CHAPTER FOUR: BOTTOM OF A BOTTLE
"Where is she?" Rachel asked after trying to call Haley for the last half hour. After she and Peyton went to get junk food for their little sleepover, they came back to Peyton and Haley's room and were now waiting for Haley to show up, since they couldn't reach her.
"I don't know. Well DJ isn't answering his phone either so maybe she's with him still."
"Yea, but she should be back soon. Since they are keeping up on room checking this year it would be hard for her to stay there without getting caught."
"Well she did learn from you so you never know." Peyton laughed.
"Haha, funny!"
"Well you know it's true, which makes it even funnier."
"Yea well you know what I think…" mid-sentence the door opened and in walked Haley.
"Finally!" Rachel and Peyton said at the exact same time.
"Finally what? What's going on." Haley asked.
"We decided we're going to have a girl's night!" Rachel exclaimed, jumping off the bed to pull Haley more into the room. "We have all the junk food in the world that three girls could eat. We got extra just cause you're here." She joked trying to get Haley to laugh. Thankfully it worked.
"Gee thanks!" Haley said trying to keep a straight face but making it about twenty seconds before cracking up laughing. "You guys know me so well." Right after she said that, and saw their faces quickly fade to frowns, she wanted hit herself. God I'm so stupid.
"Okay how about we turn this suck-fest around!" Peyton said walking over to the cd player and putting on one of the mixes she made, turning the volume full-blast.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" Rachel yelled over the music. "Let's dance," she said and she grabbed both Peyton and Haley's hand.
They danced around the room for a few more songs before getting tired and in need of a food break.
"I'm starving!" Haley said as she grabbed a bag of Cheetos and tore it open.
"Me too!" Peyton walked over to where all the food was and saw the Cheetos in Haley's hand. "Hey! Don't eat all the cheetos," she yelled as she grabbed the bag out of Haley's hand and quickly ran over to her bed, flopping down.
"Hey!" Haley quickly responded by running and jumping on the bed, right on top of Peyton.
"Oww!" Peyton screeched.
"Well that's what you get for coming between me and my cheetos!" Haley laughed, grabbing the cheetos out of her hands.
Feeling left out, Rachel ran over to the bed and jumped on it, right on top of them.
"Geez" Both Peyton and Haley yelled out. "God do you weigh like a thousand pounds or what?" Peyton added causing all three to break out in laughter.
"Hey, that was uncalled for!"
"Yea? So was jumping on us! I'm going to wake up with bruises all over my body!"
"Oh don't be so dramatic! I barely jumped on you!"
"Yea she mostly landed on me!" Haley laughed.
After Haley dropped him of at Harris house, DJ decided to go to the soccer fields and play around for a while. After a while he walked back and went up to his room. He figured he would play some playstation. Opening the door he noticed Luke sitting there reading a book, of course.
"Hey Luke. I thought you guys were going to play some basketball?"
"Yea we did but we finished a little while ago. Skills had to go, but he wouldn't tell us why."
"Do you think it has anything to do with a certain blonde?" DJ joked referring to Bevin, a ditzy girl that seemed to take a liking to Skills. What a weird pairing. DJ thought. But whatever makes him happy I guess.
"Yea, I wouldn't doubt it." Luke laughed. "So what was up with Haley?" He asked after he stopped laughing.
"I don't know she wouldn't tell me anything. She just said she didn't want to talk about it and that it's not a big deal. Which is such and obvious lie, but I can't force her to tell me. I don't want to force her to tell me; I want her to feel like she can tell me anything." DJ said with a frown forming on his face.
"Hey dude she'll come around. She just needs time to think; it seems like it was something big from her past and she wasn't expecting it to pop up again." Luke tried to convince his friend.
"Yea I guess, but if she doesn't feel like she can tell me about this, what else is she keeping from me?" DJ asked as flopped down onto his bed.
"Look she just needs time, so give it to her. She'll come around and tell you everything; she needs you right now, she just doesn't know how much right now."
"I know and I'm going to give her the time she needs, but I can't do this forever." DJ said sullenly.
"Hey I have an idea! Let's stop this suckfest and call up all the guys and go to Tric," Luke suggested talking about the local club, which of course they got in with there fake ID's.
"Sounds like a plan. I could really use something to boost up my mood."
"Okay I'll call the guys while you go shower, cause trust me you need it; you really stink!"
"Hey! I decided to go kick around for a while after talking with Haley, I needed to think"
"Okay whatever you say just go take a shower already." Luke laughed as he went to grab his phone to call the guys up.
"Okay I managed to also get some vodka." Rachel said as she held up a bottle.
"Well what are you waiting for?" Haley asked as she held out her cup, a quarter filled with Gatorade, as Rachel filled it up a little over half way.
"Peyton?" Rachel asked holding the bottle toward her.
"Sure why not?" she said as she also held out her cup, waiting for Rachel to fill it.
After Rachel filled her cup and made one for herself, they all sat on the floor and just started talking.
"So school's really going to be killer this year."
"I know. Can't wait!" Haley said sarcastically.
"Did you see the new chemistry teacher? He's short and wears a toupee!" Peyton said as they all sat there in a fit of giggles.
"Okay, so Rachel how many hookups this year, while you were in Mexico?" Peyton asked.
"Oh you know the average, about twenty."
"Wow only twenty? I think you're loosing your touch!" Haley joked.
"Well I was on vacation for a week less this time. So it was a little lower than normal." Rachel joked too, she didn't care that people saw her as a slut. In her mind she's just having fun and that's all she cared about.
"So what about you guys? How did your summer away from your boyfriends go?" Rachel asked since Peyton was in LA for a internship at some record company just for high school aged kids and DJ was away at some soccer camp for most of the summer.
"It sucked" They both said at the same time.
"Yea but it was a great experience working at the record company!" Peyton added.
"Yea and I got to hangout with the guys which was fun. Tree Hill is amazing in the summer." Haley said as she remembered her summer. She took Lucas up on his offer and stayed with him and his mother at there house in Tree Hill, since you couldn't stay at the school in the summer and her parents were always on business and they didn't get around to buying a house in Tree Hill yet.
"Yea it is. I wish I didn't have to go with my parents on their stupid vacations!" Rachel scowled.
"Next summer you should stay with me. My parents finally bought a house here!" Haley suggested.
"Yea that would be fun! I would get to stay and hangout with my two best friends the whole summer! Especially the summer before we go to college!" Rachel in a giddy voice clapping her hands together, like a little kid.
"Yea that would be really fun." Peyton said as she filled all their cups again.
"So Haley are you ever going to tell us about what happened in there?" Rachel asked.
"Wow great subject change!" Haley said her smile quickly turning to a frown.
"Well we are just so confused! I mean we have no clue what the hell that was!" Peyton added.
"Look all you need to know is that we went to school together in Chicago, we were friends, then I was moving, then something happened and we stopped being friends. That's it!" Haley said trying to end this conversation as quickly as possible.
"Something happened like what?"
"Something that I got blamed for and wasn't my fault. That's it, that's all I'm saying because that's all you need to know. So when's the first basketball game?" Haley asked changing the subject.
"Okay I guess we'll take it, for now." Rachel said with a smirk on her face.
"Yea I guess." Peyton added, wondering why Rachel was giving up so easily.
"Um shouldn't you know when the first game starts? You are a cheerleader." Peyton asked Haley.
"Well so are you and you don't know either!" Haley laughed.
"Well I'm the captain and even I don't know!" Rachel said sending them all into laughter, their drinks already having a little effect on them.
"Okay I guess I'll ask Luke. I'll call him now." Peyton said as she grabbed her cell and scrolled through the contacts until she found Luke's name, and pressed send.
"Hello"
"Hey Luke I was just wondering if you knew when the first basketball game was?"
"What? I can't hear you!"
"Where are you? I can barely hear you over the music!"
"We're at Tric. Want to come?"
"I don't know let me ask." Peyton said as she held her hand over the mouth end. "Do you guys want to meet the guys up at Tric?" Peyton asked Rachel and Haley. The looked at each other and both shrugged.
"I guess, why not!" Rachel said.
"Okay" Peyton said as she pulled the phone to her ear again. "I guess we'll come. We'll be there in about twenty minutes."
"Okay, see you soon!" Luke said before he hung up the phone.
"Who was that?" DJ asked as he came up to the table with a few beers.
"Oh, that was Peyton. The girls are gonna be come down."
"Oh okay. Good I can spend some time with Haley just having fun." DJ said as he took a sip of his beer after he passed one to all the guys.
"Yea I feel like I haven't hungout with Peyton in forever!"
"Dude you spent the whole day with her like two days ago!" Skills said laughing.
"Yea well it feels like forever!" Luke said as he joined and started laughing too.
"Oh look it's Bevin! Gotta go!" Skills said taking one last swig of his beer and leaving it at the table to go dance with Bevin.
"Looks like he and Bevin are really hitting it off!" Jake said as he came up to the table from talking to some girl he met in his Lit class.
"Where did you go?" Luke asked as Jake sat down at the table.
"I ran in to some girl I met one of my classes."
"Is she new?" DJ asked.
"No I don't think so. I just think she changed a lot over summer because nobody knew here but the teacher did, like she may have had her last year. So I don't know."
"Oh are you talking about Elizabeth Sparks?"
"Yea that's her! I've never seen her before this year."
"She was in my world history class last year. I don't think she ever talked!" Luke said as he picked up his bottle.
"Well she must have changed a lot over the summer! She hasn't shut up since I met her!" Jake laughed. "Not that I mind. She actually talks about interesting things, like books and music, instead of the latest fashion, like half the girls at our school do!"
"Yea she always seemed like a cool girl, just never got to her because she never talked."
"Yea she seems pretty cool so far. Actually I think I'll go ask her to dance." Jake said as he stood up and walked away.
Finally thirty minutes later Rachel, Peyton and Haley walked into Tric and went searching for the guys. Spotting them at a table in the corner they walked over to them.
"Hey guys" Rachel said first as they got to the table. Looking over she saw Skills talking with Bevin, who she knew from cheerleading, and Jake talking to some girl that looked familiar but couldn't really place her.
"Hi, I'm Rachel and they're Peyton and Haley." Rachel said to this girl and reached to extend her a hand.
"Hi I'm Liz." The girl said as she shook her hand and nodding to Peyton and Haley as they looked toward her and said hi.
"OH! We have gym with you right?" Rachel said finally remembering where she's seen her from.
"Yea I think so. Isn't Mr. Wheaten such a jerk!?"
"Yea! I can't believe he made us run two mile on the first day!" Rachel said as they started getting into conversation, while Jake smiled liking that this new girl fit in so well with his group of friends.
"Hey" Haley said as she walked up to DJ.
"Hey" He said as he pulled her down to give her a kiss. Soon she was sitting on his lap with her arms wrapped around his neck, while his hands were resting on her hips, holding her from falling.
"How was your walk?" DJ asked as they pulled away when air became an issue.
"Good. How was playing soccer? Did it clear your head." Haley said knowing that when he needed to think he always preferred to play soccer by himself, and after she dropped him off she walked around the school campus and saw him kicking around the ball on the field.
"How did you know?"
"I saw you, while I was trying to also clear my head."
"Well it helped. Did you clear your head too." DJ asked as he shifted so she was sitting in the booth right next to him.
"Yea I did" She said as she leaned her head on his shoulder.
Say say my playmate Won't you lay hands on me Mirror my malady Transfer my tragedy
"Oh, I love this song….let's dance!" Haley said as she stood up and grabbed DJ's hands taking him with her.
My mind has changed my body's frame but god I like it My heart's aflame my body's strained but god I like it.
After dancing for a while it started to get a little warm.
"I need a drink" She yelled over the music to DJ. "Want anything."
"No I'm good. Do you want me to come with you?"
"No it's okay. I'll meet you back at the table."
When she got to the bar she ordered a shot and a bottle of water. She quickly downed the shot and opened the bottle of water, taking a long drink.
"Ah, look who we have here. If it isn't Bitchy McBitcherson!" she heard someone say from the side of her. She turned over and say Brooke sitting on the stool. Out of all the places she could have gone Brooke had to come here. She ordered another shot, ignoring Brooke. Haley didn't care that she already had a little buzz from earlier, she downed the shot without a thought.
"Wow really kicking them back! Trying to hide your sorrows in alcohol? How original."
Haley ignored her, grabbed her water and turned to leave.
"Oh walk away! It's what you're known best for!"
"You know what, I've been trying to ignore you because I just have nothing to say to you. But if you would like I'm sure I can find something…and I assure you, you will not like what I come up with!" Haley yelled as she spun around facing Brooke.
"Really? Oh did I get under little miss Haley's skin?" Brooke said walking closer to Haley.
"What the hell do you want? It's like you're trying to pick a fight with me! Why don't we just ignore each other! It's what you're known best for!" Haley said mimicking Brooke's line from before.
"Well sorry that the site of you just repulses me!"
"Yea and what do you think I see when I look at you? That's right a total whore wrapped up nicely in a little Brooke package!" Haley screamed starting to attract attention.
"Well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black!" Brooke yelled right back.
"Excuse me?! You did not just call me a slut!"
"I call them like I see them!"
"Yea well in that case when I look at you all I see is whore turned back stabbing bitch!" Haley yelled, not caring that the crowd around them was starting to grow.
Brooke stood there with anger in her normally friendly features. She picked up the glass she had order minutes earlier and in one quick motion threw all it's contents right in Haley's face. Haley just stood there shocked until she felt the water bottle in her hand, and in retaliation, held the bottle over Brooke's head and tipped it upside down, sending all of it pouring all over Brooke.
"What the hell?" Brooke said as she wiped the water from her face.
Haley started to turn to walk away when she felt a push from behind. When she turned around she just saw a smug smirk on Brooke's face. That was all she needed to walk right back up and push Brooke right back but with a harder force. Sending her stumbling back. Guess I'm not the only one who's been drinking tonight. Haley thought as she saw Brooke having trouble getting steady. With that Haley walked up to Brooke and right past here to go back to her friends. She felt a hard tug on her hair that had her stumbling backwards, like Brooke was doing moments before. She got her balance back and turned around and went up to Brooke and raised her hand and sent it flying across her face, catching Brooke off guard.
"You did not just SLAP me!" Brooke yelled while she brought a hand up to touch her already red cheek.
"I think I did!" Haley responded with a smirk. Just then Brooke clenched her fist and brought it up colliding with Haley's face.
Just then Peyton and Rachel ran up. They had heard the commotion of two girls fighting and wanted to check it out. They never thought it would be Haley and this mystery girl.
"What's going on here?" Peyton asked Haley as they got closer.
"I'll tell you what's going on here that bitch just punched Haley!" Rachel yelled getting closer to Brooke. "Who the hell do you think you are?" She asked coming really close to Brooke so they were face to face.
"I don't know who you think you are, but if you don't back up right now you are going to get a black eye just like your friend!" Brooke challenged Rachel.
"Oh really I don't think you would ev……….." Rachel was mid-sentence when a bouncer walked up to them.
"Okay, you four out! NOW!" He yelled pointing at Brooke, Rachel, Haley and Peyton.
When no one moved he stepped closer and grabbed each one of there arms, two in each hand. He took them outside and left them with some advice, "Settle what ever high school drama you have because life's to short to go around hating people." They just stood there looking at him like he was an idiot, what kind of advice was that? There was always going to be people that you hate and people that hate you, it's called life.
AN: the chapter is a song by Smile Empty Soul. And the song they dance to is Wolf Like Me by TV on the Radio. Please review because none of you that read it do and I really want some feedback (good or bad)! Plus if you leave reviews it gives me more opportunity to check out stories you have written, if you write them! Thanks I really appreciate you guys for reading it! I don't own anything but this story.