Chapter 9! YAY! Sorry its taking me so long to update... I've been busy! But hope this chapter makes up for it! Enjoy! and please review!

Lucas Scott sat on a downtown bench with Whitney. Surprisingly they had had a lot of fun together. Pizza, a movie and now downtown. Other than a few awkward moments the date had gone really well. When he looked down at his watch he couldn't believe it was already 11:50. His stomach plunged, and he wondered if Brooke was home by now and if she was wondering where he was. Whitney yawned and that was Lucas's cue to end the date. They'd followed all the rules but one and the time had come for that one too. Whitney beat him to the punch and started to lean in slowly to kiss him.

Meanwhile at home Brooke was on the couch in tears. How could he do that? Men were such idiots! By the end of the night she was pretty sure she'd lost all faith in all men and relationships in general. Markus had tried to comfort her but she didn't want to hear it. He didn't understand she was hormonal and pissed off at the world right now and pretty much hated all men in general.

17 hours earlier

Brooke watched as Lucas got dressed. It was that time of year again. Only this year it had come 6 months later due to rules after the shooting. It was the boy toy auction. Brooke had just assumed since Lucas wasn't playing ball or anything that he would he excluded from the stupid auction and she could stop worrying about it. But of course as her luck would have it, the guys had all made Lucas an honorary boy toy along with Mouth. Brooke had spent hours and hour's trying to talk him out of it but it was no use. According to him it was already set in stone and he didn't have a choice. Of course Brooke new the real reason he wanted to do it. He just liked getting up there and looking like a pimp. Not that that was a bad thing. She thoroughly enjoyed watching him shirtless and all sweaty, but she could watch that at home! And then sleep with him after… without paying for it.

"Lucas, cant we just cheat?" Brooke begged trying to think of anything to make it so she could buy him. It wasn't so much he was doing it as it was that she knew that either Peyton or Whitney would buy him. And it wasn't that she didn't trust Lucas, because she did. It was Peyton, Whitney and even Mouth she was worried about.

"There's no cheating in the boy toy auction, it's for charity"

"So let me get this straight. You want me to spend what could be our Childs future college fund on charity. Just so I can when you for one night, when I can have you for free every other night?"

"College fund? It may be our kids food if we don't find jobs soon" Lucas laughed slipping on a tee shirt. He couldn't figure out why Brooke always had to argue with him first thing in the morning before he was even dressed.

"So you see my point?"

"Who says you have to win me?"

"Of course I have to win you, it's our senior year! I have to win you, besides I didn't get to win you last year, I got Mouth and spent the whole night worrying that" Brooke stopped feeling a plunging in her stomach as she remembered last years auction.

"That?

"That I might be pregnant. We're really bad with this whole learning from our mistakes thing"

"If it makes you feel any better, the auction is 6 months later this year than it was last year. So technically it was a year and a half ago" Lucas said, trying to figure out after he said it what the time frame had to do with anything anyway. But it had sounded right at the time.

"Whatever. Lucas, please! We have to rig it! It's like not going to prom together. Its just wrong!"

"We have to go to prom?"

"Lucas!" Brooke whined falling back onto his un-made bed for drama's sake. This was an argument she knew she wasn't going to win, so she had to at least turn the tables so it looked like she was right.

"I'm kidding, look it's not a big deal. I'm only doing it because the guys feel like they have to make me feel included"

"No, they're making you do it because you're hot, and they know some skanky whore is going to pay big bucks for you"

"Skanky whore meaning Peyton?" Lucas asked as Brooke giggled. She loved how he knew all her nicknames for people now, and had even started using them on a regular basis.

"Or Whitney"

"Brooke"

"What?" Brooke asked looking as innocent as possible. She couldn't believe he was a blind as he was when it came to Whitney. She was Peyton's friend, which meant she had to be evil.

"Nothing" Lucas sighed using both hands to pull Brooke up off the bed and then kissed her.

"Hey! You're not getting away with it like that"

Peyton and Whitney sat with Mouth at an empty table at the promenade, watching Brooke and Lucas with the rest of the group. Brooke and Lucas were extra touchy with each other today. At least Lucas was, holding Brooke's hand and kissing her cheek, which made Peyton think maybe Lucas had done something to piss Brooke off. At least that's what she hoped. If her plan for tonight was going to work at all something needed to give between the two love birds for it to work.

"You have to win Lucas" Peyton said, handing Whitney over a hundred dollars from her emergency fund. The way she saw it this was a serious emergency. What better torture for Brooke than if Whitney won Lucas?

"Why? Isn't Brooke going to try and win him?"

"Yea"

"So, maybe we should just let her have him. I mean she's going through a lot" Whitney said, she was starting to feel a little bit guilty for what they had been doing to Lucas and Brooke. Sure it had been fine when she'd thought they were just some normal high school couple. But with Brooke pregnant a lot could go wrong if they went to far.

"She gets him every other day of the year, this is supposed to be for charity"

"Do you really think he'd be any fun? I mean he has a girlfriend, what would we do?"

"Lucas has been known to 'do' things while he was dating Brooke. Isn't that right Mouth?" Peyton laughed making sure to get her point across.

"Just with you and not recently"

"Are you sure about that?"

"Why don't you win him then?" Whitney asked. She didn't really want to win Lucas anyway. She had had her eye on Markus for a few days now and really wanted to bid on him.

"It's too obvious that way, plus Lucas would just get pissed at me. If you did it you could say it was just for fun. I mean doesn't it get on your nerves at all to watch them? Look at her, the way she's got her legs propped up on his lap laughing about god only knows what"

"He's smiling too"

"He's so blinded he doesn't know what else to do. Mouth I thought you were helping us" Peyton said, kinda mad that Mouth was starting to take Brooke and Lucas's side again. They both were.

"Sorry"

"Ok, I'll do it" Whitney finally agreed. Only because there was something she didn't like about Brooke, and something she saw in Lucas that she liked. It made her wonder why he was with Brooke at all.

By lunchtime Brooke was still begging Lucas to change his mind, and he was still saying no. She wasn't used to him telling her no and she didn't like it. He just didn't understand she had good reason for why she was doing this. She knew how girls could be, and what Whitney and Peyton were capable of if they got their hands on Lucas.

"Brooke, for the last time, its not a big deal ok? I do the stupid thing, and then at the end of the night I come home to you. And then you can make me feel included" Lucas whispered kissing her ear. Normally she would have just said yes to this, especially if someone like Haley or even Rachel were going to buy Lucas. But in this case she couldn't give in.

"Uh huh with your mom in the next room? Genius"

"Brooke"

"Wait, is Nathan in this thing?" Brooke asked turning to Haley who was sitting beside her working on her English paper.

"Nope, he's still not doing to well"

"Haley! Perfect Haley you can bid on Lucas, oh or Rachel"

"Ah, no more planned dates with Rachel" Lucas said and Rachel agreed from across the table. He wished Brooke would just let this go. If he had known at the time it was going to bother her this much he would have never agreed to it but now he was stuck.

"Haley then"

"Do I have too? Last year sucked" Haley whined really not wanting to spend anymore money than she had too right now. Nathan's medical bills were draining them as it was.

"Hey"

"Lets just go to class"

"Fine, fine go find your little skanky crack-whoreish soul mate and do lots of fruit and get really drunk and ugh. I'm too mad to think right now. You're lucky I'm not fat yet or I'd just sit on you" Brooke whined as Lucas helped her up from her seat. This had turned into a hopeless cause.

"Yea uh huh"

"I hate you so much"

"I'm sure you do" Lucas laughed taking her hand as they walked to class. He knew he'd already won this argument, and was pretty proud of himself. That was until they got to their lockers.

"You know though, I do have like 20 bucks on hand, some guys don't go for even ½ that. Like Markus, he's attractive, kind of an ass but so are you… he'll do" Brooke smiled seeing Markus at the locker across from hers. She hadn't felt this devious in a while, and she hated to do this to poor Lucas but she had to make her point.

"Wait what?"

"If you get to go out on a charity date, I do too"

"Woah, that wasn't in the deal" Lucas said trying to figure out how things had gotten turned around. He didn't want her on a date with another guy. Even if it was for charity. Suddenly he started to understand why Brooke had had such a problem with this and was regretting the whole thing.

"The deal? I didn't know there was a deal"

"You can't go out with Markus"

"I can if I pay, I mean after all it is charity. You know he's a lot like you used to be, kind of broody, rugged good looks, probably a virgin" Brooke whispered grabbing her books from her pimped out locker. She wasn't planning on actually buying Markus, in fact she really didn't want anything to do with him. He was kind of weird and an ass too when he wanted to be. Which made him perfect leverage for Lucas to get out of his boytoy auction.

"No"

"No? Why not, and if you pull that whole you're mine forever crap I am going to have to hurt you"

"Because" Lucas said, not able to come up with anything better at the moment. He hated to admit Brooke had a point, he just didn't like the idea of her out with someone else… at all.

"Wow, is Lucas Scott having trouble trusting me out with another guy?"

"Brooke"

"Oh it sucks when the tables turn doesn't it boyfriend? Oh look at that we've gotta go"

After school Brooke and Lucas both rushed home, separately to get ready to the auction. Brooke of course had Rachel and Haley come over to help her get as hot as possible. Luckily all her clothes still fit, and even better she could have sworn her boobs had grown which definitely made life better. The only con to the night was the no alcohol rule, and she was pretty sure she could deal with that.

"Awww Brooke you framed it!" Haley shrieked grabbing the framed ultrasound picture off Brooke's desk. Normally Brooke hid that when people came over so she didn't have to hear the mooshy 'awws' and 'that's so sweets' but she hadn't had a chance this time.

"No, ok well maybe but you never saw that"

"I still haven't told Nathan"

"I still haven't told anyone" Rachel sighed sitting back down on the bed. The more Brooke talked to Rachel the worse she felt for her. She didn't have anyone to help her out with this. Her parents weren't around, Cooper was dead, she was completely alone in the whole thing.

"This is so wrong. We should be sitting here getting drunk and giggling right now, not talking about crackwhore babies"

"Says the one with the framed ultasound picture"

"I didn't say my baby was a crackwhore" Brooke said snatching the picture back from Haley. She thoroughly enjoyed torturing Haley right now. She, unlike Rachel had a whole support system, and was married.

"You're right, there is something seriously wrong with this. What were we thinking?"

"I was thinking I was married"

"Yea, Lucas and I were just horny" Brooke laughed figuring she shouldn't lie about it, after all that was the truth.

"I figured if I were pregnant then he'd have to stay with me" Rachel said. Brooke could tell she was trying to make it sound funny, but it still stung Brooke when she said it. She hadn't ever imagined Rachel to be that venerable.

"Just proves we're all idiots doesn't it? How do I look?"

"Wow, hott for once"

"Why am I friends with you again?" Brooke laughed throwing her hairbrush at Rachel. Hanging out with Haley and Rachel was fun, they told her how it was and helped her through stuff but she still wished it were Peyton there helping her get ready, telling stupid stories about the stuff they did when they were little.

"Lucas will definitely want to get out of th- woah" Haley gasped, letting her mouth drop open. Poor Rachel looked speechless, clearly neither of then had ever really seen Lucas try and look good. He was actually really really good at getting himself ready and hot when he needed to be. Which was bad for Brooke because he did an extra good job tonight. Luckily, so had she.

"Damn"

"Is that oil on your chest?"

"You can't go shirtless" Brooke said deciding that that was clearly cheating. That wasn't how this relationship worked. She was the hottless sexy one and he was the adorable cute one. At least in public.

"Then you have to wear underwear"

"Who says I'm not?" Brooke asked wrapping her arms around his neck. She'd suddenly come up with a plan that could work for both of them.

"You never do with those jeans" Lucas whispered then kissed the side of her neck. If anything she was cheating. How was he supposed to not kiss her when she looked that good?

"Should we leave the room?"

"Um, yea"

"We only need a second" Brooke whispered pushing Haley and Rachel out the door before they could even say anything. She was starting to think maybe it would be more fun if she and Lucas stayed in tonight. Karen was at the café until 10 and so they could do what they wanted.

"No wonder she's pregnant, all the condoms in the world couldn't protect those two"

"No, Lucas I don't have time to get re-dressed" Brooke whined as Lucas started to un-do her button down shirt. This was definitely against the rules, it wasn't like Lucas would actually have to get redressed if they did anything. He looked hotter after sex anyway.

"No one says you have to go"

"I stay, you stay"

"Moment ruined" Lucas sighed buttoning Brooke's shirt back up. He wasn't going to let her win this one. Not this time.

"Oh yea, but you should dress like this more often, like say tonight at midnight. You never know, you might get lucky"

The auction went on as it did every year. Whitey announced the boy toys. Since Nathan wasn't there, Lucas was the key player and went last. So Brooke made sure to buy Markus as soon as he went up so that she wouldn't have to worry about it for the rest of the night. So Markus went to Brooke, Mouth to Peyton, Tim to no one as usual, and finally Lucas to Whitney. Brooke wasn't surprised, but Lucas looked it. She couldn't help but give him an 'I told you so' glare as Whitney ran over to claim him. Meanwhile, she was stuck with Markus. She didn't now much about this guy other than he was pretty much an asshole. Luckily she looked hot so things could pretty much be on her terms tonight. What better than a movie night in her bedroom, she had a few chick flicks Lucas refused to watch with her, that she figured might torture Markus. Lucas meanwhile had the perfect 'safe' date for him and Whitney. One that would maybe keep his mind off of Brooke and Markus, and keep things ok for him and Whitney.

The rest of the night went as planned for both Brooke and Lucas.

Lucas Scott sat on a downtown bench with Whitney. Surprisingly they had had a lot of fun together. Pizza, a movie and now downtown. Other than a few awkward moments the date had gone really well. When he looked down at his watch he couldn't believe it was already 11:50. His stomach plunged, and he wondered if Brooke was home by now and if she was wondering where he was. Whitney yawned and that was Lucas's cue to end the date. They'd followed all the rules but one and the time had come for that one too. Whitney beat him to the punch and started to lean in slowly to kiss him.

"We really don't have to follow those rules" Lucas said pulling back. Sure last year he had kissed Haley but that was different. Plus he wasn't with Brooke last year, and even if she knew the rules it still felt so wrong.

"Its kind of the rules"

"I know, but Brooke"

"She probably kissed Markus" Whitney said, still stunned that Lucas had pulled away. She hadn't been expecting a make out session but a kiss yea.

"Well if she did, she did but I just cant. Sorry"

"Its ok I guess, I mean we're just friends its not like a kiss would matter anyway"

"A kiss always means something" Lucas sighed remembering what Brooke had told him.

"Its almost 12. I guess I should get going. I had fun, we should do this more often"

"Yea"

"Thanks Lucas" Whitney smiled. But deep down she was furious. Maybe Peyton had been right all along. When Peyton had told her Lucas wasn't exactly loyal, Whitney had kind of expected something to happen between her and Lucas. And had actually gotten excited about it. Now he was turning her down? No one turned her down.

Meanwhile at home Brooke was on the couch in tears. How could he do that? Men were such idiots! By the end of the night she was pretty sure she'd lost all faith in all men and relationships in general. Markus had tried to comfort her but she didn't want to hear it. He didn't understand she was hormonal and pissed off at the world right now and pretty much hated all men in general. How could Tristan die like that? When he and Isolde could finally be together he had to run off and be a stupid selfish man.

"Brooke, its just a movie" Markus said throwing the remote down. He couldn't wait for that clock to turn midnight so he could get the hell out of there.

"No! Its just like life"

"Um, ok?"

"Hey, how was- you ok?" Lucas asked finding Brooke on the couch crying and Markus with his coat and shoes on ready to go. Lucas guessed Brooke had definitely made it worth the whole $17.50 she had paid for him.

"I tried to tell her it was just a movie"

"If you ever go off to war and die Lucas Scott, I will kill you all over again"

"Her hormones are kind of, off" Lucas whispered letting Brooke cry into his chest. As bad as he felt for both Brooke and Markus he was actually kind of glad things had gone this bad.

"Yea, no shit. She's been crying ever since Tristan left to go home. Man, I hate chick flicks and all already, but she makes them hell"

"Asshole, you were crying too"

"Only because you slapped me" Markus shot back. Lucas could tell they had clearly had an interesting night, to say the least.

"You deserved it, its midnight you can go now"

"Thank god, we'll count the slap as a kiss"

"You just had to torture the guy didn't you?" Lucas laughed, wrapping his arm around Brooke. He could only imagine the hell Brooke had put the guy through all night.

"I could have slept with him"

"Torturing is good"

"How was Whitney?" Brooke asked not able to hold her curiosity any longer. It was kind of killing her to find out what they had done and if they had had any fun.

"Kind of boring, I mean compared to our first date"

"Aw, no tattoos or steamy make-out sessions?"

"Well we did have this one really intense conversation about some kind of plant she likes. That got really hot" Lucas whispered trying to make it sound as hot and steamy as possible.

"Wow, sounds very… sexy?"

"And when she blew her nose while eating Pizza, that turned me on so much"

"Ew" Brooke gagged. She guessed maybe Whitney had been trying to be herself, or something like that around Lucas.

"Yea, I almost choked on my pizza. After that I was sure we weren't having sex"

"Poor baby, so no sex?"

"Nope, I'm seriously deprived" Lucas sighed trying to act pitiful. Brooke just laughed. She didn't know why they even played this game. Of course they were going to have sex as soon as they finished this conversation. The question was just where.

"I was gonna let you get lucky, but your moms still awake"

"And that's why they made backseats"