HEY GUYS! Remember me? No? I don't blame you. lolz I know, I know. I haven't up dated since…well a long time. But the only real excuse I have is that schools being a bitch. Lolz and I'm not that bright so it takes me a while to do everything that takes smart people to do in like 10 minutes! Lolz anyways, but SUMMER IS HERE! Unfortunatley I have summer school heh heh but it's reach ahead so I don't think it'll be that much work. Anywho. I have the next 4 chapters ready:D I worked really hard on it these last few days. Oh and I'm FINALLY up dating my other fic. Plus I'm starting 2 new ones. Lolz. How do you think I'll do? Anyways, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS! You KNOW I love them! Seriously, if I don't get reviews its like my mind draws a complete blank and I can't think of what to write! So you guys better keep it up! Or else I'm just goin got have to stop. And we don't want that now do we? shakes head seriously lolz Anyways, since this time the review were so amazing, I decided to personally reply to them. They're at the bottom.  Anyways. I'm kinda nervous about this chapter cuz it's right after my last chapter which apearantly I did really good on. SO…bear with me. Lolz. Thanks again! AND PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!

Nathan was jerked awake by the constant knocking coming from his door. Groaning, he slowly got off the couch and went to open it.

"What do you want, man?"

"Good morning to you too, Nate." Lucas replied sarcastically walking passed him and into the apartment. Nathan scowled at his older brother before closing the door.

"So are you going to tell me why you're here or am I going to have to guess?"

"What? Can't a guy just want to hang out with his little bro?"

"Not this little bro." Lucas rolled his eyes and chuckled.

"Fine…I came to get some advice…"

"Say wut?" Nathan asked, shocked.

"I said I need some advice."

"Can I hear it one more time?"

"Nathan! Just—"

"Imagine! Lucas Scott coming to see ME for advice! The world really has gone crazy! I never thought I'd see---"

"Alright Nathan I get it!" Nathan frowned.

"Can't you just give me this one ounce of glory?"

"No."

"Then can I at least hear you say it one more time?"

"Nathan…"

"Lucas."

He sighed. "I need some advice…" Nathan's face broke into a huge smile. "You freak me out some times. You know that, dude?"

Nathan chuckled. "Ok. Ok. Sorry."

Lucas shook his head. "Brooke really has gotten to you."

Nathan froze at the mention of his friend. Casting an anxious glance at the bedroom door, he replied nervously. "Uhh…yeah. I guess so….so what was it you needed to talk about?"

"Oh. Yeah. Your ex."

Nathan frowned. "You mean Haley?"

"No. Peyton." Nathan sighed. "Last night she came to my house crying and—"

"Is she ok?"

"Yeah…no. Jake left with Nikki last night. Turns out she won in the custody battle. Anyways, she came over to my house late last night so broken an—"

"Wait. What was she doing at your house?" Nathan asked accusingly.

"Uhh…..I don't even kn—" But Nathan wouldn't let him finish.

"I thought you two were over. Please tell me you're not thinking about moving from her to Brooke and back again! And people call me the player!"

"Nathan, no! It's not like that! I swear. I was just as confused as you are! But I couldn't just send her back. Not in the condition she was in." Nathan studied his brother a bit more before calming down.

"Alright. Sorry, it's just…you're not exactly the person to be trusted around her." Lucas rolled his eyes.

"Thanks Nate." He replied sarcastically. "Look, I thought we were over that. It's not like I offered her to stay. Besides, she left soon after that. Said she just wanted to talk. But that's what I came here for. I have no idea how to deal with her in these situations. Even when we were together and she would always have these…phases…I could never really comfort her."

"And you're asking me…why?"

"Well, you did date her for a while."

"Don't remind me." He said dully. Lucas smirked.

"Common. She couldn't have been that bad."

"She wasn't. We were." He said simply.

Lucas nodded. "Yeah, I know what you mean." he zoned out for a moment, thinking. "So…" he said before having a look around. He looked back up at Nathan, confused. "You slept on the couch?"

"Yeah, well, I was repainting the wall here and I kinda got tired so I just crashed."

"And you just happened to bring your pillow and blanket here as well?"

"Heh. Heh. Funny story actually; You know how Peyton came over to you, yesterday? Well—"

But he was cut off by a muffled groan coming from the bedroom. The boys' heads shot up and Lucas glared at his brother.

"What the hell?"

"Listen, Lucas—"

"And you had the nerve to accuse me of cheating? When you've had some whore in your room all this time?" With that, Lucas jumped off the couch and headed straight for the door, despite his brother's pleadings. He swung the door wide open, and was shocked to see an agitated looking Brooke sleeping on the bed. Lucas took in a sharp breath, before looking back at his brother and storming out.

Nathan sighed, and with one last look at the sleeping Brooke, went after him.

"Listen man, it's not what it looks like—"

But he didn't get a chance to finish. Lucas had turned around and, in an instant, collided his fist with Nathan's jaw.

"Lucas! Just lis—" Again, he couldn't finish because this time, Lucas didn't stop hitting. Finally, he took him by the color and violently shoved him against the railing. Nathan, regaining his composure, charged back at him and thrust him to the ground. He sat on top of him and punched his brother in the face, then the stomach and then pinned his arms to the ground, trying to restrain him from moving.

"Lucas…Dude calm down!"

Lucas took this chance and heaved Nathan off of him, switching their places. "Calm down! You son of a bitch use Brooke to get back at my best friend and you expect me to calm down?" Standing up, Lucas pulled Nathan up off the ground and held him by the collar, bringing his face so that it was mere inches away from his own. In retaliation, Nathan caught his balance and pulled on his brother's collar just as roughly. They were both about to go all out, when a familiar voice caught their attention.

"Nath…an….?" Brooke, who had just woken up because of all the commotion, came out of the apartment to face the two boys about to choke each other. She was too stunned and confused to say anything so she just stood there, gawking at the two.

The boys looked at each other and back at the bewildered Brooke.

"A-And that's how I beat him." He said, quickly releasing his grip on the collar.

Lucas, catching on, did the same. "Uhh…cool man. You really showed him!" unfortunately, he wasn't as convincing. The two boys turned nervously to Brooke who was still staring at them like they each had two heads. Raising perfectly plucked eyebrows and putting her hands up in defense, she said "I don't wanna know." And with a low muttering that sounded suspiciously like "Boys." She turned back and entered the apartment.

The boys waited till she was inside the apartment before letting out a sigh of relief. They stood there in awkward silence and Nathan could tell his brother was frustrated.

"Look, Luk---"

"Don't even start Nathan. I don't need you to fill me up with any more of your bullshit."

Nathan heaved a frustrated sigh. "You know what man? I'm getting sick of this. Nothing happened between us. How many times do I have to tell you that?"

"You know what Nathan? I want to believe you, I really do. But see, it's kind of hard to do that when I come over to find her sleeping in your bed!"

"I was on the couch!"

"Whatever." With that, he just cast one last glare at his brother, then turned on his heal and walked away.

Nathan sighed as he watched his brother's retreating figure. 'The guy is way too serious.' He thought, before re-entering the apartment. He entered it to meet a sulking Brooke slouched on the couch, holding on to his pillow.

"Hey." He said softly.

Brooke looked up and smiled. "Hey. Mind telling me what that was about?" she asked motioning to the door.

Nathan shook his head and smiled. "It was nothing. Lucas can just get on your nerves sometimes, you know?" he smiled when he got a small laugh from her. "So…how are you?"

"I've been better." She chuckled slightly swiping a stray tear from her eye. "Look at me I must look like crap. This is the second time we've brooded. I think we might be switching places with Peyton and Luke." She scrunched her nose and frowned at the thought.

"Uhhh…buddy…speak for yourself." Brooke laughed.

"Yeah well even the best fall down, Nathan." She said softly.

"Brooke….you wanna talk about yesterday?" Brooke glanced at him nervously. She suddenly found the furniture of the room very interesting.

A certain multi-colored wall caught her attention. "What the hell is that?"

Nathan frowned at her change of subject, but decided to let it go. Following her gaze, he looked at the half painted wall that stood before them.

"Oh…I was just repainting my wall."

"Pink?" she stated more than asked.

"Uhh….no. I was painting over that." she gave him a weird look. "Ok. Haley doesn't like pink. So I kinda used it on the wall…I was depressed ok?" he added defensively when she burst out laughing.

"Awwweee" she teased pinching his cheek playfully. He pushed her away, embarrassed. Suddenly, Brooke got up and rolled up her sleeves.

"Welp, no point in leaving the job undone… Where's the paint?"

Nathan, surprised at her sudden burst of energy, just pointed to the few cans lying on the floor.

Brooke picked up the brush and started. She looked back when she noticed he wasn't following.

"Are you gonna help me or what?" Nathan rolled his eyes and got up. "So what's the deal with the clown?" she asked as she started making long strokes on the wall.

"Haley hates them." He said dully. Brooke laughed.

"God, you're pathetic!"

"Shut up!" Before he could stop himself, he flicked some paint her way. Brooke gasped and slammed her eyes shut. Paint was splattered all over her face and there were small specks on her hair.

"Maybe next time you'll think before you call Nathan Scott, pathetic!" he said matter-of-factly. Satisfied with his comeback, he turned back to painting. Unfortunately, in doing so, he didn't see Brooke slowly turn her head to him with a look to kill.

WHAM

Before Nathan knew what was happening, Brooke's brush collided hard with his face, smearing paint all over his face.

"BROOKE!"

"Maybe next time you'll think before you splatter paint on Brooke Davis!" she yelled, mocking him. "Dammit Nathan! Do you know how long this is going to---" Before she could finish, Nathan flicked her again with her brush. It took a moment before what he did settled in. "You jerk!" she flicked him right back, and he did the same, and it went on like that for a while before Brooke, finally fed up, reached for the can and spilt it all over Nathan. He stood there too shocked for words. His eyes wide and his mouth hanging open as he gawked at her. Brooke, who was trying to keep up her angry façade, gave up and suddenly burst out laughing at the look on her friend's face. Nathan soon recovered from his shock and glared at her. Turning around, he took the other paint can and aimed for her head. Brooke immediately stopped her laughing and looked up at him mortified.

"Oh NO! Nathan! You wouldn't..." Nathan smirked and nodded evilly. "Don't you dare! NATHAN!" She screamed and quickly raised her arms for protection when the thick paint splashed on her face, trailing down her arms and shoulders. Breathing hard, she glared up at him. It was Nathan's turn to laugh. Not only was she completely covered with white paint, but the look on her face made her look like a constipated ghost.

"You are so dead!" she yelled as she charged at him and pushed them to the ground, Nathan still laughing. He quickly pushed her off and dumping his hands in the can, smudged her with more paint. Laughing, Brooke took her brush and started whipping it around towards him while trying to dodge his attacks. She let out a shriek when he started chasing her with two hands fully loaded. She ducked just in time as he whipped his hand at her, but the paint hit her straight in the face when he let out his second throw. While he was laughing, she charged at him again bringing him down with her. They play wrestled for a while, before finally calming down and getting up, both hollering with laughter. Suddenly, Nathan stopped stalk still and stared ahead of him. Brooke, noticing his sudden change in attitude, followed his gaze and gasped. In all the commotion, they had completely forgotten where they were, and were now sitting in a paint covered living room. White spots were all over the carpet, wall, and couch.

"Haley is gonna kill us!" Brooke whipped around at him, looking terrified.

"Us? What do you mean us? This is your house!"

"Hey! You helped in making this mess just as much as I did!"

Brooke shook her head. "Oh no, Scott! No way are you going to drag me into this!"

"And there's no way you're going to walk right out of it! We have to clean this up."

"Again with the 'we' and 'us'! How about we just stay with the 'yous'?"

"Fine. Then YOU clean this up."

"What? No way! You started it!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"I could go on forever you know!" Brooke said warningly.

Nathan sighed. "Fine! I did, but you still have to clean it up."

"And how does that work?"

"You're staying at my house." He stated simply.

"Then maybe I should just leave!"

"Fine!"

"Fine!" with that, she got up and walked towards the door. When she got to the door, she stopped and turned back quickly.

"Change you're mind already?"

"No! I'm just going to change that's all."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fine."

Brooke walked in his room and slammed the door. Nathan sighed. Rolling his eyes, he got up and slowly approached the door. Knocking gently, he walked in when she didn't protest. He came in and saw her sitting on his bed, fiddling with the edge of the sheets. Pushing the fact that she now covered his sheets with paint to the back of his mind, he walked over and plopped down beside her.

"You're not really gonna leave are you?"

Brooke sighed. "Where else am I supposed to go? I don't have an apartment yet and there is no way I'm going back to my parent's place." She frowned as the memories of the previous night came back to her.

"What happened last night, Brooke?" She looked up at him and sighed. If she was going to be crashing at his place, he at least deserves an explanation.

"Just the usual…only worse." Nathan raised his eyebrows in confusion and she smiled apologetically. "Sorry, they were just yelling and throwing stuff. That was the usual. But this time they were a lot more drunk…and just…some stuff came out that I would've rather not known." Brooke looked away as the tears threatened to fall. She already hated the fact that he saw her crying the night before. She wasn't about to let it happen again.

"Brooke?" came his soft voice and she forced the tears back and looked up to him.

"Sorry. Listen, I just need to crash here for a little while. I promise I'll leave as soon as I get an apartment." Nathan shook his head and smiled.

"It's ok. You can stay here as long as you want."

"Ok…but I'm going to do my share too. I'll pay half the rent and I'll clea—" She looked around, disgusted. "—do the dusting." She scowled and he laughed.

"Do you even know how?"

"How hard can it be? You just wipe away the dust and you're done!" Nathan shook his head, smiling.

"Whatever you say." He got off the bed. "I'll go make us some breakfast." He turned and started walking away.

"Nathan." He turned back. "I'll help clean the paint." He smiled and walked away.

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Brooke pulled to a stop in 'her spot' on the parking lot of Tree Hill high. She cast a revolting look at it before grumbling and reluctantly walking out of her car. She and Nathan had decided to arrive separately to avoid starting rumors. As she walked down the hall, she couldn't help but feel as if she was being watched. Sure enough, as she looked up, everyone around her was staring at her and whispering to their respective groups. Brooke raised her eyebrows and just shrugged it off as she went to her locker and dropped off her books. Taking her World Issues textbook and slamming the door shut, she turned around and saw that everyone was still watching her. "What the hell are you people looking at!" she yelled irritated and a few people jumped and backed away slowly while the others just looked away and pretended nothing happened. Brooke huffed and looked around for someone who might give her some answers. Her face lit up when she saw a familiar face in the distance.

"Lucas!" she yelled as she ran over to him. She was shocked to see the coldness in his eyes when he looked down at her before turning and walking away. Frowning, she started after him only to be called back by another familiar voice.

"Brooke!"

"Nathan." She said flatly still trying to figure out what was wrong with Lucas.

Nathan raised his eyebrows and looked back and forth between her and the direction she was looking at.

"Wow. Don't be so happy to see me or anything."

"Hmm?" Brooke looked back at him as if just now realizing his presence. "Oh. Hey you!" she smiled in her usual perkiness and Nathan just gave her a weird look.

"Sometimes I think you're living in your own little world." He said ½ joking, ½ serious.

"Well I wish I was right now. What the hell is going on around here?" she waved her arms around and pointed to a couple of students still watching her.

Nathan sighed. "Well…you know how I'm kinda married?"

Brooke raised her eyebrows and gave him a curious look. "Kinda?"

"Yeah….and you know how you put down Bevin cuz we were flirting?"

"Y…e…s…." She said slowly having a bad feeling where this was going.

"Well…people kinda think we're together." He said quickly.

"WHAT!" she yelled and a few of the near by students looked at her strangely.

"Some idiot found out you were staying over and well, the rumors escalated from there."

"But that's crazy! Can't a guy and a girl just be friends?"

Nathan shrugged, defeated.

The bell rang signaling the beginning of first period. Nathan sighed.

"Common. We can't be late for algebra again. Flemming will kill us." With a frustrated groan, she allowed him to drag her into class.

Nathan and Brooke sat in Algebra class both bored out of their minds. They stared at the teacher from the back of the class each lost in their own thoughts. Brooke broke out of her thoughts and sighed deeply. Why the hell was she taking this class again? It's not like anyone—let alone herself—would ever need it. She looked over to the seat beside her and smiled when she saw Nathan desperately trying to keep his head up. Seeing the teacher was turned facing the chalk board, she took the chance and leaned over.

She got really close with him and had to stifle a giggle when he didn't even notice her advance. 'He's so out of it.' She thought. She went right up to his ear and whispered "Boo"

Nathan jumped slightly at the foreign voice but he literally yelled when he turned to see the familiar face literally only an inch away from his own. The whole class irrupted in laughter and he glared at her as she stuck her tongue out at him playfully.

"Miss Davis." A startled Brooke looked up to the voice of her teacher.

"Yes Mr. Flemming?" she asked as innocently as she could.

"Since you find that you have the time to interrupt my class room, would you like to answer this question?"

Brooke looked the question over before answering with daring calm, "No. No I wouldn't."

There were some giggles across the class as the teacher stared down at her.

"Miss Davis, up here. NOW!" He said more forcefully, the agitation in his voice clearly evident.

Brooke sighed as she got up and headed towards the board. Looking over the question one more time, she hesitantly reached for the chalk and began writing. The rest of the class cast each other grins, some whispering and others shaking there heads in amusement. If one thing was certain, it was that Brooke Davis did not do math. She began to write slowly and the class waited in anticipation as she finished the question. She backed away and the teacher had a look at it. The class immediately irrupted in a fit of laughter when they saw what she had written. She had multiplied the functions correctly, but after the second line she wrote in big letters "Then, a miracle occurs." before writing some random numbers at the bottom.

The teacher shook his head. "Alright, Miss Davis. At least it was better than your last effort." He sighed defeated as she flashed him her dimpled smile and took her seat.

Nathan raised his eyebrows and smirked at her. She just shrugged and they went back to listening to the teacher's droning.

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"LUCAS!"

Luke sighed as the familiar voice called out his name. He had been having a bad day to say the least and he didn't want to make it worse, but he should have known he couldn't ignore her forever. Taking a deep breath, he turned around slowly to see her marching towards him.

"What do you want, Brooke?"

She seemed to be surprised by the agitation in his voice but her confusion quickly turned into anger.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

"I could ask you the same question!" he didn't mean to yell, but his anger from that morning still hadn't been released yet and he guessed that she was as good a target as any.

Brooke huffed. "What are you talking about? What did I do?"

"What? You mean besides act like a hypocrite and sleep with a married man? Or maybe you're talking about how you're cheating on your boyfriend after the shit you put me and Peyton through this year!" Brooke's eyes widened. He knew he was hurting her, but he didn't care. He had to deal with this for both himself and Haley…and maybe even Felix? He shook his head at the thought and continued to glare at her.

The shock and hurt that was once evident on her face quickly disappeared and in place of it came a stone face that even he couldn't read. "You believe all those rumors then?" Lucas tried to ignore the deathly calmness in her voice as he stared her down.

"They aren't rumors Brooke. I saw you this morning remember? You walked out like you friggen lived there all your life!"

"So that's what you guys were fighting about this morning?" Lucas nodded.

"How could you do it, Brooke? I mean, I know you and Haley weren't best of friends but you especially should know what it feels like to be betrayed." Brooke stared at him as she tried to fight the tears that were threatening to show.

"I do, Lucas." She said softly. "Which is why you should know I would never do something like that."

He sighed, irritated. "Then what the hell were you doing there? I know that he offered you to stay but it's not like you to just jump at the chance. Especially with someone you claimed to hate only 2 weeks ago!"

"I never said I hated him!" she yelled.

"You might as well have!"

Brooke took a deep breath and regained her posture. "I thought you knew me better than that." she said softly, with a hurt undertone.

He sighed and lowered his voice. "What am I supposed to think, Brooke? You saw him 2 weeks ago. He was a mess. Skipping school, drinking in class, making out with random girls. That was the first time you guys ever had a real interaction. And then that same week you guys are like, attached to the hip. He's not moping anymore and you end up moving in with him. It's not rocket science to figure out what's going on there." Brooke was about to say something but he stopped her with a wave of his hand. "And let's forget about Haley for a second. What about you? You're letting some guy use you to get over a broken heart. You're ending up like you were before. And that bugs me because I know you're better than that Brooke."

Brooke huffed again. Why did he just do that? One minute she was about ready to slap some sense into the guy and then he had to go and say that. "Jackass." She mumbled out loud before she could stop herself.

"What was that?"

"Nothing…look Lucas, I was just really upset and—"

"Yeah. I got the memo from Nathan. But you know something? When Peyton came over to my house last night we didn't end up---"

"Wait a minute. Peyton stayed over at your house?" Brooke shot appalled.

Lucas shut his eyes and cursed under his breath as he realized his mistake. "Uhh…yes…wait! No! she—"

"You stupid JACKASS!" Brooke was outraged. She started shoving him around while glaring daggers at him.

"Brooke—just listen." He said trying to stop her advance.

"And you have the nerve to judge me! What about Jake, huh? You know, your only best friend in this damn town? Did you ever think about him!" She kept shoving him until his back hit the wall.

"Brooke…would you just LISTEN!" Brooke took a deep breath but complied. "She didn't stay over alright? She just came over to talk. She was really upset."

Brooke's eyes softened. "Why? What happened?"

He took a deep breath. "Jake left with Nikki last night. She got custody of Jenny."

Brooke's eyes widened. "OMG! Poor Peyton. How is she? Wait…she was upset and you just let her leave! You jerk!" and once again she started shoving him as hard as she could.

"Ow! Brooke! What? You wanted me to offer her to stay to?"

"Well, DUH!" She through her hands up in defeat at how dense he was. "You could have at LEAST stayed with her to make sure she was ok! Or at least call me!"

"I did! But no one picked up!"

Brooke clenched her jaw. She couldn't believe all this was happening. Nathan had lost Haley, she had lost her home, and Peyton lost Jake and Jenny. 'This town seriously needs to work on their Karma.' She thought bitterly before she turned around and walked away.

Lucas, surprised by her sudden actions, went after her. "Where are you going?"

"To Peyton's, Duh!"

"Brooke! We have our final test in World Issues next period!" Brooke stopped and closed her eyes. There was no way she could miss that test. Sighing, she continued to walk away. She would talk to her later.

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Ok….sooooooooo……….good? Bad? I need some help here. I know nothing's been resolved in this chapter but I wanted to get how they feel out there. I was actually gonna make it longer but I decided to cut it in have and use the other part as the next chapter.  more of brooke's wacky scenes next chapter! Lolz Hope you liked it….REVIEW! Luvies

l-a-c-18Ok, wow. Lolz thank you so much for your amazing review! You know by all of mine that I LOVE long reviews. It makes a writer feel good that the reader has a lot to say about their work.  OH and you know that I love your story and your writing so the complement you gave me was huge. Lolz. Anyways, I KNOW how much you hate Leyton. Heck, I don't think anyone despises them as much as I do. (no offence to leyton fans) BUT I don't mind their friendship all that much. I mean, in a relationship, they are boring as hell but when they are just friends talking about their lives, it's cool that they could have those things in common, you know? Anyways, I know that you were confused or pissed off that she went to Lucas but the way I see it, Lucas was the one who called Jake in the first place, right? So he's the one who put Jeyton together and they both talked about it in chapter three. So I figured that it would work. Besides, I wanted Peyton to end up with someone other than Brooke so I figured what the hey. Don't worry though. There will be NO LEYTON 'ROMANTIC' interaction WHAT SO EVER! Lolz. I hope that cleared stuff up for you. And I'm glad you liked the brucas. That was the funnest (that's a word right:S) part to right cuz you could totally see Brooke dragging Lucas into those kinds of situations, you know? You're right, I bet they did end up in crazy situation like that all the time. And about Brooke's parents, remember they were drunk. But I definitely see her mother saying that to her. And I know that you wanted Luke/Nate to have a violent fight. I did too but I figured I'd leave it to this chapter since it was a more intense situation. Anyways, that's enough rambling. Lolz. Thank you again for the reviews. I hope to get more soon!

BRATHAN LOVER: Hey hun. I know—by your name more than anything else—that you absolutely adore Nookie! And I love them too!  but I'm leaning towards having this a Brucas. I don't know why but I want to show that a girl and a guy can make it through by just being friends. Just like Laley, only much hotter! Lolz. But, like I said it will be mostly Nookie friendship. I love their friendship and I don't want to do anything that'll ruin it and a relationship definitely does that!  But even though it won't be a romantic fic I hope you keep reading for their friendship. But, luckily for you I'm writing two other stories with Nookie. One will be a FORSURE nookie and the other will be a Brucas/Nookie depending on what the viewers want.  so be sure to check it out and vote for your favourite couple. :D Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Review!

Kate: Thank you!  And don't worry I will be bringing Haley back. It's going to be a while though. But bear with me. With her, comes LOTS of drama!

Crazy: OF COURSE this isn't the ending! I would never do that! lolz. There's LOTS more to come. A little more than what you guys can probably handle. I tend to write long stories. Meh. I unno. I guess I just have lots of ideas. Anyways, I'm glad you like it. REVIEW!

Ashley: Hey sweetie. Thank you so much! I'm so glad you like this so much! I know from conversations with you on the board that you're both a Brucas and Nookie lover like I am. And I'm glad you liked the brucas.  I'm sorry I haven't UD'd in a long time but I'll try and make it up to you. :D REVIEW! LUVIES! See you on the boards!

Christine: Ah. Another favorite review. You have no idea how giddy it makes me when I get your kinds of reviews. It helps me to know that people are actually reading my fic rather than just skimming over it.  Thank you SOOOOOOO MUCH! I am so glad you liked the brucas flash back. And I'm even happier that I made you laugh with Brooke. I could totally see her doing that can't you? I love the girl! Lolz And I'm glad you think I captured Brooke's emotions well over her parents. I have so many ideas about them and I love any story line regarding them. I figure, since the writers don't seem to be interested in doing any s/l with them, might as well take advantage of it ourselves, right? Anyways, and about Lucas/Nathan scene. I totally agree with you. He just acts as if nothing ever happened between them. As if brooke was never hurt and that she would jump into his arms at the chance just because he actually started treating her like a human being again. I love Brucas for the short time they were together. But the rest of the season, I was almost anti them b/c I hated his disregard for her feelings! But we won't go there!  I'm glad you liked the chappi. Hope you like this one too! Luvies!

roryNdean4everYAY! A new reviewer! Hee Hee. I'm glad you like this story. I like their friendship too. Hope you continue to review!