A/N: I hope you guys liked it. This is the second chapter. Obviously.
Disclaimer- I own nothing.
"Okay, so do you think that celebrities have it easier as Nathan said?" Mrs. Hughes asked as she sat on her desk legs crossed looking at the class.
"No, celebrities have it harder. They have to deal with paparazzi and them always having rumors being spread about them. They always have to deal with the pressures of drugs and alcohol and scandal" snot nose Erica Marsh said and I scuffed.
"You feel differently Brooke?" Mrs. Hughes asked.
"Umm… it sounds just like high school. For the first time ever I agree with Nathan. I mean come on; celebs get to move, change their name and start a new life and forget their old one." I said and Nathan just nodded in agreement.
"Well, okay. Let's look at a famous actress that you guys seem to love. Grey Simon, do you think she has it easier?" She asked and I stiffened, but then relaxed.
"Yes. She thinks she can do whatever she wants and she can. She walks around like her shit doesn't stink. I mean we don't know anything about her and you guys say you love her. Well, I disagree. She probably had it hard where she lived and thought it was better to run away, hoping her problems didn't run with her" I shrugged knowing only two people in this class knew what I was talking about.
"I know her!" Someone yelled and I rolled my eyes.
"Really? So you know her natural hair color? If she can cook? If she wears contacts? If her mom had to deal with a lowlife loser of a husband? How many siblings she had? Do you know anything about her other than what she says?" I snapped and everyone stated quiet. "Didn't think so"
"What is your problem with Grey Simon, Brooke? You can't judge her either." Shelly said being a know it all as usual.
"My problem is with anyone that thinks they can run away from everything not think about how others will take it! She had a family and she left them and now we treat her like royalty for it? I'm sorry if I don't agree"
"Brooke's right" Rachel piped up from the corner. I didn't even see her come in. "Grey Simon had people that cared about her and would have helped her. They don't get a chance to leave because they have responsibilities. She is a fake two faced bitch just like all of you." Rachel told with anger. Now that is why she is my best friend.
"I disagree. She has to still deal with her problems and I saw somewhere that her mom was like in a psyche ward and her father died in a car crash. She had to live in an orphanage" Theresa told the class and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Making my mom out to be the bad guy? Hell no.
"Where did you read that?" Nathan asked obviously mad.
"Wikipedia." She replied.
"Well check you sources. Grey Simon is a selfish bitch that probably left her parents, her siblings and then made a sob story to make sure people felt sorry for her and then she was a shoe in for that stupid show of hers. She is the queen of fake." Nathan snapped.
"I agree" I said raising my hand and Rachel raised her hand also.
"Yeah, me too. I wonder if it is really even her real nose" Lucas said making me crack small smile, but I made sure no one saw it.
"Wow, we got the Davis siblings in agreement along Lucas and Rachel. Never thought I would see the day" Mrs. Hughes smiled making the class laugh.
"Why are you guys so against her? I believe Wikipedia. I would believe before you four. I mean she didn't even have siblings." Theresa said and tears pricked the sides of my eyes.
"What are you talking about? Where did you hear that?" I asked and Nathan leaned in a little closer like it was a secret. Lucas turned around to see me wiping eyes quickly and I just glared to make him turn back around. I don't need his pity. Rachel cut her eyes over at me nervous and if looks could kill Tree Hill Police department would have four new inmates.
"Her official facebook page."
"How do you know it is even hers?" Lucas sneered at her. I inwardly smiled at Lucas. He has nice moments when it comes to sticking up for Nathan. He is like Nathan's big brother since Nate kind of lost his.
"It is hers because she logs in and writes where she will be and answer questions. Someone asked her if she had a sister and she answered with thankfully no, I don't have an annoying sister to look after or brother in fact. I am only child" Theresa said to me word for word and looked condescendingly at me as if I had a disease.
"That bitch" Nathan snapped under his breath and I just slowly got up and grabbed my stuff and walked out of the room. I walked to the bathroom and locked the door before letting the tears out. How could she do it? Just forget about me? She was my best friend. How could she let people think mom went to a psyche ward? Or that Dan died? Why make him look like he was a good guy? Of all of us she would be the last person to do that. What changed her? I cried for what seemed like hours before I heard a knock on the door and I realized I needed to get out of here. I tried to fix my make up the best I could before opening the door to see the last person I expected to see.
"Are you okay?" He asked me and I just nodded as I tried to get passed him to walk out.
"I'm fine. Just go back to your friends, okay?" I said but he blocked me every time I tried to walk passed him
"Brooke, I am trying to help" He sighed rubbing his hands over his face.
"Why? You haven't said one nice thing to me since everything went to hell. I tried to be nice to you, but I'm done. Grey isn't our sister and you're not my brother, Nathan. Not anymore." I sighed and he just looked at the ground and I walked passed him and out the door. I could walk home.
I sat on the stairs listening to Nathan and Haley talk. How our house was, I could really see everything, but they couldn't see me. I don't know why, but no one could see you even though you could see them. It was pretty humorous to listen to how nervous Nathan sounds. I love listening to them because he tries so hard and she just doesn't care. I knew I liked her.
"You ready to talk about it?" She asked him and I leaned closer to the kitchen. Probably the first nice thing she has ever said to him. Don't go soft now, Haley James!
"About what?" Nathan asked. He is trying to play it cool. Again I say, funny.
"Well as you know, I am a little smarter than the others that go to our school and from that little scene in Mrs. Hughes class today, if I didn't know better I would think you have some relation to Grey Simon." Haley said looking up from her paper to see him staring at his hands. He looked like a lost little boy and I wanted to hug him. He might hate me, but I am still big sister, and I can still want to help even though I know I can't.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Nathan said trying to cover up the lie. We decided a long time ago that no one was going to find out. Only four people know. Peyton, Rachel, Quinn, and Lucas.
"I think you do. Is she a cousin? An aunt? A friend?" She questioned.
"Sister" We whispered at the same time. He didn't know though I said it along with him.
"But-"
"Yeah I know. She changed her name. They said Grey Simon sounded better. She was originally Grey Davis. Yeah all those rumors and Wikipedia are wrong. Her mom wasn't in a psyche ward; her father didn't die in a car crash. She has four siblings. Everything she says is a lie. She is an actress after all" Nathan sighed and for the first time in what seemed like years my little brother was looked like the kid he used to be. Vulnerable, sad, abandoned and I couldn't change it. I wasn't that person anymore.
"Wow" Haley said "I mean I thought, but never really thought it was true."
"You know that guy that every now and then will be in the magazines? You know the one they see coming out of her house and everyone thinks is her boyfriend, but no one knows his name or where he is from."
"Yeah. Why?" She asked.
"That's my brother Devon. He travels around the whole world and I guess he just needed a place to stay while he toured Cali. He left about three days after grey did. He went to go get something from the store and never came back. He will send the occasional post card to my mom to make sure she knows that he is still alive. It is mostly Hi, not dead, Bye."
"That must hurt your mom and Brooke."
"Yeah, most people think because Brooke looks so much like her. Brooke tried to change her hair and how she walked because she was tired of being asked if she was related to her. She took it the hardest. I mean they were really close and then she was gone. She hasn't talk to her since. I mean Brooke lost everyone. Easton left, Devon left, Grey left, and she was all alone." Nathan sighed. Where is he going with this?
"Then why do you act like you don't know her if it hurts you so much that she is alone?" Haley asked him and my heart sped up. Honestly, I didn't want to know why he hates me.
"I don't know. I mean I was thirteen when everything went to hell and I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to help her. I decided that it would be to just give her the time she needed to get through it. I guess I waited too late to try to fix it. We were too far apart to try to get back to where we were." He shrugged and I sat there confused. So, he wanted to give me time, but that couldn't be it. He hated me, he made it very obvious.
"So why act like you hate her?" Haley asked him and I felt like she was reading my mind.
"I thought would be easier. I mean I was mad too. It wasn't just her. She wasn't the only one to lose all her siblings in one week. I lost them too! I was pissed off!" he snapped and Haley flinched back a little. "Grey was a second mom to me and she left without a goodbye. She left when I was at school and I had to learn from mom that we were moving and Grey wasn't coming back. I was mad and I thought it was easier to just let my anger out on her." He shrugged and I just sat there dumbfounded. All this time, I never thought about him. Grey and Easton and Devon left him too, not just me. I'm so stupid.
"That is-"
"Stupid? Yeah I know, but again I was thirteen and stupid. And missed my brothers and sister" Nathan defended.
"Could you please stop finishing my sentences? It is really-"
"Annoying?" He said looking over her with a smile. My little brother is so smooth. Making her fall for him just with a smile.
"Yeah" She laughed.
I sat staring at my computer screen, staring at the name under online names. I could message him, see how he was. Just a hey, what's up? I bit down on my fingernail nervously as I moved my mouse over his name and clicked on it.
"Hey, what's up" I typed out and stared at the screen. One button, that's all I needed to press and those three words, would be sent across the cables to him. I moved my shaking hand over to the enter button and rested my finger on it. Right before I pushed down a little ding went off to notify I had a message. I looked at the bottom and rolled my eyes.
"Are you okay?" Was all it said. Seriously, why does everyone suddenly care about my feelings? It is super annoying.
"Just great. You know I think I am going to go watch the stars and eat lollipops and draw unicorns!" I replied annoyed. I don't know why he bothered me so much, but he did.
"I'm just trying to be nice." Was his reply and I laughed as if he could hear me. Oh yes, he is trying to be so nice and help me through my problems.
"Well, go be nice to someone else" I replied furiously.
"You know, you can be upset about it. You don't have to keep it all in." He had some nerve. I don't keep it in. I let it out. He doesn't know anything about me.
"Go to hell" I sent back.
"Already there"
Lucas Scott offline
I stared at the words until they became blurry. I tried to decode the message thinking as if my life depended on it. I all of sudden wanted him back online so I could know what he meant. Why did I care though? This was Lucas Scott. He was probably just mad he couldn't get a girl into his bed tonight. I needed to stop worrying about him. I all of sudden realized the message I was going to send before Lucas IMed me. I looked back at over and was saddened by what I saw.
Easton Davis offline
I lost my chance.
I went on to Grey's facebook page and stared at her picture. It was one of her at a party and her holding a beer in her hand yelling to the crowd. Her hair down and pin straight and her makeup flawless. She had the perfect life, but I felt sorry for her. She was alone and had no one to come home to. I stared at the page; I stared at so long it felt as if something was going to pop out at me to show that my sister is still there. It hasn't happened yet. I looked over at the clock that read ten thirty and yawned. I heard a soft knock on my door and turned around to see the one person that hasn't left me yet standing in the doorway.
"Hey" I smiled
"Hey. What are you still doing up?" She smiled as she walked in and sat on my bed.
"I could ask you the same thing. How was your date?" I asked and she groaned in frustration "That bad?"
"Why can't grown men just be normal? His voice was unbearable." He complained and I laughed at my mother's antics.
"I'm sorry" I said jokingly before glancing back at the computer.
"You found your sister's webpage I take it?" She asked going into her serious mother mode. I just nodded sadly.
"I personally think that I look pretty good for being in a psyche ward" She said with a small smile and I looked at her confused.
"You saw it?"
"Yes, I did."
"Aren't you a little upset by it? The girl that promised she would never treat you like your brother treated grandmamma is doing the exact same thing." I sighed.
"Honey come here" She said motioning me to the bed. I shuffled my way over to her as the silent tears rolled down my face.
"I am crushed that Grey and Easton and Devon left, but I need to stay strong. You and Nathan need me. I know it sucks, but it will get better." She said holding me as I cried in her shoulder.
"I don't get it. What did we do? Nathan just went to school and comes back to a different world. Devon went to the store and decided to go to one in friggin' Georgia! Easton left me." I cried.
"Baby girl, you did nothing wrong. Your siblings are going to come back, I promise you" She told me forcefully.
"You can't promise something like that."
"I will get them back." She whispered kissing my forehead. "Go to bed baby" She sighed and I nodded as she walked out. I took my contacts out and got into my pajamas, but before I went to bed. I went to her status and decided to leave a comment. I decided to finally give Grey what she always wanted
"You don't know me Grey Simon, but I would just like to say I know what it is like to not have a sister. I just have a brother and my mom, a mom that has always been there for me and doesn't deserve any of the bad things people do to her. I hope you and that guy you are living with are happy, because you guys don't have anyone else. Oh, and also… I hate you and wish you never moved to Hollywood.
Loo"
I hope it hurts her as much as she hurt all of us.
A/N: Review please!