Here it is its show time. It's finally the time for Nathan to make Brooke his girlfriend. He still had to find a way into getting her into going to New York with him and had yet to fill Luke in on the plan but all that mattered in 2 days Brooke would hopefully be his girlfriend. After calling Cooper and making the final arrangements Nathan was getting a little nervous, it's not like he's asking her to marry him or anything it's just a simple, 'hey be my girlfriend' thing nothing too serious. Pushing all nervousness out of his system Nathan got out of his car and walked up to Brooke's door.

It had been close to 2 weeks since the Boy Toy Auction and no mention of the kiss had happened, it was like Brooke didn't want to remember it and Nathan well he couldn't stop thinking about (which made him feel like a pre-teen girl). Knocking on Brooke's door Nathan felt his nerves flare again, he slid his hands into his pockets so Brooke wouldn't see them shaking and ask what was wrong. Finally Brooke opened the door and Nathan's jaw fell when he saw the tears in her eyes and running down her cheeks, this is not how he imagined her looking when he asked her to come to New York with him.

"What's wrong?" Nathan asked walking into the house and shutting the door behind him looking at Brooke as she walked into the living room and sat down on the couch. "Brooke."

"My mom called." Nathan nodded knowing how sad Brooke got after her mom called and pulled her into his arms holding her tightly against his body as she cried.

"I think I know a way to brighten your day." Nathan started completely scratching his original plan. Brooke lifted her head off his chest looking him in the eye wiping more tears from her eyes. "How about this weekend you join me on a trip to New York City?"

"What?" Brooke asked completely pulling away from Nathan looking at him like he was crazy.

"Cooper called me and asked if I wanted to join him in New York for his Gatorade meeting and I thought that it would be the perfect opportunity for us to get away for a little bit."

"Nathan," She started letting the rest of her sentence die from her lips she didn't really have an excuse not to go.

"I'm thinking about inviting Luke and Haley too." He added hoping that having Haley there would make Brooke jump at the chance. Brooke eyed him curiously thinking about it before smiling and nodding. She hugged Nathan and squealed, a weekend in New York with her best friends, what more could a girl want? "Good we're leaving Friday morning so start getting ready I'm going to talk to Luke so I'll see you later." Brooke nodded standing up and already beginning to make a list of what she needed in her head as she followed Nathan towards the door. "Remember it's only 4 days." Nathan stated turning towards Brooke eyeing her carefully. "And please remember who has to carry your bags." He whined sticking his bottom lip out for the better effect. Brooke laughed and hugged him kissing his cheek, the first time her lips have come in contact with any part of him since the kiss.

"I promise to make sure that my suitcases aren't too heavy for you." She cooed pinching his cheek for effect. Nathan laughed at how cheesy they were being and walked out the door smiling from ear to ear because he was half-way there. As Nathan pulled out her driveway he felt as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders and that finally something was going his way for once. Nathan pulled up in front of Luke's house and got out walking to the side door not even bothering to knock which made Luke jumped from in front of his laptop and fall to the floor making Nathan laugh as Luke got up.

"Geez Nate, knock next time will ya?"

"Of course." Nathan sarcastically replied knowing full-blown well that he wasn't going to knock.

"What do you need, shouldn't you be making kissy faces at Brooke?"

"Well," Nathan started completely ignoring Luke's comment. "I'm going to ask Brooke to be my girlfriend."

"Okay and that pertains to me how?"

"I'm taking her to New York for the weekend and Haley and you are coming too."

"Huh?"

"I talked to Cooper and we devised a plan of the best way to ask Brooke to be my girlfriend, so we're meeting up with Cooper in New York City under the pretense that we're going to help him with his Gatorade flavor and he's giving the girls money to go shopping. But I really need you and Haley to come along so that it can be really special."

"It's like you're asking her to marry you." Luke joked dodging the fist flying at him.

"It's a special way for a special girl." Nathan replied a genuine smile on his face.

"Alright I'll talk to my mom and see what she says."

"Oh she already agreed like a week ago when Cooper called her."

"Seriously?"

"What can I say your mom loves me and I quote, 'anything to help you and Brooke finally get together is fine with me, just don't get arrested.'" Nathan quoted trying his best to sound like Karen, who was a proud team Brathan supporter. "So you have no excuse to not go."

"What if Haley doesn't want to go?"

"Are you kidding me? Don't you think I already talked to Haley about this?" Nathan asked looking at Luke challenging him to come up with another excuse.

"When did you talk to Haley?"

"The day I talked to Cooper, I had to make sure that Brooke would love it and according to Haley she will."

"I can't believe you talked to Haley before me." Luke whined like a little girl.

"Hello Haley is Brooke's best friend she knows what Brooke will like, duh!" Nathan replied lightly hitting Luke's forehead. "Geez for having such a smart girlfriend you're really dumb." Luke scoffed and hit Nathan lightly pushing him so he fell on Luke's bed.

"So when are we leaving?"

"Friday morning, we're spending the night at Cooper's on Thursday and then we're taking his private jet." Luke nodded and went back over to his laptop silently telling Nathan that he was going back to work. "So be ready to go Thursday because we're leaving right after school." Nathan reminded glad that they didn't have a game that week. Luke waved also silently telling Nathan that he didn't need to be reminded. Nathan shook his head at his brother and left heading back to his house and getting ready.

Thursday after school Nathan waited anxiously by his car waiting for Luke and Brooke to emerge from school so they could finally leave, Haley had arrived moments after Nathan had only smiled at him whispering to him that everything was going to be fine, Nathan hoped that everything went to fine. Finally Brooke and Luke came out school laughing at something as they walked towards Nathan car before Luke left Brooke and hugged Haley leaving Nathan and Brooke to stand there and watch them. 'You just wait Luke I'm gonna get you back for every single kiss and hug you've made me watch.' Nathan thought grabbing Brooke's bag from her and throwing it in the back.

School could wait until they got back on Monday; this weekend was about having fun. Brooke smiled at Nathan, the smile that made all the nerves in Nathan's stomach disappear and the feeling of her trusting him completely washed over him sending him to cloud nine. 'Alright Nathan, you really need to stop acting like a girl, you are Nathan Scott not Natalie Scott so get a grip and be the man we all know you are.' Nathan fought with himself for a moment before shaking his head and laughing at himself silently, he was definitely losing it.

It was after 7 when they finally arrived at Cooper's, who was sitting with Natasha in front of the fire pit he had in his back yard. "Hey Coop." Nathan called catching the attention of the couple who sprang apart and looked away like guilty teenagers which made Nathan and Brooke laugh.

"What took you guys so long we were getting worried?" Tasha asked finally walking over towards the four teenagers.

"You were really worried there Tash." Nathan joked earning a smack from Tasha who glared at him but smiled when Brooke also hit Nathan. "What was that for?" Nathan asked rubbing his arm where Brooke hit her, of course with the hand that had her rings on it.

"Be nice to her." Brooke warned smiling warmly at Tasha. "I'm Brooke Davis." Brooke introduced herself shaking Natasha's hand. "And this is Luke, Nathan's brother, and Haley Luke's girlfriend." Brooke replied pointing to Luke and Haley.

"Hey Luke, Haley I'm Natasha or Tasha Cooper's girlfriend."

"Wife." Nathan coughed smiling at Cooper who seemed to blush at that comment. Tasha just shook her head and finally hugged Nathan. Now Cooper was the one that hit Nathan.

"Shut up." He muttered under his breath as Tasha led Brooke, Luke, and Haley back into the house to get something to eat and set them up for the night. "You ready for this weekend?" Nathan nodded.

"I'm really nervous though." Cooper nodded knowing how nervous he was when he asked Tasha to be his girlfriend almost forever ago.

"When we get to the hotel and get checked in we'll head to the meeting and I'll give you the credit cards for the girls, tell them not to worry about spending too much this is my gift to you and Luke and remember to just have fun this weekend." Nathan nodded and the two joined the group inside.

The next morning Nathan was the first to wake up and was waiting downstairs for everyone else lost in his thought going over the plan again and again in his head when Brooke came down the stairs dressed for the flight in her cheer sweats and Nathan smiled when he saw her wearing his sweatshirt. "Good morning." She greeted kissing his cheek and taking his cup of coffee that he offered her. "Thank you for inviting me." She whispered after she had finished the rest of his coffee.

"I know how much you love fashion and I thought you would like to spend the weekend in New York and I knew you would have fun if Haley came along also." Brooke nodded.

"I would've had just as much with you as I would with her." Brooke admitted looking down at the tile floor beneath her.

"Then maybe I'll just have to steal you away from her for awhile, won't I?" Nathan asked looking at Brooke hopefully.

"I guess I could be kidnapped for a little while." Nathan smiled and wrapped his arms around her letting the feeling of her being in his arms wash over him. Brooke sighed in content and snuggled into Nathan's arms a little bit more content with staying there forever. She couldn't wait to spend some time alone with Nathan in New York, they had so much they had to talk about; like their kiss and Brooke was finally going to tell Nathan that she had been the one sending him all those notes.

Luke and Haley walked down the stairs and caught sight of Nathan and Brooke in the kitchen and decided to give them time alone since this weekend was all about Brooke and Nathan hopefully finally getting together. No one wanted to think about what would happen if Brooke said no and no one was going to think about it.

Finally they arrived in New York and checked into the hotel heading with Cooper to his meeting. Brooke had more fun at the meeting then Nathan did helping Cooper with the design of the label and even came up with the title of the flavor and now they were on their own, Luke and Haley going off to go sight-seeing and Cooper going to have dinner with Tasha leaving Brooke and Nathan by themselves.

"So Nate, what do you wanna do?" Brooke asked as they walked around Time Square taking in the sights.

"How about I take you shopping?" He asked grabbing her hand so he wouldn't lose her in the sea of people.

"Nathan you don't need to take me shopping, bringing me to New York was more than enough." She replied turning towards Nathan smiling at him.

"We're in New York and you don't want to go shopping, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity."

"I don't have anything money to go shopping Nathan." She admitted looking at the ground sadly, truth was she was dying to go shopping in New York but knew that she could only go 'window shopping.'

"I might be able to help with that." He replied pulling a credit card out of his pocket and handing it to Brooke.

"Nathan, I can't accept this from you." She replied handing the car back to Nathan as they waited to cross the street.

"It's not from me; Cooper gave it me for you." Brooke looked at the card that Nathan held in front of her face. "Come on Brooke; let someone do something nice for you."

"You're always doing nice things for me Nathan." She replied now looking him in the eye.

"I like doing nice things for you." He admitted placing the card in her hands. "Now where do you want to go to first?" He asked not giving her the option to argue before pulling her across the street with the mass of people. After reaching the other side of the street Brooke decided to make the most of Nathan's offer and began pulling him down the street.

That evening Nathan and Brooke returned to their hotel room with mountains of bags of things that Brooke had bought, not all for her though, she bought a present for Haley and Luke for their birthdays and Christmas, and she even made Nathan get himself some things because she felt that he needed his wardrobe updated. She also bought a special present for him for Christmas in case they were together. Nathan set the bags down in between the two beds and turned towards Brooke who had stopped short of the first bed and was starring at Nathan. "Brooke?" He asked walking over towards her. "You okay?" Brooke shook her head and looked at Nathan finally registering that he was talking to her.

"Oh yeah I'm fine."

"You sure?"

"Yep, now what time are we meeting everybody for dinner?" Nathan looked at Brooke silent for a few moments trying to figure out if she was lying or telling the truth but soon gave up realizing that it wasn't really that important right now.

"7 I think." Brooke nodded going through the bags motioning with her hand for Nathan to go get in the shower since she was going to need some time to sort out what she was wearing tonight to dinner. Nathan shook his head and walked into the bathroom turning the shower on to hopefully calm down his ever growing nerves.

Nathan emerged from the shower and passed Brooke who pointed to his bed where his outfit laid out on the bed and she stopped to kiss his cheek to thank him for the millionth time that day for spending the day with her and taking her shopping. Nathan just smiled at her and continued towards the bed where his clothes were laid out and got dressed deciding to watch some TV while he waited for Brooke to finish getting ready so they could meet everybody else in the lobby. While Nathan sat on the bed waiting for Brooke to finish getting ready he came to the decision that he was going to ask her tonight, he didn't want to wait any longer he had to have her as his girlfriend one more day could quite possibly kill him.

Brooke stood in the bathroom her hands shaking with anticipation of what she was going to do tonight. Tonight she was going to tell Nathan about the notes and her feelings and if Nathan happened to not return her feelings at least she could say that she told him and that she had done everything she could. Finally getting frustrated with her shaking hands Brooke picked up her phone and called for Haley to help her.

Nathan got up from the bed when he heard a knock on the door, he checked his phone confused as to why someone would be knocking on their door when it was only 6:30, there's no way he got the time wrong is there? Shaking his head Nathan opened the door and smiled at Haley. "Hey Hales, what's up?"

"I came over to talk to Brooke."

"Oh she's in the bathroom getting ready."

"Thanks Nate, could you give us some alone time its important?" Haley asked not wanting Nathan to hear about Brooke's plan.

"Sure I'll be in your room just meet us in the lobby." Haley nodded and walked into the room and waiting till she heard the door close behind her before walking over to the bathroom.

"Hey Brooke, it's me." Brooke opened the door and smiled in relief.

"Thank you so much for coming over." She replied holding out her hands that were trembling so bad Haley was amazed she could dial the phone to call her.

"It's nothing sit there so I can finish helping you get ready. Why are you nervous Brooke, you know he has feelings for you."

"No Haley I don't. The night of the auction he told me about this girl that he liked and I got the feeling that he really liked this girl." Haley looked at Brooke and wanted to shake her, yell at her to open her eyes and look in the mirror and she would see the girl that Nathan was crazy about. "So I'm going to tell him tonight after dinner to get it over with."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes Haley if I tell him now and he doesn't feel the same way at least I can walk away knowing that I told him."

"Well I think that you are just making things up because you don't think that Nathan could ever have romantic feelings for you."

"What are you talking about?"

"Brooke I watch that kid go out of his way for you and if you don't think that he has some sort of feeling for you you're crazy."

"But he said that he liked another girl."

"How do you not know that he was just saying that so you didn't catch onto how he felt about you?" Haley challenged stepping away from Brooke and smiling at the finished product. "Now you're done and we should hurry and get downstairs." Brooke looked in the mirror and smiled at Haley hugging her before walking out of the bathroom. The girls linked arms as they walked out of the room and towards the elevators.

Nathan stood anxiously in the lobby waiting for Brooke and Haley fully aware of Luke and Cooper laughing at him as they watched him pace in front of them. "Nate calm down." Coop offered standing up and stopping Nathan in the middle of his pacing. Nathan looked up at him and moved so he could continue pacing.

Brooke stood anxiously in the elevator consistently smoothing imaginary wrinkles out of her dress and checking her reflection in the mirrored walls of the elevator. "Brooke stop." Haley commanded from her position towards the back of the elevator. Brooke stopped her hands and gripped her clutch with both hands now rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet. Before Haley could stop Brooke the doors open and Haley pulled Brooke along beside her.

Nathan looked up and smiled when he saw Brooke and Haley coming towards them. Haley stopped pulling Brooke and walked around Nathan going over to Luke and both turned towards the two watching them standing in front of each other as if they had never seen the other before. "You look amazing." Nathan whispered finally getting the courage to speak. Brooke blushed and looked down shyly crossing her legs and starring at her shoes. "We should go before they leave us here." Brooke nodded and grabbed Nathan's hand that he had extended to her and the two walked out of the hotel and into the limo where the others were waiting.

All through dinner Brooke and Nathan kept stealing glances at each other always smiling and blushing when they got caught. They were oblivious to the conversations going around them, all that mattered was looking at each other and getting lost in each other's eyes. Nathan lightly nudged Brooke with his foot, "Hey after dinner can I talk to you alone?" He whispered and Brooke nodded finally breaking the intense staring contest between them and joining in the conversations that were happening around them. Nathan on the other hand was now nervous as hell, he had so many thoughts running through his head he began to feel slightly sick. He didn't know what was going to happen if Brooke said no and honestly he didn't know how he was going to handle it if she said no.

Finally dinner ended and as the group walked out of the restaurant and towards the limo Nathan excused himself and Brooke grabbing her hand and leading her across the street towards Central Park, this was the perfect place for Nathan to ask Brooke to be his girlfriend. Brooke walked along side of Nathan taking in the scenery of Central Park. "Did you have fun tonight?" Nathan asked after they had been walking through the park for a few moments. Brooke turned and nodded shivering a little as a wind blew between them blowing her hair forward over her shoulders. Nathan stopped and pulled his jacket off sliding it over Brooke's creamy shoulders.

"Nathan I have something I want to tell you." Brooke confessed as they stopped in a secluded spot where they could have a few moments together alone. Nathan sat down on the bench next to Brooke and turned towards her waiting with bated breath as to what she had to say to him. "Do you remember when you showed me that note that you had gotten from a secret admirer?" She asked looking briefly at Nathan to see him nod urging her to continue. "Well those letters were from me. I sent you those letters in a way to tell you how I felt about you. I know it was probably lame but it was the only way I could think of letting you know without really having to put myself out there and risk getting rejected. I completely understand if you don't…" Her sentence died on her lips as Nathan gently placed his finger on her lips silencing her.

"Brooke," He started moving his finger once he knew she wouldn't interrupt. "I have to tell you that this trip to New York wasn't just about going to New York I wanted to bring you here and ask you to be my girlfriend. I'm in love with you Brooke and have been for quite some time now and you admitting that you were sending me those letters just makes me want you to be my girlfriend even more. So Brooke will you be my girlfriend?" Nathan asked looking Brooke in the eye for the first time since he began his impromptu speech. Brooke's eyes searched his eyes for a minute her mouth hanging slightly open. "Brooke?"

"But you said there was another girl the night of the auction." She whispered her eyes now glassy with tears.

"I was talking about you Brooke when I said that I was waiting for the perfect way to ask her I was talking about right now right here."

"What?" She asked completely caught off guard by what was happening. Nathan was not seriously asking her to be his girlfriend in the middle of Central Park was he?

"I love you Brooke." He repeated his hands lightly gripping her face forcing her to look at her. "I want to be with you." He added searching her eyes for something, any hint to what she was feeling.

"Nathan," She started in a tone that made Nathan's heart stop, she was going to turn him down, take his feelings and throw them back in his face maybe even laugh at him. "I thought you would never ask." She whispered after a few torturous moments had passed. Nathan's eyes went wide as it finally sank in that she said yes. Brooke smiled and rested her forehead against his as Nathan gently kissed her. The first kiss that surpassed any thought she had about their first kiss. Nathan stood up and pulled Brooke into his arms lifting her off the ground and spinning her around. "Took you long enough." She whispered as they stood Brooke finally in Nathan's arms after such a long time of dreaming about it.

"What can I say? That's just how I roll." Brooke blushed and swatted Nathan's chest. "What was that for?"

"Don't think that I didn't pick up on the egotistical undertones to that." Nathan laughed and kissed her forehead.

"I can't get anything passed you, can I?" Brooke shook her head and rested her head on Nathan's shoulder as they turned and began walking back towards the hotel; this was surely going to be a trip that Brooke would never forget.

A/N: FINALLY! BRATHAN IS FINALLY TOGETHER!!!!!!!! Now that they're together what can happen now? Don't worry I have much more in store for them and I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.