Chapter 13

After a week Brooke was allowed to leave the hospital. She went home with Peyton and was allowed to stay with her until her mother came back. When Brooke came back to school she was crowed by a lot of her student class. It was sad that the administration had to have police walk her to class and to the bathroom so that she wouldn't get hurt again. At lunch she had to sit in on of the conference rooms, and the best part about that was that Lucas, Haley, Nathan, Peyton, and Daniel were allowed to eat with her.

After about six weeks gone by Brooke didn't need to have police escort her to her classes and the bathroom, but the school administration still wanted her to eat in a conference room during lunch.

One day during English Brooke was called down to the principle's office. When she got there she saw two police officers and she also saw Daniel. She then had a feeling that something bad had happened, but had no clue as to what.

"Why don't you have a seat Brooke?" asked the principle motioning his left hand to the chair that was to the left of Daniel.

"I think I'll stand." Said Brooke in an uneasy voice.

"Please Brooke I think that it is in your best interest that you sit. Your step brother might need you."

"He is not my step brother…" Brooke then paused to look at Daniel. When she did she saw the look of rejection in his eyes. "He's my little brother."

"Well then for your brother I think that you should sit down. It would be for the best that the two of you are near each other, and here for each other for what I need to tell you."

With that Brooke knew that something bad had happened.

"Can Daniel and I sit on your couch instead?" asked Brooke now motioning her right arm in the direction that the couch was.

"Yes you may."

With that said Daniel got up and walked over to Brooke and together they both sat down on their principal's tan leather couch.

"I need you two to tell me if you recognize this person." Asked one of the police officers handing Brooke and Daniel a photograph of a women beaten and stabbed to death. This women look almost just like Brooke except that her hair was a lighter shade of brown.

When Brooke first saw the picture of the women she quickly grabbed the trash can that was next to her and threw up. When Daniel saw the picture he did the exact same thing.

"So I take it you do recognize her don't you?" asked the second officer.

"Yes we do. That's my mother." Answered Brooke now in tears. "Could you please call down Lucas Scott for me please?"

In Lucas's History class the principle came on the p.a.

"Mrs. Hazelton."

"Yes?"

"Could you send Lucas Scott to my office right away please?"

"He's on his way."

Mrs. Hazelton gave Lucas a pass and he was then on his way. As he was going to the principal's office he saw Nathan, Peyton, and Haley on their way to the same place.

When the four of them got to the main office one of the secretaries escorted them to the principal's office. There they saw Brooke and Daniel in tears.

"Oh my god. Are you two okay what happened?" asked Haley walking over to them.

"I will leave the six of you alone." With that said the principal and the two police officers left the room.

Lucas went right over to Brooke and sat down right next to her while Haley sat on the arm of the couch. Nathan and Peyton went over to Daniel to comfort him.

"What happened?" asked Peyton with deep concern.

"We just found out that my mom was…was…no, no, no, no." sobbed Brooke. Lucas then held her while Haley got the tissue box off of the desk.

"What happened to your mom?" asked Nathan who had a pretty good idea as of what had happened to their mother.

"She's dead." Everyone except Brooke looked at Daniel. "The police had come here to ask us if we recognize this person in this photo." Daniel held up the picture that the police men had given them.

"NO! ITS NOT HER IT CAN'TBE HER!" yelled Brooke at the top of her lungs. "IT CAN'T BE MY MOTHER IT JUST CAN'T BE!" Brooke got out of Lucas's embrace and walked over to the window with tears rolling down her face at a quick rate. She was also breathing in deep breaths and she was also breathing at a fast rate too.

"Brooke calm down. Okay? If you keep this up your going to pass out." Ordered Haley now walking over to Brooke.

"Haley's right Brooke you need to calm down." Said Nathan.

"Look Brooke I know that I don't know how you feel about this but in away I do." Said Daniel with tears strolling down his face.

Brooke then turned to look at Daniel.

"I thought of your mom as my mom because I never had one. And now I will never have one."

Brooke walked over to Daniel and gave him a quick hug. She then walked back over to the window and opened it up. Before she jumped out she turned to her friends and said, "I'm sorry." Before anyone could stop her she was out of the school running to the police station. Lucas then knew right away what she was doing. He then jumped out the window and ran after her. Haley quickly got the principal and told him what was going on. The principal told the rest of them that they could have the rest of the day off so that they could find Brooke and so that Daniel could let everything that had happened sink in.

When Brooke was at the Tree Hill Jail she went in and asked if she could talk to Henry Salmon. She was then shown to a room and about three minutes later Henry came in with a look of shock on his face.

"Young lady call if you need anything or when your done." Said one of the security guards.

"I will thank you."

The guard just nodded and then he closed the door.

"What are you doing here?" asked Henry still in shock for the fact that Brooke would even come to see him.

"I came about my mother."

"What about her?"

"Did you kill her?"

"What? Now why would I do a thing like that for?"

"Just answer the god damn question you sick mother fucker."

"Yes I killed her but why would you care? You never cared about her in the first place so why would you care now?"

"Why?"

"Why."

"Yes why? Why did you do it?"

"Why would send my son to jail?"

"Don't change the fucken subject."

SLAP!

"Don't you raise your voice at me you son of a bitch."

"You know what I hope you die. I hope that you stay in this fucken jail and rot till you die."