I know, I gotta stop with the cliff hangers...but it was too good! Anyways hope y'all don't hate me after this and fair warning it might get ugly, I portray Nathan as a pretty bad guy in this. I love him so much he is my second favorite character(aside from brooke ofc) but he wasn't such a good character right off the bat. He was rude, stupid, and a slut not gonna lie right now. He has the best character development in one tree hill, in my personal opinion of course. so some of the things you read in this chapter are his qualities before brooke changes him next chapter. As always ENJOY!
Nathan stood there, speechless he didn't know what to say to make her stay there had to be something, anything to make love him. "I'm sorry nate." Brooke said tears streaming down her face "but I won't open up my heart to you, if your gonna do the same thing Lucas did. Oh wait you already did nathan stood there, guilt rushing over him..."we weren't , I wasn't , it wasn't brooke I'm sorry." Brooke couldn't control her tears anymore. they were running down her face while she sobbed "how could you Nathan?! You know what I went through with luke. I cried on your shoulder you were there when I needed you, and you just decided to throw it all away? You lied to me! Tim didn't need a ride to Rachel's but that's where you were going anyways, I can't believe I fell for your whole stupid charm!" Brooke yelled sobbing uncontrollably, he walked closer to Nathan " you stupid, lying, piece of shit!" Brooke said pushing\hitting his shoulders. Nathan started to cry "how could I believe you would be anything different then what you were last week? People can't change not in a day, not in a year, not ever!" Brooke hit him across the face "I used to think that maybe, just maybe I could love you, but now all I do is hate you...but we were never exclusive anyways right?" Brooke bit her lip "good luck on your game maybe afterwards you, Peyton, Lucas and Rachel should rent a steamy hotel room and have a foursome, asshole" brooke said pushing him one last time "how could you?" She said finally walking into the gym, that was full of people.
She wiped her tears and fixed her makeup. She walked over to Bevin and hugged her "hi best friend" "hey brooke, are you okay?" Bevin said noticing her red eyes "yeah I'm great! Lets do this thing" brooke said walking out to stand in front of all the cheerleaders "okay girls, you ready? lets do this." All the cheerleaders went to the center stage and did a cheer together. Nathan and all the basket ball players watched, "I'd so tap that." One of the players said to Nathan. pointing to Rachel, "trust me she's not that good man she's a kinieving little bitch" Nathan said. When the cheerleaders were done the players went on the court, tossing the ball around to each other till the game started. It was a basic game same old same old, only this time Nathan couldn't stop looking over at brooke, every two minutes. Sometimes she would see him looking at her so she either shot him a cold glare, rolled her eyes, or looked away. When the game ended brooke said goodbye to the cheerleaders, who had all changed and left. She was all alone, she needed to get her stuff back from Nathan but, she didn't wanna face him so she decided to text Bevin
To: Bev
Hey bestie, don't freak out but some of my clothes and stuff are over at...Nathan's and I rlly don't wanna see him rn , could you BA awesome and go get them 4 me, babe?
To: Brooke
Omg, you guys totally did it, ofc i will but I need deets later luv u babe
Brooke smiled she was lucky to have Bevin, "hey you." She heard a voice say from being her. She turned only to see the one and only Jake jegalski, "hey" she said patting the spot on the floor beside her, waiting for him to sit down. Jake slid to the ground next to her, "what's up?" Jake asked knowing something was wrong, he and brooke used to be really close until, the first year of high school. Brookes eyes started watering again..."it happened again Jake. He slept with rachel, freaking Rachel." brooke said her voice trembling, "who lucas?" Brooke looked at Jake smiling and shaking her head no."no, Nathan. its been a long year jake." Brooke told him resting her head on his shoulder as he put his arm around her. "Good thing I got all the time in the world to talk about it." He smiled down on brooke who just kept crying on his shoulder.
Meanwhile at Nathan...he heard the doorbell ring, he put the picture of him and brooke down. She took it on Friday when they were at the beach together. He also put his beer down, Nathan was spiraling already, and he knew it. he answered the door hoping it was brooke, only to reveal Bevin. "Hey Nathan I'm just here to get Brookes stuff for her." Nathan rolled his eyes "its in my car you can just grab it, the roofs down so just grab it and leave." Nathan slammed the door only for about 2 hours later he heard the doorbell again. He groaned, he swung the door open "what do you want now Bevin?!" He yelled looking down, only to see brooke. "Oh, sorry brooke.. I thought you were- never mind Um are you okay?" Nathan said, stumbling out of his house he was wasted but happy it was her. She could smell the beer in his breath, she backed up "stay back" she said holding her hand up to stop him. "Sorry" he backed away putting his hands in the air, like he was getting arrested "your wasted nate." Brooke said trying to sound like she didn't cared. Nathan ran his hand through his hair."yeah...maybe a little, wanna come inside?" Nathan really wanted to fix all of this.
"Yes, but I can't stay I just came to get my car keys." Nathan opened his front door and gestured for her to go inside,"oh, okay there probably-" brooke cut him off "on your nightstand, I know where they are." Brooke ran up the stairs and came back down about 2 minutes later and Nathan was passed out, he was sitting at the counter, using his hands for a pillow while he slept. Brooke sighed, she walked over to the counter and saw the picture of them, her heart melted just a little bit. She missed Nathan, he was so good to her, until he wasn't. she couldn't just forgive and forget though, she wanted to...she really wanted to. But you don't just tell the girl you just spent the night with, that your going to practice when you just go over to her nemesis house and sleep with her!
Brooke took Nathan's arm and put it around her shoulder, she started walking up the stairs with him. "you know, your a lot heavier then you look superstar." When they finally got up to his room, she laid him down and slipped off his shoes. She pulled him under the covers and pulled his scratchy black t shirt off so he could be more comfortable. brooke looked at him, asleep and he looked so sweet like this. Almost sweet enough to make her believe he was actually sweet. She knee led down near his bed, she kissed him on the cheek softly, then ran her hand through his hair. She gave him one last look then got up and started walking out of the bedroom when she heard him talk "Brooke!" She turned around "yeah nate?" He moved to the other side of his bed and patted the other, wanting her to lay down. "Please don't leave, I'm sorry" he said not even opening his eyes. Brooke couldn't resist she slipped off her blue tennis shoes, then she took her hair out of a point tail, she slipped her tight cheer jacket off her shoulders, and climbed in next to him. He opened his eyes to see her facing him, "hey" he whispered brushing her hair back behind her ear. "Hey" she said back closing her eyes and slightly smiling at his touch. "That feels good." Nathan started trailing his fingers up and down her arm soothingly.
Before they knew it they were both asleep with brooke holding onto her nathans arms draped across her waist. In the morning Brookes eyes fluttered open it wasn't quite sunrise yet, nathan wasn't next to her anymore. She sat up and looked around the room she got out of bed and raced down the stairs. "Nathan!" Brooke called throughout the house. Then the front door opened brooke swung around looking to see who it was, I mean who would be walking in Nathan's at 5:49 am?
She looked and saw Nathan with two cups of coffee in his hand and a bag of cinnamon rolls from Karen's cafe. He was carefully shutting the door because didn't wanna wake brooke she he turned around and saw her smiling at him, leaning against the kitchen counter. Nathan groaned, "you're supposed to be asleep." He said walking over to her and setting the coffee and cinnamon rolls on the counter. "sorry, but I tend to wake up when your not next to me." She said smiling, then she realized what he did why was she flirting, why was she here, why did she still like him? "I mean I can't sleep when I'm alone, not specifically you." Nathan smiled knowing exactly what she meant. "I should go, I'm sorry I didn't mean to lead you on last night. You were just really drunk so I stayed to male sure you were okay, now I need to leave." Nathan sighed, he really thought they were getting somewhere.
Nathan and brooke were interrupted by A knock on the door a few seconds passed, before brooke finally spoke up "you're not gonna get that?" She asked nathan annoyed "no your more important right now" brooke rolled her eyes and answered the door only to reveal Rachel gatina."oh, hey brooke is Nathan home? I really need to talk to him." Brooke felt A dagger going through her heart as she heard Rachel speak. Tears started running down her face, "yep! Your boyfriends right inside come on in." As her and Rachel walked inside, brooke heard Nathan yell "who was it?!" Brooke grabbed her keys off the counter as Nathan turned to see her walking away and Rachel walking toward him. "Brooke...he brooke!" nathan yelled glaring at rachel , and running after brooke. He finally caught up to her in the driveway. "Hey, brooke look at me!" Nathan yelled standing in front of her blocking her path to her car. "What? What Nathan, do you want to tell me your sorry? Trust me I know you are, I know you're sorry you got caught." "No brooke I wanna say one thing." Nathan said in almost A whisper he put his hands on Brookes face and made her look at him. "I love you, Brooke Davis. I love you."
