"Brooke Davis, you owe me big time!" Nathan Scott barged into Brooke Davis' bedroom through her side door.

Inside Brooke's bedroom was Peyton Sawyer. Peyton was lying across the bed with her crutches lying beside her on the bed and her cast in her hands. Brooke had gone downstairs to grab Peyton some ice cream after accompanying her to a physical therapy session.

"Oh hey Peyton." Nathan stopped in his tracks when he realized Peyton was in the room not Brooke.

Peyton rolled over onto her stomach so she was looking at Nathan, "Looking for Brooke?"

Nathan nodded, "Is it that obvious?" He asked sarcastically.

Peyton laughed and shook her head. "I'm wondering how long you and Brooke can actually keep all of this up."

"What are you talking about?" Nathan sat down on the bed beside his ex-girlfriend.

Peyton pushed herself up so she was no longer lying down, "I know about you and Brooke, Nathan! I'm her best friend and I notice things."

Nathan rolled his eyes and plopped back onto the bed, "It's complicated!"

"Okay so we ran out of mint but we still have cookies n cream!" Brooke came back into the room with two bowls of ice cream in her hands. "Nathan? What are you doing here? And in my bed with Peyton?"

"I thought you'd like the sight of him lying in your bed?" Peyton teased her best friend. "Cookies and cream is fine, thanks."

"Peyton!" Brooke squealed as she hit her friend with one of the pillows resting on her bed. "You have such a big mouth, I swear…"

Nathan pulled himself up from his lying position on Brooke's bed. "I already know that she knows about us."

"Peyton, you really need to learn how to keep a secret or I'm going to have to trade you for Bevin as a new best friend." Brooke kicked off her shoes and climbed into the bed.

"Why not trade me for Haley?" Peyton managed to slide her way off of the bed and out of the way of pillows being thrown at her by both Nathan and Peyton. "Too soon?"

Brooke and Nathan both nodded in agreement, "Way too soon." They said in unison.

"Well I'll just be downstairs watching the TV!" Peyton limped over to the door, "I'll turn it up so I don't hear any moaning that will be taking place up here the moment I hit the power button on the remote."

"Peyton!" Brooke threw one last pillow at her best friend, "You are such a pain in the ass sometimes!" Her cheeks began to burn and turn red.

Peyton laughed and made her way down the hall to Brooke's living room.

Nathan pulled Brooke into his arms and laughed, "Somebody is blushing pretty hard!"

Brooke buried her face into Nathan's muscular chest. "Don't look!" She laughed and pulled away from Nathan's chest, "Why did you come here anyways?"

Nathan squinted as he tried to think of the reason he'd come over to Brooke's home in the first place. It suddenly came back to him and he snapped his fingers together, "I wanted to let you know that it is official. I will be escorting Haley James to the prom next weekend thanks to you and your poor excuse for a lie."

"I told you I panicked!" Brooke pushed Nathan down onto the bed, "It won't be so bad! You liked Haley once so there has to be something there that is still fun that you can enjoy while you're at the prom with her."

"So who are you going with? Lucas?" Nathan pulled Brooke down onto his chest.

She took a deep breath and let it out, "I'd never thought I'd be saying this but I'm actually going to prom alone! Everyone has a date except me."

"Lucas hasn't asked you yet?" Nathan questioned.

"Nope!" Brooke turned over so she was lying on top of Nathan's chest, "Would you mind if he did?" She brushed her lips against his. "Would that just drive you crazy and make you super jealous?"

Nathan laughed, "Hell yeah I would get jealous!" He kissed Brooke softly on her lips, "I want to be the one taking you to prom. I want to be the one in the pictures you look back on in ten years when you're bored."

Brooke laughed and planted a gentle kiss upon his lips. "We can still take pictures together for us to look back on when we are old and grey haired grandparents!"

"Um Brooke!" Peyton called out to her best friend from the end of the hall. "Someone is at the door for you."

Brooke sighed heavily but remained lying against Nathan's chest. "Who is it?"

"It's Haley! Do you want me to send her around to the side door?" Peyton yelled up the hall.

Brooke and Nathan both shot up from their positions on the bed. Nathan slipped his shoes back on his feet and gathered up his book bag.

"No! I'll be right there." Brooke called out to Peyton as she watched Nathan gather his belongings.

"Well too late she is already walking around to the side door." Peyton called out.

"Damn it, Peyton!" Nathan said under his breath, "I swear she wants us to get caught." He kissed Brooke on the lips and ran for her front door.

Before Brooke could run after Nathan for another kiss a knocked sounded off on her side door. Brooke checked her appearance in her vanity's mirror, fixing her ruffled up hair and smeared make-up before going to the door.

Haley stood nervously on the opposite side, "Hey Brooke!"

"Hey tutor girl." Brooke stepped aside to let Haley into her bed room. "Don't be offended when I say you are the last person I expected to find on my door step."

Haley walked inside Brooke's bedroom, "No offense taken! You are the last person I thought I would be coming to thank."

"Thanking?" Brooke plopped herself down onto her round bed, "What are you thanking me for?"

Haley stood awkwardly in the middle of Brooke's bedroom while Brooke lied comfortably in her own bed.

"I wanted to thank you for getting Nathan to ask me out to prom!" Haley's face lite up at the memory of that afternoon. "Lucas told me everything!"

Brooke no longer felt comfortable with Haley being in her room, "You really don't have to thank me for this!"

Haley took a seat on the edge of Brooke's round bed. "I really do need to thank you and I think I owe you a bit of an apology."

Brooke frowned as she wondered what Haley would be apologizing for, "What did you do?"

"Nothing too horrible! I promise." Haley laughed softly as she inched closer to the brunette cheerleader, "I just wanted to apologize for thinking you were a selfish two-faced bitch who just slept around with every guy in the school."

Haley's word felt like a slap to the face, a slap that was still stinging Brooke's cheeks. "Ouch!" Brooke mumbled as an reaction to Haley's apology. "That really hurt Tutor Girl!" She held her cheek as if she had really been slapped.

"Finally made it up the damn hall!" Peyton panted in the doorway of Brooke's bedroom, "What I miss?" Peyton dropped her crutches and threw herself down onto Brooke's plush bed. "I am in no condition to break up a bitch fight so let's not go there today! Okay?"

Haley nudged the blond haired girl who was lying in between her and Brooke Davis, "I just came here to thank Brooke for getting Nathan to ask me to prom and to apologize for thinking so ill of her."

Peyton began to laugh but Brooke hit the girl with a pillow.

"What?" Haley asked, confused.

Peyton shook her head before she sat up in the bed, "You came to thank your boyfriend's ex-girlfriend for hooking you two up? I thanked Brooke for taking Nathan off my hands."

Brooke's held up her petite index finger up in the air, "For the record I did not take anything or anyone! You two were broken up and you gave me the go ahead to date him."

Haley and Peyton both shot Brooke a look that made the girl hide her red face in a pillow.

"The point is…" Peyton turned back to Haley, "It's a little messed up! You either did it because you don't know any better or because you wanted to rub it into Brooke's face, and you're a smart girl so I think it was to rub it in."

Haley nervously bit down on her lip, "You may be right about that!"

"Haley!" Brooke squealed as she popped up in her bed, "You came here to rub Nathan in my face? So uncalled for." She rolled her brown eyes. "Well congrats Tutor Girl! You have a date to prom and I don't!" Brooke stormed into her bathroom and slammed the door shut.

"Oh I didn't know!" Haley said to Peyton, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Peyton threw both hands up into the air, surrendering. "I thought she'd find a random hot guy at school to go with and just ditch him at the party."

Haley sighed and walked over to the door of Brooke's bathroom, "Brooke!" She gave the door a quiet knock. "Brooke! I'm sorry about rubbing me and Nathan in your face! I didn't know you…"

"Just go!" Brooke yelled out from the other side of the door.

"Brooke!" Peyton pleaded from the bed, "Come out."

"You can leave too." Brooke yelled out, "I just want to be by myself so both of you can just go…"

The two girls standing on the other side could hear the hurt in Brooke's usually solid voice. Each girl hesitated but left out of the side door, leaving Brooke locked in her bathroom alone.

The next morning Brooke parked away from Peyton who rode to school with Haley and Lucas. She still felt a little sting towards them about the whole prom situation. The only person she was willing to talk to was Nathan.

"Hey Nate." Brooke quietly approached the jock and his group of friends.

Nathan frowned and pulled Brooke into a hug, "You feel any better?"

"I am alone and no one wants me! Yup, I feel so much better." Brooke's frown deepened.

"Let's not forget how badly I want you," Nathan whispered into her ear.

Brooke couldn't help but smile at the handsome jock's words. "Thank you!" She kissed him on the cheek, "I'll let you get back to your loser friends."

Nathan laughed and playfully pushed Brooke, "Now there is the Brooke Davis I know and love!"

Brooke stopped walking and turned to face Nathan, "Love?"

"That just slipped out." Nathan said nervously as his cheeks turned a bright red.

Nathan's jock buddies all began to applaud and shout their praises out to their friend while Nathan and Brooke stood frozen. "Way to go man!"

"Hey Brooke!" Bevin came up to her cheer captain, "I was told to come retrieve you and take you away to your magic locker."

Brooke was forced to turn her attention away from Nathan and on to her friend, Bevin. "Who told you to come retrieve me?"

Bevin gave her shoulders a shrug, "Now I don't think I am supposed to tell you that. All I am supposed to tell you is that I left something in your locker and I need you to get it out for me right now!"

Brooke squinted, "But you didn't leave anything in my locker!"

"Just please play along!" Bevin pleaded with her friend. She held out her hand to Brooke and Brooke took it.

The two cheerleaders walked down the hallways hand in hand until they got to Brooke's locker.

"Okay, my part is done! I hope you enjoy your locker." Bevin pranced down the hallway.

Brooke was nervous about what awaited her in her locker so she took a deep breath before opening it. Inside her locker were pictures of her and Lucas taken from their dates, hanging from the roof of her locker were pink decorations, and on her mirror written in lipstick were the words 'Lucas and Brooke Forever.'

"You like it?" Lucas came up behind Brooke and smiled widely.

"You pimped out my locker?" Brooke squealed as she took in the beautiful sight of the decorated locker. "I love it!" She turned and took Lucas into a hug. "Thank you for this!"

Lucas laughed and held Brooke in his arms, "I'm glad you like it but I wanted to ask you something?"

"Please be prom! Please be prom!" Brooke thought anxiously to herself. "What is it?" She managed to say calmly.

"Brooke Penelope Davis!" Lucas began, "Will you do me the honor of becoming my prom date?"

Brooke squealed and kissed Lucas, "Of course I will!"

Haley had pulled Nathan along to watch Lucas ask Brooke out to prom so he had been there watching the whole time. It hurt him to see Brooke kiss Lucas with such ease. It made all it real, Brooke didn't know who she wanted to be with and she didn't seem ready to make up her mind.

"How did you know that this is how I wanted to be asked to prom?" Brooke wrapped her arms around Lucas' neck.

Lucas laughed, "I overheard you telling Nathan yesterday so I came to school early with Peyton and Haley and they helped me out with it all. I'm no good with a glue gun!"

"Wait, Haley helped you out with this?" Brooke scanned the hallway and found Haley leaning into Nathan's arms. The sight stung Brooke's eyes but she forced a smile upon her thin pink lips.

"Yeah! She really wanted the surprise to be good enough for you." Lucas kissed Brooke. "So was it good enough for you Brooke?"

Brooke peeled her brown eyes off of Nathan and Haley, "Anything you do for me will always be good enough!"

"Have I told you how special I think you are?" Lucas brushed his nose against hers.

Brooke smiled and playfully brushed her brown curls from her shoulder, "I know! I know!" She laughed. "I'm pretty damn special." She gave herself a pat on the back. "But have I told you how special I think you are?"

Lucas shook his head, "Nope! Not lately."

"Well I think you're pretty damn special mister!" Brooke whispered against his lips, "And I feel pretty lucky to have you as my prom date."

Lucas playfully clutched his heart, "What are you doing to my heart Brooke Davis?"

Brooke laughed and placed her hands on his chest, "Only breaking it." She thought to herself. Brooke could feel Nathan's eyes burning a hole into the side of her head.

The bell rang and snapped Brooke out of her thoughts and emotions. The whole group of friends had first period together so Brooke could not escape Nathan's stare or Haley's bright smile.

"We are going to try a little exercise." The teacher stepped forward, "We are going to try it both ways since I doubt any of your little teenage minds have matured past any of your feelings getting hurt in this first attempt."

Everyone in the class all began to look around at one another, wondering who would be the weak link.

"I will call on two people and I want them describe the other person in one word." The teacher sat down on the top of his wooden desk. "Doesn't sound to hard! Does it?"

Everyone sitting in the classroom shook their heads and this time as they looked around they wondered who they would be asked to describe.

"First I choose Peyton Sawyer and…" The teacher picked names from a wooden bowl, "Jake Jagielski."

Peyton looked up from her doodling on her notebook to find Jake staring at her from across the room with a warm smile stretched across his face.

"I see Peyton as deep." Jake answered first.

Peyton frowned as she tried to pick one word to describe her boyfriend, "Jake is talented."

"A little boring start but whatever!" The teacher pulled out two more names, "Haley James and Brooke Davis."

Brooke and Haley both locked eyes with one another. Haley was still wearing that bright smile from that morning after witnessing Brooke and Lucas' loving embrace.

"Brooke Davis in one word is strong." Haley said with nod.

Brooke scrambled her mind for one word to describe the girl she only knew as Tutor Girl. "Haley James is intelligent!"

"C'mon guys! Let's pick things up." The teacher said as she pulled out two more names. "Lucas and Nathan Scott."

Lucas turned to his brother, "Nathan is confident!"

Nathan couldn't help but roll his eyes at his brother's corny answer, "Lucas Scott is a bastard!"

Everyone in the entire room let out an audible gasp at Nathan's harsh answer but Nathan sat still in his seat wearing a smirk across his lips.

Nathan's words hurt Lucas' feelings so he got up and stormed out of the classroom.

"I got it!" Brooke stood up from her desk but she stopped at Nathan's desk, "What the hell is wrong with you? This isn't the boy I fell in love with." She whispered before disappearing behind the wooden door.

Nathan instantly felt overwhelmed with guilt after realizing how upset it made everyone around him, especially Brooke. He felt like an idiot for letting his brother get under his skin and he felt like he just lost Brooke to his brother, again.