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Summary: Haley and Nathan have been best friends their whole lives because of the attachment that their parents have. Before they could even remember their parents had been planning their spring wedding (with lots of sunflowers and bright colors). But it seems that ever since something that happened in their freshman year, the connection they once shared had vanished. No one other than the two of them ever knew what exactly happened to the two inseparable friends, but what exactly will happen when they're forced back together because of their conniving parents?
2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?,
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season"
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason
-Anna Nalick
Chapter six: Parties are the best places to make a scene…
Haley pulled away, ripping her eyes from Nathan's, and turning away towards her best friend, whose eyes connected with hers automatically. "Caw." She mouthed the words softly, but she knew that both Nathan and Brooke saw their old safety word; the one that any of them would say when they wanted to leave a party.
I can't believe she just made out with some guy in the middle of a party, right in front of me, and then she wants me to save her, Nathan thought bitterly as he watched Brooke make an excuse for Haley to leave.
"Haley! We have to go right now!" Brooke said in a staged panic.
"I don't think so." Chris said possessively as he grabbed hold of Haley's arm. You could see the fear in Haley's eyes, and Nathan picked up on it immediately.
"Listen, Music Guy. I have to take her home to see her boyfriend, okay." Brooke said as she took hold of Haley's other arm and pulled her toward her.
"Well I think that her boyfriend would like to know that she just kissed me." Chris said bitterly as he pulled Haley back towards him.
Haley tried to yank her arm out of his grasp, but her efforts were fruitless. "I only kissed you because you wouldn't shut the hell up!" She said angrily as she once again tried to release herself from his grasp.
Nathan couldn't take it anymore, so he detangled himself from the nameless blonde girl who had been hitting on him, and headed towards the scene that was playing out. "Hales, what's wrong here?"
Her eyes widened, but she knew exactly what he was doing, so she played along as best she knew how. "This ass hole won't let go of me." She said, once again trying to gain control of her arm.
"Dude, what are you doing? Let go of her." Nathan said innocently to Chris.
"Who the hell are you?" Chris asked, puzzled.
"I'm her boyfriend." There was a collective gasp from the spectators that had gathered. After all, this was a scene that involved Haley James and Nathan Scott, two of the most popular incoming seniors at Tree Hill High, if this story was still around when school started back up, everyone wanted to be able to say that they had witnessed it.
"Well you must not be that great of a boyfriend, because she just totally made out with me."
"I did not! I kissed you to shut you up, and then you stuck your scratchy ass tongue in my mouth!" Haley yelled at the man that still had a firm grip on her. There were a few stifled laughs, and Haley smirked at her choice of words, then she turned to Nathan. "I'm so sorry babe, but he was being so annoying." She rolled her eyes and gave him the puppy-dog eyes.
"Aw, Hales, it's okay." He pushed a stray hair behind her ear and looked into her eyes longingly. He could see the laugh begging to escape her mouth, and the amusement dancing in her eyes. "I know you can use your sexiness for your advantage. It's okay."
He stared back into her eyes for a few more minutes, and he could see that it was killing her not to laugh hysterically. The smile on her lips was so big that her teeth were bared fully, and the whiteness of her smile was blinding; but Nathan's insides were jumping at seeing that smile again.
Brooke stood stock still, just watching as Nathan and Haley flirted shamelessly in front of almost everyone they went to school with. Of course it was just an act for that annoying Keller guy that still hadn't let go of Haley's right arm, but it was still touching to see these two ex-best friends actually cohabitating peacefully for a few moments. She couldn't help but have a smile a full dimpled smile spread across her soft features.
"Thanks Nate. You know you're really hot when you're trying not to be jealous." He smirked, trying not to burst out laughing. She was flirting! He couldn't believe it. After not talking to him directly for about two years, she was flirting with him in front of almost all of their peers.
"Well, I'm still hotter than him" he gestured towards Chris "so I don't really have a reason to be jealous." He moved closer to her, asking her permission to do what he was thinking. They might as well start some interesting rumors if they were going to get started anyway.
She lay her free hand on Nathan's cheek and stage whispered. "Damn straight." He leant down to be closer to her height, and let her give a small giggle before capturing his lips with hers.
NO! They did NOT just do that! Brooke thought, disbelief written all over her face. There were more gasps, and even more whispers broke out all around them.
Nathan's lips hit hers hungrily. She felt the shock waves roll through her stomach, and she just let it happen. If she moved away, then Chris Keller would think she was fair game; and that would be disgusting. She'd rather kiss Nathan until she fainted than EVER kiss Chris Keller again. So she let her lips part, and she plunged his tongue into his mouth, soaking in the wonderful sensations that shot through her body.
Okay, so I know that she hates me, I know that what I did is unforgivable; but DAMN this feels good. Nathan pulled Haley closer, putting his hands on the back of her head to intensify what was already the most sensual moment of either of their lives.
Haley slowed down the kiss, knowing that soon she would need air, or she really would faint from kissing him for so long. She slowly disconnected their lips, and backed away from his arms, which were not even nearly as harsh as Chris' had been… When they were on her. He seemed to had disappeared sometime during the kiss that seemed to of lasted eternity.
When it slowly dawned on her exactly what had just taken place, she looked up into the questioning, and worried eyes of none other than Nathan Scott. The one person that could confuse her more than any other. Her eyes widened, and she did the only thing she could think of to do. She ran. She ran as fast as is possible in four inch orange pumps, and pushed her hair out of her face harshly.
She pulled the door to Brooke's car open angrily and fell into her seat, sobbing into her knees.
Suddenly, the car started to vibrate slightly, and she knew that Brook was taking her home. "What did I do Brooke? He hurt me so bad, but it felt so good at the same time. How can you feel so many emotions about one simple thing?" She still hadn't removed her head from her knees, but she kept pushing her hair out from in front of her. The feeling of kissing Nathan Scott kept replaying itself in her head, and she couldn't shake the feeling that she wanted to do it again.
Finally Brooke spoke, with a slight emotion to her voice that Haley couldn't quite place to any particular feeling ."I haven't seen you that happy in a long time Hales."
Haley's head snapped up. She was shocked by her friend's interpretation of happiness, but before she could comment, Brooke had already read her mind, and stopped her from talking. "I don't mean after. I meant while you were flirting with him." Haley was about to cut her off, but once again, Brooke telepathy won out over speech. "Don't tell me it was just to put on a show. I know you better than that. If I was the one in your place, you would say the same thing to me, so don't give me any crap. I saw how you looked at him. It was like nothing ever happened between you two. It was like the first day of freshman year all over again, except that you actually admitted that you liked each other." She took a deep sigh before continuing. "It scared me Hales." She paused, as if she were contemplating whether she should say what she wanted to. "I don't want you to get hurt again. I love you too much to see you go through that again. But at the same time, I want to tell you to go crawl into his bed instead of mine." Hales gave her a disgusted look, and Brooke realized her mistake as soon as she saw the hurt written on her friends features. "Don't look at me like that. I meant that you guys should have never stopped being friends, and you know it. I don't know what happened between you two, but whatever it was, it couldn't have been bad enough to throw away a bond like you two have; or had." She sighed again, and looked quickly at her friend again before turning back to the road. "I love you to death Hales. That's why I'm telling you this. I don't want you to get hurt again, but I also don't want to see that pain that I see everyday in your eyes, when it could have been taken away by sucking up your pride."
Haley was shocked into silence. The only other time that had happened was the night that she caught Nathan… Well, you get the point. The two friends sat in silence for a while before Haley sucked up (part) of her pride, and spoke first. "Brooke, if you knew the whole story, then you wouldn't forgive him easy either." Brooke turned to Haley, and was about to say something when Haley cut her off. "Don't ask me to tell you. It hurts my already wounded pride way too much." She gave a bitter laugh, and continued. "And you better not say something about it being two years. I know precisely how long it has been. If you give me a minute I could tell you precisely how many days. But I know I need to forgive him. And I know he didn't intentionally hurt me. But that doesn't make the pain stop. It might just make it hurt more, because I thought that he never would, and he did." She shot another glance at Brooke, and shook her head. "I know that makes no sense." They both shared a laugh before the car went silence again.
After another few minutes in absolute silence, Brooke spoke again. "You know, you'll always be my best friend Hales."
"And you'll always be mine. We have ESP, there's no way I would ever be able to cut you out." She laughed, but stopped when she realized that Brooke wasn't.
"But you did with Nathan." There was absolute silence as they pulled into the James' driveway where a black SUV was waiting patiently for them.
Haley smiled at Brooke wryly, and opened the door to the cold summer night. "Yeah, but I loved him a completely different way than I love you Brooke." Brooke smiled widely at her friend's admission. "Sorry Brooke, but I don't bat for that team." Brooke broke out into a fit of laughter as she watched Haley walk over to the black SUV and knock on the driver-side window.
A.N: I love this chapter. I love the Baley friendship so much! And I love Naley even more! This chapter was just so cool to work with!
I am SO sorry. I originally had this chapter and the next one as one chapter. Actually when I first sat down to write the last chapter, there was no Chris, meaning that this chapter didn't happen. But when I sat down to write, it came out, and it was longer than I thought, so now all the chapters are being pushed back. Meaning that the 'betrayal' will now be in chapter 8 (hopefully). I will promise to have it exposed by the eleventh chapter! I PROMISE! I feel so bad about chickening out on the promise that I made in the last chapter's AN, but I really didn't mean for this to go like this. I just sit down and start writing, and it comes out with what it does. The only exceptions I make are when it clashes directly with the plot or the few plans I actually have for this story, which there are very few. This story is planned to be about fifteen chapters total, then I am going to focus my efforts on The Clique, which I see being a little longer.
Again, please don't hate me && AGAIN please pretty pretty pretty please REVIEW!!
Keira
P.S. Three guesses who's in the SUV…
P.P.S. I'm probably going to start on the next chapter in a few minutes, but I doubt that I'll have it up tonight, because, frankly I am tired as hell. I'm trying to plan how I want the next chapter to go as I write this, and I'm hoping that I can get what I want into it. I'm not going to drop more spoilers, because that will just piss people off when it doesn't come out immediately! SORRY! I hope that I can update this weekend, but I don't know because my mom is coming down to visit my grandma and I, so I don't know how much time I'll have this weekend, but, if I don't, I'll see you all on Monday!