Hey everyone! So…I'm writing another story. I know I should probably finish this before I post it, but I really wanted to post the first chapter to this story. I will do the best I can to update as frequently as possible, while updating my other two stories. I hope you all like this! It was inspired by one of my favorite movies.

Background: Brooke and Haley went to Tree Hill High; they've been best friends ever since. They both work at Karen's, but she is not Lucas' mother. Lucas and Nathan are brothers and their parents are Deb and Dan. Brooke has a crush on Lucas only based on him coming to the café every morning. This is an NB story, not BL.

Disclaimer: I don't own the ideas of the movie While You Were Sleeping, and I don't own the show OTH or the characters. If I did, we would have seen the whole NB sex tape… :P

Enjoy!

Chapter One: Expect the Unexpected

Life isn't always what you expect it to be. Brooke Davis could definitely vouch for that. When she was a little girl, she often imagined herself as being envied in the eyes of others. She was far from reaching that goal. Waiting tables at a small café in downtown Tree Hill was not something she saw herself doing at the age of twenty-five. She wanted to be married by now, or at least, be headed in that direction. She always saw herself getting married at a younger age while she could at least find, what she thought, would be a suitable man.

Glancing down at her vacant left hand, she released an outward sigh. Her love life hadn't been completely terrible; however, it wasn't something to brag about. Lately, after she had dated a man for a little over a month, she began to pick him apart, finding every flaw imaginable. It wasn't too long before she then said goodbye. 'You're way too picky', her best friend, Haley, would constantly say.

Being picky was a flaw of her own, yet she never tried to change her ways. Why settle for something mediocre when you can have something great? Maybe it wasn't that she was picky, per say. It might have been that she always had a picture in her mind of the perfect guy.

"Let me guess," Brooke began, shoving her pad of paper in the one of the back pockets of her jeans, "Pancakes with a side of bacon and eggs?"

"Ah, you know me well." He responded, smiling up at her.

When he smiled at her, his blue eyes sparkled in a cliché, prince charming (as Haley referred to him as), kind of way – a way that made her swoon. She felt herself begin to smile at his words. She quickly bit down on her bottom lip to keep herself from doing so.

"Only because you come in here everyday and order the same thing." She filled his empty cup with coffee, and took a step back away from the table. "I'll go put your order in."

He smiled at her once again and went back to reading his newspaper, as she walked towards the back.

After putting in his order, she stopped to look in the mirror. She grimaced at the sight of herself. Putting in long hours, and sleeping short ones, was doing nothing for her outward appearance.

"Prince Charming must be here." Haley said, coming up behind her, with a tray of food.

Brooke jumped at the sound of the unexpected voice. She shook her head before turning around to face her friend. "What? A girl can't look in the mirror just to look? She has to have ulterior motives?"

Haley turned her head to the side, giving her a disbelieving look.

She was defeated. Brooke let out a loud sigh. "Okay, yes, he's here. And, I look like shit. It's a perfect combination!" She exclaimed.

"You look fine, Brooke." Haley said, and went to go make an exit out of the tiny room.

"Fine?"

That's when Haley stopped.

"Fine?" Brooke repeated. "The four letter word designed to describe something that isn't that great, but isn't that bad as well."

Haley shook her head, letting out a laugh. "Wow, you barely know this guy and you're already freaking out. No wonder you're still single."

Brooke stuck her tongue out at Haley.

"Very mature." Haley said, before turning around and leaving once and for all with the tray of food.

"See you tomorrow." Lucas said before opening the door to the café.

Brooke stopped wiping down the counter to send him a slight wave.

"Why don't you just ask him out?" Haley said, once Lucas was out the door.

Brooke quirked an eyebrow in Haley's direction as if she were contemplating the idea. She quickly shook her head before she continued moving the damp cloth in a circular motion against the wooden counter. "Like that wouldn't look desperate. Besides, he's probably seeing someone." She grasped the cloth in her hand and walked past Haley towards the back.

"How do you know that?" Haley asked, following Brooke's lead. "He could be shy. He could be waiting for you to make the first move."

"I'm not going to do that, Hales."

"God. What happened to the girl I knew in high school?"

Brooke placed her hands on her hips, her mouth dropping slightly. "She's standing right in front of you."

Haley shook her head slowly, "Like hell she is."

Brooke rolled her eyes, "Fine." She untied the apron around her hips, before walking towards the front of the café, out the door.

"That was too easy." Haley said to herself as she went back to work.

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Brooke stood in front of the café not wanting to move once she had made her way halfway towards him. She watched as he bent down to pick up a toy a little girl had dropped along the sidewalk. He bent down to hand it to her; Brooke sighed heavily. "Great. He's even more perfect than I thought."

As Brooke got up the nerve to walk closer, she saw a car coming quickly in his direction. "Look out!" She yelled. But, it was no use, he couldn't hear her. She quickened her pace to get across the street, and over to him. "Look out!" She yelled again.

Lucas looked up, only to see the car just inches away from him and a driver who was too busy talking on the phone to notice.

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