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(A/N: My third update, thank you for reading and I will have an update of One Tree Hill: The Next Generation up by tonight, so I hope you enjoy this chapter!)
Chapter Three: Behind These Hazel Eyes
Seems like just yesterday Here I am, once again
You were a part of me
I used to stand so tall
I used to be so strong
Your arms around me tight
Everything, it felt so right
Unbreakable, like
nothin' could go wrong
Now I can't breathe
No, I can't sleep
I'm barely hanging on
I'm torn into pieces
Can't deny it, can't pretend
Just thought you were the one
Broken up, deep inside
But you won't get to see
the tears I cry
Behind these hazel eyes
- Behind These Hazel Eyes by Kelly Clarkson
It was a month since the accident and Brooke was finally off of her crutches and back in school, her and Peyton mended their friendship and stayed away from Lucas as far as possible. Haley tried to be their for Brooke more often but couldn't help but feel that she was choosing between Brooke and Lucas, but besides that things seem to back to normal. At least for now. Brooke was walking down the halls with Rachel on her left side and Peyton on her right, "So now that I am off those horrible clutches I want to party tonight and we all know there's always a party in Tree Hill so where should we go?"
"I heard that guy who sits in the back corner of our chemistry class throws rocking parties," Rachel suggested. "I'm going to that one tonight, I heard there is suppose to be a lot of alcohol."
"Great just what I need," Brooke smiled as she wrapped her arms around her two bestfriends. "We're going to have fun tonight promise?"
"Promise!" Peyton laughed.
"Great I have English with the son of the devil right now!" Brooke laughed as she hopped off to class, she was beginning to be happy again, her life was going as planned and she was enjoying every moment of it. She walked into the class and took her seat next to Glenda, the gothic loner, "Hey Brenda you look nice today!"
"Thanks Brooke," Glenda smiled, she wasn't used to getting complements. "You do to I really like your shirt, and I see you designed it yourself right? Clothes over Bros?"
"Yeah!" Brooke smiled. "What are you doing tonight?"
"I don't know, I think I am going to Greg's party."
"Greg?"
"The guy in our chemistry class and he sits in the back corner." Glenda explained.
"Oh yeah, I didn't know that was his name but I am going too," Brooke didn't know Greg that well but she thought he was kind of cute. "Hopefully I'll see you their and I won't see some certain other people."
"Lucas?"
"What gave it away?" Brooke said saracastically.
"Why are you two arguing anyways?" Glenda didn't understand it, it was obviously that he loved Brooke and she loved him. "You two were very good together."
"Yeah, that's why he cheated on me with Peyton, twice," Brooke shrugged getting her point across. "Guys like Lucas doesn't deserve a third chance trust me, stay away from boys like Lucas Scott they only break your heart."
Brooke later caught up with a four months old pregnant Haley, school was finished so Haley was walking home. "Tutor wife, where do you think you are walking to?" Brooke asked her firmly placing her hands on her hips.
"Home?" Haley asked as if it was a trick question.
"You're pregnant," Brooke told Haley, sometimes she thought Haley forgot that she was pregnant. "Let me give you a ride." Haley shrugged her shoulders and walked back to Brooke's car, she got into the passenger seat and waited for Brooke to start the car. They weren't driving in the car that was completely destroyed after the accident but in her new car that her parents bought her since they refused to see her while she was in the hospital. When they arrived to Haley's house, Brooke stopped and smiled at her.
"Thanks Brooke," Haley smiled giving her a hug. "Can you do me a favor?"
"Sure anything!"
"I know you'll probably hate me for this but can you give Lucas another shot?" Haley asked as Brooke opened her mouth to protest but she was quickly cut off. "I know that you don't want to but Brooke he's really depressed, I never seen him like this, it's freaking me out. He's like brooding ten times the amount that he usually would, so just consider it, for me and the baby." Haley pouted.
"Oh you had to pull out the baby card?" Brooke moaned. "I'll talk to him but I won't forgive him."
"That's all I ask." Haley smiled getting out of the car.
Five hours later...
Brooke and Rachel were on their way to the party, they were having a hard time finding a parking spot. "Brooke, looks there's one!" Rachel shouted, but it turned out that they couldn't even park there. "Oops my mistake." Rachel grinned as Brooke rolled her eyes. Rachel really found one now, "Okay bitch there's one now." Brooke parked the car slowly, she got out of the car and grabbed her purse, they entered the party to see mostly everyone from school there and a few college kids. Brooke saw Peyton with Nathan and Haley, they were all drinking ice tea so Haley couldn't feel bad that she was the only one that couldn't drink, not that she would anyways.
"Hey Nate, Hales, Peyton!" Rachel greeted them.
"Lucas isn't here is he?"
"So Nathan---" Haley tried changing the subject.
"Haley!" Brooke moaned.
"What? You said you was going to talk to him!"
"When I was ready," Brooke was furious that he was there. "I don't want to talk to him---wait who is he with?" Brooke saw Lucas speaking to this blonde girl who was slightly shorter than her but wasn't as pretty, the girl whispered something into Lucas ear and smiled. "Where's the alchol?"
Brooke began drinking as the night went on and began getting very jealous of Lucas and the blonde girl he seemed to spending most of the night with, Brooke pulled some boy and began dancing with him on the dance floor. This caught Lucas attention but he tried to not let it get to him, Lucas pulled the blonde girl into a corner where they could talk in quiet. Brooke saw this and became mad, she began grinding on the random boy she had just picked out and smiled at him. Brooke turned her head away from the boy and notice Lucas was now in the corner kissing the the girl, her eyes began to well up in tears.
"Are you okay?" The boy asked as Brooke didn't reply. "We can go somewhere quiet if you want?"
"Yeah that would be nice." Brooke nodded.
Lucas saw Brooke walk upstairs with the boy she was just dancing with on the dance floor, he was pissed off now and knew what she was about to do but how could she do it to him? Lucas was expecting her to get jealous and to start fighting for him, it didn't work obviously and he was getting extremely pissed. Brooke was upstairs with the boy, she didn't really want to do anything but he began kissing on her neck. Brooke smiled a little but pulled away, "Look this is nice and all but I don't want to do this." Brooke tried to leave the room but she felt a sharp grip on her arm.
"Don't go now we were just beginning to have fun!"
Brooke tried to get out of his grip, "Let go of me."
He pushed her onto the bed, Brooke tried to push him off of her but he slapped her. Brooke felt the sharp pain on her face as it began to leave a mark, she felt the boy press down on her hand and legs so she couldn't escape. She felt the tears roll down her eyes as he began to kiss her all over, "Please don't do this!" Brooke cried but the boy continued, he pulled off his shirt as he began to suck on her neck. Brooke tried to get out of his grip again and this time she did, she kicked him in his groin and quickly got up and ran out the room in tears, she began to run out the party when she saw Glenda.
"Brooke what happened?" Glenda notice her shirt was ripped and she had a visibly noticed bruise on her wrist. "Oh my gosh Brooke did he try and rape you?"
Brooke simply nodded her head and continued on walking out of the party, she saw Lucas chasing after her but she didn't stop. "Brooke!"
"What do you want Lucas?" Brooke continued walking not even bothering to turn around, she didn't want him to see her tears.
"I don't maybe you can tell my why you went upstairs with that guy?" Lucas said enraged. "Just when I thought you changed you're still the skanky Brooke I met from junior year."
Brooke didn't even bother to comment back on his statement she just began running to her car, Lucas turned around and saw Glenda, she had a pretty pissed off look on her face. "What did you do that for? Way to be sensitive on what just happened." Glenda began walking away.
"It's not my fault she keeps sleeping with other guys!"
"She wasn't sleeping with him, god she was right about you!" Glenda shook her head. "He tried to rape her!"
"What?"
"That's right he tried to rape her and he almost did, so way to win jerk of the year." Glenda walked away.
Brooke was back in the bathroom, she hadn't did this in while, but she felt like this was the time to do it. The boy she loved thought she was a slut and she had just almost been raped, this was the perfect chance to do it. Brooke grabbed the razor, she made one slash in her wrist and cried looking into the mirror, but the girl she saw wasn't someone she liked very much right now. She was at war without herself and she seemed to be losing, she took the razor and began to make another slash. She heard someone coming up the stairs yelling her name, it was Lucas, he began to knock on the bathroom door.
Brooke ran to the door and quickly locked it, "What do you want?"
"I'm sorry Brooke I didn't know!"
"What? That I am Tree Hill's biggest slut?"
"Your not, I was wrong," Lucas said. "I am a jerk, I was a big jerk for letting myself believe that you could ever do something like this because I know you wouldn't. Brooke please open the door?" Lucas leaned against the door, how could he let his pretty girl become so vunerable.
Brooke lied on the other side of the door sobbing, she began to slid down and sit on the floor crying, she began to bang against ther in rage. "Why Luke?! Why would you do that to me? I love you Lucas! I love you and you just keep on saying and doing stuff to piss me off and hurt me why?! Where's that boy who loved me and promised to save me! I miss that boy Lucas!"
"And I miss the girl who wasn't afraid to say how she felt and wasn't afraid to call me out on my crap!" Lucas yelled back. "I miss the girl who looked at me with those beautiful hazel eyes and let me know that as long as I had her that I didn't need anything or anyone else! Where is she Brooke? Where did she go because I miss her so much and I just need her to be here so I can hold her and protect her from everything I said I would." Lucas couldn't believe it he was crying also, he was sitting on the floor lying against the door, the same as Brooke.
"Lucas," Brooke whispered through the door. "I need help."
"I'm here for you Brooke," Lucas leaned his head on the back of the door. "I always have been."
"That's good to know," Brooke didn't even notice that she was still bleeding. "But what I really need right now is a friend, can you do that for me Lucas?"
"I'd do anything for you pretty girl." Lucas smiled.
Brooke opened the door and showed him her cuts, he looked at her shocked as she jumped into his arms. Lucas just held her tightly never wanting to let go, he lifted her up from the floor and got some bandages from the bathroom. He lifted her up in her arms as she looked slightly weak and wasn't able to walk, he layed her on her bed smiling. "I'm sorry Brooke, I know all of this is my fault but I need you to stop because I...can't...lose...you." Lucas manage to get out through his tears.
"Good because I don't want to be lost." Brooke cried.
Lucas got up to leave as Brooke began to pull on his hand, "Stay with me this one night."
"Of course." Lucas lied next to her embracing her in his arms.
"Lucas we really need to talk."
"I know but not tonight." Lucas rubbed her gently on the arms.
"Good because I'm afraid after this talk, I won't like me very much." Brooke admitted, she imagine her and Lucas having 'the talk' and she just imagined it as being World War III. She was right, when they had 'the talk' things would get a whole lot difficult.
(A/N: Okay, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! But the one to come is going to get pretty interesting and Brooke unleashes a secret, can you guess what it is? Please review you guys!)
23KT23- Well she just confessed to Lucas, so he's going at least try and help her stop. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the next one to come because Brooke is going to let out one of her biggest secret that she been hiding perfectly from everyone. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! ;)
othfan326- Sorry for freaking you out, I don't know but I think if Brooke ever had a serious story line on the show that she could pull this one off. She finally told Lucas but she isn't telling him everything so lets find out her secret. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! ;)
stephy04- Thanks, I am glad that you're enjoying the story so far and stick around because it's going to get better. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! ;)
lonely girl 23- Thanks, the story is about to get so much better so please stick around. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! ;)
IamCaroline- I thought it would freak out some people because Brooke is usually such a strong character, and I hope Lucas keeps his promise to because she going to need a lot of help. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! ;)
Brucasluver4ever- Well I hoped this chapter got you to like it even more, hope you stick around for more and you really get into this story. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! ;)
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moonman- I know, I think that Brooke character could have actually used some intensity and they just kept giving her lame story lines and bad love interested. Thanks for reading it so far, hope you enjoyed this chapter! ;)
