"So maybe this was a bad idea" Chris referred to the food fight. Rachel refused to answer and kept cleaning. "So you're gonna ignore me now?" No Answer. "Alright two can play at that game. You know what though? I don't even know why you're mad."
"What? Are you being serious?" Rachel scoffed, obviously he struck a nerve. "I'm not the one that came back and suddenly started being an ass."
"Only because you've been avoiding me"
"Maybe cause everyone saw us having sex on TV Chris! But of course you were no where to be found."
"Ok so it's my fault?"
"Yeah well you left."
"It's not like we were together." Chris stated.
"Whatever Chris lets just clean"
"That's it isn't it? You're mad about me leaving."
"Not everything is about you."
"But this is. Why are you so pissed I left? I always leave."
"Yeah and you always give us a little bit of a warning like a call or text or something. But this time you just left."
"Its just who I am Rach alright?"
"Yeah I know you are. But after everything... never mind." Rachel shook it off.
"After what?"
"Nothing."
"No what Rach? Us fucking? You never seemed to care before. So why would I think you cared now?"
"This isn't about that. Before that we were friends alright. It woulda been nice if you had acknowledged that." Chris had never seen that side of her, the side that actually cared.
"Um alright. I'm sorry. Next time…next time I'll give you a proper good bye." Chris smirked.
"Shut up."
Lucas walked in to his house hearing the laughs of Rachel and Chris. "So I'm assuming everything worked out?"
"For now." Rachel answered.
"I'm just glad they're wont be anymore food fights."
"I don't know about that man. When Rachel's 'time of the month' comes around they're may be a couple of more incidents." Chris laughed.
"Shut up. Hey where's Brooke?"
"Oh uh she just had to go run some errands."
Flashback
"Brooke I'm sorry about that alright?" Lucas looked at Brooke and he had never seen her that broken. Tears threatened to spill from her eyes.
"Um I gotta go." Brooke said as she strapped Brett into his car seat.
"Brooke do you want me to go with you?"
"No I need some time alone." Brooke said as she ran out of the café.
"Brooke!" Lucas slammed his fist onto the table. "Dammit Peyton." He grumbled
"Oh ok." Rachel said satisfied with his answer. "I'm gonna go shower." She said as she walked out.
"I think you need some help." Chris said as he followed her.
"Yeah right Chris!" Rachel scoffed as Lucas burst out laughing.
"Oh yeah she wants me."
"In what world Keller?"
---
"Hey Brooke call me alright? I'm worried about you. We need to talk about this. You can't avoid me forever." Lucas said into his phone. It was already nightfall and Brooke hadn't come by the house, or called or anything. He began to get worried and angry, why couldn't she trust him enough to talk to him? Classic Brooke, close off once a problem hits.
---
"Brooke! Call me alright! I'm getting worried." Rachel yelled angrily into the phone.
"What do you think happened now?" Chris asked as he flipped through the channels.
"I don't even know, all I know is Brooke isn't answering and it's already dark out."
"It's Tree Hill Rach, not New York. She's fine."
"I doesn't matter she's been gone since morning and Lucas hasn't told me anything, so obviously something's wrong."
"Look" Chris sighed "I get your worried and all but she knows this place like the back of her hand so she's probably just hiding out until she feels better. You know how Davis is."
"I guess you're right…" Rachel sighed.
"When is Chris Keller ever wrong?"
"Shut up." Rachel said as she kept watching the TV wondering where Brooke could be. "Wait I think I know where she's at." Rachel said as she started to leave.
"Hey bring the Keller something to eat. A pizza would be nice." Chris smirked.
"So would a screw you."
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1 AM
Buzz Buzz
Buzz Buzz
Buzz Buzz
"Hello?" Lucas said groggily.
"Now you wanna talk? At one in the morning? You know this morning at breakfast woulda been nice instead of just running out." Lucas was pissed he wasn't gonna let her off that easy.
"Alright I'll go over. Give me the hotel name."
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Knock Knock
"You wanted to talk?" Lucas said as the door opened. "So talk."
"Why are you so angry? I'm the one that should be pissed."
"Peyton I'm angry because Brooke has been missing since morning."
"I didn't know you cared so much." Peyton grumbled.
"Well I do alright? Brett is with her too Peyton. All this cause you decided to through a fit."
"Well I'm sorry maybe because I got caught off guard since my ex-boyfriend and my best friend have a baby and I didn't even know about it. You know it woulda been nice to get a little phone call Lucas. With all our history I thought you would've handled this differently." Peyton said angrily.
Lucas just sighed he knew she was right; this probably was a big surprise to her. But he was so worried about Brooke and Brett, he didn't have time for Peyton right now.
"Look Peyt I get it alright? And I'm sorry you had to find out about it like you did, but Brooke was planning to tell you at dinner tonight."
"What happened Luke? How did it get here? You and Brooke with a baby?" Peyton sighed.
"I think Brooke wanted to tell you."
"Yeah well she's not here. And I deserve an explanation." Peyton said angrily
"Peyton I can't deal with you right now, my son and his mother are missing and I don't know where they're at." Lucas sighed as he sat on the bed. Peyton saw how distraught he looked, and she felt bad for him.
"She's fine Luke. You know how Brooke is." Peyton said as she sat next to him.
"I know, it doesn't make me any less worried though."
"Look how bout we leave this conversation for tomorrow? I'll go help you find Brooke." Peyton said as she got up off the bed.
"What? No Peyton you don't have to do that." Lucas shook his head.
"Come on we both know you're gonna go look for her once you leave this room, and from the looks of it you've barely had any sleep." Lucas looked unsure. "I'll drive. Let's go." Peyton said as she pulled him off the bed.
"Thanks for this Peyt." Lucas smiled.
"Anything for you Luke."
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"Luke. Luke." Peyton whispered. It was 3 in the morning and their Brooke Davis hunt wasn't leading them anywhere, and to make things worse Luke had fallen asleep. Peyton decided to drive to the river court to take one last look, and if Brooke wasn't there she was gonna go back to the hotel room and call it a night.
"Come on Brooke be here." Peyton whispered to herself. She groaned when she realized Brooke wasn't there. She was too tired to even drive to the hotel room, so she parked the car and decided to take a nap. Making herself comfortable she looked over at Lucas and saw him fast asleep in his seat. She smiled as she closed her eyes; she was doing this for him, honestly she didn't give a flying rat's ass where Brooke was at she was still pissed at her but Lucas needed her and she was there for him.
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"You know Davis I wouldn't think you would be here in a hotel room. The beach, the river court, your old house, hell my old house but definitely not here. I would've thought you would've been a little more creative then this. Is the old age getting to you?" Rachel smirked.
"Well I couldn't exactly go to the beach or the river court at 3 in the morning with Brett now could I? And considering we sold our houses this was the only other option." Brooke said as she was flipping through the channels.
"You know you worried me. I can understand hiding from Lucas or Chris, but me Brooke really?"
"I'm not hiding out. I just need some time to think."
"What's going on?"
"Nothing."
"Well obviously something's going on since according to Lucas you've been out 'running errands'. What happened at breakfast?"
"Nothing."
"You know I don't like this Brooke. The old Brooke would've gone off on Lucas for being an idiot for whatever he did and go on with her life. The Tree Hill Brooke is honestly kinda boring."
"Peyton found out about Brett this morning." Brooke sighed.
"And…"
"And she gave me hugs and kisses and now we're all gonna be best friends like we used to." Brooke said sarcastically.
"So she's pissed. Who cares Brooke? Honestly you have nothing to feel bad for. And you know this so cut the crap and stop feeling bad for yourself."
"Wow harsh much?"
"Brooke just come home please it's three in the morning, I'm sleepy, we have an early meeting with the contractors tomorrow, and I just wanna go to sleep." Rachel whined.
"I don't wanna talk to Lucas right now."
"I'm pretty sure that won't be a problem since Lucas is probably asleep. Come on let's go."
"What about Brett he's asleep you know."
"That's why they invented car seats hunny. Now let's go." Rachel motioned towards the door.
15 minutes later they were finally in the car. While driving home Brooke still thought going home wasn't the right idea, but Rachel was right they did have a meeting with the contractors tomorrow.
"Hey isn't that Peyton's car?" Brooke said as she pointed across the street towards the river court.
"I don't know Brooke and I really don't care. I'm tired." Rachel whined.
"Pull over we have to make sure she's alright."
"Brooke…" Rachel whined.
"It'll take 5 minutes." As Rachel pulled over Brooke realized that Peyton was fast asleep in the driver's seat and Luke was in the passengers. "Let's go she's fine."
"Brooke…"
"Just drive home Rachel. Please." Brooke pleaded.
"Alright." Brooke and Rachel stayed quiet the whole ride home.
"Brooke it was probably nothing." Rachel said as she parked the car in the drive way. Brooke just stayed quiet and took Brett into the house.
"Rachel, Chris I'm out looking for Brooke…I'm with Peyton I'll be home later if Brooke get's there call me." Lucas' voice rang through the house as Rachel pushed the answering machine button.
"Brooke did you hear him?"
"Yeah." Brooke said as she walked into her room and closed the door behind her
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Ugh waking up with the sun in your face was not fun. And then with your whole body aching was even worse. Lucas started moving around trying to get his body to loosen up. He got up and stretched. He groaned trying to move his neck. He looked over and saw Peyton fast asleep. He looked at his cell phone and saw that it was 5:22 AM.
"Hey" Peyton said groggily.
"Hey"
"What time is it?" Peyton said as she stretched.
"5:20"
"Are you serious?" Peyton chuckled. "Ugh I just want to go to my bed."
"Yeah me too. How bout we call it a night…or morning?" Lucas tried to crack a joke.
"Well we should. My hotel?" Peyton said as she turned on her car. Lucas looked over at her surprised.
"Well uh... I don't-
"Lucas calm down, I mean your car is at my hotel." Peyton giggled as Lucas' face turned red with embarrassment.
"Of course. My bad" Lucas whispered.
"It's fine. I mean just everyone wants to sleep with you, and no one can be just friends… you're that hot." Lucas looked over and was about to apologize. "Chill Lucas it was a joke."
"Oh ok that's good. I thought you were mad." Lucas chuckled. "But I am glad we can be just friends."
"Yeah me too." Peyton whispered. No way was she just gonna be friends with Lucas, but she had to take it step-by-step.
"Hey Peyton thanks for this." Lucas said as he smiled at her. "You've changed a lot. In LA you probably would've stayed at your hotel throwing a fit."
"I think this is exactly what I needed to get back to my old self. Some Tree Hill lovin" Peyton chuckled.
"Yeah I'm glad all of us are back here. It can get back to the way it used too."
"Everything was simpler then." Peyton sighed.
"But we thought every little problem was the end of the world." Lucas chuckled.
"Yeah but now looking back, those problems were so insignificant."
"Yeah you know? So many problems could've been avoided. But of course we all exploded them to something that was bigger then it was."
"I miss it sometimes." Peyton sighed.
"Me too. You know just worrying what I was gonna have for dinner that night." Lucas chuckled. "Or what my point-average was."
"Worrying which party to go to?"
"Nah I was never the party type."
"Me either." Lucas looked over not believing her. "Seriously. I went for Brooke you know? To be her party buddy. I would've much rather been at home listening to music and drawing."
"Ugh me too" Lucas laughed remember all the times Brooke dragged him to the 'party of the year'. "I would much rather read a good book and listen to some music then go watch a bunch of people get drunk."
"I agree with you on that one Scott."
"It's crazy that we didn't work out." Lucas said surprising Peyton. "You know with all our similarities everyone thought we were each others halves." Peyton was about to agree that they were perfect together before he started up again. "I've learned though that your other half is someone who is your opposite. Someone to better your faults. If you're impatient, they're patient. If you're shy, they're outgoing. If you have a temper, they don't. I think that's what your other half is. Don't you agree?"
"Yeah, totally." Peyton whispered feeling worse then ever. "We're here."
"Alright I'm gonna go home, thanks Peyton for everything." Lucas smiled. He went over for a hug and she took a deep breath in, he smelled perfect. "Bye."
"Bye." Peyton whispered as he shut the door.
xxx
So I officially suck. I can understand if there are no readers. But someone did ask for an update and I promised one so here it is. Honestly there are only a couple of chapters left to tie up loose ends and then it's finished. If anyone is reading comment and tell me if it sucks. Tell me if it's good. Tell me what you want in this story. Cause honestly I don't know where to take it.