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Chapter Ten: It Will Be Alright, Right?

Rachel and Haley pushed opened the door, slowly slipping into the room. They could hear sobs coming from beneath the covers lying over Brooke's bed. They hadn't seen everything, just enough to make out what happened. Haley walked over to the bed, kneeling beside Brooke. She laid her hand on what she assumed was Brooke's back and began to rub it in circular motion.

She didn't expect Lucas to pull a stunt like this. She didn't expect that he would leave Brooke lying there so hurt and vulnerable. Haley knew he would do something drastic, she just didn't think that he would go along with a cheating plot line. Rachel kneeled next to Haley and the two stared at each other not knowing how to start off the conversation.

"Was I a game to him this whole time?" they heard a voice from under the covers. "He never loved me, did he? I was just some girl he could fuck every now and then. I wish we would have never moved to Tree Hill because I would have never met Lucas Scott, and I would have never fallen in love."

Her voice was cold and harsh. In a way it almost sounded as if she wasn't herself. It sounded as if someone else was speaking but just using her voice to say it with; the emotion behind her voice could send chills down anyone spine.

"He loved you," Haley began to speak when suddenly, Brooke sprang out the bed revealing her intensely red eyes.

"Bullshit," Brooke yelled pacing across the room. "Nothing but bullshit, Hales."

She walked over to her dresser and opened a drawer; it contained a box marked 'Lucas' on it. She opened the box and held up a diamond necklace. She watched as it dangled in the air, sparkling in the light.

"He gave this to me after he told me he loved me for the third time," she smiled at the memory as her friends looked at her with empathy. "That was the third time he lied to me."

She threw the necklace across the room. Rachel looked at her almost as if she was crazy, she couldn't imagine Brooke throwing any piece of jewelry anywhere. Even in this situation.

"Brookie," Brooke turned her attention to her god sister. "I understand your mad at him and want nothing to do with him, but honestly don't throw perfectly good jewelry. Especially when I wanted to borrow it."

"You can keep it," she shrugged as she threw everything else in the box across the room. "I hate him, I don't ever want to remember Lucas Scott as long as I live."

"Careful what you bitch for," Rachel warned her, jokingly.

"I'm serious," Brooke sat back down. "If I was to never see him again that would be fine, I gave him a chance and he blew it."

"I don't really think he did on purpose," Haley tried to defend him. "You know guys don't think with their heads, they think with their other head."

Rachel and Brooke began laughing but stopped quickly when they heard something fall over downstairs. Brooke moved closer to Haley. They heard something else shatter, and were beginning to become frightened not knowing what was going on.

"Rach?"

"Yeah, Brooke?"

"Still got that bat?"

"Nope!"

"Brooke," they heard someone slur, the voice sounded familiar. "Please baby, come down here! I'm so sorry, I love you! Come down here, I need to talk to you! Baby, please!"

"Is that Lucas?" Rachel questioned confused.

"Is he drunk?" Haley asked after her.

Brooke left the room quickly followed by Haley and Rachel. She walked slowly down the stairs to find broken glass on the floor. Lucas was sitting on the floor slumped against the wall, his eyes were red and his hair was disheveled. He reeked of alcohol and cologne, the smell of the two together was very unappealing. Brooke had a hard time walking towards, not because of the smell but because how it would make her feel.

"I'm so sorry," Lucas whispered over and over. "I didn't mean to hurt you."

"It's to late for that Lucas," Brooke turned her head away from him, she could feel the tears well up. "I would really appreciate if you left now."

"Don't push me away," Lucas got up as he heard Brooke scoff. "I need you.""You need me," Brooke laughed to herself quietly. "Lucas I am not pushing you away, I am holding on for dear life but I needed you to need me back. If you could let me go once, what makes me think that you won't do it again. You said you were in love with Sarah, so go be with her and not me."

"Brooke stop it," Lucas yelled at her as he grabbed her arms forcefully.

Rachel pushed in between them, "Lucas, I think it's time that you left."

Lucas looked at Brooke once again who had tears streaming down her face, he nodded his head and walked out of the house. Haley walked over to Brooke, she didn't know what to say. Lucas and Brooke were both her best friends, and all he wanted to do was protect her. She heard a car starting up, she turned to Brooke and Rachel who had the same puzzled looks on their faces.

Haley walked out of the house and saw Lucas in his car, she ran up to the car and began banging on the window. She shouted for Brooke and Rachel who came out seconds after she yelled. Rachel was soon by her side banging on the window also, they were shouting at him to get out but he didn't listen he began driving the car when he came to a sudden halt.

Brooke was standing in the middle of the street, she looked into Lucas' eyes and shook her head. She walked over to the passenger side, causing Lucas to unlock the doors and she got in.

"Brooke what are you doing?" Rachel yelled knowing this couldn't have any good outcome.

"I know what I am doing," Brooke shouted back as Lucas sped off at full speed. "Trust me!"

Haley and Rachel turned to each other knowing that this couldn't end well, Rachel went back into the house and grabbed her car keys. She got in her car followed by Haley. They drove in the direction that Lucas just sped off to, hoping that they were able to catch up with him.

Brooke immediately buckled her seat as she saw Lucas was beginning to speed past one hundred. She was beginning to get nervous as she noticed he was letting up. His eyes was deeply focused on the road as if he had some type of vengeance with the road that she couldn't figure out. She didn't know what to say, she wanted open her mouth but her body wouldn't let her.

"Lucas slow down," she finally blurted out but that didn't help anything. "I am serious, stop the car before someone gets hurt. I am sure you couldn't live with yourself knowing someone got hurt because of your foolishness.""Tell me you love me," Lucas replied; his eyes never leaving the road.

"What?"

"Tell me you love me," he repeated shifting his gaze to her just for a second. "That's the only way I am going to stop, otherwise where just going to keep going faster."

"No, I won't," Brooke shook her head, causing him to push harder on the pedal. "When you told me you didn't love me tonight, I couldn't deal with the pain and its only been a couple of hours. Lucas, I realize that I've shouldn't have never fallen in love with you. I let you have to much power of my heart and when you broke it, I didn't realize how much it could destroy me. I trusted you! I loved you! I can't do that anymore. I'm sorry."

Lucas was shaking now. He had tears rolling down his eyes, but the expression on his face was clearly anger. The anger wasn't towards Brooke, but towards himself. How could he be so dumb, why can't he just tell her why he said that for. There had to be a better way to protect her because this way wasn't working for either one of them. It was only hurting them more than they were clearly already hurt.

"I'm so sorry," Lucas bent his head down. "I love you, I truly do but I can't keep hurting you like this. I want to be with you, but right now that's not an option. I'm going to love you forever, pretty girl."

Brooke didn't want to break down in front of him, but she couldn't help it. She looked him and smiled slightly, she lifted his head up. His eyes were so red, it almost didn't seem like him. She leaned towards him and kissed him softly on the lips. She pulled back and smiled with tears still rolling down her eyes, she bit down on her lip and gulped.

"I'm going to love you forever, broody," she smiled as his eyes lit up.

Lucas took his eyes off the road, he was still going a little over hundred. He smiled as he was about to open his mouth he heard Brooke yell:

"Lucas watch out!"

Lucas turned his head to see that they were heading full speed off down a hill, he took his hands off the wheel and covered his face protectively. He could hear the car screech as it swerved of the road and down the hill, it flipped over and began to roll down the steep, narrow hill. Lucas could feel the car being jerked in all directions, it was only a matter of time before he loss consciousness.

"They couldn't have gotten that far right?" Rachel questioned Haley for the umpteenth time, she needed some reassurance that her friends were alright. "I mean Lucas would never do anything stupid while Brooke is in the car if he truly loved her? Or else everything he said would be bullshit.""Rachel," Haley replied worriedly, she pointed towards the road where she saw skid mark leading off the road. "You don't think it's them do you?"

"No, it can't be," Rachel stopped the car at the side of the road, she opened her door and got out the car. "It couldn't be them Haley, it just can't be. It's not them."

Haley just nodded her head while tears fell from her face, Rachel knew she was worried and her worries only made her worry more. They began walking down the hill, they could see pieces of metal from what seemed to be a car scattered all over the hill. Haley began sobbing, the more she went down the more she recognized from Lucas' car.

"Haley it's not them," Rachel tried to yell at her but her voice was breaking, tears began to form in her own eyes. "It can't be them. Please god, don't let it be them. I can't lose her."

They finally noticed the car at the end of the hill, they began running towards it. The car was upside down and completely falling apart, Lucas' door was completely ripped off while Brooke's seemed to still be intact. Haley ran towards Lucas side and Rachel did the same with Brooke. Haley tried to drag Lucas' body out of the car, he was very heavy so it took a lot of work. When he was finally released from his seat belt she dragged him off to the side, she noticed Rachel was still having trouble.

"Haley the door is jammed," Rachel pulled on the handle with all her might. "Help me."

Rachel pulled on the handle, while Haley pulled on the side of the door. It slowly began to open. Rachel and Haley quickly pulled out Brooke's body, she was banged up worst than Lucas was. You could barely recognize her with all the bruise and the fact that she was drenched in blood, Rachel kneeled down to Brooke.

"Brooke? Brooke?" Rachel began tapping her face. "Come on whore, wake up for me. Please."

"I called the ambulance," Haley wiped the blood from her hand on to her shirt. "They should be here any minute, let's try to get them up the hill."

"Haley? Rachel?" Karen stormed into the waiting room noticing the girls covered in blood. "How are they doing? Are they okay?"

"Lucas woke up and all he need was stitches and a cast for his arm," Haley explained to Karen. "They said he should be good to go tonight because he didn't have that much damage, the airbags on his side was very good. Unfortunately, Brooke's didn't deploy and she still unconscious. She's going into surgery now."

"I can't believe this," Karen eyes began to well up. "How could Lucas have been so irresponsible? Now Brooke's lying on what could possibly be her death bed. He is in for it when we get back home. I am so sorry Rachel, I can only imagine what you are going through."

Rachel simply nodded her head and went to take a seat, Haley took a seat next to her for comfort. Keith, Deb and Nathan all came a half an hour after Karen arrived, they had to escort the guest and make sure everything was fine at reception before they could leave. Karen had explained the status of Brooke and Lucas' health, they were happy Lucas was alright but still sadden by the fact that Brooke wasn't out of the woods just yet.

Lucas walked out of one the hospital rooms with a doctor by his side, his head was down. He obviously knew what was coming he just didn't know how bad it would be, he looked around in the room. At first they gave him a look of sympathy but that quickly changed, they glared at him and stared him down.

"Mrs. Scott I presume?" the doctor looked at Karen who nodded; still glaring at Lucas. "He's alright, all I am going to need you to do is sign these release forms and make an appointment to have his arm checked in a month or so. Police also wanted a statement from someone who saw the accident but since no one was able to tell what happened they are waiting to see on whether Ms. Davis will press charges."

"Thank you so much," Karen took the chart from the doctor quickly signing her name, she handed it back. "Is there any update on Brooke's condition?"

The doctor looked a little hesitant, Keith walked over to Karen and placed his hands on her shoulder.

"I'm her uncle and the red hair sitting down there is her sister which you probably know," Keith insinuated as the doctor shook his head. "Well she is too much in shock to handle any big news so you can just tell us and we can handle whatever it is from here."

"Well she's out of surgery," the doctor looked at his chart. "She lost a lot of blood to which she needed a blood transfusion, we had some in stock so we able to give it to her in time. She has a total of thirty two stitches, she blew out her shoulder and broke her right femur and she suffered a blow to the head. I'm sorry to say this but Ms. Davis is currently in a coma."

Sobs from Rachel and Haley could be heard from across the room, Deb was comforting the girls and nodded Karen and Keith to go on with what they were doing. Karen didn't know what to say from here. She didn't know whether should be furious that Lucas had caused the accident, sad because Brooke might not have a chance to ever wake up or a mixture of both because it was so much news to handle.

"How often do people in car accident last in comas?" Keith asked curiously.

"Every coma is the same in most cases," the doctor explained. "It could be weeks, months or even years until she wakes up."

"Is there a chance she could die?" Lucas asked in whisper as everyone turned to him.

"Well it all has to do with how she deals in this condition," the doctor answered. "For instance if she catches a fever it could slim her chances of survival because her body isn't in it's usual state of being. Basically her brain is at it lowest state of alertness. Anymore questions?"

Everyone shook their heads no, the doctor nodded his head and left going towards Brooke's room.

"This is all your fault," Rachel got out her seat and began walking towards Lucas. "I thought you loved her, how could you do this to her. How could you do this to me? I thought I was your friend, but I guess I was wrong!"

"Rachel I am your friend and I do love Brooke ve--"

"Don't say that because if you loved her, you would have never hurt her," Rachel whimpered as her voiced began to turn raspy. "And if I was truly your friend you wouldn't take away all had left Lucas because that girl lying on that bed in a coma, is all I have left. You didn't think about me, or her, or anyone here for that instance because if you cared, you would have never done this. All you've shown everyone was how truly selfish you are. Do me a favor and stay away from me and stay away from Brooke when she wakes up. If she wakes up."

"Rachel--"

"Save it Luke," Rachel sighed crossing her arms. "We're not friends anymore, I don't want to hear it."

"Nathan can you take Lucas home?" Karen asked Nathan without giving Lucas one glance.

"No problem, Karen."

"Mom?"

"Save it Lucas," Karen said sternly. "I love you and I am so happy you are alright, but I raised you better than what I've seen and heard tonight. I can't look at you right now, just go home and Keith and I will speak to you in the morning. If you are hungry there is some food that wasn't used at the reception take that and go to bed. If I find out that you have left the house when I come back there will be hell to pay.

"Let's go," Nathan walked out the waiting room not even waiting for Lucas to follow him.

Lucas for the first time experienced what it feels to be isolate. He knew his friends warned him of this but he didn't expect for them to take it so seriously to the point where they didn't seem to care. His own family even turned their back on him, but you can only screw up so many times before something like that happens. He felt guilty enough, not only did he endanger his life but also, his pretty girl.

Nathan and Lucas arrived in the parking lot of the hospital. Nate went straight to the drivers side without even glancing if Lucas needed help with opening the car door. Luckily he managed to, he slipped into the passenger seat and looked at his brother. Nathan turned up the stereo and began driving towards Lucas' house, he got their in no less than fifteen minutes. He stopped the car and turned to look at Lucas, he shook his head and waited for him to get out the car.

"Are you ever going to speak to me again?" Lucas asked furiously, he didn't like being the outcast.

"I'll think about it," Nathan shrugged turning the car back on. "You good to get into the house?"

"Yeah, I think," Lucas nodded his head, at least they still cared for him a little. "See you later Nate."

"Bye Lucas, " Nathan drove off as soon as Lucas what at the front door.

Lucas pushed opened the door after unlocking it, closed it shut then locked it once more. He went straight towards his room, he got into his bed slowly lying on his back. He grabbed the picture of him and Brooke from the night stand, it was a picture from their second date. She was laughing so hard in the picture because he made a goofy face that always made her giggle. He looked on at the picture as he saw little droplet of tears fall onto the glass, he wiped his eyes and kissed the picture.

"Hold on tight, pretty girl."With those words, he finally fell asleep.

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