Here is the next update, sorry it took so long I'm terrible about balancing this with school and I can never figure out a good way to start/finish these chapters, everything else comes so quickly but anyway thank you so much for keeping up the reviews and please keep that up and just read and enjoy…
The ride back to Tree Hill the day after the hotel fiasco was very silent. Brooke and Haley were just glad to be back in their apartment, and Brooke was happy to be away from Lucas. She wasn't really mad at him but she just needed to be by herself for the time being.
"Ugh! Haley Sundays are so boring." Brooke whined loudly.
"Why don't you try doing some homework or something?" Haley asked her "you know get your mind off Peyton." Haley hinted.
"Umm my mind was not on Peyton." Brooke said, even though she knew it was a lie.
"How do you feel about that anyway?" Haley asked her putting down her laptop which held the current history paper she was writing.
"I honestly have no idea, I mean I guess it's not that surprising but I thought we had moved passed all that drama from last year and everything." Brooke said.
"You can't blame her for loving Lucas; she did have a real connection with him." Haley said.
"She better have had a real connection with him for making him cheat on me." Brooke said.
"Hey, don't blame only Peyton." Haley said "Lucas was just as much to blame."
"I know it was just one of those 'for the purpose of the conversation' thingys." Brooke said.
"Right, well what do you plan on doing about this?" Haley asked her.
"I don't know, I'm just going to let it stew." Brooke said.
Haley cleared her throat "um let is stew?" She quoted Brooke.
"It's an expression." Brooke said acting innocent "ok I so need some fresh air right now, I'm going to go take a walk." Brooke said getting up and grabbing her juicy jacket off of the coach.
"Where are you going to walk?" Haley asked her.
"Um around the parking lot, you know that pavement is just so damn mesmerizing." Brooke said.
"Have fun." Haley raised her eye brows in fake excitement "I'll be in here being tutor girl if you need me." Haley said rising up her laptop slightly and then setting it back down on her lap.
"Hey let's do lunch later babe." Brooke said.
"It's already 2:00" Haley replied showing Brooke her watch.
"Fine then dinner, whatev." Brooke said shaking her head, like it was no big deal.
"You're not going to want to spend that time with your lover boy?" Haley asked her.
Brooke sighed "no comment." Was what she finally came up with.
"No comment? What is that all about, are you mad at Lucas?" Haley asked her, actually getting sort of gossipy.
"No I'm not mad at him, I just need to think about things which is why I'm going to go take a walk on the beautiful pavement in the parking lot, be back in like five minutes." Brooke said.
"That's all you need for sorting through your troubles?" Haley asked her.
"Yeah, I have such thinking ADD that I can't stand silence for more then like five minutes." Brooke said.
"That explains a lot." Haley said.
"Just do your homework, bye." Brooke said rolling her eyes and walking out the door.
Brooke got outside and walked down the stairs to the parking lot. Once she got there she stood in silence for a few moments and then decided that it sucked outside and it was kind of cold so she started to head back to the apartment when someone called.
"Hey Hot Stuff!" a voice that Brooke could only recognize as Travis's.
"Oh well, if it isn't Mr. Cocky." Brooke said turning around sharply to face him.
"What can I say?" He said shrugging and standing about five inches away from Brooke.
"You can say you're sorry for being such an arrogant jerk face that thinks he's the pimp of the world and that you'll leave me and my innocent slash not corrupted roommate alone." Brooke challenged.
"Are you aware that you just used the word slash?" He asked her.
"Actually as a matter of fact I am aware of that." She said shifting her stance.
"Great ok, moving on when are we going out to dinner?" He asked her.
"When hell freezes over, I have a boyfriend." Brooke said.
"Really? Well I just read an article that hell is going to freeze over tomorrow and that would mean you would go out to dinner with me but you'd still have a boyfriend." He said.
"I wasn't being serious, besides I'm probably going to be dead before hell freezes over, if that can even happen so, yeah this conversation is over." Brooke said.
"What about in the after life, when it freezes over and we're like different people, will you still go out with me?" He asked her stepping closer.
"Are you being real with me right now?" She asked him.
"No, I just really want to get to know you as friends." He said smiling, which made Brooke's heart skip a beat, but hey she was allowed to think other people were hot,
It didn't mean she was going to date them.
"Ok buddy, let me just say that I think you have a little more than friendship in mind." Brooke said.
"Hey honey I respect that you have a boyf…" Brooke cut him off.
"Whoa, whoa, hold up a second mister, Let's throw this in reverse for a second." Brooke said pushing him back a little bit "did you just call me honey?"
"Yeah do you have a problem with that?" He asked her.
"Um not even my boyfriend calls me honey that's for like married people." Brooke said
"I call all girls honey." He said.
"Oh I get it like you're the pimp and all the girls are your honeys ." Brooke said nodding her head.
"You catch on so quickly" He said.
"I would expect nothing more from you." Brooke said under her breath.
"Can I ask you a question?" He asked her.
"Um you just did." She said.
"Alright I'll take that as a yes. If you really hate me as much as you let off why haven't you just walked away, I mean I take it you've done that to total dorks before." He said.
"Because it's rude to just walk out in the middle of a conversation, and no I have not done that before." She said hitting him on the arm.
"Alright we're getting physical." He said smiling.
"You asked for it you got it." She said smiling fakely and then turning to walk up the stairs.
He waited a few seconds and followed after her.
Brooke heard his foot steps behind her and stopped on a step.
"Can you not follow me?" She asked him almost yelling.
He stepped up the last few steps so he was standing right over her, his face very close to hers.
"My apartment is two doors down from yours." He said right as they both heard a car door close.
"Brooke?" a voice asked into the air.
Travis had his back turned so he couldn't see the person "let me guess that's your boyfriend?" He asked her.
"You guessed right, now go away." She said.
"Alright, see you later, hot legs." And with that he walked away from her up the rest of the steps smiling at Lucas slightly and then walking into his apartment.
Brooke walked down the stairs to where Lucas was standing.
"That probably looked really bad." Brooke said once she got to him.
"Was that Travis?" He asked her.
"Yes and my hate for him has just deepened." She said.
"I can see why, I hate the guy and I don't even know him." Lucas said and then he turned to look at Brooke and smiled at her taking her waist with his hands and pulling her in for a kiss but she pulled away.
"So, uh what are you doing here?" She asked him on the spot.
"Um, well… you just didn't say anything on the bus ride back yesterday and you haven't called since then. I just wanted to check on you, because of the whole Peyton thing." He said.
"Yeah about that. Look maybe we should just take some time off for awhile…"
"What, why would you say that Brooke?" He asked her putting his hands on her shoulders.
Brooke felt very vulnerable all of the sudden.
"Well I don't know. Maybe you want to get back with Peyton or something. Or I don't know it's just whatever and now everything is falling into place for you two…" Lucas cut off Brooke's repetitive rambling by firmly pressing his lips against hers for a few seconds and then Brooke pulled away with tears in her eyes.
"Why did you do that, I'm being really serious right now." she said.
"Because I love you." He said.
"Yeah but now you know that Peyton loves you and maybe that was just what you were waiting for." Brooke said sitting down on the bottom step.
"Do you really think that?" He asked her kneeling down in front of her.
"You left me for her once before, I figured you could do it again." Brooke said.
"Peyton was my past Brooke; you are my present and my future, forever. There's no one else out there for me but you. I need my cheery." He said.
Brooke let out a small laugh, with more tears of course.
"That was really sweet." She said.
"Come here you." He pulled her around the shoulders so that she was leaning against him and he held her tight until she stopped crying.
"Feel better?" He asked her.
"Definitely." Brooke smiled and leaned into kiss him.
"Thank god." Haley said from the top of the stairs. A startled Brooke turned around to see her.
"What?" Brooke asked aloud.
"In case you haven't pieced it together I called Lucas for you." Haley said.
"Really?" Brooke asked Lucas.
"Yeah, she told me you were pacing the pavement. We both figured it was an emergency." Lucas said.
"Oh, well that's just great. I guess my new nickname is pavement girl now." Brooke said.
"Whatever floats your boat. I'm going to Nathan's." Haley said breezing by Brooke and Lucas. "I'll have to take a rain check on that dinner Brooke, but I'll be back tonight we can watch a movie or something." Haley said.
"Titanic?" Brooke asked her.
"I guess that can't really float your boat, but um totally." Haley smiled.
"Good one tutor girl." Brooke said rolling her eyes "ok go and have fun with your husband." Brooke said waving her off.
"Bye guys." Haley said.
Haley arrived at Nathan's house around 15 minutes later. She knocked on his door and it was soon answered by Nathan himself.
"Hi." She said.
"Hey come in." He said placing his hand behind her back and leading her inside the house.
"So what are we doing today husband?" Haley asked turning around and placing her hands on his chest to lean on him.
"I don't know, I thought maybe we could watch a movie or something." He said.
"I'm doing that tonight with Brooke, hey why don't you come too? You know you me Brooke and Lucas all together." Haley said.
"Um, if that's ok with Brooke and Lucas than that's fine." Nathan said.
"Great. I'll call Brooke in a little while." Haley said.
"What do you want to do in the mean time?" Nathan asked her.
"Well we could, um I don't know." Haley said, this was a little odd she was actually feeling bored around Nathan.
"We could go up to my room." Nathan said tightening his hold on Haley.
"Like we do every time." Haley said under her breath, but loud enough for Nathan to hear.
"Well what do you want to do Haley?" He asked her sounding a bit annoyed.
"I don't know Nathan, maybe we could just talk or something." She said.
"Aren't we doing that now?" He asked her.
"Yeah, but well I just don't feel like having sex right now." Haley said pulling away from Nathan and sitting on the couch.
"Alright, we don't have to, we can just… I don't know either." Nathan said plopping himself down on the couch next to Haley.
Brooke and Lucas walked to a playground that was a couple of blocks away from Brooke's apartment.
"Huh, I've never been here before." Brooke said stepping into the enclosed play area
"You're kidding right?" Lucas asked her stopping in his tracks.
"Nope, this is my first time." Brooke said shrugging.
"I practically grew up here; Haley and I came all the time." Lucas said. "Let me guess you had a jungle gym in your backyard?" Lucas asked her.
"No, well I had a swing set but otherwise I wasn't really big on the outdoors world. I'm still not but when I was little I was always over at Peyton or Nathan's house eating their food." Brooke said.
"Interesting." Lucas said.
"You know it." Brooke replied and she jumped up on to a platform and ran to the top of the jungle gym.
"Where are you going?" he asked her.
"To slide down the slide. Wanna join me?" she asked him smiling innocently. "I'm kind of scared." She said then looked down at her feet.
"Of course" Lucas said smiling and running up to join her quickly.
Brooke sat down in front of the slide but then she got up playing shy "you go first." She said holding out her hand for him to go.
"Alright." He said smiling at her one last time before sitting on the slide and going to the bottom. "Your turn." He yelled from the ground.
"Ok." Brooke sat down and slid down the slide and landed on top of Lucas.
"Did you plan on landing there?" she asked him.
"No I did not." Lucas said lying because he knew he did.
"Shut up." She said and leaned down to kiss him. Lucas tickled her side and she couldn't control her laughter and he rolled them over so that he was on top of her.
"EW, I am so going to have to take a shower when we get back." Brooke said feeling gross from lying on the ground.
"Oh me too." Lucas said raising his eyebrows.
"Oh you wish." Brooke said.
"So do you and you know it" Lucas said and then he leaned down and kissed her again as she laughed.
Later on that night Brooke, Lucas, Haley and Nathan were all getting ready to watch a movie. Haley and Nathan had spent the afternoon watching TV as much as they wanted to avoid that, but it actually turned out good because they ended up making out and everything was good again.
"Brooke would you get your ass in this room?" Haley yelled from the living room, where she was sitting on the couch next to Nathan. Lucas was in the kitchen area getting food.
"Alright, god I'm here." Brooke said running out of her room wearing sweat pants and a tank top.
"Hey can you help me with the food?" Lucas asked her.
"I sure can boyfriend." She said running over to him and placing her hands on his shoulder and looking over at the food.
"What do you need me to do?" She asked him.
"Actually just carry the drinks." Lucas said.
"I can do that." She said heading for the refrigerator.
"Jeez how long does it take to get some food?" Haley asked them.
"Well tutor girl maybe if you would get your ass over here and help us it would take less time." Brooke said mocking what Haley had said earlier.
"I would but um… Nathan's keeping me." Haley said nuzzling herself into Nathan's side.
"Yeah, alright shut up already we got all the food we could ever need." Brooke said
setting the drinks down on the coffee table and Lucas did the same with the food shortly after.
"So what movie are we watching?" Nathan asked them.
"Dude we decided this earlier, titanic." Brooke said making it bluntly obvious.
"Brooke, you've got to be kidding. I'm not watching titanic." Nathan said.
"Well what the hell else is there?" Brooke asked throwing her hands out for added affect.
"What about something scary?" Lucas offered.
"Lucas!" Brooke shrieked "do Haley and I look the kind of girls that would own a scary movie?" Brooke asked him.
"You do own titanic." Nathan said trying to hold in his laughter. Brooke shot him an icy look.
"Nathan, for your information Titanic is not scary it's a love story." Brooke said.
"And it sucks." Nathan said
Haley could feel this conversation getting heated.
"It so does not suck. You suck." Brooke said sticking her tongue out at him.
"How old are you again?" Nathan asked her.
"Oh ha ha Nathan." Brooke said.
"Brooke, I was just making a…." Haley cut Nathan off.
"We're just going to watch the Notebook." Haley said.
"Oh now that's a freaking sweet movie." Brooke said.
"Whatever, I'm not going to win." Nathan said.
"Yeah, fine." Lucas said.
"Alright, I'll start it." Haley said getting off the couch and finding the movie in her and Brooke's movie cabinet.
The opening music started and Brooke and Haley were already immersed in the movie.
By the time the movie was over, Brooke and Haley were both crying. Brooke was curled into Lucas's side and Haley had her head buried on Nathan's shoulder.
"Oh god that movie makes me cry more every time." Brooke said finally.
Lucas and Nathan exchanged glances.
"I saw that." Brooke said "you know it might do you two good to just sit down and cry every once in awhile." Brooke finished.
"Yeah Brooke does it everyday and look how she's turned out." Haley said even though she knew it would get a reaction out of Brooke.
"Huh!" Brooke said surprised "tutor girl is now a tutor bitch." Brooke said.
"I was only kidding and you know it." Haley said smiling back at Brooke.
"Well I guess I better go now, my mom's going to freak out since I haven't called." Lucas said.
"Yeah me too." Nathan added and both of the guys got up and grabbed their coats.
"Oh great leave me and Brooke with all the mess." Haley said looking at her
surroundings, which was full of unfolded blankets and food.
"Yep looks like it. Bye." Nathan said smiling at the two girls and leaving quickly.
"See you tomorrow." Lucas said and followed quickly behind him closing the door leaving Brooke and Haley alone to clean up the mess themselves.
Alright there ya have it. Um Peyton was not really in this chapter in terms of dealing with her and that will happen in the next one since they have to see her at school and everything and there might be some bitch-slapping I don't know anyway just please review I'll hopefully update in a week maybe less…
