Prologue-
Armed with brains and her innocent beauty Haley James captures the attention of a certain Scott boy who is caught between what could be true love, and a hatred that runs so deep in his father's heart that there doesn't seem to be a point of reasoning. But we're talking about Dan Scott here, so is there ever?
The Right to Remain Silent
Night Drive
Under her hood there was the capability to go from zero-to-sixty in four seconds flat, this car was her life and she'd only gotten it three days ago. The first time she'd taken it out she had realized that by pushing the car to its limits, she was free, and freedom was something, up until now, that she wasn't allowed to have.
Around her she was only slightly aware of the fact that there were peoples lives happening but really she taught herself not to care, truly about anyone but herself. Haley didn't think that it was possible for anyone else to feel this, because to feel it, they would have to be as trapped as she was and in light of her father's news, she didn't wish that upon anyone.
O-O-O
I know you
So better than the city in the rear view
I drive to
Eliminate the ball that I'm chained to
O-O-O
He knew what his father expected of him, and he knew that he would get a lot worse when Nathan finished college, so he had live out the rest of his life in by the end of his senior year. That meant taking every chance that he could to see where it would lead him and lately it had lead him to fast cars and faster girls.
The one next to him was supposed to be unreachable when in reality he got he alone for five seconds and she jumped him, and he was now, over her, but he'd wait till he pulled up in the driveway to break the news. She was sitting next to him and the seat and reached out, he assumed it was for him but it turns out she was attempting to change the station. No one fucked with his radio…
O-O-O
Take me break me
Every mile further there's a part of me that slips away
One day you'll see
Even if you got down on your knees you couldn't make me stay
O-O-O
"Would you like to explain any of this Mr. Scott?" Officer Wined looked up knowing that if he pressed matters too much he would end up without his job but he would push the limits as far as they would go trying to impart some sense into him. His tactics didn't seem to be working because the boy was silent but the blonde next to him spoke instead surprising them both.
"Well I went to change the station and apparently no one fucks with Nathan Scott's radio and he went to pull my hand away and he swerves and crashes and fucking crashes his car into a tree and I could have died all because he's an ego manic that has to be in control of everything and"
"You know Erica, I'm sure your father would be happy to know where you were and what you were doing tonight." Nathan smiled like he was reliving the things they'd done and Erica cringed.
"You wouldn't dare."
"Try me princess."
"You say you want to be nothing like your father when you get more like him every day. One step closer to insane, man whore every day."
"At least people know what I'm like from the moment they meet me, you try to hide who you are and cover up the fact that you're just a bitchy whore who got lucky with a case of bulimia."
"Well you know what? At least I don't need a"
"Enough, the both of you!" He stopped speaking when a he felt the breeze of an expensive looking car pull him in its direction. It was gone before anyone could see anything more than that the speedometer on the road read eighty, and the speed limit sign thirty-five.
"Aw hell, now I'm gunna miss Jeopardy." Wined ran to the driver's and when the kids didn't move he spoke. "Get in." He motioned towards the backseat and reluctantly they followed. Not that letting them stay would matter much because they were miles away from nowhere with cell phones that didn't have signals they couldn't get very far. Especially when neither teenager was hurt but unfortunately for Nathan's Ferrari, they couldn't say the same.
O-O-O
Drive all night
Never gonna get me
Night by night
To get away from it all
O-O-O
"What the fuck? I wasn't speeding and by taking one reading you won't have a case in court because instantaneous speed doesn't hold up and anyway"
"Save it sweetie, you've got bigger problems." 'You have no idea.' She thought.
"Like what?"
"Like the owners of this car pressing charges." She scuffed and shook her head realizing for the first time what was really going on.
"I hardly think my father will be upset enough to take away my birthday present because I got one speeding ticket."
"Right your father, what did you say your last name was again?" The more lies that she told the more he would have to convict her in court and somehow that would be his penance for letting off Nathan Scott, again. He let her continue talking.
"I didn't and it's Haley James." For a second he got a strange look in his eyes and seemed to choke on his own spit but upon thinking more he regained his composure deciding that this, like the rest, was just another one of her lies. The only James rich enough to afford the candy apple red Porsche didn't have a daughter, or at least he hoped not.
O-O-O
Fight, fight, fight
All you wanna do is hurt me
You wrecked my life
So I'm gonna have to drive all night
O-O-O
"I don't think that this fuck-tart is allowed to keep us in here" She complained watching the proceedings from her place in the back of the car.
"Who the fuck says fuck-tart?"
"Don't start with me Nathan, this is all your fault and my dad's gunna kill me when he finds out that we were in an accident and if they tell him that you were drinking then"
"Oh I was drinking, what about you? I've never seen a chick put um back like you can. And anyway he can't even call this in now cause he's been holding us. He's has to read us our rights or some shit like that so for once, keep your pants on." He'd give the asshole that'd been speeding one thing, from what he could see the backend of his car was hot.
O-O-O
Pulse stays strong
I'm pushing on the pedal til I break dawn
So I'm gone, go find another shoulder you can cry on
O-O-O
Haley watched and tried her best to surpass her laughter as her father pulled up in his latest toy, an Enzo, Ferrari. The way that Wined's jaw dropped was priceless. Then when Travis James stepped out of the car in all of his glory she was sure that he would piss his pants from sheer surprise or maybe mallow conviction of the shit load of trouble he was in.
"What seems to be the trouble officer and for your sake it better be life or death because I don't think I can reschedule the meeting I was in." He turned his head and saw his daughter standing there and smiling, it made him smile. No matter how much he neglected her, he tried his best to be there when she really needed him. "Hey baby." He put his hand on the top of her head and ruffled her hair a bit.
"Daddy." When he was home she was his little girl, and no matter how angry she was with him she couldn't convey it to him. Not even when he would call from being gone for months, she'd just put on her cheer suit and tell him that everything was wonderful. When the third party began speaking they both turned to him and waited for the no doubt vapid words that he would speak.
"Well you see this car was speeding through an area with many pedestrians and she ran through a stop sign and then" Travis could tell that he was lying but wanted to let him speak because the more he said, the deeper shit he would be in. Haley however didn't catch onto this approach so quickly.
"No it wasn't you retard! I was speeding but were in the middle of fucking nowhere, what pedestrians do you see and furthermore I don't remember there being a stop sign anywhere near here." Her father gave her a look and she could tell that her outburst wasn't helping matters so she went and stood next to the backseat window of Wined's car. Both men were blocking access to her own. The window's were tinted so she couldn't see that anyone was in the care and therefore wasn't aware that she had just given Nathan Scott the perfect view of her ass.
O-O-O
Take me break me
Every mile further there's a part of me that slips away
One day you'll see
Even if you got down on your knees you couldn't make me stay
O-O-O
"Slut!" Erica screamed once she saw Nathan newly formed interest in the scenery around him, particularly the scenery leaning against his window.
"She doesn't even know we're here." Nathan retorted.
"That's what she wants you to think." Erica mumbled disheartened that she was that easily forgotten about. She was a Marsh for Christ sakes, and he was a Scott, they couldn't be more perfect for each other and yet it seemed that there series of one night stands was over, and the word exhausted.
O-O-O
Drive all night
Never gonna get me
Night by night
To get away from it all
O-O-O
The All-American Rejects; Night Drive