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Chapter 3 Truth Always Surfaces

Peyton was in her room drawing when Brooke walked in. she put her sketch pad down and smiled at her friend.

"Hey Brooke, how are you doing?"

Brooke shrugged "I'm ok. my parents left for California today."

"Lonely in that big house huh?"

"Yeah and I don't know why, its not like they talked to me when they were there anyways."

"But they were there so you weren't alone…Brooke are you going to stay in the doorway all day?" Peyton asked noticing that Brooke hadn't moved.

"Yeah I guess." She came and sat down next to Peyton

"Do you want to do something?" Peyton asked knowing that Brooke hadn't really been out in days.

"Um not really. Can we just hang around here today?"

"Of course. Do you want anything to eat?"

"Peyton you don't have to mother me. I can take care of myself."

"I know that you always have, but you've been really quiet and distant lately and that worries me."

"I just lost my sister." Brooke said as tears filled her eyes.

"I know and I also know how it feels to lose someone that you love. You helped me through losing my mom. Now it's my turn."

Brooke half heartedly smiled "Thanks Peyton."

"Anytime."

Lucas was up at the crack of dawn, actually he couldn't ever get to sleep all he could think about was Jaclyn. Karen was surprised to see him already up when she came into the kitchen.

"Morning honey. You're up early."

"Yeah couldn't really sleep." Lucas said flatly

"Is something the matter?" Karen asked as she sat down next to him.

"I can't quit thinking about Jaclyn."

"Lucas I know you miss her. But things will get easier."

"Mom what if I know something that could change everything forever?" he asked

"What do you mean?"

"I think I know who killed Jaclyn."

"Lucas if you know then you need to do something about it."

Lucas nodded then got up and walked out the door.

Lucas sat in his car trying to find the strength to go in, but he couldn't prepare himself for what he could find out. Finally he got out of the car and went to the door.

"Can I help you?" a woman asked.

"Is Tyler here?" Lucas asked

"Yes, hold on…Tyler you have a visitor." The woman walked off.

Lucas watched as Tyler came towards him. "What do you want Scott?" Tyler asked

"We need to talk about Jaclyn."

Tyler rolled his eyes. "Why? She's dead."

"Yeah and I think that you're the reason for that."

"Oh yeah, do you have any proof?" Tyler asked smugly.

"Jaclyn told me."

Tyler scoffed. "Then why are you here now? Why didn't you go to the cops?" Lucas was silent. "That's what I thought. Trust me if I did kill that stupid b then she deserved it for what she did to me." Tyler slammed the door in Lucas' face.

Lucas knew that Tyler had to be the one who had killed Jaclyn he just needed a way to prove it.

Tyler Morris was the quiet moody musician that had won Jaclyn's heart right from the start, but they broke up and no one really knew why. All Lucas knew was that Jaclyn had become distant when she was with Tyler, but when they were over she was a new person.

Lucas went straight to Peyton's to talk to Brooke. He took a deep breath before he knocked on the door. Peyton greeted him with a smile.

"Hey Lucas."

"Hey, is Brooke here, she wasn't at home."

"Yeah come in…Brooke we have company."

Brooke came around the corner. "Who?.. Oh hey Lucas."

"Can we talk?" he asked

"Sure." Brooke said

"I'll leave you two alone." Peyton said leaving the room

"What's going on Luke?" Brooke asked as they sat down.

"I was thinking last night, about what happened to Jaclyn." Brooke nodded. "I remembered the last thing that Jaclyn said to me. She told me that I was right when I told her to be careful of Tyler because he was really jealous of her moving on."

"But she always saw the good in everyone. Even that scumbag." Brooke said

"I went to see him today and asked him if he did it, of course he said no but he did tell me that Jaclyn deserved it."

"He what! OMG!" Brooke exclaimed as tears started falling down her cheeks.

"Brooke calm down." Lucas said trying to calm her

"How can I calm down? That creep killed my sister."

"Brooke I will figure out a way to nail him. Trust me Tyler won't get away with doing this."

Brooke nodded and ran her fingers through her hair. "I can't believe he would hurt her. Tyler always seemed to love Jaclyn."

"Which is why he couldn't handle it when she started dating me."

"I have to go home." Brooke said

"Ok I'll take you." Lucas offered

"No I have my car, besides I need to be alone." Brooke left.

When Brooke got home, she went straight into Jaclyn's room. Brooke started looking for Jaclyn's journal. She hoped that it would show her something anything that might prove that Tyler might have hurt her, or to help Brooke wrap her mind around the idea of it. Her head was still spinning from the idea that Tyler the guy who loved and doted on her sister could hurt her. Finally she found it. Brooke sat down on the bed and opened it. After flipping through pages she saw something that caught her attention.

"Tyler bought me a silver bracelet with a 'J' charm on it. Its so pretty, but I have a hard time accepting it after what happened yesterday I feel like he is trying to buy my forgiveness because he shoved me into the lockers yesterday. I would love to believe that he didn't mean to do it, but I know he did because he had done it before. I don't know what I'm going to do about him. It scares me because I don't know what he is capable of doing."

Reading that made Brooke cringe. Jaclyn had never told her. Tyler had been abusing her sister and Jaclyn never said a word, not to her and Lucas couldn't have known or he would have said something. She continued to flip through the journal. There were more pages talking about Tyler hurting her, reading it made Brooke want to throw up reading about the things that Tyler did to Jaclyn. Each time he would become more and more violent. Brooke couldn't believe she never saw anything, but that wasn't what Tyler wanted he wanted to make sure that everyone thought he was a nice guy. Brooke finally had to put it down and tried to go to bed. After a few minutes of tossing and turning the phone rang.

"Hello."

"Hi Brooke its Luke."

"Hey."

"I was just calling to see if you were ok." Lucas said

"Yeah I'm ok I guess. I found Jaclyn's journal."

"And you're ok?" he asked

"I meant I was ok with the bomb you dropped earlier. No I'm not ok with everything I've read. Do you know that he was abusing her?"

"I thought, but she wouldn't ever say anything."

"OMG I was a horrible sister. You saw the signs and I saw nothing. I had no idea that anything was happening to her. I just saw that this sweet guy loved my sister and then I had more time to do my thing and didn't have to worry about her." Brooke rambled.

"Brooke don't blame yourself. I didn't see anything either, not until Jaclyn and I started dating. Even then I wasn't sure it was just little things like how nervous she got whenever Tyler came around, or once we got in a fight and when I was going to pull her to me and tell her I was sorry she flinched like I was going to hit her."

"Lucas I'm starting to think I didn't know Jaclyn at all."

"Listen its late, try and get some sleep. I'll come over tomorrow, we can go to breakfast and talk."

"Ok. thanks Lucas."

"Don't think me I haven't done anything good yet."

"Yes you have more then you know." Brooke said

After hanging up with Lucas Brooke started looking through Jaclyn's journal again.

"Ok little sister fill me in on everything I missed." She said skimming the pages.