1,510Everythings falling, and I am included in that
Oh, how I try to be just okay
Yeah, but all I ever really wanted
Was a little piece of you
Chapter Three- B.O.Y.
It had been exactly one week since the banquet and Brooke couldn't seem to stop thinking about Lucas. She had been drifting away from Kade, and then she had a great conversation with Lucas and she just wanted to see him again.
She couldn't stop thinking about the end of the night when he touched her, she swear she felt a spark…but it may have been the alcohol talking…
Kade was gone, doing whatever he did during the day…was it bad that she didn't know?…and Brooke just had to talk to Lucas. She knew that Kade had to have his number in here somewhere. She started shuffling around through the way to neat kitchen 'junk drawer' and she found a team roster with everyone's phone numbers, email addresses, everything.
Brooke grabbed her cell phone and punched in Lucas' number. She stared at the phone, what was she thinking? She had a boyfriend who she was supposedly very committed to. Well, it couldn't hurt to be friends with him right?
She called the number. It was actually ringing. It wasn't too late to hang up, she thought about it but she really couldn't bring herself to do it.
"Hello?" Lucas said into the phone, obviously confused about the number he didn't know.
"Hey, Lucas. This is Brooke" She said, silence on the line…"Ya know, Kade…" She couldn't bring herself to say Kade's girlfriend, which she obviously was. It just didn't sound…right.
"Brooke!" Lucas said into the phone, maybe a little too excitedly. "How are you?"
"I'm good," Brooke said, nodding to herself. "You?"
"Honestly" Lucas shot out, "I haven't been able to stop thinking about you…"
"Me too" Brooke half laughed, half sighed into the phone. "What are you doing? Are you busy? Maybe we should get together, I don't even know where Kade is…" Brooke said, talking maybe a little too fast and making herself sound a little too eager.
"I just got out of an interview, and Kade is doing some press things with our coach and manager, he should be gone all day…" Lucas trailed off.
"Well, then you should um, come over here" Brooke told him, smiling into the phone. Was she actually letting herself get all giddy over this? She was almost positive she had butterflies flying around in her stomach right now.
"Yeah, I guess I could" Lucas said. He was happy, obviously. But he still felt like he had some sort of loyalty to Kade.
"See you soon?" She asked.
"Soon" He told her, before they both hung up the phone.
Brooke immediately went into her call log, deleting Lucas' number from the list.
"It's actually been pretty boring here" Brooke said into the phone that hung on the wall, twirling the black cord around her fingers. "I miss you."
"I miss you too Brookie" Haley told her.
"You should come visit me" Brooke said, resting her elbows on the kitchen counter, one hand placed under her chin, the other holding up the phone. She smiled softly at the suggestion of Haley coming.
"I wish I could, but things are crazy here" Haley said, sounding flustered. "Are you ok Brooke? You sound, uh, a little, off?"
"Yeah I'm fine" Brooke told her, nodding her head and noting to herself to stay in check. She was really excited to see Lucas, but nervous too. She really wanted to tell Haley about him, but how would it sound? And it's not like anything was going on between them anyways…
"I don't know..." Haley said, sounding unsure.
"Really Hale's" Brooke said, a sigh escaping her mouth. Just then she heard a knock on the door. "Hey, I'm gonna have to call you later, I gotta go."
"Brooke-" Haley said, before Brooke placed the phone back on its receiver, hanging up on her friend.
She walked past a mirror in the hall, stopping in front of it to examine herself. She flattened her straight brown hair, and smudged her glossy lips, smacking them together. She ran a hand down her shirt, and tugged on her skirt, straightening it out. She leaned back on the heel's off her wedge shoes before resting her toes back onto the ground. Here goes nothing.
He knocked again, bringing her out of her thoughts. She walked towards the door slowly. While resting a hand on the door knob, she stood on her tippy-toes and looked out the peephole. She saw a head of blonde hair and slowly turned the door handle, opening the door.
"Hey" Lucas smiled, running a hand through his hair while staring at Brooke. "You look…uh…amazing."
Brooke smiled, her hand trailing to her black halter top and pulling at the bottom of it. "Thanks" She said, stepping aside as Lucas walked into the apartment. She followed him into the living room, not taking her eyes off him once. Before he reached the couches, he turned around and stopped, staring directly into her eyes. She started to bite on her bottom lip. He was definitely looking good today.
He seemed to stare at her forever. And look that he was giving her was driving her wild.
"Brooke" Lucas started, "I-"
With that she took a step forward, linking a finger through one of his belt loops. She stood up on her toes, placing the other hand on his chest and bringing her mouth to his ear. "Don't. Talk." She commanded, her voice raspy and her breath hot on his ear. She pulled her head back, so that she could look at him again, a wry smile forming on her lips.
Her hand was hot on his chest, and she pulled him closer to her by his belt loop. His hands immediately found her hips and before they knew it they were kissing.
Lucas held Brooke against him tightly as she ran her hands all over his chest. She kissed him long, hard and fast. She started to push him back towards the couch and that's when he came up for air.
"Brooke" he said, breathing heavily and trying to catch his breath. She smiled up at him, her chest rising and falling quickly with her shallowed breathing. "What…are we doing?" he asked, his breathing still not even.
"Kissing" she responded with a smile and a wink before bringing her mouth back up to his.
Lucas' hands became tangled in her hair as they kissed. Brooke's fingers made their way under his shirt, feeling his hot skin before they found their way to the button on his pants. She worked her fingers on the button and the zipper, trying to undo them while not losing contact with Lucas' lips.
"Wait" Lucas said into her lips. She pulled back, her face flushed and hair messy. She looked up at him. "I don't think we should do this" he told her, breathing heavily, one of his hands still stroking the back of her neck.
"And why is that?" She asked, raising her eyebrows.
"This is wrong" he said looking around, "We're in his apartment…"
"It feels right" Brooke told him. He thought about this for half a second before his lips were on hers once more, making her giggle against his lips.
"I don't love him" Brooke said, her back leaning against Lucas' chest. He had arms wrapped around her his fingers resting against hers. She played with his fingers as she rested her head back underneath his chin. "I don't want you to think I do." She explained, "I've never done this before…" her voice becoming quiet.
"Me either" He told her, rubbing her thumbs with his fingers. "I know its wrong, it should be wrong…but it doesn't feel wrong."
Brooke nodded her head and closed her eyes. "What do we do?"
"I don't know" he told her, as she turned around so that she could look at him. "I'm not going to lie, I wanna be with you Brooke." She nodded. "But I'm married, and you're with Kade. Maybe this shouldn't have happened."
Brooke sighed, chewing on her lip. She brought one of her hands up, twirling her hair around a finger. "We could've went farther…" She said, shrugging her shoulders. "At least we didn't go farther…" She brought her hand back down to her side. "Maybe you should just go." She told him, looking away.
Lucas stared at her as she looked over to the wall. "I guess your right" he said, as he stood up, holding out a hand to her. She grabbed his hand and he pulled her into a standing position as well.
She walked with him to the front door, checking the clock on her way. It was almost six, Kade should be home soon.
"I'll talk to you soon?" She asked.
He opened his arms, pulling her into a hug. "Yeah." He opened the door, stepping out of it. "I'm sorry about this Brooke…"
"Don't be sorry," She said, holding the door open with one hand. "We just got caught up in the moment" she said, sending a smile his way. "Bye Luke." He smiled at her once more, shoving his hands into his pockets. He lifted a hand out and gave her a wave before she closed the door and leaning against it.
Brooke woke up the next morning on the couch. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and looked down to see the she was still wearing her clothes from yesterday. She shook her head and stood up.
"Kade?" She called into the empty, quiet apartment. No answer. She walked around checking each room only to find them empty. She couldn't remember falling asleep, she was up waiting for Kade and was exhausted. She figured she would've woken up when he got home but he never did.
She walked towards the phone and called the lobby. The receptionist at the front desk answered.
"Do you know if Kade Roberts came in last night?"
The lady checked with the doorman to find out that no, Kade Roberts did not come home last night. Brooke told the lady thank you and hung up the phone, immediately calling Kade's cell phone.
No answer.
Brooke had no idea what was going on. Where was he? He didn't even call. It was so unlike Kade to just not come home and not call. She didn't know what to think.
Brooke decided that she should probably go take a shower and then try to call Kade again. She was standing in the bathroom, wearing her plaid pajama pants and blow drying her hair when she heard the front door open and close. She switched off the blow dryer and grabbed her brush, combing it through her hair as she walked out of the bathroom and into the kitchen where she found Kade.
"Where were you?" she asked, running the brush through her hair as she leaned against the wall.
"It was a long night" he said, opening the fridge and moving things around in it.
"So you can't call?" Brooke said, raising an eyebrow at him. She wasn't too happy. But then Lucas flashed in her mind and she realized she couldn't really be mad at him after what she did. Even if it didn't go past ultimate making out, it was still cheating.
"I said it was a long night" Kade said raising his voice as he looked over at her for the first time.
"Whatever" she said, turning around and walking back towards the bedroom, slamming the door behind her.
She went into the bathroom and finished blow drying and straightening her hair. She walked into the closet, pulling out one of her favorite pairs of dark wash jeans and slipping them on. She pulled a tight fitting t-shirt off of a hanger and pulled it over her head, pulling at the bottom of the shirt but once she let go it was still showing a small sliver of her toned stomach.
She walked into the living room where Kade was sitting on the couch, his feet up, and watching TV.
"This is what I mean Kade" Brooke said, shaking her head and placing her hands on her hips. "You are so hot and cold. You can be the totally loving and doting boyfriend and then the next thing I know your are distant, not talking, and staying out all night. You wonder why I drift away from you…" She walked away, grabbing her black and tan Coach purse and slinging it over her shoulder.
"Are you leaving?" he asked, not bothering to respond to what she had said to him.
"Do you care?" She asked. She watched him and when he didn't answer her back she responded, "Didn't think so."
She walked out onto the streets, not knowing where to go. She couldn't believe him, but really she shouldn't be surprised. Everyone always thinks that Kade is so perfect, but they would be surprised. Even Haley, her very best friend in the whole world, didn't know the real side of Kade. He had been like this ever since Brooke was dating him, all through High School. Its like he had a switch that turned him on and off. When it was turned on he was the perfect boyfriend and always wanting to be around Brooke. But when it was turned off he stopped caring all together. He would make himself unavailable to Brooke in every way and just do his own thing as if she wasn't a part of his life at all.
Eventually Brooke started making herself unavailable to him too. At first it broke her heart, the way he acted. But now, it was like there was nothing left there for him at all. She just couldn't handle it anymore.
She pulled her cell phone out of her bag and dialed the number that had been permanently placed in her head. She just hoped he answered the phone.
"Hey it's me" she said, once she heard him answer the phone. "Can you meet me somewhere?" She walked toward the curb, raising her arm to hail a cab. "See you there in ten." She smiled, closing her phone and placing it back in her purse.
Brooke stepped into the small yet crowded coffee shop and searched the faces for Lucas. She spotted him against the wall towards the back of the shop, his arm waving above his head to catch her attention. She smiled and made her way towards him, moving in between people before she finally made it to the small table. She pulled out the chair across from him and sat down, placing her bag on the table.
"I got you a hot chocolate" he said, sliding a paper cup towards her, "Extra whipped cream" he said, smiling.
"Thanks" she told him, lifting the warm cup up to her lips and taking a small sip. "How did you know I like extra whipped cream in my hot chocolate?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Lucky guess." He said, taking a drink from his own cup before smiling back at her. "What's going on Brooke, you seem upset."
"I just…" she said, fidgeting with the bracelet that hung from her wrist, "I just need someone to talk to, and I don't wanna make my best friend worry so I just thought-"
"You can talk to me Brooke" Lucas smiled softly, brushing her knee with his hand under the table so that no one would notice. Being a somewhat famous basketball star he was used to being noticed in public and he wanted to stay away from the tabloids. He did pretty good at making himself look like just the average guy, wearing a jeans and a baseball hat, but every once in a while his disguise didn't work and pictures were taken. Being careful was big. He looked around, no one had seemed to notice him, he looked back to Brooke. "Do you want to go somewhere and talk?"
Brooke nodded and they stood up. Brooke followed Lucas out of the small shop and onto the streets. She followed him around the corner to a small parking lot where a few cars were parked. He pulled keys out of his pocket and pushed a button, unlocking the doors to a black sports utility vehicle. "Over here" he told Brooke, mentioning to the car that was now lit up. She nodded and walked towards the car, they both climbed in once they got there.
"I thought New Yorkers just took cabs?" Brooke asked as he pulled out of the parking lot.
"Most do," he said, keeping his hands on the steering wheel and his eyes on the road, sneaking looks at Brooke every once in a while. "They drive me crazy though, I try to drive myself when I can."
"I hate not having my car here" Brooke said, looking down at her hands where she ran her fingers across the silver charmed bracelet. "Where are we going?" She asked, looking up at him.
"My own secret hide-a-way" Lucas said, turning to her and giving her a sneaky smile.
"Ohh" she grinned, "I get it…secret hide-a-way. Does Peyton know about this little secret?"
Lucas was surprised to hear Brooke bring up his wife so suddenly. "No" he said, changing the channels on the radio. "She doesn't. Only I do…well and now you of course" he smiled. He looked over at her and saw her running her fingers across a charm on her bracelet. He had seen her doing this earlier as well. He reached over and grabbed the hand that was touching the charms on the bracelet. He held her hand for the rest of the drive, squeezing it every once in a while.
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