Hello people who read this story. This is the next chapter as you can tell sorry for the wait school sucks and I'm busy so it just happens that way but you guys are awesome for still reviewing I'm so happy with the reviews please keep it up and thanks again. Read and enjoy…

Nathan drove Haley back to his place and they went inside and up to his room. Nathan changed out of his sweaty shirt and Haley took a seat on his bed.

"So, what do you want to do tonight?" Nathan asked her as he finished putting on his shirt. Haley didn't give him an answer and when he turned to look at her he saw that she was off in some other world.

"Haley?" He said a little louder so he could really grab her attention.

Haley shook her head out of the daze it had previously been in and looked up at Nathan who was staring at her quizzically.

"What, sorry." She said smiling.

"Everything ok?" He asked her.

"Just thinking about Lucas." Haley said.

"Oh right that was weird earlier." Nathan said.

"Weird? It was really scary Nathan" Haley said.

"Yeah I guess I didn't really think about how it would affect you." Nathan said seating himself next to Haley.

"I could see how you would think that, I don't really talk to Lucas anymore, I miss him." Haley said.

"Well…" He took her hands into his "you always have me." Nathan said shrugging innocently.

"oh I know Nathan I didn't mean for that to sound like… that or whatever but you know I love you, I've just been friends with Lucas for like ever and he used to be the only person I had." Haley said.

"I understand that Lucas is your best friend, both of us are allowed to have other friends. I mean I guess I would consider Brooke my best friend after you." Nathan said.

"Things just change I guess." Haley said.

"Well I think its for the better because Brooke and I would not work out as a couple and you and Lucas I mean I think that would be against the law since your so much like siblings." Nathan said.

"Ha ha." Haley said sarcastically hitting Nathan playfully.

"Come here." He said pulling her over to him so that he could kiss her. He pulled away and their faces were just inches apart.

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

Haley started laughing and leaned into Nathan's chest, she couldn't bear to look at his serious face that he had put on.

"Hey, I'm serious." He said smiling at her. "You can't even look at me anymore?"

"Your face was so funny." She said finally facing his face.

"What this face?" He said rearranging his face into an even funnier and weird expression that sent Haley into another fit of laughter. Nathan tickled her sides and she leaned over him laughing uncontrollably.

"Nathan, stop." She said exasperated because she was so out of breath.

"What's so funny Haley?" He asked her enjoying his ability to make Haley laugh.

"Shut up." She said laughing and maneuvering her self so that she slipped away from Nathan and stood up placing her hands on her hips and breathing hard.

"Oh you know you're in trouble now." Nathan said.

"Oh really?" She asked him raising her eye brows.

"Yeah." He said and he grabbed her arms and pulled her back onto the bed and then he got on top of her tickling her at first but then he lowered his head and kissed her like crazy. The hell that the two had been through in the past year didn't compare to how good Nathan and Haley could make out.


Brooke was sitting with Lucas on her bed.

Lucas was stroking Brooke's hair and thinking about everything that had happened earlier that day. Lying to Brooke like this was killing him, not to mention his heart problem.

"Brooke?" He said subtly.

"Yeah." She said turning her head up so that she could look at him.

"I need to tell you something." He said.

"Ok." She said hesitantly but not taking this very seriously. She sat up and crossed her legs in a ready to gossip position.

"So what's up?" she asked him. Brooke was the queen of gossip.

"Brooke, earlier today when we were playing basketball I wasn't just too excited." He said and paused to let her try and comprehend this.

"I don't really get it, I mean I know I'm stupid but you're going to have to go into a little more depth here Scott." She said.

"You're not stupid Brooke." He said taking one her hands but she looked at his hand and then his face and started feeling like something was going wrong.

"Your being really weird here Lucas, like extra broody. What's going on?" She asked him taking her hand away from his.

"Brooke I have HCM." Lucas said and he looked over at Brooke who was staring at him in shock.

He continued "it's the heart condition where…"

"I know what it is." She said angrily cutting him off, and standing. "How long have you known about this?" She asked him, fear and anger both evident in her voice.

"For… awhile." He said.

Brooke shook her head and walked out of the room not able to look at Lucas anymore.

She couldn't believe this was happening.

Lucas sighed and got up to run after her "Brooke." He said and saw her open the front door and stand by it.

"Get out." She said feeling the tears starting to form as they had a lot recently.

"Brooke please." He stepped towards her and tried to wrap his arms around her but she slapped him hard across the face.

"Don't touch me Lucas!" She yelled and slammed the door.

"I deserved that." Lucas said.

"You can't keep doing this to me Lucas. I give my heart to you and you take it away." Brooke said.

"I know, Brooke I couldn't worry you." Lucas said.

"And you think I'm not worried now? You told me today that to loose me would be the scariest thing ever. Did it ever occur to you that to loose you would be the scariest thing for me too?" She asked him still yelling.

"Brooke, I just thought I could get past it without ever having you worry about me. I didn't want to upset you." He said keeping his distance despite how much he just wanted to take her into his arms and hold her.

"You did a great job of that Lucas." She said sarcastically "your standing by the door, I take it you can show yourself out." She said wiping away her tears to appear more angry then defenseless to Lucas.

"I couldn't tell anyone or I'd be off the basketball team." He said.

"Oh well, let's see a choice between basketball and life oh yeah that's obvious of course you'd pick basketball." She said "that's the smartest choice you've ever made." She said still sarcastic which she tended to get like when she was angry.

"I don't know what else to say but I love you Brooke. Basketball was how I met you, that night in my car…"

"Don't you dare talk about that right now. I really need you to leave Lucas I can't deal with this." She said.

"Please don't let this pull us apart." He said.

"If anything pulls us apart then its you Lucas." She said, trying as hard as she could not to cry.

"I will do anything Brooke, I won't play basketball anymore I'll get better just please I need you in my life."

Brooke started crying slowly again "I need you too Lucas but I just can't do this right now. Please just get out of my apartment Lucas." She said.

"Brooke." He started to walk over to her.

"Lucas please!" She yelled.

Lucas nodded his head and walked to the door "I love you Brooke." He said and closed the door behind him. Brooke walked up to the door for a second she was going to stop him but then she just collapsed in tears and fell to the floor. She wrapped her arms around her knees and held herself tight.


Nathan and Haley were making out on Nathan's bed. Haley started to remove Nathan's previously put on shirt.

"Nathan." Haley said breathlessly.

"Yeah?" He asked her.

"Is your door closed?"

"No, why?" He asked her, although he thought he knew what she was hinting at.

"Can we… you know?" She asked him.

"Um, yeah." He said "hold on." He got off of her and closed the door then he got back on top of Haley and began taking her shirt off. He leaned down and kissed her bare skin on her neck and moved up to her lips. The night unfolded in a continued fashion of passion.


Brooke could barely think after the moment that Lucas left, but she knew that if she let Lucas go that night it would be the worst decision she could make at the time. She got up from the floor and quickly flung the door open and ran outside she saw Lucas heading for his car.

"Lucas!" She cried and started to run down the stairs "Lucas, wait." She yelled again. He looked over and saw her running down the stairs and he quickly walked over to her. She almost tripped on her last step but Lucas was right there and she sort of fell into his arms which is exactly what she wanted to do. She sunk into his hold.

"Brooke?" He said aloud kind of confused.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to slap you or say any of those things because I love you Lucas, I really do." She said gazing into his eyes.

He smiled down at her, relieved "you don't have to be sorry Brooke." He said holding her head in his hands.

"Yes I do." She said looking down almost as if she was ashamed but Lucas tilted her head back up and wiped the tears away from her face.

"A lot of drama lately huh?" He asked her.

She smiled and let out a small laugh "yeah." She said.

"I love you so much Brooke." He said and kissed her softly on the lips lingering for a second before pulling away.

"I love you too." She said "but Lucas you can't do anything that will put your health in danger." Brooke said.

"I know your right." Lucas said.

"And that means you're not going to play basketball anymore." She said deliberately making it not a question.

"Brooke, I love basketball." Lucas said.

"well I love cheerleading but if was going to kill me I would stop, and if you claim to love me as much as you do then you would make me stop so I'm making you stop Lucas. Seriously you can't play basketball anymore." Brooke said.

"I don't know." ……………….

Brooke picked her head up from her knees where she had been daydreaming everything that had just happened. Maybe she should've stopped him but she couldn't think right now. She needed time to understand and try to see things from Lucas's point of view because right now she just couldn't. She loved Lucas and she just had to remember that as she tried to piece together everything that had been going on


Tim and Madison met up at a small burger restaurant for dinner that night. Tim could only wait a few hours to go on his date with Madison.

"I've never been here." Madison said.

"Oh well Maddie I'm sure there's a lot of places you've never been around here but don't worry Tim can take you there." Tim said somehow making that sound sexual, well trying to be at least.

Madison laughed "Ok Tim, whatever you say." She shook her head at him, he sure was something.

"You've changed since you first got here." Tim said suddenly.

"Wow, I wasn't really aware of that. I guess I've just been through a lot." She said

shrugging her shoulders. But now that she thought about it she had changed and she liked her new self better. It was more like who she used to be.

"Does it have to do with that Steve guy?" Tim asked her.

"Umm, yeah it has something to do with him, but I'd really rather not talk about him.

Let's talk about you Mr. Tim, what girl were you hung up on before I got here because pretty much everyone was." Madison said smiling.

"Most guys had one girl; I was hooked on all of them." He said.

"Right but there must have been one girl out there that stood out in your mind more then the other ones." Madison said trying to get a straight answer out of him

"Well, I mean I guess Brooke." He said.

"Of course." Madison rolled her eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"Well isn't every guy? She is Brooke." Madison said.

"So you two obviously not best friends." He said.

"Brooke's cut me a lot of slack considering what I did at the camping trip but I'll admit I don't think we could work as best friends." Madison said.

"Well that's ok, I like you better." Tim said.

"hmm, thanks Tim. I think this is the most normal conversation I've ever had with you." She said.

"Hey don't let it get around; I have to maintain my handsome reputation." He said, and Madison thought he really did think he had that reputation.

"Ok don't worry, I'm not that big no gossiping besides I like you so I wouldn't want to ruin your amazing reputation." She said.

"I am amazing, I mean you should see me in bed." He said.

"What?" She asked a little flustered.

"I mean, come on Maddie you know what I mean." He said "papa Tim's party's rule the block." He said.

"Oh and I was under the impression that you don't get any action." Madison putting her index finger to her chin in a thinking position.

"That was harsh." Tim said.

"Aw, I'm just kidding I love you Tim even if nobody else does. And when Brooke puts you down just don't listen to her cause she doesn't know what she's missing." Madison said smiling at Tim.

"Brooke's doesn't put me down. She's actually pretty nice to me." He said.

"Oh, well hmm that's surprising." Madison said feeling a little caught off guard.

"Why is that surprising?" He questioned back.

"Just because Brooke seems like the kind of person who only gives a damn about her friends, I guess I just never realized you and Brooke were friends." Madison said.

"There's a lot you don't know about all us Tree Hill kids, especially Brooke. She's a way different person then she lets herself appear to be." Tim said smiling and remembering the night at the party when Brooke told him there was someone out there for him. Maybe Madison was that someone. She made him feel and act differently then he did around other people and he didn't have to try to be his normal Tim self, even though that was very fun, around her.

"Well I guess so." Madison grinned at him.


Lucas was sitting on the couch at his house mindlessly flipping through the few channels he had on his TV. He didn't usually waste his time with television but reading required too much thinking for what was going on in his life right now. No matter what he did he couldn't escape drama.

There was a knock at the front door, probably drama coming to swallow him up again.

He opened the door to the pretty girl he loved.

"Hi." He said surprised.

Brooke looked at him for a second before stepping back a little and putting her hands on her head like she had a headache.

"I'm sorry I don't know what I'm doing here I was just taking a walk and I ended up here." She shook her head and started to walk away "I'm um sorry." She said finally.

"I'm quitting the team Brooke." Lucas said and this stopped Brooke in her tracks.

Then a silence crept up on the two of them as they both waited for the other to do something. Surprisingly Brooke turned around and quickly walked to Lucas pulling him into a warm hug.

"I love you." She said.

"Oh I love you too." He said smiling and stroking her hair.

After a few seconds of taking everything Brooke pulled away from Lucas.

"So what made you come here?" He asked her.

"I really don't know, but I just felt like I had too or something. I thought you wouldn't quit the team." She said.

"Of course I will, you know I don't want to but I also don't want to die." He said.

"Lucas doesn't talk about that!" She said putting her hand over his mouth to shut him up and then smiling shyly "It scares me." She said a little jokingly.

"Your something else Cheery." He said tracing his thumb across her cheek.

"Shut up you." She said twisting away from him and Lucas quickly wrapped his arms around her from behind and swung her around causing her to scream.

"Put me down." She said.

"Do you love me?" He asked her.

"Yes." She said.

"Say it." He said smiling.

"Ok I love you." She said thinking this was a little odd.

Lucas put her down "good." He said and he kissed her bringing back all the things that both Brooke and he had been afraid to loose that night.


Haley wrapped the sheets around herself tighter as she lay in Nathan's bed. She looked over at him sleeping and she pulled herself on top of him.

"Nathan." She said in a high pitched whisper.

"Hmm?" He grumbled and his eyes flittered open.

"That was fun." She laughed.

"What?" He asked her.

"Come on, what we just did awhile ago, it was great." She said and she kissed him. They started kissing more when Nathan's cell phone rang.

"Oh my god." Haley said and she sighed and put her head down against Nathan's chest.

"Hold on." He said and answered it.

"Hello?" He said.

"Nathan, hi it's Madison."

Hmm what does she want? Ok um I will try to update maybe in a couple of days since the weekend is coming up but it will hopefully be soon. Please review and coming up we find out what's up with Madison some good brucas stuff and other stuff I don't know…