~Hey everyone, well I'm getting this chapter up sooner than even I expected. But I am going to have to start asking for more reviews, maybe at least 5 for each chapter, to get the next one up. I always get that extra confidence boost from reading all the things you have to say. So with that said, here is my next chapter. This one is a lot longer than the last one, I promise! ~
Chapter 3- We Are Young
It had been three days since Nathan and Haley had almost kissed and neither one had talked to the other since then. But tonight was the groups' weekly wednesday movie night, so their meeting was inevitable.
Haley couldn't get her mind off of Nathan at all the past few days. Being Haley, she was trying to analyze how and why it almost happened. Did he want it to happen? Was he just caught up in the moment? Was he just desperate? She knew she was just over thinking it all but couldn't stop thinking about it. She has wanted to kiss Nathan since she realized how much she was attracted to him in a way that she wasn't with Lucas.
As Haley was thinking about all this she was straightening up the entertainment room on the third story of their house. She just finished cleaning when she heard laughing from the living room on the main floor.
She took a few shakey deep breaths preparing herself to go downstairs with the rest of the group. She then looked down and realized she was in sweats. She quickly took off to her room to change so she looked presentable.
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Jake walked into the kitchen with Nathan and Lucas meeting Peyton and Brooke in there. The guys were laughing at something Lucas had said and the girls just smiled as they saw them walk in.
Peyton and Brooke quieted down their conversation about how close her and Jake were getting when the guys walked.
As their laughter died down Jake walked over to Peyton and wrapped his arms around her shoulders from behind and leaned down and said, "Hey babe." After he said this he kissed her cheek and stood up straight keeping his arms around her.
It wasn't until he pulled back and looked at the look of confusion on Lucas' face that he realized he had just welcomed Peyton in a more than friendly way. He started to stutter as he tried to explain it. "I… we… Luke, this… Uh,"
Brooke and Peyton both sat there with their mouths dropped open shocked with his welcome as well. When he started to stutter, that's when they both broke into laugher.
Jake looked down at Peyton as she laughed, confused.
Brooke stood up and patted his shoulder with a smile as she stopped laughing, "Finally cuz!" she said with a smile and walked over to the fridge.
Lucas was still standing there confused when Nathan chuckled a little. Lucas shot him a dirty look and then turn back to Peyton and Jake.
Peyton finally spoke up to save Jake from explaining this to her cousin and his best friend.
"Lucas, Jake and I have been hanging out in a more than 'just friends' type of way the past month. Please be ok with this, Luke, because I like him a lot." She said with hopeful smile. Jake wrapped his arms around her a little tighter to show his support to her and for them.
Lucas listened and softened from slightly upset and confused to happy for his cousin and best friend. "I'm happy for you both. You both deserve to happy and I don't see any better way than for it to be together." He walked up to them and hugged Peyton and did a fist bump with Jake.
Brooke made her way over to Peyton, Jake, and Lucas and hugged them both as well, being happy for them too.
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Nathan stood there watching it all happen with a smile on his face, happy for his cousin and best friend as well, but knowing this wasn't new news to him he didn't go in for happy moment with the others.
Nathan watched and saw the happiness for the new relationship and couldn't help but be jealous of them because he couldn't stop thinking about how much he wanted that with Haley.
Ever since the other day when he tried to kiss her and lost his chance when Jake pulled up he had been kicking his own ass. He wanted to kiss her for a long time, since about the time he met her when he was six and she was five. He has always known he had a thing for Haley James, but he knew she was too good for him and didn't want to get into hot water with Jake.
Nathan decided to take Brookes lead and get a drink. He knew the pizza was on its way so he just grabbed a water. As he closed the fridge door, he saw her. She had just walked into the kitchen door way and saw the hugs breaking apart.
He smiled as soon as he saw her his. He wasn't sure how to approach her after the 'almost kiss' the other day so he just kind of kept back to himself for the moment.
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Haley walked into the kitchen and saw a hug ending and got curious to what she missed. Right as she was about to ask she saw Nathan standing the fridge and smiled a soft smile and blushed slightly. Before he could notice she turned back to their friends and stepped forward.
"Hey guys, what's with the love fest going on here?" Haley asked with a curious look in her eyes.
Peyton turned to Haley and smiled one of the biggest grins anyone had seen on Peyton in a long time. "Jake and I officially together!"
Haley's mouth dropped in shock, she knew Jake had a thing for Peyton but didn't know they had been seeing eachother. Haley quickly recovered and smiled wide. "WOW! I'm so happy for you guys! This is awesome!" She went up and hugged Peyton and then turned to her brother and hugged him too. Only when she pulled away from Jake she wacked him on the back of the head.
"Ow! What was that for? I thought you were happy for us?" Jake said as he rubbed the back of his head and looked at her with a very complex look.
Haley smiled and laughed, "I am happy for you, but that was for not telling me until now." She gave him a smug smile and giggled. "So how exactly did this all come to happen?"
As Peyton began to tell her how Jake had asked her out on a secret date over a month ago and how things had progessed since then till now when Jake slipped up, Haley kept casting slight glances over to Nathan who was watching calmly until the story was over.
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Timing was perfect, as soon as Peyton with help from Jake, finished telling their story of them, the door bell rang indicating the pizza was finally there and they could head upstairs to watch their movies for the night.
Haley went over to answer the door with Nathan hot on her tail following her. When she opened the door to the pizza guy and greeted them, she happily took the 3 large pizzas and order of bread sticks. She was about to hand the guy her money when Nathan jumped in.
"Here I got it." Nathan said. Haley thought he meant the pizza and was going to hand it to him when he pushed gently in front of her and handed the delivery boy a hundered dollar bill and thanked him politely. He then closed the door and turned to her and grabbed the top two boxes and the bread sticks from her with a smile. "Kitchen or entertainment room?" he said with a smile.
"Nathan you didn't have to do that." Haley insisted.
"Its ok Hales, I didn't mind." He said with a grin as he looked at her perplexed face. "So, kitchen or entertainment roon?" he asked again trying to bring her to the now and not the 20 seconds ago.
"Um, kitchen." She said shaking her head and smiling back to him. She took the lead and headed in there with him right behind her again.
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After coming to the conclusion that the pizza would be better kept upstairs while they watched their movies, they watched the chick flick first so that they guys would stay awake long enough to watch their action movie after it.
They sat with Peyton and Jake on the first level couch, confused when Lucas and Brooke or someone else didn't take the lazy-e-boys on each side of the couch but instead when to the second level couch to cuddle up. Normally someone would take one of the lazy-e-boys off to the sides of that couch as well but not tonight. When Nathan walked into the room last, he saw the four of them coupled off on the first two level couches, as he looked up to the third level he saw Haley half laying down half sitting up on that couch. He decided this could be his shot to explain the other day and maybe finally do what he has wanted to do since he was a boy, kiss Haley James.
When Nathan sat beside Haley she became slightly giddy. Thinking that maybe she would be able to talk to him about what almost happen the other day.
They were both about to start talking when Brooke hit play on the movie and it became silent. Both being disappointed they lost their chance to talk, they just made themselves comfortable.
Haley cried in all the sweet, sad, and sentimental parts. She leaned into Nathan when those happened, which was about ¾ of the movie. Nathan gladly opened his arms to her. Not fully sure why she was crying because he only paid attention for 10 percent of the whole movie, but he was glad it was him that she felt comfortable enough to cry to when she needed it.
When that ended and Jake put in the boys action movie, Nathan knew it was time they talk. The movie was loud enough that they could have their own conversation in the back of the room without disturbing their friends.
When Haley turned to him with a disgusted look on her face he couldn't help but laugh. "Whats with the face?" he asked as he continued to chuckle.
"This movie is gross and stupid, I hate my brother for picking this." She said in a server tone of disgust that matched the look on her face.
Nathan held back a few more chuckles as he turned so they were looking at each other. "Then lets get your mind off the movie." He said in a slightly suggestive tone, not meaning for it come out sounding like that but it happening anyway.
Haley giggle slightly and leaned towards him, "Oh, and do what?" she said mirroring his tone.
This through Nathan off a little bit but he recoverd fast. He smiled and said, "I was actually hoping to talk."
Haley smiled, figuring he was joking before and she just played along she went back to normal and smiled back at him. She knew what she wanted to talk to him about but not the other way around, this peeked her curiosity.
"Sure! What do you want to talk about?" She asked in a curious tone with a her smile still in place.
Nathan smiled back at her, he couldn't help it that her smile was so beautiful you just needed to smile along with her. "Um,…" he started but didn't know how to actually bring up the almost kiss. "well, I actually want to know how you feel about the other day…?"
This through Haley for a loop, she did not expect him to being this up in a million years. She figured she would play it safe and make sure. "You mean at the river court on Sunday?"
Nathan looked at with a 'duh' expression on his face that made Haley laugh and gently push his shoulder. "Yes, Hales. At the river court. How do you feel about it?"
She turned from joking to serious. "I don't know, Nathan. What exactly almost happened because I think what I think and what actually happened are two different things."
Nathan looked at her confused, "We almost kissed Hales!" he said a little too loudly for her comfort, although no one seemed to notice.
She was stunned, "Oh…. I guess the two are the same then." She said with a look of sudden realization on her face. "What do you feel about it?"
He laughed to himself and reached out and grabbed her hands, both noticing the electricity that went through them at the touch. "I'd do it again if I could, and I would actually follow through with it this time."
Once again Haley was thrown for a loop. To say shocked was what she felt was an understatement. She sat there for a few seconds thinking what he said through. She knew he needed a reply soon or he would take her silence as a bad thing, she knew Nathan well enough to know how his brain worked.
With a sudden confidence boost at the thought of actually kissing Nathan Scott, she sat up and smiled. "Well, why don't you follow through this time?" she said leaning into him slightly.
He grinned, he did not need to be told twice. He leaned into her as she did the same and their lips met in a soft kiss that literally stole each of their breath away with the electric shock that hit them again. As Haley leaned more into Nathan he started to deepen the kiss.
Suddenly they both jumped back at the sound of Brooke's yell, "OH MY GOD!"
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~Sorry, I know, I suck. But this is the longest chapter yet so you got a treat there, especially after my last chapter being so short, but I had to set up for this some way and didn't want to drag it out forever. But I left you guys with your first cliffhanger! Hmmm, wonder what is going to happen next! Oh well, 5 reviews and I will let you all know as soon as I can! Thank you for reading, remember, I love getting feedback, good or bad! -Dee~
