CH. 5 Unexpected
So far, so good; everybody was getting along, no insults or thrown punches.
Rachel and Brooke were beating Lucas and Peyton's sorry butts. Right now they had them cornered between the shed in the corner of the property and the fence. Lucas tried to protect Peyton and shield her with his arms and giving his backs to the girls, it was useless; from across the street you could hear all the laughs. The only ones missing were Haley and Nathan but Rachel and Brooke didn't worry they'd get them later.
Peyton finally caved in," Ok I give up, you guys win!" she threw her hands in the air and the girls stopped." Gross I got silly string in my mouth." Lucas tried wiping his tongue on his sleeve, he looked really weird. Peyton just kissed his cheek, "You're such a dork, but I love you." Rachel and Brooke pretended to gag but still smiled at their sweetness.
Haley watched from the garage's window at how Brooke was enjoying herself and that itch to turn that smile into a frown irritated her. Brooke had this closeness with Nathan that she didn't have at all. Haley knew that once she dated the basketball superstar everything would be so different, they came from different worlds, but she was in love and when it came right down to the basics; it didn't matter.
Nathan watched at how Haley's intense glare was directed at his childhood friends. He really was so confused at how Rachel's simple question made him feel so awkward around Brooke, he had gotten so use to his friends that he didn't bat an eyelash when they walked around the house in their underwear looking for their clothes, and when Brooke did just that before the game looking for her cheerleading uniform he almost had a heart attack.
His best friend was beautiful and he was an idiot.
"Nathan come on we got to move before they find us." Haley beckoned him and when she opened the door they were ambushed by Peyton, Brooke, Lucas, and Rachel.
They were being covered by blue, purple, orange, and green silly string," I surrender!" he said the magic words and got a mouthful of silly string. He looked at Haley, she looked ridiculously funny and they were all laughing together.
The Gatina kitchen was filled with tense silence as the teenagers prepared dinner. Lucas and Nathan were setting up the table in silence, neither one not knowing how to start a conversation with the other, Peyton and Rachel were in charge of the burgers and fries that were on the stove but both girls kept their ears and eyes trained on Brooke and Haley who were in charge of dessert.
Brooke had just finished putting the brownie mix in a pan and Haley was making a fruit salad; so far the salad had melon, watermelon, strawberries, grapes and she was going to ask for the apples when she noticed the sign that was on the refrigerator that had a snap shot of all that were present in the kitchen minus her. Why wasn't she in it? She slammed the cutting board down, making Brooke jump a foot in the air and Peyton just muffled down her giggles, Rachel was oblivious to it all concentrating on making sure she didn't burn the burgers.
Taking deep breaths and reigning in the green jealousy monster, Haley pushed away the murderous ideas and continued cutting the fruit up.
The table was set and food finally cooked. Nathan sat at one end and Lucas on the other; Rachel grabbed chair to Nathan's left while Peyton sat next to her and on Lucas's right. Both Haley and Brooke went to seat down on Nathan's right and glared at each other.
"Well Haley, I always sit to Nathan's right and Rachel always on his left you can take the other chair right?" Brooke tried to snatch the chair away but Haley had an iron grip on it.
Haley smiled tightly and through clenched teeth replied," No I think I'll sit here, because you know I'm Nathan's girlfriend?" Brooke's face fell at the word girlfriend.
Meanwhile Lucas and Peyton tried to pretend like they weren't in the room and Rachel cackled internally waiting on the moment Brooke would pounce like wild animal and attack Haley. Nathan couldn't believe this; did he really have to choose between the two of them?
Nathan cleared his throat," Haley why don't you sit by me this time, won't that be nice Brooke?"
Brooke couldn't believe this, he CHOSE her. The code between the three of them was to never pick the boyfriend or girlfriend over any of them, he broke the freaking code and as she looked over to Rachel, she was kinda glad that she wasn't the only one that remembered the code.
" Fine Haley, you can have this seat, but I think I'll go eat somewhere else…more like my house where I can sit wherever the hell I want." Brooke shoved past her and headed straight to the kitchen to fix herself a plate and got the whole batch of brownies for herself. She didn't have to look back if Rachel was gonna follow or not, but sure enough she heard the slap of Rachel's flip flops.
" Really Nathan I never would see the day you would run me out of my own damn house for some girl, you disgust me by tomorrow I expect your stuff to be out." Rachel slammed the front door on her way out.
The dinning room was quiet. Rachel wasn't there to complain about people and Brooke wasn't there bickering with Peyton to see who could eat the most brownies, the only thing heard was forks being scraped against plates and the awkward gulping.
With each ticking minute, Nate felt like this emptiness was going to engulf him, like the halves that made up his heart had being ripped out. He needed to make peace, he had done the unthinkable, he had broken their code of friendship.
When everybody had finally left he grabbed his keys and sped off to the only family that he had ever known. As he arrived to Brooke's big ass house, he saw that the only light that was on was the one in the kitchen. With his headdown he entered the house and he wasn't surprised to see that the door wasn't locked. Who locks their door in Tree Hill?
He quietly made his way in the darkened house to the only light visible, his destination, his salvation or downfall, the stupid kitchen.
Brooke and Rachel were seated in opposite ends of the table, they were playing Uno." Deal me in."They didn't even look up, that was a good sign if they weren't surprised to see him show up, now the groveling started.
Rachel decided that she should take the first jab," Clean the bathroom for the rest of the month when it's my turn or do my delicates, pick your poison." She triumphantly got rid of three cards with the same number in yellow, green, and red.
"I'll clean your bathroom, when hell freezes over that's when I'll go near your thongs." Rachel shoved him and replied with," I don't like things being shoved up my butt."
"Whatever you'd like Cooper's tool shoved anywhere in you!" Rachel sucker punched him in the shoulder as she turned red and Brooke finally broke the silence with her snorts.
" Ok my turn, you have to drive me and Rachel to school every morning or wait for us after school practice for the whole month and please no more mental pictures of Rachel and Cooper's body parts."
Nathan automatically picked the after school pick up he so didn't want Haley complaining when he didn't go pick her up in the morning," Afterschool, you guys take forever in the morning."
Brooke smiled wickedly as she let two draw four cards hit the table and made Nathan grumble as he withdrew eight cards.
Soon the game was over as Rachel whooped their butts, she then ran to her Denali and took off without Brooke, leaving her stranded with Nathan as her ride.
She hopped in as Nathan was taking his hoodie off and throwing it in the backseat and he didn't move the truck she finally turned to look at him," Wha-." Nathan shoved his lips on her and it was hot brutal need, need to know what was going on, need to fix things, need…need to have her.
Brooke didn't know what to do but to respond back with passion she had no idea was there. As she broke the kiss for air she realized with amazement that she was straddling him, the steering wheel was digging in her back, his eyes were on her, she didn't care as long as he was looking at her and with whatever emotion he was hiding now it was all she needed.
When it was done for and there was no going back, the reality of what had just happened in Brooke's driveway, inside of Nathan's truck in the front seat, was pure wonderful sin. Their bodies had molded together like perfection, they had reached satisfaction at the same time, it had been earth shattering.
They had done the unthinkable and the world had not crashed down, but Nathan had just cheated on Haley, he had had sex with Brooke fricking Davis, one of his best friends…yet he hadn't felt guilty…until now.
Brooke really didn't know what to say, she was dumstruck,"We should go home now and whatever this is or just happened means nothing."
Rachel was down to almost chewing her toenails when she ran out of fingernails to chew, Brooke and Nathan were not home yet and it had been two hours, what had happened? Soon she heard the truck pull up and then Brooke ran by without saying anything, straight to her room; Nathan followed but more like tiptoed away.
Now that had been weird what had gone on? Rachel hated being left out of things, especially when it came down to her friends.
Before she tried to turn the doorknob to her's and Brooke's room, some muffled sobs reached her ears. Sure enough there was Brooke, well the shaped of Brooke under the covers, trying to muffle her crying…it wasn't working very well. Rachel climbed on the bed and slid under the covers, she slid a comforting arm over one of her best friends," What's wrong Booboo?"
Brooke hated that nickname and complained if anybody called her that, it only was another word for crap, but she just kept her mouth shut. She couldn't and wouldn't share this with Rachel, it was just her burden to carry. Why should she drag her into this big mess? Taking a deep breath she swallowed the bitter taste she always got when she was about to lie," Nothing I just miss my…dad, ya know with my birthday just being around the corner and all."
Rachel felt relieved that was what had gotten Brooke upset but she felt a sort of tickling in the back of her brain that she had just been feed a whole bunch of crap, but she couldn't push Brooke right now, she'd just give her space…for now.