Mouth Shut - Chapter 11 Why Does It Hurt So Much?
"Wait, what!?" Brooke demanded.
"I mean it might be Nathan's, but there is a chance it isn't." Haley said, and bit her lip.
"Whoa, you cheated on Nathan?" Rachel asked confused, and shocked. "What'd he ever do to you?"
"Nothing, okay. It was a mistake. And I've been feeling guilty about it since it happened."
"You're not the cheating type Haley." Brooke stated. "Who was he?"
Haley didn't answer, and Brooke shut her eyes
"Oh Haley please tell me you remember his name." She begged. Just then Cooper entered out of Breath, Broody not far behind him.
"Lucas...Fig...ured...out...Broody...Hc...m...Ah, cramp." Cooper grabbed his lower stomach. "Ah fuck cramp!"
"Wait what happened?" Brooke asked.
"Luke has Hcm just like me momma." Broody stated, not understanding the big deal.
"Oh no." She looked at the door, not one else was coming. "What happened?"
"He..." Cooper took a few deep breaths. "He went home. He said he needed to cool off, and think about some stuff."
Brooke looked at Cooper. "Was he...was he mad?"
"Would you be?" Cooper asked.
"Wait, Lucas figured out that..." Haley trailed off.
Brooke, and Cooper both nodded.
"Oh god." Rachel gasped.
"Ya think?" Brooke grabbed her purse. "I-I gotta go talk to him."
"Brooke, no." Haley insisted. "Give him time to cool off."
"Haley i have to. This is important. God he's never going to forgive me." She ran her hand thru her hair nervously. "Rach, can you watch Broody for me?"
"Yea, sure."
"Thanks." She smiled gratefully. "I'll be back soon. Hopefully."
Lucas was walking up and down the beach. A million thoughts going thru his mind. How could Brooke have kept this from him?! Why couldn't she tell him!? He was pissed, no he was beyond pissed. He was livid! Acute to the point of furious! Then he heard a voice behind him.
Rachel was sitting on Naley's couch watching T.v. Cooper an Broody went to get food. She heard the front door open. "Cooper?"
"Haley?" she heard Nathan call, and then he entered the living room. "Oh, it's you."
"Yea, it's me." She looked around him. "Where's Emma?"
"Oh, she's staying the night with my mom." He said. "What're you doing here?"
"Oh, i'm watching Broody for Brooke."
Nathan looked around. "Where is he?"
"Oh he, and Cooper went to get food."
"Right," Nathan sat beside her, far away. "how is Cooper doing?"
"Good." Rachel answered honestly.
"Good. That's good."
"Yea, it is."
Awkward silence.
"I feel like I'm cheating on Haley, and i can't-i can't do that to her."
"You did before." She mumbled.
"But it's different. I've thought a lot about this, and...i have to make this work, and i want to."
Rachel tried so hard not to spill Haley's secret, but Haley was still her friend, and who was she to talk? She had cheated on Cooper. And she too wanted to make her and Cooper work. But why did it hurt so much?
"How are you doing?" Haley asked as she and Lucas walked down the beach.
"Pissed, and confused." He admitted. "I don't even know how to process it. And how could i not see it? I feel so stupid, and why couldn't she tell me in the first place?!" He was getting angry. "Broody is my son! I created him, and Brooke thought i had no right to know it! She made me Dan, Haley! Dan! She knew I'd never be Dan! Why'd she make me him! Broody properly thinks i don't give a shit about him! God I hate her! I hate her!"
"I have a hard time believing that."
"No i do! I literally hate her for keeping this from me!"
Haley let him yell. She let him bitch about Brooke, Broody, not knowing. He needed it. He needed to rant, and scream. And she let him. Anything to avoid Nathan.
"Babe!" Cooper called, and walking into the kitchen setting the McDonald's bag on the counter, Broody sat on the stool, and grabbed his chicken nuggets.
Rachel walked into the kitchen. Nathan went to bed earlier. "Hey."
Cooper placed Rachel's food on the counter. "Is Brooke back?"
Rachel shook her head. "No, i don't expect her to be back tonight."
"Why?"
"Well it is her and Lucas. They're known for hot sweaty sex."
"Rach." Cooper warned.
"Sex?" Broody asked.
"It's a game, sweetie." Rachel covered, and scruffed his hair.
Then the door bell rang. "I'll get it." Cooper annouced, before going to open the door. He saw a tall man looking at him. "Hey."
"Hi. Is Nathan or Lucas here?" The man asked.
Cooper's eyes widened realizing who it was.
Okay, Here You Go. :) I Know It's Short, But It's Only Because The Next Chapter Is Long. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Review. I Also Updated My Other Fics. Read Em
-Hopey
