The First Circle
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Disclaimer: I don't own One Tree Hill. Or the nine circles.
Author's Note: This story is Brooke-centric. It's set in season 1. After finding out about Peyton and Lucas. In this story, Lucas is not going to end up with Brooke. He's not going to fall for Brooke, to save her like he does Peyton. In this story, Haley and Brooke aren't really friends. They talk, but they aren't as close as Haley and Peyton. The rest is pretty much self-explanatory. I don't think there will be Brooke romance, but maybe there will. Julian or Chase. I haven't decided yet. (You can vote). Rachel is not in this. Mouth and Brooke aren't really friends yet, no Boy Toy Auction.
Update: August 17,14
There are nine circles of hell. The first circle is Limbo, a region on the edge of hell for those who are not saved even though they did not sin
Brooke sat on the bleachers at the river court. She just stared at nothing, at the ground in front of her. She had just found out her boyfriend and her best friend were hooking up behind her back. She was losing them. One was the only person who knew her. The only person who had been in her life for some time.
Peyton Sawyer had just screwed her over, but she wasn't all to blame. Brooke should have known better. She should have known there was something there, and Brooke was just something that came in between them. She was at fault, and this was her punishment.
ONE TREE HILL
Brooke sat on a table, watching people pass by. The people came with their friends, with their significant others. Brooke had none. She didn't have any real friends. The only friend she had saw Peyton, and with her came Nathan, Jake, and Lucas. With Lucas came Haley and Mouth. And without Peyton, she had no one.
Closing her eyes, she knew what she had to do. She walked up to Peyton, and asked to talk to her. Peyton excused herself from Nathan and Haley, and followed Brooke to the restroom. She looked at her best friend, not sure what was happening, what was going to happen. All she knew was that Brooke wanted to see her. She wanted to talk to her, and that could end in many different ways.
"I forgive you," Brooke whispered, her voice slightly broken. She made no movement to look at Peyton, which confused the blond.
"Wh-what?" Peyton asked, in shock. She expected Brooke to make her grovel for forgiveness. Peyton knew if the roles were reversed, that was what she would do. She would make Brooke feel the guilt.
"It's okay. What you did with Lucas. It was my fault, you know? I was the one who was dumb enough to think someone would care about me in that way. I'm just Brooke Davis, Tree Hill Slut. Lucas, or anyone else wouldn't want that. They 're just around to fuck. So I forgive you Peyton. And I' m sorry for getting in between you and Lucas. I shouldn't have done that. Hope you two love each other. And I won't come in between you too again," Brooke told her friend, before walking out to the restroom, leaving Peyton alone.
Peyton stood there, confused. She didn't not expect their small conversation to head in that direction.
Peyton exited the restroom and bumped into Lucas. She smiled at him, and him at her. They talked, and they kissed. Brooke stood at the end of the hall, watching them unite. She smiled, and walked away. She knew she had to do it.
'People Always Leave' was Peyton's motto. But for Peyton, if they could, they would come back. Once someone left Brooke, she had to fight to bring them back, or they just wouldn't come back. That is what she needed.
Haley stood near her, watching Brooke Davis walk away from a kissing Peyton Sawyer and Lucas Scott. She wondered what was going on in the head cheerleader's head. She wondered what caused her to look so broken. She was about to follow, but her boyfriend walk up to her and gave her a hug.
"What's going on in your head?" Nathan asked her, as he kissed her head.
"Do you know what's going on with Brooke, Peyton, and Lucas?"
Nathan looked up, to see Lucas and Peyton walk to them, wrapped in each other's hands. "No, but we're going to find out."
Peyton then told the couple about how Brooke forgave Peyton and Lucas for going behind her back. How Brooke told Peyton to go out with Lucas, cause it made her happy.
Peyton then asked to talk to Haley alone, and told her about how broken Brooke sounded, about what she told Peyton before telling her to go out with Lucas, about her worries about Brooke.
Haley told her not to worry. That Brooke was strong, and she couldn't be broken. Haley had never seen Lucas so happy, and didn't want to ruin that. She said she would check on Brooke, and tell Peyton what she found out.
Peyton thanked her, and both went to their boyfriends.
ONE TREE HILL
Brooke watched the four friends eat lunch together. She had her lunch at hand, but wasn't hungry. She sighed, and walked passed a trashcan, tossing her lunch into it. She wasn't going to bother the four friends. She decided to head out, to go home. She didn't want to have her heart broken, watching Lucas and Peyton, to see them with Haley and Nathan, to see them with real friends. She just wanted to lie in her bed, and die. She didn't have the energy to do anything, to feel anything.
She thought about the numb feeling she had when she went out: the void that went away when she had someone with her. To have someone be there for her. She decided that enough is enough. She couldn't stay in her room. She had to do something. She got up and left her house. She went to the nearest bar, and looked for someone, anyone. She found a drunken guy, and hung around him. After the guy asked her for sex, she accepted, and went with him to his car. She then slept with him.
She filled the void, and went home, hoping that it would be enough to last her some time. She walked into the dark house, to her lonely room. She looked at her computer, at the Peyton's website. She saw the four friends hanging around in the room, and just like that, the void was back. She was empty again, as her heart broke as she watched the four laugh and talk, as she stood in her room, in her house all alone.