Chapter 8

Brooke woke up with a smile on her face; it was the day she had been waiting for this whole year, her date with Jason Vartan. She stretched out of bed, looked out her window to see birds chirping on treetops, the flowers were blooming beautifully in their garden. Something about that morning seemed so perfect so she was a little less nervous for her date with Jason? But Brooke couldn't help but wonder, was it going to be a date out of a fairytale or one huge disaster?

Peyton waited until 9 to call Lucas. She was so into their relationship. She had never felt this way about anyone before. She went to go take a shower, and then she decided she would call Lucas. But Lucas beat her to it, when Peyton got out of the shower there was voicemail on her phone. She listened to Lucas's message.

"Hey Peyt, I missed you last night. I'm sorry I didn't call you back; it's just that we had a family movie night and we do it all the time so I couldn't just leave to talk to my girlfriend. Anyways, I want to see you today, I miss your beautiful smile and your vanilla scent. Call me."

Peyton closed her phone. It was the sweetest message she had ever gotten. She was falling for Lucas really badly. She missed seeing his smile and his snarky comments. She called Lucas's Cell.

"Hey!" Lucas said.

"Hi!"

"Did you get my message?"

"You bet I did."

"Well?" Lucas asked, "Do you want to do something tonight?"

"Well, of course."

Taylor was meeting Bridget and Melanie at the shopping plaza. She asked Haley if she wanted to tag along. Haley figured if Nathan wanted to go for a walk at the park which was about a 5 minute walk from the plaza that she would go. Haley called Nathan and invited him to the park to talk just the two of them. He accepted and agreed to meet her in about 10 minutes.

Rachel was tossing and turning on her bed, she didn't know what to do. Nathan hadn't really called her since the whole parents' incident.

"Maybe they think I'm a hussy?" Rachel asked herself.

Brooke saw Jason waiting on the bleachers for her. She walked over to him and gave him a hug. "Morning."

"How are you?"

"Excited you?"

"Oh yeah."

Jason brought Brooke to a sushi bar; Brooke was a little confused, lunch wasn't for a couple of hours.

"Brunch" Jason said, "Best time to eat sushi."

They sat down at the table and ordered lots and lots of sushi.

"So you and Chase seem be to really close."

"Yeah. We're best friends; we know everything about each other."

"I don't know" Jason said, "I don't know if I could handle having such a hot best friend and not have feelings for them."

Brooke blushed, "That's sweet. But Chase and I are just friends…promise."

Haley and Nathan were talking about their wild nights with Dean and Rachel.

"You really like him don't you?" Nathan asked

"Yeah, I really do." Haley said with a smile, "And you…really like Rachel?"

"Yeah…"

Nathan and Haley smiled. They hadn't really hung out just the two of them since the beginning of the year and it felt good; it felt really good. Haley was his best friend after Lucas of course, and he loved her like a sister.

Rachel was jogging in the park to clear her head about Nathan, when who does she see talking to Haley on the other side of the park, the one person she didn't want to see that day. "Maybe Nathan likes Haley?"

She ran over to them but pretended like she hadn't seen them. As she ran by Nathan screamed her name out. She turned around with a shock look on her face, pretending not to know that Nathan was there. Nathan was smiling; Rachel took off her headphones and smiled back.

After they had finished eating sushi, Brooke and Jason left for the dock. He put his hands over her eyes and opened them to see two water jets. They got on and left the harbour. They raced around the town. When they were done, Jason drove her home and brought her to her doorstep. He grabbed the sides of her flushed cheeks and pressed his lips gently on hers, then stopped and pulled away. He kissed her hand and headed for his car. Brooke walked into the house, put her fingers against her lips and closed the door. That was one hot kiss but she didn't feel the normal tingly inside feeling after your first kiss. She was thinking about Chase, why was she thinking about him?