Author Notes: Ok no talking from me this time. Thanks to my girls, you know who you are. And Baley!

You Found Me - Chapter Four – Giving up…

"Brooke, wait up! Jesus…"

Brooke stopped in her tracks. Haley wasn't that far away but at this rate she would never be able to catch her up to her. She turned around and it was Peyton Sawyer, her best friend. She really didn't have time for whatever Peyton wanted.

"Hey, Peyton. What 's up?" Brooke asked.

"Why are you chasing after that girl?" Peyton asked.

"I thought…I mean…I was going to beat her ass. She said she wasn't going to do my paper…so I said…yeah right and I chased her…" Brooke winced from making up such a story but she couldn't tell Peyton the truth. Whatever the truth was. Hell she didn't know herself.

"Really? Who the fuck does she think she is? Let's get the squad together and teach her a lesson." Peyton pulled out her phone and started dialing.

"Are you trying to say I can't handle her? Besides, she is barely worth the attention of the squad."Brooke snatched the phone and closed it. As usual, Peyton was overreacting. God she was such a drama queen sometimes. She still could not believe how easy it was for to talk about Haley like she didn't exist.

"Hey, isn't she that homeless looking chick that usually hangs around Lucas? I think I have English with her, Haley or something?" Peyton said snatching her phone.

"Something is right. She is a nobody so there is no reason to go after. We can just leave her alone." Brooke felt a pang of regret from saying that but it was the only way to keep Peyton from sending the cheer-monsters after Haley.

"Well it's a good thing she is standing behind you crying? Saves me the trouble of finding her later and fucking her up." Peyton laughed and pointed over Brooke's shoulder.

Brooke felt her heart drop down to the bottoms of her feet. She turned around and there was Haley in her grey sweatshirt and her faded blue jeans. She didn't noticed before the sweatshirt was little beat up before. She had tears streaming down her face and she looked like she had been punched in the face. Her eyes were burning into hers. Brooke just wanted to roll up into a ball and disappear. Why did she say those things?

"I fucking knew it…" Haley hissed through her clenched teeth.

"Let me explain…" Brooke wanted to reach out and touch Haley's hands. She wanted to touch them and tell her that she didn't mean any of the things she had heard. God, all she wanted was to take back the last 20 minutes. As she reached for her hand, Haley took a step back.

"Get away from me…" Haley said.

"Haley, it's not like that…"Brooke took a step forward. If she could just touch her hand, she could get through to her.

"It's not like what? I say we kick her ass right now…"Peyton said stepping forward as well but Brooke held her arm in her path.

"Peyton, shut up." Brooke said.

"Oh come on, she's a nothing. Lucas told me that all she does sit in the tutor center and sit in the library. Her parents don't even like her. If we beat the shit out of her right here, no would fucking notice. How messed up is that?" Peyton tried to push past Brooke again but Haley stood her ground.

"I knew it…this was all some sick fucking game for you…so I am glad you got your laughs in Brooke. Because you know what? Your friend over there is right about me. I am a nothing. I don't even matter. I am just fucking loser who thought you cared…" Haley's voice sounded so hurt and angry that Brooke was sure that none of her words could ever get past the anger she saw. Brooke felt the tears welling up in her eyes. She paused for second but only because Peyton was there. And then she realized that it didn't matter to if Peyton was there or not. She couldn't let Haley believe this.

"Haley, baby, please…you have to know…that's not true…I do care…" Brooke took another step towards Haley with her hand still reaching for hers.

"Baby?" Peyton muttered.

"I hate this school. I hate Lucas. I hate my parents and I hate you for making me think that I matter. Stay the fuck away from me." Haley said with the venom that she possessed.

"You don't mean that…please don't say that…"Brooke said. She felt like she had shot right in the chest. Each word that Haley said was a bullet into her soul. She had managed to destroy the one person that had got past all of her bluster and money. Haley didn't care about any of that. All she wanted was to get know her. She looked into Haley's eyes again hoping to see something. But the only thing she saw was hurt.

"Fuck you. This is over. Stay away from me." Haley turned around and walked away.

"God damn it..." Brooke whispered. She stood there silently watching Haley walk away. Why didn't she just tell the truth to Peyton? Was she ashamed of saying that she was falling for Haley? She didn't have any answers for those questions but she knew that she couldn't just let Haley go. Not this time.

"This isn't over, Haley." Brooke said.

"What the fuck is going on, Brooke?"Peyton said throwing her hands up.

"Can you please shut the fuck up? Get Haley's address from Lucas and text it to me. And don't you ever say anything like that about her again or I'll personally kick your bony ass." Brooke growled.

"Ok, ok. God…"Peyton said and ran back towards the school.

A little later on that day…

When Haley got home, she went into the bathroom and stared at herself in the mirror. How could she have been so wrong about everything? She couldn't even look at herself in the mirror. Haley closed her eyes and the only thing she could hear was Brooke and Peyton saying everything that she always knew. She wasn't anything important. She dressed like shit. She looked like shit. Even her so called best friend had been telling his new friends about how worthless she is. And that the worst part of all was that, Brooke had lied to her. Her soul was wrong about Lucas and wrong about Brooke. She could take this anymore. Nobody gave a shit about her. No one would notice if she just got up one day and left Tree Hill for good.

"I bet they wouldn't even notice if I died…" Haley whispered. Suddenly all of the noise and chaos in her mind disappeared. A calm settle over her from that thought. Could she actually do it? How would she do it? Would she actually be able to go through with it? Would Brooke miss her? Haley pulled on the mirror and behind it was a medicine cabinet. Was she really going to do this? Where things really that bad? Just because Peyton said Lucas said those things; doesn't mean that he really said it. But Lucas doesn't talk to her anymore. And Brooke…Brooke did exactly what she thought. She tried to see past of the labels and the money she had but it turned out she was just a punch line to her.

"Stop it, just stop it…" Haley said sounding as empty as she felt. She just wanted her mind to stop running through these thoughts. She just wanted the noise to stop. Haley started going through the bottles in the cabinet. She knew that her mom had something in here that would work. She kept looking and looking throwing each bottle over her shoulder when she didn't see what she was looking for.

"Here it is…" Haley whispered. The bottle had some kind label on it but she didn't care what it said. She took the lid off and dumped a couple of pills in her hand. She closed the cabinet and saw her reflection. Her eyes were red and puffy. Her hair was all over the place. She didn't look anything like the girl that had left this house earlier. She couldn't take it anymore. If nobody gave a fuck about Haley James, then what was the point of her being there? Haley took a deep breath and filled the cup on the sink up with water. She tossed the seven pills into her mouth, took a sip of water from the cup, and swallowed them.

"That's better…" Haley whispered and went back downstairs to wait for the pills to take effect.

Ten Minutes Later…

When Brooke pulled up to Haley's house, she still felt like the biggest asshole on the planet. She got out of her car and started walking up to the front porch. The house looked it could fit inside of Brooke's guest house but it had a certain charm to it. She still didn't have any idea of what she was going to say. How could she say anything that would sound like a lie? Brooke stopped on the porch. Every part of her was saying get out of there. The voice in her head just kept saying she's not going to listen. Brooke took a deep breath and rang the doorbell. She jiggled the handle and the door slowly opened.

"Hello? Haley? You in here…"Brooke said. She didn't hear anything so she stepped inside of the house. When she got inside, she saw her back pack sitting at the bottom of the stairs. Brooke went up the stairs just a little to see if Haley was maybe hiding up there.

"Haley…baby…"Brooke called but she wasn't getting a response. She started to get this weird feeling in the pit of her stomach. There was something wrong about this. Haley was here. She had to be. Brooke went further into the house. Her heart was beating so fast and she felt like she was going to throw up. As she came into the kitchen, Brooke was the last thing she wanted to see.

"Oh, god…"

It was Haley. She was lying in the floor of the kitchen. She had a cut on her head was some blood streaming across her forehead. There was broken mug next to her and it looked like she had been lying there for awhile. Brooke ran over and kneeled beside her. She checked to see if she was breathing and pulled her phone to dial 911.

"This is my fault…what have I done…"

To Be Continued…