Guys I'm sorry for the like week without update I have rehearsal everyday and then homework for like ever and I just can't update all that often but anyway you guys are so great for reviewing as much as you do and that makes the updates come even faster if you can believe it. Anyway this chapter is a little longer so I hope to make up for it. Read and enjoy…

Brooke and Haley were walking down the hallway at school on Monday morning.

"I so hate school, like when are we going to be done?" Brooke asked Haley as she linked arms with her.

"Um, after college." Haley said smiling at Brooke.

"College is different." Brooke said

"And why is that?" Haley asked her.

"Because we're just going to party the whole time." Brooke said.

"I'm not, my name's tutor girl for a reason." Haley said.

"Oh right, because I named you it." Brooke said smiling and then she sighed again, but then her face lighted up again "this Friday is the away game, oh my god this week just got sooo better." Brooke said.

"Oh great, cheerleading." Haley said sarcastically.

"Haley you really need some cheery lessons, ok look I see Lucas over there so um I'm going to go talk to him and in the meantime try to be a little more happy, your back with Nathan we get to stay in probably like a fancy rich hotel this weekend at the game and it will be fun. Everything is the way it's supposed to be… well bye tutor girl." Brooke said and then she skipped over to Lucas.

Peyton walked up behind Haley and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Oh, hey." Haley said solemnly.

"So what's up?" Peyton asked her.

"I don't know I'm just not in a very good mood today, and I don't have any reason so don't ask." Haley said. "Well unless you count that we have the cheerleading trip this weekend."

"Oh yeah, I bet Brooke is freaking out." Peyton said.

"She's been bouncing off the walls at the apartment lately because her and Lucas have been doing so well." Haley said looking out at Brooke had met up with Lucas and the two of them were kissing.

"Well that's good I guess." Peyton said switching her gaze to them as well.

"Yeah, they spent the night together this weekend." Haley said raising her eyebrows.

"hmm." Peyton mumbled.

Haley looked at her curioslly.

"I guess it must be hard for you to watch Brooke and Lucas be together." Haley said.

"It sucks, but I'll get over it. Brooke and Lucas both deserve to be happy and the certainly are that together so I guess everything is just turning out the way it's supposed to." Peyton said.

"I've been hearing that a lot lately." Haley said.

"Look I've gotta go, watching them is sort of… well you get my point. I'll see you at practice, bye." Peyton said not waiting for Haley to respond before quickly walking away.

Brooke pulled away from kissing Lucas.

"Oh, you've got some lipstick on you." Brooke said smudging it away with her finger.

"That was cute." Lucas said and then tickled her waist.

Brooke laughed uncontrollably, until she finally maneuvered herself away from Lucas.

"So not cool Broody." Brooke said pointing a finger at him.

"You know you like it cheery." He replied pulling her back over to him.

"So touchy feely today." She stated walking her fingers up his chest.

"I know, I guess I'm just extra in love with you today." He said kissing her quickly.

"I like that, extra in love it's very romantic, well no surprise coming from you Mr. Romance." Brooke said.

"So have you had any trouble from that next door neighbor guy?" Lucas asked her.

"Oh you mean two doors down creep man? Um no not really just the usual." Brooke said shrugging and Lucas stopped the two of them from walking.

"What's the usual?" He asked her looking concerned.

"I've only ran into him twice since I told you about him. It's not a big deal Lucas." Brooke smiled and put her arms around his neck "he's kind of like me except a male version." Brooke said.

"Well then I do have reason to worry." Lucas said and Brooke smiled and hit him playfully.

"Whatever, you're so protective." Brooke said.

"Look the guy is two doors away from yours I just want to make sure you're ok, you've already had two issues with creeps this year." Lucas said.

"Ok so that's true but I really don't think you have anything to worry about, I'm tougher then you think." She said.

"Yeah but I bet your muscles aren't as big as his." Lucas said.

"EW that would be gross. Look you just worry about making me happy and I'll do the same for you." Brooke said ending this conversation once and for all.

"Alright ok, we'll stop talking about…" Brooke cut him off.

"Creepy neighbor guy and good." She said kissing him again.

Haley was waiting for Nathan after school when Madison walked up to her.

"Um Haley I was hoping we could talk." Madison said looking very nervous.

"No offense or anything Madison but I think it would be best if we just sort of went our separate ways or whatever." Haley said folding her arms over and trying to look as if she didn't care.

"Well that's kind of going to be a problem because we're roommates for the trip this weekend." Madison said handing a sheet to Haley which had everyone's room assignment.

"Oh well that's great." Haley said smiling in spite of everything.

"Look I'm not interested in Nathan, Haley. Really I'm not." She said.

"No, you just like to have little midnight gossip sessions with him though." Haley said.

"Contrary to what you might think my life is more complicated then it looks." Madison said.

"Yeah, that's what everyone says." Haley said "I know Nathan helped you and you guys are friends or whatever but let's just leave us at where we are and move on with our lives." Haley said "because I'm sorry but I honestly can't see us being best friends."

"I just don't want you to hate me."

"I don't hate you, now Brooke could be a different story but um I really have to go." Haley said.

"Ok, well thanks for not hating me." Madison shrugged.

"Yeah bye." Haley said quickly walking away to find Nathan.


Four days later and it was time for the Tree Hill basketball team and fellow cheerleaders to board the bus for their away game…

"Lucas I feel really bad." Brooke said as she sat down next to him on the bus.

"Do you have headache or something?" He asked her, looking at her face as if to catch whatever disease she had.

"No mom, I mean the other way. Look I have you and Nathan and Haley have each other and even Tim has Madison, but Peyton doesn't have anyone and she doesn't even like cheerleading." Brooke said. "I mean look at her over there." Brooke said pointing to where Peyton was sitting "she's all alone and… lonely and stuff." Brooke said causing Lucas to smile at her.

"Well I agree, I feel bad too." Lucas said.

"Should I go sit with her or something?" Brooke asked him.

"You could do that, um but I mean why don't we just try to make her feel really involved for the rest of the trip?" Lucas said because he really wanted to sit with Brooke.

"Ok, your right she has to draw her freaky drawings and brood for awhile anyways." Brooke said situating herself so that she was leaning back against the bus and had her head rested on Lucas's shoulder.

"Ooh Lucas this nice shirt you have to wear is very soft." Brooke said "I'm going to talk to whitey about making you wear these nice clothes more often." Brooke grinned at Lucas.

"How bout you don't and I won't kill you? Does that sound good?" He asked her.

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." Brooke said rolling her eyes and lying her head down again.


Haley found Nathan at the back of the bus already asleep with his headphones on, with his bag next to him.

Haley reached over and pulled out one of his headphones.

"Is this seat taken?" She whispered in his ear startling him.

"Oh, hey Haley, here sit down." He said moving his bag to the floor.

"Late night last night?" She asked him.

"Yeah my dad was just talking to me about how there could be scouts at every game from now on and if I don't play my best I'm screwed and all that crap that doesn't allow you to get any sleep whatsoever." Nathan said.

"Aww poor Nathan." Haley said leaning over and kissing him tenderly.

"You know you look really sexy in that uniform." He said.

"Oh why thank you." Haley said putting her hand over her heart being overly flattered.

"It's all for you." She added kissing him again.

"Oh good." Nathan said slipping his arm around her "so you ready to cheer today?" He asked her.

"Oh yeah, go team." She said sarcastically.

"If you don't like it then why do you do it?" He asked her.

"Well I get to spend more time with you and I would never hear the end of it from Brooke if I didn't. Plus it's not that bad it's just not really my thing." She said.

"Well you being here is going to make this trip a lot more fun." He said pulling her in tighter.

"And why is that?" She asked him enjoying these compliments.

"It gives me something to play for, and that's you. I see you on the side cheering and that makes me want to win so much more, you really do bring out the best in me Haley." He said.

"aww that's really sweet son." Said a voice from next to the seat where Haley and Nathan were.

"Dad? What are you doing here?" Nathan asked him.

"Supervising, I know whitey can't handle all of you kids." Dan said "just wanted to let you know that I'm here, I'll be at the front of the bus if you want to bring out the best in me too Haley." Dan said flashing his Dan Scott smile and turning around to head to the front of the bus.

"Sorry Nathan, but that was pretty damn creepy." Haley said "I wonder if Brooke knows he's here." Haley said.

"I don't know I need to go make sure she does though, I can't have something like what he did to her before happen again." Nathan said "sorry, I'll be right back."

"That's fine." Haley said bringing her legs in so Nathan could pass by.

Brooke and Lucas were talking when Nathan came up and stood next to them.

"Hey I just wanted to let you guys know that my dad is on this bus." Nathan said.

"Yeah we just saw him walk by." Brooke said looking a little pale.

"What is he doing here?" Lucas asked Nathan.

"Apparently supervising, but I just wanted to make sure you knew. Just don't go anywhere by yourself Brooke." Nathan said and then headed back to Haley.

Brooke was staring at the seat in front of her when Lucas put a hand on her shoulder.

"Are you ok?" He asked her.

"Um, yeah I'll be fine." Brooke said looking at him and smiling a little bit.

"You look really pale." Lucas said taking her hand into his.

"Look don't worry about me, I'll be fine." Brooke said squeezing his hand.

"I don't have anything else to worry about, remember I'm not playing today." Lucas said.

"I know you hate this Lucas but you can't not care about dying." Brooke said.

"Your right, I have to not play but it just sucks." Lucas said.

"At least you can still have me." Brooke said leaning over to Lucas and kissing him just as the bus started to roll away from the school.


"Lets go Ravens Lets go!" Was shouted from all the cheerleaders during a time out in the fourth quarter with two minutes left in the game.

The Players walked back onto the court after the whistle was blown and Nathan was on the side with the ball. The time started and the game was underway again.

52-47 the ravens were loosing as the game came to the final minute.

"Come On Ravens!" Brooke shouted and then did a kick.

The ball was passed to Nathan and he made a three, the little crowd that was there for the Ravens cheered and the cheerleaders did kicks and clapped for the team.

25 seconds left in the game and the opposing team got the ball and headed down the court trying to take their time. One of the players went into take a shot with 10 seconds left but Nathan blocked it and passed the ball to Tim who traveled it down the court. 5 seconds and Tim passed it back to Nathan who was double teamed so he quickly passed it back to Tim with 2 seconds Tim took the last shot from behind the three point line and right as the buzzer rang the ball went in and all the Raven's cheerleaders rushed the court.

"Good job Nate." Haley said as she ran into Nathan's sweaty arms and then kissed him.

"It was all for you." Nathan said mimicking Haley's words from earlier that day.

Brooke slowly walked over to Lucas on the bench.

"Lucas Brooding Scott, why the hell are you brooding?" She asked him standing in front of him with her arms on her hips.

"Because my middle name is brooding." He said raising his eyebrows at her.

"What's the matter with you, we won can't you tell?" She asked him pointing to the happy go lucky team.

"I was aware of that." Lucas said.

Brooke narrowed her eyes and kneeled down in front of him.

"I saw your eye on number 34 from the other team, you wanted the other team to win because you had crush didn't you?" Brooke asked him trying not to laugh.

"That's not funny Brooke I love you." He said "I just don't feel like I can celebrate because I didn't do anything. I shouldn't even be here; I mean you're sweatier than me." He said.

"That's not true and you know it, well I am sweatier but that's not the point." She said quickly "This team wouldn't even be here right now if it weren't for you. Nathan may be the star player but you're the heart of the team Lucas and they would totally die without you." Brooke said.

"I guess I call you cheery for a reason; you are really good at the pep talks." Lucas said.

"Thanks, now can we please have a good time tonight?" She asked him leaning her head in closer to his.

"I guess." Lucas said closing the gap and kissing her.


Brooke, Lucas, Nathan, Haley and Peyton all met in the lobby of the hotel that night.

"Guys what are we going to do tonight?" Brooke asked them excitedly.

"I don't know but I'm starving." Haley said putting her hand over her stomach for emphasis.

"What do you want to do Peyton?" Brooke asked her remembering that she was supposed to make her feel extra included.

"We can get food, or whatever you all want to do." Peyton said.

"Alright well I say we get food and then go swimming." Brooke said.

"As long as it keeps me out of my room for as long as possible." Haley said.

"Oh that's right you're with bitch girl." Brooke said and then a voice from behind her said.

"The names Madison."

Brooke felt her cheeks turn red as Nathan tried to hold in his laughter.

"I didn't mean you Madison, I meant Haley's imaginary friend who hates her." Brooke said sweetly.

Haley rolled her eyes, great now she had imaginary friends.

"Her imaginary 'friend' hates her?" Madison asked Brooke "that doesn't really make sense."

"Um yeah it does because it's imaginary. Look just don't worry about it. Not everything is about you Maddie." Brooke said.

"Madison." She corrected Brooke.

"Oh but I thought you like Maddie better." Brooke said.

Everyone could here the fake niceness in their conversation.

"Cut the crap Brooke, I know you hate me and that's fine as long as you realize that you're more of a bitch than me." Madison said.

Brooke was silent for a few seconds because she couldn't think of anything to say to that.

"Look I know I'm a bitch but at least I'm not a bitch that steals other people's boyfriends." Brooke said and then she heard Peyton say "oh thanks Brooke."

"No Peyton I didn't mean you, you're different." Brooke said.

"Yeah good job, I'm going to go find Tim." Madison said shaking her head and walking away.

Brooke put her hands over her face trying to hide the fact that she had just screwed up big time.

"Don't worry about it Brooke, I know what I did was wrong." Peyton said.

"Yeah but it was still totally different because your really not a bitch Peyton." Brooke said "I am though." She added and Lucas put a comforting arm around her.

"I still love you." He said.

"Gee thanks." She said sarcastically.

"Yeah and so does me and my imaginary friend." Haley said smiling.

"I panicked, sorry. Anyway you know you have one." Brooke said smiling back at Haley.

"Oh yeah you do don't you." Lucas said.

"Lucas shut up." Haley said worried.

"Her name was like Tina or something. Yeah it was Tina." Lucas said.

"Lucas Scott!" Haley said marching over to him and punching him on the arm "you swore never to tell anyone about that." Haley said.

"It's ok Haley a lot of people had imaginary friends." Nathan said.

"Yeah not in the fifth grade." Lucas said.

Haley gasped "it was not the fifth grade." She said directly to him and then turned to everyone else "it wasn't really I was like baby years." Haley said.

"You knew how to talk when you were a baby?" Brooke asked her.

"Umm of course I am tutor girl." Haley said.

Everyone was laughing except Peyton and when Brooke noticed this she interrupted and said "well, um why don't we go get something to eat now."

"Yeah sure." Haley said.

"Sound good Peyton?" Brooke asked her and Peyton eyed her wearily.

"Um yeah sounds just fine Brooke." Peyton said looking confused and following everyone else out the door.


After dinner everyone went back to their rooms and changed into their bathing suits.

Luckily Madison was no where to be found then Haley went to her room.

They met back at the indoor pool of the hotel where a bunch of other cheerleaders and basketball players already were.

Brooke daintily took off her towel and Haley did the same. The two of them were testing the water to see if it felt warm and Nathan and Lucas shook their heads and nodded at each other.

"One." Nathan said.

"Two." Lucas said.

"Three." They said together and ran towards the girls Lucas taking Brooke around the waist and Nathan doing to same to Haley and jumping into the water leaving Brooke and Haley screaming and breathless when the surfaced.

Peyton watched from the side of the pool, she had her bathing suit on but she didn't really feel like swimming.

"God I so just had a mini heart attack." Brooke said.

"Yeah same here." Haley agreed.

"Whatever, you both had to get in at some point." Nathan said.

Lucas pulled Brooke over to the side of the pool.

"Scandalous." Brooke whispered to him kissing his cheek and then his lips but he pulled away.

"What's wrong?" She asked him.

"Peyton is not having fun." Lucas said.

"Ooh right…" Brooke looked around for her "I guess I kind of ruined then trip for her by calling her a bitch."

"Brooke…"

"Is she even in the water?" Brooke asked still looking around.

"No she's over on the chair." Lucas said.

"I can't see her." Brooke said.

"That's because she's behind you and I kind of have you pinned the wall." Lucas said.

"I know and it's so much fun." Brooke said running her hands up Lucas's arms and around is neck until finally he gave into making out with her.

"Sorry to interrupt but I need the key to our room Brooke." Peyton said standing over the two lovebirds.

"You're leaving?" Brooke asked her.

"Yeah." Peyton said bluntly.

"Um ok hold on." Brooke said going under the water to escape from Lucas and getting out of the pool.

Brooke grabbed her bag and handed Peyton the key.

"Bye." Peyton said and walked of the pool room.

"I'm going to go talk to her." Brooke said "be right back." And Brooke ran after her with her towel in hand. When she got into the lobby it was freezing cold. Peyton was almost at the elevator.

"Peyton wait up." Brooke said and Peyton stopped.

"What's up with you tonight?" Brooke asked her wrapping her towel around herself as much as possible.

"Nothing Brooke." Peyton said.

"Ok now try not lying to me." Brooke said.

"I'm sorry I'm not as cheery as you and that I'm tired but really that's it." Peyton said.

"We've been trying to include you so much all night and you just keep pulling away." Brooke said.

"Great, I'm you all's special case." Peyton said sarcastically.

"Peyton please just tell me what's wrong." Brooke said stepping closer to Peyton just as the elevator door opened.

Peyton stepped inside and waited for a second

"I'm still in love with Lucas." Peyton said and the doors closed leaving Brooke dripping wet and freezing in the lobby.

Brooke stepped back a little in shock and bumped into someone

"Oh I'm s…" She stopped when she saw that it was Dan she had bumped into.

"It's really not a problem Brooke." Dan said.

"Excuse me." Brooke said, for some reason her inner self had chosen right now to start crying.

Dan grabbed Brooke's arm and held her back.

"What's wrong?" He asked her.

"Get your hands off of me." She said a little louder then she had planned on, but no one was really in the lobby.

"Brooke, look I'm sorry about what happened but it won't happen again." Dan said.

"I have to go." She said the tears now falling down her face.

"Just wait Brooke." He said stepping in front of her and she got really scared and started to run the other way back to the pool as her towel fell off and Dan just watched her run putting a confused look on his face as he picked up her wet towel.

Brooke was running as fast as she could back to the pool and she saw Lucas walking towards her and ran straight into his arms.

"Brooke?" He asked her confused looking at her without a towel and her crying.

"I don't know what just happened but Dan was out there and…"

Upon hearing this Nathan walked straight out of the room and into the lobby where Dan was standing with Brooke's towel.

"In the lobby of a hotel dad? Are you out of your mind?" Nathan asked him grabbing Brooke's towel forcefully out of Dan's hands and throwing it to Brooke and Lucas.

"Son I wasn't doing anything wrong I just wanted to apologize." He said.

"Whatever dad just stay away from me and Brooke and everyone else for that matter." Nathan said walking back over to Haley and Brooke and Lucas.

Ok hope you liked, some stuff definitely needs to be resolved. Please review with thoughts because I need reviews cause they're so great. Look for an update in like four or five days, I'll try!