Okay, so here's what you need to know. (Sound familiar?)

- Set in season four, between 405 and 406.

- Haley is about four and a half months pregnant with Jamie. I've made it further along for a reason.

- Lucas and Brooke are no longer together, they broke up about two months ago. :(

- Lucas and Peyton are NOT together. :)

- The whole Nathan/Dante thing isn't happening.

- The Psycho Derek/Peyton thing never happened, because quite frankly i can't stand to write a scene with Peyton in let alone make you feel sorry for her.

- The Brooke/Mr. Chavez thing didn't happen either.

- Brooke and Peyton aren't friends anymore.

- Everything in all three of the seasons before happened.

- Oh, and incase you didn't figure out this is gonna be a Brucas. ;)

And without further ado i give you, chapter one of In Love With A Girl.

Chapter One – She Holds A Key

Lucas Scott walked down the hallways of Tree Hill High School, towards the school library. It was 7:55am on a Saturday morning, during late March. The halls were empty and eerily quiet, the only sound was of his black Vans sneakers squeaking against the freshly waxed floor. Lucas hitched his trademark green canvas backpack up his left shoulder and approached the heavy wooden doors leading to the school library.

Lucas took a deep breath, here it goes, he thought to himself.

He pushed one of the doors open with his right hand and stepped into the all too familiar room. He scoped it out; a couple of low down book shelves in front of him, to his left was the librarians' large desk in the corner of the room. Behind the books shelves in front of him were six tables set up, facing his way. Behind each tables stood two chairs perfectly straight and aligned.

At the table on the second row to Lucas' right, sat Nathan and Haley Scott. Nathan was Lucas' half brother; they shared the same ass of a father. The brothers didn't even talk to each other until last year when Lucas had joined the schools' basketball team, the Ravens. It was Haley, Haley James back then, which brought the boys together and made them be at least civil to each other. Now the boys were friends and acknowledged each other as brothers. Haley was Lucas' best friend; they had been friends since they were six. Haley had gotten married to Nathan halfway through junior year at the age of seventeen. But unlike most teen marriages, theirs was working; they were happy and in love and Haley was also carrying their first child at that very moment.

Lucas smiled and gave a nod to his brother and sister-in-law; he walked over to them and took a seat at the table in front of them.

"Hey, Luke," Haley said with a bright smile on her face. She was unusually cheery to have a Saturday morning detention, let alone be a pregnant woman up at this hour on a weekend.

Must be the hormones kicking in, Lucas decided.

"Hey, Hales," Lucas smiled to his best friend. He looked at his brother; his face was buried into a book, unusual for Nathan. "Hey, Nate."

Nathan took his face out of his book and looked up to see Lucas; a confused look came onto his face. "Luke, when did you get here?"

Lucas and Haley laughed at Nathan cluelessness; Nathan was usually the last person to know what was going on, well, apart from Bevin that is.

Lucas chucked his backpack onto his table and turned to face Nathan and Haley, his back to the door. "What are you reading, Nate?"

Nathan looked up again, "oh, just a stupid history textbook," he said, holding up the book to show Lucas the cover.

"Okay, why?" Lucas asked confused, wondering when his brother took up an interest in history.

"I'm failing."

"Haley, can't you just tutor Nathan?" Lucas asked.

"Nope, I'm all booked up in the tutor centre," Haley explained.

"Oh, well, keep studying, Nate," Lucas said patting their table.

"Thanks," he said joked sarcastically, looking back down to his textbook. Haley laughed and turned back to her own work. Lucas started to stare into space, his mind started to wonder to the girl he'd been thinking about constantly. He couldn't get her out of his head. Lucas ran his left hand through his short blond hair, something he'd come accustom to doing whenever he was frustrated or thinking about that certain girl. Two completely opposite emotions.

Haley had started to pick up on his habit, she watched him carefully. He didn't look angry or annoyed; in fact he had a faint smile on his lips.

"Who's the girl, Luke?" Haley came straight out with it.

Flashback...

Lucas turned down the hallway where the senior lockers were on his way to the library. He passed his own locker and kept walking, he came to another locker that meant a lot to him. He paused and kept his eyes on the locker. The girl who owned that locker meant the world to him. Brooke, Brooke Davis.

He thought back to the day he'd broken into it and decorated it for the girl. He'd hung pictures of them together dangling from the locker top, inside, he placed pink fur on the walls and a couple of small, portable, blue lava lamps inside. He stuck photos of them on the inside of the door, and written 'Lucas and Brooke Forever' on the mirror, on the door, in pink lipstick. He'd just wanted to show her who much she meant to him, trying to get her to go exclusive with him. He remembered the exact words she said when she saw it, "You totally pimped my locker." He'd never forget those words.

Lucas noticed a little picture sticking out of the bottom of the locker, he pulled on it carefully. It was a little picture, like the ones you get in photo booths. A huge smiled formed on Lucas' face when he saw what the picture was of, or who it was of. He stared at the picture for a minute before sliding it into his front pocket.

End of Flashback...

"What girl?" Lucas asked, playing innocent.

"The girl who has you thinking about her non-stop, the girl who's got that smile on your face," Haley told him, Nathan looked up at this point. "It maybe small, but it's the biggest one in months."

"She's right, Luke. The last time we saw you smile is when you and Brooke were still together," Nathan told his brother.

"Oh my God, is it her?" Haley questioned excitedly. "Have you and Brooke got back together?!"

Lucas turned to face Haley, his eyes turned cold and the smile on his face had vanished. Just the mention of what he'd lost and could never get back, made him hurt and furious at the same time.

"Brooke won't even speak to me, Haley," he said coldly.

Haley went pale and didn't know what to say. Lucas was still hung up on Brooke. Part of her was happy that Lucas still loved her, but another part felt sorry for him, knowing that Brooke would never forgive him a second time. "I'm sorry, Lucas.

"You shouldn't be sorry. It wasn't your fault," Lucas said, the coldness fading. "It was all my fault, it still is. I finally get her to trust me again and then I do one stupid thing and let her slip away."

Nathan watched his broken brother; he was completely lost without Brooke. Nathan wondered whether he should mention that it wasn't entirely his fault. There was someone else who caused this mess too. In fact they were more of the problem.

"I just think that if I could get her to listen, I could try and explain and hopefully, maybe, she'd forgive me," Lucas explained staring back into space. "I just, I love her. I love her so much. I don't want to lose her. Not again, I couldn't take it."

Haley listened to Lucas talk about his love for Brooke; she could see his need for her, the tone in his voice showing how much he was willing to fight for her. She started to believe that maybe there was a small chance Brooke would see it too.

"I won't give up," Lucas stated. "I can't live without her; she makes me so happy and complete. She makes me, me. She's my Brooke, my Cheery. My Pretty Girl."

Nathan and Haley's eyes were glued to Lucas, they felt his love. He clearly loved Brooke so much, it hurt.

The sound of the library doors opening broke the feeling in the room at that moment. The three directed their gaze over to the person who had just entered the library.

A beautiful brunette girl stood froze in the doorway.

Her long dark hair was in flowing loose curls around her soft, porcelain face. She wore a pair of dark blue skinny jeans and a dark red almost burgundy color t-shirt. It puffed out a little at the sleeves and came in at the chest, highlighting her breasts, and then it flowed out at the stomach. She looked beautiful. She held the attention of everyone in the room.

Lucas' eyes were magnetized to the girl; his dark blue orbs widened in shock and lit up showing his happiness for the girl in front of him. It was as if someone had been listening to him confessing his love and wanted to give him a chance.

Lucas spoke in a hushed whisper, it was barely audible. Two words came out of his mouth, but the way he said those two words, said it all.

"Pretty Girl…"

Okay, so tell me what you think.

Love it, hate it?

Be nice this is my first ever time writing a Brucas story, and also my first time writing a Fan Fiction.

Yes, I'm a FF Virgin.

Well, not anymore. ;) Lol.

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This chapter was named after the song She Holds A Key, by Gavin DeGraw.

Heather xoxo