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A/N: Thx to all those that take the time to review this story and those that just stop by and read it!

Brooke walked into school feeling pretty amazing, she had spent the better part of the weekend with Nathan and it was the best weekend she had had in the longest time. She looked around the empty hallway and smiled, today was going to be a good day. She grabbed the pink envelope in her bag and walked over to Luke's locker slipping it in one of the vents at the top. As she walked back to her locker the smile on her face grew wider.

Later that morning Luke walked up to his locker with Nathan and when the pink envelope fell out of his locker Nathan picked it up smiling as he grabbed his books. "How did you that it wasn't for me?" Luke asked amazed at how Nathan went from being pissed about running into Peyton to happy over a pink envelope.

"I know it's not for you because your girlfriend would kill any girl that thought about sending you a note in your locker." Luke laughed and nodded knowing that Haley would kill any girl for even thinking about him as more than just Lucas Scott Haley's best friend and boyfriend. Moments after the laughter died down between the two brothers Haley and Brooke walked up making Nathan laugh all over again. Brooke looked at him quizzically and he shook his head saying something about telling her later.

"Come on Luke we have to get to class." Haley whined hating it when Luke too forever at his locker, she liked being early for class. Luke shook his head and shut his locker nodding his head at Nathan and Brooke before allowing Haley to drag him off to class. The first few moments after they left were awkward between Brooke and Nathan but when Brooke smiled at Nathan the awkwardness was broken as Nathan felt his pulse quicken.

"I had fun this weekend." He commented as they made their way to their English class.

"I did too."

"Movie night was the best part." Nathan commented wondering if she would pick up on what he was actually saying or if she was just going to let it go over her head. Brooke turned towards him after they took their seats and smiled one of her sexy innuendo smiles.

"Yeah it was the highlight of the weekend." Nathan chuckled a little bit before the teacher walked in and silence filled the room. Nathan pulled the pink envelope out his pocket and while the teacher was going over the test that they just took he opened the envelope scanning the letter.

Nathan,

I wake up
Thoughts of you
Tattooed to my mind

As I wonder
What to wear
What to eat
Who to be
Will I see you again
And as my car breaks down
I shake my head and say
What a day

Every bus, every train,
Every cab, every lane is JAMMED
So I looked to the sky
And I reached for the planes with my hands

If all my days go wrong
I'll think about last night
It went right

If you only knew
What I went through just to get to you
I'm hanging from you
And I'll hold on if you want me to
If you only knew
What I went through just to get to you
I'm swinging from you
And there's nothing I would rather do

-Secret Admirer

Nathan smiled as he slipped the letter into his pocket and tuned back into what the teacher was talking about completely missing the smile on Brooke's face as a sense of triumph washed over her. 'Maybe he might actually have feelings for me.' She thought as the bell rang and Nathan got up leaving the room.

Nathan threw his books in his locker and went into the gym holding the door open for Brooke before going over to Luke who was talking about something with Jake. "Hey sorry to interrupt but I need to talk to you." Nathan said looking at Luke and the look on Nathan's face made Luke a little worried. Jake excused himself and went over to talk to Brooke and Haley leaving the two alone.

"What's up little brother?"

"I have a small problem."

"What?"

"Well I think I have feelings for Brooke."

Luke thought about it for a moment before answering. "Okay not seeing a problem here."

"Hello do you not remember that I kinda have a girl that's totally into me and I have no idea who it is."

"Oh yeah forgot about it." Luke said faking stupidity biting his tongue because he wanted to tell Nathan that is was in fact Brooke sending him the letters but Luke couldn't break his promise to Brooke. "Well just test the waters a little bit, you don't have to pick one right now so relax." Nathan nodded watching Brooke and Haley laugh at something Jake said. Luke followed Nathan's gaze and wanted to sigh out loud, why couldn't Brooke just tell him that she was the one sending him the notes because then both would be happy and not having such long lasting depressions.

During P.E. Nathan and Brooke kept going back and forth flirting with each other like crazy and for a while everything was good until Tim stupidly brought up Peyton and Brooke clammed up after that making Nathan wonder what exactly went down because from what Peyton had told him, Brooke was too busy being a whore to actually care about her best friend. Brooke was having a good time talking and laughing with Nathan but the minute that Tim had brought up Peyton she felt her heart break. It was a bitter reminder that Peyton had won out over her and that she was technically moving in on Peyton's leftovers. She excused herself from the group and walked over towards Bevin and Rachel who were talking about something that Bevin had no clue about judging by the look on her face.

Nathan watched Brooke walk away and wanted to kick Tim, he just had to ruin the almost perfect moment between Nathan and Brooke. He looked at Luke who had a puzzled look on his face looking between Brooke and Nathan. Nathan motioned to Tim and Luke nodded thinking that Tim had made a sexual comment about Brooke and that forced Brooke to walk away like she usually did with Tim but when he saw the hurt and pained expression on her face and the smile she wore didn't even reach the corner of her eyes. Tim walked away as soon as he saw an unhappy Luke walking towards Nathan and Nathan like Tim had wanted to walk away when Luke walked up.

"What the hell was said before Brooke walked away?"

"I don't know what pissed her off but Tim came up and was like so Nathan you and Peyton get back together yet and she walked away." Realization dawned on Luke and his unhappy expression changed to sadness. Nathan looked at Brooke and saw how fast her genuine smile had been replaced with a fake and forced smile. He sighed wondering what the hell had made her so upset but before he could ask Luke he had already walked away leaving Nathan to wonder what the hell was going on.

After P.E. Nathan walked into his math class and saw Brooke sitting in the back with her head down a bit almost as if she was pretending to be concentrating on her open math book. He sighed realizing that whenever he saw her sad he felt like he wanted to hurt whoever had hurt her but at the moment in time he realized that it was probably him. When Nathan sat down next to Brooke she looked up and smiled a smile that Nathan swore melted his heart and even made him smile. "I'm really sorry if anything that was said between me and Tim made you upset." She waved her hand in the air and smiled again a smile Nathan began to think she would only give to him.

"It's okay you don't have to explain anything about Tim."

"I know but I feel like I should apologize for him since I know he won't ever realize that anything he said was wrong."

"Thank you for caring so much about me that you felt the need to apologize for Tim but I just chalk it up to Tim being Tim."

"So we're good?" He asked not really wanting to not be able to talk to Brooke when he wanted to because Brooke was slowly becoming a good friend of Nathan's someone who he felt that he could take his problems to. Brooke leaned over towards Nathan's desk smiling a sultry smile.

"I'm always here for you Nate, if you need anything call me." She winked at him and went back to her desk acting as if she didn't just come onto Nathan. Nathan chuckled a little bit and opened his book trying to pay attention to what the teacher was saying and not the sexual innuendo that was playing over and over in his head.

Brooke looked over and smiled at Nathan as he smiled back at her not knowing that inside her heart was jumping inside her chest almost as if it was going to explode and she didn't know that his heart was racing and he almost left as if he couldn't breathe, damn smiles. As the teacher began to go over the next lesson Brooke couldn't stop her mind from going back to Sunday morning when she awoke in Nathan's arms leaving safe for the first time in the longest time. Nathan looked over and smiled as he saw the glazed over look on Brooke's face, he shook his head looking down at the notes he was taking and at the blank paper in front of her laughing quietly to himself.

When the bell rang Brooke was brought out of her own little world and realized that she hadn't paid one bit of attention to anything that was going on during class. Not realizing that Nathan was still next to her she sighed out loud and began gathering her things and muttering about how stupid she was under her breath. Nathan laughed as he waited for her to finish gathering her things and stuff them in her bag. Brooke stood up slowly still not registering that Nathan was walking in step with her and when she saw the blue of his t-shirt she nearly jumped out of her skin. "Geez Scott make some noise next time."

"Geez Davis, join the real world once in a while." He replied laughing at the shocked look on her face. "Since you spaced out during the whole lesson why don't you come over after practice and I'll help you with your math homework."

"What do I have to do for you?"

"Help me write my English assignment." Brooke stopped right in front of Nathan's locker and looked at him skeptically for a minute wondering if that was all he wanted from her but she knew that she needed help with math and if all she had to do was help Nathan with their English assignment then what did she have to lose?

"Alright we can meet after practice at my house." Nathan nodded and finished the walk to his locker while Brooke turned and walked over to her casting one more look at Nathan before shaking her head and grabbing her things for her next class.

The rest of the day seemed to drag on and on which Nathan blamed on his growing excitement over spending alone time with Brooke without Luke, Haley, or anyone there to interrupt if things happen to take a completely different route then just doing homework, not that Nathan would force the night into that kind of direction. Brooke walked into the locker room floating on cloud nine, not even the seeing Peyton could ruin her good mood, speaking of the curly blonde, she was making a b-line for Brooke and it looked like she had something to say. "I need to talk to you." Brooke nodded and walked a little bit away from the group of girls changing for practice.

"What's up Peyton?"

"You talk to Jake right?" Brooke nodded wondering where this line of questioning was going. "Is he seeing anyone?" Brooke shook her head no hoping that her not talking would speed up this conversation. "Oh okay thanks Brooke." Brooke nodded and walked away mentally reminding herself to talk to Jake about her conversation with Peyton.

Practice went off with a low amount of drama and when Brooke finally dismissed the girls for the day she decided to wait for the boys practice to be over before leaving the school and Brooke was glad that she had decided to stay because she got to see the boys play shirts vs. skins and Nathan just so happened to be on the skin side so Brooke was treated to a front row seat of Nathan's chiseled body glistening with sweat. Nathan looked over at Brooke watching him with a look in her eye that made Nathan's already pumping adrenaline pump even more. Whitey blew the whistle dismissing the boys from practice and Nathan made his way over to Brooke who was standing up and gathering her duffel bag and school bag. Nathan rushed over and grabbed the bags from her before she had an opportunity to object to his help. "So you ready for your math lesson with the best math tutor in the world?"

"I wouldn't let Haley hear you say that, you might have a tutor-off on your hands then." She joked walking with Nathan towards the boys' locker room.

"Alright, the second best math tutor ever."

"That's better and I'm looking forward to it maybe you can help me finally understand what goes on in that class."

"Then you better be ready to help me write the best short story ever so I can get my grade in English up."

"Nathan you're talking to the girl who has the only 100 in her Creative Writing class, you don't have to worry about your English grade after an evening with me." Nathan smiled and excused himself into the locker room to grab his duffel bag before walking out with Brooke.

"So I'm gonna go home and shower then I'll meet you at your house."

"Alright, why don't you give me your backpack so you don't forget it?" She joked making fun of Nathan's forgetfulness.

"No I'll remember it, see I'll put it in the front seat and won't take it out till I get to your house."

"Then you'll probably forget it when you come over."

"You're funny."

"I know, that's why I'm so damn lovable."

"That's not the only reason." Nathan muttered under his breath as he opened up Brooke's car down for her. She smiled in thanks and got in the car. "I'll see you at your house in like a half hour." She nodded and pulled out of the parking lot glad that Nathan hadn't seen the blush creep up her neck from his comment. Nathan smiled at her retreating car and got in his own smiling at his backpack as he drove towards his house.

A half hour later Nathan was at Brooke's door with his backpack and a pizza and Brooke laughed when she opened the door and the first thing out of Nathan's mouth was, "I didn't forget my backpack and I thought about getting a pizza on the way over here."

"I feel so special." She joked moving so that Nathan could come into his house. "Come on we're gonna work in the office." He nodded and waited for her to lead the way and as he followed he let his eyes wander down the back side of her body. Brooke smiled when she felt his eyes on her so she put an extra bounce in her step. "Alright math tutor let's get this over with because I'm ready for my headache."

"Trust me you won't get a headache from me helping you."

"One of us is gonna get a headache from this." Nathan just laughed and pulled out his math book and notebook setting the pizza down in front of them. After the napkins, plates, and drinks were 

placed by the pizza box Brooke got out her school stuff. Nathan took a deep breath and prepared himself for what was about to happen.

Nathan looked at the clock and was actually surprised that Brooke had gotten through most of their homework without many hassles but as Nathan saw her finish the last problem he knew that they still had his short story to work on. Brooke smiled in triumph as she finished her last problem and checked it against Nathan's homework which Nathan had finished long before Brooke had gotten through half the homework and as long as her answers matched Nathan's that is all that mattered. "See that wasn't hard." Nathan joked as he grabbed another piece of pizza a smile spread across his face.

"It made sense when you explained it and your notes helped."

"Well I'm always here to help." Brooke looked up from her book and smiled at Nathan happy that at least for now that friend thing was working between them. "Now let's get started on the really hard stuff, my short story."

"Well first off what do you want to write about?"

"That's where you come in." Brooke laughed and leaned back in her desk chair resting her can of Coke on her leg.

"Okay, so the story has to be about something that you're good at, something you love doing, or just something that you love and for you all those options are covered by the same thing." Nathan looked at her for a moment taken back by actually noticing what she was wearing for the first time in hours. "So I think to really benefit you and make your job easier you should write about your first basketball game."

"Yeah that's a really good idea." Nathan smiled and looked down at his blank paper not knowing where to start.

"Look why don't we make an outline so you can just go off of that?" Nathan nodded happy that she was going to help him. Brooke ended up helping Nathan with more than just his outline and by the time the clock struck midnight Nathan's short story was most of the way done and both Nathan and Brooke had fallen asleep against each other. Brooke woke up and smiled as she saw Nathan's head in her lap she ran her hand through his hair a couple of times before slowly getting up as to not wake Nathan up and moved out of the room taking his story with her. She sat at the kitchen table right in front of the office and began typing Nathan's story and finishing it for him before she quickly typed hers out.

Nathan woke up and found himself alone and sighed. The last thing he remembered was him falling asleep with Brooke's head on his shoulder the smile a mile wide on her face. He looked over at the clock adjusting his eyes so that he could actually read the green glaring numbers that were telling him that it was 2 o'clock in the morning. He looked at Brooke who was fast asleep with her head resting on the table her laptop open and in front of her. He walked over towards her looking at the screen in front of him and both of their stories were up and placed right next to each other. He was tempted to read hers but thought against it not wanting to pry into Brooke's private thoughts and instead grabbed the laptop and hooked it up to the printer printing both of their stories out. He then shut her laptop and went back into the kitchen putting his story in his backpack and hers in the folder marked for English before he picked her up and began walking her to her bedroom. As Nathan laid her down on the bed Brooke woke up taking in her surroundings and who was in her bedroom. "Shh, just go back to sleep." He pulled the covers over her lightly pushing the hair out of her face tempted to kiss her temple but his conscious won out and he just turned to leave the room. Brooke waited for his lips to make contact and when they didn't she felt disappointed in her groggy state. As Nathan turned Brooke's conscious mind kicked in knowing that Nathan had to be tired and she wasn't going to risk him making the almost 10 minute drive home this late at night with the drunk drivers running about and his tiredness her arm shot out grabbing his wrist and stopping him from leaving. Nathan turned the confusion and exhaustion written on his face.

"I don't want anything happening to you on the way home; you can just stay here the bed is big enough." Nathan thought about it for a moment before his exhausted mind took over and made his feet move towards the bed and without thinking he climbed into bed moving towards Brooke and cuddling up against her. Brooke drifted off to sleep a smile spread across her face and a safe feeling enveloping her. Being friends with Nathan was beginning to have some awesome advantages.

A/N: So I sat down and just started writing not really knowing where I was going with this chapter but in the end I think it turned out pretty good, sort of a look into the new friendship of Brooke and Nathan. I hope you guys like it! Brooke's note is "If You Only Knew" by Maroon 5.