"Hey, I'm gonna go ahead and go to work. If Brooke wakes up, please be, nice...and if she wants bring her to the Life tonight...after my shift, we'll all have dinner. Okay?...Yeah, I love you too."
She could here the door shut, and the smallest sound of singing coming from where Brooke had entered coming, but she really didn't feel like facing any part of the world, despite the hunger in her stomach.
She stared at the room around her. The walls were painted a deep scarlet color and the only other piece of furniture besides the bed was the small wooden box in the corner.
Brooke's curiosity was spike and she carefully approached the box. The top had the name 'April' carved on the top.
Brooke gently opened the top only to find a small scattering of pictures, some of Roger on a stage, some of Roger and Mark, others of Mark and a girl with brown curly hair, and other of Roger holding a girl with short, dyed red hair, and heavy eye makeup. Brooke held a couple of the pictures noting how happy her brother looked. But the pictures were all dated 1994 at the most recent.
The rest of the room was sparce. A small pile of clothes, a few nails hung on the wall, there were rings on the floor where bigger furniture once stood, and near the door, someone had brought in Brooke's bag of luggage.
Finally, the feeling in her stomach grew to be too much and Brooke relented, opening the door and walking back towards the living room and the kitchen. The kitchen already had an occupant, a lively Latina girl twenty years old at the latest, her long loosely curly hair spun around as she danced to whatever song was playing in her head. A smile spread acrossed her face as she spied Brooke.
"You must be Brooke."
"If I must." Brooke let out tiredly.
Brooke was guessing this was Mimi, judging by the tight pants poking out of the over large sweater and she didn't resemble the red head Brooke had since assumed was the mysterious April.
Mimi let a small grimace, "Oh, you are Roger's sister. Food?"
Brooke nodded and hoisted herself on top of the metal tabel.
Mimi returned with two bowls, a box of Cap'n Crunch, spoons, and some milk.
Brooke smiled, "That actually looks good."
Mimi handed over a bowl, climbing onto the table herself.
The two ate quitely for a few moments.
Mimi finally spoke up as she finished her bowl.
"Let's start over, I'm Mimi and your brother's girlfriend."
Brooke smiled, "That leaves me to be Brooke, your boyfriend's sister."
"What brings you here hun?"
Brooke shrugged, "Ran away."
Before Mimi could say anymore, Brooke added. "Stuff happened."
Mimi nodded and the silence persisted.
"Who's April?" Brooke asked quietely.
It was Mimi's turn to be cryptic. "That's for Roger to tell you, chica."
Brooke stomach lurched suddenly sending Brooke's mind into a panic. Not now. She spotted the open door and ran to empty her stomach.
A few moments later Brooke could feel her hair being lifted away from her face and could hear Mimi's voice,
"Oh, there we go. Get it all out."
As she finished Mimi handed her a glass of water.
Brooke sighed, "Don't tell Roger. Please?"
Mimi replicated Brooke's sigh, "Not unles you keep my secret...I am too."
Something about it seemed to relax Brooke about.
"Rogers?"
Mimi threw her head back to laugh, "No," she replied sarcastically, "Marks."
Brooke gave into the need to laugh as she followed Mimi back to the kitchen.
Mimi looked over her for a couple of seconds, "I'm going to the doctors in about an hour, you should get a check up too."
Brooke stumbled, "I..I..don't have any money with me."
Mimi shrugged, "It's a free clinic. You really should."
Brooke just nodded.
By the time the doctor's appointment rolled around the two women had bonded, on severally levels. They both had secrets and they both knew the other was hiding more secrets, so it could have been intrigue or it could be their need for some female bonding. Who knows, but it happened.
"When are planning on telling Roger?" Brooke asked as they signed in, trying to ignore the number of others in the room.
"I could ask you the same thing."
"But I asked first."
"We'll have to see. I don't know. Soon I guess...You know there's nothing to be ashamed of...being seen here..."
"What? I...I'm not..." She stopped, she didn't know how she really felt.
A half an hour passed before Brooke was called shortly followed by Mimi.
Brooke waited quietly in a small room for the doctor.
So, here she was. Miles away from home, from him. And now this. this. THis, what else was she going to call it? What would she call it? It was a part of him too.
An older man in his late forties leaned his head in, "Ms...um Davis?"
Brooke nodded as he came into the room. He sat in front of her, not judging he had seen this too many times to make any call.
"You think you may be pregnant?"
She nodded.
He gentle barage of questions continued before he hit the one, "The father?"
She shook her head, "I left him."
"It's going to be alright, hun. We'll just have a litsten."
Brooke laid back on to the table, and soon the soft thumbing like a small drum line came out.
"Well, oh..."
Brooke looked up. "What?"
Mimi was still in with the doctor, so Brooke just took a seat to wait. Her hands fell to her stomach, newly determined. This was where she was and she was going to be okay. They were going to be okay. But, her reality hit her too, she was stubborn not stupid. She lived with her brother, his expecting girlfriend, a wannabe filmaker, and from what Mimi had said, an anarchist, all in a neighbor quiete the opposite from life in Tree Hill. But she was not going back.
"Deep in thought?" Mimi's lively voiced entered the room.
"Yeah, sort of...I'm going to tell Roger...Tomorrow."
Mimi smiled and brought the girl into a hug. "How 'bout tonight. No Day But Today. How 'bout we really unnerve him, we'll both tell him."
Brooke nodded before noticing the paper, "What's that?"
"Just a prescription for some, er...vitamins...I guess I need them. We'll pick them up, then head over to dinner."
Mimi pulled Brooke along with her. "How'd your appointment go?"
"Good, I guess...still pregnant."
"You know, with the two of us the next few months could be fun."
Two chapters and kind of long...should make up for the lack of updates and one should be coming again soon.