Brooke walked through school with a huge smile on her face. Today, she felt, was her day. Nothing was going to go wrong and she was just going to have the best day ever so far. This morning when she was with Nathan just validated the fact that Boston was not like Tree Hill. For once Brooke didn't have to succumb to the pressure of always having to fake her emotions and she found herself genuinely smiling.
She didn't care that she didn't have people to talk to because at least she wasn't thinking about the hell that was Tree Hill. She sat in her English class next to Nathan just chatting away when a new girl walked in. At least from what Brooke could tell she was the new girl because she hadn't seen her before and Brooke wanted to let her know that she wasn't alone.
The girl Brooke observed was tall almost as if she played some sport like basketball or volleyball, she wore cute designer jeans that Brooke could pick out from a mile away, her blonde hair was natural a rarity that Brooke had noticed around the school, and her smile seemed genuinely forced like Brooke's used to be back home. The girl turned away from the teacher and looked around the room before setting in front of Brooke. Brooke using her cheerleading training tapped the girl on the shoulder and the girl turned around making her ponytail almost smack Brooke in the face.
"Hi I'm Brooke Davis and this is my friend Nathan Scott. We're new here from Tree Hill and you are?"
"Jennifer Madison just transferred here from Rhode Island."
"Well Jennifer you now know the 2 other members of the 'I'm new to the city from a small town' club." The girl looked at Brooke before laughing her blue eyes twinkling.
"I'm honored I guess." Brooke smiled and turned her attention to the front as the teacher started talking about their homework. Brooke knew that today was her day and nothing was going to bring her down. Things with Nathan were going fantastically well and she might have just made a new friend.
When lunched rolled around Brooke found herself sitting with Jennifer and some of the other kids from her history class that she had made friends with during class when they were working on a group project when Nathan came over. Brooke beamed from ear to ear. It was nice hanging out with non jock people.
Nathan watched as Brooke and Jennifer laughed and joked together and he couldn't help the smile that was growing on his face. He was happy that Brooke was in a better mood than yesterday, she deserved to have things down differently than in Tree Hill. She's been through enough that finally things should be going right. He picked up his stuff ignoring the calls from Steven and walked over to Brooke and Jennifer. "Hey is this seat open?" Brooke looked up and smiled her dimples so cute that Nathan just wanted to kiss her.
"Of course it's open." Jennifer answered for Brooke who was still kinda shocked that Nathan was actually sitting with her instead of sitting with Steven and the other basketball players. She smiled and leaned against Nathan laughing at something Jennifer said, Nathan put his arm around Brooke and gave her a small squeeze, he knew how hard it is for Brooke to trust someone since what Peyton did. He smiled and laughed as Jennifer told a story from her old school.
After school Brooke kissed Nathan and ran off to hang out with Jennifer, they were going to the go to the mall and then back to the apartment to hang out. He smiled as he watched her leave, he was happy that she was finally happy.
Brooke and Jennifer walked aimlessly around the mall laughing and talking like old friends. "So Jennifer why did you move to Boston?" Jennifer looked up over her coffee cup and looked at Brooke searching her face for something.
"Well," She took a deep breath deciding that she could trust Brooke. "My parents split up and I decided to stay with my dad because my mom has problems so he moved out here for a job."
"I'm sorry." Brooke felt bad for prying into her life because she didn't know this girl that well and shouldn't have pried into her life.
"It's okay it's just hard sometimes, why are you in Boston?"
"Well since you told me your story I'll tell you mine." Brooke walked over to an open table in the food court and set her bags down setting her coffee in front of her. "I left Tree Hill because I was so heartbroken that I decided to just pack up and move. My ex-boyfriend was happy with my best friend, my best friend had her new best friend Haley so I packed up my stuff and left. I felt like I wasn't needed anymore so in the middle of the night I went to Nathan's told him that I was leaving even though at the time we barely said two words to each other."
"Why'd you tell him if you didn't talk to him?" Jennifer broke in as she leaned closer to Brooke.
"I knew that he wouldn't tell Lucas, my ex-boyfriend, Peyton, my ex-best friend, or Haley, his ex-wife."
"Wow that makes my life seem like a walk in the park."
"Yeah Tree Hill was drama city and I didn't do much to stop it." She joked not wanting to make herself look like an angel. "But yeah that's the reason I felt Tree Hill."
"It must suck to have your best friend turn against you."
"Yeah it did but now that I look at it, maybe it was supposed to happen. I mean maybe she and Lucas were supposed to fall in love so then I would be with Nathan."
"You guys seem like a good match."
"You think?"
"Yeah." Brooke smiled and noticed a sad look in Jennifer's eyes. "What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing." Brooke titled her head and took a good hard look at Jennifer and knew she was lying.
"You know you can tell me." Brooke offered hoping to let her know that even though they've only known each other for less than 24 hours Brooke felt like Jennifer was going to be a good friend.
"It's nothing."
"Alright, well how about we had back to my place and hang out."
"Sounds like fun." Brooke smiled and together she and Jennifer went back to Brooke and Nathan's apartment to hang out. 'Maybe Boston's not like Tree Hill.' Brooke thought as she and Jennifer hung out that afternoon while Nathan was at basketball practice.
