Chapter Two
Nathan's POV
Nathan's eyes landed on her as soon as she entered the school. She was gorgeous with long wavy brown hair with lots of blonde highlights and honey coloured eyes. Their eyes met and neither one of them moved. The moment was soon broken when his brother walked up to her to help her.
Nathan watched them walk out of sight before returning his attention to the conversation that was taking place beside him. Tim and Jake were still talking about basketball and he paid half attention to the conversation while his mind was on the new girl.
Just then his girlfriend came up behind him and wrapped her arms around him. "Hey Baby. What's up?" she cooed in his ear. He gently removed her arms from around his waist. Lately, just the sound of her voice was annoying him.
"Hey. Look, I better get to class," he said, heading off to his class.
He spent the rest of his morning classes thinking about the new girl and hoping he'd see her at lunch. As soon as he got to his table he saw Lucas, Peyton, and Jake already sitting there. He decided this was the perfect opportunity to pump Lucas for information on the new girl.
"So Lucas. Who's your new friend?" he asked, trying to sound casual.
"Who?" Lucas asked confused.
"You know. The girl you helped this morning?"
"Who, Haley?" Lucas asked, still slightly confused.
Just then his girlfriend came up and sat beside him and tried to give him a kiss on the lips. He turned his head at the last minute and she ended up kissing his cheek. "What's the matter?" Rachel asked in a whiny voice.
"Nothing. Just been a tiring day," Nathan said, looking around the quad they were sitting in. He spotted her as soon as she entered the quad with her tray. He didn't even notice Brooke standing beside her until they were standing right in front of him and Brooke was introducing her to everyone.
Nathan spent the rest of lunch staring at Haley and trying to figure out a way to get to know her better. He also tried to ignore all of Rachel's catty comments.
When the bell rang signalling the end of lunch he heard Jake and Peyton volunteer to show Haley where the tutor center was. He quickly said goodbye to everyone and made his way slowly towards to tutoring center thinking this was the perfect opportunity. He was actually in need of a tutor.
He stood outside the door as she was talking to the teacher. He just smiled when he heard the teacher say that the next student to come in would be her tutee.
He took a beep breath then walked in.
"Can I help you?" the teacher asked him.
"Yeah, I need a tutor."
"You're in luck Mr. Scott. We just got a new tutor. Haley James meet Nathan Scott, you're new student," the teacher introduced.
"We've met actually," Haley said smiling at Nathan.
"Good. Well since you both seem to have this period free you're welcome to use the tutoring center this period. You'll have it to yourself most of the time as all of our other tutors have classes right now. Anyways I'll let you kids get started," he said, heading into his office and closing the door behind him.
"So, you stalking me Mr. Scott?" Haley asked, with a smirk.
"Of course not. I just happened to receive notice yesterday that I was in danger of losing my spot on the team if I don't pull up my grades."
"Sure you did," Haley said, not believing him. "So what do you need help in?"
"Everything," he said innocently.
"Well then Mr. Scott. It seems like we'll be spending a lot of time together."
They spent the rest of the period studying and talking. They headed their separate ways to their next class making plans to get together to next day after lunch.
Later that afternoon at basketball Nathan couldn't help but smile when he saw Haley come out a pair of short little shorts and a tank top. It was obvious it was an outfit she had to borrow from Brooke as she looked uncomfortable in it and kept trying to pull the shorts down to make them longer. She caught him looking at her and gave him a big smile and a wave. He sent her a smirk back.
"Hey little brother. What are you smirking at?" Lucas asked, coming up beside him. He immediately followed Nathan's line of sight and spotted Haley. "So someone has a crush on the new girl."
"What? I do not. I don't get crushes."
"Okay Nate. Whatever you say," Lucas said sarcastically, slapping him on the back and walking away.
Unfortunately for Nathan Lucas wasn't the only one that noticed where he was staring.
With one last glance at Haley Nathan went back to shooting free throws.