Sorry for the delay in updating. Thanks everyone, for all your wonderful comments, I love reading them, so did my best to respond to all of your questions and comments.

Brucas2006: Thanks, for your comments, I'm glad you liked the Brathan talk and I totally agree Leyton should just die already!

Stellame: I'm glad you like the brucas interaction; I definitely want their relationship to build up.

Rosewell Dream Girl: Thanks for you comment, I miss brucas too and seriously hoping they find their way back together, if Mark knows what's good for him lol.

OTH GURL: Thanks, I'm glad you liked the flash back; I miss how cute brucas used to be so I had to include some.

Linkie: I'm glad you liked the chapter. The 'saying the same words at the same time', is kinda hard to describe in writing but I'm glad you understood it. Thanks for you comment.

Hinata-37: I can't stand Leyton (aka pucas) either, I wrote them being still together because sadly they were together in 4.10 so I had to include it but don't worry this is definitely, 100 a brucas fanfic.

-x-becki-bbe-x-: Thanks for commenting, I'm glad you liked the chapter.

Mosie1213: I'm glad you like the story, I hope the next chapter answers some of your questions.

Artemis no Himitsu: Hey ChiChi, your comment totally made me laugh. I'm really happy to hear you're hooked. I would love to answer all your questions but you're just going to have to read to find out. Hope you like the next chapter; I'm sure you'll tell me what you think. Lol.

daniela1683: Heya, I'm glad you're enjoying the story. It is definitely a brucas fanfic, as icky as Leyton are; they are part of the journey. About Mouth, he is hiding it because, like he thought in chapter three, all this sneaking around and lying isn't him and although he has good motives, people wouldn't necessarily see it like that, plus, he's hidden this from Lucas and is ashamed of that. Hopefully that answered some of your questions, if you have anymore feel free to ask and keep reading.

Chapter Nine: Oh…the possibilities!

Brooke stood there momentarily looking at Mouth. She was beginning to get really tired of the whole thing. She walked past him, into the house leaving the door open.

"Brooke, didn't you hear what I said?" Mouth said, as he followed her into the house, shutting the door behind him.

"What do you mean you've got bad news Mouth…?" Brooke said as she began making her way through the hallway and up the stairs.

"I.." Mouth began but Brooke interrupted him.

"Let me guess… you know who opened the time capsule" She said continuing up the stairs.

Mouth stopped momentarily. He did know, but that wasn't what he had to tell Brooke. God, how many secrets was he keeping? He thought to himself as he continued to follow Brooke who was still making her way up the stairs, sounding angrier with every word she said. "Trust me, I won't lie to you anymore" Brooke said imitating Mouth. "Yeah right" she said to more to herself than to Mouth.

"Brooke if you'll just wait." Mouth pleaded as he followed her into her room. "It's really important… I think Dan knows."

Brooke stopped, frozen still. What? How could he know? Brooke turned around slowly to face Mouth. "How?" she asked.

"The other night when I said I was home…" Mouth began "Well… I wasn't. I was… doing something"

Brooke just rolled her eyes; she knew he hadn't been at home. "Something, what do you mean something?"

"Just stuff… anyway, I left something behind, and I think Dan might be onto me"

Brooke just took a deep breathe, she couldn't bare not knowing things, even though she sometimes wished she never knew about any of this in the first place, now that she did she hated feeling like there was something Mouth wasn't tell her. "Mouth, you said you were doing something, what was it?"

"Brooke, that's not important right now, I'm telling you that Dan knows he's onto us. He knows that I know!" Mouth said getting louder and louder.

"How Mouth? How on earth would Dan know?" she said beginning to shout

"I told you Brooke I left something" Moth said shouting back

"Where? Where did you leave something Mouth?"

By now both Mouth and Brooke were standing on opposite ends of her room, shouting as if they were miles away form one another.

"Brooke, it doesn't matter where, all that matters is he knows, he knows that we know!"

"It matters to me Mouth, it matters to me!"

"Brooke, can't you hear what I'm saying. What are we going to do?"

"We?"

"Yes, the both of us!"

"What do you mean the both of us I have nothing to do with this"

"But you know about it too, you know about it too!"

"So what? It wasn't my stupid shirt!" Brooke screamed.

Mouth froze. The shirt, how does she know about the shirt? "Brooke, how do you know about the shirt?"

Oh shit!! Brooke thought to herself. She had been so angry that she just blurted it out."Mouth, I.."

"How do you know about the shirt?" Mouth persisted.

"You mentioned it before Mouth" Brooke lied.

"Don't lie to me Brooke, you….."

"So, it's alright for you to lie to me but I can't lie to you." Brooke said edging towards Mouth "I was there Mouth; I was there yesterday when you lied to me and when you lied to Lucas." Brooke said.

"What? How?" Mouth asked.

"You're getting way to good at this lying thing Mouth, it's scary. You told me you were at home, when you weren't. You told me you were feeling sick, when you weren't and you said the same to Lucas. What else aren't you telling me? Huh."

Mouth couldn't look at her, he felt guilty, he did it's just, it was like a web. Once he got caught in it, he was trapped, no way out and he could feel himself getting more and more tangled into this web of lies and deceit. "Brooke, I'm…"

Brooke walked past him to one of her draws, opening it to take out the shirt. "Here" Brooke said, throwing the shirt at Mouth. "You don't' have to worry, your secret's safe."

Mouth looked down at the shirt, before looking up at Brooke. She looked so hurt and disappointed. For some reason, he couldn't feel relieved, not after everything Brooke had just said. "Brooke I'm really…"

Brooke interrupted him once again "Could you just leave Mouth"

"Brooke"

"Please. I don't want to talk anymore" she said tired of all the arguing. Mouth nodded before doing as she asked.

Once Brooke heard the door shut, she took a deep breath and dropped down onto her bed. She could feel a tear rolling down her cheek, but she didn't wipe it away, instead she sat there staring at the clock above the door. Rachel wouldn't be back until 1am, the house was so quiet. She hated feeling so alone. Everyone she loved had betrayed or lied to her; or worse, they didn't love her back; Lucas, Peyton, her parents and now Mouth. Brooke lay back on her bed; and closed her eyes, trying to get to sleep.

Tomorrow was another day, which would be met with another brave face she put on for the world to see.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"Alright, pens and pencils down now, time's up, your test is over. Don't forget to collect last week's test paper from me at the front, let's hope that last week's grade is not a reflection of what you will be scoring this week." Mr Pierson said looking at specific individuals in the class. "Mark Hudson, come and collect your paper please…"

Brooke put her name on her test and passed it forward. She hated this part. Why did Mr Pierson choose to give out last weeks test results at the end of the lesson? Going up in front of the whole class was so humiliating. I mean, everyone was looking at you. Mr Pierson would hand you your paper and even though no one could see what you got, you could always tell the ones who did well from the ones who definitely did not. The smart students would look down at their paper and smile, thanking Mr Pierson before they left. The ones who didn't do so well; they'd take one look at their mark and be out of the classroom as soon as they could. Brooke sat there tapping her pencil on the desk. She had just done one test and now she was going to get back her crappy mark from last week.

"Brooke Davis, come and collect your paper please"

Brooke walked to the front of the class, took her paper, smiled at Mr Pierson and left. She'd look at it later, not now with all eyes on her. Although Brooke was no stranger to attention, she knew people weren't staring because they were genuinely interested in her results; all they wanted to see was a dumb, slutty cheerleader get her 'F' and pout as if she didn't understand why flirting with the teacher wouldn't get her an A.

"Hey" a familiar voice said.

Brooke turned around to see Lucas. "Hey" she said trying to smile.

"How'd you find the test" Lucas asked. Brooke frowned in response.

"Come on, I'm sure it wasn't that bad"

"That test was horrible Luke, and on top of it we just got last week's results back. God, I hate Thursday's. Did you find the test hard?"

"It was… okay" he said trying to down play the fact that he thought the test went quite well.

"Oh…great. You thought it was 'okay' which we both know is code for really easy"

"No, no, I mean the last question was completely weird, I didn't get it at…" Lucas said trying to comfort her.

"Yeah, I'm sure" Brooke said rolling her eyes, completely unconvinced

Lucas smiled sympathetically. "So how did you do in last weeks test?" Lucas asked. Brooke opened her mouth to speak, but couldn't help but feel the ears of nosey nobodies listening intently to her response.

"Yeah, Brooke how did you do?" Asked Theresa who had obviously been listening in to her conversation with Lucas.

"Hey, Theresa" Brooke said. Not even attempting to hide her lack of enthusiasm.

"I did okay" Brooke lied; she hadn't even looked at her paper, for all she knew she could have gotten nothing right.

Theresa shook her head as if to say "And…"

Brooke rolled her eyes "I got a C. God, who would have known that my results were like, breaking news"

"Well done Bee, I guess you're not so brainless after all" Theresa blew Brooke air kisses and strutted off.

"Yeah, well done Bee" Lucas said, imitating Theresa. Brooke laughed, and so did Lucas.

"God, I hate it when she calls me that. I'm going to change the subject… what have you got next?"

"Chemistry" Lucas said

"Oh yeah, well have fun" Brooke smiled.

The bell rang for break as the hall filled with more people. "I better go, I said I'd meet Peyton" Lucas said gesturing towards the library.

"Yeah, me too, I promised to meet Rachel and listen to her way too detailed account of her date with Josh, but when say listen I really mean throw up so..."

Lucas burst out laughing, shaking his head.

Brooke smiled. God she loved the sound of his laugh. "I'll see you next period for History" she said before heading down the hall. Making sure she didn't look back, even though she really wanted to. Lucas used to do it all the time; when he'd walk her to her lesson and kiss her on the forehead before going to his next lesson. He'd always look back, and smile at her with that smile that would make her heart melt, completely distracting her for the rest of the lesson.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The bell rang for the end of break and Brooke slowly made her way to class. She had managed to avoid Rachel and her graphic story by hanging out with Bevin, who was apparently going through a huge crisis, which in Bevin's world meant that two parties were on at the same night and she couldn't decide which to go to. Brooke had spent the whole break listening to Bevin list all the cool and 'not-so-cool' things about each party in hopes of coming to a decision but, being Bevin she couldn't.

Now, Brooke was going to be late for class. She went over to her locker to get her books before class. As she opened her locker to get her books, she saw that on top of her textbook was her test paper. She had managed to avoid looking at it all break but now, it was just her and her mark and she had to look. I mean, what was the big deal, she never usually got this hung up over results. It's just that she had been failing a lot recently and Mr Pierson had already warned her that her grades needed to improve if she was to graduate. Brooke grabbed the paper and with a deep breath looked at it.

"I got an F! I got an F, a lousy, stupid F!" Brooke screamed in her head.

"Hey" A voice said.

Brooke jumped letting out a scream and dropping her paper to the floor. She turned around to see, none other than... "Peyton, you scared me" Brooke said with her hand on her heart, recovering from the shock.

"Sorry." Peyton said. "Here you dropped your..." she said bending down to pick up Brooke's paper "Your paper. Wow, you got an F"

Brooke looked at Peyton who was smiling. "God, what you do Brooke, just right you name" Peyton giggled

Brooke snatched the paper out of Peyton's hand. "If that was all then..." Brooke gestured for Peyton to leave.

"No, no. I'm sorry Brooke. I wasn't trying to be mean, I was joking" Peyton said.

Brooke just looked at her. I guess this is what things had come to. The old Brooke and Peyton would have easily joked about it but now things were different. Brooke couldn't deny that she missed her best friend, especially now when she was failing. Sure, she and Peyton had joked about Brooke having to repeat the year but now that she was failing it didn't seem so funny. She really needed her best friend now, she wished she could talk to her about everything, Dan killing Keith, Mouth being secretive, her failing and possibly being stopped from extra curricular activities such as cheerleading. Brooke took a deep breath. The old P. Sawyer had to be in there somewhere. If Peyton was making an effort then maybe she could try too.

"It's okay, I'm just a little touchy" Brooke looked at Peyton.

"You can talk to me Brooke" Peyton said stepping forward.

"It's just… I've been doing pretty crappy lately and the last thing I need is people knowing, I… I mean people already think I'm a brainless slut, there's no need for them to find out they're right… about the brainless part that is" Brooke smiled sarcastically.

"Brooke, it's not that bad..." Peyton began

Brooke just looked at her "Seriously, I appreciate you trying to make me feel better but as long as no one else knows, I think I'll just be able to get over it."

Brooke smiled. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad, I mean I know it's just a little thing but if I can start trusting her again and talking to her about stuff. Brooke thought to herself.

"Hey girlies" Rachel said. Brooke turned around to face her. What was she doing out of class? Probably a quick session with Josh.

Rachel stared at the both of them. "Now, I know it's been a really long day and you're probably really tired but you guys do realise that you hate each other right? I mean Peyton, shouldn't you be sneaking around with another one of Brooke's boyfriends right now and Brooke, shouldn't you be making out with another one of Peyton physco brothers"

Brooke laughed dryly "Hi Rachel"

Peyton turned to face Brooke "I'll see you later"

"Bye" Brooke said.

Rachel leaned against the lockers as Peyton headed down the hall. "Seriously, Miss Davis, I would excepted so much more from you" Rachel said faking disappointment "I mean you guys are over here smiling and talking, what happened to the slaps and hurling of abuse"

"Enough, with the subtle hints already" Brooke said sarcastically "I get it; Peyton and I are meant to enemies"

"Its okay, Brookie, you're not that smart, I didn't expect to remember. So what did you get?" Rachel asked

Brooke frowned. "That bad, huh" Rachel said grabbing Brooke's paper out of her hands "You got an F, ouch! I take back what said, its not that you're not that smart, it's that you're really stupid"

Brooke sighed"Yes, yes I know. Don't you have anything better to talk about, like your "encounter" with Josh?"

"Uh, Josh and I are SO over" Rachel stated flicking back the hair on her right shoulder.

"What happened, is he not into crazy whores, such as yourself" Brooke teased

"If only. No, he got an F in his last test and I just wasn't impressed"

"Okay what is with the new obsession with grades nowadays?"

"I know, it's weird, someone would think we're in a school or something… oh wait we are" Rachel smiled sarcastically.

"Hey, hey now don't be so shallow. You want him for his body not his brains remember" Brooke teased. "I mean, I got an F, does that mean you're going to stop hanging out with me?"

"No way, you're still my bitch" Rachel said. Brooke just looked at Rachel before they both burst out laughing.

"Seriously, Josh and I are done; I mean the sex was good but not tha…"

"Way too much information Rachel" Brooke said putting her hands over her ears "There are something even I don't want to her" Brooke and Rachel laughed, before linking arms and walking down the hall towards their next lesson. "So Rachel, what ever will you do for entertainment?" Brooke giggled.

"You can laugh all you want Miss Davis, but I have a feeling that tomorrow's History lesson is going to be very entertaining." Rachel smiled.

"What do you mean?" Brooke asked

"You, Lucas and Peyton in one class… oh the possibilities" Rachel laughed

Brooke just looked at Rachel. She hadn't actually thought of that.