Alright before i begin the chapter i wanna make a few things straight
1. There is a Naley and a Leyton. No pathan.
2. There will be a Brathan friendship, no they are not together. They were best friends along with Kyle but Kyle moving caused Brooke and Nathan to drift apart.
So thanks for the reviews!
I still don't know who i want to end up with who. Kyle and Brooke do have a Laley-ish friendship but let's just say it goes alot deeper than that. If any of you guys watch GENERAL HOSPITAL then let's say it's a jason and carly relationship.
I really need everybody's opinion's of who Brooke should be with, or if she should be with anybody. Ooh and remeber, imagine Kyle being played by Jesse Metcalfe.
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Kyle sighed as he hung up the phone with Nathan. He never thought he would hear the news he just received.
I really thought Brooke was over this already.
Of course Kyle was excited that he was coming back to his home town and everything, but under bad circumstances.
Virginia had been a good getaway from everything in Tree Hill. It was fresh, new, bigger. He was playing for the Kodiaks at Stanton High School and he loved it. He was the star plater and was already scouted by 5 different colleges, all he had to do was wait for his acceptance letters. He only had one girlfriend the whole two years he was away, and that ended badly.
Even though Kyle would be seeing all his old frineds and his old life, it was kind of depressing to be moving at a time like this. He was graduating with honors in basically everything. And he had to leave the school that he really loved. He was set for the rest of his life, playing college basketball and making money. Kyle and Nathan always talked about playing ball together throughout college and making it in the NBA. From the looks of the Ravens winning the championship, they were both gonna have their dreams come true. But Kyle was gonna miss Virginia, his friends, his life.
But Tree Hill was his home, there was nowhere else like it.
There were no other people like there was in Tree Hill.
Kyle made his way to his room and got out a couple of suitcases from his closet. It wasn't like his dad was gonna object. Him and his dad used to be really close, but after his mom died five years ago, they kinda lost touch. His dad was always away on business, he was an architect.
A couple of minutes talking with his dad and he was free to do whatever he wanted, Kyle just needed his dad consent on enrolling into Tree Hill High, which was granted.
Kyle started gathering all his clothes out of his drawers and placing them as neatly as possible into his suitcases.
As he was doing this, he felt like his stomach dropped into the put of his stomach. Like he was bummed, yet happy.
He knew that he had to go back to help Brooke. And Nathan knew that was the only way to get him to come back. From what Nate was talking, Brooke was in it pretty bad this time. Which would make it even harder to watch. Kyle loved Brooke, probably more than he loved anyone in his life. It would hurt to see her go downhill. When Brooke was too drunk to stand up, he would pick her up and tuck her into her bed. Whenever she got into trouble with some guys, Kyle would threaten, or sometimes beat within an inch of their lives, and then take her to Peyton's house to be consoled. And whenever Brooke's parents started being away longer for business trips, he was there to tell her that he was always gonna be there for her and that he wouldn't leave her.
After moving, Kyle felt pretty guilty. He wasn't there for Brooke anymore. He hadn't even talked to her more than 5 times since he'd moved two years ago. To him, if he lost contact with Brooke, maybe she could stand on her own and become more independant. BUt sometimes things don't go as planned.
Brooke was screwing up again, until Lucas Scott came into her life and screwed up her life but yet made it better.
When Kyle first heard that Brooke was with Lucas, he felt relieved that she was with someone who wasn't a jerk and wasn't a meathead. From what he saw before, Lucas was a pretty decent guy, who was a pretty good on the court. He thought that Lucas could take care of Brooke. But was he ever wrong. Kyle was about to drive to Tree Hill himself and wring Lucas's neck after the first Lucas/Peyton incident. It was Peyton that really surprised him though. But he realized that everyone was changing, and it wasn't his place to be angry anymore, so he let everyone be.
Nathan really seemed to be the one who was doing something right. Kyle remembered Haley James as the head of the tutor center, she had helped Kyle out of a predicament or two. She was a nice girl, but he never thought Nathan would ever go for her. But yet again, Nate was always surprising him. Now he was gonna be a father.
He talked to Nathan on the phone every once in awhile. Nate filled him in on everything that was happening at the time. When he heard Brooke and Nathan got back together, he was a little apprehensive about it, but it wasn't his place, so he let it be. Kyle always had the belief that people have the right to live their life the way they want to, that no one should tell them what to do or how to act, it was their choice, and no one else's. So he was gonna let everyone in Tree Hill do just that. Live their life.
When Kyle heard about the school shooting, he was out the door and in his car before Nathan told him to stay where he was. That everybody was fine, that there was no need to come back. It was then that Kyle realized that they were all drifting farther and farther apart and that there was no stopping it. That was the last time he ever spoke to Nathan. He was a little hurt that he wasn't invited to the wedding, but that was all said and done now.
After packing all his clothes, Kyle looked around his room to decide what else to bring. His dad had made a pretty good life for his son, even though he wasn't around to see it. They lived in a 2 story house, in the high class neighborhood in Richmond. Kyle had a good home in a safe neighborhood. He even had two different types of transportation. There was his black Nissan Titan and his red ZX9R morotcycle. He was pretty bummed at first when he knew he would be leaving them but after an agreement with his dad, his car and motorcycle was being transferred by truck to Tree Hill right now.
He didn't know where he would be staying, but he was guessing his old house. It was good because it was only a house away from where Brooke was staying at.
Kyle went online and looked up flights from Richmond to Tree Hill.
After a bit of searching, he found the only one way trip was at 9:30 tomorrow morning. He quickly booked his flight with his ticket. That was now taken care of. Kyle did the math in his head and found that it took him about 6 hours until he got to Tree Hill. And that was about the time everybody got out from school, so maybe he could enroll in the office and catch Nathan.
Kyle was kind of afraid of having to see Brooke.
He knew she would probably be mad at him for not keeping in contact. He felt awful about it, but he knew it would help her in the long run.
And he really wanted to see Peyton. She wasn't the same person anymore. The Peyton he knew would've kept her love for Lucas a secret, even if it meant being hurt. She would've at least had a little bit of compassion. But what Kyle couldn't believe was that this was all over a guy. Some friends.
The thought of friends reminded Kyle that he hadn't even let his own friends know he was leaving tomorrow. He thought about where they would all be together at, and there was only one place he could think of. The gym at school. It was open gym that night, so all the guys should be together shooting hoops or something.
He quickly changed into his red basketball shorts, black wife beater, his shoes, and his hoodie and walked out into his garage. He grabbed his basketball and got into his one of his dad's cars.
As he was driving he couldn't help but get a little sad about leaving. He knew he would be leaving to deal with problems, but he owed everybody in Tree Hill to come back again.
He pulled into the school parking lot and saw a group of cheerleaders talking. He noticed one of them was his ex girlfriend, Ally Sotomayer. She was popular, sweet, pretty, great personality. When he first moved, him and Ally were just frineds. Then they went from friends to best friends, which caused them to develop feelings for one another, so they started dating. The first eight months were great, they were the golden couple at school. But the fire and love that was once there just kind of went away. Kyle tried to act like everything was alright, but one night he couldn't do it anymore. He told Ally what he was feeling, she felt the same way, so they ended it, saying that they would still be good friends. But that soon went away too.
They started ignoring each other, barely talking at all. Now it was to the point where they didn't even look or acknowledge one another anymore. It was kind of sad to watch it all happen, and not being able to do anything about it. They were best friends, now they never were the same.
As he passed them Kyle gave a small smile to Ally. She looked at him surprisingly, she wasn't expecting him to do that. He saw it as a kind of goodbye, he knew he could never tell her up front that he was moving, it would be too awkward. She smiled back and looked back to her friends.
Kyle walked through the hallways, trying to remember every single thing. It would be awhile until he was back in this place again, if he would ever be here again. He already heard the shourts and the dribbling of basketballs as he opened the door to the gym.
His favorite gym would always be in THH, but the gym at Stanton High wasn't bad either. It wasn't exactly a church, but Kyle dealed with it through high school.
He quickly saw all his friends in the middle of a half court game. Those were his boys, his family.
His best friend was John Woodward. John was his wingman. He wasn't Nathan, but he was a good friend. Then there came Thomas Kent. The guy was huge, and was always there to get some guy off of Kyle's back. Next was Jordan Taylor, the guy was the jokster. He was always whispering some sort of joke to throw his opponent off during a game. It saved them once or twice. Then came AJ Deville. The guy was a spirtfire, but sometimes that wasn't always a good thing. Him and Kyle had their little run ins, but they always had each other's back.
Kyle saw Jordan pass the ball to AJ. AJ wasn't really a good fowl shooter, so the 3 pointer was over before it even began. Kyle dropped his ball and ran over onto the court. AJ missed the shot and as it bounced off the rim Kyle jumped to rebound, and slammed it straight into the hoop. He hung on for a few more seconds before dropping down onto the floor.
"Yo K-Dub nice dunk."
"Thanks AJ. Work on that far shot though."
"Mannn why should we even worry when we have you do to crazy shit like that!" Jordan yelled.
Kyle took a deep breath.
"Well cause i'm not gonna be around much longer guys."
"Woahh, Ky, what are you talking about?" John asked
"Yeahh, what do you mean?" Tommy added.
"What i mean guys is, im moving back to Tree Hill to finish off the year there."
The five of them just stood there for a few seconds, before John spoke up.
"So you mean that you're moving, 3 months before graduation, to go back to your hometown?"
Kyle nodded.
"Why? I mean, don't you like it here? What about us?" AJ asked.
"Guys you know it's not like that. I would stay if i could, but i have to take care of some things."
"What things? What could possibly more important than your buddies not seeing you again?"
"Tommy, you know i love you guys, but like i said, there's some things going on back in Tree Hill that i need to be there for."
"It's Brooke isn't it?" John asked quietly.
Kyle sighed and nodded. When he first moved here John was his first friend. Kyle explained the while situation to John, who surprisingly understood. It wasn't long after that all the guys knew about Brooke and his old life in Tree Hill.
"So you're leaving us for some chick?"
"No not some chick AJ, i thought you guys would understand."
"Kyle it's not that, we do understand," John said sternly while looking at AJ, "it's just that we're gonna miss you when you leave."
Kyle smiled sadly.
"So when do you leave?" Jordan asked.
"Tomorrow morning," Kyle sighed. He heard AJ scoff.
"So this is goodbye then right?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah, im afraid so."
"Mannn, don't start with that girly goodbye shit now!" Jordan yelled.
They all laughed.
"Thanks J. I'm gonna miss you man," Kyle said as he shook Jordan's hand and then came into a hug.
"Same here. Just cause i'm not there to clean up after you, doesn't mean you can slack off on the court now." Jordan joked.
Kyle moved on to Tommy, who picked him up and caught him in a teddy bear hug.
"Buddy save those for your opponents," said Kyle as he tried to regain his face color.
"You bet Kyle."
Kyle and Aj stared at each other for a minute. AJ was pretty mad at him leaving, Kyle could see it in his eyes.
"Come on, AJ."
AJ reluctantly shook his hand
"Remember to practice those far shots."
"Yeah whatever."
Last was John, probably the hardest goodbye.
"See ya later wingman." Kyle said.
"Same here dude." John whispered.
As Kyle was about to pull away John said, "Take care of yourself."
"I will. The same goes to all of you. When i visit you all should be better than me, or at least try." Kyle said as he dribbled the ball and shot it in as a three pointer.
"OOOh you got jokes huh?" Jordan asked. they all laughed.
"Yeah... I got jokes."
Kyle took a look at his friends. This was probably the last time in awhile that he would ever see them again.
"But i mean it, you all take care. I'll call you guys when i get into Tree Hill."
They all nodded.
Kyle picked up his ball and was about to leave when he turned around.
"Hey, umm could you guys do me a favor?"
They shrugged.
"When you see Ally at school... Could you tell her that i'm sorry?"
"We sure will." John said.
Kyle looked at them one last time before leaving.
He didn't know if he was just being a sissy, but Kyle was sadder than he thought. Saying goodbye was never easy though. He almost cried when he left Tree Hill.
As he pulled into the driveway Kyle felt his eyes droop. He looked at the clock, 11:34. If he wanted to be the least bit awake tomororw, he would go upstairs and sleep.
Kyle went into his room and made sure he had everything packed. All his shoes, clothes, laptop, everything. He also picked out his clothes he was gonna wear and made sure to pack a backpack with his laptop, Ipod video, cell phone, some DVDs, and a few sports magazines, so he wouldn't be that bored on the plane.
Since he didn't really play, He just slipped his shoes off and climbed into bed.
He set his alarm clock for 5:30, so he wouldn't get in a rush and forget something.
Kyle couldn't help but think about how different everybody would be.
He knew Nathan was somewhat the same, but had changed for the better. Peyton was definitely different. Dan was probably still an ass. And Brooke, well, she was a little hot and cold at the moment for anyone to figure out.
But he would be glad to see his friends, and try to forget all the other stuff.
