Hi everyone I know it's been super too long since I last updated but I've just been busy but I'm apologizing so I'm sorry, but thanks for the reviews they were so great. Keep it up and this chapter is sort of Christmas fluff but last chapter was dramatic so it's evening things out. Read and enjoy…
It was the Sunday after everyone got back from the camping trip. Brooke was lounging on the couch watching a rerun of the Real World when Haley walked into the apartment and dropped her keys on the side-table breathing quickly and sitting down next to Brooke.
"It is freezing out there." Haley said wrapping her coat more tightly around her.
"Winter comes fast in Tree Hill." Brooke said gazing at the TV. "I guess I should probably give Nathan his jacket back."
"You haven't given him that yet?" Haley asked her giving Brooke an incredulous look.
"Ok look, I forget every time and then I like remind myself but then I just forget it again.
It's not my fault I can't remember everything perfectly." Brooke said.
"You should just give it to him for his Christmas present." Haley said.
"Good idea Tutor girl, see you really are smart in so many ways and speaking of Christmas this place really needs some cheer." Brooke said.
"What?" Haley asked her.
"We might as well hang a sign on our front door that says Scrooge Lives Here." Brooke added.
"Christmas isn't for 2 and a half more weeks Brooke." Haley said.
"We are already so behind schedule." Brooke said at the same time there was a knock on the door. "I'll get it, and first order of business we hang mistletoe in the doorway." Brooke said as she walked over to the door and opened it to a cold blast of air, and of Madison.
"Hi." Madison said quietly.
"Oh didn't you read the sign, this is a Skank free zone." Brooke said starting to close the door on her but Madison tried to keep it open and said "please…"
"Let me guess you want to explain why you kissed Nathan, well great I'm in the mood for a show." Brooke said leaning against the door and staring at Madison with an evil grin "go ahead I'm not waiting all day." Brooke said.
"I was sort of hoping I could talk to Haley." Madison said trying to ignore Brooke.
"Oh sorry Haley's busy staring at the wall right now." Brooke said glancing at Haley who was indeed staring at the wall.
"Brooke can you please stop acting like a two year old, I did something wrong and I want to apologize for it." Madison said starting to have an angry tone in her voice.
"I'm not the one who went around kissing other girl's boyfriends." Brooke said even though she sort of had slept with Nathan, but that was mutual and the circumstances were totally different.
"Oh and how many two year olds do you know who do that?" Madison asked her.
"Umm that's not the point." Brooke said trying not to let the defeat come through in her voice.
"Well I guess I'll go then." Madison said abandoning her defensive tone and becoming more sullen.
"You don't want to explain yourself?" Brooke asked her.
"Not like you care anyways, but I didn't do anything wrong to you so no I'm not going to apologize to you." Madison said before turning away from Brooke and walking away from the apartment.
Brooke slammed the door shut and sat down next to Haley.
"I now declare an all out war with Madison." Brooke said.
"Brooke what are you going to do spread a rumor about her?" Haley asked Brooke.
"I don't know I'll figure something out." Brooke said.
"What she did was stupid and I honestly can't forgive her but let's just leave it at that. I'd rather not waste my time worrying about her anymore." Haley stood up and walked down the hallway and into her and Brooke's room.
"I guess I can find better things to do with my time." Brooke said to herself and got out her cell phone to find Lucas's number. She smiled happily as she pressed send.
Less then an hour later Brooke and Lucas were standing next to each other in silence staring at a Christmas tree.
"Brooke?" Lucas asked her after a couple seconds of silence.
"shh! I'm studying the tree Lucas." Brooke whispered.
"Is it not allowed to hear us?" Lucas asked her.
"Don't be stupid, and please lower your voice. I just don't want to call attention to this tree because I like this tree and I don't want anyone to take it." Brooke said.
"So why don't we just get this one?" he asked her.
"Because we haven't looked at all the trees yet." Brooke said as if it was evidently clear.
"ook." Lucas said confused.
"Come on." Brooke said grabbing his arm and starting to walk away "yeah that tree sucked." She almost yelled looking around to see if anyone heard her.
"I thought you liked that tree." Lucas said.
"I do, but I want other people to avoid it." Brooke said.
"Who turned you into the goddess of Christmas?" He asked her.
"I did. Look Haley told me to focus my energy on something other then bitch-slapping Madison so I figured since Christmas is all about good cheer and my nickname is cheery why not focus it on making this the best Christmas ever." Brooke said smiling excitedly, so much so that she had taken a hold of Lucas's hand tightly and was waving it around.
"Oh well it all makes so much more sense now." Lucas said slightly sarcastic.
"Ok great, well I've decided I hate all these other trees so lets go back and get that one from earlier." Brooke said walking the other way again quickly so fast that she almost hit the person who was standing in front of the tree she wanted.
"Oh I… Madison?" Brooke said once she realized who it was.
"Hi Lucas." Madison said ignoring Brooke.
Lucas gave her a slight head nod.
"Well that's just great Brooke, have you turned the whole world against me too?" Madison asked her.
Brooke gave her a disgusted look.
"Lucas made up his own mind on this one because most people don't like it when a girl kisses his best friends boyfriend." Brooke said "now if you'll excuse me I'm going to get this tree." Brooke said shoving Madison away.
"Oh well that's too bad because I already got it." Madison said "I'm waiting for the guy to come get it."
"You just like to take things from people don't you? First Haley's boyfriend I mean husband, and then my freaking tree." Brooke raised her voice and stepped towards Madison.
"Just find another tree it's not that big of a deal." Madison said.
"fine." Brooke huffed "come on Lucas we'll go buy another tree." Brooke said yet again grabbing his hand and dragging him across the tree lot.
Madison watched them leave and then found on of the tree guys.
"Um sir, I think I found the tree I want." Madison said, totally having lied to Brooke about having already gotten the tree.
"Are you sure?" he asked her.
"Oh yes, positive." Madison said smiling and watching the tree guy take her tree away.
Brooke and Lucas were driving back to her apartment with a tree on top of Lucas's car.
Brooke got out her cell phone and dialed Nathan's number.
"What are you up to?" Lucas asked her sensing mischief.
"I'm Haley and Nathan's angel. Just a little pre-Christmas angel work." Brooke shrugged and Nathan finally answered on the other end.
"Brooke?" He said.
"No it's your angel." Brooke said in a high-pitched voice.
"What's going on here?" Nathan asked her.
"Ok well I'm trying to be all happy and full of Christmas cheer for these next two and a half weeks." Brooke said using her normal voice again.
"Ok." Nathan said still thoroughly confused.
"anyway I think that Haley needs to get out of the apartment and when I say I think I mean she has to because I have to perform a Christmas miracle…so you need to keep her busy." Brooke finished.
"and how do I go about doing that?" Nathan asked her.
"Well I was thinking you two should go to the mall, have something to eat you know hang out." Brooke said.
"Ok well if you can get her to go then that's cool." Nathan said.
"No, Nathan you have to invite her. God guys don't get anything. Ok call her right now and ask her if she wants to hang out at the mall." Brooke said.
"But…" he started off but Brooke interrupted him.
"No but's Nathan you are a man in a relationship again and you need to start practicing the fine art of asking a girl to hang out." Brooke said looking determined to get this through to Nathan.
"Alright I'll call her." Nathan said.
"Good now I'm getting to my house in approximately five minutes and… fifteen seconds so call her now." Brooke smiled as she said this.
"Ok, bye." Nathan said and Brooke up her phone and pulled her hand into a fist and lowered her arm in a Napoleon Dynamite gesture.
"Freaking sweet." Brooke said trying to impersonate him "I'm so good."
Lucas shifted his gaze to her and then back to driving grinning at her cunning ways.
"I really think I am Nathan and Haley's angel." Brooke said "and the Christmas angel."
"Of course you are." Lucas said.
Lucas and Brooke stopped by the store on the way to the apartment to get some Christmas tree lights. When they got to Brooke's apartment Haley had already left so Brooke gave Lucas the ok sign to start bringing the tree up.
"Uh, Brooke a little help here." Lucas yelled to her. He was trying very hard to take the first step up the stairs with the tree on his shoulder but him and gravity weren't quite agreeing.
Brooke walked briskly out of the apartment and saw Lucas at the bottom of the steps and she stifled laughter as she went down to help him.
"Uh hi." She smiled as she walked past him and picked up the other side of the tree.
"Thanks." Lucas said starting up the stairs.
When they got upstairs, after much effort being put into getting the tree through the door, Brooke tried to figure out where to put it.
"A little to the left, no Lucas my left." Brooke said and paused "ok a little to the right… little more ok stop!" Brooke yelled when she saw the perfectness of where the tree was.
"Are you happy with this?" Lucas asked her a little annoyed with moving the tree so much.
"Yes I love it." Brooke said holding the lights and handing them to Lucas.
"You wanna put the lights on it?" she asked him.
"No I don't." Lucas said grinning and he threw the lights to the floor and wrapped his arms around Brooke and pushed the two of them down to the couch, Brooke laughed as she fell and soon felt Lucas's lips brush hers.
Nathan and Haley met each other at the mall.
"Hi." Haley smiled sweetly at Nathan.
"Hey." Nathan replied, greeting her by placing his hand on one of her shoulders briefly.
"So what are we doing at the mall of all places?" she asked him.
"I don't really know." Nathan said, he was about to say that it was Brooke's idea but then he reminded himself that Haley wasn't supposed to know about that.
"You don't know?" Haley asked him giving him a quizzical look.
"I just, sort of thought it would be a good place to hang out at." Nathan tried to explain to Haley.
"Well I guess we need to figure out what to do then." Haley said.
"Uh yeah." Was all Nathan could say to that.
"We could go see a movie." Haley said.
"Or we could play basketball." Nathan said suddenly praising himself for his master of a good idea.
"In the freezing cold? Yeah that sounds like fun." Haley said sarcastically.
"I'll keep you warm, come on just for like five minutes at the river court, I promise it'll be more fun then it sounds." Nathan said holding out his hand for Haley to take.
She looked at it warily and finally agreed to give in. She placed her hand in his tightly and he firmly wrapped his fingers around her and led her off to his car.
Brooke and Lucas were lying on the couch, Brooke was on top of Lucas kissing him furiously.
"I've so missed this about you." Brooke said quickly before kissing Lucas again.
"I know exactly what you mean." Lucas replied running his hands through Brooke's hair as he lowered her head to him and kissed her again.
Brooke pulled away from Lucas a few seconds later. They hadn't had sex since getting back together and she knew that this time it was going to be a much bigger deal then the last, and now was just not the time.
"What's wrong?" Lucas asked her breathless.
She didn't want to admit to him what was really bothering her, which was that she was scared so she just made up an excuse "Haley might be getting back soon and I really need to finish this room." Brooke got off of Lucas and picked up the lights that were scattered across the floor.
"I'll do these for you." Lucas said taking the lights from her "do you have any ornaments?" He asked her.
"Yeah, surprisingly I do." Brooke said "I'll be right back." She ran into her and Haley's room and went into her closet to get the box of Christmas stuff she had stolen from her parent's house over the summer. She stood on her tip-toes to reach the box and she could just barely reach it so that when it fell from the top shelf she stumbled backwards a little but luckily she didn't fall and let the ornaments all break. She was walking back towards the living room when her phone rang. Letting the box sit on the bed she saw it was her parents.
"Hello?" she said confused as to why they were calling.
"Brooke darling it's your mother." Brooke's mom April said in an 'I'm a superior to everyone else' tone, which was exactly how her whole personality was.
"Hi mom." Brooke replied dreading the conversation her mother was about to have with her.
"I just wanted to let you know that your father and I are coming to visit you in Tree Hill for Christmas." She said.
"What?" Brooke said feeling her heart skip a beat or two. She had thought her mom was calling to say she missed her and to make sure she wasn't drinking and was keeping up with rent and to see if she was still friends with that sullen Peyton or what's her name girl; but she had not expected this.
"Have you gone deaf?" Her mother asked her.
Brooke rolled her eyes "no mom my hearing is fine."
"Then why did you say what as if you hadn't heard me?" Brooke's mom asked her and Brooke felt as if she was being put in the hot seat of mother's questions.
"It just surprised me that you said you were coming here; I mean I hope you don't think your staying in the apartment because there's not enough room." Brooke said.
"Well of course not, we've already booked a hotel room to stay in." Her mother said letting out a sophisticated chuckle.
"Brooke are you coming?" Lucas yelled from halfway down the hallway.
"Brooke Davis did I just here a boy's voice?" her mother asked her and Brooke could tell that her mom's hand was over her chest looking utterly appalled by this.
"Yes mom that was my boyfriend Lucas." Brooke said.
"Lucas who?" Her mother questioned her.
"Scott mom, Lucas Scott!" Brooke said getting aggravated "what are we playing 20 questions here?" Brooke asked her mother.
"Now there's no need to be upset, I'm just trying to find out what's going on in your life." Her mother said softening her tone.
"Well you can find out when you come to visit me." Brooke said "now I'm trying to make my apartment look more like Christmas so if it isn't too inconvenient for you I'm going to go."
"Well alright, your father and I love you very much." Her mother said like she was reading from a script.
"Uh huh, yeah you too. Bye." Brooke said and hung up the phone before her mother could get another painful word in.
Brooke grabbed the box and walked into the living room.
"Sorry, that was my mom and guess what, my parents are coming for Christmas."
Haley and Nathan got to the River Court about 15 minutes later.
"Do we even have a ball Nathan?" Haley asked him.
"Of course." He said reaching behind the backseat and taking out a new basketball "I always keep one just in case." He shrugged.
"Obsessed." Haley smiled shaking her head.
"Whatever." Nathan said getting out of the car.
Haley slowly but surely stepped out of the car to the cold air and walked over to Nathan who had already sunk his first basket.
Haley grabbed the ball and tried to hand it to Nathan.
"no." he backed away "it's your turn."
"Nathan I can't play this game." Haley said.
"Alright come here." Nathan said taking her arm and leading her right up to the hoop.
"No when I say go I want you to put the ball in the basket." Nathan said pointing from the ball to the basket.
"Being closer doesn't help me any." Haley said.
"I know but this will." He grabbed her waist and lifted her off the ground causing her to scream a little.
"Now go." He yelled.
Haley dropped the ball in the hoop and it went through and Nathan let her back to the ground.
"See I told you that you could do it." Nathan said grinning at her.
"Yeah ok whatever." Haley tried to hide her smile from Nathan.
Nathan took the ball and made another basket.
"So obsessed." Haley told him again as she stood next to him.
"Yeah but basketball is just a thing, I like you a whole lot more." Nathan said this time not running after the ball but turning to face Haley and taking both her hands and placing them in his.
"That's so sweet Nathan." Haley said smiling into his eyes.
"Are you cold?" he asked her.
"Um, yeah." She said, how could anyone not be in this weather?
"Good." He said pulling her hands so that she came to him and pressing his lips against hers as they met in an ignited kiss. He let go of her hands and wrapped his around her waist pulling her even closer to him as the kiss deepened.
Finally after the kiss ended both of them pulled away sort of breathless.
"Still cold?" he asked her.
"Not really." She said, she was actually like on fire inside she was so happy.
"See I told you I'd keep you warm." Nathan smiled and pulled her in for another kiss.
Brooke was lying on the couch wrapped in Lucas's arms. The lights were turned off in the living room, except for the Christmas tree lights. Brooke and Lucas had put all the ornaments up and hung some more decorations around the room. It looked very festive.
"Good job cheery, you are my little Christmas angel." Lucas said smiling down to her and kissing her forehead.
"Thanks… oh my god I heard a car door close, I think Haley's here." Brooke said getting off the couch and looking out the window. "hmm she is indeed, and she had a strapping young lad with her too." Brooke said watching the two of them walk up the stairs.
Outside Nathan and Haley stopped in front of the door.
"hmm there's mistletoe up." Haley said "Brooke's been working."
"I love mistletoe, you wanna know why?" Nathan asked her.
"Yeah why?" Haley questioned back.
"Because I get to kiss you of course." Nathan said tilting his head down and kissing her briefly before brooked opened the door and the two of them pulled away.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" Brooke asked them smiling.
"There's mistletoe up." Haley said pointing at it.
"Ok whatever." Brooke said not believing that was the only reason they kissed "well come on in, to Christmas town." Brooke said stepping aside as Nathan and Haley walked in.
"Brooke oh my god, did you do all of this while I was gone?" Haley asked her astounded.
"With some help of my little elf over there." Brooke said motioning to Lucas who was sitting on the couch.
"This is so cute." Haley said.
"I know." Brooke said smiling at how much she lover herself some time.
"Did she make you do all of this man?" Nathan asked Lucas and Brooke and Haley stood next to each other exchanging glances.
"Yeah you know girls." Lucas said.
"You could say that." Nathan said and the two of them let out a very small laugh but it was definitely a moment.
"No way, impossible I can't be that good." Brooke said stepping towards the couch
"Christmas cheer, Nathan and Haley, and the brothers. It's amazing."
"You are the Christmas angel." Lucas said and the four teenagers all laughed together feeling very happy about how things turned out.
Alright so we've been like decorating at my house for Christmas so I'm all festive and stuff so that's why I wrote this chapter. Please review I'll try to update sooner.
