"Wait, you are asking me if my sister wants to cheerlead? Why?" Nathan asked Brooke, the lunch bell just ringing. He shut his locker door, and looked from Brooke to Peyton, skepticly.

"She had the bright idea to ask you first," Peyton said, motioning to Brooke who was smiling.

"Your the big brother right? Don't you care if your sister wear's that slutty cheerleader skirt with all the guys watching??" Brooke asked, looking pretty excited about it.

"Since you put it that way would you still ask her if I say no?"

"Actually, we want you to introduce us..." Brooke said, shrugging a bit.

"Peyton met her-"

"I met her like once when we were going out Nathan, and you never talk about her-"

"Fine, I'll introduce you guys, let's go," he said, obviously trying hard to drop the subject. He never really liked talking about his sister, maybe it was because they weren't the closest siblings or the way their family was, he just didn't like it. He walked into the cafeteria, hearing his friends talk beside him about how perfect Nolan would be for the cheerleading squad.

Nolan was eating lunch with Ashlynn, who was droning on and on about how she didn't make the cheerleading team. She wasn't really listening to her friend though, she was anxiously waiting for school to end and that night to begin. For all she knew Lucas could be a psycho stalker or something but she was still dying to meet him. She was broken from her daze as she heard voices behind her. She looked over to see Ashlynn staring at whoever was behind her, gaping.

She turned around quickly to see her brother standing their, with his exgirlfriend and the cheerleading captain. She almost knew what was going to happen, she had seen them staring earlier.

"Um hi, can I help you?" she asked simply, giving her brother a look. She had been at school for a week and a half and he had never once came up to her at lunch or even said hi to her in the hallway.

"Kinda," he said,taking a seat next to her at the table. She felt the eyes on them, but she shook them off.

"Actually, we do," Brooke said, also taking a seat. Peyton just stood there, not really wanting to break Brooke's mood.

"Right, Nolan, this is Brooke and you know Peyton, I Think, and well Brooke this is my sister, Nolan," he said, quickly and umcomfortably.

"Okay, is there a point to this little get together? Or can you all leave so they will all stop staring," Nolan said. She didn't really want to talk to her brother, something was going to go wrong.

"Ohhh, fiesty, No Peyton and I want to talk to you about joinin-"

"No,"

"What?" spoke Brooke, almost hurt.

"I don't want to be a cheerleader,"

"Nole, why don't you just think about it?" Nathan said, kind of surprised at his sister's reaction.

"Please, think about it, you would be perfect for us, please," Brooke pleaded, smiling. Nolan looked from Brooke, to Peyton, to Ashlynn to her brother.

"Fine."

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She carried her soccerball to the rivercourt that night, waiting to talk to her brother. True, they were meeting at a basketball court but Nolan thought she would turn the tables a bit. She knew he would bring a basketball too, being on the team and all, but she thought it would be fun to play some soccer.

She stood on the middle of the river court, juggling the soccer ball with her feet, smiling.

"You know, when you said River Court, I was thinking more along the lines of basketball on this basketball court," Lucas said, walking up behind her. He heard her laugh.

"Well, even if my dad is Dan Scott, and my brothers are Nathan and Lucas Scott, " he smiled as she continued, "Well, technical brothers, basketball isn't really my main sport,"

"And Soccer is I'm guessing?" he asked, walking onto the court, dribbling the basketball in his hands.

"Yah, how'd ya guess?" she said, dribbling the ball on the court. They ended up talking about everything and anything. Even their dad.

"And I even made the soccer team," she said, smiling. They had ended up passing the soccer ball to each other, Lucas not being the best.

"Congrats, did you tell anyone else?"

"If I tell my dad, he will get upset about it, even though I wouldn't make the guys team anyway, not that I wanted to, and me and Nathan aren't the closest anymore..."

"Anymore?"

"He has his whole jock life, girls, sports, parties, hangovers, no time for sisters in there," she said slowly, only a slight hint of sadness in her voice.

"That's too bad though, not that he was ever a brother to me at all, or that he was allowed to be,"

"I understand what you mean, I mean, if my dad found out I was here, I would get in trouble probably, but whatever,"

"You wanna play some one on one?"

"Basketball or soccer?"

"Basketball, little miss scott, you up for it?"

"Bring it!" She laughed a bit, adjusting her sweater a bit. She wasn't going to take it off to play, no matter how warm she got, but she was determined to win a bit. She ended up falling behind by about 7 points but she brought it up to a tie game, with him winning.

She was really hot in her sweater but oh well, she headed over to the picnic table and took a seat, "I let you win,"

"Sure you did, you look warm, why don't you like take you sweater off?"

"It's okay, I'm fine," she said, fixing her sleeves again. She looked kind of uncomfortable now, not wanting him to see her arms and think the wrong things.

"You sure?"

"Ya, I'm fine," she snapped, regretting it seconds later.

"I'm sorry about that Lucas, really, I'm okay, believe me," she said softly, looking him in the eye. He then noticed the dark circles under her eyes, and the slight redness of her face. He knew she wasn't okay, but he didn't want to say anything, maybe he could ask Nathan about it. But then he thought of how she said they weren't that close, and how she might get in trouble about seeing him. He needed to figure out her secret though, what she was hiding, what was wrong.

A/N- R&R please!!! tell me what you think and if you have any ideas let me know!!!