Finding Herself

Chapter Twelve

You Can't Have It All

Brooke and Nathan walked into school together hand in hand. The weekend had been very emotional for the both of them, but they made it through it. "Are you nervous about your game tonight?" Brooke asked.

Nathan shrugged, "Not really, these guys really suck."

"That's good," Brooke said, "I would give you some tips for the game, but I don't know shit about basketball."

Nathan laughed, "It's okay you just have to cheer me on."

"Yeah, I painted your number on my stomach so each time you score or doing something good I'm going to lift my shirt, and did I mention I'm not going to wear a bra?" Brooke said smiling.

Nathan laughed and then stopped, "Wait, are you serious?"

Brook rolled her eyes and playfully hit Nathan's arm, "No, I think I'd get kicked out of the gym for that, but if you do good then after the game you might get a little treat," Brooke whispered in his ear before heading into her homeroom.

Nathan smiled and winked at her, "Can't wait," he walked down the hall to his homeroom when he saw Haley come rushing towards him, "Not now Haley," he said looking straight ahead.

Haley grabbed Nathan's arm, "I'm sorry for what happened that night. I had no right to kiss you and hurt Brooke like that," she explained.

Nathan pulled his arm away from Haley's grip, "Brooke and I are now fine even though that's none of your god damn business."

"Nathan we kissed before," Haley said throwing up her hands, "Remember, when we were both single? I can remember it like it was just yesterday. It was Truth or Dare and Peyton dared us to kiss and we did and we made out Nathan! Don't you even remember?"

Nathan looked down at the ground, "Yeah Haley I remember, that was a long time ago though. I've gotten over the kiss why can't you get over it?"

Haley sighed, "Because it meant something to me!" she exclaimed, "I know maybe it was just another kiss from another girl, but when we kissed I felt something. I felt like we were supposed to be together, and then Brooke comes around and you jus totally forget about me and everything we went through."

"Everything we went through? What the hell are you talking about?" Nathan asked his voice getting louder, "We didn't go through anything Haley; we kissed at a party during a game that was it. It shouldn't have meant anything to either of us because it was a game."

"But what about the other kiss?" Haley asked softly, "You didn't try to stop me."

"That kiss was a mistake," Nathan stated, "I already told you that. Why can't you just get over me?"

"Because I really like you, hell I might even love you," Haley said walking closer to Nathan.

Nathan backed up, "You don't know what love is."

Haley scoffed, "And you do? God, you're like 'Player of the Year'."

"I changed," Nathan said sternly.

Haley rolled her eyes, "Yeah you can change, but you can't take back all the girls you kissed, made out with, and slept with."

"Shut up Haley," Nathan said growing angrier.

"I think this Brooke girl has changed you for the worst if you ask me," Haley said crossing her arms.

"Nobody asked you," Nathan said walking away. Haley watched him walk away and rolled her eyes. She saw Tim coming down the hall and ran towards him and gave him a kiss.

After the kiss ended she smiled, "Hey baby," she said softly.

"Hey beautiful," he said smiling, "What's up?"

"I need you to do me a favor," Haley said innocently.

"Anything for you," Tim said giving her another kiss.

"I want you to have sex with her," Haley stated smiling.

"What? How am I supposed to do that?"

Haley gave him a kiss on the cheek and headed towards her homeroom, "I don't care. Drug her, force her, do whatever."

Tim watched Haley walk to her homeroom he loved her so much. He would do anything for her. Anything

It was two hours before the game and Nathan's dad had him conditioning and preparing for the game so Brooke was home alone getting ready for the game. She heard a knock on her door, she thought it was Nathan so she ran to the door and opened it quickly, "Tim?"

Tim smiled at her and waved, he was nervous as ever, "Hey Brooke can I come in?"

Brooke opened the door a little wider, "Sure, is something wrong?"

"It's about Haley," Tim said lying.

"Okay, let's sit down," Brooke said motioning towards the living room.

'I can't do it in the living room,' Tim thought to himself. "Um, can you show me where your bathroom is?"

"Sure," Brooke said leading him upstairs, "To your right." Tim went into the bathroom and Brooke went into her room and found her t shirt that said: SCOTT 23 on the back. It was her good luck shirt.

"Nice shirt," Tim said as he came into Brooke's room.

Brooke jumped, "Thanks," she said still a little startled, "Alright let's go downstairs."

Tim shut the door, "Why don't we stay up here?"

Brooke looked at Tim confused, "I don't feel comfortable up here with you by myself," she said getting a little nervous, "Tim open the door."

Tim walked towards Brooke and took off his shirt, "No." Brooke tried to run, but Tim grabbed her and threw her on the bed, "Come on slut let's fuck!" he screamed causing Brooke to start crying. Tim ripped Brooke's shirt off and start kissing her forcefully all over her body.

"Stop it Tim!" Brooke screamed and cried.

Tim slapped Brooke across the face, "If you would just shut up this would be easy for the both of us," he said as he tried taking Brooke's pants but he was so nervous he could hardly get the button off.

Brooke put her hand on her cheek where Tim had slapped her and cried out in pain as his knee dug into her hips and stomachs as he tried to keep her down, "Tim get off of me," she said trying to hit him away.

Tim slapped Brooke again this time in the lips making her lip bleed, "Shut up!" he screamed kneeing her harder in the stomach. He forcefully kissed her again.

Peyton walked into the house and heard crying from upstairs she ran upstairs and saw Tim on top of Brooke trying to get her pants off Peyton ran over to the bed and pushed Tim off, "Tim get the hell out of here!" she yelled. She got her cell phone out, "I swear to fucking God I will call the cops!" Tim ran out of the room grabbing his shirt, "Honey, are you okay?"

Brooke cried, "Call an ambulance." Peyton called the hospital and drove Brooke to the hospital.

"Somebody tried to rape her, but I'm not sure if they got as far as intercourse or not." Peyton explained to the doctor.

Peyton watched in horror as her friend was taken back to one of the rooms, "I love you," Brooke said to Peyton as she was getting taken back to get tests run.

"I love you too," Peyton said softly as her voice cracked. The game ended and the Ravens won by twenty. Down in the locker room the guys were just getting out of the shower. Nathan noticed scratch marks on Tim's shoulders and back.

"Did Haley get a little rough on you?" Nathan said smiling.

Tim noticed the scratch marks, "It was my cat." he said lying.

Lucas and Nathan looked at each other, "You don't have a cat dude," Lucas said putting on his clothes.

Tim rolled his eyes, "Yeah I do," he said then left the locker room.

Tim walked out of the locker room and Haley grabbed a hold of his arm and walked out of the gym with him smiling to herself. Nathan and Lucas walked out to Nathan's car because he had driven the both of them, Nathan's cell phone started ringing and he saw that it was Peyton, "Hey," he said nonchalantly.

"Nathan," Peyton said sobbing, "You need to come to the hospital."

Nathan's smile on his face fell, "What's wrong?"

Peyton let out another sob, "It's Brooke."

Nathan almost dropped his phone, "I'll be there soon," he looked at Lucas as a ball in his throat started getting bigger, "We have to go to the hospital."

Lucas got in the car quickly and they headed to the hospital. They saw Peyton in the waiting room sitting on a chair with her head in her hands. Lucas and Nathan ran over towards her. She gave Nathan a big hug and then kissed Lucas, "What happened?" Nathan asked not really wanting to know.

Peyton wiped her eyes, "Somebody tried to rape her, and they beat her up pretty bad."

Nathan's eyes started watering and single tear came down his face, "Did they...rape her?"

"They're doing tests right now, but when I walked in they still had their pants on the guy was just screaming at her and Brooke was crying," Peyton said as she flinched at the memory of seeing Brooke and Tim.

"Who was it?" Nathan asked angrily.

Peyton started sobbing harder and started stuttering, "It...it was...um...T...Tim."

Nathan sat down next to Peyton and broke down, "How could this happen?"

Peyton rubbed his back, "I'm sorry hon."

Nathan wiped his eyes, "I'm going to kill him if I she's pregnant or hurt, actually I'm just going to kill him because he even touched her."

Lucas looked at Nathan and felt bad; if anybody would ever do that to Peyton he would kill them, literally. He had never seen Nathan cry before and he had never see Peyton cry either. Lucas felt bad as well and knew that there was going to be hell to pay.

The doctor walked towards them with papers in his hand, "Well the good news in the man who raped her never got past kissing, it's a good thing you stopped him before anything worse happened," he said to Peyton. Peyton nodded and looked down at Nathan's shaking hands, "The bad news is, she has some severe bruising on her hips and stomach and she was slapped a couple of times...hard." Nathan hands were clenched so tight that his knuckles were turning white.

Peyton rubbed back trying to calm him down, "When can people go and see her?" she asked.

"You all can go one at a time." the doctor said, and then left leaving them to themselves. Nathan got up and walked towards the room Brooke was in, he had never cried so hard in his life.

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