Brooke crossed her arms, hugging herself as the cold hit her. As everyone got in their cars and headed off to the party of the night they just stayed in the same place not saying anything. Letting herself fall back against the wall Rachel let out a small sigh, why did it have to be like this? Why couldn't they just be together properly. Would it really make that much of a difference if people knew? She hated that they needed to sneak around. The only time that they really got to be together was when they were at the house alone. Brooke felt the same, and it showed. They both were clearly pissed off at the situation.
They had talked about it earlier that day, they were nearly caught out by Theresa and had to make up a lame excuse that she did buy, but that was only because it was Theresa. If it was anyone else it would be out there right now that they were together. In a selfish way, they both kind of wished that someone else saw them nearly kiss. It would be easier than them needing to tell people on their own.
Still hugging herself, Brooke looked over at Rachel who was looking at the ground. She knew she was upset at her. When Theresa walk in on her it was Brooke who dismissed it without any thought. She saw the hurt look on Rachel's face then and she saw it now. She looked around, they parking lot was pretty empty now and there was only the odd person still there. She turned around and Rachel closed her eyes.
"Why are you going?" She asked, her voice quieter than she would have liked it to be.
"I don't know." She replied honestly, her voice as low as Rachel's.
Bringing her head up she looked at her "Is this whats going to happen, your just going to walk away from this?"
Brooke looked up, her eyes finding Rachel's "What do you want me to do?"
"I don't want you to walk away from me."
She looked away "I don't know what else to do."
"So what now? Are me and you done?"
She dropped her arms to the ground "I didn't say that."
Rachel shook her head "That's the thing, you aren't saying anything. You haven't talked to me since earlier on, do you think what we are doing is wrong or something?"
"Of course I don't."
"So then why is what happened earlier on such a big deal?"
The brunette moved closer to her "It isn't."
"You've been avoiding me all day."
"No I haven't." She lied.
"At the game you practiclly ran to Haley so we didn't need to sit together. In class you fucking sat next to Tim instead of me. Are you really asking to me believe that you haven't been avoiding me? Because you have I'm not stupid, I know that you have been."
Brooke didn't say anything. Rachel was right she had been avoiding her. She didn't want to, she wanted to have people know they were together more than anything. There was so much of Brooke's life that everyone else got to know about and a small part of her just wanted to keep her and Rachel a secret. She just wanted to enjoy it and as much as she wanted to be able to do things with her without needing to worry about hiding, another part of her didn't want to deal with everyones comments. Even though she knew that they wouldn't be bad, she had been through that before and it was fine. People had already gotten around that, the problem was Rachel didn't know anything about it.
She leaned back against the wall and broke the silence "There is something that I need to talk to you about."
"Let me guess you want to break up."
Rolling her eyes slightly she sighed "No." Rachel's eye contact came to the ground and Brooke smiled sadly "Me and Peyton, we dated for awhile."
Her eyes widened and she looked up "What?"
"We dated." She repeated "It was about a year ago."
"Did anyone know?" Brooke nodded "Who?"
She sighed "Everyone."
"So wait." Rachel said her voice slightly raised "You didn't mind telling people about you and Peyton but when it comes to me and you, you don't want to tell them?"
"It's not that."
She cut her off "Then what is it?"
"I dunno we just...people just knew about it. We didn't need to tell anyone about it and we didn't need to deny it."
"Why is it so different with us?"
Brooke shook her head "It isn't."
"It is, you didn't mind people knowing about you and Peyton but when it comes to us you freak out about it." Brooke opened her mouth to talk but she didn't let her "If people just knew about you guys then you two were obviously not hiding anything from people I guess I don't mean anything to you." "It isn't like that!"
"Then why can't we tell anyone?"
Silence.
She shook her head "That's what I thought." She shook her head and twirled around
"Please, wait I love you..." Brookes eyes widened and so did Rachel's Slowly she turned around to Brooke who was looking awkwardly at the ground.
"What did you say?"
She didn't get an answer from Brooke. Brooke didn't know where that came from, there was no way that she could have stopped those words. They just slipped out of her mouth. She knew that she meant them, she just didn't expect them to escape her mouth.
A small smile crept across Rachel's lips but the brunette didn't see as her eye contact was on the ground. She moved closer to her and tugged at her hand. Looking up for the first time, Brooke looked at her. Rachel smiled and so did she, slowly she moved closer to her, she was sure that the sound of her heart beating could be heard by others at that point. Feeling like her heart was in her mouth Rachel moved closer aswell.
With their faces inches apart Brooke smiled "I love you."
Rachel's eyes lit up, she couldn't believe that she just said that. She pulled Brooke into a hug and giggled causing Brooke to smile from ear to ear. "I love you too."
Not caring about who saw them, Brooke moved the few inches forward until her mouth met hers. At first it was nothing more than a simple touching of their lips, then the tip of Rachels tounge ran along her bottom lip. Granting her access, she opened her mouth and she pushed her tounge inside her mouth. Brookes tounge spared with hers and demanded as much from Rachel as she demanded from her. Running her fingers through her hair, Rachels hands started to wonder the smaller girls body. Their tounges massaged each others causing a small moan to escape Rachels lips. When oxygen became vital they pulled back reluctantly out of breath.
"I love you too." Rachel repeated catching her breath.