A/N - Hello, people!

Just want to say thanks to the reviewers of last chapter: brookenlucas4eva03, othfan326, Brucas3Naley23, bella, brucas333, Brucasxo4ever, onetreefan, BRUCAS123, Brucas2006, BDavis427, Brooke D., Brook-Lucas-Fan-23, and BrOoKe DaViS23.

This chapter's pretty short, but I think you'll like it ;)

Enjoy and review please!

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What's True

Chapter 12 -

--2010--

"Brooke!" Lucas called out, eyeing the brunette who was walking in the middle of the campus. "Brooke, wait up!" He ran after her, luckily able to catch up.

"What do you want?" She spat angrily. Her voice was cold and the words came out in a monotone voice.

"I just want to see how you're doing...with the baby and everything." He touched her arm and she flinched.

"Why would you care?"

"Why would I care? What are you talking about?" He stopped walking.

Talk about pregnancy hormones and mood swings.

"Oh, please." She replied incredulously, rolling her eyes. Had he thought she wouldn't be pissed as hell that he had already hooked up with some whore? "You know exactly what I'm talking about. But if you wanna play dumb, then have fun." She then resumed walking, leaving him standing there.

But he wasn't ready to give up.

"Brooke, will you just wait?!"

"God, what do you want, Lucas?" She turned back to face him, and this time her eyes had tears in them. "I can't deal with this, with you."

"That girl meant nothing, Brooke."

"Oh, so you and I breakup, well not really breakup 'cause we weren't really officially together to begin with, and you jump into bed with some random ho?"

"First off, you're the one that broke up with me, so what does it matter to you?"

"I know I broke up with you. I know that, okay? And for some messed up reason, for a split second, I was thinking maybe that was a mistake...But clearly I was wrong about that. I made the right decision. And as far as I'm concerned, you can continue being a man-whore. Goodbye, Lucas."

--2015--

"Look...Brooke, about last week, I—."

"I'm sorry." She cut him off. She wasn't sure she knew exactly what she was apologizing for, but she thought it was appropriate to say so.

"For what?...You shouldn't have to apologize...I was the one who came over and dumped everything on you like that...I know it must've been a lot to handle."

"It was." She nodded and took a seat on the couch. She patted the vacant spot next to her, and he took the seat. "And I've just been thinking about everything that's happened in the past few years. And I'm gonna be honest with you, Luke. We've been a mess. Not individually, but I guess more so as a couple, as a separated couple raising a daughter. And then you came over last week and dropped that news on me...and I—."

"Again, I'm sorry about that."

"Wait." She held her hand out. "Let me finish." She took a deep breath before continuing. "I freaked out. Because I never had anyone say they loved me, besides Rylie of course, in years. And I think the last person that said that to me was you also. And that part especially scared me, that it was you...because there's been something going on between us since the wedding. Since I came to talk to you that day...or maybe even before that, who knows..."

"Brooke..."

"And then Haley talked to me...and she made me realize that I've always been too stubborn when it came to things like this, and I still am." She swallowed hard and bit her bottom lip, feeling the tears cloud her eyes. "I've been running away from my problems, ignoring my feelings..." Her eyes glanced around the whole room before landing back on the blonde's blue eyes.

"Brooke, please don't cry." He moved closer to her and wiped her eyes with his thumb. "I don't want you to cry."

"I've been ignoring my feelings." She repeated. "My feelings for you." She admitted and shook her head.

"Brooke—."

"I got pregnant with Rylie and you were with those other girls and I always blamed you, but it was my fault all along, all this time...because I was the one that pushed you away that whole time. And then Lindsey happened, and I thought that that was it. I blew my chance. I thought it was over, we were over...and then you said she still loved me, and everything changed with that."

"I do still love you, Brooke Davis." His voice was soft and sincere and made her heart melt.

"I...I still love you, too."

And that was it. Her confession was out.

Years of keeping it bottled up, and with one long, heartfelt talk with Lucas, it was out.

He looked shocked by her revelation for a second, and she was contemplating whether she should've told him what she did or not.

Her thoughts were put to an abrupt stop when his lips crashed upon hers, his arm wrapping around her back.

She would have thought it would feel weird and awkward after all this time, but it felt completely natural, like the five years hadn't passed. Like they were still teenagers who had just fallen in love.

He pulled away unexpectedly, and stared into her hazel eyes.

"I'm sorry." He whispered in a hoarse voice. It was a random sentence, but Brooke knew where it came from and what he was talking about.

He wasn't apologizing for kissing her now or anything like that, he was apologizing for everything that had happened between them in the past years, everything that had broken her heart, and everything wrong he had done to her.

Seconds later, their lips were attached once more, and it was only a matter of time that their intimacy was brought into the bedroom upstairs.

He pulled away for the second time once both were on the bed, both their breaths colliding in the air.

"Are you sure you want to..." He trailed off; she got the point of the question.

She nodded timidly before speaking. "Yeah...yeah, I'm sure."

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A/N - So there you have it!

I had a bit of trouble writing this chapter, but I hope you enjoyed it! And brucas are finally together again...for now anyways (I don't mean to make it sound like this is just a one time thing between them...but well,...you'll see...)

Hope everyone enjoys OTH tomorrow and please leave a REVIEW!

Melissa