Thanks for the incredible words of encouragement. It means the world to me. Sorry I haven't updated in forever but college has been extremely busy recently. Thank you to miss-supernatural-1992, Ninpinpin, nathanscottlover, saderia, mirna23, GottaluvNaley, 23-Naley4ever-23, bratgirl25, AJE33192, Naleyalwaysand4ever, BaFflEd'n'BefFudLed, tutorgrrl102 .
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before
The sweeping tune came to close and everyone remained in the ominous circle surrounding this couple. Everyone stood frozen and watched the most popular boy in their school dancing with this beautiful mystery woman. The crowd watched as the room fell silent and the fascinating couple remained in each other's embrace.
Finally Haley broke free from the Nathan's intoxicating gaze and began to become increasingly aware of the dozens and dozens of eyes on her right now. Well she wanted attention and she sure as hell got it. She began to look down at her feet all the while aware that Nathan had yet to take his eyes off her. Finally the DJ started up a new song some type of fast hip hop number and everyone began to spread out on the dance floor and resume their position before Haley's entrance. Haley took this opportunity to brake from Nathan's embrace but just as she tried to walk away he grabbed her wrist.
All he could think was I don't know who this girl is but I need to be near her. I need to know her and I can't just let her walk away.
Haley was shocked by his action and turned back to look at him with a pleading smile and slipped her wrist out from under his grasp and grabbed her bag from a still dumbfounded Tim Smith. Haley ran from the dance floor, out of the room, and down the hall to the one place she felt safe. The tutor center but the door was locked so she slid down the door and sat herself on the floor.
What the hell just happened? What did I just do? I think I just danced with Nathan Scott and I'm pretty sure I flirted with Nathan Scott. My God, this was a huge mistake if Luke finds out about this he is going to flip I need to get as far from here as possible.
As she began to make her way down the hall she heard two hurried footsteps coming quickly behind her. She had two options she could run and draw more attention to herself or turn around and face whoever it was. Suddenly the footsteps came to a sudden halt then she felt a hand on her shoulder. Slowly and reluctantly she turned around and to her surprise Nathan Scott stood towering over her. She thought again I have two options I can either play this mystery girl thing up or I could get all mad and tell him who I am and he could never speak to me again.
"There you are I've been looking everywhere for you. Where did you go?" His eyes were filled with confusion and sincerity. She had never seen Nathan Scott do anything remotely sincere in his life. So she decided to play into the moment.
"I just needed some air; the people in there were making me a little edgy. I mean did you see them all starring at us? What was such the big deal?"
"I guess they aren't used to seeing girls as stunningly beautiful as yourself."
"Well thank you but the flattery is not necessary."
"Yeah I'm sure you get it all the time."
"Well not as much as one would think." Haley could not help but laugh out loud as this was the first time in her life that a guy had said anything like that to her. She was sure he thought she was this temptress who had been fawned over her entire life. Boy was he wrong.
"I find that hard to believe considering I know for a fact that every guy in that room was insanely jealous of me." He said with a cocky smirk.
"And how do you know that?"
"I know if I wasn't the one dancing with you then I would have been jealous. So all those other guys were extremely jealous of me and my skills."
"You and your skills. Ha! I'm pretty sure I approached you and you just stood there and starred at me. So if those are your skills I'm worried about your ability to hook a woman."
"You know normally I'm much smoother than that but you just surprised me."
"How so?" She replied almost shocked.
"You where so beautiful and so outgoing. Between approaching a total stranger and asking him to dance to handing your bag off to Tim."
"Oh yeah Tim that was one of my finer moments if I do say so myself."
"So you ready to go back inside?"
"The dance? No I don't think so."
"What, why not?"
"Well I think I've done enough damage for the night."
"Come on please you can't leave." He was pleading; Nathan Scott was almost graveling at her feet. Haley had to take advantage of this moment for everyone this guy had ever pushed around or ignored.
"I'm just over this whole dance thing. I'll see you around." She began to walk away.
"Wait will I see you around? How will I find you again? Wait what is your name?"
"My name is Haley and you will see me again but then again this could have been our one and only moment together."
"This perfect moment cannot be all I get, please Haley. If you really want to get out of here then I will leave with you and go wherever you want. Please."
Well he looked sincere and a little desperate but she could not help but love the fact that this boy was so obviously infatuated with her. So quickly she made up her mind that this night was going to be everything the last eighteen years of her life had never been. This night would be crazy, wild, unpredictable, and hopefully something they could both look back on as a fun night with a total stranger. Yes she knew Nathan Scott but she had never spoken to him before and knew nothing about what he was like on the inside so he might as well have been a total stranger.
"Alright your on Nathan Scott let's get out of here and do some damage."
"Wait you know me?"
"Nope, I know your name but I don't think I could ever say I know you."
"Mysterious I like it. So where are we going miss adventure?"
Nathan looked eager maybe a little too eager so Haley decided to was time to slow things down a bit.
"Hey we are not leaving just yet. Don't you have your minions to report to?"
"Well if they are my so called minions then they report to me not the other way around. They will live if I leave plus it's not like I had a date or anything?"
"You mean Tim isn't your date?"
"Haha, very funny."
Suddenly Haley realized that this boy who had been such a thorn in the side of so many people in her life was literally at her beck and call me decided she would take advantage of this while she could. She was never popular but with him she could be the most popular girl in the room. She decided right then and there if she was going to do this then she would play this up as much as she could. To him she seemed overly confident and experienced so that's what she would try to put off the rest of the evening. Haley thought to herself, this is only one night it won't be a big deal I'm sure on Monday they will all forget about me when I look like normal hum drum Haley James. What harm could this do?
"Alright let's not be too eager you don't want to come off desperate?"
"Me desperate, haha!" he scoffed but he was he was indeed desperate to be near her. He wanted so badly to stare into those beautiful brown eyes, to run his hand through her shimmering golden locks, and……He was getting ahead of himself. He needed had just met her and he could tell she would not be as easily swayed by his charms as most girls where. This one would be a challenged and he loved a good challenge.
"First things first I've decided I want to go back into the dance but considering I don't really know any of your friends you will have to introduce me." She had always prided herself on being someone who never cared about hanging with the popular crowd but then again she was always curious about their world. So if she had a chance to be in that world even for one night she was going to take it.
"Deal but you need to do something for me."
"Alright, what?"
"I need you to pretend to be my date for the night?" This could work he thought. If she agrees maybe just maybe he could win her over. He thought to himself that regardless of how the night ends at least he would get to spend time with the beautiful girl.
Haley was shocked but pleased. "I think I can do that."
Nathan held out his arm and she intertwined her arm with his. She looked up at Nathan and couldn't help but smile. He looked so incredibly pleased to have her agree to this she could not help but be happy. It was like the happiness spilling from him was consuming her and dragging her down towards him.
