Chapter 7
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AN: Thanks for all you reviews, and votes, I'm keeping voting open for one more chapter, and after that, if it's still a 3 way tie, I'll have voting for those 3…
Previously on Unknown…
"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?"
Both Luke and Peyton jumped like eight feet apart.
"Nate, it's not what it looks like," Peyton tried defending herself.
"Really Peyton? Cause it looks like you were shoving your tongue down someone's throat, that isn't your boyfriends," he said, in a sneering tone.
"Nate, please you can't tell anyone. They can't find out. If they do, our lives our ruined. Not only ours, but yours and Haley's too. Don't be the one to cause that," Luke told him.
"Oh, don't you even try to make me look, or even sound like the bad guy, Luke. Look at you, pretending to love Brooke, she thought this was happening 2 months ago. She went to you Peyton, to ask you if it was, did you lie to her?" he asked her, and off Peyton's guilty expression, he assumed he was right, "you've been lying to your friend, your BEST friend for the last 2 months? How can you live with yourself?"
"It hasn't been 2 months. The night Brooke asked me about that, and caused out big fight that lasted 12 hours, I ended things with Luke, I ended it. I didn't want to ruin her life."
"Wait, you broke it off 2 months ago?" he asked her, she nodded. "Just tell me one thing. How long has this been going on?"
"Since the middle of summer," Luke whispered.
"I didn't hear you," Nate said, extremely pissed off.
"Since the middle of July," he said more clearly.
"You have been doing this for 4 months? You've been lying and cheating for 4 months. How do you live with yourselves? Fuck this, do what you want, hurt who ever you want, just make sure you know who you're really hurting," he said, turning and walking away.
"Who are we hurting Nate? You? Haley? Brooke and Jake?" Luke asked, yelling after him.
Nate turned around and simply yelled, "YOURSLEVES!" And then continued walking towards his apartment. Leaving Peyton and Luke there to think about what they've done.
Meanwhile…
All Jake could do was stare out the windshield. He had this whole speech planned out. He was going to tell her that he liked her, no more than liked her, and how he knew that she didn't really love Luke. He was going to tell her, that he was breaking up with Peyton, cause things aren't the same anymore, and she's not the same Peyton. He was going to tell her that he was breaking up with Peyton for her, for Brooke Davis.
"So Jake, you wanted to talk?" Brooke asked Jake, breaking him out of his thoughts, and breaking the silence in the car.
"What? Oh, yea, just about stuff."
"What kind of stuff Jake?" she asked.
"Us."
"Jake, I thought we talked about this, there is no us, there can't be," she told him.
"Brooke, you don't love him, I know you don't. I see how you smile at him, it's not a real smile, and you purse your lips together and force it. With me, you actually smile, your eyes light up, you look happy," he told her.
"Jake, that's really sweet, but we can't, you know what will happen, we can't," she cried to him, knowing that in her heart she really wants this.
"Brooke, just for one night, one night, you stop lying to yourself, and you let someone actually love you?" he asked her.
"You love me?" she asked, tears very visible in her eyes.
"I think I could Brooke," he told her.
"How much longer?"
"My house is just right there, but I thought we were going to yours?"
"Detour. Stop at your house," she told him.
"Okay," and shortly they pulled up to his house. "What do you want to do here?" he asked her.
"Just come on," she told him.
And they got out of the car.
"Come on Jake, stop being such a slow poke," she said, grabbing his hand and pulling him towards his house.
"Brooke?" he asked when they got upstairs to his room, "what are we doing?"
"You said, for one night, to just let someone love me," she told him, "and I want that person to be you."
"Brooke," he said.
"No. Jake, just love me," she told him, stepping closer to him.
"Brooke, if I do this, I don't want it to just last for one night," he whispered to her.
"Jake, lets just take it one night at a time," she whispered back, "Can you do that?" she asked him, kissing him lightly on the mouth.
"I can do that," he smiled back, grabbing her by the waist, kissing her deeper.
He backed her up unzipping the dress that she was wearing. Letting it fall to the floor. Pulling her more to him, he kissed her, letting every feeling he had seep into that kiss. She lifted his shirt, pulling it off, over his head, leaning back in to kiss him, opening her mouth and letting her tongue meet his. Her hands went to his pants, undoing the button and pulling down the zipper, letting them fall to the ground. Leaving them both in their underwear, he backed her up to his bed, and let both of them fall on to it.
Jake, repositioning himself, started kissing her neck and down to her shoulder, moving the bra strap down her arms, kissing its path. Brooke took the liberty and removed her bra, and grabbed his face, pulling him back up to her face, kissing him again. Soon all barriers of clothing were removed.
The Next morning…
"What are you doing?" Nathan asked Haley.
"I'm trying to call Brooke, and she isn't answering her phone," Haley said, determined on talking to Brooke.
"Why do you need to talk to Brooke?" he asked her, slightly amused at her.
"It's nothing, I just need to know what happened last night."
"What happened last night? Jake took her home, she fell asleep, she's probably still sleeping," he told her.
"I don't know if that's all they did," she told him.
"What?"
"Oh shit, I wasn't supposed to tell you, I wasn't supposed to tell anyone."
"What? Haley, we're not supposed to keep secrets from each other," he told her.
"I know, but I promised them that I wouldn't tell anyone, cause it would hurt your brother, and hurt everyone else. If I told you, you'd tell him, and everything would be ruined. And I didn't want to ruin everything, cause Brooke would hate me, and then Jake would hate me and so would Luke, and he's my best friend, and your brother, and Peyton. There's just too many feeling's involved."
"Haley, you can tell me, I won't tell them, I promise, cause I have something I have to tell you, involving them too."
"What, about who?" she asked.
"Luke and Peyton."
"Brooke is slowly falling for Jake, who I'm pretty sure, already likes her. And not to mention I found them in a pretty compromising position a while ago. There I told you, what about Luke and Peyton?" she asked.
"I found them shoving their tongues down each others throats last night, after we left, and I went to go get your scarf that you left. Not only were they doing that, but they've been doing this 'thing' for like 4 months."
"Wait, so Brooke was right?" she asked.
"Yea, she was. And the worst thing about this, is that I think she deserves to know the truth."
"I know, but they had a valid point. Everyone's going to get hurt here. All of us, not just them."
"What do we do?" she asked.
"Pretend like we don't know anything, that's all we can do," he told her, kissing her. And soon, their little make out session, turned into something way more.
RING RING
"Hello," answered a groggy voice.
"Peyton?" a girl asked.
"Yea?"
"Why are you answering my boyfriends cell phone?" asked an angry female.
"Brooke?" she asked sheepishly.
And that's it for now…it's almost midnight, and I really want to pass out now…This cold is pissing me off, and I have to go to work tomorrow, and it's going to suck. Was that enough drama for everyone? How was the Bake? Leyton? Naley? Let me know.
Here are a few tidbits that will not give away the ending…
Peyton and Luke…will not end up together
Nathan and Haley…will stay together forever
Brooke and Jake…we'll see
Anyway…the results so far for my voting…
'The Battle for Everything,' 'Twist's & Turn's,' and 'Who's to say' all have 2 votes each
AND
'We belong together,' and, 'When the past meets the present' have 1, each…
Now because I don't think I'm going to get many more reviews from other people. Each of you can vote once more. Choose wisely.
Review…
Kara!