Chapter 10
When I'm losing my control,
the city spins around
you're the only one who knows,
you slow it down
My mood started to pick up a slight bit on my way to Lucas's apartment. His presence alone was making me happy.
"Are you hungry? Do you want me to make you something? Junk food? A smoothie?" It was cute the way Luke was running around, making sure I was ok.
"I'm not hungry, let's just watch TV or a movie or something."
"You sure?"
"Positive."
"Alright, but anything you need…"
"Broody, I'll be ok…sitting down and relaxing with you will be the best right now. I promise. How about this? I'll pick a movie and you go pop some popcorn and soda." I had to give in a little bit because if I didn't he would be even more worried all night about my lack of eating; it was the least I could do.
"Ok." I scanned his collection and it wasn't bad, but according to him, it wasn't complete. This was all he grabbed from his home up north; that one is apparently more impressive. I picked the movie and handed it to him. "Really?" Lucas asked me with a puzzling look.
"Yup, exactly what I want, no romance."
"Alright, if you say so." He popped the DVD of Goodfellas in and sat down on the couch with the bowl of popcorn; I snuggled up close to him and he put his arm around me.
It was one of my favorite gangster movies, and I'm not quite sure why. Don't get me wrong, it was a fantastic movie, but I'm never one to say let's go see a violent movie; I'm more about the romantic comedies. Not sure when, but I can probably guess why, I must have fallen asleep during the movie. I remember one part, but then the next scene I remember was like a hour later. Lucas understood how I must of felt to some degree of course, and just let me sleep. Next thing I know, it was 8 pm and I was waking up, somewhat fully rested.
"Well hello there sleepy head!" Lucas sarcastically said once he realized I woke up.
"Hahaha, you're so funny. Sorry I was out so long."
"No worries, I'm sure you needed it." He placed a kiss on my head and pulling me closer to him. "Feeling better?"
"A little bit, yes. Thank you for that."
"It's all good."
"I think I'm gonna get going."
"You sure?"
"Ya, you have an early morning speech and I have to do a double shift." I said, grabbing my keys and phone.
"Alright then." He seemed a bit sad, and I wasn't quite sure why.
"Hey, you know that I wouldn't have been able to make it through today without you, right?" Luke just nodded. "You are my other rock, and without you my world spins out of control. You, you're presence, you're love just slows everything down and makes me whole again. You make me happy, when I am sad. You taught me how to smile again. I love you so much, and I am so grateful to have someone care about me this much, but I need you to believe me when I say I'm going to be ok. It will take some time." I said grabbing his face, and giving him a kiss; all the while my hands running through his head.
"I love you too." We both smiled, it had been a hard day; but with the hardness came extreme happiness with the saying of our first I love yous. "You'll call me if you need me?"
"Of course, I'll text you when I get home."
"Perfect." He smiled. Lucas is such a gentlemen, that he walked me all the way down to my car. "I love you." Short, simple, and too the point; nothing was better that then that. Then that feeling of having someone to care about you so much.
"I love you too." He pulled me into a hug and I just stayed in his embrace for a while, calming down because even though I was leaving here and going to Haley's for a bit, I still needed that center of gravity, which was Lucas.
"Drive safe ok?"
"I will." I gave him a quick kiss and he started walking back up to his apartment.
I sent Haley a quick SOS text. Normally that would have meant get your but over here as fast as possible, but with being on bed rest and all I would have to go to her, not that big of a deal. Haley's response of K, Nate has poker night in living room, I'm upstairs came back fairly quickly and yet again I was on my way. I was a little confused with going from Lucas's to Haley's especially at night and that I'm not very good with directions. Because of all that, it took me twice as long to get there. Being as I did not really want to disturb Nate, I just used my spare to open the door, which was ironically all ready open.
"Hey Brooke, what you doing here?" Nate spotted me from across his table and waved me over. I gave him a hug and a friendly kiss on the cheek.
"Hello there, I needed to talk to Hales so she just said stop by."
"Everything ok?" Nate gave me a suspicious eye.
"Eh, so-so." I knew he would get the story from Hales, and I didn't want to ruin his night.
"She's upstairs, but first I want you to meet some of the guys. B, this is Jim, Chase, Alex, Zach, and you remember Tim. I work with Zach and Chase, and the others are just old friends. Guys, this is Brooke, a good friend of my wife's."
"Of course, I remember Tim. It's nice to meet you all. How have you been Tim?"
"Good. How about you?"
"Never better. Well, I'm just going to grab a water and make my way upstairs. It was nice meeting you all." I knew the layout of this house, as if it was my own house. Quickly, I made my way up the stairs and around the corner to the first door on my right.
"Hey you." Haley looked up and spotted me first before I could even get the words out.
"Hola. What you watching?" I said, jumping on the bed and laying down next to her.
"Pretty Little Liars."
"Love it, so how are you today? How's my niece or nephew? What episode you watching?"
"The one where Spencer buys the truck for Toby. I'm fine, just restless. The baby is fine," Haley started rubbing her ever growing stomach, it wasn't too big yet, it was just noticeable now. "just started moving around, and we go to the doctor tomorrow to see if I can get off of bed rest and resume normal activities, ie going back to work."
"I love that episode. Hey don't be in any rush to get back to work, I got it all covered. In fact I'm even doing a double shift tomorrow. And besides, it must be nice having all of this time off. You'll call me and let me know how the appointment goes, right?"
"Of course. It's not so nice when you have to stay in bed all day, everyday; I'm getting so bored. And I am so sorry about making you do a double, I wish I could be there. We just need the money so bad right now."
"Ya, I guess you're right. Nothing to be sorry about, I would do anything to keep that kid safe, you know that. I know money is tight right now, but things will be looking up soon and I've got that covered." Haley was starting to freak out and I wanted to calm her down and ease the situation. Rachel and I decided that all of my extra money from covering Haley's shift was put on a separate check, and I in turn put that check into an account set up especially for the baby.
"So what's going on B, everything ok?"
"Far from it."
"What happened? Do I need to kick Lucas's ass?" I love how protective she was over me, it was like she was my older sister, and I could not ask for anything more.
"Ha, actually he was the best today. So we went out to lunch on the pier, which we so have to do one day, and we uhhh…ran into Julian and Peyton and he sort of kinda declared his love for me." I said the last part in one breathe.
"WHAT?!" Haley practically screamed.
"I'll tell you the whole story, but you have to promise me to stay calm and not worked up over it, I don't want to stress you out.
"I'll be fine."
"Hales."
"I swear, I'm ok." She grabbed my hand and gave me a reassuring squeeze, I went on to tell her everything that happened during the course of this faithful afternoon. I only broke down crying once, which shocked me completely. "I can't believe that happen. That Julian kid as a lot of nerve. Like I don't even understand, his logic…he needed to screw Peyton and in turn screw you over to figure out he loved you. That's messed up B."
"Tell me about it, and I was there and didn't know what to say."
"You did good by running back to Lucas. How did he handle all of this?"
"Like I'm a glass house about to break. You should have seen him, he was so adorable running around the apartment making sure I'm ok, had enough to eat, and comfortable."
"Aw, he must really care about you then."
"Ya, and I think I care about him that much too." I didn't want to tell Haley that I loved him, because I'm not quite sure how she'd feel and that its between me and Lucas, for now. "Hey, can I spend the night?"
"Of course, you have your own room silly." That was our thing, having our own rooms in each other's respective houses. It came about one night through a fit of giggles, and it just stuck.
We ended up watching one more episode of our favorite show. Haley fell asleep about half way through, but me I was wide awake taking in every juicy detail while trying to figure out who A was and not constantly stare at Toby's amazing body of course. I grabbed a pair of sweats from Haley's drawer and walked across the hall into my room. I laid down in the bed, ready to peacefully sleep. But before I had to do that, I sent a quick text to Luke…Hey babe, sorry I didn't do this sooner, stopped by Haley's on the way home, and I'm staying the night…ttyt love you. I closed my eyes and tried dreaming of happy thoughts of mine and Lucas's future.
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