Chapter 4
"Tim," Nathan said, "hide!"
Tim turned around to look at Nathan, "what?! The Tim does not hide!"
Nathan was about to hit Tim once again but caught himself before he did. It would be beyond weird for Haley to come downstairs and see Tim on the floor bleeding. How would Nathan explain that?
"Okay okay," Nathan said, "just don't say anything stupid."
"Why would I say anything stupid? I never say anything stupid."
Nathan looked to the second floor right above the stairs expecting to see Haley there any second.
Nathan saw Haley walking towards the stairs. Her hair was a little messy and her make-up a little smudged but she still looked beautiful.
Haley scanned the room and spotted Tim.
Tim grinned.
"Breakfast?" Nathan offered.
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Nathan just served Haley some eggs and they were sitting in the Kitchen across from each other. Haley had fixed her hair already and cleaned her face. Now her hair was swinging in a high pony-tail.
"Nathan," Haley said, "just a couple of questions."
Nathan nodded. This was the moment he has been regretting since he brought Haley to the beach house.
"Ok well I'll just get to the point. What am I doing here and not at home? Why is he here?" when she said 'he' she signaled to the living room, "and what is here exactly?"
Wow! She really does get to the point, Nathan thought.
"Well," Nathan thought, "here, is my parents beach house. I didn't know where you lived so I couldn't bring you home and 'he' is here because he invited himself here at 4 in the morning."
"No I didn't!" Tim is heard from the living room, "Ok I did but you didn't have to hit me twice!"
Haley looked confused, "why did you hit him?" she didn't really care as to the fact that Nathan hit him but she did want to know why.
"He was in the bedroom and made a lot of noise and-" Nathan stopped realizing that he had said to much.
"Why would he be in the bedroom?" Haley looked straight at Nathan's eyes. A frozen expression on her face.
Nathan looked anywhere but at Haley. He was thinking about how he would just love to kill Tim right now.
"Nathan. Why would he be in the bedroom?" she asked again.
"He figured out there was someone upstairs and he wanted to know who it was." Nathan said realizing how stupid he sounds.
"What?! How did he figure out? Were you like showing off that you have a girl in the bedroom?!"
"Haley! Believe me! It was nothing like that!"
Haley buried her face in her hands, "Did you sleep upstairs Nathan?" she looked at him removing her head from her hands, "tell me you didn't." Haley said coming to a realization.
"I didn't I swear," Nathan said frightened.
Haley looked straight at him tears filling her eyes. How could she believe him if she knew he had a reputation of bringing girls home and sleeping with them. And in this case he even called one of his buddies to see.
"Why would I believe you?" she said, "why would I believe that after hearing all those stories about these cases with you."
"Because," Nathan struggled, "this is different! You're different!"
"What is that supposed to mean?!"
"That I care for you more than I have cared for anyone else. Those other girls meant nothing! You mean everything to me!"
It sounded truly sincere. Any girl could fall for that. Haley wiped her tears.
"Then tell me what happened," Haley said avoiding Nathan's eye contact.
"Well when you fell asleep in the closet," Nathan started.
"What?" Tim said walking to the kitchen, "why were you in the closet?" Tim asked.
"Tim that's really none of your business," Nathan said.
"Well if you are telling a story I might as well know all of it," Tim said sitting next to Haley.
"Tim," Nathan said really irritated.
"Yeah?" Tim toke Haley's eggs and started eating what was left.
Nathan looked at Haley and Haley looked at Nathan. Haley signaled Nathan to continue the story since she assumed Tim knew part of it already.
"So after you fell asleep," Nathan started once again.
"How did you get to the closet?" Tim asked again still eating the eggs.
"It was a dare sort of thing," Nathan said annoyed.
"To be in a closet? That's a weird dare."
Nathan really didn't felt like correcting Tim. He was telling the story to get Haley to believe him not for Tim to understand what happened.
"So after you fell asleep," he started once again, "I waited until Brooke's dad finished reading. That toke a long while."
"What?" Tim stopped Nathan again, "why is Brooke's dad in the story? And why is he reading a book? And why did it take a while?"
"Tim!" Nathan exclaimed.
"What?! I don't get it!"
Nathan continued with the story, "so when he finally stopped reading…"
"Nate! Tell me what's with Brooke's dad?"
"We were locked in Brooke's parent's bedroom and then Brooke's parents showed up so we had to go in a closet," Haley said frustrated since she wanted to hear the rest of the story.
"Oh," Tim said, "why would you be locked in her parents' bedroom?" Tim added after a few seconds.
"Because it was a dare! Brooke locked us in there," Nathan said.
"What did you do in the bedroom?" Tim winked at Nathan. Haley rolled her eyes at this.
"Nothing," Nathan said. Haley looked at Nathan. Was he ashamed to tell Tim about the kiss? Was Nathan going to pretend like she made the first move and he got her in bed? Was he going to ignore her at school? Letting her believe that there was something between them when actually it was all just to get her in bed?
"Weird," Tim said, "I mean you would defiantly do something with anyone even if it's tutor girl."
"Tim," Nathan said angrily, "I'm this close to hitting you again!" Nathan said putting his fingers apart less than an inch.
"Okay okay," Tim said, "continue."
Why was Nathan doing what Tim was telling him to do? He did not owe Tim anything. But then Nathan looked at Haley. He had to clarify things.
"When he closed the lights…" Nathan started again.
"Who closed the lights?" Tim asked confused.
"Brooke's dad"
"Oh"
"When he closed the lights I carried you downstairs to my car."
"You carried her to your car? Why would you carry her to your car? Why not just leave her there and get out? I mean you didn't even kiss her," Tim said.
Nathan sighed, "I started driving when I realized that I had no idea where you lived. If I would bring you to my house then my dad would see you and you really don't want that."
"But your dad saw Peyton and that other girl," Tim said.
"Tim!"
"What? He did!"
Nathan looked at Haley. She was waiting for the rest of the story.
"So I brought you here to my parents' beach house. I carried you up the stairs and put you in the bed and went downstairs to sleep."
"Dude," Tim said, "why would you do that?"
Nathan looked at Tim. He could imagine himself just punching him once again. But Haley cleared her throat waiting for the rest.
"Then Tim showed up at 4:00," Nathan said, "ask him I was downstairs."
Tim smiled realizing he could just lie and see Nathan get beat by Haley in front of his face.
"Just get to the part where Tim goes to the bedroom," Haley said.
"I can tell that part," Tim said, "I was talking to my friend here, Nate, when he mentioned there was someone upstai-"
"Tim!" Nathan said, "Haley that's not what happened"
"Then tell me what happened"
"I told Tim to quiet down since he was making a lot of noise and I kept gazing upstairs to see if he woke you up. When he noticed he started running upstairs and since I just woke up I couldn't catch up to him. He was standing next to you and speaking quite loudly so I punched him." Nathan said out of breath since he said this very fast.
Haley smiled. She knew he was telling the truth. She just felt it. She leaned over the counter and gave Nathan a light kiss.
"Wow! Nate she made the first move! How cool is that?!" Tim said, "Wait! That sucks! A girl can't make the first move! That's just weird!"
Nathan and Haley gazed into each others eyes.
"Nate?"
"Go home Tim" Nathan said still gazing at Haley.
"But"
"Go home" Nathan and Haley said together.
