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(The name of the song is "The Night Before (Life Goes On)" it is sung by Carrie Underwood and written by Wendell Mobley, Neil Thrasher, and Jimmy Olander. I don't own a thing.)
Tomorrow she'll be rolling down I-10
Baton Rouge LSU eighteen years in her rearview
He's got a Friday paycheck lined up
Down the block Daddy's shop it ain't much but it's a job
They've been dreading this moment all summer long
The night before life goes on
Brooke and Lucas sat in the back of his pick up at the River Court, trying not to think about the fact that she was leaving in a few hours. She didn't want to go and he didn't want her too, but her parents who were never around told her that they wouldn't pay for her to stay in North Carolina and they had actually filled out an application to Louisiana State University- Baton Rouge, so she was forced to go there. While they sitting there Brooke thought back to Graduation day for them, which was one of the best days of her life.
(Flashback)
Brooke sat up near the front of the large graduating class while all of the people she considered family sat behind her. Haley, Lucas, Nathan, and Peyton sat near each other while Lucas' best friend Skills sat behind them, Mouth was somewhere in the middle, the group's doofus Tim sat down the way from Nathan. Brooke wished she was sitting back there too, but she couldn't. It was now time for them to rise to receive their diplomas. Brooke's row was motioned to stand and began to walk to the front, since starting to date Lucas she had pulled her grades up considerably and stood there with a rope that signified that she was graduating with honors.
"Rebecca Davins." Said the principal.
"Brooke Penelope Davis." Brooke's name was met with screams and yells from the back of the class where all her friends sat and then she looked up and saw that Karen and Keith were taking pictures of her like her parents should have been doing if they had bothered to show up, but no a last minute business trip to China had come before their daughter's high school graduation.
After the she received her diploma and a hug from Whitey who had handed it to her she returned to her seat after looking back at Lucas and winking at him.
(End of Flashback)
"Hey Cheery where'd you go?" Asked Lucas as he pulled her closer to him and reclined in the bed of the truck.
"Just thinking about Graduation Day." Said Brooke. "Are you working tomorrow, at your dad's shop?"
"Yup, but not until after you leave." Said Lucas.
"Okay." Said Brooke as she started to wonder how exactly she was getting there, Keith told her if she followed I-10 she should be fine, she printed the directions from the computer and had put them in her car that morning so she wouldn't forget. Lucas had wanted to take her down there but she insisted that she could make it down there herself. Now she didn't want to leave with out him.
