Lose Yourself
Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone from One Tree Hill!
A/N: So, I'm not quite sure if it has been 7 days since I posted that Authors Note but it has took me a little longer to get this chapter up than I first thought, simply because of my stupidity to be honest, it has happened 3 times, I have accidently pressed that little red cross button in the top corner without saving what I had wrote! So I had to rewrite it! Which means that some of the stuff that I first wrote isn't actually on this chapter since I couldn't remember word by word and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. I accidently close it because normally when I go out on word, I just click on yes to save it when I close the window, and I'm still not used to writing straight into this site yet so hopefully I won't do it again.
"Brooke, you can't still be mad at me, can you?" Chase asked in annoyance as Brooke walked into the kitchen on Friday morning without saying a word to her boyfriend.
"Grace is five years old, Chase, you don't tell a five year old little girl that her Dad is dead when he's not!" Brooke hissed coldly as she fumbled with the coffee machine distractingly.
"Well she asked me, Brooke! What the hell did you want me to say? That her Daddy didn't want her!" Chase argued.
"No! But you should have told her something else! I don't know...that he lived in a different country or something! I don't care, Chase! But you don't tell her that he is dead! And you should have come to me! I'm her Mom!"
"Yeah I think I know that, Brooke. But I helped raise her with you when you had nobody else! Nathan, Haley and Rachel were off at College and Peyton was doing her own thing! I was here when they weren't! When Lucas wasn't!"
Brooke slammed the coffee machine in frustration noticing that the machine was working very slowly. She groaned and rubbed her eyes over her head "I don't have time for this" she muttered "I have to go to work" she finished before going to leave the room.
"Yeah, go on then, Brooke, run off to work" Chase spat coldly causing Brooke to turn around.
"What the hell is your problem?" Brooke asked angrily "Why are you acting like such an ass?"
"I'm not the one who has been acting differently ever since their ex-junkie of an ex-boyfriend crawled his ass back to town, not to mention, let her daughter see him! How do you know he is even clean, Brooke?"
"He hasn't touched the drugs in a year" Brooke defended her ex. "And I'm only doing what's best for Grace, she deserves to know her real Dad and honestly, Chase, I am sick of having this conversation with everyone!"
"Yeah well then what the hell does Lucas have over you then, huh?"
"What are you talking about" Brooke frowned confused "Lucas has nothing over me"
"But there's something there, right? With him?"
Brooke scoffed "Of course not"
"Well then why are you always so quick to defend him? After everything that he has done to you, why are you always the first one to jump to his defence" Chase quized coldly.
"Because everyone deserves a second chance, Chase, including Lucas"
"You see, even the way you say his name is different!" Chase shouted in disbelief.
Brooke let out a bitter laugh "Oh my god, I can't believe I am staying here to listen to this, you are being an idiot, and I am going to go work before I say something that I might regret" she told him angrily before walking out of the room.
"Oh that's great Brooke! Run away like you always do!" He shouted after her and Brooke shook her head angrily before slamming the front door behind her but immediately cringed when she realised that Grace was still asleep, but the girl could be a deep sleeper a lot of the time so she hoped that would be the case this morning.
Brooke looked down at her watch as she parked her car down the road from her Clothes 'over' Bro's store and cursed as she realised that she was late, if her Mother was there she would probably be throwing a tantrum right now. She quickly grabbed her purse and her bag from the back before jumping out the car and locking up before speed walking down the street towards her store. She quickly swung the door open to see customers already looking through the racks and gave an apologetic smile as she saw Millicent standing behind the counter.
"Oh Milli, I am so sorry that I am late! Again" She apologised quickly and placed her stuff on the counter "I slept in and then there was this stupid thing with Chase, and then of course traffic on the main street was reallybad and then Rachel called me on the way over so I had to pull over to talk to her because she claimed that it was something important but it really wasn't, all she wanted was some advice on what she could wear tonight for Tric so of course I got really pissed off at her and then this stupid truck driver wasn't exactly helping by cutting me off when I tried to pull out! Not to mention that traffic was already a bitch" she rambled without taking a breath and looked at Millicent who was nodding along, being used to Brooke talking at a million miles an hour. "So yeah" she breathed out "Sorry"
"It's okay, Brooke" Millicent smiled "Victoria called earlier saying that she is held up in New York so she won't be back until Monday" she told her boss.
Brooke smiled "That's brilliant" she commented.
"Oh and there's someone here to see you" Millicent remembered "He's waiting in your office"
"Great" Brooke muttered sarcastically remembering that some rich buyer from some stuck up company that her Mother was friendly with was supposed to be coming over sometime over the weekend and she was even less thrilled to hear that the propped up Hampton's reject was a man. She straightened out her outfit and ran her fingers through her waved curls before walking around the back and into her office. "Hi there-" she started but got cut off when the man turned around to be Lucas. "Lucas" she sighed.
"Hi" Lucas greeted nervously with a smile.
"What are doing here?" Brooke asked getting straight to the point.
"I haven't heard from you all week" Lucas mumbled quietly "I just..." he trailed unsure of he was overstepping the mark. "I just wanted to know if I would be able to see Grace again"
Brooke sighed, she hadn't meant to ignore Lucas, but what did he expect? Yes, she said that he could be involved in Grace's life but slowly, she had had a busy week with work and not to mention the whole argument with Chase about Lucas's 'death', and of course Nathan finding out that she had already let Lucas meet Grace, she just didn't want to deal with him while she had other things going on. "I know, I'm sorry" she half-hearted apologise.
"But you aren't" Lucas caught her out, he wasn't stupid, whether Brooke liked it or not, he knew her. "I don't understand, Brooke, you say I can meet my daughter and get to know her but you don't answer my phone calls, you haven't made a single effort since last week for me to see Grace. I don't get it, how am I supposed to prove myself to you that I can be a good father if you won't even give me the chance?"
"Lucas, I have just had a bad week, that's all" Brooke told him but she did feel guilty about it now, he did kind of have a point. "Look, maybe...maybe we can meet up tomorrow" she suggested.
Lucas smiled and nodded his head "I would like that, I mean...I will have to ask Keith if I can take a few hours off work but I'm sure he won't mind" he said gratefully. "Thank you"
Brooke shrugged and gave him a small smile "Sure"
"So uh..." Lucas started and rubbed the back of his neck "How have you been"
"Fine" Brooke answered abruptly but her face softened when she saw the disappointed look on the blonde's face. "I've been okay" She re-answered "Work has been pretty hectic this week"
"You have done well for yourself, Brooke" Lucas told her honestly "I mean look at this place, you own your own business! A clothing store, it's amazing"
"You really think so?" Brooke asked sighing as she walked around the desk and sat down on her large leather chair and leaned back, Lucas sitting on the chair across from the desk. "I love my job, I do, and Clothes 'over' Bro's is a dream come true" she told him and Lucas nodded as he waited for her to continue. "But it's not everything, you know? At the end of the day, it's just a job, right?"
"Maybe" Lucas shrugged "But I always thought that it would have been your dream" he commented "I remember back in High School, how passionate you were about clothes, I mean, you used to drag me around the mall at least once a week!" he smirked.
Brooke let out a small laugh but then it faded as she looked around "But it feels like every day this is becoming less and less fun, and then what's the point of it all?"
Lucas stayed silent for a few seconds as he thought about what she had just said before replying "Maybe you just need to take a s,tep back, like you said, if you aren't enjoying this like you used to then maybe you need to go back to the way things were before" he suggested with a small shrug.
"That's easier said than done" Brooke pointed out with a bitter laugh "You don't have my mother as your CEO"
"Yeah" Lucas replied curiously. "What's with that anyway? Your Mom? I thought you hated her?"
"I do" Brooke mumbled under her breath but when she realised that wasn't a very good reason she carried on. "After..." she trailed awkwardly "After you left" she continued and Lucas immediately cringed but let her carry on "I started up a website, Mouth helped me, I made designs from home and sold them online to make some quick cash, the only problem was that loads of people were buying them, too many people, but Haley and Peyton helped me, and then even Rachel gave us a hand and soon my little clothing line became bigger than an online store, by this time, my parents came back to Tree Hill and they found out I was pregnant so they kicked me out" she said letting out a small laugh "So, they found small place for me, to keep me quiet, just big enough for me and the baby when it came, the line was paying my rent, even though I found it hard to keep up with the demands" she told him, completely forgetting who exactly she was talking to. "When I graduated, Grace was almost 1 year old and things were pretty hard but I managed, but for the summer, I went to California, just me, Peyton and Grace, I didn't know it at the time but my parents were there, for some odd reason, my Mom let us stay in one of our beach houses and then she found out about Clothes 'over' Bro's and she said that there was no reason why I couldn't make it great. I agreed." she sighed "Basically, flash forward 4 years and she has helped me create this amazing business" she felt exhausted after explaining all of that, it all happened so fast, before she knew it, her Mother was controlling more parts of the company than she was.
Lucas sat silently thinking about what she had just told him, he couldn't help but feel like shit in all honesty. "I'm sorry, Brooke" he told her sincerely.
"Don't" Brooke muttered "Don't apologise for something you can't change"
"I know but I wish I could. I was so messed up back then, everything with Dan and my Mom and Keith just fucked up my life, it turned me into a man that I hate, and I let him get to me, I let his words stick inside of me and eat me up to the point where I couldn't take it anymore, so instead of doing the right thing and talking to you about it and ignoring what he said, I ran away, like I always do, and I am so sorry for that, Brooke, you have to know that. Leaving you back then, leaving that stupid stupid note and running off after just being stabbed, is the biggest regret of my life, not getting to know my daughter is the biggest mistake I have ever made, and I have done a lot of questionable things in the past"
"Like what?" Brooke asked bluntly and raised her eyebrows.
"Huh?" Lucas stuttered out, being caught off guard.
"What kind of stupid things? The ones I don't know about anyway" She pointed out "I know you moved to New York, but what exactly did you do there?" she asked him curiously.
Lucas sighed and rubbed his eyes "I fucked up everything. I drank, I smoked, I took drugs-"
"Girls?" Brooke cut in over him.
"Not really" Lucas admitted much to Brooke's surprise "I'm not going to lie to you and say that I didn't have a few one night stands while I was gone because I did, but not at first, not until at least a year after I left Tree Hill, I wasn't interested in girls in New York, I wasn't really interested in anything" he confessed "I just spent my days high and my nights drunk, I can't even remember half of it"
"So then what changed?" Brooke asked "Why did you come back? Why did you stop taking drugs? Because if you were telling the truth in saying that you have been clean for almost a year now, then something must have happened for you to make that change"
"I got busted, by the cops once, I wasn't actually high at the time, but I was caught selling some weed to this guy at a club, I was lucky and was let off with just a warning, but my old roommate, Carl, he pretty much threatened to kick me out if I didn't stop"
"So that was it? You just stopped?"
"No" Lucas mumbled "It was hard, really hard, but I did try, although, it took me a while, a long time, but Carl stood by me for some reason, he was strict but understanding and then eventually I just stopped needing them, but they were still a part of my life, I still needed to make money and selling shit was the only way that I have ever known, a year goes by...I throw one of many parties and the place gets trashed, I can't even remember it happening, I was drunk, but Carl came back the next morning with his new girlfriend who really hated me, he is pissed at me, like so mad and his girl pretty much influenced him to kicking me out" he told her "I jumped in my truck, still half drunk from the night before, and I drove, didn't know where I was going, then I saw a sign saying that I had just entered North Carolina and I almost crashed there and then"
"So...what? You didn't come here because you wanted to?" Brooke asked shocked.
"Not at first, but I came to Tree Hill for a reason, Brooke, I came because I knew that I needed to sort my life out, I needed to change things, I still do. My life is no where near perfect, people, including you probably, would say that I'm a bad guy, I don't know, maybe I am...but I want to change that, I need to change that, if not for you then for Grace"
"You're telling the truth, right?" Brooke asked hesitantly.
"Of course I am" Lucas told her honestly "Brooke, I wouldn't lie to you, I have done a lot of stupid shit and I know I have caused you a lot of pain, but I have never lied to you"
"You promise that won't change?" she asked quietly.
"I swear to you" Lucas told her and held her gaze firmly for a few seconds as the brunette stayed silent.
"Okay" Brooke mumbled quietly "I know that you still have a lot of issues, I get that, and I still don't trust you, but I can see that you are telling the truth and that you're serious about this"
"100 percent serious" Lucas cut in.
"Which is why..." Brooke trailed nervously and let out a shaky breath "Which is why I think now is the time to tell Grace the truth about you. I want her to know that you are her father"
"You have got to be fucking kidding me!" Nathan raged with anger as he slammed his fist against the table in anger. "No way, Brooke! No way in hell!"
"Nathan...calm down" Haley cut in and rubbed his arm soothingly but Nathan shrugged.
"Calm down? What the hell, Brooke? Why would you want to do that? The guy hasn't even been back a month!"
"It's the right time" Brooke muttered and rubbed her eyes tiredly, she looked across the room to see Peyton and Rachel standing silently by the door in Peyton's kitchen. "Don't be mad" she pleaded "Grace needs to know who her father is"
"But, Lucas!" Nathan shouted angrily "You can't trust the guy!"
"Nathan..." Haley trailed "Brooke knows what she's doing"
"No,I don't think she does" Nathan muttered coldly. "She's delusional when it comes to Lucas Scott, and she knows it!"
"This is not about me!" Brooke argued "And if you think that Lucas is going to take your place in Grace's life then you're wrong! She loves you, Nathan, nobody is going to replace you, not even Lucas!"
Nathan stayed silent as he turned around to vent his frustrations silently giving Brooke the chance to see what her other friends thought about her decision to tell Grace that Lucas is her father.
"Guys?" she asked hesitantly looking across the room to Peyton and Rachel who had stayed surprisingly quiet since she broke the news, she didn't feel like she needed to ask Haley's opinion as the girl seemed to have her back already on this one and she was grateful to her for that.
"It's your life, Brooke" Rachel shrugged "Do what you think is right"
"Thanks" The brunette replied with a small smile before turning to face her best friend. "Peyt?" she asked nervously.
Peyton glanced over at Nathan before looking back at her oldest friend before nodding "You know what's best Brooke, even if your decisions are questionable sometimes"
Brooke was just about to thank her but Nathan beat her to it. "Oh great, I don't believe this, what is wrong with you all?"
"This isn't your decision to make" Rachel cut in.
"Look" Haley continued "Why don't we just end this conversation here before we all say things we are going to regret, we will all go to Tric tonight and forget about this and have fun, we are only 22 years old, we should be having fun!" she smiled. "Come on guys, who's with me?"
"I am" Rachel quickly answered.
"Yeah and me, I could really use your support tonight as well" Peyton joined in.
"Brooke?" Haley asked raising her eyebrow at the brunette.
"Yeah I guess so" Brooke sighed and gave them a small smile for reassurance.
"Nathan?" Haley looked over at the stubborn male in the room and pouted towards him.
Nathan grunted and looked across the room and it was times like these that he realised that he is the only man in their small group of friends. "Fine" he huffed "If I have to"
"Good" Haley smiled "Come on, you're dropping me home" she said to Nathan before grabbing his arm and escorting him out of the house.
Brooke watched him go and let out a sigh of relief, she knew this argument wasn't over but at least they were able to put it aside, even just for a little while. She turned to face Peyton and Rachel and the redhead smirked at her before opening her mouth to speak...
"So, how has Chase took this news yet?" she asked with her signature smirk and single raised eyebrow.
"Ah" Brooke mused and bit on her bottom lip "I haven't exactly...told him yet" she confessed with an innocent smile.
"Brooke!" Peyton and Rachel sighed loudly at the same time and Brooke let out a nervous laugh.
"You be good tonight for Millie, okay?" Brooke told her daughter as she ran her fingers through the youngsters brunette locks.
Grace gave out her signature grin and nodded her head "Of course I will be good" she told her mother "But are you sure you don't want me to come with you?" she asked innocently.
Brooke let out a small laugh "I'm sure baby girl" she nodded with a smile.
"Okay" Grace sighed disappointingly "But you look really pretty Momma" she commented.
"Aww thanks princess" Brooke gushed and looked down at her red dress that flowed down her body to just above her knees. "And you don't look to bad yourself" she smirked as she looked down at Grace's pink fairy PJs.
Grace giggled and twirled around which made both Brooke and Millicent laugh out loud. Brooke stood up and turned to her assistant before saying. "So are you sure that you don't mind doing this? Because I can stay home if you want to go to Tric with Mouth". Millicent had offered to babysit Grace in the middle of the week and Brooke had only found out today that Millie's boyfriend, Mouth, would be attending Tric, Brooke insisted that Millicent cancel on her and join her man for a good night out at Peyton's club but her assistant who had became a dear friend in past year or so and told Brooke that she was to tired and would much rather spend some quality time with her favorite 5 year old.
"We will be fine, Brooke" Millicent smiled "It's not like I haven't done this before and it's not like this is the first time you have insisted on staying home when you should be really looking forward to having fun with your friends, because you are allowed to have fun Brooke Davis" she joked. "Just because you are a Mom and are the owner of a very successful does not mean that you can't go out and enjoy yourself!"
Brooke let out a small laugh knowing that Millicent was right, she did need to have fun every now and then. "Okay, well call me if you need anything, and if for whatever reason you can't get through, I have left Chase's cellphone number on the fridge, okay? So call me if you need anything"
Millicent laughed at her boss and nodded her head, hearing all of this a million times before. "Absolutely"
"And you" Brooke smiled and leaned back down to face her daughter "You behave and have fun" she told her and kissed her cheek softly.
"I will! And you too Momma!" Grace smiled and hugged her tightly before Brooke stood back up and grabbed her purse just as she heard the beeping sound coming from outside telling her that her cab had arrived. "Okay, bye" she said one last time before leaving the house.
"Okay" Millicent smiled and turned to Grace "What should we get up to tonight?"
Brooke and Rachel pushed through the crowds at Tric and made their way towards the bar, surprised at how many turned out tonight, Tric was always a popular club, alwaysbusy on the weekends and never empty during the weeknights but everytime Peyton managed to get a great successful nationwide band to come and perform, the place would be swarming with people that weren't just the regulars.
"I hate it when Tric is this busy" Rachel moaned as she slumped down on the stool at the bar, both of them lucky enough to find the seats together.
Brooke let out a small laugh as Owen the bartender walked towards them. "And how are the two most beautiful girls in the room" he smirked as he brought out two shot glasses and placed them on the bar before filling them up to the top and sliding them towards the two girls, Rachel not hesitating in taking hers and downing it in one.
"You're eager to get us drunk tonight, huh Owen?" Brooke asked with a smirk as she picked up the shot glass "Because I can't remember ordering these"
"I know" Owen smiled "But I figured it would be exactly what this redhead right here would order" he smirked and Rachel nodded her head before motioning for another one just as Brooke finished her first
"You know me so well" Rachel shrugged before downing her next one quickly.
Brooke was going to tell her friend to slow down but she knew that she could handle her drink and that she wouldn't listen anyway. "So...busy night?"
"Oh yeah" Owen nodded as he looked around the crowded club. "I think the boss is feeling a little overwhelmed by it all"
"Yeah I bet" Brooke commented as she looked around to see if she could find her best friend but there was no such luck.
"So...no Chase tonight then?" Owen asked stating the obvious. Brooke shook her head as Owen continued. "Where is he?"
"You know...the usual" Brooke shrugged as unconsciously played with her glass that Owen had just placed in front of her.
"I figure the club he works in will be pretty quiet tonight" Owen mused "Since everybody seems to be here, maybe you should call him, tell him to drop by"
Brooke shook her head "I know what you're doing, Owen, but don't, Chase and I are fine thank you very much!"
"I'm just trying to look out for my friend" Owen defended, he and Chase had been good friends with college and the bartender didn't want his friend to get hurt.
"Well then talk to him about it" Brooke muttered "I'm sure he has been telling you everything, leaving out no details at all!" sarcasm dripped out of her voice as she knew that Chase always tended to always tell his side of the story.
"Yeah he has told me some things, but I know what he's like" Owen spoke out almost as if he was reading Brooke's mind, he was good like that, she figured it had something to do with years of being a bartender, listening to all sorts of different problems coming out of tipsy people every night. "And you're my friend too, Brooke, I know things have been tough for you lately"
"Well then you would know that I don't want to talk about it here" Brooke muttered and Owen nodded understanding.
"Are you guys finished with the heart to heart yet?" Rachel asked in a bored tone as she looked between them both "Because I plan on having fun tonight and that does not include a depressed Brooke Davis"
"I'm not depressed!" Brooke gasped and looked at her friend annoyed.
"Well then drink up Davis and get drunk with me!" Rachel smirked as she motioned for Owen to pass another shot towards them and he gladly did so.
"Come on guys! I can't hear you, you can be louder than this, right?" Peyton laughed through the mic as she stood on the stage and looked across to the masses of heads of people that were here tonight. The shouts and screamed echoed around the room and this was what made her feel alive, all the stress she was feeling was simply wiped out by their excited screams and the music that would soon follow. "Okay, Okay" she chuckled as she quietened them down so she could hear herself think. "The Honorary Title are backstage!" she said loudly and the room erupted once again into cheers "But performing first is a girl that is very special to me, she's new to all of this so go easy on her" she smiled as she turned her head to the side to see her nervous artist taking deep breaths on the stage stairs. "Let's give it up for Mia!" she shouted excitedly before quickly walking off the stage and Mia coming on.
Brooke smiled from her place at the bar as Mia nervously looked around the room before giving her greeting with a quiet hello before nervously beginning her first song, she noticed that it didn't take long for the young girl to get into things and pretty soon she was singing as if she had done this a million times before. She was happy for Peyton, her best friend had worked hard to get to where she was today and she couldn't be more proud, the fact that she had found an amazing artist like Mia and had managed to organise events and bands such as Fall Out Boy and The Honorary Title said it all.
She bobbed her head along to the beat of 'No Good' as she realised that this night was turning out to be really fun, drinking, dancing and basically just laughing with her friends all together was something that didn't happen very often, yes, she went for nights out and she came to Tric fairly regularly but the last time herself, Rachel, Nathan, Haley and Peyton all managed to be there at the same time was surprisingly rare.
"Brooke"
She turned around and gave a half smile as Owen came up behind the bar and her smile widened as he placed her favorite alcoholic drink down in front of her. "Oh thanks Owen" she smiled gratefully as picked up the glass.
"Actually" Owen started "It's not from me" he said much to Brooke's confusement. "It's from that guy over there" he said nodding his head to the direction to the other side of the bar and Brooke followed his gaze and widened her eyes in surprise. She put the drink back down and stood up from her stool and walked around the bar leaving a puzzled Owen.
"Thanks but no thanks" Brooke mumbled as she approached the culprit.
"It's just a drink, Brooke"
"I know, Lucas" Brooke sighed "But...we aren't friends, okay? I want you to be a father to Grace but that's all"
"Well why can't we be friends?" Lucas asked seriously. "I loved talking to you today, it reminded me of how much I missed that part of you"
"Well don't" Brooke told him bluntly "This isn't about you and me, this is about our daughter"
Lucas smiled and looked at Brooke with his familiar boyish grin.
"What are you smiling at?" Brooke asked confused.
"You called her our daughter" He pointed out grinning like an idiot "I have never heard you say that before"
Brooke sighed loudly "What are you even doing here, Lucas?" she asked ignoring her 'mistake', deciding it was best to just let that comment slide.
Lucas shrugged "I heard The Honorary Title were playing so I thought I would come and check it out"
"And you're drinking?" Brooke asked skeptically and pointed to the beer bottle that was place on the bar in front of her ex-boyfriend.
"I'm not an alcoholic, Brooke" Lucas muttered annoyed and also a little disappointed that she thought that.
"Are you not?" she asked unsure.
"I'm not" he told her firmly "I can have a couple of drinks without getting completely wasted"
"I hope so" Brooke mumbled.
Lucas grunted and looked down at the bar almost sadly. "Why is that so hard for you to believe? Do I look that screwed up to you?"
Brooke looked at him guiltily, it wasn't that she thought he was an alcoholic but the first time she saw him in 5 years, he was drunk, she just still wasn't sure what to think of that. "Because I thought you said you had changed..." she trailed unsure of what else to say.
"I'm 22 years old, I'm allowed to have a drink when I'm in a freaking bar. Unlike back in High School, I'm not breaking any laws!" Lucas said in frustration at Brooke's lack of trust in him, he was trying to change but how could he when she always thought the worst of him, this was just the perfect example, he comes into a club, simply because a band he likes is playing, he orders a beer and she accuses him of being an alcoholic.
"I know" Brooke told him apologetically "I'm sorry"
"Yeah" Lucas mumbled as he played with the sticker label on his beer.
Brooke stayed silent as she looked towards the stage where Mia was saying her thank yous and watched as Peyton took the stage and after getting the crowd excited once again, she introduced The Honorary Title and she turned to see that Lucas wasn't even watching, she felt a little guilty for ruining his night. "Hey" she said softly gaining his attention.
Lucas looked up surprised that she was still even standing next to him and looked at her curiously.
"You're missing The Honorary Canon" Brooke smiled as she motioned to the stage where the band began to sing their first song. Lucas laughed and Brooke looked at him puzzled. "What?" she asked with a frown.
Lucas chuckled and shook his head "The Honorary Title, Brooke. They are called The Honorary Title"
"Yes I know, why do people keep on saying that, I'm not deaf!"
Lucas laughed even louder and even Brooke broke out a smile and laughed along with him.
"You are something else Brooke Davis, has anybody ever told you that?" he asked with a smile.
"Yeah" Brooke said softly and smiled at him, looking him in the eyes "Someone did, a long time ago" she finished holding his gaze.
Lucas smiled and nodded, still holding her gaze, and feeling that maybe they have just started to take a small step in the right direction.
A/N: Well? Did you like it? I really hoped so, I think this chapter was fairly long too so I hope that made up for the long wait, I will try not to let that happen again but I can't garuentee since my school work has a lot of deadlines lately.
Also, thank you to everyone who replied to my Author's Note and for understanding, it really means a lot to know that my readers aren't mad at me for not updating sooner, I get that you probably would prefer it if I did though! So I will try :)
Thanks again guys, and PLEASE REVIEW! Feedback is always appreciated!
Sara x