The moment I woke up was the moment I felt good for the first time in weeks. Today is the day when school starts, today is the day that I finally meet my friends again, today is the day that I can lead my squad again and teach them new routines I've been working on almost the intire summer, and today is the day that I'm gonna meet Lucas again. Wow, only the idea of meeting him again gives me goosebumps on my body. Is it going to be awkward, or totally not? Am I so stressed that I don't know how to react when I see him and that I say the wrong things at the wrong time? Am I going to ramble? Like I do know? Oh all these things in my head, I think when I spend more time thinking or brooding I become Broody II.
So, no more thinking. I'm gonna get dressed and make breakfast (if Karen haven't made it for me yet) and try to be cheery again. So I climed out of my bed, groaned when I see how much I have to do when it comes to a perfect peformance for the day, I walk down the stairs and laugh to myself when I hear Andy and Karen laugh. I don't know them for a very long time, but I can see and hear that they are in love. They're like my real parents, they know how to care about me. And I learned how to care about them.
"Hi Brooke, I'm glad your awake, I just wanted to wake you. But since you're already up, you can help me with making breakfast."
I smiled at Karen. She's so sweet, she has no idea what a good mother she is. I mean, she's so busy with the café and Andy and other stuff and she still has time enough to make breakfast and eat it with the whole family. Well, except for Lucas. He moved again when I was in California. He has his own appartment, close to Nathan and Haley's. I haven't seen it yet, but I bet it's awesome. I mean, your own appartment at 17, how great is that! When his father Dan died, or better said: got killed (by whom that's the real question?) he got a lot of money along with Nathan. So with the approval of Karen (and Andy) he got his own house. He called me in the middle of the night just to say he got the appartment. He sounded so happy, so I was happy for him. Also when I knew when I got home, Lucas wouln't live there anymore.
"Sure, I help. What do you want me to make? I can make the best sandwiches in the world."
"I know you do but no thanks, I think I'll pass. Andy and I have already eaten. I have to be at the café about fifteen minutes and Andy, you must be at work at?"
"At 8:00, so I have to go." He gave Karen a goodbye kiss and waved at me.
"Bye Andy". I said while I waved him goodbye and tried to make myself a sandwich.
"So have you slept well in this bed? I bet it's a lot worse than the bed you had in California?" She sat next to me and watch me when I took a bite of my bread. I nodded my head in agreement. She looked shocked for a bit of my reaction cause she'd rather heard me say that the bed was not that bad and that I slept perfect.
"I'm just joking. To my own surprise I slept very well last night. Better then in California. So there's nothing wrong with the bed, don't worry."
I looked at the clock and noticed that I only had a half hour to make myself look good. And when I do that everything is so stressfull that I don't want a mother figure who keeps asking me questions, like if I have everything for school or reminds me every minute that it's almost time to go to school. So I told Karen again that she doesn't have to worry about me and that she can go to the café.
So when Karen finally left (she was trying to stay because this was my first day for school and she wanted to be there for me, yeah I know, how sweet) the phone starts to ring. And like I said, when I'm stressfull and know that I have a lot of work to do before I can walk out the door, I really really don't need a phonecall. So at first I tried to ignore it but when I heard Lucas' voice trough the room I picked up the phone happily.
"Sorry Lucas, you know how I am when I only have a half hour, no wait; 20 minutes before I go to school and still be in PJ's."
I heard him laughing on the other side of the phone and it made me smile too.
"Good morning to you too Brooke, how are you doing this morning?"
"I'm good! Accept for my horrible look right now but that's over as soon as I'm hanging up on you. What about you? Ready for school? Cause I am!" And I don't think I've ever sounded more sarcastic then I've ever sounded in my whole life.
"Hehe. Well as ready as I can be. What about I pick you up in about.. ten minutes?"
I know he heard me gasping at how short time it was but hey, it was just Lucas. He've seen me naked and smelled my morning breath and looked at my so called morninglook so I've got nothing to shame for. Besides, when it comes to Lucas and my puppyface we're coming ten minutes late for school, I already know that and I'm guessing he knows that too.
"Okay, pick me up in ten minutes. But the question is, am I ready then?"
"I know your not but if I won't come, I know your staying at the house till 10 am so I'm hanging up now before we both end up in detention class. And I won't do that on my first school day so bye! See you in, 8 minutes."
Before I could scream '10 minutes' he already hung up the phone. Well, I guess I'll get ready then.
I smiled at myself in the mirror, this was like a record! In exactly ten minutes I was as ready as I can be. I dubble checked and walked to my bedroom. It surprised me that it was already a mess in such a short time. Everywhere you looked, you saw shoes, bags, tops and skirts, make-up, her cheerleading outfit, her pom poms and magazines. Now she understand what Lucas meant by the words 'your such a girly girl'. When Karen sees this, she gets the urge to clean up the room so I quickly wrote a note that said: Hi Karen, I know it's a mess here, but I clean it up as soon as possible, love Brooke. Yeah right, as soon as possible. I already knew that that's gonna be next month or so. Don't get me wrong, I'm really neat, but when it comes to my room, than I'm absolutly not.
So what was I doing in my room, to find what? Uhm, shoes! That's it, I was looking for shoes. Okay, I think I'm wearing my black pumps, or.. should I just put on my All Stars, to make it simple? Hmm, maybe I just wear my… My thoughts were interrupted by somebody who grabbed me from behind. I screamed in panic but soon relaxed when I realized it was Lucas.
"Hey Brooke, wow you have no idea how good it is to see you again."
He stared at me with his perfect blue eyes and all of a sudden I got the urge to kiss him right there at that moment. He looked like an Abercrombie in his casual jeans and red
T-shirt. You could see his six pack trough his shirt. Guess he played more basketball when I was away.
He caught me staring and I blushed a little. I mean, he looked so handsome; who couldn't look at him?
"Hey Broody, so you've been a lot to the gym while I was gone huh?"
He chuckled and nodded his head.
"Well actually I've played basketball at the Rivercourt with Skills and Fergie. I realized it was too long since I've played with them."
He walked towards me (avoiding the shit that was lying on the floor) and gave me a warm, greeting hug. For a second I closed my eyes and wished that I could do this more often.
"I missed you."
"I missed you too Luke." More than you'll ever know.
We broke the hug and I could see in his eyes that he enjoyed it as much as I did.
"Well are you ready to go? I mean, you look perfect and all, but you can't go to school without shoes."
Oh yeah, the shoes. I totally forgot that. "Nah, I think I go barefoot. I've done it almost the whole summer so I'm used to it."
I laughed at how stupid I sounded and began looking for some shoes.
"So what do you think, this one or this one?" I held up the shoes where I looked at five minutes ago.
"Hmm, difficult choice Brooke, I don't know; I like them both."
He said that just to make it harder to me, and I knew he did that on purpose so I made it more difficult.
"What about this one? Or my flip flops? Or…"
"Your All Stars are fine Brooke, they're just shoes. Nobody is going to look at them anyway."
Wrong move Broody, wrong move.
"And don't argue with me about how important the shoes are, cause I know you and if I do argue with you, than we're gonna be to late for school then we already are so hurry up."
Wow, he knows me too well. A little bit scary, but very comforting to know.
So after another ten minutes, we stepped in his car and the sweetheart wouldn't let me drive cause than I might ruin his 'baby'.
We parked and as the gentleman he is, he opened the door for me and together we walked beyond the the schoolboard that said "Welcome to Tree Hill High".
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