Chapter Six-Arrivals and Liquor

Nathan's apartment was dark when everyone gathered in his driveway. It was the day they left for the Bahamas. They would be gone for a week.

"I hope he's here." Jake said. He threw his bags down on the pavement. It was beginning to rain.

Nathan pulled into the driveway. Brooke was in the passenger seat. Everyone turned to look at the two of them. Nathan had borrowed Deb's Suburban to drive to the airport. "Wonder what they were doing?" Tim perked up trying to make a joke out of it but failing.

Nathan climbed out of the truck and walked over to the group. "Ready?"

Lucas started grabbing his bags to load into the truck and caught Brooke's eye. She had her bare feat on the dash of the truck and was flipping threw a magazine.

Lucas, Peyton and Haley climbed into the far back seats. Jake and Tim climbed into the middle row and Nathan locked all of the doors. "P. Sawyer!" Brooke said with excitement turning around. "I was looking threw this magazine, and I found the perfect pair of sandals for you. So I ordered them" she said reaching down and throwing a box toward her head.

Peyton ducked. "Gosh Brooke, are you trying to kill me?"

"Don't think I haven't considered it!" she joked. Peyton's smile faded "What? I'm kidding!"

The tension in the vehicle lightened as they neared the airport. Brooke was rambling on and on about clothes as she flipped threw her magazine. Peyton had a headset on and was listening to music. She had a headphones extension and Lucas was listening with her. Haley was reading a book and Tim and Jake were arguing about basketball players.

Everyone checked their bags and got in line outside the gate to wait to be boarded. Peyton looked down at her boarding pass and wondered where she was sitting. She walked down the isle of the plane and found a seat near the back. She was happy to find out Jake would be sitting next to her, and Tim was on the other side. She wanted a chance to finally talk to Jake about what was going on with her and Lucas.

Haley sat down in her seat against the window when she looked up and saw Nathan sit down next to her. "Great" she muttered.

Lucas and Brooke glanced at each other knowing what was to come. "Figures." She cried. "I suppose we did actually like each other when we booked the tickets. Oh wait, no, I like you, but you liked my best friend!"

Lucas didn't say anything but instead just sat in his seat. Brooke refused to sit down. "Hey tutor girl, I'll let you read my magazine if you switch seats with me!" she called to her. Haley turned around and rolled her eyes. She held up the book she was reading. "Fine!" Brooke wined walking over to her. She handed her a fifty dollar bill. "Fifty bucks?"

"Deal!" Haley exclaimed taking the money and hoping over Nathan to sit with Lucas. Lucas rolled his eyes at her.

"What, you have to be paid to sit with me?"

"Just thought I'd take what I could get," she smiled buckling her seat belt.

Brooke sat down with Nathan and grinned happily at him. "You know Brooke, sometimes it's possible to get your way without paying people." He told her

"I know! I just thought tutor girl might try to make the moves on you again so I had to take care of that." She laughed resting her head on the window. "Don't look at me while I sleep." She warned, "Or you won't wake up when you fall asleep."

Nathan nodded and smiled. "Whatever you say."

The plane landed kind of hard and woke Brooke up from a deep sleep. "We're here already?" she asked surprised. Nathan laughed at her frantically looking around the now half empty plane. She had the slight smear of eye liner across her face. He reached over and wiped it from her eye. "Thank you!" She smiled.

Lucas watched the two of them sitting across the isle from him. It looked to him like they had been together forever. Both of them claimed they were just friends, but since when were Brooke and Lucas friend's anyway?

Haley caught a glimpse of what Lucas was looking at and looked away. "Do you think there is something between him?" she asked not really paying attention to anything before that.

Lucas shrugged. "Jealous?"

"No, I am not!"

Lucas didn't believe her. He grabbed his book and stood up to leave the plane.

The hotel was amazing. They had taken a boat from the airport to get to the island they would be staying on. The building was brown and secluded. The beach surrounded it and a volley ball court was being used in front of it. Nathan and Lucas walked to the front desk to check in.

"Mr. Nathan Scott," the man said handing him a bunch of room keys. Nathan looked down at the keys engraved with everyone's pictures on them and their room numbers. "You must have this key to get in your room, and it must be you using it." The man explained.

"What do you mean?" Lucas asked.

"The key has your picture on it. You scan the picture against the door, and you press your thumb finger against the mini camera to enter the room." He explained. "Our hotel is very concerned with safety. We want to make sure nobody but the people who are assigned to the room enter."

"I didn't even know that was possible." Jake chimed in grabbing his key.

Brooke looked down at the room number on her key. Conveniently it matched the room number on Lucas' key. "Oh, no way." We have to change the rooms."

"Sorry the man said, but it's a $100 fee to have the room keys remade."

Brooke threw the key in her purse and stormed toward the elevator.

Nathan knew that meant he was going to be sharing a room with Haley. He wasn't really excited about that fact, but at the same time, it would be nice to try and talk to her. "It looks like our room has three beds." Tim piped into Nathan's thoughts.

"What?"

"Looks like you, me and Haley."

Nathan rolled his eyes. "Figures."

Peyton knew that she would be sharing with Jake and she didn't mind at all. She was glad they were able to keep their friendship after everything happened. She would always love Jake. He had a place in her heart for eternity and so did Jenny.

Brooke threw her bags down on her bed and watched Lucas enter the room. It reminded her of the day at the cheer competition when she had to share a room with Peyton. Peyton had done so much to get their friendship back that weekend. It really upset her that she didn't even try anymore. She missed her best friend too.

"Can you go in the bathroom so I can change?" Brooke asked Lucas as he flipped on the tv.

"Why can't you go in the bathroom and change?"

"Because stupid!"

"Because…"

"Please?"

Lucas finally agreed and went into the bathroom. He knew that if he didn't the week would just continue to get worse.

Brooke finally decided on a dark red bikini. She covered her bottoms with a short blue frilled jean skirt and a pair of dark red flip flops with red hearts on them. "You can come out now!" She called to Lucas. She was standing in front of the mirror putting her hair into a ponytail.

Lucas watched her stare at herself. She looked amazing. He cursed himself for thinking that. He was with Peyton, but right now he couldn't resist the urge to look at Brooke.

"What are you looking at?" she cried catching him.

"Nothing," he lied looking away.

"That's what I thought," she said barging passed him and into the hallway. She banged on Peyton's door.

Peyton came out dressed in a dark green bikini top and a pair of jeans. "Hi"

"Hey!" Brooke smiled. "Come on P. Sawyer were going to the beach."

Peyton stopped her from practically dragging her outside. "Brooke I can't!"

"What?" she asked now looking incredibly angry. She looked passed her and noticed Haley standing next to the bed with Jake in a blue tank top and a pair of jeans. It was clear that she was wearing a bikini beneath it.

"I promised Haley."

Brooke rolled her eyes. "Fine tutor girl, you can come too."

The three girls found a spot on the beach where the sun was brightly shining. None of them had told anyone where they were going. Brooke set up an umbrella over her towel in the sand.

"What are you doing?" Haley asked.

"Tutor girl, you're supposed to be the smart one." She shook her head. "Obviously I'm setting it up so the sun doesn't hit me."

Haley and Peyton exchanged glances. "I thought that we were tanning." Peyton questioned.

Brooke shook her head. "You're tanning. I'm drinking." She smiled pulling out a bottle of tequila and taking a large drink. "Thirsty?"

Haley looked disgusted at the way Brooke down the tequila. "No thank you!"

"Well good, because I was asking Peyton." She snapped.

Haley rolled over on her blanket and attempted to fall asleep.

Peyton took the bottle and took a large drink. She made a disgusted face and handed it back to Brooke. "That is horrible!" she cried.

Haley woke up when she felt something crawling across her leg. She jumped off her towel and saw nothing there. Peyton and Brooke were gone. She stood up looking around and noticed the cabana bar across the beach. Two girls were standing on top of the bar dancing. "Why do I have a feeling.." she started to say to herself when the guys approached her.

"Hey Hales, where's Peyton and Brooke?" Lucas asked.

Haley started to tell them when they heard the cheers coming from the bar. Everyone looked over to see Peyton and Brooke drinking from a bottle and kissing each other on top of the bar.

"Oh, My, God." Tim muttered.

Lucas, Nathan and Jake exchanged glances and took off running toward the bar.