A/N: This chapter is short as it just puts the situation in Lucas' perspective. I hope you like the chapter and please leave a review. The next chapter is already complete and will be posted either tomorrow or the day after. Remember reviews updates!

Chapter Two: Where'd You Go?

Lucas silently cursed the sun as the light poured in through the uncovered window. He had been moving and unpacking his belongings all day and hadn't gone to bed until 3 am. Lucas had just moved back from Durham where he had attended Duke University on an athletic scholarship and where he had continued to live after graduation. Nathan and Haley had also gone to Duke but had moved to Tree Hill immediately after graduation; Both Nathan and Lucas had been drafted to North Carolina's team and Haley began teaching at Tree Hill Elementary. Lucas had retired last year after tearing his shoulder and was now planning to teach high school physical education at Tree Hill High to be closer to his family. He'd postponed moving back to Tree Hill for so long because it held too many memories that he wanted to keep in the past…to finally get over her…

I find myself just filling my time
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind

Lucas often wondered what Brooke had done with her life after she'd left. All Lucas knew was that she'd attended New York University to study design; he'd lost track of her after that. He'd tried unsuccessfully for years to find her and so he had just given up. However he still remembered her and when he felt a pang of loneliness he wrote her a letter even though he realized she would probably never get the chance to read it. Now once again thinking back to high school and college, Lucas realized he'd let her go because he'd thought that their love wouldn't endure, that they weren't meant to be or that maybe he loved her but wasn't in love with her. Yet her memory had haunted him for the past eighteen years and he had to come to the conclusion that he'd let her go because he was a fool. An utter fool…

Where'd you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you've been gone

Brooke,

I've tried again and again to tell myself to just let you go. I want to put you to the back of my mind and hope that I'll forget. I also keep telling myself that this will be the last letter I'll write…I just keep on lying. I can't let you go because you'll always be my pretty girl…I miss your smile, your tears, and your love. A huge part of me is missing because you aren't by my side. I was a fool to believe we weren't meant to be.

Lucas

Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.

What Lucas didn't know was that Brooke, time after time, did the same.

Lucas,

Letting you go eighteen years ago was a mistake…what I completely regret however is not coming back after finding out I was pregnant and now it's too late. I know you'll probably never read this but I still want to say- I love you, I miss you and I can't get over you…I haven't loved anyone since you…Leaving you has left me alone-all alone.

Brooke

Where'd you go?
I miss you so
Seems like its been forever that you've been gone
Seems like its been forever that you've been gone
Seems like its been forever that you've been gone