AN: Hi! This is naleylover23xo and jlafferty23 and we wrote a story together obviously. This is a new approach to a Naley story that we haven't really seen before so we hope you all enjoy it! This is our first story that we are posting so please review and tell us what you think! We also have individual profiles which are the 2 names in our pen name - naleylover23xo and jlaffetry23. You don't really need to know any background information for this story because everything will be explained eventually. Nathan is 23 years old and Haley is 22. Hope you enjoy it! Please review!

Two is Better than One

Chapter 1 - The Meet Cute

The sirens blared behind Nathan Scott as he weaved in and out of the cars on the freeway. His eyes were focused straight ahead so he was ready to make any sudden changes in direction in order to get the police off his trail. Every now and then he would casually glance behind him to see if the cops were closing in on him. He smirked once he saw that there was no possible way the cops could get to him through all of the traffic. He quickly rode into the woods so there was no way of finding him. Nathan awoke the next morning amongst twigs and branches with his hair messed up and his clothes dirty. He noticed a rip in his jeans but he smirked because he thought it added to his badass persona. He stood up and shielded his eyes from the sun that was directly overhead. Looking to his left, he could make out the distinct image of a small town, which he assumed was about 2 miles away.

He got on his bike figuring he'd grab a bite to eat and put some more gas in his motorcycle. He arrived in the town 10 minutes later and immediately found a gas station. As he was pumping gas he scanned the town and saw a small café across the street. He noticed a car backing out of a parking spot and another car entering the lot. He quickly went on his bike and zoomed to the spot before the other car could get there. He cut off the car by a few inches and the driver opened the window and yelled, "What's your problem!?" Nathan took off his helmet, smirked in her direction and walked into the café.

After finding another spot a few blocks down Haley ran into the back door of the café to punch in her time card. As she walked towards the front she was gathering her hair into a pony tail and then she grabbed an apron and walked to the front.

She went over to Karen and started rambling "Hi Karen! I'm so sorry I'm late. I'm having the worst morning, my alarm clock didn't go off and then I tried getting a spot but this guy cut me off and then I had to park a few blocks away it was awful!"

"Haley what is this? The first day you've ever been late in you life? Calm down, and go take table threes order." Karen smiled.

Haley was getting her pad ready that she takes while walking to the table so she didn't notice who was sitting there. She asked "what would you like?" without glancing up.

"You" he stated in his smooth voice which caused her to snap her head up.

Haley gasped "You!" and narrowed her eyes. Then Nathan just laughed and gave her his boyish grin "what?"

"Don't play dumb with me! You're the ass that took my parking spot!"

"Well you've got to learn to be quick like me." Haley just stared at the man that was not much older than her. He was wearing a black, leather jacket with a plain white T underneath and he had on jeans with a rip in the knee. His black converses were worn and she thought he must travel a lot. The thing that stood out the most to her though was underneath his raven black messed up hair was his ocean blue eyes. "Are you checking me out?" Haley blushed and got all flustered.

"What?! No! can you just tell me what you want?"

"I'll have burger with you on the side" Haley glared at him once again and rolled her eyes. "Ok fine just get me some fries." Haley went to the kitchen to place the order leaving Nathan alone with his thoughts.

Nathan chuckled to himself as he replayed his encounter with the hot but feisty waitress in his head. He noticed she was short, about 5'' 3' and she had serious ass. He admired her long blonde tresses and her deep brown eyes. He noticed she seemed all over the place and that she had a tendency to ramble which normally he'd find annoying but watching her ramble to whom he assumed was the owner just made her more adorable in his eyes. He was brought out of his thoughts when she set the plate on the table. He went to take a bite of his burger when he noticed she was still standing there.

He smirked and said to her "Did you want something?"

"Oh, no, I was just wondering where you were from because I've lived here for a long time and I know everyone in this town and I know I would remember seeing you around-"

"oh you'd remember me?"

"well its not like many people around here drive a motor cycle and wear your type of clothing."

"what's wrong with my clothes? Most women find them badass."

"Well it looks like you haven't washed them in two days."

"I wear them dirty on purpose…it tends to make women invite me into their homes…they think they are doing a good deed or something but they can't help but fall for my charm."

"Righhhhtttt. Ok then- yea so I'm just going to go and we'll pretend like this conversation never happened"

"Well can I least have your name?"

"No!" Haley replied but then Karen spoiled it and called her name "Haley!"

Nathan smirked. "well I guess you know it now. what's your name?"

"Bond. James Bond." Haley just rolled her eyes and walked away having more orders to fill. Nathan just laughed and stared as she walked away.

Nathan walked out of the café and looked up at the sky, he noticed the darkened clouds and decided he needed to find shelter from the rain storm that was sure to be coming. He found a suitable place for his bike and then started walking around Tree Hill. As he was walking the streets the rain started to fall. He was about to turn around and go back to his bike when he saw someone getting out of their car and going back into their house. The closer he got he noticed it was Haley so he called her name. "Haley!" he yelled through the rain.

"Well if it isn't Mr. Bond. What are you stalking me now?"

"Yea definitely."

The rain was falling even harder, drenching them both so Haley went to walk inside but she looked at the sky and said "where are you staying?"

"I don't know I think found a shop with a big porch that I can stay on."

"What you are going to stay outside?! You can't do that. You could get sick or catch pneumonia!"

"well what do you propose I do?"

"Do you want stay here?"

"Won't your parents mind or something that you're bringing a CIA agent into your home?"

Haley laughed "Ok one, you are delusional obviously and two no I live by myself so…"

"Oh well you do need a big strong, young strapping lad like myself in case something happens with this storm."

"Great! C'mon in and I'll make us some hot chocolate." she went to the linen closet and handed him a towel to dry himself off. "You can change your clothes in the bathroom, to your right."

"These are my clothes."

"Oh, well let me see if I can find you some baggy sweat pants and a T-shirt to wear and then we could put those in the wash." Nathan stood at the door while Haley ran upstairs. When she came back down she handed him the clothes and he took off his shoes and went to the bathroom. Once he changed he was still just standing around. Haley laughed and said "here if you are going to be staying here you don't have to just stand around. Come sit on the couch."

Nathan walked towards the back of the couch, placed one hand on top and then jumped over and sat down. Haley just rolled her eyes and sat down next to him, but as soon as she did she started to yawn. "Sorry I'm tired I think I'll just go to bed. When you come upstairs the guest bedroom is the first door on your left."

"Wait! I-I mean why are you doing this? Do you always let random strangers come into your home?"

"No, but you looked like you could use a friend and that whole badass thing you've got going on…it's just an act"

"Is it really?"

"Yup. I do have one request though."

"What's that?"

"I don't let strangers stay in my home so you need to tell me your name."

He smiled at her and was ready to say a false name as he had to everyone else he'd met in the past month but he surprised himself when his actual name came out of his mouth. "Nathan. Nathan Scott."

"See that wasn't so hard. See you in the morning Nathan." with that she went upstairs and Nathan followed but he couldn't help but think what had he gotten himself into.

The next morning when Nathan finally started to wake up, he looked out the window and was surprised to see it was actually light outside. He hadn't slept like that in months. He contemplated going to find Haley in his current attire-shirtless, but he felt he should be considerate since she was letting him stay in her house and she would probably blush or something. As he was walking down the stairs the scent of bacon and eggs wafted through the air. He took a seat at the kitchen table and said "Mmmm….something smells good."

"Yea, I made breakfast."

I wasn't talking about the food. But breakfast smells good too. I haven't had a home cooked meal in a long time."

"So where are you from?"

"All over."

"Okay…how do you make money?"

"Um…if you didn't guess from my body…I'm a male prostitute…women looovveee me"

He laughed at her shocked face. "Just kidding. I fix things here and there. What do you do besides working at the café?"

"Well I was going to go to college to be a journalist but that all changed when my parents died and they left me this house and I couldn't just leave it but luckily Karen acted like a second mother to me so she got me the job at the café and...wow I'm telling you my whole life story. I'll just shut up now."

He gave her a tiny smirk because he was highly amused by her nonstop rambling. "So basically your that typical girl. The one that was like valedictorian and was going to make it out of the town but life circumstances got in the way and the whole town loves you so you decided to stay."

"No! Okay well yea but that's not a bad thing. They care about me. It's nice to have people care about you."

"Yea I wouldn't know"

"What do you-" Nathan noticed she was going to ask more and he wasn't ready to divulge that information so he asked her another question. "So…you haven't let your boyfriend move in with you but you let a random stranger move in? It doesn't make sense."

Haley looked away from him and said "Now it's my turn to avoid a question. So where did you get the bike?"

"Stole it a few states back" when he saw her face he added "I'm not joking. Well the bike was going into someone's garbage so I fixed it up. You know like that dude in New Moon."

"You know Twilight?!"

"Who do you think they modeled Jacob Black after. Okay actually the last girl that I stayed with…she was obsessed and I had to listen to her nonstop gushing about how she wanted to meet Jacob Black. Which is kind of scary because he's not real."

Haley laughed as she took their plates and put them in the dishwasher. "I have to go to work at the café now, but maybe we could do something later?"

"Can't stand to be apart from me for so long. You sure your boyfriend won't get jealous?"

"He's not the jealous type."

"If that's your story. Sure, I'll pick you up at the café when your shift ends."

"How do you know when my shift ends?"

"I'm a badass I know these things" he said smirking as she rolled her eyes and left the house.