It was five in the afternoon and Brooke knew that Lucas would be at the rivercourt. Spotting him she made her presance known, her high heels hitting off of the ground. Skillz was the first to notice her he nudged Lucas who then turned around and smirked. Walking over to her his smile widened. She rolled her eyes at him and looked away over her shoulder.
"Looking for your girlfriend?" He asked with a chuckle.
She didn't turn around "I was just passing."
"Right, you just want to make sure that I don't tell everyone your little secret."
She smiled and turned to face him "What secret would that be?"
"You know what I'm talking about." Lucas said glaring at her.
Brooke nodded and grabbed his t shirt pulling him close to her "If you tell anyone about me and Rachel or do anything to hurt her. I'll hurt you."
Laughing he shook his head "Now I'm scared."
Turning serious Brooke pulled him as close as possible to her, their faces inches apart "Try me."
She let go off him and pushed his chest "You know, we all have secrets, don't we Lucas."
Anger evident Lucas gritted his teeth "Fuck you."
She smiled "Be carefull now Lucas, with that heart of yours, too much excitment. It could kill you." Getting up she winked at him taking the basketball from his hands. She bounced it a few times as she walked away. She then flung the ball against his car window. The noise causing Skillz and lucas to turn around.
She gasped dramaticly "Oh, I'm sorry. What I mess I've made."
Skillz who was now holding Lucas shook his head "Come on man let it go."
Brooke giggled "Yeah,let it go."
With that, Brooke walked over to her car and drove off smiling.
"I'm going to fucking kill her!" Lucas shouted pushing Skillz off of him.
Skillz sighed "She is just getting you back for what you did to her, its even now."
Lucas laughed bitterly "Even? She just smashed my car window."
"You told her about her dead baby infront of the whole school."
"Whos side are you on?" The blonde asked his friend.
He held his hands up "Hey, I'm not on anyones team. I'm your friend and I don't wanna see you like this."
Lucas smiled "Thanks man, but I can't be ok with this."
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Brooke stumbled into the house some time in the middle of the night. She didn't want to wake Rachel up so she made sure she was extra quiet. Aware that she was most likly wide awake and waiting for her. She walked into the nearest bathroom and turned on the light,looking in the mirror she sighed. Hearing footsteps she cursed and sat down on the eagde of the bath, her gaze on the floor.
"Brooke, where have you been, it's 2 am." Rachel said angrily.
"Out." Brooke mumbled not looking up.
"Where?" She asked sitting to the left of her "Look at me."
Slowly she lifted her head expecting the gasp she got from Rachel.
"Brooke, What the hell happened? She knew what part of the answer was, it was something to do with Lucas.
She shrugged "I'll be fine in the morning."
"You are bleeding!" She sat back and examined her. She was pale, her lip cut, her nose bloody. She looked down at her clothes, some of them torn. She shook her head "Your clothes...he didn't?"
Brooke shook her head "No, I promise."
"What else did he do to you?"
Standing up slowly the brunette winced. She slid off her jacket moaning at the pain it caused. Stepping forward Rachel helped her take it off. Shaking her head when she saw Brookes arm swollen.
"Your arm, your bleeding, where is it comming from?"
Taking her hand in her own, she placed it at the back of her head wincing in pain. Once she let go, Rachel looked at her own hand, now convered in blood.
"You need to go to the hopsital."
"I can't, they will want to know what happened." Brooke whispered
"And we will tell them." Rachel replied.
She held out her arms to Brooke who was now crying, she accepted and Rachel carefully wrapped her arms around her "Let's get you to the hospital."
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They were now at the hospital. Rachel held onto Brooke's hand tightly as the doctor put stitches in the back of her head. She was highly medicated at that point so it wasn't a painfull experience for her at all. Her arm was also in a sling which she wasn't happy about. She would have been happier with the yellow cast. Rachel was fuming at Lucas. She swore if she saw him she was going to kill him. She didn't even know how it happened she couldn't get anything out of Brooke she kept saying it didn't matter.
A voice shot her to reality "I got here as soon as I could."
Rachel smiled "Bevin."
Not the obvious choice to call sure, but Bevin was with Brooke earlier that day. Rachel figured she could shed some light as to what happened. Skillz stood at the doorway giving the girls a sad smile. He knew what had happened, it was obvious. Lucas was talking about how he was going to get her back for the car and now she was like this.
They stayed in silence untill the doctor had finished. He explaned to them that it would be best if she stayed in over night just so they could check on her and gave Rachel a tube of pills for the pain.
"What happened?" Bevin asked giving a small smile to the doctor as he left.
Rachel bit down on her lip. She so badly wanted to tell her who did it but something inside of her was telling her not to. When the doctor asked what had happened, Brooke said she didn't see them. If she didn't Rachel would have told everyone exactly who it was but it obviously wasn't what Brooke wanted. She wanted to know why but was more concered in Brookes health, just glad that she was going to be ok.
"I'm not sure." She lied.
Brooke slured something and put her head on the red heads shoulder.
"What was that?" Rachel asked as she brushed a stand of hair out of Brookes eyes causing Skillz to smile.
Brooke just giggled and Skillz smiled "I don't think we are gonna get much sense out of her tonight. shes as drugged up as Nathans mom."
Rachel laughed and shook her head "I guess your right." she then turned to Bevin "She was with you right, do you know anything?"
"She was fine all day, she seemed really happy. Happiest I've seen her since the accident."
Brooke was happy. She had Rachel to thank for that. She was so excited about what was happening with the two of them. Also she was giving herself some points for doing what she did to Lucas. Feeling horrible Skillz spoke up "Hey babe, can you get me a soda?"
Rachel gave him a confused look and Bevin obliged going out of the room. He sighed and walked over to the two girls looking back to make sure the coast was clear.
"I know what happened."
"What?" She asked clearly confused as to why.
"Earlier on today at the rivercourt, I was playing ball with Lucas and Brooke turned up." He stopped and smiled sadly at Brooke who seemed to be asleep "She was talking to him."
Rachel cut him off "About what?"
He knew that it was about them kissing but he didn't want to tell her. Brooke would. He shrugged "I dunno, all I know is he looked pissed. As she was going, she smashed his car window."
Her eyes widened and he chuckled "Hit it pretty damn good aswell."
Rachel looked down at Brooke and gave out a small sigh "So that's why he did this to her."
Nodding he put his hand on her shoulder "Look I know this isn't really anything to do with me, I'm just telling you what I know."
"Thanks." She said with a small smile
He just shrugged and looked over at Brooke "Take care of her, I'll let you get some rest."
"Thanks for comming, sorry for waking you."
"Don't sweat it." She smiled and watched as he left the room. He looked back one more time and smiled when he saw Rachel kiss Brookes forhead, their hands tangled together.
"I didn't want you to get hurt." Brooke mumbled in her ear.
"What are you talking about?" Rachel asked kissing the side of her head softly.
"He knows."
Imediatly knowing what she was talking about she looked down at her "How?"
Brooke slured "He was at the rivercourt."
Rachel closed her eyes "Why did you go to him?"
"I didn't want him to hurt you."
Her stomach forming in knots she put her arm around Brooke "He hurt you so he has hurt me."
She didn't know how but Rachel swore to herself that she was going to get Lucas back for this. He finally needed to be taught a lesson.