Jeff explained to Rachel what they were going to do. How he and Lucas needed her help to get them back together and how she was like the only person to do it since she lived with her and was with her every second of every day it seemed. After Brooke's freak out over the necklace Rachel was more than happy to help, she could tell Brooke wanted to be with Lucas but was scared so she would just drop little things to her about him, nothing ever big just about how cute he was that day, or how he was talking about her the other day when she was with Jeff and him. She would tell how Brooke would try not get happy by that fact but would fail at not smiling.

"So how is the plan going?" Jeff asked as he and Lucas sat down at the table next to Rachel.

"Umm.. We are making progress." Rachel smiled knowing that in the week of trying to help out wasn't going as fast as she had hoped but it was slowly going.

"Rach it's been a week, I can't stand it anymore." Lucas sighed throwing his head on the table groaning.

"I know but I am trying, your girl is very stubborn you know."

"Yeah trust me I know." Lucas groaned again. "I just wished she knew how much I still loved her."

"I know you do and I am trying I really am, I mean I think slowly she is coming around but she is scared." Rachel explained, she knew if one could promise Brooke she would never feel the pain she felt when she and Lucas broke up again she would be with him, but no one could really promise that.

"I don't get why she is scared I told her I loved her and wanted to be with her."

"I know you did, but at the same time she heard that before and ya'll broke up and her heart was shattered. You should have seen her Luke, even the day we ran into you again I had to take her phone away because she debated calling you again." Rachel explained and could see the small amount of hope Lucas had.

"Then why didn't she, and why was she for getting together then but not now?" Lucas asked confused, if she wanted to call him so bad then clearly she still wanted him as much as he wanted her.

"Because it's easy to want something and know you may never have it. I know that sounds weird but she didn't know you were here so she thought that even a phone call wouldn't matter because you were across the country but now you are here and you could break her again."

"Yeah." Lucas sighed actually kind of getting what she meant, when he wasn't here she had an excuse to fight them being together so she wouldn't get hurt again but with him here she was having trouble fighting it and he prayed soon she wouldn't be able to fight it anymore soon. "I guess why I am so confused is she broke up with me, I didn't leave her. I was the one who got hurt, so why is she so sure I will hurt her?"

"Because you did." Jeff finally spoke "I was with her Luke, she talked about you all the time it was crazy. Not a day would pass without her saying something about you or how she missed you. How she couldn't wait for summer because she was going to visit you. I swear you had never even come to our school and all the guys hated you, all I heard were guys saying how much they hated Lucas Scott because you had Brooke. I remember who her face would light up when she would get a text from you; she got that same look when she saw you at my baseball game."

"Then why did she leave me? And why won't she be with me now?" Lucas sighed, if all that was true if she missed him and talked about him so much why the hell she was not with him and why did she break up with him.

"Because it got too hard for her." Jeff shrugged "She hated how she only saw you ever so often and how she didn't think it was fair you were alone. She honestly thought it was for the best because she thought she would never see you again."

"But I'm here now."

"Yeah you are Luke but you killed her so bad when you didn't call her when she left. Did you know she waited for you?" Jeff asked and Lucas just looked down knowing what he was talking about since Brooke told him that night when they fought. "She told me she stood out on that doorstep waiting for you to chase her and you never did. Then you never called her and she just thought you didn't love her as much as she loved you. That to you it was like an out."

"I love her." Lucas said sternly making sure everyone at the table knew it that just because he didn't call or chase her didn't mean he didn't love her because he did and he does and it crushed him thinking she thought differently. However he couldn't help but smile when he saw Brooke start to make her way over to the table with Jennifer, every time he saw her he smiled even if they were fighting, just seeing her made him happy.

"Oh she is coming…" Rachel said "Jeff make a comment about her necklace." Rachel said quickly.

"What? Why?" Jeff asked confused.

"Just do it." Rachel ordered as the girls walked up. Brooke looked a little uncomfortable with Lucas there. She hadn't had a real conversation with him since that night and she wasn't ready too. She wasn't ready to tell him how she felt and all she knew was that she was scared. Scared that if she let him in again she would get hurt again and she barely survived it the first time and didn't think she would be able to the second.

"Hey Brooke." Lucas smiled as she sat down next to Rachel and Jennifer sat on the other side of her.

"Hey," Brooke said looking down not wanting to make eye contact with him.

"Brooke I like your necklace." Jeff smiled as Rachel just rolled her eyes, when she said as she meant when they were all talking about something not right when she sat down, boys are so dumb.

"Umm...thanks." Brooke said touching the necklace with her hand and looking up to see a big smile on his face by the fact she still wore something he gave her.

"That is pretty Brooke how come I have never noticed before." Jennifer asked looking at it.

"I don't know she wears the damn thing every day." Rachel said then looked up quick to see Brooke giving her a dreaded look, Rachel gave her an I'm sorry look but knowing she said it on purpose but didn't want Brooke knowing that.

"Well it's very pretty."

"Thanks." Brooke smiled at her friend.

"Ok but back to our talk I need your help I don't know what to do." Jennifer said continuing the talk her and Brooke were having before they sat down.

"Well it's up to you Jen I mean if you're ready I think you should but I know it's a big deal, a very big deal." Brooke said.

"What is?" Rachel asked confused to what the girls are talking about.

"Oh Ummm…" Brooke started tossing a look between Jeff and Lucas not sure Jennifer would want to talk about this in front of the guys.

"Should we leave?" Jeff asked catching his best friends look and Jennifer just shook her head.

"No, its fine I don't mind." She smiled then turning to Rachel "We are talking about sex. Like I know I love Josh, but I am scared you know. It's a big deal."

"It is a big deal, I mean would it be your first time or will it just be ya'lls first time?" Rachel asked.

"Both." Jennifer said slightly embarrassed "I know I'm 19 and I virgin I'm pathetic."

"You're not pathetic." Lucas said getting all three girls to look at him. "Sorry I guess that was more of the girl talk." Lucas apologized.

"No its not I don't mind you guys weighing in." Jennifer said actually wanting a guy's opinion on it.

"All I am saying is your first time is supposed to be special and just because you haven't yet doesn't make you pathetic it just means you haven't found someone you love to give that part of you too. Honestly as guys we kind of like that." Lucas explained, and they did. He wasn't sure why but knowing that not any of your friends or any other guy has been with your girl makes guys feel pretty damn good.

"Really? You don't mind that a girl has no experience or any idea what they are doing?" Jennifer asked and both guys shock their heads.

"Well as a girl it's easier because you just kind of let him take over show you, now if you were a guy it may be harder since you aren't sure how to move and not only would you be nervous as hell it also may seem a little short." Jeff explained with a small laughing making the girls laugh and Lucas.

"Well were you in love Rach? I mean the first time you had sex?" Jennifer asked.

"No, actually I wasn't," Rachel sighed "I was drunk and honestly don't remember it too much. I wish I was; I wish that when I got older and had a daughter I could tell her it was ok to wait because I did and I was in love. That it was amazing and perfect but I can't and I really regret that." Rachel sighed as she thought about her first time, it was at a party she was 16 drunk and never saw the guy again and was so embarrassed by it.

"What about you Brooke? Were you in love the first time you had sex with someone?" Jennifer asked and Lucas looked over at her seeing her tense up and move uncomfortably in her seat.

"Umm…" Brooke paused thinking about it, Lucas had always told her he was her first, not the other guy him. She always believed him but now after how she had treated him the last few weeks and avoided him after he told her how he felt Brooke didn't know if he still thought that about her.

Lucas could tell she was debating it, not her love for him when they first slept together but more the fact he technically wasn't her first. He knew she wasn't sure what she should say since he was there now and they weren't together anymore so before she could answer he did it for her, "Yeah she was."

Brooke's head shot up at him and smiled, she felt so stupid questioning it and thinking he would think different he was still Lucas, her Lucas. The Lucas she gave her heart to and the Lucas who made her feel comfortable and never once feel like what happened to her was her fault. "Yeah I was." She answered again with a smile "I really was."

Everyone watched the ex couple smile at each other and Rachel couldn't be happier, as much as Brooke tried to deny it, she was still so in love with Lucas. The look on her face right now proved it and it was going to make Rachel's job that much easier.

A/N: Ok very very short I know but the next few chapters will be longer I plan. I just needed to show Rachel helping and everyone remember what happened to Brooke because it will be important to Lucas and her getting back together: )) Well review and I will update sooner. Just so I know everyone is still reading the story.