Hello all, thanks for reading and reviewing!
Hee. I let my girlishness seep through and kind of emasculated the boys, yes? I'll definitely work on that. Made me laugh though when people pointed out that. Silly Bubblz.
I went back and changed up the last chapter a bit. Thanks to Viea for her idea : )
I apologize if this is a bit on the short side, but finals are coming up and I wanted to post something before things got too hectic.
"Hey can you go in my room and tell me if my iPod is on my desk?" Lucas asked.
Nathan switched the phone from one hand to another and went across the hallway.
"Nope, don't see it."
"Hmm…"
"Sorry."
"It's probably around here somewhere. So what are you up to this weekend?"
"Nothing. I'm grounded."
"What did you do?"
"I was playing basketball in the driveway and I shattered a window."
"You did not!" Lucas said in disbelief.
"I have never done that before all these years. Dad was majorly pissed off at me."
"I bet. So what's the punishment?"
"Grounded for this weekend and I have to pay for the replacement."
"That's not too bad."
"I guess not."
"Nathan, what are you doing on the phone?" Lucas heard Dan ask.
"Luke called."
"Hi Dad!" Lucas said loudly.
"Hi Luke. Listen your brother has to go and figure out a way to pay for a new window."
"Good luck. See you Friday." Lucas said and hung up.
"So Broody, excited for the wedding?" Brooke asked, coming over and sitting on Lucas' lap.
"Yeah, it's going to be great."
"I love weddings." Brooke said excitedly.
"Really? I had no idea." Lucas teased.
"Haha. So what's up with Nathan?"
"He broke our garage window."
"Sheesh."
"Yeah. Apparently Dad's not too happy."
"Poor Nate."
"Yeah."
"Yeah. So are you done calling people?"
"Definitely. What should we do?"
"Well I promised Haley that we'd meet her and Eric for a movie."
"Okay."
"Or we could just make out." Brooke said.
"Also okay." Lucas grinned.
"Yeah but I promised Haley." Brooke sighed.
Lucas laughed and took her face in his hands, kissing her.
She leaned into him and deepened the kiss, until she broke away and laughed nervously.
"Very sneaky, Lucas."
"It was worthy a try." Lucas laughed.
"Uh huh. We'll have time for that later." Brooke said, standing up and taking Lucas' hand.
"I'm a dumbass." Nathan complained as Lucas unpacked his stuff in his room a week later.
"What's wrong?"
"I broke the damn window." Nathan sighed.
"Not to be mean, but what's the big deal? Its just one full weekend you couldn't go out."
"Yeah but I felt bad about not being able to do anything with Theresa. I mean the whole relationship is in such a weird situation and I just want to show her that I care about her."
"She knows, Nate."
"I just don't want to screw something else up. I've been screwing up a lot this year."
"We all screw up."
"I don't want to be testing any more limits, you know?"
"Yeah…I know. Hey you know what? I'll call Brooke and cancel our date. We can just hang out here tonight."
"You don't have to do that."
"I want to. Our guy's weekend got screwed up before."
"True…are you sure?"
"Absolutely. Just give me a second."
"Okay. I'm going to get something to eat."
"I'll meet you downstairs."
Lucas dialed Brooke's number and waited for her to pick up.
"Hey."
"Hey Brooke. Listen, I'm really sorry…but Nate is grounded and he's really bummed so…"
"You want to cancel." Brooke said dully.
"I'm really sorry. We never really got a chance to hang out since I got sick the last time I was here."
"Yeah…"
"Is it okay?"
"I don't know…"
"I feel really bad about this. I don't know, do you want to come over here maybe? I don't know…"
"Then I would be intruding on your plans."
Lucas didn't know what to say, he just bit his lip and sighed.
"Two weeks ago you told me that you would be hanging out with Nathan all weekend and I accepted it."
"But I got sick and-"
"Yeah, so last week when we went out with Haley and Eric? Was that just because Nathan wasn't available?"
"Brooke come on, that's not fair."
"I don't Lucas…this just really bothers me."
"You have to believe that when we are together, it's because I want to spend time with you. Not because someone better wasn't available, because I honestly believe there is nobody better to be with than you."
"Really?"
"Of course. It's just one date, Brooke. No big deal."
"It is to me, Lucas."
"Why?"
"You and Nathan spend too much time together." Brooke said suddenly.
"What?"
"It's true. Everyone thinks so. You do almost everything together."
"He's my brother. Hell, he's my best friend. So what if we spend a lot of time together? A lot of the time we're with Jake or the guys from the team too."
"Look if it's that important to you, we can just take a break."
"What? I never said I wanted that!"
"I think it might be good."
"I don't want that at all Brooke."
"You may not want it, but I think we need it. We need to figure out our priorities."
"It's just one date Brooke, you're totally overreacting!"
"I am not overreacting. Look, just go be with your brother and we can talk later."
"Brooke…"
"It might be good."
"I don't want to." Lucas said almost inaudibly.
"Let's just try it." Brooke said softly.
"But-"
"We'll talk later." Brooke said, hanging up.
Lucas stared at the phone in his hands, stunned.
"Luke?" Nathan called up the stairs.
"Coming." He replied hollowly.
"Was Brooke bummed?"
"Kind of." Lucas lied.
"I'll tell her I'm sorry at school Monday."
"Me too." Lucas said quietly.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Okay well how about I kick your ass at the video game of your choice?" Nathan grinned.
"You wish." Lucas said, smiling weakly.
"You okay?"
"Yeah…I'm fine."
"You sure?"
"Yup. I'm great." Lucas lied again.
"Wow. I know I usually win, but damn you sucked tonight Luke." Nathan said as they headed up the stairs.
"Haven't played in awhile." Lucas said dully.
"Look, Lucas…I know you weren't completely here tonight."
"Huh?"
"You have been out of it all night and you barely said anything. You spaced out so many times."
"Um…"
"So I'm going to guess that the reason you were on the phone so long is that Brooke wasn't too happy about you canceling and the conversation didn't end well."
"Good guess."
"How bad was it?"
"She said we spend too much time together."
"I remember that from that fateful night at Tric."
"Oh yeah…I just thought it was something she just said she was mad that night. I didn't realize she really meant it."
"I guess she did."
"She wants to take a break."
"What?"
"I don't know. I guess she's mad that in the past month, I've only spent one weekend with her. I don't know anymore."
"Luke, you need to talk to her. Why didn't you tell me earlier? I wouldn't have kept you here all night playing some stupid video game if I knew it was that bad."
"It's not your fault."
"I complained about not being to go out and you decided to stay here with me and Brooke got mad."
"I should've known how to handle it better. She was right. I don't know how she feels anymore. When the hell did I become such a selfish jackass?"
"You just spent your Friday night with me because I was bored when you could be out having real fun. You are not selfish."
"Well I completely dismissed her feelings. Dammit. What the hell am I doing?"
"Just talk to her. Tell her how bored you were tonight." Nathan said, trying to lighten the mood.
"I wasn't bored. Just distracted."
"Call her tomorrow and talk it out. You guys will be fine."
"You think so?"
"I'm sure of it." Nathan said, patting his brother on the shoulder encouragingly.
Heehee. I feel like bringing on lots of angst. Especially for Nathan, he needs some drama.
I also started writing the chapter with the wedding, but it might actually come into play for another couple of chapters. First angst, then ze happy.
Yes, I'll shut up now. I haven't forgotten the stuff I mentioned in other chapters as upcoming events :)
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