ONE WEEK LATER (Saturday)
TREE HILL
"Lucas Scott!" Haley screamed as Lucas pegged her with a water balloon. "We called a truce dammit!"
Lucas just smiled and shrugged. "Sorry Hales. It was a trick truce!"
Haley just glared at him and shook her head.
Lucas was suddenly hit by a water balloon, which conveniently landed on his head. He turned to look at his attacker.
"Sorry dude. Open shot." Sydney grinned innocently
Lucas and Haley had planned a water balloon fight for the two of them; just to do something for old times sake. What had started out a water balloon fight ended up a water balloon war. Lucas and Peyton made up one team; Haley and Nathan made up another; while Sydney and Taylor made up the last team. The latter two had found out that they had a lot in common and had become really close over the short time that Taylor had been back.
"HA!" Haley said, pointing at Lucas and mock laughing. "That's what you get biatch!" Haley got soaked as another water balloon exploded on her. She turned to see who had gotten her, and Peyton stood with a balloon at hand, smiling triumphantly. "Peyton Sawyer! Fine, whatever. But you two will pay!" She pointed to Lucas and Peyton
"Bring it on!" Peyton went over to Lucas and gave him a high five. Peyton's phone started ringing. "Hold on guys, time out." She checked the caller ID. "It's Brooke!"
Lucas grabbed the phone away before Peyton could answer it, and he answered it. "Peyton's Palace of Pleasure. How can she please you?"
"Hmm…lets see. How about a repeat of that last night we spent together? She could make me scream again and-"
"Ah! Stop! Here's Peyton!" Lucas tossed the phone to Peyton. "That was way more than I ever needed to hear!"
Peyton put the phone up to her ear. "Hey Baby. What did you say to Luke?"
"I don't know what you are talking about!" Brooke declared innocently
"Right. Whatever. How are you? How was the rest of your week?" Peyton asked as she went and sat on the bench that was on the roof
"School sucked! I only got hit on by like 7 guys the whole week."
Peyton laughed as she pictured her girlfriend with a pout on her face. "Babe, I hate to break it to you… but you're gay. Remember?" Peyton laughed
"That's not the point. The point is, I'm used to being surrounded by guys. And not just guys, people in general. I'm Brooke Davis dammit!" Brooke growled, frustrated
"I'm so sorry." Peyton said sarcastically. "Everyone here misses you. Especially me. I've had to resort to kissing Lucas, but I cant help thinking how much better you are at it, so it just depresses me more." Peyton said drastically
Lucas put a hand to his chest to show that Peyton's words had hurt, and Peyton just stuck out her tongue and flipped him off
"Doesn't surprise me. Not the first time you guys have gone behind my back and messed around." Brooke joked half-heartedly
"That's not fair. You know I love you. I wouldn't do that."
"Yeah, right. Well I'll let you get back to everyone. Tell them all I said 'what's up'."
"Ok. I will. Bye baby. I love you."
"Love you too bitch." Brooke giggled
"Whore!"
"Slut!"
"Skank!"
"Lesbian! BAM! Got you!" Brooke said as she hung up
"Cock-sucker!" Peyton yelled at the phone. Everyone turned to look at her. "Brooke says hi."
"You guys have a very weird love." Taylor pointed out
"I know." Peyton smiled happily as she stood up. As soon as she did, she got smacked on the side of the face with a water balloon and stood there stunned. "Ok! Who did that! You are so dead!"
NEW YORK
I cant believe that I am at home on a Saturday night. Brooke thought as she ate another spoonful of cookie dough. And I'm gonna get fat to add on top of it.
Brooke was sitting on the couch with a bowlful of cookie dough, watching some lame-ass movie on cable. She continued to flip through the channels as she kept getting bored with the random shows she kept choosing.
"At least let there be a porno on or something." She muttered
She settled for watching the 'Surreal Life'.
"Close enough." She sighed as she threw the remote down
Brooke had had a bad week adjusting to her new school. She hadn't met that many people, which like she had said, that was weird for her. People in New York were different than they were in Tree Hill though. She would just have to get used to it and deal.
"This sucks!" Brooke pouted as she took another bite of cookie dough
WEDNESDAY
NEW YORK
"And your homework is to read chapter 8. You'll have a quiz on it tomorrow. Have a good day everyone." The teacher said as students began to walk out of the classroom
"God. Could this class be any more dull?" A girl behind Brooke said
Brooke turned around and smiled. "No. I think the next level of boring is comatose." She stuck her hand out. "I'm Brooke."
"Faith. You're new right?"
"Unfortunately. I just moved here." Brooke explained
"Either that's awesome, or that sucks. Judging by your face, I'm going with the move was not a good thing." Brooke smiled sadlyand nodded her head. "Well hey, you're gonna need someone to show you around the city then right?" Faith asked as she blew a bubble
"Umm… sure? I haven't gone out much actually." Brooke admitted
"Wow. It's great here! What are you doing tonight." Faith asked
"Tonight?" Brooke asked taken aback. "Studying for that damn quiz?"
"Here." Faith grabbed Brookes arm. She took out her pen and wrote something on Brooke, and then smiled. "Here's my cell number and an address. Meet me there at 6 and we can study and get to know each other better."
"Oh. Sure?" Brooke wrote her number down on a piece of paper and handed it to Faith. "Here's my number."
"Awesome. See you at 6!"
"Ok." Brooke said as Faith walked out of the classroom. Ok then. At least someone was nice.
TREE HILL
"Dammit!" Peyton shouted from her position on top of a ladder
"Whoa. You ok up there Peyt?" Sydney asked coming up the stairs
Peyton was currently at TRIC trying to replace a light bulb that had burnt out. Sydney was there because Karen had given her a job as one of the bartenders. She was old enough, and certified, so it worked out perfectly.
"Hey Syd. This damn light wont screw in!" Peyton said, trying to force the bulb in
"Don't force it! Hold on." Sydney came over and started to climb the ladder, but on the opposite side of where you're supposed to climb
"Sydney!" Peyton shouted. "you're gonna kill us both!"
"Chill Peyton!" She made it to the top of the ladder and grabbed the bulb from Peyton. She placed it in the socket, and twisted it at an angle, and it went right in. "See, piece of cake." Sydney smiled
Peyton smiled back. "Thanks."
Peyton started climbing down the ladder, and Sydney spun around on it so that she could walk down on the right side. Once they were both on the ground, Peyton started to collapse the ladder.
"What are you doing here anyway?" Peyton asked
"Karen wanted me to do inventory on all the alcohol. I can serve it, but I cant buy it." She looked confused. "I wonder why I'm checking on it if I cant do anything about restocking it." She shrugged and walked behind the counter
"That's kinda funny." Peyton walked over and leaned on the counter. "So how do you like working here?"
"It's awesome. I'm having a lot of fun. I wonder if I get up on the bar and start dancing one night if I'll get fired. I'm so tempted!"
"Probably." Peyton laughed.
"Oh! Before I forget!" Sydney turned around to face Peyton. "Friday after TRIC I was gonna have a party at my place. My roommates aren't gonna be there, so I thought I would take advantage of having the house to myself. You game?"
"Totally. I'll be there!" Peyton smiled
"Nifty." Sydney turned back around to continue inventory
"Hey Syd." Peyton said after a moment. "Do you realize we have known each other for like 3 weeks and we've hung out almost every day, but we know virtually nothing about each other."
Sydney turned around to face Peyton again. "Huh. You're absolutely right. Lets go grab some dinner."
"What? Now?" Peyton asked incredulously
"Yeah! Why the hell not! We can come back to the club when we are done to finish everything else up. Come on. Be spontaneous!"
"Sure. What the hell. Besides, I'm hungry."
NEW YORK
"Thank you." Brooke handed the taxi driver his money and stepped out of the cab. She looked around at the addresses, and found the one she was looking for; a little café. Just like Karen's back home. Well, here goes nothing. Brooke walked into the café and found Faith sitting at a table, listening to her iPOD.
"Hey Brooke." Faith said as she noticed the other girl walk up. "Didn't think you were gonna show."
"Didn't have anything better to do." Brooke joked
Faith grimaced and put a hand over her heart. "Ouch. That's just harsh!"
Brooke smiled. "Yeah, I'm a bitch. What can I say?"
Faith cracked a smile. "Then you'll fit right in here. You hungry?"
"A little." Brooke admitted
"Good. I ordered for us already."
"Ok. Cool. So what were you listening to?"
"Crossfade. You heard of them?"
"Are you kidding. I love them. One of my friends back home is so into music. I think that I have heard everything imaginable." Brooke smiled as she thought of Peyton and her music obsession
"That's cool. So where did you move from?"
"Tree Hill, North Carolina. Just a small little town."
"Interesting. Homesick yet?" Faith asked
"Since the moment I stepped onto the plane." Brooke laughed
Faith laughed also. "I'm sorry. Why'd you move?"
"My Dad's job. But it's not permanent. I'll be moving back in about 4 months." Brooke explained
"That sucks about your dad's job. I'm sorry. So why you moving back? Guy back home waiting for you?"
If you only knew. "Something like that." Brooke smiled. "Plus I've lived there my whole life. Everything that means something to me is there. I just wasn't ready to leave it yet."
"I get that."
"So what about you? Where are you from?" Brooke asked, not wanting to talk about Tree Hill anymore; it made her even more homesick
"Born and raised in California. Moved here to follow a guy who was going to college at NYU. Didn't work out." Faith chuckled
"How 'Felicity' of you."
"Didn't they end up together at the end?" Faith asked thoughtfully.
"I have no idea." Brooke responded shaking her head
The girls continued to talk and laugh for most of the evening, both amazed at how well they clicked
TREE HILL
Ironically, Peyton was back in Tree Hill doing the same thing that Brooke was doing in New York.
"So where did you move from? I cant believe this is the first time that we've really talked!" Peyton shook her head
"I know! I moved from Texas. Dallas to be specific."
"Really? What brought you to little Tree Hill?"
"My boyfriend." Sydney laughed. "I've lived here for about 6 months actually, but I just started school back up."
"Oh! Wow! I was under the impression that you had a boyfriend back in Dallas, and that you had just moved here!"
"Well, we broke up right when we got here. Not even a week after living here. I would have gone back to Dallas, but I screwed up everything there because of this guy. So I started working about 30 minutes away, and I finally decided that I needed to focus on school and graduating."
"Where are you living?" Peyton asked, surprised at Sydney's unfolding story
"One of the people I used to work with. He's pretty cool, so it works out ok. Me and Taylor are looking into getting an apartment here pretty soon though."
"Umm… are you sure about that? I've known Haley for a long time, so I've seen some of the things Taylor has done. I'm not trying to be a bitch or anything, because I like Taylor, but I just want you to be careful." Peyton cautioned
"Eh. I'll be fine. Taylor rocks, and we get along great. It'll be ok." Sydney reassured Peyton. "So what's your deal? What's your life story?"
"Not too much to it. Born and raised here."
"Well tell me about everyone then. Fill me in on all the juicy gossip!"
Peyton and Sydney talked for a while; Peyton catching Sydney up on the Tree Hill History.