Jenny just sat there, snuggled in Brooke's arms for the next hour. Brooke really didn't know what to do at this
point, and desperately wanted to call Peyton, even though it was about midnight at this point, to beg her for
some advice. But, it seemed like if she even moved a fraction of an inch Jenny would break. Jenny finally sat
up, and Brooke felt the feeling come back to her arm. She sat silently for a few moments, just looking around.
She finally stopped her gaze on Brooke and said "How'd you know?" "Know what?" Brooke asked softly,
trying to get as much information out of Jenny as possible without saying anything dumb that might clam her
up again. "like…everything." Jenny answered. "Well you would have to be pretty blind not to notice that
you're a total mess." Brooke said, trying to stifle a little half-smile. "I don't know…it seriously feels like for
the past month or whatever I have felt like shit everyday and everything is just going wrong" Jenny said quietly,
trying not to cry. " Well do you wanna talk about it" Brooke pressed a little more. "not really.. I mean I do,
but I don't." "Yeah… I get that" Brooke said. " How about you just answer what I ask you?" Brooke said.
Surprisingly, in college she had minored in school counseling for some very odd reason, and was trying to
remember a few pointers from those snooze and cruise classes. "ok" Jenny said, still slightly unsure of herself.
"Ok… well what did you mean by 'doing stuff'" Brooke asked curiously. She could tell she hit one subject
Jenny had really hoped would be avoided. "Like…sex and stuff I guess." She said kind of uncomfortably.
"Well like…how far did you guys actually go" Brooke pressed on, almost scared by what she was hearing…
that little Jenny, who she had known since before she could walk, possibly could be having sex at 13? "this is
so so wrong.." she thought to herself. "We just like made out and stuff, but he always wanted to like… do
more and I guess what got like halfway there a couple times but like.. I don't know I never said no but I always
just kind of... ended things." Jenny said shakily. " Sweetie…. you did the right thing. I mean, you shouldn't do
something you don't want to! I sure as hell wish someone would've told me that…but I was like 16 or 17! For
God sake's your 13 years old!" Brooke said, trying to reassure her, but also needing some reassuring herself.
" I know its just… I don't know. I don't wanna talk about it anymore. Can I just go to bed?" Brooke could tell
Jenny was avoiding the whole eating thing. With everything else, she knew what she was doing wrong. She
knew she shouldn't drink, or have sex with her boyfriend if she didn't want to, or anything else. But the eating
thing was the one thing she felt like she had control over, and like a normal, confused, 13 year old girl, she
didn't know what to do. Brooke figured they would just talk about it in the morning. "Fine.. I'll call your dad
and somehow get you out of school tomorrow, but we've got some major talking to do. Night sweetie" She
said and gave her a hug. "night… but you said you wouldn't tell my dad!" " I know and I won't… but I'm not
gonna lie and say your just sick either. Now go to bed, and don't worry about it!" "Okay" Jenny said and
started up the stairs. "Wait!" Brooke called after her. Jenny turned around. "give me your cell phone" "what?
no!" Jenny said haughtly, suddenly starting to go in defense mode. "Right now Jenny. Your going to bed, not
text messaging your friends about how much things suck. Now give it to me right now and you can have it
back tomorrow. And don't worry, I won't answer it no matter who it is." Brooke said seriously. "Fine" Jenny
scoffed and tossed her the phone. She went upstairs and Brooke heard the door close. She went into the
kitchen and sat down. She started to read through Jenny's text messages. She knew she shouldn't be going
through her private things, but she wanted to figure out what was really going on in Jenny's pin sized little
world. She didn't really find out anything too interesting, other then Jenny really knew how to drink, much
more then she had let on, which kind of freaked her out considering she was only 13. She clicked the phone
off, and picked up the phone to call Jake. It was only about 9:15 in Washington, where he was, so it wasn't so
late. The phone rang twice, and then Jake answered "Hello" he said. "Hey its me!" Brooke said. "Oh hey
Brooke. How are things going? Everythings okay, right? Its pretty late there?" he said, and Brooke could sense
the alarm in his voice. " oh no everything's great." Okay so she was lying a little. " but I was just wondering if
it was okay if Jenny kind of had a little ditch day tomorrow. She seems like she kind of needs it and I thought
we could like.. I don't know go shopping and just hang out." "Well Brooke considering its you whose
watching her, I figured that she would end up missing at least one day anyway and I wouldn't even find out. I
didn't think you would actually call to ask my permission" Jake laughed. "oh I just love how responsible you
think I am" Brooke giggled. "Yeah well don't worry about it… I think your right that she needs it. She seems
to have a lot on her mind lately and maybe you can help her out" Jake said. "my thoughts exactly! See you on
saturday Jakey boy! I'll make sure Jenny cleans everything up from the wild party shes having Friday night
before everyone gets here. And I'll try to make sure all the guys that sleep over are gone!" She giggled. "Not
funny Brooke… bye!" Jake laughed and they hung up. Brooke thought to herself about what she had just said.
She realized that with Jenny's little "lifestyle" what she had told Jake, what he had laughed off as a total joke,
probably wasn't that unrealistic. At all. She shrugged it off, and went up stairs. She slipped on her black velour
juicy sweat pants, and an oversized white sweatshirt with chanel written in black across the front. She jumped
into bed and buried herself under the covers, thankful that she didn't have to get up at 6 am to get Jenny up for
school, but also kind of nervous about what tomorrow might hold.
A/N: sorry for the long waits between updates! I'll try to get them up faster! Sorry this ones short, but I wanted to get something up! Please REVIEW!