Guys, oh my god I'm so sorry I haven't updated in like five billion years. I've had like the worst writers block I've ever had and I've been trying to write this chapter since the last time I updated but nothing came at all, but now im back into it so here's your update. Still thanks for the reviews and I hope you will keep reviewing even though you prob hate me. I really will update sooner and school's almost out so summer I will update a lot. So get happy for that. Please read and enjoy…

Haley and Brooke were sitting in their living room watching General Hospital. Brooke had recently been trying to catch Haley up on a lot of complicated and twisted history.

"So that's Courtney right?" Haley asked Brooke.

"No that's Carly, Courtney died." Brooke said, not understanding how someone as smart as Haley couldn't understand a simple soap opera.

"Brooke this is too hard." Haley said.

"Haley it's just a soap opera." Brooke said.

"Exactly. You know if they had a course on TV you would so get an A." Haley said.

"I know right." Brooke said as there was a knock on the door.

Haley and Brooke both looked at each other, each of them wanting the other to get up and answer the door.

"Fine, even though you're the one who needs the exercise." Brooke said to Haley and Haley rolled her eyes.

"Just kidding." Brooke said patting Haley's arm as she walked by towards the door. She opened it to see Travis standing there.

"Hey Brooke, and Haley." He said looking past Brooke so he could see Haley.

Haley waved in a somewhat sarcastic manner from the couch.

"What do you want?" Brooke asked him trying to sound as nice as she could.

"Well I just dropped by to see if you and Haley wanted to go get some lunch with me or something." Travis said.

"I have to study." Haley said from inside the room excusing herself from the invitation.

Brooke knew she couldn't use that excuse so she had to think on her feet "um…" She said and then Travis cut her off.

"What's you excuse today? Lucas wouldn't like it? You know it's weird usually the girl whips the guy but with you two it's different. I can see Lucas has the upper-hand." Travis said leaning against the door frame.

Brooke thought she had a good come back all prepared but nothing came to mind.

Haley was sitting in the living room enjoying watching the drama unfold. "Can you guys like freeze frame for two seconds, I need some popcorn." Haley said.

Brooke turned around and gave Haley a mean look then she pushed Travis outside and shut the door behind her.

"Ok, let's get a few things straight here Travis. Just because you saved me the other night does not give you the right to just waltz into my apartment and start…"

"And start what? Being friendly?" Travis asked her "I don't understand why you and your roommate are so uptight I mean did you have a bad experience with your neighbor before me or something?"

"I don't really know who lived there before you." Brooke said, this was the first time she had actually thought about that.

"Listen, I'm just trying to be nice and get you to loosen up a bit." He said.

"You know who you remind me of?" She asked him.

"No, but I bet your going to tell me." He said.

"Right. Chris Keller, ever heard of him?" Brooke asked him.

"No I can't say I have. What is he like your old boyfriend or something?" Travis asked her.

"No he's a singer and he caused a lot of trouble for Haley by being arrogant and cocky, and well basically everything that you are." Brooke said.

"Sorry honey that's just the way I am." Travis said flashing her a smile.

"Oh my god can you please stop calling me 'honey'?" Brooke asked him.

"Sorry… Brooke." He said.

Brooke cleared her throat "thanks." She said.

"Thanks for what?" He asked her.

"For calling me Brooke." She said shifting her weight because she was feeling a little uncomfortable. "Um and for whatever it is you want to call it that you did for me last night."

"No problem." He said "I should probably go now since you obviously don't want me here." He said turning to go back to his apartment but then he stopped and turned back around to face Brooke. "And I won't call you honey anymore just so you know. All you had to do was ask." He said raising his eye brows and walking away smiling.

Brooke stood in an almost shock-like stance for a few seconds and then shook herself out of it and went back inside her apartment.

Haley looked up at her "How'd things go?" she asked her.

"As if you didn't know." Brooke said.

"What do you mean?" Haley asked her acting extra confused.

"That cup on the counter wasn't there before; I know you were at the door with it." Brooke said.

"Ok, alright you caught me." Haley said getting off the couch and putting her hands up in a "giving up" sort of gesture "but contrary to what you might think that little trick doesn't work so well so I actually gave up when I couldn't tell if Travis was saying 'being friendly' or 'seeing mentally'" Haley said.

"I'm pretty sure it was being friendly, and actually I do know the cup thing doesn't work that well. It's pretty much my trademark move. I've mastered the art of eavesdropping." Brooke said.

"That's great Brooke" Haley said sarcastically "but umm, back to my original question, how'd it go?" Haley asked her.

"Oh." Brooke sighed and sat down "it was ok I guess. Something about him really makes me hate him, but then something else about him seems to keep me interested." Brooke said.

"That's a deadly combination." Haley said.

"Why?" Brooke asked her.

"Because that's how I felt about Nathan before I feel head over heels in love with him." Haley said.

"Believe me Haley, I would never fall in love with Travis, and that's because I'm already totally in love with Lucas. Nothing can change that." Brooke said.

"Your insecurities could." Haley said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Brooke said standing up defensively.

"It's not like a bad thing Brooke, calm down. It's just that you went through a lot with Lucas before and you might one day be scared of loosing him." Haley said.

"I'm scared of loosing him everyday Haley." Brooke said like that was pretty obvious.

"Ok but you don't need to be. Lucas and I talk and I can tell when someone's in love, and I know that both of you are." Haley said sitting down on the couch after letting that little pick me up speech out.

"You're the one who brought up the fact that I could fall in love with Travis in the first place. You don't really think I would do that to Lucas would you?" Brooke asked Haley also taking a seat across from her.

"No Brooke, I'm just saying that guys like Travis are manipulative and he can twist things so that they sound good to you." Haley said.

"Oh, is that how Nathan is? Is that what Nathan did to you? He manipulated you?"

Brooke asked Haley. She was getting a little angrier than she really meant to but for some reason it was just coming out. Maybe it was because she knew Haley was right.

"Brooke, that's not what I'm saying. Nathan had some of the qualities that I hear you talking about Travis having. I'm not trying to be mean I'm trying to keep you happy. I want you and Lucas to be together." Haley said.

"We are together, and I wouldn't cheat on him because that would make me the biggest hypocrite in the world which is something I'm not." Brooke said standing up and grabbing her purse "I need to get out of here." Brooke said walking to the door.

"Brooke, wait where are you going?" Haley asked her.

"I don't know just away from you I guess." Brooke said glaring at Haley.

"I have no idea what just happened." Haley said, a look of utter confusion on her face.

"I don't either, but I didn't like it." And with that Brooke left the Haley to herself.


Lucas and Nathan met down at the River court together.

"Are they gonna show?" Nathan asked Lucas, standing awkwardly on the court.

"I told them I had pot, they should be here." Lucas said slipping his hands into his pockets also feeling uncomfortable being alone with Nathan like this, and nervous about this little encounter that was supposedly about to happen.

They two of them stood in a few more moments of awkward silence before Nathan shifted his weight and said "man I wish we had a ball out here."

"I wouldn't really feel like playing anyway." Lucas said looking at Nathan to see his reaction "just a little uneasy about all of this." He said to try and explain his previous statement.

"Right." Nathan said sitting down on the nearest bench, just in time for him to see approaching visitors.

"They're here." Nathan said nodding his head towards there direction.

Lucas turned around to see Danny and Ben approaching them.

"You got the stuff?" Danny asked Lucas and Nathan walking stealthily up to them, with Ben following closely behind.

Lucas cleared his throat and glanced at Nathan.

"Um, no actually we don't." Lucas said.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Ben asked them defensively.

"We actually called you here to talk about a certain something you did last night to my girlfriend." Lucas said.

"Brooke right?" Danny said stepping up closer to Nathan and Lucas "I had a feeling this would happen, it's not like Tree Hill's two golden boys would ever deal drugs."

"That's not really the point here." Nathan said.

"Right well we're going to go now, since you don't have what we wanted." Danny said starting to leave.

"No I don't think you are." Lucas said running up and grabbing him, and turning him around so he could get a good punch at him, which he did, right at the left eye.

"Hey man, back off. I didn't do anything to your girlfriend." Danny said backing away from Lucas as quickly as he could.

"That's not what Brooke said." Nathan said switching his glance between Danny and Ben.

"We were just kidding around. It wasn't serious. Besides that guy already did you're punching for you, so there's really no need to do more." Danny said.

"What guy?" Nathan asked them glancing quizzically at Lucas.

"I know who it was." Lucas said shaking his head, upset because he wasn't there first to beat these jerks up. "Look if you ever touch my girlfriend again, I won't just let you go." Lucas said.

"Hey if you ever hit me again, you'll be in more trouble then you asked for." Danny said shrugging his shoulders and grabbing Ben and running off into the distance.

"That didn't go like I thought it would." Nathan said turning to Lucas "what happened to beating them up?"

"I don't want to after Travis did it first." Lucas said

"Man this about that stupid Travis guy? Lucas you have to stop worrying about him." Nathan said.

"I just think he has a thing for Brooke." Lucas said.

"Yeah well there's a lot of guys who have a thing for Brooke, your just gonna have to deal with that." Nathan said patting him on the shoulder and heading off to his car.


Brooke sat alone at the food court in the mall. She was supposed to meet Lucas and as much as she wanted him to be late, he wasn't. She was just early, actually now that she looked at the time on her phone she was on time. Lucas should be there soon, or at least she hoped he would so she could stop sitting by herself and feeling like a loser.

She was starting to text Lucas when she saw two hands on the table. She looked up to see Danny leaning over her.

"Hey Brooke." He said.

"Get away from me." She said coldly.

"Look I'm not going to touch you or anything you stuck-up bitch." He said.

"get the hell away, I don't come to the mall to be insulted by wanna be skaters who smoke pot and are probably going to die in a fake gang fight." Brooke said.

"Tell your little Lucas boyfriend, that I'm coming after him with a big group of guys if he ever hits me again." Danny said.

"Again?" She asked him quizzically.

"Don't play dumb, we all know it was you that asked him and his little daddy's boy friend to beat me and Ben up." Danny said.

"Can you just leave?" She asked him now also angry because Lucas had gone behind her back and done that.

"Why are you here all alone Brooke? You waiting for your boyfriend? It doesn't seem very safe, with me the 'pot smoking rapist' here and all." Danny said.

"Can't you just leave her alone?" Travis asked him walking up from behind and pulling Danny away from the table.

"Don't hit me." Danny said a hint of fear in his voice.

"Don't threaten Brooke and I won't have to" Travis said.

"Whatever" Danny said leaving quickly.

"Thanks." Brooke said, hating that she has just said that.

"Hey you're welcome, any time." He said. "What are you doing here by yourself with no food, and no shopping bags?" he asked her.

"Waiting for Lucas not that it's any of your business." Brooke said.

"I just hate to see pretty girls sitting by themselves." He said.

"I'm fine, he's just a little late." She said glancing at her cell phone, approaching ten minutes late which wasn't like him.

"Mind if I sit with you until he gets here?" He asked Brooke already sitting before she could answer.

"Guess not." She said motioning at his quick motion of sitting.

"Have you called him yet?" He asked her.

"No." She said looking down.

"Maybe you should." Travis said.

Brooke sighed and picked up her phone dialing Lucas. She glanced at Travis while it was ringing. He was sitting stealthily back in the chair watching Brooke. No answer.

"Great." She said sarcastically.

"Why don't you let me buy you something to eat?" He asked her.

"No you really don't need to do that." She said and he sort of cut her off at the end leaning forward.

"Please Brooke, I'm offering." He said.

She looked at him as if trying to figure him out. She was really hungry.

"Fine but I'm paying for some of it." She said.

"No, sorry I never let a lady pay." He said getting up and putting out his hand to help Brooke up.

"whatever." She said getting up without using the help of his hand and walking towards the food.


Haley sat leaning against Nathan in her apartment.

"I can't wait till we're in our own apartment." Haley said.

"Speaking of that." Nathan said, stopping stroking Haley's hair.

"Oh god, what?" Haley asked him pulling herself up so she could see Nathan's face.

"well I mean are we ever going to tell Brooke or are we just going to grab our stuff and run hoping she won't notice?" Nathan asked Haley.

"Shut up." Haley said, still smiling as she hit Nathan. He pulled her down on top of him so that there faces were just inches away.

"I'll tell Brooke." Haley said and then Nathan kissed her.

"When?" He asked her.

"Someday." Haley said and Nathan kissed her again.

"She's kind of mad at me." Haley said and Nathan suddenly stopped kissing her and sat up a little.

"What'd you do Hales?" He asked her kind of jokingly.

"It's not a big deal, and actually I don't really know. We were just talking about Travis and she sort of stormed off." Haley said.

"This Travis guy has been coming up a lot lately." Nathan said.

"Ugh I know." Haley sighed and lay herself down against Nathan's chest again. "And I hate it because he's such an ass."

"He's not mean to you is he?" Nathan asked Haley rubbing Haley's arms gently.

"He's not really anything to me and if he was mean wouldn't be the word. It's almost like too nice but in a cocky arrogant way." Haley said.

"So it's basically we have a Chris Keller on our hands." Nathan said nodding his head understanding how this could be trouble.

"Yeah pretty much." Haley agreed. She picked herself up again and kissed Nathan.

"But we don't have to worry about that right now." She said nodding and kissing him again.

Nathan slipped his arms around her waste and pulled her as close as possible to him.

Their kissed deepened. Nathan started to slip off Haley's shirt but she stopped him.

"Brooke is going to be home soon I think." Haley said.

"She can watch." Nathan said going into kiss Haley again.

"Nathan, I don't want to be on her bad side any more." Haley said pulling back.

Nathan groaned and leaned back against the couch.

"I can't wait until we get out own apartment." Nathan repeated Haley's earlier words.

"Yeah, I know." She said.

Brooke locked her car and put her keys in her purse. She walked up the sidewalk to Lucas's door and knocked on it. A few seconds later and he was there.

"Hey Brooke." He said going into kiss her on the lips but she let him have the cheek.

"'hey Brooke' that's an interesting start." Brooke said stepping inside.

"What are you talking about? Start to what?" Lucas asked her closing the door confused.

"Start to an explanation, like why'd you ditch me today?" She asked him.

"Ditch yo… oh my god Brooke I'm so sorry." He said remembering half way through his sentence. "I totally forgot we had a date today." He said reaching to put his hands on her shoulders but she pulled away.

"I mean it's not that big of a deal Lucas, but you like didn't answer your phone, or check your messages or text messages. I just wish you had called or something." She said sitting down.

"I'm really sorry Brooke, I just got kind of caught up" He said.

"What were you doing that was so important?" She asked him.

Lucas panicked for a second "just some stuff, around town." He said nodding his head almost to make himself believe it.

"Like what?" She asked him looking at him like he was a crazy person because he couldn't just answer her question.

"You know helping my mom out and stuff." He said.

"Does helping your mom out include hitting Danny at some point?" Brooke asked him, getting angry that he hadn't just told her.

"What? How did you find out?" He asked her sitting down next to her.

"hmm well at some point while I was sitting by myself like a loser in the middle of the food court Danny came up and started calling me a bitch and saying he'd have a group of gang members beat you up if you ever like touched him. I guess that's how I found out." She said.

Lucas sat in silence not knowing what to say next.

"That's it. You get caught and have nothing to say about it?" She asked him.

"Brooke, I'm sorry I knew you didn't want me to do it…"

"That's right I didn't" She said interrupting him "and this is why. Danny and his little friends aren't kidding around Lucas and now you're in trouble. I don't care if it hurts your pride; I'd rather have that then you being hurt." Brooke said.

"I know." He said quietly.

"And with your heart condition…" She said but this time Lucas cut her off.

"Alright, that's enough Brooke! I'm not a child, I'm pretty sure I can take care of myself."

Brooke sat taken aback for a few seconds "wow." Brooke said standing up and walking to the door "I'm really truly sorry that I care. That's just so inconsiderate. I mean it's really only ok that you can treat me like a child and act like every guy in the world is going to kidnap and rape me or something but god forbid I care about your heart just a little. I'm just so stupid." Brooke said, all of it being meanly sarcastic.

"Brooke, I didn't mean to yell and furthermore I didn't mean to leave you there at the mall alone today." He said.

"Well actually just FYI I wasn't alone. Travis once again saved me from Danny and we went and got something to eat together. I guess he beat you again. You need to get on the ball here Lucas." Brooke said opening the door to leave and then she turned again "you can go beat Danny up if you want to; I guess I shouldn't care if you get hospitalized or hurt or have a heart attack. Whatever, I mean it's not that big of a deal for a big grown up guy who can take care of himself. You obviously don't care about my heart so I guess I don't really care about yours either." She said walking out and slamming the door.

Brooke got home and opened the door to Haley and Nathan sitting on the couch watching TV.

"Hi guys." She said, with not a hint of anger in her voice.

"Brooke, Hey." Haley said apprehensive from their fight earlier.

"Haley, look I'm really sorry about earlier. I was way out of line. I hope you're not mad." Brooke said

"Of course not, but I do need to tell you something Brooke." Haley said.

"Ok what?" She asked her sitting down on a chair facing Haley and Nathan.

Haley looked at Nathan anxiously. "Well Nathan and I were thinking about moving into an apartment together." Haley said grabbing Nathan's hand for support.

"Oh and you want this one, that's totally fine I can just crash with Peyton for awhile…"

"No Brooke, we're moving somewhere else for a fresh start you know." Nathan said.

"Oh, that's so cute." Brooke said.

"You're not upset?" Haley asked her.

"Hell no, I mean I have really enjoyed becoming such good friends with you tutor girl but umm you guys are in love and you should be together." Brooke said leaning towards them smiling.

"Well that's good." Haley said.

"You sure you don't want this apartment?" She asked them.

"Positive." Haley said smiling at Nathan who returned the smile back at her.

"Ok well you guys like make out or something, I left something in my car. I'll be back in a few." Brooke said getting up and walking out the door quickly.

"Well that was a lot easier then I thought it would be." Haley said to Nathan who shrugged.

"Come here you." She said kissing him and then pulling him into a hug.

Brooke was yet again pacing the pavement. She had totally just put on an act in there. She was happy for Nathan and Haley but she didn't want to live alone. She really needed someone to talk to right now. She looked around in the night for someone, anyone but of course when you need them no ones ever around. She looked up and saw the light on in Travis's apartment.

She got up the stairs and bracing herself she knocked on his door. Immediately she heard "come in" from the inside.

She opened the door timidly and saw Travis sitting at a desk typing on his laptop. Fricken sweet apartment.

"Brooke, hi." He said closing the computer and smiling at her, very surprised she was there.

"Um hi." She said waving at him, wow that was dorky she thought.

"What are you doing here?" He asked her.

"You said if I ever wanted to hang out I could stop by, so here I am." She shrugged.

"Wow I had always hoped this day would come. Come in, sit down, do you want

anything to drink?" He asked her leading her to the couch where she sat down slowly.

"No thanks, I'm fine." She said.

"So what's up?" He asked her sitting down closely next to her.

"What if I had been an axe murderer?" She asked him.

"Brooke, your way to pretty to be an axe murderer." Travis said.

"Whatever, you just let anyone into your apartment?" She asked him.

"I'm a very trusting person, besides who would want to murder me?" He asked her.

"I guess I'm not a very trusting person." She said leaning back and looking sort of gloomy.

"Yeah I sort of got that from you." Travis said.

"I've had my heart broken, no ripped out before." She said.

"Who's the guy; I'll beat him up for you." Travis said smiling causing Brooke to laugh a little.

"No, don't worry about that." She said.

"So what'd you really come here to talk about?" he asked her.

"well I got in a really big fight with Lucas, and now my roommate is moving out and leaving me all by my lonesome and I don't know, I sort of thought you' be able to help." She said.

"Interesting. Did you and Lucas break up?" He asked her.

"Well no but I did some screaming and yelling to say the least." Brooke said.

"I'm sorry but I just don't really know what to say or do." Travis said actually sort of losing his cool.

"I'm just really overwhelmed and upset right now, I 'm the one who doesn't know what to do." Brooke said putting her hands over her head and leaning back.

"Hey Brooke, it's ok… come here." He said pulling her over into a hug.

Brooke felt very tense at first but then she sort of let it go, but not for to long. She pulled away.

"Thanks, I think that actually might have helped." She said.

"I thought it would." He said.

"Well I should go now; Haley and Nathan thought I would be back probably five minutes ago." Brooke said getting up.

"Let me get the door." He said running in front of her and opening it.

"Bye." She said walking out.

"Hope everything turns out ok." He said and with that he closed the door.

Brooke got back into her apartment and she got out her cell phone and dialed Lucas, who didn't answer. She started talking after the beep "hey babe it's Brooke, um I just need to talk to you so call me back as soon as you get this P.S please do call me back." Brooke said and hung up.

Hope you liked, don't worry too much about Brooke and Lucas or Brooke and Travis for that matter. Tell me your thoughts though, please I will try to update by next week. Just super busy. Once again super sorry for the long lull. Bye