Chapter 11

See previous chapters for a disclaimer

AN: So I'm happy with the turnout for this chapter…it's only been a day, but it's cool. Well I hope you've enjoyed the story…I try to keep you entertained…it's not over yet…and I don't know when that will be, but anyway…

Here it is…

Graduation…

Brooke had to sit down. The one guy she could count on just walked out of her life. This wasn't good. Both Haley and Peyton came running into the hall.

"Brooke, are you okay?" Haley asked, running to her and giving her a friendly hug.

"Yea, I just can't believe I trusted him," she said in tears.

"Brooke, it'll be okay, you always get through these things."

"Thanks Hales."

"I'm sorry Brooke. For everything, for Luke, for lying, for you to have to go through that again. You seemed like you really loved him," Peyton said, ending her silence.

"Thanks Peyton," she said quietly.

"Were did Jake go?" she asked.

"He, uh, he left," she said, trying not to cry more, failing miserably.

"Brooke, what happened?" Haley asked genuinely.

"I'm an idiot, and the guy for me was standing in front of me the whole time, and I drove him away. I don't think he's coming back."

"Who Jake? Or the guy for you?" Peyton asked.

"Both," she said. Peyton finally realized that Brooke felt the some way about Jake that he did about her.

"Brooke, if there is one thing that I didn't like about you, it was that you were god damn persistent. Don't let him get away. He feels the same way."

"How do you know? Jake hates me. I can't make up my damn mind," she rambled on.

"Brooke," Peyton cut in, "do you love him?"

"I-," she tried, "Yea, I do."

"Then go get him."

"Oh god, I have to go find him, convince him, Peyton, you're a genius."

"I know," she joked, "GO!"

"Thank you, I'll see you later." And with that, she was out the door and running to her car.

Senior Year…

"So you and Peyton seem close again," Brooke observed.

"Yea Brooke, is that too hard for you to comprehend?" he asked her in a sarcastic tone.

"No," she said, "I just didn't think you'd forgive her so fast."

"I didn't forgive her, Brooke. Peyton and I have always been good friends, and I wasn't letting a mistake get in the way."

"Mistake? That's what it was to you?" she asked getting offended.

"Yea, Brooke, it was a mistake, and it shouldn't have happened."

"Then why are they still together, if it was such a mistake, why are the so 'in love'?" she asked, getting pissed at them all over again.

"I wasn't talking about them Brooke, I was talking about us," and with that he was gone, leaving Brooke there in shock.

"Hey Brooke," Haley said coming to stand next to her, "Wow, you look like you just got smacked," she joked.

"What is wrong with me? Am I a horrible person?" she asked in a daze.

"What are you talking about Brooke? No you're not," she assured her.

"Then why does he hate me? Why did he say that what happened was a mistake?" she asked, starting to cry.

"Maybe cause you've moved on so fast," she told her, "and maybe because he hasn't, and it kills him to see you with someone that isn't him."

"Then why doesn't he tell me these things?"

"Because you're always with Scott. He never has a chance," she told her, hugging her and walking to class.

"Hey Brooke," Scott said, coming up to kiss her.

"Hey," she returned fairly distracted.

"So my house this weekend?" he asked her.

"Uh, no, I can't this week. Sorry, I have something else to do," she told him, continuing to stare down the hall.

"What, maybe we could do it together," he suggested.

"No Scott, not this week, I'm sorry I'm busy, I can't see you," she told him, bursting into tears and running to the girl's bathroom.

She stared at herself for what seemed like an hour in the mirror. 'What the hell is wrong with me? If I want to be with Jake, be with Jake. I just can't get hurt again, and I pretty much ruined those chances. Scott will just have to do,' she thought to herself. 'I'll pretend he's Jake,' she told herself, with a weary smile on her face, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Have you told her yet?" she asked him.

"I haven't really had the chance. That jackass is hanging all over her, and us for that matter. What is up with him?"

"I don't know, he's kinda creeping me out," she replied. "What's the real reason Jake?"

"She moved on so damn fast, and I can't even look at another girl without seeing her face. I'm such and idiot, I think I even told her it was a mistake," he said, "I have to talk to her."

"Who?"

"No one Scott, what's up?"

"Not much, Brooke just totally flaked on me for Saturday," he told them. Jake and Peyton stole a glance. Jake's eyes lit up when he said that, 'I finally have my chance.' "So are you guys doing anything this weekend?"

"Me and Luke are hanging out, but if you want to join, why not?"

"Cool, thanks, I should probably get to know Luke and Nathan a little more," Scott, stated obviously.

"Why?"

"Just you know, being friends with all of you," he covered up.

"Well you're gonna have to get to know them separately. Ever since the playoff loss, Nathan hasn't really been talking to Luke."

"Right. Why was that again?" he asked.

"Cause they lost," she said, stating the obvious.

"Are you sure that's all it was?"

"I'm almost positive," she said, getting creeped out yet again, "well, we have to get going," she said, grabbing Jake's arm and pulling him along with her.

Jake's house…Graduation

Brooke was frantically knocking on his door. "Jake, I need to talk to you, please open up. JAKE," she screamed.

"Brooke?"

"Oh, hi Mrs. Jagielski, is Jake here?" Brooke asked.

"I'm sorry Brooke, he's leaving right after graduation."

"What, where? Well I know where, but, his flight, what's the flight number?" Brooke asked in a panic.

"Brooke he's driving down, didn't you know? He packed his car and said his goodbye's. I'm sorry Brooke, he's gone," she said.

"He didn't say goodbye to me," she cried.

So that's it…I tried to make it longer, but it didn't work.

The story is basically them, and their bad timing. I can't say anymore, cause then I give it away, and that's bad.

Anyway, I'm excited cause my cousin just got engaged to his girlfriend of almost 7 years, and I'm really happy for him.

Anyway, REVIEW!

Kara