Hi, I'm back! Sorry for the long update but I lost all my stuff when I got a new computer and just needed at some point to start writing and maybe get it back and I did! YAY!
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"I'm old enough to know better, but too young to care."
I woke up early Sunday morning to get ready for church. I pulled on my yellow sundresses I got from Peyton sophomore year.
After her mom died she got into this cleaning mode and she cleaned out her whole closet and got rid of three fourths of her stuff and gave it all too me. I had never had such nice clothes and even though I was reluctant to take it I loved her for giving them to me.
I pulled a long sleeve grey cardigan that was short and only went to under my chest and pulled my hair into a side braid.
I put on my light eye makeup before skipping downstairs to start making breakfast for the house. Quinn and Peyton had spent the night like most nights and they would all start waking up by the time I finished cooking and then we could head towards church.
I realized while making the batter for the German Pancakes that it is difficult to make food with a cast on my hand. I keep forgetting I even have it and then when I try to do everyday things it decides to remind me.
Stupid Dan.
I pushed the pan into the oven when I heard someone behind me. "Hey whore"
I turned to see a girl that had grown so much in the last year. "Alex Dupre" I squealed running over to give her a tight hug.
"How are you?" I asked once I pulled out of our hug.
"Pretty good. I mean I'm a senior"
"How are you a senior?"
"I have enough credits to be one. Awesome, I know!" She smiled jumping up and down.
"Go get dressed for church" I told her and she groaned before starting up the stairs, "Where are you staying?"
"Here" She shrugged as she made her way into one of the many unoccupied rooms.
"What's has happened in little ol' Tree Hill without me?"
"Other than Cooper and Rachel breaking up, Quinn and Clay secretly dating and Haley taming Nathan Davis? Oh not much" Peyton laughed as we stood outside the church after the service had let out. We all stood under a big tree while we waited to see our respective parents.
"Haley? As in my cousin? And Nathan? As Brooke's whore of a brother? King of the school, Nathan? Tutor Haley? We sure we're talking about the same people?" Alex questioned and we all nodded.
"Wow… next your gonna tell me Lucas Scott has a girlfriend" Alex mumbled around the same time two arms snaked around my waist and lifted me up.
"Lucas!" I laughed.
"Hell no" Alex said wide eyed and Quinn nodded.
"Hey Alex" Lucas said politely after sitting me down slowly. He kept his arms around my waist and leaned against my shoulder.
"Hey Lucas" She said civilly.
"Alex!" Haley yelled and we turned to see her let go of Nathan's hand and run towards her cousin.
"Haley!" Alex said equally excited hugging her tightly.
"Aww… it's a family reunion" Rachel teased the cousins and they pulled out of their embrace to stick their tongue out at her.
"I can't believe your home!" Haley squealed pulling Alex in for another hug.
Nathan silently made his way and I watched him keep an eye on Haley even though she stood in a circle of friends. Oh he has got it bad.
I closed my eyes tiredly leaning back against Lucas. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm just tired." I responded and I noticed Alex keep glancing at us as she spoke to the group and caught up with everyone.
She did throughout the whole day. She would do it like she was analyzing everything either Lucas or even me did. I caught her gaze one time and she just quickly looked away and added into the conversation at hand. I tried to forget about it and just decided I would talk to her about it once we got home.
"Hey, Brooke" Alex smiled as I sat on her bed that night. I leaned on my hands and stretched my legs out at the foot of her bed.
"Is there something different with me?" I asked not really knowing how to ask her about the staring.
"What?"
"It's just all day you kept staring at looking at Lucas and me. Did we do something?"
Alex shook her head putting down the magazine she had been reading. "When I lived here you hated him"
"Feelings can't change?"
"Of course they can. I just…. I'm confused, when did they change?" She asked and I told her. I retold her about the past week that had been filled with me and Lucas. I told her about the I'm he sent me, I told her about passing out In front of his house, Dan, our first kiss, and every little thing I could think of and when I finished I looked at her and a look of confusion etched her face.
"You know I love you right?" She asked and I nodded. "You're the sister I always wanted and I would do anything for you and support you. I will also tell you when I think you are making a mistake." She shook her head and I started to disagree when she put a finger up to stop me so I closed my mouth. "Brooke, he hated you. He practically told you that every day"
"I know.. But I hated him too. What's the difference?" I asked sadly. I felt like a child whose parent was telling them they couldn't go to a birthday party or something really stupid. I feel so childish sitting there pouting.
"The difference? The difference is you never told him you'd get him underneath you, begging for more"
"Alex-"
"Yeah I remember that. The question is how you don't?"
"Of course I remember" I mumbled thinking of the summer before sophomore year. Lucas was such an ass that summer.
"Shut up, Alex!" I laughed as she danced around my kitchen.
"It's my favorite whore" I heard from behind me and turned to see Satan himself walking towards the kitchen.
"Oh god… kill me now" I groaned making Alex stop her dancing and turn the music off quickly. I pushed my glasses back up to rest on the bridge of my nose gracefully glaring daggers at Lucas.
"Now, why would we do that? Then whose room can I sneak into every night?" He smirked that arrogant smirk that just made me want to punch him in the face.
"Like you would ever get anywhere near my room" I grounded it out and he rolled his eyes.
"You always get so riled up around me. Sexual tension is just radiating off you"
Alex kept quiet taking a seat at the breakfast bar and I walked around the counter to take my spot in front of him.
"Trust me, it is not sexual tension. It's the fact I can't stand you, you prick"
He laughed condescendingly at me before answering. "Oh, I love it when you talk dirty"
"Fuck you"
"I'd much rather it be you" If possible his smirk got even cockier. If only I could smack it off his face.
"You'll never touch me"
"Please.. I promise you at some point in our futures you'll be underneath, begging for me." He walked passed me out and out the door.
I hated that Lucas. That wasn't Lucas that was mine; this Lucas was different and cared. This Lucas made me smile.
"You telling me that Lucas changed in a week. Maybe he is just making good on his promise."
"Alex… please. Don't fill my head with doubts that I have already thought when I am finally happy" I begged her not wanting to think about Lucas' comments.
"Fine, but no I don't approve of this. I never will" Alex went back to her magazine ending the conversation and I just gave a small nod leaving the room quietly.
I closed my eyes as I felt pain in my head once again take over. It was a short pain and I wrote it off as exhaustion so I just fell onto my bed and slept restlessly.
I cracked my eyes open the next morning feeling the pain radiate through my body. Well this can't be good. I lifted my head and instantly regret it. I fall back into my head hoping to relieve the throbbing coming from my head.
I throw the covers over my head to block out the sunlight and grab my phone that rested next to me and quickly hit two and listened to the dial tone till I heard the other line pick up.
"Hey, baby girl"
"Mamma, I don't feel good" I whimpered as I pulled my legs tight to my body.
"What doesn't feel good?"
"My throat, my head, I'm freezing cold" I listed off.
"Okay, well I'm at work right now. Call your brother and tell him to bring over the medicine that says your name on it. We need to get medicine in you and I don't want you driving right now. Check your temp and call and tell me what it is" She rattled off and I just replied with yes mam softly.
"I love you mamma"
"I love you too, baby. I will check on you later" She told me before hanging up and I dialed my home phone.
"Hello?"
"Lucas?" I questioned.
"Yeah?"
"Is Nathan there?" I asked and I heard shuffling around before Lucas spoke again.
"Is there something wrong?"
"I just need him to do something for me"
"Babe, you don't sound too good" He told me concerned.
"Yeah, I know. Is he there?"
"Yeah, here he is" I'm guessing Lucas transferred the phone to Nathan because I heard Nathan's voice only seconds later.
"What?"
"Could you go into the medicine cabinet and grab the bottle that has my name on it and bring it to me?" I asked knowing he wouldn't probably drive to bring it to me.
"What's wrong with you?" He groaned annoyed.
"I don't know Nathan. We both know I get sick a lot. I never know what I have half the time" I told him tiredly with not much force.
"You sound like shit"
"You look like shit" I whispered back closing my eyes.
"I found it. Bye" He hung up and I dropped my phone and drifted back into a dead sleep.
"She looks awful" Nathan groaned and I kept my eyes shut tightly.
"Nate, she's sick. Just leave her alone" Lucas voiced.
"Trust me, I'm not being rude. When she wakes up make sure she takes her temp"
"Alright"
"Remember what I said. She watches Disney movies when she isn't feeling well. She gets cold because of her fevers so keep her warm. She has the tendency to not listen to mom and will try to go take a shower but don't let her because it will make her more sick. Make her check her temp every few hours. She probably has a cake somewhere because Brooke can't go many days without baking and if her throat is hurting that will be the only thing she eats. Make sure she eats because when her throat hurts-" I froze hoping Nathan wouldn't continue that sentence. "Just make sure she eats. Does she have her…" he paused lifting my covers before sitting them back down. "She does. Hmm… I feel like I'm forgetting something."
"Why don't you just stay with her?"
"Cause you're her boyfriend"
"Oh, I plan on staying. I just think that if you are worrying so much maybe should too" Lucas suggested and I felt my lips trying to smile at the thought of Nathan wanting to help.
"I can't. Just protect her okay. Brooke and sick are not exactly friends. You got make sure she takes the medicine or she could get really sick. So please, make sure she does those things that I told you." Said Nathan with patience. I felt a cold hand touch my hot head and I relished in the cool and whimpered when it was taken away.
"She needs to take some fever reducer also. Oh and the coke. Remember the coke. If she is nauseous she will want coke" was the last thing Nathan said before I heard steps beginning to slowly go away and I felt the bed make noise as Lucas sat on the spot that was open near me. He ran his hand through my hair and I slowly opened my eyes to see him smiling down at me.
"Hey" He whispered leaning down to kiss my forehead,
"I don't feel good" I sniffled and he nodded standing up and walking over grabbing a bag off my drawer.
"I talked to Nathan and he said Little Mermaid and Hercules are your favorite. Which one do you want to watch first?" He asked lifting the VHS taped out of the bag and showing them to me.
"Little Mermaid" I murmured turning in my bed curling into a pillow.
He nodded putting the tape in and pressing rewind. There was a glare from the window and I didn't even get to make a comment on it before he was asking me questions.
"You have a spare blanket?" He asked and I nodded pointing to a chair in the corner that had blankets thrown over it.
"Are you cold?" I asked and he shook his head. He grabbed the blanket and went to a desk that held all things I need for school. There was a little container that held tacks. He pulled a few out before going to the one window in the room. He was so damn tall he didn't even have to stand on his toes to put the blanket over the whole window and placing the tacks in the window sill.
"Better?" He asked turning to look at me. I nodded and he smiled again grabbing another blanket and putting it over me. "Where's your medicine?"
I pointed back to the desk and he went grabbed two Tylenol, a green and blue capsule, and then came back to the back and pulled a bottle of coke handing it to me.
"Sit up" He ordered and I pulled myself slowly up in the bed taking the coke first. I took a big gulp holding it in my mouth before taking the three pills and dropping them in and then swallowing.
"You hungry?" He asked me and I shook my head. "You need to eat"
"I will. I just want to watch the movie so press play and lay down with me" I commanded and he nodded going and pressing play, shutting the door and the lights off before coming and laying in the bed propping himself against the head board and pulled me into him.
He wrapped his arm around me as the movie started and I leaned up and kissed his jaw. "Thank you. I know you probably don't want to watch this. Or spend your first Monday of summer in a bed"
"Anything for you" he whispered giving me a quick kiss before I could object and make known the fact I was sick.
Anything for me… That just doesn't even sound like the same guy that said all those other things. We continued to watch the movie and we were just getting to a good part. I mean any part showing Eric is good because have you seen him? I used to actually have a crush on the cartoon. Seriously, imagine Eric as a real person. I get chills just thinking about it. Anywho, I couldn't even concentrate because I kept thinking about what Alex had said.
"Can you do one more thing for me?" I questioned and he paused the movie to look at me.
"Yeah. What do you need?"
"When we were younger…"
"Brooke"
"No, when we were younger you made this promise that you'd make sure I was underneath you, begging for more."
"I'm sorry, Brooke. I was so stupid-"
"Just promise me that's not why you are with me"
He looked down at me and shook his head. "Brooke, I promise. I'm not with you for that reason. I wouldn't be here if that was what I was after."
"Okay, then let's watch the movie" The remote was still in his hand so I leaned over and pressed play enjoying the rest of the movie.
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