Playing It Wrong
Chapter Two – The Fallout

Summary:Haley James is at the top of her class and has everything she wants, a great boyfriend, tons of friends, and she's the captain of the cheerleading squad. Nathan Scott is recently injured and hating life. The only good thing he has is his girlfriend. However, when Haley and Nathan's "other halves" go behind their backs and get together, Haley devises a plan for revenge: Date Nathan Scott. Will it work or will she become too distracted along the way?


A/N: I just wanted to thank you guys so much! The reviews were awesome and I appreciate all the great feedback. This chapter was co-written with my amazing beta, Sepideh. Her penname is H. James-Scott.


Nathan and Haley walked up to the apartment quietly. Neither of them had spoken on the walk home because neither knew what to say. Nothing would make them feel better right now. Haley unlocked the door and they both walked inside. The lights were off which was weird considering it was only 9:30. Haley set her bag down and flipped the light switch and the room lit up.

"I wonder where everyone is…" Haley walked over to the fridge to get some water. She noticed a small note on it. "Peyton is… off sucking face with Jake. Whoo hoo." Haley rolled her eyes. She closed the fridge and walked over to the couch and sat next to Nathan.

"I can't believe this," Nathan whispered. Haley looked at him.

"Yeah… Me neither. I mean, how could my best friend and my boyfriend betray me like that? I trusted them with my life and they go behind my back and do this."

"Haley, Lucas is my brother. My brother is sleeping with my girlfriend. That's more messed up." Haley contemplated the notion for a second and then nodded.

"Yes it is." They both heard the door open and looked over at the entry way to the hall. About ten seconds later Brooke and Lucas came out into the living room and stopped when they saw Nathan and Haley.

"Uhm… I thought you guys didn't get back until 10:30?" Brooke looked confused.

Haley stood and crossed her arms while Nathan remained on the couch, shaking his head. He couldn't believe this. He had hoped Haley and Peyton were wrong, but it was obvious that they weren't. Brooke stood there wearing only a long t-shirt and Lucas was wearing a pair of boxers. Both were flushed, hair tussled, and it was apparent they had just had sex.

"You know… I wanted to believe that you two weren't going behind my back or Nathan's and screwing, but I guess I was just hoping for too much. What the hell is wrong with you two?!" Haley was slowly making her way across the room because she knew if she moved too quickly, she may end up bitch slapping someone, not to say she wouldn't anyways.

"Haley, we were going to tell you. I tried to this morning, but I freaked…" Brooke moved closer to Lucas to get away from Haley, but quickly moved away when she realized what she was doing. The last thing she needed to do was piss off Haley and Nathan more than she already had.

"You were going to tell me? What were you going to tell me?! That you're sleeping with MY boyfriend? Yeah, that's right, Brooke. Lucas and I are still together! How can you do that to someone, especially someone who is supposed to be your best friend?" Before Brooke could respond, Haley turned to Lucas and started attacking him. "And you! How the hell could you betray me like that?"

"Haley, it was a mistake. I didn't mean to hurt you. We just made a mistake and that's all it was. It was a one-time thing, I swear." Lucas looked away and Haley knew he was lying.

"It was a mistake?! How do you make a mistake more than one time? You're supposed to learn from your mistakes! You didn't sleep together once. You're a liar! You should know better than to lie to me, Lucas."

"You know what? I tried to be nice about it, Haley and not hurt you as bad as the truth would, but you don't understand that. The truth is that Brooke and I have been together for three months and I fell out of love with you long before then. I'm in love with Brooke, and you should know that you can't help who you fall in love with," Lucas spoke, quickly realizing that he had made Haley angrier than she already was, if that was possible. Nathan had gotten up from his seat and made his way towards Lucas about to punch the living daylights out of his brother, the girlfriend thief. The thought made Nathan's blood boil. Before Nathan had a chance to lay a hand on Lucas Haley spoke up.

"How dare justifying your disgusting actions!? You two may be in love Lucas but does that give you the right to hurt two people who have done anything but love the both of you!?" Haley fumed, pushing Lucas, causing him to nearly trip over a small table.

"Haley…" Brooke started but quickly shut her mouth once Haley turned to her pointing her finger at her.

"Shut up Brooke! I don't want you to say a word. Your voice is the last thing I want to hear at the moment!" Haley yelled angrily.

"Haley that's not fair! At least let me explain," Brooke shouted.

All went silent and Brooke wanted nothing but to run away from the scene. She should have kept her mouth shut because what was to come would not be pretty.

"Fair? Fair!? Brooke here wants to talk to me about fair," Haley laughed sarcastically. "Well then tell me SaintBrooke, what exactly is fair? Is it fair to betray your boyfriend and your best friend the way you have? Is it fair to sleep with Lucas and then break up with Nathan? Because I thought it worked the OTHER way around," Haley screamed, her face was as red as a tomato.

"I…" before Brooke could even finish Haley's hand connected to her face surprising her with a hard slap. Brooke's hand immediately went to her stinging cheek, completely shocked.

The front door opened and Peyton entered the apartment. "Haley?" she asked, looking over at Brooke, who was holding her cheek, completely stunned. Haley was fuming, Lucas was shocked and Nathan was looking at Lucas with homicidal eyes. Peyton quickly understood what was going on and didn't want to stay in the room and witness what was sure to follow. "I'll just go and…" before she could finish Brooke spoke up.

"It was you, wasn't it!? You told them!" Brooke screamed at her.

"Brooke, you did the damage. I just wanted to let my friend know what a horrible person her best friend was being. How could you do that to Haley? Are you jealous? What is so great about Lucas because I thought you had the greater boyfriend? Does it make you so mad that Haley has a better life than you? You're pathetic, Brooke."

"You are the reason this whole thing happened. You're a two faced bitch, Peyton," Brooke spat as she walked towards her.

"Don't you dare blame her!" Nathan finally spoke up, "If it wasn't for Peyton, Haley and I would've witnessed what you two were doing ourselves. Peyton did us a favor, as well as you two. God only knows what would have happened if I had walked in on you whoring yourself out to my brother without any knowledge that this could be going on. You're the two faced bitch, Brooke, not Peyton."

"Nate…" Brooke started, guilt overtaking her emotions as she looked at her upset boyfriend.

"I don't want to hear it Brooke. I gave you a chance. I knew you were promiscuous and liked attention, but this is low. You're a slut. That's all I can think of you now. I thought you were a good person, but you're no better than Rachel was as far as I'm concerned. The only difference is she actually changed for the better and I threw that away for you," he said folding his arms.

Brooke kept quiet.

"You know what the sad thing is about all of this?" Haley asked after a few moments of silence. "Neither of you apologized," Haley said, laughing bitterly. She shook her head before walking out of the room and down the hall. The loud slamming of a door was heard seconds later.


Haley sat on her bed and stared at the wall. She couldn't believe that this was happening. Twenty-four hours ago she had a perfect life. She had the perfect boyfriend, or so she thought. How was she supposed to go to school and see Brooke everyday at practice or Brooke and Lucas in the hallway acting like a couple? She had been in her room for thirty minutes and Nathan was still yelling at Brooke and Lucas. She was sure there had been a fight because she heard glass breaking and some slamming into the walls. Suddenly, everything got very quiet. A few seconds later Nathan came storming into her room and slammed the door. The next words that came out of his mouth shocked Haley.

"We should have sex." He looked straight at her and she could tell he was being serious.

"Are you okay, Nathan?" She looked at him like he was crazy.

"Am I okay? Haley, we just found out that Brooke and Lucas are sleeping together and leaving us so they can be pretty together. No, I'm not okay."

"Okay... but I'm not having sex with you."

"Why not?" He looked slightly confused.

"Because I don't want to have sex with you, Nathan. I have no desire to have sex with, especially after last night."

"So if last night hadn't happened and we were both single, would you sleep with me?"

"No!" Haley was getting flustered and Nathan was enjoying every moment of it. He knew she wasn't whole-hearted in her answer and that she was contemplating the idea, but was too uncomfortable to do that.

"Okay, but could I crash on your floor or something? I don't want to wake up tomorrow on the couch and have to look at Brooke."

"I wouldn't want to see her skank ass, either." She smirked and then realized what she had said and a frown appeared on her face. "You can sleep on my bed. It's big enough for the two of us. Just don't touch me and if I wake up with your... parts poking me, there will be bloodshed. Got it?" Nathan nodded and didn't say a thing. He was too busy figuring out how he was going to sleep next to Haley all night without anything awkward happening.

It was going to be a long night...


Haley woke up the next morning with something very warm holding her. She slowly rolled over and came face to face with Nathan. She moved away from him, but became very cold and moved back against him. She pulled the covers closer to her and tensed when Nathan's arm encircled her waist and pulled her closer. He was still asleep, but Haley was still slightly freaked out. She relaxed and closed her eyes again, but couldn't fall back asleep. She tried looking around the room at anything, but Nathan. However, she quickly failed at that and decided to just stare at him. It wasn't like he was awake.

"Stop looking at me. It's creeping me out." Nathan smiled and opened his eyes. Haley punched him on the arm.

"You jerk. You were awake the whole time!" Nathan laughed softly and nodded. Neither of them made any move to remove his arm from Haley's waist. "How'd you sleep?"

"Just fine. Thanks again. I probably would have frozen to death on the couch seeing as how someone likes subarctic temperatures," he said giving Haley a look.

"Not true. I just don't like a hot apartment. If we keep it above 68, it gets really hot in the middle of the day."

"Excuses, excuses." The two of them lay there just staring at each other. Haley could feel tension building and quickly got up and went into the bathroom and shut the door.

"You are not having those thoughts, Haley James. You just broke up with your boyfriend and just because his hot brother was sleeping in your bed doesn't mean anything. You should be thinking of ways to get back at Brooke and Lucas, not making goo goo eyes at Nathan..." She was pacing around the bathroom. She turned on the shower and began to undress when a thought struck her. She hurried out of the bathroom, forgetting she was now wearing just a bra and panties.

"I have an idea."

Nathan looked up and his breath caught in his throat when he saw Haley. Paying attention to her was going to be difficult. He simply nodded his head as his eyes travelled over her body. 'She is gorgeous. Why was I dating Brooke?'

"Nathan. Up here!" She glared at him and pointed to her face. She had been halfway through explaining her idea when she realized his eyes were fixed on her chest. "What is with the male species being fascinated with a girl's chest?"

"Huh?" Nathan looked up at Haley and shifted on the bed because he was becoming very uncomfortable.

"Whatever," Haley said shaking her head. "I have an idea. I think we should date, but not really. We'll pretend to date in order to get back at Brooke and Lucas." She crossed her arms over her chest to keep Nathan from losing focus again.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not dating you, Haley." Haley looked confused.

"We wouldn't really be dating. We would be pretending."

"I'm not going to sink to their level."

"We wouldn't be. We aren't with anyone and we don't have to sleep together... and we wouldn't. Please?"

"I can't. Brooke really hurt me and I just can't deal with this right now." Haley got a very pissed off look on her face and marched over to the bed and got uncomfortably close to Nathan.

"Look, you sissy boy. Brooke broke your heart. Deal with it. Stop acting like a girl and suck it up. You're going to do this or so help me God, I will hurt you. Got it?" Nathan was silent. Haley continued to stand there with her arms crossed and got a confused look on her face when a smirk formed on Nathan's face. "What?"

"I'm not doing it. I mean, I'm hurt and vulnerable. What do I get in return?" Nathan knew his mocking tone was getting to Haley and seeing her get infuriated was actually quite entertaining.

Haley glared and walked over to the bed. She climbed onto it and leaned into Nathan, her mouth barely touching his ear. "Me," she said dragging her hand down his chest and jump stopping short of where the sheet was draped across his lap. "You can have whatever you want." All Nathan could do was nod and let out a groan, which could only be interpreted as him agreeing. Nathan went to put his arms around Haley's waist, but she quickly crawled off the bed.

"Good, now get dressed. We have to be at school in an hour." With that said Haley walked back into the bathroom and closed the door. Nathan just sat there stunned. He had never seen Haley be so forceful with anyone. He kind of liked it.

"What have I gotten myself into?"


Brooke sat in the kitchen reading a magazine and waiting for the coffee to finish brewing. She heard a door open and tensed, but relaxed when Peyton entered the kitchen.

"Hey." Brooke was unsure if Peyton was mad at her.

"Hey. Rough night, huh?" Peyton walked over to the fridge and opened it and looked around for something to eat.

"You could say that. I just don't see how they could be so mean. I was trying to be nice and explain things and they just overreacted."

Peyton turned and looked at Brooke. "You do realize what you just said, right? Brooke, you were wrong. You messed up and you deserved everything they said and you really deserved it when Haley slapped you. You let your friend and boyfriend down. What you did was really messed up so stop trying to play the victim."

"What the hell, Peyton? At least I didn't go behind my best friend's back and tell a secret." Peyton gave her a shocked look. "Okay so I went behind my best friend's back and messed up. I know that. I just wish I could take it back and everything could be fine again."

"Well, you can't and it won't. You don't deserve Haley or Nathan's forgiveness right now and you're lucky I'm even talking to you." Peyton grabbed her things off the counter and left the room.


Haley sat on the front porch drinking coffee and waiting for Nathan to finish getting ready for school. She still needed to make sure he was on board with her and that his hormones weren't the only reason for his answer this morning. Haley still felt weird about her actions and wondered what had taken over her. She never acted like that.

The house had been awkwardly quiet this morning and Brooke was gone long before Haley came out of her room. Haley looked down at the paper in front of her. It was Nathan's English paper that was due next week and Haley was editing it for him. She scribbled a few notes in the margin and looked up when she heard someone approaching. Haley looked up and saw Lucas.

"What the hell are you doing here?" She set down the paper and pen and removed her glasses.

"I just wanted to talk, if that's okay with you. If not, I can wait." Haley was silent for a few seconds before pointing to the chair next to her.

"You have two minutes because in about two minutes, Nathan will be coming out here and I will not keep him from kicking your ass. So speak fast."

"Okay. I just wanted to apologize for what I did and I know it may seem worthless to you, but I do mean it. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to break up with you and take the risk of losing my best friend and I didn't want to hurt Brooke." Haley rolled her eyes, but said nothing. "Look, I understand that you hate me and probably wish I would die, but I just needed you to hear that I'm sorry." Lucas got up and made his way down the porch steps.

"Hey Lucas?" He stopped and turned to Haley. There were tears forming in her eyes and he could tell that she was trying to be strong and not let him see her breaking down.

"Yeah?"

"I would have been your friend, no matter what. I've known you since we were kids. I would have been a little mad if you had left me for Brooke, but it wouldn't hurt as bad as it hurts now. I trusted you and I gave you my heart. I would have stayed friends with you, but you betrayed me by not telling me and by leading me on. I don't think we can ever be friends again and as far as I'm concerned that would be fine."

Lucas looked hurt and he knew he had royally screwed himself.

TBC.
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