CHAPTER 5 - Feeling Something, Just Not Knowing What
Brooke's perfectly glossed lips curled mischievously, as she caught sight of Lucas' angry figure marching towards her and the other cheerleaders.
She could tell he was pissed, just by the way his eyes were fixated on her and she pretended to focus on her newly manicured nails as he reached her "A word?" Lucas spat, and glanced to an empty space away from the cackling of the other cheerleaders
Brooke pursed her lips before looking up at Lucas "And, what's the magic word?" she toyed with him just to see if she could get Lucas Scott to beg for something, anything
"Now!" he ordered with his hands placed firmly on his hips. Lucas then grabbed Brooke's arm and pulled her into the space he'd focused on moments earlier "You told everyone I was gay!!" the angry blonde yelled but soon lowered his voice when he realised people had heard his words
Brooke didn't look phased by Lucas' aggression "It may have slipped out during conversation" she smirked at the fact that she was now in control "You look pissed" she stated, sarcasm filling her voice "Oh, did you not want people to know?" she mocked him once more
"I'm not-" Lucas screamed once again letting the feisty brunette get the better of him "I'm not gay, and you know that so what the hell are you playing at?" this time he spoke a lot quieter but just as fiercely
"Well, you being gay explains why you thought I was 'bad in bed'" she air quoted 'bad in bed' with her fingers. She loved to see Lucas get angry, and frustrated especially if she'd been the cause of that, but that wasn't the only reason she'd started a rumour of her own. After Lucas had told the whole of the football team that she was bad in bed, word had spread and that's when she'd get sarcastic comments yelled at her down the corridor, and that wasn't the only effect Lucas' rumour had had on her. She hadn't been able to get a date in weeks, even the guys on the lacrosse team had turned down her advances. Lucas had embarrassed her, made a fool of her and now he was going to pay
Lucas' forehead began to scrunch and his frown became deeper by the second "So, what? You made it up to get back at me?"
"Mmmm, mmmm" Brooke smiled as she agreed with Lucas' words "Whoever said revenge is sweat was so right" Brooke's raspy voice failed to soften Lucas' attitude, not that she wanted it too. She wanted him to be angry.
Lucas took a second to compose himself "You know what? It takes a bigger man to step back…so I'm gonna give you a chance to take this all back, to tell everyone the truth…"
The brunette laughed a little louder than she'd expected at the thought of actually doing what Lucas had requested "And, let you win? Not a chance in hell!"
Lucas let out a small sigh followed by a slight chuckle "Then game on Brooke Davis, Game on!!" he remained calm, as he looked Brooke in the eye. He then walked away a lot more relaxed than he had first arrived just moments prior to their conversation. Brooke knew she'd won this round, but that didn't stop her from wondering exactly what Lucas was going to do next
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And that's how it continued for the next couple of weeks, prank after prank, rumour after rumour, and still neither Brooke nor Lucas agreed to step down. Each of them taking it to the next level every time they decided to continue this charade, they'd ruined each others reputation, and dragged their characters through the mud but still they wouldn't back down from each other, both of them too stubborn to let the other win. But, when Lucas had gone to Rachel for help planning his next hoax, things got a little out of hand. Rachel had somehow gotten hold of a bunch of photographs of Brooke half naked, and given them to Lucas, who had enlarged them and made multiple copies. Then he'd decided to post them on every wall of the college for everyone to see, he'd definitely taken it to the next level, that he knew.
Lucas stood propped up against the wall, talking to a bunch of girls, none of which he knew the name of but he was sure he'd slept with at least two of them. They giggled at every word he said, just as the girls at NCU always did, but one girl that wasn't so sure of his charms was Brooke Davis, and as she stormed over to him, he knew he'd have to be James Bond to charm his way out of this one. She didn't even give him chance to excuse himself from the lingering girls as she reached him, she grabbed his nipple and pulled it tight causing him to let out a loud groan. She then pulled him into one of the empty classrooms nearby, and shut the door behind them
"Where the hell did you get this from?" Brooke threw one of the posters down on the desk in front of him
"Oh, so you saw it then?" he smirked, and looked closely at the giant picture of Brooke half naked. He seemed to be enjoying the sight before Brooke huffed and tore the picture from his grasp
"How did you get this?!" she demanded once again "Wait, did you get this from Wayne?" she knew only Wayne would be the one to have a picture like this, but was still a little confused as to how Lucas ended up with it. But after taking a second to think, she worked it out "Of course you didn't, but Rachel did"
Lucas didn't know who Wayne was, or why Brooke and Rachel hated each other so much, he just cared about revelling in the embarrassment he'd caused Brooke "Its amazing what that chick will do for me" he spoke of Rachel
"I cant believe you did this, I was kidding around but you-" she choked a little as she tried not to show Lucas how upset she really was "You had to bring my past up to get back at me" she looked at Lucas, not with anger, but with sadness "Do you have any idea what you've done?" she asked him, her voice becoming a little shaky "…You idiot" she shook her head, before turning to leave the room
He stood for a second, not wondering if he'd gone to far, but knowing it. He didn't like her, in fact he despised her, but he still didn't want to be the one to hurt her, not for real, not the kind of hurt he'd just seen deep within her hazel eyes "Brooke…" he called after the figure that was moving further and further away, until it eventually disappeared "…I'm sorry" he whispered, knowing that she couldn't hear him but just wanting to say it anyway
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Lucas stood in the kitchen of his dorm, and finished off the pizza he'd left in his fridge the night before. He thought about how he'd left things with Brooke earlier that day, and he felt a tinge of guilt, not that he'd ever admit it to anyone, it was hard enough admitting it to himself.
Haley then entered the dorm, breaking him out of his thoughts "Hey, what's up?" she asked, casually, as she made herself comfy on the sofa. It had become kind of a Friday night routine, Haley would come round to Lucas and Nathan's dorm and have a chat with Lucas whilst she waited for Nathan to finish detention, Lucas would then go to some random party, leaving Nathan and Haley to their alone time "Please tell me your not putting more of these up…" she groaned, after seeing the pile of posters laid out on the table "Brooke's really pissed at you for this, ya know? And you can probably guess what its like to live with a really pissed off Brooke Davis!" Lucas smiled a little as Haley frowned over at him "So, please, for my sake…don't put anymore of these things up" she waved a pile of them in Lucas' direction "Wait…" she said, looking a little closely at the pictures "This ones got tape on it, and this one says 'I heart Chris Keller' in Chris' writing…" she rolled her eyes at the latter "These have been taken down…" Haley told Lucas after seeing more vandalised posters. Lucas walked swiftly, over to where Haley was standing "Did you take these down?" she asked with a small smirk across her face
"Err, yeah, I, errm. I took them down so I could make more copies, like to, err, put up off campus and stuff" it was clear to anyone that he was lying, and he knew his excuse wouldn't get past Haley
She raised an eyebrow, and looked at him with doubt plastered across her face "And, you took like all 500 of these down to make copies, when you could have just done it with one?" she put him on the spot once more
"I didn't, I didn't know you could do that" he stuttered
"Ohhh…" Haley grinned, knowing that every word that came from Lucas' mouth was a lie
Lucas was then saved from Haley's questioning when Nathan entered the dorm "Hey guys" he greeted them with a smile, before making his way across the living area to give Haley a peck on the cheek
Lucas quickly gathered the posters and threw them into his room before picking up his cell, and making his way for the door, all the while feeling Haley's eyes fixed on him "Hales…" he said, just before exiting "Can you not tell Brooke about this?" he asked. Haley smiled, and nodded in agreement before watching Lucas exit the dorm
"Not tell Brooke about what?" Nathan asked Haley who was now snuggled next to him on the sofa
"That Lucas Scott has actually got a heart" Haley smiled as she looked over at the door Lucas had just exited, she knew that she'd found Lucas' weakness...Brooke
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