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New Boys in School

Chapter 2

Much to her dismay, Brooke had to wake up early on Monday morning. Getting used to waking up early after a long summer was not going to be easy, Brooke thought to herself. She took her time getting ready, wanting to look good for her first day back at school. Eventually Brooke decided to wear her favorite pair of dark blue jeans with a new white sleeveless top she had bought the other day. She then slipped into her heels, grabbed her school bag and drove to school.

Once Brooke had parked in her usual spot, she saw Peyton, Jake and Haley sitting at a lunch table outside the school building. She made her way over to them and sat down next to Haley.

"Cutting it a bit fine aren't you, the bells going to ring in a minute" said Haley.

"No, just means I got here a minute early" joked Brooke. The four of them rose from the table and made their way to homeroom. Their form tutor had not yet arrived so the class took the opportunity to catch up with the people they had not seen all summer. Brooke began talking to a group of people when one of them asked her about the annual end of summer beach party.

"Oh yeah, I might as well let the whole class know," said Brooke as she pulled out the nearest chair and stood on top of it. "Listen everyone, as I'm sure you all know, I was voted captain of the cheerleaders last year. That means I will be organizing the end of summer beach party this year. I'm having it at my Dad's new beach house this Friday and everyone is invited. Spread the word and don't forget-"

"I think that will do Miss Davis, you may remove yourself from that chair." In all the excitement, no one had noticed their form tutor, Mr. Parker walk into the room. All of the students immediately sat down and fell silent.

"I'm sorry I was late, but we have two new students joining us today so we had some things to deal with," he stated.

For the first time Brooke noticed two boys had walked in with Mr. Parker. The two boys looked nothing alike. Both were very tall and looked to be athletically built but that was where the similarities ended. One of them had short dark brown hair and his eyes looked to be dark brown also. He was wearing loose fitting jeans and a basketball jersey. Brooke immediately noticed that he seemed a little nervous so when he looked her way, she gave him a little smile and he smiled back which Brooke found quite endearing. It helped that he was extremely good looking too.

The other boy turned his head and looked at Brooke as well, however he did not return Brooke's smile, it seemed as though he rolled his eyes, but he looked away before she could tell. Brooke did not find him endearing at all, he held himself in a very arrogant manner and seemed incapable of anything but a frown. However, Brooke could not help herself thinking that he was very attractive too. He had dirty blonde hair and his eyes were the color sky blue. He wore dark blue straight jeans and a white t-shirt that accentuated his muscular arms very well.

The tutor motioned for the boys to sit down and they took the only two seats left, which happened to be at the front of the class.

"Ok, this is Lucas and Nathan Scott and I know you will all be most welcoming to them both. Especially Brooke, since she felt the need to stand on my furniture and nominate herself as the person you boys can go to if you need anything," teased Mr. Parker. The boy with dark hair turned to face Brooke and gave her a cheeky smirk then smiled at her again. Brooke could tell she would get on very well with him.

The rest of the class went by with the usual start of year notices; 'this year is very important, you must work hard, start thinking about university…' Brooke was bored by all this and paid no attention. She didn't even notice the bell ring until Haley poked her in the back and told her to get up. Brooke compared timetables with her friends and saw that none of them were with her on Monday except for English last period. They all went their separate ways and agreed to meet for lunch.

The morning seemed to go very slowly for Brooke. She hated not having any of her close friends in her class. Although she knew everyone in the class, it just wasn't the same.

Brooke was the first to arrive for lunch but was soon joined by Haley and Jason. Jason was very tall and had a medium build. His light brown hair was very short and he always had a bit of stubble. Although he had always gone to Tree Hill High, he had never really been close to Haley, Brooke or Peyton until he asked Haley out on a date. Even now, after Haley and Jason had been dating all summer, Brooke did not feel she knew Jason very well. She didn't mind though, as long he kept Haley happy, she was happy.

The three made small talk and finally Peyton and Jake joined them.

"Why are you two always last?" Brooke asked.

Jake laughed and then said, "My girlfriend can't resist me so we tend to get a little sidetracked." Peyton blushed and joined in laughing with everyone else.

Just then Brooke noticed the two new boys walk out of the school building and sit down at an empty table nearby. She turned to her friends as asked, "have any of you guys spoken to the new boys yet?"

Haley spoke up first, "yeah, me and Jake had our first lesson with the blonde haired one, Lucas I think his name is. He was really quiet though so I didn't really get a chance to speak to him."

"I had both my lessons with Nathan," said Peyton. "He's really friendly. Speaking of friendly, don't think I didn't see you two sharing sly smiles at each other Brooke," she laughed.

"Whatever Peyton, we were just kidding around," sighed Brooke. Just as she said this Nathan and Lucas rose from their table and walked past Brooke's table when Peyton stopped them and asked the two to join them.

The two boys looked at each other then Nathan said "sure thanks," and sat down in between Jake and Haley. However, Lucas did not sit down. He looked around the table, his eyes lingering on Brooke longer than anyone else before he said, "thanks but I've got to talk to Mr. Parker about something so I'll catch up with you guys later." As Lucas left Peyton began telling Nathan everyone's names. Brooke wondered why Lucas was in such a hurry and thought it a little strange that he had a meeting with Mr. Parker already but didn't think much of it.

"So Nathan, are you and Lucas brothers? How is it that you guys are in the same year?" Jake said after the introductions were made.

"Yeah, we are. Luke is a year older though, he started school a year late but I'll let him explain that." Nathan replied.

"Maybe your brother had the right idea, not sitting with us because we're just going to end up asking you a million questions," Haley laughed. Nathan smiled and said he didn't mind at all.

Their remaining free time was spent getting to know Nathan better. It turned out Nathan and Lucas had only moved to Tree Hill a few weeks ago with their mother. Nathan didn't mention anything about his father and so nobody else felt it appropriate to ask. However, they did find out that both Nathan and Lucas were keen basketball players and would be trying out for the school team. The more Brooke talked to Nathan, the more she liked him. He was very easy to get on with and it felt like they had known him for a lot longer than one day!

Lucas, however, was a mystery to Brooke and she couldn't work out why, but this only intrigued her even more. After lunch Brooke again had none of her close friends in Biology. That meant she was in no rush to get to lesson so took the long way round stopping off at her locker. By the time she arrived, the class had already started and there was only one empty space which happened to be next to Lucas. Brooke was not pleased, as Lucas seemed quiet and moody. At least he's nice to look at thought Brooke. She sat down next to him and he did not even look her way.

"How lovely of you to join us Brooke. I do not appreciate tardiness to my class, luckily we have not really started," said their Biology teacher to Brooke, he then addressed the whole class.

"As I was just explaining, the person you have chosen to sit next to will be your lab partner for the rest of the year. With that said, will you all please open your books at page 88 and discuss with your partner how you would go about this experiment."

Brooke couldn't believe her luck, not only was she not with any of her friends, but she was stuck with Lucas for the rest of the year. She turned to talk to him but he said,"I'm Lucas and I know you're Brooke, looks like we're going to be lab partners," rather abruptly.

"Yeah I guess we are," replied Brooke. Lucas then put his head down and started reading the book. Brooke wondered why he was being a little rude especially since his brother was so nice. Nobody else seemed to be talking about the work so Brooke decided to try and talk to Lucas.

"So your brother told me you guys are in to basketball, I'm a cheerleader so if you're good, we'll be seeing a lot of each other."

"Yeah, I figured you were a cheerleader," replied Lucas.

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Brooke.

"Nothing, I just know how to read people… that and you announced it at the beginning of the day when you were standing on that chair." He turned to face Brooke with a smile and Brooke couldn't help but smile back.

"There doesn't seem to be much talking about the work so we'll have the rest of the lesson in silence," interrupted the teacher. Brooke scowled and continued to read the book, none of which she was taking in.

The lesson seemed to drag for Brooke and finally when the bell went she gathered her things and quickly made her way to English. She was not dreading this lesson as much as the others because she knew Haley was in this class. Haley had already sat down at a table at the back of the class when Brooke went to sit with her. Immediately Brooke began to moan about her day and Haley just laughed. Brooke looked around the room just as Lucas walked in, they acknowledged each other before he sat down next to Nathan. Brooke didn't even see when Nathan had come in, but waved to him as he turned around to greet her.

Their teacher walked in and Brooke's heart sank. She and Haley had had this teacher last year and they did not like her. Her name was Ms. Hadler, she looked to be about fifty and in Brooke's opinion always smelled of cheese. Ms. Hadler looked up at Haley and Brooke and immediately separated them.

"You two were a nightmare together last year, so I want you two to separate. In fact Brooke you can sit right at the front, swap with…sorry I don't know your name," she said as she addressed Lucas. Lucas told her his name then got up from the desk and went to sit next to Haley while Brooke took his seat.

"It's ok, I won't bite," whispered Nathan. Brooke just laughed. She really didn't mind sitting next to Nathan anyway.

Nathan and Brooke got on very well during the lesson. They found out they had a lot of things in common, the main thing being they both liked to have fun and to party. Brooke realized that she and Nathan could talk about almost anything and he would definitely become a very good friend of hers. Although he was very good looking, she did not fancy him, he just wasn't Brooke's type. However, she did find herself turning around to look at his brother more than once. Brooke did not know what it was, but something about him intrigued her.