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Chapter Seventeen: Ooo déjà vu
It had reached third period and it already felt like it should have been the end of the day.
Nathan walked into English class, looking really tired. Lucas yawned, as he tried to stay awake, their teacher hadn't even arrived and he was tired.
"Man, you look like crap" Lucas joked
Nathan sat in the seat next to him "Well, I have a wife who's recovering from a major accident… what's your excuse man"
Lucas nodded sensing Nathan wasn't in the mood for jokes "How is Haley?"
"She's better, she back in school today, doctor says her leg should make a full recovery in six weeks, Haley's pushing for four though"
"She's back in school? That's great news man; you've been really good to her Nate"
Nathan nodded "So you never answered my question… why do you look like crap?"
Lucas laughed. "I was on the phone till like 2am last night talking to Brooke"
"Wait, have I really missed that much school. I'm gone for like what, a week and you break up with Peyton and get back together with Brooke. Can't say I'm surprised though you two were obviously still into each other"
"Whoa wait a minute, we are not back together"
"Okay, whatever if that's your story" Nathan said turning in his chair to face the board.
"Seriously, we're just friends" Lucas said leaning towards Nathan, who had now turned back to face him.
"I swear, what is the matter with you two, the beginning of last year you two were "just friends" when you clearly had feelings for each other, then when you finally faced up to things you did that stupid "non-exclusive dating" thing"
"Okay, that wasn't my idea" Lucas said
"Whatever man, you went along with it, I mean would it have killed you to say 'Brooke I don't want to do this whole non-exclusive dating thing because I'm in love with you and all I do is mope around…" Nathan continued
"I do not mope around" Lucas said defensively
"You did when you guys were doing that whole non-exclusive crap; you were all like 'I can't believe this man...' and 'I don't want to go out with other girl's dude'"
Lucas interrupted "Your point was?"
"My point was" Nathan concluded "You guys would save a hell of a lot of time if you just told each other how you felt, without worrying about the consequences"
"I hear what you're saying man, but none of that matters because I'm with Peyton"
Nathan sighed "Look, Peyton's been through some really bad stuff, no one is denying that and you're a good guy Luke so I know you just want to take care of her but… don't confuse caring for someone with loving someone"
"I…" Lucas began
"You and Peyton, you make sense but love, love doesn't always make sense" Nathan sat back in his seat as Mr. Ward walked in.
Lucas paused for a minute, thinking, taking in what Nathan had just said. Don't confuse caring for someone with loving someone.
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Brooke sat in the library, flicking through her math textbook whilst looking over at the clock in front of her. She should be here any minute. Brooke thought to herself. It felt like months since Haley had been in school and although the library wasn't Brooke's usual hangout she knew Haley had a free third period and would definitely be here. Over the past year Haley had become a best friend to Brooke and although both girls were rather different they both had the same heart.
"Haley!" Brooke said getting up and walking over to her. "Oh my God, I missed you tutor wife" She said pulling Haley in for a hug.
"You saw me yesterday Brooke" Haley smiled as she limped over to the nearest table trying her best to sit down gracefully.
"I know, I know but you're actually here, back at school" Brooke said still really excited.
"Have I missed much?" Haley asked
"Well if you're talking about class then I'm probably… no definitely the wrong person to ask but if you want to know about any gossip then you came to the right place…" Brooke flashed a cheeky grin.
Haley laughed "I've missed you tiger"
Brooke smiled reaching over to give Haley another hug.
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Both Nathan and Lucas sat outside with the rest of the basketball team, they didn't usually all sit together but next Friday was a big game and there was no better time to discuss tactics than at lunch.
As Brooke and Haley walked out of the school building towards Nathan, Lucas and the rest of the team, both linking arms, Lucas got up, walking over to Haley.
"Hales…" he said, hugging Haley. "Your back"
"Yep" Haley smiled
"How's the leg?" Lucas asked
"It's getting better" Haley said before going over to sit next to Nathan.
"Hey Brooke" Lucas smiled
"Hi Luke, what you guys up to?" she asked
"Just talking about next week's game" Lucas said going back over to sit with the guys
"Do you need me to get anything for you?" Nathan asked Haley, stroking her hair.
"Nope, but…" Haley smiled looking over to Brooke
"I think Haley has something for Lucas" Brooke smiled as Haley reached into her bag.
"Here" Haley said handing Lucas the Spice Girls CD "Thanks for lending me your copy Luke"
The rest of the guys on the basketball team including Nathan burst out laughing.
Lucas looked down at the CD and back at the rest of the guys who were in fits of laughter. "No, no, they're just joking" Lucas said, trying to explain
"Whatever dog…you're busted" Skills laughed
"No, you see I said to Brooke that…"
"Give it up Luke" Nathan laughed.
Lucas smiled turning round to face Brooke "Are you going to help me out here?"
Brooke and Haley laughed, shaking their heads. "Hey guys" Brooke said getting the attention of the team "When Haley thanked Lucas for lending her the copy she did mean his copy…" Brooke began.
Lucas nodded "Thank you..."
"Because technically he didn't buy it… he got it free with his Cosmo Girl subscription" Brooke smiled as Haley burst out laughing giving Brooke a high five.
"You are so dead" Lucas said to Brooke, before Brooke turned around and laughed with the rest of the team.
"Oh yeah?" Brooke teased as she slowly backed away
"Oh yeah" Lucas said slowly edging towards her
"I'd like to see you try" Brooke joked as she walked quickly round the table.
Lucas smiled confidently "I'm sure you would" he said before running round the table towards her. Brooke laughed as she ran round the table in the other direction "You're going to have try harder than that" She teased as she continued to run, not looking behind as she went bumping into none other than…
"Brooke! What the hell do you think you're doing?" Peyton screeched, gesturing towards her now wet, Pepsi stained white t-shirt.
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry Peyton" Brooke said, reaching for some tissues in her bag and trying to wipe the Pepsi off. "Here let me hel…"
"I think you've done enough!" Peyton shouted
"Come on Peyt, it was an accident" Lucas said walking over to the both of them.
"Yeah right" Peyton said sarcastically
"It was." Brooke said pulling out some wipes from her bag "I have a spare top in my locker if you want to…"
"Count on you to bring a spare top to school…" Peyton began
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Brooke asked sensing an argument
"I think we all know what it means Brooke" Peyton said snidely
"Peyton" Nathan said trying to stop her from going on.
"No, I mean come on, you forget half your textbooks on your best days and yet you remember to bring a spare top to school. No wonder you're flunking" Peyton said spitefully.
Everyone went silent; Brooke could feel everyone looking at her, the same way they did that day in the classroom. Brooke looked Peyton up and down trying to mask the apparent hurt in her eyes.
"Screw you Peyton" Brooke said, grabbing her bag and making her way quickly towards the school building.
Peyton turned to everyone else as they all quickly pretended to look the other way, all except Nathan, Haley and Lucas who remained looking at Peyton, Haley with disappointment, Nathan with confusion and Lucas with frustration.
Peyton looked up at Lucas, his thoughts obvious "Look Luke before you start…"
Lucas didn't even wait for her to finish her sentence instead he just walked off in the same direction as Brooke, into the school building.
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Lucas followed Brooke into the library; he looked around searching the room for her.
There she was sitting at a desk flicking through her maths textbook. Lucas smiled to himself, she clearly wasn't reading it, but taking her anger out on each page. Lucas walked over to her as she forcefully flicked another page.
"Whoa, what did the book do to you?" Lucas joked sitting opposite her.
Brooke just glared back at him, as Lucas put his hands in the air to say as if to say "Okay, I get it… you're pissed off", she clearly wasn't in the moods for jokes.
Brooke flicked another page.
"You better be careful or you could end up with a really nasty paper cut" Lucas said looking around the library trying to play it cool.
Brooke tried to stay angry but Lucas was being so silly it was funny. Brooke laughed, pushing Lucas "Oh you are such an idiot sometimes"
Lucas smiled "Whatever, you know you like it"
Brooke laughed even harder "O…k then"
Lucas laughed "Look, I was thinking… since we have our end of unit maths exam next week, I was thinking…"
"You were thinking of helping me find an excuse to skip it" Brooke interrupted
"No" Lucas said "I was thinking we could study together… you know two brains are better than one…"
Brooke looked up at Lucas; she could tell what he was trying to do and it was so sweet of him, but was spending more time with Lucas what she really needed. I mean, it had been great these past few days, it really felt like they had become friends if you discard there extra friendly encounter on the weekend. Brooke paused and then smiled, no matter how hard she tried to talk herself out of it, the truth was she loved spending time with Lucas especially now when it felt like they were getting to know each other all over again. "Okay" Brooke smiled.
"Okay, that's a date… well not a… you know like…"
Brooke smiled rolling her eyes "I'll come round yours later tonight" Brooke said closing her book and getting up "Oh and now that you've got your copy of the Spice Girls back we can listen to some decent music" Brooke giggled before walking out the library.
Lucas laughed turning around to watch Brooke walk out.
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"Hey bitch" Rachel said as she arrived home
"Hey hoe" Brooke shouted from the living room
"What you doing?" Rachel asked
"I'm in here" Brooke called
Rachel walked though into the living room where Brooke was "Oh my God!" Rachel shouted as she entered the room
"What!" Brooke jumped turning to face Rachel "What's wrong?"
"You're actually… studying"
"Rrrrr" Brooke picked up her pencil case and threw it at Rachel
Rachel caught it, chucking it back at her "Ooo déjà vu" Rachel said walking through into the kitchen
"Déjà vu?" Brooke asked
"Yeah, psycho Peyton tried to knock me out with her CD, whilst working on the assignment from hell"
"Wow so you guys got kinky then?" Brooke teased
"More like bitchy, she called me a brainless… something, something bitch"
"Well she basically called me stupid in front of the whole basketball team" Brooke said turning to face Rachel.
"Ouch… two points to Peyton I guess" Rachel said
"Yeah, after I spilt Pepsi all over her"
"Wow, way to go Brooke!" Rachel laughed
"Accidentally!" Brooke insisted
"Whatever, scores are 2-Peyton and 1-Brooke"
"Wait a minute, you're keeping score and…how come I only have one point" Brooke asked
"It's because Peyton got you before in class with the whole maths results thing"
"Err... Don't remind me"
"You really need to watch out for the PDE" Rachel said walking through into the kitchen and grabbing a drink out of the fridge
"PDE?" Brooke asked
"Public Displays of Embarrassment"
"Ok, that doesn't even make any sense" Brooke laughed
"I think you'll find it does. Seriously, you need to get less of the PDE and more of the PDA" Rachel grinned
Brooke just rolled her eyes.
"So what are you doing anyway?" Rachel asked
"Making revision notes, I'm going over to Lucas's to study for the end of unit math's exam we have next week"
"Would this be the Lucas you spent all of last night talking to, or the Lucas who is going out with your ex-best friend, or the Lucas who you broke up with or… the Lucas you're still in love with?"
"None of those actually, it's the Lucas Scott, brother of Nathan Scott and guy who's helping me revise for maths exam"
Rachel smiled. "Oh that Lucas, you should hook up with his brother, now he's a total hottie"
"Married, Rachel married, ok. Stay away from Nathan" Brooke said seriously "I mean it, Mr Pierson said I really need to get above a C in this exam otherwise I fail the whole unit and won't be able to take part in extra curricula's"
"Don't worry about it Brooke, if you flunk, have to repeat the year and end up hanging out with all juniors, I'll definitely take your place as captain of the cheerleaders" Rachel grinned
"Thanks" Brooke said sarcastically "You know what I going to see Mouth and share my enthusiasm over completing half a units worth of revision notes while you sit here and fantasise about anything except Nathan… and Lucas"
Rachel smiled. "I won't if you won't!"
Brooke rolled her eyes slamming the door behind her.
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