BPOV

"Babe?" Peyton pauses until I look at her. "You know I'll support you in whatever you decide to do, but you do know that you don't have to do this right?" I simply nod my head and give her an awkward hug seeing as we're still in her car.

I take a deep breath then open the door. "Time to show him who's boss P. Sawyer," I state happily. I know what Peyton's thinking, but I really am fine. It wasn't just him beating on me like she probably thinks. I got in some pretty damn good hits if I do say so myself.

She gets out and walks over to me silently holding out her hand, it's a question and a promise. She's questioning whether or not I'm ready to make our relationship public and she's promising to always be there. I nod my head and intertwine our fingers as we begin to walk towards the school, heads held high.

LPOV

I was leaning against my locker talking to Felix before class when I saw Haley and Nathan walk through the doors. "Hey man I'm sorry to cut our conversation short but I need to talk to Haley and Nathan before class. Catch you later?"

"Yeah. Hey and when you see my sister tell her to come find me please?" he asked before walking down the hallway to his own locker.

I jog up to Haley and hug her tightly. "So? Do you think they finally did it?" I asked excitedly.

"Honestly Luke I really think they did. From what you told me about your talk with Peyton, and from the talk I had with Brooke, I really think they finally confessed," she replied with a smile.

"I really hope so. I texted Peyton last night but I never got a reply back."

"Maybe they were to busy, if you know what I mean," Nathan replied with a smirk that turned into a grimace when Haley backhanded him in the stomach.

"Ignore him," she told me with a scowl. "Look Lucas maybe she didn't text you back because they were to busy sorting everything out."
"Yeah I'm sure you're right Hales, it's just..."

"Just what?" she questioned curiously.

"It's just I kinda have this nagging suspicion that something more happened last night, and not all of it good," I told them hesitantly.

"I'm sure it's nothing Luke," Nathan said happily.

"Yeah you're probably right. I'm going to go look for Anna before class starts."

"Alright, we'll see you at lunch."

"Later Luke," Nathan yelled after me.

"Hey there you are," I say excitedly when I finally find my girlfriend.

"Oh hey Lucas," Anna replies looking somewhat distressed.

"Is everything alright? You look like somethings bothering you," I question her concerned.

"Huh? Oh it's nothing. Don't worry I promise I'm fine." When she sees that I'm still not convinced she gives me a quick kiss and says "I promise Luke, I'm fine."

"Alright babe I believe you. There's Peyton and Brooke, I need to go talk to them, but do you wanna come with?"

"Oh, no I can't I need to go find Felix," she says quickly.

"Kay. And yeah he asked me to ask you to find him, so that works out perfectly."

"I'll see you later."

"Kay. Bye babe," I say before I lean in and give her a quick kiss goodbye.

As I approach the two of them, Brooke stuffs her head into her locker and Peyton waves to me. I find it odd that Brooke's hiding from me but who knows why she does half the things she ends up doing. As I reach them I hear Brooke whispering furiously to Peyton but I can't make out what she's saying.

"You know Brooke, secrets don't make friends," I say teasingly.

"Yeah well...whatever," she replies quickly. That's her brilliant comeback? Is she feeling ok?

"Hey Brooke? Are you feeling ok? Your comebacks are never that lame," I ask with genuine concern. After I ask that I see Peyton tense up and she now looks pissed. Huh...I wonder where Peyton's anger came from. She seemed fine earlier. I hope she's not mad at me, cause a pissed off Peyton's scary.

"Hey Luke? Brooke and I need to talk real quick, but I'll see you later kay?" Peyton asks me after some more whispers from Brooke.

"Um, yeah sure," I tell her, confusion written all over my face.

First period's over and I'm looking for Brooke. I heard some pretty horrible things about her during class, and now I want to make sure they're not true. I hear yelling in the next hallway and quicken my steps to see what's going on. I pick up my speed to a jog when I realize that Peyton's the one doing the yelling, and I reach the hallway she's in just in time to see her slap Felix. I'm frozen for all of two seconds until I see him raise his hand to her, then I'm jumping between them and pushing him into the lockers behind him.

"Dude! What the hell?" I scream at him. "You're not supposed to hit a woman. Period."

He looks pissed but stays quiet. I turn around to ask Peyton what the hell was going on when I catch sight of Brooke beside her. I never knew I could get so angry. As soon as I caught sight of her my vision turned red and I didn't even think about my next actions. I turned around and caught Felix with a right hook to his jaw. He stumbled backwards in surprise, but didn't get a chance to recover because I was already throwing another punch that caught him in his eye. He finally took a swing at me and caught me in the side of the head but I was to full of rage to feel any pain. I got to throw another couple of punches, one broke his nose, one blacked his other eye, and two were to his stomach, before Nathan was able to get me off of him.

"Lucas! Lucas stop!" I finally heard Nathan screaming in my ear, telling me to stop fighting against his hold. I reluctantly did but only because I caught sight of Felix kneeling on the ground. I looked around at the crowd that had gathered around during the fight. Peyton was smirking and when I caught her eye she gave me a thumbs up and mouthed "Good job", Brooke was leaning into Peyton's side and was smiling at me in thanks, and Haley looked scared and angry. Great now I'm going to have to convince Haley AND my mom not to be angry with me. I looked back over to Felix and saw Anna trying to help him stand. She caught my eye and gave me a look that told me she was disgusted with me.

"Luke we're over," she told me as she passed with Felix gripping onto her for dear life.

"Ok," was my simple reply. Yeah I mean I liked her and all, but her brother was a douche.

Nathan lead me outside to his car before any teachers could arrive. I hopped in and he drove us to his and Haley's apartment.

"Don't tell Haley I said this but nice job dude," he told me with a slap on my back.

"Thanks. Is Haley and the girls coming to," I question tiredly. Apparently fights and rage can take a lot out of a person.

"Yup they were right behind us," Nate said warily.

PPOV

The first thing I did when I walked into Nathan and Haley's place was give Lucas a big huge. I couldn't possibly find the words to thank him for doing what he did for Brooke and I told him so. It's now a few hours later and we're just talking in the living room. Brooke's sitting on my lap discreetly nibbling on my neck and it's driving me crazy. Finally I can't take it anymore and decide we have to leave. Now.

"Hey guys. It's time for Brooke to take another pain pill so we're going to have to go, but thanks for letting us hang," I told them quickly.

"Of course Peyton. You know that you and Brooke are welcome here anytime," Haley told me sincerely. While Nate just nodded.

"Thanks. And Lucas, thank you again, really," I tell him while giving him another hug.

"I already told you, you don't have to thank me. It was my pleasure trust me," he replied with a smirk.

"Well we're going to thank you anyway because what you did for me was sweet," Brooke told him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

After a last round of goodbyes we finally set off towards my house. Brooke decided to be cruel and place her hand extremely high on the inside of my thigh. I broke every speed limit in Tree Hill and made it to my place in record time.

A/N: I hope I did the chapter justice. Thanks to all reviewers. I now know why other authors always say that reviews are like their crack = ) Thanks for reading and let me know if you want a sequel. Sorry it was so short.