Hey! Thanks to all the readers who reviewed the last chapter, especially Evie – yours made me smile all day! It's nice to know to know you think I get into Brooke's mind well – I was worrying that I wasn't because I'm about the furthest away from being like her that you could be! The other reviews were great too.

Ok, so I've decided to try and get a new chapter up every week, when I have access to the internet. So that's a chapter of this story one week, and a chapter of my other story the next. Therefore there should be a new chapter of this story every two weeks, but it could be more often, it could be less often.

So here goes, chapter 4…

June 30th (4 days until July 4th)

It is sooo unfair about last night. I mean, how was I supposed to know that Lucas was Nathan's brother? But I guess it sort of makes sense now… Peyton came over earlier with Nathan's dad's high school prom video and the girl he went with was Lucas's mom, Karen, who I met at the café. She had Lucas when she was like just out of high school. Wouldn't that be terrible? I can't imagine having a grotty baby at like eighteen, even one as cute as Broody. Ugh.

Peyton saw that I was down today and took me shopping for vacation outfits. It is so great – her, Nathan and I, (and, unfortunately, our parents) are going down to this swanky hotel on the coast. It has golf and crap like that, so the adults will be occupied, and apparently there are the best shops in North Carolina there. And the beach down there is really beautiful, watching the sunset with someone you care about…

Oh, stop it Brooke. You are amazingly hot, rich and popular. You could have any guy you want, that's what I keep telling myself. So why am I still hung up over Lucas? Right, tomorrow I am hitting the Blue Post with a fake ID to catch some guys. And I won't go anywhere near the river court, not even down River road once (or twice) to see if Lucas is there. No, tomorrow is a Broody free day.

Yeah, like that's going to happen.

July 1st (3 days until July 4th… sigh)

Blue Post just made me depressed. Will write soon.

July 2nd (July 4th in two days!)

After the, um, disastrous Blue Post outing, I decided to stop moping and start doing something to help the whole Lucas situation.

First, the Blue Post. I dragged Peyton along, because it's always better drowning your sorrows with a friend, and it was cool for a while, but then Nathan turned up with his mates. They sat at the opposite end of the bar, but then they finished their drinks and Nathan came over. He said to Peyton:

"Do you wanna come round to my place? My parents are out and I've got some, oh, studying to catch up on. Can you help?"

Really, those exact words.

So Peyton, screw her, went off with him, I was left alone in a bar full of guys, and at least half of them tried to come and pick me up. And not one of them was even remotely good looking.

See what I mean? Disastrous.

On the back of that, as I said, I decided to do something about Lucas. It was pretty clear that he was one guy who wasn't going to chase after me. Today I drove past the river court six (6!) times before I actually plucked up the courage to actually park the car. In the end, Lucas wasn't even there, but Bevin was, getting quite cosy with her bit of stuff – what was his name again? Anyway, he said Lucas was probably down at his mom's café. I said thanks and walked back to the Beetle, trying to remember how to get to Karen's place.

Skills, that was his name. Yeah, Skills.

So I went to the café and saw Karen, asked her where Lucas was.

"Oh, he had to go out and get something." She said, sounding totally unconvincing. Just as I thought, Lucas then walked right through from the back of the café. When he saw me, he rolled his eyes and turned right back round. I ran after him.

"Broo-" I caught myself. "Lucas. I swear I didn't know Nathan was your brother, and-"

"Half brother." He cut me off, still walking away from me.

"Yeah, half brother. If I'd have known I wouldn't have invited him, I swear. And if I'm lying, I promise to be – no,what's it called when you don't have sex again?"

Lucas stopped walking but didn't turn round.

"Celibate."

"Yeah, I'll be that, forever."

"You had no idea we were related?" Now he turned to face me.

I shook my head.

"And you promise to be celibate forever if you're lying?"

I nodded.

He sighed,and said: "What are you doing the day after tomorrow?"

I smiled for the rest of the day.