Chapter 10

I own nothing

AN: So I'm a little mad I only got 2 reviews this past chapter…did I not make it fun enough? Anyway, my life is getting even more interesting as I try to once again juggle work and school along with family problems…Living in the past is never a good thing, I should probably stop, but things keep making me feel guilty and I can't quite move on. Tough stuff that I shouldn't be putting in here okay…

On with the story…

Previously…

"Brooke," Jake called out, chasing after her.

"Jake?" she asked, obviously crying.

"Yea it's me, come here," he said, pulling her into a much needed hug.

"How could I have been so stupid? I trusted him. First Peyton and Luke, and now him. I can't trust anyone anymore."

"Hey," he said, cupping her face with his hand, making her look at him, "you can trust me, you always can. You can come to me for anything. I'll always be there for you."

"Thanks Jake," she said, smiling.

"There's that smile I love," he said sweetly, causing her to smile more.

"I can't go back in there, he's there and, oh my god they're arresting Mr. Scott, this was supposed to be the best day ever," she said, bursting into tears again.

"Hey we're graduating, and we're moving on. You'll be away from this place, away from them, you can finally move on," he told her.

"Jake, I don't need moving on from them, I'm fine with them now. I never got over you," she told him.

"Jake, I never got over you," Brooke told him, again, which only made him feel worse.

"Brooke, it's been months, and things have changed. I mean, you were ready to up and move your life to New York with that guy," he told her, slightly avoiding the subject. "You loved him, which was weird cause you were with Luke for like 10 years and only told him you loved him before senior year," he rambled and off Brooke's sudden outburst of tears yet again, "Brooke, I'm sorry, still a sore subject."

"You had to bring him up. I just felt like I knew him, like I could trust him, but I guess he manipulates people for a living."

"Brooke," he deadpanned, "I guess what I'm trying to say, is that I've moved on."

"You what?" she asked shocked and a little angry with herself.

"I just realized that maybe we weren't meant to be. If you could be with Scott or Andy or whatever his name is, than I could be with someone too. I'm sorry, but like you've said so many times before, things have changed."

"I just, okay, I just shared one of my deepest secrets with you, after I just found out my boyfriend was and FBI agent, and I've been lied to for most of the past year. I just spent the last 10 minutes crying over that jackass, to then tell you I still liked you, to have you reject me. I'm a moron."

"Brooke, you're not a moron. You can come to me for anything, you're still my friend."

"Really? Cause we really haven't talked in months," she gritted out, getting obviously upset.

"Well whose fault is that?" he asked with equal anger.

"You think it's mine? I've tried talking to you, I've called you, I've left messages, who's the one who hadn't returned any of them?" she asked, voices now rising.

"Why the hell are you getting mad at me for doing what you told me," he yelled.

"What I told you? What did I tell you?"

"To move on, like you had. And that's what I'm doing, sorry if I'm not going to get sucked into Brooke land like everyone else does. I'm not going to follow you around like some love sick puppy."

"I never asked you too," she said right back.

"Really? Are you sure about that?" he asked her, and walked away. "You know what Brooke, I take everything back. Don't come to me for help, don't come to me for anything, I've moved on and so should you."

"Jake?" she asked, "wait Jake, no, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell. Please don't walk away," but her plea fell on deaf ears as Jake walked out of the school and out of her life, "I need you."

Senior Year…

"Look, I tried Hales, I just couldn't do it," Brooke told Haley on the phone.

"Brooke, did you really try?"

"Yea I did. Maybe she just caught me at a bad time. I mean, I just had a pretty bad fight with Jake and I was clearly upset."

"Wait, you had a fight with Jake? About what?"

"Just some stuff that happened. Something about him still wanting me and me being with Scott, who by the way, I'm going out with on Saturday," she gushed to Haley.

"Brooke, are you sure about Scott, I mean you really don't know much about him?" Haley asked Brooke.

"Have you seen the guy Haley?"

"Yea, um,I'm not going to comment on that right now," she said, looking next to her, seeing her boyfriend.

"He's there isn't he?"

"If when yousay he, you mean Nathan, then yes, he's here," she said.

'What about me?' he mouthed to her.

'Nothing' she said right back, and he went back to his Sports Illustrated.

"Brooke, if Jake's still interested, wouldn't that be the right way to go, I mean you still like him," she explained.

"No I don't," she said, extremely unconvincing. "I've moved on?"

"I don't think it's supposed to be a question Brooke."

"Look, I'll talk to you tomorrow at school, actually scratch that, I'm taking a much needed personal day, and staying home and vegging."

"You mean, you're staying home and avoiding say someone with the name Jake and someone else with a name that rhymes with Leyton."

"Very funny, but no I'm not," she said, "Goodnight."

"Goodnight Brooke," Haley said, hanging up the phone.

Next Day at School…

"Hey," someone came up from behind her.

"What, you're actually talking to me now?" Haley asked him.

"Look, I'm sorry about that, but you were my best friend Haley, still are, and if you knew something, you should've told me."

"Really, and at what time would that have been good. When you were screwing Peyton? Or when you were lying to everyone?"

"Hales, I'm sorry if I ruined things, but I'm trying to fix them."

"If you want to fix things Luke, start with Brooke, not me," she said, walking away.

"I knew you were going to say that," he whispered to himself, as he tried to catch up to her.

"Where is she anyway?"

"For your information, she's taking the day off. Like you're supposed to do when you're in high school and your life is falling apart," she said, looking down the hall, to see the brunette walking in the school, "or at least I thought she was."

"Brooke, hey, I thought you weren't coming in today?" Haley asked her, walking up to her.

"I wasn't, but I figured if I didn't come, it would show a kind of weakness that I didn't want to become the topic of conversation again, if you know what I mean," she told her, more chipper than she's been before.

"Brooke, you do know, that no one knows what happened yesterday?"

"I know," she said, nonchalantly.

"Hey, Brooke, I'll walk you to class?" Came a voice from across the hall.

"Sure Scott, I'll talk to you later Hales," she said, grabbing his hand, and walking down the hallway.

"Okay so who was he?" Luke asked her.

"Her new boyfriend," she said, watching them walk down that hall.

"Hey," came a voice behind Jake.

"Peyton," he said in an even tone.

"What's up?" she asked, trying to play it cool.

"You're actually trying this, trying to be my friend. Sorry Peyton but it's not going to work," he said clearly annoyed.

"Listen here buster, you did you same thing to me I did to you. Yea, sure, I did it for months longer than you, but you still did it, and you can think that that would make it hurt less?"

"Did you just call me buster?" he asked her.

"I don't know, why?"

"Nothing, just funny," he said, with a smile. She smiled back.

"Look Jake, I'm sorry about everything. I know it was wrong just deciding to date Luke that fast."

"Then why did you do it? Why didn't you just wait until everything was sorted out?"

"And when was that going to be? I couldn't wait forever."

"You could've, at least a week or two."

"I wasn't thinking, it just happened, and before I knew it, I couldn't stop it. I didn't want to ruin anything. We were so close, and senior year, Brooke had this big road trip planned. We were going to go to California, and then eventually she was going to fly to New York and start school, I didn't want to ruin that for her. She was se excited about that. You, me, Brooke, Luke. It was going to be the best, and when everything started, it just became so much that I couldn't stop it," she explained.

"I remember that road trip, she was planning it for months," he remembered.

"Yea, disappointing her, is like disappointing a little kid on Christmas," she joked.

"True," he smiled.

"When did you know?" she asked unexpectedly

"Know what?" he asked confused.

"That you loved her?"

And that shall be the end of this chapter…

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