Brook couldn't believe the way her life had changed in the past year, she thought she would spend the rest of her life in Tree Hill. But then Peyton and Lucas decided to leave town with their new baby girl and Sam had gone to live with her birth mother and she felt she had lost her reason for staying. Sure she still had Nathan and Haley and Mouth and Millie but both couples had each other and their lives together. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't forget about Julian, after all he had asked her to go with him back to LA.

Chapter 1: The question that started it all

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Hurry up and wait
So close, but so far away
Everything that you've always dreamed of
Close enough for you to taste
But you just can't touch

“Sam will you please stop skating in my store. I can’t concentrate with you whishing by every second,” Brooke said in frustration is she looked up from the sketch she was trying to finish for the past hour.

It had been 2 weeks since the kidnapping incident, and Brooke and Sam were finally moving on from the nightmarish experience. Currently Brooke and Sam were spending the afternoon at Clothes over Bros. Brooke had been trying to finish one of her sketches and since summer vacation had started, she had dragged Sam along with her to the store. 2 weeks were too soon for Brooke to feel comfortable in leaving Sam alone. But since the minutes ticked on, she started regretting her decision. With Sam skating all around the place, it was becoming incredibly hard for her to concentrate on her work.