Summary: Nathan and Haley loved their life together... They were the perfect couple. But then Haley Leaves Nathan for her career and leaves him to cope. Nathan finds a friend in Brooke... but what happens when she falls for him but he's still stuck in the past? Brathan and possibly Laley. Takes place in season 2 after Haley leaves. Brooke is NOT going out with felix. Lucas DOES have feelings for Brooke but she has no idea.

Authors Note: Hey! Well, this is my first fan fiction and I just couldn't stop think about it. I was away on vacation and all the sudden I'd just be in deep thought about Brathan and this story! Please read and review. I appreciate all comments whether they're nice or not so please, feel free to speak up! Enjoy!

Peyton and Brooke were walking in the hallway at school when Nathan walked by them. He hadn't been at school since the day that haley had left him. Peyton made eye contact with him giving him a pitiful look, Brooke on the other hand hardly even looked at him.

"Hey, um... can you do me a favor?" Peyton asked Brooke.

"Sure. whats up?"

"Well, the other day I went to Nathan's to see how he was and try to get him to talk with me-"

"Any luck?" Brooke interrupted.

"Nope... So I was wondering if you could try to go talk to him."

"Me? I mean Nathans not exactly my biggest fan."

"I know but..." Peyton paused. "You can kinda relate you know? I mean, with the whole Lucas thing..." Peyton trailed off.

The two friends walked in silence for awhile until Brooke said "Sure, I'll see what i can do."

"Thank you!" Peyton said hugging Brooke.

"No guarantees, though." Brooke said, walking off to her next class.

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After school Brooke drove to Nathan apartment. She parked her car and stepped out.

"Here goes nothing." She said to her self.

Brooke was walking up her third flight of stairs in her denim Mini skirt, a lacy white tank top and a pair of gold high heels. By that time her feet were killing her.

"God damn stairs" Brooke mumbled.

Finally, in which seemed like forever Brooke had reached her last flight of stairs. She walked up the stairs but she tripped on a Step and tumbled back down the stairs.

"Shit!" Brooke yelled. She tried to get up but when she looked down at her feet, one of her heels had snapped in half. "Fuck" Brooke swore again, this time even more aggravated. She stood up and she felt a huge pain in the back of her right thigh. She looked back at it and there was a huge gash on her thigh. "ugh."

Brooke sat back down and took her shoes off so she could walk better. She stood up once again, trying to walk up the stairs; limping.

Brooke found Nathan's door and knocked on it as hard as she could. She was not in a good mood anymore. She waited for a while and nobody came to the door. She knocked again and yelled "Nathan Scott, I know you're in there! Open this god damn door!" After a few moments Brooke faced a very angry Nathan.

"What do you want?" Nathan spat at brooke.

"Just let me in." Brooke said as she pushed threw Nathan and made her way in.

As brooke walked in to his apartment he noticed that she had a huge gash on her thigh and that she wasn't wearing her shoes. "What happened?" He asked her.

"what?" She said, not clear on what he was talking about.

"Your leg."

Brooke paused before answering. "Oh, that? Its nothing... I just fell down the stairs while I was walking up here."

"Are you okay?"

"I'll be fine, but my heels sure as hell aren't!" Brooke said showing him her shoes.

They stood in silence until Brooke felt more blood from her cut trickling down her leg. She closed her eyes in pain. The truth was, it really did hurt but she didn't want Nathan to worry about her. He had enough problems already. "Do you have a bandage or something?" She said quietly, still in pain.

"I'm not sure, I'll go check." After about a minute or so, Nathan came back with a bandage, cotton swobs, and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide.

Nathan cleared space on his couch for the two of them to sit. "Um... I'm not exactly sure how to do this but... lift up your leg." Brooke raised her eyebrow questioningly. "Don't worry, I'm not coming on to you." With that, Brooke lifted up her leg slowly. Nathan opened the bottle of hydrogen peroxide and dabbed some on a cotton swob. He touched Brooke's leg with the cotton swob and she screeched with pain. "I'm sorry." Nathan said quickly.

"Its okay." Brooke said. "Just try to do it fast." Nathan started to clean her leg with the peroxide again and Brooke squeezed her eyes shut as tears started to run down her check. He was just about finished and he looked over at Brooke and realized how badly her injury hurt.

Nathan grabbed the bandage from the table and started to wrap it around Brooke's leg. When he was finished wrapping he put a pin in to hold it together. "I'm finished... You can put your leg down."

Brooke put her leg down and sat up. "Thanks Nate." She said, giving him half a smile.

Once again, it was silent. After a few minutes Nathan said "Well, this is awkward... So, why are you here anyway?"

"I wanted to see how you were... how you were talking everything."

"oh."

"yea."

"Why? I mean we aren't exactly friends and I didn't come try to comfort you when luke-"

"Stop." Brooke said, cutting him off. She really didn't want to get into a conversation about her past with Lucas, especially with Nathan. "Look, I know that we've had our differences but I just wanted to see how you are. I mean, I know what happened between lucas and me is different from you and Haley... but I know what it feels like, you know? Brooke paused. "The whole cheating thing... to have your heart Broken."