Well guys, here it is! An entire chapter dedicated to Nathan and Brooke's day together. I hope you like it. Everything else that's going on with Peyton/Jake, Lucas, Haley, Josh, well happen next chapter. You've asked for it, now you get it. Please review because my reviews are suddenly growing few and far in between. This chapter is a little graphic.

Chapter Twenty-Five

"Softer To Me"

Reliant K

I'm still alive. That much is true
I've never lied, well, I guess I've told a few.
There's nothing to see because I brought nothing to show.
The conversation got too deep, I shrug and tell you I' don't know.
This life can get so hard, this world can be so cruel,
Sometimes I fall apart I feel just like a useless tool.

Nathan sat down on the bed and red a car magazine while Brooke showered. He could hear the water running in the bathroom so he knew he was safe from conversation for at least an hour. He didn't feel like talking to Brooke. It wasn't that he was mad at her. He really couldn't explain his feelings. He was confused.

The magazine showed a picture of a Mercedes on the cover and a brunette standing against it. He threw the book on the floor. He wasn't in the mood to look at girls standing against cars. What was he going to do until Brooke was out of the shower?

He sat down next to Brooke's computer and noticed a shiny silver object peaking out of her drawer. He didn't want to be nosey, but he was too curious to know what it was. He pulled open the door and took out the silver watch. It held a price tag that read $2065. Why did Brooke have such an expensive watch in her drawer? She didn't even have a job.

Nathan set the watch back down and decided to lay down until Brooke was done. Before he knew it he was asleep.

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Brooke put the last of her make-up on and went into her bedroom to find Nathan sleeping in the bed. "Well, good thing I got ready," she muttered to herself. She was wearing a towel until she could find something to wear. She sat down at her computer and opened the drawer pulling out the watch she bought for him.

She looked at the shining silver and held it in her hands. She bought the watch years ago. Nathan was dating Peyton, but when she saw it she knew it would be perfect for him. She never had the chance to give it to him because it was never the right time.

She couldn't give it to him while he was with Peyton. That would be strange. She couldn't give it to him while she was with Lucas because Lucas would be mad. Maybe she would give it to him today.

Brooke knew the smart thing would to pawn the watch and pay her next months rent. She desperately needed to find a job. She couldn't do that. The watch meant so much to her. She wanted to give it to Nathan.

"What are you doing?" Nathan asked whispering in her ear and looking down at her.

Brooke jumped out of her chair and turned around. She slapped him in the back of the head. "Don't you ever do that to me again!"

Nathan held his head and made a sad face. "I can't believe you hit me!"

"I'm so sorry!" she cried grabbing him and kissing his head. "I didn't mean to! You just scared the hell out of me!"

Nathan laughed a little and sat back down on the bed still holding his head. "Any chance you want to make it up to me?"

Brooke rolled her eyes. For the first time in a long time she didn't feel like do anything with Nathan. "I thought maybe we could talk instead?"

"Okay," Nathan accepted. He didn't want to, but he knew he had to.

Brooke sat down next to him and looked into his eyes. "Where have you been all week?" she started.

Nathan shrugged. "I just didn't feel like going to school. I feel like everyone is going to look at me like this guy who tried to drug his girlfriend and her friends."

Brooke's eyes looked sad. She didn't want Nathan to feel that way, but she didn't know how to take away the pain in his heart. "Nathan, I know you didn't try to drug me. I know who tried to drug us."

"What?" Nathan looked at her confused. "What are you talking about."

"It was Tim," she whispered. "I figured it out this morning. Tim is always hitting on everyone but never gets the girl. Plus, when we were leaving in the morning he said he had a feeling something bad was going to happen, that's why he was awake."

"You're right!" Nathan exclaimed. "He drove me home from school that day because I was drunk. I let him drive my car, and he was alone in the car while I changed. The bottle was in the car," he explained.

"Speaking of which," Brooke brought up. "Why exactly were you drunk at school?"

Nathan laughed a little bit. "It was an accident." he told her. "I put some peppermint schnapps in my hot chocolate before I left for flavor. It was really good so I kept drinking it all day. I didn't think I drank enough to get drunk but before I knew it I was."

Brooke laughed and kissed him. "You're funny."

"I have to tell the cops what Tim did," he pointed out. "I can't believe my own best friend would do something like that."

Brooke shook her head. "I never liked him."

Nathan looked at her thinking deeply about Tim putting drugs in the bottle. She was so deep in thought and so serious. He missed the Brooke that was so fun and so carefree. Ever since they started dating she had been kind of serious.

"What are you looking at?" she asked.

"Nothing,"

"Shut up Nathan," she hit him the arm. "You were undressing me with your eyes."

"No I wasn't!" Nathan defended laughing. Maybe he was wrong. It was just like Brooke to make a stupid comment like that.

"I'm hungry." she stood up from the bed. "Should I make pizza?"

"Sure," he shrugged. "I don't care. Didn't we just eat though?"

"Yeah," she pointed out. "Why am I so hungry?" she shrugged. She walked toward the door and dropped the towel. "Oops!" she covered her mouth.

Nathan's eyes widened at a naked Brooke. "You're going to cook without your clothes on?"

She nodded and started walking to the kitchen.

Nathan bolted out of the bed and took off after her. Once he caught up to her she started running around the coffee table. Nathan continued to run trying to catch her. "This isn't fair!" she cried running in circles. "You have your clothes on."

Nathan laughed throwing his shirt over his head as he chased her. He started to fall down as he pulled his pants off. "Now we're both naked." he pointed out.

Brooke continued to run around the apartment. She scooped Nathan's clothes up in her hands and ran to the bathroom locking the door. She threw her bath rob on and tied it quickly. She came back out with Nathan's clothes in her arms.

"Hey," he said sadly seeing she was all covered up. "What are you doing?"

Brooke walked out on the deck and held Nathan's clothes over the edge.

"Brooke Davis! You wouldn't!" he yelled holding himself and attempting to walk out on the deck to get his clothes.

"Don't get any closer!" she yelled to him. She looked down at the pavement below. There was an elderly woman and her grandkids walking toward the building.

Nathan caught a glimpse of the woman and stepped back. "Come on!" he pleaded. "Please don't!"

"What are you going to do for me?" she asked with a sly look. "Because I could easily throw your clothes off this deck, and you'll have to leave here naked."

Nathan wasn't sure what to do. He didn't have a clue how he was going to get Brooke to come back inside with his clothes. "I'll do anything you want, you name it."

"Fine," Brooke smiled walking back inside and handing him his clothes. She watched him put them back on. "Massage my feet." she sat down on the couch and put her feet on the table exposing the area up her robe.

Nathan looked at her and shook her head. "Uh uh, no way, you know how much I hate feet!" he cried. "Please don't make me."

"Please don't make me!" Brooke wined. "I'm a poor little rich boy who hates feet. I won't even do it for my girlfriend."

Nathan rolled his eyes and sat down in a chair pulling it up to the couch. He took Brooke's feat in his hands and began to massage them making a very unhappy face. "This is disgusting." he wined.

"Fine," Brooke took her feet back and stood up. "I'll just throw your clothes then." she smiled.

"How are you going to do that?" Nathan asked. "I'm wearing them."

Brooke grabbed him by the arm. "I could change that." she smiled. She pressed her lips against his. She rotated her tongue in circles on the inside of his bottom lip and bit him softly.

"Okay," Nathan whispered throwing his shirt back over his head.

Brooke reached for the button of his pants and immediately took them off kissing him again. She pulled him close to her smiling the whole time. Suddenly she pulled away and grabbed Nathan's clothes and threw them out the window.

Nathan's face dropped as he watched her do it. "You did not just do that!" he cried.

Brooke laughed at him and nodded her head. "Oh yes I did." Nathan took off toward her bedroom and locked the door so she couldn't get it. "Nathan what are you doing?" she screamed pounding on the door.

After about five minuets of Brooke screaming he opened the door. Nathan threw the last piece of her clothing out the window.

"Oh my God, you did not do that!" she cried. "My clothes are expensive!" she pretended to be upset.

"I'm sorry." he said realizing how mad she was. He walked over to her and tried to hug her but she shook her head holding her robe tightly to her body. She couldn't pretend anymore and started to laugh.

"Oh no you didn't!" he said chasing her down and taking her robe off. He threw it out the window with the rest of her clothes.

The two of them stood staring at each other naked. "What are we going to do now?" Brooke motioned.

Nathan threw her down on the floor and hovered above her kissing her again. He lowered himself onto her body and forced himself inside her.

Brooke held on tightly to him kissing him passionately rocking back and forth with his body. She let out a small cry.

Nathan smiled hearing the sound escape her lips. He loved to hear how much she enjoyed him. "Brooke," he whispered biting onto her shoulder.

"Nathan," she said loudly. The two of them rolled apart from each other onto the floor.

"Wow," he whispered looking over at her.

Brooke stayed silent but nodded. "Yeah,"

The two of them burst into a heap of giggles at the scene that just played out before them. "What are we going to do now?" she repeated the words she said earlier.

Nathan stood up and helped her up. "We're going to get our clothes," he explained.

"What?" she asked laughing. "I'm not going out there!"

"Oh yes you are!" he pulled her to the door.

"Nathan," she whispered sneaking against the wall of the hallway behind him. "I can't believe we are doing this!" she cried.

Nathan pulled her out the front door of the building and around the house to wear his clothes were. He picked them up and ran toward where her clothes were laying in huge piles.

"I can't believe you seriously threw ALL of my clothes out the window."

"I didn't" he laughed. "He picked up the top layer of clothing from the pile to show a heap of towels underneath it."

"You mean to tell me that I have clothes in my apartment and you made me come out here naked?" she cried getting angry.

Nathan picked up the clothes and held them against her body for her to hold. "Yup."

Brooke started to chase after him. Nathan ran toward the front of the building to open the door. "Oh my God," he whispered. "Did you bring a key?"

Brooke looked at him almost in tears. "No!"

They both started to laugh when they heard footsteps behind them. When they turned around they saw Haley, Lucas and Peyton standing at them with large smirks on their face.

Well, there it is. I have to say. This is my longest and favorite chapter so far. What did you think?

Cindyvietkutie-You'll get to find out for sure if it was Tim or not next chapter that drugged them. Brooke and Nathan made up, are you happy? And this entire chapter was Brathan just for you!

Mony19- Nope, Jason wasn't the guy who drugged them. He's just there to stir Haley up a little bit.

L-a-c-18 – I enjoy Peyton and Brooke's friendship. I think Brooke needs a good friend, and I think after everything that happen with Lucas in season one Peyton has been a pretty good friend to Brooke. Brooke was a little dumb for trusting her again, but I think they're past it now.

LivingintheOCsucks- I like Jason too. I wrote his look as something I would look for myself. You'll def see more of him coming up!

So thanks to everyone who did update. Your updates do make a difference.. I write the story how I want, but I do consider what you say each chapter!