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Brooke could not contain her excitement. High school was over… forever. And now she was having a party with all of her best friends, and tomorrow was graduation. Life was just too sweet right now. Plus everyone was going to college somewhere in Boston. Peyton, Brooke, Nathan and Lucas were going to Boston College and Haley and Jake were going to a college that was only thirty minutes away. So they pretty much lucked out on that whole situation. Peyton came over to Brooke's house early to help her set up for the small party.
"P. Sawyer, I'm so excited about life right now." Brooke said hugging Peyton.
"Yes, I can see that." Peyton said.
"I mean, we are going to college, and I'm going with my sexy, brooding boyfriend to the same college." Brooke said.
"Wait, didn't Lucas get into Colombia?' Peyton asked her.
"Well yeah, but I made him turn it down." Brooke said.
"Brooke, Lucas has wanted to go to Colombia since he was little, it's like his dream." Peyton said.
"I've already been over this with Lucas." Brooke said.
"I kind of just thought that he would go there and you two would have a long distance relationship." Peyton said.
"Since when has that worked out?" Brooke asked her.
"Brooke, you can't ask Lucas to choose between his lifelong dream and you, a girl he's only dated for like a week." Peyton said.
"I already did, and he chose me." Brooke said getting a little offended.
"If you really love Lucas as much as you seem to, then you should be able to work out a long distance thing." Peyton said.
"No, I really don't think we could." Brooke said raising her voice. Peyton took note of how offended Brooke was getting.
"Ok, alright. Sorry, I just assumed that Lucas was going to Colombia. I'm going to go put these drinks in the cooler." Peyton said wanting to get as far away from Brooke as possible. Brooke sighed still looking straight ahead, and then shifted herself so that she was facing the front door, when she heard a knock.
"Come in." she said solemnly.
Lucas opened the door with Haley right behind them and the two of them walked inside.
"Hey babe." Lucas said walking over to her and kissing her quickly. He was still getting a hold of this whole affection display being a boyfriend thing.
"Hi." She said trying to put on a smile for him. "Hey can I uh, can I talk to you?" Brooke asked him taking his hand and leading him upstairs before waiting for an answer. Haley watched them go wide-eyed and then started to walk into the kitchen, but stopped when she heard the doorbell ring. She awkwardly walked over and opened it. Oh it was only Nathan, she thought.
"Hey Haley." Nathan said not expecting to see Haley answer to door.
"Hi, I've sort of taken over door answering duty. I guess." Haley said, feeling stupid for saying that. God why did everything she say have to sound so clever and witty in her head but made her look like a ditzy stupid person when it came out of her mouth. Brooke was good at being witty but when Haley tried she just crashed and burned.
"Yeah." Nathan said nodding before walking past her.
"So where's Brooke?" he asked her.
"With Lucas." Haley said.
"Oh, right." Nathan said, getting what she meant my "with Lucas"
"No, not like that." Haley said catching that little trap.
"Ok." Nathan said not changing what he thought of the situation.
"Nathan, are you actually going to have fun at this party, or are you going to be drooling over Brooke the whole time." Haley said dragging her sentence out. Nathan took Haley's hand and pulling her over to him and kissing her quickly on the lips.
"Fun enough for you?" he asked her.
Haley stood back sort of breathless; Nathan Scott did not just kiss her. No way.
"What?" Haley asked him. Nathan looked at her and laughed a little bit. "Come on let's go get some food." He said and walked off into the kitchen.
Meanwhile Brooke had just gotten Lucas upstairs, and pushed him inside her room. Brooke closed the door slowly and then turned around to face Lucas.
"Brooke?" he asked her. Brooke sure was acting weird. "Is everything ok?"
"Ok, so here's the deal." Brooke said walking over and sitting down on her bed. "You probably won't say it, but I know you totally thought I was such a bitch yesterday."
Brooke said.
"No…"
"Ok, see I knew you wouldn't say it. But I was." Brooke said interrupting him.
"No, I didn't think you were. I can understand you wanting to go to the same college as me." He said sitting down next to her, trying to play this whole thing as not really a big deal.
"Lucas, I was wrong." Brooke paused and looked down at her hands in her lap, then she looked back at Lucas. Whoa he was staring right back at her, his eyes pretty close to hers.
"Lucas, I think you should go to Colombia." Brooke said drifting off more and more quiet with every word she said, so maybe Lucas wouldn't quite catch what she had said.
"Are you sure you ok?" he asked her. There must be something wrong with Brooke if she had really just said what she had thought she said.
"I'm fine… I mean I won't be if you go to Colombia but it's your dream Lucas. I just I don't want my heart to break more then once so if you go there I'm asking that we can just break up now so that I don't have to deal with the heartbreak at college." Brooke said.
"I already turned Colombia down Brooke." Lucas said.
"Why on earth would you do that?" she asked him.
"You made that somewhat obvious yesterday Brooke." Lucas said.
"I feel terrible. I wish I hadn't gotten so mad at you yesterday." Brooke said.
"No, you saved us Brooke." Lucas said.
"Yeah I guess, but I could tell Colombia was your dream, not me." Brooke said.
"You don't need to worry about that. I mean I'm not lying I really though I would go to Colombia, but I didn't realize it would mean losing you and I'm not ready to do that. I think I love you Brooke, ever since Second grade I've loved you." He said.
"Would you totally hate me if I said I haven't loved you since second grade?" Brooke asked him.
"No, I wouldn't even hate you if you said you didn't love me now." Lucas said.
"Oh, broody I'm way past loving you, for some reason my powers are incapable of working against you." Brooke said.
Lucas let out a little laugh. "Yeah, that's what I was working on." Lucas said.
"Good job." Brooke said closing the gap between them and kissing him.
"So, we're going to college together." Brooke said finalizing the phrase.
"Yes, and you know I really wouldn't be able to let you go to college with Nathan." Lucas said.
"Oh, shut up. Besides I think Nathan might have a little thing for tutor girl." Brooke said.
"Why would you think that?"
"Because he turned down hanging out with me for hanging out with her." Brooke said.
"Ok definitely has a thing for Haley." Lucas said.
"Uh huh, lets go join the party now boyfriend." Brooke said grabbing his hand and jumping up.
"Or we could just stay inhere tonight." Lucas said.
"That sounds like such a good idea, but I promised Peyton I'd help her set up more, and plus I've kind of only hung out with you lately, so I need to you know hang out with her." Brooke said.
"Ok, I understand I guess." Lucas said.
"Now come on." Brooke said pulling him towards the door.
Downstairs Jake had arrived and Haley, Peyton and Jake were all in the kitchen eating chips and queso, standing around the counter waiting for Brooke and Lucas. Brooke and Lucas walked in and blended right into the around the counter atmosphere.
"Oh, hey long time no see you two." Haley said.
"We had to have a little talk." Brooke said.
"Right." Jake said not believing a word she just said.
"We really did, despite your doubts." Brooke said hitting him playfully. "Change of subject." Brooke said animating her words "we are graduation tomorrow." She said excitedly.
"I know, I can't believe it." Peyton said.
"I'm kind of scared I'm going to like get raped or something." Brooke said.
"I'll be there to protect you." Lucas said.
"That's right you'll be there, and if not I can always rely on my little Nathan friend." Brooke said making fun of Nathan.
"Gee, thanks Brooke I'm really honored." Nathan said sarcastically.
"Well I'm gaining five pounds from eating right now so can we please do something else?" Brooke asked them all.
"Hey let's go swimming." Haley said.
"Ok." Peyton said.
"Sure, if by swimming you mean hot tubbing." Brooke said.
"A little of both." Haley said.
"Fine." Brooke said.
The rest of the night everyone was hanging out together, and talking, having fun… except for Haley. Nathan hadn't said one word to her all night since their little "kiss". She had been watching him at first but they kept exchanging awkward glances and she felt like he thought she was stalking him so she decided to just stop and try and move on. Nathan probably just did it for the heck of it, but see Haley didn't really do impulsive things like that, so she didn't know what to think about any of this and she was getting really tired of the weird silence between them. So while everyone was sitting on the couches watching Zoolander, Haley grabbed Nathan's hand and dragged him outside. Whoa this was like the most impulsive thing she'd ever done, she thought. Once they got outside Haley quickly let go and looked at a very confused.
"What are we doing?' Nathan asked her. Haley got really tongue tied and couldn't get any words out so she kind of just stared at him for a few seconds. After getting no response from her Nathan said "ok, well it's about to be my favorite part so…"
Haley cut him off "ok, so you haven't talked to me like at all since that kiss earlier, and I don't know I mean this is really stupid and I'm stupid but whatever I just want to know did you just do that for the hell of it or was it… I mean do you kind of in some remote way like me at all?" Haley asked him, talking a mile a minute.
Nathan looked at a breathless Haley for a few seconds before pulling her towards him and kissing her. This kiss was longer then the first and more heart-felt. When they pulled away both of them were out of breath. Haley's heart was fluttering.
"Does that answer your question?" Nathan asked her.
"Um, maybe, I don't know." Haley said, she wanted to hear him say that he liked her.
"I do like you Haley." Nathan said.
"but I mean if we like dated, would it be just a way for you to get over Brooke, or you'd date me until she was on the Market again, excuse my dating lingo." Haley said.
"Haley, I'll admit I still like Brooke, but it wouldn't work out between the two of us no matter how much I like her and she's happy with Lucas."
"It seems that way." Haley added in.
"Right so, I like you." Nathan said.
"Am I just your replacement girl though?"
"No." Nathan said.
"Ok… I trust you." Haley said.
"Ok, good so can we go back to watching the movie now?" Nathan asked her.
"Wait, so I mean are we like going out now?"
"I guess." Nathan said, also sort of confused about the situation.
"So what does that mean, we like hold hands in public?"
"No, I mean yeah if you want to." Nathan said "but we also get to do this." He said kissing her again.
"I like dating you." Haley said.
"Alright, well let's go back to the movie now." Nathan said.
"Sure, fine." Haley said.
The next day Brooke woke up very early to get ready for graduation. Peyton and Haley came over about thirty minutes after Brooke woke up to get ready as well.
"Guys, I am so excited, but I'm also going to like cry today." Brooke said.
"I know, but I'm going to college with everyone that I would really miss so I'm not that upset." Haley said.
"I'm like never going to see Brad again." Brooke said.
"And you care why?" Peyton asked her.
"It wasn't always so bad with me and Brad." Brooke said "I mean I still hate him, but he was the first guy I really loved." Brooke said.
"Do me a favor, don't cry over him today." Peyton said to Brooke.
"Mhmm, I'll try not to." Brooke said "speaking of love, you and Nathan snuck out last night." Brooke said turning to Haley.
"What?"
"Don't play that clueless act on me; you two were being very mysterious." Brooke said.
"Are you two like an item now?" Brooke asked her.
"We're trying it out." Haley said.
"Oh my god." Peyton said, and Brooke said "tutor girl." Simultaneously.
"I know." Haley said "I was just as surprised as you guys." Haley said.
"Oh I wasn't surprised." Peyton said.
"Me neither, I've known he's been hot for you since Lucas and I started dating." Brooke said.
"See that's kind of what I'm worried about, just after you and Lucas started going out he moved on to me." Haley said "I'm like the rebound girl." Haley said.
"Except that Nathan and I never dated." Brooke said.
"Whatever, he is like in love with you Brooke." Peyton added in.
"Is not, he's with Haley now, and I don't care because I love Lucas." Brooke said.
"Wait a minute you love Lucas?" Haley asked her surprised.
"Yeah, I guess." Brooke said.
"Oh, wow fast moving relationship between you two." Peyton said.
"Whatever, can we just finish getting ready I have to do my make up." Brooke said.
"Yeah, and put on your cape and hat." Peyton said.
"Yeah, um ew they really need to keep in mind that we students are fashionable people so naturally we need fashionable graduation clothes." Brooke said.
"Just finish getting ready and stop with your obsessive passion for fashion talk." Peyton throwing Brooke's dress and cape at her.
The ceremony was underway and all the graduates were sitting in their seats outside fanning themselves with programs and shifting in their seats just wanting to graduate and get this whole thing over with.
Finally they started to announce the name and give out diplomas, and once everyone got their diplomas suddenly the air felt cooler, and they all felt relieved.
"And now the class of 2006 you have officially completed high school." The principle said into the microphone and everyone stood up and screamed and yelled and threw hats up in the air. Brooke turned Lucas and kissed him, then pulled him into a hug. They were done with high school forever, freaking sweet! Everyone was starting to clear our from their clustered seats and Brooke and Lucas went to find Peyton, Haley, Jake, and Nathan.
"Guys, are you all so excited?" Brooke asked them, hugging Peyton and Haley and then Nathan and Jake.
"Yes, pretty much." Jake said.
"Pretty much? Well that's good I guess." Lucas said eying Jake.
"I feel so weird, like we don't have school on Monday and we never have to come back to this school again." Haley said.
"I know, Haley and Peyton we need some kind of nickname, we're like the unbreakable girl force. Let's call ourselves the sexy whores." Brooke said "no, sluts it sounds better."
"Neither of them sound good." Haley said.
"Fine then you come up with a better one." Brooke said.
"I think it would be better if we just don't have one." Peyton said.
"God, don't be such negative Nancy's." Brooke said.
"Whatever." Peyton and Haley said in unison.
"Ok, so now what do we do?" Nathan asked them all.
"I say we take some pictures, and then get the hell out of here." Brooke said.
"Sounds like a plan." Haley said and the six of them walked away together.
Alright hope you enjoyed you could share that fact with me but anyways up coming up…
Haley and Nathan grow closer as do Brooke and Lucas but after a night of partying on of them will end up in the hospital.