Nathan checked on Brooke was sleeping and walked downstairs and outside. He dialed Peyton's number and sat down in a patio chair. "Hello?"
"Hey Peyton it's Nathan."
"What can I do for you?"
"I wanna propose to Brooke at school."
"What!" She exclaimed a hint of laughter in her tone.
"What it won't be that hard, easier then if I did it somewhere else plus you guys would already be there."
"Nathan are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine. I mean Brooke had this dream where I proposed to her in front of our English class."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Now there's an idea."
"An idea?"
"What are you doing right now?"
"Talking on the phone with you."
"Then meet me at school."
"Why?"
"If you want your plan to work meet me at school." Nathan hung up the phone and scribbled a note to Brooke before driving back to school. Peyton was leaning against her car when Nathan pulled up and together they walked to their English class. Ms. Walters their teacher was sitting at the desk grading when they walked in.
"Nathan? Peyton? What are you two doing here after school? Did you guys have practice?" Ms. Walters knew that they wouldn't be at school after school got out unless they had practice.
"No we didn't have practice we actually came here to talk to you about something." Nathan started feeling nervous butterflies going crazy in his stomach.
"What's wrong?"
"Anything that's said here stays here right?" Peyton asked knowing that Nathan didn't want everyone to know about Brooke.
"Yes of course." Nathan felt a little better. Ms. Walters has always been his favorite teacher since freshman year because she didn't treat them like their stereotypes or when they had partner projects she wouldn't put them with their cliques.
"Brooke's pregnant and I want to propose." Nathan looked at Ms. Walters to gauge her reaction and she "awed" which made Nathan smile.
"But how can I help?"
"Well were you by any chance going to have us write a paper about our heroes?" Peyton asked as a lone student walked past the classroom.
"Yes I was going to have you guys do that for homework why?"
"Could you possibly have us present them in class?" Nathan asked the gears working in his head.
"I guess I could why?"
"That's how I'm going to propose to Brooke."
"Then that's what we'll do." The two teens stood up and Nathan hugged Ms. Walters.
"Thank you."
"No problem." They waved and left smiling at how fun tomorrow was going to be.
"So do you have a ring?"
"Maybe." Peyton stopped and looked at Nathan's smirking face.
"Do you or don't you?"
"I do."
"Good now where is it? I wanna see it."
"That would require a ride."
"Alright I've got time."
"Follow me." He sped off in his car and she shook her head following him. 30 minutes later they pulled up in front of a small house and an elderly couple of sitting out on the porch laughing and sipping lemonade. Nathan got out of the car the woman's face lit up and Nathan wrapped his arms around her smaller slender frame while the man still sitting shook hands with Nathan.
"Oh Peyton this is my grandmother Linda and my Grandfather Greg my mom's parents of course." Peyton chuckled a little at Nathan's save. "Grandma, grandpa this is my girlfriend's friend Peyton."
"Nathan what brings you here?" He leaned against the pillar behind him and ran his hand through his hair.
"Well you see my girlfriend is pregnant." Linda's face fell at the word pregnant. "And I want to propose to her."
"Oh I see." Greg rubbed Linda's back as she smiled and squeezed Nathan's hand. "Let me get you the ring." Nathan smiled and helped his grandma up and followed her into the house and Greg motioned for Peyton to come in. She smiled and followed Nathan into the house when her phone started ringing. Nathan turned towards her his eyes wide and Peyton walked out of the house to answer it.
"Hello?"
"Peyton have you seen Nathan?" Peyton could see Brooke sitting on Nathan's bed biting her lip she never did well without knowing where her boyfriends were.
"No sorry, did you try calling him?"
"Yeah but it went to voice mail."
"Maybe he had a meeting with Whitey or something."
"Yeah maybe you're right, what are you doing?"
"Um….nothing just getting some art supplies." She hated lying to Brooke after what had happened but this was her own good. "She'll never know." Peyton kept reciting over and over in her head.
"You wanna meet up at the mall or something?"
"Sure I'll see you there in 45 minutes."
"Alright." Both girls hung up and Peyton went back into the house to find Nathan.
"Hey Nate I'm gonna go keep Brooke occupied for awhile so you have time to write your speech thingy."
"Okay thanks Peyton."
"No problem but if she finds I lied about not knowing where you were or where I was then you have to stick up for me."
"Don't worry about it." Nathan kissed his grandma's cheek before he left and Peyton waved as she pulled away going to the mall while Nathan went to his house. He walked in and saw his mom sitting in the kitchen preparing dinner.
"Hey Nate."
"Hey mom what are you doing?"
"Oh well I thought that since your father's out of town again that I would make us some dinner."
"Oh well do you have some time?"
"Sure what's up?"
"I need you help with something."
"Okay?"
"I'm proposing to Brooke tomorrow at school." Deb nodded and Nathan continued. "And I need your help writing my speech thingy."
"Alright." They sat in the living room and got right to work and finished up right before Brooke came in the door with a huge smile on her face. Deb left them in the living room going to finish dinner and Nathan pulled Brooke into his lap.
"Hey where were you this afternoon?"
"Oh I had a meeting with Ms. Walters."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing she just wanted to go over my paper. Where were you?"
"I went to the mall with Peyton."
"Did you have fun?"
"Yeah it was nice just hanging out with her without all the drama." Brooke beamed and Nathan kissed her cheek. "Did we have math homework?"
"I don't know."
"That's right you never pay attention."
"I pay attention at the right moments."
"Sure and those right moments would be when we're watching a movie."
"No." Brooke just laughed and went to help Deb finish up dinner. Nathan pulled the crumpled paper from behind him and smoothed it out.
"Hey Nate it's time for dinner." He folded the paper and put it in his pocket. They sat down and had a nice dinner laughing at Brooke's zoning in and out for the day and at Nathan's jokes. Nathan didn't remember a time when everything was so nice drama free.
Brooke and Nathan did the dishes and then watched a movie while Deb did work in the den. Brooke had her head on Nathan's lap and he was mindlessly playing with her hair. "This is nice." She commented as Nathan yet again changed the channel. "It would be nicer if you could make up your mind." Nathan sighed and put the remote down. Brooke looked up at the screen and sighed in horror. Nathan had turned on some rerun of a basketball game. "No Nathan turn this off."
"No if you don't want to watch you don't have to."
"You're stubborn."
"I know but you still love me." Nathan smiled and looked at Brooke's shaking head noticing the smile on her face as she tried to hide the growing smile.
"That I do but we're still not watching basketball!" She exclaimed grabbing the remote and turning on the Disney Channel. It was some cartoon that Nathan could remember stumbling on the morning after the Championships. He smiled and pulled Brooke closer.
"Now this is nice." He commented as they laid there watching Little Mermaid. Brooke was fast asleep on top of him as they laid there on the small couch. He smiled and kissed her forehead. "One more day." He muttered to himself as he drifted off to sleep. Deb stopped in the doorway and smiled at Brooke and Nathan. She threw a blanket over them and went to bed.
The next morning Nathan woke up and Brooke was already in the shower. He decided to shower in the other shower and leave a little early to meet up with Peyton to go over everything.
Brooke arrived at school 5 minutes before 1st period since she had to call Bevin to pick her up. She was little angry that Nathan just left without even telling Brooke that he was leaving or why he was leaving. She walked to English as a wave of nausea hit her and she ran into the bathroom. After she was done she wiped her mouth and cleaned up before walking to English. Everyone looked at her as she walked in and just sat down. Ms. Walter's knew not to question what was wrong and just went on teaching.
"Hey you okay?" Nathan asked rubbing her back.
"Yeah just a little sick this morning." He nodded and went back to "paying attention" to Ms. Walters.
"So I want you guys to take some time and write your hero papers and in a little bit we'll present them to the class." Brooke's jaw hit the floor as Nathan and Peyton moved their desks so they were in a little group.
"This isn't real?"
"What are you talking about? We have to write a paper so get working!" Peyton laughed at the look on Brooke's face while she gave Nathan a high five between them. They watched as Brooke shook her head and starred down at her paper. Nathan just wrote down random stuff until Ms. Walter's announced that they were starting presentations.
Some perky cheerleader volunteered first talking about some anorexic model that probably weighed 75 pounds and thinks she's fat. After what felt like forever Ms. Walter's looked up from her desk at Nathan and he nodded his head. "Nathan Scott why don't you tell us about your hero," She started noticing Brooke's head shot up. "What basketball player are you going to tell us about today?"
"Well you're probably thinking that my hero is some great basketball player who has a lot of money, plays for the best team in the world, and has all the women chasing after him but no I'm hero is Brooke Davis." He paused and everyone turned to look at Brooke who had her eye's glued to Nathan's. "Now you're probably wondering why I would choose Brooke Davis to be my hero well let me tell you. Brooke Davis is such a strong person to put up with everyone talking about her both positive and negative; she's always there for her friends no matter what they've done to her. She always has a smile on her face even when on the inside she feels lower than dirt and no matter what you say about her she will always help you if you need help. She is an amazing cheerleader and an amazing leader might I add. I guess what I'm trying to say is Brooke will you marry me?" Nathan looked up from his paper setting it down on the desk in front of him and pulling the ring out of his pocket. Brooke's jaw was on the floor as Peyton poked her in the ribs trying to get her out of her seat. She slowly got up and walked to the front of the room where Nathan stood. Nathan smiled down at her before getting down on one knee. "So Brooke Davis will you marry me?" He asked again holding the ring out to her and she didn't realize that tears were falling down her face and she when they hit her shirt she shook her head yes her voice long gone. He slipped the ring on her finger and stood up kissing her. The whole class clapped as they stood in front of the class wrapped in their own world. They pulled apart and Brooke blushed.
"Thank you Ms. Walters." Nathan hugged her as Brooke jaw yet again fell open.
"No problem Nathan I think you're classmates should be thanking you for getting them out of their homework." He smiled and the bell rang. He grabbed his stuff and Brooke's and walked to P.E. together.
"Congratulations guys." Tim said walking up behind them. Brooke just smiled starring that the beautiful ring on her finger.
"Thanks Tim."
"Are you having an engagement party?"
"Yes a non-alcoholic one." Brooke gushed as Nathan put his arm around her waist.
"I love you Brooke."
"I love you too Nathan." He put his forehead to hers and got lost in her beautiful eyes. Everything was fine until-
"What the hell!" Nathan knew that voice anywhere. It could only be…….
Author's note: alright that's 5 pages and I'm working on the next one……oh yeah my chiffy! You have to guess who you think the person is before I post at least 5! Tootles!
