Here is your next update. I really am going to try to update again in like 4 or 5 days since I've been so bad about that, but I went out of town and got back and the next day I left to go somewhere else. Anyway thank you so much for your reviews and I'm sorry you don't like the story but maybe if you had kept reading you would've found out that Brooke wasn't pregnant and Lucas and Brooke aren't always going to have the amazing emotional conversations because it just doesn't seem that real to me. But whatever I appreciate your thoughts I just wish you would've given the story more of a chance. Ok enough of me read and enjoy…
Nathan walked up to Haley and Brooke's apartment Saturday afternoon and knocked on the door. A few seconds later Brooke walked up and answered it.
"Hi." Brooke said gloomily.
"Hello." Nathan said smiling at Brooke "you ok?" He asked her.
"No, because I have to spend my Saturday night in detention with that stupid, skank ass ho bitch." Brooke said.
"I assume your referring to Madison?" Nathan asked her.
"Yes." Brooke said "Haley, your husbands here." Brooke yelled shutting the door and flopping her whole body onto the couch.
Haley walked out of her room still putting an earring on.
"Hey Nathan." Haley said kissing him quickly while glancing at the sad sight of Brooke.
"Hi." Nathan said, and then he leaned down and whispered into Haley's ear "have you told her yet?" Nathan asked her, referring to the apartment situation.
Brooke picked her head up from the couch and looked at them suspiciously.
"No, it's not a good time." Haley whispered back.
"Well what are we supposed to do I mean..." Nathan was whispering but then he noticed that Brooke had gotten up and walked over to the two of them.
"You guys are being weird." Brooke said pointing a finger at them.
"Maybe you're just being weird and we're the normal ones." Haley said leaving Brooke in a confused silence for a few seconds.
"Whatever, I'm going to detention now you guys can just be together, or whatever it is you two freaks do when I'm not around." Brooke said grabbing her jacket and purse.
"Bye Brooke." Haley said.
"Yeah bye." Nathan said.
"Oh by the way if you're going to have sex, do it now. I don't want to see any action when I get back." Brooke said and with that she left the apartment.
"That's Brooke for you." Haley said.
"Haley, when are you planning on telling her?" Nathan asked Haley wanting to get to the point.
"God, I don't know Nathan." Haley said smiling and walking away from Nathan towards the kitchen.
"Well are we still looking at apartments today or what?" He asked her staying where he was.
"Sure. Just because I haven't told Brooke yet doesn't mean we can't just search around." Haley said.
"Ok, but I really think you should tell Brooke tonight when she gets back." Nathan said.
"You mean we should tell Brooke?" Haley asked him walking towards him.
"I have to go meet with my dad tonight to talk about money stuff for our new apartment." Nathan said.
"Nathan…" Haley whined "your not thinking about taking money from your dad are you?" Haley asked him.
"What other choice do we have Haley?" Nathan asked her.
Haley paused in silence and sat down on the big chair. "Haley?" She heard Nathan's voice echo.
"Maybe this is the wrong decision." Haley said.
"What? Haley no, we both want this." Nathan said kneeling down in front of her and taking her hands into his.
"Nathan we only have like four more months of school and then we graduate. It just seems like such a big waste." Haley said.
"Nothing with you is a waste." Nathan said looking into her eyes.
Haley smiled and kissed him softly "I love you." She said as she pulled away "but, it's kind of late in the game to do this if you know what I mean." Haley said.
"I want to be with you Haley, and what if we don't go to the same college?" He asked her.
"Oh my god, I hadn't even thought about not going to the same college." Haley said in a panicky voice.
"Whoa, calm down I mean I'm sure we'll go somewhere near each other." Nathan said.
"What if we don't?" Haley asked him.
"Then I'm trying to say that we really should move in together because then we can spend as much time together as possible." Nathan said.
"That's very true. But maybe if we aren't going to the same college we should be practicing being away from each other." Haley said.
"Haley we practiced that almost all of last year and we still made it through. If you don't mind I think I'd like to skip that part now." Nathan said.
"That's also very true." Haley pushed some of her hair behind her ear "alright let's go look at apartments." Haley said.
"Great." Nathan said hopping up with Haley doing the same soon after him.
Brooke walked down the hall to room 24 and walked inside.
"You're late Miss Davis." Mr. Harbor the detention leader said.
"I know." She scowled and took a seat in the front of the classroom because all of the creeps and nobodies were sitting in the back.
Brooke looked around for Madison but she was no where to be found. Maybe this wouldn't be as bad if Madison didn't show up. A few seconds later her words were scorned because Madison walked into the room.
"Can't any of you girls be on time?" Mr. Harbor asked Madison and Brooke.
"Sorry I got lost; I've never been to this room before." Madison said and Brooke rolled her eyes.
"You got lost?" the teacher asked her not believing it.
"It can be hard to follow the numbered doors around school. I mean some people just never get the hang of it." Brooke jumped in and said.
Madison gave Brooke a fake smile and took her seat. Brooke quickly returned the fakeness and then took out her homework.
"Let's just try to get through these few hours peacefully." Mr. Harbor said and then quickly took his seat and smoothed out his coat jacket, whenever he had to lead detention he felt like he was going to catch some high school delinquent disease.
Brooke had been trying to read her history text book but she found that it was very hard to concentrate in such a silent environment. It's not really what she was used to. She wished she was wrapped up in Lucas's arms right now and watching a movie. For awhile she got lost in paradise with visions of Lucas but then out of the corner of her eye she saw Madison raise her hand.
"Yes Madison." Mr. Harbor said.
"Mr. Harbor would it be alright if I left an hour early from detention tonight?" She asked him sweetly.
"No!" Brooke said before Mr. Harbor could get a word in.
"Brooke, please." Mr. Harbor said putting his hand up as if to stop her and then focusing back on Madison.
"Why do you need to leave early?" He asked her.
"I have a previous engagement I need to attend." Madison said.
"So do I." Brooke said.
"Miss Davis do you really want another week of detention added onto your little list?" he asked her.
Brooke shook her head and sighed leaning further down into her seat.
"God Brooke just calm down." A voice said from the back of the classroom followed by some laughing. Brooke turned around and saw it was the skater dorks all sitting next to each other.
All of the guys smiled at her as she stared at them and then Brooke turned back around thinking ew in her head. They probably all had wet dreams about her every night.
"I'm sorry Madison I'm afraid you're going to have to stay for the entirety of the time you're supposed to be here for." Mr. Harbor said back to Madison.
"Well then can I least call the person I had plans with, because they're going to wonder where I am." Madison said.
"Make it quick." He said and looked back down at his papers.
Brooke squinted her eyes at him in anger and then quickly looked over at Madison who dialed 1 on her phone.
"Hi Tim, its Madison." She said.
"Oh my god." Brooke said under her breath and Madison glanced at her quickly then smiled knowing she had Brooke in her hands.
"Yeah, look baby I really can't come tonight I'm stuck in detention which sucks because I really wanted to go to the movies with you." Madison rambled.
"He said make it quick." Brooke said leaning over and whispering to Madison.
"What? Yeah look Timmy I have to go now. Right we'll hook up later, love you bye." She said emphasizing the hook up part as she stared directly at Brooke, then she hung up.
"Tim is number one on your speed dial?" Brooke asked Madison disbelievingly.
"Do you have some sort of problem with that?" Madison asked her raising her eye brows.
"Nope, do whatever you want with 'Timmy'." Brooke said air quoting the sick excuse of a nickname 'Timmy.'
"I thought you'd like that nickname." Madison said smiling.
"As long as you're fine with the fact that you're using a good guy just to get to me." Brooke said looking away.
"What was that?" Madison asked her.
"Girls!" Mr. Harbor said before looking back at his papers.
"I said you're just using Tim to make me jealous." Brooke whispered.
"No actually you're just jealous." Madison said.
"I don't know what it's going to take to get you to realize that I don't have a thing for Tim." Brooke said "I'm totally in love with Lucas just FYI." Brooke added.
"Whatever." Madison "if you don't mind I'm going to go back to my work now."
"Fantastic." Brooke said shaking her head and looking back at her own notebook, which was currently full of blank pages that were supposed to be filled.
Haley and Nathan were standing in a crappy one bedroom apartment with the realtor trying endlessly to point out all of the high points (which were non-existent) to Haley and Nathan.
"You can see these nice wooden floors really give the whole room good togetherness." The realtor said.
"Right well we have your number and we'll get back to you." Nathan said nodding his head to the realtor.
"Ok, thanks for dropping bye, I'll walk you out." The realtor said showing them outside.
Haley and Nathan left and got into their car.
"Where should we go next?" Nathan asked Haley.
"Nathan the three places we've been today have been crap fests." Haley said.
"The realtor did have a point about the wooden floors, they were pretty nice." Nathan said trying to make this whole situation better then it really was.
"Did not think that you would be the kind of person to buy the shit that all these people have been trying to sell to us today." Haley said "great, it's starting to rain." Haley said looking out the window as a steady down pour started.
"Ok, do you just want to go back to your apartment then?" Nathan asked her.
"I guess." Haley shrugged.
"That's where we'll go then." Nathan said starting the car and pulling out of the driveway.
They were stopped at a red light as the rain was starting to come down harder and it was getting darker outside.
"Nathan maybe it's a sign that we shouldn't be moving into together if all we're finding are these crappy apartments." Haley said.
"Haley, come on." Nathan said placing a hand on her leg "don't think like that."
"It just doesn't seem to be working out that great." Haley said.
"This was our first day looking, we can't give up yet." Nathan said giving her a slight squeeze.
"Your right." Haley said as the light turned green.
"You sure you don't want to just kick Brooke out?" Haley asked him smiling.
"Your death wish." Nathan said shrugging.
"Hey!" Haley hit him playfully on the arm.
"Haley, I don't appreciate you distracting me from my driving." Nathan said pretending to be a dorky mama's boy.
"Oh ha ha." Haley said smiling and focusing on the road. "Wow it's really starting to rain." She said.
"I bet our future apartments are all leaking right now." Nathan said.
Haley looked at him raising her eyebrows "not funny."
Detention finally let out and Brooke quickly left the room before anyone else. She was so not in the mood to talk to Madison or any of the skater geeks. She got to the school's front doors and saw that it was pouring outside.
"No fucking way." She muttered bracing herself and taking a step out of the doors into the cold rain.
"Hey Brooke." Said one of the skater guys, who Brooke did not know the name of.
"Can I help you?" Brooke scowled, she had been doing a lot of that lately.
"Yeah you can actually. You probably don't know my name but it's Ben." He said.
"Great, well it's raining right now so I'm just going to get in my car." Brooke said.
"No I don't think you are." Said another voice from behind Brooke.
"Hey Danny." Ben said to the other approaching guy.
"This is so not happening right now." Brooke said to herself.
"What's the matter Brooke? Are we not good enough for you?" Danny asked her moving closer to her and grabbing her butt.
"Get the hell away from me." Brooke said trying to move out of the current Brooke sandwich she was in but Ben grabbed her arm.
"Let go of me." She yelled.
"We're just joking around; I mean you can't blame us." Ben said trying to kiss Brooke.
"No, stop being creeps." Brooke said starting to actually feel a sick to her stomach.
"Come on Brooke." Danny said. "we've been in the same grade four five years and you've never even smiled at us before."
"I have to go." She said trying to pull away but then Danny grabbed her from behind.
"Hey! Let her go." A males voice said from across the parking lot.
"Who's this dude?" Ben asked Danny.
"I said get away from her." The same person said pulling Danny and Ben away from Brooke. Brooke finally got a good glance at him and saw that it was unexpectedly Travis.
"Hey man we weren't actually going to do anything." Danny said.
"Whatever." Brooke said shaking her head at them.
"You think it's funny to corner a girl?" Travis asked them.
"We didn't think Brooke would mind, I mean she's done it with practically everyone in school." Ben said and after that comment Travis punched him.
"God, come on let's get out of here Danny, her boyfriends crazy." Ben said grabbing Danny and the two of them ran away.
"He's not my boyfriend." Brooke yelled after him then she looked down at the ground, not wanting to meet Travis's eyes. She waited for a few seconds and then she immediately started to walk towards her car.
"No need to thank me." Travis said holding his hands up innocently.
Brooke stopped in her tracks and turned around "thanks." She said and then started walking.
"Brooke I really don't get why you hate me." Travis said.
"Hey Travis, I really don't get why you just helped me, I mean you do the same thing to me everyday." Brooke fired back at him.
"I don't corner you." Travis said.
"Whatever, I don't want to talk about it. It's not that big of a deal it happens all the time." Brooke said.
"It happens all the time?" He asked her "what are you going to do about that?"
"Deal with it." Brooke said.
"Still, I mean you looked like you were scared." Travis said.
"I'm getting in my car now." Brooke said ignoring him and opening the car door.
"See you around Brooke." Travis said.
Brooke paused for a minute because he usually didn't call her by her real name.
"Yeah bye." Brooke said getting in and closing her door.
Brooke took a detour to her apartment and ended up at Lucas's house. She got out of the car and ran up to Lucas's door because it was still pouring. She knocked on it hurriedly and waited for a few seconds but there was no answer. She knocked even more hurriedly and she was getting really flustered because she wanted to talk to Lucas at that exact moment.
Finally the door flew open and Brooke almost hit Lucas because she hadn't expected that.
"Brooke, you're soaking." Lucas said placing an arm around her and leading her inside.
"No kidding." Brooke said as she walked inside.
"Here let me get you a towel or something." Lucas said but Brooke took a hold of his arm as he started to walk away from her.
"Can you just, um…" She didn't really know how to go about saying that she wanted to be held because she thought it would sound stupid.
"Yeah?" Lucas asked her.
Brooke decided action was better than words and she wrapped her arms around Lucas's neck and pressed her head into his chest. Lucas caught on and wrapped his arms around her waist and placed his chin over her head.
"Was detention really that bad?" He asked her after a few minutes. Brooke laughed a little into his chest and looked up at him.
"Um, yes and no but that wasn't the only bad part of the night." She said.
"Is it okay if I get you a towel now?" He asked her.
"Sure." She said smiling and sitting down on his bed as he went off to the bathroom.
Brooke looked around his room and saw a picture frame with a picture of her and Lucas on the beach in it. Lucas returned with a towel and his infamous hoodie.
"Thanks." She said taking the towel and drying off her hair then putting the hoodie on.
"EW this smells like Lucas." Brooke said making an ugly face.
"Well you can just take it off if you don't like it then." Lucas said smiling at her and wrapping his arms around her. He walked her towards the bed and pushed her gently onto it.
"Do you want to tell me about tonight?" He asked her.
"Yes, but not in this position." Brooke said pushing Lucas off of her and sitting up.
"Alright, start from the beginning." He said leaning on one arm and looking at Brooke.
"Ok well the actual detention part wasn't that bad apart from Madison being the bitch that she is. Anyway I got through that and was getting ready to leave and just come be with you or go home, whatever, and I suddenly get blocked by some skater dork named Ben and his friend Danny and one of them grabbed my butt." She said and at this point Lucas cut her off.
"Brooke did these guys hurt you or anything" Lucas asked her putting his hand on her arm and sitting up.
"No, well I mean maybe they would've but Travis showed up and actually saved my recently harassed ass." Brooke said.
"Travis did?" Lucas asked her wanting to be reassured.
"Yep." She replied.
"God Brooke, I wish I would've been there." Lucas said pulling her towards him.
"I mean it's not that big of a deal because they were just stupid, but now I like owe Travis." Brooke said.
"You don't owe him Brooke." Lucas said rubbing her arm.
"I can't be that bitchy to the guy that saved me from… well they probably wouldn't have actually done anything, but still I just can't be mean to Travis." Brooke said.
"Just say thanks and leave it at that." Lucas said.
"That'll be fun." Brooke said rolling her eyes.
"Don't think about that tonight. Tonight I think we should have some real fun." Lucas said leaning closer to her and kissing her.
"Whoa mister, where's your mom?" Brooke asked him.
"Out for awhile, the house is ours." Lucas said and this time Brooke returned the kiss.
"Yay!" She screamed "love it." She said and Lucas rolled over so he was on top of her and started kissing her again.
The next day Lucas met Nathan at Karen's Café.
"Hey man what's up?" Nathan asked him taking a seat across from Lucas at the table.
"Look I have a favor to ask you." Lucas said.
"Alright, shoot." Nathan said leaning back in his chair.
"Last night these two guys Ben and Danny like attacked Brooke after detention." Lucas said.
"What do you mean attacked?" Nathan said stiffening up a little bit.
"They didn't like, rape her or whatever but it was just really inappropriate, and that Travis guy ended up saving her." Lucas said.
"This kind of stuff always happens to Brooke." Nathan said letting out a sigh.
"I know and I want it to stop. I wanted to ask you if you could help me, you know, teach these guys a lesson." Lucas said.
"Just tell me when and where." Nathan said.
"great, but listen just don't tell Brooke she probably wouldn't approve of this or whatever and she thinks I shouldn't be beating people up with my heart condition which is very untrue. Anyway just don't tell her." Lucas said.
"Ok, fine by me. When are you planning on doing this?" Nathan asked him and Lucas took a breath into answer but let it out when he saw Brooke and Haley come in.
"Well well look what we have here." Brooke said clasping her hands together.
"The two enemies eating in the same restaurant, even at the same table." Haley said and then gasped dramatically.
"What are you two talking about?" Brooke asked them walking behind Lucas and putting her arms around his neck.
"Just hanging out." Nathan said shrugging.
"Yeah right." Haley said sitting down next to Nathan.
"Really, you guys asked for it." Lucas said.
"Silly boys, we didn't really think it would happen." Brooke said also taking a seat.
"Guess it did." Nathan said.
Haley and Brooke exchanged glances.
"You two are being weird." Brooke said glancing back and forth between the two.
"Not really." They said in unison.
"Alright well let's just eat. But just for future reference Haley and I will find out what you guys are doing." Brooke said.
"Ok." Nathan said playing on the confused front.
The girls were looking through the menus and Nathan and Lucas glanced at each other.
They both knew this would be a hard one to keep secret.
Alright I will try to update soon, really but I may not so just prepare. Please review (like thoughts of Travis this chapter?) and next chapter is more with beating up Danny and Ben and more Travis stuff...
