Chapter 3: Forever Or Just Temporary

Flashback

"So Friday night?" Brooke asked her cousin, smiling.

Haley nodded, smiling and excited.

Brooke Davis and Haley James never knew exactly how similar the two were. While at their weekly dinner with their family, their parents let them know that for two weeks, the two would have to stay together in Haley's house, they were all going to Miami to visit Brooke and Haley's grandmother. Haley and Brooke agreed, with no questions asked, and decided that a Friday night party was exactly what they needed.

"Don't you think you had enough, Haley?" Lucas called to his best friend, who was stumbling around her house.

"Not nearly," she slurred smiling.

It was 11:00 and the party was finally going. Haley wore her denim Capri pants with an orange halter. Her hair was flown down her back loosely in curls, and her outfit finished off with a pair of flip-flops she decided on.

"Oops!" Haley giggled as she spilled her drink all over the floor of her house.

Lucas woke up in his own house with a bad headache, his head spinning in all different directions with what happened the night before.

Flashback

Brooke and Lucas spent most of the night on the balcony laughing and enjoying each other's company.

"You cold?" Lucas said noticing Brooke shiver.

Brooke smiled, "A little."

"Let's go inside," Lucas suggested.

"Are you trying to seduce me?" Brooke laughed.

"You don't know me all that well yet, Brooke Davis," Lucas said laughing, "I'm not that kind of guy."

Brooke laughed, "Okay."

After going to the guest room, where Brooke would be residing for the two weeks her parents and aunt would be gone, they sat down to talk some more. She noticed Lucas looking at a picture and went to look at the picture he was looking at. She was surprised to see him looking at a picture of Jimmy, Haley, Lucas, and a man she didn't know.

"That's my dad," Lucas said pointing at the figure next to Lucas.

Brooke looked at Lucas, "You were close to my uncle?"

Lucas sighed sadly before sitting down on the bed, "Was I ever. Lydia and Jimmy said I was the son they never had and I used to be here all the time. Jimmy used to play sports with me. Jimmy and my dad were really close, too. We all used to go on a camping trip before school started until Haley realized she was a girl and that "camping wasn't a girly thing to do,""

Brooke laughed, when Lucas asked, "Were you close to him?"

Brooke closed her eyes, "Haley and I hated each other, but I loved her dad. It was funny when they used to come we'd switch dads, she'd run to mine and I'd run to hers."

"Your dads are brothers?" Lucas asked confused.

Brooke smiled, "No…but it didn't matter to us. Uncle Jimmy was my uncle in every way possible, I loved him so much."

"Where were you guys for the funeral?" Lucas asked.

"Not in the U.S. We were on a cruise and by the time we came back and found out he passed away, the funeral was over and done with," Brooke told Lucas.

"When Haley called me that morning telling me her dad died, I couldn't believe it," Lucas told Brooke.

"What did you do? You came here?" Brooke asked.

"Hell yeah. I ran here at 6:00 in the morning. Haley's my best friend and I knew she'd be hard to break, and she was."

"What do you mean?"

"When I got here, Haley was acting like nothing happened. Her mother didn't understand what was going through Haley's mind. Haley repeatedly would tell me to just leave her alone and go home, that she was fine, but I refused. I stood here next to Haley throughout the wake, the funeral, everything. I knew she'd eventually break. When we got back from the funeral, she couldn't take it anymore. She cried and cried and wouldn't get out of bed for days," Lucas remembered.

Brooke tossed and turned in her sleep…

Flashback

"So what did you think of me when you first met me?" Brooke asked as she and Lucas sat on Haley's balcony.

Lucas threw his head back chuckling, "I was expecting a monster."

Brooke giggled, "Haley and I don't have good discussions on each other."

Lucas laughed, "No I remember seeing you and I thought…wow, she's one pretty girl."

Brooke blushed, "Pretty?"

Lucas smiled, "Yup. And I thought to myself, damn… I can't call my best friend's enemy hot…especially when she's dating someone."

"Dating?" Brooke laughed.

"I thought you and Nathan were together," Lucas laughed.

"That's so weird," Brooke commented, "Nathan thought you and Haley were together."

"I know," Lucas said. "We actually asked each other that first day we met."

"Oh, you found an interest in me?" Brooke asked.

"You better believe I did."

Flashback (Continued of LUCAS)

Brooke smiled as Lucas finished off his story about Haley.

"You're a good friend to Haley," Brooke stated.

Lucas smiled, "She's a good friend to me."

"How long have you two been friends?" Brooke asked.

"You know how there's some people you don't remember meeting?" Lucas asked.

Brooke nodded.

"That's Haley to me."

Haley lay in her bed, pretending to be a sleep, but being wide awake…

Flashback

"Nathan, I'm so sorry," Haley slurred walking over to Nathan who was flirting with some girl.

Nathan confusedly turned around. Haley barely said two words to him ever, and for the last week she'd been ignoring him and when he spoke to her, she tried to answer nicely.. "What are you sorry for, Hales?"

"I'm a bitch," she laughed.

Nathan apologized to the girl and walked over to Haley, "How much have you had to drink?"

Haley stared at Nathan and started laughing, "I have no ideas."

"I think you've had enough, Hales," Nathan told the girl.

"You sound like Lucas. Oh my God! You guys are brothers, aren't you? That's it! I've solved the mystery!" Haley yelled.

Nathan laughed, "Lucas and I brothers? That's an alternate universe. But seriously, Hales, that's enough. No more drinking."

"Where do you go off calling me Hales, you asshole!" Haley yelled walking away from Nathan.

Flashback (Continued from LUCAS)

"She's lucky to have a friend like you," Brooke told Lucas.

"It's the other way around. I'm lucky to have her," Lucas replied.

Flashback (Continued from BROOKE)

An hour later, Brooke and Lucas were in the guest room discussing memories from Haley and his childhood, the conversation turned around.

"So I thought you were this hottie," Brooke told Lucas.

"Hottie," Lucas replied, mocking her, "What do you think of me now?"

"What do you think of me?" Brooke asked.

Lucas smiled, "I think you're a beautiful girl, who has a heart of gold, and puts up a front in front of everyone. And you drive boys crazy."

Brooke laughed.

Flashback (Continued from HALEY)

Haley walked angrily away from Nathan, into a guy who handed her a drink.

"Drink?"

"Thank you very mucho!"

Flashback (HALEY)

"So then I was like "ASSHOLE!" Haley slurred to the guy who handed her a drink. He was leading her upstairs.

"Which one is your room?" he asked.

"This one," Haley answered.

………

"What are you doing?" Haley asked the guy who locked the door and began to try and kiss Haley.

"Trying to kiss you,"

"Stop it," Haley said sobering up and pushing him off.

He laughed and tried to kiss her again, "I said stop it!" Haley yelled slapping him.

His face turned red and slapped Haley in the face, roughly pushing her to the bed.

Flashback (Continued from BROOKE)

"So what's your type of girl?" Brooke asked Lucas.

Lucas looked into Brooke's eyes and answered, "You."

Lucas leaned into kiss her.

Nathan sat up in a chair thinking about the night he just dealt with.

Flashback

Nathan was trying to find Haley after she stormed away from him after he told her to stop drinking. He was a little worried about her, and the worry grew when he couldn't find her.

He spotted Peyton sitting with Mouth, Rachel and Jake, "Did any of you guys see Haley?"

The four heads looked up at him, "Sorry."

Nathan sighed, and began walking up the stairs when all of a sudden he heard someone screaming.

Flashback (Continued from BROOKE)

Lucas immediately pulled away from kissing Brooke when he heard someone screaming.

Flashback (EVERYONE)

Nathan ran into to the room where he heard screaming and tried to get in, but it was locked.

"What the hell is going on?" Lucas yelled running out of the guest room, Brooke on his heel.

"I have no frigging idea!" Nathan yelled, "I'm gonna break down this door."

Lucas and Nathan equally ran and broke down the door, fuming with anger at what they found.

Haley laid screaming on the bed with an unknown guy hovering over her. Haley's shirt was ripped off and she was in tears. Nathan immediately acted and pulled the guy off of her.

"What the fuck are you doing!?" He roared at the guy as Brooke and Lucas ran in. Once Lucas told Brooke to take Haley out of the room, Lucas ran over to Nathan and the guy and punched him in the face.

"Look, she said she didn't have a boyfriend!"

Nathan angrily pounded the kid against the wall, "That gives you the reason to try and start with her!"

… …

"Brooke let me go back in there!" Haley told her cousin crying, and pushed Brooke off of her and ran back into her bedroom.

… …

"I swear to God I'll kill you!" Nathan yelled.

"I'm out of here, alright!?" the guy yelled back.

Nathan and Lucas red in the face made sure the guy left Haley's house and noticed Haley standing there watching the two of them. Lucas immediately brought Haley into his arms as she started sobbing and Nathan went downstairs to tell everyone to leave.

"Thank you," Nathan heard from where he was sitting.

Flashback

Brooke told Nathan that her and Lucas put Haley to bed in the guest room across from Haley's room.

Nathan walked into the bedroom and saw Haley asleep. He sat down in the chair and watched her sleep.

End Flashback

"For saving me," Haley continued.

So that's chapter 3. Right now, I'm working on chapter 6...which means this story is moving along pretty quickly. The more reviews, the quicker I'll update!!