Sorry it took me so long to update, but hear is a drama packed chapter!
Disclaimer: I own nothing well except Grey and Easton and Devon, but not the point.
"I'm not your kid!" Lucas yelled in his face and I slowly stepped out and they all turned to me and for the first time I held all the cards and ruin one more person's reputation.
"No, but I am" I whispered. "Hello Dan." I said with as much confidence I could muster up.
"You know, you look great for someone who jumped off a bridge" I hissed my emotions now just mad, not scared at all.
"Now Brooklyn let's not get rude. I'm still your father" He said with a smug look on his face. Lucas and Karen just stared on in astonishment.
"Ha. You can't still be my father when you never were! How do you do it? Live this lie of a life without anyone seeing you?" I snapped deciding to take all my anger out on him.
"Well, your mother was never smartest person and honestly neither are you" He said and I didn't have a chance to respond because someone stepped in front of me.
"How dare you? This is your daughter. A daughter who clearly in pain and you just talk to her like she is gum on the bottom of your shoe. How do you walk out on your family like that?" Karen asked obviously disgusted
"No need to be harsh" He said with a villainous laugh
"You think you are just king of the world don't you? What you do to get someone like Karen? Tell her lies about how you did this and you did that? Did you trap her in this marriage and now refuse to get a divorce? Please tell me I would love to hear" I seethed before turning to Karen with a fake smile, "Let me guess. He told you he graduated from Duke, said he did all these things in politics. Well did he tell you he has five kids he ran out on? Actually" I said turning back to Dan "Can't really run out on someone when technically you were never there. Too high, too depressed, too you"
"So you are the low less asshole of a father that Nathan told me about" Lucas said obviously mad.
"Oh Nathan, how is the little tyke"
"Not little, bastard" I mumbled under my breath but of course he heard.
"You know, Brooke. You were never this bitter. Does it have to do with Grey just leaving you here to fend for yourself? She was always a selfish little-"
"Don't you dare say what you are about to say about her!" I hissed pointing a finger in his face
"Why? You say what you can about her, don't you…Loo?" He said with a laugh and I went to slap him in the face, but he grabbed my wrist and jerked it the other way and I felt pain going through my arm and heard a snap
"What did you just do?" Lucas snapped with rage etched on his face punching Dan in the face before pretty much picking me up and taking me to the other room
"Let me see your arm" He said.
"It's not that bad" I said wiping the tears away. I don't usually cry, but damn that hurt
"Brooke…" He said with a commanding voice and I just gave him my hand. I don't know why, but I felt as if I had to listen. We both looked at my wrist that was I already swollen. "We need to get you to a hospital"
"No" I said and he just narrowed his eyes at me
"You're going" He said in that commanding voice and before I could say no Karen walked in
"Come on baby. I need to get you to a doctor" She said putting her arm around my shoulder and walking towards the door. "Lucas, get my keys and call Nathan" She told him and he nodded and turned towards the kitchen.
I hate hospitals. I mean seriously don't like them a little. Growing up I was always here. Not just for me, Nathan being born, My horrible rash, Grey cutting her leg open, all the times Devon broke something, all my kidney and bladder infections, all of Grey's infection, my surgery, Easton's pneumonia, my bronchitis, Nathan busting his head open, me and Nathan hitting each other the day after he busted his head open which made him have to go back, all of Nathan's concussions, all my broken bones. Yeah, we were there a lot. Easton rarely, the rest of us, all the time. I'm thinking they should have a Davis wing since we were always there. Our pediatrician had to have a girl's folder and a boy's folder and the girl's folder was bigger. And with Nathan and me hitting his head, the kids always said it was my fault he had to go back, well if Easton wasn't so immature and through a little hot wheels car and Devon when Devon said 'look I'm a moving target' then throw it right when Nathan ran in front of Devon, he would never have been in the hospital in the first place. Anywho, back to hating hospitals, I don't like them. People always feel sorry for you and ask questions. I don't like being asked questions.
"Mom, I called Nathan but he didn't answer" Lucas told Karen as we sat in the waiting room. Oh, and there is way too much waiting. I mean seriously what is wrong with this adult across from me eating a Big Mac? Oh, yeah he looks really sick.
"Call again" Karen said not looking up from the magazine.
"Yes mam" He said going through his phone and I am assuming picking Nathan's number. Honestly, this isn't how I planned my day going. I mean I don't even know what time it is. How long was I out? And I definitely didn't expect to be at Lucas' house and seeing my father who has been MIA for the last four years.
"Oh good Nate, you picked up. You need to come to the hospital" He said sitting there for I guess Nathan's reply, "Brooke's hurt." He said and then sat for a few seconds, "Because after you pretty much kicked her out of her own house, she ran and during her running her knee gave out in front of my house." Lucas said exasperated and I just stared at him. I felt this would be my only chance to stare at him because he would just think I am staring because of the phone call, "She isn't in the hospital because of her knee. You and your mom need to get here" And he again paused. I never noticed how blue his eyes were. They were crystal like and held so much life. His hair was long but not too long and sort of spiked up. He is actually kind of cute. "She broke her hand" He said leaning on his knees and running a hand through his hair. He is not cute, he's hot. Oh god, this day is so weird. "Nathan, before I tell you need to be calm. You calm. Okay. Well you know that step father I told you about that I couldn't stand? Yeah well turns out, he is your father." H said slowly. "And he broke Brooke's hand" Lucas said and then he shut his phone.
"He hung up on me" Lucas said and I laughed a little.
"What time is it?" I asked.
"Five" Lucas said.
"Wow, I was asleep for a while." I said surprised. I usually can't sleep during the day.
"Davis" We heard and turned to see the nurse standing there and gesturing me for the room. I got up slowly and turned to make sure someone was coming with me.
"I'll stay and wait for Nathan." Lucas said and Karen nodded and stood up and walked with me into the back.
"So I don't even need to do an x-ray to know your wrist is broken. I do however need to see where it all is broken, so come with me. Mom," she said turning to Karen
"Oh, I'm just a watch over till her mother gets here" Karen said with her sweet smile.
"Oh, well you stay here and we will be back soon" The nurse said and Karen nodded and I walked beside the nurse towards the lab. "So what happened?" She asked and I just sighed.
"I don't know if I should even tell you. You will think I'm crazy" I said shaking my head and she just nodded and then started directing me how to lay my very swollen arm on the table. I already pretty much knew what to do. Like I said, I am in hospitals a lot.
"Okay, were all done. Go back to the room and the doctor will be in shortly" She smiled and I just nodded and cradled my arm as I walked back to the room. As I passed the waiting room I noticed Lucas was sitting in a chair and that Nathan was there… pacing. I got close to the door to see if I could hear what Nathan was rambling about.
"I'm gonna kill him. Who does he think he is? He broke her arm. He's dead. He better stay away from me because I will kill him" Nathan seethed.
"Wow, totally different tone from this morning" Lucas mumbled and Nathan looked at him.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Nathan snapped.
"You told her to leave and that no one would miss her and now you care? Figure out how you feel about her because she is your sister and misses you and you keep pushing her away!" Lucas said, slowly getting angry as he stood up and got into Nathan's face.
"Oh, so you find her passed out in your front yard and what now you're her best friend?"
"No, the fact I have been your friend since you moved here and see how you treat her and see how she reacts!" Lucas yelled before walking out of waiting room and Nathan just sitting down. I turned around and walked to the room. I walked in to see my mom talking to Karen and I just knocked and my mom turned.
"Oh, baby. I'm so sorry you had to face him on your own" My mom sighed hugging me and I pretty much fell into her.
"Excuse me, hi I'm Dr. Matthews" The doctor said. She looked about mid- 40s and she had short dark hair. We all said hi and sat down as she told us the news.
"If you see here" She said pointing to the x-ray she put up and I'm pretty sure everyone in the room flinched at how bad it looked. "That is the worst fracture. It is right on the forearm of your right arm. You have a few breaks on your growth plate in your wrist. So we are going to have to have the cast go to your elbow." She said and they asked what color cast I wanted and I picked black.
Half of an hour later we were walking into the waiting room where Nathan was sitting.
"Are you okay?" He asked walking up and I just nodded before walking into the cafeteria and seeing Lucas, I sat down next to him and he just looked up.
"Hey. How bad is it? "He asked and I shrugged.
"Pretty bad. I'm gonna have this for three months" I said with a sad smile lifting the cast as if it was on show
"I'm sorry" He said
"It's whatever" I laughed.
"Yeah. So you talk to Nathan?" He asked and I was surprised how comfortable I was with him.
"Not really. He asked if I was okay and I nodded then came to see you" I told him and he nodded.
"He loves you" Lucas said
"Funny way of showing it" I said with a dry laugh.
"Nathan just isn't good with showing his emotions" He told me wisely. It set me off though, he is talking to me as if Nathan is just s stranger to me.
"I know that. He is my little brother, not yours" I told him baffled. He knew nothing about Nathan. How growing up, he was obsessed with guns or until he was ten, Mom had to tuck him at night. Or that he, Devon, and Easton made a man cave in our woods when he was twelve. Or that our yellow lab, Shooter, is his most prized possession that Shooter sleeps on Nathan's bed every night. Or that he got stitches when he was five that made him look like Harry Potter.
"Yeah, but you don't really know him like I do" He shrugged and he just walked into no man's land. I stood up because I was so mad.
"Excuse me? Don't tell me I don't know him. Do you know his favorite ice cream? Do you know he over uses mamma when he talks? Or that he could beat college students in Call of Duty when he was seven? Or that he once peed on all of us because he wanted to go upstairs and we didn't? Do you know we used to tell him if he got ten concussions he would die? Do you know when Grey used to be out late he would sleep in my room because he knew I didn't like being alone? Or that when he was nine, for weeks before we went Florida, he slept in our room on the floor?" I yelled tears running down my face and he sat there, "you don't know that he would hug me just one simple hug when he knew that all I wanted was a dad. You don't know, so don't you dare tell me I don't know him because we might not be close anymore but he is still my little brother and I will always know him." I said pointing towards the waiting room
"Yeah and everything you said is the past, you don't know him now" He told me
"You think because I don't talk to him means I don't know him. I know that he has never liked a girl like he likes Haley James. Or that he was hurt by Grey, Or that hearing Dan's name makes him see red. I know that he has a hole in the wall where last week he got upset because of something Grey did. I know you are his only real friend. I know that he loves my mom and doesn't change how he acts towards her when he is around his 'friends.' I know him, and I might not be there and I might not know everything but why is that my fault? He could easily come talk to me, so here's something you can do. Go ask him what he knows about me. His list will be a lot shorter than mine" I cried shaking my head
"You know I thought that maybe underneath all of the fakeness you show there was a real person. Like always, I was wrong" I sighed disappointed before turning walking towards the door.
"Brooke..."
"You know…" I said turning around, "How about we just forget today ever happened and that we are step siblings. That way there is no confusion later" I told him walking out not waiting for an answer.
"I'm staying at Rachel's" I told my mom as I zipped up my bag and threw it over my shoulder.
"For how long?" She asked the tears in her eyes which broke me a little more
"I don't know. For a while." I shrugged
"Baby, look at me. You don't have to go" She told me taking my face in her hands
"Yeah, I do" I sighed walking down the stairs and opening the door.
"Way to be the fourth kid to walk out on her" I heard Nathan say from the living room.
"You know Nathan I have taken a lot of shit from you over the last few years" I said with a dry laugh staying where I was, "And I didn't say anything, I let you take all your anger out on me. I'm done, I don't know if it is because of Dan or Grey or hell Lucas, but I'm done. I get it now." I sighed and he looked at me with confusion
"What? That no one wants you?" He asked angry.
"It's not my fault" I whispered
"What?" he asked me standing up.
"I said it is not my fault" I shouted, "In your warped mind that you have, you believe I am the reason they all left you! Newsflash Nathan, I'm not! It wasn't my fault they left! It was none of ours! They wanted out they got out! So grow up and stop blaming me! Stop taking it out on me because when you are saying no one wants me; it's so you aren't saying it to yourself. At least have I friends that care about me. Sure you're popular, but the one person that you want hates you, so I guess no one wants you. It's not my fault they left you and Haley hates you but it is your fault she is losing child number four, not mine" I yelled slamming the door. Slamming the book shut of my old life and walking to Rachel's car hoping to start a new one.
"You ready?" She asked and I nodded looking out the window.
"Quinn and Peyton are coming over. I'm actually gonna pick them up" She told me as we drove the short drive to I guess Quinn's house. She was closer to Rachel and I again just nodded.
"So are you going to let Peyton design your cast?" She asked and I nodded still staring out the window. "You know as much fun this is I really don't like one sided conversations" She said as she pulled into Quinn's neighborhood and I nodded.
"I cheated on Cooper" She told me and I nodded as she stopped in front of Quinn's house.
"Are you ever going to talk about it or are you going to sit there and mope?" She snapped and I just looked at her before nodding and looking out the window.
"I guess the latter" She sighed as she got out of the car and walked up to the front door.
'I'm not gonna cry' I thought focusing on Quinn's house. Wanting to just run in and have someone anyone hold me. I didn't move though. I felt like I couldn't move my body. I didn't want people to know how I felt. I didn't even notice Peyton and Quinn get in the car and Rachel start driving again
"Hey Brooke." Peyton smiled. I heard her but I wasn't really listening. I was focusing on the fact my head was throbbing.
"She isn't talking" Rachel told them as I grabbed my head in pain. I put my head in my lap and stayed that way until I felt the car come to a stop.
"Brooke. Were here" Rachel told me. I brought my head up with tears running down my face.
"Brooke, what's wrong?" Quinn asked me as they climbed out Rachel's side and walked around to my side
"Aspirin." I whispered slamming my eyes shut to shield the pain from the sun shining violently down on me.
"Come on. Let's get inside" Peyton said pulling me out of the car and ushering me towards the door.
"You want to watch a movie?" Rachel asked me as we sat on the couch, but we weren't doing anything. For the past twenty minutes they have all stared at me expecting me to say something, but I have nothing to say.
"No" I mumbled standing up and walking to the kitchen. I went to the cabinet I knew held what I was looking for. I swung the wooden panel door open and pulled down the bottle and grabbed a glass.
"Brooke, what are you doing?" Rachel asked coming in followed by Quinn and Peyton.
"Well, you guys drink every weekend so what is stopping me?" I asked them as I poured me a small glass of whiskey
"A gene that will make you addicted" Peyton scolded me trying to snatch it away from me but I was too fast.
"What a stupid excuse. I mean my whole family thinks I am going to be a drunk and a slut anyway, why don't I just prove them right?" I asked them harshly taking a big gulp of the murky liquid and swallowed away the bad taste deciding that drinking this shit was a bad idea. I sat the cup in the sink and looked at them waiting for them to talk
"Because they are wrong. B, don't do this. I know you are hurt and upset but this is the last thing you should do. Just talk to us and tell us what happened." Quinn explained. I didn't tell them I saw Dan or how I got my arm broken, but I guess if they want me to talk it out, fine. I will
"Let's see, my sister ran out on me, said I didn't exist so me being my stupid self told her she had no one and then she ,feeling sorry for herself realizing someone didn't like her she went and got drunk. She then went on to scream at the camera that everyone needed to leave her alone including me." I said mocking Grey, "Then the next morning it was all over the news and to put it lightly Nathan told me I was a mistake and wished I left so I ran. I ran and ran and then thanks to bad genes my knee gave out and I collapsed in front of Lucas Scott him self's house" I said throwing my hands in the air thinking the whole thing was beyond humorous, "I wake up in his house and then we have a bonding moment and I meet his mom… and stepfather who just happens to be Dan friggin' Davis" I said and watched their jaws drop, "Now personally this is my favorite part. I find out scream at him, try to slap him and then he breaks my arm" I snapped shoving cast covered arm in the air, "There, that is what happened." I hissed pushing passed them, "Oh and Rachel you better not have cheated on Cooper because I am already pissed off" I finished walking to a spare bedroom and slamming the door not caring if I sounded like a bitch.
"Brooke…" I heard softly on the other side of the door. I sighed as I slid off the bed and sluggishly made my way towards the door and pulled it open
"Yeah?" I asked
"The phone" Rachel said awkwardly handing me the phone before ending the conversation and walking the other way while I put the phone to my ear and closed the door relocking it in the process.
"Hello?" I said into the receiver and impatiently waited for an answer
"Hey Brooke, I just wanted to see how you were doing" he replied and I was silent from surprise
"Hey Luke, umm… okay. How's your mom?" I asked him
"She is a little shaken up, but she will be fine. She is talking to my dad right now" He told me while I paced around the room
"And Dan?" I asked nervously
"Gone. He had moved all of his stuff and was gone before we got back"
"Coward" I mumbled
"Yeah. I guess I understand now though" He explained to me
"What do you mean?" I asked him. It seemed all I could do was ask questions
"For the longest time, Nathan would talk about how he had the worst dad and I thought he had no idea what it was like to have a horrible father well for me step father. I guess it was worse for you huh?" He asked me
"Yeah, it got really bad near the end where I thought in a year he won't be here because I honestly thought he was going to off himself. The worst part was I was alright with that. I'm a horrible daughter, I know" I sighed knowing how cold I sounded
"No, just somebody who was tired" he said knowingly
"Yeah. Thank you for today and sorry for screaming at you" I apologized
"It is okay. I shouldn't have said it." He told me and I suddenly felt uncomfortable with the conversation
"You're right. You shouldnt have, but I am sorry I was such a bitch. I guess I was so mad was because you're right. I dont know him, i just know who he used to be and I want that Nathan back. I just my little brother back" I sighed into the phone.
"Brooke... the boy you want is thirteen years old. Nathan doesn't want that boy back and deep down neither do you" He told me honestly
"I got to go Lucas." I said not waiting for a response and hanging up the phone
"B. Davis! Get your fat ass down here!" I heard Peyton yell all the way down from the basement which made me laugh as I slowly descended down the stairs to the game room
"What?"
"Even though you were a bitch earlier cause you were, we have decided to let it slide. We are going to have a marathon and pick the worst show ever and make fun of it all the way through while Peyt does your cast" Rachel told me as she popped the DVD in
"What show?" I asked them while they all sort of eyed me cautiously, "Seriously?" I asked annoyed
"Yes, we are going to talk about how bad of an actress your sister is. This is gonna be fun" Quinn laughed while I plopped down in between Peyton and Quinn and laid my right arm on Peyton's lap
"Fine" I sighed as I watched the dramatic menu show.
"Damn, is that boy your sister's?" Rachel asked me as we watched the opening credits
"I don't know. We got to watch" I laughed as the first scene appeared on the screen. It was of Grey walking into a class I guess late because everyone looked at her
"Oh, you are the new student. Everyone, this is Grace Larson" The teacher said to the class while Grace looked uninterested
"Where do I sit?" she asked coldly and the teacher pointed to a seat behind a very good looking boy, "Really? I have to sit behind my estranged brother?" She asked annoyed and the teacher looked at her disappointed, "Sorry. Hi Mickey" She mocked as she sat behind him
"Mick, Grace" He snapped at her
And then the rest of the show went on. Apparently Grey used to live with her father in New York, but he kicked her out for getting expelled from school and now lives with her mother in a small one light town in Kansas with her brother and apparently his best friend lives with them and at first she hates him but then starts to like the town and him.
"Crap, I kind of like it" Quinn mumbled to us as the credits rolled to the end of the first season. The finale with Grey telling Asher, the best friend, that she had to go back to New York and they broke up, "I mean raise your hand if you agree" She said cutting her eyes over at us while Peyton and Rachel slowly and cautiously raised their hands
"They are really cute" Peyton shrugged
"And your sister is actually kind of good" Rachel added in
She's never coming back, is she?" I asked them all sadly, but none of them answered so I answered for myself, "I always thought if she was horrible then no one would want her and then she would have to come back. She is amazing. I am never getting my sister back. I'm going to bed. Thank you for everything" I smiled hugging them all before going to bed suddenly realizing Grey had everything and didn't need me, never did.
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