Hey I think this is like the shortest update time for me ever!

Theres a lot of drama her so I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 14 - Falling, Falling, Breaking.

"Davis, stop moving right now." Brooke looked at Nathan as though he was stupid.

"Natey, I have to move, it's called being alive." Nathan glared.

"Okay then Miss Smart - Ass, I will rephrase. Will you please stop jumping up and down madly in the back seat of this car when I am sitting next to you; it is making the whole of the car shake and I am getting fed up of it." Brooke deflated and stopped moving.

"I'm sorry. But, it's just, I'm so excited! It's the Tree Hill ball! The best thing, like ever!" Nathan sighed. Girls. They got excited over the most stupidest things ever. Nathan had been forced to come to this dance by Brooke, when he'd have much rather stayed at Brooke's watching basketball games all night. But what the Princess wants, the Princess gets. And that included making a fool out of him and his brother. He just hoped that his parents weren't going to be there. The last time he had seen them, it had ended in a fight. And it hadn't been pretty. Lucas had already rung the maids and found out that Deb and Dan Scott were on holiday, however you could never trust the maids to be honest or the Senior Scotts not to turn up to a dance. Because a dance meant publicity. And that's all Dan wanted in life.

Brooke's incessant moving started up again and Nathan looked at her for a second, and she stopped. It was funny how much power he had over her when he was in a mood. Actually, thinking about it, he never had any power over Brooke when he was in a mood. Which meant that Brooke was giving in to this demands too easily.

Which meant that something was up. Something that Nathan probably wasn't going to like.

He was about to ask Brooke about his suspicions when they arrived at the place. Luke, like a little puppy, jumped out of his seat and graciously opened Brooke's door for her. She awarded him with a quick kiss which was interrupted by a girlie version of Nathan's voice,

"Oooh Lukey baby! Are you not going to come and help me out of my car?" Nathan fluttered his eyelashes but was cut off when Luke came and tried to tackle him to the ground.

"Lucas! What the hell are you doing? We are at a posh dance! You cannot just start fighting with your brother whenever you want to! You are showing me up!" Lucas and Nathan looked up at Brooke's horrified face and both burst out laughing. This got Brooke even more agitated. Lucas decided that he needed to diffuse the situation or they would be spending their night with a very angry Brooke.

"Look Cheery," At the mention of her nickname, brooke started to smile, "I'm sorry, but me and my brother have been to so many of these dances - before you ask, there have been too many to count. And so now we just have to annoy some of the snobby people around here, we've been doing it for the last couple of years; I don't know why but it seems to help us get through this sort of evening."

Brooke contemplated this. It really was a good idea. She knew that her parents were exactly the type of people that Luke was talking about, and Brooke sure liked to rebel against them and their friends…

"Okay then! Let's go get this party started!" Luke and Nathan looked shocked at Brooke's sudden change of heart, but decided not to ask. "But first, well in any case, before I get completely off my face, I have to go find someone." Brooke began to walk away from them towards a door at the other side of the room when she felt two different pairs of arms pulling her backwards.

"Oh no you don't. You have dragged me all the way here to play gooseberry with you and Luke, when I would have happily watched basketball, but now you are thinking of leaving me with him so that we both look like the saddest cases ever? I don't think so. We're coming with you." Brooke looked slightly worried.

"Natey, I don't know whether you want to do that, see, I'm going to find…" Brooke lowered her voice down to a whisper "Haley." Nathan's features tensed visibly, so Brooke continued, "I have a feeling that she's going to be here, with that creep Jonathan who stole here away from me, I mean us, and I need to get her away from him as soon as possible before he has the chance to do anything to her. Unless he already has. It's 9 already, they could have been here for two hours, and I know that Jonathan can get lathered in a lot less time than that." Nathan looked at Brooke. She had no idea what he was going to say next.

"Okay. Well, we'll split up. First to find her rings the others. Got it?" Brooke was left in shock at the organisation of Nathan. She definitely hadn't expected him to want to help them. She still thought he was hurt and angry. He probably was, Brooke thought, but she knew he still loved Haley, he couldn't just turn his feelings off like a light switch.

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Lucas set off to look for Haley. He obviously did not know her as much as Brooke or Nathan, yet he cared for her greatly. She was the person he'd felt a connection with when he entered the cabin. They were alike. She also reminded him of his best friend from when he lived in England. Her name was Charlotte. They were Charlie and Luke. They went everywhere together. Everybody had expected them to get together in the end. They would have been perfect. But then he'd met Cesca, and his whole world was turned upside down. It was literally a whirlwind romance and all thoughts and memories of Charlie faded in comparison to what he was experiencing with Francesca. And then he'd had to leave England for America.

He'd never seen Charlie again. He still thought of her. She was his childhood. But he knew he was never going to get her back. And so when he met Haley, it was almost as if Charlie was being born again. This, selfish as it was, was the main reason he wanted Haley back. He needed her.

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Brooke had set off in the other direction. Her need for Haley was much greater. In a not so serious way, it was because she could not stand to have to look after Nathan any more than she had already. He was the biggest kid she had ever seen.

However Brooke also needed Haley for her. She couldn't survive without her best friend by her side, and it killed her to think that Haley was thinking bad of Brooke all the time that she had been away. Brooke couldn't stand thinking that Haley had been hurt.

Brooke pushed open the doors of many different rooms, but she couldn't find Haley anywhere.

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Nathan had been the last to set out on their search for Haley. He'd been so ready to look for her but at the very last moment he had stalled. He thought of all the memories that they had shared over such a small amount of time…

"So, this is my house!" Haley giggled excitedly, the feelings of how afraid she had been just moments before in the mall with those boys completely gone now that she was in the safe reach of Nathan.

Nathan smiled at the beautiful woman in front of him. He was sorry to say it, but Haley was definitely not the type of girl he had ever gone after before. Brooke would have been his girl. But Haley was different. The way she smiled, the way her golden brown curls cascaded around her face and the way she cared about anything and everything. He loved the way she worried about everything, from the fact that the bacon was going to burn to whether Brooke was going to get back from being out in the woods okay, even though Brooke had hurt her so much the night before. She was so forgiving, yet so easily hurt. Nathan thought that he would die if he ever hurt her that way.

"So hunky Scott, what are we going to do?" Nathan thought for a moment. He was seriously considering suggesting truth or dare, because he knew exactly what he was going to dare her to do. But maybe that could wait until later. First he wanted to do something that he knew Haley loved.

"I'm hungry, I say we make me some food!" Haley beamed, and Nathan realised that she had been worried about what he was going to say. There she was again, worrying. He knew there was something behind Haley that was making her not completely trust him, though he knew he needed to get past that wall so that se could put all of her faith in him…

Nathan headed down the corridor in front of him. It was dingy, and it didn't look like many people had been down there all evening, if anyone ever did. But he sensed that he might as well keep trying.

He was four doors down of the corridor when he heard a voice. Two voices to be precise. And one of them was Haley.

She was telling someone to stop, that she didn't want to. And Nathan heard the urgency in her voice. He started to run down the corridor bursting open doors as he went. The final door came upon him, so, taking a deep breath, Nathan forcefully pushed open the door.

The sight in front of his eyes stabbed him through the heart. Some guy, who he presumed was Jonathan was pushing his Haley down onto a table, forcing her clothes off in the process.

And Haley didn't look happy about this at all. The tears were streaming down her face as she begged and pleaded for him to stop. There were slight tears down the bottom of her dress and her hair had been pulled down, the make-up around her face smudged.

Nathan rushed over to where the two of them were, throwing Jonathan onto the floor.

"How dare you do this to my Haley? How could you do such a thing? Are you so drunk that you don't realise she's telling you to stop?" Jonathan looked up at Nathan, blood spilling from his nose. Nathan gasped. "You're sober? You pathetic bastard. You're sober and you're doing this? You had better get out right now or I swear I will do something I will later regret… or actually maybe I won't regret it so you better run before I can catch up with you." Jonathan quickly got up and scuttled out of the room, clearly terrified at the anger he saw engrained on Nathan's face.

Once he had made sure he'd gone. Nathan turned to Haley. She was a mess, and crying, yet to him she still looked beautiful. He touched her cheek but she flinched away from him. He whispered soothingly to her.

"Shhh, baby, it's me, Nathan. I'm here for you now, he won't be able to touch you ever again. I promise I will keep you safe." Haley's eyes opened for the first time and the pain that Nathan saw in them hurt him so much that he thought he might die right there. But he knew he couldn't - he had to be strong for Haley.

At the sight of Nathan Haley was relieved, yet the pain from what he did to her came flooding back - the feeling that she had been trying to suppress ever since she had left his house. Nathan could see all this swirling around inside the girl that he loved, without her telling him anything.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Haley for the pain I caused you. Please forgive me."

And though she knew they would have to talk about it, for that moment she did. She forgot about everything that had happened and found comfort in his arms.

For he had come to find her. He had found her when she had been the most scared she had ever been in her life.

He had saved her.

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After searching the whole of the building without finding Haley, Brooke decided to follow the way in which Nathan had gone. Evidently Lucas had had the same idea as they both found each other striding down the dark corridor.

All the doors were open, and glancing inside, Brooke and Luke could tell that they were empty. Until they came to the last room. Inside was a sight that could warm the hearts of those made of stone. Nathan and Haley were stood in the middle of the room. Not talking. Not moving. Just being there.

Brooke coughed quietly to make their presence known and the two reluctantly broke apart. Brooke smiled. Rita really was very clever. She now knew why Nathan was wearing the ice blue colour. That was the exact colour of Haley's dress. It was strapless and showed off all her curves in the right places. The two of them complimented each other so well.

"Tutor girl! I've missed you so much! I have been so worried about you. We all have. We made this whole road trip for you. I had to endure two days in a car alone with these two goons." Haley giggled despite everything that had gone on. She knew that Brooke was trying to put a funny spin on everything, and frankly that was exactly what she needed.

"Come on Tigger, I'm sure it couldn't have been THAT bad." Brooke thought for a moment.

"I suppose not, after all I did get to meet George. Ouch Lucas that hurt! Oh, um , yeah Luke was great as well. You know, in fact it was just Nathan that was annoying." Haley smiled.

"You know, he's not all that bad…" She grinned up at Nathan's now smiling face.

"Well I'm glad to know you think that…. 'cos I sure don't. Nathan if you come and hit me I will never let you watch the Legally Blonde trilogy ever again. Good. So now you've quietened down, I think we should go and enjoy the party. I for one am intending to get totally smashed so that I can completely embarrass my parents who I have not seen for more than 4 years." The three faces that were looking at her turned sombre, but Brooke plastered a smile across her face and led them all upstairs.

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The four of them were having a great night, Brooke especially. She had danced with Haley, Lucas millions of times and even got Nathan onto the dance floor. She was getting into full party flow when a person in front of her stopped her in her tracks. Lucas, her partner for this dance looked at her strangely before turning around and noticing the man who had evidently upset Brooke.

Lucas put his arm firmly around Brooke's back o show he was there for her, and then he felt the presence of Nathan holding Haley nearby.

"What do you want Jonathan?" Brooke managed to speak out, the venom in her tone clearly evident. "Haley is leaving you so would you please…. Actually scrap the please… leave." Jonathan leered at Brooke, clearly having drunk far more alcohol than he should have.

"I'm not going anywhere, Brookie." Brooke's anger rose, "As you know already, little Haley over there is not putting out. But you will won't you. You did before, remember?" Brooke turned flame red as Jonathan chuckled and turned around and left.

Brooke turned to Haley, the tears already streaming down her cheeks. She could see that Haley was in a similar state.

"Brooke?" Haley whispered, not being able to get out the words that she so desperately needed to say, "Is this true? Oh god Brooke, don't tell me it was when I was going out with him." Brooke could not say anything to this. "Oh no. No no no. How could you do this to me Brooke? I trusted you…" Haley picked up her skirt and fled from the building. The music had now stopped, leaving the rest of the hall in silence. Brooke chased after her, quickly followed by both Lucas and Nathan, confused as to what was going on.

"Haley! Wait! Please, Haley listen to me -" Haley spun round, her eyes spitting with the hate that she so clearly felt for Brooke.

"Listen to you? Why the hell should I do that? You SLEPT with my boyfriend. A guy that I loved so much it hurt! And you're supposed to be my best friend! Best friend! Does that term not mean anything to you Brooke? 'Cos it sure means a lot to me."

"Haley, I didn't even know you back then, he was just another faceless guy." Brooke was now sobbing, desperate to get Haley to forgive her. Haley's tears were still falling silently but it was the anger that most stood out on her face. She laughed sarcastically.

"Well well well, another of Brooke Davis' many conquests, what a surprise," But then Haley's voice turned to desperation, "Another faceless guy? Brooke, he was MY GUY! Do you not even realised the meaning of that? He was MINE. You know, I knew that you didn't care about other people's relationships, but I never thought that you would go and ruin mine. And then you kept it from me from all these years. How could you do that to me Brooke? How could you?" Brooke fell to her knees as she watched the figure of Haley quickly fade into the distance.

"Because that is the Brooke Davis that I was."

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Haley started to run away, away from the person who had just broken her heart into a million tiny pieces. The one person she had trusted throughout everything, the person she had counted on, had turned out to be one big lie.

And Haley just couldn't cope with it anymore.

She stopped after running for what seemed like hours. However she wasn't alone like she had expected to be. There were big, strong arms surrounding her, stopping her from falling to her knees.

She looked up and caught in her gaze the blue eyes of the man she loved. It was true, after everything she had finally come to realise that she loved him. All the time she had been with Jonathan, even though he had been being really sweet to her, all she could think of was Nathan.

"Nathan, I am so sorry that I have waited until now to tell you this, but I love you." Nathan smiled, even though she was going through so much pain she could still give out love to others. This girl was amazing.

"I love you too Haley-bub. I love you so much it hurts."

She loved him. It was true. He was the man that she couldn't keep her mind off. He was the man who made her feel a glimmer of hope when there was none. He was her knight in shining amour.

He was there for her when no-one else was.

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Brooke felt the arms of Lucas surround her as she let her tears fall to the ground. She had never felt so terrible in her life. But she didn't feel terrible for herself. She felt terrible for what she had done to Haley, for all the pain that she had caused her. She never knew haley when she had slept with Jonathan, but Haley was right. Brooke had slept with anybody, not caring for the feelings of others that she might be hurting so much more.

Her heart was breaking in a way that she never thought was possible. Only Lucas' arms were stopping her from breaking in too completely.

She had no idea why he was here. She had done the worst thing possible ever and he was still here beside her. Her tears and the soothing words that were being whispered into her ear was interrupted by a harsh, repeated ring.

Luke was annoyed at this interruption. He knew what Brooke did was wrong, but he ha to stand by her, she hadn't known what she was doing at the time, and if she didn't have him then she'd have no-one.

He pulled his phone out of is pocket and looked at the caller id. It was his house.. How could anybody be calling from his house? Nathan and him were here. And then it dawned on him.

Francesca.

"Francesca. What do you want?" His tone was angry, but at the moment he didn't care.

"Hey darling, it's me. I was just ringing to tell you that I'm here in Tree Hill!" Luke's heart sank. What the hell was she doing here and what was she going to try and mess up for him next?

"Cesca. Is there anything seriously wrong?"

"No, of course not, why would there be?"

"Go home Francesca, I don't want you here. Go back. I can't cope with you being here when I need to be there for my friends. So just leave." Luke could practically feel the anger emitting from Cesca at that very moment in time.

"That's how you feel about your son? Well then fine you piece of something that does not even deserve to be on the bottom of my shoe. I'm going. So go to hell." with that Cesca hung up.

Luke was shocked at the thought of not seeing his son, however Francesca not being in his life was a good thing.

Lucas yet again approached the fragile girl in the dress who had collapsed on the pavement in front of him.

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Bit of drama there for you. I hope I did it justice.


There is a lot more drama t come…

So please review, I wanna know what you think!

Thanks for reading

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