Title: Loneliness
Author: Selene Romanov
A/N: This is my take on the last scene in Spirit in the Night where Brooke is sitting at her vanity table looking in the mirror.
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Sitting at her vanity table, eyes downcast, sad lines marring her beautiful face. Her gaze caught on the picture of her, Peyton and Luke.
Slender fingertips traced the images caught in the time. Happiness frozen forever. If only…………
Looking at Lucas's face, anger raged inside her.
She tore his part of the picture off. Tossed it to the ground.
Her eyes focused on the image of her and Peyton. Arms around each other. Best friends forever, or so I thought, when I saw her making out with my boyfriend.
Betrayal flamed within. A green flame that would never die………..only the warm wind of friendship would heal it….But that's going to be a long time coming, if it ever does………..
Brooke tore another strip off the picture leaving only herself. Looking at her image, sassy grin, sparkling eyes.
She looked in the mirror. I'm always alone………….no matter what happens….. Dead eyes stared back at her.
She struggled to get her emotions under control. Crying won't help. Nonetheless, tears sparkled in her eyes and streamed down her cheeks.
Lifting her hand, she struggled to shield her sadness from her reflection. Moving her hand, she saw the truth for what it was.
A lonely girl broken from heartache, sad without friends and no one to talk to about anything…….
Flopping back onto her bed, she rolled over and sobbed her heart out.
A cool wind ruffled her turquoise curtains, as soft sobs were carried out on the breeze.
A full moon rose slowly in the dying twilight looking down on the mansion where one light lit up a cold dark house.
