Sorry I've taken so long to update but I've been doing exams and such but without further ado here it is…

Enjoy

P.S. I don't own anything otherwise we would have had Brucas throughout the entire fourth series and I wouldn't have had to watch the Leyton 'I LOVE YOUS' be exchanged last episode – don't even get me started on the whole s.e.x. thing lol!

Haley had been sitting outside Brooke's room all night trying to get her to open the door but Brooke stayed silent except for the quiet pained whimpering that she struggled to withhold.

Fergie, Mouth and Mike were sitting in front of the television debating how much longer the puppets capturing their eyes attention would last before they would have to deal with their thoughts.

Jake had been lying on his bed for 9 hours and 6 minutes staring at the same imperfection on the ceiling. He could have stopped it all but he didn't because he was so angry with Brooke that he would rather think of her as a slut than help her out. He let down his best friend in one of the most horrible and despicable ways and he couldn't take it back.

Skills had been sitting in the garage next to a parked car tears quietly spilling from his face; he felt for Brooke. She had faced a psycho killing rapist and her best friend had known of his deeds. He wouldn't forgive Jake for this, Brooke was like his little sister and she had been violated in the worst of ways and Jake knew. He thought back to the moment when everything had gotten ten times worse.

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"I think I'm pregnant, Skills." She paused. "And I don't have a clue what to do." She sat stony faced underneath her table tapping her fingers rhythmically against the floor.

"Brooke-"

"Jake knew." She began abruptly looking Skills straight in the eye. "He came home when Tim was… I can't even say it!" She began to tear up as she reached around her knees. "I heard him tell Haley he was there and he knew we were having 'sex' and he thought I was being a slut and that my screams were supposed to be a positive thing."

Skills grabbed her hand and moved closer to her, he was surprised she allowed him; the doctors at the police station warned him that she probably wouldn't let anyone near her, especially males.

"Did he really hate me that much that he didn't even want to check that me screaming 'no' wasn't because something bad was happening." She exhaled almost silently. "It took weeks for him to forgive me because I didn't tell him that his girlfriend cheated on me. I might be carrying some sicko's kid because he didn't stop me getting raped. How am I supposed to forgive him?"

"We need to know if you're pregnant Brooke – I'll get a test and as for your friendship-"

"It's over." Skills looked at her and judged her facial expression – hard and pained. She looked at him and paused carefully choosing her words as one solitary tear fell down her face.

"Like this tear, my friendship with Jake is gone." She said in a soft voice as she quickly wiped a tear from her check.

Jake had edged his way into the room, preparing himself to tell Brooke his secret as he heard her last sentence and saw the way she looked at him – cold.

He couldn't fix this, not now, he had committed a crime of friendship and now his sentence was the loss of her friendship and possibly the chance to know her child – if there was one.

Brooke judged Jake's face carefully before whispering defeated "Leave." She looked down at her hand that she had wiped across her face in haste to rid her tear – her friendship, it was still intact.

She missed Jake's broken expression as he left her room to enter his room where he stayed for the next 9 hours.

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Skills had left shortly after leaving his honorary sister with her another of her surrogate brothers; Mouth. He had rushed to the pharmacy to purchase a pregnancy test.

"I need to do this alone guys, sorry." She mumbled to Mouth and Skills as he handed her the tests. "And I would be kinda weird to pee with you outside." She quietly laughed before quiet sobs gave way.

"Brooke-"Mouth began.

"Please just leave me, I'll tell you what they say, honest" She smiled, cracks rapidly appearing in the perfected dimpled grin.

Skills and Mouth quietly exited the room as Haley appeared at the door. "Come back later baby." Skills sighed as he pulled Haley to the kitchen.

"Has Jake spoken to her yet?"

"He didn't need to." Mouth said poignantly.

"I only found out this afternoon – I swear!"

"Don't worry Hales but…." He didn't know how to approach the topic. "But Brooke thinks she might be pregnant."

Haley gasped quietly as she grabbed the counter.

"Brooke thinks what?!" Fergie and Mike yelled as he walked into the kitchen.

Jake could hear them talk as they explained to the pair the situation at hand as Jake closed his eyes praying that when he opened them again, there would be no yelling, no victim, no possible pregnancies and he and Brooke would be lying on his bed discussing their history homework.

They were too young for this; they were too good for this. She was way too good for this.

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"I need to see her." Haley spoke as she made her way to Brooke's door to find it locked, which is when she started her night of sitting outside her door trying to interact with Brooke.

Jake's night had already started; he had been lying on his bed for 44 minutes already.

Fergie, Mike and Mouth made their way to the couch as they silently cursed Tim and prayed for his capture. Pressing a random button on the television remote a children's puppetry show flashed onto the screen. It didn't matter they just needed to be distracted from their thoughts.

Skills glanced to the car keys on the table that his parents had dropped off after he demanded that he needed his car to help his friends meet girls; how insignificant that was now. He grabbed them and ran to the garage unable to hold his feelings any more, he collapsed by the side of his batter old vehicle.

Every knew Jake wasn't to blame, Tim would have still had his evil way, he would have still hurt Brooke, but Tim wasn't there and they needed to blame someone so they didn't blame themselves when the noticed Tim's obsessive behaviour and didn't say anything. They were all to blame but Jake was the most obvious one to blame.

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Brooke was waiting under her table, planning the rest of her life with a rapist's baby and living in the fear that her baby's dad was free. She was praying to every possible higher power to free her from these plans to allow the three tests she had in front of her to tell her that her life would not be changed forever by one night, one mistake.

It didn't.

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She needed to tell him, even though she blamed him with every cell in her body, she didn't hate him. He was still her confidant, her 'person.'

She dialled his cellphone; she could hear the bouncy tune ring through the walls as he answered the phone.

"Brooke."

"Just don't talk okay! I need to say some things." She paused trying to find strength that had poured from her today with ease.

"Today has been a hard day, no forget that. The last month has been hard. I spent weeks trying to get you to forgive me and you sat there knowing this little nugget of information that may completely ruin my life."

"Not if you don't let it." He sighed as his eyes didn't leave the ceiling.

"You don't get it do you?" She yelled, she wasn't upset, she was angry. "I keep pretending that all this is some stupid mistake and that you wouldn't really believe that I was a slut screaming for help and crying 'no' because it was a fucking turn on!"

"Brooke!"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was easier…"

"Easier than what? Admitting to me that you made a mistake, because I can forgive you for that, I can accept that you truly believed I wanted to sleep with him." She exhaled. "But I won't forgive you for not telling me."

"You're such a hypocrite! You didn't tell me about Jenny and all the shit that was going on between Mike and Nikki!" She gulped.

"I was protecting you!"

"And I was protecting you!"

"No you weren't, you were thinking that I was a slut and that it was okay not to tell me something so big in my life. You let me down!"

"I know that, I know I let you down! But you let me down too!"

"I know I did, and I spent weeks feeling guilty about it. I spent a month trying to get you to forgive me, I fought for you to forgive me but you onlu accepted my apologies because you felt guilty. You didn't want me to understand to forgive you. You just WALKED AWAY!" She cried, tears spilling down her face.

He heard her voice crack as she screamed through the phone.

He knew she was crying and as much as he wanted to compare the mistakes the two had made, he knew he was wrong – he knew that what she kept from him was nothing compared to what he had done. He had hid what he knew because he was ashamed; she did it to protect him.

"I'm leaving." He whispered; he needed to get away. If he left then maybe she would have the time she needed to forgive him.

"I'm pregnant." She whispered back; he needed to know, she didn't want him to leave, she just wanted him to try to get her to forgive him. She needed him.

"I'm so sorry." He cried into the phone. "I'll be back one day and I WILL make you forgive me but... I think today is proof that we rely on each other too much." He paused "We need to be away from each other so we can heal."

"Okay." She whispered before hanging up the phone. She couldn't change his mind and right now she didn't want to. But maybe one day she would, after all the tear was intact.

Jake picked up his bag from the side of his bed and made his way out of the room, out of the house and out of their lives.

Now I think I shall be moving on further in the story and jumping 5 years, either that or I will give you maybe one more chapter in this time and then do the jump. I am really excited about where this story is heading and within the next couple of chapters all our other favourite One Tree Hillers will be introduced!

SO PLEASE REVIEW AND MY UPDATE WILL BE LONGER, FASTER AND WELL… MAYBE A LOT HAPPIER – REMEMBER THIS IS one tree hill – IT IS NEVER WITHOUT DRAMA lol!

Amy

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