Author's Note: Sorry life took over and my computer crashed, but it's here now! Thanks for reading!
Chapter 7: Kindly Unspoken
Peyton slowly walked over to Jake not bothering to try and hide the confusion that was clearly plastered on her face. Jake got up out of the chair he was sitting in and hugged her smiling. What was going on? It wasn't any special occasion…was it? She couldn't remember? Peyton laughed stepping out of Jake's grasp, but suddenly became worried as she took a closer look at him, at his eyes. Something was wrong, and though he hadn't exactly told her that or wanted to make it seem like that she knew it. She knew it in her gut, he was leaving….again and she knew there wasn't anything she could do about it. People always leave…it was something that had become a fact of life for Peyton, her dad had done it, her mom had left though that wasn't really her own fault, and now Jake was leaving…again. He had already left once and though he always had a good reason, most likely the same reason as last time, she couldn't help but to resent him at least a little for it. Peyton turned away from him and crossed her arms staring down at her Chucks.
"They found her haven't they? Again?" Peyton tried to hide all of the emotions that were circling with her right now. The pain, the sense of helplessness, the resentment, the anger…all things she didn't want to feel at that moment in time yet she couldn't stop from being there. She cursed Brooke thinking that if Brooke hadn't brought her there that maybe it wouldn't be like this, but Brooke didn't know…she was only the messenger after all. And it was a matter of fact that even if she didn't show up Jake was going to be in his car on his way to find her….again…She couldn't stop him as badly as she yearned to. He was going, and that was that.
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A week, a week had gone by and Haley still had to talk to Taylor or Nathan about the results. She knew they had them…she just honestly didn't really want to know them. What if they boy that she was sure she still cared about was the father to her's sister's evil spawn? What was she to do then? And why did she have to care about Nathan so much? She knew she shouldn't after what he did to her, but a heart wants what it wants right? As cocky and self righteous as Nathan was she had fallen for him, hard and there didn't seem to be any getting out of that one. Haley jumped when she felt someone touch her shoulder. She turned around and squinted against the sun that glared back into her eyes. She placed a hand over them to somewhat shield it away and to her luck…there stood Nathan. Of all the people to walk up to her during her free period, Nathan was the last one she wanted to see. She turned back around and went back to scribbling random lines on the piece of paper sitting stationary before her. So she was no Peyton what so ever with her drawings, but scribbling was better than going and completely telling someone off like she had been known to do lately.
"What do you want Nathan?"
"To relieve you of what I know you're bottling up."
"Oh yeah? And how do you know I'm bottling up anything at all?" Haley raised her head and shot a glare over at him, but the only thing running through her mind was how badly she wanted to be with him. Was that wrong of her? Haley shook her head as if relieving herself of the thought and stared back down at the open notebook in front of her.
"Because I'm guessing you're probably imagining that piece of paper is my face."
"Why should I be?"
"No, because like I told you…"
Haley cut him off immediately and stood up. "No, I don't want to know." Haley grabbed her stuff and was about to stalk away to go find Lucas or someone, but her elbow was caught by Nathan.
"It's not mine Haley."
Haley pivoted around on her heel and stared up at him glaring again. She was completely relieved, but you would never know by looking at her. She smacked his arm and pushed him back rolling her eyes obviously pissed.
"What the hell was that for?"
"Because if you wouldn't have slept with her I wouldn't be so stressed out about it." Haley was in his face and whispering, she wasn't usually one to cause a big scene and she definitely wasn't one that wanted her whole life broadcasted to the entire school.
"Why were you so stressed out about it? Wait, do you still want me?"
"Yes, I mean…no! Ugh! You are so aggravating!" Haley wheeled around and pulled open one of the large double doors the air-conditioning immediately welcoming her. Her thoughts were jumbled, and her arm once again was being pulled back by Nathan. She was at a loss, a guy who could bench press 200 pounds could definitely pull back a girl who weighed 120 and was only 5'3". She stopped and sighed staring up at him.
"Haley…."
"Stop Nathan, what I said was a mistake so don't take it as one more thing that you can add to your ego booster because that's not what that was at all. Now leave me alone okay?"
"But I have something to tell you Haley!" As much as he wanted her to she didn't turn around even. And even though he knew where she was going he decided not to go after her, that and everyone in the hallway was now staring at him so he decided to just cut his losses. Nathan turned around and pushed open the double doors the heat from the North Carolina sun immediately hitting him like a wave.
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