Chapter 2

It was late at night and Haley was writing some notes. She already had finished doing her homework and decided to write some stuff for Brooke, she didn't mind the extra work, she even liked it.

After she had written the notes, she was ready to put her pajamas and go straight to bed to wait Brooke's call. She heard some noises and went to the her window but she didn't see anything.

Haley went downstairs to the kitchen, at this point she wasn't really scared anymore, just curious. She opened the door of her kitchen and went outside to look around. Quickly, she spotted a tall guy with a basketball on his hands. It was the new neighbor, she concluded. She forgot that now there were people living next to her house. She was used to the house being empty.

"Hey!" Haley jumped when she heard a deep voice. It was him.

"Hi." She responded timidly, embarrassed for standing there for a couple of minutes looking at him.

She saw him getting closer to where she was standing and she just stayed there not sure what to do.

"What's your name?" He asked her.

"Haley." She replied.

"I'm Nathan. Your new neighbor." He introduced himself.

"Nice to meet you, Nathan."

"I hope I wasn't bothering you. I know it's late but it wasn't that late when I started playing and I just got into the game." Nathan explained.

"No no, it's okay. I just came to check the noise. I wasn't really paying attention at first, I just heard it like five minutes ago. I'm just used to the silence around here."

"I'm sorry." He apologized.

"Oh no, I didn't mean like that. I really don't mind."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive." She answered nodding her head.

"Okay."

"Are you going to any school around here?" She didn't know why she made the question and wanted to kick herself for being so noisy.

"Tree Hill High. What about you?"

"Same."

"That's nice. I guess I will be seeing a lot there as well?"

"I guess."

"Tomorrow will be my first day at school."

"Are you nervous?"

"Not really."

Of course not, he was hot and very athletic. He would easily fit in the crowd.

"Do you wanna go to school tomorrow with me? I can give you a ride." He offered.

"No, thanks. I already have ride." She declined his offer. Since Brooke got a car, she would always take Haley to everywhere.

Brooke!

Haley was so distracted with the conversation that forgot about Brooke's call.

"I gotta go now."

"Already?" She looked up surprised but missed his disappointed look.

"Yes, I'm waiting for phone call." She explained.

"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow then."

"Sure. Bye Nathan. It was nice to meet you." She waved at him before entering home.

"You too, Haley." He replied but she was already gone.


The next day at lunch, Brooke and Haley were sitting at the bench outside the school talking.

"So he's name is Nathan?" Brooke asked to Haley who nodded her head.

"He was playing basketball outside, I heard some noises and I went downstairs to see what it was."

"And you guys talked?"

"Yeah, he introduced himself first and told me he told me today would be his first day here at school."

"That's why you didn't answer my phone calls." Brooke stated.

"Yes, I didn't hear it and when I went back to my room I guess was late and I didn't want to wake you up. Again, I'm sorry." Haley said honestly.

"It's okay." Brooke reassured her.

"Do you want to come to my house tonight?" Haley asked.

"Sure. I'd love to." Brooke replied. She eyed Nathan, who was stand outside talking to Jake.

"Earth to Brooke." Haley said waving her hand in front of Brooke's face.

"Huh, what? Did you say something?"

"Yeah, I asked if you prepared any new moves for the routine. You said you were going to prepare something yesterday. How did it go?"

"Oh, I had great ideas!" Brooke said really excited, clapping her hands. "I'm going to show to the girls today. I think we will totally have chances to win this year."

"That's awesome, Brooke!" Haley said happy for her.

"We better win! There's a girl on the squad that I really want to replace with someone else, she can be really lazy sometimes and I don't want that, I'll give her another chance but she better work it."

Haley stayed there watching Brooke talking. She knew that Brooke didn't care much about school and classes but she was very serious about cheer leading, she would never miss one day of practice and she was a leader. Brooke was fun and cheerful but she could be real bitch as well when she wanted to.

"I'm going to talk to Bevin and Amanda about practice, okay? I'll see you in class."

"Okay, Tigger. See you later."

Haley stayed there as Brooke walked to talk with her friends.

Nathan was watching her but she didn't notice it.

"You don't even hide it." Jake spoke.

"What?" Nathan snapped his head and looked at his friend.

"You know, you keep looking at her."

"Her? Who?" Nathan asked.

"You know who."

"I don't know what you're talking about, Jake." Nathan denied it.

"Whatever you say, Nathan." Jake chuckled.


Brooke stopped her car in front of Haley's house and saw Nathan playing ball. She looked at Haley's door but walked to other side where Nathan was.

"Hey"

"Hey"

"I had seen you at school this morning. I'm Brooke Davis. You are Nathan, right?"

"Yep, that's me." He confirmed.

"You seem really good at basketball, you should try to enter to the school's team." She suggested.

"I'll try that, thank you."

"Your welcome." Brooke said with a bright smile.

She looked behind her to see if Haley was out there but she didn't see anyone. So she thought she needed to say goodbye to Nathan first before Haley would come outside looking for her.

"I better get going now. Bye, Nathan."

"Goodbye."

Nathan watched her go, he turned around to throw the ball into the hoop. When he turned back he saw Brooke and Haley on her front door hugging each other.

AN: Please leave a review if you read it. I'm going to write the next chapter but I want to know what you think.