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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.)
A
tear falls off her cheek right when it hits his arm (he says)
C
'mon baby let's get out of here
They take one last drive round
town man it already looks different
He bangs the wheel says "Life
Ain't Fair"
This growing up stuff man I don't know…just
don't wanna let you go
While sitting in the back of Lucas' truck Brooke starts to silently cry realizing she doesn't want to leave Lucas behind in Tree Hill. Lucas felt a tear hit his arm as he was holding Brooke close to him.
"Hey, why are you crying Pretty Girl?"
"Because I don't want to leave, why can't I just stand up to them and tell them I'm staying no matter what they do." Said Brooke as she buried her head in Lucas' chest.
"Because it's not that easy, honey they said they'd take everything away from you." Said Lucas remembering the day she showed up at the garage after the fight with her parents in tears.
"But how can they do this? I mean it's not like they're here ever and I'm hardly ever at the house as it is I'm either at Peyt's or your house."
"I know, C 'mon baby let's get out of here. We'll go for a drive." Said Lucas as they stood up in the back of the truck and walked to the edge and got down before helping Brooke down.
They drove around the town and Brooke looked at all the places that her and Lucas had gone to. Some spots they made out in, fought, made love in the truck in. This is what Brooke was thinking about when Lucas hit the steering wheel and said 'Life ain't fair.'
"I know Broody it really isn't." Said Brooke as she held on to his hand.
"This growing up stuff man I don't know…just don't wanna let you go." Said Lucas as he glanced over at her with tears in his own eyes.
"We won't let either of us go. Ever. I promise you." Said Brooke as she squeezed his hand for reassurance.
Lucas pulled over to the side of the road and put the truck in park and they both sat there and cried together for about 20 minutes. Both trying to comfort each other the best they could. Soon after the finished crying, in true Brooke and Lucas fashion they got into a hot and heavy make-out session. Which only ended up being interrupted by a knock on the driver's side window.
"Hey Mike. How's the wife?" Said Lucas as he wiped some of Brooke's lip-gloss off.
"Hey Luke, Brooke. She's good. What have I told you two about making out on the side of the road before."
"Put the hazards on?" Asked Brooke as innocently as possible.
"Cute Brooke. Come on you guys this is the 4th time this month alone I've caught you, it's gotten so bad that we're on a first name basis now and Luke I can spot your truck a mile away." Said Mike.
"Mike face it, it's Tree Hill you come looking for us. Just so you have something to do at night." Said Lucas.
"No I don't."
"Mike it's true because of the entire police force you are the only cop that comes and taps on my window. Well with the exception of Reynolds that one time."
"Just move it along, guys okay?"
"What do you think we were trying to do Mike." Said Brooke.
"I meant go somewhere else like your bedrooms, motel, anything but the side of the road." Said Mike.
"Fine, but believe me you're going to miss us when we're gone." Said Brooke.
Mike left shaking his head knowing Brooke was right. This was the most he did all night and now he would head back to the station and get ragged on by the other officers for yet another encounter with Brooke and Lucas.
"Well at least we didn't get a ticket, this time." Said Brooke.
"I know, it was hard enough to explain to Mom and Dad how I got the last one for loitering on a back road. And I still say that was a bogus ticket." Said Lucas.
"Luke you kept hitting the breaks and we weren't driving." Said Brooke with a laugh.
"I kept hitting the breaks because one somebody was on top of me and two I had nowhere else to put my feet."
"And that is why I paid half the ticket. But you half to admit that was a great night."
"Yeah it was, I'm still glad that Mike didn't come by until after we were done." Said Lucas.
"At least we didn't get indecent exposure." Said Brooke. "That would have been an interesting conversation with Karen and Keith."
"One I really don't plan on having in the future." Said Lucas.
Brooke and Lucas left the spot and drove around for a couple more hours before he took her back to her house.
