Alrighty, here's chapter 24, yay! Saw team America last night, it's a funny movie, kinda slow at some parts, but it was good. Umm thank you so much for all your reviews liz213mast thanks for your ideas, but now I kinda know where I'm taking things, but thanks so much anyways I appreciate it, umm don't worry really about Tracy, like I can see how you would hate her, but she isn't evil herself, but she does kinda cause problems, just read to find out please review and please for the love of freaking god enjoy haha…
The week went by semi quickly what with all the practices and games and such, the ravens were still undefeated. Brooke had finished unpacking at Nathan's apartment, with a lot of whining and sexual seduction to get Nathan to help her. Now it was Friday, and even though no one was acknowledging it they all knew there was a tense vibe in the atmosphere. For Haley, well that was obvious reasons, and for Nathan well that was kind of obvious too, for Brooke she just didn't like the guy he was way too obsessed with himself more so than her with herself which meant he was pretty egotistical, for Lucas because well Haley was his best friend or he didn't really know where they stood right now but he didn't like Chris either, and Peyton also thought he was way to obsessed with his own ego. No one really wanted to go see him that night, well Haley kind of did, but everyone else didn't but they decided they'd all go anyways since it was the reopening of Tric, maybe they could work out all of their inner Demons.
Brooke and Nathan were at their apartment getting ready, Brooke was in the bathroom changing, and Nathan was in the bathroom trying to decide what shirt to wear, as he was shirtless at the moment. Brooke walked out wearing a black dress, that might be considered trashy but you know it looked hot on Brooke; she could pretty much pull anything off. Nathan was looking at his shirt but his eyes got wider and refocused on Brooke the second she walked out.
"You like?" she asked him.
"Damn Brooke, you're pretty hot." He said.
"You're not so bad yourself Scott." She said walking over to him.
"You think maybe we could dance tonight?" he asked her, as she came around to the back of him.
"Oh gosh I don't know, I don't really dance." Brooke said putting her hands on his shoulders.
"That's not what I've heard." He said.
Brooke let her other hand go and slipped around to the front side of him.
"Oh, and what have you heard?" she asked him
Oh, nothing really." He said.
"Don't believe everything you hear." Brooke said.
"I don't believe me." He said,
"I'll try." She said smiling.
"Good." He said and then he leaned down and kissed her.
"Did you get taller?" he asked her when the pulled away.
"Nope, new shoes, really tall heels." Brooke said "aren't they fabulous?" she said smiling down at her shoes.
"Sure." He said.
"Ugh men don't understand fashion whatsoever." Brooke said stepping away from him
"you going out like that?" Brooke said talking about his shirtless…ness.
"If you want me to." He said.
"Oh I do, but I'd rather not have a bunch of whores all over you tonight." She said.
"That's going to happen no matter what I wear." He said.
"Stop, you're turning into Chris Keller." She said.
"I take back what I just said." He said not wanting to be mentioned in the same sentence with that guy.
"Sorry, you're nothing like Chris Keller." Brooke said.
"Can you stop saying his name." he said.
"Fine then you nothing like he who must not be named." Brooke said.
"Good" Nathan said.
"You know he's going to be at the party." Brooke said, Nathan looked at her like she was stupid.
"Yes Brooke, I think I got that part." He said
"I meant, he's not going to be performing the whole night so you're going to have to work on your avoiding skills." Brooke said "of course we could always just go make out in a corner; I doubt he'd want to interrupt that." Brooke said.
"Whatever." Nathan said kind of coldly.
"ookk, changing the subject." Brooke said grabbing her purse.
"Alright I'm ready." He said putting on a plain blue shirt.
"I'll need that off when we get back tonight." Brooke said.
"I think I can do that, you ready?" he asked her.
"I am." She said genuinely smiling and taking his hand as they walked out of the apartment.
Brooke and Nathan got to Tric and saw like the whole town outside the door.
"God, I'm glad we have connections." Brooke said, not wanting to wait in that line "gotta love Peyton." She said.
"yeah." Nathan said blown away by how many people were there. Brooke and Nathan walked upstairs and got in pretty quickly; they went and found Peyton and Haley.
"Hey guys." Brooke said.
"Hey." Peyton said.
"This is crazy." Brooke said.
"I know isn't it?" Peyton said
"Yeah, I mean I didn't know Tric was this popular." Brooke said.
"Yeah." Haley added in.
"I think Chris starts soon." Peyton said.
"Yes." Brooke said sarcastically.
"I know." Peyton said.
"I'm going to go get a drink." Nathan said "want anything Brooke?" he asked her.
"Um no." she said
"alright." He said walking away.
"Thanks for asking us Nathan." Haley said really to herself, the girls all laughed.
"I see how it is." Peyton said.
"Yes well, we have a system worked out." Brooke said.
"I don't want to know." Haley said. "I really wanted a drink, I'm going to go get one." She said
"Ok" Peyton said
"Don't get too wasted tutor girl, after all you are a tutor people all around the world depend on your brain." Brooke said.
"Ok Brooke not that I can drink alcohol, you know I don't have a fake ID." Haley said shaking her head and laughing.
"So how is the love life of the famous Peyton Sawyer?" Brooke said linking arms with her.
"Umm, well Jake is still kind of freaking about Jenny, he won't let anyone baby-sit her except for his parents while he's at school, that's why he's not here tonight so it doesn't leave that much room for love." She said.
"Jenny's doing better though isn't she?" Brooke said.
"Oh yeah of course, he's scared she's going to like relapse or something." Peyton said.
"She's not addicted to pot." Brooke said.
"No and that's a good thing." Peyton said.
"Your opinion." Brooke said "I'm kidding." Brooke said.
Meanwhile Nathan was over at the bar getting a soda, he had forgotten he couldn't get anything real to drink. He got his soda and sat at the bar for a few seconds when Tracy walked up.
"Nathan, you came?" she said excitedly.
"Yeah, with Brooke." He said.
"Oh is she here? I want to see her." Tracy said.
"She's somewhere around." He said.
"watcha drinking?" she asked him.
"Coke." He said.
"Oh, yeah I forgot your underage." She said.
"Your not?" he asked her.
"Nope, I'm 21." She said.
"Oh didn't realize that."
"Can we not talk anymore?" she said kind of joking around.
"No that's not what I meant." He said, both of them sort of laughed at this, and Haley
was coming up to get her drink when she saw the two of them talking and laughing. That was nothing right? She thought in her mind, she decided to find out.
"Hey Nathan." She said walking up to him.
"Hey" he said "this is Tracy, a nurse from when Brooke was in the hospital." Nathan said.
"Oh hi." Haley said.
"Hi." Tracy said and smiled warmly.
"I'm Haley." She said.
"I know who you are, you sang with Chris Keller before." Tracy said "had no idea you were ever married to Nathan." She said, Haley thought it was weird that she knew that she and Nathan had been married, how much had he told this girl.
"Oh, yeah well we were, um Nathan can I borrow you for a moment." Haley said.
"Sure." He said.
"I'll be right back." He said.
"No problem." She said.
"Ok." He said getting up and following Haley a little ways away.
"What's up?" he asked her.
"How much information have you shared with this girl in the past five minutes?" Haley
Asked him.
"Oh I've seen her before, like at the store, we always run into each other." He said.
"Well what do you mean; you just keep running into her at the store and decided it was time to tell her your life story." Haley said.
"Things came up when we talked, she was the one who mentioned this concert, and she mentioned you, I didn't want to pretend like I had never met you." He said.
"Nathan, when did you run into her at the store when she told you about the concert?" Haley asked him.
"Sunday I think."
"Ok well when I talked to you before that you said you didn't want to go to the concert, did you change your mind because you knew she was going to be here?" Haley said.
"No, Haley not at all." He said a little offended.
"I have to words for you Nathan, Brooke Davis."
"Yeah?" he said
"She happens to be your girlfriend and very in love with you." Haley said.
"Well I happen to be very in love with her too."
"You seem to be a little interested in Tracy." She said.
"Am I not aloud to talk to other people, god you girls think everything is some plot to break your hearts, or hurt you in some way? Its not we're just talking this is ridiculous."
"I'm just looking out for my friend." Haley said.
"Haley I would never cheat on Brooke, ever." He said.
"I trust you Nathan; just don't give Brooke the wrong idea." Haley said, Chris got onto the stage, and started to set up then spoke into the microphone.
"Hey guys, you having fun?" he asked them all and got a bunch of loud cheering and lots of applause in response.
"Good, good. Well I'm going to start now, I know you all can't wait so um first I'd like to dedicate this story to my good friend Haley who I used to sing with, but umm because of some unsupportive issues Haley had to stop her career, so Haley this is for you, I'm sorry the people in your life can't be more supportive of you."
Haley looked at Nathan to see his reaction, he was breathing really hard.
"Oh." Chris said before seeing "I almost forgot, I also want to dedicate this song to a certain girl out there named Brooke Davis; I know she's a big fan." He said smiling and then starting to sing one of his songs.
"Nathan…" Haley said.
"I'm kicking his ass after the concert." Nathan said walking away.
"Nathan, wait." Haley said but then realized it was a lost cause, and decided to let it go.
Nathan walked around for awhile and finally found Brooke standing all by herself.
"Hey baby where've you been?" she asked him.
"Oh I… I was just talking to Haley." He said putting his arms around her.
"What about?" she asked him.
"About how I'm going to kick Chris's ass after the concert." Nathan said.
"Oh yeah, he mentioned me, he's pretty much obsessed with me." She said.
"As are you." He said.
"Whatever." She said smiling and then she turned around and kissing him.
Chris finished singing, and got off the stage, after putting up all his equipment, he went out into the party, but he was actually planning on leaving when Nathan walked up to him and blocked his path.
"Nathan, hi" Chris said like they had been friends forever.
"Hey fuck you Chris." Nathan said.
"Whoa, Nathan man I know you have some bad feelings towards me, but I really don't understand why."
"Why? Maybe because I know it was me you were talking about when you were on stage, you're the reason Haley and I broke up, and because you also dedicated the song to my girlfriend, who, I might add, is not a big fan of yours."
"Brooke's your girlfriend. Brooke's hot." Chris said, Nathan looked at him for a second before punching him directly in the face.
"Nathan." Haley said running over towards them followed by Brooke and Peyton.
"Your not seriously standing up for this jerk are you Haley?" he asked her searching for an answer.
"Nathan, you don't have to punch him." Brooke said.
"What?" he said looking at everyone like they were crazy "why is everyone on his side?"
"Oh we are not." Brooke said "there's just no need for violence, it gets old quickly and it only ends with people getting hurt." She said.
"This is unbelievable." He said "you know what fine I'll leave him alone, I'm just going to go now." He said before walking away.
"Nathan…" Brooke said shaking her head.
"Excuse me." Chris said before walking away.
"Chris wait up." Haley said, running after him.
"I should probably go find Nathan." Brooke said.
"Good luck." Peyton said, Brooke looked at her and then started to walk around the club.
Chris was back stage packing his stuff up.
"Chris, hey." Haley said.
"You might want to tell that guy you married for some reason I can't quite understand that he shouldn't go around punching people." Chris said.
"I think Brooke took care of that." Haley said.
"You left your career for that guy? Sorry Haley but that was the worst decision you ever made."
"You should probably put some ice or something on your eye." She said trying to change the subject.
"Do you see any ice in here?" he asked her.
"No, god sorry I was just trying to help." She said.
"Well Haley it would help if you told me how you really felt about me."
"Excuse me?" she said.
"I mean I know you like me, but do you want to date me or is it just going to be one of those one night stand things, cause I'll tell you I'm up for either."
"Um neither." She said.
"Haley, all this innocent flirting does have meaning behind it and you know it. You wouldn't be doing it if you didn't like me."
"I'll admit I like you a little, but Chris you have to chill out on…yourself." She said.
"I'd be willing to do that if I could be with you." He said,
"I'll call you tomorrow." She said.
"Good." He said
At first, Nathan thought he would just walk for awhile, but then he decided to just sit down on the curb. He didn't really know why he was so upset, but he was. He hated Chris and he also needed people on his side. He saw a girl walking down the street and at first he thought it was Brooke, but when she got closer to him he realized it was Tracy.
"Tracy?" he said, she just kept walking a little faster.
"Tracy? It's Nathan." He said, she stopped and turned to walk towards him.
"Oh, Nathan I'm sorry I thought you were some creepy drunk guy." She said.
"No, that's not me." He said. "Where are you going?"
"Home." She said "gotta work tomorrow."
"Oh, well look I was just going to tell you that, you know as hard as it might be, I think we should maybe try to stop running into each other." He said.
"Oh, is Brooke upset?" she said.
"No, I just don't want her to get the wrong idea."
"Yeah, I understand, and for the record I was never trying to like sabotage your
relationship with her, honest. I like Brooke, plus I'm just not that kind of girl." She said.
"Yeah, I didn't think so, but it's complicated."
"Right. Everything seems to be in this town. Ok well give me a hug Nathan, if we're never going to run into each other again I feel like we should hug." She said laughing.
"Bye Tracy." He said, hugging her.
Brooke had finally left the club and was walking outside to find Nathan when she saw him talking to Tracy, and then he saw them hugging. Brooke could barely stand, there was no way Nathan could possibly be cheating on her, there was just no way. She saw Nathan and Tracy hug one more time and then she saw her walk away. Tears started to form in Brooke's eyes, despite how much she didn't want them to come down. She pulled herself together, and walked over to Nathan.
"Hey Nathan." She said.
"Hey I was just about to come find you." He said.
"What have you been doing out here?" she asked him, trying to see if he would lie to her.
"I was uhh, thinking about stuff, I'm sorry I freaked out inside."
Brooke stared at him for a couple of seconds.
"Brooke?" he said trying to get her attention.
"Why are you lying to me?" she asked him.
"Lying?"
"Nathan, you were just out here with Tracy." She said.
"Oh, Brooke that was, we just ran into each other." He said.
"Seems to be happening a lot lately." She said "quite a coincidence."
"Yeah." He said "but I just told her that we should probably stop, I didn't want you to get the wrong idea." He said.
"mhmm." She said.
"Brooke, see I didn't want you to take it the wrong way, you girls always think that if a guy hugs another girl it means we want to have sex with them and leave you behind, that's not how it is at all. You're overreacting."
"I'm overreacting? Where have you been Nathan? Do you not get why I have trust issues?"
"I do, but we've been over this, I'm not going to cheat on you, ever Brooke." He said putting his hands on her shoulders.
"Nathan, umm I told Peyton I'd help out closing up the club tonight, you should go home, I'll be there later." She said, turning around.
"Are you really mad at me Brooke?"
"Um, I'll be home later Nathan." She said, speaking in a voice that wasn't mad it was just like she was realizing things. She turned her back to Nathan and walked up the stairs to the club.
There you go, so brathan fans don't freak on me, come on would I really have them break up forever, but I gotta put some drama in there or else things would get to old. Ok so umm coming up…
Brooke and Nathan talk about things
College is rounding its way up
No one wants Haley with Chris
Soon Brooke will need to get a job not sure what chapter though…
