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Our Forever and Always
Chapter 6:
Brooke stood in the back room of her boutique, taking inventory of the newest shipment of clothing.
She tried focussing on counting the boxes, but her mind kept drifting to the blue eyed man that seemed to be clouding her thoughts lately.
It had ben three days since he had dropped her off at her house.
Three days since they had seen each other.
Brooke still felt the perfect smoothness of his skin against her lips, the bolt of electricity that shot through her body the second her lips touched his cheek, and the sent of his skin. The combination of soap, fresh air, and that little something else. That something that was all his own.
The same sent that was permanently attached to that old grey Keith auto shop hoodie that she had practically lived in while they were dating.
Brooke physically shook her head. She didn't even know why she was still thinking about it.
She is Brooke Davis, the Brooke Davis.
She was the head cheerleader and student body president in high school. She could make any guy beg for even a moment of her attention. She is the head of a multi-million dollar corporation at only twenty-three years old.
There was no point in focussing on one guy that she couldn't have, when there is always a line of guys waiting to have a chance with the beautiful brunette.
Though, even as she thought it, Brooke knew she was just kidding herself. Lucas Scott would never be just another guy in her life. Lucas Scott is the guy in her life.
He was the first person that made Brooke truly believe she could be more than just someone's trophy wife.
He was the one that showed Brooke how it felt like to be truly and completely in love. How it was not simply based on someones physical appearance, that it mattered what kind of person he was.
He gave Brooke the unforgettable sensation of love, lust, and passion all at once. He showed her a whole new side to her previously shallow, typical world. He is perhaps the single person that changed her the most in her entire life.
However, Lucas Scott was also the person to show Brooke how true and utter heartbreak felt like.
How it felt like to not be able to breathe because the person you loved would never love you as much. He was the person that made Brooke for a while believe all love in the world was fake, that the only reason why people say I love you is because they are afraid to stay alone. That true love was just to much of a divine and righteous emotion, that no one could really feel it.
But there was Nathan and Hayley, the absolute example of how true love should be, and Brooke regained her hope.
So after she and Lucas became friends again senior year, Brooke swore to herself that she would find that feeling of devotion, longing, and heartache because you miss him so much to someone again,
someone that wasn't Lucas Scott.
However, through the years, that promise proved difficult to fulfill.
Every guy she met, from Chase, to the few guys she dated in New York, to Owen, Brooke never felt that way towards another man.
even though she had thought she started falling in love with Chase, soon after graduation, Brooke realized that she and Chase were nothing more than friends. There was never that same passion with him that she had with Lucas.
That became Brooke's downfall,
every guy she has ever dated, was always compared to the blonde haired boy.
And every guy she dated never stood a chance, there was always something that wasn't quite right.
Brooke shakes her head as she runs a hand through her chocolate hair, she had to remind herself that Lucas Scott was now and will always be off limits.
He would always belong to her best friend, Peyton Sawyer.
And perhaps that was it.
Perhaps Brooke was only meant to have those amazing few months spent with the blonde boy in high school.
Perhaps she was just suppose to marry a nice guy, and have a nice family, but will always be in love with the one man she could never have. The one man who would never love her in that way. No matter how much she wished he did.
Taking a deep breath, brooke throws the clipboard in her hand onto the table. She wasn't getting any work done anyhow.
Brooke walks into the main viewing area of her boutique, being greeted by a not so welcomed voice.
"Well there she is, my hick vill loving daughter."
XOXO
Nathan ran up and down the River Court, practicing different stances in different points of the court to make a basket.
It finally felt as if the raven haired man's career was getting back on track. His comeback, as Quintin liked to put it, was coming along nicely.
Nathan smiled to himself, the thought of his beautiful and amazing family watching him with proud faces in a real basketball court, made a burst of new energy rush through him.
He was still ashamed of himself for acting the way he did after his accident last year, pushing Hayley away, and not being the father he should have been to Jamie.
He will make it up to them. He will make it to the NBA, and prove that he actually deserved all the belief they had in him.
Nathan continues to play, newly energize by his thoughts of making it to the NBA, until he heard an incredibly beautiful voice that he could recognize from a mile away.
"Hey sexy!" A honey blonde shouted towards him as she walked to the court.
Nathan smiles at the petite girl now standing in front of him,
"Hey back at ya," he gives a cheeky grin.
"Well I've been watching you play for the passed ten minutes, and all I could say is there is nothing else I would rather do than pinch that perfect butt." The honey blonde gives a wink of the eye.
Nathan laughs at his silly, and beautiful wife,
"Well, trust me, I would definitely let you do that, and a lot more. But I kinda have this wife. And she is so damn amazing and sexy, that I don't think I want to kick her to the curb quite yet."
Hayley laughs at him, wrapping her arms around his neck, bringing his head close to hers. "Well if you refuse, even though I have a huge empty house," She speaks in a husky voice, only inches away from his lips.
Nathan's eyes widen slightly at what she said.
An empty house?
"Well if you really insist…" Nathan begins to say, but Hayley merely shakes her head.
"Nah, the moment is gone." She says teasingly. "But you know what, you can help me learn how to make a score with a basketball."
Nathan raises an eyebrow questioningly.
"What?" Hayley defends, "If one day, I'm gonna be the wife of one of the most talented NBA players in history, I should probably learn how to score in basketball."
Haley speaks in such a reasoning tone of voice, it makes Nathan wonder how he ever deserved a woman as beautiful, kind and sweet as her.
"Okay, Hayley James-Scott, lesson 1, its not a goal, or score, in basketball its called a basket."
Hayley rolls her eyes, and sticks out her tongue at him, "Yeah whatever, just grab the ball Scott."
Nathan laughs as he grabs and positions Hayley so her back is pressed against his abdomen, and his hands are on top of hers on the ball.
Instead of showing her how to shoot, Nathan just stares down at the beautiful honey blonde that he calls his wife.
After a moment, Hayley looks up at him. Warm brown orbs meeting cobalt blues,
"What?" she asks with a smile.
Nathan shakes his head, "Nothing. I just love you. He says, leaning down to give the brown eyed woman a kiss.
XOXO
"What are you doing here," Brooke hisses at the woman she once called her mother.
"I just thought to check up on my daughter, and see how her fabulous designs are coming along."
"They are coming along greatly," Brooke counters.
"I should hope so," Victoria says in such a mocking voice that Brooke could do nothing but glare.
Victoria pretends not to notice, "Considering that your entire business depends on it."
"What are you talking about,"Brooke commands.
"Oh so the news didn't get to you yet?" Victoria asks in such a condescending way that it is obvious she didn't expect what ever the news is, to have reached Brooke.
"Just stop playing your dumb little games and tell me what the hell you're talking about Victoria." Brooke asserted.
Victoria smirks as she hands brooke a packet of papers.
"I made an appeal to the council, if you don't manage to get this deal with Macy's, then they have decided to vote you out of the company, and make me full CEO of Clothes over Bros."
Brooke's heart stops beating for a moment, "No, no this can't be right. They can't do this. I made Clothes over Bro's, I design all the outfits, I am Clothes over Bros." Brooke argues.
Victoria gives her daughter a mock sympathetic look, "Now that may be true, but I'm sorry to break it to you darling, but, these kind of things happen all the time. When the CEO starts making bad decisions for her company. Like opening a store in hick vill North Carolina, or when she lets a baby and ex-boyfriend take up to much of her time that she starts forgetting about her business."
Brooke looks up at Victoria, for the first time letting her eyes off the papers.
She was surprised that Victoria knew she had been spending time with Lucas, but that was the least of her worries.
An overwhelming anger bubbled inside of brooke, her mother was trying to steal the business that Brooke had put so much time and effort into. A business that Brooke started with a website with the help of her honey haired best friend and a lot of little kids.
Brooke could no longer hold in her anger, "How dare you. You are nothing more than a petty, evil, manipulative bitch-"
"And thats another reason," Victoria comments, "Brooke, you don't know how to separate personal affairs with business." Jus because I'm doing this doesn't mean I don't love you. Because I do, but I need to take the best interest of the business."
My business, Brooke wanted to shout, but instead, in a dangerously calm voice she set her mother with a cold glare, "Get out of my store, now."
"My pleasure," Victoria smirks, walking out of the Clothes over Bro's boutique, with a swagger.
XOXO
After her confrontation with Victoria, Brooke raced to her house to retrieve the only spare key to the cabinet where her newest designs were locked up.
As she walked through the front door, she was confused to hearing music blaring from upstairs.
Brooke walked up the stairs to find Peyton applying a shade of deep pink lipstick, while listening to her current favorite band.
Her long sandy blonde hair was left down in all its curliness, and she was clad in a dark-blue sweet heart dress that reached the floor.
Brooke's stomach knotted up, remembering that tonight was the night when Peyton and Lucas go out to dinner, just the two of them.
Suddenly Brooke's worst day ever, just got a whole lot crappier.
"Brooke," Peyton cheered, turning to face the beautiful brunette.
"I'm so glad you're back. What do ya think." Peyton gave a quick twirl, so Brooke could see all the angles of the dress on her.
Brooke gave a small smile, "You look beautiful Pey Sawyer. So tonights the big night?"
Peyton could barely contain her joy as she nodded her head, "He's taking me out at the cute little Italian place near the mall."
Brooke tries her hardest to be excited for her best friend, after all, this is what is suppose to happen. The two soul mates finally find each other in the end.
Suddenly, Brooke remembers why she rushed back home, and headed to her bed room.
She found the key inside of the second drawer in her nightstand, the same nightstand that held a photo of her and Lucas with baby Angie.
She lays the photo so the back is facing the sealing, trying to symbolize that she is completely over Lucas Scott.
XOXO
It had been three days since he had seen Brooke.
three days of him constantly thinking of Brooke's lips on his cheek, about the sensation it sent down his body.
And now he was headed towards her house, about to take her best friend, the girl he was fated to be with, out to a friendly dinner, which the green eyed girl will surely think is more than that.
And Lucas, still could not get the pretty brunette out of his mind. No matter how hard he tried.
XOXO
Lucas walked up the couple steps it took to reach the girls front door.
Before knocking on the door Lucas swore to himself, tonight he would be fair to Peyton, he would try to see them more than friends, he would not think of the gorgeous brunette who seems to have consumed his every-thought for the past three days.
However, those promises were thrown out the window when the girl who answered the door was not a curly blonde, but a luscious brunette.
Seeing her for the first time in days gave him more joy than he'd like to admit.
She was beautiful, she is always beautiful, but there was something wrong with her.
Her hair was tied up into a ponytail, and her eyes didn't have that extra sparkle to them like they usually did. Dark brown flex invaded her bright hazel-greens.
Lucas wanted to ask what was wrong, but then there eyes caught on each other, for longer than a moment.
They simultaneously smiled at each other, an easy smile. Something that felt natural.
"Hey," Lucas greets.
Brooke gives him a quick hello, before turning around and shouting for Peyton to get down the stairs.
Lucas was left to stare at her simple beauty, until she turned back to him.
"She'll be down in a minute." Brooke informs him.
"Do you wanna come with us," Lucas blurts without thinking, though he doesn't regret his suggestion.
Brooke kincks an eye brow at him, the way that use to drive him crazy when they were dating, "I don't think it is that kind of dinner," she comments.
Lucas wanted to argue that this dinner was nothing more than just a dinner with two friends.
However, he knew it was just a waist of breath, so he opted to change the topic completely.
"So where are you headed?" he asks.
No matter how much he hates to admit it, he was afraid that Brooke would say that she was going out on a date. But he was saved by her response.
"Oh, I'm heading back to C/B, its my night to close up. I just came back to grab something real quick."
Lucas nods, "It's getting pretty late. How about me and Peyton join ya, and then we can go out."
Brooke laughs, "I'll be fine, but thanks."
Lucas nods as Brooke walks into her car and drives away, leaving Lucas to stare at the direction she drove off to.
He was a little startled when he heard Peyton's voice behind him. He turns around to greet the curly haired blonde, but was stopped by her appearance.
Lucas must admit she looked pretty.
But that kind of prettiness that you can tell she tried long to get her hair done perfectly, and choosing her out fit for hours.
A kind of pretty he never saw Brooke in.
Lucas was sure that brooke could through on any old thing, even if it was his old grey hoodie and look amazing in it.
He mentally shook the thought from his mind, reminding himself that tonight was to give him and Peyton a chance.
So Lucas simply complemented Peyton on her appearance, even if she was way over dressed, and the two headed towards his car.
XOXO
The last hour was spent with Lucas and Peyton talking like they use to when they were friends.
There was no tension, no cloud over there heads saying that this is the person you're gonna end up with, so get use to it. It just felt like two good friends having an easy and comfortable conversation.
That may be the single point that Lucas new and excepted that Peyton Sawyer would be nothing more than his friend, and he was alright with that. But he wondered if she was.
Peyton was in the middle of telling a story about a concert she went to while living in L.A, when Lucas caught sight of someone. Someone he hadn't seen in a long while,
"Is that him?" Lucas asks.
Peyton turns around to the figure Lucas was looking at, and it felt like everything stopped for a moment, and she stood from her seat and ran up to him.
"Jake," she almost shouts, when she wraps her arms around the brunette's neck.
Peyton could barely believe it. When she turned her head the last person she expected to see was her ex boyfriend.
The boyfriend she was once sure she wanted to Mary and spend the rest of her life with him and his daughter that she thought of as her own.
"
Peyton," she heard him say with a questioning tone, but his arms still wrapped around her.
The arms that once had made her feel so safe and secure.
When she pulled away, she saw all the ways he had changed. His hair was cut short, and he was at least two inches taller. But he still had those warm brown eyes, and the sweet welcoming smile.
"You're hair grew," he comments so astounded that Peyton starts to laugh.
Then Jake turns to Lucas and pulls him into one of those dude hugs, where they pat each others backs three times.
"Jake Jagielski, where the hell have you been my man," Lucas asks, while they pull apart.
"Around," Jake smiles, and then glances at the two of them. Realizing that they were eating alone, "Are you two?"
"No," surprisingly, it was Peyton who answered.
Lucas gives her an amused smile, maybe he wasn't the only one to feel the friendship, rather than the romantic feeling that they were suppose to feel.
Lucas clamps a hand on Jake's shoulder, "Come on man, lets catch up," he nudges his thumb towards the deserted table that he and Peyton occupied only moments ago.
XOXO
Brooke sat in the couch of her boutique, rereading the packet Victoria had given her earlier that day.
After the tenth time she has read through the papers, Brooke crumbles them up and through them on top of the table in front of her.
It's been an hour since Milli had left, and Brooke was glad. The sweet girl didn't need to know about this.
This battle was between Brooke and her mother, she did not want anyone else to be involved.
This was her business, she would fight for it with all she had.
Brooke finished up with making sure everything was in place and grabbed her bag, getting ready to leave.
"This is my business, this is my life. I wished for this." Brooke spoke out loud, thinking of the boy she let go of and the business she gained.
And for the first time, wonders if the trade was actually fair.
Instead of thinking to much about it, Brooke shut the lights and walked towards the doors of her store.
Until she felt someone grab her arm, pulling her to the ground. Brooke could not see his face, due to the fact that he wore ski mask, but Brooke did feel the punches.
Punch after punch, her screams being muffled by his hand. But each punch hurting worse than the last.
A/N: So yeah this was a longer chapter, YAY :D
I really hope you guys were able to pucks moment, and able to tolerate how terribly I wrote Brooke's attack. I didn't want to make it to bad, but I didn't know how to exactly write up. I just hope it came out okay
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loVefan1123: I am so glad that you are loving this story :D
and I COMPLETELY agreed, I was always more of a brayly/Brachel friendship fan rather than a Breyton one. Peyton is truly the worst bestir EVER she is just an annoying bitchy slut who tries 2 act all innocent DX Ok ill stop now,
I hope to hear from you soon, and get your thoughts on this chap :D
brucas 224: Yay I am so glad you loved it, and don't worry, full on brucas will come soon :D Hope to hear from you soon, and what you think of this chap.
dianehermans: I am so glad that you liked the brucas moment, and that it wasn't to bad :D I apologize about the pucks dinner, but did you like the surprise :D I just had to do it, and hopefully pucks will officially end soooon!
I can't wait for your next review and thoughts on this chapt :D
Brucas XOXO: I AM SO HAPPY THAT YOU ARE LIKING THIS STORY :D and all i can say about the constant updating, is that I'm passionate about my writing and i've had this story in mind for a long while, and all it took was for me to actually write it down. I REALLY HOPE YOU LIKED THIS CHAP! even though I had to re write it :( Please give me your thoughts in the reviews
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arubagirl0926: I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees the connection with Lucas and Sam. And you'll have to see about jillian ;) like I said, I have it all planned out. I am also glad you liked that little Bucas moment, and didn't think it to bad :D
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