Disclaimer: I don't own one tree hill, or Chad. (Rather depressing isn't it!!)

Parings: Brucas

Rating: PG

Summary: Brooke is sick, and no one knows.

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She heard the shrill ring of the alarm go off, and groaning with sleep, she hoisted her self up to a sitting position, and she stood up quickly.

And fell promptly to the floor onto her ass.

These bouts of chronic dizziness had been occurring for about three days. Whenever Brooke stood up too fast, she came tumbling right back down.

She had told herself that it was nothing but an odd case of the flu. But this was getting harder to ignore.

Sighing heavily, she managed to stand up slowly and then when she was sure she was steady, she walked into her closet to get changed for school.

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In her Silver Mercedes convertible, she speed along the roads on her way towards school.

On her radio station all she heard was the faint smash of the drums pounding. She took her eyes off the road for a few seconds and changed the station. She heard a song come on, and couldn't help but think that perhaps Sting had wrote it about someone he knew. Someone he had loved.

Brooke was no stranger to love. She had been in love, and still was. The only problem was that heart had been broken.

She was never very open with her feelings. No one who grew up with parents like James and Meredith Davis was.

So instead of letting her soul pour out to the one she loved, she built a fortress up around herself, and would hope that someone would save her.

But no one could.

Under the ruins of a walled city

Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light

No flags of truce, no cries of pity

The siege guns had been pounding through the night

It took a day to build the city

We walked through its streets in the afternoon

As I returned across the fields I'd known

I recognized the walls that I once made

Had to stop in my tracks for fear

Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart

Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire

Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm

And let me set the battlements on fire

Then I went off to fight some battle

That I'd invented inside my head

Away so long for years and years

You probably thought or even wished that I was dead

While the armies are all sleeping

Beneath that tattered flag we'd made

I had to stop in my tracks for fear

Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart

Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire

Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm

And let me set the battlements on fire

The prison has now become your home

A sentence you seem prepared to pay

It took a day to build the city

We walked through its streets in the afternoon

As I returned across the lands I'd known

I recognized the fields where I once played

I had to stop in my tracks for fear

Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart

Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire

Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm

And let me set the battlements on fire

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When the song was over she realised that she had tears in her eyes. After being strong for so long, she suddenly felt so weak.

As the first tear flowed down her cheek, she saw the world go into a blur. A blur that she could not escape.

The last thing she saw before all vision clouded completly, was a school bus. Filled with children who were loved. Children she had nothing in common with.

END OF CHAPTER

Hello. This is my first one tree hill fanfic, so I hope it doesn't suck too much.

Please review, I really appreciate it (constrictive criticism welcome, but no flames please)!!

I really want to know if I should continue this or not, so please tell me if it's even worthwhile

Thanks for reading this!