Chapter 1: Because you're Brooke Davis

'She is so beautiful' Brooke thought. She sat there in Karen's café, surrounded by her friends all having their usual lunch. Everyone was eating and having a good time, but Brooke was too busy staring at her. The one girl she could never have. For two reasons, one being she was a girl, the other being she was married.

"Brooke?... Brooooke?" Haley called out, she started waving her hands in the air and snapping in front of Brooke's face until she finally came out of her trance.

"what?" Brooke said quickly sitting up straight.

"Brooke are you okay? You've been staring into mid air for like 10 minutes now…" Haley said.

The truth was Brooke wasn't staring into mid air for 10 minutes, she was staring at Haley… Haley James… Haley James-Scott, she corrected herself mentally.

"yeah sorry, I was thinking about something" Brooke said.

"Brooke Davis… thinking?! Well I'll be damned" Peyton said making everyone laugh. Brooke just threw a French fry at her curly, blonde friend.

"shut up P. Sawyer, you do it too, but you always think about your broody boyfriend" Brooke said referring to Lucas, who had his arm around Peyton's shoulder. Yeah, sure Brooke and Lucas used to date, and yeah, he cheated on her with her best friend, but she was over all that drama. Only because she was in love with someone else.

"yeah, I guess that's true B. Davis" Peyton said as she looked up at her boyfriend

"we better get back to school, guys" Lucas said looking down at his watch. They all nodded and took off out side. They hopped in Peyton's car and drove off.

Back at school the 5 friends made it back just in time for class, but just as Brooke was about to walk into her class room she was pulled aside by a stranger.

"Hi Brooke!" the girl said eagerly. She seemed short and geeky with some heavy glasses, but she was kind of pretty, not as ugly as most geeks usually are.

"hi… person I don't know" Brooke said awkwardly.

"sorry, I'm Sarah Shindleberg" she said sticking out her hand. Brooke looked down at the hand, but didn't shake it.

"look, I really have to get to class" she said as she started to turn around, but was stopped by the meek girl.

"wait, I need your help" Sarah said, Brooke turned around quickly. "how would you like to be on the school paper?"

Brooke laughed out loud "you're kidding right? You want me on the school paper?" Sarah nodded furiously. "why?"

"look we're having this new article come out, it's an advice column, it's totally anonymous and I, being the editor of the paper, are asking if you want to be the person who gives advice. It's this thing we're calling Miss. Mysterious, people can email you and then we'll print it out in the paper the next day"

"why me?"

"well you're Brooke Davis…" She started, causing Brooke to smile and roll her eyes. "… you're pretty, popular, date the hottest guys, and I figured you've been through it all, so who else better than you?"

"yeah, I guess that's true…" Brooke said bragging. "… but I don't know… I've got cheerleading after school every day"

"that's the beauty of being anonymous, we'll set up an email and you can answer it from home or from where ever, when ever" Brooke started contemplating it in her hand, it could be fun…

"well…?" Sarah asked eagerly.

"alright okay, but I can't guarantee my advice is going to be any use"

"well, we'll just have to trust you. Okay look, email me here, and I'll send the email address and password back to you. Tomorrow there's going to be an article announcing you column and then you can get started."

"is that it? Cause I'm like 10 minutes later for class"

"um yeah, just one more thing… you can't tell anyone, even your friends, it's incredibly important that no one finds out"

"you got it Wonder Woman" Brooke said sarcastically as she saluted Sarah and took off into her class.

Brooke had biology last period, thankfully the class room had two doors to enter through, one in the back and one in the front. Brooke decided to take the back, considering she was 10 minutes late. She silently opened the door and peered in the class to see her teacher writing on the board with his back faced to the class. She caught the attention of Haley who smiled and shook her head as she saw Brooke trying to sneak in.

"help!" Brooke mouthed to Haley, Haley just nodded and looked back at the teacher. She saw that he was in the middle of writing something down, so she waved her hand quickly, motioning for Brooke to come in. But as soon as she did the teacher started turning around so Haley motioned for Brooke to duck with her hand as she pointed to the ground. Brooke quickly dropped the dirty floor barely making a sound. Haley tried to hold her laugh in, but was finding it incredibly difficult.

"Mrs. Scott is there a problem?" the teacher asked.

"um, yeah… isn't the test supposed to be Wednesday not Tuesday?" Haley asked referring to what the teacher wrote down on the board. He turned back around and Brooke quickly shuffled over to her seat and sat up as if nothing had happened. The teacher turned back around slowly.

"ah, Miss. Davis, so kind of you to join us. Perhaps you and your partner in crime would care to spend a detention with me after school" he said eyeing Haley. Both girls let out a groan and teacher continued with his lesson.

Since this was the last period of the day the girls didn't move from their seats after class. "alright ladies, sit tight, I'll be back in a few minutes" the teacher said as he walked out the door.

"sorry Hales" Brooke said.

"it's alright, but I thought Brooke Davis was all sneaky"

"I am, but Mr. Blake has eyes in the back of his head or something" Brooke said as she put her feet up on the desk. Haley just laughed at her comment.

"it was a good try though…" Brooke added. After a few moments of silence Brooke decided to start talking. "so how's tutor girl and hot shot doing?"

"we're doing good…" Haley said with a little hesitation. Brooke pretended not to notice the hesitation, but couldn't help dwell on it inside of her head. Were Haley and Nathan having problems? Maybe that meant Brooke actually had a chance with Haley, it's a one in a million chance, but still, it's a chance.

"so what do we do in detention?" Haley asked looking around the room.

"you've never had detention before?"

"no…"

"oh Haley, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get you your first detention"

"it's alright Brooke… it was worth it" Haley said smiling at Brooke. If Brooke didn't know any better, she would say Haley was flirting with her… but it was just probably Brooke's hopeful thinking. "so… if you're here, who's doing cheerleading practice?"

"Peyton. She always takes over if I don't show up. But Rachel's probably yelling at her and took over by now. You know… we could always use another friend on the squad if you're ever interested…" Brooke said getting out of her chair.

"me?" Haley laughed. "no way, I'm a tutor, not a cheerleader." Haley raised an eyebrow at Brooke, who was walking over to the door with a chair in hand.

"who says you can't be both?" Brooke asked as she put the chair down and stood up on it.

"Brooke… what are you doing?"

"just watch…" Brooke said as she turned some knobs at the side of the clock that was above the door. The minute hand started moving, and Brooke changed the time so that they only had 10 minutes left of detention. Brooke stepped down off the chair and took her seat at the back of the classroom, as soon as she sat down the teacher came back into the room. After waiting a few minutes Brooke nodded to Haley, who caught the hint.

"um sir?" Haley began. "isn't it time to go?" Haley asked. The teacher looked up at the clock.

"uh, I guess so…" he said, it didn't feel like an hour had already gone by. Before he could notice the two girls got up and walked out of the class room, giggling.