Lucas woke up the next morning with a smile on his face; he stretched his arms over his head and yawned, but he frowned when he looked next to him and Brooke wasn't there. He got out of his bed and walked into the bathroom to find she wasn't there, or in the living room, or kitchen.
"Where are you?" He whispered to himself.
"I'm right here." A voice answered and he turned to see his cousin stumbling out of his room into the kitchen to make some coffee.
"Oh hey Kev." Lucas said still having no clue where Brooke was.
"Oh hey Kev? Was I not the person you were looking for?" Kevin said raising an eye brow "Was someone else suppose to be here? A certain brunette maybe?"
"Who? Oh no she is probably out with Hank." Lucas lied but then wondered was she with Hank somewhere.
"Dude are you jealous?" Kevin smirked handing Lucas a cup of coffee.
"Of Hank, defiantly not." Lucas said rolling his eyes, the truth he was a little jealous of Hank yesterday but after Brooke came to his cabin last night he wasn't anymore, however she wasn't here when he woke up so maybe she regretted what happened last night.
"Oh well I am just saying since you stormed off last night and then Brooke stormed off next thought maybe either ya'll made up or she beat the shit out of you." He shrugged as he walked back into his room "I'm taking a shower." He yelled before shutting his door.
Lucas just sat there thinking about Brooke and wanting to find her and tell her sorry for what happened, since he figured she clearly wished it didn't happen. He didn't force her or anything but he did kiss her first, but then again he pulled back and she kissed him but he would have stopped if she wanted him too. Though she did say she wanted him but maybe that was just because she got caught up in the moment. He wasn't sure of much; just he needed to talk to her and make sure she was ok. He figured it was still kind of early so would take a shower and eat hoping maybe she just went back to her cabin to sleep so no one caught her in his room.
After h ate and took his shower he got dressed and made his way over to the girls' cabin, hoping she was there so they could at least talk figure all out. He walked into her cabin and frowned when he didn't see her, just Rachel, Valarie and Summer all laughing and joking.
"Well hello Scott." Rachel smiled as she turned to face Lucas.
"Hey Rach, Brooke isn't here is she?" he asked looking around and not seeing her.
"No, she wasn't here when I got in last night, but I heard her moving around this morning, but she left pretty quick." Rachel explained kind of confused by Brooke, she wasn't there last night and Rachel figured she was with Lucas but since he had no clue either she was kind of worried about her friend.
"Well do you know where she may be?"
"No I don't sorry, but she usually goes for a run in the mornings so she probably did that, I'm sure she will be back in a little while, I don't know how long she will be because I have no clue where she runs to sorry."
"Oh its cool I guess I will just talk to her later, see you guys at the next whatever we do." He smiled walking out but knowing exactly where Brooke was.
Brooke sat on the rock thinking about what happened last night, she was happy it happened but at the same time she had known Lucas all of two weeks and slept with him. after all the time of saying she wasn't a slut because she never had sex so she couldn't be but then last night she slept with him so easy, he probably thought she was a big whore. She was so happy that she woke up in his arms that morning but left before he woke up, nerves about what he would say or if he would tell her he wish it didn't happen like the first time they kissed, the truth was she really liked him, she liked him a lot and wanted what happened last night to happen and hearing him tell her it was a mistake would just crush her.
"Hey." A soft voice said behind her and she couldn't help but grin knowing exactly who it was without even turning around.
"Hey." She smiled softly as he eased his way over and sat down next to her, they both sat there not knowing what to say, Brooke opened her mouth to speak but no words came out so she just closed it and turned to look out at the trees and the little water fall she grown to love to look at every day. They both sat there thinking in silence until Lucas finally broke it.
"I'm… I'm sorry about last night." He whispered turning to look at her.
Brooke know it, she know he regretted it and just like she thought he told her sorry, she was crushed this guy she liked so much slept with her and wished it never happened. Brooke couldn't even look at him, she felt embarrassed and humiliated she just wanted to get up and run away, but didn't just sat there felt the tears burn in her eyes, trying desperately to blink them away.
"Don't worry about it." She said getting up wiping a tear and walking away.
"Brooke can we at least talk about it." He asked as she got up and followed her.
"Nothing to talk about its fine it really is, you're sorry it happened so nothing to worry about promise." She said with her biggest fake smile.
"I'm not sorry it happened." He said and she just looked at him confused, "I mean I am because it hurt you and clearly you regretted doing it and I am sorry for that part."
"You think I regretted it?" she said with almost a laugh since he clearly thought she regretted it just as she thought he did.
"Well you did didn't you? I mean that's why you weren't there this morning when I woke up, because you wish it didn't happen." He sighed, but she just smiled as she walked up to him and kissed him pulling back and smiled.
"I just thought you would regret it like when we first kissed so that's why I left."
"I don't regret a thing we did." He smiled wrapping his arms around her waist "As long as you don't?"
"I don't." she grinned leaning up and kissing him "I think we have a problem?" she said wrapping her arms around his neck.
"What?"He said a little concerned.
"I think I like you a little more than just a friend." She laughed as he just smiled leaning his forehead against hers, "That's ok because I defiantly like you more than just a friend."
"Good."
Brooke and Lucas had been together for almost 3 weeks now, they were really having fun but had to keep it quiet since it really wasn't allowed to date or do anything with the campers. However Brooke always found a way to get Lucas alone and he did the same for her. Most times he would just tell her his mom need her and they would just go back to his cabin. Brooke really liked Lucas and he really liked her, it was a cute romance full of lust, want, and passion and even though neither would admit it but also love.
"How did you get that scar?" Brooke asked as she laid in Lucas lap on the couch.
"Which one?" he asked knowing he had quite a few scars.
"This one." She said pointing to a long scar that went from his elbow up to his shoulder, "It's really long, I don't know how I never noticed it before."
"Maybe that's because I have something covering it most the time, and when it's not covered up we are both a little too busy to pay attention to it." he laughed kissing her; trying not to have the conversation he knew was coming.
"Well what happened?" she asked again looking up at him, but he just stayed quiet not even looking at her, "Lucas?" she asked taking her hand and placing it on his cheek turning him to look at her. She noticed his eyes were watering and she wasn't sure why all she knew was it was killing her to see him upset. "Talk to me." She smiled at him and stroking his cheek with her thumb.
"You know how I told you I wasn't the greatest kid growing up?" he said and she just nodded "Well when I was about 17 we had this away game for basketball. It was pretty far from our school so we just decided to stay in a hotel, well we normally take a bus but I being the dumb ass I am talked my coach in letting me take my car with my brother Nathan, Kevin and two of my other best friends Tony and Chris." He said pausing as he thought about it.
"What happened?"
"We drove done won the game and were all celebrating at the pool drinking and stuff. We ran out of beer and so, Nate, Kev, Tony, Chris, and I decided to make the run to get it since I had my car. We were all pretty gone so we flipped for keys to drive and I lost." He said as his voice cracked and he again just stared away from Brooke and just off into space.
"Lucas…" she said as she leaned up to look at him but he wouldn't look at her.
"I didn't even see the stop sign. We were all laughing and talking and the next thing I remember is smashing into another car and flipping the car. I guess I got knocked out or something because next thing I knew I was in the hospital room and my arm was killing me. It turned out I broke the bone so they had to go in and fix it."
"What happened to everyone else?"
"Nathan was ok, he was in the back and he had his seat belt on, Kevin broke his left leg and it took awhile for him to be ok again, but Tony and Chris…" he said taking a deep breath, he never talked to anyone about this, he didn't know why he was telling Brooke but he was "They didn't have their seat belts on, Tony was in the front with me and went out the windshield and Chris.. Chris hit his head pretty hard on the back window." He sighed.
"Did they…" she started but paused afraid to ask it.
"Tony did." He sighed "Chris they took to the hospital and he still hasn't woken up. The doctors said he wouldn't ever wake up but his parents won't take him off life support even after all this time. I guess they just kind of hope he will get better one day but he won't."
"That doesn't make you a bad person Lucas. It was an accident."
"I know it was but I was driving, so I got blamed for it and the looks people would give me. I was the popular basketball captain that killed one of his best friends and put the other in the hospital and he is just as dead as Tony is. Soon I quit basketball and just kept too myself, but got in loss of trouble I would go to parties and stay out all night. Sometimes I would stay gone a whole weekend and my mom wouldn't know where I was. She would try to help and talk to me but I just get mad and yell at her, I didn't mean the stuff I said or did but I still did it. I can't change the past no matter how much I want to but I changed my future. Someone important to me talked to me and made me see that I was not to blame and that I was hurting people around me that matters most to me, like my mom, Nathan, Kevin. So I got my act together and changed it was hard but I try."
"Who helped you realize that?" Brooke asked not really sure she wanted to know since odds were good it was his on again off again girlfriend he told her he had, but Brooke still asked dreading the answer.
"Haley." He smiled as he thought about it.
"Oh..." Brooke frowned as she just laid her head back on his bare chest.
"You would really like her, she is kind of like you, doesn't put up with my crap and jumps in my shit when I am wrong. Every time I get out of line she is there to yank me back."
"Yeah." Brooke mumbled not really wanting to hear how great some girl was, a girl Lucas clearly cared about.
"Oh she is also married to Nathan." He smiled as she shot up.
"Nathan like your brother?" Brooke asked as he just nodded with a smile "So she isn't your girlfriend or ex girlfriend or whatever?"
"Eww.. That's gross Haley is like my baby sister, we have been best friends since I was little. Actually Nathan and I only really became friends because of Hales but that is a whole different story." He grinned.
"Well that's good; I would love to meet her sometime." Brooke smiled as she laid her head back on his chest.
"Oh and Brooke?"
"Yeah?" she said looking up at him as he leaned down and kissed her.
"I would like to say you're my girlfriend, I mean if you want to be that is.' He smiled as she sat up and smiled then like he down a few moments before leaned down and kissed him, then pulling herself up so she was straddling him and leaned down kissing him again rubbing her hands up his chest as he held on tight to her waist. He groaned slightly as she pulled back from him with a big smile on her face, then leaning to his ear and whispered;
"I want too," she smiled "Boyfriend."
