"Brooke!"
She turned around to see Haley running towards her frantically. "What?"
"Did….di….did you…"
"Breathe Haley!"
"Why are we on the ballot for Prom Queen?" she asked as she tried to breathe.
Brooke's heart stopped, "What?"
Haley handed her a flyer. Brooke looked over it and noticed that they were, in fact, going to be on the ballot. "Did someone set us up?"
"I bet it was that bitch, Peyton!"
"Haley!" Brooke snapped.
She wasn't Peyton's biggest fan either, but she didn't want to upset Lucas. She knew that Peyton had a special place in his heart and there was nothing that she could do about that.
Peyton had been cool with Brooke since she started dating Lucas. Brooke didn't think that Peyton would do that to them.
"Maybe, it's because we are dating Tree Hill Royalty," Brooke suggested.
"This is going to suck. No one is going to vote for us and we are going to look even more like freaks…I don't want to see Nathan dancing with another girl on our prom."
Brooke nodded, "I feel the same way."
Lucas walked over to the two, noticing something was wrong, "What's going on?"
"We are nominated for Prom Queen of Tree hill High," Brooke informed.
Lucas chuckled, "What's wrong with that?"
"No one is going to vote for us and we don't want to watch someone else dance with our man!" Haley snapped.
He threw up his hands, "well, I guess you better start campaigning. You guys are on there because Nathan and I put your names in."
Brooke's jaw hit the floor, "What did you just say?"
"We thought that it would be the boost that you two needed?" Noticing that what was just said wasn't going over well, he decided to sweeten it, "We want to spend that special moment with you two."
Haley rolled her eyes, "Great."
"Maybe, this will be fun," Brooke said.
They weren't prom queen material, but maybe Lucas was right, this would be a good boost to their ego.
"What is your plan to bring in the votes?" Haley asked.
Brooke shrugged, "I have no idea."
"I am going to have a bake sale and pass out flyers!" Haley announced.
"That sounds like a good idea."
Haley nodded. She pulled the flyers out of her bag. She had time to make them in class since she finished the assignment last week. "I am going to go pass them out!"
Brooke watched as her friend walked over to a group of girls to hand them her flyers. The girls laughed in her face and said something. Brooke walked over there but she was too late. Haley ran into the bathroom.
"Hales?" Brooke called as she entered the bathroom. She sighed as she saw Haley sitting on the floor in a stall. "You know that is disgusting, right?"
"I don't care." She mumbled.
Brooke pulled the door open and knelt beside her friend, "What happened?"
Wiping her cheek, "They laughed in my face and were horrible. They were like 'how did you end up with the hottest guy in Tree Hill?' Mean girls is what they are."
"This isn't going to be easy, but I know that you are excited about this deep down," Brooke whispered.
"I thought the whole thing was bogus, but then I got excited about it. If one of us gets prom queen, we would feel so much better about ourselves. Let's face it, we aren't going to win." She said defeated.
Brooke shook her head, "With that attitude, we will lose."
She helped her friend to her to her feet and gave her a hug. Haley walked over to the sink and washed her face.
"Maybe, tomorrow things will get better for the two of us," Haley said optimistic.
Brooke nodded, "We will campaign tomorrow."
They walked out of the bathroom to see Nathan and Lucas. They were both wearing shirts with their girlfriend's names on it.
"Sorry about that, babe," Nathan said as he kissed Haley on the forehead.
"I like the shirts, guys," Brooke said.
"We thought we could be walking advertisements," Lucas said with a laugh.
Brooke grinned. He was trying to be cute and help them out with the campaign. There was no doubt that he or Nathan was going to be prom king. There was just uncertainty about his queen.