I know, it's weird, I haven't updated in a long time, but I lost interest in the story for a while and wrote another one. So I have a few chapters written for this story so I'll probably put them up over time.

Chapter 6: some time alone… or not

After a long train ride the two girls got home some time in the evening and when straight home. They ate what ever was left over in the fridge and went to bed. After the passed two days, they were pretty tired.

"come on Brooke, this bed is pretty lonely without you in it" Haley said to the bathroom door in which Brooke was behind.

"it usually is" Brooke said as she came out of the bathroom and turned off the light. She climbed into bed facing Haley and moved as close to her as possible. "better?"

"much" Haley said as she too moved in closer. Brooke put her arm around Haley's back and kissed her forehead.

"I had fun this weekend" Brooke said.

"Brooke, our car broke down, you accused Rachel of hitting on me, I got drunk, we were caught sneaking into the hotel, I ruined the routine AND passed out from a hang over." Haley said.

"I know, but at least I got to spend time with you" Brooke said as she kissed Haley's cheek as both girls started to slowly drift into a deep slumber.

"Brooke, promise me something?" Haley asked as she was just falling asleep.

"mmm?"

"promise me you'll always be there for me…"

"… I will always be there for you. I promise."

The next morning Haley awoke in Brooke's arms, her head was resting just below Brooke's chin and Brooke had both arms wrapped around Haley's body. When Haley woke up she didn't want to move, not that she could anyways, it seemed Brooke's arms were in some sort of lock.

"Brooke?" Haley whispered. "Brooke?" she asked a little louder, but Brooke wouldn't wake up. Instead she decided to kiss Brooke. Before Brooke even opened her eyes she started kissing back.

"good morning to you too" Brooke said smiling as her eyes slowly fluttered open.

"good morning" Haley said as she smiled into another kiss. "now do you mind letting me go so I could maybe, oh I don't know… move?"

"no" Brooke said playfully.

"yes"

"no"

"yes"

"no" Brooke said again.

"no" Haley said slyly.

"yes" Brooke said not thinking "dammit!" Brooke said as she realized she was tricked, making Haley laugh.

"okay come on now" Haley said still trying to get out of her arms.

"but I don't wanna" Brooke said like a child. Haley leaned in for a kiss and slowly undid Brooke's arms.

"cheater" Brooke teased. "you know you make me go weak every time you kiss me"

"and yet, I'm okay with that" Haley said as she walked out of the room.

"Haley, come back" Brooke pleaded. "the bed's all cold"

"come out here and maybe I'll… warm you up?" Haley said searching for the right words. Brooke immediately jumped out of her warm bed and into the cold morning air in the hallways, letting out a shrill scream. Brooke headed downstairs to see Haley in the kitchen. She hugged her from behind and gave her a kiss on the cheek before opening her fridge to get some juice. She poured a cup for Haley and herself.

"so we have like 8 hours of alone time, what do you want to do?"

"not sure, what do you want to do?" Haley asked.

"oh I don't care, I just want to be with you" Brooke said as she sat on the island in her kitchen and held Haley's hand in her own.

"how about we stay in and watch some movies?" Haley suggested.

"scary movies?" Brooke asked hopefully.

"no, you know I hate scary movies… I couldn't sleep for like 2 weeks after Scary movie 4"

"Hales, the Scary Movies are meant to be more comedic than horror"

"I know, that's the problem!"

"okay look, how about we watch a scary movie and I'll hold on to you the entire time?"

"… do we have to?"

"yes, now come on" Brooke said as she jumped off the counter and pulled Haley into the living room. They popped in a movie and crawled up beside each other on the couch. Not more than 20 minutes into the movie the two girls started making out, at first it was just frequent light kisses, but then the kisses started to last longer, then eventually there was tongue involved. Brooke's hands soon started roaming.

"Brooke, you know the rule" Haley said as she pulled Brooke's hands back to her waist.

"oh come on Hales, we've been together forever-"

"-3 days?"

"fine, maybe I'll just have to convince you, that you want me just as bad as I want you" Brooke said slyly as she pushed Haley to the corner of her couch and was basically kneeling on top of her. She started kissing her while moving her knee between Haley's legs a little. Every few seconds Brooke would move her knee and Haley would feel it. Haley's breathing started to get a little heavier and knew what Brooke was doing to her.

"still trying to resist?" Brooke asked as she continued to kiss Haley.

"oh god" Haley whispered. Brooke smiled as she continued kissing Haley.

"just say the word and all your problems can be… relieved"

"no, no, no, no, no" Haley said repeated as she pushed Brooke off of her. "come on Brooke, don't do this to me"

"come on Hales, you know you want me" Brooke said jokingly.

"I do, but keep doing that and you can forget about us making out"

"okay fine, no touching, but you can't take away my making out, it's the only thing I got" Brooke begged.

"do you promise?"

"I promise"

"good, 'cause I wasn't really willing to give up making out either" Haley said as she grabbed Brooke by the shirt and kissed her again.

"so… when exactly do you think you are going to be ready?" Brooke asked as she rested her body on Haley's.

"keep asking and you'll never find out"

"okay, okay, I'm sorry baby. You just let me know when you're ready"

"you know Brooke, I'm not doing this to torture you… I just want our first time to be special."

"what exactly do you mean by special?"

"well don't you remember your first time?"

"yeah, but that wasn't special" Brooke said shaking it off.

"what happened?"

"nothing, I don't want to talk about it"

"come on tell me"

"no" Brooke said seriously.

"come on Brooke, be honest with me"

"I'm not lying, I just don't want to talk about it"

"fine but just know I'm here if you want to talk about it"

"I know… you're always there for me"

After Brooke and Haley were talking they fell asleep together on the couch. About an hour later they were awoken by some sort of ringing.

"Haley you get it" Brooke groaned into Haley's chest seeing as she was still lying on top of her.

"no, you get it" Haley groaned back. Brooke groaned angrily and blindly searched for the phone on the table. She must have knocked over a few magazines and what ever else was on the table before she picked up the cell phone.

"hello?" Brooke answered.

"hey B. Davis" Peyton said cheerily into the phone.

"P. Sawyer? What time is it?"

"like noon"

"and why'd you call? We were sleeping"

"me and Rachel are driving home right now, we'll be back in Tree Hill in like 4 hours ish"

"once again, why are you calling us?"

"just wanted to make sure you two weren't doing anything you shouldn't be"

"oh, if we were doing that we wouldn't have answered the phone, trust me"

"just put Haley on" Peyton said with a small laugh. Brooke handed the phone over to Haley who was barely awake and continued with her own sleep.

"hello?" Haley said while yawning.

"hey, how you doing?"

"tired, how's your ride home with Rachel?"

"annoying" Peyton said, Haley could hear Rachel say "hey" in objection in the background. Some rustling went on in the background and all of a sudden Rachel had the phone.

"Hey Haley" she said cheerily.

"Hey Rachel" Haley said. Immediately Brooke woke up again, which didn't go unnoticed by Haley.

"so how bad is Brooke in bed?" she asked jokingly, knowing Brooke would be listening.

"hey you bitch, shut up, I'm not bad in bed" Brooke yelled.

"… not that we've done anything" Haley added.

"what ever Haley, you don't have to cover up for her"

"no one's covering up anything" Haley said with a light chuckle.

"sure… well when you get tired of Brooke's bad sex, call me up" Rachel whispered and quickly handed the phone back to Peyton.

As soon as Brooke heard this she took the phone back from Haley. "hey listen you whore…!"

"excuse me?" Peyton asked.

"not you Peyton, Rachel's being a slut again"

"what'd she say now?"

"she wants to get into Haley's pants"

"well so do you" Peyton stated.

"yeah, but she's my girlfriend!" Brooke said. It still made Haley's heart melt whenever she heard Brooke call her her girlfriend, especially when she was protecting her.

Haley took the phone back from Brooke. "forget about it Peyton, we'll see you when you guys get home"

"alright, don't do anything I wouldn't do… or I would do, not sure" Peyton said and hung up. Haley closed the phone and smiled at an angry Brooke. "come on baby… it was just a joke."

"maybe to you, but Rachel likes you"

"don't be absurd, she's only doing it to make you angry, and by the looks of it, it's working"

"oh come on… how would you feel if someone was constantly hitting on me?" Brooke asked trying to prove a point.

"people do! It won't ever matter if you're dating someone, girl or boy, there will always be someone hitting on you, because you are you."

"what's that supposed to mean?"

"it means that you have a reputation for being…"

"a slut?!" Brooke yelled finishing her sentence.

"no… I didn't say that"

"but you were going to" Brooke said angrily as she got up from the couch.

"Brooke come on, don't be like this"

"be like what? Angry because my own girlfriend called me a slut?!" Brooke asked angrily. It was times like this that being called Brooke's girlfriend didn't make Haley happy.

"…" Haley didn't say anything. She wasn't quite sure what to say, she didn't mean to insult Brooke like that, but it kind of came out. Well it didn't but… yeah. Either way Brooke was not happy, and just to show Haley how unhappy she was, she walked out the door. Haley had driven Brooke out of her own house.

Brooke hated living in a small town sometimes; everyone knew who you were, everyone knew your secrets, and most of all, there was no where to hide. The only place Brooke could think to go was to her old elementary school playground. It was kind of old and covered in graffiti, but it had some of Brooke's favourite memories in it. Brooke swung her legs over the side of the playground as she just sat there and thought about everything going on.

Brooke loved Haley, she really did. There were some things she wanted more out of the relationship (i.e. sex), but those were things she could wait for. Things like Haley calling her a slut was a different thing. Brooke was pulled out of her thoughts when her phone started ringing. She was thinking it was probably Haley, but when she checked the I.D. she saw an unfamiliar number.

"hello?"

"Brooke?"

"who is this?"

"Sarah"

"…"

"shindleberg…" Sarah added.

"oh yeah, hi Sarah, how'd you get my number?"

"not important, but what is important is the column… I haven't gotten any new emails from you!"

"yeah, right sorry, I had cheerleading for the passed couple of days, but don't worry, I'll get working on it now… just give me a few hours" Brooke said, she couldn't shake the feeling of depression from her mind.

"Brooke are you okay?"

"yeah, I'm fine"

"look, I know I'm not your go to person with your problems, but you don't have the answers to everything, so don't be afraid to ask for help" Sarah said and hung up the phone.

"Great" Brooke said sarcastically to herself. She was having problems with her girlfriend, was going to be swamped with emails from people and their stupid problems, and she was getting advice from some girl with a weird last name. So Brooke got up and decided to skip dealing with Haley right now and go straight to her emails. The only problem was her computer was back at home with the one person she didn't want to see right now, so instead she headed over to Peyton's. She figured she could get in and out before Peyton even got home.

She walked in the door and went straight to Peyton's room. Hacked the computer and she was in. 43 New emails flashed on the computer. Sometimes Brooke wished people could solve their own problems. Brooke opened the list of emails and her eyes instantly shot to the name Dazed&Confused. She opened it without hesitation and started reading.

Dear Miss. Mysterious,

I'm back again, believe it or not. So I guess you're just DYING to know what I did with my relationship problem, well to tell you the truth I took a risk and I'm dating this amazing girl… well at least I think I am. We had our first real fight today, and it was totally and completely my fault. I feel like an idiot because of my big mouth. I told her I thought she was a slut… well I didn't actually tell her, but I sort of implied it, but I didn't want it to be mean, I just wasn't thinking. What can I do to show her I do love her and I don't think she's some slut? Because the truth is, she's the furthest thing from it. She's just so different and bold and not afraid to be herself… most of the time I wish I was like her.

-Dazed&Confused

Brooke thought for a minute. She knew Haley didn't mean to really insult her like that, but she did and it hurt. But the truth is Brooke was a little experienced to say the least and Haley was right, Brooke just wished she wasn't…

Dear Dazed&Confused,

You want to show her you really love her? Tell her what you just told me. Be honest with her, sometimes it goes a lot further than lying. I'm not saying that you lied, I'm just saying sometimes the truth hurts, but the pain just might be worth it in the end.

-Miss. Mysterious

Brooke sent the email and just worked on the others… she just wants to try and get everything off of her mind. Through out her emails she noticed one in particular.

Dear Miss. Mysterious,

I love my girlfriend so much, we do everything together and I've never been happier. I'm so happy, I think I want to … marry her. I know it's a big step and all, we are only 18. I just don't want to let her go. After all the times I've screwed up I can't afford to let her go. There's been a lot of people I've known in my life who've gotten married, and right now, I don't think any of them had worked out. What should I do?

- Broody boy

Brooke smiled a little, sometimes Lucas can be a little too obvious. But then she remembered his problem… he wanted to marry Peyton? That's a huge step, even for Lucas. But he was right, all the marriages in his life had failed. Dan and Karen didn't even get married, Deb and Dan split, Keith and Jules didn't make it that far and of course Haley and Nathan also got divorced recently. It was enough to discourage any one of getting married. Despite all of the negative marriage history Brooke still had to email Lucas back.

Dear Broody Boy,

Well, you and I both know marriage is a huge step in a relationship. Most people don't get married until their mid to late 20's, but if you want to get married to this girl, I won't stop you... I can't stop you. But you have to take into consideration your lives are still developing. Think about where you guys plan to go for school over the next few years or where you plan to work. All of this plays a key role in marriage. But maybe there's another way… instead of going out fully and asking her to marry you, maybe you should give her a promise ring, instead of an engagement ring. Think about it… a promise ring basically says 'I love you and I want to marry you, but we're not ready and we both know it'. What ever you do, I hope you guys are happy.

-Miss. Mysterious

Brooke sent her email and realized Peyton was in for a pretty big surprise. But then she also realized this was all just one big distraction from her problem with Haley.