Brooke

she faintly remembered what happened.

"Got to get to a phone." she thought. She tried to lift her head and looked around but found that she had a pain in her head that prevented her from doing anything else.

"What am I supposed to do now?" she thought miserably. She looked around and saw her phone that she'd dropped.

"Get past the pain, Brooke. You need to get to the phone." she reached and reached. She tried to block out the pain. She almost gave up when she felt the phone in her hand.

"Thank you god." she silently said.

"Hello? Look try to understand me cause I'm in a lot of pain right now. I need an ambulance...

Ashley

"Wasn't that fun?" she said, laughing at Lucas, who had a look on his face that said finally.

"Oh yeah that was great. I can't wait to do it again." He said joking with her.

"Well we could go again tomorrow if you enjoyed it so much."Haley said, laughing at his sarcasm.

"Hell no, women! If I have to look at another shopping bag again I'll kill myself." Nathan laughed.

"Well in that case..."Ashley said, showing him the shopping bag she was holding.

"I don't think so. You can't kill my man." Haley pretended to get mad.

"Okay, okay. I know you would just love to continue but some of us would like to go and eat after a day of shopping."Lucas said.

"Yeah I'm starving!"Peyton agreed. She was glad that they could all joke around like this. She was afraid that they wouldn't be able to cause of

Brooke. She knew that Lucas hasn't talked to her since they broke up. She felt bad cause Brooke wasn't included in this.

"She would have so much fun." But then again she hadn't seen her with Ashley yet.

They decided to go to subway. When they were all sitting down Ashley was the first to say what Peyton thought.

"I'm glad we can do this. I really like you guys and I'm sorry that Brooke couldn't be here. I would have invited her but I didn't think she would come."

"Look Ashley. We all like you and Brooke will come around."

"You don't have to lie to me. I know that she was Lucas's girlfriend. Even if she does start hanging out she'll never like me as a good friend." they could see she was kinda hurt. But they didn't know what to say, they knew she was right.

"I gotta go. I forgot that I have something to do at home." Haley said.

"Come on Nathan I need your help." (Then she gave him her "look")

"oh yeah. Bye." he said and left with Haley. Haley waved bye to everyone.

"We need to talk to Brooke. I know she won't agree to being friends with her but I've seen the looks she gives her in the hall."

"What are we gonna do? Do we still hang out with her or do we just quit?"

"No we don't quit. She's done a lot for us and we shouldn't stop hanging out with her cause she doesn't like one of our friends."

"So we have to try and be friends with her and Ashley? That's gonna be difficult."

"Well we have to try."

Lucas

"I'm sorry Lucas. I guess I kinda ruined today. I just wanted them to know that I really liked them."

"You didn't ruin it. We had lots of fun. As for Brooke, I've talked to her and she's not the person you think she is. I personally don't even want to see her anymore as a friend."

"Lucas?"

"I'm serious. Even if you weren't my girlfriend I still wouldn't cause she blew it with me. I don't love her anymore."

"Do you think that Peyton likes me?"

"She said she did. It's gonna be hard for her though cause she's Brooke's friend too. So I don't know if she'll hang out with us that much, but Haley and Nathan will. Haley talks about you like you too have been friends forever."

"I don't know what to say? You guys have been so nice to me. I guess I just feel bad that I'm bringing all these problems."

"...don't feel bad. Let's go back to your house." she nodded.