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"You're not cooking the fish right!"
"I'm cooking them the way I like it!"
"Well we don't all like it the way you like it!"
"Hey, I'm the cook here!"
Haley rolled her eyes at Brooke and Nathan's bickering, looking into the flames of the fire. She noticed Lucas perched on a bucket, staring intently at Brooke and a smile came upon her face. She could see it in his eyes that he had a thing for her and from the looks of it she did too, because hell they all know she doesn't like Nathan.
"Listen, I'm starving so just cook the damn fish and shut up, both of you", Haley said, stressing those last words at Brooke. The brunette huffed, throwing her hands in the air.
"Fine."
"Yeah, 'cuz I'm getting kinda hungry over here", Lucas spoke up.
"He speaks", Nathan taunted, throwing down his flame stick. He scooted over next to Haley as she shuffled through her backpack, pulling out certain night wear.
"You got any skimpy clothes in there", he teased and Haley gave him a fake smile, uttering a 'no', before continuing her rad of the backpack.
"That's a shame, 'cuz if you did, I'd say put it on", he winked and Haley gawked, shaking her head at his pigness.
"I think the fish is done, Mr. Cook", Brooke called and Nathan rolled his eyes.
"Dinner is served."
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Later that night, Lucas and Brooke had drifted off to sleep on the outskirts of the fire as Haley and Nathan stayed awake, surrounded by the flickering of the flames. She was laying on her side, looking at the stars as Nathan threw tiny bits of sticks into the fire.
"Why are you such a jerk?", she asked, looking up at his sitting figure that was illuminated by the light of the fire. Nathan halted what he was doing and glanced down at Haley as if pondering something, before shrugging.
"Camp."
"Camp?"
Haley was lost and it showed on her features, Nathan sighed.
"This is our story. Me and Lucas-"
"Lucas and I", Haley corrected to which earned an eye roll from Nathan.
"Whatever, anyways Lucas and I, escaped from Tree Hill boot camp. That's why we're here."
"Why were you guys in boot camp?"
"For stealing a car. See I've been in two of them, but this was Lucas' first time."
"So what, he just decided to join in on your fun", she quoted with her fingers.
"Actually, he didn't know about my 'fun' until recently. See me and Luke didn't grow up together. Until I was fourteen I lived with my dad in California and was in two boot camps during then. Lucas' mom decided to take me in to which I stole a car and landed us both in the pin. It really wasn't Lucas' falut though, he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Nathan gazed into the burning timbers sadly and Haley felt really bad about the situation. She could tell he held a lot of guilt for getting Lucas mixed up in his bad boy ways, and couldn't begin to imagine how Lucas felt being in this position.
"So, that's what makes you a jerk?", she continued incredulously.
"Okay fine", Nathan surrendered, "I might of been a little on the wild side originally, but being locked in a camp full of trouble makers doesn't help me either."
Haley chuckled, nodding.
"So what about you? What's you and Cruella DeVille's story?"
Haley giggled at his choice of a nickname for Brooke.
"Well, when I was fifteen my parents decided they wanted to sell the house and buy a travel trailer to roam around the world, but I didn't want to go so they let me live with Brooke, my cousin, and her family. Let's just say her parents are not to fond of 'parenting', so they're never home and they just drop us off where ever they want. They left us at this house right before you reach the mountain, it's huge the size of a mansion, but yet not one drop of food can be found, I guess they kind of forgot that when they dumped us. So we went to this fishing store, bought a bunch of junk food and decided to go hiking, for what? I don't know, we're not really nature people, so I'm guessing to find something better."
"In the mountains?"
"Shush", Haley grinned, "besides anything is better than there, trust me."
"Oh yeah and there is this tiny fact that we read the map wrong, heh."
Nathan's ears perked up at that.
"Wait, you have a map?"
"Mhmm, it's in my backpack."
"Yes", Nathan whispered excitedly and Haley chuckled.
"Why are you so happy about that?"
"If we have a map, we can find our destination easier", he said giving her a pointed look. Realization dawned on Haley's face and she nodded. Her and Nathan continued to talk deep into the long hours of the night. She found out a lot about him that she doubted anyone really knew and in return, revealed things about her life that she never had told anyone, not even Brooke. She didn't know why, but for some reason she felt really comfortable around Nathan, safe, like she could always trust him even though she just met him and came to the conclusion that he wasn't as bad as he seemed, he just needed someone to open up to.. and he found that person. Her. They became silent, the chirping of the crickets and hooting of the owls the only noise that could be heard.
"Thank you", Haley glanced up as she heard Nathan's smooth, velvety voice, and shook her head confused.
"For what?"
Nathan stared at her sweetly for a moment, a soft smile playing on his lips. He loved the tingling feeling she gave him inside.
"For holding back, jerk is pretty tame."
Haley blushed, nodding. Even though he appeared as an ass, she knew he was just really cocky and didn't yet deserve the term 'ass' so she said the next closest thing, jerk. But even then she didn't mean it, she knew somewhere deep down Nathan Scott had a good heart and if they were going to be seeing a lot of each other, she was determined to bring it out. One way or the other.
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