Hey Peoples, I've updated and before a week too, I'm proud, no I'm kidding. Anyways today I decided I'm gonna give personal thanks, cause I feel like it. Thanks a lot to everyone.

Kayla- I'm glad you liked it. Hope you like the Brathaness in this chapter too. There's some Laley in it too. There is a little bit of Jeyton, but I have a plan for them.
KelaBelle
- All I gotta say is you might hate me for this chapter, sorry, but it'll work itself out soon.
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brathan23- I know I love hot Brathaness too, who doesn't. But you might hate me too for this chapter, but have no worries they'll work themselves out. Laley's awesome too and Taylor will have a part with them. So on Jeyton will be a little slower than the rest of the couples, but they'll happen.
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Chapter 3- "Do We Need This?"

She only exists when she's on a string
He's only alive inside a machine
We want everything to change
Cause we are afraid of losing

Tell me do you really need this
Tell me do you really care
Tell me do you really need this
Tell me do you really care
I don't think you really need this
I don't think you really care
I don't think you really need this
I don't think you really care


Brooke woke up with the biggest smile ever. Yesterday turned out to be perfect Nathan turned out be perfect. After Brooke's confession of not wanting to stop what they were doing, things just worked them selves out. She and Nathan ended up staying in all day. They just talked, laughed, but mostly kissed. It was her favorite thing now, kissing Nathan. Sure Brooke felt guilty but Lucas was the last thing on her mind. She just wanted to enjoy her day.

She wasn't sure what they were doing, if it was only sex, a relationship, or maybe even…love. She just really wanted to be with Nathan.

Brooke turned around on her bed and her smile got bigger—if that was even possible—when she saw Nathan sleeping next to her, looking so adorable. She started at him and a grin appeared on her lips when an idea formed in her mind. She carefully reached over to her bedside table and pulled out a sharpie from the drawer. She scooted closer to Nathan and took the cap of the sharpie off and slowly aimed it to his face with a smirk on her face.

"What are you doing?"

Brooke jumped and dropped the sharpie on the bed. He was supposed to be sleeping. She quickly gained her composure and answered him. "Nothing" she said innocently as Nathan opened his eyes and looked at her.

"Really because it smelled like a sharpie was close by. So either you were trying to get me high or draw on me, but I'm guessing you were leaning towards the drawing" he spoke turning his body towards her.

"What sharpie, I don't own sharpies" she answered acting as if she was shocked by his accusation.

"Oh I sorry I must've been mistaken" he said suddenly grabbing her and pulling her towards him.

"Nathan" Brooke giggled being taken by surprise. He ignored her as he pulled her into a kiss. He got on top of her as they continued kissing. His hands slid around her and hers wrapped around his neck. They were wrapped in Brooke's sheet from the previous night so Nathan started tugging on it not liking the piece of cloth separating them.

"Wait, wait" Brooke said into their passionate kiss.

He didn't listen to her as he just continued kissing her. "Don't kill the moment" he said as he shut her up.

"I have something under me" she said breathlessly as she finally pulled away. She took one of her hands away from his neck and pulled out none other then the sharpie from under her back.

Nathan smirked "I wonder where that came from."

"I don't know what you're talking about" she said as she threw the sharpie to the floor. She smiled at him and leaned into him for a kiss.

"Shit" Brooke said as their lips barely touched.

"What?" Nathan asked confused.

"We have to be at school like right now" she answered.

"Oh yeah I forgot we had that" he said dumbfounded as she stared to get up. "Can't we just skip?" he asked knowing things would be so much more different once they got to school, he would be different.

"As much as I'd love to, I'm practically failing all my classes so I kinda have to go, wouldn't wanna be kicked out of the cheerleading squad" she said picking out clothes from her closet.

"Oh, okay" he said sadly as he too got off the bed picking up his clothes from the floor.

Brooke picked out a short—but long enough to be school appropriate—jean skirt and a purple camisole with a gray button down sweater to put on top. She grabbed some purple wedges to match.

She turned away from her closet with her clothes in hand and walked towards to her bathroom. "Owwwwwwwcch" Brooke yelped as she stubbed her toe against her unused reading desk. "Shit, shit, shit, fuck, bastard, shit, crap!"

Nathan snorted and sniggered while sitting on the bed now fully dressed "Nice mouth you got there."

"Oh shut up" Brooke snapped as she dropped her clothes on the floor, bringing herself down with them and cradled her poor foot in her hand.

"Want me to kiss it better" he laughed.

"It's not funny" she wined, but Nathan just laughed even more. "You know what Nathan Scott one day you're gonna be in so much pain and I'm just gonna laugh at your sorry ass" she huffed.

"Sorry" he said as he stopped laughing. "I'm gonna go now before actually you make that possible" he said as she playfully glared at her. He walked over to her on the floor and kissed her on the lip "see you at school." He was about to get up but then had a better idea. He leaned down and placed a soft kiss on her injured toe "see now it's all better" he said as he left her room.

She quickly got up as the pain on her toe stared to disappear and gathered her fallen clothes from the floor wanting to get to school as soon as possible to see Nathan. But then she remembered there was no point because it wasn't like she could do anything with him. After all she was supposed to pretend nothing happened and go on with her life lying to her best friends.


Peyton sat at the front of the room in her second period class, American History. She never learned anything in this class and the annoying Ms. Grady was no help either. This was the class she almost always blew off, who wanted to learn about history when you could make some of your own history, not that she really had anyone to make history with. Usually she spent her second period passing notes Brooke about either how much they hated Ms. Grady or some good old gossip, not that they really cared. But of course just like the previous day Brooke was doing the disappearing act again. God where could she be Peyton thought. She'd been constantly calling and texting Brooke but got no answer in return.

It was Monday morning and in Peyton's opinion the worst day of the week. Peyton was just trying not to let alone fall asleep then actually think about paying attention, but really who wanted to learn about this Stamp Act on Monday mornings. The only thing that was really keeping her awake was the evil glare Ms. Grady was giving her for not paying attention.

She stared at her teacher for awhile to pretend she was listening. She never noticed how petite her teacher was it was like all the bones of the twenty nine year old was sticking out everywhere. She was actually really gorgeous too, but people tended to be too distracted by her atrocious clothes—Brooke's favorite thing to make fun of—to ever notice.

"So who can tell me what revenue is?" she asked. Peyton eyes drifted away from her teacher to a poster on the wall that read 'A hero is an ordinary person doing EXTRA-ordinary things' to even realize that Ms. Grady was looking directly at her. "Ms. Sawyer, what do you think?"

"Huh" Peyton said sitting up straighter and making eye contact with her teacher, who looked very annoyed. "Right revenue… um…good question… it means…" Peyton was interrupted—thank god—by their classroom door swinging open.

Brooke walked into the classroom and immediately all eyes landed on her. She looked tried and not her usual perfect self, but nonetheless still gorgeous. "Ah Ms. Davis how nice of you to make an appearance today" said an irritated Ms. Grady. "So what is it this time?"

"I'm so sorry, but I overslept and then my car disappeared so I had to walk" Brooke explained in a rush. Peyton felt bad, oops.

"Well then I'm sure you can write me an essay all about it this afternoon in detention" Ms. Grady said turning back to the students "So where were we, ah yes Ms. Sawyer."

Peyton brought her attention back from the shocked and pissed Brooke to Ms. Grady. "Um…revenue means…"

"Detention" Brooke said finally opening her mouth. Thank you Brooke Peyton thought as she saved her once again. "But I have cheer practice and the first game of the season is this Friday" Brooke argued.

"I'm sure you do, but I doubt that the world will die if Brooke Davis doesn't show up to cheerleading practice. Now take a seat before you get yourself a week's worth of detention" Ms. Grady said agitatedly. "And for god's sake Mr. Andrews will you help out Ms. Sawyer and tell us what revenue means."

"Bitch" Brooke muttered as she angrily took her seat behind Peyton. Luckily Ms. Grady was too busy questioning Peter Andrews about revenue to hear.

Once she sat down Peyton immediately turned to her not even caring if Ms. Grady noticed. "Where were you yesterday" she whispered. "I called you like crazy, but you didn't answer. I'm the one that took your car" Peyton finished.

"That was you" Brooke asked, shocked.

"Sorry" Peyton squirmed "but I needed to get home on Saturday and you never got back to me so I sort of forgot to give it back."

"Sorry this weekend was so weird" Brooke smiled.

"Same here" Peyton said but unlike in Brooke's cheery tone she said it in more of a sad tone.

Brooke instantly caught Peyton's tone. "Peyt what happened?" she asked concernedly.

Before Peyton could answer Ms. Grady appeared in front of Peyton's desk "Ms. Sawyer, would you like to join Ms. Davis in detention" she asked. Both girls froze everyone knew not to mess with Ms. Grady on Mondays but here they were doing it twice. Peyton shook her head as she turned back around to the front of the class. "Then I suggest you stop talking and pay attention."

She walked back to her desk while Brooke leaned into Peyton's ear "I think it's that time of the month" she whispered very quietly. Peyton giggled which caused Ms. Grady to look up from desk and give Peyton and Brooke a glare. "Yup that's it" Brooke smiled once she noticed the glare.

Peyton grinned as she pulled out her notebook and pretended to write something down when truthfully she was doodling hilarious pictures of Ms. Grady and passing it to Brooke who would stifle back a laugh every time. When the bell finally rang Peyton and Brooke were practically the first ones out.

"So would you mind leading the squad while I have detention with the devil, it'll only be for the first half" Brooke pleaded as they made their way to their locker, which fortunately were located next to each other. Or maybe it had something to do over the fact that Brooke made out with the guy who used to have Peyton's locker, it was one or the other.

"Yeah no problem I mean I practically do it all the time. Seriously Brooke Ms. Grady hates you" Peyton laughed.

"Who doesn't" Brooke said as she opened her locker and stuffed her American History textbook inside. "You know I wouldn't mind getting my car back" Brooke said.

"Right" Peyton said as she pulled out the keys from her bag and tossed it to Brooke. "Just give me a ride and were good."

"Peyton told you about her plan to use up all your gas for not calling her back" said Lucas who joined the conversation. He looked happier then usual.

"What?" Brooke laughed.

"Oh Peyton stole your car cause she's jealous you spent all your time with the guy she walked in on, you two were too preoccupied to notice" Lucas said jokingly only to get shoved by Peyton.

"No, I was just really tired and busy" Brooke said a little too quickly "wait you walked in on us" she asked. Oh my god does she know?

"Don't worry Brooke I didn't see you two do the nasty, just heard your erratic screaming as I took your keys" Peyton said noticing Brooke's worried expression.

"Good" Brooke said calming herself down.

"I gonna go now before this conversation turns even more disgusting" Luke said when he a familiar caramel headed girl caught his eyes. He walked away immediately "see you guys in class" he said as he approached Haley and kissed her.

"Okay, when did that happen?" Brooke asked staring at the couple.

"While you were locked away at home Lucas fell in love and had a meltdown" Peyton giggled.

"What and I missed it" Brooke said.

"Don't worry they'll be plenty of meltdowns for you to help with" Peyton said sensing that Brooke was upset.

"Okay" Brooke said returning her gaze back to Peyton. "So P. Sawyer did I miss you and Jake hooking up too" Brooke asked.

Peyton's face fell "yeah all five minutes of it" she said as she closed her locker a little too hard.

"What happened?" Brooke asked worriedly.

"Nothing much he kissed me, said it was a mistake, and left" Peyton said as she and Brooke made there way to their third period class.

"I'm gonna kick Jagelski's ass" Brooke said as she pulled Peyton into a hug.

Peyton laughed, Brooke always made her feel better. "Yeah I can definitely see that" she said.

"Fine I'll get Lucas to do it" she said.

"Or that dark haired mystery man from Saturday night" Peyton laughed.

"Yeah let's not talk about that ever again" Brooke said.

"Bad night" Peyton asked.

"Yeah you could say that" Brooke lied. And the lying begins.

They went the opposite way as Peyton went to her Algebra II class and Brooke her biology class. Peyton entered her classroom right as the bell rang. Her eyes instantly landed on a certain boy who was looking back at her, crap. He smiled. She acted like she didn't see anything, but she knew one thing this was gonna be one hell of a period with Jake Jagelski staring at her like that.


Haley entered the patio with a lunch tray at hand. She looked around, usually she sat by the big oak tree near the front and read a book not really touching her food, but today Lucas invited her to sit with him. She smiled at the thought of Lucas, they guy who had been crowding her mind for days. She even didn't pay attention in class for the first time in her life.

Once she spotted Lucas and a bunch of his friends she walked over to them. She felt like she was on a runway because all eyes were on her. It seemed like everyone was surprised that Haley James, the nerd was walking over to sit with half the cheerleaders.

"Hi" Lucas said as he scooted over and made room for her right in the middle of him and some cheerleader that looked mad that she wasn't next to Lucas anymore.

"Hi" she said. The cheerleader glared at her as Haley sat down and got a kiss from Lucas. That must have really surprised everyone, who would have thought that the other Scott would go for the nerd. Haley was happy surprising everyone; she was tried of being the nerd.

Everyone around the patio went back to their lives except the people she was sitting with they all stared at her. It was kind of uncomfortable, but Brooke broke the silence. "Hey tutor girl."

"Tutor girl?" Haley asked.

"Yeah, it's a nickname since you're a tutor and a girl" Brooke smiled.

"Oh" Haley said.

"Brooke's crazy" Lucas whispered in her ear.

"I heard that" Brooke said as she threw a pretzel at him. Lucas just caught it and ate it.

Haley smiled. She was starting to get more comfortable and some people even stopped staring at her.

"I'm Skills" said a guy that sat beside Brooke.

"Hi, Skills" she said.

"So can I ask you a question" he asked. This caused Lucas to look at him and give him his full attention.

"Sure" she said.

"What do you see in Lucas, I mean I'm the better player?" He said.

"Yeah" added a guy she learned to be Fergie.

"Of course you are" Luke laughed.

Haley sort of blushed "I don't know, it can't be his basketball skills because I can beat him at that or his good looks because he doesn't have any or his kissing because he sucks at that too" she beamed turning to Luke.

Everyone laughed. "Hey" Lucas pouted "you're supposed to be on my side."

"What I was just telling them the truth" Haley giggled.

"Then date Skills cause he's just so much better" he said.

"I'm kidding, you're the best looking, best kissing player that I know" she said. Lucas smiled and leaned in for a kiss. They kissed for a while, neither caring that their friends were watching. They would have continued but were interrupted by a pretzel hitting them.

"Get a room" Brooke said.

"That never seems to stop you Ms. Davis" Lucas said with a smirk.

"Funny Lucas, funny" Brooke said as some people laughed. She turned to Haley with an evil grin "Haley did you know when we were little Lucas would always force me and Peyton to play Barbie and he would always play with my Cinderella doll."

"Brooke" Lucas said turning red. Haley giggled.

"What it slipped, just like the time it slipped your mind to tell me you borrowed my Barbie for a month" she laughed.

"She's lying" Lucas said turning to Haley. Haley looked at Brooke from the corner of her eye and saw her shaking her head 'no' causing her to laugh harder.

Lucas turned even redder and Haley thought she'd finally free him of his embarrassment. "It's okay, my brother asked for a Barbie dream house during Christmas when we were five."

Lucas calmed down, but not for long. "Lucas already had a Barbie dream house by the age of five" Brooke said.

"Shut up Brooke, before we mention some things from your past like my birthday party at the amusement park" Lucas said. That caused Brooke to shut up there was no need to relive Lucas' sixth birthday party.

Haley giggled. This lunch was turning out to be great. She was feeling good. She was happy that all of Lucas' friends were accepting her. They were all great and funny. She already had plans to hang out with Brooke and Bevin, one of the cheerleaders to go shopping and plans to show Skills, Fergie, Junk, and Mouth her amazing basketball skills. Then she realized something everyone was inviting except, Lucas' other best friend who was staring at the tables across from them longingly.

No one seemed to notice Peyton's heated glare at that table. They were all laughing and joking with each other. Haley stole a quick glance at the table Peyton's eyes was glued to, to see who was sitting there. It turned out to be the jock table. All the basketball players were seated around the tables. The other half of the cheerleaders were there too. They were all over the basketball players, especially Nathan Scott. She scoffed at Nathan what an asshole. Haley looked over at Peyton and checked who her eyes were focusing on. It was Jake Jagelski. She knew something happened with them, she saw them leave her birthday party together, but Peyton's expression was completely different than what she had on now.


Peyton stayed seated in her lunch seat. Everyone around her seemed like a distant dream. She absentmindedly played with her uneaten food, but all she really did was intently watch Jake. She still didn't fully grasp what he said only a mere hour ago. She knew she was being rude not even saying 'hi' to Haley on her first day sitting with them, but really at that moment she couldn't make herself care, besides Haley was too distracted to even notice. Jake sat by the jocks innocently like just a short while ago he didn't crush Peyton even more and make are look like an idiot, again. She knew he was only trying to do the right thing but who said the right thing didn't hurt.

She entered her math class and tried to avoid Jake's gaze. It didn't last long since they were doing group work and Jake practically jumped at chance of being her partner.

"Partners?" he asked with an adorable smile.

Peyton stared at him for a while, but then she realized she hadn't said anything. "Um sure" she said. Don't be swooned, don't be swooned she told herself.

"Good" he smiled. Crap Peyton thought as she saw his smile, damn you Jagelski. He pulled out his notes as they both started the worksheet given by their teacher. They both did their work silently looking up each other every couple of seconds neither knowing what to say.

"Listen, about Saturday night" Jake started after they finished their work.

"Don't" Peyton interrupted "it was a weird day and the kiss meant nothing" she lied.

"Oh" Jake said with a visible sadness "I'm still sorry about leaving like that."

"It's okay" Peyton said with a fake smile.

"So…friends?" he asked.

Peyton stared at him for a second, she didn't really want be friends when she liked him and he thought of her as just a friend. "Um, yeah friends" she said with another fake smile.

"Great" he said. She just kept up her fake smile as they sat there in silence. She was practically the happiest person when the teacher wanted to go over the worksheet making them go back to their seats. She just thought it was a little weird was that this all happened in her third period math class.


All through lunch Brooke joked around with Haley, Lucas, Skills, and Bevin. She was glad Bevin started sitting with them. Usually Bevin would be the first one at the jock table flirting and throwing her self at the basketball players, but recently she developed a crush on Skills and started to sit with them.

Brooke stole quick glances at Nathan every chance she got as she sat in her lunch table, but it all ended with a frown. She never noticed how many girls threw them selves at Nathan. They just grew by the minute. She wouldn't have minded, she liked when girls wanted what she had, but Nathan was flirting back. He and Theresa were practically seconds away from having sex right then and there on the table. She was pissed, why he was giving that skank the time of the day was beyond her. It was making her jealous as hell, every time they were inches apart or laughed together or the fact that they were sitting next to each other. At that moment she would have given anything to be Theresa and that was saying something since Theresa had nothing.

She acted like she didn't care as she chatted away with friends when all she thought about was murdering Theresa and then Nathan. She decided she didn't need Nathan, oh who was she kidding she needed Nathan more than she wanted to admit.


After lunch ended Lucas, Peyton, Brooke, and Haley made their way to their next class which they coincidently had together. It was Lucas' favorite class of the day, English. He loved to read and write and this just seemed like the perfect class.

Since Mr. Matthews didn't believe in assigned seats—something about sit where you feel like, every day's different—they got to sit wherever they pleased. Lucas sat in the front of the class and Brooke sat behind him even though she preferred the back of the classroom. Haley decided to sit beside Lucas and Peyton sat behind Haley and beside Brooke so they ended up forming a nifty little square.

Jake came in and sat on the other side of Peyton. "Hey friend" he smiled.

Peyton froze was he purposely trying to make this hard? "Back at you" she said. She turned around when she got nudged by Brooke who gave her a look that meant that they were definitely talking later.

Then Nathan entered the room receiving a glare from Lucas. Nathan noticed the glare and smirked as he took a seat directly behind Brooke. This pissed off Lucas even more.

Brooke knew exactly what Nathan was doing so she ignored him partially because she didn't want Lucas to freak out and partially because she still wasn't over seeing him with Theresa.

The bell rang and Mr. Matthews started the class. "Good afternoon everyone so I would like everyone to take out their homework from last week which is the paragraph about your favorite thing to do and share it with a neighbor" he said as he stared to walk around the classroom to here everyone's choice.

"So let me guess you chose shopping or cheerleading" Lucas said turning to her.

"Ha, ha, no I chose partying" Brooke said and laughed at Lucas who scrunched up his face. "Let me guess you choose basketball" Brooke said.

"Yes, but that doesn't mean you're always right" he said. He then turned to Haley to ask her what she chose.

Brooke looked next to her and Peyton was too busy talking to Jake, so she turned around to Nathan. "So what did you choose?" she asked shyly.

He smiled "my favorite thing to do is you of course."

"Shut up, you didn't write that" she said blushing, again with the blushing Brooke thought.

"See for yourself" he said as he handed her a scrunched up loose leaf paper with messy handwriting.

Her eyes widened when she realized he did indeed put her as his favorite thing to do. "Nathan you can't put me" she whispered.

"I kidding this is my homework" he said pulling out another piece of paper that was less messy "but your face was classic."

"Jerk" she said.

"Yeah but you love me anyways" he smirked. Brooke smiled forgetting all about skank face.

Across from them Peyton witnessed their interaction not actually hearing what they were saying, but the smiling was definitely weird. Does she like him? No, that can't be it Peyton thought trying to come with any excuse possible.

"Scott" they all heard as Coach Whitey Durham entered their classroom.

"Yeah coach" Nathan said standing up.

"Not you, you pay attention in class, because god knows you don't do enough of that" he said. Brooke giggled along with a few other students. Nathan sat back down confused. "Lucas."

"Me" Lucas asked confused.

"Yeah you, Mr. Matthews can I borrow him for a second" Whitey asked. Mr. Matthews nodded. Lucas confusedly got up and followed Whitey to his office, but not without getting a horrible glare from Nathan and a reassuring smile from Brooke.

Lucas sat in Whitey's office and looked at him expectantly. He was surprised he was called in here. It was the last thing he expected.

"Do you know why you're here" asked Whitey with a smile. He looked so kind and inviting.

"Actually, no" Lucas answered.

"Well a friend showed me how good of a player you are" he said thinking of Lucas' uncle, Keith bragging about his favorite nephew and forcing Whitey to see him in action. "And I would like to offer you a spot on my team" he said.

Lucas stared at him in disbelief. There was no way he was good enough to be on the varsity basketball team.

Whitey smiled at Lucas' expression "I'll let you think about it, get back to me before the game on Friday" he said.

Lucas nodded still not sure if this was all real and left his office in a daze.


Brooke, Peyton, and Lucas lay on top of Lucas' bed, Brooke in the middle. They were all in deep thought, Peyton about Jake, Lucas about basketball, and Brooke about her friends and Nathan.

"So Jake wants to be friends?" Brooke asked. Peyton nodded still staring up at the ceiling. "And Whitey wants you to join the team?" she asked turning to Lucas. Lucas nodded still staring up at the ceiling too.

"But what do you want?" Brooke asked.

This time they both answered simultaneously "I don't know."

Brooke sighed, finding a solution was gonna be harder than she thought. She needed back up. As if on cue Skills and Haley entered the room. "Why do you always get to have all the hot threesomes" Skills pointed jokingly at Brooke and Peyton. Lucas grinned even in all his confusion. "So Whitey wants you on the ravens?" Skills asked.

Lucas sat up and made room for them on the bed. Haley sat down and gave Lucas a quick kiss. Skills still stood planted on the floor waiting for an answer. "Yeah" Lucas finally answered.

"And did you say yes?" Skills asked.

"No, I don't think it would be good if I joined" he answered.

"Why not" Haley asked just a second before Skills.

"Because I'm not good enough, Nathan's on the team, my mom would freak out, and I don't belong there I belong with you guys" he answered.

"Okay Luke how many years have we played at the river court and who always won" Skills asked.

"Me" Lucas spoke.

"Because you are good enough" Skills said.

"Screw Nathan" Haley said this time "you can't let Nathan and Dan control you when they act like you don't even exist. Don't let them take this away from you."

"Luke you love basketball and you're mom loves you, she would do anything for you and if you really wanted this she would never say no" Brooke said sitting up.

"And don't say you don't belong with them because you don't need to, you belong with us" Peyton added also sitting up.

"So what's your excuse now? Luke, don't turn down an opportunity like this because you're stupid. I'd kill for that spot and you're gonna turn it down because of insecurities and family drama. That ain't right man" Skills finished.

Lucas thought for a moment as four pairs of eyes stared at him patiently. Could he really do this? What would people think? What if he really wasn't a good player? He could do this if he wanted. Who cared what people thought as long as you had your family's support. He was a good player; Whitey asking him was proof enough. So then it's decided. "Fine, but you guys can tell my mom" he said.

They smiled at him, happy that they got him to agree. "Yay" Brooke cheered "and look you even have your own personal cheerleaders" she said pointing at her and Peyton.

"I do, don't I?" Lucas said with a grin.

"Don't get too comfy" Haley said.

"Don't worry tutor girl we'll get you a uniform so you guys can have fun in the bedroom" Brooke smirked.

Haley's mouth dropped. "Now I'm starting to see why you're so crazy."

"Hey" Brooke said. That gave her a look from everyone in the room. "Fine, be like that" she said pretending to be offended.

"Wanna go shot some hoops?" Skills asked.

"Yeah sure" Lucas said getting up.

"Haley this is where you lose your man to a dumb sport" Brooke whispered.

"Didn't you just beg me to join the team?" Lucas asked.

"Eh" she said. Lucas just laughed at Brooke's ways and left his room with Skills. "Okay now Peyt what are you gonna do about Jagelski" Brooke asked turning to Peyton.

"Nothing" answered Peyton, remembering why she was laying down like that in the first place.

"Tutor girl don't you think she's stupid trying to be friends with Jake when all she really wants to do is jump him?" Brooke said.

"Sorry Peyton, but Brooke's kinda right on this one" Haley said

"See" Brooke said with a giddy smile.

"Whatever, I liked Jake for a while, but its okay if Jake wants to be just friends, I really don't care" Peyton said. Peyton never knew when she became a liar, but here she was lying to herself and her friends.


Nathan was lifting weights when his dad stormed into the room with a look that could kill.

"What is this, I here about Whitey asking Lucas to join your team?" Dan Scott asked furiously.

"I don't know, why don't you ask you're other son" Nathan said bitterly as he sat up and stopped lifting weights.

"He is not my son; you are and do not ever say that in my house again. I know exactly why Whitey's doing this. He just wants revenge" Dan said.

"Revenge for what?" Nathan asked.

"Nothing important, listen Nathan we can't let him in your team, it's not fair. All the other players worked hard for their spots. You can't just let Lucas come and take over. We have to make him not take the spot" Dan said.

"Whatever" Nathan said.

"Not whatever. Do what you have to get that bastard off of my team" Dan said angrily.

"Don't you mean my team?" Nathan said amusedly.

"That's what I said" Dan yelled as he left his son there to come up with a plan to get rid of his other son.


Lucas was shooting hoops at river court. It was getting late but he didn't care as long as he could play. He shot his ball and it made it in.

"Nice shot" he turned around see more than half the basketball players led by Nathan. "But do you really think your good enough to play with us" Nathan said pointing at all the players.

"Yeah" piped up Tim or as Brooke preferred to say, Dim.

"Shut up Tim" Nathan said.

"What do you want?" Lucas asked.

"To tell you that you should turn down Whitey's offer if you know what's good for you" Nathan said.

"Is that a treat" Lucas asked.

"No just telling you the truth. Look I don't want you on the team, the guys don't want you on the team," he said as all the players around him nodded. "And you sure as hell aren't good enough, even Whitey agrees, he's only doing this to piss off my dad."

Lucas felt the insecurities coming back but them remembered what his friends told him. "Sorry little brother but I'm joining the team whether you like it or not."

Nathan clenched his teeth at he little brother comment "Fine have it your way, but you and me one on one if you win you can join the team, when I win you don't join."

"What makes you think I'm gonna take that offer" Lucas laughed.

"Why afraid I'm gonna beat you" Nathan taunted.

"Fine" Lucas said not wanting Nathan to think he's better. "Tomorrow night, right here" Lucas challenged.

Nathan smirked "okay" and left the river court followed by the others. Lucas sighed what the hell did he get himself into?


Brooke was in her room doing homework. Or at least trying to attempt it, but so far none of it made sense. She sighed out of frustration and didn't even realize her bedroom door open.

Nathan quietly walked up to Brooke who was facing the other way. "Boo" he whispered in her ear.

Brooke jumped. She turned around and saw Nathan and sighed. "Are you trying to give me a heart attack" she said.

"No just surprising you" he said as he pulled her in for a kiss.

"Nathan I have homework" Brooke said trying to pull away.

"So" he said as he kissed her.

"So there's kind of a big difference between an A and an F" she said still trying to pull away.

"Do it later" he said as he stared kissing her neck.

"But…but…" wait what was she talking about again. Brooke finally gave into Nathan forgetting all about homework. Hey it wasn't her fault Nathan was good at convincing people to do things, like get Luke to compete against him.

Nathan and Brooke's make out session moved away from her chair to her bed. He kissed her and kissed her the bed settling comfortably under them. Brooke loved kissing him; he was so good at it. She tried not to think of all the experience he'd had.

After what seemed like blissful hours, Brooke's phone started to ring. "Ignore it" Nathan said as Brooke tried reaching for it from her bedside table.

"It could be important" Brooke said as she sat up. Her shirt was a twisted mess and her lips felt numb. "Hello" Brooke said not checking who it was. Nathan smirked as he stared kissing Brooke's neck not caring that she was preoccupied. "Stop it" she giggled. Nathan didn't listen to her as he continued kissing her.

"Brooke" Lucas said from the phone. Brooke suddenly felt guilty and tried pushing Nathan off, but it still didn't work.

"Hey" she said as Nathan kissed away, she was trying not to enjoy it, but she just couldn't help herself.

"I did something really stupid" Lucas said sadly.

"What happened" she asked as Nathan tried taking her shirt off but she pushed his hands away "stop" she whispered.

"Nathan challenged me on a one on one game, if he wins I don't join the team, and I said yes" Lucas said.

"He what" Brooke jumped off the bed suddenly not wanting to be anywhere near Nathan. "Luke I'm sorry but I have to go but don't worry you'll beat him" she hung up before he could say anything else.

She turned to Nathan who already sensed something was wrong. "You challenged him" she said angrily.

"So" he said getting defensive.

"He's my best friend can't you get over yourself and let him be happy for once" she said.

Nathan stared at her as the anger inside of him grew. "Well he can't be much of a friend if you're screwing me behind his back" he smirked.

Brooke looked at him shocked that he actually said that to her "Get out" she yelled. "Get out."

"Gladly" Nathan said as he went to the door and slammed it hard. Brooke let the tears she was holding in fall. The question she had been asking herself all day was finally answered her and Nathan together was a big mistake.

On the other side of the door Nathan angrily stomped down Brooke's staircase, this was most definitely the biggest mistake of his life.