AN – Thanks for all who reviewed.
Life as you know it can change in a second.
A single decision can alter the rest of your life
A lie is said in seconds and takes a life time to take back.
Nathan sat on the sofa in his flat waiting for Brooke to get out the shower
They'd only been home from the hospital for an hour and already Nathan had tried 3 times to take back the lie he'd said
It was impossible.
How could he turn round and look deep into her eyes and tell her that he could die?
The pain and loss and grief and hurt he'd cause her was just too much.
He was being selfish, he knew that, but he didn't know how to change what he'd already done.
"What you thinking about?" Brooke whispered standing behind him in just a towel
"You." He answered honestly, "Damn you look hot baby."
Brooke laughed and planted a kiss on his lips
He pulled her onto his lap and kissed her on the neck, in that place he knew she loved
She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him
"Promise me everything will be ok?" She mumbled
He simply nodded, not wanting to lie to her anymore
She smiled, weakly, and jumped up off his lap
"And where do you think you're going?" he asked
"To get dressed?" She answered giggling,
"I don't think so!" he got up and started tickling her as she ran round the living room before collapsing on the floor in a fit of laughter
He lay on top of her and gently placed his lips against hers
He sat up and she wrapped her legs around him
"Brooke, thank you for coming with me today."
She smiled at him before replying
"Anytime, boyfriend."
He hadn't heard her call him boyfriend since that night that they almost broke up.
The night that his life had changed, two months ago.
FLASHBACK
It was a normal Saturday night; Nathan was in the kitchen of another person's house, at yet again another house party. Each week the team would be invited to house parties and being captain, he had to go. It was only 8:30 but Nathan, and pretty much every other person there was drunk. He was surrounded by beautiful girls, all flirting with him, trying to get with the Ravens Captain who had scored the winning shot of their last basketball game.
His eyes were locked on one girl in particular; his girlfriend was sat on the sofa surrounded by boys, all flirting trying to get with the most popular girl in school. He could tell she was drunk and he wasn't impressed with the way one boy had his hand placed on her leg. It'd had been there for the past ten minutes and she hadn't pushed him away. Nathan was getting really annoyed so he stormed over and grabbed the boy by the neck and pushed him up against a wall.
"Leave my girlfriend alone, before I break your nose. Get it?" Nathan's anger had once again got the better of him
"Nathan get off him! What the hell is the matter with you?" Brooke pushed him as he span round
"I'm sorry I don't like watching other boys grope my girlfriend and her enjoying it!"
Brooke slapped him across the face
"Grow up Nathan!" She screamed before storming out of the living room and into the garden where her friend Rachel gave her a shot
Nathan turned round to try and find the boy he'd just threatened but he'd already gone
He stormed back into the kitchen and took a bottle of vodka from the side and downing the lot
"Hey handsome." He turned round to see a curly blonde haired girl leaning against the counter
"Do I know you?"
"Probably not. My names Peyton. Yours?"
"Nathan." She smiled at him and moved a little closer
"Want to go upstairs where it's quieter so we can, um, talk?" She kinked her eyebrow letting him know she had no intention of talking
"Sure."
He found himself agreeing, she grabbed his hand and led the way
Brooke was stood just outside the kitchen and saw and heard everything,
She watched Nathan follow some blonde girl up the stairs
Lucas came out of the garden and saw Brooke staring at the stairs,
He looked up and saw his brother going upstairs with some other girl
The girl turned round and started making out with Nathan
Before he even knew what he was doing
He'd ran past Brooke and rugby tackled Nathan to the ground
"Lucas what the hell are you doing? Get off me you idiot!" Nathan pushed Lucas off him and tried to stand up
The girl sat on the step, looking confused,
While Brooke stood at the bottom of the stairs, tears falling down her face
Nathan looked at Brooke, and realised what he was doing
Lucas walked down the stairs; putting his arm round Brookes shoulders he led her to his car
She didn't even question what he was doing, or why he was doing it
She was just glad he was there
"Brooke wait, let me explain!" Nathan shouted as he chased after them
By now, all the people at the party had come outside to see what was going on
"Leave her alone Nate. Go home, sober up." Lucas said, not even looking at his brother
"This is nothing to do with you Lucas. Get your hands off my girlfriend." Nathan tried to punch Lucas,
But as Nathan had been drinking, Lucas easily dodged it and pushed him
Nathan went flying and landed in a heap on the floor
Fresh tears started spilling from Brookes eyes
"Brooke, don't leave me!" He shouted as she turned round and opened the door to Lucas's car.
"Brooke! If you leave now, that's it we're over…"
His last words hung in the air as she stood with her back to him
She didn't even turn round, knowing that if she did she'd forgive him,
She got in the car and waited for Lucas to start the engine
_ _ _ _ FLASHBACK ENDED_ _ _
Lucas sat on the edge of his bed thinking over all that had happened today
He was happy that Nathan was ok, but there was a part of him that didn't understand
He was there when the Doctors has said how slim the chance was that they would both be ok
He saw the look in Nathans eyes when he heard the news, like his whole life had just ended,
Lucas shook his head not wanting to doubt his brother,
He felt his phone vibrate in his pocket letting him know he had a text
_ "River Court? Nate"_
Lucas fired back a reply and grabbed his shoes
Running to the court he thought how strange it was that not even a year ago, he didn't even talk to Nathan let alone admit they were brothers
He hoped that the two would sort out their differences.
Nathan saw Lucas sprinting along the path as he made a basket
"Hey Luke" Nathan smiled
Lucas returned the smile, and stole the ball from him
Spinning round he a made a shot
"Nice!" Lucas turned round to see Brooke and Rachel sat on the benches watching the boys play
He smiled at them both and laughed when Rachel winked at him
"Damn Luke is hot!" Rachel whispered to Brooke
Brooke laughed but didn't take her eyes of Nathan, he seemed quiet and so unlike his usual cocky self
"you okay Nate?" she asked when he came over to get a drink
"yup." He didn't even look at her, just ran back onto the court and made a shot
"What's his problem?" Rachel asked Brooke
"I don't know. We were fine earlier. I'm going to take off, I'm tired. See you tomorrow at school."
"Bye whore, love ya!" Brooke smiled at her friend before walking over to Nathan
"Hey, I think I'm going to go home, you coming?"
Nathan just shook his head and carried on making free throws
She shook her head and started walking back to his flat
Walking for about 5 minutes she jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder
"Hey, I was tired and my house is just down the road from Nates so I thought I'd walk with you, if that's ok?" Lucas asked almost shyly
"Yeah sure, it'll be nice to have the company" Brooke replied
"Cool."
After a minutes silence Brooke burst out laughing
"What's so funny?" Lucas asked looking at her like she was crazy
"Nothing. You just don't talk much do you Scott?"
"Not really. Sometimes it's nice to just be in silence."
"You're so broody! Cheer up!" She laughed giving him a big grin
"Fine, if I'm broody, you'd be cheery." He laughed at her
"I like that nickname Scott."
He smiled at her,
Reaching the flat, he gave her a hug
"See you later, Cheery."
"Bye Broody!" She laughed, liking her new name
Entering the flat she turned the music on loud, she hated being home alone
She text Nathan asking how long he was going to be, but he didn't reply
She really didn't know what his issue is,
Before they went to the river court they were fine,
As soon as they got there he hardly said a word to her,
'Looks like the old Nathan Scotts back' she thought to herself.
Just as he walked into the flat, muttered a hello and walked straight into the bathroom
Brooke had had enough
"Nathan Scott get your stupid ass out here now!" She shouted, losing her tempter
"What?" he poked his head out the bathroom door with a toothbrush in his hand
"I need to talk to you."
"Okay, let me just clean my teeth hang on." She let out a huge sigh and flopped onto the chair
"Sorry, I'm done. What's up?" He sat on the chair opposite her, trying to hide how worried he was
All he could think was that she'd found out the truth about his HCM
"I don't get you Nathan! One minute you're so lovely and sweet and the next you'll hardly talk to me! I never know what mood you're going to be in and I'm getting tired of trying to figure out what is wrong.
Some days you'll act like I'm the most important thing in your life, and then the following day you'll act like I'm not even there!..."
"Brooke hang on…"
"No let me finish Nate! I'm serious, god, we've been together for so long now and all we do is fight! I use to miss you so much when we fought, I'd cry all the time but you never ever acted like you missed me, and I guess because of that I stopped missing you.
When you're in a good mood, I honestly couldn't be happier, but you'll just switch and I won't have a clue what I've done or how to stop you being mad.
You get angry all the time and take it out on me. I'm tired of being your verbal little punching bag!
I know that today has been hard, and I should probably have waited until a different day but I miss the Nathan Scott that I fell for.
The boy that sent me flowers every day for a month to show me how much he wanted to be with me.
The Nathan Scott that could make my day better with just a smile.
Where did he go Nate?
I miss him."
Tears started welling up in her eyes
"Brooke, are you breaking up with me?"
AN – I hope you enjoyed Chapter three.
I've finished college for the summer now so I'll be updating almost every day. Please review.