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Brooke giggled as Lucas pressed her against her door, kissing her neck. She caught his lips in hers and kissed him properly as she reached behind her for the door handle. She opened it and they fell inside, stumbling towards her bed.

"Er…room's kind of occupied you guys…"

Brooke pulled back quickly and turned to see Toby sitting on Carrie's bed, with his girlfriend straddling his lap.

Lucas looked sheepish and wiped his mouth, and Brooke chuckled. "Okay well…you were here first. Your room Broody?"

He nodded and pulled her out of the room, Carrie's call of, "Be safe!" following them out.

Brooke laughed as she shut the door behind them, and followed Lucas to his room.

"Where were we…" he said, as he opened the door, quickly checking around for Freddie and then grinning at Brooke as he saw that they were indeed alone. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him again. "Right about here…"

"So I was thinking, we should get like a screen or something…" Carrie said the next day, as she and Brooke both sat in their room doing some work.

Brooke looked up laughing. "Yeah, or a rota maybe."

Carrie chuckled. "You can have Friday nights and we'll have Saturdays?"

At that moment the door opened and Lucas stuck his head through. "Hey, you want to get some coffee?"

Brooke looked down at her half finished paper, then shrugged. "I'm not getting anywhere with it anyway. You wanna come?" she asked Carrie.

Carrie hesitated and Brooke rolled her eyes. "Just because we're dating doesn't mean we can't all still hang out."

"Your right, and I would come, but Toby's busy so that means I'd have nothing to do when you guys start making out."

Brooke gave her a look and she smiled. "No really, it's okay. I have to finish this anyway."

"Okay, well we'll see you later then."

"Yeah definitely."

Brooke took Lucas' hand and they started to leave the room. Then she turned back. "Oh and, we get Saturdays."

They left the room and Carrie chuckling, and Lucas turned to Brooke. "What?"

"Friday's game night, you'd be tired."

There was a pause.

"Again, what?"

"So you ready for this?" Brooke asked, as Lucas came out of the locker room on his way to the gym for practice.

"Um…for what exactly?"

"Our first practice as a couple? Most of these people don't know we're dating yet."

Lucas shrugged. "Toby does, and Carrie does, so that means most of the cheerleaders probably know," he said chuckling. "And Toby told Dave and he didn't seem too distraught…"

Brooke laughed. Dave had always had a bit of a crush on her, but also totally respected Lucas, and assumed the two would eventually get back together. He had seemed pretty unfazed by the news that they finally had.

"I'm sure the team will get over it," Lucas said, "Eventually."

Brooke rolled her eyes and swatted at him, and he chuckled and caught her hands, pulling her inside.

Brooke leaned up and kissed him briefly when they'd come through the doors, before making her way over to the cheerleaders.

Lucas headed over to join the warm up, unable to take his eyes off her entirely, a slightly goofy grin on his face.

The coach rolled his eyes and sighed. "Another one of you dating a cheerleader; that'll cost us a few more matches in loss of concentration…"

Lucas looked sheepish and Toby came up, chuckling. "Don't worry coach, he had years of practice in high school of keeping his head in the game with her on the sideline."

Lucas grinned at Toby and he returned it. "Oh, by the way, Drake didn't know about you guys yet but he just caught that kiss at the door: you might want to avoid him this practice…"

Lucas looked over at Drake, who was shooting three pointers with his mouth set in a thin line. "Right, thanks man."

With the exception of Drake most of the other guys were supportive, clapping Lucas on the back for finally 'pinning down' Brooke Davis. The majority of them knew about their history, and so weren't too surprised to hear the two were now officially together.

Brooke was having a slightly harder time with the cheerleaders. Some of the squad had been eyeing up Lucas since he had arrived, and had hoped that because he and Brooke had not started dating earlier, all the stories about their relationship in high school were exaggerated, and they would in fact stay friends. They were not exactly happy to be proven wrong.

"So Brooke, I see you've finally decided to settle down. How long are you planning on it lasting before one of you gets bored? Just so I know whether to expect one or two Christmas presents from the two of you."

Brooke chuckled wryly. "I don't think you can expect any Christmas presents from us Stacy…but anyway we don't go in for the whole 'one from both of us' thing – feels a little cheap don't you think?" She lifted a hand to her mouth in mock realisation. "Oh sorry, is that what you and Howie did? I was so sorry to hear about the two of you breaking up by the way."

Stacy glared at her. "I'm totally over it. Actually I was looking around for someone else – Lucas must not have heard."

"Oh I'll be sure to remind him to avoid you then."

"Getting protective already, huh? Obviously don't feel too secure in your position yet."

"Oh he can hang out with you if he wants to of course…I just don't see why he would want to…"

The captain called them together at that point, and Brooke smirked at Stacy and joined Carrie in the huddle. Stacy glowered at her as she followed.

Some of the others, unlike Stacy and her friends, could see that Brooke was really happy, and were happy for her.

The captain, Angela, grinned at Brooke as she saw her. "Hey, caught the kiss earlier. Nice catch." She winked and Brooke grinned. Angela was a senior and so Brooke didn't see much of her, but the older girl liked Brooke, which made a nice change from the captain last year, who hated her because her boyfriend always flirted with her.

Lucas kept catching Brooke's eye all through practice, so despite overhearing some backhand comments from Stacy about herself, when it ended she was still in a cheery mood.

Brooke lay on her bed, flicking through a magazine. She was bored; Lucas was working on a paper in the library. Throwing the magazine on her bedside table, she decided she'd go and find Carrie and maybe see if she wanted to have lunch somewhere.

The obvious place to look was Toby's room, since Carrie spent almost as much time there as Brooke did in Lucas'. Brooke approached the door and then hesitated, putting a hand over her eyes before opening it, because you know, you could never be too careful.

She peeped through and saw that there were indeed to people in there, looking a little busy. Her jaw dropped however when she saw who it was. "Freddie?"

"Brooke!"

"Oh my god I have crazy news!" Brooke said as she came up to Lucas in the library. She was immediately hushed by the librarian so she grabbed Lucas' hand and dragged him outside.

"What?" he asked, laughing slightly at her state of excitement as they stood in the hall.

"Okay, you know you've been wondering why Freddie's been out of your room so much recently. Well, he found a boyfriend!"

"Oh really? Cool, who?"

"And you know how you were really surprised when Dave seemed so accepting of us and hasn't made a pass at me in like…at least a month?"

"Yeah…are you saying…?"

Brooke nodded, still grinning. "Dave is gay."

Lucas' eyebrows shot up. "Are you serious?"

"Yes! I walked in on him and Freddie."

"Oh my god Brooke! Where?"

"In Dave's room, I was looking for Carrie and I thought she might be in there with Toby, and I walk in and see people making out, so I assumed it was Toby and Carrie and was like 'Ew guys cut it out'…and then I noticed they really were both guys. This is so awesome, because you know what it means?"

"Um…I don't have to worry about Dave hitting on you anymore?"

"No, well that too, but it means we have three rooms, and three couples! So whenever you and I want…you know, some privacy, we can all just switch round. Toby can come to Carrie, I can go to you, and Freddie can go to Dave."

"That is pretty cool actually."

"I know! I can stop sending Carrie to Starbucks the whole time, I think she's even gotten bored of caramel machiattos…"

Lucas and Brooke were lying on his bed watching TV, both tired after a long practice. Lucas was absently trailing his fingers up and down her arm as they watched.

Brooke had half fallen asleep, lulled by the gentle caress of his fingers. The episode of Will and Grace suddenly ended, and she looked up, woken by the music. "Hm…where's the remote," she mumbled.

Lucas passed it to her and she began flicking through the channels. "Ooh I've heard about this!"

Lucas looked up and then turned to Brooke, eyebrows slightly raised.

"Yeah Molly was talking about it, it's like some creepy guy who can read minds. And it's not all fake and stuff, he really can."

"Okay…"

"Shh, we've gotta watch."

"Why?"

"Because it's cool." She swatted at him and he chuckled and shut up.

"Hey, I have a question," Lucas piped up eventually. "If you could be in anyone's mind for a day, who would it be?"

Brooke was silent for a second, considering this. "Yours," she said finally.

Lucas looked at her, surprised. "Mine? Why?"

"Because then I would know what you brood about the entire frickin' time! And how you really feel about me," she added with a smirk.

Lucas chuckled. "You know how I feel about you, I tell you enough."

Brooke smiled, "That's true."

"And you can find out what I'm thinking any time, just ask. I bet you could guess anyway, you know me well enough."

Brooke shrugged, "Maybe." She rolled on her side and propped herself up on one elbow, facing Lucas. "Okay, I'm going to read your mind."

Lucas laughed, "Um…okay. Tell me what I'm thinking about."

Brooke looked into his eyes and furrowed her eyebrows. "You're thinking about…cats."

"Wow. You are incredible."

"Are you serious?"

"No."

Brooke hit him on the chest, "Meanie. Alright…you're thinking…is it possible to eat an entire meatball sub in thirty seconds."

"No. And it's not."

Brooke laughed, "Okay…you're thinking…have I done my trig homework."

"Nope. You suck at this."

"Shut up! It's hard. Give me a clue."

Lucas sighed. "Okay…it's something I think about a lot."

"A book."

"No. Something I love very much."

"Basketball."

"More than that."

"Meatball subs?"

"Even more than that."

Brooke raised an eyebrow. She thought for another minute. "Whatever, I give up. I bet you can't guess what I'm thinking."

"You're thinking…I should have bought some new pants to go with that top," he said, pointing to a top she'd bought a couple of days ago that was lying on a chair in her room.

Brooke narrowed her eyes. "That was too easy, it was in my sightline."

Lucas laughed. "I win."

Brooke rolled her eyes and flopped onto her back, ignoring Lucas as he continued to laugh. She turned back to the TV, her fingers resuming their idle path over the hand that was resting on her stomach.

Lucas leaned down, and kissed the side of her head. "You," he said, "I was thinking about you."

She looked up at him, her eyes meeting his. "Me?"

"I would've thought you could have guessed that. It's a pretty safe bet."

Brooke smiled and raised her head to kiss him.

Hope you liked that – I need the fluff right now to balance out 'Under Your Skin' which is in a very dark place! There aren't too many chapter left of this story, but I've got something planned for after it already.

Oh also, I know the whole Dave being gay thing was kind of out of the blue, but it's fiction so just…go along with it! If I had the time and anyone cared, I'd write long explanation bits about his inner thoughts and conflictions, and how he'd had a crush on Freddie for years but had hidden it because he was scared of what people would think, and so covered it up by being a 'dumb jock' and then decided it was time to stop living a lie and yadda yadda yadda…you get the idea!

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