A/N this chapter I think is much better than the first, we might move into Brucas a little sooner, but with some unexpected twists of Brathan as much as I can think of them! Sorry for the long wait hope it was worth it R&R

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Brooke and Nathan soon come out of the room shortly after Brooke fixed her makeup. They smiled at each other and parted ways. His wife Haley who was a little flustered from having to take on all the tasks since her husband decided to disappear first met Nathan, as he came up on her she turned around to whack him with a cloth napkin.

"Where the hell have you been!" She whispered angrily.

"Sorry babe I've been everywhere just moving from group to group than I had to use the bathroom and had to go all the way up to ours just to find one without a line." He said with the famous scoot grin that she couldn't turn down. She kissed him than backed up.

"Okay than gather everyone round because its time to eat." She smiled as she walked away leaving him to gather everyone by himself. He sighed and decided to start with Bevin since she was one of the most talkative ones he might as well get the one who was doing most of the talking out of the way. Nathan stalked off then to go find the ditzy blonde in the mist of the crowd.

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Brooke looked through the crowds and than found her handsome date. She came up behind him and wrapped her arms around his neck and placed a kiss on his check. He turned knowing it was her and tried not to smile. She knew something was wrong and gave him a confused look.

"Where the hell have you been Brooke we got worried." He said trying to get some information out of her. He didn't want to be jealous, but he had been so emotional around her and she went off with Nathan.

"I went to the bathroom, but I had to go upstairs to the guest bedroom so I didn't have to wait in line." She said. It wasn't a lie but she wanted to tell him the truth. It had nothing to do with Nathan just that she wanted to be strong for Lucas and Nathan was the one that found her first. Lucas was about to question her some more when he noticed people were going to sit for dinner. Brooke than grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the table. He figured knowing Brooke she wasn't going to talk about it in public and he might as well just try to be happy. He pulled out her chair for her and than sat next to her as they said their Christmas pray. They all had Peyton on their minds, but no one said anything out loud because it didn't need to be said and it would be too painful.

Once done the ham was cut by Nathan of course and the food passed around. It was a pretty good Christmas if only Lucas could get Brooke and Nathan off of his mind. He glanced next to him to see his cheery smiling and talking with Haley and another friend of Haley's. He didn't remember her name, but knew that she had a son Jamie's age and they met as his preschool or something like that. He was about to turn away when he saw Nathan shoot a smile Brooke's way and she smiled widely at him before going back to her conversation. "What the hell was going on with them." Lucas said as he felt Brooke squeeze his hand under the table and never let it go. She smiled at him and he returned it figuring he couldn't win over his cheery by ignoring her. He was than snapped back into reality as Skills had asked him a question and they joked about how he was always off in another world.

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The party had been a blast and after dinner and coffee people started to weed out and go home. Brooke was happy that Lucas and her had gone to the Christmas dinner because it got her mind off of Peyton and it let her unleash for a bit the feelings that just seemed to be bottling up inside her, but Luke had been acting weird and she knew something was up. They were on the way back to his house. Where she was staying since she didn't have a place in tree hill and also to help Lucas out and make sure he just didn't shut himself off from the world as many of them wanted to. They drove in silence and Brooke just tapped her fingers in her lap waiting to see if Luke would say anything, but like usual he just brooded so she figured that she would try to pry something out of him.

"So did you have fun?" She said thinking it was simple enough, but might spark something.

"Yeah it was cool." Lucas said with a straight face. Now she knew that he was definitely mad about something, but she couldn't think of what exactly.

"Lucas don't sit here and brood on me okay we've went out before I know when you're mad and pissed me or something." She said as she shifted in her sit to face him. He just turned his head to look at her and than looked back at the road.

"Its just everything." He said and she shook her head. She knew he wasn't mad about Peyton and he shouldn't think he could get by her like that.

"Don't even try that shit on me Lucas tell me what's wrong that's why I'm here!" She said now desperately just wanting to know what was bothering him.

"Really you just want me to tell you all my damn feelings Brooke, but when it comes to you, YOU run to Nathan." Lucas said angrily. It wasn't going to help to keep it in and they had already arrived at his house. He got out and stormed into the house leaving Brooke in the car. She couldn't imagine that would've bothered him. She didn't even know that he saw them she felt bad though because she didn't want him to think she didn't trust him. She got out of the car holding her coat close to keep out the cold.

"Yea he's pretty pissed." She whispered to herself as she walked herself in and locked the door behind her. She turned on the light and saw the light on in Luke's room and knew he was probably changing. She made her way to Karen's room-where she was staying.

She had changed into a blue wife beater and a pair of black sweats. She had wiped off all makeup and her hair was thrown up into a messy bun. She made her way to the kitchen to make her favorite-hot chocolate. She saw Lucas in the living room watching TV and like always shoving his face into his computer. She walked into the living room with 2 mugs full of hot chocolate and took a place on the couch pretty close to her Broody. She offered him a mug and he accepted. Brooke being her nosy self had glanced at his computer and saw that he was probably writing something for his story. Lucas himself had dressed himself in his famous white tee shirt and just a pair of red plaid boxers.

Lucas was attempting to write and get his mind off of Brathan when she came out of her makeshift room looking pretty plain, but nothing short of beautiful. She had than soon walked over with her favorite hot drink-hot chocolate. She offered him one and sat down next to him. The TV was playing Basketball so he slid the remote over to her knowing she would want to change it.

"Thanks Broody." She smiled that sweet dimpled smile of hers that made him melt.

"No problem." He said nonchalantly. He might have been pissed, but he gave her that famous Scott smirk that make her heart beat faster.

Why hadn't Peyton just passed away a sort while ago? They couldn't both be feeling these things for each other it just wasn't right. Unless these feelings never went away, but instead where just buried someone deep because they were both to afraid of letting them reach the surface.

"What's wrong?" Brooke asked as she tried to keep her eyes on the TV. They had been sitting there not saying anything to each other as Brooke watched How Do I Look and Lucas was trying to write.

"Nothing." He said never lifting those blue eyes off his laptop.

"Don't give me that bullshit, you've been in a bad mood since near the end of the party." She said as she turned her head so she was looking up at him.

He didn't know what to say. He could just come out and say that he was jealous because Brooke had opened up to Nathan and not him. That they stole secret smiles from each other when no one was looking so what was he suppose to say.

"I guess its just with everything going on ya know?" He said as she silently hoped that God and Peyton weren't going to curse him for using her as an excuse.

"Oh." Brooke said as she said for a minute debating if she was going to call him out on that lie, but she knew he would open up when he wanted to and pushing him would just piss him off. "Well Broody tell me next time don't be an ass." She said as she scooted over to him and put her head on his Shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her waist. This was how he wanted to be as he one handedly typed and she watched her show.

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A/N so I never noticed how often that people only acknowledge those or send reviews because yes they are special and I did lose faith in this story, but as I was clearing out my email (Which on this name I don't check very often) I saw couple people who had my story on story alert and I think they also are pretty damn special lol!!! (I still LOVE reviews because I get to feel how my readers think; any questions about anything this story or my other one? Just send me a Pm I'll be happy to explain where I got my influence, where I wanna go with this story or my other (Heels over head)

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