Disclaimer: I don't own anything One Tree Hill or Feeling A Moment.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews and sorry for the language, I felt it fit with the story. Italics are Brooke's thoughts. Bold letters will be lyrics.
Face Down
Chapter 4-Feeling A Moment:
Feeling the moment
slip away
Losing direction you're losing faith
You're wishing
for someone
Feeling it all begin to slide
Am I just like
you
All the things you do - can't help myself
In the time he felt her palm connect with his face, he could barely blink. For a girl that scrawny she sure knew how to slap a guy. His face stung but he knew he deserved it. Nathan Scott never cried. He was a man and in his life men just don't cry. In the past two days he had probably cried more than half the girls in this school. It was lunch time; it was supposed to be the best part of the day. In the past twenty seconds he was slapped by Peyton Sawyer and he had started to cry. In front of his class mates, all 300 of them. Could his life get any worse?
"That is for beating my best friend." Peyton said with more venom in her voice than he had heard in anyone's voice before. Then he felt her palm connect with his face again. Ouch. "And that is for being an ass."
"Peyton you have to understand…" Nathan was cut off by Peyton once again.
"No you have to understand, that I'm really good at making fist, you want to see?" Peyton asked shooting daggers at him with her eyes, "I mean, would you really want our whole grade to see 'Nathan Scott, king of all man kind' get beat up by a scrawny girl?"
"No, I don't want to see, but you have to listen…" Nathan was cut off by Peyton's fist connecting with his face. Damn, this girl did know how to throw a punch.
"No, you listen to me. If you touch her or even talk to her again, I swear I will tell the whole school what you have been doing to her." Peyton said as she walked away from Nathan Scott leaving their whole grade wondering what happened that made nice, sweet Peyton Sawyer so mad.
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Turning to face what
you've become
Bury the ashes of someone
Broken by the
strain
Trying to fill that space inside
Am I just like you
All
the things you do - can't help myself
Brooke walked out of the bathroom to see Nathan just standing there. She turned around and walked back into the bathroom. She felt herself vomit. She wondered what was up with all of this puking. She brushed her teeth with her extra tooth brush she always brought to school. Brooke walked out of the bathroom hoping to find Nathan gone. No such luck. He looked like crap. Like he hadn't gotten any sleep. She walked past him not making eye contact.
Nathan looked up and down the hallway, he was glad Peyton wasn't there so he could talk to Brooke, "Hey Brooke, wait up."
"Leave me alone Nathan or I swear I will get a restraining order." Brooke growled at Nathan and picked up her pace. She forgot he was in great shape and he kept up with her no problem.
"Brooke, I'm really sorry, you have to forgive me. I love you, I need you." Nathan pleaded at Brooke.
"You don't love me, and you only need me to make yourself feel that you are in control of something but you know what you will never have me again. So leave me alone!" Brooke shouted the last part and felt a minimum of ten people look at them.
"Brooke, it was a mistake, I know that now. I do love you so much. Just give me one more chance, please. It won't be like the last couple times." Nathan said as Brooke stopped at her locker. Nathan felt her palm hit her face, with a force that he didn't know she had.
"Do you hear yourself right now? It won't be the like the last couple times you beat me. I will never forgive you. So, just leave me the fuck alone." Brooke said before grabbing her bag from her locker and leaving the school. She took her Range Rover home and cried herself to sleep. What had happened to her life?
Nathan punched the locker. It was the only way he knew how to take his anger out. Before today he had never been slapped by a girl and in the past hour he had been slapped three times and punched once by two girls. He knew he was the reason. He had to get out of this place. He left school and went to the river court. He sat down on a bench and felt his whole life fall apart.
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Don't ever feel
That
you're alone
I'll never let you down
I'll never leave you
dry
Don't fall apart
Don't let it go
Carry the notion
Carry
the notion back to me
"Brooke? You home?" Lucas called out into her empty house. He had heard of the big fight between Brooke and Nathan during lunch. The whole school heard. And they all wondered what Nathan had done to make Brooke so mad.
"Yeah, I'll be down in a second." Brooke yelled from her room. She put on jeans and a sweater before walking down the stairs. She found Lucas Scott sitting in her kitchen. In the past week things had changed so drastically. It used to be Nathan Scott in her kitchen. Now it was Lucas.
"Hey, how are you?" Lucas asked moving his arm to put on her shoulder. But she flinched and moved out of the way. He realized she was going to have problems with people touching her for a while. She had a long way to go before she fully recovered.
"I'm okay, you?" Brooke asked as she sat next to Lucas at her island.
"I'm fine, so I heard about your run in with Nathan." Lucas said staring into Brooke's chocolate brown eyes.
"Yeah, it was interesting that's for sure. He thinks just because he apologizes that I am going to return to him. Not this time." Brooke said as she grabbed a bottle of vodka, "You want some?"
"No thanks, you really should not be drinking that Brooke." Lucas asked as Brooke poured herself a glass of it.
"You're right, I shouldn't drink this." Brooke said as she put the vodka back in her parent's liquor cabinet and she dumped the glass of vodka down the sink. "You should really get back to school; you still have two classes left."
"Okay, just call if you need anything at all." Lucas said as Brooke gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"I will bye Luc." Brooke waved goodbye as she shut and locked the door behind him. She went up to her room and sat down on her bed. She looked in the mirror. Her bruises were fading away and the cuts on her arms were almost healed.
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How do you feel when
there's no sun
And how will you be when rain clouds come and pull
you down again
How will you feel when there's no one
Am I just
like you
All the things you do
Nathan felt the tears freely falling down his face. He wiped them away quickly. He realized what a jerk he was. He needed to change. Now. He ran all the way back to his house forgetting all about his Mustang that was parked at the river court. While he was running he felt all of his stress release. When he got to his house he saw Lucas pulling in the driveway. Nathan didn't want a confrontation so he just used the back door to get to his room. What was he going to do? Everything was ruined.
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Feeling the moment
slip away Cause I'm just like
you Am I just like you?
Feeling the moment slip away
How do you feel when there's no sun
And how will you be
when rain clouds come and pull you down again
How will you feel
when there's no one
Brooke woke up to feel nauseous. She ran to her bathroom and threw up. Again. And again. Oh my God. I'm pregnant. Oh no it's Nathan's. What am I going to do? Nathan is the father of my baby. I'm pregnant. My life is ruined. Why does everything happen to me?
I know it is a really short chapter, but I will update on Monday or Tuesday and the next chapter will be longer! Please review if you do the next chapter will be longer! The song lyrics were Feeling A Moment by Feeder
xoxo Caitlyn