AUTHOR'S NOTE: Your positive response to last chapter meant so much to me. I was so overwhelmed by all the reviews that were waiting in my inbox. I'm having a lot of fun writing this story. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Thanks for reading.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own One Tree Hill or the Celtics, but I definitely own Lainey O'Callahan who just happens to be a very fun character for me to create. I hope you like her.
Chapter Two: VD Free
Lainey O'Callahan was a woman on a mission. She had two days to find a good real estate agent, hire a moving company, put together a farewell press conference, figure out what they were going to do with Nathan's fully loaded Tahoe, and get them set up in Boston. The average assistant probably would have been overwhelmed, but for her this was nothing out of the ordinary. This was a cakewalk as compared to the numerous times she had to schedule rendezvous' for Nathan and Brooke to see each other. Like the time she had to figure out a way for Nathan to attend Brooke's 23rd birthday party in Boston on the same day he was supposed to compete in a charity golf tournament in Pasadena, California. Thank God for private planes. "So I've officially halfway finished the itinerary for the first day of our new life in Boston." She announced as she walked into the weight room and found him as usual working out. The man was a machine to say the least.
"Okay throw it at me." Nathan stopped lifting and sat up. It had officially been four hours and sixteen minutes since he'd found out about the trade. It took Lainey, his longtime assistant, all of five minutes to go into planning mode.
"Our plane leaves at 5:00 a.m. pacific time and we should arrive in Boston at like 11:00 a.m. eastern time. A car service is going to be picking Brooke up at her place at 10:00 that morning to guarantee that she will be ready on time and waiting for us when the plane lands. We'll have a police escort to the Garden which is where Marty is going to meet us. You'll be meeting with management before the press conference. Said press conference is supposed to start at 1:00. You'll have a brief question and answer session with some assembled press just to get you used to the media. After that the day is all yours. I'll be going to a game at Fenway that night with Carter. I figure Brooke will have something special planned. Let's just end the night in one piece and VD free." Lainey joked.
Nathan threw his sweaty towel at her. "Low blow Lainey. That was one time and it wasn't like I actually had a disease or got one. And I only got the test done because you said "that bitch looked skeevy" and I knew you were going ride me about it I until I went." He'd met the aforementioned skeevy bitch at a club in Phoenix. To say the least Lainey did not approve of the girl who had so much hairspray in her hair she alone could have put a hole in the Ozone layer. "I swear between you and Brooke -," Before he could finish his sentence his phone rang. He smiled. "Speak of the devil." He waved his phone at a knowing Lainey.
"Make sure she knows that the car service is picking her up at 10:00 a.m. and that she better return you to me VD free and in one piece." Lainey advised before shuffling out of the room. She was a busy woman.
He nodded and then flipped the phone open, "Hey Brooke."
"What's hattenin' pimpin'?" She picked at the sprouts salad sitting in front of her. The things she ate to keep her figure intact.
"Nothing much working out while Lainey gets everything ready. I don't know how she does it all."
"She does it all because she's the best. You still owe me big for letting you have her." Lainey had been Brooke's assistant for a year and a half before offering her the chance to work with Nathan in Portland. She wasn't exactly a fashion loving kind of girl, but rather a sports fanatic. It was pretty obvious that working for Nathan was more up her alley. "Now what I'm not sure of is how she puts up with your shit."
"Anyone who can put up with you can definitely put with me." Nathan shot back. "I'm supposed to mention that the car service is picking you up at 10:00 a.m."
"Don't forget the VD free part!" Lainey hollered from the other room.
Brooke could hear Lainey holler in the background and grinned. "What was that about VD?"
"I'm supposed to be VD free when you return me to the hotel at the end of the night." Nathan admitted with a roll of his eyes. It was crazy how well Lainey knew him and could get into his head.
"Did you have another Phoenix incident?" She teased.
"It wasn't an incident. An incident would have been if I had actually gotten something from her. It was more like I just hooked up with a slutty girl."
Brooke laughed. "This girl must have been some kind of slutty for Lainey to guilt trip you into seeing a doctor."
"How's the store?" Nathan asked in an attempt to change the subject. It had been over six months since the hook up had actually happened and from past experience he knew this debate could go on forever and it would only end if he was willing to agree that sometimes he was a whore.
"Don't think I don't realize you're changing the subject, but since we're changing it to talk about me and my issues I am willing to let it happen." Brooke was quick to admit that she rather enjoyed talking about herself. "The store is good. I'm unveiling a new dress line in a couple of weeks. Oh and NYLON is running a feature on us in next months issue and how we're leading the charge in chic comfort." Brooke had left Tree Hill, North Carolina for Los Angeles where she enrolled at FIDM. She excelled in her design courses and left the bright lights and sunshine of L.A. for Boston where she began working for a design firm. While there she started designing her own clothes and then eventually decided to open up her own shop. That had been a little over two years ago and unlike many of her peers in the fashion industry she had experienced very little struggle in her pursuit to be the best. Her designs were simple, comfortable, affordable, yet at the same time glamorous, chic, and fabulous.
"Remind me to have Lainey buy the issue when the time comes and I'll also just sort of casually mention you on Sportscenter."
Brooke smiled. "I will most definitely remember to remind you when the time comes. You do realize you talking about me on Sportscenter will only fuel rumors."
"What kind of rumors?"
Brooke laughed. Oh how easy it must have been for him living in Portland. There he was allowed a private life. There what he did when he was off the court did not matter to the fans. In Boston that would change. The fans were rabid and they wanted to know just as much about your private life as they did about your sports life. "Let's just say the gossip column in the Globe is a must read. The columnist, Ruby Kauffman, makes some of the writers for US Weekly look like chumps. And believe me nothing would make her happier than saying that we were involved."
"It's like high school all over again."
"To quote Bowling for Soup "high school never ends" Natey."
Lainey walked into the room cradling her cell phone in between her ear and her shoulder. "Just to let you know I'm donating the Tahoe to a foster home as a tie in with your farewell to Portland press conference."
"Wait what?!"
"Yep I'm actually on hold with the foster home as we speak." Lainey had been racking her brain as to how to handle the car situation. It was either give it away or pay someone to drive it across country. Since she didn't trust people she figured this way they could at least use it as a tax write off as well as leave Portland on a good note. Portland had been good to Nathan and she wanted them to know he really appreciated it.
"Brooke I gotta go. Lainey is in the middle of giving away my car." It wasn't that Nathan was unwilling to donate the car as much as he wanted to at least know who was getting it.
Brooke laughed. "Love you boo."
"Love you too. Oh and can you pick me up a suit for the press conference? I need a new one."
"Who am I your mother? The things I do for you."
"You love it. And I mean who wouldn't want to help a stud like me."
"Oh the ego you have." With that Brooke hung up the phone.
Nathan chuckled and tossed his phone aside and went to track down Lainey. "What is a foster home going to do with a fully loaded Chevy Tahoe?"
"Don't worry we'll get you a new car in Boston. I saw a six door Hummer on My Super Sweet Sixteen the other day."
Nathan looked at her incredulously. "I thought we agreed you were going to give that show up."
"Well tell TIVO to stop taping it for me then. I'm telling you that damn machine is my enabler."
Okay so that was the update. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. I hope you all liked it. Please review and let me know what you thought. I had so much fun reading the ones for last chapter. Oh and if there is anything you want to see tell me about it and I'll see what I can do. – KRiSTiNEDAHLiNG
