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Author's note: Hope you liked the last one. Now on to the fourth chapter. Finally some answers as to what happened between BL. Enjoy:)

Chapter IV: Another day, another heartache

An hour after Rachel had dragged her downtown Brooke finally managed to get back into bed. She was so tired she couldn't keep her eyes open a moment longer so she quickly drifted off to sleep. That night she dreamt about Lucas, he took her on a cruise for her birthday and they watched the sunset together every night.

The next morning Nathan and Haley were lying in bed talking about Brooke.

"She just seems so broken, I've never seen her like this" Haley told Nathan as she ran her fingertips up and down his chest.

Nathan grabbed Haley's hand that had been touching him and gave it a small kiss. "I know, this is driving me crazy not knowing what's going on with her and Luke."

Haley sighed. "I guess we'll just have to be patient."

"No way, I'm gonna try to get her to open up today and if she doesn't I'm calling my brother" the younger Scott brother had made up his mind.

"Nathan I don't think that's a good idea, Brooke is going to be pissed if we talk to Lucas. She'll think we're taking his side or something, you know what she's like" Haley replied.

Nathan was about to say something when the bedroom door opened up and Jamie's little head peeked in. When he saw his parents were awake he wasted no time getting in bed between them.

Later that day Nathan asked Brooke to go for a drive with him. She said yes and in a few minutes they were cruising downtown in his jeep.

"So let's hear it" Brooke said turning to Nathan.

He was a little caught off guard. "Uhh what? Hear what?"

"Your little inspiring speech that's gonna make me lose all my defences and tell you the whole sob story of me and Lucas." She was always good at reading people.

"Heh well I want you to tell me but if you are expecting an inspiring speech you got another thing coming." He smiled.

Brooke shifted in her seat. "Okay so you just expect me to spill my guts without an inspiring speech, that's just lame."

Nathan pulled the car over and turned to Brooke. "Look I know that you're going through a lot right now and you say you don't feel like talking about it but why did you come with me on this drive then? You want to talk to someone Brooke, I know you do so why not just talk to me?" he looked her in the eye trying to get through.

"Now that's more like it!" Brooke almost yelled. "I got my speech." She grinned at Nathan.

"Yeah yeah whatever , just start talking. What happened?" Nathan tried to maintain eye contact but she looked out the window.

"Lucas and I have been having problems for a little while now, he started his new job at Random House a couple of months ago and it was just crazy. He always worked late and on the weekends. I tried to give him space, I figured he wanted to make a big impression at first but would eventually slow things down. Then a couple of weeks ago he missed our anniversary dinner." Brooke looked down at her hands, they were trembling. She tried her best to keep it together. "I planned this beautiful dinner for him, I had a cook come over and make his favorite meal. I lit millions of candles and put lots of pictures of us up around the apartment. I bought sexy new lingerie and wore a dress I specifically designed for that night. Everything was perfect, he promised he would be home at eight o'clock….he didn't show up. He didn't call. Nothing. When he finally came home he said he had been stuck in a meeting all night. I couldn't believe it." Tears were running down Brooke's face. She didn't even bother wiping them away, she knew they would just keep on coming.

"Sounds like he got his priorities messed up, you should always come first with him." Nathan tried his best to comfort Brooke but he couldn't think of anything better to say.

Brooke looked up at him: "Yeah and that's what I told him. We got into this huge fight, it was horrible. The worst fight we've ever had."

"And that's when you came here to Tree Hill?" Nathan asked.

"No there's more.." she looked down and a new batch of tears rolled down her cheeks. She tried to talk but no words came out. There was a big lump in her throat that prevented her from speaking. Nathan knew she couldn't handle anymore so he took her in his arms and let her cry. Brooke buried her head in Nathans chest and let it all out. "Damn you Lucas what have you done?" he mumbled.

That night after dinner Haley and Brooke were in the living room wathing a movie, Nathan had offered to clean up in the kitchen but he had a hidden agenda. He was going to call Lucas. He flipped open his phone and dialed Luke's number.

After a minute of ringing it picked up: "Hey you've reached Lucas Scott. Congratulations."

Nathan hung up. "Damn voicemail, I hate that crap. I mean junk."

He was about to put his phone in his back pocket when it rang. Nathan didn't even bother to look at the caller id, he knew who it was.

"Hi" he answered dryly.

"Hey little brother, what's up?" Lucas said on the other end.

Nathan took a seat next to Jamie who was still eating his dinner. "Brooke is here. What the heck happened?" He tried to use nice words around his son.

"Oh she's staying with you guys? I should've guessed. Look Brooke and I are over. It sucks man but there it is." Lucas said.

"What are you talking about? After listening to all that crap, I mean junk, about her being "the one" for you I don't understand this" Nathan said glancing over at Jamie who had his mouth full of spagetti.

"Look Nathan I don't except you to understand this but the fact of the matter is I don't love Brooke anymore. Julianne is the one for me" Lucas stated in a stone cold voice.

"Julianne?! Who is Julianne??" Nathan was about to lose it.

The line went silent for a moment. "Lucas are you still there?!"

"Yeah I'm here. I'm sorry I just assumed Brooke told you.." Lucas said before getting cut off by Nathan yelling: "Told me what?! That you left her for someone else?! That you broke her heart AGAIN?! What the hell is wrong with you??!!"

"Nathan!" Haley was standing in the kitchen staring at Nathan, then she mouthed Jamie's name.

Nathan realized he had been yelling quite loudly and turned to see his son with a frightened look on his face. He told Lucas to wait a minute before picking up Jamie "I'm sorry squirt, daddy's just a little mad at uncle Lucas right now. Do you wanna go with mommy for a minute?" Jamie just nodded as Nathan put him down. Haley took his hand and led him into the living room.

After a minute Nathan picked up his cell phone and said: "Dude what is going on? I thought Brooke was the love of your life? In fact I still think that, I'm sorry but this just sounds like a bunch of b.s."

"I'm sorry too. I never meant to hurt Brooke, if you could just tell her I'm sorry and that…" Lucas couldn't go on any longer without his voice breaking.

"What is really going on Luke? Just tell me. Please. " Nathan pleaded with his brother.

"I can't okay.." Lucas sounded really upset: "I understand if you and Hales need to be there for Brooke right now..I'm moving on with my life with Julianne. Please don't question that." He said almost sobbing.

"Fine" Nathan told his brother and hung up the phone.

He walked to the entrance to the living room and leaned up against the door frame. Haley and Brooke were telling Jamie a story, he seemed to be drifting off to sleep in his mother's arms. Nathan smiled to himself but it wasn't a smile without worry. He worried if Lucas had lost his mind somehow, he couldn't just fall out of love with Brooke like that could he? And who was this Julianne? So many questions needed answers.