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Brooke admired her ring from afar. She loved the way the diamond sparkled when it hit the light. She knew it was superficial to care about stuff like that but couldn't help it. She loved the ring and she loved Lucas for giving it to her. While she continued to stare at her ring, another hand with an engagement ring came up from behind and placed her hand next to Brooke's.

"NO! Nathan finally proposed! Oh my God Hales this is so great. We can plan our weddings together. This is going to be so much fun!' Brooke screeched.

"Wow Brooke. Excited much? But I know it is going to be so cool. I'm so happy. The whole thing was so romantic." Haley explained how Nathan proposed and Brooke put her hand over her heart.

"Awww, that is so cute. Hey, do you want to go wedding dress shopping?" Brooke asked eagerly.

Haley laughed. "Brooke, don't you think we should figure out things like when and where we are going to have our weddings before we pick out the dress."

"No," she grabbed Haley's hand and practically dragged her out the door.

They tried on dress after dress and while Haley was just soaking it in, Brooke kept writing down little notes.

"Tigger what are you doing?" dresses.

"I'm writing down what styles look good on me. I like the strapless better than the off the shoulder, and stuff like that. And then I plan on designing my dream wedding dress. I can't be a fashion designer and not design my own dress!" Brooke worked in a small boutique in the city but was slowly moving up I the ranks. If she kept doing what she was doing, she would have her own label soon enough. She just hoped wedding plans wouldn't interfere with that.

"I wish I knew had to do something like that," Haley said wistfully. She was trying to pursue a career in music but it was a lot harder than it looked.

"Well luckily we have super hot basketball players as our fiancés so we don't even have to worry about money." Brooke laughed. The brothers had just been recruited to the Knicks but it was currently off-season.

"Well we'd love them even if they weren't," Haley said.

"Yeah, just maybe not as much," Brooke joked. Haley shot her a dirty look.

"God, Hales I'm just kidding. Relax." The girls spent the rest of the day just hanging out. When Brooke got home Lucas was laying on the couch looking upset.

"Hey, hard practice?" Brooke sat next to him and rubbed his shoulders.

"Brooke we need to talk." The four worst words no one wants to here.

"What's up?" she asked nervously. He looked really serious. She hoped it wasn't something really bad.

"When I asked you to marry me, I meant it. I am in love with you. But every time something you don't want to talk about comes up you run away.

And I so hate consequences And running from you is what my best defense is

Cause I know that I let you down

And I don't want to deal with that

"I guess I'm just scared. I've never felt this way about anyone before. And I'm afraid I'll say the wrong thing and you'll…I don't know, leave me or something. I'm sorry." She said honestly.

I just want to get by

I don't want nothing to hurt me

I had no idea where my head was at

But if my heart says I'm sorry can we leave it at that

Because I just want for all of this to end

"You don't have to apologize. But you said you never felt this way before. Not even with Felix?" Lucas asked.

"God why does everything always come back to him. I love you a million times more than I ever loved him."

"But you did love him." Lucas cut in.

"No. I think I thought at did at the time but until I met you I don't even think I knew what love was."

"So just tell me this. Did anything happen between you two at any point while we were together because it seems like it did." Lucas hit play on the answering machine and Felix's smooth voice filled the room:

'Hey baby, it's Felix. I haven't really had a chance to hang out with you in a couple of months. We have to hang out. Bye, honey.' You could hear a pin drop as Lucas and Brooke just studied the other. Brooke broke the silence.

"He came to my work about three months ago and I told him to go to hell and stay away from me. I swear, nothing happened."

"If that is true, why wouldn't you tell me? If you really told him to stay the hell away from you would it be such a big deal to tell your boyfriend." Lucas grabbed his jacket and headed for the door.

"Save it," he said as Brooke tried to explain herself. I'm going to take a page out of your book and leave." And with that Brooke was left staring at the door, silently sobbing to herself.