Chapter 4: First Day
It was already 7.30, Haley was seriously running late for school, she quickly grabbed her bag, checked herself in the mirror, fiddled with her hair a little and headed downstairs. "Haley, honey are you sure you've got everything," came her mother's voice from the kitchen.
"Yea, I have" she replied wondering why her mother suddenly started caring about her now. She quickly headed into the kitchen grabbed the flask of coffee that was waiting for her at the counter, thank Elise she made a mental note to herself, and she left the kitchen without uttering another word to her mother.
She was just about to get into her BMW and head to school, when she heard someone call her name, she turned to see who it was and there she was face-to-face with him again. There he stood only a few feet away, hot as ever.
"Hey, do you want a ride," Nathan asked casually holding the passenger seat door open for her.
"Yea, sure, that would be nice, but please can we hurry I'm already very late," Haley said feeling kind of stupid now for mentioning that she was going to be late.
"Hop in" Nathan commanded and Haley picked up her book bag and flask and made her way towards Nathan's black Ferrari; she followed his orders as though she was under some sort of spell. "Don't worry, with the way that I drive we will never be late" Nathan smugly added. Which sort of made Haley slightly panicky, but she just went with it.
He pulled out of the driveway and, he asked Haley, "So, first day, you nervous?" trying to make conversation.
"I was a bit nervous before but not anymore," Haley said leaving Nathan to ask the most obvious question…
"So, why aren't you nervous anymore," He asked curiously, wondering what on earth was going on in her mind but he just couldn't, he was pretty good at reading people but he had no idea, what she was thinking of most of the time and he actually liked the mystery, that's what made it fun.
"Well, you see I'm sort of driving to school with one of the most popular guys at Tree Hill High, and I don't think that anyone will have the guts to say or do anything horrible to me," Haley said feeling proud of her reply, that should make up for the lame part about being late.
"Haha…so you're just using me then" Nathan asked with a fake frown on his face, which made Haley laugh as well because it was absolutely adorable.
Haley slurped her coffee and they just continued with small talk…"What are your interests," where Haley lied big time and gave a list of Scarlet's but she added a few of her own…"How long have you been playing basketball," Haley asked and Nathan went on and told her how it was practically his entire life and told her about Dan's obsession with the sport as well, but made sure not to go into too much detail, he didn't want to scare her away. And before they knew it school had arrived. Surprisingly they were just on time!
Nathan parked his car in the spot that was closest to the main entrance; Haley figured that it was especially reserved for him. She kept herself calm and stepped out of the vehicle and headed into her new school. Nathan led her to the principal's office and headed for class, he was late but it's not like he gave a fuck, and he strolled into English and grabbed one of the empty seats at the back of the class.
"Glad you could join us Mr. Scott" the teacher remarked when he saw Nathan enter the room.
"No problem, Mister…mmm sorry what is your name again?" Nathan asked trying to remember his name, even though he had had the same teacher for the past 3 years.
"It's Mr. Dover…Ben Dover," he said and everyone burst out laughing, Nathan did this every year just to get him to say his name.
The teacher was just about to loose his patience and yell at everyone, for being so inconsiderate, when suddenly there was a knock on the door, and everyone became very silent.
A short, scrawny boy walked in and he was actually incredibly unattractive, he seemed like one of those really ugly people who have a really great personality and have like Einstein' brains or something.
"Come in Marvin, what can I do for you?" Mr Dover asked.
"Well, actually Principal Hall sent me here to get Nathan Scott, he's wanted in the office immediately," Mouth replied feeling kind of nervous, he wasn't much of a people person.
"Nathan, it looks like we're going to have to finish this some other time" the teacher said and Nathan had already left.
"Thanks for the get out of class free card, Marv," Nathan said and headed down the hall towards the office, wondering what he had doe wrong now but anything was better than having to listen to Mr Dover blabber on about Shakespeare, one of the great poets of his time...
"Don't thank me, you'll see" said Mouth and took off in the opposite direction.
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"Knock, knock" Nathan said as he tapped his fist o the door and waited patiently for a reply, he knew the procedure exactly because he had been here on countless occasions and at one point it was so serious that Dan had to buy the school a new wing just so that they wouldn't suspend Nathan, because suspension doesn't really go well with the scouts.
"Come in, Nathan," came the principal's voice from inside. Nathan walked in and noticed that there was someone else in the room with them but her back was to him so he couldn't see. He stepped forward, trying to get a better look and Principal Hall carried on talking, "I believe you've met Miss James, here" and at that Haley turned her head and she had a huge smile across her face, she winked at him and gave her attention back to the principal.
"Yea, our parents are friends" Nathan said wondering what this was about.
"Well, I've given Miss James her timetable and I asked her if she knew anyone here, that could show her around campus, so here you are…it is a pleasure to have you here Haley" Haley nodded and stood up to leave with Nathan when the principal stopped her. "One moment Haley, it says here in your transcript that you were a tutor and I was wondering if you would like to continue here, we have a Tutor Centre just down the hall" he said. This caused Haley to go completely red, why hadn't he mentioned it before, the last thing she wanted Nathan to hear was that she was a tutor. Ah why did this have to happen to her?
"Mmm, I think I'll pass I have better things to do" she said trying to act cool, but maybe it came out slightly rudely because that was what the expression on the principal's face was saying. But she wouldn't have time for tutoring anyway seeing that she was trying out for the cheerleading squad, which had now been postponed to next week because the captain Brooke Davis wasn't back from New York yet.
Haley, still very red in the face got up and left followed by Nathan. Haley knew exactly what he was going to ask her (the whole tutor thing), but surprisingly he didn't. He simply asked, "So, why did you pick me to show you around, you could have picked Lucas or even Peyton, you two really seemed to hit it off the morning after the party."
She was amazed that he didn't talk about the tutoring and replied, "Well I don't really know Peyton that well, because we spent most of the day cleaning and never really got a chance to talk but she appears to be a nice person and well I thought you could use skipping class more than Lucas."
Nathan was impressed, but he was still trying to figure her out as she was him. "Well let's see if we can find your locker first…124,125,126…there 128, hey mines just opposite, its done alphabetically so it must have gone down the hall and back because there's mine #230 because you've got Peyton (Sawyer), Lucas (Scott), me and then Tim (Smith), but Brooke's further down." Haley put her book bag in the locker and followed Nathan down the hallway and listened intently as he showed her around the school.
"We have the gym there, where the cheerleading goes on as well, if you're still interested. Down there is the detention room, where I practically lived last year," which caused both of them to laugh…"and there's the cafeteria and let's have a look at your timetable" Haley silently handed it to him, "Okay, we have English together, which is just down the corridor, last door to your right, the Music wing is at the other end of the school," he handed back the timetable and they made their way to Music and Nathan pointed out all her other classes on the way. It was a good ten minute walk and she learnt that the only class that she attended alone was Music, she had English and Biology with Nathan, Peyton was with her in Art, she had Lucas in her History class and all four of them, had Math together. She was quite pleased with her timetable, because she wouldn't be alone apart from Music that is.
Nathan took her back a different route and showed her, where some of the other class rooms were and he stopped to point out, "the tutor centre." Nathan was going to think of her as a complete loser.
"So, you tutor?" he asked, wanting to know more about her.
"Well, I used to anyway, I only started to help out a friend of mine because she was kind of flunking algebra and it sort of felt good to help someone so I decided to continue and joined the Tutor Centre, back at Charleston High" she replied trying desperately to stop herself from blushing, and wondering if Nathan was going to laugh and make fun of her or something.
"That's cool, actually I kind of know the feeling, I helped out this kid with his jump shots, it was part of my community service anyways, when that kid made the shot I think I may have been happier than he was at his accomplishment," he replied. However Haley knew that he only said it to make her more comfortable and it did kind of help because he just changed the subject, seeing the expression on her face.
"So do you play" Nathan asked.
"Excuse me" Haley replied trying to figure out what he was talking about.
"Basketball" he said whilst holding in his laughter.
"Oh, well I used to but I would always stay in the defending half because I cannot shoot to save my life, the one time that I even came close, the ball flew over the basket and sort of hit my coach on her head," this caused both of them to burst out laughing.
"Maybe, I could help you with that sometime," Nathan said.
"Yea, that will be nice," Haley replied and they both walked back to their lockers, where they met with the rest of the gang.
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The bell, indicating the end of school went off and hundreds of teenagers sprawled into the hallway to collect their stuff and head home.
Haley waited patiently for Nathan, by her locker and he appeared in his basketball kit, once nearly everyone had left and said breathlessly, "Whitey wants to start practise from today, so I have to stay at school for another hour."
"I'd rather wait for you then head out on my own because I'm bound to get lost and there isn't anyone that could give me a lift, seeing that we're the only two people in the hallway" Haley said and followed Nathan to the gym. He had a huge smile plastered on his face because now Haley could watch him in action and that really turned people on, well that's what he heard anyway.
Haley walked in said hi to the coach and made her way to the bleachers, she watched the boys practise a while, until she saw something that looked like a baby carrier a few steps down.
In it lay a beautiful blonde baby girl, who had these amazing blue eyes. Haley smiled at the baby and made little cooing sounds, which cause the baby to laugh. She sat there making baby-talk to the beautiful girl and before she knew it practise had ended and one of the players, a good-looking, brown haired boy was walking towards her.
"Looks like Jenny made a new friend, hi I'm Jake, Jenny's father, said the boy, whilst slipping a hand through his silky hair.
"Hi, I'm Haley, I'm new here, your daughter's adorable, she has your eyes," she said when she noticed Jake's eyes.
"Thanks, it was nice meeting you," he said as he lifted the baby carrier.
"You too," Haley replied and went out to look for Nathan, who was waiting for her outside the boys locker room.
"So, what did you think," he asked and led her towards the car.
"Oh, you were really great, but how adorable was Jenny" she said and Nathan looked at her questioningly.
"You're not gay are you, because I heard about the incident in the hallway at your last school" he said praying desperately that she wasn't.
Haley couldn't help but laugh, "No, I'm not do I give of that vibe or something, and kissing Scarlet was just a dare, I'm going to get Luke back for telling you…and Jenny is Jake's daughter," she relied.
"Oh," Nathan said seeing how wrong he was. "You may want to stay away form Jake though."
Haley wondered why because he seemed like such a nice gentleman, and before she could question Nathan why Jake was such a threat he changed the subject, clearly not wanting to talk about it.
Thank you, to all those that review, and if you want to find out what Nathan has against Jake or if Haley makes the cheerleading squad, then REVIEW and I'll update...the next chapter will be updated as soon as i reach 25 reviews. Let me know what you think of the story so far.
I just had a random idea… for those of you that have seen The O.C, you would know what a cotillion is, and so do you think that they should have one.