Remember when…
As Lucas Scott ponders on the life decisions he has made, he realizes that the one person he ever loved will no longer be with him. That he has forever lost her, but still has the great memories of their time together.
Chapter Three – We Started This Mess
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Lucas had just joined the Tree Hill Ravens, his school's basketball team. As far as he knew he was on the team because he was good, and he was. Healways said he wouldn't let any of the popularity crap get to his head.
As he walked down the hall with Haley, his best friends, the girl kept talking about how she had a new tutoring student, one who needed to be nameless. But she continued to talk about him trying to get Lucas to help her understand why this nameless student was the way he was.
Lucas on the other hand was too busy staring at the gorgeous brunette who was flirting with him from across the hall. He knew her as Brooke Davis, captain of the cheerleaders and all around social butterfly. Everyone knew Brooke, and to say her name was not very clean around school was an understatement.
Brooke was knowing for sleeping around, usually at parties, but sometimes she just picked a guy and the poor lose would get lucky with the homecoming queen herself for a night. Lucas never understood why the girl was the way she was. She seemed to have everything she needed and wanted. She was popular, rich, and had great friends around her.
"…and I still don't get why he wants it to be me." Looking at her friends with a confused look Haley followed his sight. She knew exactly what he was thinking and doing. "Lucas."
"Yeah?" He said, turning to the petite girl next to him.
Haley glared at him, "have you been listening to anything I've said."
Lucas looked at her with a guilty expression. It's not that he didn't care about her conversation, or her for that matter. But the brunette was really grabbing his attention, and he didn't know why he couldn't turn away from her.
"I'm sorry, Hales… I just-"
"Was flirting with Brooke?" she finished for him.
Lucas smiled at her knowing full well that he had been caught. He looked at his shorter friend and pulled her to his side so that they could begin their walk home. For them it seemed stupid to drive to school. They both went to the Café after, and the place was only a couple blocks away.
Like every other school day they walked together, but this time the topic of conversation wasn't the same as it usually was. Haley could tell that there was something in Lucas' mind, something he seemed not sure to want to talk about just yet.
"So… Brooke Davis, huh?"
"What?" he definitively didn't expect that to come from Haley.
Haley was very direct, and told you things as they were, but she also knew when it was appropriate to just stay quiet. She could read him like a book, and if she was saying this, it probably meant something.
"You like her" she pointed out in a duh tone.
Lucas shook his head with a grin, "I really don't know where you got that from."
"Luke?" She stopped and held his arm so that he wouldn't keep walking. Haley waited until he was actually looking at her and not avoiding her gaze. "Why don't you just go for it? Why not just ask her out, instead of having little flirting contests?"
He scratched the back of his head and let his hand drop quickly, "i… I…Hales."
"You really like her" she pointed out, "you don't stutter for just anyone."
Giving up on trying to hid it from her he nodded, "I do"
"Then do something about it" she told him, using his words.
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It hadn't been long since his conversation with Haley, and her words kept taking laps around his head. Then do something about it. She was right, he liked Brooke, and by the way she flirted back she had to like him back. He wanted to believe it, but in his mind she probably just wanted to sleep with him and move on to the next guy.
As he closed his locker and let out a sight and turned to walk to class. He didn't get far when the bouncy brunette jumped right in front of him with a big bright smile. Just looking at her made him weak in the knees, and having her there in front of him he wanted nothing more than to just kiss her.
"Lucas" she said, in her flirtatious tone.
Lucas swallowed hard and smiled at the girl, "yes."
She looped her arm around his and began to walk down the hall with him. Lucas didn't know what was going on, or why she was walking with him, but he did know he was getting some major glares from some of the guys around.
"I was wondering…" she waited for him to say something, but nothing was coming from his lips. She looked at him once more and decided to continue. "when were you going to ask me out?"
Lucas came to a complete stop and looked at the girl with wide eyes. How did she know? Had she heard his and Haley's conversation? Had Haley told her? No Haley didn't talk to Brooke Davis, that was not a possibility. But how?
"Come on" she said, with much confidence. "I can tell you want to. Just ask me, what's the worse that can happen?
He looked around and saw that there wasn't as many students as before, then he looked at the brunette that was now standing in front of him. "You'll say no."
With a grin she placed her hand on his chest and looked up at him, "and how do you know that?"
"You're Brooke Davis."
"And you're Lucas Scott." She looked at him, "come on, ask."
Lucas looked nervously around for a way out. Even though he knew he could run when he wanted, he still wanted to stand there in front of her and just ask her. A part of him told him not to do it, that she would just say no. But if that were true would she really be there standing in front of him telling him to ask her out? He wasn't sure.
"Lucas?"
"yeah?" he said, shaking his head and letting his thoughts go. "Umm… would you like to go… out… sometime? With me?"
Chuckling at his shyness Brooke pretended to think about it. She placed her finger on her chin and made 'hmmm' sounds, only to make him impatient. She could tell that he was growing even more nervous, but his face was so cute when he was nervous.
"Yes" she said, "I would love to."
"Really?"
Nodding she smiled at him "mm hmm." She pulled a paper from her pocket and placed it in his hand, "this is my number, call me" with that she got a little closer and pressed a simple and quick kiss on his cheek. "I'll see ya."
Just like that Lucas was left alone in the middle of the hall. Brooke had made him ask him out, and once he did she had said yes. YES. Brooke Davis said yes to him. He needed to tell Haley, he needed to get ready for his date, he needed to breath.
Taking a deep breath he smiled and began to walk. Who knew that with a simple little push he would have ended up with the most important woman in his life.
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A/N- I know I have taken forever to upload this, and I suck. And even thought I try to get them up faster I really can't. I have tons to do, and work has been a total bitch. I will start working on the next one soon, and hopefully it will be up before the new year. I promise to try and get it up before the year is over.
Thanks to all those of you who review, and don't forget to tell me what you think of this one.