Hello everyone, sorry for the lack in updates but I'm just so darn busy with school and rehearsals and stuff so yeah, I should be doing better but I just have the other story and I'm stressed out. I must thank you tremendously for all your reviews and ask you to please keep reviewing, they are the soul of my motivation to write. Ok read and enjoy.
Brooke woke up the next morning and turned over to wake Lucas up, but she saw that he wasn't there. She grabbed her robe and loosely wrapped it around herself and stood up slowly smoothing her hair out a little before groggily walking into the kitchen expecting to see Lucas reading a newspaper or something but he wasn't there. Instead she saw a note on the table from Lucas that said he was out doing errands. Brooke put the note down and walked into her room to change.
Next thing she knew Brooke ended up at Nathan and Haley's apartment, she hadn't called them or really planned this but she thought it would be nice for them to go get breakfast, or since it was approaching lunchtime, lunch together. She knocked on the door and waited for a few seconds with no answer so she knocked again. She finally heard some scuffling coming from inside.
Nathan opened the door, his hair frazzled and he looked as if he had just woken up, he was wearing sweatpants and no shirt.
"Hi Brooke." He said yawning.
"I see you've kept up with your body building since I last saw you." Brooke said glancing at his chest, her eyes lingering there for a second before moving back up to his face.
"And to what do I owe this pleasant surprise?" he asked her with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Well I was coming to see if you and Haley would like to join me for lunch." Brooke said peering inside the apartment to see if Haley was there.
"Oh well Haley's out working and stuff." Nathan said.
"Working on her like first official day here?" Brooke asked him shocked.
"It's a tough business." Nathan shrugged
"Right well, do you still want to go get something to eat? Lucas has ditched me for the day." Brooke said.
"Yeah sure." Nathan said quickly "Let me just go change." He said starting to leave but then he turned around "you can come in." he said to her.
"I was going to anyway." She smiled at him and walked into the apartment and he followed after her.
A few minutes later Nathan walked out of his room dressed and ready to go. Brooke got off the couch.
"Nathan." She laughed looking at his still messed up hair "you can't go out like that." Brooke said reaching her hand up and smoothing out his hair "there now you look normal." Brooke said patting his shoulder before walking ahead of him towards the door.
"You coming?" she asked him noticing that he was still standing frozen at his spot in the living room.
"Uh, yeah." He said snapping out of his trance and going after Brooke.
Lucas was in the mall roaming around when he bumped into Haley.
"Hey." He said surprised to see her.
"Hey yourself." She said stepping back and regaining her balance.
"What are you doing here?" he asked her.
"Oh well I have to go meet my new assistant manager tomorrow and I wanted to buy a new outfit for meeting him." Haley said like this was an everyday thing "and what are you doing in the mall? Not looking to pick up chicks are you cause you know this is girl central." Haley said jokingly.
"Well I was going to get a hair cut but now that you're here I want to go get something to eat with you, and that doesn't really count as picking up a chick because I don't consider you a girl." Lucas said smiling.
"Uh!" Haley grunted "that is very offensive." She said.
"Aw I'm just kidding." Lucas said putting a reassuring hand on her shoulder "you're a very pretty girl." Lucas said.
"Well thanks for that." Haley said nodding her head at him slightly sarcastic.
"So you want to go get some food?" he asked her.
"I suppose my super hot outfit can wait to be purchased." Haley said "so fine." She joked like it was a big burden to go to lunch with Lucas.
"Alright then, let's go." He said.
"Show me the way, I can't find anything in this mall" she said "or town" she added.
Lucas laughed a little "that's ok because you got me." He said turning to his left and walking through the mall with Haley closely behind him.
Brooke and Nathan arrived at a classy and hip restaurant in downtown LA.
"Let me guess, this is your favorite restaurant." Nathan said as he and Brooke were seated at a table.
"Mine yes, Lucas hates it though so I don't actually come here that often." Brooke said unfolding her napkin and putting it in her lap.
"I think it's cool. I mean nothing compared to a sports bar but it's nice." Nathan said
observing his surroundings. "But what really matters is the food." He added.
"Oh it's really good." Brooke said "my favorite is the personal pizza they have this different seasoning that is just so good." Brooke said.
"Alright I'll try that then." Nathan said not even looking at his menu.
"You're not even going to look at anything else on the menu?" she asked him.
"No, I trust your taste." He said.
"Hmm. Ok I'll get it too." Brooke said putting down her menu and smiling at him.
"So Haley's working today, does she work like everyday?" Brooke asked him.
"Yeah pretty much." Nathan said.
"Do you wish you could see her more?" Brooke asked him.
"Of course I do, but I mean I see her a lot it's not like she's a ghost." Nathan said.
"Well it's better that way." Brooke said.
"And why is that?" he asked her confused.
"Because the sex is better if you haven't seen each other in awhile." Brooke said like it was obvious.
"Interesting logic." Nathan said laughing a little at Brooke's way of saying such absurd things and making them sound like an everyday phrase.
"But it's true." Brooke said "I just like to be honest."
"That's a good thing, I like people like that." Nathan said "you're the same as you were in high school."
"Ugh." Brooke sighed looking a little bit disgusted.
"What, isn't that a good thing, everyone loved you in high school." Nathan said.
"Whoa, no they didn't." Brooke said quickly "all the girls thought I was a whore and all the guys though I was easy." Brooke said. "I like to think that I've changed a little since high school." Brooke said looking almost sad at the memory of her reputation in high school.
"I meant that your personality is the same, and I didn't think you were easy in high school."
"No offense Nathan but we weren't really that close in high school." Brooke said.
"So it's even better that I didn't think you were easy." He said smiling.
Brooke gave him a look but then dropped it "thanks."
"Brooke, it doesn't matter what other people thought of you then, because you were a great person then and you're an even better one now, and even if all the people in the world didn't like you, you would still have Lucas, Haley… and me." Nathan said staring directly into Brooke's eyes.
"Aw, thanks." Brooke said sort of jokingly putting her hand over her heart "since when have you become such a good motivational speaker?" she asked him smiling and back to her normal self again.
"I like to think I get that from you." Nathan said.
"What?" Brooke said almost laughing.
"You're one of the best motivators that there is and you always have a way of cheering people up." Nathan said.
"I know that's why Lucas calls me cheery, well that and the fact that I used to be a cheerleader." Brooke shrugged.
"Right, so what ever really happened between you and Lucas?" Nathan asked her "I mean I know what happened with like Peyton and Lucas and you but is there a twist in that story?" He asked her.
"Oh well, that's kind of a long story that I kinda don't feel like going into right now, sorry." Brooke said biting her lip.
"Oh no problem." Nathan said.
"I don't want you to think that it's because I don't trust you or whatever, because that's not it at all. I might end up like crying or something if I do though so I'd rather not cause a major scene in my favorite restaurant." Brooke said.
"Would you want to cause a major scene in my apartment?" Nathan asked her.
"Suddenly so interested in the past of Brooke Davis?" Brooke questioned him raising her eyebrows suspiciously.
"Think of it this way, I'm catching up on everything I've missed for the past three years, and then some. Before junior year we were tight Brooke, you me and Peyton were always together." Nathan said.
"Then you and Peyton started dating and I went after Lucas." Brooke said.
"Point is that we lost our friendship." Nathan said.
"That's true, but to be quite honest you and me we can like go for ten years without seeing each other and when we get back together we're like we've always been, we just sort of click that way." Brooke said pausing for a moment to think about what she had just said "I mean click that way as friends."
"Of course." Nathan quickly jumped into add.
"It's a wonder you and I never hooked up in high school." Brooke said. "Sorry I probably shouldn't have said that but hey I'm just being honest again." Brooke said.
"No I agree with you, we were pretty much the two most popular people in Tree Hill high." Nathan said.
"Don't be modest." Brooke smiled "we definitely were the most popular people."
"Yeah I guess we were." Nathan said leaning back in his chair all cool and collected.
Brooke laughed at the sight of this.
"What?" he asked her looking offended yet maintaining a smile.
"Nothing, you're just so strapping and hip." Brooke said using a guy's voice and still laughing.
"Shut up." Nathan said picking up his napkin and throwing it at her.
"You better be glad Haley's not here or she'd tell you its bad table manners to throw your napkin." Brooke said throwing the napkin back at Nathan.
"Haley's just safe." Nathan said.
Brooke gave him an apprehensive look and then said "Nathan, what the hell does that mean?"
"I mean Haley's not going to go do something crazy when she's around other people, even when it comes to her friends, now around me it's a different story." Nathan said.
"Ok ew." Brooke said "and what am I, dangerous?" Brooke asked him.
"You're out there." Nathan said.
"Oh well I must say I'm honored." Brooke said putting her hand over her heart again as if a prince had just proposed to her.
"Right, now back to what I was saying earlier, which you so conveniently avoided, would you like to tell me about your thing with Lucas sometime?" Nathan asked her.
"How about after we finish here, but Nathan please don't tell Lucas because I really do love him but some of the stuff I might say about him that I felt at the time may not be totally love worthy." Brooke said.
"Ok, I won't." Nathan said.
"And that goes for Haley too." Brooke pointed an accusing finger at him "because if you tell her something that I said about Lucas she'll probably tell him since their like best friends or whatever." Brooke said rolling her eyes.
"Jealous much?" Nathan asked her grinning.
"Of Lucas and Haley, no way." Brooke said "there just best friends, always have been and most likely always will be, but nothing more." Brooke said trying to sound super convincing.
Lucas and Haley had both gotten drinks and pizza and they sat down at one of the green and purple plastic tables in the food court.
"This is nice." Haley said sarcastically.
"It works." Lucas said. "Sorry I couldn't take you to a five star restaurant. I didn't know you had turned into such a diva." Lucas said.
"Did you just use the word diva?" Haley asked him.
"Obviously you have a problem with that because you know it's what you are you just don't want to be associated with that title." Lucas said.
"Oh yeah obviously, you got me there Lucas." Haley said sarcastically before rolling her eyes and laughing.
"Alright I was just saying." Lucas said taking her hint.
"No, I know I was just joking." Haley said taking a sip of her drink "so what's Brooke up today?" Haley asked him moving on to her pizza.
"Um I'm not sure; I left when she was asleep." Lucas said.
"Lucas!" Haley hit him from across the table "she could think you died or something."
"First of all I left her a note, and second of all she would probably call my cell phone
before arranging the funeral." Lucas said.
"People don't always think of the most obvious things when their panicking." Haley said.
"Ok well we don't need to worry about that because, again, I left her a note."
"Right well that's good." Haley said.
"yeah, so what's Nathan doing today?" Lucas fired back at her.
"Sleeping." Haley said.
"Ok now wait a minute, you got all upset at me for not telling Brooke where I was but you just let Nathan sleep?" Lucas asked her.
"No actually I told him last night and he said ok and to let him sleep because he probably would all day long after that boring movie from last night." Haley said.
"Oh, right." Lucas said.
"Right what?" Haley asked him.
"He's right that movie was really boring." Lucas said.
"What is wrong with guys, you really don't understand the beauty of true love, that's forbidden but it overcomes that." Haley said.
"And then the guys dies in the end so it obviously can't overcome everything." Lucas said using his piece of pizza as a sort of conversation piece because he waved it around while he talked.
"Well sure we're all going to die one day, but it did overcome evil people." Haley said.
"Ok, enough titanic talk, lets talk about you." Lucas said.
"What about me?" Haley asked him slightly taken aback.
"Um maybe everything about your singing." Lucas said.
"I've told you all about that in emails." Haley said.
"Oh come on, what was your favorite memory in your career so far?" he asked her.
"Well I love to sing and everything, but honestly New York was not the place for me.
Don't get me wrong I love Nathan but before him all I had was you Lucas, you're my best friend and I really missed you while we were in new York." Haley said.
"Hey I missed you too pal." Lucas said patting her arm playfully.
"I'm glad that Nathan and me and you and Brooke are all together again, things are going to be so much better this way." Haley said "we're all such good friends."
Brooke walked into Nathan's apartment and Nathan shut the door behind her.
"We can go to the living room or whatever." Nathan said.
"Yeah sure." Brooke smiled half-heartedly preparing herself to relive the part of her life that she had so desperately been trying to block out all these years.
Brooke sat down on the couch and Nathan sat down on an arm chair across from her.
"Ok well I guess I'll start umm when Lucas and I started dating." Brooke said "god I feel like I'm in a therapy session, I mean I've never actually been in one before but this is what I would imagine it to feel like." Brooke said.
"Ok." Nathan said vaguely confused.
"Right, umm Lucas and I sort of started dating right after this whole thing with him and Peyton happened. At first we were just hanging out but then we did this thing where I read a book and he went on a date with me and, well after that night things just sort of escalated." Brooke said smiling sort of deviously.
"I gotcha." Nathan nodded.
"Anyways things were going great, or so I thought and I'm sure that every time Lucas kissed me he was thinking of Peyton but whatever, I was starting to fall head over heels in love with him and he was falling in love with someone else at the same time." Brooke said pausing and then continuing in "then Lucas got into that accident and I felt like my life was ending, that if he didn't live I couldn't possibly either. I mean I spent every moment I could in that hospital, all the while Peyton pretending to be there for me even after, as I found out later she had already hooked up with Lucas. Anyway Lucas got out of the hospital and he broke up with me and that was like the suckiest thing that has ever happened to me in my life. I thought I must be so weird or something was very wrong with me but little did I know he broke up with me to be with Peyton. God they didn't even tell me they had been together." Brooke paused feeling the tears starting to form in her eyes.
"Brooke?" Nathan said softly after a few seconds of her not saying anything.
"I saw them together through Peyton's little web cam thing and I wanted to kill both of them, my heart had been taken from me and I didn't think I could ever get it back."
Brooke said "Lucas meant everything to me." Brooke said her voice shaky before she felt the tears falling from her eyes.
"I'm sorry, maybe this was a bad idea." Nathan said.
"No, um it's actually… its good." Brooke said breathily still crying "I'm just going to go to your bathroom for a second." Brooke tried to shield her face from Nathan as she started to walk down the hall, even though she didn't know where the bathroom was.
"Brooke wait." Nathan said and she stopped in her tracks as Nathan walked over.
"God I'm sorry, come here." Nathan said taking her softly and hugging her until she had stopped crying. There was nothing evidently romantic about the hug but Brooke felt that it was just what she needed, and that made her feel guilty because it was exactly what she had wanted.
"Thanks for listening Nathan." Brooke said.
"That's Doctor Scott to you." Nathan said.
"It's just so weird that I'm like with Lucas now and I love him, and I'm friends with Peyton." Brooke said "funny how things turn out so different then you'd ever expect them too." Brooke smiled.
"Yeah it is." Nathan replied.
Haley got home at around five that night and found Nathan in the living room trying to make their TV work. She smiled to herself at how hard he was trying and his efforts were not working. She dropped her purse and kneeled down wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Hey there." She whispered to him.
"Oh hey." Nathan said still transfixed in getting the TV to function.
Haley took her arms away from him and fell back onto the couch.
"Having trouble with our TV?" she asked him.
"You could say that." Nathan said glancing at Haley.
There was a sort of awkward silence.
"So what did you do today?" Haley asked Nathan.
Nathan thought about this for a moment, he should tell Haley he hung out with Brooke, there was nothing wrong with that but for some reason he felt like there was.
"Pretty much slept, and I got up for awhile to eat." Nathan lied.
"Sounds like fun." Haley said rolling her eyes but still smiling.
"What did you do?" Nathan asked her.
"Um bought a new outfit, some stuff here and there." Haley also lied though she didn't know why.
"Interesting." Nathan said focusing back on the TV.
"I guess." Haley sighed.
Brooke got home to see Lucas sitting in the living room watching a game of basketball.
"Hey you." Brooke said enthusiastically sitting on his lap in the chair.
"Right back at you." Lucas said smiling at the sight of Brooke.
"So mystery man where did you disappear to today?" she asked him eyeing him suspiciously.
"I got a haircut, can't you tell?" he pointed at his head and asked her.
"Ooh, yes I can indeed." Brooke said running her hands through his hair "very nice." She added.
"I think so." Lucas said back.
"And?" she asked him.
"And I got some lunch and came back here." Lucas said "where you were not when I got home and just where have you been?" he asked her.
"I was uh… with… Nathan." Brooke said cautiously but she didn't want to lie to Lucas.
"Oh." Was all Lucas could say because he was thinking how bad it was that he lied to her about Haley and she didn't lie to him about Nathan. None of this lying should be happening and he was very confused as to why it was all so weird.
"We just got lunch and hung out, that's alright isn't it?" Brooke asked him for reassurance.
"Of course, is there a reason why it shouldn't be?" He asked her back now starting to get more curious.
"No I just want to be honest with you." Brooke said "and I want you to be honest with me, like don't hide jealousy or whatever if you have it because I hung out with Nathan."
"I won't, I'm not. We're all good friends and we can all be happy or whatever." Lucas said
"Yeah totally." Brooke said starting to feel stupid about ever worrying about this.
"Yeah." Lucas repeated her as she ducked her head down and planted a kiss on his lips.
Hm, hm, hm I hope you enjoyed, tell my in a lovely review please, this chapter was all about tension and sorts of foreshadowing I suppose but yeah anyway I will try to update again by the end of the weekend coming up. And on the story the affairs should be in the next couple of chapter I'm not sure how I'm doing them yet so stay tuned.