Love Rectangle Plus One
Chapter 14 - 23
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23 is a song by Jimmy Eats World. It's a great song and the lyrics are scattered in this chapter. This chapter has a few surprises in it, so be alert. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Previously on OTH-LRP1:
"Hey" Brooke said under a pillow. Peyton moved the pillow so she could see Brooke. "I hate Jake." Brooke said.
"I hate Lucas." Peyton replied. "Men suck, they just want to get in your pants and mess with your brain."
"Yeah." Brooke sighed. She covered her face with the pillow again.
I felt for sure last night
That once we said goodbye
No one else will know these lonely dreams
No one else will know that part of me
I'm still driving away
And I'm sorry every day
I won't always love these selfish things
I won't always live
Never stopping
Lucas, Jake, Skillz and Mouth went in Nathan's car. Brooke, Peyton, Haley and Bevin went in Rachel's SUV.
"I don't know why I even bother. Peyton's so pissed off right now." Lucas said grumpily.
Jake looked at him angrily.
"What?" Lucas asked.
"Nothing." Jake replied.
"What the hell is wrong with you two! You got some fine women and you gettin' all tangled up in it's her fault, his fault, everyone but me!" Skillz frowned. "Be men! Apologize!"
"I am not apologizing." Jake said looking out of the window, he saw the field of flowers he had taken Brooke to.
"Neither am I" Lucas replied.
"You should, you're both dumb." Mouth said from the passanger's seat.
"Are we there yet?" Bevin asked.
"It's just a little further." Rachel answered.
Haley looked at Peyton on her left. Peyton was trying sleeping. Haley thenlooked to her right; Brooke was looking out the window. They passed by the place Jake had taken her. She sighed.
"You two need to get over this!" Haley yelled.
"Yeah, why don't you go tell Nathan you don't want to sing!" Peyton said angrily.
They arrived at the cabin.
"Wow. This place is great!" Bevin said.
"Yeah." Mouth replied.
"There are 5 rooms and a coach. Mouth and I have the master. Fight for the rest.
Bevin and Skillz took the first room. Haley and Nathan took the second. Leaving Brooke, Peyton, Lucas and Jake.
"Brooke and I are sharing this room, hope you two like sleeping together." Peyton said closing the door to the third room.
"I hope there are bunk beds." Lucas said.
"Nope" Jake said looking at the small bed they would have to share. "You can sleep on the floor."
It was late so they all got together in the living room. Lucas was the last to walk into the living room and the only empty seats were either next to Peyton or next to Brooke. He took his chances and sat next to Brooke.
Peyton frowned. "I am so going to bed!"
"Oh please! Come on Peyton, don't you think you're being a little dramatic?" Lucas yelled.
"Dramatic? Said the boy who said he loved one girl, dated the other, and then dumped her for the first girl. Dumped her. Slept with a slut. Fell for the second girl, told everyone she was the one, made out with the first again, finally dated her and told her you loved the second one?" Peyton slammed them door.
Everyone looked at Lucas and then at Brooke, the second girl. Jake frowned.
Brooke took a sip from her glass. "Brooke," Lucas started.
Brooke, who was completely drunk, turned to look at Haley. "Then who is the second girl?" Brooke asked.
"You are." Haley told her.
"Oh! Then who is the slut?Oh!Nicki, the girl you got pregnant." She said looking at Jake. "Maybe you have a thing for sluts." She said standing up. She could barley get to her feet before she fell. Lucas caught her. "No, don't touch me! I have to sleep with emo-girl and I don't want to be smothered while I sleep." She hit him and started walking to the room.
The front door opened. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Chris Keller is here!" He walked in the room. "Hey there Brooke, you look very sexy tonight!" He smiled. Brooke frowned. She felt a little sick so she ran to the bathroom.
"Oh, ouch." Chris said. "What's up guys?"
"What are you doing here?" Lucas asked.
"Trying my luck at the women of Tree Hill." He looked around the room. His eyes landed on Jake. "Hey there Jake! Shouldn't you be comforting your girl before someone else does? That was Lucas' problem."
Lucas made a fist but Jake beat him to the punch, literally.
He walked over to Chris and punched him in the jaw.
It was my turn to decide
I knew this was our time
No one else will have me like you do
No one else will have me, only you
He walked to his room passing the bathroom. He saw Brooke on the floor asleep. He walked in and picked her up. "Jake?" She said, still asleep. He took her all the way to the door of her room before she spoke again. "I love you Jake." She said as she yawned. He looked at her; she was drunk and hurting. He kissed her forehead and put her in Peyton's bed.
Rachel was sitting in the living room alone. Mouth was going to tell her they should get some sleep when he saw Chris walked by. "Hey, thanks for inviting me." Chris said to Rachel.
"No problem. You and Brooke need sometime together." She smiled. "I'm going to bed."
The next morning Jake woke up early. He knocked on Brooke's door. No one answered. He felt bad about fighting with Brooke and he wanted to make it right again. He wanted to tell her he loved her too. Jake opened the door. He saw Chris Keller on the bed making out with Brooke, he couldn't see her because Chris was in the way but he knew it was her. He grabbed Chris and looked a Brooke, then he realized Brooke wasn't Brooke, Brooke was Peyton. Chris was making out with Peyton, not Brooke.
"What the?" Jake said confused.
"OMG. Jake, please don't tell Lucas." Peyton said. She let go of Chris.
"Where is Brooke?" Jake asked.
"I don't know. She wasn't here when I woke up." Peyton answered.
He walked out of the room and then out of the cabin. He had to find Brooke but he didn't know where to look. He started to walk along the road back to Tree Hill. Brooke could be hurt, his heart started beating quickly; he was never this scared in his life, except for when Nicki had taken Jenny.
"Nathan. I don't want to sing." Haley confessed.
"What?" Nathan asked. "Why didn't you tell me this before?" Nathan asked.
"I couldn't." Haley said.
You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end
The one thing that stays mine
Jake walked passed the field he had taken Brooke to earlier that week. He saw something move in the flowers. Brooke. He ran over to her. "Brooke?" He grabbed her and shook her. "Brooke? Are you okay?" Brooke opened her eyes.
"What? Jake?" She looked at him.
"Brooke! What are you doing alone in a field? Are you okay?" Panic rushed across his face.
"I'm fine, I walked here." Brooke said shaking her head; she was still a little hung over.
"Why would you walk here alone? Don't you know how dangerous that is? You could have been raped, or killed!" Jake was starting to yell, his fatherly instincts surfaced.
"But I wasn't." She picked a flower and started pulling the petals off one by one. Jake grabbed the flower from her hands. "Hey!" Brooke yelled.
"Do you know how scared I was?" Jake asked her frowning. She grabbed at the flower in Jake's hand. "You don't need this!" He said.
"How do you know?" She replied still trying to get the flower from Jake.
"Because," He looked into her eyes. "I love you and you don't need a flower to tell you that." Brooke looked at Jake. She wanted to tell him she loved him but she couldn't. Lucas had told her he loved her but he also cheated on her with Peyton, would Jake cheat on her too? "I'm sorry about what I said to you." Jake added. Brooke wiped her eyes as they started to fill with tears. She didn't know why she was crying but the tears started to flow. Jake wrapped his arms around her, he didn't know why she was crying but he wanted to be there for her. She didn't need to tell him she loved him, she had already done that, even if she didn't remember.
"I'm not right for you." Brooke said, still in Jake's arms. He looked at her, he never expected her to say that.
"Brooke," he started.
"I'm not right for you and Jenny. You need someone else." She started to get up.
"Why are you here?" Jake asked.
"What?" Brooke said confused by his question.
He stood up as well. "Why are you here, in this field if you're not right for me? You love me Brooke, I know you do."
"Love's not enough Jake." Brooke said. "I can't be who you want me to be."
"I just want you to be you." He said.
"What happens when you don't want that anymore?" She said. "What happens when you get tired of me? I can't keep doing this to myself Jake."
"Doing what? I'm not Lucas. I'm not going to cheat on you Brooke." Jake said.
"It's not that he cheated on me. It's that he loved me, and then," She paused. "He didn't, just like that. It was over. And that was just Lucas. You have Jenny, and I can't just say good bye to her like that." She said as her tears resurfaced.
"Brooke," Jake said as he reached for her. She stepped away from him. "Brooke, I'm not going to get tired of you. And I know how much you love Jenny." He caught her in his arms.
"I love you Jake." She said between tears.
"I love you too." He said.
The rest of the group sat around the kitchen for breakfast.
"Where are Brooke and Jake?" Bevin asked.
"No idea." Peyton answered.
"Yeah, no idea" Chris replied. They both looked guilty.
"I think I'm going to go home early." Lucas stated.
"No! No one goes home early!" Mouth said. "We are going to work all of this out."
"Well, Brooke and Jake left." Lucas started.
"Brooke, Brooke, Brooke." Peyton said angrily. The door opened.
"What about Brooke?" Brooke asked holding Jake's hand as she walked inside the cabin.
"Okay Great! You two worked this out. That only leaves you and you." Mouth said looking at Lucas and Peyton. Rachel frowned.
"And us." Nathan spoke up.
"What?" Skillz said.
"Haley and I. We need a miracle for that one." Nathan said.
"Nathan, " Haley started.
"No, don't Nathan me! You kept this from me." He said angrily.
"If it's not one it's the other." Bevin replied.
"Let's go Bevin, before we start fighting too. We can have a picnic or something. Make out in the woods." Skillz said getting up.
"Fine, I'll help Lucas and Peyton, and Haley and Nathan. Are you going to help?" Mouth asked Brooke and Jake.
"No. We have our own issues and we're going to go work them out in my room." Brooke said leading Jake to the room she and Peyton shared in the cabin.
"That would be Brooke for, 'We're going to have sex, don't bother us.'" Peyton said.
"Man, that room gets a lot of action, hun, Punkie?" Chris said nudging her.
"What?" Lucas asked.
"Oh," Chris said looking down. "Nothing." He realized he should have kept his mouth shut.
"I made out with Chris." Peyton said bluntly.
"You what?" Lucas yelled.
"MADE OUT WITH CHRIS!" Peyton repeated. "What exactly are you more jealous of? That I made out with Chris or that Brooke is having sex with Jake as we speak?"
"I'm going outside" Haley said.
"Yeah, me too" Nathan said after her.
"I made a mistake!" Lucas yelled.
"Yeah a big one." She said dragging Chris out of the cabin with her.
Lucas sat on the couch.
"Lucas. I don't think this is fixable if you keep arguing like that." Mouth said.
"Maybe I don't want this fixed." Lucas said.
"What?" Mouth asked.
"My mistake," Lucas said lowering his voice. "Was cheating on Brooke. I still love her. Not Peyton. I said 'I love you Brooke,' I meant it."
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Mouth said angrily.
"Oh please Mouth. You understand about liking Brooke. You liked her for the longest time." Rachel said.
"You are on his side?" Mouth asked.
"Well, if he really doesn't want to be with Peyton he should tell Brooke how he feels." Rachel said.
"You just want Brooke and Jake to break up. You hate her. That's why Chris is here. You want her to be miserable. I thought you changed Rachel! Brooke is my friend and if you don't like her, I don't like you." Mouth said angrily.
Rachel sat next to Lucas. "Leaves you and me." She said. Lucas looked at her.
Amazing still it seems
Ill be 23
I wont always love what I'll never have
I wont always live in my regret
"Thank God we're not like them." Nathan said.
"Yeah," Haley agreed. "I love you Nathan."
"I love you too. I'm sorry Haley." He said kissing her.
"Apology accepted. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner." She kissed him.
"Apology accepted."
"Bevin, are we lost?" Skillz asked.
"No. I know where we are." Bevin answered.
"Are you sure?" Skillz asked.
Jake and Brooke snuggled together under the covers.
"What do you want to do now?" Brooke asked.
"We could go exporing. " Jake suggested.
Brooke looked at him wide-eyed. "You are kidding right? Like walk in the woods? With bears?"
"Not kidding. And Yeah, except for the bear thing." Jake said completely serious.
Haley and Nathan were in a canoe on the lake. Haley was laying back tanning while Nathan moved them across the lake.
"How is it I get stuck doing all the work?"
"Because I'm trying to get a beautiful tan for our wedding." Haley replied.
"Hey Haley." Nathan said getting ready to splash Haley.
"What?" SPLASH. "NATHAN!" Haley said getting up to a sitting position. "You are toast!" She splashed him back. They kept laughing and splashing until the canoe tipped over and they were stuck in the lake.
Jake and Brooke were walking in the woods. A bird made a loud noise.
"What was that!" Brooke jumped into Jake's arms.
"A bird" He said calmly.
"Oh." She said. "Are we lost?"
"No." He said. Jake knew perfectly were they were. A noise came from their left, something was walking towards them.
"Jake!" Brooke whispered. Jake positioned himself in front of Brooke. "It's a bear!" She whispered.
Whatever it was, it was coming near them. "It's probably a deer." He said as he threw a big rock at a near by tree so that whatever it was, it would know Jake and Brooke were there.
"AHHHH!" Something big hit Jake and they both landed on the floor. It was Skillz.
Bevin appeared from where Skillz had moments earlier. She and Brooke looked at each other and laughed.
Jake looked at Skillz. "Dude, what in the world?"
Skillz jumped up dusting himself up. "I just heard this loud noise near me, like a bear."
"More like I threw a rock at a tree." Jake said.
"Oh, really? Well I ain't gonna lie. I almost wet myself." Skillz said. Bevin and Brooke giggled.
"Chris?" Peyton said sitting next to him on a swinging bench.
"Yeah Punkie?" He said.
"Whydid you come here? For Brooke?" She asked.
"Yeah, originally." He said honestly. "She's a fine, fine woman that Brooke Davis. But, you're a fine woman too Peyton. Lucas should have realized that by now." Peyton looked at him. "Chris Keller can tell when a girl is in love with a guy, really in love. Haley is in love with Nathan, Chris Keller had always known that. Brooke Davis is obviously in love with Teen Dad, she wouldn't be playing mommy if she didn't love him. And you, Punkie, you love that Lucas boy, why? I don't know." Peyton watched Chris, she knew he was telling her the truth. She did love Lucas. "If you ever get over Lucas, give me a call Punkie." He walked to his car and drove away.
You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end
The one thing that stays mine
Jake made a fire while Bevin and Brooke sat by watching. Skillz looked around fearfully.
"So are you sure we're not lost?" He asked.
"Yeah man, I'm sure." Jake said sitting next to Brooke. He wrapped his arms around her. It was starting to get dark outside. Skillz sat down next to Bevin, she wrapped her arms around him.
"You're my shorty now." She smiled. Be gave her a kiss.
"This is perfect isn't it?" Bevin asked the group.
Brooke looked at Jake. "Yeah, it is perfect." She smiled.
"Haley?" Nathan said back in their bedroom at the cabin.
"Yeah?" She asked. "I want to make you happy. Like you make me happy. You complete me." He meant every word. She kissed him.
"I am happy. You're the best part of me Nathan."
Mouth sat down next to Peyton. "Hey."
"Hey." She replied.
"Want to go inside? It's getting dark outside." He said.
"Yeah" She said getting up. She stopped him. "Mouth, look at the stars, they're so bright tonight."
"Yeah" He smiled. He looked down. "It's going to be okay Peyt." He said.
"Yeah, I know." She answered. He moved to go to the cabin. "Mouth, let's just wait a second. The air, the stars, it's so beautiful."
"Okay" He said. He looked back up. He saw a shooting star. "Look Peyton! Make a wish."
You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end
The one thing that stays mine
"A shooting star!" Bevin said. Skillz looked up. So did Brooke and Jake. "Everyone make a wish!" Bevin said. They all wished for their heart's desire.
Jake kissed Brooke's forehead. He already had his wish. "I'm glad we went exploring." Brooke said as she gave him a kiss.
"Look Nathan! Outside!" Haley ran to the window. "A shooting star." Nathan hugged her as they made their wishes.
Chris was driving back to New York. He looked up to the sky. "Shooting star." He said to himself. "To wish impossible things, thus making them possible." He laughed a little and made a wish anyway.
Lucas watched as the star faded. Rachel appeared behind him. "What did you wish for?" She asked.
"I wished we hadn't just done that." He said grabbing his shirt and exiting the room.
Wow! The next chapter will focus on what they all learned from each other.
I have completed writing this fic. I have a few chapters left to post and then it's on to the next story! (Sequel to this one)
Lucas and Rachel did have sex. This is part of the plot for the Sequel. There are only 4 chapters left in this fic.