Just Listen

This story is going to be a Brucas story, inspired by the book Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. Great book and I suggest you read it. She is a wonderful author. Anyways! Back to the story…

Title: Just Listen.

Author: Cherie Dennis.

Summary: Brooke Davis seemed to have everything: she was head of the cheerleading squad, was one of the most popular girls at Tree Hill High, decent grades, a 'perfect' family and a job at a clothing store where she could sell some of her own designs. But in an hour's time, she soon found her entire world crumbling around her. In the last month of the summer before her senior year, Brooke finds her entire world being turned upside down. Now she's dreading going back to school, afraid of the fact that what transpired between her and one of her closest friends got around.

Finding herself lost in a sea of confusion and fear, a hand reaches out and pulls her back to reality. A new reality that she never thought she would become a part of. With a budding new friendship from a very unlikely source, and a romance with an even more unlikely person, can Brooke find herself a new life with the people who come to mean the most? Or will her past come forth, ruining everything she built?

Rating: I'm going to go with T, but it may change.

Pairings: It will be focused on a Baley friendship, a Brucas romance, perhaps with some other friendships and romances thrown in for good measure.

Disclaimer: I don't own OTH. I don't own Just Listen.

This is going to be an AU fic. I might, eventually, have Naley come together, but I haven't decided yet. Most of the characters will be seen, though; Rachel, Mouth, Skillz, Bevin, Karen, Dan, Deb… You name it, they'll probably be in here.

Prologue:

Friends come and go, but I always thought Rachel, Peyton and I would be the same, almost-sister-like people we always were. Everyone would tell you the same thing; we were stuck together at the hip. That's how it used to be, anyways.

Then one day –well, one night- everything changed. Suddenly Rachel wasn't talking to me. Or answering my calls. No one else on the team would even acknowledge me when they saw me. It was like I was an alien or something.

So now, with school starting in just a few days, I'm faced with the scariest thing of my life; not only am I starting my senior year, but I'm starting all over again. My whole world, in one of the worst summers in history, has been ripped apart.

I'm going to see high school from the other side – from the sidelines of all those losers I used to make fun of. The worst thing about that, however, is the fact that even the losers won't talk to me.

What's a girl to do when the world turns its back on her?

That's probably one of the worst prologues in the history of writing, but hopefully you guys understand what the story's going to be about. If not, you'll just have to read and see! And please, please, please give me feedback! Anything at all! From saying "Good job!" to telling me what I should improve on. Anything! And, like my other stories, it's going to be third-person, not first.

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