Thanks for the awesome comments! I really love the response to this fan fiction. And I'm sorry for all you Nathan lovers that he is an ass in this fic… if you don't like it than you should prob not read the fic (although I don't want to lose readers) I don't know how much longer I'm gonna have him be like this so yeah. Here's the next chapter!
Chapter 4
Miss Kelly was reading off the pairs for the project. Everyone was listening carefully to see who they'd be with. Brooke on the other hand was drawing little hearts on her notebook and chewing her gum.
'Just make sure you guys will meet at her house!' Nathan explained to Brooke the day prior.
Brooke could really care less about this project. It would be yet another project she'd fail. She didn't have to work hard in school because she'd get into college with her parents' money; that was the plan all along.
"So go sit with your partner and discuss how you guys will get this project done and look at the outline for the project," Miss Kelly said after she read the last of the pairs.
Brooke picked up her binder and walked to where Haley sat. "Move," she said to the person who sat next to Haley.
The girl moved and Brooke sat down next to Haley and smiled. "Looks like we're working together."
Haley nodded with a smile, "Looks like it." She looked down at the outline for the project. "So this is going to be a lot of work. Of course we can work on it on the days that Miss Kelly will give us to work on it in class but we'll have to meet also outside of school if that's okay."
"Yeah sure," Brooke said, "But not in my house because my cousins are visiting from out of town." This was not true but Brooke had planned what to say to Haley.
"Okay," Haley said. "We can work in-"
"Your house," Brooke said quickly. "I mean if that's okay."
"I see no reason why not," Haley said. "How about-"
"Today," Brooke cut Haley off again. "If that works."
"Umm, sure I guess," Haley said confused. Since when was Brooke Davis one of the people that wanted to work on a project the day it's given?
"What time is good for you?" Brooke questioned finally asking Haley what she wanted to do.
"Well I can't after school because of tutoring so maybe around seven?" Haley said.
"You don't get home until seven?" Brooke asked.
"I do but don't you want to finish other homework before we start on this project?"
"I guess," Brooke said knowing that she won't even touch her homework. "Seven at your place?"
"If that works with you," Haley said. She was actually happy that Brooke was offering to work on the project today. She was expecting to be the one that did all the work while Brooke sat and complained. It was nice that Brooke was proving her wrong.
"Can I have your address?" Brooke took out a piece of paper out of her binder and handed it to Haley.
Haley wrote her address on the paper. "You need my phone number in case you can't find the house or something?"
"Yeah sure," Brooke said. Haley wrote down her phone number and gave the paper back to Brooke.
"So what are we supposed to do with this project? Like what is it about?" Brooke asked finally asking something about the project.
"Well the project itself has a few parts to it. But the basic prompt is to explain how reconstruction affected either the social, economic or political culture of the United States."
"So what are we gonna do?" Brooke asked. "Social, economic or political?"
"Well there are many reasons for all of them so we could do whichever, it doesn't really matter."
Brooke nodded, "Okay."
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Aundrea, Kyle, Nathan and Brooke were in Nathan's apartment and it was around six thirty in the evening. Nathan opened up the box and took out the tiny camera.
"That's so small, how are we supposed to even see anything?" Aundrea asked looking at the size of the camera.
Nathan pressed a tiny button on the back of the camera. Nathan had the program already working on his computer so the screen showed exactly what the camera was pointing at.
"Oh my god! It's color and high resolution!" Aundrea smiled.
"What did you expect? It's from the CIA," Nathan laughed. "Brooke you have to be very careful with the camera," Nathan closed the camera. It was so small that it could fit on his pinky finger. "And don't forget to press the button." Nathan took the communication device and gave it to Brooke.
"And what am I supposed to do with this?" Brooke asked holding it in her hand.
"Put it in your ear, genius," Kyle said.
"Yeah, that way we can tell you if it's in a good place or not and to let you know if it's on. We can't risk not having it perfect this time."
"And does the camera stick to anywhere I put it?" Brooke questioned loving the idea that she was now part of the whole operation.
"Basically," Nathan said. "But make sure that it's not visible at all."
"Come on Nathan! It's so small! There's no way she'll see it."
"Brooke, we can't take chances here. Wherever you put it make sure it blends in and that she won't see it."
"Okay, okay!" Brooke said taking the camera carefully and putting it in a tiny box and then putting it in her purse. Next she put the little earphone in her ear. "Can you see it?"
"No," Aundrea said fascinated. She was loving the idea of the plan.
"Okay we need to test it," Nathan said. "Can you go to the living room?"
"Yeah," Brooke said grabbing Aundrea and walking across the hallway to the living room.
"You ready Brooke?" Nathan yelled.
"Yeah just say something," Brooke said.
Nathan took the microphone and turned it on. "Can I say something?" Kyle asked.
"Sure," Nathan handed Kyle the mic.
"Brooke, you're a slut," Kyle whispered into the microphone.
"I am not!" Brooke yelled from the living room.
"What did he say?" Aundrea giggled.
Brooke walked into Nathan's bedroom with Aundrea. "You're such an ass!"
"At least it works," Kyle smiled and handed Nathan the microphone.
"Don't worry Brooke," Aundrea said. "He's the one that will have to date Haley."
"It's not really dating," Kyle said. "I mean this is all fake."
"Sorry man but when you're 'dating' Haley you are off the Market. You can't date anyone else. You have to be faithful to her."
"Faithful? This whole thing isn't real!" Kyle said. "So until I break up with her my love life is non-existent?"
"No," Nathan said. "Until you break up with her SHE is your love life. Think about it, it's not that bad. You still get to make-out."
"No sex?" Kyle asked.
Nathan shrugged, "Who knows, depends on her." Nathan looked at Aundrea. He wasn't having sex either.
"So I get to do with her everything I'd do with a regular girlfriend?" Kyle asked.
"Nah," Nathan said, "you get to do with her everything that I tell you to do with her." Nathan said knowing perfectly well that this was his game and that Kyle would play by his rules.
"I'm leaving now," Brooke said. "Have to get there in time."
"Bye," everyone said at once as Brooke left the apartment.
"So you're basically controlling my love life," Kyle said. "You better let me make out with her lots."
Aundrea laughed and sat on Nathan, "why would you even want to make-out with her?"
"Come on Drea, she's hot," Kyle said.
"No she's not," Aundrea's eyes widened. "She's pathetic. Right Nathan?" He better say she is or she'd go crazy.
"Does that really matter now?" Nathan said frustrated. "If she's hot I don't see it. She's nothing special and I could care less."
"And she doesn't wear anything like Brooke or you," Kyle said looking at Aundrea "She should."
"Are you falling for her or something?" Aundrea asked Kyle.
"Come on Aundrea," Kyle said. "So if I say a girl's hot then I'm automatically in love? She's not even the kind of girl I would date."
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Brooke knocked on Haley's door and looked at her watch. She was almost on time, 7:10. That's the closest she'll ever be to 'on time'.
Haley opened the door, "Hey Brooke." Haley invited Brooke in and closed the door after her.
"My room's upstairs," Haley said going up the stairs as Brooke followed.
"So no parents today?" Brooke asked sitting on the floor in Haley's room and looked around looking for the perfect place to put the camera.
"They're out of town," Haley said.
"Gotcha," Brooke said. "Only child?"
"Not even close," Haley took the project prompt and a notebook and sat next to Brooke. "I'm just the youngest, all the rest are out of college or in college." Brooke nodded. "You want anything to drink or eat?"
"Water?" Brooke asked.
"Okay," Haley got up. "Be right back." She went out the room.
Brooke immediately got up. She located a picture frame with Haley and Lucas and put the camera there where it had a clear view of the room and pressed the button. She put her thumb up as if asking if it's okay.
"We got it," Brooke heard Nathan say. "It's perfect Brooke, thanks."
Haley walked in the door with two glasses of water.
Brooke turned around quickly as though she was caught in the act. "I was just looking around," Brooke said quickly explaining why she was standing up.
"That's okay," Haley smiled.
Brooke nodded and sat down next to Haley. "Thanks," she took a sip of her water.
"So I was thinking that we should do the social aspect of the project," Haley said. "I mean we can do economic because there were no more slaves but the social problem carried out until many years later. Even today everything isn't completely desegregated."
"That's not true! I mean we're not segregated at all," Brooke said.
"You really believe that?"
"Yeah," Brooke said sure of herself.
"Well next time you're at school look around you," Haley said, "if we're not segregated by color than it's race or something else."
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"I look better than her," Aundrea said back at Nathan's apartment looking at Haley on Nathan's laptop.
"Never said you don't," Nathan said.
"Tell me I'm hotter than her," Aundrea said looking Nathan in the eye.
"Of course you do," Nathan looked at Aundrea. What has come over her?
"I never said she looks better than you, I said that she looks good," Kyle said.
"No she doesn't!" Aundrea looked back at the laptop. "I mean look at what she's wearing! And her hair is messed up."
Kyle rolled his eyes. There was nothing wrong with Haley's hair or what she was wearing. But Aundrea was his friend and Haley was just a random girl. Well she was going to be his girlfriend but he felt nothing for her. Just because he thought she looked hot did not mean that he liked her. He didn't even know her.
And with that the plan continued. A girl that none of them really knew was already being watched. All Nathan had to do was look at his laptop when she was in her room.
A/N: Okay… so I'm pretty sure this is the actual beginning of the fic. lol… I mean doesn't it seem that way? How the entire thing is going to kick into motion now. Nathan can see her now. But of course some of you will think that the story will start when Kyle starts dating Haley or only when Nathan starts falling for Haley. But for me, this is the beginning: the end of this chapter. So I hope you liked this chapter and that you will keep reading!