A/N: Okaaaaayyy! I know, I shouldn't be doing this, but I am. Okay. I had this thing on my mind the moment I heard Nathan say "Brooke's the other half." And well, yeah. Here it is. Don't hate me.
The Other Half: Never Quite Discussed
Another Dream Comes True
She hears a knock on the door. She checks the time surprised to find out that someone is knocking that early. It surprised her even more when she saw who was at the other side of the door. "Lucas?"
"Hey Brooke, can I talk to you for a sec.?" He gives her a wry smile, and then came in when the brunette had told him to.
"What's the emergency?" She asks in her usual raspy voice. He could still very well remember how he used to wake up to it.
"You know how I told you about the Ravens being turned into a movie?" He tells her and she nods. "Well, it's sealed. I signed the contract last night." He tells her happily, and she shares the same expression he had last night when he signed his name on the paper.
"Oh my God! Congratulations Luke!" She shrieks and she couldn't help but pull him into a hug. He's happy to finally see a smiling face for once. Unlike Peyton who didn't seem happy at all last night.
He couldn't remember the last time she had hugged him because she was happy. "Thanks." He tells her with a smile, yet refusing to meet her eyes.
"Okay, your book just got turned into a movie, what's wrong now?" She noticed his resigned expression about it. She thinks he should be jumping in joy with her, but he's not.
"It's Peyton." He sighs. He hasn't told anyone mostly because he wants to keep it to himself, but when Brooke asked him, it just felt wrong to not tell her.
"Okay, sit. What about Peyton?" She asks worriedly as she sat across him.
"She's just been weird about this whole thing, you know? At first she was all for it, then last night, I don't know, I just felt like she didn't want me to go through with it." He explains as his eyes were focused on the floor. Brooke finds it weird too.
"I'll talk to her about it." She smiles and he lifts his eyes, hoping the brunette will find something about it. "Now get your lucky ass up, and tell everyone you'll have a celebration."
"Wait, I'm going to have a celebration?" Brooke's mind is going fast forward mode again. Lucas finds it funny.
"Well, yeah! I mean, your book just got turned into a movie, for God's sake!" Her eyes widened. Maybe she couldn't believe Lucas wouldn't want a celebration. "Tell everyone to meet up tomorrow night at Tric."
"I…but Peyton…" He's hesitant at first, but when Brooke eyed him, he knew he wouldn't be able to say no. "Fine, I'll tell everyone."
"Good. Now get out of here. I'll talk to Peyton for you." She smiles at him as she let him out of the door. Brooke Davis has a party to plan, but before that, she needs to talk to a certain blonde.
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He rings the doorbell. He's at Nathan's and Haley's now. "I'll get it." Jamie jumps down from her seat then rushes towards the door.
"James Lucas Scott! What did I tell you about getting the door?!" Haley shouts after him, then follows. The boy had already opened it, and had let Lucas in.
"Relax Hales. It's just me." He says as he picks his nephew up. "Hey Nate." He nods off to his brother when he sees him.
"What's up?" Nathan was the one to ask. Lucas let Jamie down and displayed a grin on his face.
"Well, the Ravens is going to be a movie." He simply says, and Haley's lips forms an 'o' in amazement.
"Awesome." Jamie says and to that, Lucas could only nod.
"Congratulations!" Haley jumped then went to hug her best friend. She's truly happy for him.
"Congratulations man." Nate replies, smiling to Lucas. He patted his back, he's proud of him.
"That, and I'm supposed to tell you to be at Tric tomorrow night." He tells them and Haley's eyebrows raised.
"Tric? Why?"
"Apparently, Brooke told me I'm celebrating." He lets out a sigh at first, but then his lips easily turns into a smile.
"Same old Brooke." Haley muses, and then nods.
"We'll be there." Nathan adds and with that, Lucas leaves.
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She ascends the stairs of what is known now as Red Bedroom Records. She knew Peyton could do it. After all, just like what the book said, she's bound for greatness. "Knock, knock." She says, taking a peek into Peyton's office.
"Brooke?" She's surprised to see the brunette there. "What are you doing here?" She asks, getting up from her seat. She felt relieved to see her, she didn't know why, she just did.
"Are you busy?" She smiles to her, and when the blonde shakes her head no, Brooke takes a seat. "What do you think about Lucas book turning into a movie?" Peyton looked completely off guard and it worries Brooke a little. "He came by this morning. Isn't it awesome?" She says excitedly, but the blonde is yet to reflect her excitement.
"I guess." She simply answers, and Brooke thinks something is definitely wrong. "it's just a lot of things get lost in translation, you know?" She explains, yet that isn't the real reason why she's acting weird.
"Oh my God. Are you aware that Lucas worried about the same reason as you?" Brooke found it funny, it just showed how the two are so much a like. That saddened her a bit, but she shakes away that feeling immediately.
"Really?" Peyton couldn't help but stifle a laugh. She and Lucas are so much a like.
"Well yeah, when he came to the store yesterday, he said the exact same thing. Are you sure you don't share the same brain?" She laughs, and Peyton laughs with her.
"He told you how weird I was being, didn't he?" Peyton asks out of the blue that it left Brooke no choice to admit that Lucas really did.
"Yeah, he's worried that you don't like the idea of the book getting turned into a movie." She explains in her silly tone and Peyton could only nod. It's not really that, but the reason as to why it's getting turned into a movie.
"I'm sorry for worrying you too." She apologizes, and she doesn't know why. It's not like she owes Brooke an explanation anyway. She guesses it's guilt, it's about not telling her the truth.
"Ok, don't go all emo on me now." She cocks an eyebrow at her, offering her a reassuring smile. "Plus that's not the only reason I'm here."
Brooke's always had the ability to make you temporarily forget about your problems, and for that Peyton is thankful. "Okay, what other things do you have in mind?"
"We need to plan a party. You know, for Lucas, he needs a celebration." Brooke tells her, and Peyton realizes the brunette can only make her forget so much.
"A celebration, huh?" She says, not too thrilled about it.
"Oh, come on P. Sawyer. This is Lucas we're talking about. Light up a little!" Brooke teases and Peyton's eyes could only grow bigger.
"Well we might need more help." She finally says, and for a moment, she tries to forget her current worries. Everything will just have to wait.
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The next morning, he couldn't be more thankful for Brooke. He and Peyton talked, and apparently, the blonde woman was just worried that things might get lost in translation. Once again, he rang the door bell.
"Lucas." Brooke was the one to open the door, then letting him in. Sam's eating breakfast by the counter, and she looked curiously at him.
"Why are you always here?" The teenage girl asks, and both Brooke and Lucas could only raise their brows.
"Lucas, this is Sam. Sam, this is Lucas." Brooke introduced and carried on. "So is Leyton land ok now?" She asks and Lucas nods.
"Yeah, I really appreciate it." Lucas says, finding himself scratching the back of his head. He always did that when he got nervous, or embarrassed.
"Please, I hardly said anything." Brooke replied then went to the counter with Sam. "Breakfast?" She offers.
He says no at first, but then Brooke spoke again. "Really? I've never seen you turn down French Toast before." She muses and he could only laugh.
"Just because you made it." He says and Brooke scowls at him. It was Sam's turn to butt in.
"It's actually pretty good." She says, then getting up from her seat and grabbing her bag. "Who knew, right?" She adds, and then she was off.
Lucas laughed at the girl's words, while Brooke still had that scowl on her face. "For your information, I did manage to learn how to cook, and Sam did say it's pretty good, even though she had to insult me after." She explains and Lucas only nods.
"Fine. I actually haven't had breakfast yet." He tells her, and then she serves him one on a plate.
"By the way, Peyton and I decided your party will be Halloween themed." She tells him as he has his mouth full, and his eyes grew big.
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"Awesome! Momma, can I come? Can I? Can I?" Jamie jump in place as he tugged on Haley's pants.
"Okay, you can come!" She replies just as excitedly, as Jamie ran off to his room thinking of his costume already.
When Jamie was gone, she turned to Lucas once again. "A costume party? Seriously?!"
"Hey, it was not my idea! Brooke just asked me to spread the word. Don't shoot the messenger." His hands were up in surrender.
"I can't believe Peyton agreed to this, crazy girls." Haley shook her head. She's reminded of the Halloween party back in high school. It wasn't really a pleasant memory to her.
His phone rings, and he was utterly thankful. "I have to get this." Haley shooed him away. "Hello?"
"Lucas Scott?" A voice quite familiar to him said. He couldn't remember whose it is though.
"This is he. Who's this?" He replies as his eyebrows furrow still trying to remember who the voice belonged to.
"It's Julian. The movie producer." It finally hits him. That's right. It's Julian.
"Oh. Hey." He replies back, curious as to why he's calling him.
"I just wanted to talk to you about the details of the movie, maybe tonight?" He hears him say, and he hesitates to mention the party to him, but he does.
"Actually, I have a party to go to. My party actually, you could come if you want." Just out of hospitality that he invites him over.
"So you're celebrating? Nice. Sure, where is it?" Julian seems more interested than he should be, but Lucas shakes that feeling off.
"It's at a bar in town named Tric. It's a costume party." Once again he hesitates to go into details, but he does anyway.
"A costume party?" He could hear him stifle a laugh at the other end of the line. He laughs to himself too.
"Not my idea. Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer are to blame." He joked. He's starting to like the guy. He didn't really seem fond of him during their first meeting.
"I see. I'll see you." Julian replies and with that he shuts phone off.
"Who was that?" Haley walks back in the living room with him, a glass of orange juice in hand.
"That's the movie producer I was telling you about. I invited him to the party." He tells her and Haley just nods.
"I'm looking forward to meeting him. He's a nice guy, right?" She asks, worried that he might turn out to be an ass, which she doesn't need especially when Jamie's going to be there too.
"He's okay." Lucas replies with a smile on his face.
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Do you want me to continue? Or do I have to pile this up along with my other unfinished stories? Review! Review!
By the way, for those reading DTE, I'm almost done with the next chapter. I'm just having a little problem with the time frame. I feel like the story is moving too slow, so I'll just fix that, then you'll get your update.
Anyway, please tell me what you think about this. And then, since Lucas' book is going to be made into a movie, you could also make suggestion on who's going to play the characters (besides the ones mentioned on the show).
That's it. Now, hit that cute purple button already! :)