I know I have Seeing Behind the Façade going on too, but this idea just came to me and I decided I should write it down before I forget it or I don't have time to write it, then I forget it. Anyways here is my second story, please be nice. HOPE YOU ENJOY!

CHAPTER ONE: What happened?

Lucas's POV

In middles school, Brooke, Nathan, Peyton, Haley, Jake, Rachel and I were all best friends. We did everything together and always had each other's backs, but that all changed after the summer of our eighth grade year. Brooke was a gorgeous, popular cheerleader with the biggest heart, spunky personality and dimples that could make any man swoon. When she came back to school freshman year she changed.

She was no longer the same Brooke Davis. She walked into school with dark, black eye liner on her eyes. Her tongue, nose eyebrow and belly button were pierced. She also had six earrings on each ear. She wore a long sleeve, fitted, black shirt with a black short mini. Paired with her outfit were big holed, black fishnets and combat boots. The boots were black leather with twenty shiny, silver buckles up the outside of her boot. She also wore a matching long, silver skull and cross bone necklace.

I wanted to know what happened to her bad. I wanted to know why on her she dressed like this. I tried many times to go up and talk to her, but I never followed through. Eventually we lost contact and over the years she became the "butt" of me and Nathan's jokes. I knew this was wrong and something tragic happened to her to have her change like this, but I was too much of a coward to break out of the popular crowd and help out a "loser."

I also noticed something else different about her. Brooke Davis never spoke. This was so unlike her. She would always ramble on and on about almost everything. I never knew her as a quiet person. I was so worried about her, but remember I can't talk to "losers" like her. It would be social suicide as Rachel so clearly pointed out for me.

There was also something else about her. The warmth and love in her eyes were replaced with anger and despair. Her beautiful dimples were never shown. She never smiled or laughed. She just kept the same look on her face. It said she was tired and scared. I would be the only one to notice this though. Brooke and I were friends with the rest of the people in our "group," but Brooke and I were best friends.

We had a bond that no one could ever break. That is until I broke the trust she had for me the night she left for the summer before high school.

Flashback

"Lucas you son of a bitch! How the hell could you do this too me! How could you break my heart like this?" Brooke said with tears in her eyes, and anger in her words.

"I honestly didn't mean to Brooke. I'm sorry that I hurt you this way, but you have to know that it was not my intention! I really didn't mean to sleep with your mom Brooke. It just sort of happened." God that was the worst thing I could have possibly said to her at a time like this. Damn Lucas, you are such a jackass.

"You didn't mean to hurt me! It just sort of happened! Do you really expect me to believe your wimpy ass excuses Lucas! Did you really think saying your sorry and you didn't mean for it to happen is going to make it all better?" There was a pause. I thought she was going to break down, but instead she wiped away her tears vigorously and walked strait up to my face. First, she slapped me and said, "That is for sleeping with my mom!" Then she punched me square in the nose and pushed me to the ground. "And that is for breaking my heart!" Before she walked away she spit on me and turned around and yelled so loud that I was sure that people in China heard her scream. Then she walked off, stomping her feet into the thick sand of the beach in Tree Hill.

End Flashback

That was the last time Brooke ever spoke to me and the last time she ever looked me in the eyes. So much has changed over the past two years and sometimes I wish I could go back in time and change what I had done, but I know that will never happen. I know I can never help Brooke Davis. I wish I could, but it's too late. I ruined her.