Chapter 6

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Graduation

Sure to Scott this was Brooke's big day. But in her mind it was both of theirs. Graduating from High school and going on to live in New York City. Too bad Brooke would soon know the truth, and Scott was slightly hesitant with the whole thing. Sure him and his partner were going to bust the bad guy soon, just he has to sit there like he's actually a student, and soon Brooke would know the whole truth. Seeing as how he's there, and will not actually get a diploma, they won't even let him cross the stage. He looked at her, sitting up there, a beaming smile on her face. All he could do was look away in despair. Until someone caught his eye. 'Wait, what is he doing here?' he thought to himself.

Brooke was looking at him quizzically, 'what is he doing?' she thought. 'Where is he going?' as he got up from his seat and started walking towards the man in a suit. So she got up herself, alarming all of the people that had been close to her.

'What is she doing?' Peyton, Jake, Luke, Nate, and Haley thought, all getting up to follow her.

As she got closer and closer to Scott, her friends got closer and closer to her.

"Brooke what are you doing, Graduation's going to start, we must sit down," Peyton said.

"Get away from me Peyton," she said.

"Brooke," she said, reaching for Brooke's arm.

"NO, Peyton, stay away from me," she said, demanding, ripping her arm out of her grasp, "We're not friend's anymore Peyton, not even close," she said, looking at her in disgust, as she kept walking towards her boyfriend.

"Scott, what's going on?" she asked, as more suited people stared showing up.

"Scott?" the one asked.

'Scott' looked away in shock, and Brooke looked at him, looking for an answer.

"Dan Scott, you're under arrest for tax evasion and fraud."

"Excuse me?" "What?" "O holy shit!" was asked.

Thanksgiving Dinner-Luke's house

"So Brooke how is it?" Karen asked.

"How's what?"

"Living on your own, I know it must be tough, not having a lot of money and all."

"Oh it's fine," was all she said. Seeing as how she was distracted by the person sitting across from her.

"Hey, are you okay?" Luke whispered, leaning over to ask her.

"Yea, I was just thinking about Nate and Haley, being stuck over there," she said, covering herself, sneaking a glance over at Jake.

Flashback

"Okay, you got me, what did you want to talk about?" Brooke asked, getting into his car.

"Please tell me you didn't mean it," he told her.

"Mean what?" she asked.

"That it didn't mean anything."

"You should probably start driving, we have to get to school," she said, completely avoiding the subject.

"No Brooke, tell you felt something. You had too," he said.

"Jake, I'm not allowed to feel anything. I'm with Luke, that's it. I can't dwell on this Jake. I just can't."

"Brooke, when I kissed you, I felt this, I don't know what it was, but it felt like I was supposed to be kissing you. Like I've always been supposed to be kissing you. You had to have felt something."

"Jake," she whispered, tears coming to her eyes.

"No, Brooke, no," he said, grabbing her face and just kissing her. She didn't stop him she just kissed right back. Tongues caressing tongues, Jake leaned over more in the seat grabbing her, and pulling her over to straddle him. Without breaking the kiss, he maneuvered so it was more comfortable. He moved to start kissing her neck.

"Jake," she moaned. Grabbing his face, to kiss him again.

"Brooke," he sighed. Until there was a sudden knock on the window.

"What was that?" Brooke asked, scared out of her mind that they had just got caught. Looking over to the window, just to the right of her, she saw Haley. She opened the door.

"Haley, hey, what are you doing here?" Brooke asked, looking so guilty she couldn't even tried to hide it.

"I was wondering if you wanted to walk to school together, but it looks like you already had one," she said.

"Haley, you can't tell anyone, okay. I don't know what happened, it just kind of happened. Please don't tell Luke or Peyton. Please, I will love you forever."

"Brooke, I won't tell anyone, but Luke is my best friend, how could you do this? You know what, I don't want to know, but you both need to just stop it."

"I will, I totally will," Brooke said. Then seeing as how Jake wasn't saying anything, hit him in the chest.

"Yea, me too, won't happen again."

"Good, now Jake, you're giving me a ride to school. Brooke, back seat."

End Flashback

Little did Brooke know, that during her little reminiscing, did Nate and Haley arrive.

"Man, am I glad to be here," Nate said.

"Why? What happened over there?" Luke asked the both of them.

"Dan thinks that someone's out to get him. He thinks he's being watched," Haley said sarcastically.

"I thought this was the one time of year he was actually nice?" Peyton asked.

"Well I guess he's skipping over that this year, and going right to finding out what's going on," Nate explained, laughing.

"Paranoid jackass," the kids heard Karen say.

"You got that right mom," Luke said, laughing with everyone else.

Haley came to sit next to Brooke.

"Hey Brooke, you okay?" she asked.

"Yea, just can't get a certain Basketball player off my mind," she said.

"You better be talking about me," came a voice behind her.

Looking like she was just caught, froze.

"Of course, Luke, when do we ever stop," covered Haley, looking at a guilty Brooke.

"If you can excuse me, I have to use the lady's room," Brooke said getting up from her seat, pecking her boyfriend on the lips. While on her way to the bathroom, both her and Jake snuck a glance at each other. Taking it as a signal, Jake got up and followed her.

"Jake, what are you doing?" she asked, not wanting to be caught by anyone.

"I thought you gave me a signal to follow you, so we could talk."

"Not here Jake, we can't do it here."

"Then where, our last talk didn't really get us anywhere, except for caught by Haley."

"I know, and that's who I'm trying to avoid right now. So go back in there, say that the bathroom was being used. You can take me home later, and we can talk there," she said, walking into the bathroom and closing the door.

"Bathroom was occupied," he said, walking back in the room and sitting down next to Peyton. He smiled at everyone, until he came upon Haley, who was looking at him with an accusing stare. He couldn't help but look guilty, but smiled away.

Later on that night…

"Hey, Peyton's going to help me clean up," Luke told Brooke.

"Oh, do you want me to help too?" she asked.

"No it's okay, you can go home," he said, knowing full well that Peyton's not really going to help him clean up.

"But Peyton's my ride," she told him.

"Jake can take you home," Peyton offered. Brooke looked at Jake, and then at Haley, who was watching the whole exchange.

"Sure, thanks Jake," she said, going to grab her coat.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Haley whispered to her, grabbing her arm.

"I'm going home Haley, nothing's going to happen. I promise," she whispered right back, ripping her arm away from Haley's grasp.

"I hope so, cause if I find out that something did happen, I'll tell Luke in a heartbeat," she threatened.

"Fair enough," she whispered, "Jake are you ready?" she asked, returning to her normal voice.

"Yea, let's go," he said. He kissed Peyton goodbye, and Brooke did the same to Luke.

Just when Lukeand Peyton finshed cleaning up...

"Hey," he said to Peyton, coming up from behind to put his arms around her waist.

"Hey," she smiled, turning around in his arms, leaning up to kiss him.

"Good thing, we decided to pick this back up," he said, kissing her again, "I missed you."

"I missed you, too," Peyton said, leaning in to deepen it, when the door flew open.

"Haley forgot her scarf," Nate said, grabbing it, looking up to see Lucas and Peyton in a passionate embrace. "What the HELL is going on?"

There you go, my friendly readers. Now I know I promised Naley action, but it'll happen soon, I promise. Also, most of the stuff from the end of last season happened. Just not the fire, Andy in general, Keith leaving, and Deb going to rehab. Luke did find the book of Dan's misleading information, and didn't reveal that he did to Dan. Dan has no clue that Luke is out to get him, and Nate doesn't really care, seeing as how he hates his father…there's that…

Next...

Brooke and Jake, talk yet again.
Haley and Nate are tested with trying to keep their secrets
Brooke finds out the truth about Scott, at graduation, and he becomes a major player in the past.

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