Chapter 6

Downstairs

Bevin had persuaded the girls to come downstairs and to try to enjoy the rest of the party. She had decided to make a speech about Brooke and Chase. Bevin stood on a chair and started tapping her champagne glass with a fork; no one was paying any attention to her so she started whacking her glass viciously, until it broke. The shock caused Bevin to stumble off the chair.

Rachel, who was watching the blonde, almost choked on her pizza and laughed so much that she fell backwards and landed on Nathan's lap. The pair started laughing, and Nathan was tickling her. Haley was looking for Brooke when Nathan & Rachel caught her eye, he was whispering things in her ear that caused Rachel to kink her eyebrow She was shocked at what she saw, and walked away swiftly, to make sure Nathan didn't see her.

Nathan & Haley's car

Nathan, Haley & James were driving home from the party, and Haley was driving like a mad woman.

"Hales, just slow down ok, you almost ran over an old lady back there!" Nathan said firmly.

"I saw you talking to her! Why were you talking to that... Thing?"

"Who are you talking about?!" Nathan replied with a quizzical look on his face.

Haley took her eyes away from the road and gave Nathan a dirty look. "You know full well who I'm talking about!! Rachel! The fucking whore!"

"HALEY! Keep your eyes on the road. And to answer your question, I was just being pleasant. Anyway from what I heard, you started the argument."

Haley just shook her head and continued driving.

"That Rachel lady is really pretty, is she related to us?" James asked.

There was an awkward silence; Nathan didn't want to respond to his son in case he said the wrong thing.

"No honey. She's just a friend of your father." Haley said, emphasising the word friend.

Back at Brooke and Chase's house

Peyton and Lucas had stayed behind to help clear up. Brooke, who was sitting in the next room, was watching them with a smirk on her face. Chase walked in and looked confused at the look on his fiancé's face.

"What are you smiling about?" He laughed.

"Everyone knows they're meant to be together… I think they know it too. But they are scared." She tilted her head and the expression on her face was sad. "They need to find their way back to each other."

"Well, maybe we can help them?" Chase said suggestively.

Brooke grinned. "You are a genius!" She got up and kissed him on the cheek. "But how?"

Back in the other room, Luke and Peyton were picking up rubbish from the tables. There was one plastic cup left on the table and obviously they both reached out their hands to pick it up. Lucas sensed this and purposely placed his hand on top of Peyton's. She looked up and stared into his naive blue eyes, just like she had done four years ago. She didn't want to do that again, he had broke her heart.

Instead she made a witty remark. "Nice hands!"

Lucas laughed but inside was kicking himself, why did he let this beautiful girl go?

Sorry I haven't updated for a while lol. I kinda forgot about it until a couple of people asked me about it

12/09/07