Thank you to my writing partner. The majority of this fic came from her mind. These are all her creative ideas.
Brooke went to school early since the nanny had gotten their earlier than usual. She spent her extra time planning the party for tonight. All the cheerleaders were coming over, and she needed snacks, and a way to keep Faith hidden. All the new uniforms for cheerleading were shipped to Brooke's house, so they decided a small get together would be fun. Brooke saw Lucas, coming towards her, and she smiled up at him. She had recently decided that they could be friends again, she didn't have to avoid him constantly. Lucas sat down across from her.
"Hey what are you doing here early?" he asked.
"I'm preparing for the cheerleaders party at my house tonight" she replied.
"Ah, sounds fun." he told her.
"Yeah,." she said before turning back to her notebook.
Skills and Peyton arrived. They were walking hand in hand and decided to go sit with Brooke and Lucas. Silently they wondered if Brooke and Lucas would ever get together, because they had this chemistry that was so obvious.
"Hey you two, can we sit with you?" Peyton asked.
Brooke nodded, so Peyton took a seat on Skills lap. Lucas shot them a disgusted look, it was hard to see his best friend with his other friend. The four of them talking animatedly. Brooke told Peyton to be at the house at 7:00 for the new uniform party.
Haley and Chris pulled up to the school. Haley got out and saw Nathan sitting with his friend at a table. She smiled at him, and tried to ignore the feeling that it should be Nathan's hand on her back, leading her into the school not Chris's. Haley was happy that the novelty of having famous singers going to school with you was wearing off. No one stopped them anymore to ask for autographs. Haley and Nathan's eyes locked, and she couldn't stop staring at him. She didn't hear Chris calling to her.
"Hales, Haley. Hello?" Chris was asking her repeatedly.
"Oh sorry." Haley apologized.
"Are you okay Hales? You look a little bit out of it." he asked concerned.
"Oh no, I'm fine." she insisted. Thankfully the bell rang, and she got up and rushed to class. The class she shared with Nathan. Nathan met her on the way to class, he kissed her on the cheek and walked into class together. She found it hard to concentrate with Nathan just across the aisle from her. When the bell finally rang he followed her into the hall, and pulled her to a deserted corner. He pulled a bracelet from his pocket. It had colourful beads on it, and she had many bracelets worth way more money than that one. But she thought it was beautiful. He slid the bracelet on her wrist and said "Don't say I never gave you anything." He smiled when she leaned in and kissed him. She left for her next class and wasn't able to concentrate on anything but Nathan. Haley began to wonder, how she ever fell for a guy like Nathan Scott. Because it was true, she had fallen hard for him, and she didn't know what to do about it.
After the school day was finally over. Haley made her way over to the car. Chris had his final class on the other side of the school, and it would take him a while to get there, so she just leaned on the door to wait until he got there. She heard footsteps coming towards her and she turned to see Nathan.
"Hey" she said, happy to see him.
"Hey" he said smiling.
"So how was your day?" she asked trying to make small talk.
"It was good. The best part was when I gave this girl I like a bracelet from a crackerjack box and she liked it" he confessed.
"I loved it" Haley corrected.
"I'm glad to hear it." Nathan said. He leaned in and kissed her, but she pulled away because Chris could walk up any second. The voice in her head told her to be careful, that she loved Chris, and that she was just infatuated with Nathan. That nothing good could come of them being together. She told the little voice to shut up, and she leaned in and kissed Nathan as passionately as she could. Little did she know, Chris had just exited the building at that point and had seen the entire thing.
Later that day, Skills and Lucas were at the river court. They were shooting around, having a good time. Lucas was still a little weirded out about Peyton and Skills. Like, he had seen things that no one should ever seen between those two. He was uncomfortable even seeing them kiss, but what happened at Nathan's party was even worse. Just thinking about it made Lucas shudder. Lucas saw Peyton pull up and jump out of her car. She leaped right into Skills arms.
"Hey babe, just thought you'd like to know, my dad is working. Soooooooo… we could have the entire house to ourselves." she said suggestively.
"Yeah baby, that sounds so great. Just let me finish beating Lucas at basketball and then we can go" Skills said excitedly.
Lucas rolled his eyes at the public display of affection between two of his best friends.
Peyton went and sat on a table, and cheered for her boyfriend.
"Go Skills! Kick Lucas's butt. Lucas is nowhere near as good as you baby" she called after Skills.
Skills laughed, and Lucas just stared at the betrayal his best friend was dishing at him. Apparently, gone were the old days where Peyton would always take his side on everything. And her and Skills was just a little bit weird.
Suddenly Peyton exclaimed "Oh crap! I forgot all about Brooke's party tonight. Babe, come over after the party, I'll text you when its done." With that she rose from the table, kissed her boyfriend and went home to get ready for Brooke's small get together.
Brooke was getting everything set up, and since it was after 7, Faith was sleeping for the night. Faith always slept right through the night, and was always sleeping by 7. She was such a good little girl. At least she wouldn't have to worry about Faith tonight. The doorbell rang and Peyton walked in followed by Haley who looked a little nervous considering she was a new cheerleader. They all sat down, and after everyone finally arrived. Brooke went around distributing the uniforms, and while all the girls enthused about how great Brooke's design was the top was longsleeved blue and while while the bottom was a frilly blue shirt with a white waist band, the shirt ended 3 inches before the skirt began. They were amazing if Brooke said so herself. After a little while, Brooke realized that Haley would make a good friend. She talked about everything, and they spent most of the evening together. Becoming friends. Haley told her all about being on tour and the stress of being famous. Brooke told her all about her high school experiences. A little while later, Rachel got up and told everyone she was going to go use the bathroom. Brooke pointed her down the hall. Rachel was looking, and she opened the door that she thought was the bathroom. In this room, she came across, a crib, a sleeping baby. Rachel didn't see anything incriminating about this, Brooke was obviously just taking care of her sister or something. It wasn't until Rachel stepped inside the room, and noticed the picture frame. The frame held a picture of Brooke, and the baby. The frame said "Mommy and Baby." Rachel didn't know what she was gonna do with the information, but she knew she had information on Brooke, and that gave her the upper hand.