Hey guys! Thanks for all the reviews; you've been amazing! Please keep 'em coming! Oh and I just wanted to say that there are a few words that you notice I have spelled funny, it's because I live in New Zealand and we spell a few words different than in America like colour instead of color and favourite instead of favorite!
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After Lucas had bade goodbye to Brooke and they had arranged another session for tomorrow after practice where Lucas would test Brooke again on everything that they had covered today, Lucas strolled along to the tutor centre to deposit Mr Holliston's papers.
Opening the door he saw his long time best friend, Haley James. Lucas thought that she was probably the smartest junior girl in the school. Her parents had been friends with his and Nate's and the two families had become close when their children were still young. This meant that Lucas had first met Haley at the age of three, when she was two and they'd immediately become fast friends, even if the activities had consisted of pushing each other in a little red wagon and watching Sesame Street together.
Haley bade goodbye to a tutee and looked up to see Lucas. She grinned at him, "Hey Buddy, what'cha up to being here so late, didn't practice finish ages ago?"
"Oh, I was tutoring a freshman in World History," he replied. "I think she really improved, just in one hour!"
"She?" Questioned Haley, smirking.
"Jeez, will you people give it a rest, I mean that was Nate's first question too. I mean come on, as I said, she's a freshman!"
Haley refrained from replying to this outburst but did wonder why the subject annoyed Lucas so much. "What topic were you studying with her?"
"The Battle of Waterloo."
"Ahh…" Remarked Haley, "she must have Holliston as a teacher then."
"She sure does, he seems pretty tough too, I mean how can someone possibly be failing a subject after a few weeks of school? He must have given them test after test."
"That's Mr Holliston for you," remarked Haley, "He's a good teacher but he likes his pop quizzes!"
Gathering up her books Haley followed Lucas out of Tutor Centre and down the hallway. They talked about their day and what they'd been up to recently. When they stepped out of the school, Haley followed Lucas to his car; he had offered her a lift home.
Lucas unlocked the car and they both got in. Just as he was driving out of school, Lucas spotted Brooke, standing waiting, obviously for someone to pick her up. It did seem odd though as he had been talking to Haley for at least fifteen minutes.
Lucas turned to Haley, "that's the girl I've been tutoring, Brooke," he motioned towards her. "It looks as if she's been waiting a while so I'll just go and see if she's alright."
Haley nodded understandingly and Lucas shut off the engine and got out of the car. He jogged over to Brooke. When she noticed him she started up, surprised.
"Hey Brooke, you okay?"
"What... oh yeah, I'm fine," she replied.
"Are you sure?" He questioned further, "Because I've got my car here and I could easily give you a ride."
Brooke looked over to where he motioned and saw an impressive red corvette, in the passenger seat she saw a girl. "Oh no, I'm fine… really!" She assured him. "My Dad's supposed to be picking me up only he had a meeting so it might of gone late and I don't want to disturb you and," she motioned towards Haley in the car.
Lucas looked puzzled. When he realised that Brooke thought Haley was his girlfriend, he burst out laughing. It was Brooke's turn to look perplexed. Lucas cleared it up for her, "I've known Haley since I was three and she was two! Trust me, Haley's just a very good friend, I can't even think about her in that way, it's just, ewww!"
Brooke giggled at Lucas' discomfort. Lucas threw her an exasperated look, "so now that that's all cleared up, will you let me give you a lift? It's nearly dark and you'd be standing out here all by yourself."
Brooke sighed, but nodded her head, "as long as you're sure that you don't mind, I mean my house might be out of your way!"
Lucas simply picked up Brooke's school bag and pushed her towards his car, ignoring her protests. Haley had been watching her friend interact with the younger girl. She certainly was exceedingly pretty, with dark straight hair and large hazel eyes. She was also very petite, a nice contrast to Luke's tall frame, Haley found herself thinking.
When they reached the car, Lucas opened the door for Brooke and deposited her book bag inside. He then got into the driver's seat. It was lucky that Brooke was small as the back seats of the car were very cramped. Brooke wasn't complaining though, the car was amazing!
Turning around in his seat he introduced Brooke to Haley. As they were driving along Haley made some degrading comment about Lucas' music choice. Brooke had been enjoying the song, which she knew to be 'Boston' by one of her all time favourite bands, 'Augustana'.
What do you think about the song Brooke?" Questioned Lucas, giving her a small smile in the rear-view mirror?"
"I love Augustana," blurted out Brooke without thinking. Lucas gave her a thumbs up, "I guess your outnumbered Haley!"
Haley just gave him a long-suffering glare but turned around to wink at Brooke. What Haley was thinking was that Brooke was perfect for Lucas, apart from her age! She even seemed to like the same weird music that he did.
Brooke realised that Lucas must be dropping off Haley first as they were driving near her house. Lucas pulled up the car at a quaint looking house. Brooke thought it looked lovely; very homelike.
After they had bid goodbye to Haley, Lucas patted the seat next to him, "How about you move up here? Those seats in the back are so small, I'm surprised anyone could fit into them!"
Brooke smirked, "well I suppose if anyone could fit it would be me!"
Lucas laughed at that and waited for Brooke to change seats. She then gave him her address; he looked at her surprised, "That's the street parallel to mine!"
As 'Boston' finished, a song by 'The Constantines' came on and Brooke found herself mouthing the words to it. Seeing this, Lucas grinned again, "don't tell me you like 'The Constantines' too? No one at school has the same taste in music as me! Lets see… How about you name five of your favourite bands?"
"Okay," agreed Brooke amiably. Well, there's 'Augustana' obviously. Then well, 'Dashboard Confessional', 'Modest Mouse', 'The Shins' and 'Travis'."
Lucas actually turned to stare at Brooke this time, "Okay, that is kind of freaky, four out of five of your picks were the same as mine. All that I would have changed is 'The Shins' for 'Keane'."
"Oh, I love them too!"
Both of them looked at each other then, and cracked up! They spent the rest of the journey discussing bands and had a few enjoyable arguments about which songs and albums were better. Brooke could not believe Lucas when said that he thought 'We Might as Well be Strangers' by Keane was worse than their other song, 'On a Day Like Today'.
Finally they arrived in Brooke's street and she directed him to her house. It was a rather imposing home, the only part of the outside that Brooke liked about it, was the red door. It seemed to signify the fact that she had a home at last, not just another apartment in Madrid or Paris. She'd never been allowed to decorate anything before either so she had had a great time embellishing her room.
Lucas was in a good mood; his afternoon had been great fun. "Are you going to be okay? Are you sure somebody's home?"
Brooke opened the car door and grabbed her bag. She smiled at Lucas, "thank you so much for dropping me home, oh and the tutoring session was really great and I promise I'll revise the stuff tonight! And yes I'll be fine now, remember I'm nearly fifteen not nearly five Lucas!"
Lucas smiled in spite of himself and found himself looking forward to their tutoring session tomorrow. Little did he know that he wasn't the only one!
When Brooke reached her cochineal front door she turned around and waved to Lucas. Realising he hadn't moved since Brooke had got out of his car he smiled back at her and returned the wave.
As she opened her front door, Brooke found her mother sitting on a couch in the den, her cell phone glued to her ear. Her father was sitting across from her reading the paper.
Brooke was rather surprised, "Hey Mom, Daddy."
They both greeted her and then her father started up, "Oh Brookie I'm so sorry, I completely forgot to pick you up, how ever did you get home?"
"Oh, don't worry," answered Brooke feeling rather hurt but hiding it, "I have to have tutoring for history so my tutor gave me a lift!"
"History, Brooke, since when have you been failing history?"
That was her mother, "I don't know, I just found it hard to make myself understand the topic, but I think it'll be different from now on, my tutor really helped me today, just in one session and I've got another one tomorrow!"
"Well, Sweetie, I'll definitely pick you up tomorrow!"
"Don't worry Daddy," answered Brooke smiling, "My tutor lives over in the next street and he offered to give me a ride after each session."
"He?" Asked both her parents at once.
"Yes, he's called Lucas Scott, he's a senior," announced Brooke before going upstairs to her bedroom."
Little did she know that she had continued smiling while she talked about Luke. Her parents looked at one an other when she had left the room.
Barbara, her mother voiced their thoughts, "Our little Brookie has a crush!"