Becoming Brooke

32.

"Brooke?"

"Lauren..." Ally tries to get Lauren to listen but she is already heading to her car. "Let me explain please!" Ally yells.

Lauren stops and turns around, she looks pissed as hell. "Explain what Brooke! I catch you and my friend sucking each other's faces off while I'm not around? How the hell do you kiss somebody you don't know."

"Actually we do know one another." Ruby says calmly, walking towards the couple.

"Ruby please." Ally begs.

Ruby just winks at her, "Lauren, Brooke here is that girl I told you about," Ally deflates as she knows where this is gonna go, "She's the one that cheated on me and made my little heart go away to LA."

Lauren looks at Ally in disgust, as if she's a terrible person who just kicked a puppy. "Seriously? I get why you moved I can't believe I was with such a slut..." Lauren spits out, and walks to her car. 

Ally gets mad being called a slut, "A slut? You know what you're such a jerk!"

Lauren gets mad and turns around, shoving Ally roughly to the ground. Ally's books fly out her bag, and she's getting flashbacks.

Lauren realizes what she's done and feels guilt and tries to her her up, "Brooke I didn't mean to-"

"Go away!" Ally sobs out, and gathers the rest of her stuff. Lauren decides to just walk away. The sky is getting dark.

Ruby picks up the last book for Ally and hands it to her while smiling.

Ally looks at Ruby, "What the hell was that?!"

"You asked me to call you Brooke, you didn't tell me what else I could lie about." Ruby places her hand on Ally's shoulder, "Want a ride home? It's going to rain." Ruby tries to touch Ally again, but Ally shoves her hand out of her face and runs off.

"Touché."

-

When Ally arrives home, Tori is in the living room watching a movie.

"Oh my God, what happened?" Tori jumps off the living room and hugs Ally. She was soaked, her make up was ruined, and her eyes were red from crying. "We broke up.." Ally sobs out.

"Oh my gosh, what happened?"

After getting Ally into the shower, then into dry clothes, Ally explained the story to Tori.

"That stupid bitch did not call you a slut, and she put her hands on you? oh hell no where are my sneakers!" Tori gets up from the bed, and goes to look for her shoes.

"Tori please...it's my fault I shouldn't have let it go this far." Ally silently cries.

"No Ally, you had every right to protect yourself." Tori says, and wipes her best friends eyes. "Sleep with me?" Ally asks in a quiet voice. "Of course." Tori gets into bed and wraps her arms around Ally, as her bestfriend cries into her chest she eventually falls asleep.

-

Waking up the next morning, Ally felt completely like shit. "Ally I think you should stay home." Tori says when she sees Ally enter the bathroom. "No I'm fine, I think I gotta ACHOO!" Ally sneezes.

"Girl you might've gotten a cold from last night from being in the rain." Tori places a hand on Ally's head, "You're warm, you need to stay home."

"Tori I don't want to miss a day of school, I'll be fine." Ally continues to get dressed and ready for school.

Arriving at school, Ally decides that she should've stayed home. Everyone is looking at her. Tori stays by her side, and puts her hair up incase anything goes down. "I don't want to be here." Ally whispers to Tori.

Ally feels someone shoulder her hard, and she sees it's Normani. "You got a lot of nerve Brooke, I thought you were cool." Normani yells, and gets in Ally's face. Tori bucks up to Normani, "You better back up now." Tori warns.

"Babe stop." Dinah walks up to the commotion and grabs Normani's hand. "Nah this little hoe right here broke Lauren's heart." Normani points at Ally who was on the verge of tears.

Tori is about to say something, but then something catches her eye, "She don't seem too heartbroken." and Tori takes off, sneaking past Normani.

"Tori!" Ally tries to get her friend but she's too fast.

Tori catches up to Lauren, "Hey Jauregui!"

Lauren turns around, but is immediately met with Tori's fist. "You like to push people around? Bully them and make them want to leave?" Tori was fed up, and Dinah along with Ally yank her back before she could hit Lauren again.

"Bully? Tf you talking about." Lauren is confused and wipes her mouth since it was bleeding a little, and let's Camila help her up. "Let's go to the nurse." And the two girls leave.

All the girls look and watch as Lauren and Camila walk down the hallway together. Ally's heart practically breaks. "Tori That wasn't cool." Normani says.

"Normani I'm warning you, you better lay off." Dinah says and Normani is shocked, "Really babe? Lauren is our friend."

"Brooke is our friend too, did you forget she helped us get back together?" Dinah throws that in Normani's face, and Normani sulks. "I know...I'm sorry Brooke I shouldn't have attacked you like that." Normani apologizes but Ally is in her own little world.

She feels like she's gonna pass out. "Tori I think I'm gonna go back home."

"I'll go with you." Tori offers.

"No it's okay, I will just take some meds and watch TV." Ally says, and goes back to the parking lot to drive home.

When Ally is gone, Dinah looks to Tori, "You gonna tell us what happened?"

"Um...Normani too?" Tori says, since Normani still doesn't know the entire truth. Dinah sighs and looks at her confused girlfriend, "She can keep a secret for a week tops, so I guess that's gonna have to due."