Chapter 3: Someday's Gone
A/N: So here it finally is - Chapter 3!
As they reached the school, Julian could not help but think about what had happened in the café. That spark he felt was undeniable. He just hoped she felt the same way...
"Crap, I'm so sorry, I gotta go! Shit, whose gonna show you around..." Brooke looked around her for someone suitable to take on the task.
"Oh, Brooke I'll be fine, I'll just-"
"MOUTH!" Brooke yelled at some guy walking past her.
"Oh hey B! What's up?" The small, skinny guy Julian assumed was called mouth replied.
"Not much, but could you do me a favour? Awesome." Brooke continued, not waiting to hear his response. "This is Julian, he's new and I was going to show him around the school, but I have a meeting with Coach Durham.."
"If you want me to do it just ask, Brooke."
"Yay! Thanks Mouth, I owe ya one!" Brooke said, skipping off to the gym before Mouth could even refuse.
Mouth turned to Julian. "So, I guess I'm showing you around..."
Mouth was glad Brooke had forced him to show Julian around the school. Julian was nice. He used to be a mathlete (and was thinking of signing up here) and, like him, didn't really fit in with the popular crowd. Mouth could see them being great friends someday.
They had nearly finished the tour around the school - and in record timing he might add - when he saw her for the first time.
She had to be a new kid as well, he was sure he would have noticed her before. She had very dark brown hair, glasses and slightly tanned skin.
"Mouth. Mouth. Helloooo..." Julian said, waving his hand around in front of Mouth's face. He followed Mouth's gaze to a girl a few feet away. "Oh, I see - you like her. Go talk to her."
Mouth snapped back into focus. "It's not really that easy - girls tend to think of me more as a little brother than a boyfriend - I can't just ask her out!" He said exasperatedly.
"Not with that attitude," Brooke suddenly appeared next to the boys. "I guess I'll have to do it for you!"
"BROOKE, DON'T YOU DARE-"
Brooke had already ran up to the girl. Mouth couldn't hear what she was saying, but when the girl looked over and smiled; he felt his heart jump up into his throat as his cheeks flushed deep red.
Brooke walked back smiling. "Here's her number, she said to call sometime."
Mouth stared at her with wonder. "Wh-how-" He stuttered.
"Well, I am clearly a genius! Come on Mr Baker, we have English together!" Brooke said dragging Julian along with her.
When they walked into the classroom, there were no seats together.
That's a shame, Julian thought, I would have liked to sit next to someone I knew.
Brooke however, clearly had other thoughts, as she made her way to the back where one seat was free, turning to the boy who was in the seat next to it.
He was short and quite plump, generally unfortunate looking. Brooke couldn't remember what his name was, but she was pretty sure he was one of the river court kids - one of the ones who sided with their precious god, Lucas Scott during their break up - acting like she was the bad guy and glaring at her whenever they saw fit; making that time for her even harder than it already was.
"Move." The tone Brooke used frightened Julian - he would not want to be on the receiving end of that. Neither, apparently did the boy, who got up and waddled to another seat, further away.
Brooke turned around and smiled at Julian - her dimples once again stunning him.
"Take a seat Baker!"
She was once again cheery and energetic, but Julian didn't like the flash of someone else he saw when she spoke to the nerdy boy. He had been taking shit from girls like her his entire life and he was going to say something to her until he saw the same sad look on her face from earlier. He decided to hold his tongue for now and just take a seat.
"You okay?" He asked. The concern was new to Brooke from a boy - she revelled in the feeling of being at least cared for, for a moment.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
Brooke Davis was not fine. Although the coffee trip earlier had slightly cheered her up, once again she felt empty. She knew that she had more than so many other people, but in other ways, she had so much less. She had no family. She had nobody that she could truly trust. And her snapping at people and intimidating them as she just had to the boy she now remembered as Jimmy Edwards, was merely a defence mechanism - a way to avoid people seeing the sadness she felt. She genuinely felt better knowing that Julian was there next to her though. She could slowly feel her walls begin to crumble down around her for him and that scared the life out of her. She knew that she would be unable to handle any more heartbreak and so came to the realisation that she had to take action to avoid it.
For the rest of the day, Brooke seemed much more closed off to Julian. She walked to her classes without him, and when they did have a class she didn't save him a seat near her. She barely even spoke to him.
However at lunch, when Julian went to sit down by himself at a table, Brooke sat down next to him.
"I'm really sorry I've been acting like a bitch today." Brooke said, avoiding eye-contact with him. "It's just, I don't trust people. And I'm starting to trust you and it is scaring the shit out of me!"
This was certainly not what Julian was expecting.
"I like you!" Julian blurted out.
The silence which followed was the longest pause Julian had ever experienced.
A/N: Dun dun daaaa! So guys, do you think they'll get together? And sorry for the long wait, first it was exams, then it was my birthday... there just wasn't a great time. But now it's the summer holidays - the perfect time to continue with the story! Please review as it is what motivates me to write - the more reviews I get, the more likely I am to update as fast as I can :) Thank you! - M
