*Flashback*
"Hey Brooke!" Nathan yelled trying to catch up which the speedy brunette "Waitame! Waitame!" (trying to pronounce wait for me)
Brooke turns around and laughs, "You sound funny with your teeth gone!"
Nathan catches up to the first grader and frowns "Mom said they would grow back, okay? Dont make fun of me you know it is a sore subject!"
Deb walks out of the house with a large smile "Brooke, are you torturing my poor Nathan?" Deb walks over and brushed Nathans hair out with her finger tips.
"Aw, Mom I like it messy!" He says referring to his hair as he pushed her hand away and messes it up with his much smaller fingers "I dont want to look like a girl on my first day! I have to have it messy!"
"You'll look like a girl anyways, but dont worry you can always hang out with the other girls and I!" Brooke says as her lips spread into a big toothy smile.
"Now, darlings, you both will have a wonderful day, its not every day that you have your first day of first grade!" Deb says as she leads the children to her car. Nathan hops in and Brooke closely fallows. Deb starts the car "Brooke, your mother is picking you and Nathan up after school right?" Brooke looks at her small hands and takes awhile to answer. Deb looks curiously through her mirror at Brooke. "Brooke?" Nathan questions in a high voice, as he turns to look at her. Finally she looks up and meets his eye then opens her mouth,
"Um.. Mommy went to Ireland this morning, she told me it was an emergency, and she told me to give you this" Brooke hands an envelope to Deb "And she says she can be reached on her cell phone.." Nathan takes the upset looking girls hand. "and.. and she is very sorry." "Oh. Brooke, were you worried about telling me this? Because it is completely fine. You shouldnt worry so much. I will talk to your mom to see if you could stay over longer after school today, would you like that?" Brooke looks down at her and Nathans intertwined fingers and nodded. and then looks up at Nathan "We are going to rock this school!"
*End of Flashback*
"Ugg!" Brooke slams the snooze button on the alarm clock. "I hate mornings, I hate mornings." Brooke murmurs to herself as she looks in the mirror. She sighs"Just another damned school day in hell!" She walks into the hallway and tiptoes to the bathroom. Once inside she turns on the shower and as she waits for the water to turn warm she glances in the mirror and hovers over the sink and thinks to herself. It wont be that bad, maybe Patrick will finally talk to me, I mean your really pretty, your smart, Your a unique American and... not a complete slut like the rest of them, Stupid Irish girls! Brooke sighs and feels the water and decides it is warm enough. It was Brookes first day at the Ireland academy high-school
30 minutes later
Brooke emerges from her room and creeps down to the kitchen, to find her both her mother and her father (!) sipping coffee and reading the News. Her mother, Tina, looks up and sees Brooke standing in the doorway "Brooke! You were so quiet! I didn't hear you coming" She stands and pulls out a chair for Brooke "Your father and I wouldnt miss this day for the world! Your first day at high-school! Are you ready?" Tina gets out a plate and throws a bagel on to it and places it in front of her. "Its blueberry, your favorite!"
Brooke sits, feeling overwhelmed. And thinks to herself I havent been able to eat a blueberry bagel since I ate one every day at camp in fifth grade but instead says "Thanks Mom, but I am not really that hungry" then changing the subject "I am pretty excited, I am finally getting out of that stupid old Irish school and moving to a bigger one!" She says bitterly and sees the exchange of glances from her parents, "Brooke.." Her mother starts, "You would think that you would get over the fact that we moved from Tree Hill, since second grade" She puts her hand on her daughters shoulders, with a hopeful look, "I know that you havent had the best years here but this year could change everything!" she then turns away and tells Brooke to get her stuff and then they will go. Brooke runs up the stairs and over hears her mother asking, "What are we going to do with her?"
