CHAPTER 3 - Making Friends and Finding Enemies
Over the last couple of days Brooke and Haley had got on really well, Haley had seen Brooke in a new light, she'd seen past the arrogance, and the vanity and had grown to like her for who she really was. Brooke had even started hanging out with Haley and her friends, including Lucas, who wasn't particularly thrilled with Haley's new accomplice.
Brooke was sat alone her dorm, reading a magazine when Lucas walked through the door. Brooke looked up and saw it was him, she immediately went back to her magazine without even batting an eyelid. Lucas helped himself to the Doritos and dip that were laid out on the counter, he then walked over to Haley's room and opened the door, when he found that she wasn't in there he walked over to Heidi's room, Heidi was a girl that shared the dorm with Haley and Brooke, Heidi was also the girl that Lucas had slept with and avoided everyday since, but he again found no Haley. Brooke tightened her hazel eyes, as she watched Lucas stomp around the dorm "Can I help you?" she said in quite a b!tchy tone whilst frowning at him over the top of her magazine
"Where's Haley?" he almost ordered the answer from her with no amount of politeness intended. Brooke wasn't exactly shocked by his attitude towards her, he'd been brooding ever since he'd realised he'd have to spend more time with her if he wanted to continue hang out with Nathan and Haley
"She's out" Brooke stated, without giving him an explanation. She then turned the page of her magazine, wanting Lucas to think that she was too preoccupied to speak to him any longer
"Yeah, I can see that!" he answered viciously "Where's she gone?" he leant on the kitchen counter, whilst waiting for her answer. Brooke didn't make any attempt to look up from her reading material, and that annoyed Lucas. It wasn't that she wasn't giving him the attention he so greatly deserved, it was just that…well, he didn't really know what it was about her that annoyed him so much
"I wouldn't tell you, even if I knew" she kept her focus on the gossip contained within her magazine
Lucas raised his eyebrows in annoyance at her attitude towards him "Do you have a problem with me?" he snapped, letting her get the better of him
She closed the magazine over her finger as to not lose her page, and got up from the sofa "So, you can take a hint" she patronised him whilst walking towards where he was stood to get herself an apple
He leant towards her with his elbows folded on the counter "Covering your lust for me with this attitude is not gonna work, ya know?" he teased her.
Brooke then pretended to be breathless "Cant breathe…" she spluttered out "There's no room in here…with your ego" her face resumed its seriousness once again
Haley then walked through the door, carrying a few study books "Hey, I got the…" she trailed off mid sentence as she looked up and saw Lucas, it was never a good sign when they were he and Brooke in the same room, alone together "Oh, hey Luke, what are you doing here?" she put her books down on the counter and purposely stood in-between them both to act as a barrier
Lucas removed his icy gaze from Brooke and focused upon Haley "Rachel's having a party tonight, she told me to invite you and Nate" Brooke sat back down on the sofa and continued to read her magazine
Haley looked at Lucas with mock astonishment plastered across her face "Rachel invited me to her party?" she didn't really hang out with Rachel, they were more different than her and Brooke were
"She actually asked for Nathan and Harley…I just assumed she meant you" Haley nodded along, knowing her and Rachel weren't the best of friends
"So, you and Rachel got in on yet?" Haley said the latter part of the sentence in a teasing tone "Or, is that why your going to this thing tonight?" Lucas made himself comfortable on the kitchen stool, whilst Haley started to cook herself some lunch
He continued to eat the Doritos as he spoke to Haley "Come on, Hales…you know I'm not vibing on her" Lucas rolled his eyes
"No, but she sure as hell likes you…and is probably gonna spend the whole of tonight tryna seduce you…" Haley said, as she jabbed Lucas in the arm in a friendly way
Lucas smiled at Haley's kid-like behaviour "I would never sleep with Rachel, she's just not my type…" Lucas told Haley, with a little doubt to his words. It was common knowledge that Rachel wanted Lucas, as did most girls at NCU, it was just that Rachel was a lot more obvious with her advances towards him
Haley lit the stove and placed a frying pan on top of the flame "You don't have a type…" Lucas looked offended at Haley's choice of words "Oh, ok, what's your type?" she asked him after seeing his expression
"My type is…" he thought for a second, but just as he was about speak someone else did
"Easy?…" Brooke quipped, not being able to resist the opportunity. Lucas turned around slowly, and shook his head at Brooke's lame attempt at a joke
"If that was true, why haven't I done you yet?" the blonde boy challenged her, as Haley felt the tension build between them, just as it always did when they had to spend any longer than five minutes together
"I thought you already had" she called him on his earlier rumour that they'd already slept together
Lucas stood up from his stool "Just be there tonight for 9, ok?" he smiled at Haley before exiting the dorm, leaving Brooke to feel like she'd won this one
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Brooke had spent the first four hours of the party, just as she'd always done, in the centre of the living room which had been made a dance floor by her and a bunch of guys who grinded up against her. Haley had spent the first four hours of the party, just as she'd always done, sat in the corner, not daring to get too involved with the antics of another Friday night party.
Nathan was stood at the drinks table, pouring him and Haley a drink when Lucas walked over. Lucas looked over to where Brooke was grinding up against Chris, her hips swaying in time with the beat of the music "Who invited the president of S!uts'R'Us over there?" sarcasm filled Lucas' voice. Nathan didn't need to turn around and see who exactly Lucas was referring too, he already knew it had to be Brooke
"One of the cheerleaders, I think. But, she came with me and Hales" Nathan replied, as Lucas leant up against the wall and took a sip from his beer bottle
"Lucas Scott waiting at my bedroom door…mmmm, interesting" Lucas turned to find Rachel stood beside him, she was wearing a tight fitted red dress that showed her cleavage off perfectly.
"Actually, I was just getting a beer" he rejected her flirting, just as he always did. There was something about Rachel that was just too easy. As a matter of fact, it was all just getting too easy for Lucas, he needed a challenge and Rachel definitely wasn't it
The red head looked him up and down "That's your seventh tonight, you must be pretty fuzzed out by now?…" he shrugged at her comment "You want me to save you a job and go and undress myself?" her eyes took a sexy glare, before she started to pull down the shoulder strap of her dress
Lucas pulled the strap back onto her shoulder "Yeah, I haven't had that many" he, once again, knocked her back.
"Well then…" she sighed at his refusal "Let me pour you another" she walked over to the drinks table and began making him a drink, maybe if she got him wasted he'd sleep with her, well that's what she thought anyway. Rachel turned to hand Lucas his vodka and Jack Daniels but before she could she was met with the sight of Brooke standing in front of her. A huge smirk appeared across Rachel's face "Well, well, well…fancy that. Brooke Davis, at my party…" seeing an opportunity to be the centre of attention, Rachel spoke loudly so that everyone could hear "Ya know that's funny because I didn't invite you, and the last thing I knew you were in Cali, far away from me…where your shielded from the embarrassment I'm gonna cause you" Rachel stood tall and proud as she b!tched at Brooke, who looked at her with a look of disgust across her face...
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