Ch5: Brooke Davis

Ryan walked to his history class while thinking of Haley's offer, he didn't mind joining them he just hoped that the awkwardness would be gone by the time that it came around. Walking into his classroom he got the teacher to sign his attendance sheet right at the moment his gran texted him, he replied before finding a seat.

The class started to file in since he was getting his things ready he didn't notice who sat near him, when he looked back up he saw that next to him was a really cute girl. She had dark brown hair that almost looked black, she had green eyes that almost made him get lost in them he was having a hard time looking away from her.

At the same time she was looking at him and smiling seeing the reaction she was getting from him, she let out a giggle which brought him back to himself. Looking away quickly he coughed into his hand and started to pay attention as classed started, while taking notes he saw a piece of paper fly over and land on his notebook.

Looking over from where it came he saw the girl looking at him with a smile while pointing at the note, raising a brow he picked it up reading it.

'Hey handsome, I like the Choker. My name is Brooke Davis, who are you?' It read as he looked at it.

Ryan looked at the note for a moment before taking his pen and replying back to her, he waited until the teacher went to write something before throwing it over to her. She wasn't even paying attention to the lesson as she opened the note and started to read his reply, she took a moment before writing something else down and throwing it back to him.

His eyes twitched but he read it, 'Hot name. Do you have plans for lunch or do you want to sit with me?'

Ryan even from these two notes got a clear picture of what type of girl she was, Brooke Davis was the 'popular' girl that was in the sense of actually being popular and being very friendly. Although he met girls like her before and went for it he wasn't after anything like that, he didn't need someone in his life who only wanted to be friendly.

Taking the note he stuffed it into his bag and went back to paying attention to the lesson, he wasn't shocked when twenty seconds later he got another note. He ignored it though and listened to the teacher as she spoke about WW2, he yawned but still hung in there.

Finally forty minutes later the class ended as he packed up to leave Brooke stood in front of his desk, "Well are you going to answer my note or just ignore me Ryan?" She asked as she stood there with a playful smile on her lips.

"Why do you want to have lunch together? Is it because I am the new kid? Because of my looks? Or are you genuinely interested in being friends with me?" He asked as he slung his backpack over his shoulder.

She paused a moment before the smile grew a little more, she walked over to him as they were leaving the class looping her arm through his, "Well how about us being a little more the friends we can always find a room and have a little fun, what do you say?" she whispered in his ear.

Ryan stopped walking and glanced over at her while removing her arm, "It was nice to meet you Brooke but it appears we won't be getting along. It is my first day here and despite that you are already trying to sleep with my just because of my looks without even getting to know me at all. Sorry but I am not into that."

Brooke stood there stunned, he didn't wait for her to come back to herself either as he walked away to his next class. He wasn't going to lie and say he wasn't tempted her voice was something other worldly seductive, he had to actually hold himself back not to take her up on her offer.

His next class was English and he walked into the room after stopping at his locker to change books, the room was already half full. Taking the first seat in the back he saw open he looked to the guy in front of him who turned around with a wide smile and nodded at him.

"Sup, names Antwon Taylor but I go by Skills. You the new kid I heard some of the people in the hallway talk about, Ryan right?" he said offering a fist bump.

"Yeah nice to meet you Skills." Ryan said giving him a awkward friendly smile back. He wasn't surprised people were talking about him considering his looks it wasn't all that hard to imagine the girl population was talking about him.

"Awesome, so you do anything for fun or have any hobbies. Me and some friends play basketball over at the river court if you have any talent and want to join us." He said while crossing his arms.

Ryan hadn't thought about it other then games he didn't really do anything else, but since he had been gaining skills that was changing for him a lot. "Yeah I work on cars and have some computer skills, it would be fun to play some pickup games too if you guys don't mind." He was actually wanting to see how good his skills were at basketball.

"For sure man, we could always use an extra." Skills nodded while going into how they usually play.

As he was talking he slowly stopped seeing that Brooke was taking the seat right next to them, it was the fact that she was staring at Ryan that he stopped not that he crushed on her or anything. Ryan was just surprised that she was also in this class with him.

"Alright let's be friends. I realized I might have messed up earlier and I want to change that so is it okay if we are friends?" She asked since she saw that Skills stopped talking, he was now looking between the two of them.

Ryan looked over at her and raised a brow before nodding, "I don't see why not. Let's just not have a repeat of what happened earlier happen though."

"Great! There is this party this weekend so why don't we go to it together and hang out, are you free?" She asked with a smile.

He didn't see why not, the parts for the car wouldn't be in until Sunday so he was free until that happened, he also wanted to see what type of parties they had. "Sure why not, what day and time is it happening?" He asked while opening a new notebook for his English notes.

She squealed a little but calmed herself down when she heard the teacher stop talking, instead of answering him she started to write down another note. He rolled his eyes but paid attention to class until she threw it over to him, on it this time was just her phone number which he put into his phone before putting the note in his bag.

He sent her a message so that she had his number and saw that she took out her phone to answer, it wasn't even two seconds later that she replied back. For the rest of class all she did was send him messages which he answered in between writing notes, unlike her who just sat there.

Another forty minutes passed before class was out, Skills offered him a seat at lunch before he left to go to his next class. Ryan already had three lunch offers and didn't know what to do, he was interested in all three since they were all being nice to him.

Brooke at the moment was holding his arm again while looking at his schedule, he didn't pull away from her this time since it was just friendship they were doing. "Oh looks like we have a lot of classes together, other then when you are in Latin we have every other class together. Are you good in Latin?"

Ryan went to answer but of course he was messed with at that moment, everything about the language poured into his head and he was now fluent in it. He was taking it just so that he could have something different to take but it looks like that class was now pointless since she asked that question.

"I'm alright." He said sighing in his head, he wasn't going to change the class since it was his first day. He would just try and take another language next year.

"Cool, I am taking French but I still have no clue how to say anything even after taking the class for two years." She said handing him back his schedule, "But since we have every other class together you don't need to accept my lunch invitation, we will just see each other in class."

He nodded while changing his books again, he was getting out his calculus book and his Latin book just to show he paying attention in class later. The went to calculus where Brooke groaned at the thought, he laughed when she offered to skip class instead even offering to drive him around.

"As tempting as that sounds I promised my grandmother that I would be good in school. If this was a couple of days ago I would have taken you up on that offer without a second thought." He said while walking into the class, she was pulled along by proxy since she didn't let go of his arm.

He didn't choose the seats though this time since Brooke dragged him over to Peyton, she was watching as the two of them walked over to her with a raised brow. "Ryan meet my BFF P. Sawyer, P. Sawyer meet my new friend Ryan." Brooke said with a smile taking a seat and patting the one next to her for him.

He nodded to Peyton before taking the seat that she offered, luckily she didn't bother him this class since he actually wasn't that strong in the subject. She instead messed with Peyton who also ignored the teacher as they were giggling and working on the hand out, but they were mainly drawing on it.

He was actually able to finish but before turning it in Brooke reached over and took it, he looked at her but all she did was stick her tongue out before copying his. Shaking his head he let her do what she wanted while he watched the two of them, he saw Peyton give him a slight glare but he didn't know why.

When class was over Brooke rushed out first telling them they could meet in the hallway, Ryan shook his head and took their papers to the teachers desk. "Don't play with her, she might seem like she is all flirty but Brooke is actually a sweet girl." Peyton said following him.

"Excuse me?" Ryan asked a little stunned.

"The whole friends with benefits thing, don't break her heart. She does this with guys then hides her emotions later when it is called off, I don't want to see you messing with her just because she seemed easy." She explained while glaring at him.

"Well I don't know where you got the idea that we were friends with benefits but we aren't. She tried to off that this morning and I denied her because that isn't something I need in my life at the moment." Ryan said while glaring at her before walking out the room not letting her reply, he missed the shock on her face as he left.

Leaving the classroom he walked passed Brooke ignoring her calls, he knew it wasn't her fault but Peyton pissed him off just assuming that he was a guy who would do that. He walked to his Latin class alone while trying to cool himself down, his short temper had always gotten him in trouble and it might happen again.

Going into the class he took a seat at a desk and got ready, he was thankful that Brooke wasn't in the class so that he could clear his head. He just came to town he wasn't looking for anything other then friendship with anyone, he didn't want to try anything serious at all.

Before class started he got a message from Brooke, 'Peyton told me what she did. I am sorry I should have explained it to her so that she wouldn't just assume something. My reputation this time actually got the best of me, making her think that. Don't worry I have explained it to her.'

Ryan paused a moment before replying, 'Don't worry about it. I am not mad at you, I just have a little bit of an anger problem so I was a little upset. I will see you after class, okay?'

'Of Course! Thank you for not being mad at me, I understand why you would be upset though.' She replied.

Class started but he was distracted from her text that he didn't notice his teacher glaring at him, it wasn't until she called on him before she let him go. She made him read a passage but since he did it fluently with a little accent she decided to let him do what he wanted as long as he didn't distract the class.

Ryan was happy that thanks to Brooke he got that Latin language skill or that would have been embarrassing, he ended up texting her the whole class.

After class he walked into the hallway and saw her standing there waiting for him with a smile, "Well it is lunch time so I will just walk with you long enough to go outside, after that we will meet up afterwards." She said looping his arm again.

He nodded following her while she talked about cheer-leading and asking him about California, he told her all about Chino and some of Orange County. When they made it outside she waved to him before leaving, Ryan decided to find Haley since she was the one who asked him to join her first for lunch.

When he finally spotted her he saw that she was sitting with Skills so he made his way over, "Hey guys, still mind if I join?"