A/N: Well here's the third chapter. Hope you all enjoy!

Chapter 3 – Heart-to-Heart's

Brooke and Blair were laid on Brooke's bed surrounded by sheets of paper. Brooke soon realised that organizing a party in Manhattan was way more difficult than organizing one in Tree Hill. Before all you had to do was find a place, let everyone know, make sure you had a good supply of alcohol and a slamming outfit. Now, the sheets of paper surrounding Brooke and Blair were covered in scribbled notes for ideas on outfits, themes, places, people and presents. It was three days until Brooke's birthday, and the party would be taking place that night at The Palace. The girls still had a lot of planning to do.

"Brooke. You need to have a theme! It's a must!" Blair exclaimed after Brooke had stated she didn't want one.

"You don't have to have a theme Blair. It just complicates things."

"No it doesn't! If you don't have a theme people don't know what to wear!"

"Clothes would be a good idea." Brooke mumbled rolling her eyes. Blair just stared at her.

"Fine!" Brooke threw her hands up in defeat. "What did you have in mind?" Happy that Brooke had finally caved, Blair grinned and grabbed a piece of paper in front of her.

"Well…I have two ideas. There's costumes or black and white."

"I dunno. Black and white just seems so…boring. And a costume party? Isn't that more for Halloween?"

" I kind of agree with the black and white theme, but you can have a costume party any time of the year!" Brooke looked at her cousin biting her lip, trying to decide.

"Well I guess it could be kind of fun. But won't most people come dressed as the same?"

"That's why when we give them an invitation, we put what they have to dress up as on the invite." Grinning widely, Blair looked at Brooke and winked.

"You are a genius Blair." Brooke replied matching her grin.

"Well I try."

The girls spent the rest of the night writing invitations and thinking of costumes for both themselves and others. Of course they'd let Chuck, Nate, Sam and Dean decide what they wanted to wear. However, Brooke decided that she'd choose what Serena had to wear.

Wednesday had arrived after a long night for both Brooke and Blair. Not only did they stay up sorting out the party, but also Brooke decided to show Blair her clothing designs. When they did finally go to bed, it wasn't long before Brooke's screams could be heard throughout the apartment. Blair was glad half the school day was over; the morning had been too boring for words.

"Hey Blair!" Blair turned round after hearing Chuck shout her.

"What can I do for you Chuck?"

"I was wondering if Brooke's told you anything about what happened in Tree Hill yet?" Blair looked wearily at her friend and shook her head.

"No she hasn't. Has she said anything to you?"

"No. I figured she'd tell you first." Blair shrugged her shoulders in response.

"I think whatever happened was pretty bad." Blair replied.

"What makes you say that?"

"Brooke wakes up every night screaming and crying after having a bad dream. Only I don't think it's a dream. I think they're memories of whatever happened to her. But whatever it is, it's terrifying enough to make her throw up when she wakes up." Chuck looked at Blair, the worry evident on his face.

"Jesus. Do you think she's going to be okay?"

"I hope so. Whatever you do, don't let Brooke know I've told you." Chuck nodded in reassurance and walked with Blair to meet their friends.

Meanwhile…

Brooke walked through the halls of her knew school deep in thought. She was sick and tired of waking up in the middle of the night and throwing up after reliving that day over and over in her head. She just wanted to forget it and move on. But it was more difficult than she ever thought it would be. Looking up, Brooke saw Serena and smirked walking towards her.

"Serena." Serena Van der Woodsen turned round and smiled weakly at the girl in front of her, still unsure of where they stood. Brooke held out a pink envelope towards the blonde. Taking it out of her hand, Serena looked at Brooke with a confused expression.

"It's an invite to my birthday party on Friday."

"I knew it was your birthday, I just wasn't sure if you'd be inviting me."

"Yeah well, what can I say? I have a heart." Serena rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Brooke seriously, me and Blair are sorting things out. Do you have to make it worse by being a bitch?" Brooke glared at the girl and took a step forward.

"The only one who's a bitch here is you. How could you do that to Blair? She's supposed to be your best friend. You're just a dirty little tramp. Blair might believe that you're not a conniving little bitch, but I know better. You better watch your back Serena, because I swear to God if you hurt her one more time, I'll destroy you." With that, Brooke turned round and walked off to meet the rest of the gang.

"Oh by the way," Brooke started turning round, "the costume you have to wear is on the bottom of the invite. If you don't wear what's on the invite you don't get in." Smirking, she carried on walking. Serena opened the invite and looked at the bottom.

"Great, just great." Serena mumbled rolling her eyes and staring at Brooke's back.

The rest of the day went smoothly, and as always, the group had decided to meet up at Chuck's suite. Brooke walked into The Palace and decided to head to the bar instead. She had time to kill. Blair was at Nate's with his parents, so they weren't sure if they were still coming, and Chuck had just rang her and said he wasn't there yet because he was stuck having dinner with his dad. As she walked into the bar, Brooke headed to the back as she spotted a familiar face.

"Sam Winchester. What brings you to the bar?" Brooke chuckled as she sat next to her younger friend.

"Not much just thinking you know."

"Yeah. What's up?"

"I screwed up big time." Sam replied taking a sip of the scotch he held in his hand. Brooke ordered herself a martini and looked at the youngest Winchester brother.

"What do you mean?"

"You know how me and Dean just came back from boarding school? Well, it's kinda my fault we're back." Brooke looked up at the boy with a confused expression.

"I was always the smart, reliable one whereas Dean was the on that always screwed up. That's why we went to boarding school. My mom and dad figured it would be best for Dean."

"I'm not getting where you're going with this Sammy." Brooke replied in confusion taking another drink of her martini.

"They were right. Dean was doing really well. He got his grades up and sorted his act out. I however, didn't. I kind of got caught drunk with two girls in my room. I got kicked out." Brooke chocked and coughed in surprise to the new revelation.

"Didn't know you had it in ya Sam." She managed to say before flaunting her dimpled smile and giving the flustered Sam a wink.

" I just feel really bad you know? I mean Dean was doing great and he had to come back because of me. I guess I'm just afraid he'll go back to how he used to be."

"A class-failing, womanising jerk?" Brooke asked smiling.

"Guess you heard all the stories then?" Sam smirked looking at her.

"Blair filled me in. But I know that people can change. Hell I used to be the woman version of the old Dean and I haven't gone back to those ways." Sam looked up and smiled.

"You used to be like Dean?"

"Yep. I was probably worse actually."

"That's hard to imagine." Sam laughed, as did Brooke.

"Should of known you'd get bored of waiting and head to the bar." Chuck joked as he approached the two. "Come on lets go up. Dean's here now." Dean, Brooke, Sam and Chuck made their way up to the suite chatting about Brooke's upcoming party.

After a night of random chats and joking around, the Winchester's decided it was time to leave. As the two boys and Brooke said goodbye to Chuck, Brooke's cell phone began to ring. Looking at the caller ID, Brooke flipped it open and put it to her ear.

"What's up Blair? How come you didn't come to Chuck's?"

"Sorry about that, we were kind of…busy." Brooke heard Nate say something in the background that made Blair giggle.

"Oh my God! You two totally did it!" Brooke shouted sitting on Chuck's bed, while he laughed at her outburst and poured himself a drink.

"Brooke!"

"Don't even try and lie! So what was it like? I want the details!" Chuck laughed at Brooke's nosiness, and she stuck her tongue out in response.

"I'll tell you tomorrow B. I'm going to stop at Nate's tonight. Is that okay or do you want me to come home?"

"Blair I'm a big girl and apparently you are now as well! It's fine. Have fun, I'll talk to you tomorrow."

"Thanks Brooke. I'll see you tomorrow okay. Love you."

"Love you too." With that, Brooke shut her phone and fell back on the bed.

"Something wrong Brookie?" Chuck asked sitting next to her. Brooke turned her head to the side and looked at him.

"No. It's just, Blair's stopping at Nate's tonight…and well, and I don't like being alone." Chuck thought back to what Blair had told him earlier on.

"You can stay here tonight if you want? I'll even sleep on the sofa and let you have my bed." Brooke sat up with an uneasy look on her face.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course I am. Now go get ready for bed." Brooke jumped up and hugged her best boyfriend.

"Thank you Chuck. You rock."

"Many girls have told me that." He smirked as Brooke rolled her eyes and headed to the bathroom.

Chuck eyes shot open as he hear Brooke scream. He ran over to her as she shot up and began to cry uncontrollably.

"Brooke its okay. Ssh, calm down your fine." Brooke shook her head in response and ran to the bathroom, Chuck right behind her. Instead of Blair holding back her hair while she threw up, this time it was Chuck. Once she'd finished, Chuck led her back to bed and rubbed her back as she carried on crying.

"Brooke please tell me what's wrong. I hate seeing you like this."

"I can't." She sobbed clinging onto him.

"Brooke please. I just want to help you. What happened to you?" Brooke looked up at Chuck and began to calm herself down. She didn't want to have to tell anyone this, but with the nightmares, someone was bound to ask questions.

"It was over a month ago. When I stopped calling you and Blair. It was just a normal day. The day before, someone had let the time capsule out early. Last year, we all had to record something. It wasn't meant to be opened for like another 50 years. Some of things people said on it were harsh. Really harsh. So the next day, Jimmy Edwards brought a gun to school."

Brooke wiped away the tears falling from her eyes as she began to relive the horrible nightmare.

" Me and Peyton were walking down the halls. I saw the gun. It was pointed straight at me. I was so scared I couldn't do anything. I just froze. The next thing I know, a shot goes off and the glass in front of us shattered. Everyone was screaming and running. Peyton and me got separated. I couldn't get up, I had this pain in my stomach, and so I crawled into the nearest room. My stomach was covered in blood. I didn't know what to do. I must have been in there for about 15 minutes. God, it felt like forever. The next thing I know, Nathan comes in, picks me up and carries me out of the school. I woke up later on in the hospital. He saved my life."

Brooke hugged Chuck as she began to sob once again. All Chuck could do was stroke her hair and whisper how sorry he was as tears began to fall from his eyes as well.

" I wondered where Lucas was. I mean he was my boyfriend. I knew Nathan wasn't in the school when the shooting happened because I'd been on the phone to Haley earlier on and she said they were going to be late. I didn't understand why Nathan came into the school and risked his life to save me, but my boyfriend didn't. Turns out while I was in school bleeding to death, Lucas was too busy consoling Peyton. I caught them having sex when I got out of hospital."

"Brooke I am so sorry. I had no idea. You should have rang us. We would have been there in an instant."

"I couldn't. I just didn't no what to do." Brooke and Chuck both laid down on the bed as he tried to calm her down. Soon after, they both fell into a deep sleep after exhausting themselves out from all the tears.

Well well, it's B.Davis' birthday party on Friday, what drama will ensue? Sources tell me Queen B was seen entering King N's house earlier on, but wasn't seen leaving. Could this mean the two have proven their love to each other? What about Chuck and Brooke? Apparently she never left his suite all night. Wonder what those two got up to. I'm sure all will be revealed soon. You know you love me xoxo Gossip Girl.

A/N: Review and let me know what you think people! Brooke's party up next chapter and there's a surprise in store for her!