Brooke and Nathan stood in the middle of the movie store completely lost as to what kind of movie they should get. Nathan knew that Brooke would want to get some sappy chick flicks and Brooke knew that Nathan would want to get a sports movie or an action flick with too much blood. Both looked everywhere but at each other as each tried to come up with a plan on what to do. "Alright this is ridiculous. I don't wanna watch a sappy chick flick where everyone is in love." Nathan began finally looking at Brooke after being in the movie store for almost 10 minutes.
"And I don't wanna watch an action movie." Brooke replied standing her ground.
"So let's make a deal." Nathan proposed after another long silence.
"I'm listening." She replied turning so she was facing him obvious to all the people around her watching them with curious glances.
"You pick a movie that isn't a chick flick and I'll pick a movie that isn't an action movie." Brooke nodded and walked away from Nathan with a small smile on her face. Nathan walked away with another plan on his mind. He quickly pulled out his phone sending Luke a text message while he looked through the selves.
Luke nearly fell out of his car when Nathan sent him a text message asking what Brooke's favorite movie was, as his vision blurred with tears of laughter Haley pulled the phone away from him and smiled at how cute Nathan was being. She quickly replied and knew that they were going to be in for a great night. Back at the movie store both Brooke and Nathan rented their movies without the other one seeing the title since they wanted it to be a surprise.
Luke and Haley were sitting in Nathan's living room when they got back and Luke had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing when the two walked in thinking that they had outsmarted the other. Haley hit him warning him with her eyes that he better be good or he was going to regret it. Brooke and Nathan looked between the couple and then back to each other wondering what was going on with them.
"Pizza will be here soon guys." Brooke nodded at Haley and looked around the room.
"Well if this is gonna be a great movie night I think we should get everything ready now so we don't have to keep getting up." Brooke said setting her movie down on the coffee table and looking at Nathan to help her. Nathan led the way into the kitchen and stood back when they got to the kitchen just there to answer questions of where certain things were since he was new to the whole movie night thing. Brooke moved around the kitchen piling everything on the counter in the middle of the kitchen remembering where things were from over the years of having parties at the house. When she was done she turned to Nathan and flashed him her mega-watt genuine smile. Nathan felt his pulse quicken when the corners of her mouth turned into a smile and for once Nathan felt like he could see exactly who the real Brooke Davis was. Luke, down the hallway with pizza boxes in hand, watched as Brooke and Nathan looked at each other trying to have a conversation with no words.
"Hey guys, pizza's here." Luke called wondering if he had seen anger in Nathan's eyes when he looked at him. Brooke sighed as she yet again followed Nathan as they walked back into the living room each cursing Luke out in their heads for different reasons. Nathan sat down on the couch and set the cases of pop on the coffee table next to the bags of candy that Brooke had set down moments before. Nathan looked over at Brooke yet again feeling his pulse quicken and his mind wander to that forbidden place that Nathan shouldn't even think about going to with Brooke. Brooke felt his eyes on her and sighed, he was probably wondering why she was sitting so close to him. She looked at Haley and Luke and softly sighed, they looked so happy together leaning on each other and talking quietly between them, and yet again she wished she had that. Nathan faintly heard her sigh and looked over at her again following where her gaze was and wanted to sigh too, he loved his brother and Haley but sometimes they could be too much.
The movie started and Brooke's mood was instantly lifted when she saw the title of the movie. She looked over at Nathan who seemed to be looking everywhere but her. She nudged him with her shoulder and pointed the screen. He smiled and leaned over so only she could hear him. "I thought that maybe if you got to watch your favorite movie you would be in a better mood." She looked at him and wondered if he had picked up on her mood and feelings of longing when looking at Luke and Haley. For a moment Brooke got her hopes up thinking that maybe just maybe Nathan shared her feelings but when he broke the intense gaze they had and pulled his phone out of his pocket she hoped that her smile hadn't fallen that much for him to notice. He knew that moment his phone buzzed in his pocket that it was Tim and he saw Brooke's smile fall a little bit out of the corner of his eye and wanted to kick himself. He looked at the text message from Tim and without thinking it through Nathan told him that he was doing something else and would talk to him later. He looked over at Brooke and decided to turn his phone off watching Brooke smile a little bit more.
After they had finished two movies Nathan stood up and decided that he needed to stretch and move around before they put in the other two. He looked over at Brooke who had turned away from him and lay on the couch with her upper body lying on the couch and her legs still looked like she was sitting. Nathan sat back down and gently nudged her legs grabbing her attention. She sat up rubbing her eyes making Nathan think that she had fallen asleep during the second movie. "You can spread out on the couch I'll sit on the floor."
"No I'm fine now." She replied stretching her arms above her head making her shirt rise up her stomach a little bit. Nathan shook his head and forced himself to not look at her perfectly toned and tanned stomach.
"That movie was a little boring." He admitted wanting to fill the silence between them.
"Well I had to pick it for Haley so I put up with it." He nodded understanding just how deep her friendship with Haley actually went. 'Just like her and Peyton.' He thought as Haley came back from the bathroom and resumed her spot on the floor with Luke a few feet away from the Brooke and Nathan. Brooke looked at Luke who nodded and put in the next movie and Brooke anxiously awaited Nathan's reaction to the movie and smiled when his mouth fell open. 'No one knows my favorite movie but Luke.' Luke looked at Nathan and shook his head looking at Brooke for a moment before going back to the screen. He looked over at Brooke who was smiling at him and for a moment he felt his heart melt. He was seriously starting to like Brooke and to be honest the thought scared the crap out of him. She leaned over her hot breath tickling his ear. "I thought that you would enjoy watching your favorite movie after the whole Peyton thing." He looked at her and smiled seeing a whole different side of Brooke that he had never seen in the time that he and Peyton were together. As the movie went on Brooke felt herself getting tired which was unusual for her on a Saturday since she was usually up most of the night anyway but looking at the clock she was shocked to find out that it was only 8:30. Nathan looked over at Brooke who was fighting to stay awake and grabbed a blanket that was thrown on the floor and moved down the couch so she could have more room and draped the blanket over her. Brooke smiled and laid on the couch using Nathan as a pillow as she finally gave into sleep. Luke looked up and saw Brooke lying on Nathan and Nathan absentmindedly running his hand through her hair and nudged Haley motioning for her to look at Nathan. Haley looked up and smiled before lying her back on Luke's shoulder and going back to watching the movie.
The next morning Nathan woke up on the couch with the blanket that he had put over Brooke thrown over him and Brooke, who was lying on top of him. He smiled and ran a hand through her hair suddenly assaulted with how good it felt to wake up with her. She stirred a few moments later and sat up shocked and confused as to how in the course of the night she wound up on top of Nathan. Nathan chuckled at the look on her face but on the inside he was little hurt that she freaked out like that. "Are you okay?"
"How did we end up together on the couch?" She asked without thinking about it hoping that she didn't do anything while she was sleeping.
"You fell asleep and then I guess I fell asleep and here we are."
"Oh okay." She looked at Nathan and smiled one of her heart melting smiles, feeling better that she didn't do something stupid, and she stood up walking over to the bathroom. Nathan looked over at Luke and Haley who were slowly stirring awake and thanked the lord that they didn't wake up and see Nathan and Brooke like that. After Brooke and Haley had made breakfast, Brooke and Haley left claiming that they had homework to do and left the two Scott brothers to themselves. They had decided to go outside and play some basketball to just hang out and relax before school and practice started again tomorrow.
Haley and Brooke sat in her room, Brooke anxiously sitting on her bed while Haley read the next note that Brooke was gonna give Nathan. Haley looked up and smiled at Brooke silently telling her that it was good and that she should give it to him. Brooke nodded and grabbed the letter before leaving and heading back over to Nathan's. This time though, she wasn't lying about leaving something there because she had actually left her sweatshirt there the night before and she could just slip it in his backpack knowing that he had math homework to do so when she got to Nathan's she slipped into his house and walked over to his backpack she slipped it into his math book as she grabbed her sweatshirt and left his house.
After spending 3 hours outside playing one on one with Luke Nathan tiredly made his way into the house and grabbed his backpack heading up to his room to start his homework before it got too late and he lost the motivation to actually do it. He pulled out his math book and a pink envelope fell out, Nathan smiled and picked up the envelope finding his heart racing like it had when Brooke smiled at him.
Nathan-
I try but I can't seem to get myself to think of anything but you
So I won't ask for more
I wanna be with you
If only for a night
To be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight
I wanna be with you
There's nothing more to say
There's nothing else I want more than to feel this way
I wanna be with you
So I'll hold you tonight like I would if you were mine to hold forevermore
And I'll savor each touch that I've wanted so much to feel before,
How beautiful it is
Just to be like this
Oh, baby
I can't fight this feeling anymore
Drives me crazy when I try to
So call my name and take my hand
Can you make my wish, baby, your command?
-Secret Admirer
Nathan folded the letter and put it back in the envelope the wonder of who was his secret admirer taking over his mind as he put the letter with the other ones. He smiled to himself as he opened his math book and started to do his homework. The need to know who his secret admirer was began to take over his mind.
Author's Note: The Note in this chapter is "I Wanna Be With You" By Mandy Moore and Nathan has feelings for Brooke? What's going to happen there? Stay Tuned!