Author Note: So this story is coming to an end real soon. I say there's about maybe 2 more chapters left and then I'm going to post the squeal, but don't worry I'll let you know on the last chapter what the squeal will be called so you can read it. I hope you guys like this chapter and yeah I know I'll properly get some readers not liking it, but it had to go this way for the squeal to work, so I apologise to whoever doesn't like it.

Welcome to 2012 and I hope this year brings everyone happiness.

My world came crashing down

Everyone was up bright and early Sunday morning. They were leaving early instead of when they were meant to and Brooke loved that idea that way she gets to get some sleep when she gets home. Brooke got a voicemail from her parents on her mobile saying they were coming home tonight instead and they needed to talk to them about something important. Brooke jumped off the bus when they pulled up in the school parking lot. Brooke grabbed her bag and walked over to her car. Lucas followed her and shut her car door when she opened it "And where you rushing off too" Lucas asked smiling at Brooke

"Home like everyone else" Brooke stated looking around the car park

"Why don't you come back to mine?" Lucas asked as he leaned in and kissed Brooke

"I would Luke, but I'm real tired and besides, my parents are coming home. there on the plane now and they have to talk to Rach and I when they get home and I want to be able to listen to them" Brooke told Lucas yawning "See I'm tired" Brooke gestured to her yawn.

"Okay baby, I'll see you tomorrow then yeah" Brooke nodded

"Of course" Brooke kissed Lucas before getting into her car "Later broody"

"Bye pretty girl" Lucas smiled and waved as Brooke sped out of the car park and towards her house.

Lucas and Britney were the only two left in the parking lot. Lucas looked around for his truck and saw it. He walked over to it when he heard a voice from behind him "I wouldn't leave you hanging Lukey" Britney whispered into his ear as he stopped. Lucas turned round and shook his head at her.

"You just don't stop, do you Brit?" Britney shook head.

"Nope, not until I get what u want" Britney winked at him.

"Well I'm sorry Brit, but Brooke and I are together" Lucas opened his truck door and got in ""So I would give up if I were you" Lucas out the truck in gear and left the car park with Britney watching him leave.

Brooke got out of bed when she heard her parents come home. She walked down the stairs and saw Shelly, Lesley and Rachel sitting in the living room. Brooke walked in and hugged her dad and mom "I missed you guys" Brooke told them.

"We missed you guys too" Lesley looked at Shelly and the girls knew something was up. Brooke got up and sat next to Rachel.

"What's going on guys?" Rachel asked and Brooke agreed.

"Girls, my company are expanding and that is why mom and I were in New York for the week?" Lesley started and the girls nodded listening "We are moving to New York in 3 months"

"So what Rach and I are staying by ourselves?" Brooke asked and her mom

"No Brooke. were all going" Shelly answered and Brooke's mouth dropped.

"No I can't leave. I just got Lucas back 6 months ago. I cannot leave now" Brooke ranted "How will I tell Luke that I have to leave"

"I'm sorry darling, but the company needs me" Lesley saw the tears falling down Brooke's face.

"Why can't I stay here with Rach?" Brooke questioned

"Brook your coming with us. You're only 17" Shelly answered "I'm sorry darling"

"You don't understand what you're taking me from" Brooke wiped her tears "You're taking me from Lucas" Brooke got up and ran to her room.

"Brooke darling" Lesley called after her, but Brooke kept running.

How could her parents do this to her again. This just isn't fair.

The next morning Brooke went running. She needed to think about all this and what would happen between her and Luke when she left. It was Brooke's birthday in 2 days and she wasn't looking forward to it. Yeah she's 17 now, but she should be able to stay since she will be 18 in 2 days, but her parents weren't having any of it and they were leaving in 3 months and she could do nothing about it. Brooke left for school and hour after she got back from her run. She wasn't talking to her parents because of what their taking her from.

Brooke sat on bench in the quad. She was thinking about everything. She had to leave and she had to tell Lucas. Brooke decided that she wouldn't tell Lucas yet that way they can spend time together and not worry about her leaving. Lucas walked up to Brooke and kissed her catching her off guard "Hey Pretty Girl"

"Hey Broody Boy" Brooke gave him a weak smiled

"What's up?" Lucas asked

"Nothing" Brooke lied "I'm just really tired. I couldn't sleep last night"

"Aww my poor baby" Lucas brought his arm around Brooke and pulled her in a hug "I missed you last night" Lucas kissed her forehead "I didn't even get a text or phone call before you went to bed. I always get a phone call"

"I'm sorry baby, I just had a lot on and I just forgot" Brooke smiled and leaned into kiss him "How about I stay with you tonight if you're moms back on the weekend?"

"Yeah sounds like a plan" Lucas nodded

"I'll see you later then Broody Boy" Brooke stoop up and walked away feeling lost and guilty lying to the boy she is in love with.

Rachel was walking down the corridor she had to tell Owen she was moving and unlike Brooke Rachel had to tell him now or she never will. Rachel pulled Owen into a spare classroom and sat him down. She started to pace thinking how she could tell the guy she was falling for that she was moving to New York.

"Owen baby I have something to tell you" Rachel started and Owen looked at her worried

"Okay Rach you're scaring me" Owen responded "What's wrong baby?" Owen saw the tears form in Rachel's eyes.

"My dad's company is expanding at a new location and that is why they went away for the week. They came back yesterday and told Brooke and I that were moving to New York in 3 months" Rachel's tears fell down her face as Owen stood up and wiped them away.

"It's okay baby" Owen pulled Rachel into a hug as she cried into his chest "Everything is going to be okay" Owen stroked her hair and Rachel cried even more "Does Lucas know?"

"No and you can't tell him. Brooke will tell him when she's ready" Rachel pulled away from Owen and looked up at him "Promise me you won't tell him"

"I promise Rach" Owen leaned in and kissed her "So about you moving?"

"Yeah I know we should break up and go our separate lives right and forget about each other" Rachel ranted and Owen stopped her.

"Actually I was going to ask you if you love me enough to try the whole long distant thing" Owen told Rachel who smiled at him.

"Really you would do that?" Rachel asked

Owen nodded "Yeah I would and you wanna know why?"

"Yeah" Rachel stepped closer to him.

"Because I'm in love with you Rach and I know we can do it" Owen pulled Rachel into him and kissed her "So whatcha say?"

"I say hell yes" Rachel laughed and so did Owen "I love you too by the way"

Rachel kissed Owen again and all her worries flew away. Her and Owen where going to be together and that is all that mattered now.

After school Brooke and Lucas went back to his house like they planned. Brooke didn't know what she was going to do. She had to tell Lucas like Rachel had at school today, but she was scared that he would freak and break up with her there and then or she was just scared to leave him and the love they have behind. Rachel told Brooke that Owen and her are trying the long distant thing and Brooke considered it, but it wouldn't be fair on either of them to do the same thing because they would hardly see each other and they had college and then their careers ahead of them. It wouldn't be fair on either of them.

"What's on your mind?" Brooke heard Lucas say which brought her from her thoughts

"Oh nothing much" Brooke lied. It seemed like since last night that's all she as been doing. Lying to him.

"You know I love you right?" Lucas asked

Brooke nodded and gave him a smile "I know you do Luke and I love you too"

"So tell me what you're thinking please" Lucas pleaded

Brooke was debating whether or not to tell him now and get over with, but how do you tell someone you deeply and truly love that you're leaving him and moving to New York because you're parents are making you? "It's nothing. I was just wondering what it would have been like if I was pregnant? What people who have said and called me behind my back? Would I have been a good mother? Would I be able to give my child a good life?" Brooke looked at Lucas and he smiled "Would we have been happy like we are now?"

"You would be a good mom Brooke. You're a great girlfriend and I love you so much. It wouldn't have mattered what people who have said because we would of had each other and yes we would have been happy like we are now" Lucas answered her questions and Brooke smiled leaning in and kissing him.

"Thank you Luke" Lucas looked at Brooke with a raised eye brow

"What for?" Lucas asked

"For letting me feel love again. For showing me that loving someone isn't as much of a big deal that I made it out to be and thank you for loving me back" Brooke responded

"You're welcome and thank you pretty girl" Lucas replied

"For?" Brooke raised her eye brow this time

"Loving me and giving me a chance" Lucas kissed Brooke again and the kiss deepened this time.

The next morning Brooke and Lucas woke up to the sound of his alarm. They were both naked which meant they had sex again last night. Lucky this time Brooke is on the pill and they used a condom which didn't break. Brooke sat up wiping the sleep out of her eyes as Lucas got up and wrapped the sheet around his body which made Brooke laugh and Lucas looked her "What's so funny?"

"You're acting like I haven't seen you naked before Luke. When by the looks of it we had sex last night" Brooke laughed

"Yeah I know and it was awesome" Lucas smirked and I giggled "I'm just going to shower and then you can shower and we can get ready for school"

"Or I could shower with you" Brooke kinked her eye brow and Lucas smiled

"That's a better plan" Brooke stood up and they both headed to the shower together.

Brooke was walking down the halls of Tree Hill High happy as ever, she was trying to get the whole moving away thing out of her head for the time being. She knows that she shouldn't do that, because it would come back at her, but she needed to just get it out of her head and it was just happier not to think of it. Brooke stopped at hyer locker when she saw Rachel walking towards her. Rachel stopped at the locker and smiled "Where were you last night?"

"I stayed at Lucas's" Brooke told her sister

"Ahh I see" Rachel smiled "So you told him yet?"

Brooke shook her head "No and I'm not going too"

"Oh" Rachel face dropped "So what? You're going to leave and not tell him"

"That was the plan" Brooke thought about it last night as she watched Lucas sleep after they had sex. She didn't know how else to tell him, so if she does tell him then she can spend every day with him and leave. She could give a letter to Haley or Peyton to give him and then maybe he won't hate her.

"Brooke you can't do that to him, he loves you and you doing that will break him" Rachel told Brooke who turned to her.

"And if I do tell him I will be hurting him anyway" Brooke cut in "You don't understand Rachel because you already told Owen about it and you both decided to stay together, but I can't do that to Lucas okay, I can't keep him from living the life he wants because I left, I don't want him to keep from having girlfriends because we stayed together and never see each other. Maybe you and Owen can do that, but I can't" Brooke circled around her sister and walked away leaving Rachel watching her go.

"You're leaving" Haley said as Rachel and Brooke were sitting in the quad with the girls

"Yeah" Rachel nodded "Both of us"

"Does Lucas know Brooke?" Peyton asked

Brooke shook her head "No and he isn't going to find out either"

"What do you mean he isn't going to find out?" Haley asked confused

"I mean I'm not telling him that I'm leaving" Brooke responded "I'm going to write a letter and have one of you to give it to him when I leave"

"Brooke you cannot do that" Haley shook her head "It will crush him"

"Telling him will crush him just the same, so why see it when I can avoid that" Brooke knew she was acting like a bitch, but she was really putting up a front.

"But it's not just about you Brooke, what about Lucas?" Peyton piped in and Brooke was beginning to get angry, but upset at the same time.

"Yeah well I know all that, but I just can't do it okay" Brooke stood up and turned to them "It's not like I want to go for god sake. This is tearing me up and you guys just don't understand" Brooke walked off and the girls all sighed. They just didn't understand how hard this was for her. Seeing Julian leave was hard enough, but Lucas is the one for me and I'm about to leave him in under 3 months and the girls don't get that it's killing me. So what if I want to take the coward way out and leave him a letter for them to give him. That way I don't see Lucas's heart crush just like mine is every day he tells me he loves some. Yeah he might hate me for leaving without saying bye, but he can't hate me as much as I hate myself for leaving him anyway.

So what do you guys think? Could please review just so I know if you are reading it or not. I would appreciate it a lot. Thanks. Roch xxx