Room 221, Wednesday all day

[gobrookeyourself]

If she'd stayed in Tree Hill, Brooke would have ended up doing a hell of a lot more moving than she ever did in Fandom. Maybe that was why it was so weird to see everything taken down and packed away and sent off now. Everything was down from the walls, the mannequin and all her supplies gone. It was just Brooke and her suitcase, which she kept going back into to make sure she had this or that before calming down again and sitting on her bed and looking around, at least till the next time she had to get up and check that she didn't forget something. The calls she made to tell people she was going today were less about telling them than it was to chill her out for the ten seconds she was leaving the message.

This part sucked and she kind of wished she could skip it. Though there were people she'd hit if she didn't say goodbye to them, so forget skipping anything.


[Brooke's goodbye post! SP while I am at work but around later like woah, and yes I have a goodbye post and radio on the same day. And yes I am planning to be up till 3 am.]

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[gobrookeyourself]

Brooke paused. "You don't have a new radio yet, do you?"

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

"Ah, that's better then," Griff said, getting a much better mental picture. "You sticking around for a final Brooke newscast?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"Oh, I have to. Can't let Fandom go without a proper goodbye," she smiled. "I'm hopping a portal right after, but I have to get the broadcast in."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Of course," he said, nodding. "You got things planned out for when you leave?"

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton shook her head. "Much less stressful that way. I'm having a hard enough time dealing as it is."

[gobrookeyourself]

"I'm headed back to Tree Hill for now. I'm renting an apartment, and we'll see where I am at the end of the summer. I wan to do stuff with Clothes Over Bro's, but it all depends on how far I get," she shrugged. "After that... no idea."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"At least you have a plan," Hannibal said, nodding. "I would have been a little frightened if you were just going to go home and sit on your couch and eat Fruit Loops."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Not the thing someone wants to hear right before they leave town," Brooke said. "This is the time for 'everything is good, Brooke!' and 'We'll miss you but that's okay because everything is happy and don't feel bad for leaving, Brooke!'"

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Should I go out and come in again with the right script?" Peyton suggested drily.

[gobrookeyourself]

"Too sugary. I only do that when I'm mopey," she assured him.

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

"Your fans will miss you," he included himself among that list. "But your non-farming North Carolina town is lucky to have you."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Aww, thanks," Brooke said. She knew she liked him. "And I'll be back at homecoming, probably with tons of stories to tell and hear."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"You gonna keep in touch?" he asked.

[noboynextdoor.livejournal.com]

"I guess you could," Jess said solemnly, before smirking and coming in. "You need any help?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"No. Just be okay," she said seriously. She had to leave now, but she didn't want to leave anyone sad or in a bad place.

[gobrookeyourself]

"I'm pretty much packed up," she said. "It's mostly biding my time until I'm ready to leave. I don't know if the 'ready' part actually happens, or if that's some kind of myth, like unicorns, or Bigfoot."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Of course. If I get bored, everyone can expect daily E-mail blasts, probably. Are you going to remember the people who left first?" she asked.

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine, Brooke," Peyton said firmly. And she was, mostly, but she would have lied to make Brooke happy even if she was falling apart. "You know that. I'm fine and I'll be fine and you'll be home with your real Peyton soon."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I don't forget the good people," he promised. "So, you know, you got about a fifty-fifty shot of being remembered."

[gobrookeyourself]

"If I had anything left worth throwing at you, I so would," Brooke laughed. "Do I get a hug? Or do I have a fifty-fifty shot of that too?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"You're a real Peyton," Brooke told her, frowning. "How much longer are you here?"

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Of course, but I'm not your real Peyton - not that it's seemed to make any difference here, for which I am grateful," Peyton pointed out. "And I'm staying as long as I can. Larry's gone for another three months and Ellie's pretty close here and... I guess I'm just not quite ready to leave yet."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Of course you get a hug," he said, coming closer and reaching for her. "I promise, I'll remember you."

[gobrookeyourself]

"I can get that," she said. "I'd be staying, too, but I kind of want to see everyone back home before they all do their own thing. I'm kind of trying to split time."

[gobrookeyourself]

She hugged him back, saying, "I'll remember this if you're all 'Who?' at homecoming."