A Little on the Paranormal Side

Summary: In the small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, it seems that everyone knows everything about everyone. It such a small town, it's hard not to. Everyone tries to hide who they are, just to make sure they survive socially in this town. For Lucas and Haley James and their friend, Jake Jagielski, hiding themselves isn't a social thing, it's a survival thing. (OTH version of Roswell) BL, NH, JP.

Disclaimer: I just wish I owned OTH…BRING BACK BRUCAS!!!!!

Chapter Three: Denying What's There

Brooke walked back up to the apartment she shared with her parents that was located above the Café, through the balcony outside her room. She couldn't risk going up the stairs and running into her parents right now. It would just provoke questions that Brooke wouldn't know how to answer.

Lucas James is an alien. How is that? There's no such thing as aliens. Crazy people just make up those stories about being abducted and what not. It's not really. Lucas is probably just delusional. But it's Lucas James. He doesn't make up things like that. He's like the smartest kid in our grade, except for his sister Haley. Ohmigod. If Lucas is a alien, then doesn't that mean Haley's an alien too? I mean, it'd only make sense. They are twins. Unless they just say their twins to cover for Lucas. But if Lucas really is an alien, how did he get here? What else can he do? Is he the only one? Brooke, you're going to drive yourself crazy.

Brooke was completely lost in her thoughts about Lucas, she didn't realize that her boyfriend, Felix, had just climbed up the balcony to see her. He sat in her windowsill till she noticed him

Brooke turned around and jumped when she saw a figure, for a second she thought, and hoped a little, that it would be Lucas, but was disappointed to see that is was only Felix.

"Wow, you seem so disappointed to see me," Felix said noticing the look of disappointment on her face when she saw that he was in her room.

"I'm not disappointed to see you," Brooke said and leaned forward to kiss Felix and noticed that he smelled slighted of Paris Hilton Perfume, which Brooke sure as hell did not own. She hated that stuff.

"Why do you smell like perfume?" She asked and pulled away from him, crossing her arms. She didn't want Peyton to be right about Felix, she wanted him to be a good guy, but in her heart, Brooke knew he wasn't.

"Anna, she sprayed me before I was leaving the house, as a joke," Felix lied. He wasn't going to tell her that only fifteen minutes prior to this, he was with Theresa, one of Brooke's cheerleaders, whom everyone knew Brooke really hated.

"Anna hates Paris Hilton," Brooke stated point blank. She had been pretty close to Felix's sister Anna before she and Felix started dating, they had drifted a little since then, but Brooke still knew a lot of Anna's likes and dislikes.

"Well, maybe she just likes the perfume," Felix stated, getting a little uncomfortable. He had been dating Brooke for three months and she still didn't know that he had been cheating on her, for three months. It was a pretty sweet deal, but now, he was getting a little worried that she was going to find out that he had been way less than faithful.

"Ohmigod, I'm such a fucking idiot," Brooke said and put her head in her hands. She could tell that something was up when Felix physically tensed. "You are cheating on me. Peyton was right, you are a dog!"

"Peyton doesn't know what the hell she's talking about! And you know she's probably just saying that because she some dyke crush on you!" Felix yelled.

Brooke gave a dry laugh and smacked Felix across the face. "First off, even if Peyton was a lesbian, which she isn't, you will never call my best friend a dyke. And second off, we're through, get the hell out," She said and pointed to her balcony.

Felix groaned and got up off the bed, before he could leave, Brooke looked at him. "You know, I can't believe you weren't even a little concerned about what happened yesterday," She said and crossed her arms.

"What happened yesterday?" Felix asked dumbly.

Brooke scoffed, "Just get out."

Peyton walked into the record store because it was Tuesday, when all the new CDs dropped. She used to make this trip with Brooke, but Brooke couldn't come today because Karen needed her to help out at the café. So Peyton was alone, picking out music all on her own. Which was probably a good thing, because Brooke was most likely to complain a lot about the depressing rock music Peyton listened too.

Peyton had just picked up the new Rooney CD and was walking around aimlessly, not really looking where she was going. She ran smack dab into a hard object and looked up to see Jake Jagielski, Lucas James weird friend.

"Watch where you're going Goldie Locks," Jake said harshly and started walking away.

Peyton grabbed his arms, "I need to talk to you," She told him. She wanted to know why he had restrained her the other day at the café. Maybe Jake knew what Lucas had done to Brooke.

"Sorry, I'm not looking for a girlfriend right now Curly Q," Jake said with a smirk and took his arm back from her.

"Not if you were the last thing on earth, Scruffy, keep dreaming. Why did you stop me from going up to Brooke the other day?" Peyton asked unphased by Jake's harshness and sarcasm. When this blondie wanted answers, she was going to get them.

"Thought Brooke might be bleeding, I didn't know if your fragile heart could have taken it," Jake lied. It was easy for him to lie, he had been doing it for so long, not that anyone had ever come up to him directly. Jake liked to keep people afraid of him, it was so much easier. Especially since he was going home one day. Jake wouldn't have the same attachments that Haley and Lucas did when they would have to leave this stupid planet.

"Lucas did something to Brooke, and I'm going to find out what," Peyton told him, "Whether you tell me or not!"

"Lucas didn't do anything to your friend, so don't worry about it," Jake said and walked towards the door, "See ya around Shirley Temple."

Brooke walked back out to the park the next morning after Lucas had told her his secret. She was starting to think she had handled it badly. She didn't want to be scared of Lucas, but it was hard not to. And at the same time, it was hard to think of him as bad or scary. Lucas James. The quiet boy who had come to Tree Hill when he was seven. He had always been so sweet, so nice. Brooke remembered this one time in the seventh grade when they were at a field trip to the museum, one of their classmates accidentally dropped his hot dog on Brooke. She had ketchup and mustard all over her brand new shirt. Lucas saw and gave Brooke his sweatshirt to wear for the rest of the day. He didn't even care that at the end of the day, it had ketchup and mustard all on the inside. He still did it. Brooke couldn't be scared of that guy.

She came up to the tree that Lucas had put her name into. It was still there. Brooke wondered why Lucas hadn't erased it, but she didn't really care. She let her fingers trace the letters and smile came to her face. Lucas really was a good guy. And he risked himself to save her life.

Brooke turned her head when she heard footsteps behind her. She had to laugh when she saw it was Lucas.

"Hey Space Boy," She said with a smile and walked up to him and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him into a hug.

Lucas was shocked when Brooke hugged him, but after a second, he hugged her back. He never thought that he would be this close to Brooke Davis.

After about five seconds, Brooke pulled back with a goofy smile on her face. Her dimple was deep. "Sorry, I just thought I should thank you for saving my life. I didn't really get to last night. You know with the freak out and everything."

"It's ok. I was afraid that you would run away from me if I tried to talk to you," Lucas admitted. He was glad that Brooke was accepting it. "I actually came to apologize. I shouldn't have told you anything Brooke. It wasn't far for me to dump that on you."

Brooke shook her head, " Lucas, I practically made you tell me. I'm the one who should be apologizing. I wanted to know and then I run away. You saved my life Lucas, I can't be scared of you. It doesn't matter what you are or what you can do. You're still the same Lucas James I've known forever," She told him.

Lucas smiled widely. He was happy that Brooke had accepted it. He could see that she was still a little wary of things, but that was completely expected. "Well that's good. I mean I'm glad you're not scared of me or think I'm so gross green thing with a big head and no irises," He said with a small laugh.

"I don't. And I need you to know, that your secrets safe with me Luke," She told him. "I don't want anything to happen to you because of me."

"Well Haley'll be glad to hear it. She was freaked out that you would go tell everyone," He told her, even though he hadn't yet told Haley that Brooke knew. He'd get to it eventually.

"Haley…" Brooke said and trailed off. So Haley was an alien too.

"Oh. I thought you would have gathered that too. That Haley was …like me."

"Yeah I should have guessed," Brooke said and looked down. She was starting to think that she had infringed on some sort of secret society. "Anyone else I should know about?"

"Um…Jake's like me too," He told her and bit his lip.

"You know, I always thought that guy was a bit off. Now I know he's just not human," She said with a slight laugh. "Now if only I could tell Peyton. She's been saying that guy was off for years."

"You won't, will you?" Lucas asked when Brooke told him that she should tell Peyton.

"Of course not Lucas. I gave you my word. I won't go back on that," She told him and took his hand. "You can trust me."

Lucas looked down at their intertwined hands and literally felt his heart stop. Her touch was like electricity. It was like nothing he had ever felt before. He gave her a goofy, love struck smile and then took his hand back, shoving it in his pocket.

"I should go, I've gotta help out at that café," Brooke told him and started to walk off. Before she had gotten very far, she turned back to Lucas, "We should hang out. Like outside of school sometime," She told him.

"I'd like that," Lucas stated and then Brooke waved and walked off.

And Chapter! Heheh remember guys, keep the reviews coming! It gives me the drive to write more :P. Plus I just love hearing what y'all think of the story. I hope this chapter was satisfying and I'll try to have another chapter out later today or tomorrow!

-- Aura