Chapter 4
What the hell!... Get Out of Here!... Stop Please! Stop! STOP!...
"Haley! Haley!"
"STOP!" The girl lying on the bed suddenly sat up, her forehead dripping of sweat drops. She was wearing a yellow tank top with grey sweatpants and her hair was up messily in a bun. Everything was a blur to her. She turns to her side to see a blurred image of someone. When she saw this she suddenly screamed, grabbed her blanket and pushed herself back until she felt the cold wall on her back. "Please go away!" she pleaded and tears started to well up in her eyes. The man took hold of her and shook her to snap her out off the state she was in. "Haley, hey… it's me Lucas…" Haley finally snaps out of it to finally realize it was just her brother who at the moment was staring at her with concern in his eyes. "Uh…" she couldn't speak. "Hey, hey it's alright, it was just a dream…" he pulls her in to comfort her as her tears start to soak up his grey t-shirt. "More like a nightmare…" she said softly but loud enough for her brother to hear.
A few minutes later, Lucas pulls her away and looks at her wipe her tears away. "Hey what's wrong baby girl?"
"Uhmm…." She sniffed and wiped her tears thinking whether or not she should tell him about everything. "It's nothing…" she sniffed again. " Like you said it was just a bad dream…" She gave him a small smile to let him know she was okay. Lucas of course could see right through her. "Hey c'mon it's me. You know you could tell me anything."
"I know, that's why you're the best big brother I know…" she smiled and giggled a little. He gave her a smile right back and wiped a tear off her cheek. "So tell me what's wrong…" Lucas and Haley were always close. As kids they'd confide in each other about everything from Lucas scared that their mom would yell at him for breaking the vase in the living room to all the guys that would tease Haley, no matter what they would have each others back. But ever since Haley moved out, everything has changed. Too much has gone on, and now as much as she loves her brother, she just wasn't sure she was ready to let everything out in the open. She just wanted to forget it all, start anew. "Really Luke Uhmm... I just dreamt I was being chased by little scary gremlins as always" She smiled.
"Still having those dreams huh? Well looks like those gremlins has gotten a lot scarier by the way you were stirring in your bed." Lucas still wasn't sure she was telling the truth, but he just let it go, for now.
"Yeah, a whole lot scarier." She leaned against the wall again and sighed. At least her brother bought the story since as a kid she's always had occurring dreams about gremlins with sharp fangs trying to gobble her up. "So how was your little practice session today?" She asked trying to change the subject.
"It was cool; it's good you got to meet everyone today, so I didn't have to go through the whole introduction thing so many times."
"Yeah your friends are really nice, I mean your girlfriend is bit cheery, and that Tim guy kinda freaks me out. But other than that they're one nice group of people" She smiled at Lucas with approval of his friends.
"Yep that's my girl, she'll grow on you once you get to know her more." Yeah I bet, Haley laughs to herself at the odd pairing of his brother and Brooke. "…And Tim, he's an odd one, but at least he can play ball." Lucas chuckled at all the stupid things Tim has done or said in the pass.
"Anyway glad you and Nathan are still good friends."
"Yeah, we've been through so much crap together since you were gone. And we've caused a lot of riot too since you weren't there to stop us." He laughed at the memories.
"I probably wouldn't have been able to stop you guys either way."
"Probably not" Both started giggling.
"Haley! Phone it's your mom!" A voice downstairs interrupted their conversation.
"Oh Luke please, I don't feel like talking to anyone right now." She told Lucas with a frantic look on her face.
Lucas gave her this confused look before giving her a nod, "Okay… I'll be right back" he said before leaving her side to go downstairs and tell their dad that she was asleep already. Haley just continued to sit there in the dark curled up into a ball hugging her knees tight to her chest thinking about the nightmare she just had. She shook it off before Lucas came back into her room for more bonding.
"So what was that about? Why didn't you want to talk to mom?" He asked her curious to why she didn't want to have a conversation with their own mother.
"Just not in a talking mood right now. Plus why would I pass up this opportunity for some bonding time with my big brother." She joked.
"True, who wouldn't want to talk to me?" Lucas said with a big smirk on his face.
"Oh aren't we a bit cocky?" she threw the pillow beside her to his face but Lucas caught it before getting smacked in the face. Haley started to laugh she couldn't remember when she laughed that much. "If I knew that you would've turned into a Nathan clone I wouldn't of left Tree Hill" she giggled some more.
"Ha-ha very funny" he threw the pillow back at her. "Anyway back to the subject. How is mom? She still with…"
"That jerk she calls her husband? Mr. I'm so full of myself Dan Ricke." She couldn't help but rolling her eyes at the sound of the name. Haley scoffed, "Dan Ricke, Pah! More like Dan Prick." Haley said in a serious tone. Every time she even heard the name, Dan Ricke, she just wanted to strangle anything that was in sight. She despised him. She couldn't believe her mother would actually stay with a man like Dan Ricke. Dan Ricke was into the whole real estate back in New York, after a few smooth business deals, his ego couldn't help but enlarge by the second. He had a son Chris Ricke who is just as arrogant as he is. Dan Ricke treated his son like a Prince, but Haley to him was nothing more than just another worthless maid in the house. He would order her around before she could do something she wanted to do which in the end was impossible to do because it would be either too late or she was just too tired to do anything after doing all of his biddings. And unfortunately for Haley her mother was so deep into his spell that she really didn't have a choice. Her mother was always too busy with pleasing Dan or her work to worry about Haley's needs.
"I guess she is still with him." He chuckled.
"Yep! Unfortunately…." Haley sighed.
"Is that why you finally decided to come back to Tree Hill?"
"Yeah I guess you can say that…" she sighed again looking down. She couldn't help but blame her mom for marrying that jerk and for everything that has happened to her all those years, all the pain she had to endure. Going through all the terrible stuff that has happened to her in her mind she just wanted to cry, hit the wall, strangle her pillow, just anything to release the hurt she's been feeling, but she couldn't, not in front of Lucas.
"Well if Dan Ricke is the whole reason behind you coming back then maybe the guy isn't so bad after all." Lucas smiled at Haley trying to make a joke out of the situation to get a smile out of his sister's face, but to no avail Haley's glare stayed in place, except now the glare was towards him. "How could you even defend that devil! He the biggest son of a…" before Haley could finish Lucas interrupted
"Okay, okay I get it." Lucas raised his hands in defeat. He didn't want to see his sister get more upset because once you get her going there's no stopping her.
"Good! Cause that man, if you could even call him that, does not deserve a single gratitude." Lucas could tell this subject obviously disturbed her so he decided to change it.
"So anyway… You excited about going to school?" he asks
"Uhmm… Yeah sure! You know how much I love school." Finally the expression on face quickly changed into a better looking one. Lucas knew school always cheered her right up ironically enough since he didn't know a single person who would actually be as excited about school as she was.
"Well then it's a good thing you have gotten to know everyone, so at least you'll know some people and not be a complete loner." Lucas snickered.
"Oh yeah like I'm sure your mister popular." She scoffed.
"Hey may I remind you I'm co-captain of the basketball team this year and dating the head cheerleader?" Lucas said with a grin.
"Wow you really have turned into Nathan haven't you?" she laughed at her brother's unusual cockiness.
"My don't you like to mention that name a lot." Lucas teased.
"Excuse me? What's that suppose to mean?" Haley once again threw the same pillow at Lucas but he ducked down quick enough so he wouldn't get socked on the face by the flying pillow.
"So what? Is it safe to know that my little sis has no longer have any feelings for 'Moe'?"
"Of course not! And I never even had a crush on him in the first place for the last time!" Haley reassured herself more than Lucas.
"Good. Cause he may be my best friend but Nathan Lee is the last person I want my baby sister hooking up with." Lucas said making it clear to his sister.
"Why is it so bad for me to hook up with him? Not that I'm asking permission because like I said I don't like him." Good thing it was dark enough now that Lucas couldn't tell she was lying through her teeth.
"Because have you seen Nathan at school?"
"Uh… obviously not!"
"Exactly my point. Everywhere he goes, a girl stares at him and our good buddy Nathan can't help flirt back with them and occasionally date random girls even though he's supposedly with Rachel Gattina" Lucas explains the busy life of Nathan to his baby sister.
"Who's Rachel Gattina?" She asked curiously. Nathan already has a girlfriend? She sadly noted to herself.
"Well she's supposed to be his girlfriend. Brooke hates her, cause she's always trying to steal the spot of head cheerleader from her. But yeah she's the girl that Nathan walks around the hall with while getting some extra attention on the side from other girls in the hall." He explains once again.
"So how does he get away with dating those other girls?"
"That is the mystery we call Nathan, we still wonder about it all the time. But that's Nathan and I don't think there's a single girl that could change that." Maybe I could… Haley thought to herself. What am I saying? Nathan Lee? The same boy who use to tease me and run a toy train through my mouth while I'm sleeping? But then it's been so long he could've changed. Haley! What are you saying! Haley continued to argue with herself until she got interrupted by a voice other than her own.
"Haley? Hello….Earth to Haley?" Lucas waved his hand in front of Haley's face which snapped her back in reality.
"Oh hey…" she said as her cheeks began to blush, again luckily to her advantage it was too dark for Lucas to see.
"Where were you just now?" Lucas asked her curiously.
"Oh sorry…just tired I guess…" she exclaimed.
"Oh okay, well I guess I'll let you rest now, it's been a long day…Try to think happy thoughts this time okay?" he smiled at her.
"Thanks Luke, I will" She smiles back and gives her brother a hug before he got up.
"G'nite Hales"
"G'nite Luke" Haley crashed herself back down on her bed thinking about what Lucas had just said to her. Think happy thoughts…'Hey Haley-bop we missed you' … 'Always there for you baby sis'… 'Glad you're back Hales'… Haley falls asleep at the thoughts of her dad, Lucas, and Nathan fly through her head.
A/N: Well I'm a little disappointed at the amount of reviews I've been getting, not that I appreciate the ones I have now. Just wished I had more I guess. Well hopefully this will boost it up a bit. So please review don't care whether it's a bad review or not! Just say something! Because if I don't get enough I don't think I'll be able to continue this story. So until I can get to at least 25 reviews after this chapter this is all you'll get from me. I know that's probably too much to ask for, but I see so many people who only have 2 chapters with over 20 reviews and this is already my fourth. So please bring a smile to my face and review! THANKS and as always ENJOY! )