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"If you tell anyone I'll deny it." Travis said and with that he threw Brooke out of his apartment.

Brooke's breathing was hard, she had a tearstained face and she felt like she was going to collapse from trying to fight Travis off of her, but she just wasn't strong enough.

She grabbed onto the side railing for support as she walked back to her apartment.

This couldn't be happening.

She fumbled around for her keys and got inside her apartment and locked the door quickly.

She knew it wasn't possible but she still half expected to see Travis standing there.

She ran to her bathroom and turned on the shower and tore of her clothes.

When she got in the hot water she scrubbed her whole body furiously so much that it hurt.

After she stopped the tears came again.

She'd trusted him…

After she got out of the shower she grabbed sweatpants and a hoodie and put them on.

She sat on her living room couch feeling totally out and away from everything real.

She didn't even feel like she was in her own apartment.


Lucas, Haley, and Nathan sat in Karen's café at a table together.

"Guys seriously where is Brooke?" Lucas asked them.

"I don't know she's really late." Haley said.

"I'm getting a little worried, why wouldn't she just call if something was wrong?" Lucas said.

"I've called her twice she won't pick up her phone." Haley said shrugging.

"Maybe we should go to her apartment or something." Nathan suggested.

"Hold on." Lucas said getting up and walking over to Madison and Tim who had just come in.

"Hey, have either of you seen Brooke recently?" Lucas asked them.

"Was she supposed to meet you guys?" Madison asked them flipping back her hair.

"Yeah, she's really late and won't pick up her phone." Lucas said running his hands through his hair nervously.

Madison sighed "Lucas, god I hate to be the one to tell you this but I saw her texting Travis in class today and she said that they had to get together tonight." Madison said.

"Well I mean she did say she was going to invite him." Lucas said not wanting to think that Brooke could be cheating on him.

"The message didn't say anything about meeting up with you guys, I don't know." Madison said looking down at the ground.

Lucas laughed in sarcasm and anger "I guess I'll go see for myself." He said starting to leave.

"I'm sorry Lucas, you don't deserve this." Madison said.

"Whatever." He said "I have to go."

"Wait Lucas, maybe you should calm down a little." Haley said standing up to stop him.

"No actually I don't think that's a good idea." Lucas said "Have a nice night everyone." He said his voice oozing with anger as he left the café.

"You know Madison." Haley said turning to face her "you really have no right to put your nose in places where it sure as hell doesn't belong." Haley said.

"You would rather me keep it to myself that I know for a fact that Brooke is cheating on Lucas."

"No I'm pretty sure you don't know that 'for a fact'." Haley said angrily.

"Haley, you're the one who doesn't know anything about the situation." Madison said "I can tell when there's cheating going on and Brooke's doing it, and she's a bitch for that. Lucas deserves better."

"What like you? God Tim I think you deserve better than Madison; she's obviously only doing this so that she can have Lucas all to herself. It's what she did with my husband." Haley said.

"Haley come on, maybe we should go." Nathan said standing behind her.

"Look Haley, I don't like Lucas that way. He's just a friend and I care about him and just so you know Tim and I love each other so you can go be a pathetic bitch somewhere else."

"If you did anything to hurt Brooke's relationship with Lucas then you better stay away from me." Haley said grabbing Nathan's hand and walking towards the door.

A confused Nathan looked back at a confused Tim and they exchanged glances.

"Call me." Tim mouthed to Nathan who nodded in return.


Lucas got to Brooke's apartment building and marched straight past her door to Travis's and began to pound on it. Travis opened the door looking like he had just woken up from a deep sleep.

"Hey…" He said but got cut off by Lucas.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Lucas asked him.

Travis, thinking Lucas was talking about what he did to Brooke, said "hey, she wanted it too; she basically threw herself at me." Travis said.

Lucas stepped back a second, and realized it was actually true that Brooke had gone behind his back and cheated on him with Travis.

"You were actually with Brooke?" he asked Travis.

"What… yeah tonight. Look I'm sorry I couldn't pass that opportunity up. I guess she just likes me more than you." Travis said, surprised at how easily he was getting out of this.

"Just stay away from here." Lucas said sort of quietly before Travis closed the door.

Lucas quickly regained his composure and walked over to Brooke's apartment and knocked on the door.

He heard a "who is it?" From inside, Brooke's voice.

"Lucas, your boyfriend." He said. "We need to talk."

Brooke slowly got up and opened the door at which point Lucas walked in swiftly.

"I can't believe you Brooke." Lucas said.

"What are you talking about?" She asked him.

"You ditch me, Haley and Nathan for dinner tonight to sleep with that fucking Travis guy." Lucas said.

Brooke stared at him in disbelief "Lucas seriously what are you talking about?" She asked him starting to feel tears and anger build up inside her.

"Madison told me she saw you texting him in class today…"

"Yeah about coming to dinner tonight." Brooke yelled.

"More like about sleeping with him, I talked to him just now Brooke. He said you threw yourself at him." Lucas yelled back.

Brooke couldn't stand up anymore. She sat down on the couch feeling as though the wind had been knocked out of her.

"You don't know anything about tonight." Brooke said.

"STOP LYING BROOKE!" He said.

"I wasn't with Travis like that, I… god you're so wrong." Brooke said standing again.

"I thought you loved me, we were going to go to college together." Lucas said more softly.

Brooke felt the tears starting to run down her face "Lucas! Travis is and asshole and you don't know anything about tonight. You're wrong." She said.

"So you didn't sleep with him?" Lucas asked her.

"I…" She didn't know what to say to that.

"Yeah that's what I thought." Lucas said heading for the door.

"Lucas wait." Brooke said walking up to him.

"Get away from me Brooke." He said pushing her gently away from him

Once again Brooke felt that same feeling of having the wind being knocked out of her.

"Fuck you." She said.

"You know…what the hell Brooke? How the hell can you be mad at me right now? You're the one who fucked Travis." Lucas said.

"Oh my god. You are so wrong I can't even…" She struggled to find the right words "you trust the slut Madison and the jackass Travis over me, your girlfriend." Brooke said.

"Brooke! You looked me right in the eye and could not deny that you slept with Travis." Lucas said stepping towards her.

"That's just because…" She couldn't carry on because she was crying so much.

"What Brooke? What?" He asked her grabbing her arm.

"Lucas get your hands OFF of me!" She yelled stepping away.

"Why are you acting like this? You had to know that I would find out that you…"

"That I slept with Travis right? How can you not see?" She asked him sitting down on the couch again.

"See what, that you're a slut?" He asked her.

Brooke looked at him sharply. Lucas couldn't believe he had just said that.

"Get out." She said so coldly that Lucas could basically feel the room drop in temperature.

"Brooke… I didn't mean that. I'm sorry." He said.

"I don't care; you have no right to call me a slut. You have no idea what happened tonight and I don't really care if you ever know. You're a fucking asshole and you know what Lucas I hope that I never have to see your ass of a face again." Brooke said.

"Brooke I'm sorry." He said again.

"Go away now." She said.

"Alright fine." He said walking to the door and leaving. Once he got outside he couldn't quite put together what all had happened in there, but he had never intended on them getting into that big of a fight. The anger just kind of took over him. He had called Brooke a slut, something that he would never forgive himself for, ever.


Haley and Nathan sat in Nathan's car parked outside her apartment.

"So I'll call you tomorrow about moving and stuff?" Haley asked for reassurance.

"Yes." Nathan said smiling as Haley started to leave but he place a hand over her arm.

"I just want you to know that I thought you were really sexy tonight when you got angry at Madison." Nathan said.

Haley looked at him putting on her best 'sexy' face. "Really…" She said and leaned over to kiss him. Nathan pulled her as close as possible to him considering that they were in a car and deepened the kiss, wrapping his arms around Haley.

The two of them broke apart when they heard a car door slam.

"That's Lucas's car." Haley said opening the car door. "I'll see you tomorrow, now I have to go do some damage control."

"Love you Hales." Nathan said.

"You too." She said getting out. She walked over to Lucas's car and saw him sitting in the front seat; he hadn't even turned the car on yet.

"Lucas." She said tapping on the window, he turned and looked at her and opened the door to get out.

"Starting a new slamming doors phase?" Haley asked him.

"I screwed up really bad with Brooke." Lucas said.

"Like how bad?" Haley asked him.

"I don't know if we are currently a couple anymore." Lucas said.

"Lucas!" Haley said hitting him on the arm "go apologize to her."

"Haley she did cheat on me with Travis." Lucas said.

"What? How can you know that for sure? You don't really trust Madison that much do you?" She asked him.

"Travis said she threw herself at him, and Brooke didn't deny it." Lucas said.

"I don't believe that. I'm going to go talk to her." Haley said.

"Tell her I'm sorry, and I don't actually want to break up." Lucas said.

"Mhmm, you should go get some sleep Luke." Haley said.

"Good luck, she seemed pretty upset." Lucas said.

"Bye."

Haley walked upstairs and went inside their apartment. She saw Brooke sitting on the couch staring at the wall.

"Hey Brooke." Haley said, not knowing whether to sound serious or normal, or happy.

Brooke remained silent.

"So, um I ran into Lucas on the way out." Haley said.

"Great." Brooke remarked sarcastically.

Haley slowly walked over to the couch and took a seat "um he said you guys broke up." Haley said.

"Did he mention that he called me a slut?" Brooke asked Haley turning to her.

Haley did a double take to Brooke "no he didn't, uh he didn't tell me that."

"Yep that's me, Brooke the slut at your service; she just loves to sleep with guys behind her boyfriends back." Brooke said like she was advertising herself.

"Yeah, so what is the deal with Travis?" Haley asked her, approaching the whole thing very cautiously.

"I might as well just tell you that I hooked up with him, I mean it makes no difference what I say now." Brooke said.

"Why'd you do it?" Haley asked her; actually surprised that Brooke had slept with Travis.

"Hmm let me think about that, well he's hot so I just figured you know it may screw my relationship with the one guy that I've ever loved but what the hell it's worth it to hook up with the almighty Travis." Brooke said all in one sarcastic phrase.

"Brooke I'm confused." Haley said.

"I didn't want to Haley." Brooke said turning her face towards Haley and feeling tears coming down it.

"What do you mean?" Haley asked her

"I went over there to invite him to dinner, and… he invited me back to his room to help him decide what color shirt to wear… god I'm so stupid." Brooke said, even laughing a little bit. She had forgotten till now the reason she ever went back to his room.

"He…" Haley couldn't quite get the words out "he raped you?"

"Yes." Brooke said, which made her start to sob because she hadn't yet admitted that she'd actually been raped.

"Oh my god Brooke, come here." Haley said walking over to Brooke and pulling her into a hug.

"I'm calling the police." Haley said.

"No Haley." Brooke said pulling away from her "you can't."

"Why not? Brooke he raped you we can't just let that slip by." Haley said confused.

"I just don't want to deal with that tonight."

"Ok, but you do need to go to a doctor soon." Haley said.

"We wore a condom." Brooke said rolling her eyes. "How nice of him."

"You still need to get checked out." Haley said.

"Ok fine." Brooke said.

"Brooke can I ask you a question?" Haley asked her.

"You just did." Brooke said giving her a look and then she said "sure."

"Why didn't you tell Lucas the truth?" Haley asked her.

"I don't even know Haley, I mean he came in here accusing me of all this cheating stuff and I just went off on him and then it was just way not the right time to tell him and he called me a slut. But I guess even more then that I'm just embarrassed." Brooke said.

"Why are you embarrassed?" Haley asked her.

"Because I just feel so stupid for going back there with Travis, and for ever trusting him after you and everyone else told me how evil he was or whatever." Brooke said.

"You don't need to feel that way." Haley said placing a hand on Brooke's shoulder.

"Yeah but I do." Brooke said.

"Well if it makes you feel any better I was one minute away from kicking Madison's ass tonight." Haley said.

"You? Haley Tutorgirl James Scott was about to beat up anther person tonight?" Brooke asked her.

"Yeah she was really pissing me off." Haley said.

"No surprise… look Haley I need to go sleep um I'm about as drained as a person can get." Brooke said.

"Yeah of course you are, do you need anything?" Haley asked her.

"Just sleep." Brooke said smiling faintly before walking back to her room.

When she got inside she again had that feeling that Travis was somewhere in the room.

She had tried to act somewhat happy with Haley but she was only holding in fear and tears. She crawled into her bed and wrapped the cover around her as tight as possible realizing she was probably in for a long night of nightmares.


Haley showed up at Lucas's house and knocked on the door. A few seconds later he answered it.

"Did you talk to her?" Lucas asked her immediately as Haley walked into the living room.

"Um yeah and you have some major problems Lucas." Haley said.

"What? I don't understand." Lucas said.

"I can't believe you called Brooke a slut, I don't care what she did, or in this case didn't do, you can't just call a girl a slut. That's not even like you." Haley said.

"Haley I know, it just slipped out I was so angry." Lucas said.

"I don't know you're just not the same person I used to know and love." Haley said.

"Haley…" he started but she cut him off.

"By the way you're more wrong than ever about what happened with Brooke." Haley said sitting on his couch.

"Then why couldn't she just tell me she didn't sleep with Travis?" Lucas asked Haley sitting next to her.

"Because it happened but… not the way you think." Haley said, wondering if that was alright because Brooke hadn't given her the ok to tell Lucas about the rape.

"I… Haley I don't get it." Lucas said.

"Think about it. He took advantage of her Lucas." Haley said.

"You mean... he raped her?" Lucas asked Haley.

Haley sighed heavily "yes."

Lucas buried his head in his hands "oh my god." He muttered.

"She's really upset Luke." Haley said.

"Yeah I was the biggest jerk ever to her." Lucas said.

"You need to apologize." Haley said.

"No I need to go kill Travis." Lucas said springing up and grabbing his jacket.

"Lucas no!" Haley said walking over to him and blocking the door.

"Haley I'm serious I'm not letting him get away with this." Lucas said.

"You know that if you go over there right now then you might actually kill him and I mean literally." Haley said.

"Haley he raped Brooke, I can't just let that slide." Lucas said.

"Ok, that's fine but let's let the law deal with this." Haley said.

"No Hales I have to go." Lucas said.

"Lucas you need to talk to Brooke first." Haley said.

Lucas took in a deep breath "your right." He said backing away from the door as Haley let out a big breath.

"But Lucas give her tonight to rest, sleep and think things over. Both of you need to chill for awhile. And when you do talk to her don't talk immediately about the rape, try and get her to admit it to you and if she doesn't don't push it. She's beating herself up way too much over it." Haley said.

"Ok." Lucas said.

"and believe me if you go after Travis right now it will make everything worse, just trust me on that one." Haley said.

"Alright I do." He said there wasn't much emotion in his voice.

"Ok, I should go now." Haley said.

"Wait Haley, I'm sorry I've been different lately. And I'm also sorry we haven't been the best of friends or whatever. I promise I'll make that up to you after I get back on track with Brooke." Lucas said.

"Ok thanks. See you later." She said smiling and leaving his house.


Brooke woke up the next day as sun spilled into her room. She was feeling anything but sunny right now. She got out of her bed and walked down the hall where Haley was asleep on the couch.

Brooke quietly tried to make herself some cereal but she ended up waking Haley up.

"Sorry." Brooke said as Haley sat up on the couch.

"Oh it's no problem; I'm the one who slept on the couch." Haley said trying to smooth down her frazzled hair.

"You didn't have to do that by the way, you do have a bed in our room." Brooke said.

"It was late when I got back I just, didn't want to wake you." Haley said "besides this couch is pretty comfortable." Haley said just as she heard a knock at the door.

"I'll get that." Haley said jumping up.

"Wait." Brooke said stepping back a little "who is it?" She yelled towards the door.

"Um Lucas." Lucas's voice said from behind the door.

"I hope you don't mind I sort of talked to him last night." Haley said scared of Brooke's reaction.

"Did you tell him?" Brooke asked her.

"Sort of, I mean… you should just talk to him." Haley said.

"Fine let him in." Brooke said rolling her eyes.

"Are you mad?" Haley asked her.

"Not at you." Brooke said as Haley walked towards the door and opened it.

"Hi." Lucas said softly when Haley opened the door.

"Um I'm going to go get breakfast, I'll be back later." Haley said stepping out of the apartment and running down the stairs. She didn't want to be there for Brooke and Lucas's conversation.

"You can come in Lucas." Brooke said walking out to the living room area.

Lucas came in with a bouquet of flowers in his hand and closed the door behind him.

Neither one of them said anything. Lucas set the flowers down on the coffee table in the middle of the living room.

"Are those supposed to make up for last night?" Brooke asked him.

"No, they're part of my apology though." Lucas said.

"Interesting." Brooke said raising her eyebrows.

"Brooke please just listen." Lucas said.

"Gee Lucas last night when I listened I got called a slut, I'm not sure I want to do that again." Brooke said.

"I shouldn't have said that or anything else last night. Brooke I thought I was losing you that's why I was so angry." Lucas said taking a step closer to her as if to make more of a breakthrough.

"Lucas you almost lost me last night because you were being an ass." Brooke said.

"But I didn't loose you." He said, pointing out the fact that she had said almost.

"I guess not." Brooke said.

"Brooke I'm sorry, everything that happened last night was just wrong." Lucas said.

"The worst night of my life was last night." Brooke said sitting down on the couch.

"Look we're avoiding it but we can't anymore. Haley told me about Travis." Lucas said.

"Well at least you trust her over Travis and Madison." Brooke said rolling her eyes again.

"I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you." Lucas said.

"not only was I sexually abused last night Lucas, but to add onto that the one guy that I love most in the world accused me of cheating on him with the guy that had just raped me." Brooke said almost to the point of tears.

"I don't know what else to say but I'm sorry." Lucas said.

"Try that you love me, and that you would do anything to erase what happened last night… and god I don't know but you're always there to protect me but last night you weren't." Brooke said.

"Brooke…" Lucas said sitting down beside her and putting a hand on her shoulder.

Brooke wrapped her arms around Lucas tightly and cried onto his shoulder "I just needed you last night." She cried.

"I know, but I'm here now." Lucas said stroking her hair and holding her closer.

"Lucas I need you to promise me something." Brooke said looking up at him.

"Anything pretty girl." He said wiping away a tear that was falling down her face.

"Promise me that you'll never leave me, and that you'll always love me and trust me to not cheat on you, and that you'll never ever call me a slut again." Brooke said.

"I promise." Lucas said.

So there you have it, I know the ending was totally cheesy but I couldn't think of much else to do with it. So here's the deal I'm kind of stuck on where I want to go next with this story so if you have any suggestions please PLEASE tell me in a review I would really appreciate that and it will make upcoming chapters come faster if I actually know what to write about. Alright bye guys…