Alright thanks for all the reviews.

I wrote the last chapter because i wanted to let you guys know that Kyle is one of the main characters, so he should have a life too right?

There are some of you who want brucas or brathan or whatever. But this is not gonna be a brathan couple, just friendship.

I'm trying to decide where i want to go with this story, but don't worry it will end up as a brucas.

i might pair Kyle up with Rachel or something lol. We'll see how it goes lol.

So i know i said picture Kyle as Jesse Metcalfe, but i dont really care who you picture him as, but Kyle is tall, good build, brown hair, and blue-ish green-ish eyes.

Enjoy and Review!

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For the past couple of weeks Brooke had been accustomed to taking one shot of vodka in the morning before she went to school. She considered it as breakfast, instead of alcohol. It was just enough to get her through the day so she could go home and drink some more.

This had been the routine for awhile now. Nothing like before though.

After taking the shot Brooke took one last look in the mirrior. Anyone who didn't really know Brooke Davis would say she was looking stunning today with her jean capris and her crisp white polo shirt with black heels, but if you really knew her, she was just a little tipsy with some sadness and anger in her. BUt nobody was really noticing it lately.

Peyton was acting as if Brooke was dead, and Haley just looked on with hurt in her eyes. Of course Lucas, being the ass that he is, completely follows whatever Peyton tells him to, like a little dog. And Nathan, well, he had to stick with his wife. Brooke didn't blame him, it was just weird how they used to be best friends, along with Kyle.

Brooke had been thinking about Kyle alot lately. Wondering how he was, if he was happy, and if he ever thought about her.

She knew when they started losing contact that it was for the best. Then Brooke wouldn't have anyone to count on, and she could be the sexy, independant woman she used to be. But then Lucas had to come with his blue eyes and brooding self, and completely screw her over.

But whats done is done.

Brooke made her way down the stairs, grabbed her bag, and headed out the door. At first she was planning on looking for new apartments she could afford, but last night Rachel had called and said she was coming back. Something about her parents having to go to Milan or something.

She was driving for all of 2 minutes before she met a red light. Nornally she would have ran it, but seeing as she was slightly drunk, she passed. As she was waiting she noticed Nathan and Haley's car pull up along Brooke's right. Haley seemed to be yammering on about something, probably about the baby. BUt Nathan seemed to be looking at her.

Brooke turned to her right and looked at him for a minute. Nathan gave her a small smile. She just looked at him one last time before turning around. She didn't need this secret friendship crap or whatever Nate was trying to do.

As soon as the light turned green Brooke sped out of there, on her way to her own personal hell.

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"So, i was thinking we should order copies of the sonogran to pass to yenno our parents and friends," Haley said.

Nathan turned around, "Yeah, that sounds good."

He found himself looking out for Brooke alot lately, and their recent encounter showed that. Normally, he wouldn't think any different, but he missed Brooke. Yeah, they used to hate each other, not really talking, but she would always be his friend, along with Kyle.

It was kinda hard to imagine that life to where he was at right now. Married with a baby on the way. He didn't regret Haley or the baby, but he wished Brooke and Kyle were more in his life now. He tried calling Kyle this morning, but all he went straight to voicemail. Nathan just assumed that Kyle was probably already on the plane to Tree Hill. It would be fun to have his best friend back.

Call Nathan selfish, but he really thought it was best for Kyle to move back. He needed Kyle to calm him down, give him a talk about things. He also neede Kyle to take care of Brooke, as jerkish as it sounds.

He tried to get Haley to listen but whenever he would bring up Brooke she would always say, "Nathan, i don't wanna talk about it." And that was that.

He was really trying, but he was just running out of options. And Lucas wasn't gonna get his head of his ass anytime soon, so he had to call Kyle.

At first he felt guilty that he would be asking Kyle to move his whole life back to Tree Hill, only a few months away from graudation. BUt it was for the best.

If Kyle couldn't get to Brooke, no one could.

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Whenever Brooke had time before the bell rang for first period, she would always just sit in her car and watch everyone interact in the quad. Call her nosy, but Brooke called it observant. It was interesting to see it all from far away. She had always been involved in all the chaos, but lately she looked at everything from a different light.

She saw Nathan pull up 2 cars across from her. He quickly jumped out of the car to help Haley around back. She liked this new Nathan, he was a pretty great guy. Kind of like the one she used to be best friends with.

Brooke looked over towards the quad and saw Lucas and Peyton. Peyton was drawing something in the sketchpad and Lucas looked like he was brooding. The typical emo couple. Lucas had even dyed his hair blonder. Luke came out of his head when he saw Haley and Nathan approach them and sit down.

It wasn't long ago Brooke was in that group.

She had Lucas as her love, Peyton and Haley as her best friends, and Nathan as her buddy. She didn't know you had to occur in a sex tape with your best friend's boyfriend two years ago to lose everything.

But life had been throwing curve balls at Brooke for a long time now.

She looked at her watch and saw she had 5 minutes until the bell rang. She got out of her car and shut the door, swung her bag over he shoulder, and made her way into school. Brooke was still popular, with the cheerleaders as friends, but the only friends she wanted were the ones that were staring at her as she walked past them.

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Lucas thought that no one could look as good a Brooke Davis. You could try, but it couldn't be done. Just like you can't catch clouds in tupperware. It just can't happen.

"Do any of you ever miss Brooke?" Nathan asked quietly.

"Yeah. Sometimes." Lucas answered.

"I miss her all the time," Haley added.

Lucas saw Nate looked at her confused. Lucas would never tell anyone, but he missed Brooke more than all the time. She was in his dreams, his day dreams, everywhere.

"What about you Peyt?" Lucas asked.

Peyton sighed.

"Yeah, i do. But our friendship ended a long time ago. I don't know if we could ever get it back. I told her she was dead to me."

This no one had heard before. All 3 looked on his surprise.

Nathan was the first to speak, "You know it's never too late. No one can take back what they say, but you can move forward. It's never too late." he said as he looked sternyl at Lucas.

Damn he knows.

It was supposed to be his little secret, but Nate was his brother. Of course he would know.

"I think we should all get our books, we only have a 2 minutes before the bell rings."

They all got up and headed over to the hallways.

Everyone stepped into the hallways, but Nathan stayed behind to try to call Kyle.

"Hey you've reached Kyle's cell. Sorry i missed your call but leave a message but i'll get back to ya."

He hung up.

Now he was sure Kyle was probably in the air.

The sooner he got here the better.

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Kyle hated riding planes. When you were settled in the air it was alright with him.

But landing and taking off was when he got real nervous. The turbulance scared the crap out of him.

He unbuckled his seatbelt and put his backpack on. The flight had been fairly good, there weren't any annoying little kids kicking his seat, and he flew first class, so there was some space seperating him from the lady who thought it was necessary to paint her nails all 6 hours of the flight.

He took off his hoodie, since it was pretty hot in the south this time of year.

The Tree Hill airport had changed a bit since the last time he had been there. There were alot more stores, a starbucks, and it was cleaner.

Kyle snagged a cart and quickly found his luggage and hauled them onto the cart. He wheeled around to the outside area and saw a middle aged man holding a sign with Kyle Sammet written on it.

"Uhh hey i'm Kyle."

"Ooh Kyle. I'm George. I'll be taking your luggage. And your vehicles are in the garage parking lot. You can either drive them around or have me drive you."

"Thanks George, but i think i'll take my motorcycle around."

"That's fine. I'll take your luggage to your house."

"Is it my old house?"

"Yes i think your father mentioned something about it being your previous house here."

"Sweet. My dad's paying you enough right?"

"More than enough sir."

"Alright. Thanks George."

"Sure thing Kyle. Be careful on that bike."

"I will."

George handed him the keys and he went to parking lot B and there was his motorcycle.

Kyle walked around the bike, inspecting it to see if there were any scratches or anything.

Satisfied, he pur his matching red helmet over his head.

It was 3:20, so he still had a few minutes to look around, reminisce.

He started his bike and he was out of there.

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He had already passed the mall, drive into town, and was on his way to THH. And it was only 3:37.

Kyle always knew Tree Hill was small, but he forgot exactly how small.

When he parked into the school parking lot he heard the bell ring, signaling the end of school.

He could do two things. One, risk, being caught by Brooke by going in now. Or two, wait until everyone leaves, but somebody would probably notice him sitting there on his bike.

BUt he really needed to hurry up and enroll himself so he could start tomorrow.

He took his helmet off and set it in the compartment behind his seat. He checked his cell phone for missed called. It said he had 5 missed calls from Nathan.

He decided to get back to him.

"Kyle?"

"Yeah it's me. I'm in the parking lot right now."

"YOu're in the parking lot at school?"

"No. Of course i am! I'm fixing to go in to enroll myself in so i can start tomorrow morning."

"Yeah right. I'll come meet you."

"Alright bye."

Kyle started getting nervous. He hadn't seen Nathan in two years. He saw his picture in the paper when the Ravens won the championship, but was only one time.

"Kyle!"

Kyle turned around and saw Nathan jogging toward him. He still looked the same. His face had matured more, but he was still the same scrawny white boy.

"Sup Nate?"

They slapped hands and hugged.

"Man i'm so glad you're back."

"Yeah. Well it's good to be back. I kinda missed this place."

"You don't have to lie." Nathan laughed.

"No i mean it. Listen i have to head over to the office."

"Yeah right. I'll walk with you. I kinda left Haley standing at her locker. I want you to meet the girl that changed me."

"Nate you were always a good person. Haley just helped you uncover it."

They made their way to the office, not before running into Haley.

"Nathan, thanks for leaving me like that."

"Sorry Hales. I didn't mean to." Nathan laughed as he put his arm around Haley.

Haley looked at Nathan then Kyle, confused.

"Hi, I'm Kyle." Kyle said as he stuck his hand out.

"Haley, i'm sorry but you look really familiar."

"He should, he used to go here." Nathan joined in.

It seemed like a lightbulb went on in her head.

"Oh! That Kyle! Nathan's best friend!" Haley exclaimed.

They all laughed.

"Yep. That's me."

"Well i've heard alot about you."

"Really? What kind of things?" Kyle asked curiously.

"Nothing bad i promise." Haley laughed.

"That's good. Well it was nice to meet you Haley, but i gotta enroll myself for tomororw. Nate we'll catch up later."

"Alright. We'll hang tonight."

"Sure, if that's okay with your wife." Kyle smiled at Haley.

"It's fine with me."

"Alright then. I'll call you so we can shoot hoops or something." Nathan suggested.

"Sounds good. See ya guys later."

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Kyle came out of Principal Turner's office five minutes later relieved and a little uneasy.

Everything was going good until Turned mentioned his old reputation as a smooth talker and playboy. But Kyle assured him that he was older and wiser now, and he wouldn't be causing any trouble.

He didn't want to be seen as the same guy he was two years ago. Kyle thought he was a pretty decent guy, he just screwed up every once in awhile. But he was only normal.

He walked out officially enrolled into THH again. There were still alot of people hanging around school.

As he walked past the quad he found people staring at him. They probably remembered him from before, when him and Nathan basically ran the school. Or they remembered him as the guy who stole pocket money from them once or twice.

He saw Peyton and was guessing Lucas. She looked the same, but her hair was more wavy than curly. He didn't know if he should go up to her or not. He was still kinda upset with her. Before he knew it he saw a flash of blonde hair in his face.

"Kyle oh my gosh i can't believe your back!" Peyton yelled as she pulled him into a hug.

"Yeah well i thought i would surprise everyone."

"Well this is a surprise! How long are you here for?"

"For good. Well at least until graduation."

"That's great. But why would you wanna come back to boring old Tree Hill?"

He didn't wanna say he was here for Brooke, it would probably bring up some issues.

"Umm i dont' know. Believe it or not i missed this place."

Peyton snorted.

"So, that's Lucas?"

She turned around and saw Lucas looking back at them.

"Yep, that's him. I'm guessing you heard about everything then?"

"More than enough. I've been talking to Nate every once in awhile."

"Are you mad?"

Kyle looked at her, "Why would i be mad?"

"You know why Kyle."

He realized that they were talking about the whole love triangle, but he didn't want to get involved in it.

"It doesn't matter what i think."

"Of course it does. Your opinion has always mattered to me."

"Just make it worthwhile with Lucas. If you sacrificed your relationship with your best friend for a guy then at least make it worth it Peyt."

"Yeah. I know what you're saying."

"Yeah well, i'll see you tomorrow."

"Yeah, see ya."

Well that was a little awkward.

If Peyton was this different, it was only wonders how Brooke was now. He decided to go see her.

Kyle saw Nathan and Haley on their way to the parking lot, so he decided to catch them.

"Hey Nate!"

Nathan turned around.

"You're still here?"

"Yeah, I ran into Peyton.. and Lucas."

"Oh, so whats up?" Nathan decided to ask him about how it went later.

"I was wondering if you know if Brooke left already? I was hoping to catch her."

"You know Brooke?" Haley chimed in.

Kyle looked at Nathan confused.

"Umm yeah."

"I think she left already." Nathan said quickly.

"Oh, it's alright, i'll see her tomorrow."

"Nate i'm gonna go wait in the car." Haley said.

"Alright."

They waited until she was out of earshot before Kyle spoke.

"You haven't told her yet?"

"No. I was planning to, but the whole fight came and it just wasn't the right time."

"So she thinks that only me and you were best friends?"

"Well yeah."

"How? She did go to THH when i was here."

"Yeah, but she told me she never really paid attention to all the popular kids."

"You're gonna have to tell her you know. Brooke was once a big part of your life."

Nathan sighed, "I know. I'll tell her when we get home. We still on for tonight?"

"Yeah, where we going?"

"The Rivercourt."

"I remember that place. I would always find you there whenever Lucas and his friends weren't around." Kyle laughed.

"Ha ha. It was their turf at the time. Now im in it now."

"If you say so. So i'll see you there around 6?"

"Sure. See ya then."

They bumped fists and left.

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Brooke collapsed on her bed in the most ungraceful way possible.

She thought the alcohol was getting to her head. As she was leaving for school she could've sworn she saw Kyle in the office talking to Principal Turner. But the hallways were too crowded to do a double take.

But it couldn't be him.

She hadn't seen him in nearly two years. Plus he had no reason to come back.

Brooke pulled the bottle of vodka out from under her bed.

She took a swig and waited until the burning feelings left her throat. In a little while the she wouldn't even feel the burn, she would be numb. And she liked it that way.

Brooke just wished she could feel numb all the time, not only when she was drinking.

She wished the couldn't feel the ache in her heart whenever she saw Lucas. She wished that she couldn't feel the stares of hurt and betrayl she got from Haley and Peyton.

And she wished she couldn't feel the nagging feeling that Kyle really was in the office at school.

"No way." Brooke kept telling herself.

Although she would've been happy that Kyle would be back. He wouldn't.

She hadn't heard from him in two years. He was probably happy with his life in Virginia.

It was probably the alcohol still in her system.

She had drank lime bicardi that she poured into her water bottle so she wouldn't get caught.

Yep, she was pretty sure it was the alcohol.

But denial can only help you so far.