The Day that Changed us All
Not sure when it's set. Based on an episode of 'popular' I saw before, and partly on the scarlet letter. I don't really know what the purpose of this thing is, I just started writing and couldn't stop.
Summary: Lucas and Nathan are tired of their constant bickering, so they lock Brooke, Peyton, Haley and Rachel in the change room after school. Secrets will be revealed but will the relationships they once had get stronger or will they just all fall to pieces?
Chapter 1
Brooke's POV:
We came to school that day, most of us sworn enemies for various reasons. I hated Peyton because she loved Lucas, who I am not currently dating anymore. Peyton hated Haley because she left Nathan to go on tour. Haley hated Rachel… well because she got her fired from the tutor centre and all. And Rachel? She hated Peyton, because I hated Peyton. Did I mention that Rachel and I are dating? That's right… Haley knows, she kind of walked in on us one day. I don't remember a lot about that day, it was just one big blur, one big LOUD blur. Ever since that day it's been weird. Haley's been kind of nicer to Rachel. We all know it's because Rachel's dating me and Haley's trying to be cool with it. But anyways, back to the story. It wall started in our fifth period class; English. We walked into school that day, most of us enemies, but we walked out as something different.
No POV:
'You look hot' Brooke read off of a note Rachel had passed her in class. She smiled and wrote something dirty down on the note and was about to pass it back to her when the English teacher came up from behind her, took the note and crumpled it up.
"thank you ladies, I'll see you in detention after school" Mrs. Townsend said to Brooke and Rachel. "as I was saying… the story 'The Scarlet Letter' is about how a young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her daughter in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. The scarlet letter "A" represents the act of adultery that she has committed and it is to be a symbol of her sin – a badge of shame – for all to see."
At the back of the class room Haley was trying to talk to Peyton.
"come on Peyt, stop being so mean"
"stop trying to talk to me" Peyton said back.
"ladies, I guess I'll see you in detention too" the teacher said to Haley and Peyton.
"aww come on" Brooke cried from the front of the class room.
"what was that Miss. Davis?"
"nothing" Brooke said meekly.
"coward" Peyton scoffed loud enough for the whole class to hear.
"what did you call her?" Rachel asked in anger. Both her and Brooke were pissed now.
"shut up Rachel, it's none of your business" Haley said, standing up for Peyton.
"shut up Haley, I don't need your help" Peyton growled.
"leave her alone you bitch!" Brooke said as she stood up and started walking towards Peyton with Rachel in tow. Peyton, never being able to back down from a fight, stood up and walked over to Brooke too.
"what did you call me?!" Peyton asked, now with Haley behind her.
"I called you a lying, skeeving, back stabbing, cold hearted, BITCH!" Brooke said matter of factly. Peyton was about to take a swing at Brooke when the teacher cut in.
"THAT IS ENOUGH!" Ms. Townsend yelled. "all of you sit down and I'll speak to you after class." The girls gave each other one last cold stare and sat down in their seats.
As soon as the bell rang the four girls remained seated, still heated from their fight. Once the class room cleared out the teacher slammed the door shut gaining the attention of all four girls. It was evident the teacher was also mad.
"ladies, I have no clue what your fight was about, but this is ridiculous, every day you fight and I'm getting tired of it. What is going on between you?" she asked. No one said a word, until Haley had enough of the silence.
"we're all having problems with relationships or some sort of drama right now"
"which is?"
"…" this time Haley kept her mouth shut.
"okay, do you remember how I was talking about the scarlet letter in class today?" Ms. Townsend asked, the girls nodded their heads in silence. "okay well, I want each girl to write down what they are most guilty about and the scarlet letter that represents it. It doesn't have to be what ever drama is going on between you, but something that no one else knows. Once you write it down you will fold it up and throw it away in the trash. No one will read it and no one will know about it, including me."
"what's the point of it then?" Brooke asked.
"the point is you girls have so much drama and anger in your lives, you need to let out some sort of frustration and get it off your chest. This way it will help you deal with what ever is going on in your lives and maybe… maybe it just might calm you down."
The girls didn't care much for the assignment, but knew that if they wanted to get out they had to do the assignment and get it over with.
"how do you know if we actually wrote something?" Peyton asked from her spot at the back of the back of the class room.
"I'm going to have to trust you to write something down" the teacher responded.
"and no one at all is going to read any of them?" Haley asked.
"nope" she responded.
The teacher handed out small sheets of paper for all of the girls to write what ever they wanted down. The girls dropped the folded sheets of paper into the trash on the way out and headed off to cheerleading practice.
At practice Brooke had insisted they work extra hard for the upcoming competition so she forced all of the girls on the squad to stay extra late. It was 5:45 when all the girls finally went to the change room to get out of their sweaty Tree Hill sweat suit. It made them sweat even more because they contained long track pants and a blue, long sleeved Ravens sweater.
In the change room…
Brooke and Rachel had left practice a few minutes early and gone to the change room for a little… privacy.
Brooke was sitting on Rachel's lap enjoying their time alone and making out. "I love being able to kiss you" Rachel said in between kisses.
"mmm, me too" Brooke said. "I just wish we didn't have to hide it"
"what ever, sneaking around makes it hotter anyways" Rachel said as she broke the kiss from Brooke and started working on her neck. Brooke put her hands around Rachel's head to keep her where she was. All of a sudden a noise of giggles and female voices came from the small hallway leading into the change room. Basically the change room consisted of a small room/hall with 2 bathroom stalls in it, which lead to a much larger square room where the girls would actually change. As soon as Brooke and Rachel heard the door open Brooke jumped off of Rachel and went to where all of her clothes were.
"hey there you guys are" Bevin said walking in with a few of her cheerleading friends plus Haley and Peyton, who were also on the squad.
"yeah, we just wanted to get out of here a little early" Brooke said innocently as she continued too change. As Brooke unzipped her sweater to reveal only a bra, Rachel couldn't help but stare at Brooke and how hot she looked. Her dirty thoughts were interrupted by a shoe flying at her. Rachel looked down at the shoe angrily and then looked up to see Haley looking back at her. Rachel was lucky it was only Haley who caught her. Peyton looked around and saw Haley's shoe in front of Rachel. Peyton just scoffed, she didn't really like Rachel anymore than Haley did.
"what are you laughing at blondie?" Rachel asked coldly, making the other girls in the change room turn around.
"nothing… obviously" Peyton said as she turned around and continued to change, but stopped when she felt something hit her in the back. She turned around to see Haley's shoe in front of her and Rachel had continued changing like nothing happened.
"are you serious?" Peyton asked looking at Rachel.
"oh what are you talking about?" Rachel asked fakely.
Peyton shook it off "slut" she murmured.
"what did you call me?" Rachel shot back. Peyton just ignored her.
"Rachel just leave it, she's not even worth it" Brooke said.
"stay out of this Brooke" Peyton said.
"Peyton…" Haley said trying to calm her down.
"no! don't talk to me" Peyton said flipping out on Haley.
"leave her alone, she didn't do anything!" Brooke said to Peyton. The other cheer leaders in the room had finished changing by now and quickly exited the room not wanting to see what was about to happen next. The only people left in the change room was Brooke, Rachel, Haley and Peyton.
Outside of the room Lucas and Nathan were waiting for their friends to come out, they saw everyone else come out but the 4 girls.
"hey Bevin, where are they?" Lucas asked Bevin before she could leave.
"still in there, last I saw Peyton and Rachel were about to go at it" Bevin said as she smiled and walked away. Lucas looked at Nathan and then poked his head in the door.
"hey you girls coming out?" Lucas asked. He waited for a response but only heard more yelling and fighting from inside.
"what do we do?" Nathan asked his brother.
"I have an idea, do you still have those keys from the party after the shooting?" Lucas asked.
"yeah sure, who would give up a master key to the school?" Nathan asked as he pulled out his keys from his pocket. He handed them to Lucas who quickly locked the door to the change room.
"are you sure you know what you're doing?" Nathan asked taking his keys back from Luke. "a few hours together will force them to work out their problems, plus we'll come back later to get them out"
Inside the change room…
"would you two just drop it?!" Haley asked a bickering Peyton and Rachel.
"why are you defending her?" Peyton asked Haley.
"I'm not… it's just would you two just stop fighting?"
"it's not my fault she's such a bitch" Peyton spat out.
"Peyton, shut up!" Brooke yelled.
"excuse me?"
"you heard me, will you just stop talking for once, your mouth has caused enough problems as it is" Brooke said. Rachel and Haley both turned around and continued with what they were doing pretending they didn't hear what Brooke just said.
"Brooke how many times have I told you I AM SORRY, I'm not in love with Lucas anymore, there is no other way to say it… when will you understand that I truly am sorry?"
"when you mean it" Brooke hissed.
"come on Brooke let's get out of here" Rachel said pulling her towards the door.
"yeah just leave. When a problem comes up you just walk away, good job!" Peyton said sarcastically. Brooke was about to turn around when Rachel just kept pushing her towards the door. They were so angry that they didn't even change, Brooke just put her sweater back on and the girls walked out just as they walked in.
"why do you two always have to get into a fight?" Haley asked.
"stay out of this Miss leaving town for Chris Keller" Peyton said as she gathered her stuff in her bag.
"Peyton…" Haley tried to reason.
"what ever, I'm leaving" Peyton said as she too was still in her sweat suit.
She was about to leave when she saw Rachel and Brooke walk back through the second door way.
"think again, the door's locked" Brooke said.
"what do you mean it's locked?!" Haley asked. Haley and Peyton instantly ran for the door. Haley got their first and started twisting and pulling the door knob, but no luck.
"move" Peyton said as she tried the door knob as well. Rachel and Brooke had been standing behind them.
"it's no use, it's locked" Rachel said. Instantly Haley and Peyton started banging on the door for help.
"it's almost 6:00pm, everyone's gone home" Brooke said.
"you just had to have a long practice didn't you?" Peyton asked annoyed.
"don't blame her for this" Rachel said.
"why are you always sticking up for her? What are you girlfriend or something?" Peyton asked as she pushed passed them and back to the large change room. Brooke, Rachel and Haley all stood there staring at each other, knowing that what Peyton said was true, even though she didn't even know it. After sharing an awkward moment all three girls walked back into the change room to find Peyton taking out her cell phone.
"please tell me you guys get service in here" Peyton said flipping her phone closed. Rachel, Brooke and Haley pulled their cell phones out of their pockets.
"no signal" Brooke said.
"same" Rachel said.
"ditto" Haley sighed.
"so we're stuck here until tomorrow?" Peyton asked angrily.
"I guess so" Haley said.
"perfect, just perfect!" Peyton shouted sarcastically.
"why? Did you have a date with Lucas?" Brooke spat out.
"no" Peyton said. "not that it's any of your business… you hate me" Peyton said.
"you're right… I do hate you" Brooke said as she and Rachel took a seat on the opposite side of the room from Peyton.
Peyton just turned her iPod on and lay down on the bench and closed her eyes. Rachel and Brooke started talking to each other while Haley went over to Peyton, she stood beside her and waited for her to notice.
"it's kind of hard to relax when someone is staring at you" Peyton said as she opened her eyes to see Haley staring back at her.
"since we're going to be stuck in here for a while I was thinking maybe we could talk?" Haley said.
"ohhh" Peyton said understandingly. "no" she shot.
"why not Peyton? We used to be such great friends and now you're all angry at me. Please just tell me how we can be friends again"
Peyton sat up and took the head phones out of her ears. "you want to know how we can be friends again? Okay Haley, you can build your self a little time machine and go back in time and when Chris Keller asks you to leave on tour with him you say no. That's when we can be friends again" Peyton said as she lay back down and put her head phones back on. Haley sighed and took her seat beside Peyton but didn't talk.
With Rachel and Brooke…
"you know, I always thought being locked in a room would be a lot hotter" Rachel said slyly.
"yeah well, so did I, and I never pictured Peyton and Haley in here with us"
"too bad, that dream would have been even hotter" Rachel said. Brooke smiled at her dirty thinking girlfriend. "do you know how hard it is not to kiss you right now?"
"I know, and if Peyton wasn't here we wouldn't have had a problem with hiding anything" Brooke said. "why does she have to be such a bitch sometimes? I mean it's not like I'm the one who was secretly dating her boyfriend behind her back."
"well now you don't have to worry, cause you're dating me now" Rachel said trying to get off the subject of Peyton.
"yeah, unless Peyton wants to steal you too" Brooke said not catching the hint. Rachel just sighed and took her attention away from Brooke.
"Peyton, can we please just talk this out?" Haley asked.
"no" Peyton replied plainly. Haley, fed up of being ignored by Peyton took the iPod out of her hand and disconnected her headphones.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?!" Peyton asked, she really loves her music. Peyton got up and tried to get her iPod back but before she could do anything Haley but the iPod down her pants. As soon as Peyton saw that she stopped trying to get it.
"hey, this reminds me of our first date and your cell phone" Rachel whispered to Brooke earning herself a slap in the arm from Brooke.
"you know what? Keep it, I don't want it back now" Peyton said as she sat down in a huff. After a while Rachel and Brooke stopped talking because Haley and Peyton stopped talking, if Brooke and Rachel started talking Peyton and Haley would have been able to hear them.
"I'm bored" Rachel spoke up.
"me too" Brooke added.
"no one cares" Peyton said without opening her eyes.
"I've got an idea" Rachel spoke up again. "well see, after school I realized I left my phone in English class, so I went back to get it but on the way out I picked something else up."
"you didn't" Haley said.
"oh I did" Rachel said as she pulled out four pieces of paper.
"you stole them!?" Peyton asked in anger.
"the trash is no longer your property once you throw it out" Rachel said matter of factly. "what do you say we try and figure out who wrote what?"
"no" Haley and Peyton replied together. Brooke was going to say no, until she saw Peyton protest so much.
"why Peyton, got something to hide? Did you stab Haley in the back too?"
"shut up Brooke, it's none of your business"
"open them up Rachel" Brooke said fully staring at Peyton now, she just wanted to open them to piss Peyton off. Rachel got up and taped them each to the wall and read them out loud.
"number 1:H- I slept with my best friend" Rachel said and put it up on the wall. Before she continued she stopped to think. She hadn't written this one, but then she thought about Brooke and Peyton, they were best friends Brooke at the moment was bisexual. Maybe there was something else that was causing all of Brooke's anger. Everyone in the room acted surprised, including the person who actually wrote it. No one wanted to be caught. Rachel started putting up the second one as she read it out loud.
"number 2:B- I'm in love with someone who I shouldn't be" Rachel said. The truth is, number 2 could have been any of them, Rachel and Brooke were dating, so either of them could have said it. Peyton could be in love with Lucas or even someone, and Haley could be in love with someone besides Nathan… it was all up in the air. "number 3:F- I wish I wasn't me" Rachel said. Once again, it could have been anyone unhappy with their life, and in someway, they were all unhappy.
Rachel unfolded the final piece of paper and read it to her self before reading it out loud.
"what does it say Rachel?" Brooke asked. At this moment Rachel realized these sheets of paper contained things that she maybe shouldn't have read… especially the last one.
"number 4…S- I've tried to kill myself" Rachel said slowly, yet sadly.
"oh my god" Haley whispered. At this point they all realized that they had just entered something that wouldn't turn out good. All of these notes were all more serious than any one of them had realized.
"maybe we shouldn't do this" Brooke said trying to back out.
"no, it's too late, they're out in the open. If we don't figure them out now, everything's just going to get worse" Peyton said being rational. No one wanted to believer her, but they all knew she was right. If they didn't figure out who did what the secrets would eventually come out in the school and it would all be nothing but guessing and ruin more relationships.