Chapter 10: The Fight

"Coming!" she called out hoping the person would hear.

Once she got to the front down she twisted the handle, swinging it open with a smile, but her smile soon faded when she saw Randy leaning against the frame of her front door with a very pissed off look on his beautiful face. She once again tried to force a smile "Randy…"

He pushed his way through the door of her home, slamming it shut behind him and walking past her. With her back still turned to him, she let a small shiver run up her spin, the shiver caused by the loud slam of the door and the heated look on her best friends face, she knew what was about to come wasn't good at all. She squeezed her eyes shut and breathed in deeply trying to ready her mind for what was about to come, she let out a long breath of air and finally turned to face him and when she did, she didn't know whether the man before her scared her or turned her on. He was wearing a simple outfit of black track pants and a black wife beater along with a black zip up hoodie, unzipped. My lord, who knew such a simple outfit could make this man look so sexy, but then again to Haley he always looked sexy. She wanted to bit her lip at what he was doing to her by standing there with his arms crossed over his chest and pissed as hell! There was no sexier site but she had to push back the feeling and focus on the more important issue.

There was no doubt about it that he was pissed, she still didn't know about what and if he actually remembered what happened that night, but if she had to take a wild guess she would say: yes he did. She decided to keep calm and act cool and collected with herself, she didn't need to bring attention to how nervous she was if it wasn't necessary.

She cleared her throat and gave Randy a confused expression "You seem pissed."

Randy just shook his head and gave an unamused laugh "Oh so you noticed?" he paused and just as Haley was about to open her mouth he cut her off "Your very observant best friend, but what you aren't is truthful –"

It was Haley`s turn to cut him off, she was caught, she knew it, he knew about that night and about all the lies she said to him the morning after. "Ok Keith just please let me –"

He took two giant steps towards her and shouted "No!" his eyes danced with hers, she could see the anger and pain behind his beautiful blue eyes but she didn't dare tare her eyes away from his. Seconds past before he decided to speak again. He sighed and shook his head "I thought I knew who the fuck my best friend was, of all the years we`ve known each other you`ve done some fucked up shit but this…" he paused and looked Haley dead in the eyes "Lying about this was the worst you could have done, what the fuck were you thinking?"

Haley felt tears want to start forming but she forcefully tried to choke them back. She took a few gentle steps toward her best friend "Randy please you have to understand, I just couldn't handle what had happened, I was freaked out and –"

"Oh the fuck Hales and you think I wasn't?!" he shouted "But it would have been nice if we could have talked through this shit together and gotten over it together."

"Randy I knew how upset and pissed you would be after finding out you had cheated on Kim and I didn't want to be the one who caused that!" Haley now found her voice and began shouting back "I didn't want to be some whore who you spent a night with so I pushed it as far away from me as I possibly could, okay?!"

He had to admit the words she said sent a pang to his heart, he didn't by any means think she was a whore or anything close to it. It was a mistake. A mistake he could never forget and not because of how guilty he felt or how wrong it was but he could never forget it because of how amazing he felt that night when he was with her. He sighed and let out a puff of air "Hales, your far from being a whore ok?" he lowered his tone about ten notches "We were drunk off our asses, we had no idea what was happening, don't put all the weight of the blame on yourself." He put his hands on his hips, now looking at the floor, unsure what to say next.

"Do you know what it felt like?" Haley began "To know that I slept with my best friend, whose engaged to be married?" she took a short pause to lift her gaze off the floor and at her best friend "I felt disgusting, I felt like a slut, whore, the other woman –" Randy cut her off before she could continue.

"Hales stop." He stated with authority, his voice was soft but firm. He walked closer to her, so close that she could feel the heat radiating off his body and smell his Armani cologne, he looked deep into her eyes and what he found was more than just pain and guilt, her eyes were dull and lost their shine, its almost like she wasn't herself anymore. "I don't ever want to hear you say that about yourself again, you understand me?"

Haley shook her head and looked away from him and when she did and didn't respond, he pressed a finger lightly under her chin and forced her gaze back towards his "I`m serious Haley, you need to know your not who you think you are right now, this is not your fault."

Haley sighed and softly pushed his hand away but god she didn't want to, she wanted to feel his comfort, she wanted him to hold her tight, caress her, love her. But she had to force all those feelings down right now for the sake of their friendship, there was no way in hell she was ever telling Randy how she felt about him, she couldn't stand there and profess her feelings for him or how she really felt that morning when she woke up, it would confuse him and leave him running scared.

"Keith, stop being so nice to me right now, I know how pissed off you are."

Randy snickered and shook his head "Damn right I`m pissed off and I have a right to be but that doesn't mean I can stand here and watch my best friend disappear like this."

When he said that, Haley felt a familiar tug at her heart, it was little things like that that made her love Randy so much and it killed her. Her love for him was literally killing her from the inside out and all because she knew she could never have him, she lost her chance with him for a second time during their long reigning friendship. Neither of them spoke for a few minutes after that, it became very quiet, not a comfortable silence but an awkward silence, something that has never been shared between them, they have always known what to say to each other, when to say it and so forth but now it was like they didn't even know how to get on with the rest of this conversation.

Randy was still undoubtedly pissed but his mind was also running a mile a minute on how to say what he had to say to her, he didn't want her to crumble because he couldn't bare to see her cry but at the same time, he needed her to know how pissed he was and how he felt. "Why did you do it Haley, Why lie about something like that?"

Haley was now seated on the couch and Randy was sitting in front of her on the coffee table. Haley slowly looked up, tears threatening to fall from her eyes "I told you Randy, I just couldn't handle the guilt and I refused to let you know that it was me you were with."

"Bullshit!" Randy's sudden shout made Haley jump and eyes grow wide, it was so quiet for awhile and his sudden outburst just changed the mood completely. "That's a lame ass excuse Haley and you know it, If anything you would have been able to lean on me more because we went through that night together!"

Haley swallowed the large lump forming in her throat, the truth was she didn't tell Randy because of her feelings for him, if she were to tell him the truth might somehow slip out that she was in love with him and she couldn't have him deal with that. She knew he was happy with Kim and he`d never look at her in that way. To be honest she didn't know in what way he would look at her now, with the way he was acting she was sure she had lost some if not all of his trust.

"What cat got your tongue Hales, all of a sudden you got nothing to say?" he questioned harshly, his anger was once again showing itself.

Haley sighed and looked down at the hardwood floor in her living room, it becoming suddenly very interesting to her "What do you want me to say Randy?"

He scoffed and turned his back to face her "Something! Anything, Damn it!" he spun back around to face her, seeing that she was still watching the floor. "We fucked a few nights ago you cant sit there and tell me you have nothing to say to that?!"

She just kept quiet. She did have a lot to say and god she wished she could say it. She would scream it in his face that yes she had something to say, she cant stop thinking about that night, despite the guilt she felt it was one of the most amazing nights of her life and she would relive it over and over again, and if he asked why she would tell him strait out because she loved him and she`s loved him for so long, and shed fuck him again if he would have asked her too. But no, none of that was said, she was as quiet as a mouse, waiting for his next move.

"You cant even fucking look at me can you?" he shook his head and slammed his fists on the coffee table in front of him. That's when she finally looked up at him, now she was pissed, he wants to act this way that's fine, it was her turn to be pissed now, she furiously wiped her tears away and stood up from her position on the couch looking down on him. Her eyes didn't leave his, not even when he lifted from the coffee table to standing right up on front of her.

"Well since your Mr. Fucking chatterbox about it, why don't you tell me what you think about our night together? Hmm…" she paused fury lacing her voice "Tell me what ran through your mind when you found out!"

Randy just stood there, he didn't expect her to shout back or stand her ground, but most of all what he didn't expect was her to ask that question. He bit his lower lip and looked down at the floor with a sigh. After a few seconds he looked back up at her and shook his head "I was pissed at you mainly for lying to me, I didn't even get a chance to process how I felt about that night." He answered truthfully, somewhat. When he first found out that is what ran through his mind but after he had the chance to sit down and process it he began feeling things he didn't know he could feel about his best friend, he began looking at her differently, there was a time when he was thinking about that night that he found himself groaning at the thought of her rocking her hips sat onto of him, but god forbid he let her or anyone else know that, including himself. That's what he was doing lying to himself. He was so pissed at Haley for lying to him when he didn't realize he was the one telling himself the biggest lie of all.

"I get it that you were pissed at me Randy but it would be nice to understand how I was feeling, I mean fuck, I was shocked, confused and disgusted at myself all in one, that's a tough fucking combination!" She exclaimed running her hands through her dark brown locks.

Randy sighed and ran his hands over closely shaven hair as well, resting his hands on the back of his scalp as he watched her watch him. "Im sorry Hales, I didn't think of it like that…" he shrugged and let his hands fall down to his sides "I just figured that even if you did feel all those things about yourself and you were confused at the situation, you would still come to me, I`m your fucking best friend, you knew you could always confide in me, what made you think that you couldn't the morning after?" he whispered and this time he stepped dangerously close to her again and just searched her eyes for any signs of emotion. He knew she was hurt, he knew that but there seemed to be an underlying emotion in her eyes, in her body language that he just couldn't pin point.

Haley felt her breath caught in her throat with the man she loved being so close to her, she wanted nothing more than to grab him by the collar and ravage his lips with hers, she was dying to taste his lips that she knew must have tasted of the mint gum he was currently chewing, she wanted him to feel all the love and passion she had built up for him but instead, she just let tears cascade from her eyes at what he said.

He saw the tears falling down her cheeks and immediately felt bad. He closed the small space that was still between them and engulfed her into his arms hugging her tightly as he whispered "That's what hurt most Hales, was that you didn't think you could come to me with all this, Yes it was an awkward situation but we would have gotten through it."

Haley sniffled against his chest and slowly pulled away with a light shrug "I just think it was because It was you, I mean I slept with my best friend and I felt like I couldn't go to you because I always go to you for everything but in this case you were involved in the situation." She paused and looked up at him, watching as he removed a strand of hair away from her face "And I guess that's why I went to the next best person, I needed to know from a male point of view –"

That's when Randy cut her off by crossing both arms over his chest and raised a brow "Wait you went and told someone else that morning?"

She gasped and realized what she just said, if she wasn't fucked before, she was now. She slightly cursed herself and sighed "Well I-I mean yes but-"

"Who did you tell Haley?" Randy question through gritted teeth and clenched jaw.

Haley knew that look, Randy was never this pissed at her before and to be honest, she was scared "Just please, please don't be mad Randy, I was in pain and-"

"God Damn It Haley, If the name Dave comes out your mouth, I swear to god – " he paused taking in her expression.

Haley bit her lower lip and looked away from him, wanting to be anywhere but here right now. She said nothing but her body language said it all.

He let out a loud laugh but he definitely wasn't amused, it was one of those laughs where the person is so shocked that they are speechless and they are out of options on what to do so they just laugh. "You fucking told him before you told me." He said in a deadly low tone.

Just when she thought he was done. "You fucking told him before you told me Haley!" He screamed

Haley tried to reach out for her best friends arm, but he just snatched it away and shook his head "Come on Randy, I needed a friend to talk to and he was the only other guy friend I trusted."

"What about, hmm" he made pretend to be in thought "Oh, I don't know, ME!?" He punched the wall in her living room, letting out some of his frustrations "Me Haley, Me! I'm supposed to be your best friend." His lips twisted up into a smirk and shook his head as he looked back at Haley "But no, who do you go to? Dave." He paused with a sigh "Why?"

Haley was about to respond but shut her mouth, watching as he began talking again "Ill tell you why Hales, because despite the fact you want to keep telling yourself your not attracted to him, you are!"

"Randy I'm not –"

"You don't think you are Haley, that's the worst part, your oblivious that your attracted to him but the sad truth is you are and you went there that morning so you could feel good and get comfort from him because that's what you really wanted." He sighed and she swore the look in his eyes was a look or hurt and sadness "You never wanted to come to your best friend Hales."

Haley felt like a knife stabbed through her heart "Randy no, you have it all wrong…" she went to reach out for his arm again but he softly pulled away and looked down into her deep brown eyes, he stood there for a minute getting lost in them, his heart wanted so bad to do something he shouldn't but his mind told him otherwise, what did his heart want? He had to fight to tear his gaze away from hers, he moved away from her and sighed "I need to get out of here." He shot out as he started walking away from Haley and towards the front door.

Haley was hot on his tail and grabbed his arm again before he reached the door "Randy, come on, and go where?"

Randy pulled her arm away again, this time more forcefully, like his attitude changed again. Haley always said this, she always swore Randy was bipolar at times and right now he was acting like it. "Just go!" he shouted "I cant be near you right now…" he paused grabbed the knob on the front door before turning to face her "In fact I don't know when I'm going to want to be near you again Hales."

That did it. He officially killed her from the inside out. "No randy!" she grabbed his arm again trying to stop him "Randy please, you cant just leave like this, you are my best friend, I cant let you go like this!"

Randy forced his arm away for a third time that day "Best friends don't do the shit you did Hales…" he paused and opened the front door walking outside towards his car, but before he did he said "Just give me some time to figure shit out." And that's when he got in his car and sped out the driveway and away from her home.

Haley closed the front door behind her and fell, she leaned against the cold door and slid down it letting all her tears come freely, letting all the emotions she had running through her come bursting out. She was holding in everything for so long and now, after what just happened she didn't know how she would be able to recuperate. She hadn't been without her best friend since middle school, I mean yes they've had time apart but Randy made it seem so final, Haley honestly didn't know whether he would ever speak to her or want to see her ever again and that thought alone broke her.

Randy's POV:

I drove out her driveway as fast as I could, I didn't know what emotion to deal with first, I was pissed off, hurt, confused, I had no idea what to think at the moment or who the fuck my best friend was anymore, the way she lied about that night, the way she acted like it was nothing almost, then come to find out she couldn't come to me but she could fucking go to Dave! I mean yes, he's one of my really good friends but fuck, how many times did I tell her to stay away from him that he would end up hurting her? But she goes and gets closer to him, by her going to him the next morning just shows how close she really wants to be with him, even if she herself doesn't see it that way.

I groaned and slammed my fist on the steering wheel not knowing what to do with all the thoughts rattling my brain. 'Did I overreact? I mean we are best friends, did I really need to say what I said?' I fought with my subconscious on whether what I did and said was right or wrong. 'Fuck, was I just an asshole to my best friend, I mean I get it she was hurt and confused…but why the fuck couldn't she come to me and she could easily go to Dave?' that's what pissed me off even further!

God I can't believe she's into Dave, she doesn't even see it but I know it, I see it, she's so into him. 'Maybe that's why it hurts? Do you want her? Are you falling for your best friend?' I shook my head of the crazy thoughts, what was I thinking? This whole argument with Haley was making me lose my sanity now. But god I couldn't help but think of her eyes the way they captivated me in there today and her body from what I remember her being able to do with her body, it made me want to let out a groan just at the thought of her naked, under me, her eyes shut tight with pleasure running through her as she gripped at the bedsheets, fuck I remember pulling her hair back to give me more access to her neck, so I can trail kisses from her neck, to her collar bone, to her… Again, what the fuck was I thinking about this for? I shook my head again and blasted on the radio in hopes the music would drown out my thoughts and desires.

Authors Note:

This fight got serious! Did anyone think it was going to take a turn like this? Whose side are you on, do you feel more for Haley or Randy? How do you think their friendship will deal from here on out, and lets not forget about Dave. Love to hear from you guys, please keep the comments coming! :)