Chapter 4 – getting to know you
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They'd been sitting in silence for the past 15 minutes with Brooke constantly sighing. She had no idea how long they'd be stuck in this small, confined place for and she was already bored. She had tried everything you could do in a lift to occupy yourself, well, except one which was to talk to the person you're stuck in there with. Brooke didn't no whether she could do that, I mean having a convosation with the enemy, was she really that bored?
"So what are we going to do about our class project?" yes she really was that bored.
Nathan looked up with a black expression on his face "what do you mean?"
"Well, duh, we are hardly civil to each other are we? I need to get good marks this year and my track record for good grades is non existent so I need to up my game. Which includes getting a good mark for this project so how's this going to work?"
He was silent for a minute then looked up and shrugged.
"Wow, gee great help! I'm being serious Scott I need good marks. Can't we just try and make this work? It's only one class"
Nathan looked up again and saw her pleading face "Well I need the grades myself and I suppose I could handle it if we kind of worked with each other for this one class. But nothing else, yeh?"
Brooke beamed "Of course! What else is there? Thanks, Scott! It won't be that bad, you know all we need to do is know a couple more things about each other and we are done!"
"I guess" he said flatly.
They fell into another silence which lasted 20 minutes, what else is there to say to him? Nothing! Groaning inwardly she stretched her long legs out in front of her, admiring her red, strappy shoes with a smile on her face. She risked a glance at Nathan, who to her surprise was running his smoky blue eyes up her legs and finally settling on her waist. She grinned as she knew just how to start their next convosation "I know I'm hot Scott but there is really no need to stare!" she smirked.
He showed no sign of embarrassment he just had his normal unreadable expression on his face "Don't flatter yourself, I was just inspecting the cellulite on your legs, that's all" he retorted flatly.
Brooke's eyes widened and inspected her toned legs "lies" she said simply
He just shrugged.
Aaaaah silence again! Why can't he just say something!
"Name me the top five hottest girls on our year" she said not caring who it was she was talking to as it was keeping her occupied. "From 5 to 1! She added
He looked a bit confused as to why she'd asked him but responded all the same "Anna Taggaro, Bevin Mirskey, Peyton Sawyer, Rachel Gatina and…" he stopped short and glanced at Brooke "and you, I guess"
She smiled "Don't think too much into it, you're hot, that's it." He snapped
"Ok chill, I was only smiling because you said 4 of my friends"
"Whatever, okay your turn now"
"My top 5 girls? Been having fantasies Scott?"
He scoffed "Well, yeh I've been having fantasies only in them you were leaving and never coming back"
Glaring at him and ignoring him "My top 5 hot boys are" she cleared her voice and left a dramatic pause in which Nathan rolled his eyes at "Chase Adams, Jake Jagielski, Felix Taggaro, Lucas Scott and well, you."
He nodded "Didn't you and Felix go out?"
"Nope, we had a friends with benefits deal and I don't date boys, I just hook up with them"
"Figures"
"What?"
"Oh come on don't act innocent, I've heard the rumors!"
"Well half of them are lies!"
"Isn't that your area of expertise, lying?"
Brookes head snapped towards him and the colour drained from the face "How dare you!" she seethed "How fucking dare you!" Both of them stood up and Brooke raised her arm up to slap him but he was too fast for her and grabbed her arm tightly. "I was telling the truth! I was! Why would I make something like that up?"
"That's the way you are, isn't it? Not happy until you've made everyone elses life a misery. You were not happy being just the spoilt little rich girl you needed more!"
"It wasn't like that" she said softly nearly on the verge of tears. "Why? Why have you brought that up? We were just fine before this! We were actually having a normal convosation!"
Nathan glared at her "I don't want a normal convosation with you! You made my life hell with your lies! You don't understand how much trouble you caused!" he spat and tightening the hold he had on her so it hurt.
"Oh I am so sorry! Sorry for feeling bloody scared and confused and not understanding what had happened so I told someone! If I had known it would have caused you so much trouble I would have let myself suffer in silence!"
"Do you have any idea how stupid you sound? Its been 4 years! We know you are lying so you can stop the act!"
"It's not an act! It happened!" she screamed so loud she almost deafened the pair of them and with impressive force she pulled his arm of hers. "I HATE YOU!" she screamed again and it echoed in the small space of the lift. Nathan stepped back, his face red and fuming and shouted it back. They stood opposite each other both still furious and breathing deeply, glaring at the floor. Suddenly, neither of them knowing who made the first move; they looked up and their narrowed eyes connected and in one swift notion their lips crashed down on each others. All their anger and frustrations came out in the kiss. Nathan pushed her against the lift wall and she wrapped her legs around his waist. There hands went everywhere, not settling in one place, exploring every part of each others bodies. Their teeth and noses sometimes collided with the intensity of the kiss. They somehow slid down the wall and onto the floor, Nathans shirt coming off in the process. Nathan moaned into her mouth when she ran her fingers down his rock, solid abs. Their tongues danced around in each others mouths. Brooke pushed down on Nathan so he was lying on the floor, flat on his back with her on top and his hands were starting to slip under her dress. When…. Clunk! The lift jerked. They both froze on the floor. "Anyone in there?" a mans voice called.
Jumping up in shock, Brooke shouted "yeh there is two people in here! Have you fixed it?"
"Yeh, the doors will open in a minute, sorry about this but someone must have taken the out of order sign off. Oh, and you have friends waiting for you!"
In a frantic rush, Brooke smoothed her curls, straightened her dress, reapplied her lipstick and stood as far as away from Nathan as possible while he put his t-shirt back on, ran a hand through his hair and stood at the back of the lift. They both tried to calm their panting down.
The doors finally opened and Brooke ran into the arms of Peyton and Rachel while Nathan high fived Tim, Skillz and Lucas.
It had been a long night.
Promising to tell her two friends what had happened in the morning, Brooke got into her hotel room bed and she fingered her swollen lips.
Brooke sighed she was confused but relaxed. Having a bubble bath sure did that to her, it almost made her forget all of her troubles.
She had told Rachel and Peyton that all her and Nathan did in the lift was argue and that she'd been losing the will to live in there. They both believed it and gave her their sympathy "Poor Brooke, being sent out of a party, still sober and then being stuck in a lift for two hours with Nathan Scott. It had been a bad night, hadn't it" She didn't tell them that she's actually enjoyed most of her time with him because it was hard admitting that to herself. But the truth was; he was an amazing kisser. But it confused the hell out of her, how could she hate him so much but enjoy his kisses? But she did hate him; no word could describe her hate for the boy. Bringing up things she'd rather forget who the hell did he think he was? Aaaaah but the kissing part was bad! Who goes around kissing and it was one hell of a kiss, the person she hated most? How did he feel about the kiss? She needed to know the answer to that so badly, he's sat behind her on the coach on the way back home and his behavior was more than confusing.
Flashback
Feeling a tap on the shoulder, she turned round to come face to face with Lucas.
"Hey!"
"Hi" he said shyly
"I guess we never got that chance to dance, huh?"
He laughed "I guess not"
We'll have to try again sometime, yeh?"
He turned red "definitely"
"Great! Well I'll…" she got cut off by him saying "sorry can you wait a second? My phones ringing, hello? Oh hey Hales…" she ignored his phone convosation and turned to the striking, blue eyes that had been boring into her ever since he's sat down next to Lucas. They stayed that way, just staring at each other, for Lucas's entire phone convosation and their gaze was only broken when Brooke turned back to Lucas after he said "Sorry about that Brooke, um, what were you saying?"
Ignoring Nathan, she replied "Oh I was going to say that at the next party I'll come and find you and we can try the dancing again, 'Kay?"
He nodded "Sounds good"
She gave him a playful wink a flirtacous smile and then turned back round to Rachel who was reading a magazine. Leaning over to see what she was reading she said "ooh lets do that 'how well do you know each other' quiz.
End of flashback
Why was he staring at her? She'd felt his eyes on her since he had sat down but why? His face expression was of course unreadable and his eyes gave nothing away either! This situation was confusing. It was funny though, seeing the two brothers sitting next to each other as they were complete opposites. Lucas was more shy and reserved and tended to stay out the limelight. Whereas Nathan was a cocky, arrogant son of a bitch and he liked the attention. To her chagrin, tomorrow was Monday again and back to staring their 'get to know each other' project Oh joy. Why would I want to get to know him?
Lying on his bed and listening to his ipod Nathan thought about his antics in the lift. God she did know how to wind him up. Twice they had shared a kiss and they were both bloody brilliant kisses, the first was unavoidable as it was a dare but the second… he furrowed his brow in confusion why did that second kiss happen? They were arguing about the ridiculous lies she had made up 4 years ago and then after declaring there hate for each other, wham! They were kissing. Running his hands through his hair he sighed, this was so fucked up. To make it worse they had to do that project on Monday. A whole hour getting to know the girl he hated, scary. But what was even scarier was that somewhere in his mind a voice was saying, do you really mind?
The weekend soon passed and Monday morning soon came. Bursting through the door with Rachel, late as usual, she gingerly took a place next to Nathan. They'd both agreed to make it work but that was before the kiss…
Turning to him, she opened her mouth but he beat her to it "look we agreed we'd make it work so let's forget about the moment of craziness we had and try and move past that stupid mistake and try get a good mark, 'Kay?"
Sighing in relief and ignoring the pang of hurt she'd felt when he'd said 'mistake' she smiled "sounds like a plan and I found this quiz in a magazine we could do" she took it out of her bag and slid it across the table to him and watched the smirk grow on his face. He raised his eyebrows "Sure"
"Great! I'll read the questions out and we'll both write our answers down! He nodded
"What's your favorite colour? When she had finished reading the "how well do you know each other" questions they both looked at the list they had made.
Favorite -
colour: Nathan.Blue Brooke.Red
movie -N. Jackass the movie B.Pride and prejudice
Song - N.Don't have 1 B.At the moment - umbrella
Band - N.Blink 182 B.Girls aloud
Food - N.pizza B. Ben and jerry's ice cream
Book - N.Harry potter and the goblet of fire B.Harry potter and the half blood prince
T.V show - N.simpsons B.Friends
In a boy/girl
Eye colour - N.brown B.Blue
Hair colour - N.any B.Any
Height - N.Smaller than me B.Taller than me
Physique - N.curvy B.With a 6 pack
Fears - N.Dogs B.Dying
Nathan laughed "Your favorite book is Harry Potter and the half blood prince?"
Brooke blushed "I know but god they are great! I love them…Hey! A Harry potter book is your favorite too!"
Nathan laughed again "yep, they are pretty cool shame about the movies though"
"Oh no! I love the movies! I…well I kind of have a crush on the red head" she admitted whilst turning red.
"No way! I do like the movies I just prefer the books"
"Who would have thought that we of all people would have liked Harry Potter?"
"I know yeh, no one else knows apart from Luke"
"Really? No one knows that I like it…well apart from you now. I'll loose my cool If anyone found out!"
They both, at the same time, realised who they had just admitted this too and they felt horrified. God why did I just tell him that? Why oh why?
"Yeh well" Nathan coughed and they fell into an awkward silence till Brooke burst out laughing "You are scared of dogs?" she said after glancing down at the list
"Hey it's not funny I had a traumatic experience as a child" he protested
"What happened?" Brooke asked interested
"Well…" The rest of the lesson flew past as Nathan told her of his "traumatic experience" and they discussed the rest of the list they had made, both of them having too much of a good time to notice the confused glances their friends kept giving them and the smug look on Mr. Murray's face as he watched the pair, getting on, in satisfaction.