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Chapter 8: Dare You to Move
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"Luke…"

"Hey, Brooke," Lucas said, standing in front of her in his black suit, his own blue tie matching her dress.

"Um…not that I don't want you here, but why are you here?"

"I was going to take you to the dance. I mean, if that's okay with you."

Brooke was confused, she was certain that he had to have heard that she was going with Tim. Knowing exactly what she was thinking, Lucas clarified. "I talked to Tim. He was more than happy to switch dates."

"You had a date? Then why did you ask me?"

"I didn't, but after Nathan informed me that Rachel was still available, I knew that Tim would want to take her. Tim only wants an easy lay. Not that you're an easy lay…"

"I know what you mean, just don't ruin this moment."

"Ruin what moment?"

Brooke blushed and hesitated, two things that he knew Brooke Davis didn't do very often. "The moment my dreams come true."

She waited for him to make fun of her, but instead Lucas just smiled at her confession and took her hand. "Let's go, I have something for you in my car."

"What is it?"

Lucas rolled his eyes, knowing that how impatient Brooke could be. "We have a couple yards to the car."

"That's a couple yards too many!" Brooke whined, causing Lucas to grin. "What? Are you laughing at me?"

"No, you're just cute," Lucas said, stopping with Brooke's hand in his. Noticing that he was going to say something that could ruin the night, she pulled him towards the car. "Come on, Luke, I need that surprise now."

Lucas walked ahead and opened her door, picking up the small box. "I found out your dress was blue from Haley, so I got you a blue and white rose."

"You got me a corsage?"

"Don't act so surprised, we both know that if I hadn't, you would have killed me."
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Nathan walked up the steps to his girlfriend's room. He didn't know why he was so nervous, it was just Peyton. Peyton, his best friend since forever, maybe it was the fact that she was also the love of his life.

"Hey, Nate," Peyton said, opening the door to her bedroom before he could even knock.

"Wow, you look… breathtaking."

Peyton laughed and hit him lightly, "Since when have you said breathtaking and not been talking about basketball?"

"Since I saw you in that dress… that I also want to take off."

"Slow down, tiger. Save it for after the dance." At that, Peyton walked past him gently brushing her hand past his groin causing a slight groan to come out of his mouth.

"Peyton, play fair, you can't just do that!" Nathan whined as he followed her down the stairs to the car.

"I think that I can, plus, you enjoyed it."

"A little cocky aren't we..."

Peyton turned around and gave him a quick once-over before stepping into the car. "Actually, I think you are the one with the cocky problems."

"Thanks to you, I do. I guess I'll have to punish you."

"And how do you plan on doing that?" Peyton raised an eyebrow at him.

"I'll just stand here staring at you, until you realize that I am so sexy that you take me upstairs and have your way with me," Nathan said, standing in the passenger doorway so that Peyton was trapped.

"I think that's more of a punishment to yourself!"

"How?" Nathan challenged

Peyton smirked knowing that she was going to win. "I told you nothing was going to happen until after the dance. The quicker we get to the dance, the quicker we leave the dance, and the quicker we leave the dance, the quicker I get out of this dress and we get rid of your cocky problem."

After that. Nathan knew what he had to do, so with a trail of dust behind him, they were on their way to the dance.
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When Jake and Haley walked into the dance, the gym was already full. Knowing that Lucas was going with Rachel, Haley looked for the red head. She spotted her dancing with Tim and smirked, knowing what had happened. "Look for Lucas and Brooke!" Haley shouted to Jake.

"They're over there with Nathan and Peyton!"

As Haley followed Jake, she was too busy thinking about what a character her cousin was to notice that Jake had grabbed her hand.

Too bad for Haley, Brooke saw it right away, "Tutorgirl, you told me that Jake was taking you to the dance, not that you guys were a couple!"

Haley looked down at their intertwined hand and smiled up at Jake who was doing the same. As Haley was about to open her mouth Jake answered, "It's just been a week, not that long."

"Aw, I'm so happy for you two!" Brooke hugged Haley and Jake before steeping back and spotting Nathan and Peyton kissing. "Wait! If I'm happy for you two and I'm happy for you two, that means I'm the only single one here!"

"I'm single," Lucas reminded a now silent Brooke.

"You don't count!"

"How don't I count?"

"Because you are the guy and they always ask the girl out."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"It means that you could go up to any girl and ask them out, where as I have to sit here and wait for a lazy guy, like yourself, to ask me."

"That's bullshit, girls can ask guys out!"

By this time Brooke and Lucas were shouting at each other and standing face to face. Nathan looked at Jake, receiving a nod in return.

"Hey, Peyton, why don't we go dance?" Nathan asked holding out his hand.

"Sure, but do you think we should leave Haley here listening to this?"

"Jake's got it covered. See, there they go."

"Okay, but just so you know, I love this song and I'm just going to pretend that's why you asked me and not because the Rory and Jess of Tree Hill are fighting."

"Fine by me," Nathan said as they hit the dance floor

Peyton kissed him on the lips as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "I thought it would be."
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The rest of the dance went smoothly, well as smoothly as a dance could go in Tree Hill. Brooke and Lucas still weren't talking to each other, but instead dancing silently. Fortunately for both of them, that meant that they put their anger into the dancing and had to be pulled apart by a chaperone for inappropriate moves and being too close.

Peyton teased Nathan throughout the dance. She moaned when they were close and rubbed him in places that made him go crazy when they were far apart. Jake and Haley however, had decided to avoid the other two couples and have fun by themselves. They danced during the songs they liked and sat and joked around when they were tired.

As the announcer introduced the final slow song, all of the couples joined the dance floor.

Jake took his hand out of Haley's and placed it on her hips. They swayed to the music just enjoying the time in each other's arms.

"What are we doing after this?" Haley whispered into Jake's ear.

"I think that I should take you home."

Haley got a hurt look on her face, but Jake didn't see it. "Okay."

"It's not that I want to take you home, it's just really late and I don't want you to get in trouble."

"I want to spend more time with you, but you…"

"I do too, but…"

"But my aunt and uncle may get mad at you..." Haley mocked.

Jake sighed and pulled apart just enough to look into her eyes. "I do want spend time with you it's just… do you know what they do after dances?"

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that I wanted to do that, I just want to spend time with you."

"I know that now, but before I thought you meant for us to go to my house and do something that neither of us are ready to do." Jake said pulling her closer.

Haley pulled apart, "You don't want me. I mean, you and Nikki…"

"That's just the thing, after Nikki, I just want to wait," Jake begged her to understand with his eyes. Haley smiled and pulled him closer, placing her lips on his as if it just happened naturally. As the dance ended Jake hugged her tightly and whispered in her ear, "Let's go to my house and watch a movie."

Nathan took Peyton's hand and led her to the dance floor. When they got there she grabbed his head and pulled it to hers. She attacked his lips hungrily surprising him. After only hesitating for a second, he responded by grabbing her ass and pulling her closer to him. Nathan took his lips off of hers, receiving a groan, but quickly placed them on her neck.

"Okay we need to stop before…" Peyton said as she felt his excited groin.

"Too Late."

"My house is empty." Peyton moved her head more so that Nathan could have greater access.

"And close."

"And has a bed."

Nathan's head shot up and looked around. He took her hand and pulled her towards the door. "Do you have your keys?"

"I didn't lock the door because it would just take longer."

"God I love you!"

When Brooke and Lucas got onto the floor they silently danced closely. They had a comfortable silence around them, but for Brooke it wasn't enough. She wanted to end this stupid feud and get to the making out.

"I was talking about us."

"What?" Lucas pulled back suddenly.

Brooke grabbed him and pulled him closer. "I was waiting for you to ask me out."

"Why didn't you ask me?"

"Because of Bevin," Brooke said simply.

"Is it some friend code? Because she cheated on me, I'm not her property." Lucas pulled back once again, causing Brooke to wrap her arms tightly around him.

"That's just it, she cheated on you."

"Can you please just explain it to me? Please!"

"Do you remember when Felix broke up with me last year?" Lucas nodded. "Tons of guys asked me out, but I said no to all of them because I was extremely hurt. I didn't want to be turned down when you were in the mourning phase." By now Lucas could feel warm tears running down his back; he rubbed her hair to calm her down. "Because I don't know if I could have handled to be turned down by you because I love you so much that it hurts. I love you and you love my best friend. I was going to ask you out that day, the one she did, but I couldn't hurt her."

Lucas just stood there. He knew that he should tell her how he felt about her, but she might think that he just said it due to guilt. "I love you too."

Brooke finally pulled back to look into his eyes, but still held his suit jacket tightly. "You do?"

"Yeah, so much," Lucas responded, moving his lips towards hers. She could feel his warm breath on her face and moved closer as he pulled back playfully. When he heard her mutter something, he laughed. "What?"

"Get the hell on with it." Before Brooke could say anything else he claimed her lips with his. As the song ended and she pulled back she said, "A girl could get used to that."

"You better." And with that Lucas once again claimed her lips with his.
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"So what happened with you and Jake last night, Tutorgirl?" Brooke asked the next day while shopping.

"Nothing."

"Right, do you really expect us to believe that?" Peyton asked handing her a shirt.

"We went to his house and watched Pirates of the Caribbean," Haley said earning a glance from Peyton and a raised eyebrow from Brooke. "Okay, so we may have made out during half of it, but then we went straight to bed."

"Nathan and I went to bed too," Peyton smirked, remembering last night.

"Was it good?" Brooke asked, causing Haley to groan "Okay now I'm going to try these on while you two talk."

"Now that Virgingirl is gone, how big is it?"

"Brooke!"

"I always pictured Nathan would be big."

"Brooke! What are you doing imagining Nathan's thing? Shouldn't you wonder about Lucas'?"

"Why wonder? I saw it yesterday." Brooke grinned.

"Ew… he's my cousin." Haley whined as she walked out of the fitting room.

"Okay, unlike you, Tutorgirl, I went home last night."

"According to Aunt Karen, Lucas wasn't home last night either."

"I said that I went home last night, not that Lucas did." Brooke said causing Peyton to laugh and Haley to roll her eyes. "Plus, I saw him in the shower remember. Last night, we didn't do anything but cuddle."

"Brooke Davis only cuddled with a boy in her bed." Peyton teased

"Peyton Sawyer, a flirt," Brooke remarked.

"Hey, Brooke," Rachel said from behind the girls.

"Hey, Rachel, what are you doing?"

"Well I was shopping when I saw you guys and wanted to tell you thanks, for switching dates with me."

"How was your date with Tim?" Peyton asked.

"It was good; you know other then him being the least experienced man in bed."

"You liked that?" Brooke asked disgusted.

"He let me do what ever I wanted to with his body, how can I not?"

"I don't know," Haley deadpanned.

"Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks."

"No problem."

The three girl's watched Rachel leave before Haley turned to them. "Did anyone else realize that in high school everyone considers dates property?
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Dan makes an appearance that rocks Tree Hill

College applications returned

Rash decisions

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