CHAPTER 12 - Calling Him Boyfriend

Dan's birthday party had started well over four hours ago, and it was now that the oldies were retreating to the living room. The excuse being that they wanted to be somewhere where they could talk at a normal level instead of having to yell over the music, the actual reason being that they were beginning to feel uncomfortable witnessing the antics of there drunken children. Lucas stood propped up against the kitchen door and watched Brooke as she swung her arm around the shoulder of some guy he didn't recognise before she started grinding her hips up against his leg. Lucas wasn't stupid though, he knew that something had changed between him and Brooke, he knew that now when she danced, she danced for him. It was all a game to make him jealous, that was obvious from the way she'd glance over at him before whispering something into the guys ear, he knew her game, her knew her game because he was trying to play exactly the same tactics.

Lucas took a swig from his beer bottle before relaxing back onto the side of the door when he saw Brooke approaching "So, who's the new guy?" he asked, pointing to where she'd had left the guy in what had become the dance floor to make herself a drink

"I don't know…" Brooke shrugged "He just started dancing with me" she looked round at Lucas, who she saw was glaring at the guy she'd just danced with "Is that a problem?" she asked, knowing that it was but that Lucas would never admit that

"No…no" he took his focus from the guy and turned it to Brooke "I just figured you might need the bedroom tonight, with the way he's slobbering on you" Lucas told her, before taking another swig from his bottle

Brooke smiled playfully as she once again caught Lucas shooting the guy evil stares "Is Lucas Scott getting jealous?" she bit the corner of her lip slightly as she spoke

"Yeah…" Lucas answered almost instantly, as Brooke's face dropped at how quickly he gave in to her game playing. He then moved his face closer to hers so that there lips were almost touching "…Right" he finished the sentence, before moving his head away from hers and smirking

Brooke took a deep breath, knowing that she'd almost given into the moment, she'd almost kissed Lucas. Almost. "So, if I were to ask you to dance with me, if I were to go back over there and tell that guy that I'm yours for the night…" she looked down into her cup and swilled the vodka around in it as she spoke "If I were to do that, it wouldn't make you happy?" her hazel eyes now fixated on his blue ones as she waited for his answer

"Yeah it would" he admitted reluctantly "But, that doesn't mean that I'm jealous" he told her, doubting his own answer

Brooke tugged on his collar pulling him closer to her, her eyes focused on his lips like she was just about to kiss him "I think you'll find that it does" she moved his head to the side of hers before there lips touched and spoke into his ear, her raspy tone sending a shiver down his spine. She then began to make her way back over to where the guy was still waiting

"I thought we were gonna dance?" Lucas asked her before she got too far away to hear

Brooke looked over her shoulder at the disappointed blonde "If I asked you to dance with me…if" she quoted her earlier words to Lucas, before walking away into the crowd, not to resume dancing with the guy, but just to leave Lucas when he wanted her most

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It was only after the party had finished and the next morning had rolled around that Dan had actually realised how much mess had been created. So, instead of clearing it up himself he'd gone out to the R.V and dragged Lucas, Nathan, Haley, Brooke and Peyton into doing it whilst he went to work. Haley and Peyton, were of course happy to help out any way that they could, whilst Lucas and Nathan weren't so thrilled, and Brooke wasn't really bothered as she already knew that she'd be doing nothing to help. Lucas circled the kitchen with a rubbish bag in one hand and dustpan and brush in the other, whilst Brooke stood at the counter with her eyes firmly fixed on the latest edition of Vogue. They had hardly spoken to each other all morning, but had exchanged many flirty glances right under the noses of there friends, who still had know idea what had gone on between the two.

Lucas walked by Brooke, and as there eyes locked Brooke smiled and looked down at his lips, the lips that suddenly seemed irresistible "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you wanted to kiss me" Lucas spoke quietly, not wanting to be heard by the others that were only down the hall

"You're the one that's been staring at my ass for the past half hour" she said before taking a sip from her coffee mug

"It beats staring at your face" he teased as he brushed past her

Brooke mocked anger and playfully jabbed him in the ribs "Shut up!"

"Whatever…" he shrugged "If you wanna carry on playing hard to get, that's your mistake" he tied the rubbish bag up and threw it out the back door "But, just so you know…your playing with fire, Davis" he warned her, as he once again brushed his body past hers

"Uh, uh" Brooke shook her head "I'm playing with you, Scott" she pouted as she spoke

Lucas rested his hand on the small of her back "How about you stop kidding yourself and admit that you want me?" he moved his face closer to hers, completely ignoring the fact that Nathan and Haley were in hearing distance of the exchange of words between the two

"I don't want you…" Brooke put her finger tips over Lucas' lips and lightly pushed his head away from hers "…I need you" she pulled his head back towards hers, and let her lips get close enough to feel his warm breath against her skin, before giving in to temptation completely and letting her tongue explore the inside of his mouth

Haley's jaw almost dropped to the floor when she entered the kitchen and was met with the sight of Brooke and Lucas in front of her. They'd only realised that they'd been caught out after Haley coughed lightly, and even then they didn't jump apart and deny everything like she expected them too, instead there lips parted and they both turned there heads towards where Haley was stood, there lips still pouted and them still in a tight embrace "Well, I guess it's better than arguing" Haley joked, but still couldn't take her eyes of them

"A lot better actually" Lucas quipped, before Brooke hit him hard in the side of the arm

Nathan and Peyton then walked into the kitchen to find the two still in a compromising position "What's going on here?" Nathan asked, but could already figure out the answer "You two aren't together, right?" he seemed a little confused, he'd always thought Brooke and Lucas were enemies, that they hated each other and now he'd walked into his fathers kitchen to find them locking lips

"No way!" Brooke denied that her and Lucas were in a relationship almost immediately

"There just sleeping together" Peyton informed the others coolly, before sitting down on a stool

"You two slept together?!" Haley yelled in shock, but with a hint of excitement

Brooke stuttered as she tried to find the words to deny it "You wanna help me out here Luke?" she ordered some assistance from the relaxed blonde standing next to her

"We slept together once, and we would've just done it again if you guys hadn't have come in and ruined it" Lucas didn't seem uncomfortable with the situation like Brooke did, he shrugged it off like it was nothing and walked over to the fridge to grab himself a soda

Brooke gritted her teeth, it was times like this she wondered what it was about Lucas that she found irresistible, now he was just irritating "Not the kinda help I was looking for" she said under her breath

"But you hate each other…" Nathan still seemed puzzled

"How did this even happen?" Haley said, still in a little shock. She knew there was something more than hate between the two, she just didn't know that it was this much more

"The other night we went to the café, she came onto me and we had sex…" Lucas shortened the story down to the bare essentials before sticking two fingers up behind Brooke's back and mouthing the word 'twice' which made Nathan smile and caused Haley to then nudge him in the side

"Excuse me?" Brooke turned around to face Lucas who was stood a few inches behind her "I came onto you?" she said in disbelief "You kissed me"

"Yeah, only coz you were begging me too" Lucas took a swig from his soda, and winked at the brunette

Haley rolled her eyes at the fact that the two had managed to get themselves from a passionate kiss to an argument in a matter of seconds "You two argued whilst you had sex, right" she joked, whilst taking a seat next to Peyton

"That's why we had sex…to shut her up" he gestured towards Brooke as he spoke, but soon regretted it after she grabbed on his nipple "Would you stop it with that!" he yelled out in pain

Nathan walked over to the other side of the kitchen and picked up a basketball from the shelf "You wanna shoot some hoops man?" Nathan asked Lucas whilst bouncing the ball on the ground

"Shoot some hoops?" Haley frowned over at her boyfriend in astonishment at his lack of interest in the new developments "We just found out that these two are sleeping together and you wanna play basketball?"

"Luke sleeps with everyone" Nathan shrugged "What else is new" he said, before walking out the door. Lucas looked round at Brooke and smirked "You coming man?" Nathan yelled from the living room

"Yeah" Lucas replied, before his eyes locked with Brooke's once again. They then kissed each others lips for a split second before Lucas left the room

"Ok, what the hell was that?" Peyton demanded as soon as Lucas was out of sight

"What was…what?" Brooke asked, without making eye contact with her best friend

Peyton pointed to where Lucas had just left "That kiss thing you two just did, that peck on the lips…"

Brooke pretended to be oblivious to all of what had just gone on "I don't know…what you mean"

"Whatever, I'll give it a week before your calling him your boyfriend" Peyton raised her eyebrow but was genuine in her words. She knew Brooke, she knew her well, and so she knew what she felt for Lucas was a whole lot different than what she was letting on.

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