Chapter 12
Brooke cried into her pillow until she had no tears left to cry. Lucas lay on his bed unable to put into words what had just happened. Karen walked into Lucas's bedroom and gave him 'you deserve it' look. "Mom, if you came in here to give me a lecture save it, I'm not in the mood." Lucas said to his mom not looking her in the eye, being moody.
"Well, I bet Brooke or Nathan or Haley or Larry aren't in the mood either. For once couldn't you have controlled your temper?" Karen said disappointed in her son. Once Karen left the room Lucas picked up his cell phone and stared at his background, a photo of him and Brooke. He then went straight to his contact list and pressed call when he reached Brooke's number.
Bring Bring Bring ……. Brooke's phone rang and when she went to look at who was ringing, she immediately ignored it and went back to crying into her pillow.
"Come on Brooke please pick up." Lucas whispered into the phone and then it hit answer phone. Lucas hung up and said to himself, "I'm not going to leave a ridiculous answering message. Am I." Lucas threw his phone to the end of his bed.
At Nathan and Haley's apartment Haley was fussing over her husbands wounds. "So are you sure that your okay?" Haley asked for the one hundredth time. "Hales I'm fine, honestly." Nathan replied for the hundredth time. "Why do you think Luc hit you in the first place, did you guys get into an argument?" Haley asked curiously. Nathan realised that if he told Haley the real reason that they were fighting he would have to tell her about the kiss with Peyton. And that was an argument he did not want to have. So instead he answered, "I think he wanted someone to take his anger of Peyton's death out on, and I guess I was the lucky victim." Nathan said laughing awkwardly, thinking that if Lucas was really angry with him still that he might tell Haley about the kiss with Peyton. Which he was still not sure how Lucas knew anyway?
"I'm going to go over and see Brooke; she looked pretty upset when she left Peyton's early. I'll cya later, honey." Haley said kissing Nate on the head and grabbing her bag and jacket. "Yeah, I'm going to go and see if I can sort things out with Luc." Nathan just decided following Haley out their front door.
Days later, Nathan and Haley prepared to go back to school after the death of one of their best friends, Peyton Sawyer. "It's going to be really different without Peyton; she was always so full of energy……." Haley trailed off, but then brought herself back and finished by saying, "I'm gonna miss her." Nathan walked over to Haley and comforted her with a hug and he promised her that everything was going to be okay.
Brooke Davis walked into Tree Hill high school for the first time after 'that night'. She walked and saw that a note had been slipped in, she read it. It was from Lucas saying that he was sorry and that he wanted to meet up today for lunch. Brooke laughed and shoved the note onto her locker and got her books out and then slammed the door shut. Brooke walked to class alone and sat down in her usual seat. Lucas and Nathan walked into class and empty seat in front of Brooke made her fell uneasy. That was where Peyton used to sit.
"Brooke, can we talk?" Lucas asked Brooke coming to talk to her before class officially started. "I don't know are you the Lucas Scott who kissed me in my dead best friends room, or are you the Lucas Scott who punched his brother for no reason?" Brooke asked staring Lucas' in the eye. "Brooke that was a mistake?" Lucas said trying to apologize. "Which, when you kissed me, or when you punched Nathan?" Brooke said still not letting her eyes waver from Lucas'.
"Brooke you know that I don't regret kissing you." Lucas said but he was but off by the school bell, which indicated the begging of class. "Class settle down." These words came booming out of the mouth of Whitey Durham who had just entered the room.