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I Never Feared the Unexpected

Till I Found Myself in a Less Peculiar Place

This was by far the best 'punishment' Brooke had ever received. She'd been here for two weeks, and as far as she could tell this was gonna be a pretty good summer.

The day she arrived she had met Haley and Lucas, but later that night she got to meet the 'others', as her Aunt Stevie had put them.

They weren't at all what she was expecting, they were, everyone of them, attractive.

There were two other girls, Peyton and Rachel, and two other boys, Nathan and Mouth.

Rachel had fiery red hair, pretty eyes, and a body like a model, While Peyton, also tall and skinny, had Kinky Blonde hair and Dark Green Eyes. Brooke for once in her life was a teeny, tiny, bit intimidated. I mean she was obviously gorgeous- she had that whole old timey movie star, blindingly pretty look going on, but these girls were different. They were simple, hometown, girl next door, pretty. Which Brooke had never really seen before.

The Guys, however, were, well. Nathan was insanely Hott, but Mouth was little brother cute. He seriously reminded her of her cousin Jay. He just turned fourteen, and was such a sweetie; which was another quality he and Mouth shared.

Mouth had been her 'buddy'(his choice of words) the past two weeks. He was such a nice guy. He showed her around, Helped her with her chores, and was being a wonderful friend. Infact he had been a better friend to her in the past fifteen days then most of her 'friends' back home had been to her in the past four years.

From what she could tell Peyton and Nathan were nice enough, but they spent most of their time together, and she hadn't talked to either one much. Actually she'd probably said ten words to each of them in the time she had been here. All she knew was Peyton's father died three years ago and Nathan was Lucas' first cousin.

Haley was definitely by far her favorite person, probably ever. She was so much fun. She was nothing like the girls back home. She was…nice. She was also the cutest thing Brooke had ever seen. They had learned a ton about each other, and one thing Haley emphasized was her Hatred for Nathan., "He's a stuck up, jock. Who thinks he can have any girl he wants.", she had said. Brooke agreed, like a good friend, although she didn't really have any room to speak, like she had said she and Nathan didn't talk.

Rachel had a little bite. She could be nasty, but in a twisted way Brooke loved it. They had very close personalities.

She had spent some time with Lucas and all she knew about him were the obvious; he was gorgeous, he had a great personality, he was a VERY southern boy, and he had a girl friend. Brooke hated that last one though. She had met his girlfriend last week, after the phone call.

Flashback

Lucas re-entered the room, shutting his phone in the process.

"B's on her way over, she's going to watch the rest of the movie with us.", He said taking his spot on the floor.

Haley's head snapped over to Lucas, "Did you ask Stevie?", she asked.

"Yeah, she said it was fine, Hales.", He said ,with a smile on his face.

Haley rolled her eyes and groaned, "She's such an idiot Luke, God! She's dumber than a hay belle.", She said, her culture flying out.

"Okay, so she might not be the brightest crayon, but she's nice, and she's hot; so it's a win win.", He said, sounding like such a guy. A guy with a huge drawl.

"Your Shallow.", Haley scoffed, causing Lucas' grin to grow wider.

About ten minutes later there was a loud(monster-like loud) knock at the bedroom door. Lucas hopped up and answered it.

"Hey B.", he smiled as he let the blonde girl in. Brooke sat up, feeling slightly(extremely) uncomfortable. He led the girl he referred to as 'B' to Brooke and grinned.

"B this is Brooke Davis, Stevie's niece,. Brooke this is Bevin Maskey, her family owns the ranch down the street.", He introduced. Brooke stood up and took the hand the blonde girl was holding out. , "Hey, Bevin, Its really nice to meet you.", Brooke lied.

Bevin smiled, "Its nice to meet you too.".

They all took there positions, Brooke being on the bed with Haley this time, and the 'Couple"(gag) on the floor.

After the movie Bevin stayed for dinner. Haley was right, she really was stupid. She had called Lucas an Idiom, thinking it meant idiot, three times at the dinner table.

All Brooke knew was she was soooo relieved when she finally left. For all Brooke cared Bevin could go choke on chicken…or something hard.

She could not believe Lucas was with that 'idiom'. She knew she had to do something. When Brooke found something she wanted she made it hers. And She had never wanted anything more than the cowboy in the room next to her.

End Flashback

Brooke snapped herself out of her thoughts, and looked down at her chore schedule. She had to sweep the stable next. She did that with Rachel. That was one of the four chores they had together. Its like classes at school, only well, not. She had five chores with Haley, Two chores with Nathan, Three chores with Peyton, Four chores with Mouth, and two with Lucas.

No she didn't have nineteen chores(if you did the math). Most of her chores were shared between more than one person. She only had chores alone with Haley, Rachel, and Nathan.

She grabbed her tennis shoes and quickly threw them on. She did most of her chores in them, while most of the others wore cowboy boots. Brooke was Not about to commit fashion suicide though. She ran out the door on her way to the stables.

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"Well if it isn't the Bitch of Eastwick herself.", Rachel insulted as Brooke came through the door.

Brooke rolled her eyes. If this had been her first impression of Rachel, she would have took the bitch out, but Brooke's used to it by now. Rachel always greets her with a "Hey Whore", or "Skank", or "Bitch", it was just what she did. Brooke simply plays along. It's a sick(fun) game really.

"Just grab your dick-oops, I mean stick…whore.", Brooke retorted throwing the broom at Rachel. She just wanted to get the chore over with, it was horrible. It was probably the worst she had to do. The stables smelled so bad.

Rachel smiled as she caught the 'dick' and ran over to turn the stereo on. She fiddled with it till she found a good station and began to sweep to a pop song. And to Brookes dismay not only was it a pop song it was a pop song from at least ten years ago. Brooke didn't really care for Pop, or she hadn't since like the fourth grade. She really liked stuff more along the lines of Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Jacks Mannequin, etc., but whatever got Rachel to work faster made Brooke happy, so she put up with "…Baby One More Time".

After four Britney Spears , two backstreet boys, and three Christina Aguilera songs, they were finally done.

Brooke put her broom away, left the barn, and headed toward her last chore of the day.

She reached into her pocket to check her 'schedule'. Brooke was pretty sure she knew what she was doing next. She almost had it down, but she just wanted to be sure. Yep, sure enough she was right, she had to milk the cows next.

Brooke didn't really mind this chore. Besides the whole gross utter pulling thing, it wasn't that bad. Plus she got to be alone.

Since she'd been living here she'd rarely been able to be alone. Not that she didn't love having Haley around, cause she did, it was just nice to be able to be alone with her thoughts every now and again.

No this wasn't a solo chore, but it might as well be. Her and Nathan didn't talk…ever. No small talk, no nothing. They'd say hi then get to tuggin'.

Brooke walked over to the cattle barn, but once she reached it she wasn't sure if she should go ahead and go in, since she and Rachel had gotten done so early. She grabbed her cell phone out of her jean pocket and checked the time. 5:50. She was ten minutes early. That wasn't too bad. She decided to go in . She could get done even earlier with this chore then go help Haley with Dinner.

When she walked into the barn she found something she wasn't sure what to make of.

Her newly best friend Haley was kissing-no making out with Nathan. But no Haley hates Nathan., Brooke thought. She wasn't sure if she should leave, or say something. Leaving would definitely be the right thing to do, but Brooke was never one to do the right thing.

Brooke balled her hand in a fist, brought it up to her mouth and fake coughed.

Haley immediately jumped off Nathan and twirled around to see who had caught them.

When she found Brooke she nearly had a heart attack. Her best friend had caught her making out with Nathan. She had told Brooke she couldn't stand him, when in reality she couldn't get enough of him. Brooke was going to kill her. She just hoped Brooke wouldn't tell anyone. They had worked hard to keep this a secret, if everyone found out it would be…weird to say the least. Lucas was her male best friend, and if he found out she was hooking up with Nathan he would have a cow! He couldn't stand Nathan. He couldn't stand him for the same reasons Haley 'couldn't stand him'.

"Well, that's not exactly what I expected to find, a gross utter sure, but definitely not this.", Brooke said walking over to the bucket table. She didn't mind that Haley and Nathan liked each other, it was just that Haley had lied that threw her off. She definitely could have trusted Brooke, she was in no place to judge Haley.

"Brooke, this isn't what it-okay, this is exactly what it looks like, but I just, I'm sorry.", Haley babbled, uncertain of exactly how to explain herself. She hated that she had lied to Brooke, but she and Nathan couldn't afford to have anyone find out.

"Its Okay that you like each other Haley-I don't have a problem with that, but why did you lie to me.", Brooke asked, hoping for a damned good answer.

Haley opened her mouth and began to explain only to be cut off by her 'enemy' "We didn't want the others to find out, it'd be just awful if They knew…especially Lucas.", Nathan answered. He didn't really know Brooke, but from the way Haley had gone on about her he figured she was okay. She probably wouldn't tell., he thought

Brooke looked over at Nathan., "He speaks.", she joked, then on a more serious note looked over at Haley., "Country-girl you should've known I wouldn't judge you.", Brooke said using the nickname she had earlier given her., "You can trust me, If you had told me to keep my mouth shut I would've. I still will. I understand, and I won't tell anyone.", she told Haley. Haley was becoming her best friend and if she didn't want anyone to know then Brooke certainly wouldn't tell them.

Haley looked up at Nathan, then over at Brooke, and smiled., " I know Brooke, and I shouldn't have lied. I won't ever again. Thank you for understanding, your amazin'. Please forgive me, I can't believe I- oh no, what time is it?" she said, breaking off mid- sentence. She couldn't be late for her last chore. She had kitchen duty with Lucas. She can't even imagine trying to explain where she was… "Oh sorry I'm late, I had to explain to Brooke why she caught your cousin and I making out in the cattle barn.", no that would be a nightmare.

Brooke looked at the phone in her hand. "5:59", She told her, "You'd better run.", she said, and Haley took off running out of the barn into the house.

Brooke looked over at Nathan who was watching Haley go, smiling during the process.

"You really like her, huh.", She stated, taking her bucket and stool over to her cow, Mickey.(Aunt Stevie Named it)

Nathan snapped his head and looked over at Brooke., "She's alright.", he said, putting on his tough guy act.

Brooke rolled her eyes, sat down, put the bucket under the utter(eww) and began to milk Mickey.

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Haley dashed through the Kitchen door and looked up at the clock on the mantel. 6:00

She was right on time, and Lucas wasn't even there yet. Stupid Boy., she thought., He'd better have a good reason, I ran my ass off.

Haley went over to the sink and started the dishes.

By the time Lucas came in, Haley had already unloaded and re-loaded the dishwasher, and was about to start Dinner.

"Sorry Hales.", he said, as he walked over ready to do whatever she asked of him. He wasn't sure how late he was, but he knew she was mad. She didn't even acknowledge his presence.

"Your twenty minutes late Luke, Where the hell were you?", she asked as she went over to the fridge.

"Its not important.", Lucas answered, getting out the cooking pans.

"You were with Bevin weren't you?", she accused, she hated that girl, she was nowhere near good enough for Lucas. And the fact that he was twenty minutes late because he was with her made Haley even madder.

"Yeah, But its not what you think-", he started, only to be interrupted by Haley's screams.

"Oh. My. Goddd. Luke! You are twenty-Furr-eekin- minutes late so you could fuck that dumb butt, whore!", Haley screamed, she rarely swore, but this pushed her too far.

Lucas' eyes widened he never heard that word come out of Haley's mouth…never. She was really mad. "No Haley, stop, I was late because I was breaking up with her not…", he said, stopping to look around the room before continuing., "Fucking her.", he whispered.

Haley processed what he had just told her. Broke up., she thought, Yes, hell yes. Haley smiled., "Well, I'm sorry, Luke.", she apologized

"Don't worry about it Hales.", he said handing her one of the pans.

"Why'd you do it?", she asked, "Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you did, but I thought you Liked her." She wondered. This was so sudden. It made no sense.

Lucas looked down, he wasn't sure how to say this, but he had to. Haley was his best friend. She was like his sister, he had never lied to her and he wasn't about to start now.

"Don't say anything, but I think I like someone else.", he said, looking at Haley. She was rolling her hands as if to say 'who'. He knew he'd have to tell her sooner or later and knowing Haley it'd have to be sooner.

"Come on you don't have any idea?", he said aggravating her.

"Luucaass!"., she whined, dragging out his name. "Just tell me, I won't tell."., she said smiling. She couldn't wait to tell…

"Brooke, Haley I like Brooke."., He said leaving Haley speechless.

"Oh….Crap.", she said setting the pan down on the stove. What was she going to do. She couldn't tell Brooke, Lucas would kill her, but she couldn't hide it from Brooke. God, my head hurts, she thought., I've got to lay down.

She spun on her heel and began to walk out of the kitchen

"Hey, where are you goin'? What about dinner.", he asked, startled by her reaction.

"I don't feel well make it yourself.", she called over her shoulder.

Once she was out of the kitchen she ran up the stairs and into the room she shared with Brooke.

This was terrible. She had no problem with them being together, but the whole secret keepin' part killed Haley.

She had to find a way for Brooke to find out, without telling her, herself.

Well, Crap., Haley thought, I've got to do something, but what?, She argued with herself. Maybe if I drop hints at dinner she'll catch on, and do something that'll make Lucas admit it. Oh, but what am I supposed to hint. God, this is screwed up.

Haley sat up and began to tell plans to herself out loud., "Maybe if I tell Brooke-", she began.

"Tell Me What?", Brooke asked as she walked in the door.

Haley turned her head., "Oh, H-Hey Brooke.", She stuttered, this was going to be harder than she'd thought.

A/N- Hey guys. Hope you liked it. As you can see it's a little out of character, but I don't know, I like it. Hee, hee.
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