Here is your next update, thanks a lot for the reviews they were just as great as always keep it up please this chapters got some new drama and it should open up different possibilities but otherwise well actually just yeah that's all I'll tell you. Read and enjoy…
Brooke woke up groggily and lied in her bed for a while not wanting to get up.
"Brooke, wake up!" Haley yelled from across the room.
"Haley school doesn't start for another hour." Brooke groaned turning to her other side.
"I know but it's the last day of school before Christmas vacation, don't you need to like pick out a worthy outfit or something?" Haley asked her knowing everyday deserved a worthy outfit in Brooke's opinion.
Brooke sat up abruptly. Haley didn't normally make these types of statements, so it was very odd that she was now.
"Haley I'm sensing a very cheery vibe from you." Brooke said.
Haley looked over at Brooke and smiled "I guess you could say that."
Brooke got out of bed and walked over to Haley looking her in the face.
"What are you doing?" Haley asked her stepping back from Brooke, a little scared of what she was up to.
"I'm just making sure it's actually you and not some Haley imposter." Brooke replied.
"And what's the verdict?" Haley asked her playing along.
"I think it's you but I'm keeping my eye on you." Brooke said pointing a watchful finger at her.
"Ok, well I think you should change now." Haley said.
"I was already doing that." Brooke said opening up her recently re-organized closet.
"I'm going to go eat something." Haley said.
"I'll be out a little while." Brooke said as Haley walked out the door and closed it.
Haley looked up from her cereal to see Brooke walk out of the room wearing a green lace cami with a red overtop over it, jeans and black pumps.
"Festive." Haley said then went back to her cereal.
"I think so too." Brooke said grabbing a spoon and taking a bite out of Haley's cereal then dropping the spoon in the sink while Haley watched incredulously.
"You ready to go?" Brooke asked her.
"Oh are you sure you don't want any more of MY cereal?" Haley asked her emphasizing the 'my' part.
"Oh, no thanks so much though." Brooke said ignoring Haley's defensive tone.
"Alright let's go then." Haley said taking one last bite and grabbing her jacket and bag.
"Last day of school." Brooke said excitedly.
"Last day of school." Haley repeated her.
Haley and Brooke arrived at school a little bit early that day, but apparently everyone else was excited about Christmas vacations too and they all got to school early, probably so that the day would be over faster.
While walking across the busy courtyard Madison came up to Haley and Brooke almost as cheery as Brooke was.
"Hi girls." Madison said as if they were all best friends.
"Do you need something other then Haley's boyfriend?" Brooke asked her.
"Oh you better watch out because that was not very nice and Santa is watching all the time." Madison said.
Brooke and Haley exchanged confused glances.
"What do you want Madison?" Haley asked her.
"Well I'm giving some people presents and here is yours." She said handing Brooke and Haley each a small wrapped box.
"Are you high?" Brooke asked her.
"No, of course not." Madison said. "Just trying to spread Christmas cheer, which is something it looks like both of you need. Well I guess I'll go now, bye." Madison skipped off to a table full of guys who definitely got Christmas cheer when she arrived.
"Weird." Haley said.
"Do you think this a bomb?" Brooke asked her.
"Wh..what? No Brooke I don't." Haley said shaking her head at Brooke's comment.
"She was acting like she did nothing wrong, and um that little 'I'm just trying to spread Christmas cheer' bit is so my thing." Brooke said.
"She likes to take things Brooke. We're just going to have to deal with that I guess."
Right after Haley said that Nathan walked up holding the same little package that Brooke and Haley had just received.
"You guys got them too?" he asked them slipping his arm around Haley.
Brooke rolled her eyes "I can't believe she actually had the nerve to give you one Nathan." Brooke said.
"I can't believe she gave you them, I wonder how many people are going to her party tonight." Nathan said.
"What party?" Brooke asked him suspiciously.
"The one she's throwing tonight at her house, she didn't tell you guys?" Nathan asked them.
"No she didn't tell us, that bitch." Brooke said crossing her arms. " If she thinks she can get away with not inviting us, then she's got another thing coming." Brooke said and she started to march of to find Madison but she ended up running into Lucas.
"Hey, whoa where are you off to in such a hurry?" Lucas asked her placing his hands on her arms to steady her from her fast walk.
"I have something to discuss with Madison." Brooke answered him with hostility.
"Ok Brooke, it's the last day of school let's just all try to get along." Lucas said starting to walk her back over to Nathan and Haley who were both flirting and laughing with each other.
"But Lucas she didn't invite us to her party." Brooke whined.
"You want to go to her party?" He asked her.
"Well not exactly but that doesn't give her the right to not invite us." Brooke pouted.
"You have to take what you can get." Lucas said.
"Oh this is why Haley's been so happy lately, she's got Nathan back." Brooke said as her and Lucas came to a stop in front of Nathan and Haley.
"Brooke." Haley said under her breath as Nathan smiled.
"Well I've decided that we should crash the party tonight." Brooke said.
"Brooke it's not like an invitation thing, anyone can come." Nathan said. "She probably just forgot to tell you two." Nathan said.
"Oh yeah, it just conveniently slipped her mind." Brooke said and rolled her eyes at Nathan.
"Whatever." Nathan said backing off.
"Why don't we all go out tonight, Peyton too." Lucas said.
"Yeah we'll all go to Madison's party." Brooke said.
"Why do you want to go so badly?" Haley asked her.
"Because I want to see what Madison's idea of fun is."
Brooke, Haley, Lucas, Nathan and Peyton all arrived at Madison's house that night at around 8:00.
"I wonder if she'll be surprised to see us." Brooke said.
"Brooke have you ever thought that she was just too scared to invite you? I mean by telling Nathan she had to have known it would get back to Haley and then to you." Peyton said.
"Ok whatever, your theories are too complicated for me." Brooke said shaking her head and walking in the door.
Everyone was looking at her.
"What? You don't knock at parties." Brooke said stepping inside Madison's house which was overly decorated for Christmas and over swarming with adults.
"Are we at the right house?" Haley asked them checking out their surroundings.
"Yeah of course, remember we picked Madison up here once." Brooke said.
"Well where are all the people you know our age?" Lucas asked everyone.
"Hi are you some of Maddie's friends?" a woman, who dressed to young for her probable age, asked them.
"Yeah." Peyton replied causing Brooke to laugh a little bit because she hardly considered them friends of Madison.
"Well everyone's in the back room, I'm maddie's mother if you need anything." She said and briskly walked away to greet others before anyone could get a word in.
"Shall we go check out the back?" Haley asked them.
"Yeah." Nathan said and grabbed her hand leading them all to the back.
When they got their, what looked like their whole grade was in the big room some sitting on couches making out others were eating food or dancing.
"I wonder where Madison is." Brooke stated.
"Good question." A voice said from behind Brooke that at first she thought was Lucas's but when she turned around she saw someone else. A guy who looked to be about their age was standing there wearing jeans and a leather jacket and he looked like he had just hopped of a motorcycle but his hair was frazzled just enough to make him look tough but hot. He ran his hands through his hair and smiled at Brooke and everyone else.
"Who are you?" Brooke asked him because he definitely wasn't in their grade and he didn't go to their school.
"Just an old friend of Maddies." He replied stealthily.
Everyone sort of exchanged glances but tried not to be obvious about it.
"So which one of you guys is her boyfriend?" He asked Nathan and Lucas.
"Um neither of them." Brooke jumped at the answer before Lucas or Nathan could.
The mystery guys suddenly switched his gaze to Brooke "you're very pretty what's your name?" he asked her setting a twinge of jealousy off in Lucas.
"Um it's Brooke." She replied.
"Nice to meet you Brooke, and the rest of you are?" he asked them.
"Lucas." Lucas said with a hint of hostility in his voice.
"Nathan." Nathan said actually holding out his hand and the mystery guy took it.
"I'm Peyton." Peyton said cynically.
"Cool, and you are?" Mystery guy asked Haley who was remaining unusually quiet.
"Oh Haley." She said quietly.
"Well it really is nice to meet all of you." He said.
"And you, do you have a name?" Brooke asked him defensively.
"Yeah my name is Steve." He said coolly. "I wish I could find Maddie but oh well I guess I'll just hang out with you guys until I can find her." Steve said.
"Great." Haley said as Nathan put a protective arm around her.
"So how is Maddie?" Steve asked them. "Are you guys like her new friends or something?"
"No not really." Peyton said.
"Then what are you doing at her party?" he asked them raising his eyebrows.
"Oh sorry, are we not allowed to go to a random party?" Brooke asked him, she didn't know why but he was pissing her off, despite how hot he was. Crap I shouldn't be thinking that Brooke thought to herself.
"you're a feisty one." Steve said "kind of like how Maddie used to be before she became all nice and shit." He said.
"Do you have a problem with people who are nice?" Haley asked him considering herself.
"You mean like you are? No I just prefer the feisty ones." He said slipping a cool arm around brooked.
"Hey man." Lucas said as Brooke pulled away from him.
"Oh sorry, I didn't know is she like your property or something?" Steve asked Lucas.
"She's my girlfriend." Lucas said.
"Ok man whatever. Look I'm going to go get something to eat if you see Maddie tell her I'm here." He said and then he glided over to the food table.
"Psycho." Brooke said.
"Yeah he was a little odd, and how does he know Madison?" Haley said.
"I'm sensing scandal, ooh maybe he was he pimp." Brooke said smiling.
"You're so terrible Brooke." Peyton said.
"She's the one who kissed Nathan." Brooke said.
"Let's not forget the incident that happened over the summer." Haley said.
Brooke and Nathan looked at each other quickly then looked away "that was umm.." Nathan started to say.
"Very different." Brooke finished his sentence.
"Yeah different." Nathan agreed.
Madison walked into the room and immediately over to all of them.
"Hey you guys actually came." She said.
"Yeah no thanks to you." Brooke said refusing to look at Madison.
"I was scared to ask you so I just asked Nathan thinking he would tell you, which he did obviously." Madison said.
"Um there was some guy here looking for you." Peyton said.
"Tim?" Madison asked them.
"No, and do you have something going with Tim?" Brooke asked her giving up and looking Madison in the eyes.
"I don't know he seems sweet." Madison said.
Brooke, Haley, Peyton, Nathan, and Lucas all laughed a little bit.
"Ok whatever you say." Peyton said "and no his name was Steve."
"Tall, dark handso…" Brooke was saying but Madison stepped back a little and out put her hands over her head.
"Oh my god." She said.
"Scandal." Brooke whispered to Haley.
"Um thanks for telling me, I need to go." Madison said and she walked out the sliding glass doors to the outside quickly.
"Something about this doesn't seem quite right." Haley said.
"Screw that, wanna dance Lucas?" she asked him.
"Uh sure." Lucas said following after Brooke into the crowd of dancing people.
"We might as well." Nathan said.
"Yeah you guys go; I'll just um go get something to drink." Peyton said wishing she had Jake there with her.
"Ok." Haley smiled and took Nathan's hand tracing the steps Brooke and Lucas had just taken.
Outside Madison was pacing across her large courtyard trying to piece together everything that had happened. She stopped her pacing when she heard something and then Steve appeared out of the bushes.
"Hi Maddie." He said crossing his arms.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him her voice shaking with fear.
"Now that's not a very nice greeting." He said checking her out "you look hot Maddie." He said.
"I'm serious how did you find me?" she asked him.
"It's not rocket science; I just asked one of your old friends." He said.
"Steve I think you should go." She said.
"Come on Maddie, what's the problem here?" he asked her advancing a few steps towards her.
"I have to get back inside." She said starting back in towards her house.
"Now wait a minute." He said just barely grabbing onto her arm but he got it and he pulled her back towards him.
"Let me go." She said forcefully but breathing hard because she was scared.
"You left once without saying goodbye, you're not going to do it again." He said putting on a smile but this had not good in it.
"I left to get away from you." Madison said.
"Why we were so good together." He said pulling her closer to him so their faces were just inches apart.
Madison let out a big sigh "Steve please what are you doing here?" she asked him.
"I came to see you; I'm going to be here for awhile. Merry Christmas Maddie, that's my gift to you." He said.
"I'll call the police." She said.
"And tell them what? We both know nothing happened right?" he said in such a way that she already knew the answer to that.
"No Steve something did happen." She said and stave pulled her in closer and tightened hid hold on her.
"No it didn't!" he said trying to keep his voice under control but he was loosing his cool.
"Your hurting me." She said trying to get away.
"Maddie we both know what did and didn't happen and you aren't going to tell the police anything because you don't have anything to tell them." He said.
She was silent.
"Right Maddie?" He asked her "right!" he yelled.
"Of course." Maddie surrendered.
"Good." He shook her away surprising her "it's so good to have you back." He said turning his voice back to its cool stealthy tone. "You can go back to your party now." He said.
Madison gave him one last look in the eye before turning around to leave, Steve slapped her on the butt as she walked away but she just let it go.
"I'll be seeing you around, and remember what will happen if you tell anyone." He told her as Madison walked into the house again.
A slow Jazzy Christmas song was playing and Haley had her arms wrapped around Nathan's neck and his tightly around her waist, as she rest her head on his shoulder and they were swaying to the music.
"I've missed this." Haley said.
"We never really did this before." Nathan said.
Haley took her head off his shoulder and looked at him "you're right, well I love this."
Haley said smiling and Nathan couldn't resist as he lowered his head and planted a sweet kiss on her lips.
Lucas was sitting on the couch and Brooke was in his lap.
"I kind of feel like I'm sitting on Santa's lap." Brooke said.
"Well you are." Lucas said.
"but if I'm a Christmas angel doesn't that mean that your like my boss, so I mean is being romantic crossing some sort of Christmas law line?" she asked him.
"I don't think so just as long as Mrs. Claus doesn't find out." Lucas said.
"That's not going to be a problem." Brooke said.
"Why not?" he asked her.
"Well I kind of killed her." Brooke said.
"Brooke that's horrible Christmas imagery." Lucas said trying to hide a smile.
"Look at it this way, now we won't feel guilty." Brooke said.
"Oh well in that case." Lucas said sarcastically before Brooke leaned down and the two of them started making out.
Madison walked in with tear-stained face and she stamped through the room causing everyone to look at her.
Brooke and Lucas got up and walked over to Nathan and Haley who were still wrapped in each others arms.
"What do you think that was about?" Lucas asked them.
"Have no idea." Haley replied.
Peyton came up to the rest of them "did you guys just see Madison?" she asked them.
"Yeah." Brooke said "what do you think was wrong with her?"
"I don't know but I have a feeling it has to do with Steve." Peyton said.
See remember when I told you there was more to Madison well this is it… scandalous stuff and I will tell you Steve is evil in case you didn't get that haha. Ok please review I'll probably update more often cause I'm off for Christmas vacation in two days but otherwise it won't be too long stay tuned for the last holiday chapter with Brooke's parents in town and Christmas oriented Steve stuff will be more executed in the chapter after next but he might be a little in the next one. Happy holidays!
