Chapter 13

Visiting California.

A/N: Hey! Okay...sorry I have been so slow with updates. This chapter really made me want to continue the story again. I am going to work on the next chapter, which will be similar to this one...fluff. It will be their vacation. Then Chapter 15 is when the truth starts to come out. Please...let me know what you think..and let me know what you might like to see happen. I appreciate all of the reviews I have. It really means a lot to me. :)

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Brooke had waited two whole weeks for this day, getting to see Nathan again. It had only been two weeks, but it felt much, much, longer. She got ready that day. The weather was very warm today, so she went with a jean skirt, and a tank top, with a pair of flip flops. Her hair was in a pony tail...it was just to hot to even think about wearing it down. Brooke took the car her parent's had bought for her to use at there. Brooke thought it was an incredible car, but another example of how her parent's shoved money at her. They didn't want to have to be going out with her, and therefor driving her around, she had her own car to do that with this purchase. The first couple of days hadn't been so bad. They went out to dinner together, as a family, which seldom happened. By the end of the week, life with her parents returned to the way it always had. Every morning they would leave, and they wouldn't come back until well after dinner time. Part of Brooke of course felt sad, but it was what she had come to expect. When she had her own family, she promised herself to never be like this. To actually spend time wit her husband, and someday, her children. She would be nothing like Victoria, her mother, or her workaholic pathetic excuse of a father. It kind of made her wonder why they even wanted her to visit in the first place. They were probably starting to feel a little guilty and once they saw she was okay, got over it fast. None of that mattered today though. She now stood at the airport waiting for Nathan.

She went and checked, his flight was due in on time, another half an hour or so. She went to go get a small iced coffee while she waited, and grabbed a magazine as well. The next half hour she read her favorite magazine, Cosmopolitan. Then, after waiting about 45 minutes, Brooke saw him walking towards her. Her heart was beating so hard, this was a feeling she had never experienced before. She dropped the magazine on the chair and ran to him. Then she hugged him and started kissing him so hard, so fast, and with such intense passion. Before she knew it, her feet were in the air, and Nathan was holding her.

"I missed you sooooooooooo much," Brooke told him.

"I missed you too," He said, as he let her down. "You look amazing Brooke," He said as he noticed how good that skirt looked on her, and how her shirt brought out her beautiful eyes.

"Thanks, you don't look so bad yourself," She winked.

Nathan followed her to the chair where she picked up her coffee, and magazine.

"Ooooh, you were reading cosom? Getting tips for tonight?" He joked.

"Tonight? I can't wait until tonight for that, I was thinking as soon as we got into my house,"

He smiled at her, and kissed her on the top of the head, "I love you Brooke Davis,"

She grabbed his hand and told him that she loved him too.

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They reached Brooke's huge house. "Wow...this house is incredible,"

Brooke shrugged, "I guess so, but I mean I would rather have a home in Tree Hill any day over this."

"You do have a home in Tree Hill now. We have our apartment together. I want you to feel like that is your home,"

"I do." Brooke told him. Then she threw his bag on the floor, and pushed him against the front door. She started kissing him.

"Brooke you weren't kidding when you said AS soon as we got into your house,"

She shook her head, "No. I would never kid about something like that."

They continued kissing, and then Brooke ripped Nathan's button down shirt open.

"Oh yes. I love this," She told him, kissing his chest all over. It was so muscular...so perfect.

After a few minutes of this, he told her it was now his turn and put her up against the door, kissing her neck, down to her chest, moving her all ready low cut shirt further down for more access. Brooke could only handle this so long before she took her hand and started to fumble with his belt buckle. She managed and lifted her skirt enough for him to enter, moaning out in pleasure. He held her up, as she wrapped his legs around him, and she held on to his back, leaving small scratch marks on his back.

"That was fun," Brooke smiled as soon as they were done. "I am going to go wash up. You can go unpack or whatever, then we should go for a swim."

"Alright, sounds great," He kissed her once more, and followed her upstairs, and she pointed down the hall, and told him her room was the third on the left. Brooke went into the bathroom and washed her face, and looked at her reflection. She looked....happy. Even she could see it. She changed into her bathing suit hanging on the shower rod. It was pink and white striped. She put it on, and then placed her skirt on over her bottom and headed down the hall to her room, where Nathan was all ready changed into his bathing suit.

"Wow," Nathan said, staring at her perfect body, "How did I get so lucky?"

Brooke blushed. It was hard to make a girl like Brooke Davis blush. All of her life, since she hit puberty guys of all ages noticed her. Looked at her. Told her how good looking she was. With Nathan, it was different. He liked how she looked, but he also loved her for more then that. He loved her inside and out. Hearing him say it meant to so much more then some guy trying to grab her ass as she passed by.

They headed out to the pool and as soon as Brooke got out there, she went in towards Nathan as if she were going to kiss him. She caught him off guard and pushed him into the pool, he caught on though quick enough and grabbed her so she went down with him. They splashed into the pool and laughed out loud as they were both soaked in the water.

"You suck," Nathan laughed.

"No! You do! You weren't supposed to drag me in. I was supposed to stand above the pool laughing at you."

"Sorry to ruin it for you," Nathan told her.

He then all of a sudden pushed her head under the water. She then came back up.

Whining she said, "Nathan!"

He stopped her by reaching in and kissing him.

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They spent the rest of the afternoon around the pool, and then taking a nice warm shower together after, and then rested in bed together watching tv. Around six Brooke's parent's came home from work. Brooke had told them Nathan would be coming to stay with them. They had said they would come home for dinner, but Brooke expected them not to. At six, they showed up with takeout containers.

"Hi Nathan, it's nice to meet you," Brooke's father said, shaking his hand.

Victoria even came over to say hello. She was never nice to Brooke's friend. What was up with them? Were they high?

They ate dinner and continued to talk. It went very well. After dinner Brooke and Nathan went upstairs, when Brooke's parents called her back downstairs to talk.

"Brooke...Nathan seems like a very nice young man,"

"Thanks," Brooke replied. "Seriously though...since when do you care? I mean when we lived together, you never payed attention to me, and even when I came here, you still weren't."

"Well...we're very busy Brooke. Maybe too busy for our own good. That doesn't mean that we don't love our daughter, and we want you to be happy. Since we're letting our only child live across the country, we at least want to know she is happy,"

"I am happy."

"Good." They said. Brooke thought, okay, they really did take care of the guilt. Well, she just had to mention this to them.

"Mom...Dad...I am living with Nathan. When I get back, I mean, that is where I am going to be staying,"

"We figured as much," Her mother told her. "So, every month, we'll send you a check to help towards your rent, bills, and personal items. Senior year should be when you concentrate on colleges, and doing well. Not money problems."

Okay, so yet again, they were shoving money in her face, but this time she didn't mind at all. This would keep her and Nathan together and happy.

"Thanks...both of you. Really."

"Don't thank us just yet, we have a surprise for you." They handed her an envelope.

It was four tickets to Aruba for a week. "What is this?" Brooke asked.

"Well...we don't get to spend enough time together, can't remember the last time we have all gone on a vacation, so we thought we would take you, and that Nathan would want to come along to."

"Wow..yeah..sure..." Brooke looked down at the tickets, "Thanks!"

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Brooke ran upstairs, and showed Nathan the tickets.

"Aruba? Nice!"

"Will you be able to get the time off?"

"Yes. My father is the boss, I am sure I can get the time off." Nathan smiled.

Brooke smiled, "Great. Nathan...I am just so happy..."

"About Aruba?"

"Well..of course that, but more then that. My parents are actually acting nice. Are they perfect, no way. It just seems like their trying. Too bad it took moving across the country and only seeing me once in a while to do it...but I'm happy. Not only that...but that I am with you...and you have no idea how happy that makes me,"

He kissed her, "I can't wait. After I leave, it won't be too much longer until we go to Aruba. Then it will be almost time for you to come home...and we will be together, everyday."

"I can't wait. Do you want to go for a walk on the beach with me? It's just about a ten minute walk, and the ocean is so beautiful,"

Nathan nodded.

Brooke still had her skirt on, and a tank-top, so she grabbed Nathan's hoodie on the way out.

"I know... I have my own sweatshirts, but I love wearing your stuff. It's just so big and comfy, and it smells like you...can I borrow it when you go back?" Brooke smiled.

"Of course you can. It's cool...you look so sexy in my stuff," He kissed her as they walked downstairs.

"We're going to the beach," Brooke called out to her parents. They told her to be careful, and off they went.

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They walked along the beach together. They were all alone. It was just as romantic as Brooke had pictured. They ended up kissing, and then sat down on the beach together, cuddling and just watching the ocean. Their hands met, and Brooke wished that this moment could last forever.