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Chapter 11! Skittles and M&Ms!

Brooke got bored quite easily under normal circumstances and when her brother was out there beating up the guy who'd hurt her so badly everything held her attention for an even shorter time.

Sighing Brooke shut off the TV stupid day time soaps. It always finding out someone had an evil twin or a secret child or that someone was having an affair, Brooke could write it in her sleep. She got up began to look around, Nathan and her and bought this place when their grandparents died and left them a lot of money.

It was about three years ago and they were only about 14, their parents had been fighting a lot more then usual, yelling and screaming, throwing things at each other. Nathan and Brooke used to sit together and try to block it all out.

Brooke could hear a song playing softly from outside, she looked out the window and saw two girls in a car.

Brooke knew the song, she and Nathan had used it to block out Deb and Dan's fighting once, that was actually the time they had decided to buy this place.

Flashback!

"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!" Deb screamed at Dan from downstairs. Nathan and Brooke sat in Nathan's room, Nathan was sitting on the bed and Brooke had climbed up on the desk.

"I wish they'd stop fighting. " Nathan said. "It'd be so much better then, they'd be happy." Brooke shook her head.

"No they wouldn't." she said. "They're never happy, it's just then there's silence. I think I hate the silence the most. At least when they're yelling we know what's going on."
"I still wish we didn't have to be here when they fight but." Nathan said.

"Me too." Brooke said, she hardly ever wanted to be at home.

"Hey yanno how Grandma and Grandpa left us all that money?" Nathan said.

"Yeah what about it?" Brooke asked.

"Let's use it. Let's buy an apartment or something for ourselves." Nathan said smiling.

"How Nate? It's all in trust founds we'd have to go through Dan." Brooke pointed out.

"No, not really, Grandpa said that there's a trust fund in each of our names that Dad controls but there's also one for us that he has no idea about. It's all ours, and besides when we turn sixteen the money in the trust founds is ours too, no more going through Dad." Nathan explained.

"Oh yeah." Brooke explained. "That'd be like the greatest thing ever!"

"Ok so tomorrow wanna skip school and we can go look at apartments?" Nathan suggested.

"Sure." Brooke said with a smile. They sat in silence for a second until the yelling and screaming from downstairs reached them again.

"I can't believe you Deb! All you ever do is drink and pop pills and shop!" Dan exclaimed. "How do you think that looks for me?"

"FOR YOU! Well let's talk about you! Wait you are, we always are!" Deb screamed.

"Wait Nathan." Brooke said. "How are we supposed to get an apartment? We're only 14, they'd never allow it."

"What if they don't know and we just say we're dropping off the money and getting the papers and stuff for some old guy who's really sick." Nathan said with a smile.

"Sounds good." Brooke said smiling.

"You are an insufferable bastard Dan!" Deb yelled from downstairs.

"That however doesn't." Brooke said looking down.

"Come here Brookie." Nathan said, Brooke came and sat next to Nathan who hugged her. She grabbed Nathan's i-pod from the bed and handed him one earphone.

"Music?" Brooke smiled.

"Sure." Nathan said attempting to take the i-pod from her.

"Nope. My choice." Brooke smiled. Nathan sighed and rolled his eyes, but he was smiling.

The song 'Night Rocker' by The Chalets began to come through the ear phones into both Brooke and Nathan. They lay side by side on the bed, the music in their heads and their parents downstairs fighting again.

End Flashback!

Brooke smiled but then watched as the car drove away taking the music with it. Brooke frowned and crinkled her nose up.

"I need to find music." She decided verballing this to no one. It was then Brooke decided to explore the loft, she remembered the basic plan out and what they'd decided each room to be. She walked into the first room down the hallway it was Nathan's room. All it held was a double bed, a wardrobe, a desk, some weights and a small basketball hoop. Brooke went and sat on the bed. Looking around again she noticed a CD, walking over to the desk Brooke picked it up but then dropped it.

"Damn." She said getting down on the floor and reaching under the bed for the CD. She saw a box lying under the bed and pulled it out. The cover was designed with all sorts of swirls around it. In the middle it said in very intricate writing 'Remember…' nothing else just 'remember'.

Brooke was curious Nathan had never been a very sentimental person, he was a guy after all, he also could have never pulled off creating such an intricate pattern on the box.

Brooke opened it and found photos, letters and drawings. She looked at the photo, Nathan and a curly haired blonde girl were smiling on a couch. It had obviously been taken by one of them because it was so close and she could see an arm near the corner of the camera. Brooke was confused, she'd never seen this girl before, ever, she'd never met her. She'd met all of Nathan's girl's even the ones that lasted for less than a day.

So why had she never seen this girl before? It obviously hadn't been a random hook up at some piss up party. He cared about her. Brooke could tell, Nathan didn't keep boxes like this of just anyone. Whoever this girl was must have meant a lot to him, which is why it made it even more confusing as to why Brooke had never met her.

Brooke realised if it was this personal to Nathan that she shouldn't keep going through the box. She put the photo back and caught sight of a drawing, it was extremely good, whoever drew it had tremendous talent, Brooke knew it wasn't Nathan. Even Nathan's stick figures came out crappy, so she knew it must have been done by this girl, whoever she was.

The drawing was of Nathan, that much was obvious, but he was shirtless and holding a basket ball, behind him were a large pair of wings. Underneath the drawing was written 'My Saviour!' in the same style writing as on the box. This girl must have made him the box because she wanted him to remember her.

Brooke remembered when Lucy, no Kelly, no it was Kristy, Chrissie? Amy? Bimbo number 15 was the safest bet and to Brooke it made no difference the name this girl's parents had given her. Forever and always her name would now be Bimbo Number 15. Well she had made Nathan a box of 'keepsakes' Nathan had smiled and faked loving it, the next day they broke up and Nathan had chucked out the box of junk. But he'd kept this. This girl in the photos was special. Brooke put the drawing back and the photo of the two of them inside again and put the box under the bed.

She found a CD and walked out of Nathan's room. Brook was going to head to the living room again but stopped and turned, she then walked into the room across the hall from Nathan's. It was the one chosen to be hers.

The walls were purple, her favourite colour then, and now still, apart from Nathan and what happened with Dan that was the on constant in her life. The colour purple being her favourite.

Up until the first time she caught a bloody nose red had been in the running. That afternoon trying to get the blood out of her shirt and clean up her face Brooke realised just how ugly the colour red really was.

Brook walked in carefully to the room, afraid it would all be a dream and she was actually walking into a beating from Dan. The double bed was up against the wall, below the window. The wardrobe was over to the other wall, there was a dresser with a large mirror and a barstool taken from one of their dare nights. Photos were stuck all around the mirror and on the wardrobe doors. Brooke smiled looking over everything. The photos of her and Nathan as babies, or when they'd dressed up for Halloween. Nathan and Brooke hanging out with friends at the beach or photo from the many parties they went to.

She walked over to the wardrobe to find what clothes had been left here. Opening it up she found a t-shirt she thought she'd lost a long time ago and her favourite jeans she'd almost cried over losing.

There was the leather jacket she absolutely loved but thought she'd left at some random guys' house. Her electric blue socks were found and Brooke kicked off her black heels and pulled the blue socks on. Grabbing her black sweat pants she had forgotten about and that grey hooded sweatshirt she loved and always forgot to look for Brooke tied her hair up and walked out of the room. She went into the kitchen and looked in the cupboard, finding skittles and M&Ms Brooke wondered back into the living room. She looked through the DVDs. There were some she'd never seen before and she assumed Nathan had bought them. She found the Notebook and put it on as it was one of Brooke's favourite movies of all time. She smiled as she watched the carnival scene, she loved it. Brooke had to admit it, she was a hopeless romantic at heart.

Brooke sighed knowing that there was never going to be a fairytale notebook style romance for her, there hardly ever was anymore. True love didn't exist, love did but people are stupid and its people that fall in love. Therefore Brooke concluded her new life philosophy was love was stupid and so were other people.

Brooke made a mental note to ask Nathan about the curly haired blonde girl, he obviously cared about her and Brooke wanted to know.

Half way through the skittles and M&Ms Noah and Allie were about to be separated for the second time and Nathan appeared.

"Nate are you ok?" Brooke asked pausing the DVD and getting up all thoughts of attacking Nathan to get answers about the mystery blonde disappeared from her head.

"Yeah, course I am Brookie." Nathan said giving her a smile. It was then Brooke noticed to blood on his hands.

"Oh my God Nate!" she exclaimed grabbing his arms and dragging him to the bathroom.

"What the hell happened?" she asked shoving his hands under the water she had ran.

"Damn Brooke did you have to make it freezing cold?" Nathan asked. Brooke reached up and clipped him over the back of his head.

"Yeah I think considering the circumstances I damn well did Nathan." She exclaimed her hands on her hips. Nathan smiled.

"You settled in ok." He said. Brooke cocked her head to the side.

"What?" she asked.

"Where's my skittles or M&Ms?" Nathan asked opening his mouth. Brooke reached into the pocket of her sweatshirt and shoved a mixture of skittles and M&Ms into Nathan's mouth.

"There Natey. Now tell me what the hell happened." She demanded. Nathan chewed on the skittles and M&Ms in his mouth. He sallowed and smiled.

"Well?" Brooke asked waiting.

"Well what?" Nathan smirked. Brooke gave him a shove.

"You know what. What the hell happened when you were gone?" she asked.

"I made sure Damien knew who's side I was on and that our friendship is over. I made sure he paid." Nathan explained.

"Did he hurt you?" Brooke asked.

"Nah of course not, you know I'm tough and strong." Nathan joked.

"Oh of course." Brooke said beginning to play along until she noticed the blood coming from Nathan's forehead.

"Alright Nathan stop this bullshit right now." She said pulling him down to her. She filled her hands with water and splashed it across Nathan's face.

"What was that for?" Nathan asked spluttering.

"Your damn stupid head that's what." Brooke exclaimed inspecting the wound.

"Jeez Brooke relax." Nathan said.

"Only if you come and watch the Notebook with me." Brooke pouted. Nathan smiled.

"Only if you share the skittles and M&Ms." He said.

"Of course." Brooke smiled.

Nathan and Brooke sat on the couch together and watched the rest of the movie.

Nathan looked over and found Brooke crying.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"They were perfect for each other and now they're dead." Brooke sobbed. She saw Nathan sitting there, unsuccessfully holding back a smile with completely dry eyes.

"Why aren't you crying?" she demanded.

"I never cry at TV or movies, you know that." Nathan said.

"You're a robot that's what you are." Brooke announced before trying to beat Nathan to death with a pillow. Nathan managed to fend Brooke off until he found a couch cushion to defend himself with. After a while each of them felt like enough was enough and they called a truce.

"Thankyou." Brooke said as they lay on the couch side by side.

"For what?" Nathan asked.

"Bringing me here, getting back at Damien, making me forget everything for a little while. Thanks for being there Nate, thanks for being my brother." Brooke said.

"It's my honor." Nathan smiled and kissed her forehead. "Little sister." Brooke smiled.

"Yeah ok big brother." She smiled.

"That's cool." Nathan said.

"Your pick of the movies." Brooke said.

"Ok." Nathan nodded and went to choose.

"What did you pick?" Brooke asked not moving from the couch.

"Wait and see." Nathan said returning to the couch and pressing play on the DVD remote. The opening scene from Monty Python and the Search For The Holy Grail came through the screen.

"YAY!" Brooke exclaimed. Nathan and Brooke loved Monty Python movies, and they knew every word to The Search For The Holy Grail. Nathan laughed.

"YAY!" he mimicked. Brooke glared at him and then began to quote the opening lines. Nathan smiled watching his sister before joining in.

More coming soon!

I love skittles and M&Ms, a lot of Brooke's mannerisms come from me or some of my friends.

Like my friend Cass eats an apple and then drinks orange juice with it! (God she's weird.. but loveable!)

Me and my friends have egged a house because the guy hit on one of us! (pervy old jerk!)

I make Ryan watch Prison Break with me! Michael's hot and he's so cute with Sara!

(Ryan secretly loves it!)

I have a talent for parents like the ones I made Rachel's (I have to my friend Chris's parents are like that!)

I have actually put make up on Ryan like Brooke did to Nate in chap 7!

Oh and I love Mat Kearney (the song played on the radio in chap 8 is one of my faves!)

I used to climb out of my window a lot, I don't so much now! And I always tap out rythms to nothing when I'm restless! (like Brooke in Chap 10!)

Sorry just a recap of stuff!

Most of the conversation when Nathan came home after visiting Damien was from a time when my brother Ryan came home after being in a fight at a party (not over me!)

The part when Brooke and Nathan are watching the Notebook are from something that happened to Jessa and her friend Chloe (Jessa doesn't cry in TV or movies, Chloe's right she's a flippin robot!)

But I do make Ryan watch the Notebook with me sometimes oh and me and Ryan and my mum love Monty Python. Me and Ry can actually quote practically all the quotes from that and the Life Of Brian, mum's not good at quoteing but!

Lol!

Sorry for the longest Authors Note ever but in return give me long reviews kk!

Later Lovelies Until Next Time!

Famous Last Words:

We're on a wire but it's better than drowning And I don't care if I fall cuz I've never been higher - Lauren Hoffman 'Reasons To Fall!' (my new fave song for this week! Lol!

- Liza

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