"Boyfriend! A damn boyfriend what the hell kind of excuses is that!" Lucas stormed through the living room mumbling over and over, 'damn boyfriend.'
"Luke…" Grayson moved to walk over to him yet Lucas didn't stop, Lucas didn't even seem to notice anyone else in the room. He just stormed passed them all walking out the front door with a slam.
"We got Brooke." Rachel jumped up grabbing Haley's hand who grabbed Molly's.
"We got Luke." Liam said standing up as him and Grayson headed towards the front door, "Nate you coming?"
"No." Nathan said simply as he reached over grabbing the remote and flipping through the channels.
"I got Nathan." Grayson mumbled waving Liam on as he turned on his feet to walk back over to the couch falling next to his friend.
"I'm not going to talk about it." Nathan told him right away as he tried to find something to watch. He didn't care what they said, he wasn't going to go talk to his brother who not an hour ago punched him and then stormed out about he was sure Brooke's boyfriend. Nope he wasn't going to talk about it.
"Alright we aren't going to talk about it." Grayson shrugged, "What we watching?"
"Brooke?" Rachel knocked on the door peeking in to see her best friend digging through her dresser, "Can we come in?"
"I don't care it's your house." Brooke shrugged as she moved around her bedroom cleaning up.
"Yeah." Rachel mumbled as they all walked in sitting down on Brooke's bed.
"Luke left." Haley told her after a silence seemed to fall over them just them sitting and Brooke cleaning, "He seemed pretty upset."
"Well Lucas seems to be lots of different things lately." Brooke muttered barely to herself as she walked into her closet as if she was looking for something but just in reality avoiding whatever her friends wanted to talk about.
"Brooke…" Rachel called leaning over on the bed to look into the closet.
"I'm not going to talk about it." Brooke answered immediately knowing what her friend was about to say.
"Fine we aren't going to talk." Molly shrugged lying down on Brooke's bed, "So where did you get these lamps?"
"Lucas will you stop!" Liam called having trouble keeping up with his best friend who seemed to be running down the beach in walking form. It was nuts Lucas was walking and Liam was running yet Lucas was still way ahead and not even winded.
"She said she had a boyfriend!" Lucas continued to move fast down the beach completely enraged, "Does that sound like a good reason at all! What kind of an excuse is that?"
"Umm…a good one." Liam shrugged thinking Brooke having a boyfriend was a real good reason they couldn't be together.
"No it is not a good one!" Lucas snapped as he spun around, Liam almost running into him as he did, "That…that douche bag doesn't give two shits about her! He doesn't know her! He doesn't know anything about her like I do!"
"Luke man…"
"He has no clue about her family growing up how they were never around. Or that when she was seven she fell into a pool and almost drowned and for the next year was terrified to get near water. Hell even now if it gets too close over her head she doesn't get in. He doesn't know how she has a scar on her left leg when she fell off her bike or her favorite movie or song, he doesn't know anything about her!"
"How do you know he doesn't know any of that?" Liam asked, "How do you know her own boyfriend doesn't know anything about her?"
"He doesn't make her feel like I make her feel." Lucas ignored his question.
"Lucas what you are doing to her isn't fair!" Liam yelled somewhat annoyed, "She has this life, one she has had for over the last four years since you have been gone and you can't just come here and expect her to drop everything!" He argued. Lucas has been gone from her, he hasn't been here, hell he hasn't spoken to her yet he expects her to just drop everything she has had for him, for him when he is only here for a damn summer! That wasn't fair for her at all.
"But she doesn't love him." Lucas whispered, "She deserves to be love and he doesn't love her and I know she doesn't love him."
"Do you love her?" Liam asked and Lucas fell quiet staring at the ground, "Because if you don't love her it doesn't matter what he knows and what you know. If you don't love her what is the difference between you and him?"
"Oh dude put it back on that channel that movie is awesome." Grayson said as Nathan once again went through all the channels, "Or don't that's cool too." He mumbled as Nathan kept going.
"I can't believe that jackass hit me." Nathan finally muttered some words as he seemed to take his anger out on the up button, "I mean I am his brother and he hit me! What a jackass." He let out a bitter laugh still clicking, "I'm glad Brooke kicked him out."
"How do you know she kicked him out?" Grayson asked hesitantly afraid if he pushed to far Nathan would just close up again.
"Hello did you not see him storm out of here? Like I said before Brooke and Lucas fought; they almost enjoyed it but there was one time, one time it was so real and she was so pissed I never seen my brother slam a door so hard."
"Why are you yelling at me?" Lucas snapped as Brooke and he argued upstairs in Nathan's room.
"Because you are being an asshole!" Brooke yelled like that was the most obvious answer in the world. He can't end their friendship just and expect her one to be happy about it and two think she would listen to anything he had to say.
"Well you are being stupid! You aren't thinking anything you are doing through!"
"Guys you think we could not yell?" Nathan asked; he really just wanted to hang out with his best friend. He had missed her and since he assumed Lucas was off with Jackie somewhere it would be ok to hang out at his house play some video games, catch up until Haley got off work to go eat; yet then Lucas came home, heard Brooke and Nathan talking and stormed in livid.
"I am thinking everything through!" Brooke yelled back.
"Guess that is a no." Nathan mumbled falling on his bed tossing down his controller from where he and Brooke were playing games.
"No you aren't! You can't just pack up your life and move like that will fix all your problems!" Lucas argued not getting why Brooke wanted to leave Tree Hill and move states, "You are just running away!"
"I am not running away from anything! I don't have any problems just some jackass who cuts himself out of my life then think he can tell me what to do!" Brooke shot back at him completely pissed. Lucas could not do that to her, he could not just tell her what she was supposed to be doing; when he stormed into the room hearing it she wasn't even talking to him!
"Brooke just get over that for like ten seconds and think what you are doing." Lucas said in a calmer tone, hell he tried to fix it but she said she was leaving and once he saw how Brooke narrowed her eyes on him; he knew he was wrong.
"Did you just tell me to get over it?" She growled at him placing her hands on her hips.
"Wow nice Luke." Nathan groaned grabbing his phone and checking some sports scores knowing Lucas just messed up…Again.
"Wait that came out wrong." He back tracked knowing that was not how he meant it and as soon as the words came out he wished they didn't.
"No! They came out just how you wanted and how dare you say that too me! After everything that has happened!"
"Brooke…"
"No you listen here Lucas Scott!" She shoved her finger in his face not caring at all what he had to say, "I don't and will not just get over it for a second. You cut me out of your life, you picked that nasty two faced bitch over me and you are the one who loves making a disappear; reappear act and I am the one this time who is telling you to go to hell!" She hissed as she got in his face giving him a look he had never gotten from her before, "I am not your friend Lucas, I am not anything to you anymore and the only person in this room who I care anything about is Nathan!" She lied completely, not that she didn't care about Nathan but just she still cared about him too, just wasn't going to let him know it.
"Brooke you don't mean that." Lucas sighed praying she didn't mean it, he hoped to everything inside of him she still cared about him.
"I do mean that! I mean it Lucas and as of now, as of right this second I am completely done with you! Jackie wanted me to not be in your life anymore; wanted me too not mess up ya'lls relationship well she just got her wish because I'm out of it. So you just need to stay the hell away from me!" she snatched her jacket off Nathan's bed, "Nate I'll call you later." She said not giving Lucas another glance before walking out slamming the door.
"Wow you did a good job on that one Lucas; you didn't seem like a complete asshole at all." Nathan said still looking at his phone.
"Shut the hell up Nathan." Lucas growled following Brooke's lead and storming out of his brother's room slamming his door as he did, then into his slamming his door.
"Oh please everyone leave, don't worry I didn't want to hang out. Oh make sure you slam my door as you do." Nathan spoke to himself annoyed tossing his phone on his bed, "Geez fun day."
"Trust me I know Brooke odds are good she just told him to go to hell." Nathan laughed rubbing his face where his brother hit him as it was bruised and sore, "And just like last time, I don't blame her."
"What do you think he was thinking?" Brooke yelled making her friends jump on the bed after the silence being broken, "Coming into my house to tell me to leave my boyfriend for him! What the hell is that about?"
"That maybe he likes you." Haley shrugged still trying to process everything she has learned in the last few hours.
"God he is so dumb! He think I was just going to fall all over him, be like oh yes Lucas I will dump my boyfriend and be with you; hell no I'm not!" Brooke yelled pulling her hair up in a pony tail.
"Why?" Molly asked hoping she wasn't over stepping as Brooke snapped her head to look at her, "I mean yeah I know I haven't known you long, I mean only a few days but in those few days I have noticed you two. I have noticed the way he looks at you and I don't know you would be stupid to not notice it."
"Well I guess I am just a big stupid dumbass because I didn't notice any of it!" Brooke threw her hands in the air annoyed, falling next to her friends on the bed.
"Brooke do you really think there was never a moment where something was different? Where you thought why is Lucas being like that, why is he looking at me like that or talking to me like that? I mean there was never anything?" Rachel asked.
"No." Brooke answered quickly as she sat there trying to remember everything, "I mean I don't think so." She ran her hand through her hair as she thought back.
"Whatcha doing?" Lucas fell on his best friend's bed after he entered like normal not knocking.
"Lucas!" Brooke freaked wrapping her towel tight around her, "I am in a towel!" She said like he didn't already know that.
"Hmm…I see that." Lucas smiled running his eyes up and down her body, "I've seen you in less." He shrugged placing his hands behind his head.
"Lucas!" She shrieked throwing a pillow at him making him laugh.
"You have some real nice legs." He smirked knowing one of Brooke's best features is her legs. They drive him nuts, so long and tone and even sitting here he just wants to reach out and touch them, "I always loved you legs." He grinned that sneak grin that makes her heart race.
"Lucas Scott you better put those eyes back in that head of yours." Brooke teased pointing at him and he laughed grabbing her by the wrist and yanking her on the bed with him, "Luke!" She squealed hoping her towel did expose anything. Yeah Lucas has seen her naked but still, it made her feel weird him seeing her naked.
"What are you doing today?" Lucas asked as he laid on top of her holding her hands above her head.
"Well I want to get dressed first." Brooke laughed wiggling her arms from his grips flipping them over so she was straddling him but keeping her towel still tight around her.
"Oh I like this." Lucas smirked giving Brooke a wink as he placed his hands on her hips, "Do you have anything on under there?" He teased reaching for the towel getting his hand knocked away.
"Yes I do." She informed him already putting on her panties before he walked in but was in the process of her bra and clothes, "My lower half is covered just not my top."
"Hmm…really?" He grinned rubbing her thigh with his thumb, "Want to drop that towel for me?"
"You're so dumb." Brooke rolled her eyes climbing off him walking into her closet pulling on Lucas's old long sleeve shirt he left there and she never gave back then his old boxers she stole forever back because she liked wearing them more than he ever did.
"I think you are wearing everything that is me." Lucas joked when Brooke walked out of her closet.
"Everything but theses." She teased pulling the side of his boxers down some to shower her red thong, "This one is mine."
"Oh I like that." He laughed getting another pillow in his face.
"So what's going on?" Brooke asked as she picked some clothes up.
"Nothing." Lucas shrugged as he watched her move around and started to ramble about something he wasn't really sure of. He felt bad he wasn't listening to her but his mind was on other things. He was thinking about other things. He had been thinking about those other things for a long time and since his night of drunkenness and his call he hadn't seen her. He hadn't talked to her and he loved the fact it was like nothing had changed, that with everything that has happened, their past, his stuff with Jackie, who would kill him if she knew he was actually here right now and not at Keith's shop, that with everything it was still the same.
"Luke…" Brooke dropped her clothes on the dresser seeing the distant look in her best- well former best friend's face. She really didn't know how to address him anymore. They were friends one day not the next, hanging out being flirty one day, passing each other in the halls without talking the next. It was all just a jumbled mess yet that didn't change the fact she could still look at him and know what was going on in that head of his, "Broody what's wrong?" She asked moving across the room to sit next to him on the bed.
"I've just missed you." He shrugged taking her hand in his, "Your rambling and hitting me with stuff and calling me stupid, your laugh and the way you roll your eyes when I say anything too you." He laughed a little looking at their hands, "I just miss my Brooke." He looked up giving her a look that never in her life she has gotten from him, "I miss you." He reached up brushing her hair back, "I miss you so much Pretty Girl."
"No." Brooke repeated shaking her head and any of her thoughts as she strummed her bed sheet, "No he never did."
"This sucks!" Lucas threw his hands up running his hands through his hair as him and Liam sat on the beach talking, "Why is life so complicated? Why is this relationship stuff so complicated? Brooke and I were best friends. We had been best friends for years and it's like everything just got a mess. I don't know what happened or when it happened but it all became just such a mess and I don't know how."
"I think…" Liam sat thinking for a second before turning to look at his best friend, "I think that two people of the opposite sex can't really be just friends. I think that if you spend so much time with them, day in day out that is bound to cross a line and you and Brooke crossed it. I mean look at Nathan and Haley."
"What you mean Nathan and Haley?" Lucas asked confused. He and Brooke weren't dating just friends so how does their complicated relationship have to do with his brother and best friend.
"Because Nathan and Haley didn't just start dating. I mean they said themselves they were just great friends. Haley was Nathan's Brooke. They hung out all the time, when she slept over it was in his bed, walked on his arm and when ya'll hung out it was the four of ya'll but it was still paired off you and Brooke, Nathan and Haley."
"I guess I never thought of that before." Lucas admitted thinking for a second. He never really thought about how Nathan and Haley started off as just best friends, just like him and Brooke.
"Exactly. Maybe Brooke and you would have at some point ended up together but you just started dating Jackie and after you realized your feelings everything was just…just a mess." Liam explained waving his hand around.
"You know at one point I was going to leave Jackie for Brooke." Lucas confessed something he had never told anyone before, "It was one night and I was missing her like crazy and I was going to tell her but then…"
"Then what?" Liam asked after Lucas trailed off.
"She told me she was leaving."
"Well I miss you too Luke." Brooke smiled a little as she watched her hand play with Lucas's, "I miss you a lot." She let out a dry laugh.
"What happened to us?" He frowned, "I mean I know what happened but it has to mean something that we are still so close. That with everything we are still here acting like we always do."
"Because it's us Luke. I don't know I think it will always just end like that." Brooke shrugged, "I mean at the end of the day no matter what happens, what is said or what is done you still know me better than anyone, care about me more than anyone else."
"You're my best friend Brooke." Lucas said moving a little closer to her on the bed, "And I always thought that sooner or later Jackie would get over anything she was going through and I would get you back. I just want you back."
"Luke…" Brooke shook her head feeling bad, she can tell by the pained look on his face something was up. It was like the look he had the night he came by to end their friendship. It was one that was worried, scared, hurt; one that was begging her to make this all easier for him and agree with anything he was about to say.
"If I left her do I get you back?" Lucas asked hoping she would say yes, praying she would say yes because if she did it might make everything he was feeling all that easier.
"Lucas…" Brooke shook her head taking his face in her hands.
"I mean that fixes everything right? I leave her and I get you back that's how it works right? I get you back; me and you go back to us." He begged just wanting her back.
"Lucas you don't want to do that." Brooke sighed leaning her forehead against his, "You don't want to lose her I know you love her. Even if I can't stand the girl I know you love her."
"But I don't. I mean I don't think I love her anymore. All we do is fight and argue and break up and I don't want that anymore." He told her resting his hands on her wrist that was still holding his face in her hands, "I just want my Pretty Girl back."
"Luke you can't break up her, I don't want you to leave her because…" She frowned looking down before looking back into his eyes, "Because I'm leaving. I don't want you to break up with her because you won't get me back because I'm not going to be here."
"Brooke you can't leave, you can't be leaving me." Lucas shook his head not agreeing with any of that, "I don't want you to leave me Brooke."
"Luke I'm not leaving you. It's not you I'm leaving, I'm just leaving here. I'm leaving Tree Hill and everything in it."
"Which includes me!" He jumped off the bed running his hand through his hair trying to processes this all. She couldn't be leaving him, he made his mind up he wanted her back; he wanted his best friend back. How was that supposed to happen when she wasn't there?
"Lucas…"
"You're my best friend Brooke. Other then Haley and Nathan you are all I have. It's us against everyone, it's always been us!" He yelled at her not believing any of this.
"Lucas it's not us anymore! It stopped being us when Jackie came along!" Brooke yelled back.
"But I am going to leave her!" Lucas yelled back, "I'm going to leave her and we are going to go back to us and it's all going to be ok again." He walked over cupping both her cheeks in his hands, "It's all going to go back to normal." He whispered kissing her forehead before leaning his forehead against hers, "I'm going to fix it."
"Lucas I'm not staying." She choked out as tears spilled over.
"But I want you too." Lucas whispered, "I want you to stay here, I want you to stay with me." He begged wrapping her in his arms, "Please just stay with me."
"I can't Lucas." She mumbled laying her forehead on his chest, "I just…I can't."
"She left me." Lucas shook his head grabbing a shell throwing it into the water, "It was like it happened all over again. When we were in her room earlier; her saying she couldn't was like it was happening all over again and I don't know."
"You know that you and her are never going to go back to normal right? That you and her are never going to be just friends ever again." Liam told him. He felt bad saying it, he didn't want to hurt his friend's feelings but it was true. After Lucas's confession it was never going to go back to them again.
"I know." Lucas sighed throwing another shell, "But honestly, we lost the chance of us ever being us again the moment we slept together." He admitted hating the fact it was true, the fact it changed everything; "We stopped being us a long time ago."
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