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Chapter Nineteen: Just pee ALL over him!
Today was Thursday. It had been 48 hours since Brooke and Mouth had snuck into Dan's house. For some reason, as Brooke had driven home from Dan's house that day and had a shower, watched some TV and eventually gone to sleep she hadn't really thought about what it was they had actually done. She didn't feel a surge of overwhelming guilt or fear; she had managed to avoid thinking about any of the consequences, as reality hadn't really sunk in yet until, the next morning…
As soon as Brooke opened her eyes… it hit her; anxiety, questions, doubts and plenty of guilt. Her mind kept circling around one detail, one specific aspect, and one specific moment of the evening. She had to talk to Mouth; it was driving her crazy keeping it all in. However when Brooke got to school that day, Mouth wasn't in.
After a few moments of panic and frustration, Brooke began to see Mouth's absence as a slight blessing in disguise. Mouth wasn't in; meaning she could act normally and not feel guilty about it, well not as guilty as she would have felt if Mouth was there, the both of them knowing what they had done. But that period of slight enlightenment didn't last when she had to go round to Lucas's that evening to study. Sure, she loved hanging out with Lucas but… the knowing that Dan could have walked in any minute was enough to keep her on edge for the whole evening.
Today however, was Thursday, a new day filled with a new challenge. Brooke sighed as she walked over to the girl's locker room. "Hurry up Rachel, I'd like to get to class sometime today" she said leaning against the wall.
The girls had just had early cheerleading practice and nearly everyone had left to go to lessons except for the few very slow people; Rachel, Haley, Peyton and Theresa.
"Rachel seriously, could you be going any slower?" Brooke moaned
"Erm, I don't hear you telling Miss. Road Kill over here to move any faster" Rachel said gesturing over to Haley.
Haley rolled her eyes, laughing bitterly at the comment.
Brooke shook her head in disbelief "Haley's recovering from…"
Rachel didn't let her finish, instead she decided to continue "From a major accident… blah, blah. What happened Hales?" Rachel turned to face Haley "They were all out of Chris Keller's to take you on tour so you had to settle for getting knocked over by car to get some attention"
"You know what…" Haley began getting up angrily
"Whoa, guys! Stop!" Brooke shouted, both Rachel and Haley looked at her "Sorry, I've just got a bit of a headache" She apologised, completely lying about the real reason for her touchiness.
"Just stay the hell away from Nathan" Haley said sitting back down.
"Trust me, it's not like…" Rachel began as Brooke snapped, interrupting her.
"Rachel, please just… hurry up okay" She said walking over to sit down.
"Okay don't get mad at me just because I actually take pride in my appearance, not all of us can work the whole "I look like crap because I want to" Rachel teased.
Brooke rolled her eyes only to hear Peyton laugh dryly at the joke. Brooke decided to ignore it and carry on talking to Haley "So… Tutorwife, are you going this party tonight?"
"I'm going" Rachel added
"Of course you're going" Haley smirked before turning to face Brooke "No, I'm not going to go" she smiled sadly.
Brooke returned her smile "Well I'm not going either, I need to get my wisdom sleep for my maths exam tomorrow"
"Oh yeah, how is that been going?" Haley asked scooting over, to sit closer to Brooke.
"Good, I've been doing quite a bit of revision"
"A bit…" Rachel said, turning to face Brooke and Haley "She's been round Lucas's like every night. If you guys have just been doing… "a bit" of revision then I can only imagine what you've been doing a lot of" Rachel smirked as Peyton slammed her locker shut. "Oh no was it something I said?"
Haley glanced between Rachel and Peyton, who were both glaring at each other. "Speaking of Lucas…" Haley began trying to lighten the mood "I don't think he's going either"
"Yeah he told me that too" Brooke smiled
"Oh no" Theresa moaned, causing all girls to look at her "What sort of party is it going to be, your not going Bee so I'm sure Bevin isn't going and now Lucas isn't going? Tell me that Nathan's going?" Theresa asked Haley.
"Yeah" Rachel smiled "Tell her Nathan's going?"
Haley squinted her eyes as she tried to control her urge to slap Rachel right across the face.
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Brooke had spent most of her break time disappointing all the cheerleaders who kept coming up to her saying "You totally have to come". "It's the biggest party of the year" and "It won't be fun without you". Every party was the biggest party of the year and she always had to go. For once she was going to be responsible and not go to a party the night before her exam.
Now and then, in the midst of all the questions, bribes and disappointed faces; Brooke would glance over at Lucas and catch him going through the same thing. She could tell all the guys on the basketball team wanted him to go but he was saying no too.
Usually that wouldn't have any effect on her, seeing as Lucas wasn't a wild party goer like herself but she knew the real reason why he wasn't going and smiled to herself remembering what happened last night.
"I was right… again!" Brooke smiled sticking out her tongue at Lucas, before doing a little happy dance.
Lucas titled his head back laughing.
"Are you laughing at me Mr. I'm The Not So Proud Owner of One Very Girlie Spice Girls CD" Brooke teased
"My God, am I ever going to live that down"
"Mmmm, let me think about that… no!" She laughed grabbing some chocolate. There was silence for a minute before Brooke spoke… "Thanks Luke, for doing this"
"Doing what?"
"Studying with me" She smiled
"Well I kinda have to take the test too" He smiled
"Yeah, I know that" She laughed shaking her head "But… thanks"
Lucas nodded a smile crossing his lips "Anything for you Brooke"
Brooke looked up at Lucas…
Ring, ring.
Brooke looked down at her phone to see it was Bevin calling.
"Hey Bev, can I call you back?...When is it?... Erm… I don't know. I'll talk to you tomorrow… okay… bye"
"Sorry about that" Brooke smiled "She was asking about some party"
"Oh, the party" Lucas said
"What party?" Brooke asked
""The" party, Tim keeps going on about it"
"Wow, this is like a first time experience… being the last to know about a party" Brooke faked complete shock.
Lucas laughed "Its tomorrow night… Are you going to go?"
"Are you?" Brooke asked trying to sound as casual as possible
"I don't know" Lucas said shrugging his shoulder.
"Well how about this for a first… I'm not going. I figure the maths exam is the next day and I should get my wisdom sleep"
Lucas smiled "Well seeing as you're being responsible, I guess I have to, to"
"I guess you do" Brooke couldn't help but smile, she didn't know why but she just couldn't help but smile.
"So if you're not going…" Lucas began
"And you're not going.." Brooke began
"And everyone else is going then that either makes us…" Lucas continued
"The two saddest people in the whole of Tree Hill…" Brooke continued
"Or?" Lucas asked
Brooke smiled leaning forward "Or… the two saddest people in the whole of Tree Hill."
Lucas laughed followed by Brooke.
"Okay then" He smiled
"Okay then" Brooke smiled
"Brooke, Brooke!" Rachel called, breaking Brooke's thoughts.
Brooke turned around quickly "Hey, sorry what's up?"
"Nothing, Mouth's looking for you?"
Thank goodness, he's in school! "Oh really, where is he?" Brooke asked
"He was still in class when I saw him"
"Okay, thanks Rach" Brooke said, grabbing her bag and walking back in the direction Rachel just came.
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"Hi Mouth" Brooke sighed, looking both ways before closing the door of the classroom "Where have you been?"
"Nowhere, I just had a college open day yesterday" Mouth smiled looking up from where he was seated at a desk.
"Oh yeah, I remember you saying something about that" Brooke smiled awkwardly. "So… you were looking for me?"
"Yeah I was, Brooke… thank you so much for… 'you know what', I'm really sorry I put you through that and…"
"Mouth, I get all of that, you're sorry, you're grateful… good, good, I'm glad but… just get to the point already, I've been panicking for the last two days" Brooke said walking towards him.
"I guess my point was, if you could not tell anyone about it" Mouth asked, cautiously.
"Mouth…"
"Look, I know it's a lot to ask and you could get into a lot of trouble Brooke, but please think of Keith and…" Mouth began to ramble on and on, not noticing Brooke in the corner.
"Oh my God" she whispered to herself "Oh my God"
"What? Brooke? What's wrong?" Mouth asked completely confused
"This is why you wanted to see me…" Brooke began pacing up and down again
"Well yeah, I just thought…"
"My bra Mouth! Where's my bra!"
"What?"
"I had three bags with me Mouth, three! I only took home two bags; you said that I put my stuff in with your stuff Mouth so… where is it?"
"I said you might have put your stuff in with mine…" Mouth began
"Might… might have?" Brooke repeated
"How do you know you had…" Mouth tried to ask
"Firstly, I remember and secondly, I have the receipt"
"Maybe you left it at the store" Mouth tried to find an explanation without panicking
"No, no I didn't because I remember I wanted it in black and they only had it in red, and the nice sales assistant Kara said I could get away with red so I took it anyway thinking, no… knowing I'd get home look at it again and return it, despite the cute sales assistant lady who was kinda flirting with me only… when I went home it wasn't there, the bag I was carrying it in, wasn't there"
Mouth looked at Brooke, fear in both their eyes. Mouth looked away taking a deep breath "This is ridiculous" He said getting up "Let's think about this rationally… if anything… it works in our favour"
"What?" Brooke asked annoyed and confused "How?"
"Dan will find the bra and think it's a joke, that the guy who is doing this is trying to take the piss. He won't think it's you doing this, it'll just piss him off that the guy thinks he can rub it in Dan's face" Mouth said with such hope in his voice
Brooke just looked at Mouth. That had to be the world's crappiest explanation ever. It didn't make any sense… it was sweet of Mouth to try but seriously… "What a load of crap Mouth, absolute crap. You think he'll see the bra and say "Some-one's making fun of me" This is Dan Scott we're talking about; he'll probably send it off to some lab to get finger prints or something"
"Brooke…" Mouth smiled "Maybe it's a good thing, this could scare him, you know, mess with his mind"
Brooke looked up at Mouth, thinking back to that night in the car "Trust me, you do not want to push Dan, trust me you don't"
Mouth paused allowing Brooke's words to echo in his head, there was something in Brooke's voice that suggested there was more to what she was letting on but he shook it off "How could he trace it back to you?"
Brooke paused for a minute, sure she couldn't think of a way but she didn't have the mind of a murder that had killed his brother and gotten away with lying to everyone about it. Brooke shook her head "I don't know Mouth but this is Dan we're talking about"
"Brooke, don't overreact…"
"Overreact? So it's okay for you to flip out about your stupid shirt but I can't get scared about my bra…"
"Brooke…" The bell rang for end of lunch break and the beginning of the next lesson.
"No! Just leave me alone Mouth!" Brooke shouted
Just then the rest of their class flooded in. Brooke really wished she didn't have to stay, the last thing she wanted to do is be around people, not when she felt so on edge. Their teacher hadn't arrived yet so most of the cheerleaders came over to try and persuade Brooke to go to the party again.
Lucas walked in, smiling over at Brooke as he sat at the desk next to her "Hi"
"Hi" She said trying to smile back, trying to block out her conversation with Mouth.
"Brooke, you have to have changed your mind" Bevin moaned
"What you mean between now and the last time you asked me which was… what five minutes ago"
"Yeah" Bevin replied, missing Brooke's sarcasm.
Peyton walked into class. Great, that's all I need. Brooke caught Peyton's eye, expecting an evil glare in return but instead she was smiling, not a genuine smile but he it beat her "I hope you die" stare.
Peyton walked past through the cheerleaders, causing them to separate and look over at Peyton as she stood in front of Brooke and Lucas's desk. She turned ever so slightly to face Lucas, however not loosing sight of Brooke.
"Hey Lucas" Peyton said
"Peyton… hi?" Lucas sounded surprised.
He sounds surprised, have they not been talking for a while, were they having an argument? Brooke thought to herself.
"I was just thinking we should go to this party tonight" Peyton said, glancing over at Brooke a few times. That petty, little… I get what she's doing. Brooke thought to herself.
"I wasn't going to go" Lucas replied
"Well, now that you know I'm going why don't we go?" Peyton asked. Brooke just rolled her eyes.
"Erm… how about we do something else, some other time… it's just that I have huge maths exam tomorrow and…"
"Luke…" Peyton said walking over and leaning down by his desk, reaching up to fiddle with his collar; all the time not forgetting to glance over at Brooke. Oh why don't you just pee ALL over him! Could she be trying any harder to mark her territory? Brooke screamed to herself.
"I need you there with me…" Peyton said looking up at Lucas
"Peyton, I…" Lucas said attempting to loosen Peyton's grip around his collar
"Luke…" Peyton continued "It'll be first time since I'm going to go out since… Derek and…I need you there with me"
There it was again; Peyton needed him. To Lucas she was there being vulnerable and reaching out to him for help, to Brooke she was there being manipulative and pushing exactly the right buttons.
Lucas looked between Brooke and Peyton. Peyton didn't have to say anymore, she knew, Brooke knew and on some level Lucas knew it too that she had pushed the right buttons. Her incessant need to be rescued was really starting to wear thin with Brooke, with Nathan, even with Haley but not Lucas "Peyton I…" Lucas stuttered looking once again between Brooke and Peyton.
Brooke looked at the scene in front of her. As if she wasn't having a crappy enough day, now she had the pleasure of watching Peyton all over Lucas like a bad rash. And Lucas, he still couldn't be honest, with either one of them; he still couldn't just take that step away from Peyton. She couldn't take it anymore…
"Hey Bev…" Brooke called getting the attention of nearly everyone in the room "… I'll go to the stupid party"
"Yeah, that's my Brooke" Theresa said as the girls cheered.
Brooke didn't need to look at Lucas to know the expression on his face.
"What about your test tomorrow?" Bevin asked.
"Well, I just decided, I'm done trying" Brooke said bitterly, before glancing over at Lucas "I'm done"
With that Brooke got up and walked out of class. So what, she missed her lesson, all she knew is that she couldn't stand being in the same room as him any longer.
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Brooke entered Theresa's house with Rachel, both arm in arm. Both dressed to impress, Brooke in a mini black dress and Rachel in red, both girls looked amazing and they knew it. As they walked through the house, nearly every pair of eyes was on them. Rachel was enjoying every minute of it whereas Brooke on the other hand just wanted to find a corner where she could disappear.
As they approached the drinks table Bevin and Theresa staggered over to them.
"Hey girlie's" Bevin beamed
"Nice to see you started the party with us" Rachel said looking round the dance floor trying to pick a guy to get a drink, despite the fact that she was right by the drinks table.
"Hey Bee" Theresa smiled
"Hey" Brooke replied miserably, whilst scoping the room for Lucas "So, is everyone here?"
"I guess so" Theresa replied, pouring herself another drink.
"No, I mean…" Brooke began as Rachel interrupted.
"What she means is, where's Lucas?" Rachel smiled
Brooke glared at Rachel "That's not what I…"
"I haven't seen him, mind you after how he and Peyton were acting in class today, my vote would go with them being upstairs… if you know what I mean" Theresa slurred
"Yeah I do" Brooke said bitterly "Someone pass me a drink"
Brooke didn't even bother checking what was it in; she just took one full swig.
"Hey has anyone noticed how fine Dean is looking recently?" Rachel smiled to herself as all the girls apart from Brooke turned to look at him
"Oh my God, he is so hot" Bevin stared dreamily
"I here he's a total player though" Theresa whispered
"Well he can play me anytime" Rachel smirked
Brooke just rolled her eyes with disgust "Pass me another" she gestured to Bev taking another full swig "Keep them coming Bev…"
"Whoa" Rachel laughed "Slow down, the drinks aren't going anywhere"
Brooke just rolled her eyes taking another drink "I can take care of myself thanks"
"Look, I thought you were the one who broke up with Lucas…" Rachel began
"Hey ladies" Dean grinned as he approached all four girls.
"Hey Dean" Bevin, Theresa and Rachel smiled as Brooke just reached out for another drink.
"Hey Brooke" Dean smirked, moving closer to her.
Brooke didn't even turn around instead her eyes were focused on Peyton who approached the table.
"Can I have two drinks please" Peyton asked Dean, who quickly passed her some drinks.
"Hey Lucas" Peyton called across the room to Lucas who had just entered "I knew you'd come through for me" She said pacing over to him.
Brooke just laughed dryly to herself, turning in the other direction so as to avoid watching Peyton all over Lucas for the second time today.
"So Brooke…" Dean tried again whilst Brooke searched for another drink.
"Do you want to dance?" Dean asked
Brooke glanced over at Peyton and Lucas by the door. God, she didn't even let him get into the house before pouncing all over him. Brooke thought to herself as she caught Lucas's eye. He looked sorry but that's all he ever was… sorry. Brooke took one last swig of her drink, turning to face Dean who obviously hadn't read any of her "Piss off" signals. "What you waiting for?" Brooke said, completely uninterested.
Dean smiled taking a swig of his drink and following Brooke onto the dance floor.
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It had been twenty minutes and Brooke and Dean had been dancing non-stop. Lucas took another sip of his drink as he watched Brooke grinding up against Dean, he knew he had no right to be jealous but that didn't change how much he wanted to smash Dean's face in.
On the other side of the dance floor Peyton stood watching Lucas as he glared jealously at Brooke and Dean.
"Hey" Rachel said walking over to her
"What do you want?" Peyton snapped
"Isn't it funny… there's like a love circle going on here" Rachel smiled turning to face Peyton "I like Dean, Dean likes Brooke, Brooke likes Lucas and Lucas… wait he likes Brooke to so I guess it more of a line kinda thing"
"You're drunk Rachel" Peyton said ignoring her comment
"And your boyfriend standing there looking awfully jealous at your ex-best friends"
As the song ended, Brooke staggered over to the drinks table, completely ignoring Lucas as she searched for a drink.
"Brooke, when you left…" Lucas tried to explain
"Do you have a drink for me?" Brooke asked spinning around abruptly to face Lucas
Lucas looked confused
"I didn't think so, because right now that's all I want from you not any of your long excuses or apologies, just a drink"
"Brooke…" Lucas began
"No, I get it, Peyton's your girlfriend and even if you've said one thing to me you can easily say another thing to her" Brooke slurred, even though she was drunk and trying her best to be strong Lucas could see past all of that, he could see she was hurt, and it killed him, he hated how he had the ability to do that to her, to make her want to drink herself into a oblivion.
"It's not like that…" Lucas tried again.
On the other side of the room, Peyton had gotten sick of just watching Brooke and Lucas argue, she gave her cup to Rachel and began to make her way across the room to the drinks table where Lucas and Brooke stood.
"Lucas, just leave me alone" Brooke said grabbing a drink and heading out onto the dance floor
"Brooke, wait…" Lucas pleaded as he grabbed her right arm
Lucas touching her was enough to make her melt inside but not today, not when all she could think about was him and Peyton and how she was back in that place, the place where she felt most vulnerable. She didn't want to admit it before but now it would be hard hiding it from anyone let alone herself. Brooke spun around, pulling her arm away from Lucas's grip. Just as she did that, she felt the back of her hand collide with…
"You bitch!" Peyton screamed, with her hand up against her now red cheek
"No… I didn't…" Before Brooke could finish her sentence Peyton slapped her right across the face, knocking Brooke back against the drinks table, the whole room went silent as Brooke staggered to her feet, looking up at Peyton.
"You whore!" Brooke muttered before pushing Peyton to the ground, slapping her across the face.
"Get off me, you…" Peyton pulled Brooke's hair as she fell beside her, only for Peyton to get on top slapping Brooke across the face "Stupid bitch!"
"Come on Brooke!" Rachel shouted
Brooke pushed Peyton up off her, scrabbling on top as she went to punch Peyton across the face, Peyton screamed pulling Brooke's hair
"You backstabbing, boyfriend stealing whore!" Brooke screamed
Both Lucas and Dean looked at each other before running in to break both girls apart.
Lucas pulled Brooke off Peyton and Dean helped Peyton to her feet.
"Get off me!" Peyton screamed, stepping away from Dean who held his hands in the air as he retreated backwards. "Is this, what things have come to?" Peyton shouted; her eyes focused on Brooke.
Brooke looked up at Peyton and around at everyone else. Before she could have never imagined getting into a fight with Peyton, if anything she would have slapped anyone who so much as pushed Peyton. But that was then and this, this horrible mess was now. On some level Brooke wanted to talk things through with Peyton and make everything alright again but she couldn't stop thinking about her and Lucas and what Peyton had done. Before Brooke could say anything, she felt the sudden urge to be sick. "I've gotta go…" Brooke said covering her mouth and running out the house.
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Brooke had been walking for an hour. After throwing up at least three times and telling Rachel she was fine at least twenty, she found herself walking down the streets of Tree Hill. She'd never noticed how peaceful the town looked when it was like this, when everyone was asleep, at home with their family, with their loved ones.
Brooke did her best to hide it but she missed that, having parents who cared what time you got home, a mom who sat up and waited for you to make sure you made it home in one piece but then again… I guess you can't miss what you never had. Brooke could feel a tear rolling down her face; she wiped it away as she walked passed yet another closed store. Brooke looked up at the light coming from the top of the street; she walked closer to the light, knowing the one place that would still be open.
Karen's Café, there he was, sitting there staring into space. Brooke walked up the stairs of the café and opened the door, walking through. She didn't look up, she didn't have to…she could feel his eyes on her as she walked across the room to the counter to where he was sitting.
"Hey" Brooke whispered in her raspy voice, as she sat down by the counter.
"Hey" Lucas replied, his eyes focused on the beautiful brunette who sat opposite him "Are you okay?"
Brooke bit her lip, nodding "Is Peyton…?"
"Yeah" Lucas nodded. "About Peyton, I wanted to…"
"Luke…" Brooke interrupted "Its okay… I'm not going anywhere" She smiled. There was a silence as Brooke fiddled with her hands, before looking up. "So what do you think the odds are that I'll actually be able to get up tomorrow to take this test?"
"Well considering it's already 'tomorrow', I'd say likely" Lucas smiled looking up at the clock above the door.
Brooke nodded before taking a huge breath "Can I crash here tonight?" She asked
Lucas looked up as his eyes met hers "Yeah sure" Lucas smiled.
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"Okay, girls and boys the time now is 9.30 you have one hour… you may begin"
Brooke looked over her shoulder at Lucas. She winked, smiling before turning around to take the test. For once she wasn't anxious, worried or doubting herself;
"All you can do is give it your best… and trust me that'll be more than enough"
Brooke smiled to herself remembering words Lucas had said to her this morning.
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Sorry about the late update guys, I was away on holiday. Anyway I figured long break deserves a long chapter.
Hope you liked it; I've already started on the next chapter so I'm just waiting to hear what you think about this one before posting.
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