It was a new rainy day. Haley had already called Karen to know when they'd arrive so she could go visit Allie and then went to Brooke, ask her if she wanted to come along. The girl accepted and was now getting ready to leave the house. As she combed her hair in front of the mirror, she heard the door bell ringing, but since she wasn't alone, she didn't bother on opening the door. A couple of minutes later, she heard a knock on her door. Turning around, she saw Mitch standing there.

"Hello, gorgeous" he said smiling.

She got up on a jump, "Mitch?" she looked around, "How did you get in here?"

"A nice blond lady let me in" he said pointing downstairs with a head nod, "She told me you were up here in the bedroom, so…"

"Look, Mitch!" Brooke snapped before the man could finish, "I have nothing else to tell you, other than I already told you last night, so if you could just leave I'd…"

"Calm down, Brooke" he chuckled, "I came to return your coat" he stretched out his arm, holding her coat on one hand. She hadn't noticed that before, "You forgot it in my room last night."

"Oh" she picked it up, gently, kinda embarrassed, "Thanks."

"So…" he glanced around, pushing his coat away from his waist as he placed both hands on it, "Since I'm here" he gave her a suggestively look, "And you're here…"

She rolled her eyes, "You're leaving" and pushed him around going downstairs. He protested along the way and finally got away from her grasp as they reached the living room.

"C'mon, Brooke" he spun around and took her by the waist, "Just one more for the good times' sake."

She pushed him away, "Why are you using plural for? We hooked up once and that was it!"

"Exactly" he raised one eyebrow, "Don't you want more good memories?"

"No, I want you gone" she walked away, reaching for the front door, but he was faster and grabbed her by the arm, pulling her closer to him.

"You're not serious."

"Mitch, let got of me" she tried to get away from him again, but he wrapped his arms around her and she couldn't move, "Mitch… don't!"

Before she knew it, he pulled her closer and kissed her. She tried to get away but he was stronger than her and they were still like this when the door was opened again.

"I can't believe this…"

Lucas' whisper echoed through the silent room. Brooke could finally get away from Mitch as he was distracted by Lucas' sudden presence.

"Lucas…" she felt her heart skip a beat. He couldn't have a worse timing.

He just stood by the doorway, looking at her, "Is this why you wanted some time to think?"

"No" she shook her head and taking one step closer to him, "Lucas, this is not what you're thinking."

"Yeah, man" Mitch was standing behind Brooke and looking from above her shoulder with a smirk, "I just came to bring the coat she forgot in my hotel room last night."

Brooke turned angrily to him, "What are you still doing here?!"

He put both hands up in surrender and left the room, squeezing to go pass Lucas who was still at the doorway. He couldn't keep his eyes off Brooke who didn't know exactly what to do.

"Lucas…"

"Don't…" he lifted one hand in the air to make her stop and left too.

She ran after him, but he got inside his car and took off, without listening to her pleads. Running around, she got back inside the house, got the keys for Cooper's car on the hanger on the kitchen and left with his car, chasing Lucas. As she parked in front of his house, he was leaving his car on the garage. She rushed to him to try to make him listen to her.

"Lucas, stop it" she ran to catch him before he entered the house, "Listen to me…"

He ignored her and almost slammed the door on her face, but she raised one hand and stopped it.

"Hey! I'm talking to you."

"Really?" he turned around and got closer to her, "Or are you kissing randomly?"

She opened her mouth offended and he walked out on her again, "Ok! First of all, I was not kissing him, he was kissing me!"

"And you weren't fighting back!"

"Yes, I was!" she shouted but then tried to calm down, "You'd have seen that if you weren't so quick to jump into conclusions."

He shook his head and pointed outside, "You know why I went there? I went there after you!"

"I know that…"

"No, you don't! I went there to go after you, something you think I never did before, but I did. Two times before. And you know what happened back there? The first time you were with Felix and on the second time you were sleeping with Chris Keller!" he shouted gesticulating, "And you know what happened this time? You kissed someone else!"

"I didn't kiss him, Lucas!" she tried to sound firm, but she was almost tearing up.

"Yes, you did."

"No, I didn't. Please…" he walked away and she followed him around, "Just listen to me, please?" she grabbed him by his t-shirt as he walked inside his room to make him stop and waited until he turned to look at her, "It wasn't easy for me to be away from you either. I spent 8 months wondering what went wrong, why weren't you there with me already" she took a second to breathe, "I wished for you everyday. But you never came."

Lucas got quiet for a moment, listening to her words and then softly spoke, "Why just 8 months?"

"Because 8 months later I finally accepted my colleagues' invitation and went out for a drink or two. I had more than a few" she said almost on a whisper, "I wasn't feeling well and one of the guys took me home. He had been hitting on me since day one but I never even looked at him! But that night I was devastated."

Lucas had his arms crossed against his chest, "So you slept with him?"

"No! We just kissed, I swear to God, Lucas, I thought of you and felt so bad about myself… but he's still into me. I can't stop that!"

"Wait" he frowned, "He came with you from California then?"

"No, he followed me here, I didn't know."

They kept in silence for a moment when Brooke held her hands together, staring at Lucas and hopping he'd understand the situation. He, on the other hand, couldn't stop thinking about Brooke alone back there in California and that guy with her.

"Why aren't you with him? I mean, he was there, I wasn't. For all you knew, I had abandoned you. Right? Why not him?"

"Because" she started crying but smiling at the same time, "He's not you. Because he's not the one I love. The one I wanna spend the rest of my life with, the one who's on my mind all day, everyday. He's not the one my heart aches for."

Lucas didn't know if he'd cry or smile, or both just like her. He stood quiet for a second, looking at her, her words repeating on the back of his mind.

"How can you love me this much?" he asked on a breath.

She shrugged, "I just do."

He finally smiled to her, "I do too."

With the tears still coming down her cheeks, Brooke giggled and wrapped her arms around his neck as he pulled her to a kiss. The kiss they both have been waiting for such a long time. Over a year. He gently broke the kiss and looked deep into her hazel eyes.

"I love you."

"I love you, too" she caressed his cheek as he passed his index finger on one of her dimples, smiling.

"I missed you so much."

She tightened the hug, "I'm here now."

And she closed her eyes, feeling his lips touch hers again. They intensified the kiss as Lucas walked backwards leading her to his bed. He tripped over the edge of the bed and Brooke chuckled as he looked back, making sure he wasn't going to fall down. He sat down on the bed and Brooke bent over not to break the kiss as she softly pushed him back, making him lay on the bed and claiming on top of him.

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So this was the chapter everyone was looking for so far. I really hope you like it and give me happy reviews about it! As I said, the story's heading towards its end, but I think we still have a good few chapters ahead. The chapter's name is from a song by Strays Don't Sleep that I think you all know very well ;)