Authors Note:
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It's amazing how things can change in a blink of an eye.
Brooke sat down on the couch in the living room. Lucas had gone with Karen to get dinner, and Brooke was alone. She started to watch T.V. when she realized that something was wrong with the cushion. She lifted it up, and there she found it.
Lucas's book.
She had never read it, never taken a glace. She knew he had written about her, but she didn't know exactly what he said. Maybe she was too afraid. Afraid that his words would break her heart.
She flipped it open to the table of contents. All the chapters were simple words, like love, laughter, hatred. All one word. Brooke flipped to the chapter called love and began to read.
"She was too fragile, too broken, too beautiful. Brooke Davis. Her misty brown eyes clear with laughter always seemed to brighten my day no matter what. Her beautiful, silky brown hair all around me when she kissed me. It was like she surrounded me. For countless hours all I would think about was her. And that's when I realized, it was love. In it's finest form. And that's when she became, Brooke Scott."
Brooke's mascara cascaded down her tear stained cheeks. He loved her so much he wrote a book about her. No one had ever treated Brooke this way, not even her parents. No one.
And that's how Lucas found her an hour later, still crying tears of happiness on the couch, reading his book. He set the Chinese on the table and walked over to her, Karen removing herself from the room. "Hey, pretty girl what's wrong?" Lucas asked. Brooke showed him the book and he smiled. "I didn't mean to make you cry." He said smiling.
"Well, you did. It's beautiful, Lucas." Lucas smiled and kissed her softly, taking her into his arms as he did so. "You're beautiful." He whispered in her ear.
Jake was discharged and he and Peyton arrived home. Jake was too tired and hurt to be up for anything, so he lied in their bed, his hand clutching his painful broken ribs. Peyton lied beside him and kissed his cheek. "Things are going to get better now, you'll see." Peyton said, Jake smiled. Believing her.
Jake was going to have to be on bed rest for quite some time. His ribs were badly broken and would take at least a month to heal. He could walk, but it hurt like hell. Peyton was listening to the radio when Jake walked in and lied down. Peyton shrieked.
"Oh! This is a kick ass song!" Peyton said happily as she turned it up. "Take You There." By Sean Kingston started playing. Jake chuckled as she began to dance around the room singing off key.
The next day, Brooke and Lucas headed over to Peyton and Jake's house considering Jake couldn't go there. Brooke and Lucas sat on one couch while Jake and Peyton were on the other.
"So, Jagielski how you feeling?" Brooke asked Jake, while taking a sip of her Pepsi. "Well, I've been better." Jake said, Peyton smiled sadly at him. Brooke smiled as well as she got an idea. "I know! Let's play I never!" Peyton laughed. "Brooke, every time we play that someone gets hit." Brooke laughed. "Come on! Please! We can use Pepsi instead of beer! Come on!"
Jake smiled. "Okay, Brooke. You go first." He said. "Okay. I never...ate a pickled egg!" Peyton laughed and remembered Dare Night. She took a drink. "I never..." She started looking at Jake. "Um...got hit by a car." She finished. Jake took a drink and she kissed his cheek.
"I never tried to hit on someone while I was wasted." Jake said smiling at Brooke. Brooke took a drink. "Wait, how would you remember?" Brooke said laughing. Jake shook his head. "Woah, woah wait! Brooke you hit on him!" Peyton said laughing.
Brooke smiled as Jake told the story. "Well, it was the basketball appreciation party in sophomore year, do you remember?" Everyone nodded. "Well, I was on my way home to see Jenny and I walked right into Brooke's line of fire. She said Jake, Jake, Jake. And grabbed my tie. And said I'm drunk, you'll do."
Brooke laughed. "Oh my god, did I seriously do that?!" Jake nodded. "Wow." Lucas chuckled and Peyton smiled.
Hours passed and Brooke and Lucas finally left. When they got home Brooke snuck his book into their room and read more as Lucas watched T.V.
She was so excited about what he said about her that she wanted to read it over and over, and shout it from the rooftops.
But that was before she saw the second paragraph.
It's amazing how things can change in the blink of an eye.
Authors Note:
Ooh! What does the second paragraph of Lucas' book say? Tune in and find out!