Ok, so here is chapter two I hope you like it. : )
Chapter 2
"Girls!" Their aunt yelled, standing at the bottom of the stairs, "He's almost here. Hurry up."
Brooke was getting ready with her sister in Haley's room, looking at her sister through the mirror's reflection she said "I can't believe his almost here."
Haley walked over to her sister, letting out a big sight "Brooke, I'm sure he hasn't change much." They now looking in the mirror looked at each other through their reflection.
"I really wish we could've come visit more often" Brooke told her sister with a worried look.
Haley turned to face her sister "honey, it's not our fault that the teachers and staff at St. Domenico's were so strict." Haley placed her hands on her sister's shoulders, "now... can we go? I can't wait to see him." Brooke gave Haley a smiled and they walked downstairs together.
The girls were halfway down the stairs when they saw they saw the door open, they looked at each other but quickly turned to look back at the door.
"I'm home!" the sandy blond hair boy yelled in a singing tone, as he walked in the house.
The girls couldn't help but to stare at him, "Jake!" they screamed at the same time. Running down the rest of the stairs, they jumped to him and gave him a big bear hug.
As both the girls took a step back, Jake looked at them up and down. "Wow, this was an awesome welcome home present," he said as he brought the girls to a tight squeeze. "It's so nice to see you again, it's been too long. You guys are so big" he said letting the girls go, as he picked up his bag , and started making his way to the kitchen he told the girls "well... let's go say hi to mom." "Madre? are you home?" Jake said as he walked in the kitchen.
"Oh my god, Jake" his mother ran to him and gave him a tight hug, "I'm so glad you're back, I missed you so much son." Jake took a look at his mother who now had tears in her eyes."I thought you were going to get here by 2:00?" She questioned him.
Jake smiled at her, and all the sudden it was extremely quite.
"Aunt Becky" Haley said trying to break the ice that was left after Jake and his mother had hugged, "I'm sure Jake is hungry. Why don't we go to the cafe downtown?"
When Jake heard cafe he nodded quickly, "that is a great idea, my beautiful cousin."
"Hey!" Brooke said glaring at him "what about me?"
A smiling Jake looked from Brooke to Haley and back, "you know you're my two favorite girls." He turned to his mom who gave him a glare, "of course, that is right after you mom."
"Ok, let's go" Becky told the teens, walking to the front door and grabbing her keys and purse on the way.
"God I missed this place" Jake told the girls, taking in the smell of the restaurant while he was holding the door to let them in.
Once they were all sitting in the booth, a short green eyed brunette came to take their order. "Hi, welcome to Karen's Cafe. I'm Karen, can I start you with something to drink?" the lady had a very sweet voice, to go along with the very sweet smile.
"Umm... I'll have an ice tea please" Haley told the lady.
Brooke looked up to the lady, and with a smile said "I'll have an ice tea as well."
"And what about you too?" She asked pointing at Becky and Jake with the back of her pen.
"Coke" Jake and his mother said at the same time. Jake looked at his mom as she giggled.
"How did I not guess that from you Jake?" Karen asked in a duh way, looking at Jake.
"What can I say Karen, coke in Spain is not the same."
Karen smiled at the table letting out a giggle "Ok, I'll bring you're drinks in a minute."
"Wow I can't believe you're back?" Brooke said looking at Jake with a huge smile, "It sure helps that you have a super smart cousin" she pointed to Haley, "because boy, you are a whole week behind." Jake looked to Brooke then to Haley.
"I am one lucky guy." The whole table was laughing at Jake's comment when they heard another laugh.
"Yes you are." the boy said still laughing.
Jake stood up to and reached over to shake the boy's hand, "Lucas man, it's so nice to see you. "Taking his seat again "What are you up to?"
Lucas was now placing the drinks on the table "nothing, you now same old same old." Now standing in front of the table "helping my mom, basketball, school" right when he was done with his sentence he glanced over to Brooke.
"Oh" Jake said in a high pitch, followed by a long pause. "This are my cousins, Brooke and Haley" he said pointing to the girls when he mentioned their names.
"How are you ladies today?" Lucas asked. Brooke's cheeks went red and Haley noticed, "great, how are you Lucas" Haley was trying to help her sister out, she knew how she felt about Lucas.
"Wait" Jake paused, "you know each other?" He was very confused right now.
"Yeah" Lucas said, "dude, you've missed a whole week. A lot of things happen in a week." He now pulled out his pad and a pen "So... are you guys ready to order, or do you need another minute?"
"We're ready" Haley said looking up at Lucas, "I'll have mac and cheese."
Brooke looked at her sister "how typical Haley." She was now looking at Lucas "I'll have a ceasar salad."
Lucas was taking notes of the orders, he then turned to Jake.
"Double cheese burger." Jake looked at his mom.
"I'll take a turkey sandwich." she picked up the menus and handed them to Lucas.
"Ok. So, I have one mac and cheese, one ceasar salad, a double cheese burger, and a turkey sandwich. Is that correct?" Lucas turned to look at the customers sitting across from him. He saw that they were all nodding. "Ok, I'll bring your food as soon as it's ready." He turned around and walked to the kitchen.
They talked all through their meal, Jake told them about all his adventures while backpacking through Spain. While the girls would listen, and ask questions every now and then.
Brooke was all ready when she walked over to her sister's room, "Are you ready?" She asked leaning on the door frame.
Haley looked at her sister who was wearing jeans with flip flops and a tee shirt, her hair was in a pony tail "Ummmmmm" she said trying to make Brooke nervous.
"Haley!"
"Ok. Ok, I'm just kidding lets go" Haley was wearing a knee length dress with very thin straps, a very light sweater, and high heal sandals.
When the girls walked down stairs they saw Jake standing at the end, "I don't know Haley" he said looking at her, her curls were loose down her back.
"What?" she asked with a panic voice.
"I have to say I'm a little disappointed, you're usually the first one out the door."
Relief came across Haley's face as she walked to Jake, and smacked his shoulder "you scared me, now let's go" she opened the door "you don't want to be late on your first day of school" she said emphasizing the 'first'.
"So.. Have you girls joined any clubs?" Jake asked the girls as they walked in the school
"No, well I joined the tutoring center. So there is that"
"What about you Brooke?"
"Nothing yet, I was thinking of trying out for cheer."
Jake walked in front of the sisters, and gave them a worried look."Ok, don't get mad but..." Jake was very careful with his next words, for he saw both of the girls eyes go wide open. "Ok, so I have a friend who's a cheerleader. Well the auditions for this year's team were at the end of last so that they could practice over the summer, but two girls got hurt over their summer practice. Well to make the story short, I showed her a tape of the dance you two did for the talent show two years ago and she loved it.'
"Jake! Why would you do that" Haley said with an angry face.
"I just wanted to help"
"So what happens next?" Brooke asked very exited, she had a good feeling about this.
"Well" he said looking at both girls. "Ok, so she showed the tape to the rest of the squad." He was now looking at Haley "They loved it, they said that they would love to meet you." He saw Haley shake her head "The meeting is today after school" he turned to Brooke with a smile "There is one more thing."
"What more can there be?" Haley asked with an annoyed face. She felt like Jake was trying to make them fit in into the world that they had never been part of.
"Hey Jake" a girl said to him touching his shoulder. Jake turned to hug the green eyed tall girl with curly blond hair.
"Peyton, How are you" the girls looked at the girl who was wearing a mini skirt with tee shirt and converse.
Peyton turned to look at the girls standing in front of her. "Oh my god, I am so exited to meet you two." the girl was extremely exited at the moment. "Jake has told me tons about you, and showed me the dance tape. I really hope you join, our squad sucks. It would be really good if one of you took over it.'
Brooke looked at the girl with a confused look "What do you mean 'take over'?"
"I haven't told them about the captain position yet."
"Oh my god!" Brooke turned to face her sister, then to the girl in front of her. "You want one of us to be captain?"
"You know what, I think it's better to explain it all at the cheer meeting after school" she looked at the girls, "I'll see you there, it's today after school in the gym."
Haley, Brooke and Jake walked to their classrooms to begin their school day.
After school Haley was at her locker waiting for Brooke, after all she promised her sister she would do the cheer thing for her. She was now putting her books away when she felt someone behind her.
"Hey." he said.
Haley turned around to the boy behind her "oh, Nathan hey" she closed her locker and stood there talking to him, "what's up?"
"You know, on my way to practice" he was staring into her eyes.
Haley could feel her cheeks turning red, "you play football?" She asked, trying to break her thoughts.
"No, basketball" he told her with a smirk, He could the confused look on her face."Not with the school team, I practice with Luke everyday at the river court." He noticed Haley's confusion washing off. "So I hear you're trying out for cheer."
Haley nodded, she could see that he was nervous now but didn't now why.
"So...do you have any plans for Friday?"
Haley stare at him with confusion once more, but quickly answered "not really, why?"
"Well... there is this new club that Luke's mom opened, and well I was wondering if you would like to go to the opening with me." He let the words just jump out of his mouth, without taking a breathing break. Nathan could see Haley's cheek blush, he had never seen a girl blush so beautifully.
"Oh, ummm." Just as she was about to answer she heard someone calling her.
"Haley, Haley" Haley turned around to see her sister running to her. "Oh my, we are going to be late, lets go" Brooke grabbed her sister's hand and pulled her. Haley turned to look at Nathan as she was being pulled.
"So?" Nathan yelled across the hall.
"OK" Haley said right before her sister pulled her to turn the hall.
"Ok girls, as you all know I'm Peyton last year's captain" every girls sitting on the bleachers nodded, except for Brooke and Haley. "Well that's going to change this year, as you all know by now their is a new club for under age people. I happen to manage that club. So, I will not be able to manage the squad this year." She took a step forward and continued her speech. "So, do you remember the tape I showed you?" once again every girl nodded. "Well, let me introduce you to Brooke and Haley" she said looking at the sisters. "Come on down girls so the squad can meet you"
Both girls walked down to Peyton and stood next to her. "Ok, so since we have the two open spots I gave it to them. Now there is only one problem" Peyton said looking at both girls. "As I told you all this summer, non of you are qualified to be captain. So I asked Brooke and Haley here" Peyton told the squad pointing to each girl as she mentioned their name. "And well, Haley has other things to do, so Brooke will be the new captain." She turned to face Brooke and then to the rest of the squad to finish. "Now everyone listen to her, she has great ideas and is a really good choreographer." Peyton grabbed Haley's hand and walked over to the bleachers, taking a seat with the rest of the squad.
"Ok girls" Brooke said nervously, "like you heard I'm Brooke, and to tell you something about my cheer experience I would have to lie." Brooke saw that the squad was laughing now. "At my old school their was no cheer squad, so my sister and I decided to start our own dance team. Now you all saw the tape, so I don't think their is much more to say. Oh yeah, our old school had an awesome dance teacher. So yeah" all the sudden she was nervous again. "Any questions?"
When Peyton notice that no hands went up she stood up, she walked over to Brooke and faced the squad "Ok, so practice will start next week. You must attend every football game and, after that basketball game. Practice will be every Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays after schools, and Saturday mornings at eight o'clock sharp." Peyton turned to face Brooke "do you have anything to add?" Brooke shook her head
"That is a great schedule" she told Peyton.
"Ok, then. You may all go, we will see you next Monday."
All the girls started walking out the gym.
On the car ride home Brooke could not stop talking about her new cheer captain position, it was all she had ever dreamed of. Sadly her old school did not have a cheer squad, if it did she would have sure been the captain. Haley was just happy that her sister got what she wanted, even if it did mean she would have to be one of them.
"Oh yeah... I forgot to ask you." Brooke told Haley in a suspicious tone.
"What?"
"What did Nathan want; I mean it must have been really important for you to yell back at him."
"Oh." Haley was now blushing and hoping that her sister wouldn't notice "well..."
"Haley, it's something big your blushing."
damn it Haley though to herself
"Oh my god, did he ask you out? Haley please tell me I need to know this."
"Ok, fine. He asked me if I wanted to go to that club opening with him."
"And you said OK." Brooke couldn't help her excitement "Haley it's your first official date, I'm so exited. We need to go shopping, and get our nails done. I love this kind of things it gives us a chance to have girls time."
"Brooke, slowdown" Haley told her sister "it's just a date, we don't need to go all out."
"Just a date, just a date? Haley, I see the way your face lights up every time you talk about him, or the way your cheeks blush when you see him, or how you can't seem to get your eyes of him every time he's around." Brooke could have kept going but was interrupted by her sister.
"Brooke," Haley took a second to think about her next move. "I don't think you're talking about me, I think you're talking about you and Lucas."
"I wish." She said folding her arms in front of her. "I haven't seen the boy today, and to be honest I would love for him to ask me to go to the opening with him." Brooke said with disappointment in her eyes.
Haley parked the car on the drive way took her seat belt off, before getting out of the car she saw Lucas standing on the door step. She turned to her sister who had sad eyes "Well, it looks like your day is about to get a whole lot better."
Brooke looked at the door and saw Lucas standing there, she felt her heart pumping faster.
As the girls walked to the door Lucas looked at Brooke. "Hey, do you mind if I still your sister for a minute?" he asked Haley.
"Nope, not at all. I actually have tons of homework so... I'm going to go." she looked at her sister, "I'll see you guys later" she then looked at Lucas and was walking up the steps.
"Haley."
Haley turned to the sound of her name. "So I heard about you and Nathan." he paused for a minute, "I think it's really cool, he really needed a girl like you to bring him down to earth." Haley nodded and walked in the house.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Brooke asked with hope in her face.
"Well." he hesitated "my mom is opening a new club, and well I kind of need a date."
"Lucas Scott." her eyes were wide open, "are you asking me to be your date?" she told him with a smirk.
"Well, I was actually hoping that you new someone I could take?" he looked at her, and saw her face drop "yes. Of course I am asking you, so what do you say captain?" he smiled at her.
"I don't know, let me check my schedule." Brooke opened her phone pretending to check her schedule. "What do you know, I am free Friday night" she looked at him with a serious face, which quickly turned to a smile "I would love to."
Lucas smiled and gave her a hug "so I'll see you Friday." He started to walk away, when he turned around and gave her a quick smile.
"Brooke. Haley, right here" Peyton said waving her hand so the girls would go to the lunch table were she was sitting, "you guys can sit with us" she said with smile.
"Wow, It's just like the movies" Haley told Peyton, then turning to look at her sister who was smiling back at her.
"I know" Brooke smiled to the rest of the girls on the table, "now let's eat" she looked at her sister, then sat on an empty chair. Tapping the chair next to her she looked up at Haley "come on sis, you need to eat." Haley sat next to her sister and opened her water bottle.
Peyton turned to face her " so, where did you two move here from?"
Brooke looked at Haley trying to give her the sign that she should tell the story, when Haley caught her sisters glance she began to speak. "Well we moved her from California when I was ten, and Brooke was nine." Haley could see the girls looking at her with a confused look. "I mean we had to move here" she could still see the confusion. "To make the story short, we attended an all girls boarding school for the past seven year. At the end of last years school year we decided we wanted to attend a regular high school, I mean really seven years of living with all girls makes you go a little crazy." She gave Brooke a quick look and turned back to the rest of the girls "so we moved back to Tree Hill, and as you can see, now we are going to a regular school." Haley could see that they were still confused, yet they understood the story.
"So what do your parents do for living?" one of the girls asked.
After hearing the questions Haley gave her sister a look, she new what the subject of their parents did to her. All Haley wanted to do was protect her sister, in a way she was older even if it was only a year. Just as Haley was going to answer the question the bell rang, she could not feel more relieved.
Brooke grabbed her books, and looked at her sister. "Can we now" she told Haley with a sad look in her eyes, "please Haley?"
Haley could see the plead in her sister's eyes, so she grabbed her books as well. She turned to face Brooke, grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the cafeteria. "I think we should get you home?" she was now walking towards the car, with her arm over her sister's shoulder.
Both girls got in the car and drove home, Haley new that Brooke was still not over the question. She usually spoke all the way home, not letting her get even one word in. Fortunately Haley knew exactly how to get cheer her sister up, so on her way home she stopped by the local grocery store.
"Haley, you don't have to do this"
Haley looked at her sister who was now sitting on the kitchen stool, "honey, your my sister and I love you. Besides if I don't do this for you who will?" she gave Brooke a quick smile as she handed her the cookie dough scream, "now here take this, I know how much you love it. We can talk about it later."
It was now dark and they had talked all day, as Haley went to the bathroom to brush her teeth Brooke was laying on her sister's bed. "Brooke, are you exited about tomorrow?" she asked trying to change the mood a little, but she got no response. "Brooke?" She walked into her room and saw her sister asleep on her bed. "Oh, honey lets get you under the covers" Haley whispered as she pulled the covers over her sister. She then walked around the bed, and laid her self next to her sister. She hated when people asked about their parents, but one way or another the subject would always come up. Haley knew she could handle it, but it was what it did to her sister what she hated.
Haley was walking to her room from the bathroom after her shower with nothing but a towel, as she opened the door she saw Brooke there. "Hello you" she told her sister as she walked to her closet to get an outfit for the night.
"What do you think you're doing?" Brooke asked when she saw her sister walk into the closet.
"Umm. What does it look like I'm doing?"
"Well it looks like you're looking for an outfit for tonight. But we both know you don't get to make that decision right?"
Haley looked at her sister. She always let Brooke pick her outfits when she went out. She new how much that cheered her up, and if playing dress up with her would keep her from seen her sister get hurt, than so be it. "Ok, so what do you have for me?" she asked walking out back to her room.
Brooke gave her sister a huge smile "so what do you think?" she was pointing to the outfit she had laid out on Haley's bed. As she turned to see her sister's face, she could tell that Haley couldn't say no to her. "Come on Haley, the boys will be here soon" she gave her a quick smile, "plus I know Nathan is going to love it."
"Ok, Fine" she grabbed the outfit from the bed and walked to the closet to change, "so. umm. What are you wearing?" Haley was sliding on a dress.
"I can't tell you, it's a surprise."
"Oh. I see. You can pick my outfits, but you can't tell me about yours?" Haley was now walking out of the closet.
Brooke looked at her with total excitement. "Haley, you look hot" she grabbed her sister's hand and sat her on a stool in front of the mirror. "Now let's do your hair, and while you do your make up I can do my hair."
"Hey Brooke, Haley" Jake yelled up the stairs, "the boys are here."
"Are you ready Jake?" Lucas asked walking in the house.
Nathan followed him and closed the door behind him, "So ready to party?"
"Yeah, we just need the girls to come down now." Jake told the brothers looking up the stairs when he saw his cousins at the top. As the girls walked down he gave the guys a 'don't even think about it' look.
Lucas looked right at Brooke as she made her way down the stairs, She was wearing a red strapless dress that ended at her thigh, black high heal sandals and a black mini purse. Her hair was down and straight, Lucas kept staring at her. He always new she was pretty, but tonight she looked beautiful.
When the girls made it to the bottom Nathan looked at them both, then placed his eyes on Haley. "You look... Wow" there were no words to explain how he saw her, the blue dress she wore was the same length as Brooke's but was a one shoulder dress. She was wearing gold sandals that strapped around her ankles, and her hair was down and curly.
Haley blushed at Nathan's words and looked at her sister, and noticed that Brooke was looking at Lucas. She then turned to look at Nathan "Thanks" she told him shyly, "Umm. We should get going, Peyton is going to be waiting for Jake there" she gave Jake a quick glance.
"Yeah, I told her we would meet there" Jake was telling the boys, "she's managing the club, so she had to be there early."
Lucas looked around the room and said "Well then, lets get going" he pointed to the door then looked at Brooke putting his hand out for her to hold.
"Come on Peyton said she had a table reserved for us" Jake told them as they made their way through the crowd.
When they made it to the table in the corner of the club, the girls sat followed by the boys. on one side was Brooke, Lucas, and Jake, while on the other side was Nathan and Haley. The other seat was empty for when Peyton would make her presence, her seat was right across from Jake's. She was very busy with it being opening night.
"Hey guys!" Peyton was screaming so that they could hear her over the music, "do you guys want something to drink?"
"I'll take a martini" Brooke said smiling at her new friend.
Peyton gave them a frown "sorry kids no alcohol, you're still under age" she could see the disappointment on the boys' faces. "I'll send over some waters, ok?" She looked at the table to see the responses, and saw them all nodding. She then turned around and walked over to the bar.
After dancing for a while and talking some more they walked over to the table to take a drink. Haley looked over at Brooke trying to tell her something with a facial expression, but Brooke was so into her conversation with Lucas that she didn't even realize her sister was looking at her.
Nathan saw that Haley was trying to get her sister's attention, he grabbed her hand and pulled her to the floor. As they made their way through the crowd and out the door he looked at her in the eyes, "are you ok?" He asked trying to read her face.
"Yeah, I'm great" she was now looking into his eyes, she gave him a sympathetic look, she didn't want the next words to come out of her mouth to hurt him. "Look Nate" she said, now placing her hand on his chest "I've had a really good time, but... I am really tired" she looked at his eyes "do you mind if I go."
Nathan looked at her "no that's cool, just wait here" he told her, and started running in the club. When he got to the table he explained to Brooke, Jake, and Lucas that he was going to take Haley home, Brooke nodded in approvement and told him to tell her to wait for her before going to bed.
Nathan walked out and saw Haley waiting for him, "Ok, let's go" he said grabbing her hand.
"Wait" Haley told him pulling him back, "what do you mean let's go?"
Nathan turned to look at her, he felt her let go of his hand. He was now looking at her "it means I'm going to take you home, come on you didn't think I was going to let you walk home all by yourself?"
"Ok then, let's go" she told him.
Nathan grabbed her hand one more time and starting walking towards her house.
"I'm going to see what Peyton's doing" Jake told them walking towards the bar.
Lucas turned to look at Brooke "You look beautiful tonight." He saw Brooke blush, he had never seen her blushed before. He couldn't help but to smile at how adorable she looked, "what are you thinking?"
Brooke gave him a smile and turned to face him, looking into his eyes. "How adorable you are" she smiled at him, just then she saw him smile back. As she lean towards him she could feel his breath near her mouth, she couldn't stop looking at him. She was never the type of girl to take the first step, but if the guy took it she wasn't going to stop him after all it was only a kiss. With Lucas it was different, she really liked him. She felt like she couldn't breathe being so close to him, as she leaned a little closer she could feel his lips. This was it the moment that would change her life, the moment she was waiting for, the moment she didn't want to ruin. Yet this would be the first actual kiss, with a boy she actually liked.
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