Brooke sat in her dorm room looking out her window, the sun was shining and everyone was making their way around the courtyard. She wished so badly that she was out there but her stupid injury forced her to stay inside since she was still in her brace and she hated it. She just wanted things to go back to normal, she wanted to be able to do things by herself but most of all she didn't want to have to depend on people to help her do things.
She knew that Nathan was trying his best and she felt bad for always having to rely on him for things that she should be able to do herself. She could tell that Nathan was always tired from having practice, school, and taking care of her. She sighed and looked at the clock, she had to be at physical therapy in 45 minutes and no one was around to take her. Slamming her fist down on her desk she struggled to get up and grabbed the cane the doctor had given her. She limped her way over to the door and out of the building almost falling once or twice.
Brooke was making her way through the courtyard when she stumbled and almost fell. She prepared herself to hit the ground but when she didn't hit the ground she slowly opened her eyes. She came face to face with Jordan who had a scared look on his face. She let out the breath that she was holding and let Jordan help her stand up. Jordan had become like her brother over the past 8 months.
"What are you doing?"
"I have to go to physical therapy and no one was around to help me so I did it myself."
"Brooke you know how dangerous it is you could've hurt yourself." He replied sternly taking moment to look over her body. She knew what he was referring to but she wasn't going to announce it in front of everybody.
"It takes almost 30 minutes to get there so I have to leave now." He shook his head at her stubbornness and just stood there starring at her.
"Someone's going with you, no matter what you say or do to try and change my mind."
"Who might that be? Nathan? You? Kayla? Jessica? They all have practice and Tim has class so tell me who does that leave me?" Jordan looked at her and at his phone for a moment wondering who in deed could go with her.
"Screw it I'm going with you."
"Jordan you have practice."
"Eh it's just a work out, plus I'll just talk to Andrew, he'll smooth things over with the coach."
"No, Jordan go." She pulled her arm out of his grasp and started limping towards the waiting cab. Jordan shook his head and ran slipping into the cab with her.
"Don't tell me what to do Davis." He warned and told the cabbie to go.
Jordan watched as Brooke struggled to move her leg without the brace on, he wanted so bad to go in there and help but he knew that it would only piss her off. He could see the tears of frustration start to well up in her eyes and he just sighed falling back against the plastic chair. He had no idea what Brooke was going through with everything and her little secret that she had confessed to him over a month ago.
Finally Brooke was getting somewhere in physical therapy. After getting pissed and throwing her cane across the room she made herself walk a little bit without her brace on. The pain wasn't as strong as it usually was but Brooke didn't care, she had just walked almost a 3 feet! She smiled and clapped her hands together like an excited 2 year old that just got her first Barbie car.
Jordan smiled and hugged her happy that she was finally getting somewhere after about 2 months of therapy. Brooke looked at Jordan; she hated the fact that she was hiding herself behind the mask. She had promised that she wasn't going to hide anymore but ever since she hurt her knee she couldn't help but plaster on the fake smile every time someone was around. She kissed Jordan's cheek after he helped her to her dorm room and watched him leave before shutting the door and letting out a long sigh her shoulders slumping. She was tired of having to pretend that everything was okay, she was tired of making everyone believe that everything was okay.
She struggled over to her bed and threw herself on it feeling the stress of the day wash over her. Maybe Nathan could cheer her up, she thought but sighed when she realized that Nathan had class after practice so the earliest she could see him was later on around midnight and he was probably going to be tired so she scraped that idea. Kayla! She thought but no Kayla and Jordan were going out tonight to celebrate their anniversary. Jessica was probably with Tim so that left her alone again. She sighed and decided to call Peyton; she hadn't talked to her in a couple of days so maybe that would make her feel better. She picked up the phone a small smile on her face and dialed Peyton's number. "Hey you've reached Peyton's cell, leave me a message and I'll get back to you!" Brooke's smile faded as she hung up the phone and decided that she should just go to sleep and maybe tomorrow would be a better day.
Brooke woke up and looked around the room. Nathan was sitting at her desk typing furiously away. She sat up and swung her legs over the side of the bed. Nathan looked up at the sound of Brooke's bed creaking. "Nathan, what are you doing here at," She paused and looked at the clock next to her bed. "3:45 in the morning?"
"Kayla and Jordan are going at it in my room and so I came over here but you were sleeping so I just started working on my paper."
"Oh, aren't you tired?" She asked suddenly worried about him. Nathan smiled and shook his head.
"Nope I'm on the 3rd cup of coffee, so I'm wide awake. How was physical therapy today?" Nathan asked knowing that she had walked a little bit in physical therapy.
"Oh! I walked Nathan; I walked without my brace for almost 3 feet! You should've seen me, it was so awesome!" Nathan smiled yet again and made his way over to her lightly kissing her.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be there but I promise, I'll be there next time I already cleared it with coach." Brooke looked at him wondering if Jordan told him her little secret.
"Nathan you can't skip practice."
"Yes I can."
"No Nathan you can't skip practice just because of me. What happens when you actually can't go to practice and coach won't let you skip it, huh? Then what's going to happen?"
"What's wrong?"
"I just don't want you skipping practice because of me. I mean it's not that important."
"Yes it is to me."
"Well what if I don't want you there?"
"What?!" Nathan exclaimed standing up outraged, what the hell was she saying.
"You have so many other things to worry about that you don't need to worry about helping me."
"I don't worry about helping you. I like helping you." Brooke looked at him and scoffed.
"Yeah okay." She replied. Nathan looked at her as if she grew 3 heads.
"What is wrong with you? I mean you're attacking me for no reason."
"I'm not attacking you. I'm just telling you that you don't need to take care of me all the time."
"Who else is going to?"
"Oh so now I'm a burden, fine I'm done." She replied throwing her hands up in the air.
"Done with what?"
"You!"
"Brooke."
"No Nathan just go. Go have the best freshman year of your life without having to worry about me."
"Brooke."
"Get out!" She screamed pushing him away from her. He sighed and packed up his stuff and left shaking his head. He walked back to his dorm and barged in not caring if Kayla and Jordan were still at it or not. Jordan looked up when Nathan barged in a pissed off look on his face and slid out of bed slowly walking over towards him.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just leave me the hell alone." Nathan barked throwing his backpack on his bed and grabbing his iPod.
"Where are you going?"
"Out." He barked opening the door and slamming it behind him making Kayla jump up from the loud sudden noise.
"What the hell is going on?"
"I think Brooke just broke up with Nathan."
"WHAT?!" Kayla screamed jumping up out of bed and throwing on her clothes. "What the hell is wrong with her?"
"She's pregnant." Kayla stopped her shoe midway on her foot.
"What?"
"She's pregnant, she found out a month ago and she's afraid Nathan will leave her like his dad did to his brother's mom." Kayla sighed and pulled on her shoe.
"I'll talk to her." Jordan nodded and gave his girlfriend a kiss as she left the room preparing to beat some sense into her dumb roommate.
Kayla stormed into the room and found Brooke sitting on her bed silently sobbing and for a moment she felt like wrapping her arms around her and telling her that everything would be okay but that only lasted for a moment, she was going to cure Brooke's temporary insanity. "What the hell is wrong with you? Why on earth would you break up with Nathan over something like you're pregnant?!" Kayla quietly yelled not wanting their neighbors to hear Brooke's personal business.
"I'm scared okay? I don't know if he's going to be like his father and leave me or actually stay with me and I don't want to find out."
"Brooke, sweetie, from what I know about Nathan which isn't much he's crazy about you. He wants to be with you. When you fell at the game I saw tears in that boy's eyes. You don't know how hard it was for him to stay at the game instead of going with you and after the game he didn't even go into the locker room. We had to convince him to take a shower at the hospital because he went from the game to the hospital. I guess what I'm saying is that you and Nathan were meant for each other. You need to talk to him." Brooke looked at her roommate and nodded her head.
"I hate it when you're right." Kayla smiled and wrapped her arms around Brooke.
"I love it." Brooke laughed a little bit and returned the hug. "Alright so you're going to go back to sleep and I'll have Nathan come by in the morning before his class, okay?"
"Yeah." Brooke smiled and slid back into bed falling asleep the second her head hit the pillow. The next morning Brooke woke up ready to face Nathan and smiled when she heard her dorm room door open. She turned ready to face Nathan. "Hey Na….Peyton?"