Author's Note: Hey everyone. I'm sorry it's been so long since I've updated. It's just I didn't get much reviews at first, but then all of a sudden I got like five in one day, just completely out of the blue. So I figured I should update. I'm not sure what I want to happen in this chapter yet, but the next two or three are mapped out perfectly. Someone asked what the timeline of this is and to be perfectly honest, I have no idea. I'm gonna go with somewhere around You Gotta Go There to Come Back, but Naley and Brucas never hooked up. There was some flirting going on, but no smoochies.

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Karen woke up suddenly as she heard the front door of their home slam shut. She sat up and rubbed her eyes as she listened to her son make noise in the kitchen. Realizing what time it must be, she looked over at her alarm clock and was surprised to find that it was nine o'clock. She was trying to figure out why Luke wasn't in school. She flinched when the wall shook after Lucas slammed his bedroom door shut. She sighed and got out of bed. Throwing on a housecoat and making her way through the house to go see what was wrong with her son.

"So much for my day off," she muttered. She threw on a housecoat and made her way through the house to go see what was wrong with her son. She wasn't surprised to find his bag thrown on the floor. She knocked on the door.

"Go away."

"What's wrong?" she asked, ignoring his request and opening the door. She stepped inside and surveyed her son. No missing limbs, that's a plus. He was lying on his bed with his face buried in his pillow.

"Nothing," came his muffled reply. She rolled her eyes and walked further into the room. She sat on the edge of the bed and hit his foot.

"Then how come you aren't at school?" He blew a breath into the pillow before pushing himself up to face his mother. He sighed as sat up, running a hand through his hair.

"I just had this blow up with Haley," he told her. She nodded, acting calm. She thought she knew what was going on, but didn't want to say anything just in case.

"You guys always fight," she pointed out with a shrug of her shoulders. "It's no reason to miss school over. You'll make up in no time." He shook his head.

"Not this time," he corrected her. He balled his hands into a fist. "She lied to me, mom. And it's not like the Nathan thing, this has been going on for a month." Karen bowed her head. This was definitely about the Brooke thing.

"Lucas," she began in her usual 'Mom voice'. "Please tell me you didn't blow up at her and run off." He looked at her in shock.

"You don't understand, mom," he said, thinking she wasn't in on the secret. He looked away from the death stare she was giving him. "You couldn't understand."

"I can't believe you, Luke," she told him. "I thought you of all people would be a little more open minded about your best friend's sexual preference." Luke's head shot up and looked at her in surprise. He blinked a couple of times before he slowly got off the bed.

"What?"

"They came to me a couple weeks ago," she explained. She was guilty that she had helped them lie to him, but she was too disappointed in her son right now to dwell on it too much.

"You knew?" She nods her head. Luke throws his head back in aspiration. "I can't believe this. "She told you, but she didn't tell me. And you're okay with this?"

"At first I wasn't," she answered truthfully. "I was afraid for her, of what people would say. I didn't want her to get hurt." She smiled a little. "But after being around them, I knew they were in love. They are the sweetest things."

"How did this happen?" he asked. "When did my best friend turn into a dyke?"

"Lucas Scott, you shut your mouth!" she screamed at him. His eyes widened in surprise. His mother had never spoken to him like that. "If I ever hear you call Haley that again, you will be grounded until you are too old to enjoy your life."

"Sorry," he mumbled. He couldn't believe he had said that. It wasn't something he would ever say, especially about Haley. He looked up and flinched when he still saw the anger in his mother's eyes. "Really, I am. I can't believe I said that."

"And you'll never say it again." Luke nodded. He sighed and sat down in his chair. "What's got you so mad about this?"

"I don't know," he answered. He ran his hand through his hair again before fettling with something on his desktop. "I want to say that it's just about the fact that she lied to me, but I know it's more than that." He looked up at Karen. "I don't want to feel this way. I want to be happy for her. It's the fact that I feel... weird about the whole thing."

"I didn't know you had a problem with gay people," Karen stated, standing up and walking around his room.

"Either did I," Luke agreed. "That's the thing." He looked at a picture of Haley and him on his desk. "Maybe I'm just worried about her like you were." Karen smiled when she saw him looking at the picture.

"Or maybe it's because you've always had a little crush on her," she suggested. Luke laughed it off and put the photo back down. He shook his head.

"I don't think that's it," he corrected. He'll admit that at one point he did had feelings for her, but it had pasted a long time ago. She would always be just Hales to him. Karen walked over to him and put her hands on his shoulders. She leaned down she was at eye level with him.

"Do you think maybe you might have feelings for Brooke?" Luke closed his eyes. That was all the answer she needed. She squeezed his shoulders and quietly made her way out of Luke's room.

"Maybe," he whispered as he watched his computer screen. Peyton and Brooke where sitting on the edge of the bed, Haley was lying in the middle. Luke watched with jealous eyes as Brooke bend down and kissed Haley's head.

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"I can't believe he would do that," Peyton whispered, not wanting to walk up Haley. They had finally gotten her to calm down enough to get some sleep. None of them had gotten much the night before.

"I know," she said back, turning her head to look at her sleeping girlfriend. Her heart broke at how sad Haley looked. "I could just kill him right now."

"Don't forget you'll have me and Taylor for backup," Peyton added. Brooke laughed slightly at the image for the three of them beating Lucas up as Haley stood by and cheered. "I hate seeing her cry. It should be like against the law or something."

"You're telling me," Brooke agreed. She had seen Haley cry before and it always made her upset. The first time Haley had cried in front of her, she almost time, her heart hurt some much. Peyton saw the sadness in her friend's eyes and rubbed her arm.

"She'll be okay," she assured her. "They'll make it up in no time."

"How do you know, Pey?" Brooke asked quietly. Personally, she couldn't care less if she ever talked to Lucas Scott again, but she knew what he meant to Haley. She also knew what would happen to her girlfriend if Lucas didn't accept them. "This is exactly what I was afraid of about telling people. I can't stand to see her cry. It hurts too much."

"They're best friends and I know Luke," Peyton answered. "He can't live without her. Trust me, he'll come around." Haley started to moan in her sleep and Brooke was by her side in a split second.

"Shhh, baby," she cooed into Haley's ear. She laid multiple soft kisses on her temple. "I'm here. Everything's okay." Haley's immediately stilled and quieted at the sound of Brooke's voice. After a moment, Haley's eyes fluttered open. Brooke frowned at how red and puffy they were.

"Tigger?" Brooke gave her the best smile she could muster.

"Hey, baby," she greeted her. She leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips. Haley looked around in confusion. The last thing she remembered was talking to Luke in the gym.

"Where are we?" She looks around. "I see a lot of freaky artsy stuff, so I'm going to say Peyton's room." Brooke laughed, despite herself. Peyton laughed too.

"Do you remember what happened?"

"Yeah," she answered. "Luke completed wigged out on us in the gym."

"He's an ass," Brooke replied, trying to make Haley feel better. She couldn't imagine what Haley must be feeling. If Peyton hadn't accepted them, she didn't know what she would have done.

"He sure is," Haley agreed. She rubbed her eyes and sat up with the help of Brooke. She realized for the first time that the blonde was in the room and threw her a smile in which Peyton returned. "So, since we aren't going to school today, what do you girls have planned?"

"Oh, umm..." Both Brooke and Peyton were caught by surprise at how easy Haley was taking the whole thing. Peyton may have bought the act, but Brooke sure didn't. She would definitely be talking to her about that later.

"We could go shopping?" Brooke suggested. Both girls nodded in agreement. Brooke smiled, hoping that by the end of the day, she would be able to cheer her Haley up. "Nothing mends a broken heart quite like shopping with the girls."

"I hope so," Haley mumbled as she got off the bed and followed them out of the room. She could only hope that word didn't get out to the whole town yet or else this trip to the mall wasn't going to be very fun.

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All done for now. Hope you liked. The next chapter will be the dinner with the girls and Taylor, I'm not going to do anything at the mall. Please tell me what you think. Bye.