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"Well, thanks for everything Nate." Brooke smiled and took off her seat belt.

"Yeah, no problem."

Brooke opened the car door and stepped out. She was about to shut the door but realized she had to tell him one more thing.

"Oh, and Nathan. Um...about the whole thing in the bathroom...keep it to your self, okay?"

"Don't worry, your secrets safe with me." He said and smiled.

Finally, Brooke closed the door and walked towards her house. She waved goodbye before she reached for her key to open the door. Nathan waited outside until he knew she was safely inside of her house. She walked inside and closed the door behind her and Nathan drove away into the night.

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On the way home, Nathan thought about Brooke and what had happened the night before. Nathan had never seen Brooke cry before...he didn't think she actually did ever cry. It had surprised him to see her like that...vulnerable, hurt.

Brooke, in a way, felt kinda guilty for letting her self cry on Nathan. He was supposed to be the one hurting right now. He was supposed to need someone to cry on. She was supposed to comfort him. His wife just left him. But instead she broke down and he was taking care of her. Brooke felt bad that she had managed to make the situation about her instead of him.

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Brooke sat down in the chair next to her desk. She got on the computer and logged on to her AIM account. Almost instantly a window popped up. The IM was from Peyton.

PunknDisorderly: u going to tell me now?

BDavisLuvsya: maybe... ;

PunknDisorderly: c'mon brooke!

BDavisLuvsya: i will but not on aim. i cant spell for shit and im to tired to type rite now.

PunknDisorderly: fine but im coming over. c u in a few.

BDavisLuvsya: ttyl.

"PunknDisorderly" signed off at 8:37:20 PM.

Brooke was about to sign off but yet another IM popped up.

RocketRowe: hey

Brooke groaned at the sight of another IM. It wasn't that she didn't want to talk to Lucas but she wasn't in the mood to IM people.

BDavisLuvsya: hi

RocketRowe: so what happened today?

BDavisLuvsya: wat do u mean?

RocketRowe: with nathan

BDavisLuvsya: nothing much. srry luke, g2g.

"BDavisLuvsya" signed off at 8:39:48 PM.

When Brooke signed off so quickly it made Lucas think that there was something going on. Did she not want to tell him what happened today because something happened between the two of them? Different conclusions went through Lucas' mind.

"You're just being paranoid." He said out loud to himself

Peyton walked in to Brooke's room but she wasn't there.

"Brooke?" Peyton called.

"Hey, P. Sawyer! I didn't hear you come in." Brooke said as she walked out of her closet in her pajamas.

"For a second I thought you pulled that disappearing act again." Peyton said and smiled.

"Nope, just getting my pajamas out of the closet."

"How do you find anything in there?"

"In what?"

"Your closet."

"Are you trying to say its dirty or something? FYI my closet is the cleanest place-"

"No, I meant like how do you find anything in there because its so big! I would get lost in there." She grinned.

Brooke smiled proudly. Peyton looked over at her and laughed.

"What?" Brooke asked.

"You look so proud."

"Can't a girl be proud of her clothes?"

"I guess they can if their name is Brooke Davis." Peyton laughed.

Haley stood in her hotel room as she dialed Nathan's number. Nathan walked into the other room when he heard his cell phone ring.

He followed the sound of his ringtone as he searched for his phone. He had no idea where he had put it. The sound was coming from the couch so he took out the cushions and there his phone lay.

Haley thought that he wasn't going to answer because it was on the last 'ring' and he still hadn't answered. She had just about given up hope but she heard his voice.

"Hello?" Nathan answered. He had no idea who was calling, he hadn't looked at the caller ID.

"Nathan." Haley said in relief.

"Haley." Nathan said, aggravated.

"How are you?" She asked.

"What do you want?" Nathan said. He was fed up-he didn't want to talk to her.

"Nathan, don't be mad."

"What, you leave and I haven't heard from you once and you expect everything to be alright?"

Haley sighed. "Look, I was just calling to let you know that were going to be on TV. We're doing this live interview and I was hoping you'd watch.

"That's why you called?" Nathan asked in disbelief. She hadn't called a single time since she left and thats why she called!

"Nathan, none of this means anything if I can't share it with you."

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"I can't believe you didn't bother to bring your phone." Peyton said and laughed.

"Well, I didn't know that it was going to rain and I was going to wind up at Nathan's." Brooke had just told Peyton about how ended up at Nathan place and almost everything they did, except she didn't tell her about how she started crying.

"Don't you bring your phone everywhere?"

"Okay, fine. Rub it in my face! I'm dumb." Brooke stuck out her tongue and found a pillow and hit Peyton with it.

"Oh, you're on!" Peyton said, getting up, finding herself a pillow.

The two hit each other with the pillows untill they were well out of energy. They both fell down on Brooke's bed. Brooke tilted her head and saw what time it was.

"Wow, its like already 11:30."

"Really?"

"Yeah, we have school tomorrow too. You should just crash here for the night."

"Okay, I need some pajamas though."

"Go in my closet. They're in the third drawer on the left."

Peyton got up and went into Brooke's closet. "Um...Brooke? There's more than one dresser on the left."

"There is, isn't there?" Brooke said and walked over to Peyton. "Sorry." She opened up a drawer and handed her a pair of pajamas. "Here you go."

Brooke went back to the bed and laid down. Peyton changed and followed her lead. She got into the bed with her.

The two talked to each other well into the night until they could barley keep their eyes open. Finally, they decided that they should go to sleep.

"Night, Peyton"

"Good night Brooke."

And soon later the two friends were fast asleep.

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Brooke awoke a peaceful sleep with the sound of Peyton yelling at her. "Brooke, get up! We have 10 minutes to get to class!." Brooke's eyes shot open.

"What!" What was she going to do? She still had to take a shower, find an outfit to wear, and put on makeup.

"I know! Hurry up and get dressed!"

Brooke rushed to her closet and threw on a pair of jeans, a white tank top, and a green shrug sweater. She didn't have time to shower today.

She quickly found a green pair of pumps to match her outfit and did her make up.

Mean while, Peyton was changing into her spare clothes that she had left at Brooke's house. She buttoned up her jeans and joined Brooke at her vanity. She borrowed some of her make up and quickly started to apply it.

They finally finished and ran to Brooke's car. They had taken 10 minutes longer than they had. Brooke sped to school, about 15 miles over the speed limit. Luckily there where no cops near by.

When Brooke arrived at school she zipped into her parking space and ran for the door with Peyton not far behind.

They pushed threw the front doors of the school and went their separate ways to their class'.

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"Nice of you to join us, Miss. Sawyer." Mr. Martin greeted Peyton as she walked into his class. "Class started 20 minutes ago."

"I know, I'm sorry."

"Lets not make it a habit." Mr. Martin told her as he walked to the board and started up his lesson again.

Peyton sat in her seat and got out her books. It was a good thing that Mr. Martin was generally a nice teacher and that she was hardly ever late, otherwise, she would have probably got sent to detonation.

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"You're late." Brooke's teacher, Ms. Burke, spat.

"I'm sorry, its just that-"

"No 'buts'. You've been late to my class more times than I can count." Ms. Burke interrupted. She went over to her desk and wrote up a detention slip. "Here." She said and handed it Brooke.

Brooke looked at her in disbelief.

"You can't always have what you want even if you are Brooke Davis." Ms. Burke said and laughed. Brooke was still standing there still. "Now go sit down!" She yelled.

It became to be a persisting cycle that Ms. Burke and Brooke had. Brooke would come in late, usually at least once a week, and Ms. Burke would yell at her. Brooke would look at her in disbelief and end up in detention.

'Shove it bitch.' Brooke thought in her mind. She wanted to say it out loud but she knew she couldn't.

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Nathan stared ahead at the white board. Why had he even bothered to come to school? It wasn't like he was going to pay attention, all he could think about was Haley. Stupid Haley. Why did she have to call? Nathan was starting to feel a little better about everything until she called. God, how desperately did he want everything to go back to normal.

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"Hey! Where you headed off to?" Lucas asked Brooke as he saw her in the hall.

"Ugh, detention."

"That sucks."

"I know. I better hurry over there before its too late."

"Okay, later." Lucas said and went in the opposite direction.

Brooke opened the door and found Whitey siting at the desk. 'Great' Brooke thought to her self. Brooke annoyed Whitey during practice so he was always out to get her. The guys on his team would look over at her and they would start flirting with each other while they were supposed to be practicing. She was a distraction to them...especially when she wore the shorts that 'shrunk' in the dryer.

"Whitey!" Brooke said sarcastically and gave him a huge fake smile.

"Its not called detention so you can come chit chat with me. Now sit your ass down." Whitey yelled and glared at her.

Brooke quickly made her way over to her seat. God, how much she hated Whitey. Its not like she was trying to make him not like her, its just harmless flirting! She didn't make the guys on the team stare at her. Its not her fault that she was blessed with good looks!

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Finally detention was over. It seemed as though it took 10 hours. Brooke walked out of the room it was held in and out of the whole building and into her car.

What was she going to do now?

She could go shopping with Peyton...but Peyton was probably drawing one of her freaky dark drawings.

'Um...I have to go pick up my clothes I left at Nathan's...maybe I'll do that'. Brooke thought to herself.

So, Brooke drove down to Nathan's apartment. She parked her car and was about to walk up the stairs but she spotted an elevator.

"What!" Brooke said out loud. Why hadn't Nathan told her there was an elevator!

Brooke walked up to the elevator and pressed the 'up' button. She got inside of it and pressed another button to get to Nathan's level.

The elevator doors opened and she walked out and knocked Nathan's door and he opened it.

"Hey Brooke." Nathan said.

"Why the hell didn't you tell me there was an elevator?" Brooke said and let her self in.

Nathan closed the door behind her and said, "What?"

"There's an elevator here!"

"And?"

"If you had told me that I would have never tripped."

"Yeah, but I didn't even know you where coming, so don't pin this on me."

"Whatever."

"So are you here for a particular reason?" Nathan asked.

"Oh, right. I forgot about that. I left my jacket here."

"Its right over there." Nathan walked over to where it lay and handed it to her.

"Thanks."

"So, uh, watcha doing?" Brooke asked.

"Oh, um...Well, uh..." Nathan hesitated. "Haley's going to be on tv and..."

"Nate, thats great!"

"Yeah." He paused. "It is, isn't it?" Nathan couldn't help but be proud even though he was mad at her.

"Definitely." Brooke smiled.

"So, you wanna watch with me? I mean, you were friends with her."

"Sure, what time is it going to be on?"

"I think in about 10 minutes." Nathan said and sat down on his couch. Brooke followed him and sat next to him.

The two where silent for awhile until Brooke said, "You know what Nate? I bet that every thing's going to be alright." She smiled.

"I sure as hell hope so." He said and turned on the tv to watch his wife in a matter of seconds.

"I love this song." Brooke said referring to Chariot which just ended.

Nathan was about to say something but was cut off but the tv announcer.

"Alright, I'm Nick Zano and this is Totally Live Week. That was Chariot, the new one from Gavin DeGraw who's on tour right now with The Wreakers, otherwise known as Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp. Also on that tour are two newcomers who's single, When the Stars Go Blue drops next Tuesday, we're here live with Chris Keller and Haley James." The tv announcer, nick, said as the camera went to Haley and Chris.

"Haley James Scott." Haley said quickly and both Nathan and Brooke smiled as they watched.

"Uh-oh, three name roll. Girls with three names are always trouble." Nick said and Haley laughed.

"Ah, this one's no different." Chris said.

"Oh, Okay. Now, you guys have great chemistry; obviously a great sound," Nick said as Nathan's smile fell. "now tell the truth, you a couple in real life?

Both Haley and Chris laughed.

Chris draped his arm around Haley's shoulder. "You know, the music never lies." He said as both Haley and Chris grinned.

"Say no more! You heard it here first. Alright, let's take another look at those tour dates and we'll be back, right after this." Said nick and the tv faded to commercial.

Brooke quickly turned off the tv as Nathan just started at the tv in disbelief.

"Nate, I'm so sorry."

Nathan got up from the couch, he walked over to where his basket ball lay and threw it at the tv. Brooke looked at him scared and in shock.

"Nathan! Stop!" Brooke yelled and tried to push him to the couch to calm down.

"Let go of me!" Nathan yelled back and pushed her to the floor. Brooke fell down hard on to the floor and hit her head on the table.

With tears in her eyes she said quietly, "Nate, please calm down."

Nathan looked down at brooke and hadn't realized what he had done. He sat besides her and said, "I'm so sorry-I didn't know, I mean, I didn't try to-"

"I know, its okay." Brooke said and rapped her arms around Nathan. "I'm so sorry..."

"Me too." They both sat on the floor next to one another. Nathan tried his best not to cry but he couldn't help himself but Brooke pretended not to see his tears.

So much for 'every things going to be alright'...

Author's Note: I did NOT write the dialogue for the scene where Nathan and Haley talk on the phone or the scene where Haley and Chris are on tv. I give full credit to the writers of One Tree Hill. Also, remember to review!