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Chapter 11:

Possibilities Wide Open

Finally Friday rolled around and Brooke was beyond ready for the back to school party this weekend. The only part about it that pretty much sucked was the fact that is was being held at Nathan Scott's beach house. A place she was sure it was be near next to impossible to keep Nathan away from Haley and still have a good time. The two had been talking more and more at school and Haley was becoming beyond confused in all scenarios that involved the raven haired basketball star.

But Brooke did have a secret weapon up her sleeve. Little did Haley know that Jacob was coming into town today and he would be escorting the two of them to the party. He would do his normal Jacob "protective" thing and try to watch over them both. She would just divert his attentions more to Haley while she escaped and got wasted on the beach. Perfect plan, right?

"So I'm still not sure about going to this party tonight," Haley informed Brooke as they made their way to their seventh period classes. Brooke had human A&P and Haley had study hall which she spent in the Tutor Center helping others.

Brooke turned to Haley with a shocked expression. "Haley, you are going!" Brooke shrieked at her. "This is the back to school party. This is a "cant-miss"!" She informed her friend.

Haley looked at Brooke skeptically, "Well whatever, Nathan has been ignoring me all day today and I just don't feel like going to his house for more of it tonight, okay," she told her.

Brooke grabbed her friend by the shoulders, stopping her in the middle of the hall. "Trust me, you will be anything but ignored tonight," she said cryptically. Then she turned to skip into her last class of the day.

"Brooke, I'm not liking the sound of that," Haley called after her, forcing Brooke to turn back and look at her.

Brooke turned around, hanging on the blue door frame as she smiled mischievously at her friend. "Trust me, you will," she winked at her and then disappeared into the room.

And Haley was left to wonder what in the world her friend was referring to as she made her way to the Tutor Center to wait for the final bell to ring.


"Something has got you happy today," Edward commented as Brooke slid onto her stool at the table they shared. "Or are you simply starting to try to keep your emotions hidden from me?" He asked, a crooked smile forming on his own face.

Brooke grinned even wider at the gorgeous boy beside her, her dimples getting deeper if that was even possible. "I guess you'll never know," she replied, her voice coy as she turned and pulled her notebook from her satchel bag.

"Touché," He remarked, clearly amused at the girl's enjoyment she got from keeping him in the dark.

"No but seriously," Brooke turned to him once again smiling widely. "Tonight is the first party of the year. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it," she explained, waving her hands wildly at him.

He should have known she wouldn't be able to keep her mouth shut for long. "Calm down, it is just a party right," he said, observing her extreme theatrics.

"Edward," she complained. "It's not just a party. It is the first party. It is a total can't miss," she explained to him. Edward's face did not seem to change to reveal any more excitement, so Brooke added, "I mean, you are coming, aren't you?" She asked.

Edward shrugged his shoulders, parties weren't really his thing. "I don't know," He told her. "That's not really my scene, and besides, I wasn't even invited," He said slowly, looking down at his book as he page to turn to the chapter they were starting today.

Brooke looked at him wide-eyed. "Well I am inviting you, and you're going," she informed him. "You and Alice both, and she can even bring Jasper if he doesn't mind going to a 'high-school' party. It won't be lame, I swear," she said, she was speaking so quickly it would have been hard for an average person to keep up. Lucky for both of them, Edward was not average.

Edward watched in amazement how her eyes seemed to light up as she spoke to him, trying to persuade him into getting her way. It was as if all the colors that made up her hazel eyes exploded into glittering rainbows of light. It definitely didn't look like anything he had seen in any other human before. He found himself staring, waiting to see which color would be revealed next, her voice was almost dizzying, wrapping him up until he had no choice but to give into her.

"So will you go?" Brooke finished, her eyes now seeming to be pleading with him.

"I don't see how I can turn you down," He told her, at which she smiled widely.

"Perfect," Brooke cheered and flung herself at him to hug him.

Lucky for Edward's quick reaction time or else she wouldn't have been received with his open arms. He wrapped his stone arms tightly around her waist and couldn't help but hear the violent death that Lucas was now wishing upon him.

"Okay, so you guys meet me at my house at seven and you can follow me, Haley, and Jacob out there," she told him, leaning back from him so she could look into his face as she spoke.

"Jacob?" Edward asked a little confused as he returned Brooke to her seat, much to Brooke's own dismay.

"Yeah, I'm forcing him to come along to look after Haley," she told him with a shrug. "That way I am free to do whatever I please," She added with a self-satisfied smile. "Pretty brilliant plan if I do say so myself," she thought.

Edward contained his own smile as he nodded his head in understanding. He didn't need Brooke to explain to understand the party was at Haley's ex-boyfriend's house. The one he had had an altercation with his first day at Tree Hill High. Nathan seemed a little volatile when it came to Haley to say the least. And there must be something in that Scott blood because Lucas was proving to be now different when it came to a certain brunette.

"So just who is going to be looking out for you?" Edward asked her, looking her over protectively.

Brooke shrugged her shoulders. "I'm a big girl," she told him. "Plus, me and bad decisions seem to go way back. I think I can handle it."

Edward just looked at Brooke, nodding his head in response. He knew how right she was in her analysis of herself, and by including him in her plans; she just seemed to be adding to that list.


"Haley, are you ready yet?" Brooke screamed down the hallway, her voice echoing loudly off the tiny walls of the apartment the two girls shared.

"Almost," Haley said, not nearly as loud as Brooke, as she walked from their room to the bathroom, slipping a hoop earring through her ear.

"Well hurry up," Brooke whined. She knew Alice and Edward would be here any minute. Plus she was ready to go to the party and have fun.

"Yeah Hales, we're not getting any younger out here," Jacob teased the blonde with a smile.

"Shut it," She yelled popping her head out of the bathroom, pointing at Jacob with her blush brush.

"Quit talking to her!" Brooke instructed in a shrill voice. "The more we talk to her, the more she thinks she has to comment and the longer this whole process takes!"

"Awww, Brookie, don't get your panties in a bunch," Jacob said with a wide smile, walking over and mussing up Brooke's hair as the doorbell rang in the background.

"Jake!" She squealed, jumping out from under his massive hand and moving towards the front door. "And stop laughing Haley!" She yelled to the back at her friend. "He doesn't need that!"

"Who doesn't need what?" Alice asked as Brooke flung the door open and was greeting by the Cullen brother and sister.

Brooke quickly offered Alice a smile. "Nothing, just Jacob being Jacob," she said, moving out of the way to let Alice and Edward enter her home.

"But would you really have me any other way?" Jacob asked with a smirk as he stretched his arms behind him on the back of the couch.

Brooke glared at him, unaware that Edward was actually doing the same thing.

"So are you ready to go?" Edward turned and asked Brooke, looking over the white Capri pants and pink halter tunic she was wearing. Silently cursing her for wearing her hair up in a high ponytail.

Brooke looked at him with a flat affect. "Not hardly, because Haley is taking forever!" She said, her voice rising when she began talking about Haley.

"Just because I am in the other room, doesn't mean I can't hear you!" The blonde yelled back at her.

Edward, Alice, and Jacob all couldn't help but laugh at the exchange that was going on between the two girls.

"Ugh," Brooke grumbled and plopped herself down in one of the living room chairs.

Edward's eyes followed Brooke as she moved, and Jacob couldn't help but be slightly annoyed by this gesture.

"You know, if you guys don't want to wait on Haley you can go ahead. I'll get Brooke and Haley there in one piece," He said, speaking to both of the Cullen's but his eyes were locked on the bronze haired boy.

"We're fine," Edward told him, not turning his gaze from Brooke to even look at Jacob. "We don't mind waiting."

"Besides," Alice chimed in, "Brooke invited us and we wouldn't want to be rude and desert her." And she smiled at Brooke as she flitted to the chair next to her.

Brooke smiled over at her petite friend. "Thanks Alice. But really, if you two want to go I can meet up with you guys. I hate making you wait on Haley," she said apologetically.

"Why don't you three just go ahead," Haley busted into the conversation and suggested to her roommate. She was nowhere near getting ready with her hair splayed all over her head in rollers. "Jacob can bring me and we can meet up with you all there."

Brooke looked at Haley with her mouth hanging open. "Are you sure, Hales?" She asked her. She actually felt bad for making her friend feel the need to even offer the option. Sure, she wanted to get to the party, but she had only been kidding with her roommate.

"Yes, I'm positive," she said. "In fact I am forcing you three out of here," she added pushing Brooke out of the chair she was sitting in.

Brooke turned to all their houseguests, about to say something, but Jacob spoke first instead.

"Hales, they really don't mind waiting," he told the blonde, looking back to Brooke when he finished.

"Actually, I would prefer to go ahead," Edward challenged Jacob. "We told Jasper we would pick him up on our way out. He hadn't made it into town yet when we had to leave to meet you," he told Brooke, looking directly into her eyes.

"Jasper's coming?" Brooke asked, excitement apparent in her tone. "Yay," she added, looking at Alice.

"Yeah, we have to go get him though. And Edward's right, by the time we do that Haley will probably be ready and we will get there at the same time," she said, talking rather quickly.

"Great, it is all settled then," Haley said, "You three go, and we'll meet up with you soon."

"Alright," Brooke agreed, nodding her head at her friend. "Now you too don't do anything I wouldn't do since I'm leaving you here unchaperoned and all," she told Haley and Jake, glancing back and forth between the two.

Jacob shook out of the funk that was taking him over to try to be him normal self for his friend. He couldn't deny the way the new boy in Brooke's life looked at her was taking a toll on him. "Then that leaves the possibilities wide open, doesn't it?" He asked her raising his eyebrows.

"Shut it Jake," she warned, shooting him a glance over her shoulder as Edward was ushering her out the door.


Lucky for Brooke, Jasper had actually been waiting for them in the parking lot of her apartment building when they had come down to head for the party, so that was one less thing they had to do before they got there. Then Edward had driven to the party, another tidbit she was rather thankful for since she had had less issues with his driving than with Alice's. He had also kept her thoroughly wrapped up in a conversation about the usual Tree Hill High parties that had kept her distracted from the road. Ultimately, they reached Nathan's beach house in about 10 minutes, as opposed to the usual fifteen plus it always took her to drive the same path.

"We're here," She announced, turning to the backseat to Alice and Jasper.

The two were locked in the most comfortable embrace and if Brooke had thought it possible she would actually have said they were made for each other. Cut from two corresponding molds so that their bodies just melded together in the most incredible way. And she sat in awe at the way they actually moved in synchrony with one another.

"Brooke, are you alright?" Jasper asked, noting the girl's entranced stare. He guessed it was something he should get used to, she did seem to do it a lot.

"Yeah, of course," she said, shaking her head quickly from side to side as if to break the hold the two of them had on her. "I seriously think I'm losing it sometimes, the way I can just drift off like that," she told them all, turning back around in her seat and unfastening her seatbelt.

"Well it is rather amusing," Edward commented, not even attempting to hide to smile that covered his face.

Brooke glared at him. "Ha, ha," she said flatly. "Let's just get out and go to the party. Unless anyone else wants to take a turn at humiliating me," and she looked at the three for a response.

"Nope, I think we're good," Alice teased her with a melodic giggle. And then she and Jasper slid out of the car together.

Edward came around and opened the brunette's door for her, and Brooke was momentarily amazed at how much faster all of her new friends seemed to be compared to her. She shrugged it off and figured they were just excited about their first Tree Hill party before bouncing in front of them and leading the way into the expansive beach house that belonged to the Scott's.


Okay, so first let me start off with saying sorry it took me soooo long to post this...Last week was crazy to say the least and I was out of town and blah,blah,blah....but I'm back now, and voila, update time!! :) Also, sorry this chapter is so short...for that, I will try to get the next one posted super-fast...not promising any dates because then I will probably end up breaing them!! But it will be quicker than this one got up and I think it is longer...most of them are, not really sure why I cut this one off here...Anyways, who all saw New Moon this past weekend?? I did and absolutely loved it!! :) I would love to here your thoughts on that as well as the chapter and what is going on in this story!! Let me know!!