Author's note: Thanks for checking out my fan fiction! I had read other future fics and really loved them so I decided to write my own. Brooke is my favorite character so it was an easy choice. Thanks to anyone who reviewed, I really appreciate it. These first few chapters are basically just some set up, I promise there will be some drama soon.

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Chapter 2- Sometimes the Past Comes Sneaking Back

"Nathan, Nathan Scott? Is that you?" Brooke asked in surprise.

"Yep it's me. What are you doing here Brooke?"

"Eating some dinner." Brooke replied, still obviously a little surprised to see Nathan standing there in front of her. Not only was he an old friend from Tree Hill, but he was also Lucas' brother.

"No I meant here, in Tampa. I thought that you went to school in North Carolina?"

"I did, but I just graduated. I got a job here that I start next Monday and I just bought a house. I actually only moved here today. Half of my house is still in boxes. What about you? You decided not to stay in North Carolina either?" Brooke was really curious how it came about that he ended up in the same town as her, hours away from where they grew up.

"Well I graduated Duke a couple of weeks ago. My mom moved here about two years ago so I figured that I would come stay with her for a little while, rest up ya know?" Brooke didn't really hear what he was saying, she was amazed at how she lost herself in his baby blue eyes. It did freak her out a little bit that these eyes were so similar to Lucas'.

"I figured you would go on to play basketball professionally after college. How come you didn't?" Brooke was curious why he would walk away from something he was so amazing at.

"I am going to play. I got drafted by the Miami Heat. I had a little time off before training starts. Plus I had hurt my knee running so I had been seeing a physical therapist at school trying to get it back to normal. Sometimes my knee is so tired I can't drive myself home. I didn't want to be in Miami all alone and have no one to come pick me up if I couldn't drive myself."

"It is gorgeous down here. Your mom definitely picked a good place to move to. What made her leave Tree Hill?" Brooke was curious.

"Dan. He got so bad he actually ran her out of the state. I think that things just got worse and worse once I went to school." Brooke remembered the torture that both Lucas and Nathan had endured with their father Dan. Nathan had even become emancipated at the age of 16 it got so bad.

"Wow. Well good for her for moving on. I really should run Nathan, I want to get all the boxes that are on my bed unpacked so I can actually sleep in it sometime." She was secretly disappointed to have to leave. Brooke was really enjoying talking to him. She also couldn't get enough of those baby blue eyes.

"Brooke, this might be a weird question considering our history and everything, but would you like to have dinner with me sometime?" Nathan was surprisingly nervous, he had never gotten nervous when asking out a girl before.

"I would like that. Here is my number, give me a call whenever, I don't start work for another week." Brooke jotted down her cell phone number on a napkin and handed it to Nathan.

"I will give you a call soon." Brooke hoped it was soon, she couldn't wait to talk to him some more.

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Later that week Brooke was doing some painting in her bedroom when her cell phone rang. "Hello."

"Brooke, it's Nathan." Brooke was taken by surprise that she felt a little flutter in her stomach when she heard his name.

"Hi Nathan, how's it going?"

"Really good actually, I really needed to relax and I have had time to do plenty of that. So, I was wondering if you wanted to have dinner with me tomorrow night?"

"Normally I would say no because you asked me on such short notice and I would be insulted because you wouldn't think that I didn't already have a date," Brooke rambled when she got nervous, "but since I don't know anybody here I have no plans so yes Nathan, I would love to have dinner with you."

"Great, I can pick you up around 8 if that is okay."

"That is fine with me." Brooke gave him directions and they hung up. She could already feel herself getting excited from the anticipation of spending time with him tomorrow night. She ran to her closet to see what she had to wear. Why was it that whenever something important came up she felt as though she had nothing to wear?

Brooke couldn't believe how nervous the prospect of a date with Nathan made her. They hadn't really been that close in high school, and honestly back then the thought of dating him had never crossed her mind. Nathan used to be this crazy bad boy who dated Peyton but then fell in love with his tutor Haley. They ended up getting married. That probably had a lot to do with why Brooke never thought to date him, he was always with one of her best friends.

Brooke knew that Nathan and Haley had divorced in the middle of their freshman year of college. Haley was fed up with school and wanted to pursue her dream of being a singer. She had gone on one tour during their junior year but returned the summer after. Her and Nathan had worked things out for while, but it never really was the same old Haley. She had had a taste of a bigger and better life and decided that that was what she wanted. Brooke still kept up with Haley, they talked regularly and whenever Haley was in town they would get together and catch up. However, Brooke had no idea what had happened with Nathan after they broke up. Surprisingly, she was excited to find out.