Here's your next update thanks so freaking much for the reviews last time they rocked, well and every time before that too, please keep up the good work and happy early thanksgiving but I probably won't update again until after thanksgiving but you never know. Ok please read and enjoy…

Monday morning rolled around and school seemed duller then ever, or so it seemed, basketball tryouts were coming up and the season was starting and if that didn't bring drama then nothing could. The kind of silent hostility Lucas and Nathan were sharing couldn't hide for very much longer if they were going to be forced to be around each other every day.

"So…" Brooke ran up around Lucas taking his hand, almost gracefully.

"Yes?" Lucas asked her.

"Well are you excited for basketball to start?" she asked him like that was obviously what she was going to ask.

"I guess." Lucas said causing Brooke to stop walking.

"You guess?" she asked him, apparently that answer was not acceptable.

Lucas just looked into Brooke's eyes waiting for her to say something while she was trying to figure him out.

"hm… oh I get it, god Lucas I can read you like a book." Brooke said.

"Well that must not be very well then." He said smiling.

"Ok well tell me if I'm right or not, you don't want to do basketball because of Nathan?" she said raising her eyebrows.

Well that was part of it for Lucas but the other half had to do with the fact that he had the heart condition.

"Something like that." Lucas said

"You and Nathan are brothers for god sakes just suck it up and be civil to each other." Brooke said picking up the pace again.

"That's what we have been doing." Lucas said causing Brooke to laugh out loud.

"What?" Lucas asked her.

"Please, Lucas you call what your doing being civil? No being civil involves talking, the occasional meeting of eyes, you know basically normal." Brooke said.

"It's kind of complicated." Lucas said.

"Complicated my ass, look I never really liked tutor Girl that much but I was nice when she moved in and now I like love her." Brooke said.

"You never liked Haley?" he asked her.

"My point is you guys could really like each other and become friends." Brooke said giving Lucas a look "at least try for me ok? You're my boyfriend and Nathan is one of my best friends." Brooke pouted at Lucas.

"Yeah I'll try." Lucas said.

Peyton walked up to Lucas and Brooke with a spring in her step.

"Um warning, when broody blond girls skip it can only mean there's been a chemical spill somewhere." Brooke said.

"ha ha, very funny Brooke." Peyton said sarcastically.

"What are you so happy about?" Brooke eyed Peyton.

"Well other then the fact that it's time to go back to my favorite hobby cheerleading..." Peyton said still sarcastically.

"Ok and what are you really happy about?" Brooke asked her rolling her eyes and smiling.

"Well this Friday the senior class is taking a camping trip." Peyton said.

"As in camping in the wilderness, with all the wild things and nature?" Brooke asked her, suddenly turning her face into a disgusted face.

"Yes, as in that." Peyton said.

"How did you find out about this?" Lucas asked her.

"It's on the announcement board." Peyton replied "anyways I think it will be so much fun because it's the perfect way for me to get back to nature and remind myself that life can go on despite all the crap it's insisted on spilling on me." Peyton said.

"Well have fun on that little expedition." Brooke said "I will be at the mall getting back to shopping." Brooke said.

"Yeah, except for that it's required." Peyton said.

"Required? What kind of a school do we go to?" Brooke said aloud.

"One that lets us go on a cool camping trip." Peyton said.

"Well that's just awesome" Brooke said pressing the word awesome.

"Alright I'm gonna get to class, oh good luck at basketball tryouts." Peyton said to Lucas "bye." She said before quickly walking off.

"You ok there?" Lucas asked Brooke putting a hand on her shoulder.

"Never been better." Brooke said sarcastically before taking of the other direction leaving Lucas behind in a confused daze.


Haley saw Nathan sitting down at a table in the courtyard and she decided now was a better time then ever to just talk…

"Hey." She sat down next to him.

"Oh, hey." Nathan said looking up from his magazine.

"So basketball tryouts today?" Haley said eying the basketball magazine Nathan was wearing.

"Oh, yeah." Nathan said.

"You excited, or nervous… or any emotion at all?" she asked him, he was being very quiet.

"I guess, kind of." He said.

"Kind of what?" she asked him.

"Sort of everything." He said gazing at Haley.

"Right, well you shouldn't be nervous you're like the best basketball player here." Haley said.

"Better than Lucas?" he asked her suddenly getting a little more into the conversation.

"Let's just say you've got some skills." Haley smiled.

"Oh, well thanks." Nathan smiled back a little, which turned Haley's stomach upside down. It suddenly dawned on her that Nathan was like the most important thing in the world to her; even the smallest hint of a smile was the whole world to her. A world that was not made for an intruding Madison.

"Hey guys, am I interrupting something? Because I can always leave." She said.

"Oh no that's ok." Nathan said.

"Ok, well I just wanted to say I had a really fun time playing basketball and we should definitely do it again sometime." Madison set her back down and sat across from Nathan and Haley.

"Yeah, that was pretty cool." Nathan said.

"Mhmm." Was all Haley could mutter.

"Oh! Have you guys heard about that senior trip this Friday?" she asked them.

"No, what is it?" Haley asked her.

"A camping trip for the whole senior class, god I haven't been camping in forever it sounds like so much fun." Madison said placing her hands together in excitement.

"Me neither." Nathan said "that should be cool" he said.

"Maybe you me and Brooke could share a tent." Madison said to Haley.

"Um, yeah maybe." Haley said snapping back into reality, the thought of a camping trip with Madison and Nathan probably adoring the nature and hiking the whole time just sounded sucky to her, not to mention sharing a tent with Madison of all people.

"Ok, yeah I'll talk to Brooke." Haley put on a fake smile which she didn't normally do, was she turning into Brooke?

"Awesome, I should probably go now, didn't really do any of my homework this weekend." She said grinning.

"Yeah me neither." Nathan said.

For the first time in her life Haley really wanted to say that she hadn't done her homework but she had done it so she just smiled at both of them.

"I'm going to go get a snack or something, I didn't eat breakfast." Haley said.

"Um, I'll talk to you later Nathan, good luck at tryouts I know you'll do great." Haley said smiling genuinely at him.

"Thanks Hales." Nathan said.

Hearing him call her Hales sent butterflies into Haley's stomach.

"Bye." Madison said.

"Bye." Haley responded.

"See you around Nathan." Madison said flipping her hair behind her shoulder and walking away from the table.


Madison was walking down one of the many hallways in the school and she was reading or skimming through the latest chapter of the book they were reading in English when she ran into Lucas.

"Oh my god." She said "I'm so sorry. Lucas right?" she asked him.

Brooke was walking around the corner when she saw them so she hung back and decided to overhear their conversation.

"uh yeah." Lucas said, she should probably know his name by now.

"Sorry, I'm just really flustered lately. Oh…" she said looking at the book Lucas was carrying "I see you're reading the same thing as me, didn't do your homework?" she asked him.

"No I did, just looking over it to remember what happened." Lucas said, Brooke shook her head off in the distance Lucas could be a bit ridiculous sometimes.

"Oh, right. So are you trying out for basketball?" she asked him.

"Yes, hesitantly though." Lucas said.

"Care to explain?" she asked him, Brooke was thinking no he doesn't, obviously.

"Oh just last year, my first year it was um, let's just say tough." Lucas said.

"God I'm sorry, here I am like asking you a billion questions and you probably hate me and just want to leave." Madison said.

"No, it's not like that at all. I definitely don't hate you." Lucas said.

"Aw thanks." She said placing her hand on his shoulder for a second "alright well I'm going to go now, have to get to class; hopefully there won't be a quiz on this." Madison held her book up and then continued walking down the hallway.

A million thoughts were rushing through Brooke's head, did Lucas like this girl?...

Brooke decided to walk the other way but then she ran into Haley causing both of them to scream.

"Give me a heart attack." Brooke said.

"Sorry, I guess I wasn't watching where I was going." Haley said.

"Seems to be the day for that." Brooke said putting on a forced smile.

"You ok?" Haley asked her laughing a little bit.

"Have you heard about this camping trip?" Brooke asked Haley linking arms with her and the starting to walk them down the hallway.

"The one that's going to suck?" Haley asked her.

"Oh my god, totally." Brooke said.

"Yeah." Haley responded.

"Madison is going to ruin it." Haley and Brooke both said in unison, both of them stopped walking and looked at each other hesitantly.

"Weird." Brooke said.

"What do you mean Madison is going to ruin, she's going after Nathan." Haley said.

"No, she's definitely going after Lucas." Brooke said.

Brooke and Haley both thought about this for a few seconds.

"What?" they said in unison again.

"Ok we have been living together for to long." Brooke said.

"Um Brooke..." Haley decided to just let the fact that they hadn't been living together for very long just slip by; there were more pressing issues at hand.

"Ugh! What a skank." Brooke said.

"What are we going to do?" Haley asked Brooke.

"Nothing for now, but if she makes a move on Lucas or Nathan, bitch is going down." Brooke said smiling "I'm late for class, let's get coffee after school." Brooke said.

"Don't you have cheerleading?" Haley asked her.

"Oooh, yeah…. Let's get coffee tonight." Brooke said.

"Didn't you have plans for dinner with Lucas tonight?" Haley asked her.

Brooke thought about this for a moment "let's take a rain check on that coffee." Brooke said patting Haley's arm "bye tutor girl." Brooke said.

"Bye Brooke." Haley shook her head and walked the opposite way.


Brooke and the rest of the cheerleaders were stretching while the guys were running laps at basketball tryouts when Madison walked in.

"p. Sawyer!" Brooke hissed.

"Yeah?" Peyton looked up from the floor to Brooke.

"What the hell is she doing here?" Brooke asked Peyton swerving her head off towards the direction of Madison.

"I don't know why you hate her, I mean she's really nice." Peyton said.

"Yeah too nice." Brooke replied as Madison walked up to them.

"Can we help you?" Brooke asked her with a hint of hostility in her voice.

"Yeah I wanted to try out for cheerleading." Madison said.

"We don't need anyone else on the squad." Brooke said.

"But there was a flyer that said that anyone could try out." Madison said.

"But no one actually does." Brooke snapped back.

"Brooke." Peyton said under her breath.

"Alright fine, just do a cheer." Brooke said begrudgingly.

Madison took of her jacket and did a cheer and dance that caused most, if not all, of the basketball team to look at her.

"Ok enough." Brooke said when Madison was just finishing her cheer.

"She's really good Brooke." Peyton whispered.

"She's alright." Brooke lied because she knew that Madison was like perfect cheerleading material, of course.

"Brooke it's only one more person, we even have two extra uniforms and you haven't made any dances that can't add one more person." Peyton said.

"Alright Fine, you're on the team." Brooke said, she would never hear the end of it from her team if she didn't let her on the team.

"Be at practice every day at four." Brooke said "you don't have to stay today if you don't want to." Brooke said.

"Oh no, I will." Madison said joining the team in stretching.

The guys had gone back to running laps.

"Do you think she's human?" Brooke asked Peyton making sure Madison couldn't hear.

"Uh, yeah Brooke I think so." Peyton said shaking her head at Brooke.

As the guys were running buy the cheerleaders, Tim and some of the other players were saying "yeah Maddies on the team."

Brooke was shocked "Maddie, what the hell?" Brooke said "the guys are already calling her Maddie." Brooke said "well that's just great." Brooke said.

"Brooke just take a chill pill." Peyton said.

"I can't believe I let her join the team." Brooke said.

"Not everyone in this world is evil." Peyton said.

"Well no one in this world is totally good either." Brooke said.


Brooke found Lucas after practice.

"So what do you want to do tonight?" Lucas asked her.

"Whatever you want." Brooke said staring off into space.

"Really?" Lucas asked her "well then I say we go jump of a cliff then." Lucas said.

"Not funny." Brooke said hitting him playfully.

"What's up with you?" Lucas asked Brooke putting his arm around her.

"Um, nothing really." Brooke said.

"You're being weird." Lucas said.

"You're being weird." She said back.

"Ok whatever; let's just go get something to eat." Lucas said.

"Fine by me." Brooke said following behind Lucas.

"Look, if you don't want to hang out then that's fine." Lucas said.

"What?" Brooke stopped in her tracks "your not supposed to say that, seems like you don't want to hang out with me." Brooke said turning around to face him.

"What? No you just seem sort of…" he trailed off.

"Sort of what?" she asked him accusingly.

Lucas struggled to find the right word "distant." He finally spat out.

"Do you love me?" Brooke asked him.

"Of course." He said thinking about how random that was.

"I mean do you really love me, like I don't need to worry about you cheating on me with any gorgeous blond models?" Brooke asked him advancing towards him.

"Are you talking about Madison?" he asked Brooke.

"A.K.A maddieslut." Brooke said.

"I would not ever cheat on you with anyone let alone Madison." Lucas said.

"But she's pretty" Brooke said.

"You're prettier." Lucas said.

"Shut up, I hate it when you say things that aren't true just to make me feel better." Brooke said even though she kind of liked it.

"Brooke, I'm not lying, that's the truth. You are and have always been the only one for me." Lucas said.

"Good, ok there's just one more thing I need to do." Brooke said.

"What is…." Lucas was cut off by Brooke grabbing him from around the neck and pulling his head towards hers as their lips met in an ignited kiss.

Brooke pulled away breathless "hmm, everything's ok." Brooke smiled.

"Oh good." Lucas said sort of laughing at the mild panic attack Brooke had just had.

"Sorry I turned into psycho Brooke the bitch on you." Brooke said.

"No problem, now are you still interested in getting something to eat?" he asked her holding out his arm.

"Totally." She said smiling and taking hold of his arm.

Brooke and Lucas got to Karen's café, where they decided to eat and sat down at a table.

"So how do you think basketball tryouts went?" Brooke asked him.

"Not as good as I would've liked, I was just behind the other guys but it's only because I'm out of shape." Lucas said hating lying to Brooke like this.

"Well you better get that hot ass into shape Scott, because I need my player to whoop the other players." Brooke said.

Lucas laughed at Brooke; she had a way of making him do that no matter how he was feeling "I'll try my best." Lucas said.

"And I want you to know that when I'm cheering at the games, I'm really only cheering for you in my heart." Brooke said.

"Well that's nice." Lucas said.

"Yes it is, I just thought you should know." Brooke said nodding her head instinctively.

"Well good." Lucas said "now I know."

Brooke looked at the wall to see a picture of a forest.

"EW, I am so not looking forward to this camping trip." Brooke said.

"Oh come on, maybe if you give it a chance you'll like it." Lucas said taking her hand from across the table.

"Hmm, kind of like the think with you and Nathan." Brooke said smiling at the fact that she knew she was right and Lucas was caught.

"Hey I'm trying; I just can't make any promises for Nathan." Lucas said.

"Well I'll talk to him then." Brooke said "you two are going to be friends even if it kills me." Brooke said.

"Wow, that's intense." Lucas said.

"Yeah I know, but your stupid sibling rivalry is starting to really piss me off, and don't think I'm the only one. It's Haley and Peyton too."

"I know, I know." Lucas said like he'd heard this all a million times, which he had in the past few days.

"However I do have one favor to ask you." Brooke said.

"Ok and what is that?" Lucas asked her.

"Do not try and reconcile with your ass of a father." Brooke said.

"Oh believe me I won't. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. You really don't deserve that Brooke." Lucas said.

"Thanks." Brooke said putting on a small smile, hiding how much that night really scared her.

"I love you Brooke Davis." Lucas said.

"I love you too." Brooke said smiling and rubbing her hand against Lucas's.


Brooke got back to her apartment and she called out for Haley, but stopped when she saw a note that Haley was at the library researching whatever the hell she researched at the library.

Brooke looked around the apartment fearfully and locked the front door. She dropped her keys and walked back to her room and turned on the light half expecting to see Dan, but she shook the thought out of her mind. She walked into the bathroom to wash her face but as she looked into the mirror she could've sworn she saw Dan's reflection.

"Come on Brooke it'll be fin." He said as Brooke was struggling to get away from him.

"We're both attractive people." He said.

Brooke kept screaming "help" but Dan just kept saying that no one could hear her…

Brooke snapped back into reality and stepped back adjusting her eyes making sure that Dan wasn't really there.

When she looked at her reflection again she realized that tears were falling from her eyes.

She turned of the water and curled up in her bed hugging a pillow beside her. Brooke clutched the pillow tight as she cried herself to sleep…

There ya have it, I thought that Brooke just getting over this Dan this quickly wasn't that realistic I mean even though he didn't rape her it was pretty gross considering who he is so that's why I put that end in there. Please review it's awesome and I will try to update soon, coming up I think will be the camping trip that should be fun…