A/N: The story takes places in season 1, when Lucas first cheated on Brooke with Peyton.
Disclaimer: I don't own OTH.
Chapter 6:
After a long day of school, Peyton Sawyer was tired. She just wanted to go home but even that wasn't granted to her. She still had to go to cheerleader's practice, where she'll have to hear the others girl gossip about how big of a slut she really was. Ever since the café ordeal from last week, people at school have been nasty to her. It's like they all came out some kind of daze that they have been stuck into for past weeks and realized that Brooke was a victim of Peyton's vicious scheming. Not that Brooke wasn't a victim Peyton knew that. She also knew that Lucas always wanted to be with her even if it meant sneaking around behind Brooke's back, she knew that. She also knew that he was using Brooke to get her jealous but she never put a stop to it. Maybe, it was the fact that he was with Brooke the girl every guy wanted to be with but he wanted to be with her Peyton Sawyer. She could have prevented all of this by telling Brooke from the start that she wanted to be with Lucas, but she chose not to. She knew that Brooke wouldn't have gone after Lucas, like she did in junior high with Nathan when he wanted to be with Brooke but she had a crush on him so Brooke back down. She knew all of that but choose not to pay attention to all those facts and now she had to face the consequences of her action.
When people used to tell her that high school kids were vicious, she didn't know how vicious they could be. It's not that Peyton couldn't stand her own it's just that they are really mean.
The senior class, were yelling all kind of insults in her face every time she was around. Even freshmen, were opening their mouth to throw her a nasty remark when they saw her. Two days ago, some boys wrote slut and backstabber on her car. There was no damage, it was easy to clean but it's just hit her really hard. Every bad thing she did to Brooke, it was like she was paying for it now by the vicious actions of her classmates. Of course, the principle intervened and the boys were expelled for few days. Peyton knew she deserved it and even more. She chooses to put a boy above a great friendship with Brooke. So, she didn't have the right to cry about her misfortunes. She just had to accept it.
Lucas, he was also having his own hard time. The boys from the basketball team were treating him like before, even though Nathan was protecting him this time. The boys won't stop. The verbally attack him and they don't pass the ball to him during games, the tension was back. Even the guys from the river court were giving him the cold shoulder when he was in her company, Mouth included. They couldn't understand why he'll hurt a great girl like Brooke, even though they didn't know her. They choose not out of respect for Brooke. She thinks they're acting kind of harsh but she knows that they just don't want to lose a good friend like Brooke, even if she did.
Speaking of her relationship with Lucas, that got more strenuous each day. She's not complaining, Lucas is a great guy but their relationship wasn't that great. They didn't fight, they brood a lot sometime to much and there was no passion. They were together a couple months and they still haven't done it yet. She knew there were not any physical problems, because when she was with Nathan they were more in bed then anywhere else and Lucas when he was Brooke did it as much as possible too. So she didn't see any problems but when she did the remark to Lucas. He acted like he didn't even notice that fact but he said that he had no problem waiting for her. But when she told him that she didn't want to wait, he got confused to why they haven't done it yet. So they made plans to do it after the game this week at her house. They had to plan it, there wasn't even any spontaneous action in their relationship. Like last Friday, they were in his room hanging around when Keith came in with his eyes closed and told them to put their clothes back on because it wasn't respectful of them to use they fact that no one is home to get it on. When he finally noticed that they didn't do anything wrong, he looked at them like they had three heads and mumbled something about Brooke and hardly any clothes. So she came to a conclusion that something was wrong in her relationship with Lucas.
She is tired, physical and emotionally.
"Peyton!!"
She turns around and she's met with an impeccably dressed Brooke Davis running towards with a kind of smile on her face.
"I was looking for you the whole day, Peyton," Brooke says when she reaches Peyton's locker.
"Why?" Peyton asks waiting to hear what karma has up to her sleeves for her now.
"Could you tell the girls that there won't be any practice today? I have to go to an appointment around that time so I won't be able to coach," Brooke says.
"No problem, but you know that last week we barely practiced and that you missed a couple games. Whitey is going to notice that and you know how he is?" Peyton says worried about Brooke's lack of devotion towards to cheer squad.
"You know what? You're the co – captain, right? Why don't you choreograph the routine this week? I'm not really available lately and I'm sure you would do a great job so I will see you later," Brooke says quickly and leaves an astonish Peyton alone by her locker.
"What was that about?" says a masculine voice making Peyton come out her shock and turn to the person. It's Lucas, she turns to tell him all about what just happened when she notice a weird a look in his eyes. She turns to look at what he was looking and see that he's looking at Brooke who's standing by her locker talking to Mouth or more precisely at Brooke ass. Her boyfriend was standing next to her, his girlfriend, but he is looking at his ex-girlfriend with what could be described as lust. Instead of answering him, she walks away in the direction of the gym leaving a confused Lucas behind.
She's furious at Lucas, at Brooke and at the whole situation. Most importantly, she's mad at herself for ending in this situation where she knows that she'll lose more than she already did which scares her.