Hello! So new Chapter.. I got Exams next week so the next Chapter won't be up before... Saturday, next week. (could be later)
So You read how it continues with Naley the day after! and the monday after... What happens to Haley and Clay.. Will Haley tell Taylor she told Nathan.. (you still understand?)
Anyway ... REVIEW! CHAPTER 10 WILL BE UP NEXT WEEK!


Chapter 9. Secrets shall remain untold.

I couldn't... I stepped into the living kitchen. This mansion had a service kitchen, but mornings the Scott family spent in the living kitchen. Dan and Deb were drinking coffee and reading the morning paper when I entered. "Good morning Haley, how are you?" Deb asked. I nodded and replied: 'Fine, it think the champagne got to my head last night. I turned in early." Deb handed me a cup of coffee. "Thank you."

Dan ignored me and I sat down on a stool. I sipped of my coffee and thought of the night before. I had loved that Lucas had shown up and turned out to be Nathan's brother. Which reminded me! I never said goodbye to Lucas and Peyton. Then my dance with Nathan, one of the best I ever had.
Swaying in his arms, his hands on my back. I closed my eyes and sipped off my coffee. "Good morning." His voice startled me. "Good Morning." I said quietly, while Dan and Deb greeted him more cheerful. Taylor skipped into the Kitchen in her nighty. Nathan sighed deeply, before she leaned down and kissed his lips.
Taylor was still under the impression that Nathan had no idea what happened between her and Clay. I handed Nathan the coffee pot and a cup. His eyes held on me shortly and brought my attention to the book I had taken with me.
Taylor glared at me with a look that screamed; 'Don't you dare tell him!"

The low murmurs were interrupted by a cheerful smiling Brooke. She clearly had had a good night of sleep. "Good morning!" she sang having a nice ring in her voice. I looked up and smiled thankfully. "Good morning Brooke." I replied. She sat on the stool beside me and started chatting about the night before. It eased the tension. After a morning chat, the boys went for a run. Clay and Nathan and Dan changed and took off and the girls remained in the kitchen.
Before long Deb was going to check on her staff and then shower and dress for breakfast.
Brooke jumped up from the stool and walked around the island. She raised her hands and slammed Taylor in all force off her stool. "That one you had coming." Instead of screaming or yelling at Brooke all I could was laugh. Laugh so hard. Taylor raised her hand at her eye that was swollen.

"What the hell!" She screamed. "What is wrong with you two? How am I going to explain this eye to Nathan?" Like I cared, he knew already anyway. I couldn't stop smiling. "You really think Nathan doesn't know already? He's not dumb Taylor." Brooke sneered and spit at Taylor before returning at her stool. "Haley! You promised you did tell him! I made a mistake, Okay? That's what I do, I have something good and then somehow I always mess it up!"

Somehow I found myself feeling guilty all over again. I reached out my hand so she could stand up. "Didn't tell him." I sighed and helped her up. "I'm sorry, I was pissed."
Brooke looked like she was slapped in the face. "Haley!" She yelled.
I rolled my eyes and patted her shoulder. "I hope Taylor realises she's got to cut the crap, because I am holding this over your head."
Brooke and I left the kitchen, Brooke bitched on about me forgiving her and I explained to her that I didn't forgave her I gave her a second chance. On top of that I wanted Nathan to stick with Taylor. I wasn't sure why. After our ... my fulfilled promise last night I felt more attracted to him than ever.
On our why to the hall, and the grant staircase the boy came back in. All sweaty and ... Mmh Well Nathan looked yummy. I bit my lip... Nathan's eyes held on me for a few seconds. I looked away and went up the stairs. At the top when the men had continued to the kitchen Brooke turned to me and rolled her eyes; "Go.." She sighed. I sighed tried to resist, but caved and skipped downstairs. Into, what I thought was the library. I sat there waiting. I knew he'd be here soon my eyes had swayed to his to the library door and back to his before I went upstairs with Brooke.
Soon enough the door opened and Nathan came in closing the door behind him quietly. "Hi." He was still looking all sweaty and sexy. I grinned. "What happened?" He said. He sounded indifferently, probably because I hurt him. "I know, I said I didn't want this because it's wrong.. and it is, but..." I crossed the room in an instant. "I want you Haley, I need you." He breathed. I threw my arms around his neck and crashed my lips on his. He pushed me up against the bookshelves, breaking the kiss. "I wanted to stay away Nathan.. but I can't. I'm not capable of resisting.. though I shou-.." Nathan pressed his lips to mine once again. Forcing his tongue into my mouth, feeling his hands down my body. When his hands grabbed the hem of my tank-top I pushed him off, creating a distance.
"Hales.." he groaned. "We can't do this now." I whined. I just needed to kiss him, but we could do all this right now. I just wanted to be held. "Why not Hales?"

"Do you not know Atonement?" I chuckled, since he was an athlete I guessed not. "No haven't seen it. Seemed like a weeping movie so I skipped out on that one." He replied stepping closer again and kissing my neck. I gasped at his touch and threw my head against the shelves.
"It's a book you athlete.." I said, my chuckled stuck in my throat.. because his lips were miracle workers. "Mh, and what. Has. This. Book. To. Do. With. Us?" He said trailing his lips down my neck.
God this man was going my downfall. "Oh come on! Little sister catches her sister and the son of the house keeper and make her own conclusions, when her cousin get raped she puts the blame on the guy and he's send to prison?" He shook his hand amused. 'Nope, doesn't ring a bell." His hands were back on my hips slipping his hands under my top. "Oh.. " I gasped as he grazed my earlobe.
I caved under his touch and explored his chest with all his fine muscles. He moaned as I rubbed his nipples through the fabric of his shirt.
We were going to get caught if we didn't stop getting so caught up in each other. But at this rate I was going to have no clothes in about two minutes. "Nathan, really. You have. To. Stop."I panted.
pushed him away at arm's length. "I want you I do, but not now. Well I do want you now, but now isn't really a good time." I rambled, while he smirked at me.
"You're a tease you know that. First you turn me on and all and then you push me away." I kept my arms stretched out, to keep him from closing up again. "No, I push you away and you started turning me on, I which I lose control of me again and then when I regain it push you away." Nathan stared at me blinked and then shrugged and smirked. "Whatever.."

I giggled when he softly traced his finger tops over my hands and arms, still outstretched. I sighed pushed him off completely and ran from the library, figuring that he would need a minute or 5 to recover. I giggled at that thought while I returned to my suite to get dressed for breakfast. All the making out was making me hungry.

"So?" Brooke flopped on my bed after had entered my suite myself. "So what?" I changed from my sweats and tank top into black dress to the knee, with a rainbow coloured waistband. Over a black lace bra and matching panties.

"How was the make out session?" I rolled my eyes and plopped next to her. "Good." I sighed satisfied. Brooke laughed slapped me playfully. "Oh you're playing with fire, girl. Hot fire." We both fell back on the bed. "Oh he's hot..."

"You know how scared you were when I made your dress, at the beginning of this week?" I nodded and rolled my head to face Brooke. "I remember. God things changed since the ball."

A knock on the door and the entering elderly couple reminded me of the fact that my parents were here still. I had forgotten about them completely and they told me they were worried about me because I had left so suddenly last night and never returned. Also were they afraid I might be suffering, living with Taylor. I agreed that Taylor was a sneering bitch half the time but also that Nathan was quite good in reasoning with her.

Knowing that I was a very cautious person they trusted my judgement and figured I was old enough to know what to do and what not to do. They left satisfied with the fact I was 'fine'.
Breakfast was just as bad as dinner last night. Deb chatted with us animated, us being me and Brooke. Taylor was yet again trying to get her mother-in-law to like her.
I had enough of Clay's sticky 'please don't dump me's so I made a scene in the middle of the entrance hall after breakfast where I broke up with him and asked him to leave.

He pleaded with Nathan if he could stay, not knowing Nathan knew what happened. Nathan told him that ;'Maybe it was better', very calmly, 'if he left'.

"Tay? Haley bub?" My mother called from down the staircase. I came, Taylor from another hallway, to the balustrade of the staircase upstairs. Leaning over it my mom said; "Children, you father and I had a blast seeing you all, but it's time for us to leave." And with those word my parents left around 3 'O clock that Saturday afternoon.
I left that next Sunday afternoon, with Taylor and Nathan and Brooke. Being back home was a blast, because Taylor would go back to her work and Nathan and I had only just started our affair.

At some point this scared me, but the thought that Nathan and would share more of those moments of which I now merely treasured one, made me feel so good.


When Taylor closed the door behind her on Monday morning, Nathan turned to me, I looked at the oblivious little boy on the couch watching cartoons and rolled my eyes. "Breakfast?" I asked.
He grinned and sat down at one of the stools. "So you enjoyed your weekend with aunt Quinn?" I asked Jasper. The boy nodded; 'Yes I did." He stated mater-of-factly. "You?"

I laughed whole heartedly at the boy and with smirk. 'Yes, I enjoyed my weekend a lot." I said emphasizing the word 'lot', and winked at Nathan. The little boy turned his attention back to the TV.
I grabbed the ingredients I needed from the fridge and started making pancakes. I hummed to myself while putting the ingredients together and baking the pancakes. I looked up at Nathan from time to time, but never did more than that. I desperately wanted our 'relationship' to be more than sex. Before we both admitted how we felt we could have fun and laugh so hard together, I wanted to know that was still there.
I put the plate with Pancakes on the 'bar' side of the counter between Nathan and Jaspers plates. "Boy food here Now." I called and Nathan chuckled. "Huhm, Should have given you a puppy for Christmas." He grinned.
I sat down on one of the stools and pulled the plate with Pancakes towards myself. "Hey, those are mine." Nathan complained and I grinned.
"We could share, that is if you have no problem eating them from my mouth 'cause that's where there headed." He grinned in return. Jasper jumped onto his stool and I made a disgusted noise. "Ugh Nathan that gross." And rolled my eyes at Jasper who sat between us smiling widely. "Um Nathan." He was looking at me. "If you don't hurry you'll have to eat them from the boy's mouth."
Nathan looked at Jasper who had loaded all the pancakes onto his own plate.

After breakfast I went upstairs to help the boy get washed up and dressed. "Aunt Haley you should call uncle Clay." Jasper said. I frowned and lifted the boy onto the bathroom counter. "Why's that pancake Boy?" I bopped him on his nose. "He called this morning, and Nathan told him you were asleep and said he would tell you to call him back, but he hasn't told you." I chuckled.

Nathan was ratted out by a three year old.
Sending Jasper off to his room to play with his toys, I cleaned up the bathroom. Taylor knew I broke up with Clay. Clay knew and Nathan knew but neither of them knew that, or at least they didn't know that he knew why.
This was all pretty screwed up.
Usually I would not I a single way in my life have gotten myself so wrapped up in something so wrong, and yet it felt so right. My life really looked more like a daytime soap opera, that the life of a small town's nerd with a 4.0 GPA.
I frowned, maybe I should ask for a reality series.
Oh back to Clay, right. I needed to talk to Clay some time, but therefore I needed to get out of the house and not have Nathan around 'cause that would not go well. Plus I had a hard time concentrating on anything with Nathan around, which was totally sounding Daytime-soap-opera like, again.

I pulled out my cell phone and dialled Clay's number.
"Hey Clay. It's Haley." I stated, trying to sound indifferent. "Oh thank god Hales I thought you'd never call." I exclaimed. "Chill Clay, I need to talk to you€, meet me at the Startbucks in half hour, the one on Broadway. ... Yes. Bye." I hung up and turned to go get my stuff and meet him, when I bumped into Nathan at the bathroom door. "You're going to see Clay?"He asked. I nodded, I couldn't look him in the eye. I knew he was.... Hurt? I guessed he was thinking I was going to forgive Clay. I wasn't.

"Why are you meeting him?" He asked. I sighed and reached my arms up to wrapped them around his neck. "Got some unfinished business with Clay, that I need to finish." I kissed him lightly on his lips. "Hmm, But I don't want you to leave, and be with him." He murmured against my lips. I smiled and parted my lips deepening the kiss. Before long I pulled away. "I need to give Clay a.." I air quoted. "fair.. Chance to explain what happened and get me back."
He kissed me again. "But he doesn't deserve a chance." I replied with a kiss. "I wasn't planning on giving him that chance."
His hands moved lower on my body to my ass. "I like your ass." He whispered in my ear. I smiled.

"It's a good thing I like yours too." And I skipped grinning passed him into the hall hitting his but on my way out.


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