Chapter 10

Haley woke up the next morning, looked outside to the pouring rain and sighed. It was a crappy day. Rain always put Haley in a bad mood. She hadn't talked to Dean the night before and decided to call him. She picked up the home phone and dialled his home number, she figured he was still at home and hadn't gone to work yet. The phone was ringing, and no one picked up for a couple of rings. Finally a women's voice said, "Hello?"

"Hi!" Haley exclaimed, "Is Dean there?"

"He's still sleeping, he got in late last night." She said, "May I take a message?"

"Yes," Haley said, "Can you tell him Haley called?"

"No problem."

"Thank you."

She closed the phone and put it to her heart. She really liked Dean. The kiss they shared was amazing; his hands were in the right position. She couldn't complain about her first kiss then again she had nothing to compare it to. She tried to re feel the feeling of his lips pressing on her, feeling his muscles rub against body.

Lucas sneaked into the house very quietly. He had slept over at Peyton's that night and it got really late, so they fell asleep. Nothing happened. But his parents didn't know, so he had to make his entrance as discrete as possible. He snuck into the kitchen and opened the fridge to get some breakfast. Nathan walked into the kitchen, saw Lucas bending over for the carton of milk and laughed. Lucas turned around really quickly; he thought it was one of the parents. "Man, you scared me."

"Where were you last night?" Nathan asked walking towards him

"I was at Peyton's."

"You two are really hitting it off eh?"

"Yeah, our relationship is really amazing, and the chemistry is undeniable."

"That's good."

"Yeah"

"What about you and Rachel?"

"We're just friends…"

"You want to be more though?"

"Yeah" Nathan said, "But she just broke up with her boyfriend, she doesn't want a boyfriend now, especially me."

"Why do you say that?"

"I don't know. I mean, you saw her college boyfriend."

"Whatever Nate." Lucas said, "Oh, where are the parents?"

"Work" Nathan told him, "I covered for you don't worry. But your mom will be home any second to pick up some documents, so I'd change the shirt if I were you."

"Right!" Lucas said heading for the steps, but turned to his brother, "Hey Nate."

"Yeah?"

"Rachel doesn't know what she's missing."

Nathan smiled, and nodded. Lucas went to go change.

Melanie walked in on Rachel changing in her bedroom. "You could knock you know?"

"It's so much more fun this way." Melanie joked. "Hey! Is that my black bra?"

"No, it's ummmm, mine" Rachel said, and put a shirt over her bra.

Melanie sat on her bed, "What's going on with you Rach?"

"Nothing" she said, joining her sister on the bed.

"I heard about the cheating bastard."

"Don't worry about it," Rachel said with a tear in her eye. Even though Rachel had been expecting the scum to cheat on her, she was still hurting pretty badly. Melanie leaned over and gave her sister a hug.

"I'm sorry babe." Melanie replied.

"It's okay."

"I heard you had the hots for this new guy though."

Rachel looked at her with a confused look on her face, how did she know about Nate?

"Bridge told me." Melanie informed her.

"Yeah, but he's not into me." Rachel said.

"What kind of idiot wouldn't be into you?"

"The smart kind." Rachel said, "Nathan's super smart, and looks for the smart girls."

"You're smart Rachel," Melanie said as Rachel glared at her, "You just care about your looks more"

Rachel put her head down; she didn't want to be that kind of person anymore. She wanted to be smart and hot. She would have to pay attention to both. But you shouldn't have to change who you are to impress someone right? Rachel called Nathan's cell to ask him to help her with English.

Brooke was getting really nauseous in the back of Chase's convertible seat. She fell asleep for a couple hours and when she woke up she lifted the tarp to get some air. She looked up at Chase who was focused on the road and Tina who was starring at him with her sparkling eyes. She leaned into him and kissed him but didn't. Brooke was watching them like she was watching a movie. Tina turned his head and kissed him on the lips. Chase let go of the steering wheel for 2 seconds and almost lost control of the vehicle. He pulled her off, "Tina stop, before we both get killed." Chase screamed, "There will be plenty of that when we get to New York." Brooke opened her jaw, who was this person driving the convertible, it couldn't have been the Chase she grew up. The car stopped and Chase and Tina got out. Chase stretched his arms, and walked over to the passenger side of the car. He put his arm around Tina and kissed her. Brooke got sick when she saw this. She lost Chase. She had lost him forever.
Haley was listening to "Home" by Dauntry in her room; she was waiting by the phone for Dean's call. The phone rang and Haley ran to the phone cradle and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" Haley asked

But someone had already picked it up, it was Taylor.

"Hey, is Haley there?" a man's voice said threw the phone

"Ah…" Taylor said but was cut off by Haley.

"Tay get off the phone, I'm already on." Haley yelled.

Taylor closed the phone and Haley starting talking to Dean.

"Hey Dean."

"How are you doing?"

"I'm pretty good, how are you?"

"Pretty crappy." He answered

"And why's that?"

"Because I haven't seen you in 2 days."

Haley smiled, and said, "I know, I've missed you."

"I miss you too." Dean replied, "Haley, I really need to tell you something."

"Alright, go ahead."

"Not on the phone, I need to tell you in person. Want to meet in 5 minutes at the harbour?"

"Ah, sure." Haley said

"Race you" he said, and hung up the phone.

Haley closed the phone, ran to get dressed, put on her shoes and ran out the door.

Rachel was waiting at the River Court for Nathan. He had agreed to help her with her English essay on famous quotes. He arrived a little late, but Rachel was okay with that. He brought coffee, so Rachel forgave him instantly. He sat down next to her and apologized for being late, he handed her a coffee.

"Well let it never happen again." Rachel said with a smile and took a sip of coffee.

Nathan took out his books and placed them on the table next to Rachel's. He took out a couple of papers from his binder and placed them in front of Rachel. She picked them up and read them.

"What's this?"

"My paper." Nathan told her, "I thought it could give you an idea of what Mr. Williams wants."

Rachel nodded. She saw that Nathan had started off the essay with different definitions of a quote. She looked down and looked at all the quotes, she sighed at one of the quotes Nathan had on his paper, it said;

"Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity."

"Who said that?" she asked

"Henry Van Dyke" he replied

"That's beautiful"

She continued reading the paper; there was a biography on Henry Van Dyke. She continued reading the paper glancing at the different quotes, there were a lot of love quotes she realized. This was a side of Nathan she hadn't seen. There were also sections of Inspirational Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Movie Quotes and Sports Quotes. He had made all these different categories, and she couldn't even start the silly thing.

"Love is so powerful because being loved causes one to love oneself. Nothing contributes to the self-image more than being loved by another. When the words, "I love you" are expressed to you for the first time, your world blossoms, your heart glows with inspiration, confidence and thoughts of the mountains you can move. It's more than an emotional kick; suddenly you like yourself more than you ever have before."

Rachel looked over at Nathan who was looking at his paper while he was fiddling with his pen.

Haley and Dean met at the harbour around the same time. She jumped into his arms and he swung her around. He kissed her passionately and put her down.

"I missed you." He said.

"Yeah…I can see." She replied, "So what did you have to tell me?"

"Let's take a walk." Dean said reaching for her hand. She gave him her hand and they walked around the harbour.

"This is really hard for me to say Haley, because I really like you." Dean said.

"It's okay, tell me."

"There was another reason why Brooke didn't want us to be together other then it would just be awkward because I'm her brother…" he said

"Go on…"

"The reason she didn't want me to get involved with not only you but anyone, is because… well… I've gotten a girl pregnant, my ex in fact."

Haley raised her eyebrows. Pregnant!! She thought to herself. She hadn't even had sex yet! And he had let alone had sex, but got a girl pregnant! Haley couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"She wants nothing to do with me, and I actually went to go visit her yesterday, that's why I didn't call you and I'm sorry."

Haley couldn't look at him; she couldn't believe she actually thought she could have fallen in love with this guy.

"Dean, you know, I really like you. But I can't forgive you."

"What?"

"You should have told me." Haley said. She couldn't believe she had given up her dream with Nathan for Brooke's horny older brother. Now, Haley was creating a scene she started to raise her voice and people started to look.

"You know, Dean. You told me that you and your ex broke up about 8 months ago. You should go to her and be there for her when she gives birth." Haley said and turned around and crossed her arms. Dean went in front of her, "Haley, I don't want to be with her, I want to be with you."

Haley slapped him and walked away. People gasped when they saw Haley slap Dean, Haley turned around and faced him once more, "You should have told me before we started anything with each other."

Rachel and Nathan had heard the commotion and turned to see what was going on. They saw Haley upset and she slapped Dean. Rachel and Nathan raised their eyebrows. Nathan got his books together; he could see Haley needed someone to talk to. Rachel saw that he was leaving in a rush. Of course, he was going to Haley. He loved Haley, and it was pretty obvious.

"Nathan to the rescue" Rachel muttered under breath.

"What?" Nathan said, but he wasn't supposed to hear it.

"It's funny, every time I see you, you're with Haley." Rachel fake grinned, and got her books together.

"She's my friend Rachel." Nathan told her, "She has been since we were kids."

"It's just funny I guess how Lucas isn't running to her rescue as well." Rachel replied, "I understand…"

"You understand what exactly?"

"That you like Haley."

Nathan turned around really quickly. "I…I…I"

"It's okay. I just can't believe I thought you liked me…" Rachel said with a couple tears in her eyes and ran away from him.

Nathan raised his eyebrows. Had Rachel just said she liked him? She thought that he liked Haley when he actually liked Rachel. He couldn't let her think this and ran after her.

Chase and Tina had walked into a restaurant. Brooke saw this as an opportunity and got out of the car and stretched out her legs, they were really numb. She hadn't moved in so long, it felt good to move around. She was so hungry that she had to go into the restaurant, but told herself to do it really discreetly. Brooke couldn't afford for Chase or Tina to see her. She ran in the restaurant and headed straight for the vending machine. She bought a chocolate bar, and gobbled it down. She walked into the restaurant, sat down at a table and put the menu up to block her face. She saw Chase and Tina; they were sitting at a table and were holding hands. Brooke wanted to be in Tina's position, she wanted to be the one holding Chase's hands and kissing his lips. Chase looked over in Brooke's direction. Brooke raised her eyebrows, Chase couldn't see her, it was over if he had. He got up and walked over to her direction. Oh God, she was toast. "Please don't see me" she told herself.

"Sorry miss, you look really familiar, do I know you?"

Brooke raised her menu a little higher, and said in a older women voice, "No sunny, I don't think so." She got up and walked for the exit.

"Brooke!" Chase yelled.

Brooke turned around and smiled innocently. "Chase!"

Chase walked over to her, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm ummm." Brooke said trying to look for an answer, "What are you doing here?"

"You know my dad lives in New York."

"Oh…um… this was the New York you were talking about…" Brooke was playing dumb now, she couldn't help it, she couldn't think of anything else!

"Brooke…" Chase said, "What's going on."

Tina came over to see what was going on. Brooke glared at her, as she slipped threw Chase's arms.

"Well… it's a funny ummm story actually." Brooke said

"We'd love to hear it Brooke." Tina snapped.

Chase was waiting impatiently now, "Well?"

"I'm not going to lie to you Chase," Brooke said, "I feel hurt that you would want to take her to deal threw this, and not me."

"Well excuse me, but I'm his girlfriend."

"Well excuse me, but I'm his BEST friend." She said emphasizing the best.

"He's just going to have to pick which one is more important." Tina said as her and Brooke turned to face Chase.

Chase raised his eyebrows and tried to change the topic, "Brooke what are you doing here?"

"I told you; I'm not going to let you go threw this by yourself."

"He's not alone, I'm with him."

"Oh you're much good, you'll just have sex with him, and that's NOT what he needs. He needs someone he can talk to; someone that can help him go threw this."

"Oh really?" Tina asked, "Well where the hell were you last night when he found out that his dad is sewing his mom for soul custody? Was it a date with the captain of the football team?"

Brooke pushed Tina out of the way and told her to shut up.

"You're dad is sewing your mom?"

"Yeah." Chase said with his head down.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because, like Tina said, you weren't around." Chase said and headed for the door with Tina.

He was leaving, Brooke couldn't let him leave until she told him that she loved him and she wanted to be with him for good times and bad. She wanted to be the one he was lying next to in bed, not Tina.

"Chase!" she screamed.

Chase turned around slowly and faced her.

"There's another reason I came all this way." Brooke said.

"I'm listening…"

"I'm in love with you Chase." Brooke said.

Author's Note : I hope everyone is enjoying reading the fanfic. i know this chapter is a little long, but a lot of things needed to be covered in this chapter. i hope you guys like the relationships and friendships i've devellopped.

i really want to say thanks to Katie, Anna, Penny and Megan for having my back, and telling me to continue this story, because to tell you guys the truth, i was going to quit, and stop writing for good. but i've decided not to, for now at least.

Please leave your comments and reviews i'd love to hear back from you guys. 3

thanks,

Amanda