Chapter 16

Guys POV

"Alright what's the first dare?" Nathan asked.

They'd read the address the first dare had told them to go and ended up at the mall. Lucas had found the locker number written down and found it opened for them.

"It says, return these clothes…while wearing them." Pulling out a bra and women's shirt, the guys chuckled.

"That's cold," Skills commentated.

"Ah screw this," Nathan mumbled.

"Oh come on!"

Lucas grabbed the bag and tossed the others the next dare. "Na man, I'll do it. And you know why? Cause he thinks we wouldn't. He wants to play this game, then will play."

"Awesome," Tim snatched the paper out of Skills hands. "Come on Nate, let's go do the next one."

Without a second to lose, Tim sprinted off with Nathan not far behind him. Lucas laughed at the enthusiasm before turning to the others.

"You sure you wanna do this?" Skills asked.

"Yeah, I'm not backing down."

"Cool." Skills grabbed the other card. "Then me and Mouth got the next one. Will meet up afterwards."

"Let's do it."

Brooke POV

Brooke knew she should have said no to this stupid dare night. Yet the world was somehow out to get her as she found herself paired up with her obnoxious neighbor who'd planned the whole thing.

Both Peyton and Haley had decided to team up against her, and took off together before she could protest. So here she was, at a dinner table in a fancy restaurant, with a guy who just wanted to get in her pants.

"So what's the dare?" Brooke asked. "Spend a dinner with someone you hate?"

Felix smiled. "Hate's a strong word. Although I could see your confusion, the part of the brain for anger is right next to desire. You sure you aren't confusing the two?"

"I'm sure," She managed to grit out of her teeth. "So is this what you do? Come to new towns and force girls to dinner with you?"

"Please, I could have 5 girls lining up asking me to take them to dinner right now," Felix laughed. "But I'm here with you. I wanna know your story."

"Bored and ignored," Brooke found herself saying.

"Ignored," Felix repeated. "I highly doubt you've ever been ignored by a guy in your life."

Brooke rolled her eyes. "I meant at home. Guys are easy, flash a little skin, give them a sultry look, and they're putty in my hands."

"That I can believe."

She didn't know why she was talking about this kind of stuff, to a stranger no less, but she'd found herself doing that in recent weeks. Which actually reminded her of another stranger.

"Since you want us to get to know each other," Brooke started, seeing Felix's eager look. "Mind explaining why you lied inside the café?"

Felix looked confused. "When did I lie? There isn't a dare that's harmful, I swear."

She sighed in frustration. "Not that genius. I meant about Lucas and Nathan's brother. You know who he is, you met him your first day. Didn't wanna deal with three Scotts?"

"Didn't think he'd be interested." Felix offered, not revealing the real reason. "Besides, I noticed who you guys hung out with, he's never there. Guys a loner, does his own thing. Everyone else is friends."

"Except you," Brooke bit back. "We're friends, your just the guy who invited all of us."

"Harsh," Felix pretended to look sad. "I'm making an effort, reaching out so to speak. It's not like you hang out with the guy."

"I actually kind of live with him."

She didn't need to see Felix's confused look, knowing it was the same look she probably had on herself. Brooke hadn't realized, but ever since Jack had been in Tree Hill, she'd only spent one night at home. The rest had been at Peyton's.

Without realizing it, she'd moved in too. The three of them were technically roommates. Only difference was she didn't pay for anything like the other two.

"Are you guys together?" Felix asked. It was the first time his happy persona had dropped completely.

"No, he's living with Peyton for the moment," Brooke explained. "And I usually crash at her house anyways. Like I said, ignored at home."

Felix laughed. "Guy can't afford a place?"

She didn't know why, but the tone in his voice upset her. "I'm out of here."

"Hold up," Felix smiled, tossing her the paper. "That's actually a part of your dare."

Brooke hesitated, not liking the sound of that at all.

Girls POV

Haley wondered if maybe she should be taking Peyton to a hospital instead of a Karaoke bar. Their first dare had involved eating a bunch of disgusting eggs and so far, it seemed like they weren't doing so well in Peyton's stomach.

"Are you sure you're fine?" Haley asked, for the second time.

"I hate this guy," Peyton muttered, trying to balance herself on the wall nearby. "What's the next stupid dare?"

Haley quickly opened the envelope. She scanned over the dare before her eyes dropped. There was no way in hell she was doing this dare.

"Lets skip this one."

Peyton's eyes widened. "Hell no, I puked twice for this dumb game. We're going to win, or I'm shoving one of those eggs in everyone's mouth."

Peyton snatched the card away from Haley before reading it. "Oh come on, this is a walk in the park compared to what I did. All you gotta do is go up there and sing a few verses."

"So you'll do it?" Haley offered lamely.

Peyton shook her head. "If I go up there, the only thing coming out of my mouth is vomit. You got this Hales. Brooke told me you have a great voice. Go show me."

Haley eyed the crowd once the walked in and nearly fainted. She loved singing, just not in front of a crowd who'd probably end up booing her. Haley wasn't lacking confidence; she just didn't rock a stage like Bon Jovi.

The two slowly made there way deeper into the place as Haley tried to remain as calm as possible. It wasn't that big of a crowd, mostly women, but it didn't rest the butterflies going crazy in her stomach.

Peyton noticed her friend's nervous looks, and quickly grabbed her hand. "Haley, listen to me. You just got married. You're ready for anything. Trust me. This is gonna be simple."

"That's easy for you to say," Haley mumbled. "You're not going up there."

She was right, Peyton thought. She couldn't possibly know what was going through her friend's head and that wasn't fair to her.

"You're right," Peyton admitted. "If you really don't wanna do this, then we could leave."

Haley nearly jumped at the opportunity, but stopped short. Her friend was willing to ditch the rest of the night for her because she was scared. Where was the fearless girl who'd gotten married on that beach? She loved the sing, and she knew she wasn't half bad, it was time the rest of the world did too.

"I'll do it," Haley whispered.

Lucas POV

Lucas felt the stares as he walked into the department store in only a pair of pants. He'd seen the same looks from everyone at the other three stores when he returned the shirt, bra, and shoes, respectively.

This guy Felix really wasn't making it easy to like him.

Yet he still continued, trying to prove something, to who, he didn't know. Maybe to himself, or his friends, or to Felix, but he'd stuck with it thus far, and he sure as hell wasn't packing down now, even if it meant leaving this store in only boxers.

"Can I help you?" The girl behind the counter asked, a smile in her face.

Laughing lightly, he gave her the receipt. "Yes, I'd like to return these pants."

"Do you have them?"

"Right here," He motioned, before starting to undress.

The corner of his eye caught the sight of a security guard who'd been following him since the shoe store. God he hoped he didn't end the night getting a scolding from some guy pretending to be a cop.

"All right son, games over," The guard said tiredly, taking a few steps towards him.

Without warning, a clothing rack toppled towards him as a nearby girl sprinted past the guard yelling towards Lucas. "Come on!"

Seeing his chance, Lucas snapped a photo before running past the fallen guard and out the store where the girl was leading. He didn't know who she was, but she'd saved his ass, he owed her.

"Need anything else?" The girl asked, handing him his bag in her backseat.

Shaking his head, Lucas laughed. "Na I'm good thanks. Can't say I expected the help back there."

"Well I saw you earlier, figured something was up. I'm hoping this is a game and you're not crazy."

"It's a game," Lucas reassured with a light chuckle. He couldn't really see the girl from the back. Forcing himself between the seats, he planted himself into the passenger seat. "It's a stupid dare night. Don't even know why I agreed to it. I'm Lucas by the way"

"Anna," She replied, with a smile.

She was pretty he instantly thought.

"So I owe you, big time," Lucas began. He tried to think of what he could give her, but bailing someone half naked out of a possible ticket was a tricky one. "But I'm not sure what I could offer."

Anna thought for a minute before smiling. "How about you let me in on this dare night?"

"Deal."

"So what's next?"

Lucas grabbed the card from his bag, quickly scanning over it, another difficult task from the newest jackass of Tree Hill. "Kiss a stranger."

"How convenient," Anna mused.

"I swear I didn't plan this," He knew how someone would read the situation.

Anna laughed, making the anxiety go away. "I know, I watched your face. Nobody can act that surprised so quickly unless it was genuine."

Shifting in his seat, Lucas conceded the dare. "We don't have to do this. You can back out. It's just a stupid dare."

"I'm not pretty enough?" Anna joked.

"What no!" Lucas blurted. He hung his head low before smiling. "I just meant…"

"Relax Lucas, it's just a dare," Anna laughed before leaning in and giving him a kiss. She held her phone high, snapping a selfie of the two. "There easy."

Smiling faintly Lucas spoke. "Well that's that. Let's see what's next."

Jack POV

"You're right, burgers pretty good," Jack said, finishing off the last of his meal.

He and Keith found themselves at a bar towards the end of the night for the past couple of hours. At first both thought it'd be a quick dinner, but here they were, around 11, and they were still eating and talking.

They talked about everything, from sports to school, and everything in between. Keith loved to share about his past, and Jack enjoyed listening. He was getting to know the family he never had and right now, it was fun.

Best part was that Keith never pushed too hard to know more about him. He knew he was curious, but Keith waited for when he was ready.

"Yeah I've been coming to this place ever since I was a kid," Keith explained, remembering some fond memories.

"You ever think of leaving?" Jack asked.

Keith shook his head. "Tried to, but I always end up back to where I start. Everyone I know and love is right here. So what's the point right?"

"Yeah I guess." Jack saw how good Keith was to his nephews, which raised a question. "How come you never had a kid of your own? If you don't mind me asking."

Keith waved it off. "Na I don't mind. I guess growing up, helping Karen with Luke, it was all I really needed. And now connecting with Nathan whenever he needs it, I guess I didn't have any kids cause I already had two."

"And Karen's the one your in love with," Jack stated.

He watched his uncle choke back a bit of the beer he was drinking, before laughing. "Was it that obvious?"

Jack shrugged. "You mentioned her quite a bit all night. No way somebody spends that much time trying to help a family unless he loves them. And you do love them?"

"I do."

"So you either love Karen too, or you're in love with her," Jack explained. He leaned back in his chair comfortably. "I had two choices, good to see I chose right."

Keith rolled his eyes towards him. "Yeah yeah smart ass, what about you?"

"Have kids?" Jack questioned. "Na not yet."

A fry was tossed towards him as his uncle laughed again. "That's not what I meant."

"I know," Jack smiled. He thought long and hard about the question.

Truth was he'd never actually had a girlfriend, or anyone remotely close to one. He'd been with a few girls, but they lasted maybe a month, tops. As unstable as his life was, he'd never had time to settle down.

Or he just never met the right person.

"No girlfriend," Jack admitted. He didn't really care that much, he wasn't crying about it at night. "Not in my cards right now."

"I'm surprised."

"Why's that?"

Keith smirked. "Cause you remind me a little of me when I was your age, and I was wheeling and dealing."

"Take it easy casa nova," Jack chuckled.

Brooke POV

The quietness of the cemetery was broken by the rage filled remarks Brooke was cursing.

She couldn't believe she'd left that restaurant without paying. She hated it. Her partner in crime seemed a little remorseful after she yelled at him for 10 minutes but that didn't calm her down.

"I can't believe I did that," Brooke muttered yet again. "You're an ass."

Felix frowned. "I said I was sorry. Look I really am. If I knew how much you'd hate that, I would have never put that on the dare card."

"Whatever." The two walked slowly towards the empty grave in front of them. The next dare was to take a picture inside an empty one. She noticed Felix gesture towards it. "Hell no, you do it."

"I can't," Felix answered. "I need to pull you out. You can't pull me out."

"Oh god this is stupid," Brooke yelled, tired of everything. "What's the point of this anyways!"

Felix looked at her seriously, no teasing in his voice. "The point is to face your fears and do something you'd never do in a normal day. Like sing karaoke, or take a picture in a cemetery, or hang out with me."

Brooke rolled her eyes. "You did all this to hang out with me? A simple text would suffice these days for normal people."

Felix laughed. "And if I text you, would you have even answered?"

She knew the answer to the question, but shrugged anyways. "Beats getting inside a grave."

"I'm just trying to say you wouldn't have done this had I just asked."

"Well maybe if you acted like a normal guy…"

Felix raised an eye. "A normal guy? You mean like Lucas? That's what normal gets you Brooke. Both of us had sex this year, but only one of us got hurt."

"What's your point," Brooke hated being reminded, especially from someone who had no business talking about it.

"What I'm saying is try to have fun," Felix admitted. "Let your guard down, but make sure everything's out in the open. You won't get hurt and I guarantee you'd have a good time."

Not getting hurt definitely sounded good, almost too good to be true. But she knew her old self use to have fun, maybe a little too much fun, but she'd didn't feel that pain after her breakup with Lucas.

Sighing, she handed Felix her purse. "Just take the stupid picture."

Felix smiled one last time. He was slowly breaking down that wall.

General POV

Lucas sat waiting outside the place Felix had asked everyone to meet them after the game. It was almost 12, and he'd done everything on the list. At first this night had turned out to be pretty annoying, not to mention embarrassing, but it turned out all right.

It made him feel alive, it proved a point, and he met a pretty cool person in Anna. He still didn't know much about her, but she was nice, smart, and he found her smile beautiful.

There was definitely worst ways to spend a night.

"So you sure you don't wanna come inside?" Lucas asked one last time. He hated that the night was ending. "You deserve half the credit."

"I'm sorry," Anan apologized. "But I've gotta go. But here, why don't you give me your number."

Lucas grabbed the phone. "Alright, but only if you call."

"Is that a dare?"

The two shared a smile before Lucas stepped out. Giving her one last wave, he turned towards the bar and noticed Nathan and Tim on there way too.

He'd gotten the text of the two in a girl scouts uniform, and realized he didn't have the worst of the dares. That picture of Nathan in a skirt would probably be passed around the school in the not so distant future.

"Hey ladies," Lucas smirked, seeing their reaction. "I'll take two boxes please."

"Haha," Nathan rolled his eyes. "I swear, I'm gonna kill this Felix kid."

"Na man it was fun," Tim said, slouching a little. His body was still sore from the wax. "Except the wax thing, we got to hang out like old times."

"Yeah I guess," Nathan admitted.

Lucas smiled at the two who use to make his life a living hell. Things had sure changed from last year. These guys were pretty terrible to Lucas, and now, one was his brother, and the other was an amusing friend.

Together, the three walked into the bar to join the others.

It didn't take long to spot the others; they were laughing and pointing phones in everyone's directions. Some of them still hadn't sent their dares, so they were probably just cashing in now.

"What's so funny?" Nathan asked, giving Haley a quick kiss. He noticed she looked petrified. "What's wrong?"

"This," Peyton laughed, showing Nathan her phone. The three guys stared at the video of Haley singing on stage as the crowd went nuts, Peyton being one of them. "Your wife has a hell of a voice there Nate. We're going to make her a rock star."

Nathan smiled seeing the video. "Was this your dare?"

Haley nodded, wishing she'd stayed home.

"What's wrong, you were amazing," Nathan reassured her.

"I just hate the nervous feeling," She admitted.

Lucas smiled at his friend. "Don't worry Hales, you'll be back up there singing in no time."

"No way!"

A few tables down, two guys watched the group laugh amongst each other. Whatever was being said, everyone seemed to be having a great time. It was a welcome sight.

"Must be nice," Jack noticed. He turned to see Keith's confused face. "To see Lucas and Nathan acting civil. They mentioned they weren't exactly buds growing up."

Keith snorted. "That's an understatement. There was a time they couldn't be in the same room. Must be a Scott thing."

"Why's that?"

"Well my father, Royal, who I guess is your grandfather," Keith mumbled, the two sharing a look. "Yeah weird I know. Anyways, my father use to push Dan and I so hard that sometimes growing up, we'd resent each other. And for a time, I thought the same thing would happen to Lucas and Nathan. Glad to see I was wrong."

"Guess you aren't close with your dad," Jack stated.

Keith shrugged, not remembering a time him and his father were ever close. "No I guess not. Seems like a constant thing in this town. Where are all the normal families?"

"Who the hell knows," Jack answered. He looked over at Keith. "Thanks for this Keith."

Keith watched his nephew raise his glass and did the same. "Anytime."

Back over to the other table, Felix was counting up the points and dares that had been completed. So far they seemed to be pretty even. He didn't expect some of these dares to be carried, out, especially the one that involved stealing a reptile from the zoo, but here he sat with a turtle on the table and Skills nervously looking inside.

"Well it seems the girls are in the lead," Felix said, happy to see they'd won. "Unless one of you made out with a stranger."

The boys looked back and forth between each other, hoping someone had stepped up, but nobody ever did. Lucas hesitated, thinking about pulling out his phone, but thought against it.

He didn't know why, but he just didn't want to show them the photo.

"So nobody?" Felix asked, before the guys nodded no. The girls cheered up and down happy they'd won, but were cut short. "Listen, we still have one dare to do, but I'll give you guys the chance to tie it up so we could have a chance to win it. So what will it be boys, loss or tie?"

The girls shouted towards Felix but he shrugged it off. He still wanted to see how far some people would go.

"Will do it," Tim answered, with a cocky grin. "What's the dare?"

"Well since I don't have one for you and I'm giving you the chance to tie it, I'll think of something." Felix wondered what he could ask that was daring before his eyes rested on a specific person behind the bar. "Okay, I got it. You guys see that bartender?"

The guys turned to spot the attractive bartender serving some clients. She was a little older then them, but each one found her hot.

"Hell yeah," Tim said happily. He turned to Felix. "What do we do?"

Felix smirked at Mouth. "I dare Mouth to go ask for her number."

"Wait what?"

"Ah man," Tim groaned. "Why not me?"

The others looked towards the girl and then back at Mouth. They loved their friend, but knew he was way out of his league, and comfort zone.

"That's the dare, take it or leave it."

Lucas noticed his friend's nervous look and felt sorry for him. "Mouth you don't have to do this."

Mouth knew why Felix had asked him. He was the least likely to succeed. It was basically asking an impossible dare.

Looking back at the bartender, Mouth just decided to roll with it. "I'll do it."

"Go get her Mouth," Haley smiled, hoping her friend tied the game. If that bartender had any sense, she'd give him her number. Mouth was too sweet to turn down.

Mouth watched as his friends gave him encouraging looks before taking off. All 8 of them watched as he made there way towards the bar before stopping short.

Instead of heading to the bar, Mouth turned to his right and made his way to another table. At first they were confused, but then they noticed who was at the table.

"It's Keith," Lucas spoke up. Then noticing whom he was with. "And Jack."

"What they hell are they doing?" Peyton wondered, seeing as Mouth spoke to the guys.

Mouth hadn't spent that much time with Lucas's new brother, but he'd met him, and he seemed pretty cool. He didn't talk much, but was nice towards him.

So when he saw Jack and Keith wave him over, he stopped short, happy for the intrusion.

"Hey guys," Mouth greeted them.

"Hey Mouth," Keith smiled, always liking Lucas's friend. He was one of the good ones. "What you kid's up too?"

Mouth pointed towards his friends. "It's dare night. A kid Felix thought it'd be cool to see how far we'd go to win."

"Sounds cool," Jack whispered sarcastically. He looked back to Mouth. "So who won?"

"We don't know," Mouth admitted, a blush appearing on his face. "You see that bartender?"

The two looked and nodded.

"Well I gotta get her number if I wanna tie the game up."

Keith whistled. "She's a looker. Well give it a shot Mouth, why'd have to lose?"

"Pride?"

Jack watched the innocent guy in front of him look towards the bartender nervously. That ass Felix was playing with him, he knew. He didn't think he'd have a chance of ever getting that girls number.

Well see about that. Jack thought.

"Alright Mouth, listen closely. You're going to go over and do this," Jack signaled for Mouth to come closer as he whispered what to do. Pulling away, Jack waved towards the girl. "Go ahead. Trust me, it'll work."

Mouth looked back between Jack and the bartender before getting a healthy push from Keith.

Slowly, the two of them watched Mouth approach the bar. It was empty, so the bartender made her way over to Mouth with a big smile.

"What'd you tell him?" Keith wondered, as they watched Mouth talk to her.

Jack smiled, as he saw the bartender laugh. "Wait for it."

Continuing to watch, the boys didn't see Haley sneak up on them.

"Hey guys," Haley smiled, happy to see them. They both said their hellos before turning back to Mouth. "You think he'll do it."

"I guarantee it," Jack answered, his eyes never leaving the bar.

The three watched as Mouth continued to talk. Then, shocking most of them, they watched as the bartender pulled out a pen and wrote something down to a smiling Mouth. She gave him a smile before Mouth handed over some money and then made his way over to them

Nobody was sure who was more surprised, Mouth or his friends, but as he walked back towards them with a massive smile that nobody had even seen before.

"What the hell did you say to him?" Keith asked, just as surprised.

Jack shrugged, seeing the look both Keith and Haley were giving him. "The truth. I just told him to go over there, ask to buy her a drink, make her laugh, and then be honest. Say you wanna grab a coffee sometime. That's it."

Keith looked back towards the bartender and then Mouth, who had made his way back to his friends with a chorus of cheers. "Bull."

"Believe it or not, but most bartenders give you attention, but they want it back too. It isn't easy watching girl after girl get picked up while they serve them drinks. Most bartenders never get asked anything, let alone a cup of coffee. I'll tell you, Mouth over there just made that girls night."

Haley and Keith looked dumbfounded. Out loud it made sense, but coming from Jack, that was about the strangest thing he could have said.

"You pick up a few things working in a bar," Jack explained. It was no big deal.

"I'll say," Keith said, still confused. He should have asked the bartender for her number. "Well I think I'll call it a night, think about how many times I screwed up not asking for someone's number."

Jack laughed as his uncle gave him a tiny smile before saying goodbye to them. It'd been a good night with Keith, he'd hoped it wouldn't be the last.

"I can't believe that worked," Haley mumbled.

"Says the girl married to the most popular guy in school."

Haley shoved Jack's shoulder. "Ha ha. Hey you're not taking off are you? We're about to declare a winner."

"To dare night?"

Haley frowned. She realized that he'd missed out on a night with all of them because no one had called. "I'm sorry. We should have asked you to come. Felix said he didn't even know you but we did. I should have called."

Jack waved it off. "Relax Haley. It's fine, really it is. Besides, I had a pretty great night. As much fun as it would have been to hang out with you guys, that douche Felix would have been there."

"Douche?" Haley repeated, a little confused. "Do you know him?"

"Met him a couple times," Jack admitted, not seeing the big deal.

"Huh." Haley wondered why Felix had lied, but forgot about it. It was the end of the night, and at least Jack could spend it with them. "Well come hang out with us for a bit anyways. It'll be fun. I still think there's one more dare to go."

Jack looked over seeing the large group of friends. He'd met them all, so there was a familiarity, hell two of them were his brothers. Nodding his head, he made his way over with Haley.

"Look who I found," Haley said happily, walking over to the others.

Both Nathan and Lucas looked over at Jack.

"Hey man," Lucas said, giving him an encouraging smile. "Have fun with Keith?"

Jack sat down between Haley and Skills. "Yeah it was good. Keith's a good guy, you and Nathan are lucky."

"And you," Nathan added, making sure he knew he was part of this family now.

Jack smiled lightly, before looking over at Mouth. "Nice work."

Mouth blushed, remembering who had helped him. "I owe you big time."

"Wait," Brooke cut in, confused. She looked over at Jack for the first time. "You helped him? What'd you do?"

"Nothing really," Jack answered. "Just some words of encouragement. Mouth did the heavy lifting."

Haley smiled, realizing that was half true.

"So we're tied?" Nathan remembered. He didn't think Mouth would pull it off but was glad to see he was wrong.

Felix on the other hand wasn't so pleased, but he couldn't show that now. He'd made some progress with Brooke, and he wasn't going to screw that up because of some random kid nobody wanted anything to do with.

"Yeah," Felix answered, a bit of a tone. His eyes drifted to Jack. "We're tied."

"Okay but we can still win right?" Peyton asked.

Felix's smiled appeared again as he pulled out the last dare. "Now this would be easy for me, but that's not really fair, so I'll give it to one of my teammates."

"Shocker," Brooke mumbled, grabbing the stupid card. She looked over at Peyton and Haley. "Do you guys want to do it?"

"Nope."

"I'm good with a tie."

They both answered quickly, earning a laugh from the guys.

Rolling her eyes, Brooke pulled out the card and read it. "Okay, here we go…Kiss a…"

"I'll do it!" Tim shouted.

"….A stranger," Brooke finished.

The rest laughed at Tim as he held his head low.

Brooke looked over at Felix, who was smiling back. "How convenient. If you read this, you could kiss anybody, but if we read it, we basically have to kiss you."

Felix smiled innocently. "You're the one who keeps saying we aren't friends. So you're choice, me, some one around the bar, or no one. How badly do you want to win?"

Haley and Peyton looked over at their friend, the two holding hands hoping their friend would break the tiebreaker. Giving Brooke their best smile, the two of them prayed she'd take one for the team.

"Come on B. Davis, you got this," Peyton laughed.

Brooke looked back at Felix, knowing this was probably his plan all along. She had to give it to him; he'd put a hell of an effort in trying to spend time with her. Even if some of it was illegal and a little creepy.

Looking around the bar, she tried to see if there were any suitable choices, but completely fell short. It was almost empty, expect for a few older men who were either with someone, or old enough to be her grandfather.

"You planned this well," Brooke admitted, continuing to look before her eyes fell to Felix. She had one backup plan. "Come to a bar at 12 o'clock on a Wednesday because you knew it'd be dead. Not giving me much of a choice."

"You always have a choice," Felix laughed, knowing how right she was. "What's it gonna be?"

Fine, you wanna play that way. Brooke thought.

Getting up, she made her way past Felix and around the table.

Her friends watched as she oozed confidence. At first, they thought she was heading towards the table behind them were two old men were laughing and drinking while they watched the baseball game.

What nobody expected was too see Brooke make her way around next to Haley and close to Jack.

"Just roll with this," Brooke whispered, before grabbing the newest Scott's chin and raising his mouth towards her.

A couple of mouths dropped from the table as they watched Brooke kiss Jack. Peyton nearly choked on her own laugh seeing the surprised faces of everyone.

Pulling away, Brooke smiled happily before raising her hands and shouting, "We win!"

Without another word, Haley and Peyton started to cheer as the girls held each other close celebrating.

The guys hung their held low laughing a little, really expecting to win.

Jack, who watched the girls celebrate from the corner of his eyes looked up to see Felix staring at him. Neither spoke but Jack knew in that instant he'd made an enemy.

He didn't know what would happen, but he decided not to give him the satisfaction of caring. So instead he turned to the guys, and asked what the rest of the night was like.

Jack had all day tomorrow to worry about what had happened, right now, the only thing he wanted to know was why Nathan was dressed in a skirt selling cookies…