3. A past to be revealed
"Anybody home?" Brooke asked.
She walked in to the impressive mansion.
"Brooke?" Nathan replied popping his head around the corner of the door.
"so? Did the doctor confirm? Are you..."
"We're pregnant" Nathan said.
"Uh!!" Brooke cried as she jumped in to Nathans open arms "congratulations"
After a big hug Nathan put her down on the ground. Brooke poked him in the chest "what did I tell you?"
"Actually..."
"I'm already in the end of my second month" Haley said coming around the corner.
"Tutor mom!" she cried "and Lucas" she added at the sight of the blond haired man.
"Brooke" he nodded in approval "I've talked with Peyton and she has decided to go for the flower garden as the location"
"great, I'll book it right away" Brooke said with a smile "So how it's like? Having a little human being in there?" she asked while rubbing Haleys belly.
Haley grinned "I don't know"
"Oh come of it" Lucas said while rolling his eyes "You. Love. It."
"I do" Haley replied with a grin "hey, anyone up for coffee?"
"I don't know" Brooke said "I didn't mean to intrude" this she said while looking at Lucas "I don't want to but in where I'm not welcome"
"Brooke you could never not be welcome" Nathan said
"Come on" Lucas added "It's just coffee, I think we'll live through it, or at least I hope so" he said with a blink.
"Right" Brooke said "Just coffee" she nodded while she entered the living room. Take a deep breath she told herself, it's just coffee, don't let him get to you.
After having been at Nathan and Haleys for almost an Hour Brooke looked at her watch.
"shit" she murmured "I'm sorry you guys, but I have to go" Brooke said while standing up from the couch.
After they had said their goodbyes she went to her car and turned on the engine. Nothing. She tried again. Nothing
"Christ" she cried out lout "not now" she only had twenty minutes until a meeting with a new potential client.
She went back inside. "Nathan can I borrow your car? Mine won't start" she said entering the living room.
"I kind of have to use it, but Lucas is leaving..." he glanced at Lucas who was standing up from a huge brown old-fashioned armchair "...maybe you could get a ride?"
"I... uhmm..." Lucas started. Okay maybe he had been getting along with Brooke a lot better lately but the prospect of being stuck in a car with her, he didn't quite like the sound of it. "...where are you going?" he asked.
"North" she replied. She didn't want to be stuck in a car with him, even though he had been nicer lately.
"Hmm... yeah, me too"
"Okay then" she took a deep breath, not wanting to ask what she was about to, but looking at her watch she saw that five minutes now had past and with no other solutions on her hand she had to ask.
She sighed "can I get a ride?"
"I suppose" Lucas replied.
"You suppose?" Brooke asked raising her eyebrows in that irritated way "well, Lucas, I'm in a hurry and I don't need an 'I suppose' but a 'yes' or 'no'".
"Hey relax, no need to get bitchy, but yes you may".
"Thank you and now let's go".
They said their goodbyes again. Stepped outside and placed themselves in Lucas black Porsche.
Brooke gave an impressed look "doing pretty well for yourself?" she said while the car rolled out of the driveway, which was formed like a roundabout.
"Yeah you know? Sport agent"
"Really? I wouldn't have guessed" she said with an irony in her voice.
"ironic?"
"Yeah..." she started while rolling her eyes and laughing "...Lucas you're like the image of a sport agent, properly a former upcoming athlete, but something or someone got in the way and now you're doing the next best thing. And since your brother are a basketball player, my guess would be that so were you" she said with a conclusion to the end of her guessing.
"Wow" he replied "that was, well, you're right, and it was something that took it away from me" he looked impressed but slightly shocked "what gave me away?"
"Uhmm..." she nodded "not to be rude or anything..."
He laughed "I bet"
"anyway, you're like the ideal picture taking out of the book of 'signs that you're a sports athlete'"
"Does such a book exist" he questioned with a puzzled look that couldn't quite cover his amusement.
"No, but you're handsome, a girl magnet..."
"Wow, the truth is reviling itself, thank you, but I did know" he said while giving a blink in the end.
"Irritating, jerk..."
"What!? I'm not a..."
"Arrogant, think more of himself than anyone else..."
"That's not very nice"
"Unintelligent..."
"Hold on, wait a minute! Many things you can say about me, but I'm not what you're just describing, and I wouldn't call myself unintelligent"
"I bet you wouldn't"
"Okay, so if I'm a jock, you must be under the category called Prom Queen"
"Oh!" Brooke cried "you can't be serious"
"Sure I am" Lucas said raising his voice a bit "Beautiful, popular..."
"Doesn't sound bad to me" Brooke said while giving a shrug
"Drunk, thinks she's so much more worth then others, and yes" there was a pause before he added "a slut"
"How dare you!?" Brooke yelled
"I do, and how dare you calling me unintelligent..."
"calling me a slut, you don't know what I've been through" her eyes were beginning to go blank, but Lucas didn't care, Who was she to think she could throw all this in his face and then think he would just smile.
"I'm sure it was very hard for you" he glanced at her "your nails properly broke all the time, was that what the problem was?"
"Lucas..."
"Or no, I know, you cheated on some poor guy who didn't want you back and that broke your heart even though it was you who was a cheating slut"
"HOW DARE YOU? I could never cheat on someone" tears were starting to show. He knew he had pushed it, for far too long.
"Brooke I'm sor..."
"So you're sorry? Well that Lucas changes everything!"
" Broo..." okay, he had really been stupid he realised this.
"To hell it doesn't! Oh yeah, you must be so pleased with yourself since your little story was correct..."
"I didn't mean to..."
"EXCEPT! It was not me who was cheating, but it WAS ME who was CHEATED ON. And yes, like that wasn't all, he didn't cheat on me with anyone, No, she was my best friend. The only two people I have ever trusted and let in to the centre of my heart"
She couldn't bear it any longer, but she still couldn't stop the words...
"And my parents have never given a shit about me. I could properly set myself on fire and they wouldn't notice, so I'm sorry if I'm not a trusting or naturally loving person"
She had turned her head so she was facing the window. She couldn't face Lucas, not now when tears were pouring down her cheeks. She didn't know why she had told him this; nobody except Haley knew all of its true context.
"Brooke, I... I don't know what to say"
"Pull over"
"What?"
"PULL. OVER. NOW."
"Brooke, you can't be serious we are in the middle of nowhere"
"Oh yes Lucas, I'm dead serious" She said while given him a sideways glance that told him that she wasn't in the mood to be pulled around with.
"Then I'll just..." he trailed of while pulling the car in to the side. In front of them was nothing other than a deserted highway.
As the car slowed down Brooke opened the door and stepped out on to the asphalt. She started to walk away from the only two sources of light. They became more distended as she kept on walking. God she had been so stupid, letting him get to her in the way he did.
He could she her figure getting smaller and smaller while he sat in the car. Just sat there. He didn't know what to do of himself. Her figure was now beyond seeing distance. God he had been so stupid, letting her get to him the way she did.
A thunder hit the warm summer night, and slowly the rain started bursting out from above.
Perfect mood describing weather Brooke thought to herself. She felt lonely. More than she had done for a long time now. But she was pissed far beyond the possible question of reunion.
