Times change...people shouldn't, chapter 5
It had been months since the incident at Joey's and Brooke was feeling pretty good. She had mostly gotten over it and had been going out with Joey ever since then. Of course he had found out Ramona's plan and now the 2 no longer talk. Unfortunately that meant rumors began to spread from Ramona. They were basically about how much of a whore Brooke was and how she
cuts class just to fool around with Joey...blah blah blah. Some how Brooke didn't care, she knew they were all lies so it didn't effect her.
Summer had come so quickly and before they knew it they were almost seniors. Joey and Brooke were almost inseparable by this point. She had told Joey about her mom and how home was, so he invited her over almost every night so she wouldn't have to put up with her as much.
"Joey?" Brooke said as she lounged on the living room sofa with her legs across his lap. "Hmm?" he asked with his eyes still locked on the tv. "Wanna order a pizza or something..im starving." "Sure." he said handing her the phone. "Want anything special on it?" she asked as it rang in her ear. He shook his head and looked over to Jakob and his parents who were sitting on the opposite couch watching Bullet in a Bible. Well Jakob was.....Billie and Adi saw it about 50 billion times. "Guys, were ordering pizza...anything special" Joey asked. They all shook their heads as Brooke placed the order and hung up. "They said 10 minutes." "God, why do pizza places always say 10 minutes? And you wait when you get there anyway?" Jakob whined as he fell back into his chair. Brooke laughed "you sound like a pregnant lady dying of hunger." she teased. Jake gave her a blank stare "ha ha ha" she muttered directing his attention back to the DVD. Billie recognized the part coming up and decided he would leave to go get the pizza now, everyone started to laugh but Jakob since he didn't know. Pretty soon they all heard Hitchin' a Ride come on and Billie started walking into the crowd saying things for them to repeat but that eventually lead into the moaning and then the jerking off. "EW Dad what the fuck?" Jakob said both disturbed and laughing. Billie laughed to himself as she put on dark sunglasses and headed out to go pick up the food.
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"So you guys excited for summer?" Adi said to the kids while sitting down with her own slice of pizza. They all nodded their heads in agreement as the dove in. "So guys I just got some information today.." Billie said getting up to get something to drink. "O?..and what would that be?" Adrienne asked with a tone of curiosity in her voice. "They..I mean the record company wants us to go back on tour for a reunion type thing." Billie said sitting back down in his chair, as Adrienne and boys sighed. They knew what this meant. 6 months or more with no dad around.....great. "So just the basic U.S. tour? Or you going overseas again?" Jakob said disappointed. "Both...but I do have good news " Billie said suddenly spring up. "It was only going to be over the course of the summer and I can take you guys with me. Brooke your more then welcome to join us.....if that's ok with our mom or whatever." he said as joy spread around the table. "Really Billie? I mean you guys wouldn't care?" Brooke said with the biggest smile she had shown in along time. Billie shook his head "I already have rooms reserved and everything so just let me know what your mom says." he added. Brooke got up and hugged him.
"Thank you so much Billie. You don't know how happy I am.....I really should be home by now anyway. My mom is probably to drunk to make herself dinner so I'll have to do it again..." she
smiled trying to make it into a joke but only made herself feel bad. "Thanks again guys " she called into the house from the front door and blew Joey a kiss goodbye before shutting it.
"Dad that's awesome " Joey said after a while....Jakob and Adrienne agreed. "It was very sweet of honey." Adi said getting up and giving him a kiss on the cheek as she put the dishes away. "So when do we leave?" Jakob said eagerly. He always was the one that loved being on the
road...he must have taken after Billie. "Week from today." Billie said getting up and walking up the stairs and into his secluded studio "I've got to start working on warming up and stuff and call Mike and Tre. So I'll see you later ok?" "K babe." Adi called up to him as she cleared off the table.
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Brooke got in her car and pulled out her cell immediately calling Lauren. "Hey Brooke." Lauren said as she sifted her text books into the other hand while balancing her phone and coffee. "How are those extra summer corses treating you?" Brooke teased from the other line. "Shut up." Lauren muttered.
Lauren had decided that she wanted to enroll herself in extra courses over the summer so that she wouldn't "fall behind." She always the smarter one of the two. "So you have time to talk to your best friend in the whole wide world?" Brooke said as she pulled off Joey's block and onto the main road. "What's up hun?" Lauren said finally making her way over to small table in the Barnes and Nobels she was planning to study inside of. "What would make me the happiest girl in the world?" Brooke said ready to burst. "Hmm....well you already met Billie Joe.....Brooke Did you sleep with your boyfriend's dad " Lauren said with her jaw dropping. "No You sicko." Brooke said laughing at her friend's expression which she could practically see. "IM GOING ON TOUR WITH GREEN DAY " she shouted into her cell so loud that the whole bookstore heard Lauren's phone and gave her an odd stare. Lauren blushed as she lowered the volume before responding. "Seriously?...Brooke please don't act like you did with all the other Green Day concerts we went to......do you realize that you flashed your boyfriend's dad numerous times before......" Lauren burst out laughing remembering the look on the band and crowd's faces when this happened. "Shut up Lau That was a while ago...sorta." Brooke chuckled. "Anyway, im pulling into my driveway now. Billie wants me to clear with my mom before I can officially go with them. Little does he know it's a rare moment that my mom is actually sober..." Brooke said opening the car door and walking into her home. "Well good luck hun, and have fun on tour with them Don't forget to cal me and tell me all about it ." Brooke nodded. "I won't....just think....for 3 months I'll be on tour surrounded by hot boys playing instruments including my boyfriend.....and you'll be here with those sexy books of yours " "Ok im hanging up now." Lauren said with a smile "Bye hun." Brooke shut her cell and tossed in her bag as she took a deep breath and opened up the front door to face her mother.
"O hey Brooke." Her mother replied from the kitchen. Brooke looked around in disbelief..her house was actually....clean. There were no bottles on the floor, and her mother hadn't knocked over things in her sad attempt to walk in her groggy state. Best of all, her mother was sober and looked dressed up for something. "Hi...." Brooke said still looking around confused. "What's the
matter?" he mother asked walking over to her and taking her coat and hanging it up in the front hall closet. "N..nothing. You look dressed up..... going out?" Brooke said shaking herself out of the daze. "Actually I am. This guy Gary from work asked me out to dinner tonight." Brooke cringed. She didn't like the idea of her mother dating again..she was suppose to be with her dad. Till death do you part right? She sadly nodded her head completely forgetting to ask her mom about the tour. "What's wrong? I can't go out for a night and have fun? You do it all the time..you and that punk boyfriend of yours. I swear Brooke I don't get you. I really don't" Her mom said in a huff. "Your right mom..you really don't get me.....maybe you would though if you remained sober for one fucking minute. This is first time in months I've seen you sober " Brooke shouted with tears starting to well up in her eyes. "Brooke Calliway This situation has been hard on me and you know that And then to top it all off you just couldn't be happy at your other school so I transfer you...God you make everything so difficult. Like when your father and I separated...you couldn't just go with him and your sister. No You come here with me to complicate things..like I wasn't miserable enough already...like I didn't have enough to worry about. No you just couldn't go to Boston. You didn't want to leave your little shit faced friends right? Wanted to finish high school? Just go upstairs or something..I don't want to talk to you..."her mother said viscously to her 17 year old daughter who's eyes looked sad and empty. "Have fun tonight mom" Brooke said in a whisper due to the lump she was holding back tight in her throat.
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Brooke ran up the spiral staircase and into her room, throwing herself face down into her pillow crying hysterically. She heard the front door open and a man's voice ask her mother if she was ready to go, followed by the shutting of the door and tires leaving the driveway. Brooke pulled back and saw her pillowcase was practically black from her makeup. She walked into the bathroom and splashed some cold water onto her face and took a deep breath. She reached into her medicine cabinet for some eye makeup remover to get off any mascara that was still left on her face, when she knocked over a few things into the sink. "Fuck..." she muttered as she picked through them and placed them back. She then noticed a piece of glass....the one she saved from the night before Joey's party.....when her mother was terribly drunk and Brooke knocked over the bottle, leaving her to almost cut herself with this piece.
Brooke carefully pulled it out of the sink and examined it. She then looked up at her reflection.....sad, hurt, and afraid. This year was both good and bad for her...her parents were over, her mom was terrible, she left schools, and was almost raped. Still, she had her friends, met Green Day, and had an awesome boyfriend who she wouldn't trade for the world. But that wasn't enough to stop her. She looked back down at the glass in her hand and extended her arm. She took a deep breath and dug the sharp edge of the glass into her forearm, letting blood run down her arm. She cried from the pain but didn't stop at first. She needed to just let it all out of
her system all the hurt, fear, and pain felt as if it left her once she was cut. "Just once....to let the pain go..just once." Brooke said as she finished and looked at her arm. She sighed as she tossed the glass aside and walk over to bathtub to comfort herself with a bubble bath. She heard her cell
phone go off from the other side of the door in her bedroom but didn't bother to answer it...tonight she wanted to be alone.
***
Brooke batted her eyes as the sun shone in threw her bedroom window. She sighed as she tossed her hot pink comforter and black sheets off her and got up to turn on the morning music videos. As she reached for her remote she saw her deep cut and remembered last night. "Why did you do that you little shit head? " she mentally kicked herself and she got up to clean it again and put a band aid on. Upon remembering why she had even cut herself to begin with.... she remembered her mother's harsh words...the words that hurt her more then the cut itself. 'Did she really mean them?' ..... 'Is she going to say sorry?'..... 'Why doesn't she want me here?' all these thoughts went through her mind as she made her way down into the kitchen for a glass of orange juice.
She poured it and curled up comfortably on the sofa with it...staring out the bay window.
She was josseled out of her peaceful daze by the phone ringing. Brooke sighed as she leaned over and picked it up off the receiver. "Hello?" she said "Brooke.....it's dad." Brooke's face lit up with excitement. She hadn't spoke to her father in a few months and loved to hear from him and her sister. "DAD ....hi How are you?" Brooke said like a little girl.
"Im ok hun..how about you?"
"Im ok." Brooke lied. She couldn't let him know how things really were...he would worry to much. Besides it was her senior year and after that she was out of here.
"Good.....still seeing that boy you told me about?...Joey was his name?...Billie's kid?"
"Yea.....I'm um actually going on tour with Green Day for the summer. I can't wait."
"Really? ...wow and I always thought you were crazy for liking them"
Brooke smiled. She could almost see her dad smiling his little smile that he would show when he was teasing her from the other end
"Yea..." Brooke said playing with the telephone wire.
"Well, your sister tried to call your cell last night, but she said you didn't pick up."
Brooke's face was slowly brought down ans she looked at her band aid. "Yea..I was um out..with Joey. Yea we um went out to dinner." she lied once again.
"O that's nice..well she's not in right now, but you can give her a call later ok?"
"Ok, Dad. Love you bye."
"Bye hun."
Brooke let out a deep sigh as she put the phone back down. She missed her father and sister a lot, she rarely even saw them. She was going to fly out there to see them this summer, but she just found out about the tour so she didn't mention it to her father.
Just then her mom came tumbling down the stairs snapping at her "Who was that one the phone?" Brooke looked away and walked into the kitchen and replied with a monotone voice "Just Lauren." Her mother nodded and said in a rather snippy and demanding tone "Get me some coffee and bring up to me and Gary." "Mom Ew I don't need know about you and whatever his name is." Brooke said grabbing a pop tart and putting it in the toaster. "Brooke just do what you fucking told for once " her mother snapped going back upstairs and shutting her door.
"OMG " Brooke said to her gritted teeth "If she wants fucking coffee then I'll give her fucking coffee." She poured to steaming mugs and went upstairs.....
"Mom?" Brooke said all polite, opening the bedroom with Gary and her mother lieing in bed watching tv. She tried to push that thought out of her mother and him out of her mind as she walked over. "Here's your coffee Mom " Brooke said as she pretended to fall and spilt the steaming hot mugs all over her mother. "BROOKE YOU IDIOT " she screamed jumping out of the bed. A defying little smiling creep across Brooke's face as she looked pleased with herself. "Sorry mom, guess I really can't to any thing right....clumsy little me.." Brooke trailed out slamming the door behind her. She went into her room and packed her things wildly, as she called her friend Ali, knowing Lauren would be at her summer courses. "Ali?....I'm on my way over there now." she said as she shut her phone and packed almost everything she owned.
**At Ali's**
"Brooke!" Ali yelled as she opened her dorm door with open arms. "Ali!!!!" Brooke said with a huge smile back at her.
Ali was the same age as Brooke and Lauren but was extremely smart, so she was entering her freshman year at college instead of senior year high school. (After her sophomore year she had been moved up)
Brooke walked into the decent sized dorm and plopped her things down. "Wow, its really nice in here!...Where's your roommate?" Ali took her bags and walked them over the bed that was there for the roommate "She isn't coming for another few weeks, so not that I'm not happy to see you but what are you doing here?" Ali smiled. Brooke looked down at her shoes and the hard wood floors on the floor. "Um long story short I need to crash here for a week. I'll be gone after that because im going on tour with Joey's dad." Ali's face dropped when she mentioned the tour. "Lucky!!" she said as she nudged her. "But why are you here...with me I mean." she still questioned "fight..with my mom.....again" Brooke sighed as she walked over to the small couch that was set up by a decent sized t.v, Ali nodded. "So your going on tour with Green day huh?" Brooke suddenly lit up as she nodded like a bobble head doll. "Which reminds me.......I should call Joey.......be right back"
cuts class just to fool around with Joey...blah blah blah. Some how Brooke didn't care, she knew they were all lies so it didn't effect her.
Summer had come so quickly and before they knew it they were almost seniors. Joey and Brooke were almost inseparable by this point. She had told Joey about her mom and how home was, so he invited her over almost every night so she wouldn't have to put up with her as much.
"Joey?" Brooke said as she lounged on the living room sofa with her legs across his lap. "Hmm?" he asked with his eyes still locked on the tv. "Wanna order a pizza or something..im starving." "Sure." he said handing her the phone. "Want anything special on it?" she asked as it rang in her ear. He shook his head and looked over to Jakob and his parents who were sitting on the opposite couch watching Bullet in a Bible. Well Jakob was.....Billie and Adi saw it about 50 billion times. "Guys, were ordering pizza...anything special" Joey asked. They all shook their heads as Brooke placed the order and hung up. "They said 10 minutes." "God, why do pizza places always say 10 minutes? And you wait when you get there anyway?" Jakob whined as he fell back into his chair. Brooke laughed "you sound like a pregnant lady dying of hunger." she teased. Jake gave her a blank stare "ha ha ha" she muttered directing his attention back to the DVD. Billie recognized the part coming up and decided he would leave to go get the pizza now, everyone started to laugh but Jakob since he didn't know. Pretty soon they all heard Hitchin' a Ride come on and Billie started walking into the crowd saying things for them to repeat but that eventually lead into the moaning and then the jerking off. "EW Dad what the fuck?" Jakob said both disturbed and laughing. Billie laughed to himself as she put on dark sunglasses and headed out to go pick up the food.
***
"So you guys excited for summer?" Adi said to the kids while sitting down with her own slice of pizza. They all nodded their heads in agreement as the dove in. "So guys I just got some information today.." Billie said getting up to get something to drink. "O?..and what would that be?" Adrienne asked with a tone of curiosity in her voice. "They..I mean the record company wants us to go back on tour for a reunion type thing." Billie said sitting back down in his chair, as Adrienne and boys sighed. They knew what this meant. 6 months or more with no dad around.....great. "So just the basic U.S. tour? Or you going overseas again?" Jakob said disappointed. "Both...but I do have good news " Billie said suddenly spring up. "It was only going to be over the course of the summer and I can take you guys with me. Brooke your more then welcome to join us.....if that's ok with our mom or whatever." he said as joy spread around the table. "Really Billie? I mean you guys wouldn't care?" Brooke said with the biggest smile she had shown in along time. Billie shook his head "I already have rooms reserved and everything so just let me know what your mom says." he added. Brooke got up and hugged him.
"Thank you so much Billie. You don't know how happy I am.....I really should be home by now anyway. My mom is probably to drunk to make herself dinner so I'll have to do it again..." she
smiled trying to make it into a joke but only made herself feel bad. "Thanks again guys " she called into the house from the front door and blew Joey a kiss goodbye before shutting it.
"Dad that's awesome " Joey said after a while....Jakob and Adrienne agreed. "It was very sweet of honey." Adi said getting up and giving him a kiss on the cheek as she put the dishes away. "So when do we leave?" Jakob said eagerly. He always was the one that loved being on the
road...he must have taken after Billie. "Week from today." Billie said getting up and walking up the stairs and into his secluded studio "I've got to start working on warming up and stuff and call Mike and Tre. So I'll see you later ok?" "K babe." Adi called up to him as she cleared off the table.
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Brooke got in her car and pulled out her cell immediately calling Lauren. "Hey Brooke." Lauren said as she sifted her text books into the other hand while balancing her phone and coffee. "How are those extra summer corses treating you?" Brooke teased from the other line. "Shut up." Lauren muttered.
Lauren had decided that she wanted to enroll herself in extra courses over the summer so that she wouldn't "fall behind." She always the smarter one of the two. "So you have time to talk to your best friend in the whole wide world?" Brooke said as she pulled off Joey's block and onto the main road. "What's up hun?" Lauren said finally making her way over to small table in the Barnes and Nobels she was planning to study inside of. "What would make me the happiest girl in the world?" Brooke said ready to burst. "Hmm....well you already met Billie Joe.....Brooke Did you sleep with your boyfriend's dad " Lauren said with her jaw dropping. "No You sicko." Brooke said laughing at her friend's expression which she could practically see. "IM GOING ON TOUR WITH GREEN DAY " she shouted into her cell so loud that the whole bookstore heard Lauren's phone and gave her an odd stare. Lauren blushed as she lowered the volume before responding. "Seriously?...Brooke please don't act like you did with all the other Green Day concerts we went to......do you realize that you flashed your boyfriend's dad numerous times before......" Lauren burst out laughing remembering the look on the band and crowd's faces when this happened. "Shut up Lau That was a while ago...sorta." Brooke chuckled. "Anyway, im pulling into my driveway now. Billie wants me to clear with my mom before I can officially go with them. Little does he know it's a rare moment that my mom is actually sober..." Brooke said opening the car door and walking into her home. "Well good luck hun, and have fun on tour with them Don't forget to cal me and tell me all about it ." Brooke nodded. "I won't....just think....for 3 months I'll be on tour surrounded by hot boys playing instruments including my boyfriend.....and you'll be here with those sexy books of yours " "Ok im hanging up now." Lauren said with a smile "Bye hun." Brooke shut her cell and tossed in her bag as she took a deep breath and opened up the front door to face her mother.
"O hey Brooke." Her mother replied from the kitchen. Brooke looked around in disbelief..her house was actually....clean. There were no bottles on the floor, and her mother hadn't knocked over things in her sad attempt to walk in her groggy state. Best of all, her mother was sober and looked dressed up for something. "Hi...." Brooke said still looking around confused. "What's the
matter?" he mother asked walking over to her and taking her coat and hanging it up in the front hall closet. "N..nothing. You look dressed up..... going out?" Brooke said shaking herself out of the daze. "Actually I am. This guy Gary from work asked me out to dinner tonight." Brooke cringed. She didn't like the idea of her mother dating again..she was suppose to be with her dad. Till death do you part right? She sadly nodded her head completely forgetting to ask her mom about the tour. "What's wrong? I can't go out for a night and have fun? You do it all the time..you and that punk boyfriend of yours. I swear Brooke I don't get you. I really don't" Her mom said in a huff. "Your right mom..you really don't get me.....maybe you would though if you remained sober for one fucking minute. This is first time in months I've seen you sober " Brooke shouted with tears starting to well up in her eyes. "Brooke Calliway This situation has been hard on me and you know that And then to top it all off you just couldn't be happy at your other school so I transfer you...God you make everything so difficult. Like when your father and I separated...you couldn't just go with him and your sister. No You come here with me to complicate things..like I wasn't miserable enough already...like I didn't have enough to worry about. No you just couldn't go to Boston. You didn't want to leave your little shit faced friends right? Wanted to finish high school? Just go upstairs or something..I don't want to talk to you..."her mother said viscously to her 17 year old daughter who's eyes looked sad and empty. "Have fun tonight mom" Brooke said in a whisper due to the lump she was holding back tight in her throat.
***
Brooke ran up the spiral staircase and into her room, throwing herself face down into her pillow crying hysterically. She heard the front door open and a man's voice ask her mother if she was ready to go, followed by the shutting of the door and tires leaving the driveway. Brooke pulled back and saw her pillowcase was practically black from her makeup. She walked into the bathroom and splashed some cold water onto her face and took a deep breath. She reached into her medicine cabinet for some eye makeup remover to get off any mascara that was still left on her face, when she knocked over a few things into the sink. "Fuck..." she muttered as she picked through them and placed them back. She then noticed a piece of glass....the one she saved from the night before Joey's party.....when her mother was terribly drunk and Brooke knocked over the bottle, leaving her to almost cut herself with this piece.
Brooke carefully pulled it out of the sink and examined it. She then looked up at her reflection.....sad, hurt, and afraid. This year was both good and bad for her...her parents were over, her mom was terrible, she left schools, and was almost raped. Still, she had her friends, met Green Day, and had an awesome boyfriend who she wouldn't trade for the world. But that wasn't enough to stop her. She looked back down at the glass in her hand and extended her arm. She took a deep breath and dug the sharp edge of the glass into her forearm, letting blood run down her arm. She cried from the pain but didn't stop at first. She needed to just let it all out of
her system all the hurt, fear, and pain felt as if it left her once she was cut. "Just once....to let the pain go..just once." Brooke said as she finished and looked at her arm. She sighed as she tossed the glass aside and walk over to bathtub to comfort herself with a bubble bath. She heard her cell
phone go off from the other side of the door in her bedroom but didn't bother to answer it...tonight she wanted to be alone.
***
Brooke batted her eyes as the sun shone in threw her bedroom window. She sighed as she tossed her hot pink comforter and black sheets off her and got up to turn on the morning music videos. As she reached for her remote she saw her deep cut and remembered last night. "Why did you do that you little shit head? " she mentally kicked herself and she got up to clean it again and put a band aid on. Upon remembering why she had even cut herself to begin with.... she remembered her mother's harsh words...the words that hurt her more then the cut itself. 'Did she really mean them?' ..... 'Is she going to say sorry?'..... 'Why doesn't she want me here?' all these thoughts went through her mind as she made her way down into the kitchen for a glass of orange juice.
She poured it and curled up comfortably on the sofa with it...staring out the bay window.
She was josseled out of her peaceful daze by the phone ringing. Brooke sighed as she leaned over and picked it up off the receiver. "Hello?" she said "Brooke.....it's dad." Brooke's face lit up with excitement. She hadn't spoke to her father in a few months and loved to hear from him and her sister. "DAD ....hi How are you?" Brooke said like a little girl.
"Im ok hun..how about you?"
"Im ok." Brooke lied. She couldn't let him know how things really were...he would worry to much. Besides it was her senior year and after that she was out of here.
"Good.....still seeing that boy you told me about?...Joey was his name?...Billie's kid?"
"Yea.....I'm um actually going on tour with Green Day for the summer. I can't wait."
"Really? ...wow and I always thought you were crazy for liking them"
Brooke smiled. She could almost see her dad smiling his little smile that he would show when he was teasing her from the other end
"Yea..." Brooke said playing with the telephone wire.
"Well, your sister tried to call your cell last night, but she said you didn't pick up."
Brooke's face was slowly brought down ans she looked at her band aid. "Yea..I was um out..with Joey. Yea we um went out to dinner." she lied once again.
"O that's nice..well she's not in right now, but you can give her a call later ok?"
"Ok, Dad. Love you bye."
"Bye hun."
Brooke let out a deep sigh as she put the phone back down. She missed her father and sister a lot, she rarely even saw them. She was going to fly out there to see them this summer, but she just found out about the tour so she didn't mention it to her father.
Just then her mom came tumbling down the stairs snapping at her "Who was that one the phone?" Brooke looked away and walked into the kitchen and replied with a monotone voice "Just Lauren." Her mother nodded and said in a rather snippy and demanding tone "Get me some coffee and bring up to me and Gary." "Mom Ew I don't need know about you and whatever his name is." Brooke said grabbing a pop tart and putting it in the toaster. "Brooke just do what you fucking told for once " her mother snapped going back upstairs and shutting her door.
"OMG " Brooke said to her gritted teeth "If she wants fucking coffee then I'll give her fucking coffee." She poured to steaming mugs and went upstairs.....
"Mom?" Brooke said all polite, opening the bedroom with Gary and her mother lieing in bed watching tv. She tried to push that thought out of her mother and him out of her mind as she walked over. "Here's your coffee Mom " Brooke said as she pretended to fall and spilt the steaming hot mugs all over her mother. "BROOKE YOU IDIOT " she screamed jumping out of the bed. A defying little smiling creep across Brooke's face as she looked pleased with herself. "Sorry mom, guess I really can't to any thing right....clumsy little me.." Brooke trailed out slamming the door behind her. She went into her room and packed her things wildly, as she called her friend Ali, knowing Lauren would be at her summer courses. "Ali?....I'm on my way over there now." she said as she shut her phone and packed almost everything she owned.
**At Ali's**
"Brooke!" Ali yelled as she opened her dorm door with open arms. "Ali!!!!" Brooke said with a huge smile back at her.
Ali was the same age as Brooke and Lauren but was extremely smart, so she was entering her freshman year at college instead of senior year high school. (After her sophomore year she had been moved up)
Brooke walked into the decent sized dorm and plopped her things down. "Wow, its really nice in here!...Where's your roommate?" Ali took her bags and walked them over the bed that was there for the roommate "She isn't coming for another few weeks, so not that I'm not happy to see you but what are you doing here?" Ali smiled. Brooke looked down at her shoes and the hard wood floors on the floor. "Um long story short I need to crash here for a week. I'll be gone after that because im going on tour with Joey's dad." Ali's face dropped when she mentioned the tour. "Lucky!!" she said as she nudged her. "But why are you here...with me I mean." she still questioned "fight..with my mom.....again" Brooke sighed as she walked over to the small couch that was set up by a decent sized t.v, Ali nodded. "So your going on tour with Green day huh?" Brooke suddenly lit up as she nodded like a bobble head doll. "Which reminds me.......I should call Joey.......be right back"
