Brooke Davis woke up late in the afternoon to someone knocking on the door, she slowly and sluggishly moved to the door rubbing the sleep out of her eyes as she opened the door. Nathan stood there and looked at her; her hair was sticking up in places and she was wearing boxers and a baggy t-shirt. Nathan chuckled as he moved past her into the apartment.

"Did I wake you sleeping beauty?" She smacked his arm as she walked back into the bedroom. The apartment had boxes from Nathan's apartment everywhere along with Brooke's bags and stuff made it hard to get around. She seemed to glide through the mess as if she memorized a path.

"Thanks for shipping your stuff overnight, I loved having to get up at 5 this morning when it arrived."

"Well I didn't want to be here without stuff. Where were you sleeping?"

"In the bedroom."

"On what?" He asked genuinely curious because as far as he knew they didn't have a bed.

"A bed stupid, did you expect me to sleep on the floor?"

"Yeah." He chuckled and she smacked him again this time it stung. He rubbed his arm and threw his stuff down. She looked at his smirk and hit him again. "Stop hitting me Davis."

"But its so fun." She whined and fell onto the couch next to Nathan. "So how was your last night in Tree Hill?"

"Boring as hell, Tim was throwing a party and the gruesome twosome were there all over each other." Brooke winced a little but laughed a little.

"Gruesome twosome?"

"Yeah they're always all over each other." Brooke laughed and got up feeling a sudden burst of energy. "What are you doing?"

"Unpacking all your stuff, come help you."

"No I just got here, I'm jet lagged."

"Oh shut up and help me." She pushed him off the couch somehow and he slowly got up groaning. Brooke playfully glared at him and raised her hand as if to hit him and he moved away. It was funny how they were acting now that they were away from Tree Hill and all the clichés and drama.

While Nathan and Brooke unpacked their stuff Luke and Peyton arrived at what they thought was Nathan's apartment. Luke knocked and the door that was slightly ajar opened a little bit more to reveal an empty apartment. They looked around for any sign of a note but after finding nothing throughout the entire apartment they stood bewildered as to what was going on.

"Well I guess that answers my question." Peyton looked at Luke confused. "He's probably with Brooke." Peyton shook her head finding that hard to believe.

"Why would he be with Brooke? I mean they hate each other."

"I don't know but don't you think its weird the she left 2 days ago and now Nathan's gone?"

"Well a little but call his phone see if he'll answer, maybe he moved back in with his parents." Luke rolled his eyes at the thought while dialing Nathan's number. He was shocked when it went straight to voicemail; Nathan never had his phone off. Luke looked at Peyton concern written all over his face. "What?"

"Nathan's phone is off; he never turns his phone off." Peyton's eyes grew wide in surprise. Something was up and they were going to figure it out. They left wondering what happened to their exes.

Nathan and Brooke collapsed on the couch in exhaustion after spending the last 4 hours unpacking everything. They argued over where things went and Nathan's arm was red from Brooke's constant smacks. Nathan did have a great laugh when Brooke slipped the shirt he threw on the floor after sweating through it. That earned him two smacks from the abusive queen Brooke as he started calling her.

"What do you think people will say when they find out we're both gone?" Brooke asked breaking the silence that was bugging her.

"They'll probably think I got you pregnant and we had to run away to raise the baby." They both laughed, they both grabbed their phones and turned them on. "Hey look who called me." Brooke looked at Nathan's phone and smiled.

"Call him back."

"Why would I call him back?"

"I don't know to have some fun. Tell him you ran away to chase Haley."

"I'm not calling him back."

"Fine then but I'm bored so we have to find something to do." Brooke whined sticking out her bottom lip.

"Not gonna work Davis." He was tired he just wanted to stay in the apartment and relax.

"Just dinner that's it." He groaned again, she wasn't going to give up until she got what she wanted.

"Fine just dinner." Brooke smiled and stood up pulling Nathan up with her. She ran into the bedroom and quickly changed and soon they were heading out for just a simple dinner.

After driving around for 20 minutes they decided on going to Denny's, after they passed it 10 times that is. "Ya know I've been meaning to ask you something." Nathan started taking a sip of his drink.

"What's on your mind?"

"The night you left why did you kiss me?" Brooke's eyes flickered up to Nathan's before shooting the waiter that brought them their food. She seemed to think about her answer as she chewed on her burger.

"Spur of the moment?" She asked in reply to his question hoping he'd buy it. She didn't really know why she kissed him she just did and it was a nice kiss.

"Uh huh sure." He laughed as she shoved another fry in her mouth. He was really starting to like the nice side of Brooke well besides the constant smacks.

"What are you starring at?" Nathan shook his head realizing that he was starring at her.

"Nothing." He blushed a little trying to regain his composure. He shouldn't be thinking about Brooke like someone he could possibly end up dating. They would be living together for however long and if something were to happen then it would be awkward. Plus there was still his marriage to Haley and that was an issue until she signed the papers that he had drawn up. They continued to eat in silence until Nathan's phone rang and the oh so familiar ring tone indicating that Haley was calling was heard. Nathan put his fork down and answered his phone.

"Hello?"

"What the hell Nathan!" She screamed into the phone. He sighed he knew she would get pissed about the papers.

"What did you expect Haley? I mean I'm not gonna sit around and wait for you to come back, plus you knew when you left that it was over so you have no right to be mad and upset. I've already signed the papers so for me its over." He hung up and slammed his phone on the table.

"How about we head back?" Nathan nodded suddenly not having an appetite for anything. As they drove Nathan just starred out the window therefore avoiding all questions that he knew were floating around in Brooke's mind. He would answer them all eventually but now he just needed to forget all about it.

When they got back to the apartment they both changed for bed and Nathan started towards the couch before Brooke stopped him. He turned and looked at her the hurt evident in his eyes and Brooke knew that feeling all too well after Luke broke up with her for her former best friend.

"The bed's big enough for both of us; you shouldn't have to sleep on the couch." Nathan nodded and climbed into the opposite side of Brooke. He turned on his side and found himself starring at Brooke who looked concerned.

"I'm fine." He turned on his other side sighing. This was supposed to make his life better; starting over away from home and the memories but now they seem to haunt him. Maybe leaving wasn't the best thing for him.