"Hey...guess who"
Brooke turned around from staring at herself in her locker mirror.
"Lucas Scott...I didn't expect to see you brooding around my locker, I just expected it to be one of the other fifty guys in this school who want to sleep with me"
Brooke laughed and turned again to her mirror
"Uhh umm uhh sorry, I thought you were Haley from behind"
"Insulting me so early in the morning Scott?"
Lucas was nervous and confused but, at the same time he was dazed by her, the way she always knew the right thing to say, her poise...and her beauty.
Knowing he had to stick up for his best friend, he shouted out the first thing that came to mind.
"Hey, you don't know anything about Haley...she's a very pretty girl"
Brooke pointed down the crowded hallway of THHS and Lucas followed her finger to an auburn color haired girl who was pushed up against her locker with a pile of books in her arms. The girl looked frightened the way she was surrounded by a group of guys, their ring-leader being Nathan Scott.
"Apparently you're not the only one who thinks she's pretty"
Brooke handed her books to Lucas
"Walk me to class Broody?"
Lucas was still glancing down the hall, his best friend was being harassed by the person he hated most, next to Dan, and he was frozen in his spot. Looking back at Brooke's chestnut eyes, he snapped out of his own world.
"Uh...sure, where are you going?"
"Follow me..."
Brooke moved her finger, motioning towards her class down the hall.
Brooke's best friend, Peyton...a peppy cheerleader also but, much more lost inside herself and less crazy, walked up.
"Brooke...it's only two months into the school year and you've got yourself a slave already?"
"Ohh Peyton...you know I could have had one sooner...I was just waiting for a certain someone."
Brooke winked at Lucas who was watching the smoothness of the two girls, the way every guy turned as they walked the halls and how they easily talked with one another.
"Here's my room...thanks for carrying my books Broody...meet me back at my locker before lunch?"
"Uh...that's usually when I meet Haley"
"Riggght...you two have that whole best friend, kinda thing..."
Brooke leaned closer to Lucas and whispered the rest in his ear...
"Even though we all know it's more than friends..."
Before Lucas could even defend himself, Brooke was gone into her classroom already talking and flirting with another guy and Luke walked off to his Literature class.