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Sweet About Me

Brooke, Peyton, Haley and Nathan were sitting at Karen's café discussing 'project Jag.' Discussing was a term that three of them would use loosely as it was more a case of Brooke telling them what they were going to do, no questions asked.

Peyton, who was sitting next to Haley, kept making faces at Brooke. This caused Brooke to constantly burst into fits of giggles. Haley and Nathan kept watching the two wondering if they had missed the joke. They watched the two of them pass sultry looks at each other and wondered why they didn't sit together instead. When they arrived, Brooke made the point of sitting next to Nathan, much to Peyton's disappointment.

"Nate, you can invite the jocks and take care of the drinks, I'll of course will invite the cheerleaders. Tutor girl, you can invite his other classmates and anyone he speaks to at work, that isn't too old. You can also be in charge of the food." She looked over at Peyton wondering what job to give her. "Goldilocks, you can do the decorations but none of that dark stuff, remember it's a happy occasion. We have to keep it quiet with the invites so we should only tell Bevin and Tim on Friday. I reckon we should set everything up on Thursday so we don't have to rush around on Friday after school. It gives us time to look our best." Brooke flashed her winning smile, showing off her dimples.

"What time should we expect you and Jake?" Haley asked not noticing the look of annoyance in Peyton. Brooke noticed this and mouthed 'please' before answering. "I figure between 9-9.30pm. I'll text when we're close by so you can get the lights off. I'll tell him I left his present there."

"Does he know it's not a date?" Peyton asked sharply.

Brooke rolled her eyes at the question. Peyton's jealously was annoying her but she didn't want to mention anything in fear of making things worse. "Of course he does. We're just friends and he knows that." She lightly hit Nathan under the table and looked at him, silently pleading to him. He instantly got the message and came out with a reason to excuse him and Haley away from the table.

"Haley, can I speak to you in private about some tutoring?" Haley nodded and followed him away from the table.

"Yeah, that wasn't obvious." Peyton scoffed.

Brooke got up and sat beside Peyton. "Ok spill."

"There's nothing to spill." Peyton responded looking and sounding disinterested in the conversation.

"I don't get it Peyton and I'm really trying hard to understand but you're not making it easy for me. I thought after everything that's happened, we would be past this." This time it was Peyton's turn to roll her eyes and Brooke wasn't impressed. "How many times do I have to tell you that I'm not interested in Jake anymore?"

Peyton couldn't make eye contact with Brooke; instead she just shot her words out at her. "You were before and who's to say you won't be again."

"I'm to say." Brooke pounded the table, which made Peyton look up at her. "We can't change the past but we can do something about the future and I see you in it, not him. Please understand that I want to throw my friend a birthday party. I would do the same for Nathan, Haley and despite the attitude, even you."

For some reason, Peyton only seemed to pay attention to the last part of what Brooke had said and decided to play on it. "We're you planning on throwing me a birthday party?"

"Possibly. Maybe a party for two, but the way you're acting it might be a party for one. If you play your cards right you might be able to change that." Brooke got flirtatious with her words.

"Well maybe we can celebrate it early like after dinner tonight." Peyton smiled and raised her left eyebrow up, flirtatiously.

Brooke laughed at the switch in Peyton's demeanour and her words. "We can definitely do that. Don't think I didn't notice the convenient change in subject, but I'll let you get away with it this time." Brooke looked to where Nathan and Haley were. "Totally changing the subject myself, I want to set Tutor girl up but can you clarify something for me please. I'm not sure if she likes Nate, Jag or Broody?"

"What?" Peyton asked confused.

"Nathan, Jake and Lucas. Which one does she like?" Brooke clarified.

"Your guess is as good as mine, but I didn't know she even liked any of them." Peyton laughed to herself, remembering a thought she had, not too long ago. "For a split second I actually thought she liked you."

"Me. Tutor girl isn't like that. Where as with you, there were sirens screaming that you wanted to get into my pants." Brooke made hand gestures to emphasise her point, she also couldn't help grinning at her own words.

Peyton turned her body fully towards Brooke and tilted her head to one side. "That's kind of cocky of you to think that."

"It's a fact and you're not denying it." Brooke lighting tapped Peyton on the nose.

"So if you knew that I wanted you so bad, why didn't you make a move?" Peyton moved closer to Brooke.

The brunette shook her head like she was being asked a stupid question. "I'm the captain of cheerleading squad. I'm not meant to like you for many reasons."

Peyton rolled her eyes. "So why didn't you freak out when I kissed you?" She wondered.

Brooke knew that the conversation wasn't in a joking manner anymore and she gave a serious answer. "I finally admitted to myself that I had feelings for you."

"How long did you have feelings for me?" Peyton whispered her question.

"I'm not having this conversation with you now." Brooke crossed her arms in protest. "I'm surprised that we haven't had this conversation before."

Peyton started to tug on Brooke's arm, trying to get her to answer her question. "I want to know when you started having feelings for someone you couldn't stand."

Brooke knew that the only way to get Peyton to stop was to turn the conversation on her. "Well if you really want to have this conversation, then I think we should start on when you started having feelings for me. It's only fare to share."

"You know I only kissed you because I had concussion. I thought there was a supermodel in front of me." Peyton started laughing.

"You're really not doing yourself any favours here." Brooke hit Peyton on the arm, before the two of them burst into laughter.

"Do you think its safe to go back yet?" Haley asked looking at the two girls.

Nathan's eyes also followed Haley eye line and saw what seemed like a better state then when they had left them. "They're smiling which can only be a good sign."

Haley looked at Nathan and wanted to know something that had been on her mind since the weekend. "Why did Jake and Brooke split up?"

Nathan looked at Haley and without hesitation, he answered. "She told me he's a lovely bloke and any girl would be lucky to have him but the only feelings she had were of the friends variety. I guess I now understand why."

"I couldn't even see the two of them being friends let alone anything more. I've never seen Peyton smile like that. It's good to see her happy." Having known the blonde for most of her life, she knew some of the pain that she went through and she was pleased that she was happy with Brooke.

"They still have a lot to figure out especially if Peyton keeps getting jealous about Jake." They looked at each other, not knowing why the blonde was so jealous. The two of them walked back over to the girls.

"I hate to interrupt but we better go if we don't want to be late." Haley informed them, she had no intention of being late for school.

"Maybe we can skip school instead, Peyt." Brooke pleaded.

"My car is still at school, so I kind of have to go back." Peyton didn't actually want to go back to school. She would have easily skipped if it weren't for her car.

Brooke pouted at her response. "That's so not the answer I wanted." Both girls followed Haley and Nathan out the door.

"I'm sorry princess, you don't always get what you want." Peyton said from behind Brooke.

"Ok, you can't tease anyone again for nicknames if that's what you call Brooke." Haley said while getting into the front passenger seat. Peyton followed Brooke into the back as Nathan drove them back to school.

"How about you come by mine at 8pm and bring some spare clothes so you don't have to ditch me so early in the morning. I would pick you up but I figured you would want to go to school in separate cars." Peyton whispered.

"That's a big assumption of yours that I'm staying over." Brooke leaned towards Peyton's ear. "What can you possibly have planned for me?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Peyton bit her lip as she felt the brunette's breath. She turned to face Brooke and couldn't help her eyes from darting to her lips. "I really want to kiss you right now."

"Well I guess you're gonna have to wait until tonight." Brooke couldn't take the chance of anyone seeing them.

"You could always come by earlier, maybe straight after school." Peyton said hopefully, taking Brooke's hand in hers.

"Sorry but I have cheerleading practice." Brooke replied.

Peyton burrowed her eyes in confusion. "But you wanted to ditch school before."

"It's your own fault. If you had ditched with me, then I would have cancelled practice." By this time they were back at school and Nathan had pulled into his parking space. Before Brooke opened the door, she leaned closer to Peyton. "I guess you're gonna have to wait a few more hours. Catch you later." She got out of the car and headed to her next class with Nathan.

Part of the reason that Brooke wanted to ditch afternoon class was because she had Melissa McIntyre. She had a dislike for the teacher and it wasn't because of her involvement with Nathan, though it didn't help. She found her classes a bore. When Melissa addressed the class, Brooke rolled her eyes, not particularly feeling impressed by the 'cougar' as she had named her.

Brooke hadn't been paying much attention throughout the class, as she was counting down the minutes. She was overly excited by her plans with Peyton, not that she really knew what was going to happen, but imagining it wasn't a bad idea. Nathan was trying to get her attention. Before she could make out what he was trying to say, Melissa spoke. "Brooke, what's the answer?"

Brooke looked at her confused, having no clue what the topic was even about, let alone what the answer was. "I plead the fifth on that one."

Melissa shook her head in disbelief. "You do know that's only used to stop a witness from incriminating themselves in a court case."

"Yes. The incriminating evidence is that if I answer your question, then I'm admitting to paying attention or even liking your class." This caused the rest of the class to erupt in laughter.

"Everybody, quiet down. Brooke, you'll be staying behind after class." Melissa continued with the rest of the lesson as Brooke paid even less attention.

When the bell rang, everybody started to leave class quickly. To wind Melissa up, Brooke shouted quite loudly to Nathan. "Don't forget I'm riding with you after practice." Nathan nodded and walked out of the door. Peyton, who was walking up to the classroom, met him.

"Hey, has Brooke gone to the gym already?" She enquired.

"No. She's still in the classroom with Mel…Miss McIntyre." He corrected himself quickly, not wanting to expose his familiarity with the teacher. "I'll see you later." He made his way to the gym, while Peyton stood standing outside the classroom. After a few minutes, Brooke walked out the room huffing in utter annoyance.

"Hey." Peyton interrupted Brooke's internal cursing.

"Hi." Seeing the blonde pleasantly surprised Brooke. "What are you doing here? Not that I'm not glad to see you."

"I just thought I'll walk you to practice." The both of them started walking slowly along the hallway. "Why were you in there so long."

Brooke rolled her eyes. "She was being a bitch and gave me an essay to write and hand in to her before the end of the day tomorrow. It kind of wrecks our plans." Disappointment rang from her voice as she was thinking that they would probably have to cancel their plans. Peyton had something else in mind. "I can always help you so it gets done quicker."

Brooke stopped in shock at the offer. "You'll do that for me." Her voice had a hint of surprise.

"Sure." Peyton wore a timid smile, as she didn't feel as comfortable when she first thought of it.

The two girls started walking again. "Maybe I'll have to come over a bit earlier."

Peyton felt more at ease and she quickly stole a look at the brunette. "I won't complain if you do."

Brooke couldn't help the feeling inside. She was happy and wanted the time she had with Peyton to continue. Unfortunately she had other things to attend to. "This is my stop, so I'll see you later." Both girls wanted to share a kiss but they couldn't, instead they waved goodbye to each other. Peyton watched Brooke enter the gym before she turned round to make her way out of school.