It was soon lunch time. The day seemed to be going by faster than expected. Brooke took a seat on a blue bench. She wasn't really hungry at all. The events that occurred the past few days were enough to handle and just thinking about what had happened made Brooke feel queasy. Just as Brooke was drifting off in a train of thoughts, she was awoken by Haley's voice.

"Hey Brooke, how are you holding up?" Haley asked in her normal sweet and caring tone.

The brunette's facial expression did not change, her eyes showed a mixture of confusion and hurt. She continued to look straight ahead into the crowd of students and spoke, "What are we doing with our life Haley… I mean I don't even know who any of us are anymore. None of the people out here seem the same, I can't look at anyone the same… It's like they've all lost their innocence and pure meaning of life. We're all just caught up in the parties and sports and drama or how to screw over a girl's feelings by hooking up with her best friend." Brooke spoke with a lack of expression in her tone. She seemed tired of living life the way it is.

"Brooke…" Haley didn't know how to exactly comfort her friend who seemed to have lost all hope. "It's gonna be okay. I know you're scared and confused right now, and so am I, and so is everyone else in this school. That's why you don't see the people you used to see. Everyone's just trying to find their way, trying to find themselves."

"Maybe… but does that give you the right to hurt people along the way just to figure out what you want… or don't want?" Brooke spoke softly with her raspy voice.

"I have a feeling this is about a certain someone…" Haley figured.

"Not one. Two." Brooke replied.

An awkward silence lingered in the air until a certain broody blonde approach the two.

"Hey… Hales, Brooke. Uhmm…" Lucas attempted somewhat of a greeting only to be greeted back from a slight smile from Haley and no response from Brooke.

"Hey uh I gotta go to the tutor center, I'll catch up with you guys later." Haley said as she rushed off.

Lucas cautiously took a seat next to Brooke, surprisingly she didn't move. "You talking to me yet?" he asked.

"No, but it seems like you're talking to me. I thought I was clear when I ended things." Brooke replied a little bitterly.

"Actually you ended things on a very blurry note." He implied.

"Peyton must really want the dirt on our breakup." scuffed Brooke.

"Okay, for the last time there is nothing going on between me and Peyton. We're just friends." Lucas was tired of having to repeat himself but apparently it wasn't enough for Brooke.

Brooke just shook her head and rolled her eyes not believing that he was still sticking to that useless line. "You know what, try talking to me when you're ready to tell me something that's not a lie. Oh wait, that'll be hmmm NEVER. Because God forbid that Lucas Scott ever tell the truth to Brooke Davis! So I guess this conversation is over!" Brooke walked away furiously, leaving Lucas speechless staring up at the sky, hoping that an answer to all this mess will fall.

Before everyone knew it, school was over. Brooke was at her locker gathering her things and getting ready to leave. She looked at her bare locker that was once decorated with pictures and cute little details that Lucas had put in. Slowly closing her locker, Brooke took a moment to regain her composure then turned to walk out of the school.

"Hey Brooke! Wait up." A voice yelled out from behind.

Brooke turned around to see that it was a certain brown haired boy whom she had been lucky to be able to call as one of her good trustworthy friend over the past couple years.

"Hey Mouth." Brooke gave all her energy to greet her friend no matter how hard it was.

"Hey um, Luke told me what happened and I just wanted to make sure you were alright." Mouth knew how would respond to that already. She would probably say that she is fine and try to put up a strong front, while on the inside she is slowly deteriorating.

"I'm fine, really." She tried to force on a smile to at least attempt to convince her friend that she was truly okay although Brooke was anything but okay.

Mouth didn't want to push her over the edge and try to force anything out of her. So he put on a convinced face to make Brooke feel less uncomfortable. He knew that she would have to talk about the whole situation sooner or later; the situation in which no one knew exactly what it was about except Brooke.

"Well, you know that I'm here for you if you need anything. I'm just a call away and I'll come rushing over on my bike… although that might take a little while but that's beside the point." His words seemed to somewhat warm the heart of the brunette as she put on a small smile.

"Thanks Mouth, I know I can always count on you." Brooke walked out the doors of Tree Hill High relieved that she had gotten through the day but knowing that she would have to go through many more.

As Brooke stepped out of her car she saw a familiar blonde backstabbing two-faced ex-best friend sitting in front of the door of Rachel's house, Peyton. She was the last person on the list that Brooke wanted to see. In fact, Peyton wasn't even on Brooke's list as of now. But apparently that didn't stop Peyton from coming to see Brooke.

The tension in the air could no doubt be cut in half by a knife as silence lingered in the air. Finally Peyton gathered up the courage to speak. "Look I know I screwed up things between me and you but I didn't mean it to screw up things between you and Lucas. I just…" Peyton was abruptly interrupted by an outrageously angry Brooke strutting toward her way.

"You didn't MEAN to screw up things between me and Lucas? Then why the hell would you all of the sudden confess your feelings or love or whatever for Lucas to me! What did you think was gonna happen Peyton? I'm pretty sure you knew that something was bound to happen and it certainly wasn't going to be anything good. Even a dim headed selfish backstabbing blonde like you would've known, wouldn't you? I think we've already gone through this." she glared at Peyton with her anger beaming through her eyes.

Peyton's eyes were teary and she was all choked up, not knowing what to say. "You…You told me that I didn't deserve to know. You said that you had the answer, but… I didn't deserve to know. Well I think I deserve to know whether or not you love him or not." Peyton declared slowly regaining her composure.

"What?! You know what, you are UNBELIEVEABLE. After everything that I went through you have the nerve to ask me about my love for Lucas, AGAIN?"

Peyton finally looked Brooke in the eye and spoke, "Yeah. I do actually. Either you declare your love for Lucas and the two of you get back together then I get a kick in the face, or you don't and maybe this time it's my chance… But you know this whole time, I still haven't heard you say that you love Lucas even after I gathered up the nerve to ask for the second time."

Slap. Brooke couldn't control her anger any longer and Peyton had crossed the line. "I CANNOT believe that I called you my best friend for the past 10 years. And I can't believe that you're questioning love! "

Peyton covered her stinging cheek realizing that physical damage could be treated, but Brooke's last remark about their friendship had hit her harder. She realized that she had screwed things up worse that she thought. "Okay Brooke, you can hit me or diss me or whatever. But you can't keep dodging the question. I told you though that I'd put my feelings for Lucas aside if you still loved him. Does that make me SUCH a horrible friend? I get it, I screwed up. We all have and we all will at some point in our lives. But he deserves someone that loves him, and if it's still you, it's fine… because he still loves you, you know?"

Both of them stayed silent for a couple minutes but it seemed like forever.

"No." is all Brooke said before she opened then closed the front door.She was gone, leaving Peyton more confused than ever.