Okay! Hello, my name is Kayla... or cld23 lol. This is my first fanfiction! It's not that great, I just wanted to share my Naley stories with you guys haha. So, hope you enjoy! R&R! Wow. She's beautiful.
Disclaimer: I don't own One Tree Hill or Nathan/James/Haley/Bethany..... iIwish.
Nathan Scott sauntered onto Tree Hill High's property, for the first day of his grade 11 year. He had his unreasonably huge pose of friends surrounding him as he high-fived random people in the schoolyard. He ran his hand through his short brown hair, wondering how cool he looked, because he certainly felt it. Nathan Scott was the "it" guy in the school. He was captain of the basketball team, made his rounds with all the cheerleaders, and had a huge group of wanna-be's. But for some reason he couldn't take his eyes of a girl sitting alone at a table, reading. She had medium-length raven hair, and the prettiest brown eyes Nathan had ever seen on a woman. She didn't wear any makeup - which Nathan found a little odd - but she didn't need to. She was perfect the way she was.
I wonder if she's new...
Lucas Scott came up behind his step-brother, slapping him on the back. Nathan turned and gave a huge smile in his direction, pounding their fists together.
"Hmm... faux-hawk. I like it Luke!" Nathan joked, skimming his hand along the top of Lucas blond spiky hair. Lucas and Nathan had the same father, but different mothers. Their father, Dan Scott was the mayor of Tree Hill...but also the biggest jerk they knew. They were never close to him, and had no desire to become closer. If you saw Nathan and Lucas now, you would think that they had been best friends for their whole lives. But the two brothers had despised each other for basically their whole lives. They were both amazing basketball players, so they always seemed to be competing against each other. Lucas had a big heart, and Nathan was just conceited. But once Nathan got off his high horse during the past summer, they became great friends.
"Hey man, be right back" Lucas said as he jogged into the direction of the mystery girl Nathan was eyeing.
Don't tell me he's going over to her...Nathan thought, straining his ears to try to overhear their conversation.
"Hey Hales!" Lucas said, sitting down beside her. Haley looked up and smiled.
"Hey Luke, ooooh, I like your hair!"
"So I've been told" he said, winking. "Figures you'd be reading before school starts Hales. Seriously, give yourself a break!"
"Luke, we've known each other for 13 years now. You know how I love to read" Haley said, her eyes turning back to her page.
13 years?!
"Yeah I know Hales, I just, I don't know, want you to have a little fun for once. This might sound crazy, but being your best friend, I want you to enjoy yourself sometime. How about you come and meet everyone" Lucas suggested, gesturing over to the group that surrounded Nathan.
"And meet the infamous Nathan Scott? I'll pass" Haley said flatly, her eyes never leaving her book.
She's obviously not a fan of me...
"I know I've said a lot of crap about him throughout our entire lives, but when you were away at summer camp, things really turned around for us. He's a great guy Hales. I really want you to meet him" Lucas begged, grabbing Haley's hand, pulling her up with him.
"As long as he doesn't fill my spot as best friend" Haley teased, getting up with him.
"Of course not Hales...
"Never" he added more seriously, looking his best friend deep into her chocolate brown eyes.
"Okay, let's meet the popular bitches..." Haley half joked.
Oh no. She's coming over here. And she's been Lucas's best friend for forever. How have I never known her? Have I really not noticed her all these years? Nathans mind raced as Haley approached him.
"Hey Nate, this is Haley James, my best friend" Lucas said, pushing Haley in front of him, practically forcing her to shake his hand. Nathan held his hand out, but Haley didn't budge. She just stared at him until he dropped his hand.
"Hey, I'm Nathan Scott. Have we met?"
"I was in 3 of your classes last year, and 2 of them freshman year. You never said one word to me though, so technically, no" Haley spat out.
"Oh..." Nathan trailed off. The head cheerleader, and the "it" girl of the school, Brooke Davis came skipping over with her best friend Peyton Sawyer, also part of the squad, hugging Nathan and Lucas.
"I missed you guys!" Brooke exclaimed, her dark brown hair flipping in her face. Peyton smiled awkwardly at everyone.
"Hey Brooke, Peyton" Nathan said, though his eyes never left Haley's. There was something about her...
"Brooke, so good to see you! Peyton, hey. And hello to your scrawny legs" Lucas teased.
"Not funny! It's not my fault I have chicken legs!"
"Yeah, whatever. Okay guys, this is my best friend, Haley James"
"So this is the girl I always saw you with last year!" Brooke exclaimed, eyeing Haley.
Lucas laughed. "Yeah, that's her. And the year before, and the year before. Just go back 13 years"
"13 years? Wow" Brooke said.
"Alright I've got to get to class...see you guys later" Lucas said, leaving Haley with the bunch of strangers.
Brooke and Peyton turned to the big group of everyone, squealing as they reunited with old friends. But Nathan stayed turned to Haley.
"What do you have this semester?" He asked, trying to make small talk. Haley was having trouble maintaining eye contact with the hot shot of the school, but when she finally did, she got lost in the deepness of his dark blue eyes. It took her a minute to bring herself back to reality.
"Math, History, English, Geography. And you?" Haley responded.
"Math, Gym, English, Geo. So we have 3 out of the 4 classes together"
"Yeah. So I'm guessing you want to get back to your friends now" Haley pointed awkwardly at his big group.
But Nathan just shook his head. "Nah, I need to get to class, want to go together?" He asked, praying she'd say yes.
Haley was about to reject him, but couldn't refuse after taking another look into his eyes. "Alright, I can do that" she concluded.
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"So you've been with all these girls, but none of them meant anything to you? What happened to Nathan Scott the jackass?" Haley joked as she walked through the halls with Nathan. They got a lot of weird stares –mostly from past girlfriends of Nathan's- but he didn't seem to care.
"I don't know. I just kind of decided I want to find someone I want to spend a really long time with" Nathan shrugged his shoulders, looking down at Haley. She nodded her head.
"Well I've never had a boyfriend. No one likes a bookworm. That's probably why you've never talked to me once in my life..."
"Well I didn't know you then." Nathan said.
"And you don't really know me now either... we've only talked for about 10 minutes. This is wrong..." Haley retorted. A part of her always shut down when she knew things were wrong. Nathan Scott shouldn't be talking to her. He was popular, she wasn't. He was a jerk, she was kind-hearted. He should be making out with some random slut and ditching class. It was wrong.
"Well I think its right. It's refreshing talking to someone who will actually give you a logical response, not act like you're a complete idiot, criticize you about how you play basketball or just sweet talk you to get you in bed. I think this is right" Nathan smiled, making Haley blush furiously.
Maybe it was right.
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"Luke... you were right, Nathan is nice" Haley admitted, biting her bottom lip bashfully. Lucas smiled up at his best friend as they walked home after the first day of school.
"See? I told you you'd like him. I know that he used to be a real...dick, but he's really turned around. He was talking to me at lunch about you when you were with Mouth"
"Really? What did he say...?" Haley asked nervously. She knew Nathan probably thought she was an annoying square nerd, but she was still curious to hear what he had to say.
"He said you were really nice and easy to talk to" Lucas said, seeing in Haley's eyes how much this response meant to her. And once he told her, he noticed her whole face lit up in a way he hadn't seen in a long time.
"That's...sweet" Haley said, looking at her shoes, blushing.
Lucas gasped. "Do you like Nathan Scott?"
"I do not!" Haley exclaimed, pushing Lucas. "He just seems like a nice boy. I don't even really know him yet"
"Then get to know him, he'll really surprise you" Lucas said as they turned onto the street of his mothers cafe. "Alright, I've got to go in here and see my mom. Bye Hales" Lucas said, hugging his best friend.
"Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game" he whispered in her ear. (Author's note: Cheesy, I know, since Chad Michael Murray was in "A Cinderella Story." Btw, I don't own that either lol)
"Quoting "A Cinderella Story"? Really Luke?" Haley joked, leaving Lucas.
Lucas called after Haley, "Hey, you're the one that made me watch it a million times!" Haley just smiled and started walking in the direction to her house. She pulled out her novel for English out of the side of her bag and started reading, not looking up to see where she was going. Then all of a sudden...
"Ouch!" Haley said, falling to the ground. She looked up and saw Nathans face hovering above her.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" Nathan joked, pulling Haley up. There was an electric jolt when their hands touched, well, at least to Nathan there was. His arms became weak when he looked at Haley's face, almost dropping her.
"Sorry" Haley whispered, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. Nathan just stared at her until Haley became uncomfortable and moved away, starting to walk past him. Shocked, Nathan grabbed her arm lightly, and brought her back to him.
"Do you have anywhere to go?" Nathan asked, releasing Haley. Haley's eyes bugged out.
"Um, nope, besides home. Why?" Haley asked, flabbergasted.
"Well, I heard you're a tutor...and I'm already struggling in math. I know it's just the first day, but I want good grades to get into a good college if I don't get a scholarship for basketball. I really need your help" Nathan asked sincerely. Haley gave him a questioning look.
"Nathan, knowing you, or... not knowing you, this is probably a dare or something put on by one of the cheerleaders, and I'm really not in the mood to be made fun of. Yeah, you seemed nice this morning, but that doesn't change your past, and maybe even your present. The popular...bitches probably mean a lot to you, and I can see them plotting things against me because I'm Lucas's best friend and he became friends with them as well. And they've done bad things to me in the past too... I would love to help you, but I'm sorry, I can't. I won't." Haley's voice dropped to a whisper at the end of her tirade, as she scurried off into the opposite direction, leaving Nathan hurt and confused.
"Haley! Those girls mean nothing to me!"
What was that? Nathan asked himself. He turned around to see if Haley was still running away from him, but she was gone.
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Nathan walked onto Tree Hill High's school property with a bunch of cheerleaders attached to him at the hip. He smiled proudly as all the guys in the school groaned, thinking how lucky he was to have even Brooke Davis fall all over him. But then he saw Haley. Their eyes connected for a split second, before she whipped hers away. She strutted into the school, holding her books tightly to her chest. Nathan shrugged the girls off of him and took off after Haley.
"Haley, wait!" Nathan called, yelling at full volume in the school. Haley turned around and stopped, waiting for him to catch up to her.
"You know, I felt bad after how I talked to you yesterday" Haley said.
"Haley, I-"
Haley put one hand in front of his face. "Wait, I'm not done yet. I was ready to apologize to you this morning. I love tutoring, and you seemed really genuine yesterday. The reason I was going to apologize was because I heard you yell after me. You said the girls meant nothing to you. But they've hurt me in the past Nathan, and when you walked into school today with them draped over you, well, that hurt too. So, maybe now's not the right time... for anything between us. This means a tutoring relationship and a friendship. We're completely different people, and we might as well keep it that way" Haley replied confidently. Nathan stared at her, looking more hurt than yesterday, and Haley almost regretted her words, but she remembered him walking in with the cheerleaders, and didn't feel one bit of resentment.
"If you give me one day to make it up to you. Not even. One tutoring session. Please Haley. I really want to get to know you more!" Nathan practically begged. Haley looked deep into his eyes and saw a flicker of hope for him. Maybe, just maybe, she would give him a chance.
"Library, 3:00 after school today. Be there. Bring math books. No second chances" Haley said, smiling when she saw how happy Nathan looked. "Come on, let's get to math."
Okay! There it is! Be brutally honest in your reviews!