As she walked towards the door, those thoughts were still spinning around in her mind, I don't wanna do this.
She's Brooke Davis. Why wouldn't she want to do this? She's the most popular girl in the school, she doesn't care who she hurts, she dates all the popular guys and pulls pranks on the nerds.
But Julian changed that.
Julian changed everything.
He made her actually want to be nice to people, he made her happy. Even though they spent one night together, it often pops into her mind in the randomist of times, and gives her the biggest smiles. In that moment, she doesn't care about popularity or pranks anymore, because there is more to life than them.
But she can't escape it, if she's not popular, then this year will be hell.
So she opened the door.
The first thing she noticed was a red headed girl stood at the board writing down some equations. At the front three guys looked like they were having a heated argument. She could figure out some words like 'math' and 'it was right' but that was about it. She also noticed a guy in the corner who was texting on his phone, he had curly hair like Julian's. Julian wouldn't join mathletes she thought.
''Hey math guys + girl. Haha, get it?'' she said as she walked into the room, giggling at her own joke.
Julian turned around at the voice, he could have swore it sounded familiar.
And it was.
There she stood, in all her beauty. Brooke Davis, a few metres away from the door, 2.6 to be exact. She had a nervous smile on her face, and was twidling her thumbs, wearing shorts and a vest top. Her dark brown hair was straight and laying freely down her shoulders. And she's here, she's actually here.
''Brooke,'' he said, standing up slowly, still trying to calm down those words that were screaming in his mind SHE'S HERE, SHE'S HERE!
She turned to the voice and gasped. ''Hi,'' she said nervously and sent him a small wave. She already knew he was at THH, so it wasn't as much as a shock for her as it was for him. But that still didn't slow down her speeding heart, or shaking hands. And she still didn't get why he was in this room.
''W-what are you doing here?''
''I, um, I actually live here.'' she said softly.
''Here? In Tree Hill?'' he asked dumbly, causing her to giggle.
They were pulled out of their little world by a loud laugh, ''No, the moon.'' Chase said sarcastically.
''Shut the hell up, Adams.'' Julian commanded, never taking his eyes off Brooke.
She laughed softly, ''Yeah, I live in Tree Hill.''
''You're here,'' he stated. ''You're actually here, and I've still not kissed you?''
''Looks like it,''
He walked quickly over to her and took her into his arms, they stared at eachother with the biggest smiles on their faces. Then, for the first time in three months, he connected his mouth to hers. It was completely magic, maybe even more than last time.
Mouth wolf-whistled, Chase and Michael groaned, Rachel giggled slightly at the cuteness of this situation. But Brooke and Julian barely noticed, they were to wrapped up in eachother to care.
When air became an issue they broke apart, but never took their eyes away from eachothers.
''That was...'' Brooke trailed off breathlessly, completely lost for words.
''Wow,'' he filled in.
She shook her head, ''That doesn't even cover it,''
He chuckled and then silence took over for a couple of seconds. ''So, what happens now?'' he asked.
''We could, talk, maybe? I'm so confused right now, I bet you are too.''
She felt her phone vibrate in her pocket, and pulled away from Julian, she felt strange when all the warmth completely dissapeared when they were weren't touching. She never realised how cold she had become in these past three months, she can't go back like that now, she can't be away from him. Not again.
Where are you? Hurry up Brooke, how hard is it to get some nerds out of a school?
The text was from Alex.
She looked up at Julian. ''Y-you're a mathlete?'' she asked, fear completely taking over now.
She could never escape the popularity and the pranks, they always came back and they always managed to bite her on the ass.
He nodded, his face scrunched in confusion. ''Yeah, is there something wrong with that?''
She shook her head, ''No, no. I was just wondering. Do you, um, want to get out of here? So we can... talk or something.''
Michael snickered, Like they'd be talking.
''Um, yeah, sure.'' he said, still slightly confused. He turn to the others, ''Is it okay if I leave early?''
''Yeah sure, whatever.''
Brooke tried to get rid of the guilt, but she just couldn't. She couldn't believe she was about to let Julian's new friends get humiliated like this, but if she didn't then Alex would find a way to hurt her, she's done it before.
Last year, Alex told Haley to do her homework for her, she somehow got it into her mind that she was more popular than Haley. Of course, Haley told her where to stick her homework. Alex didn't like that at all, she spread a rumour that Haley wasn't a virgin, and was the mother of Jenny, Jake's daughter. That rumour only died down a couple of months, it caused a lot of trouble. Nathan got suspended twice, for getting into fights when boys made comments about Haley. She shed more tears than she had in a lifetime, because of the lies, and how Nathan got in trouble because of her.
Even though Brooke is the captain, Alex will manage to humiliate her somehow. Atleast she can save Julian some humiliation today, she just hopes his friends don't get hurt.
After saying goodbye she took his hand and lead him the opposite way from the exit.
''I thought the exit was that way?'' Julian asked.
''It is, but I figured we could cut through the fire escape, it's a quicker way to my car.'' she lied.
He just nodded and followed her, he didn't know where the hell they were going so he just went her way. Besides, he'd follow her anywhere.
Right now as she walked towards her car, Brooke Davis was angry. She hated for her reunion with Julian was spoiled by other people, she hated how other peoples lies hurt her friends, she hated that other peoples pranks are going to hurt nice people.
Julian brought their interwined hands to his lips and kissed hers.
Okay, so maybe that made her a little less angry.
''Lets go to your house.'' she said cheerily, trying to get rid of the horrible feeling in her stomach.
After they had gotten lost for half an hour, because Julian forgot the way to his house. They finally arrived, it wasn't much, it was just a normal house on a normal street. As she glanced along the houses, she sighed, everything always looked so normal, but it never is. And probably right now, Marvin McFadden, Chase Adams, Rachel Gatina and Michael Grubbs were probably covered in egg.
''You okay?'' he asked as they walked to the door, after she nodded he said, ''Sorry in advance, my mom's been really happy since the divorce, so she may hug you.''
She shook her head and smiled, ''I don't care, as long as I'm here.''
He smiled when he got a strange feeling in his stomach, it felt... nice. She's turning me into a sissy he thought, but strangely, he didn't care, not for a second.
They walked into the house. Boxes were scattered around the living room, some empty, some still full of belongings. Brooke smiled, she liked the homey feel of it already, it was a lot better than her house.
''Julian, honey. Is that you?'' a sweet voice called from another room.
''Yeah,'' he shouted back.
''How was your first day?'' she asked walking into the living room, she stopped when she saw a girl holding her sons hand. ''Who's this?''
''Hi, I'm Brooke.'' Brooke introduced, sending her a small wave. She was sensing some déjà vu here, she had waved to Julian like that not long ago in the classroom, but this is a lot different, now she's holding his hand.
The teenagers were both confused when Sylvia didn't even smile at Brooke, she glared. ''Aren't you the girl from Richard Davis' business function a couple of months back?''
She nodded, not trusting her voice at this point, she was so scared of this woman. She was nothing like she was last time, she wasn't happy like Julian had said. She made no move to hug Brooke, she looked like she wanted to strangle her.
''Mom, were going upstairs.'' Julian said, not giving his mom a chance to say anything before dragging Brooke up the stairs. They walked into one of the rooms and Julian closed the door. ''Sorry about that, I don't know what's up with her.''
Brooke looked around, this was clearly Julian's room. And it was clear he didn't really care what it looked like, there was a bed, a wardrobe, a chest of draws, and a desk. Also, there was a poster on the wall, a movie poster 'Thin Red Line' was the title, and there was a army soldier on it too. She noticed a shelf, where atleast fifty DVD's were all placed on.
''You sure have a lot of movies,'' she stated walking over to the them, one caught her eye so she picked it up. ''Grease 2?'' she asked with a raised eyebrow.
''Hey, it's a good movie.'' he defended.
''Sure,'' she giggled, and placed it back onto the shelf.
''So I guess we should talk, huh.'' Julian said awkwardly, sitting down on the chair at his desk.
Brooke sat on the edge of the bed, ''I guess so,''
Haley and Lucas hid behind one of the cars in the parking lott, they really didn't want to do this, so they decided to hide it out, so they didn't have to humiliate them. Haley knows it's not nice to be humiliated, so she doesn't want to do that to someone else.
They winced when they heard one of the eggs splattering, and Damien laughing. Then they heard a scream in pain. Haley looked through the window of the car and saw Marvin Mcfadden stood horror struck as the read headed girl got egged.
Haley had never felt so terrible, she sighed when Chase got hit in the stomach. Chase is in her English class, he's sweet, she always hears him being nice to people, he even gave her a pen once when hers ran out of ink.
Michael Grubbs is really good at singing, she heard him once. He heard her singing in a empty classroom last year, and told her she was amazing. He didn't deserve this.
Marvin Mcfadden hasn't been at Tree Hill High for long, she feels horrible that this will probably be his worst day here.
She doesn't really know Rachel Gatina much, but she still doesn't think this read headed girl deserved it.
''This isn't fair, Luke.'' she whispered. Lucas looked over at his best friend and realised that she had tears in her eyes, he felt exactly the same way she does, it kills him to see her this way.
''Then lets stop it,'' he stated simply, right now he'd do anything to take the pain away from his best friend.
''How?''
''I don't know Hales, but we have to, look at them, it's not fair.''
He stood up and grabbed her hand, pulling her up with him. They walked infront of the mathletes, causing their teammates to stop throwing eggs and looked at them in confusion.
''Stop it okay? This isn't fair.'' she said shakily. ''If you want to carry on, then fine. But you'll just have to get us instead.''
Lucas turned to the mathletes, ''Go.''
They quickly ran to the parking lott, not looking back. Not wanting to know what might happen to the people who just defended them.
Alex didn't think twice, she quickly threw one of the eggs at Haley, which hit her cheek. Causing everyone to look at her in shock, who did Alex think she was doing that?
''What the hell do you think you're doing, skank?'' Peyton demanded marching over to her and pulling her hair.
''Ow.'' she screamed in pain. ''It's tradition.'' she whined as Peyton didn't release the grip on her hair, she only continued to pull in harder.
''I don't care, you do not hurt my friends, do you understand?''
''Yeah, fine. Just let me go.'' she begged.
With one last yank on her hair, Peyton let go and ran over to Haley, who Nathan was now with.
''Are you okay?'' he asked with his hands softly on her face, inspecting where the egg had hit.
Haley winced at his touch and nodded, ''Yeah, she threw it pretty hard.''
Nathan felt his heart break when a tear rolled down her cheek, he so badly wanted to kiss it away, but he couldn't. So he chose to hug her instead, and settled for a kiss on the top of her head.
''Shows over, go.'' Jake shouted to the rest of the team.
There were groans and mumbles of 'this sucks' as the Ravens girls and boys walked to their cars.
Haley pulled away from Nathan, ''I need to see if they're okay.'' she said quickly and ran over to the direction where the mathletes had went only a couple of minutes before.
''This is so weird.'' Brooke said after a couple of minutes of silence. They were suppossed to be talking about them, but they didn't know what to say or where to start, so it has gotten pretty awkward.
''Not weird weird, but like exciting weird?'' he asked, quite proud of himself that he'd just quoted his favorite movie.
She nodded, ''Yeah. I just can't believe it, like when I saw you in history-''
''You saw me in history?'' he asked, ''Why didn't you say anything?''
''I was nervous! I'd not saw you in months, I thought I was dreaming.'' she exclaimed. ''Plus, we couldn't exactly do what we did earlier infront of Mr. Roberts, he would have had a heart attack.''
Julian chuckled, ''You' been dreaming about me Davis?''
She winked, ''Maybe.''
He then remembered something and looked at her in confusion, ''How come I didn't see you in history then? I looked around the room, you weren't there.''
She blushed and looked down, ''IHidUnderTheTable.'' she mumbled quickly.
''What?''
''IHidUnderTheTable.'' she repeated, still not looking him in the eye. She knew that if she did then she'd turn a whole new shade of red.
He chuckled, ''Brooke, talk slower, I can't understand you.''
''I hid under the table, okay!'' she shouted, then blushed furiously.
He laughed so hard he had to clutch his stomach to try and control it. ''What did you think I was going to do? Murder you or something.''
''No,'' she denied. ''I just... I've never felt like this before, I didn't know what to do. And I saw you stood there, it was like everything fell into place. I just didn't know what to do with it, it freaked me out. I didn't know why you were here, or if you even remembered me.''
He walked closer to the bed and kneeled infront of her, he took her face in his hands. ''How could I ever forget you? I haven't stopped thinking about you for months.''
He brought her face to his and kissed her, it was softer than the last time, less urgent. But still perfect, like always.
''So what happens now?'' she asked softly. She really didn't want to ruin the moment, but she had to ask.
He took his hands off her face, ''This is all pretty intense, we haven't seen eachother for months, then I moved here not knowing you lived here too, it's so Grease. How about we start with a date, Saturday night. Until then, we'll just hang out.''
She smirked, ''You seem so sure that I'll say yes to this date.''
''Will you?'' he asked, with a smirk of his own.
''Well I will if you ask me properly.'' she stated, folding her arms over her chest.
He sighed, but gave in. ''Brooke Davis, will you go on a date with me Saturday night?''
''Why of course Julian Baker, how nice of you to ask.''
AN: I'm not really impressed with this chapter. I didn't want to deal with their reunion flippantly, but I didn't want to go over the top. I really really hope you liked it.
Please don't hate Brooke, for letting the other mathletes get egged. She was just trying to protect Julian, he was her main priority. High School is evil, if she doesn't agree to what they say then her popularity is gone. And she's seen what happens to the unpopular people and doesn't want that to be her. Haley and Lucas obviously didn't care as much as she does.
I also didn't know how to write Julians mom, I know she's coming in OTH soon. I read that she'll be like a 'monster-in-law', but I didn't know how she'd treat Brooke exactly. So once she comes onto the show I'll be able to write her better.
I hope you liked the Grease 2 quote Not weird weird, but like exciting weird. I want to add some more in the story, I love when they write the film into the show:]
The next chapter will get the Naley ball rolling. I really want to start writing some more Naley in this (it wont interrupt any Brulian)
Thanks for all your reviews, favorites and alerts. I love you all!
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