I can't stop writing now so I started this story I've had in my mind for a while. Don't worry, I will still update others! And Yes, it's Brucas of course!

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Reasons That Reason Cannot Know

Chapter 1

She could be terrifying, angry and mean. She could make even the strongest men fall to their knees and beg for mercy. She was independent, feisty and a force to be reckoned with. She was frustrating, my god, was she frustrating. Sometimes I swear she would do something just to piss me off "Which way?" She would turn to me and ask, a flawlessly shaped brow arching as a devilish grin played on her perfectly painted lips

"Ahh... Right?" I would suggest although I don't know why I bothered because before I would even have the chance to blink she would turn the little blue beetle down the left street, even if she had to cross four lanes of traffic to do so. Most would describe her as a bitch, a bitch they worshipped, a bitch they would do anything to be friends with, but a bitch no less. But they didn't know her. Someday's she made me want to go five rounds with the nearest wall. Someday's she made me want to scream until my lungs gave out. She was crazy, untamed and unpredictable but one day without her was agony.

Brooke Davis. Not once in the six months of us dating had I ever questioned that she was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Any bad trait that was ever held against her could always be justified by those who really knew her. She could be terrifying, angry and mean... If you dared mess with anyone she loved. She frustrated me to no end but I loved her for it. She was a bitch, but only to those who didn't take the time to really get to know her. She was crazy, untamed and unpredictable but you wouldn't have it any other way. She was beautiful and she knew it. She was warm, charismatic and had a smile that could light up any room. I fell in love with her the first day she spoke to me and I like to believe that's when she fell in love with me too, although it's still hard to imagine that out of all the people in the world, in Tree Hill, she chose to be with me. Lucas Scott.

We stood on the edge of oblivion, I could see the darkness below and it terrified me. The wind wiped out our faces and I shuddered, the hand around her tightening. She laughs. A low husky sound I had loved since the first time I heard it.

"Calm down Broody" She says, her voice a delicate whisper

"Calm down?" I ask her incredulously "Are you mad, we could die." She laughs again, I can tell she is taking great enjoyment in my terror.

"Then we die together." She peers up at me and I find safety in her hazel orbs

"Or we could both just go home and, I dunno, live?"

"Where's the fun in that? We wouldn't really be living would we, just going through the motions"

"Together." She nods

"But where doing this together aren't we?" I don't answer and she shrugs "Well I'm doing it, you can stay here if you want. Nice knowing you boyfriend." She tries to unhook herself from my grasp but I just hold her tighter, the only thing more terrifying then the task at hand is the idea of watching her do it alone.

"D-don't" I tell her and as her hair whips around in the wind again, I manage to lock eyes with her and she stares at me in defiance.

"Trust me." She orders. And in a moment of clarity I know I have only two choices. Die with her or walk away and leave her to her own devices. Unfortunately my heart knew that there is truly only one option. I let go of safety and place my other arm around her, bending down to kiss her because if we are about to die, I want this to be my last memory. Then she pushes us. And we fall, fall through the darkness that surely would end our lives. The wind flies past my face and all I can do is concentrate on holding her. She shrieks in delight as I find my stomach is suddenly in my mouth.

Then the bungee cord springs and we are flying back up before plummeting again, our bodies being thrown around without mercy. Brooke lets out a loud laugh and I cry out in delight, we had survived and the adrenaline coursing through my veins at this moment is incomparable.

"God I love you Brooke Davis!" I scream as we eventually become still, swaying upside down as we wait to be hoisted back to safety. She holds me tighter and places her head on my chest, he hair falling down in my face.

"I love you too." As she speaks, something inside of me awakens and I suddenly have an inner curiosity that cannot be stopped.

"Why?" I ask her, because I never truly understood it.

"What?" She's puzzled and I feel her wriggle in my grasp, I hope we don't have to stay hanging like this for much longer.

"Why do you love me, I didn't even want to jump, wouldn't you prefer to love someone who would have jumped without being scared?" She chuckles

"Don't you see Broody, you were terrified and jumped for me anyway, you love me more than any guy that would want to jump, ever could."

"So this was just a test?" I ask her in confusion

"No. I don't need to test you, I know you love me, even if you didn't jump and I love you regardless of it. This was just for fun."

"But why, Brooke, I need to know why you love me."

"Why do you need to know?"

"Because I need to know you feel the same way that I do, I need to know this is real." I feel the bungee rope tighten and we begin our slow ascent.

"This is real."

"Then tell me why you love me." I don't know what had gotten into me but I had a yearning to understand it all.

"A wise man once told me that heart has reasons that reason cannot know."

"So you love me for no reason?"

"No one reason." We are nearly back on solid ground and I breath a sigh of relief "Why do you love me?"

"There aren't enough days in a year for me to tell you all the reasons why I love you."

"Exactly, so can't we just leave it to I love you. Because I do, don't question it." The last sentence was said like an order and I smiled

"OK, I won't"

"Good." She chirps "You think too much Lucas Scott. There you go, reason number one." And I just laugh.

"This is kind of pathetic Luke, you know that right?" I roll my eye's at my best friend, of course she thought it was pathetic, everyone did, and they didn't mind telling me either. But I didn't care.

"Hales, I'm just going to see my girlfriend." Haley scoffs

"Yeah but only because you haven't seen her today, you don't need to see her EVERY day."

"I thought you and Brooke were friends?"

"We are."

"Then why do you have such a problem with this?"

"I don't, it's just that you guys go way out of your way just so you can keep a record of having seen each other EVERY day since you started dating."

"Whose keeping record?" I ask as we turn into Brooke's street.

"You guys apparently." We pull up outside Brooke's and I turn to face her.

"Haley, we see each other everyday because that's who we are as a couple. It has nothing to do with being able to claim that for six months we have never spent more than 24 hours apart, who cares about that? I don't see why you hate it." She sighs

"I don't hate it Lucas, I'm happy for you and Brooke. I'm just mad your gonna make us late." I laugh as we both get out of the car and start walking towards Brooke's mansion.

"I told you we were stopping here, it's not my fault you took ages getting ready."

"I didn't take ages getting ready, Nathan needed me to take him to pick up his car."

"Aha" I say, smirking "so it's OK that you needed to spend time with your boyfriend but I'm not allowed to spend time with my girlfriend?" She shakes her head

"SOOO Not the same" I don't bother answering as we walk into Brooke's house. The massive two-storey home had been the site of many-a-party over the years, including the same party in which I had first met my beautiful girlfriend. Brooke's parents had moved away a year earlier, leaving the seventeen year old teen to fend for herself, a large bank account had certainly helped but I never could believe how parents could abandon their child and not mind not seeing her for months on end. I could barely last twelve hours.

"Hey Tutor Girl, Hey Boyfriend" Brooke's raspy voice sounded as we entered the giant lounge room. She was sitting reading some fashion magazine, which she put down when we came in, swivelling around on the the couch and kneeling on the back of it so that she was at eye level with me. I walked over to her and she wrapped her arms around my neck, leaning in to place her lips on mine, I welcomed the kiss gladly, moving my arms to her back and pulling her in closer. This lasted a little while before Haley cleared her throat and we both hesitantly pulled away. Brooke turned her head to Haley, lightly playing with my hair as she did so.

"What's up Haley J?"

"Well, not that it's not fun watching you two makeout but were going to a movie and are gonna be late." Brooke pulled away from me, frowning slightly

"And here I thought you guys came to hang out."

"You wanna come?" Haley asked before I had the chance, Brooke smiled at her

"Wish I could but I have to meet Nate and Skillz in an hour to help design the banner for the championship game." I laugh

"Yeah, they tried to drag me into that." She shoves me.

"Don't laugh Broody! Your lucky I'm not making you come with me, which reminds me." She swivels her head around to face Haley "Why haven't you been forced into this?" Haley shrugs

"All my artistic talent is in my music, drawing, designing and ANYthing like that is completely over my head. Nathan knows better than to ask for my help in that department."

"Fine, what about Peyton, she's the brooding artist, shouldn't she be helping?"

"She's got Jenny for the night, remember babe?" I remind her, she runs a hand through her hair and grimaces.

"AHH, working with the two idiot boys is going to be fun."

"One of those idiots is my brother you know."

"And that same idiot is Haley's boyfriend but you don't see her arguing do you?" We both look over at Haley, who just shrugs. "Why don't you just tell them to do it themselves then?"

"Because I'm captain of the cheer squad and I will not let the banner suffer."

"You have school spirit Brooke Davis" I pause, smiling "Reason number ten." She smiles at the 'love reason' game we had been playing ever since the bungee a few days before

"Speaking of which, I think we need to do something exciting, you wanna try scuba diving this weekend?" I look at her in shock, but I really shouldn't be shocked. Brooke loved nothing more than trying new things, usually things that got her heart pounding.

"We went bungee jumping two days ago."

"Yeah but I wanna try scuba, c'mon Broody, it won't be anywhere near as scary as jumping off a bridge. It will probably be relaxing." I sigh, the idea actually did sound kind of cool

"Fine then, anything for you Pretty Girl, but" I look down at my watch "we really need to go, talk about this tonight? Your coming over for dinner right? Mum is cooking your favourite." She smiles so wide I can clearly see both of her deep dimples, god I love those dimples.

"Defiantly." I lean over and kiss her again "See ya later Hales" She winks at Haley before turning back and kissing me again

"I love you." I tell her and she smiles again

"I love you too" She says and I can't help but let my mind wander back to the first day she said those words to me.

It was two months after we had started dating and we had been practically inseparable that entire time. She sat by the couch in my room, starring over the back of it into the rain as I lay on the bed studying. Her eye's didn't falter as she looked out into the darkness, deep in thought. We had been like that for a few hours, I had offered her magazines or the TV but she had refused, she was happy staring at the rain. She loved the rain. Eventually she did look up and turned to peer at me but I didn't notice at first, stuck on a hard trig question I just couldn't get right. "You make me feel safe you know that?" My head snapped up at her quiet words

"What?" I ask, not sure if I had heard right

"When I'm around you I feel safe." I got up then, putting my book down, no longer caring about math as I walked over, siting down next to her on the couch, running a hand through her hair. A small smiled played on her lips as she leaned in to place her lips against mine, as she pulled away she starred me in the eye's intensely "I think I'm in love with you." She whispered and my heart just about stopped. I couldn't believe it, had she really just said what I thought she said?

"Think?" I question, I had to be sure. She shrugs, not letting her gaze leave mine.

"I've never felt this way before." She says as if it were that simple.

"Well you know what Davis, I know I love you." I smile wider then I ever had in my life, leaning over and taking her in my arms, kissing her everywhere available to me. She giggles and it makes me heart soar.

"Stop." She demands after a few minutes, still giggling. "You need to study."

"Screw studying." She shakes her head "No way Lucas, this test is important to you, I know it is."

"Your more important." I lean in and nuzzle her hair, loving the feeling of her silky locks and aroma surrounding me.

"But I'm not going anywhere, you only have till tomorrow to study." I sigh when I realise she's not going to give up.

"Fine." I kiss her again before getting up. "I love you." I say and this time it's her turn to beam.

"I love you too." She says as I sit down on the bed and my heart swells again. She turns back to staring out the window as if nothing changed when we both know everything has. There's no way I can study now. Whenever I try my eyes just wonder back to her, so eventually I just give up, leaning back and just watching her. She looked so serene, so beautiful. My girlfriend. My Pretty Girl. The woman I loved and who loved me back. I don't know how long I starred but eventually my eyes drifted close and I fell asleep.

A few hours later I woke up in darkness, my shoes were off, my books had been moved and Brooke was asleep in my arms. I smiled and pulled her close. Well aware that she had made this the best day of my life.


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