All right here is the latest chapter. I know it's been awhile but I felt like I had to write another chapter. Stay with me I know it takes me awhile to update but like I said last time I am so busy but things are dieing down so I hope to have much more time to devote to my writing and this story. I also have a lot of really great ideas that I may put into a new story but I want to focus on this one for right now so here it is.

Declaimers: I do not own One Tree Hill and I do not own the lyrics the song I used by the All American Rejects.

Chapter 9: It Ends Tonight

Your subtleties
They strangle me
I can't explain myself at all.
And all that wants
And all that needs
All I don't want to need at all.

The weeks had come and gone very fast and soon before they knew it, two weeks had past. Haley had come to visit for the weekend, because she and Brooke could not go on their New York road trip they had decided on a girl's weekend. Barbie had gone home to visit her family the weekend before and had become very ill and would not be coming back until the following Tuesday. Mallory and Nathan had been going out every chance they had but it felt as if something just wasn't clicking right for either of them but neither of them wanted to admit it. Lucas had been spending more and more time with the guys on the team to avoid being around Nathan, Mallory and even Brooke for that matter. So of course on a Friday night there was no better thing to do then to hit the best party on campus. The Annual Frat Toga party.

Brooke and Haley stood in Brooke's dorm working on their outfits. Haley had left her long soft golden brown hair in flowing locks in waves of curls on her shoulders. Brooke on the other hand had curled and then pinned all of her hair up in a stylish and sexy updo with a small crown reef. Haley's toga was a soft pink color that wrapped around her waist and down to her ankles and wrapped around one shoulder. Brooke's was also wrapped around one shoulder but showed off her perfectly toned tummy and laid just short of the middle of her thigh. It was sparkly navy blue with a little bit of baby blue trim on it. Brooke had glitter everywhere from her perfectly tan abs where she put her blue belly button ring on to her freshly powdered cheeks. Brushing on lightly a bit of bronzer and light blue eye shadow she was perfectly ready to go. Haley had gone with a more natural look that was soft and simple. Brooke looked like a Greek goddess ready to have a good time.

"Alright Hales this is going to be really fun I promise and if you totally hate it we can just cut out and get a chick flick and eat ice cream. Okay?"

"Brooke its fine. Lets just go and have fun."

Brooke smiled and opened the door for her friend. "Well then after you."

The girls linked arms and started down the hallway to the party. They arrived only 5 minutes later and the party was already well into the swing of things. Both girls pulled bright smiles across their faces in excitement. Brooke pulled Haley to the kitchen to get a drink.

"Keep and eye out for Nate and Malz." Brooke told Haley as she grabbed their drinks.

Haley looked around seeing if she could find them. Across the room her eyes locked with his. His soft blue eyes and he smiled and so did Haley. Then she waved him over. Nathan Scott hurried over with Mallory not far behind him. They were both in there fun little togas and looked like they had been dancing. The first thing Nathan did when he reached Haley was scooping her up in his arms and hug her strongly.

"Good to see you Hales." He whispered in her ear as he sat her down. The two stood smiling at each other.

Two things interrupted this quickly. Mallory running in and hugging Haley and Brooke returning with drinks. "Hey you guys," Brooke chirped softly.

Nathan looked Brooke over and shook his head. "Davis you are just looking for trouble tonight aren't you?"

"No just fun."

"Hey Brooke can we talk for a minute." Mallory whispered with a hint of desperation in her voice.

Brooke looked at her worried and nodded. "Yeah sure lets go. I'll be right back." Brooke then led Mallory to a quieter part to talk. "Okay what's up."

"Okay so here is the thing. I don't think I like Nathan, you know like that. I tried but I'm just not feeling it. He is great as a friend and he is so sweet and nice and fun and you know but I just don't like him like that." Mallory stammered all in one breath when she finished she gasp for air and sighed heavily. "So?"

"Okay Mallory. One slow down, two take a breath, three let me talk to him, and I'll let him down easy."

Mallory hugged Brooke tightly, "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you so much Brooke."

The two walked back to where they had left Haley and Nathan who were no deep in discussion and flirting. Wait where Nathan and Haley flirting. This could not be happening. This was just weird. Mallory and Brooke shared a grin and giggled a bit. This could work out better then they thought.

"Oh Nathan." Brooke chimed and he looked up instantly at her. "I just love this song. Dance with me?"

Nathan rolled his eyes and looked back at Brooke and nodded his head as he sat his drank down. "Yeah sure Brooke lets go."

"Oh Thanks Natey." She led him onto the dance floor where many bodies where pressed firmly together but Brooke led him threw the crowd to the other side of the room.

"Brooke what is going on?"

"I have to talk to you…."

"Serious awesome because I needed to talk to you too."

"Really? About what?"

"Well here is the thing. I like Mallory but I don't think I like her like her you know just friendly."

Brooke burst out in to laughter and Nathan looked at her questioningly.

"What is so funny?"

Brooke finally stopped laughing. "Your okay she feels the same way. That's what she had to talk to me about and that was what I had to talk to you about. Well it looks like this is working out just nicely. So now you need to go get Haley slugger."

"Brooke I don't play baseball."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Just get out of here. I don't think Haley is having that much fun anyways. Take her for coffee."

"Okay whatever you say."

"That's right whatever I say."

The walls start breathing
My minds unweaving
Maybe it's best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.

An hour later Haley and Nathan had left to go get coffee and Mallory and Nathan were no just buddies again. Mallory had gone off with one of the guys from the baseball team and now Brooke was flying solo but she was okay with that because Brooke Davis never turned down a great party. A guy that Brooke had never met before came up and started talking to her.

"Hey how's it going?"

"Fine." Brooke said with a weak smile. Truth be told she was not anywhere near into this guy.

"You want to dance."

"No I'm kind of tired right now thanks."

"Aw okay. Well you want a drink."

"Sure why not."

He handed her a cup and then headed off. Brooke took the drink willingly and 10 minutes later she was feeling dizzy and a little in coherent like she felt after about 6 or 7 drinks and she had only had 2. She leaned against the bar in a panic. Hot, sweaty, and getting more and more tired with every second. Some had come along beside her and wrapped their arm around here. Brooke gave in because she wanted to get out of there but when she saw that they were head towards a room and noticed the guy who was carrying her she begin to go into a deep state of panic. Trying to fight free of his grasp she was helpless as she felt herself dozing in and out. Mumbling loudly for him to let go but nothing understandable. Everything was growing darker and darker. Until she just blacked out.

A falling star
Least I fall alone.
I can't explain what you can't explain.
Your finding things that you didn't know
I look at you with such disdain

Lucas had been dancing with a girl when a sight caught his eye. Brooke was over by the drinks and some guy was talking to her. She didn't look amused at all but she took the drink he offered and watched as he walked off. Lucas felt relieved. After awhile he looked back over to see that Brooke was no longer there. His eyes darted around to see her stumble a bit and then the same guy come back and wrap his arm around her leading her off towards some room. Something about this wasn't right and he hurried off that way. He heard Brooke mumbling and he could tell she didn't want to be with this guy when she tried to get free and then passed out.

"What the hell are you doing man?" Lucas spoke loudly but not yelling.

The guy stopped and looked at him. "None of your business."

"Oh its my business. Especially when it comes to that girl right there."

"I got this under control just walk away."

Then it clicked in Lucas's head. This guy had drugged Brooke when he handed her that drink. Without thinking he went over to this guy and punched him square in the jaw. The guy headed for the floor and Lucas's first reaction was to grab Brooke. Sweeping her up in his arms he took her into the first room, laid her down, and went back to the finish up the guy.

"You never, never touch that girl again. You got me." Lucas punched him again and then kicked him in the side. "And if I ever catch you pulling that shit on any other girl I will make sure you never see the light of day again."

Lucas gave the guy one last good punch and then went back to Brooke. He had to get her out of here. He picked her up and took her home. Laying her down in her bed the room was empty and Lucas was worried. He sat down in a chair and watched her as she slept. She had to be okay she just had to be. He would never forgive himself if she wasn't.

Then 2 hours later Brooke rolled in her bed a bit as her eyes slowly opened. Unsure of what had happened the night before. It was still pretty dark out. Rolling over she made sure that she wasn't with anyone and checked to make sure she was still dressed. Check and check. Then she heard a chuckle.

"Hey there sleeping beauty. How you feeling?"

"Lucas what the hell are you doing here. Wait what happened?" Brooke looked really worried.

"Okay Brooke before you say anything else let me explain everything that happened alright?" Brooke silently nodded her head and Lucas continued. " You were at the party and some guy had given you a drink. Well I think he might have slipped something into it. I noticed as he was leading you off to some room. I beat the crap of out of him and brought you home."

Brooke looked at him in shock. "Did anything happen?"

"No nothing I stopped that before he could do anything. Your fine. Worst is that you will have a headache."

"Thanks Luck."

"Its fine. I'll go now I just wanted to make sure you were okay." He got up with a small smile. "If you need anything let me know alright."

"Okay thanks." Brooke nuzzled her head back into her pillow as Lucas left.

Now I'm on my own side
It's better than being on your side
It's my fault when your blind
It's better that I see it through your eyes

Brooke had slept it off. Haley and Mallory had come home the second that Lucas had called them. It was now the Sunday afternoon and Haley was going to hang out with Mallory and Brooke before heading back but not before sneaking by Nates for a quick good bye. Yes Haley and Nathan were now working on being together. Taking it slow and seeing if their relationship would work as a long distance thing would work for them.

"Guys I'm going to go grab some pop I'll be right back." Brooke skipped out the door and down the hallway.

Mallory checked to make sure that Brooke was out of ear shot so that she wouldn't be over heard and then closed the door. "Hales we got to talk."

"Brooke right?"

"Yup."

"I figured. Lucas too I'm guessing because something doesn't seem right about all of this."

"Well I have to tell you something."

"Okay what."

"You know how that night at the masquerade ball, Brooke met a mystery guy. Well we found out who the mystery guy was."

"Oh my gosh who." Haley was now just dieing to know.

"Your never going to believe this but Brooke's perfect guy is the one person she can't be with."

"No."

"Yeah. Brooke's mystery guy is the one and only Lucas Scott."

Brooke froze outside the door as she heard these words. Tempted to go inside she stood there hoping that Mallory would say something that would change what she just said.

"Yeah Lucas knows. He was going to hook up with Kelcey and saw Brooke's costume and put the pieces together." Mallory continued with sigh.

"Then why hasn't he told her then."

"I don't know. Nathan knows but no one knows whether we should tell her or not. Is it what is best for Brooke or should we let Lucas tell her. Will Lucas tell her? I have no idea."

"This is going to be bad."

"Tell me about it. I think for now though we should just keep our mouths shut."

"Sounds like a plan."

Brooke took a deep breath and waited a second before coming in the door with a fake smile plastered across her face.

"Hey guys miss me," Brooke said merrily but underneath she was seething.

Next Chapter:

-Lucas and Nathan have that talk

-Brooke deals with what she has just found out

-Finally Brooke snaps on someone

Alright I hope you all liked it so please R & R