"Lucas."
Hearing her voice he didn't turn around. She knew, he could tell by the tone of her voice. He just kept on playing not wanting to deal with her.
"You suck by the way." Peyton said with a small snicker watching him miss the basket.
Still not turning around to face her Peyton shook her head "I guess your not facing me because of last night."
Sighing Lucas finally turned around "I don't want to talk about it."
"Last night you did, in fact you wanted to talk about it with the whole school."
Mouth not knowing what they were talking looked at Lucas with a confused expression on his face.
The taller boy shook it off "It was nothing."
Peyton scoffed "Nothing? You told the whole school Brooke had lost her baby thats hardly nothing!"
Upon hearing the blondes words Lucas cringed and Mouths jaw almost hit the floor. Seeing this Peyton bit her lip.
"You didn't know?"
He shook his head "No, I was out of town visiting my grand parents. I tried calling the girls earlier but there was no answer. I figured they had a heavy night."
"You could say that." Peyton mumbled as she looked at Lucas.
Rolling his eyes Lucas stepped forward "I don't know why your acting like you care all of a sudden, you are probably the reason the babys dead in the first place."
"What?" She couldn't believe it he actually had the nerve to try and put this on her.
Mouth stood up "Hey, that's not fair."
He shook his head "Another one on Brookes side. God what is this? All of my friends are turning against me for that little slut."
"Don't call her that!" Mouth shouted. "Lucas I am your friend, but I'm also Brookes and What you done, that was a horrible thing."
"You werent there." Lucas replied coldly.
Mouth nodded "Your right, but I'm going to be there now."
He gave a small smile to Peyton and got in his car. When the car pulled away Peyton turned her attention back to Lucas.
"I can't believe your trying to blame me for this!"
"If you didn't kiss me then maybe she wouldn't have gone off in that car and then my baby would still be alive."
Peyton scoffed "So it's all my fault now? Incase you hadn't noticed Lucas, you kissed me back."
"I felt sorry for you, I didn't mean it." He said with a smug smile on his face
"Fuck you."
Lucas smiled "Cause you would like that wouldn't you?"
"Who are you? I don't even know who you are right now. A week ago you were concerned about her and telling me how you were going to get her back and now your doing this."
Lucas cut her off "She didn't want to talk to me, before her my life was simple."
Shaking her head she sighed "Before you my life was simple, and so was hers."
"Like you would know"
She smiled "I know what it was like. I spent everyday of my life with her for ten years. She told me everything
and I told her everything. It didn't matter what was going on with me she would make sure that I got through it.
When I had problems with my dad or Nathan or Jake, she would be there for me. She was all I had, and I can't believe
I gave all of that up for you."
"Peyton." His voice softened and she saw some of the Lucas she was used to.
"You always had a certain part of you that I didn't see, and I didn't know why. But I didn't push it. I now know that
other part of you." Peyton turned around and walked to her car. Without looking back she drove off feeling terrible.
His words stuck in her head going over and over again.
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The sudden sharp pain caused Brooke to moan slightly. She refused to open her eyes at first, but after several attempts, she managed to open them. Once the light from the window outside hit against her she groaned, her eyes roaming around the room. She smiled once she saw Rachel cuddled up next to her fast asleep. Feeling bad when the memories of last night came flooding back.
She had lost her baby. A baby she didn't even know about. It was dead and she never gave it one single thought
untill it was gone. Just when things started to look up, something happened and made it even more
worse than it already was. Brooke began thinking that it was her. Everything left her. She had parents but now they
left her and were gone. Her own family didn't even want to know her. She had a best friend and now she was gone.
A baby, she had a fucking baby and now that was gone too. She wanted to know what she had done to deserve this.
Sure she had made mistakes, but why this. She couldn't have been that bad.
Shaking her head she got up out of bed and walked out of the room. She walked to the bathroom and looked around
at the mess she had caused. It was when she had these thoughts of self pitty that she cut. Feeling the urge to
relieve some of the anger inside of her she looked around for a razor. After looking and finding nothing she sighed.
Rachel must have got rid of them. She didn't know why she was upset about that. She should have been happy. She wanted
to stop. So why was she wanting to do it so much?
A knock on the door interrupted her thoughts. She slowly walked out of the bathroom and walked up to the bedroom door. Fearing that it was Lucas she didn't want to go downstairs. He wouldn't though would he? Biting down on her lip she turned the door handle around and made her way into the hall. Snap out of it she thought to herself. Lucas wouldn't turn up again. Not after last night. She nodded to herself and made her way down the stairs. She took a step back when the door opened suddenly. Seeing who it was she let out a small sigh of relief.
"Mouth."
He smiled softly "Sorry for scaring you, I was just really worried."
Shaking her head she smiled "It's ok."
"I heard about last night." He spoke softly not wanting to upset her.
She didn't speak, she only nodded her head. Walking up to her he put his arms around her smiling when she done the same.
He smiled "We are going to be fine."
Pulling back she looked into his eyes "Who told you?"
He didn't answer. He didn't have to she already knew.
"Peyton." She said softly.
Nodding his head he gave her a sad smile "Yeah."
She wasn't suprised, Practically the whole school was there so it wasn't going to be long for the people who weren't there to find out. Nothing stayed a secret in Tree Hill. Everyone knew that.
"I had no idea you were..." Mouth said stopping mid sentence
Brooke dropped her arms to her sides "Neither did I." She let out a small laugh "What a way to find out huh."
"He shouldn't have done that." He shook his head. Not knowing how his friend could do that to the girl standing before him.
She shrugged "It's too late for shouldn'ts." She began walking over to the living room and nodded her head in the direction motioning for Mouth to do the same. They both sat down on the couch and Brooke continued to talk, her voice low.
"It's probably for the best, I mean look at the mess I am in. I couldn't do that to a kid. I would have made it's life hell."
Mouth shook his head "That's not true and you know it. You would have been a great mom." He took her hands in his and smiled "And you will be."
Brooke looked down at the ground "Is it bad to kind of be glad?"
"It wouldn't have been the right situation." Mouth nodded
"If I didn't have the accident, I would have kept it." Brooke choked out "Even though me and Lucas were done. I wouldn't have taken it's life."
"I know." He whispered. He began rubbing Brookes hands with his thumb and noticed the cuts. "What's this?"
Shrugging she looked away "You already know."
"You did this to yourself?" He extended her hands out and saw her wrists "Brooke, no this isn't worth it."
"He isn't worth it."
Mouth brought his hand to her face "Promise me you won't do this again."
She smiled weakly "I promise."
"You don't seem so sure."
"I don't want to do it again, but then I do." She looked up at him and shrugged "If you weren't here right now I'd be looking around the house for something to cut myself with."
Wincing at her words he closed his eyes "You need to stop."
"I wish I could."
He opened his eyes, she looked lost. Brooke Davis, the girl who was always so full of energy and full of confidence was lost.
He hated seeing her like this. It wasn't her.
"I'll help you."
"She shook her head "I appreciate it, but this isn't your problem or anyone elses. I can't dump all of my problems on people."
"You are not dumping anything on anyone, I want to help you."
Brooke smiled at her friend "Thank you."
"I'ts nothing." Mouth replied truthfully.
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Rachel began to stir, opening her eyes she noticed that Brooke wasn't next to her. Frowning she got up and looked around for her. Thinking the worst she started to panic. She was now running down the stairs. Running being more like clearing the whole set of stairs her eyes roaming the room. She brought her hand to her chest when she spotted Brooke sitting at her front door.
"Brooke, I nearly had a fucking heart attack."
Brooke let out a small giggle
Sitting down next to her she sighed "Smoking isn't a cool way to die."
Rolling her eyes Brooke threw the ciggarette away "Happy."
Rachel smiled "Yeah."
"Sorry." The brunette whispered looking up at her.
Already knowing what she was talking about she shook her head "There is nothing to be sorry for, just don't do it again."
"Thanks for helping me."
"No problem." Rachel grinned "I should savor that, you don't say thank you much."
"Fuck you."
The red head nodded "See, that is more like it."
In return she got a roll of the eyes from Brooke.
"It's freezing." Rachel said rubbing her arms.
"I can't feel anything." Brooke replied with a small shrug.
Frowning Rachel looked at the brunette "Do you want to talk about what happened?"
"I just want to move on from it."
"Come here." Rachel said as she put her hand out to Brooke. Accepting it placed her hands in Rachels and pulled herself up.
"Where is here?" Brooke asked with a raised brow
"Kitchen, I'll make you some food."
Brooke let out a giggle "I'll never be that hungry."
"Shut up. I'm a good cook." Rachel smiled.
She was happy that Brooke was having a laugh with her. She knew that it wasn't going to be over with just like that. It was too simple for that. Whatever happened though, she was going to be there for Brooke and was going to help her.
"What was the best present you ever got?" Brooke asked randomly.
Rachel smiled knowing the answer right away "A yoyo." She saw Brooke looking at her weird and shrugged "I was the first gift my parents ever got me that I actually wanted."
Nodding Brooke smiled, she knew what that was like. Her parents didn't spend time with her, they just threw money at her. Which wasn't the worst thing but she would easily have done without the money and just spent some time with them. That is all she ever wanted, a family. A real one who spent time with each other not one who text her telling her that they hoped her accident wasn't that bad.
"What was yours?"
"This cup with a photo of me, my mom and dad on it."
"What happened to it?" Rachel asked
"Lucas smashed it."