"Hey, c'mon Brooke.", Rachel shook Brooke who had her head rested on her lap while all of them were sitting on the couch. "Wake up. I wanna go to bed and you should too."

"Let me sleep Rachel.", Brooke whispered and slapped Rachel's hand away when Rachel wanted to push her away.

"God Brooke. Get off of me. You can sleep when you're in your bed." She finally managed to push Brooke off of her, which ended in Brooke falling face forward, to the ground.

"Ouch.", she moaned and looked up at Rachel. "Why did you do that?"

"Because we wanna go to bed Brooke.", Peyton answered a bit annoyed.

Brooke acted so weird today. She acted between being totally happy and jumping and dancing around all the time or screaming at them without any reason. And her movements were kind of frozen. Like in slow motion. They went upstairs while Brooke stayed on the ground. She was just not in the mood to go upstairs and decided to sleep on the ground.

"Brooke. C'mon.", Haley shook her wildly "don't sleep on the ground."

Brooke smiled weirdly at her "You know that you are really, really pretty tutor girl." Haley looked confused at her.

"Thanks. But I think you're talking in your sleep."

"No. No. I mean what I say. I always mean what I say. Right? Because I say it now. So it must be true. Right Haley? I must be right?" Haley did not quite understand what Brooke was about to say and shook her head.

"I don't have a clue what you want to say. Just go to bed."

"What were you doing down?", Brooke sprung up and made Haley jump up in shock.

"I was hungry."

"Ohhhhh. Hunger. Hunger is something weird. Everybody is hungry. Everybody eats. We all are human beings. So we eat. Right?"

"Umm. Right. Have you been drinking Brooke?", Haley asked surprised.

Brooke rambled so much. "Yes." Brooke revealed and left a shocked grimace on Haley's face.

"Why?"

"Because everybody needs to drink. Every human being drinks."

"Gosh Brooke. Stop talking like that." Haley complained, "I meant alcohol."

"Ohhhh. No. No. You weren't specific enough Haley. No I did not drink alcohol. But I feel really funny nonetheless. Like a rollercoaster." Brooke spun around happily. Haley looked suspiciously into her eyes and then went up with her.

"Sleep tight Tigger.", she said and entered her room. Brooke entered her own room and was too exhausted to even take off her clothes. Immediately she fell asleep when she closed her eyes. She did not realize that in the mean time two men entered her room through the window and tiptoed towards her.

One of them sat down besides her "She is such a pretty girl." He went through her hair carefully and touched her cheek. His eyes went down her body "Gimme the cloth". The other man gave him a cloth with chloroform and he immediately put it over Brooke's mouth and nose and waited a while so that he was sure that Brooke would be out of it. "Gimme the needle.", he then said harshly but not too loud. He did not want to wake the others in the house. The man hesitated a moment. In this moment he did not know why he had agreed to this experiment they were making. The man took Brooke's arm and injected the liquid. "Good girl.", he then whispered into Brooke's ear and kissed her lips. When he went under Brooke's shirt the other man touched his shoulder.

"C'mon let's go.", he received a mean glance.

"See you tomorrow.", he went on top of Brooke and smelled at her neck. "God she smells so good." Finally he let go of her and then went outside with his friend. The other three were downstairs smoking and waiting for them outside.

"Done.", he high fived them and the others laughed.

"So this is it?", one of them asked, "experiment is over right?" Obviously the leader looked mad at him.

"I decide when it's over. And it's not. I just decided to take a step forward."

The others hesitated a moment. "What does that mean?"

"You will see."

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The next day Brooke woke up like having a huge hangover. "God. What is wrong with me?", she asked herself and realized that she had not even changed in her PJ's. She jumped up when she saw someone sitting besides her. "God Peyton. You scared me to death. Oh no." The whole room was spinning again. She tried to stand up but in the process she fell on the ground again but ran to the toilet as fast as possible. Her whole body was shivering and she had sweat everywhere. She started puking when Peyton entered the bathroom and held back her hair. Peyton helped her get back into bed finally and the looked sadly into Brooke's eyes. "Hey P. Sawyyyyyyer.", Brooke said funnily "don't loook so sad at me." She was mumbling that Peyton had problems to understand her.

"Brooke. I need to ask you a question." Brooke closed her eyes. She was still so tired but happy on the same time. Although she had to puke again she did not really care.

"Ooookay."

"Do you do drugs?" Haley, Peyton and Rachel had talked a lot about Brooke lately and she decided just to ask her instead of assuming it behind her back. Brooke looked confused up at her.

"Nah. You know me. Me. B. Davis. I would not do drugs. Except of alcohol. But that does not count." Peyton then nodded sadly and then went downstairs to the others "We made breakfast. So come down." Brooke nodded joyfully but then decided to sleep a little longer.

This went on for the next days. Brooke was behaving so strange. From not stopping talking to sleeping the whole day. And it seemed liked she had forgotten to eat all this time. It was then one night that she was sleeping exhausted in her bed not caring to change at all and then men walked in again.

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"Don't tell me you injected all of it", the leader said to his friend.

"Umm...yes. I did."

"Are you nuts. You overdosed her. Shit. Let's get out."

"But...but what if I killed her."

"Well. Then we hope that nobody will every find out about it." They left her room promptly.

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It was then everything changed dramatically. When the girls found Brooke unconscious in her bed the next morning and took her under the shower, they realized that their assumption had been right. Why was she doing drugs? Why? Nobody could understand it.

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Brooke held her cheek that still hurt from Rachel's slap. "I wish I could believe you Tigger.", Haley said sadly and a tear ran down her cheek. Brooke did not know what to say. In fact she did not understand the whole situation. Yes, she felt weird lately. But no, she did not use drugs. Why should she?

"God my mouth is so dry.", Brooke whispered to Haley who gave her a glass with water.

"Why are you lying to us Brooke?", Haley and Brooke were leaning on the ground against the bed when Peyton and Rachel entered the room again. You could see that Rachel had been crying and still had the urge to continue. She was holding herself tightly and sat in front of Brooke with Peyton on the ground.

"God. I swear. I am not lying.", she mumbled and let her head fell back. "Then what is this? Why is your arm full of marks? Needle marks." Brooke looked down at her arm and was shocked for a minute but she could not tell where they came from.

"I don't know. How often do I have to tell you that I don't know it." Suddenly it was Haley who raised her voice.

"Stop lying to us. Just stop it. I read all on the internet. You behave like on drugs. You have those marks Brooke. You puke like every morning. You don't eat and you still think we believe you." She looked so mad and sad into Brooke's face. Brooke could not help but starting to cry. It was just too much for her. Her three friends were interrogating her now for about an hour and how should she confess anything that she had not done. She put her head between her legs and cried.

"Why don't you believe me?", she whispered. All of them were shocked. Somehow they wanted to believe her but all those signs.

"Brooke. Look. My mother died because we believed her. We always believed that she was clean now. But one injection killed her. And now she is under the ground and will never come back. We just want to help you. We don't want to loose you." Rachel was practically chasing around the room and looking through Brooke's stuff "Where is it Brooke. Where are the damn needles?", she threw everything around but could not find any. She then went down in front of Brooke tears appearing in her eyes "Where is the stuff. Tell me where it is. Now.", her voice was so angry that Brooke actually shivered. The others did not know what to do. They were overwhelmed by Rachel's actions. She shook Brooke wildly.

"There are no needles Rachel. I...", this time Haley pulled Rachel away from Brooke and outside. Rachel acted so because she knew what it meant to loose somebody because of drugs. While Haley and Rachel talked to each others Peyton was sitting besides Brooke again. Brooke looked like a little kid. She had lost some weight and still hugged herself.

"We decided to go home tomorrow honey." Brooke looked into nothing but nodded. "You wanna come downstairs and watch a movie?"

"No. I just want to sleep.", Brooke said sadly and went under the blanket. Peyton hesitated. What if she would do another shot?

"I don't really like the idea of you being here alone. You know."

"God Peyton. I don't do anything. I don't drug myself. Yes, I felt awkward lately. Yes, I puked in the morning and I feel weird. Don't you think I realize that myself? Just get out. Please. And leave me alone and take care of that bitch Gatina." Peyton hesitated again but then decided to leave. She went downstairs where the others were and sat on the couch.

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"Somehow I believe her.", she whispered and four shocked eyes looked at her.

"Yeah. Me too.", Rachel suddenly whispered "but I believed my mom as well.", she revealed and hugged herself sadly again.

"What are we going to do?", Haley asked and took her arm around Rachel. "We drive home tomorrow like planned and then we...god I don't know. I would say we talk to her parents but they don't give a shit. Maybe we should go to Karen. She has a good relationship with Brooke.", Peyton suggested.

"What if she really does not lie? I mean it's not like Brooke. Maybe we rushed into things and accuse her of something she really did not do?", Haley's head was spinning around. Nobody knew the answer to that.

"Well. I guess she'll be sleeping till tomorrow again. She said that she does not want to see us. I...umm...I let my camera in it. So...I know guys it is not right. But we'll check it later and maybe...we'll see how she...you know...how she..." Peyton stuttered, "of course we won't let her sleep alone today.", she added. All of them agreed and kept on talking.

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Some hours later they were still sitting on the couch. They had checked a few times for Brooke but Brooke did not want to go downstairs. So they decided to watch a movie before one of them would have to deal with Brooke's complaining but sleeping with her in her bed. What they did not know was that in the meantime three men where in Brooke's room again. Brooke was helpless again and did not even know about it.

Shortly after the men were gone Peyton tiptoed into Brooke's room and was happy that the light was still on while she slept, so if there was anything on the camera she would see it. She took the camera and then went down to the others. "I am afraid.", she whispered to them but then started the tape. All of them looked shocked at the tape when they saw three men around Brooke's bed while Brooke was laying sleeping in it. One of the men took a cloth on her mouth and kissed her on the lips. Unfortunately they could not understand what he was saying. Then they saw the needle. They hold each other's hand when he injected it into Brooke's arm. Brooke did not even flinch. While two of the men just watched the other, the other man went with his hands under Brooke's shirt and caressed her body and smiled evilly. The others seemed a bit nervous and made him leave the room as well. Not ten minutes after that Peyton entered the room and took the camera.

The girls looked shocked at each others. They were scared to death and run upstairs into Brooke's room. But Brooke was not lying on her bed any more. Her window was still open.

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