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Brooke was getting her books out for school on Monday morning when she saw Felix approaching her. She groaned inwardly, she hadn't talked to him for ages and she didn't really want to start now.
"Morning," he said.
"What do you want Felix?" she asked.
"What? I'm not allowed to talk to you? You were pretty pally with your other ex-boyfriend when we were going out, why shouldn't it be the same with me?"
Brooke rolled her eyes, "That's because when we were going out Lucas and I were friends. We're not friends."
"I don't see why we shouldn't be. And I hear he's a little more than a friend now."
"I've got enough friends thanks, and yes, he's my boyfriend," her tone was cold, but it didn't seem to deter Felix from continuing.
"Well I wish you all the best. But be careful Brooke, you know what they say, 'once a cheater…'" he smirked as he nodded his head towards Lucas' locker, and Brooke looked over to see he was standing there laughing at something with Peyton. Brooke slammed her locker shut, and glared at Felix.
"See you Brooke," he smiled, and walked away, pleased with himself.
"What was that about?" Lucas asked, as he came up to Brooke.
"Nothing," she muttered, swinging her bag onto her shoulder, "He was just being a jackass."
Lucas looked concerned, but didn't push it. "I've gotta go to History, but I'll see you in English."
She nodded and he smiled at her and kissed her on the forehead before heading off down the hall. She watched him go, cursing Felix for putting her in a bad mood.
Brooke arrived in English feeling slightly better, after Nathan had amused her throughout the first period by doodling cartoons of various people. She particularly liked the one of Felix being hit on the head by a basketball.
Lucas greeted her with a kiss before they sat down. She smiled as she always did when she caught sight of his English folder, which had an 'L' and 'B' in a heart on it, which he had drawn when they'd dated the first time, and which, she had been happy to notice, had stayed there ever since.
Their teacher was just getting into a speech about 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' when a note was slipped onto her desk, and she looked up to see Lucas' hand move away, his eyes still facing forward.
She opened it.
Hey cheery, are you okay? You looked kind of pissed off earlier. What did Felix say? Do you want me to beat him up for you? Lucas x
She smiled and scribbled back:
I'm fine, Broody, thanks for asking. No it's okay, I wouldn't want him to hurt that pretty face of yours. x
She passed it to Lucas and he took it and read it, smiling slightly. He looked up when he'd finished and caught her eye, 'You don't think I could take him?' he mouthed, and she giggled.
Their teacher looked up at them and she met his eye with an innocent stare. He narrowed his eyes, he had taught Brooke Davis two years in a row and was well used to her antics. He gave her the benefit of the doubt though and let it go.
Brooke and Lucas sat with the others at lunch. Brooke, as usual, was stealing fries of Lucas' plate as they all talked. Finally Lucas stood up and moved round to the opposite side of the table, straddling the bench so he was sitting behind Brooke and grabbed both her hands.
"Ow! What!?" she asked.
"Stop stealing my fries!" he held her wrists in one hand and tickled her lightly with the other. She squealed and yelled, "Cut it out!"
He stopped and she turned to face him seriously, "Are you saying I'm fat?"
He groaned and rolled his eyes, "No. I'm saying I want to eat my fries."
"I can't believe you think I'm fat!" Brooke wailed.
"Brooke, you're gorgeous, and you know it, so stop the drama.," Lucas laughed.
"I mean of all the people," Brooke continued, as if she hadn't heard what he'd said, "My own boyfriend!"
"Brooke," he whispered in her ear, and she turned to him, her eyes shining with fake tears, "You're a great actress, but you're not that great. I'm not falling for this, and I'm not letting you eat my fries."
"Ugh, Fine!" Brooke turned away from, her look of anguish immediately disappearing, and the others laughed. Lucas chuckled as he ate on of his precious chips.
"Here, have mine," Jake put his plate in front of her, as he stood up, "I've got some Spanish to do."
"Thank you," Brooke gave him a dazzling smile, "See," she turned to Lucas, "Some people are nice. He doesn't think I'm fat."
Lucas just rolled his eyes, knowing she was just baiting him.
"Oh my god," Haley groaned, "I'm really not looking forward to this Spanish test!"
"Who ever looks forward to a test?" Peyton said.
"Um…Haley!" Nathan joked.
"Shut up, I do not, I just really really don't want this one!"
Lucas wrapped his arms round Brooke as Haley moaned about her awful teacher, and she brought her feet up onto the bench and leaned back against him, forgetting she was meant to be pretending to be mad at him. He fed her a chip and she smiled, "Thank you gorgeous," she whispered to him as she turned to give him a kiss.
They sat and listened to the others talking as their fingers slowly intertwined, and Lucas caressed Brooke's thumbs with his own. It was something he always did when they sat like this, and she found it very soothing.
Lucas looked down at Brooke's bracelets and suddenly noticed the charm he had given her was missing. Brooke saw him looking and realised he had noticed, she quickly looked up at him with a slightly guilty expression.
"It's okay," Lucas said, trying to hide his feeling of hurt, "I understand if you don't want to keep it on, the bracelet's really special to you…"
"Don't be stupid," Brooke said quickly, "Of course I want it on, you gave it to me, I just…I'll show you after school okay? Just…trust me."
"Okay…" Lucas was very confused.
"Good," Brooke was relieved, "Walk me to French?"
"Sure," he smiled at her and they stood up, she took his hand and gave it a little squeeze as they walked out of the cafeteria.
Basketball practice that afternoon was a little crazy. For some reason everyone was not in a mood to buckle down and start practice and when Whitey came in his players were not shooting hoops as usual but messing around with the cheerleaders.
Brooke was completely distracted by Lucas and so wasn't controlling her squad much. Whitey was getting more and more annoyed and finally shouted at her, "Miss Davis, if you cannot control your cheerleaders I will have to remove them!"
Brooke quickly looked up from where she had been flirting with Lucas and looked guilty, "Sorry, coach Durham," she said, turning on the charm. She grabbed Peyton and Theresa and dragged them away from the boys, and the other girls sighed and followed.
Whitey turned to his team, who all looked very disappointed at having the hot cheerleaders taken away from them, and looked even more depressed when they saw the look on Whitey's face.
"Alright boys, suicides!" he said, with a nasty smile. There was a chorus of groans. Brooke flashed Lucas an apologetic smile as they jogged past to start. He smiled back half heartedly, not looking forwars to what they now had to do.
"Scott! Eyes of your girlfriend! That goes for all of you!" Whitey commanded. He folded his arms and watched his team work. He was very fond of Brooke, it was true, she was always very enthusiastic. But definitely had their arguments, as he was not always sympathetic to her plights for more uniforms or practice space for the cheerleaders. Not to mention the distraction her little squad was for the team, and she was the worst one. She only had to walk onto the court and half his players stopped concentrating. It didn't help that she now seemed to be dating one of his star players. At least Haley James wasn't a cheerleader, so one of the Scotts was always paying attention!
At the end of practice, Lucas was getting a book from his locker when Brooke bounded up.
"Hey baby, come on."
"Where are we going?" he asked, slamming his locker and slipping an arm around her waist.
"You have to wait and see!"
Brooke stopped the car in the parking lot of the mall, and switched off the engine.
"Why are we at the mall?" Lucas asked.
"Because I have to pick something up," Brooke smiled widely at Lucas, who frowned slightly in confusion, but followed her as she grabbed his hand and led him through the doors.
They walked through the mall until Brooke turned right and pushed the door open of a small shop with a sign reading 'Morris and Sons silver smiths and engravers.' Ignoring Lucas' questioning look she went up to the counter where an old man was standing.
"Hi, I'm picking up something I dropped of yesterday, my name's Brooke Davis."
The man peered at her over the top of his glasses and then nodded, turning to a small stack of drawers and pulling various ones open until he found what he was looking for.
"Here you go dear," he said, handing her a something very small wrapped in white tissue, "You paid yesterday?"
"Yes, thank you."
"Alright then, goodbye."
"Bye," she smiled and then took Lucas' hand again, pulling him out of the shop.
"This is why I wasn't wearing it today," she explained cryptically, as she unfolded the package, "Look," she handed Lucas the charm he had given her, which was what Lucas now saw had been inside, and he looked at it. It looked exactly the same, the large 'B' was still there but nothing else was.
"Turn it over," she said impatiently.
He did, and then saw that on the other side, in the same style as the 'B' was an 'L'.
He looked up at Brooke, lost for words. She smiled shyly back at him, "You're engraved on my heart, Luke, you'll always be there," she touched a finger to the centre of her chest.
He smiled broadly, and as he was still unable to find adequate words to thank her, he kissed her, cupping her cheek in his hand.
"This is amazing," he said, when they broke apart.
She beamed, and fixed the charm back on its link. "I wouldn't ever want you to think I didn't want to put it on my bracelet," she whispered, "It's the most important thing on it."
They drove back to Brooke's house, and Lucas followed her up the steps, wrapping his arms around her waist from behind as she unlocked the door.
She turned around in his arms to face him, "I take it you want to come in?" she giggled.
He shrugged, pretending to be nonchalant, "I guess I could…" She raised her eyebrows, "Well if you don't want to you can go," she pushed him lightly on the chest but he grabbed her hand, "Okay, okay, I want to," he laughed, and placed a kiss on her lips. She smirked and opened the door, and they went into the den.
Brooke turned on the TV and sat on the sofa, pulling Lucas down with her.
"Do you have any homework?" she asked, as she curled up in his arms.
"Yeah, but I can do it later," he said, running a hand down her arm and enveloping her hand in his.
"Good," she said, "then you can stay here with me for a bit."
About half an hour later they got hungry and went into the kitchen to get some food. Lucas opened the fridge and began searching through it's contents. Brooke just watched him, eyebrows slightly raised. Finally he straightened up.
"I was wondering how long it would take you to realise that's empty," she laughed.
He smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, I kinda zoned out for a minute. Why haven't you got any food?"
Brooke shrugged, "I forgot to get some this weekend, I'm still getting used to the whole not have a housekeeper thing," she admitted.
"You should have told me you needed to go, we could have gone together."
"Well we can go another time," she smiled, "But for now I have ice cream!" she opened the freezer and brought out a tub of Ben & Jerry's, and got two spoons out of a draw.
Lucas grinned, and they both leaned against the counter, digging in.
They ate silently, occasionally stealing a glance at the other and smiling when they got caught staring. Suddenly Lucas chuckled.
"What?" Brooke asked.
"You've got some chocolate, right there," he touched her lip gently, "Here let me get it for you," he murmured, before capturing her lips in a slow, searing kiss. His tongue ran along her bottom lip and she smiled against his mouth. He pulled back slightly to look into her eyes.
"All gone?" she asked, grinning. He nodded, and then he kissed him again, more forcefully this time. The ice-cream lay forgotten on the counter as her arms wrapped round his neck and she felt his mouth open to allow her tongue access. His hands moved to her hips and his thumb grazed her bare midriff.
"Do you want to…I mean, are you ready to?…"
She did not need to hear the end of his question before she nodded quickly, recapturing his lips again, her fingers tracing his jaw and coming to rest at the side of his neck.
His hands slid under her shirt, and they broke the kiss so her could pull it over her head. He kissed her neck and collarbone, and she began to move backwards, still kissing him feverishly as they made their way upstairs. His T-shirt was gone by the time they reached her bedroom, and she ran her hands over his chest, relishing the feel of his skin.
He undid the button of her jeans and she slid them of, his soon joining them in a pile on the floor. His lips moved upon her neck until they were on her lips once more. She wrapped her legs around him as he lifted her up and carried her to the bed, where he laid her down, kissing her slowly.
Their breathing became ragged as he familiarised himself again with her body, running his hands up her sides and kissing her soft stomach. Her fingers grazed his back and as he moved his head to kiss her neck again she caught his earlobe lightly in her teeth. "I missed you so much," she whispered hoarsely. He broke the kiss and looked into her eyes, "I missed you too," he smiled.
Brooke woke up later slightly disorientated , but she smiled as she felt an arm thrown over her waist. Lucas was sleeping beside her, lying on his front with his head turned towards her, his chin resting against her shoulder. She turned slightly onto her side, careful not to dislodge the arm and wake him, and peered over him at the clock on her bedside table. It was early in the evening; no wonder she felt a little weird waking up at that time. 'Oh well,' she thought, 'I guess that's what we get for having sex after school.' She didn't usually fall asleep afterwards, but Lucas seemed to have such a calming affect on her that all she wanted to do when she was around him, apart from kiss him senseless of course, was fall asleep in his arms.
She looked at the object of her thoughts, and smiled as he stirred slightly in his sleep and nestled closer to her. She reached out a hand and stroked the hair at the back of his neck, before sighing contentedly, and turning back onto her back, letting her hand rest on top of his arm that was lying across her middle.
She drifted off into a reverie about Lucas, but was startled out of it by his voice in her ear, "Hey beautiful," he whispered.
She looked at him and smiled, "How long have you been awake?" she asked.
"Not long," he said, "but you were thinking; I didn't want to disturb you, cos that doesn't happen very often!" He laughed as she hit him lightly. "What was occupying you're thoughts?" he asked, shifting slightly, and wrapping his arm further around her.
"You," she answered simply.
"Me?! Now what on earth would you be thinking about me?"
She rolled her eyes, "How gorgeous you are, how hot you look topless, how you're still pretty good at the whole sex thing…how much you look like a baby when you sleep!"
"Hey!" he objected, "Pretty good?"
She laughed, she thought he would've been objecting to her likening him to a small child, "Okay, okay, very good," she conceded.
"Hmm…better," he seemed satisfied, "I think I rocked your world though."
"Don't get cocky," Brooke laughed, "We've still got some work to do."
He raised an eyebrow, "You wanna work on it now?" he suggested.
She narrowed her eyes, "What about you're homework?"
"I think I can get away with not it doing, just for today."
She smiled as he reached a hand up to her cheek, and moved closer, "Yeah, I think you can get away with it," she murmured, just before his lips covered hers.
I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible, but I need to decide on some stuff. I want to bring in a little more drama because I've got a bit carried away with the fluff and the stories kind of meandering, let me know if you like this stuff or want something a bit different. There may be some problems ahead for Brooke and Lucas though…
Please keep reviewing!
