Chapter 8: Telephone Anyone?
"Hello, fashionista Brooke Davis speaking." Brooke's cheerful voice rang out through the phone.
"Hey Brooke." Peyton greeted.
"P. Sawyer! What is up?" Brooke asked.
"Nothing much. My dad's made some sort of casserole that we were too afraid to eat so we're waiting on carry-out."
"It couldn't have been that bad." Brooke reasoned.
"It jiggled." Peyton deadpanned.
Brooke laughed at that one.
"But really, how are you? I know you had a rough day today." Brooke said, her voice growing serious.
"Yeah, well when isn't my life rough? I'll be okay." Peyton sighed.
"Um. Peyt, I'm going to say some things you might not like but I want you to listen, okay?" Brooke hesitated but seemed determined to say what she had to say.
"What?" Peyton asked.
"I think you like Luke." Brooke said in a rush of words.
"What?" Peyton exclaimed.
"Just hear me out!" Brooke replied.
"If you didn't like him, that kiss would have been no big deal. At one point or another in the last year we've all kissed each other." Brooke told her.
"Yeah but-" Peyton interrupted.
"You and Luke have always been really close so you should be able to laugh it off." Brooke continued, ignoring Peyton's protests.
"But it's-" Peyton started.
"It's not different than anything that's happened before. If you like him tell him, if you don't tell him. Whatever you feel, please stop treating him like a plague or something." Brooke finished, exasperated.
They both were quiet for a minute.
"I really hate you." Peyton said affectionately.
"I know." Brooke laughed.
The faint sound of a doorbell was heard.
"I gotta go. The food's here." Peyton told her.
"Ta-ta for now, P. Sawyer." Brooke said with a grin.
"Bye Tigger." Peyton replied before hanging up the phone, suddenly feeling much lighter. Sometimes hearing the truth from your best friend can make things seem a lot better.
…………..
"Hello?" Lucas questioned.
"Hey Luke!" Haley's hyper self seemed multiplied.
"What's going on with you?" Lucas asked cautiously.
As much as he loved Haley, she had a habit of sharing more than enough information. He shuddered thinking of when she had shared her first period with him. A brother-sister relationship only went so far.
"I got accepted as a tutor!" Haley gleefully announced.
"That's great Hales!" Lucas congratulated.
"I know! I'm so excited!" Lucas could practically hear her beaming smile.
"For a second I thought it was something really exciting, like Taylor getting sent to boarding school." Lucas teased.
"Don't I wish." A dreamy yet serious tone entered her voice.
"Come on, Taylor's not that bad." Lucas told her.
"Oh please, you just think she's hot." Haley dismissed his comment.
"No I don't!" Lucas's cheeks flushed red regardless of what he just told her.
"Yeah right." Haley laughed, hearing the stammering quality in his statement.
"Anyway!" Lucas said loudly, trying to get off the subject.
"Anyway, what's going-" Haley was interrupted by a beeping.
"Hold on, someone's on the other line." Haley said before switching over.
"Hello?" Haley said.
"Hey Hales." Nathan's deep voice sounded even better if possible over the phone.
"Wait one second. Luke's on the other line." Haley grinned.
"Hey Luke, I'm really sorry but Nathan's on the other line. I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" Haley apologized.
"Ouch, that hurts Hales. You're dropping me for my brother?" Lucas asked, feigning disappointment.
"Whatever. I'll see you later." Haley laughed.
"Bye." Lucas said before hanging up.
……..
"Nate?" Haley asked, after she clicked over to the other line.
"Took you long enough." Nathan teased good-naturedly.
"That was barely a minute!" Haley protested, laughing all the same.
"Glad to hear you're in a good mood."
"Yeah, I wasn't earlier. Taylor was being Taylor and Vivian was late so I didn't get home until nearly eight. Then I had to do my homework, wash the dishes, blah, blah, blah. Oh, but then I got a call from the tutor center saying I was accepted!" Haley rambled, picking up steam as she went.
"I still don't see why you want to help a bunch of idiots but more power to you."
"Yeah, wait until you need help."
"Luckily, I'll have my own private tutor."
"Who?" Haley teased.
"Alright Hales. If that's how it's going to be." Nathan laughed.
In the distance, Dan's voice was heard.
"You'd better go." Haley told him.
"I guess." Nathan agreed.
There was a slight pause.
"Well, bye then." Nathan said, awkwardly.
"Bye." Haley sighed, disappointed.
They hung up at the same time.
…………..
"Hey man." Lucas said.
"Hey Luke. How's it going?" Jake asked.
"Pretty good. What're you doing?" Lucas replied.
"Nothing much. I got a weird call earlier though." Jake recalled.
"Define weird."
"Weird as in some random girl calling." Jake told him.
"Did she sound nice?" Lucas asked.
"Let's see. She cackled, said the stars were aligning for my demise, and told me to avoid blue." Jake said seriously.
"Telemarketers get weirder and weirder by the day." Lucas laughed.
"How was visiting dear old Great Aunt Susie?" Lucas grinned.
"How is it visiting your dear Great Uncle George?" Jake retorted.
"I don't have a Great Uncle George." Lucas said in confusion.
"I don't have a Great Aunt Susie either. Apparently after some accident or another, my great aunt got mixed up with someone else. Since they were covered up in bandages no one knew the difference until today." Jake told him.
There was a silence.
"Just kidding!" Jake laughed, imagining Lucas's stunned expression.
"You're an idiot, you know that?" Lucas replied, laughing too.
Jake's mother called him and he sighed.
"I gotta go." Jake said.
"Bye Jake." Lucas replied.
"Bye." Jake hung up.
AN: Seeing as how I work best when I'm supposed to be doing something else, I'm not surprised I wrote this while I'm supposed to be writing an essay. Oh well, another chapter written even though I still have to do that essay. Thank you to the two people that reviewed even though I'm so horrible, I don't deserve it. Who am I kidding, REVIEWS PLEASE. Lol