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Chapter 1- Dirty Little Secret


I'll keep you my dirty little secret
Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret

-All American Rejects

Brooke lay in her bed waiting for the household to leave. She'd get up then. At least she would have some dignity. She couldn't let Jake know. That was the last thing she could do so she laid there just like she did every morning wishing she was at the softball field with her best friends.

"Brooke! I'm out" Jake called from the front door and Brooke let out a sigh of relief because Jake was last to leave and now she could take a shower, put on her makeup and get the hell out of the this place. She slowly pulled herself out of her bed wincing in pain that radiated through her body. Fiona had beaten her back pretty badly with a belt last night and the welts and cuts would probably scar. One more reason to not wear bathing suits or change in front of anyone.

She walked down the hallway and turned on the shower dreading the fact of the water hitting her back. She kept the water at only a cool temperature and quickly cleaned her body. After a quick five minute shower she jumped out to inspect the damage that had been done. She looked over her shoulder at her back and cringed at the sight. Bruises had already formed around the cuts and the welts swelled. Cleaning the wounds was going to hurt like hell. She wouldn't be able to reach most of them so she would have to call Peyton and the rest of the gang to help her.

She turned to look at her face thankful Fiona never hit her face. She only messed with every other inch of her body. She pulled on one of old Jake's old shirts and her black loose sweat pants. She picked up her phone dialing her friend's number.

"Hello?"

"Oh um hey Lucas… where's Peyton?" She asked confused why Lucas would answer Peyton's phone.

"Walking towards me." He said handing the phone over to Peyton.

"Brooke?"

"I need you guys" Brooke told her vaguely knowing she would understand.

"Where?"

"My whole back" Brooke responded with no emotion.

"Okay… we're on our way" Peyton sighed and Brooke hung up the phone standing in the middle of her bathroom not wanting to sit down. It only caused more pain.

"Brooke" Quinn called through the large house as four more girls followed behind her.

"Hey" Brooke said walking passed them heading towards the kitchen. They all followed her to see the medical kit already sitting on the counter. Quinn's twin sister, Haley walked over to where Brooke stood and gave her a loose hug not wanting to hurt but felt Brooke tense anyway.

"What can we do?" Rachel asked.

"Someone can clean this" Brooke slowly pulled her shirt over her head and watched as her five friends cringe.

"Brooke… we can't let this keep happening. She is going to kill you" Alex snapped at her friend.

"No she won't. Too much trouble would come with that" Brooke replied shaking her head.

"Please let us tell someone" Peyton begged and Brooke once again shook her head.

"I just need someone to clean it" Brooke said with a blank face.

"I'll do it. You guys go get her a bag. Rachel hold her hand. This is going to hurt" Alex instructed and they all followed.

Brooke sat slowly onto a stool and Rachel pulled one up in front of her holding her hand tightly. "You going to manage this year?"

"No" Brooke said trying to not think about the pain of the cleaning process. To be honest… it didn't come close to the pain of last night.

"Oh, we're gonna miss you" Rachel said trying to distract her.

"Yeah" Brooke closed her eyes when the cold pain pressed into her back.

"Brooke… we love you. You know that right?" Alex asked.

"Yeah" was all Brooke said and Rachel glanced at Alex and their eyes said the same thing.

The girl in front of them wasn't their best friend anymore. The girl that always smiled and lifted everyone's spirits. The one that found the bright side of everything. The girl they went to advice for and was the best softball player they knew. They realized Fiona had finally done what she had always wanted. She broke Brooke Davis.

"You're staying at my house tonight" Peyton told Brooke once they had made it back to the kitchen.

"Okay"

They sat around Brooke talking to her and trying to get her to crack a smile while Alex took equal time on each cut. After a gruesome hour Alex started to pack up the medical kit and Brooke stood up and exited the room without a word.

"We can't let this keep going" Alex said not wanting to clean another one of Brooke's cuts again. It made her sick to her stomach the thought of someone beating her best friends and her not being able to day anything.

"I don't know what to do. It gets worse every time" Peyton agreed.

"But if we tell someone, Brooke would never forgive us; Fiona will take Jake away from Brooke. She will officially lose her whole family" Quinn sighed.

"She is going to kill her" Rachel snapped.

"It's a lose/lose situation" Haley said sadly.

"Guys, just let it go. You guys tell someone… I deny it." They all turned to see Brooke as always covering every inch of her body.

"Brooke-"

"Let it go" Brooke snapped showing the first sign of any emotion making her ways towards the door.

"I just cleaned her mangled back. How can I let it go?" Alex mumbled as they all followed her out the door.


"You think they all know?" Nathan asked Lucas as they watched TV.

"I guess. They all went over there." Lucas shrugged. "How long do you think it has been going on?"

"I really don't want to know."

They heard the front door open and heard the noise of girls filter through the house. "Shit… she's here"

Nathan and Lucas made their way towards the sound to see the six girls standing in the doorway. Haley made her way towards Nathan to give him a quick kiss before heading towards the basement and one by one all the girls filtered out of the room and only Brooke remained pulling on the back of her long sleeve shirt. The brothers awkwardly stood there not knowing what to say.

"Hey Brookie" Nathan said first giving her a small hug just like he normally would but this time he noticed the flinch Brooke made.

"Hi Natey" Brooke said before giving a small wave to Lucas.

"Hi Lucas" She said with a soft voice. It was then Lucas noticed she didn't smile like she used to and wasn't her loud self like he had described her to Ian.

"Hey" he said shoving his hands into his pockets.

"I'm gonna put my stuff upstairs" She told them slowly making her way up the stairs and Lucas' eyes followed her the whole way.

"This is going to be harder than we thought, isn't it?" Nathan questioned.

"Yeah" Lucas sighed staring at the empty stair case. "A lot harder"

"Come one man. Let's call the guys" Nathan requested and Lucas nodded following him.


"Where's my baby sister?" Jake asked the group as they sat in the basement and seven bodies froze.

"She went upstairs right before you got here to take a nap. Said she wasn't feeling well" Rachel lied flawlessly.

"I'm gonna go check on her" he told them untangling himself from Peyton and making his way up to the main floor and then taking another flight of stairs before stopping in front of the guest room.

"Sis" Jake whispered into the room seeing Brooke crack her eyes open.

"Hey big brother." She tried to smile but it cracked and she was frowning again.

"What's wrong?" He asked sitting on the bed feeling her head.

"Just tired. I'm staying here tonight" she informed him and he nodded.

"Okay. I'll let you rest. I love you Brooke." He told her kissing her forehead and she nodded.

"Yeah" She mumbled closing her eyes and he sighed.

"Damn it" He whispered leaving the room and his broken sister.

Brooke laid there trying to make herself cry or be angry but at this point she couldn't. She was too far gone at this point. Now she was numb, emotionally she felt nothing. She was just tired. She was tired of everything. She accepted a long time ago this would be her life. She didn't expect leaving when she graduated or going to college. She knew she would stay here and be Fiona's puppet. Just like Fiona had always wanted.

She needed to try at least to fake her old upbeat ways or people would start to notice something was wrong. They would realize she wasn't happy and cheerful and she didn't want the questions that would follow that. Those questions have answers and those answers would lead back to Jake. Jake couldn't know. She realized that a long time ago.

She pulled herself slowly out of the bed just as she had done earlier that morning and stared at the mirror that stood in front of her. She smiled at herself and hated how fake she looked but didn't stop. She felt like her reflection was mocking her. Laughing at her for ever letting everything get this bad. Brooke kept smiling agreeing with her reflection. She deserved to be mocked. She tried to laugh a small laugh to see what it sounded like and it just sounded foreign. She laughed again softly until it sounded more natural.

She tried to think of happy things. She thought of her mom, she thought of softball, she thought of her dad and it worked for a few minutes… until she realized she had lost all those things. She realized she had lost. Fiona won. Fiona got what she wanted. She had everyone under her control.

"I'm happy" Brooke said to the mirror with a smile. "I'm happy. I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy"

"I'm a little scared at how happy you are" Brooke jumped at the noise to see Clay leaning against the doorway.

"Hey buddy" Brooke said as upbeat as she could giving him a quick hug. "How are you and Quinn?"

"Been broken up for a few weeks now, Brooke" Clay said and Brooke's smile faltered.

"I'm sorry. It must have slipped my mind. You have a plan to get her back?"

"I love her. I know that. You know that. The whole world knows that… except her. When she accepts that I'm not going anywhere she'll come back to me." He shrugged confidently.

"I hope it works out for you" Brooke once again tried a smile that Clay saw right through.

"You okay, Cookie?" He asked her concerned.

"Perfect. Let's go downstairs" She grabbed his hand pulling him in the direction their friends sat.


"Babe" Jake stopped Peyton from taking another step towards his car and she turned back to look at him.

"Yeah" She smiled up at the boy that she had loved for so long.

She never understood why she got him. She still remembered when Brooke introduced her years ago. She remembered when he first kissed her, first told her he loved her. He was perfect for her. He fit perfectly into her puzzle of life. He always knew what to say and always knew when something was wrong. She planned on being with him forever. That is if he wanted her that long.

"Is there anything going on with Brooke?" He questioned and Peyton started to nervously play with her long blond hair.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, is there… was there a guy? Did I do something? Is she mad at me? I… I don't know. She just doesn't talk to me anymore and I just was wondering if there was something going on." He rambled and Peyton scratched the back of her neck hating the fact she was about to lie to him. It was the first time he had ever straight forwardly asked if Brooke was okay and Peyton wasn't prepared.

"Jake… she's fine. We're seventeen… going on eighteen. We're about to be seniors. Sometimes we don't tell big brother everything. I mean Luke and Nate don't know what's going on with me. They'd kill id they did know. She's fine." Peyton lied awfully. She just rambled hoping he would drop the subject.

"I guess you're right. I just miss her and I don't know what to do" He shrugged sadly and Peyton embraced him.

"I love you, Jake. Don't worry. She'll be fine. I'll talk to her"

She intended to talk to her best friend because she refused to ever lie to the boy that stood in front of her ever again. The look on his face made him seem so lost making her love him a little more and that was one thing she refused to do for Brooke

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