Alright so here is your last chapter for awhile. Please review. Umm I'll update the day I get back so don't forget about the story, it will be back. Alright well I leave you with this for a while.

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters.

It was Monday morning. The previous Saturday, the day after Brooke's party, she woke up with a major hangover, but she didn't care because she had had a great birthday. She was really glad that she had friends who cared so much about her. But now it was Monday morning and she still hadn't even gotten a card from her parents. Did they really forget her birthday?

"Umm Karen?"

"Yes Brooke?"

"Did I happen to get any mail from my parents?"

"No I checked yesterday and today. There wasn't anything"

"Oh okay." Brooke said trying to hide the disappointment, its not that she was upset she didn't get a present or anything from her parents, well actually that did upset her a lot, but she just wanted to know that they even remembered her birthday. They could have at least called.

"Well I guess I'll go to school, there's cheerleading practice today so I won't be home till like 7."

"Cheerleading goes until 7 Brooke?"

"No, but cheerleading and Nathan do."

"Okay, well no later than 7:30 you need to keep up with your studies."

"Alright, bye Karen." She said grabbing a piece of toast and walking out the door.

When Brooke got to school she saw Nathan, Lucas, and a bunch of other guys looking around at a piece of paper on the announcement board. She walked over to Nathan.

"What's going on?" she asked him.

"oh well coach is deciding to split up basketball teams this year with A team and B team, B team being worse, but of course we didn't know this when we tried out."

"Why are there two teams?"

"Because there are so many guys who tried out for basketball this year."

"Oh, well what team are you on?"

"I don't know I can't see." Lucas had just looked at the paper and was walking by

"What team are you on Lucas?"

"The A team."

"Oh." She said "well good job."

"It's not that big of a deal." He said walking away quickly

"You don't have to talk to him."

"I'm sick of being mad at people, now let's see what team you're on. Brooke walked up and looked down and found Nathan's name

"Nathan, I have bad news."

"What."

"You're on the B team."

"What? There's no way Lucas is better than me."

"I'm just kidding you made it on the A team, of course. Gosh you're like the best basketball player out there."

"Brooke you really scared me."

"Sorry, but I had to do it. Congratulations though." She said hugging him

"All I get is a hug."

"That and…this." She said kissing him "plus just for making the A team; I will be your personal cheerleader."

"I'm so excited now." He said slipping his arms around her

"But you have to play well." She said

"Anything for you Brooke." God she loved it when he said that. They started kissing, in the middle of the courtyard for everyone to see. Peyton walked up and cleared her throat.

"Oh hi Peyton." Brooke said unlatching herself from Nathan.

"Umm I was just coming to drag Brooke away to math, but umm what team did you make Nathan."

"He made the A team." Brooke said before Nathan could even open his mouth

"Wow, that's great. You know I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Lucas made the A team too."

"Yeah I know." He said "I guess I'll just try to avoid him."

"Good luck with that, ready to go Brooke."

"Yeah, bye Nathan." She said kissing him quickly and linking arms with Peyton walking away.

"Sooo, last night you didn't answer your phone."

"Yeah so what?"

"You and Jake?"

"Me and Jake nothing Brooke, come on lets just go to English." She said laughing and pulling Brooke off with her.

Later on that day after school, all the cheerleaders where practicing, and so were the basketball players were also practicing. When the girls were taking a break the guys were running laps. Brooke watched Nathan as he came running right next to her.

"Hey hot stuff." She said but he had already ran past her, so the only person who ended up hearing it was Tim, he looked back at her, yelling "you too!"

"Not talking to you Tim." She said laughing just because of the whole situation.

After practice, the girls were done fifteen minutes before the boys so Brooke was waiting outside for Nathan, after what seemed like an hour Nathan came out.

"Hey what are you doing here?" he said

"Umm I thought we could go get some pizza."

"Alright, you want to come back to my apartment after that?"

"I can't I have to be back home by 7:30."

"You're turning me down to not break the rules? I'm very proud of you Brooke."

"I bet you couldn't say the same for yourself."

"Not if it involved you."

"Well you can come over to Karen's house."

"Yes but there's a certain other person who lives there."

"Oh I never see him anyways, we'll just stay in my room and do "homework." She said air quoting the homework part.

"Alright I guess, we can do that. Come on."

When they got back to Brooke's room they started to do homework, but then decided it was more educational to make out.

"so are you going to teach me anything new?" Brooke said

"I don't know."

"Okay well lets just start, and then if you feel anything new, then we'll stop and try to rework our steps so we can learn from it." Brooke said laughing.

"You're crazy."

"Eh, I know."

"I love you for it." He said

"I love you too." She said, they started making out with Brooke on top of Nathan.

Nathan's shirt was off and he was working on Brooke's when Karen walked in on them.

"Oh," she said turning around quickly.

"Wow." Brooke said quickly picking up Nathan's shirt off the floor and handing it to him. He put it on quickly.

"You can come in now." Brooke said hesitantly

"Umm, it the phone, for you Brooke."

"Oh okay." She said taking it from Karen.

"uhh, we'll talk later." Karen said closing the door and leaving.

"Hi?" Brooke said "mom, hi." She said smiling she was so happy, Nathan noticed how happy she was, and thought about how much she must never see her parents. They didn't seem to be there for her, ever. They didn't even send her a card for her birthday. HE was glad he was there to give Brooke some love, to help with the gap she didn't get from her parents. He was getting so lost in his thoughts it made him jump when Brooke slammed the phone down and tears started to fall from her eyes.

"Brooke, what's wrong?" he said.

"My dad, its." She couldn't get anymore words out; she collapsed into Nathan's arms, crying.

"Sshh, Brooke what's, just try and tell me what's going on." He didn't quite know how to handle this.

"My dad isn't doing very well." She said

"Why, what's wrong."

"I don't know he, something's wrong with him, he's in the hospital right now."

"Brooke, I'm really sorry. Are you going to see him?"

"They don't want me to come, because it would just be too much trouble."

"That's crap, I mean I'm sorry but its not to much trouble to fly their own daughter out to see her sick father."

"Yeah well I don't have enough money, and I can't miss school, I need to bring my grades up. I'll just wait to here from them everyday, even if it makes me sick of worrying."

"Brooke I'll wait with you every second. Okay?"

"Thanks Nathan." She said hugging him "but you should probably go, Karen's gonna want to talk to me about out little… ordeal." She said

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"Okay I'll see you tomorrow." He said hugging her and then packing up his things. He was about to walk out the door but then he looked back at a tear-stained Brooke and walked back over to her and gave her a kiss

"Hey everything's going to be alright."

"Thanks Nathan."

"I fell bad leaving you like this."

"Its okay, I need to be alone right now. I'll se you tomorrow."

"Okay, well bye, call me if you need anything." He said, and then he left. Brooke fell backwards onto her bed, and started crying again.

Please review, I'm sorry to say I don't know what coming up, but Brooke's dad isn't going to die, because I don't want her to leave town. Anyways please review. Bye for a week!