Chapter 1: It's too late to fight: This end's tonight
Peyton sat waiting in her lonely bed with her cell phone of course right next to her. She was waiting for the phone call to change her life. The phone call were all those horrible days and drunken nights, would just go away. She wanted Jake to call. She needed Jake to call. Brooke hanging out with Lucas which was surely on the rocks at the moment, and Mrs. Haley James Scott spending some "quality" time with her husband Nathan. It was surely going to be a lonely night for Peyton. She also decided in those few moments to just do the only drug she ever knew of and go to sleep. That drug was music.
" It's better to fall in love with a song than a person, because a song will never break your heart."as she whispered that to herself she drifted away from her drama filled angst everyone called life and went to dreamland.
Little did Brooke know that her best friend was having such a hard time. She had been spending so much time with Lucas that she had forgotten about anyone or anything in the world. It was like she was in her own little dreamland, but every once in awhile you have a nightmare. One of those nightmares was tonight.
"But baby I lov" Lucas had to stop in mid-sentence because of yelling at the other end.
"No, no you don't Lucas... whatever Scott. You do not love me" Brooke said as she put her hands to her head and started to feel a hot tear flushing down her face.
"I didn't want to hurt you Brooke." Lucas said with his "sorry-face"
"Well, you did. So take your broken promises and get your ass out of my room."
Lucas turns around and heads for the door with a broken heart.
"Oh, by the way don't let the door hit you on the way out."
Brooke closes the door and decides this is one of those nights were she is going to cry herself to sleep. She grabs her coat and heads to the nearest ice cream place to get the biggest bucket of Rocky Road they have.
"What kind of ice cream place doesn't have any Rocky Road?" Brooke said with a little bite to her words.
Brooke decides to go to Peyton's place to slowly dump her problems on her.
Brooke pulls in the driveway and walks right in considering that Peyton probably has her music up way to loud to here anything. Brooke walks up to Peyton's room and finds her fast asleep. Brooke decides to plop her butt right next to her. She looked at Peyton and how innocent sleeping made her look.
Brooke gets up looking around at all of the new drawings and emotion that Peyton's room now held. The biggest edition was 'Where are they now?' painted white to her rose red room. That sentence could mean many things and refer to many people, but Brooke knew that it had to be Ellie and Jake... maybe her? She didn't know, but then she realized how much she hasn't been there for her this past month. Once again she plops her butt right next to Peyton.
"I'm Sorry Peyt. I let a boy tear us apart again."
Brooke pulls the covers over Peyton and something catches the corner of her eye. She walks over to the bathroom where they shared so many nights doing each other's hair and make-up for their first big date. Brooke's mouth opened as she realized what had caught her eye... it was a stash of cocaine and weed. Brooke in disbelief wasn't sure if she should wake Peyton up and confront her about this or keep this a secret. It was too late to make a decision.
"Brooke...what's going on?"
Nathan and Haley had some history behind all of their pictures and tears, but were slowly but surely rekindling their undying love for each other.
Nathan had cooked Haley a wonderful candle-lit dinner at his place. Of course they had wonderful conversation and gushy gush moments throughout this dinner.
"Hales" said Nathan a little weary
"Hmm"
"Well, you know how much I love you and I always have. When I wasn't with you those few months it killed me. I don't ever want to feel that pain again. I am not quite sure how you feel on the whole situation of 'you and me' but I really want you to move in."
"Umm"
"You don't have to answer now I mean, I wouldn't expect you too."