Costume Party

Chapter 4

Summary: Lucas and Nathan get into another beef.

"Where the hell were you?" Lucas asked a little annoyed.

"Hello to you too." Nathan responded back. "And what're you talking about? Skills and the rest of them aren't even here?"

Nathan and Lucas stood in the middle of the river court, where they were waiting for the rest of their friends to show up so they could play some ball.

"I stopped by your house to come get you, your mom told me you weren't there.. and then I ran into Dan."

"Ohh.. I am sorry."

"Yeah tell me about it.. newaiz where were you anyway?"

"I slept over Haley's."

Lucas eyes immediately opened wide, "WHAT!?"

"Dude, seriously, what crawled up your ass this morning?"

"You slept with Haley!" Lucas was now fuming. His sweet, innocent, virgin Haley, his best friend, the little sister he never had slept with his brother. The thought almost made him want to puke.

"Tell Karen to stop giving you coffee.. I said I slept over .. I didn't sleep with her… well I did (Lucas grew redder).. but like not that way.. you know how Haley is… geez Lucas would you chill.. we slept together.. just that."

"You touch her and I swear." Lucas gritted his teeth.

"You're a little too late for that." Nathan said with a smirk, only to find a basketball being hurled towards his face.

"Geez man, someone's a little jealous . . . you just can't stand that Haley is with this Scott can't you."

"You're so full of it Nate.. she's like my little sister.. little brother.. so you and her.. eww.. and besides what's there to be jealous of.. Haley and I have been doing sleepovers for years.. you know she has a drawer in my room and who do you think that blue toothbrush belongs to in her bathroom."

Nathan's face grew cold and angry as he picked up a basketball and threw it towards Lucas. Lucas managed to dodge it but that didn't stop Nathan from chasing after him. By now Skills, Mouth and the rest of their friends had gathered watching the spectacle before their eyes.

"Daym man, we can never leave these two fools alone." Skills said shaking his head, with Mouth agreeing with him.

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Nathan lied on his bed, staring at the ceiling. A knock at the door took him away from his thoughts. It was already passed midnight, he hoped he didn't want to be bothered by his parents, especially Dan. He got up and opened the door,

"What do you wa… oh hey." Nathan sounded a little surprise as he saw Haley there. "What're you doing here?"

"I was worried about you." Haley said walking in. "I tried calling you but I got your voicemail."

"Oh crap." Nathan looked at his cell phone. "Sorry, Haley my battery died…did my parents let you in?"

"I used the spare key under the welcome mat in the back.. umm your dad saw me."

"Really? What he say?"

"Don't be loud, I have a meeting in the morning."

Both of them started to laugh. "Come here." Nathan said as he gave Haley a big hug.

"But, Nathan are you okay?"

"Yeah, what makes you think there's something wrong?"

"You've been crawling up my window for the past two weeks and the nights you don't sleep over, you keep me on the phone until lord knows when… so yeah I got worried."

"Nah, everything's cool.. but since you're here…" Nathan pulled her in closer and pressed his lips on her as they stumbled onto Nathan's bed. They now laid on the bed with Nathan on top of Haley. Their lips broke apart.

"Why don't you stay the night?" Nathan asked, looking into her eyes. A huge smile came onto her face as she nodded yes. She rolled out under his grasp and stood up.

"You think I can borrow some clothes?" She said looking down at her jeans and sweater.

"No, you can sleep naked." Nathan replied with a smirk.

Haley blushed and hit him on the shoulder. "Well if makes you feel better, I'll be naked too." Nathan replied, taking off his shirt and was about to pull down his basketball shorts he had on.

"Nathan!" Haley was sure she was as red as a tomato. Ever since the costume party, Haley found herself lusting over Nathan. She did not plan on having sex anytime soon, but being with Nathan, she felt herself struggling to fight the urge.

"Kidding." Nathan said laughing to himself. "There's some shirts in that top drawer.

Haley walked over to the dresser and opened up the drawer with Nathan's eyes still on her.

"Can I trust you not to look?… nevermind." She said as she took some clothes and walked over to the bathroom.

"I'm hurt." He called out.

Haley walked out a minute later, dressed in one of Nathan's Duke University t-shirts and to his surprise, wearing a pair of his boxers.

"What?" Haley said as she saw Nathan gawking at her.

"You just look so hot right now." Nathan's words couldn't be more true. Seeing her in his clothes and especially in his boxers gave him such excitement. Ever since Haley came into his life, everything changed for him.

"Easy there tiger." Haley said, trying to ignore his comment. She already blushed enough times as it is. She threw her clothes on top of a nearby chair on the corner. Nathan immediately stood up and took her clothes.

"You can put them here." He said opening up his closet. He quickly took out some clothes hanging on the rack and shelves on one corner and dumped them on the floor, and putting Haley's clothes there in its place.

"Nathan, what're you doing?"

"If you're going to stay over again, you can leave some of your stuff here . . ."

Haley rolled her eyes, she knew exactly what was bothering Nathan, but hoped it wasn't true.

"Is this because I have a drawer at Lucas' place?" Haley asked.

"What're you talking about?" Nathan replied, acting dumb.

"Whatever, Nathan.. Lucas told me what happened earlier."

"What, so you have a drawer at Lucas' .. now you have a whole closet here."

"You know, you're so cute when your jealous and pouting."

"I am not pouting and I am definitely not jealous."

"Yes, you are and I think it's so hot." Haley responded, wrapping her arms around his bare waist and giving him a kiss on the lips. "You have nothing to worry about.. Lucas is just my friend .. so what if he was the first guy to kiss me .. you're the only one that has my heart."

"Kissed you?!"

"Crap." Haley thought to herself.

She quickly walked over and turned the lights off and went underneath Nathan's sheets.

"Let's just go to sleep."

Nathan quickly turned the lights back on.

"Admit it.. you're in love with him.. what am I just second best.. you can't have Lucas Scott.. I'll just have his brother.. am I a consolation prize to you?"

"Nathan, honey.. you're being paranoid.. Lucas is my friend."

"Apparently he's also the first guy you kissed."

"A peck on the lips in 7th grade hardly counts as a kiss."

"Really? Do you want to kiss him now?"

"No! It was a stupid thing to make sure my prediction would come through that year."

"You made a prediction that you'll make out with Lucas?!"

"No! Idiot, that I would kiss a guy.. anyways Nathan that's not important … Lucas and I are friends .. just that .. believe me.. I love you not him." Haley put her hands to her mouth upon saying the "L" word.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, going to sleep, goodnight."

Before she was able to bury herself underneath Nathan's sheets, Nathan stopped her and he looked at her, but she couldn't bear to look at him.

"Say it again."

"Goodnight." She said trying to get out of it. He continued to stare at her and finally she gave in. "I love you." She said in a low voice, almost like a whisper. As soon as the words left her mouth, Nathan's lips were on her's. Finally, breaking free, Nathan smiled and said, "I love you, too."

To Be Concluded . . . .

Note: Thank you so much for the reviews, please review some more, hehe. And there will definatey be one more story in this short series. I was going to end with this chapter but I started writing and it turned out longer than expected. BTW OTH S5 tomorrow !! AHHH!!!