Just like every weekday morning, Haley James was waiting for her best friend, otherwise known as Brooke Davis, to pick her up to go to Tree Hill High.

She groaned to herself thinking about what today would bring. "Maybe I could just not go to school.", Haley kept thinking.

Normally, Haley didn't mind going to school. Her friends actually made fun of her for liking it. How could she not though? She had two great best friends and plenty of other friends, got great grades in her classes, tutored some of her classmates, and more recently Brooke had convinced, okay maybe it was more like forced, her to join the Ravens' cheerleading squad. Except this morning wasn't like and ordinary Monday morning. No. This Monday morning was the first day of the next two months that Haley would be stuck being Nathan Scott's girlfriend.

"Stupid, stupid bet!", Haley cursed in her head. She kept thinking how this was all Brooke's fault. Even if it wasn't really she could at least blame her since she had been the one to drag Haley to that party last week even though Haley didn't really want to go. But no, she had to go to that stupid party and because of it she had to put up with Nathan for two whole months. And to make things worse she had to pretend to like him. This was going to be just great. She didn't even know whose stupid idea it was. Why did Nathan even agree to it? She had no idea. It was probably some idea some drunken idiot came up with and Nathan figured he could use it as another way to annoy her as much as possible, considering he seemed to be doing that every time they were near each other. It was usually a lot too because he just so happened to be the brother of her other best friend, Lucas Scott.

The sound of a car's horn snapped Haley out of her thoughts and she grabbed her bag and started making her way towards Brooke's light blue beetle.

"Brooke, this is all your fault! These next two months are going to be torture, thanks to you." Haley exclaimed while getting into the car.

Brooke playfully rolled her eyes, "Well, good morning to you too, Tutor-girl. And by the way, you were the one who agreed to the bet. Not me." as she sing-songed her last few words.

"Yeah, yeah, but you got me drunk. I told you I didn't want to drink. Actually I didn't even want to go to the party at all!" Haley defended.

"Tutor-girl, stop complaining because there's nothing you can do about it now. Everything will be fine. Besides, everyone knows that the Scott brothers are the hottest in this town so consider yourself lucky." answered Brooke as she got out of the car and eyed her boyfriend coming her way. "Speaking of Scotts, hi boyfriend!" she said happily greeting Lucas with a kiss.

After breaking apart from a reluctant Brooke, Lucas acknowledged his best friend since child-hood.

"Hey Hales, ready to get today over with?" he asked knowing that Haley really didn't want to pretend to be his brother's girlfriend. It's not like Nathan needed a pretend one anyway. He could have any girl he wants and he knows it to. That was just one more thing that pumped his cocky ego. Why Nathan wanted to do this was something no one knew and Lucas was determined to figure it out. His brother was a playboy, he always had a different girl, so why did he agree to Haley James pretending to be his girlfriend? All Nathan would say is that he doesn't back down from a bet. The one thing no one knows is what the bet was.

Haley groaned, "Ugh, yes, yes, yes! Today and the next two months please. Can we like fast forward or something?"

Haley then felt an arm sling around her shoulders. She turned her head to see Nathan coming up from behind her and let out a frustrated sigh.

"Now come on Hales," specifically using the name that Lucas was accustomed to calling Haley since childhood, "why would you possibly want to skip spending time with me?" he asked with that smirk she found so annoying playing at his lips.

She had no clue how she was going to survive this.

Haley stared the clock closely. She couldn't concentrate on whatever it was that her teacher was trying to explain to the class due to the fact she had so many thoughts on her mind. The day was almost halfway done and as soon as the bell rang it would officially be lunch time. Fortunately for Haley she doesn't have any morning classes with Nathan, but unfortunately for her she had lunch and two of her four afternoon classes with him. "I probably won't even see him at lunch anyway, it's not like we sit together or anything. Well, except that one time he sat with us because he needed to talk to Lucas about some basketball thing and apparently he had to sit with us and eat while he talked to him." she kept thinking as she prayed that in the next couple minutes of her teacher wouldn't call on her the one time she actually wasn't paying attention in class.

Finally, the bell rang as Haley slowly gathered all of her things into her bag and headed out of her classroom. What happened next was something Haley was definitely not expecting at all. Nathan was leaning against the wall next to the door. She didn't really think anything of it except that it was kind of odd for him to be there and kept walking. Nathan began walking next to her but, he didn't say anything and it was starting to get on Haley's nerves.

"Do you need something?" she asked him.

"No."

She was becoming frustrated and she was going to find out why he was there. "Okay, so if you don't need anything then why are you following me to my locker and walking next to me?"

Nathan smirked. "Just thought I'd walk my girlfriend to her locker before we go to lunch. No need to thank me Haley, I'm just being the nice guy I am."

When hearing the last part of his sentence Haley let out a laugh. "You have got to be kidding me! One, you are not a nice guy. Two, we are not going to lunch together. We don't even sit together." she explained to him while shutting her locker and heading towards the quad.

"Haley, how could you say such horrible things to your boyfriend? That is so unlike you. And I know you don't think I'm not a nice guy that you wouldn't want to have lunch with."

He really did know how to get on her nerves when he wanted to, which was basically all the time. She decided the best way to put up with him was to ignore him the most she possibly could and that was exactly what she was going to try to do. Therefore, she bit her tongue to refrain from saying anything to him and settled on rolling her eyes.

They finally reached the quad and Haley spotted Brooke and Lucas sitting together at their regular table. Except today there was an extra person sitting there; Peyton Sawyer. Sure, Peyton was also on the cheerleading squad and Brooke and Haley were friendly towards Peyton she didn't normally sit with them during lunch, not that Haley minded. It was one more person she could talk to instead of having to talk to Nathan since he just had to sit with them today. Hopefully, it would only be today.

As they sat down at the table, unfortunately next to each other, Brooke, Lucas, and even Peyton gave them a weird look.

"What are you guys doing? Sitting here, together?" Brooke asked. She was so confused. She didn't think Haley would let Nathan sit with them even if she had to be his girlfriend. What was going on?

Haley decided to respond before Nathan could make anything up as to why he was sitting here. "Oh, Nathan thought, and I quote, he would be the nice guy he supposedly is and walk me to lunch and it doesn't end there because he has to sit with me too. Isn't that just great guys? Yeah, I thought so too." she explained with sarcasm dripping off her words.

"Hales, you know that you love me sitting here with you." Nathan answered while casually slinging his arm over her shoulders. She glared at him and shrugged him off.

"Anyway, Hey Peyton, what's going on?" Haley asked her.

"Nothing really. I hope it's okay that I'm sitting here. I know we haven't really hung out much outside of cheerleading practice and basketball games."

"No, it's definitely fine. We should hang out more outside of school anyway. Better you than him, right?" Haley responded referring to Nathan by pointing at him.

The rest of the lunch period went surprisingly well. Haley avoided talking to Nathan as much as she could except for the occasional jabs at each other. Nathan and Lucas talked about the upcoming basketball game. Haley, Brooke, and Peyton talked about all kinds of things and Brooke had decided all three of them were going shopping this weekend. The bell rang signaling the end of the period and they all went off to their separate classes. Even in the two classes that Haley had with Nathan he actually didn't bother her and she was able to focus on her schoolwork.

It was now the end of the day and Haley was at her locker getting together her books for tutoring this afternoon when Nathan came up to her.

"Haley, just the person I was looking for."

"And why might that be?" she asked in a completely bored tone.

"Just wanted to tell you I'm going to pick you up tomorrow at seven for our first official date." he smirked.

Haley stared at him completely speechless. He was joking right? Of course he was. He had to be. "You're kidding. We're not going on a date Nathan."

"No, I'm not joking. Why wouldn't I take my girlfriend on a date. It's kind of the rules we go on a date, don't you think? So like I said, seven. Be ready." he told her and walked away before she had the chance to respond.


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