her start to walk away. "Bye Scotty," she says flirtatiously. Lucas watches her leave and shoots around for a couple minutes until he decides her better go home to face the wrath of his mom.