Chapter 3 - School Run-In's

Lucas woke up Monday to the sound of his alarm going off in his ear very loudly. "What the hell," he says, angry that the alarm disturbed his much needed sleep. "Uhh," he groaned, not looking forward to his upcoming school day.

After this shower and getting dressed into some khaki tan shorts and a bright blue t-shirt that brought out the color of his eyes. But, of course, he didn't know that. After all, he was a guy.
Lucas walked into the kitchen to see his mom making some toast for him.

"Hey mom," he says to her. "Hey sweetie," she replies, "feeling better this morning?" "Not really"
he replies sadly. "Are you sure you don't want to talk about it?" she asks him. "I'm sure," he tells her reassuringly. "Alright, but I'm here if you need me," she tells him.

"I know mom. Well. I better go or I'll be late," he says to her, but thinking that being late sounded great if he didn't have to run into Brooke. "Okay. Bye sweetie," she replies as Lucas walks out the front door.

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Brooke is at her locker before homeroom, hoping to see a glimpse of Lucas before class, and maybe get the chance to try and talk to him alone.

"Hey B. Davis," Peyton says to her as she walks up to Brooke's locker to talk to her. Hey," Brooke replies solemnly. "How you holding up?" Peyton asks her. "How do you think?" Brooke says. "Okay,
change of subject. Did you hear about the new girl," she asks Brooke.

"No, and I honestly don't care about her," she says to Peyton. "What? Are you kidding? You'd usually be all over this by now. Ya know, her background, if she cheerleads. Why don't you care?" Peyton asks her confused at Brooke's nonchalant attitude towards a major piece of gossip.

"Right now, the only thing I care about is Lucas and I's relationship, or lack thereof," she tells Peyton.
"If you say so. Well, you want to head to class?" Peyton asks her. "Nahh, you go ahead, I'm gonna try to talk to Lucas," she tells her.

"Kay. Good luck," she replies, leaving as she sees someone else to talk to since Brooke wasn't much fun today, not that she could blame her. After Peyton left, Brooke decided to keep standing in the hallway that Luke should of been coming down to go to his first period.

'Oh look, there's the new girl, 'Brooke thought to herself as she saw who must have been the new girl, considering she'd never seen her around before, and she was sure she wouldn't forget a girl that was as pretty as her. 'Mmm. Maybe we'll be friends,' she thinks to herself again. The girl then passed herself to go down the hallway that Luke was gonna be coming from anytime now.

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Meanwhile, Lucas had just finished going to his locker, and started going to his first period class, surprised that no one had been looking at him differently. 'I guess no ones heard yet, thank god,' he says to himself.

Lucas was so lost in thought that he wasn't really paying attention to where he was going, and when he turned the corner to go to his first period class, he ran into someone, both their books falling out of their hands. "Oh god, I'm so sorry," he hears a kind of familiar voice say.

"No, it was my fault. I wasn't really paying attention," he tells her apologetically. Then, when he finally looks up, he finally fits the face to the familiar voice he heard. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Emily Parker," he says to her smiling.

She then looks up also. "Who do we have here? Scotty, is it?" she asks him playfully. "So, it seemed like you were in kind of a hurry," he told her. "Well, I have no clue where I'm going, and the only people I've talked to today are jocks that I've threatened to hurt if they didn't keep their hands away from me," she tells him, mad at the annoying behavior of some of the kids in this school.

"I can help you out then. And I'll be sure to keep my hands away from you, maybe," he says to her flirtatiously.
"Maybe I don't want you to," he says to her, equally playfully. "Let me see you schedule," he tells her. "Sure"
she replies.

"Well, it turns out you should be glad we ran into into each other, because you are in my first class, and you were going in the complete opposite direction," he tells her. "Well' I'm always up to running into a cute boy," she tells him. Lucas blushes. "Scotty, did you just blush?" she asks him, thinking it was cute that she could make a hot guy like him blush.

"Be quiet. Come on, I'll walk you to class," he tells her as he casually puts his arm around her shoulders and starts walking her to class with him. "Fine, if you must," she says, acting as if she didn't like having Luke put his warm arm around her small body. "I must," he says smiling at her. She smiles back, and they disappear around the corner towards their class.

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Brooke couldn't believe her eyes. She had just seen and heard the new girl, apparently her name was Emily, and Lucas's whole conversation. Apparently they knew each other somehow. Which is weird since she and Lucas were friends with all the same people, and she didn't know how Lucas couldn't know someone, especially a girl, that she didn't.

Their little 'overly friendly' interaction had made Brooke insanely jealous. 'Okay, I really need to talk to him,' she thinks to herself. 'At lunch,' she tells herself. After standing there for a minute longer, she turned around and headed to her first period class, hoping that the day would go by fast so she could talk to Lucas. 'We'll see,' she thinks.
'We'll see'
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