Chapter 4! It seems like I just cant keep up with my writing lately... mostly because its hard to write when OTH has been gone for like... ever! haha but maybe that will all change Wednesday! So far I've written through Chapter 11... and I so love this story! Kaela andI have it all planned out... and I think you guys are really going to enjoy it! Thanks to all you guys for the great reviews! and to Kaela as always! Enjoy!

Brooke rolled over and looked at the alarm clock. 11:34, at least it was Saturday. Her head was killing her… it couldn't have been a hang over; I mean she had been drunk… but not DRUNK. She slightly remembered hitting it on the headboard she thought… ok maybe she had been DRUNK. It was about that time she looked down at her sheets, and realized they weren't her pink and purple satin sheets… these felt like they didn't even have a count. That's when her stomach dropped, and she remembered. Next came the risky part… rolling over.

"Damn it!" Brooke whined seeing Lucas beside her. She guessed it could have been worse, it wasn't after all Nathan or Mouth or Peyton beside her…

"Oh God"

"Good Job Lucas…"

"Me? I'm not the only one in the bed!" Lucas said pointing out the obvious. Brooke didn't look thrilled with his response… in fact she didn't look thrilled about any of this… not that he could blame her.

"Yea but I was drunk"

"No you weren't…"

"Well I was kinda… Wait, EW! Lucas" Brooke whined louder hitting him with a pillow. He had forgotten how violent Brooke was when she was pissed. He had been spending a lot of time with Megan and when she got mad… she cried unlike Brooke who liked to throw or hit.

"What?"

"You'd sleep with some random girl not knowing who she was!"

"Like you wouldn't… a guy I mean" Lucas said glaring at her. This pissed Brooke off even more! What was he thinking? Couldn't he tell she was the one upset here? The alarm clock in front of her was looking like it would be more and more fun to throw at his pretty little face.

"You better not have given me some STD"

"Like I've slept with anyone since you"

"How would I know…" Brooke asked raising her eyebrows at him. She had a point. In the past few weeks they had said 3 words to each other tops… 2 of them being Bite me.

"Same here"

"I can't believe I slept with you… Lucas!"

"What?" Lucas asked preparing for the worst.

"We just killed everything! We were doing so good!"

"By avoiding each other?"

"Yea" Brooke said calming down a little. This really sucked, she and Lucas weren't supposed to fight like this? They're fights always ended up with them making out… and it just didn't feel right this time knowing that wasn't going to happen.

"Because that's progress"

"Close your eyes while I get dressed"

"Because I've never seen you naked before…" Lucas sighed sarcastically. Brooke wasn't really in the mood for sarcastic…

"Would you like me to watch you get dressed?"

"We'll take turns"

"I can't believe you'd just go off and sleep with some random girl Lucas!" Brooke said after they were both dressed. This was seriously getting to her… Lucas wasn't supposed to go out and sleep with girls! He was Lucas… the guy whose virginity SHE stole, therefore making him like her property…

"Why are you so upset about this?"

"Because I couldn't just sleep with some random guy! Especially now"

"Like you didn't?" Lucas asked pointing out the situation they were in right now.

"I'm me! You're supposed to be different"

"Fine… I'm only gonna tell you this because I know it will make you feel like crap for saying that"

"Uh huh… sure, try me" Brooke said raising one eyebrow at him

"I knew it was you"

"How?"

"You didn't take off the necklace…" Lucas said pointing to her neck. Brooke didn't know whether to be pissed that he would sleep with her knowing good and well the situation… or feel totally relieved that he wouldn't just go out and sleep with some random girl.

"Right…"

"So I didn't sleep with some random girl Brooke, but you know that doesn't say a lot for you since you did sleep with me"

"Damn it, fine… I may… or may not have seen you buying your mask" Brooke sighed looking down at the bed as she told him. For a second they both laughed and everything felt better…

"Cheater"

"God I am… Zac"

"I was supposed to find Megan last night" Lucas said looking at the clock. Now they both felt like crap…

"I guess I should go"

"Yea… hey you mind not telling Nathan I knew it was you?"

"Same with Peyton…" Brooke smiled. She really didn't want to leave, but she had too. They had to move on… or it was just going to be this hard everytime.

"Sure…"

"Bye Luke"

Brooke walked back to her and Peyton's room slowly, she had to think of what to tell Peyton about last night. Of course she was going to ask who it was… how it was, all that fun stuff and Brooke had to be ready to lie. Lie about sleeping with Lucas, that was a first… usually she told just about anyone who would listen. She never thought she'd see the day where she regretted sleeping with him either.

"Hey P. Sawyer… and N. Scott" Brooke said surprised to see Nathan in her bed. How gross was that?

"Yea, Lucas had someone in my room last night"

"Right…"

"I'm gonna go, I had fun last night Peyton" Nathan said giving her a quick hug and getting out of there before Brooke started asking a bunch of gross questions, and describing her night in detail.

"Me too…"

"P. Sawyer!" Brooke shrieked after Nathan was gone.

"So?"

"So What?"

"How was it?" Peyton asked totally changing the subject. There was nothing to talk about when it came to her and Nathan.

"You mean how was he?"

"Yes! I want details… name, how hott he was, that sort of thing"

"Right… his name was, um… Jimmy" Brooke smiled stealing the name off of Peyton's Jimmy Eat World shirt. It was all she could come up with.

"Really?"

"Uh huh… and he was like Brad Pitt, hott I guess"

"Really?" Peyton asked again… Brooke didn't like t eh way this was heading.

"Yep"

"Zorro wasn't he?"

"Uh huh…" Brooke said not looking her straight in the face. Peyton could always tell when she was lying…

"You know… that's so funny, Nathan said Lucas was Zorro"

"Really? Wow…"

"Yea…so did sleeping with Lucas make you want him back?" Peyton asked without giving Brooke a chance to think the question over

"So much"

"Figured"

"Hey!" Brooke gasped once she had figured out what Peyton had done.

"Nathan and I knew the whole time"

"That was mean… MEAN P. Sawyer…"

"You guys needed it"

Nathan walked through the building to his and Lucas's hallway. He wasn't really ready to go back yet. As much fun as it was going to be to tell Lucas he knew that it was Brooke, he wasn't ready to answer the questions about what he had done the night before. Not that he had done anything… actually all he had done was talked. Him and Peyton all night, about everything. They hadn't done that in a long time, in fact he wasn't sure they had ever done that. It was always him and Haley's thing. As soon as he thought the name Haley it was like a spell. There she was, sitting in front of his door…

"Haley?" Nathan asked drawing her attention away from the floors to him.

"Nathan…"

"What are you doing here?"

"I um, I missed you guys I guess. I knocked but I think Lucas is in the shower" Haley smiled hugging Nathan tight.

"Yea… washing off this really bad spray on tan"

"Lucas and Tan? Wow…"

"Yea… its been pretty crazy around here" Nathan laughed forgetting Haley hadn't been here for all the drama.

"You wanna go get some breakfast or something? You can fill me in"

"Um… sure, what are you in the mood for?"

"What am I always in the mood for?" Haley asked taking his hand as they walked down the hall.

"Waffles…"

After Lucas got out of the shower and dressed, there was a knock at the door. Probably Brooke, since she had left her bra hanging from his lamp, and her earrings… which he had accidentally rolled over on and gotten stabbed. He was glad she was back… maybe now they could talk some more, avoiding each other wasn't going to work anymore, and even if it did he didn't like doing it. She had become his best friend and being away from her was more painful than being just her friend. Which was exactly what he was going to tell her when he answered the door.

"Hey Lucas!" Megan smiled from the doorway. Definitely not what Lucas had expected, especially since he was holding Brooke's bra in his hand.

"Ah… Megan"

"What's that?"

"Nathan… had a girl in here last night, Peyton actually… she forgot her stuff" Lucas said trying to think of anything that would make since to explain. There wasn't really any point in telling Megan… it wasn't like Brooke was going to tell Zac.

"Wow… Peyton wears a 32 DD? I always thought she was flat"

"She stuffed for last night"

"Gotcha… so I looked for you last night" Megan smiled shyly. She was the complete opposite of Brooke. By now Brooke would have been kissing him or sitting in his lap telling him some random story about her day. Megan was sweet, and luckily wanted to take things slower than faster.

"Yea, me too"

"There were so many people there though"

"Tell me about it" Lucas sighed thankful for that little blessing. At least then he had an excuse for not finding her.

"Luke… ah, Megan" Brooke stuttered from the doorway.

"Hi Brooke…" Megan smiled sweetly. Brooke wanted to punch her face in.

"I just came to get"

"Peyton's bra and earrings?" Lucas asked, giving her this begging look.

"Yea…"

"Isn't Nathan married though or divorced? Or something"

"He's always been a player…" Lucas laughed not taking his eyes off Brooke.

"Ok… I'll talk to you later Luke"

"Bye"

"So you 2 are on better terms" Megan smiled, like it was a good thing. Sometimes Lucas really wasn't sure about this girl…

"Yea"

"So… you wanna go get some breakfast or what?"

"Definitely"

Brooke watched in utter disgust as Lucas kissed Megan. It was one thing for Karma to stick a knife in her heart with last night, but to twist the knife too? She hadn't been that mean the past couple years. Who knew a small kiss on the lips could make her feel so cruddy. So cruddy that she totally forgot she was sitting there with Zac and Peyton.

"Brooke…" Peyton whispered kicking her from under the table

"Yea?"

"You ok?"

"Fine… fine…" Brooke smiled remembering Zac was sitting right beside her.

"You look a little, pre occupied"

"What?"

"See…" Zac laughed kissing her. Brooke wanted to gag… Zac was nice and all… and really hott. But she didn't want Lucas to see her kissing him…it was just too weird.

"No… I'm just thinking"

"About what?"

"Just… life, us, that sort of thing" Brooke said, figuring the 'us' should win her some points with Zac. Not that she needed any… he was already like a puppy following her around all the time.

"Not Lucas?"

"Ew no… why would I think about him?"

"Because you dated him for how long?" Zac laughed

"Not that long actually…it was just one of those things where we spent a lot of time pining over each other, before we actually got together"

"They made the people around them want to slit their wrists"

"Well maybe if someone hadn't stolen him from me in the first place, I wouldn't have had the commitment issues" Brooke smiled sarcastically at Peyton, who was sticking her tongue out at her.

"If you don't mind me asking… why'd you 2 break up anyway?"

"Which time?"

"This one?" Zac asked unsure what that exactly meant.

"His mo- we felt like we needed to be apart for college, try life without each other for a while…"

"So basically I'm the guy who you're with until you 2 realize you cant live without the other one and get back together"

"No… Zac, its not like that, I mean look. He's with Megan… maybe this all just means Lucas and I needed to move on" Brooke lied. Now she felt bad… Poor Zac was exactly right… I mean she planned on spending the rest of her life with Lucas, whether Karen liked it or not… right now she was just playing by his rules.

"If you say so, I've gotta get going… call me later?"

"Of course…"

"Nice save" Peyton laughed once Zac was gone

"People that are meant to be together always find their way in the end, and if Lucas and I can find out way through this…we'll be fine"

"I'll agree with you there"

"So you wanna tell me what's going on with you and Nathan?" Brooke asked changing the subject. This whole her, Lucas, Zac and Megan 4-some was making her nauseous.

"Nothing…"

"Peyton"

"It doesn't matter Brooke, Even if there was something, I'd just be Nathan's Zac or Megan anyway… until he and Haley work things out" Peyton sighed looking up from her book.

"God… life would be so much easier if we were lesbians"

"Tell me about it"

Nathan and Haley sat at the Waffle house quietly. Nathan had never imagined it could be this awkward with After all she was Haley… and they were them. Things weren't supposed to be this hard. He watched Haley eat for a minute and then decided either they talk… or he left.

"Why are you really here Hales?" Nathan finally asked getting annoyed with her chewing.

"I met someone"

"Its not Chris Keller is it?"

"No… and I'm not sure if I even like him… but I wanted you to know" Haley said dropping her fork. Nathan could tell this upset her, it didn't make him feel that great either.

"Why?"

"Because no matter what we are Nathan, you're still my Nathan… and I want us to still talk"

"Yea… me too" Nathan sighed not looking up at her.

"His name is Andrew… and its not like I like one of us you know? I mean its one thing if I started liking Lucas… or you started liking Peyton. He's knew… and I just want to see where it could go"

"You should get to do that Hales…"

"You aren't mad?" Haley asked worried he was lying to her about this whole thing. He didn't seem right, then she hadn't seen him in weeks… so there was no telling what she didn't know.

"We're not married anymore, and we aren't Brooke and Lucas…"

"That's true… what's up with them anyway"

"They're both in denial" Nathan laughed, thinking about how their faces must of looked when they woke up realizing they slept together last night.

"Denial's fun while it lasts…"

"I know…"

"So you're ok with this?" Haley asked, changing back to her serious tone.

"Definitely…This is your college life Haley and I don't want you to not do stuff because of me, I mean isn't that why we ended the marriage in the first place?"

"Yea…"

"So go have your fun ok?" Nathan said taking her hand to show her it was ok. He didn't want too, but it was the only way she was going to be able to enjoy these next 4 years.

"Ok…"

"Real fun… not like Brooke and Lucas's pining party fun"

"I promise…"