Brooke stood in her small two bedroom apartment looking at the pictures she had next to the tv. Her favorite was of her, Nathan, and Haley graduating from high school a little over a year ago. That was the last day she saw anyone from home. As much as she missed Nathan and Haley, it was too hard for her to stick around and see her cheating ex-boyfriend and her whore of an ex-best friend together. This ex-boyfriend also happened to be Nathan's brother and Haley's childhood best friend. She knew if she stuck around seeing them would be inevitable. She decided it would be best to start over and move to New York City as soon as she graduated.

All hadn't gone as well as planned once she got there though. Right after moving in she found out she was pregnant and 5 months later came Jason Nathan Davis. He was turning one this week and it made her miss her friends and Tree Hill even more. The past year had by far been the hardest of her life and she was forced to face it alone. She knew if she kept any contact she wouldn't be able to keep from going back, so she hadn't so much as spoken to anyone that had anything to do with Tree Hill, North Carolina.

Brooke snapped out of her thoughts when the doorbell rang. After quickly going to open the door she hugged her friend Rachel. "Thanks for sitting Rach."

"No problem, I'm just glad your finally dating again. How long has it been with Julian anyway?" Rachel asked as she plopped onto the couch making herself at home as she always did. Brooke met Rachel a couple weeks after moving here at her new job as a waitress.

"It's been about four months now." Brooke blushed thinking about how much she liked this guy. She hadn't dated anyone since Lucas, and that obviously didn't work out well. It was a nice change, she had been lonely since she moved to New York and hopefully this would change that. "I gotta go though. He's already asleep and should be out for the rest of the night. I'll be home by midnight. I promise."

"Alright. Have fun Brooke and don't worry about staying out too late, I'm gonna crash here anyway."

"Thanks again. I owe you big time. Bye." And with that Brooke was out the door, she didn't know where Julian was taking her tonight but she was ten minutes late to meet him at Applebees for dinner.

"Hey, sorry I'm late." Brooke leaned down and gave Julian a sweet kiss when she arrived at the restaurant.

"No problem. I just ordered you a Caesar salad since we only have 45 minutes til our next stop." Julian grinned.

"Thanks, can you tell me where we're going yet?" Brooke flashed her million dollar smile that she knew he couldn't resist.

"Fine." Julian stuck his tongue out at her. "I noticed that enjoy watching basketball so I figured maybe you'd want to go to a game tonight."

"Oooh! Sounds fun!" Brooke clapped her hands. "I haven't been to a game since I cheered in highschool." It was true she knew a lot about basketball. Dating a Scott could do that to you, she spent many meals discussing stats and many nights watching a game on tv.

"Great I'm glad you're excited. My friend from school, Paul is on the NYU team and got us really good seats." Brooke smiled, she was happy she would get to do something a normal 19 year old would do. They quickly finished up their meal and headed toward the arena a couple of blocks away. The stands were already packed with NYU fans dressed from head to toe in purple. Once they found their seats they were shocked on how good they really were. They were 10 rows behind the home team's bench.

"So who are they playing tonight?" Brooke asked as they waited for the game to start. Right when Julian was about to answer the announcer beat him to it…

"And now the visiting team enters the gym. Please welcome the Duke Blue Devils!" as a round of boos erupted from the stands, Brooke felt her stomach sink and hear stop a little.

"Naa..Nathan" she whispered as she fell back into her seat.

"Brooke? Are you okay?" Julian yelled over all of the noise.

"Uh. Yeah. I'm great." Brooke didn't want to ruin the night. I mean what were the chances Nathan would notice her in the crowd of a filled arena.

"Now to announce the starting line up for the Duke Blue Devils." The announcer began "At small forward, Reagan Matthews. Center, James Nelson." Brooke took a deep breath. Nathan might not see her but would she be able to handle seeing him again. It had been so long.

As the announcer finished reading the list of starters Brooke noticed there was only one left. "And the star player for the Duke University, shooting guard, Nathan Scott." Brooke instantly began jumping up and down and cheering. She couldn't help but feel proud as she looked down at Nathan running on to the court with his signature smirk across his face.

Julian looked down at Brooke confused. "Sorry, he's from home and I didn't expect him to be starting, he's only a sophomore." Brooke sat back down in her seat with a smile, she was so proud of her childhood best friend. As the game continued and she watched Nathan play, memories of her days as a Raven flooded back to her. She always thought she'd go to Duke and cheer along side of Peyton while Nathan starred on the basketball team. That had been the plan since middle school, but so much had changed since then. That seemed like a lifetime ago, she was a different person then.

Brooke was able to enjoy the rest of the game joking around with Julian and pushing all other thoughts to the back of her head. During the 4th quarter a Bobcat got fouled and while the players set up for the foul shots the jumbotron showed the "KissCam". The cameramen would go around the arena and find couples and put them on the big screen. Everyone would then expect them to kiss. Julian and Brooke were laughing at all the goofy couple that went up on the screen until they noticed their faces up there. Julian grabbed Brooke and kissed her. When they broke apart, Brooke eyes went to the court and met the deep blue ones she's avoided all night. Nathan went pale and froze in place looking like he had just seen a ghost and in a way he had.