Hey! Thanks for the comments! I know that what Cooper did wasn't the smartest thing to do considering it's a horrible horrible thing to do and he shouldn't be supporting his nephew for doing something like that but he has faith in Nathan. I on the other hand don't… lol, the fanfiction Nathan not the actual series Nathan… lol… so yeah, I hope you like this chapter.
Chapter 3
"How great is this class?" Brooke said dropping her picture in the developer. "I mean you take pictures, process the negatives, make prints and then you can slack off until the next project. And if you don't feel like working that day, you don't."
Nathan laughed dropping his picture which he just exposed in the developer tray. "Well what if you'd be in this class without me? Who would you talk to?"
"Don't even go there," Brooke smiled knowing that if Nathan wouldn't be in the class with her she'd listen to her MP3 all class and she would chose Nathan over her MP3 in a heart beat. "So Aundrea, she's totally going crazy over this whole crushing Haley thing."
"Shh," Nathan shushed Brooke looking around the dark room to make sure that the few people that were there didn't hear her.
"Oh, sorry," Brooke said when she saw Nathan. "How about we call it operation DH? You know, destruction of you know."
"Nah," Nathan took his picture with his tongs and put it in the rinse tray as Brooke did the same. "Too brutal, I hate the word destruction; we're not killing her." Someone across from Nathan looked up at them but then went back to listening to his iPod.
"Well what should we call it genius?" Brooke said looking at her picture that she could now see clearly after it's been in the developer.
Nathan put his picture in the stop bath tray and took Brooke's picture at the same time. "It doesn't have to have a name."
"Yes it does!" Brooke wined. "Come on! It will be so much more fun that way!"
Nathan laughed and looked at the clock in front of them and then took his picture and put it in the fixer tray. "How about BO?"
"BO?" Brooke asked confused putting her picture in the fixer tray as well.
"Brooke's operation," Nathan smiled.
"This is not my operation!" Brooke looked at Nathan. "I have nothing to do with it."
"Then why do you want to name it?" Nathan put his tongs in front of Brooke.
"Ew!" She laughed as she put his tongs down with hers. "That's been in chemicals! Don't let it touch me."
They loved to kid around. They were all tight: Aundrea, Kyle, Nathan and Brooke. Nathan didn't remember it being this way when he started high school but somehow their little group formed.
"So we have this project in history class," Brooke said looking down at her picture again. "And our teacher won't let us choose our partners! It's up to a stupid computer. I really wanted to be with Bevin."
"Wait," Nathan looked up from his picture to Brooke. "Don't you have history with Haley?"
"And your point?" Brooke looked at Nathan rocking the fixer bin.
"You should be her partner! That way we can get the camera in her house," Nathan said.
"Okay, maybe you're a little slow but we don't pick the partners, the teacher said she'll tell us tomorrow."
"And you're going to be with Haley," Nathan smiled.
"How are you going to pull that off?" Brooke raised an eye-brow.
"With your help," Nathan said taking his picture and putting it in water letting it go in circles following the current of the little mini tub as Brooke put her picture in too.
"My help?" Brooke questioned. He was really confusing her by not telling her anything.
"At lunch," Nathan said. "Meet me outside my forensics class."
"Why don't you just meet me outside my Bio class?" Brooke had to have it her way.
Nathan sighed, "Fine your class, but I'll be there at the way beginning of lunch. Right as the period is over."
"What are we going to do?" Brooke asked.
Brooke walked out of her class and saw Nathan waiting at the door. "You ready?"
"Sure am," Brooke said walking with Nathan towards her history class.
"Okay, quick overview of plan," Nathan questioned Brooke.
"I go and ask my teacher something about the assignment she gave us for tonight and you go in the class and take her assignment book and pair me and Haley up." Brooke continued walking with Nathan quickly.
"Maybe you should ask for help with something because it might take me a while to find where she wrote the partners."
"I can do that," Brooke said when they reached the hallway her class was in.
"Ready?" Nathan asked.
"Ready as I'll ever be," Brooke said pulling on her bag.
"Good," Nathan looked at the empty hallway and walked to the entrance of the boys' bathroom which was past the classroom.
"Miss Kelly," Brooke called her teacher when she saw her going out of her classroom.
"Yes Brooke," she smiled as she stopped walking to greet Brooke.
"I don't get what you were saying today in class," Brooke said happy that Miss Kelly had her back to her classroom.
"Today?" Miss Kelly asked confused. "Brooke, we were talking about the Reconstruction period, what's there to get?"
"Umm," Brooke started, "well yeah it's very confusing."
Nathan sneaked silently into the classroom as Miss Kelly was to busy with Brooke to notice him walking silently behind her.
Nathan headed straight to the teacher's desk and looked on it. But there was only an assignment she had collected from the students that day. He tried to open the drawer but it was locked.
"Shoot," Nathan said but then he put his hand underneath the desk and felt a key. Nathan smiled and opened the drawer with the key.
There were many worksheets and three assignment books. He picked one up but it said 'Attendance' so he just put it back. The other assignment book had nothing on the cover so Nathan opened it.
"Score," he saw in big letters 'Reconstruction Project' printed on top of the second page followed by a list of pairs of students. He quickly started searching for Brooke and Haley's names.
'Haley James and Bevin Price,' and 'Greg Winston and Brooke Davis': Nathan erased Bevin and Brooke's names and switched them. He copied the teacher's handwriting and it was almost identical. 'Haley James and Brooke Davis' Nathan smiled.
He put the assignment book back in place and closed the drawer and taped the key back in place.
Nathan walked to the door and saw that Miss Kelly's back was still to the room. "I don't understand why you don't get that it was necessary to have reconstruction after the civil war."
"So what if there was a war! I mean we don't spend millions of dollars every year after a war ended just for kicks."
"It's not for kicks, Brooke," Miss Kelly said now frustrated.
Brooke saw Nathan signaling her to finish up as he walked again to the boys' bathroom just until Miss Kelly left the hallway or went back to her classroom.
"Okay," Brooke said. "Not for kicks, just to make the economy better."
"That's-" Miss Kelly started but then stopped herself. "Yeah, that's what I've been trying to tell you."
Brooke nodded, "I get it now."
Miss Kelly raised her eye-brow. How could anyone not understand something that simple about history?
"Thanks," Brooke smiled and walked away.
Miss Kelly looked after Brooke confused but then went out of the hallway.
Nathan then walked out of the bathroom when he heard Miss Kelly walk away. "Operation no-name is on its way."
A/N: I'm sorry that it's taking a few chapters to set up the actually story but these are actually essential to later chapters, believe it or not. So keep commenting and reading! Thanks so much guys!
