Lucas sat on the beach as all his friends played football. He watched them all but not as much as he watched Brooke. It hurt him how much she was upset about the whole Max thing. What kind of guy was he thinking that he could just make her feel unneeded? Brooke was amazing; he knew that he knew without a doubt how amazing she was. Not only was she amazing as a person she was also pretty damn amazing in the bedroom so he had no clue in hell why Max made her feel like sex was nothing. He might have only had sex with her twice that didn't mean he didn't get a clear picture of how good she was and there was no doubt she got better over the last few years.

He didn't like Max. Not at all. He didn't like how he grabbed Brooke when she got to close to the other guys or how when she was talking about something he just cut her off. Like if he didn't care about what she was saying he didn't want to have to listen to it. What an ass.

He agreed 100% with Rachel that Brooke could do better, so much better. Yet then he knew there was never anyone good enough for his Brooke. Even in high school there was never someone that could make her happy, and treat her as well as he thought she deserved.

He only remembered one guy that showed Brooke enough attention in high school to want to date her and he hated the guy. Not just hated despised.

Flashback

"Who's that?" Lucas asked with a clenched jaw staring across the cafeteria at his best friend. Well formal best friend.

"Who is who?" Nathan asked trying to follow his brother's gaze but got cut off by all the people walking around. However the stare his brother was giving he knew that the other people around weren't distracting him.

"That ass talking to Brooke!" he snapped as he watched Brooke sitting at a lunch table and some guy with a lame skateboard talking to her. She was laughing at what he was saying but Lucas didn't care the guy looked like a loser, a loser that shouldn't be talking to his Brooke.

"That ass would be Chase. And dude he really isn't an ass." Nathan laughed as he poked some of his food on his plate with his fork, "What is it they are serving us?"

"Well why is he talking to my Brooke?" he asked ignoring his brother question about their not so edible meal.

"What did you just call her?" he heard a voice behind and rolled his eyes knowing who is was. He hated the fact that right when she walked up Brooke looked up at him. That laugh she had stopped and was replaced with a sad look, one that he knew she saw on his face too.

"Nothing." He muttered breaking the gaze. He glanced down for just a second but when he looked back up she was looking away so he also started poking his food like his brother was doing.

"Don't tell me nothing I heard what you said so just repeat it!" Jackie yelled so loud the entire cafeteria hushed looking at the pissed blonde with her hands on her hips giving Lucas the worst look anyone had ever seen.

"Just sit down Jackie." He growled not in the mood to deal with her right now, not when it was about Brooke.

"No tell me what you said damn it!" she again yelled, "I heard it so just repeat it!" the whole room was silent and Lucas looked around at everyone staring at them.

"Well if you heard me I don't need to repeat it do I?!" he snapped standing up, "I did what you wanted Jackie! You got your way so for right now don't be a completely bitch!" he yelled grabbing his tray pushing past her. He heard all the whispers of everyone as he walked across the lunch room but he didn't care. He just pulled out his cell phone dial the number he knew by heart and hit send a text.

'Meet me in the gym. Please!' was all he put before hitting send and slamming his phone in his pocket. He knew she got it since when he passed her table she was reading his message. She gave him a looking saying I can't as she looked over at Jackie who was sitting with all her cheerleading team trying to make her feel better after Lucas's little blow up. Lucas just shook his head as he stormed out of the cafeteria slamming the double doors as he did.

He paced back and forth the gym dribbling the ball as he did. The bell rang signaling lunch was over and his heart sank that she didn't come. She hadn't come to see him and all he wanted was to head home and not spend the rest of the day watching her laugh with some guy.

He cursed once again when he missed his shot. It was probably the fifth in a row and it made him infuriated. Just about the time he was about to jog back over to grab the ball he heard the door shut. He didn't move as he stood there with a smile. His back was to whoever entered but he didn't have to turn to see who it was, he knew who it was.

"You can't keep skipping class." Her cracking voice broke the silence and he nodded.

"I know." he agreed with his back still towards her, "Didn't think you were coming."

"I know." she said repeating his words as he turned to look at her. She looked upset standing in front of him. Fiddling with her fingers she stood only a few feet away from him. He didn't like the distance between them, not the physical one of the emotional one but figuring he could only fix one right now he settled on fixing the physical one right now.

Brooke had never seen someone close the gap between two people so fast in her life. Within seconds of him moving he was in front of her and she was wrapped up in his arms. She missed the warm feeling of his body against hers and she cursed herself for wrapping her arms around his neck and burring her face in his shoulder as more tears fell.

"I miss you." he whispers nuzzling his face in her neck missing her vanilla perfume, "I miss you so much." He repeats feeling her nod in his arms as he holds her tighter.

"Were ya'll fighting." She questioned and he nodded like she did to him, "I'm sorry."

"Don't." he said "Don't be sorry. Nothing is your fault. None of it." He told her and she just nodded as they stayed still him holding her and her buried in his body.

"I've missed you too." She finally whispers back to him and feels him kiss the side of her neck before pulling away from their hug but keeping his hands holding onto her tight.

"Who is that guy?"

"Just a friend." she told him but he just gave her a questionable look, "He is. He listens to me, talks to me. Makes me laugh, makes me feel good about myself, he is just a good friend. We do things…"

"Like we use to do." he interrupts her.

"Don't make me feel guilty about having someone else in my life." she said a little annoyed, "That's not fair, not even a little. He is here because you aren't."

"Are you…are you sleeping with him?" he asks feeling his heart break with having to ask that question. Having to ask his best friend if she is sleeping with some random guy.

"Lucas you can't ask me that." she growled a little stepping away from him as his hands dropped to his sides, "You aren't allowed to ask that."

"I just want to know Brooke. I don't like the guy. I don't trust him."

"You don't know him!" she yelled.

"I do know him! He is a guy meaning he will hurt you! He will sleep with you and then break your heart!"

"What kind of like you!?" she hissed walking away from him grabbing the basketball, "What is he going to sleep with me, pretend to be my friend maybe fake care about my feelings then just leave me?!" she cried out to him, "Well trust me Lucas I think I'll be ok. Whatever he does will hurt a hell of a lot less then what you did!"

"Don't you dare!" he snapped grabbing her by the arms, she tried to pull away but he just yanked her more into him, "Don't you ever say I don't care about you Brooke! What happened between us happened and maybe I should have stopped it but it happened and honestly even if you do I don't regret one second of it!" he yelled and saw her flinch some at his tone which upset him because he was so tired of hurting her, "God damn it Brooke don't you get how hard this is for me?"

"It was your choice Lucas." she frowned pulling once again away from him, "It shouldn't be hard it was all your choice."

Flashback Over

His choice or not it still hurt, it all hurt like hell and sometimes when he sits here he still feels the pain just a bit. He could only imagine what Brooke felt.

"What you not going to play?" Grayson asked walking over sitting next to his best friend on the beach. He was having fun with everyone but really counting down the hours until his girlfriend's flight got in and right now it was supposed to be 9 tonight which completely sucked.

"You ever wonder…" Lucas trailed off staring at Brooke a few more minutes before looking away, "You ever wonder if what you feel for someone has always been there or just all of a sudden popped up."

"I'm not sure I know what you mean." Grayson told him honestly a little confused but Lucas didn't explain just turned to look back at Brooke. She was running down the beach with Max right on her tail and before he knew it he had her wrapped in his arms giving her a kiss and giving Lucas a groan, "What do you feel for Brooke?" Grayson asked and Lucas just shook his head shoving his feet in the hot sand, "I won't tell anyone just curious."

Lucas sat a second thinking about what he felt for Brooke. He use to know what he felt but after they slept together it all got complicated his feelings got complicated. "We have been best friends for year and I always knew exactly what I felt for her." he finally sighed shaking his head, "But then it all got complicated."

"Why?"

"When we were 10 she got me to have tea parties with her every Saturday." Lucas said ignoring his friend's question, "When I was 14 she talked me into giving her a kiss because she didn't want to be the only person in our group starting high school to never kiss someone. Then when we were 17 she talked me into the tattoo. It was amazing to me how Brooke Davis could talk me into doing anything. And trust me I mean anything." He said stressing anything. "People use to think she was like my little lap dog in high school or something. Just someone that I would say anything to and she would do it."

"Was she?" Grayson questioned looking over at the girl in questioned and noticing how the brooding blonde laughed shaking his head at her.

"Not even close." Lucas laughed, "Brooke never took my crap like ever. I mean yeah she did stuff I asked but I did the same for her all the time." he said with a dry laugh thinking about all the times the two helped each other out, "We slept together." He whispers but knows his friend hears him.

"What?!" Grayson freaked thinking he heard him wrong.

"We slept together." He repeated a little louder turning to look at his best friend, "That one night stand Max shit a brick about. Yeah that was me."

"Wow I'm...I'm a little shocked." He admitted. He thought there was something between the two but he didn't think they had sex, that Lucas was the first guy Brooke ever slept with.

"Yeah no one knows. I mean other than me and her. I think Rachel knows, I mean I'm pretty sure she does and oh yeah my Uncle Keith." Lucas laughed and saw the confused look on his best friends face, "Yeah don't ask." He laughed some more "But yeah we slept together. One more thing she talked me into." Lucas said with a dry laugh.

"What you mean talked you into it?"

"I don't know it was just one night and I had broken up with Jackie for about the millionth time. Brooke was over and she started talking about sex. Like what it was like and I of course freaked afraid she wanted to have sex with some guy but she said no that she was just curious. That's my Brooke always curious."

"I thought you said she wasn't your Brooke." Grayson teased remembering the last time they were on the beach playing football.

"No I said she wasn't my girl." He corrected and Grayson just laughed shaking his head not seeing the difference, "But I don't know her being my Brooke I never wanted her to have sex and if she did it had to be someone she trusted and loved and she said what about me. Of course you can see my shock but I don't know after she kissed me I just didn't stop us."

"Well I know she doesn't regret it but do you?"

"Not a second of it." Lucas answered without needing a second to think "I just wonder if in high school I was jealous and over protective of her because I loved her like a best friend or because I felt something completely different."

"What would you being feeling?" he asked thinking he already knew the answer if Lucas was staring at Brooke the way he was.

"I don't even know." he shrugged, "All I know is I don't like Max touching her. I don't like him near her and I don't like that he makes her feel beneath him because Brooke is beneath no one."

"Then you tell her that." Grayson said like it was that simple.

"I can't just tell her to break up with her boyfriend because I don't like the asshole."

"No I'm pretty sure you can. I am more than sure you can tell her what you're feeling and thinking and she will break up with him. I honestly think she is just with him because he is here, he is safe and he won't hurt her because I don't think she really likes the dude."

"Yeah." Lucas shrugged thinking only if it was the easy. He wishes he could just tell Brooke to dump Max but he knows unless he can give her one hell of a reason to she won't because she is just stubborn as hell. She would flirt with a guy all the time in high school if Lucas told her to stay away. She would never really listen to him, but then again he didn't know if things were different. If things with Max were different.

"I don't know what you're thinking man. I don't know if you're just lonely and Brooke is here or if you actually have feelings for her that are more than friendly but I say you figure them out and when you do let her know." Grayson shrugged standing up and brushing the sand off him, "Just figure out what you feel man." He said walking off to join his other friends.

"Broody why you sitting her all alone?" Brooke asked skipping over and sitting in the place Grayson just got up from.

"I'm just thinking."

"About?" she asked as she reached over wiping her hand on his cheek getting off some sand that was close to his eye.

"Grayson thinks I'm lonely." He tells her resting his arms on his knees.

"Luke I don't want you lonely." Brooke sighed some, "Are you still hurting from Jackie?"

"Definitely not." Lucas answered quickly but meaning it truthfully but Brooke took it as lying.

"Lucas if you want to talk come find me. I mean we kind of share a bed." she teases rocking into him making him finally crack a smile, "I love you Broody." She smiled.

Lucas sat there a second looking at her smiling face. She was perfect, always knew she was but looking at her now he could see it clearly. He also wondered was Grayson right? Was he just lonely and Brooke was there, or was he feeling things that he had been questioning for awhile and if he is feeling that what is he to do. What if he confesses it for her just to jump back and he looses his friend all over again? All this is making him go nuts but when she smiled saying she loved him he couldn't help but whisper back, "Yeah…I love you too Pretty Girl."

So one I suck since this update took forever and second I suck because this chapter is short and I think terrible. I really don't think I like it at all but I don't know. Maybe all of it is too soon. I'm not sure but review and let me know all ya'lls thoughts and I promise so much I will update so much quicker next time.

Oh also me and my BFF started a story together, its on FictionPress and you all should check out the link on mine or her page. We took a little bit of my idea a little of hers and bam you go

Me and You and Maybe Him

Its about a girl who went from no guys, to one guy to two and is completely confused. There is Calum the school playboy that graduated a year before her and who she has a past no one seems to know about and then theres Brody the new cute boy from California that caught her eye at a party. Through in some confusion, lots of sexual tension with boy and some intense jealously from all sides you got yourself a very tangled web.

Please check it out :D