I'm so sorry I haven't updated in ages. School's been crazy towards the end of term, and then I was ill for a couple of days so I got really behind. But I'm better now and on holiday so I have lots of time for writing! Also, thank you so much to everyone who reviewed the last chapter. There were some really nice ones and I loved reading them!
"When's your mom coming back?" Brooke asked.
"I'm not sure exactly."
Brooke looked down at herself; she wasn't wearing anything except underwear she had put back on the night before. She leant over the side of the bed and grabbed her tank top that was lying on the floor.
Lucas groaned, "It won't be for a while though," he said quickly, taking the top from her.
Brooke rolled her eyes, "Yeah but I don't really wanna take that chance. The last thing I want your mom to find is the two of us half naked when she doesn't even know we're back together yet." She snatched the top back, and slipped it on, laughing as Lucas pouted.
"Fine," he grumbled, looking around for his T-shirt.
"I didn't say you had to put anything on," Brooke said, and he looked over at her, eyebrows raised.
"What? It's been a while," she said laughing, and trailing a finger across his chest, "and I'm not quite ready for it to disappear yet!" She grinned at him and stood up to find her jeans and Lucas chuckled and lay back down on the bed, watching her.
She pulled on her jeans and then sat on the edge of her bed, doing them up. Lucas crawled over and sat behind her, brushing her hair over one shoulder and kissing her neck.
She smiled and turned her head so she could kiss him. She turned round completely and they fell back onto the bed, Brooke's hair falling around Lucas' head. She swept it away and kissed him again, and he rolled them both over, supporting himself on his arms so he was hovering over her, her hands on his back.
"We shouldn't get carried away," Brooke said between kisses, but Lucas didn't pull away.
"Your mom…" Brooke managed before he kissed her again and he sighed and rolled off her.
"I should have just said she'd be away for the whole weekend," he grumbled.
Brooke giggled and rolled onto her side, resting a hand on his chest, "Well you didn't."
Eventually Lucas got dressed too and they went into the kitchen in search of some breakfast.
When Karen got home, having spent the night away after a benefit dinner out of town, she was greeted by the smell of bacon cooking.
She hung up her coat and stopped at the door of the kitchen, and smiled at the sight of her son looking so happy. Lucas was standing behind Brooke, with his arms round her, while she transferred crispy bacon from the pan to the plates.
He took a piece from one of the plates and began eating it.
"Hey! That was one of mine."
He rolled his eyes, "Well take one of mine then."
She shook her head and took and bite from the piece he was holding instead. He laughed and then caught sight of his mom in the doorway.
"Mom!" He went to give her a hug and she hugged him back. "Hi sweetie."
He glanced back at Brooke and then turned back to his mother, "We were just making some breakfast, want some?"
"Um, sure." She looked over at Brooke too, wondering when one of them would explain when the two of them had become a couple again.
"Hi Karen," Brooke said shyly. "Sorry to just…be here when you got back. I kind of came over unannounced last night and - "
Lucas glanced at his mother quickly as he heard Brooke mention the fact she had been there all night, but she didn't seem to mind.
Karen waved away Brooke's apology, "That's quite alright Brooke. I know you two had some…things to work out. I'm glad everything's okay now."
She was met with beaming smiles from both teenagers, who shared a little look before they finished setting up breakfast.
Karen looked fondly at them both. She really was glad that they were happy. And she would leave giving them a talking to about Brooke spending the night for another time, she was sure there would be many more opportunities to do so. For now she would let them both bask in their newfound happiness.
After breakfast Brooke and Lucas went down to the Rivercourt. It was a nice day and they didn't have much to do so they spent the morning sitting by the river and bouncing a ball around on the court.
Lucas taught Brooke how to take a free throw, and she was pretty good, although every time he tried to slightly correct her positioning they ended up kissing instead so eventually he gave up.
"Dammit," Lucas said, checking his watch around lunchtime, "I said on Friday I'd meet Haley for lunch today. Do you there's any chance she'll have forgotten?"
Brooke raised an eyebrow, "I doubt it. Call her… tell her to come here and bring Nathan. We can all hang out," Brooke said.
"Yeah alright." He pulled out his phone and dialled Haley's number.
"Hello?"
"Hales, it's Luke."
"Oh cool. Are you at the café? I'm just on my way…"
"Um…yeah, about that…I'm at the Rivercourt. Can you come here instead?"
"Er…I guess."
"Great. And bring Nathan…and food." Haley said bye, sounding slightly sonfused, and he hung up.
"Good idea, we can have a picnic!" Brooke grinned.
Lucas chuckled. "You'd better call Peyton and tell her to bring food too."
Brooke nodded and grabbed Lucas' phone.
"Pey? Hey it's Brooke. Come to the Rivercourt, kay? And bring loads of food."
"Brooke wha - ?"
"Just come ok, with Jake. And Pey? Loads of food."
She hung up and passed Lucas his phone back.
"Why didn't you tell her what's going on?"
Brooke shrugged, "It's more fun this way."
Haley got out of her and Nathan's car and went round the side to get the bag of food she'd brought out of the back. Nathan got out too and locked the car, and took Haley's hand as they began walking towards the court.
"Haley! Nathan!" They turned to see Peyton and Jake approaching, carrying a big hamper between them.
"Hey guys! What are you doing here?"
"Brooke called us. She call you too?"
"No…Lucas called me. We were meant to be having lunch together but he said to come here instead, and bring food…which apparently you were told to do too…" Haley eyed the large hamper.
"Yeah. What do you think is going on?"
"Sounds like Brooke and Lucas have some explaining to do…"
"Yeah," said Jake, looking over towards the Rivercourt, where he had just spied the two, "Like why they're making out…"
They all looked over and saw that Brooke and Lucas were indeed very preoccupied with each other, sitting beneath a tree a little way away from the court.
They approached them and Haley cleared her throat.
Brooke looked up, "Tutorwife! And everyone else! Yay, you're here…and you brought food."
"Yeah, what's with that by the way?"
"We thought we could have a picnic."
"Well you could have told us that!"
"Also, what's with this…" Peyton waved a finger between the two of them, "When did this happen?"
Brooke beamed, "Yesterday."
"And you were going to tell me when?"
"Um….now." She grinned sheepishly, "Peyton, Lucas and I are back together."
"Yes I can see that." Peyton smiled, "That's great you guys."
The other added their congratulations and Nathan said, "Well I think we should have a little celebration then. Lets get this picnic started."
Brooke tipped her head to one side, "Doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it?" She giggled.
Nathan rolled his eyes, "Whatever, lets just eat!"
"Oh my god. I'm so stuffed," Jake said.
They had all finished eating and were sitting around on the grass near the court.
"Yeah, when I said bring a lot of food, I didn't mean that much!" Brooke said, chuckling. She leaned back against Lucas but he groaned and pushed her off.
"Hey! What?"
"Don't put any kind of pressure on my stomach."
She rolled her eyes and rested her head in his lap instead.
Nathan lay back on the grass and put his hands behind his head. "So what do you guys want to do this afternoon?"
His question was met by shrugs and vague mumblings from the group.
"Glad to see you all have such firm views."
Peyton laughed and sat up, "I don't mind. We could just hang out here."
"Yeah, anyone wanna play some ball?" Jake asked.
"Not right now," Lucas said, "But later, yeah, sure." He leant back against the tree and ran his fingers through Brooke's hair, his thumbs brushing her forehead.
"Mmm, that tickles."
He chuckled, "Sorry."
"So you guys, how did you get back together?" Haley asked. "What happened last night?"
"Um…" Brooke hesitated, wondering whether she should admit the fact they had had sex just minutes after getting back together.
"Yeah Brooke, what made you change your mind?"
"I don't know. Lucas dropped me off. And I went upstairs and just…wanted to be with him again. I wanted him to be there."
Lucas listened, interested to hear what had made her decide to come and see him.
"So I went to see him and…well, we talked - "
"And ended up making out and doing it," Peyton said, chuckling.
"How do you know!"
"Because that's obviously what happened, right? The tension just got too much for you guys to bear…finally!"
Lucas chuckled, "I guess. But it was more because we talked about how we felt and the issues that were there and got past them. And realised that in the end we love each other…and that's all that matters."
Brooke smiled up at him, "Yeah."
The rest of the gang shared a look, and Nathan mimed sticking him finger down his throat. Brooke flipped him her middle finger and he laughed.
They spent the rest of Saturday hanging out at the Rivercourt. The boys played some basketball for a bit but mostly they just sat, relaxing altogether. They spent Sunday in much the same way, although Haley and Brooke worked a shift at the café in the afternoon.
Haley joked that it was the first time Brooke was detaching herself from Lucas all weekend; as they were both still revelling in the fact that they were back together, she had barely left his side and the others began to get tired of finding them making out every five minutes.
Brooke felt a hand on her waist as she was getting books out of her locker on Monday morning and grinned and turned round. Lucas smiled as her eyes met his and leaned in to drop a kiss on her lips.
"Morning," he said.
"Good morning to you too boyfriend," she said cheerily. At that moment a group of girls went past and caught sight of the two. Their faces suddenly fell as they saw Lucas' hands around Brooke's waist and one of them made a sound of disgust and flipped her hair before moving on.
Brooke giggled as she watched them walk away, "I guess word will get round pretty quickly that Lucas Scott is no longer available."
Lucas chuckled and rolled his eyes. As much as Brooke complained sometimes about being the subject of rumours at school, he knew she loved it when she was the centre of gossip, especially when it was for something like snagging one of the most wanted guys in school.
"So you gonna walk me to class or what?"
Lucas smiled and took her hand, "Of course."
They had basketball and cheerleading practice after school that day, and so walked to the gym together, and shared a kiss outside the locker rooms before Jake told them to get a room as he went in.
The practice was an intense one, as the team was getting ready for their game against the Greyhounds that weekend. Although they weren't a great team, Whitey wasn't taking any chances.
It was also the annual cheerleading competition, the Sparkle Classic, that weekend, and so the cheerleaders were all ready to finalise their routine and get it perfected. Brooke however, wasn't really in the mood…
"Why don't we skip practice today guys?" she said.
"Skip it? Why would we do that Brooke?"
There was a pause.
"Brooke?"
"Huh?" She eyes snapped back from where they had been drifting over to the basketball players, "We could do something more fun. Like…get manicures!"
"What's going on Brooke? Last year you were a total psycho-bitch about this competition," Bevin said.
Brooke shrugged, "Last year I was seriously pissed off. I guess I'm just happier now and it doesn't seem so important."
Peyton rolled her eyes, she could guess why that was…
When the guys took a short break Peyton went over to talk to Lucas. Brooke had finally agreed that maybe having practice wasn't such a bad idea, and so was now helping Theresa with a move, though half-heartedly.
"Lucas, you need to piss off your girlfriend! She needs to be motivated to win this tournament and right now she's too 'happy' to care!"
Lucas chuckled, "So you want me to piss her off?"
"Yeah. Or, you know, talk to her. Whichever."
Lucas nodded, "I'll see what I can do." He followed Peyton back over to the cheerleaders.
"Brooke, babe apparently we need to talk." He grinned at her and took her hand, leading her away from the others.
"Peyton, we have to do something. Brooke just totally zoned out in the middle of showing me a move!"
"Don't worry, Luke's taking care of it," Peyton said smiling, and indicated to where Lucas was talking to Brooke, holding her hands by their sides.
"…So maybe it would be a good idea if, even if you don't get really pissed off, to just get a little stressed about this, for the sake of your team. You know how they need to be whipped into shape!"
Brooke laughed, "I guess your right. Did they get you to talk to me?"
"Well actually Peyton wanted me to piss you off, but I figured this was safer."
Brooke smiled, "You're right about that! Okay, well they got it. Hormonal and bitchy, comin' up!" She pulled Lucas towards her and kissed him, "Thanks Broody."
"No problem. I'm glad you're so happy."
"Me too."
Lucas went over to rejoin his team mates and Brooke went back to her squad. "Okay guys, psycho Brooke is back. We're going to do that routine again and it had to be ten times better. Oh, and Bevin? Two words: face mask."
Hope you guys enjoyed that. Again, sorry for the long gap! PLEASE REVIEW, and I promise, god allowing, the next one will be up sooner!
