Brooke woke up and was confused as to where she was. She realized she was on a couch and when she looked around she remembered what happened the night before. She turned and looked at Nathan. She smiled then she looked at her watch. It was 12: 35 midnight. She quietly got up and wrote a note to Nathan. Then she left and drove home.

A sunlight through the window woke Nathan up. He stretched and looked around and didn't see Brooke. He looked at the clock. It said 9: 10 a..m. He saw a piece of paper on the table and read it.

'Nate, had to go home so I could be ready for work tomorrow, well, later anyways. If you need to talk to someone, call me. Or show up at work, I could use an excuse to get away. Ha ha. Talk to you later hotshot. Brooke'

Nathan smiled. Then he went to Karen's Café to get something to eat.

"Hey Nathan." Karen greeted. "Lucas is here if you need someone to talk to. I heard about what happened. I'm really sorry."

"Whatever. And I already have a friend that I can talk to." Nathan replied. "Can I have a toasted plain bagel?"

"Yeah sure. And you know, it's good to have more than one person to talk to. For you and your friends. Sometimes, we may not notice, but when we talk to other people about our problems, we're dumping them onto their shoulders. It can be a lot to handle." She told him while getting his bagel ready.

"Yeah. Whatever." He sat down.

"Hey Nate." Lucas sat next to him.

"Lucas." Nathan didn't even look at him.

"How are you holding up?" Lucas asked sympathetically.

"How do you think?" Nathan snapped at him.

"Sorry. Just trying to be a good brother and help." Lucas stared down at his coffee.

"Half brother." Nathan reminded him.

"Would it kill you to be nice to me for once?" Lucas was tired of the attitude Nathan always gave him.

"Yeah it probably would." Nathan thanked Karen for the bagel and was about to leave. "Hey sorry Karen, but could you grab me another toasted bagel, cream cheese, and two coffees?"

"Yeah no problem." Karen went to get them.

"You bringing something for Haley?" Lucas asked.

"No! Why would I?" He snapped at him again.

"Maybe because she's your wife?" Lucas suggested.

"Soon to be ex wife." Nathan mumbled.

"Come on Nate. She made a mistake." Lucas stood next to Nathan.

"Whatever." Nathan thanked Karen again as she handed him his stuff. He paid her and then left.

"You know Luke, you two are going to have to tell him. It's bad enough he went four years without knowing and living with it." She told him.

"I know. But it's going to be so hard." Lucas shuffled his feet.

"I know my boy. But you can do it." Karen went back to work.

Nathan drove to Clothes Over Bros. He walked inside and saw her employee Millicent.

"Hey Millicent. Is Brooke in?" Nathan asked her.

"Uh yeah. But we're extremely busy today Nate. I don't know if she can have any visitors today." Millicent said as she scrambled through the papers on her counter.

"There's no customers here." Nathan pointed out.

"I know but..." Millicent was cut off as Brooke walked out on her phone. Nathan had to admit she looked busy. "Brooke, Mr. Sawyer called."

Brooke just stopped walking. "Mr. Sawyer as in formed best friend Peyton Sawyers dad?"

"Yes. I guess her and Lucas are renewing their wedding vows." Millicent and Nathan looked at Brooke.

"And?" She asked.

"Well, they wanted to set up an appointment with you." Millicent grabbed the paper with the message on it.

"Umm...when?" Brooke walked over to the counter.

"They said two weeks would be good." She suggested.

"Sorry. I can't. I forgot to mention that there's a meeting in New York City. I have to attend to it." Brooke told Millicent.

"Oh..." Millicent looked at her feet.

"You have family there right?" Brooke looked at her.

"Yeah. Why?" She looked at Brooke curiously.

"Well, you see. I bought you a ticket if you would like to go. Paid leave?" Brooke offered and watched as her friend jumped up and down in joy. Millicent went and hugged Brooke.

"Thank you! Thank you! I haven't been able to see them in such a long time. I have a phone call to make!" Millicent ran out of the room. Brooke chuckled and then remembered Nathan was there.

"That was a nice thing for you to do." Nathan told her.

"Yeah. She works hard. She's my best employee." Brooke smiled.

"Yeah. Anyways, I brought you a bagel, cream cheese, and a coffee." Nathan handed them to her.

"Aw thanks Nate. You didn't have to." She thanked him and took a huge sip of it.

"Apparently you really wanted it." He smirked at her.

"I'll be here for a while. I fired my mom." She looked at the floor.

"Why?" Nathan asked her.

"She was being too bossy and she tried to fire Millicent." Brooke admitted.

"Well you did the right thing." He smiled at her.

"Yeah. Anyways, did you need to talk or anything?" She asked him.

"No. Just came to visit. And I didn't want to stay home all day. Need any help?" He looked at her almost pleadingly.

"Actually, we could use some help. I can pay you for today." She offered.

"I would work for free. But sure. What do you need done?" He asked.

"Could you possibly sort these papers by date?" She pleaded.

"Sure." He got to work. With the three of them sorting through the papers it seemed as though the day went by quicker. It was the end of the day. Nathan offered for Brooke to come back to his place and they could hang out. They got there. She was there for an hour and then she got a text message.

"Hey Nate, sorry to cut this short but I need to go. Call if you need anything." She gave him a hug then she left. She drove to Nathan and Haleys' house. Haley let her in. They sat on the couch.

"Thanks for coming." Haley said to her.

"Haley...what happened? I thought you were happy with Nathan?" Brooke was beyond confused at how Haley could do this to him.

"I was...I am...I just. I don't know. I guess we just got married and everything was going to fast." She explained.

"How long?" Brooke asked.

"About a year and a half." Haley admitted.

"Haley!" Brooke exclaimed.

"I know. I know I feel awful. Do you think he'd take me back?" Haley asked afraid to hear what Brooke would say.

"Honestly?" Brooke asked and Haley nodded. "No I don't. You hurt him. Bad."

"I didn't mean to. It's just Ethan's a great guy. He...he makes me happy." Haley shamefully admitted.

"Well then you should have done things the right way. If you weren't happy with Nate, then you should have gotten a divorce and saved him the pain." Brooke looked at one of her best friends and couldn't believe that she would do something like this.

"Why did you turn Lucas down?" Haley asked out of no where.

"What? He told you?" Brooke asked incredulously. "We weren't even going out and he proposed to me? That's not right. That's not how I wanted my life to turn out. I don't want to get married by Elvis at a drive through in Vegas.

"So you don't love him?" Haley grabbed them both drinks.

"Truthfully? There will always be a spot in my heart for Lucas. But...I just can't play that game with him anymore." Brooke explained. "Plus he's married to Peyton now so it doesn't matter."

"Yeah." There was an awkward silence.

"Well I should go. I have work tomorrow. Bye Haley." Brooke left.

It was a week later. Nathan decided he had to face Haley and tell her that he's going to New York for a week or two. He met her at Karen's Café.

"Hi Nate. You look good." She told him.

"Thanks. Listen I didn't come here for me and you. We're through." He told her and watched as her face fell a little. "I'm going to New York City next week."

"What? Are you kidding me? What about Jamie?" Haley rushed into asking him questions. "With who? How long? Why?"

"One thing, we're getting divorced so I don't need to tell you anything." Nathan told her. "But I will because I'm not hiding anything. Possibly two weeks at the most. Because truthfully, I need to get away from you. And with Brooke. She's going there for business and I'm tagging along."

"So what? We're getting divorced and you jump at the chance to go to another state with my best friend?!" She asked incredulously and hurt. "You're starting to sound like Lucas! He can't have one so he goes for their best friend!" She didn't mean to say that but she was angry.

"Me and Brooke aren't together. She's being a friend to me. Not that it's any of your business. I just thought I'd let you know." He got up and left. He drove to Brooke's. When she answered the door he could tell that she was sleeping. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you. I'll see you tomorrow." He went to walk away but she grabbed his arm.

"No it's ok. Come on in." They walked to her couch.

"I talked to Haley. I told her we were going to New York. She accused me of being like Lucas and going after her best friend. Which I explained that's not how it was. Then I left." He told her sadly.

"It's ok Nate. Lets watch a movie. You pick." She offered.

"Ok. How about...Scary Movie 4?" He asked.

"Sure. Pop it in. I'll get the food and drinks." She went into the kitchen. When she came back, Nathan was sitting on the couch waiting. He had a blanket and pillows out. "Comfy are we?"

He smirked at her. "Yes actually. What did you get? Mountain Dew, good choice. Popcorn, original. Skittles, Starbursts, M&Ms. Wow, you have quite the variety there. From Gummy Bears to Giant one pound Hershey bars. You sure are the movie host."

"Eh I'm just good at this kind of stuff." They sat and watched the movie and fell asleep during it.