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Chapter 10: The Classics (pt. 2)
Throughout the journey Haley was fighting herself on whether or not she should tell Nathan the truth, and that she still had very confusing feelings for him, but in the end she decided against it. Nathan was finally speaking to her and actually acknowledging her and she knew that if she opened up to him now, just before the competition than they both would be a mess, if it didn't work out.
She had heard Lucas complaining about Nathan's performance on court and she couldn't help but blame herself for it, she didn't want to make it any worse so she just chose not to speak to him straight away, she wanted to get comfortable with him first.
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"Brooke" Haley yelled when she saw the brunette talking to someone from one of the other teams. Brooke tried hiding but it was pointless, she had already been spotted.
"Haley, good you made it, I was wondering where you were" Brooke said sounding concerned about her friend and pretending as though she had nothing to do with Haley's tardiness.
"Brooke, don't pull that with me, I know exactly what you did, you wanted me to drive back with Nathan" Haley yelled back.
"I did nothing of that sort, I just forgot to call you back and tell you that we weren't delayed anymore" she said trying desperately to get out of this, "Ask Peyton" she said hoping her other best friend would have her back.
"Huh," Peyton replied completely unaware of what the conversation had been about.
"Brooke, I'm serious, this time…this was just another one of your little schemes to get Nathan and I back together wasn't it?" Haley said.
"Well if it was did it work" Brooke questioned hopefully.
"So I was right, it was you and no it didn't instead I had to endure 4 hours of complete awkwardness" Haley said even though she felt otherwise, Nathan was actually speaking to her again, but she wasn't going to let Brooke know that.
"Okay, well sorry I tried, but let's forget about that, but how come you didn't tell me that your mother's a chaperone," Brooke asked, when she saw Mrs James approaching.
"Actually, I didn't know that she was coming until Nathan mentioned it" Haley said realising that she had slipped up and Brooke may realise that her and Nathan were on talking turns now, but thankfully someone called her name and she turned.
"Haley" they said again, but when Haley turned she wasn't so thankful because standing before her was none other than Lydia James, her mother.
"Mom," she said in utter surprise, even though she knew she was here actually seeing her came as a complete shock.
"Haley, I thought it was you I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me but it is you, what are you even doing here?" she questioned.
Haley's mouth fell open she could see Brooke staring at her weirdly, but she just ignored it and continued to talk to her mum. "I'm actually in the cheerleading squad, I guess all the ballet lesson you put me in for when I was young are actually paying off" she said smugly.
"Well how come I didn't know about your new extracurricular activity" she asked.
"That's probably because you only care about yourself and your perfect life" Haley said sounding quite rude.
"Haley Elizabeth James, do not speak to your mother like that," she said sounding offended by her words even though they may be true. Lydia James didn't want to make a scene so she just changed the subject.
"Well, sorry if I hadn't noticed but congratulations, I'm very proud of you" she said, "Did you know I was a cheerleader back in high school as well," she said making it all about her once again, "I seriously thought that Tayl-" but she stopped before she could say Taylor.
Haley really didn't want to hear about her mother's sob stories but she did want to know what the fuck her mother was doing here especially when she didn't know that Haley was part of the team.
"So mum, what are you even doing here" Haley asked suspiciously.
"Well, actually we were having dinner with Daniel and Debra Scott and their phone rang, it was from, Jonathan Smith I think, well anyway he told us that he was a chaperone and couldn't fill in and he was wondering if Dan and Deb could take his and Katie's place" she said recalling yesterday night.
"So, what are you doing here?" Haley questioned once again.
"Just a minute, I'm getting to that," Lydia said, feeling annoyed at the way that Haley had just interrupted her. "Deb had a conference in New York and she had to leave the next morning and your father was busy with work as well so I decided to volunteer and here I am" she finally said.
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Haley just nodded her head and lefty Lydia to her thoughts, they were of the night before where the four adults were discussing the future of their children together.
"Thank you, Deb dinner was amazing" Jimmy said, with a huge cheerful smile.
"No problem, you're always welcome" Deb said flashing her teeth back at him.
"Well, how about we move into the living room to discuss our plans" Dan suggested. Everyone nodded and followed him into the room.
Dan poured all four of them a glass of wine before taking his seat on the armchair opposite the sofa, where the other three were seated.
"Actually, now that you mentioned it I do have the papers ready, for the union of the two businesses," Jimmy wanted to continue but was stopped by Deb.
"Please, no business talk tonight, we are gathered here to discuss the future of our children not your companies," Deb said while Lydia nodded in agreement.
"Okay, okay" Dan said.
"Well, firstly how are we going to break the news to them" Lydia questioned because she herself feared the day that they would have to tell Haley that they've arranged her marriage.
The four adults discussed the issue for a while, and then the phone rang.
"Hello, this is Dan Scott speaking" Dan answered.
"Hey Dan, it's John, I need a huge favour" John said and told him how he was in Barbados and wouldn't be able to chaperone tomorrow.
They decided that Dan and Lydia would go and gave Whitey a call. Whitey Durham really despised Dan but he would make an exception if it means keeping the children in order.
But Lydia snapped out when she heard Dan calling her.
"Lydia, I just found a way to make our job easier" Dan said and by his job he meant getting Nathan and Haley together.
"What, How?" Lydia questioned.
"Well, I just heard Brooke speaking to Lucas and she said that phase one to her plan was complete" Lydia looked at him confused, what that had to do with Nathan and Haley. "Brooke's planning on hooking the two up together so we basically need to sit back and let that play out" Dan said thoughtfully.
"Oh, okay then, so what do you need me to do?" she questioned and Dan simply explained that she needs to stay out of their way, if this works than Dan will finally get what he wants, the union of two of the most wealthiest firms in North Carolina.
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All the students were waiting for Whitey to sort out their rooms, which was taking longer than expected.
Whitey finally came and said a few words about the sneaking out and game timings and everything. He also added, "I tried to get rooms on separate floors for the girls and boys but they were booked out so three of the boys' rooms will be on the same floor as the girls but don't go and get any ideas, now"
"Smith, Scott, Jagelski, Phyllis and Wozniak" you six are on the girls' floor, now grab your keys and get going, we meet in ten minutes" he said over their excited voices.
"Brooke, here are the girls' room keys please can you sort them out" he asked her and when she gave him the nod he left to go and speak to the chaperones.
Brooke quickly handed out the keys and told everyone where their rooms were, but kept her own, and left Haley with Peyton to go and talk to Lucas.
Haley placed her luggage in Peyton's room and headed for the lobby for Whitey because she had no idea where Brooke had disappeared.
All their rooms were in one straight line on the right hand side of the corridor, with Brooke and Haley's first…then the other 4 rooms for the rest of the girls, the 6th room was Nathan and Lucas's which was perfect Brooke thought to herself. Brooke knocked lightly on the door and to her relief Lucas answered.
"Okay, Luke we don't have much time, she's probably on her way up now, grab your stuff and let's go" Brooke said hastily grabbing Lucas's belongs and pulling him out of the room, thankfully Nathan was in the shower and didn't witness any of this.
Lucas quickly grabbed his stuff and made a run for Brooke's room, and that is when the lift opened up and Haley found Brooke standing outside her room with a mischievous grin on her face, she asked her, "So why did you leave me down there?" She had just come back from the meet which no one really goes to but being new Haley had.
"Oh sorry I thought that you were speaking to Peyton" Brooke said, and continued to talk "Haley, there has been a change in plan, the girls in the last room have had a bit of a spat and cannot live together so Theresa has moved in with me and considering that you haven't unpacked could you go and stay with Bevin, she's in room 606" Brooke said.
"Yea sure I don't have a problem with Bevin, but didn't we only have 5 rooms," Haley asked.
"Oh no we couldn't get them together so you're in room 606 with Bevin, here's your key" she insisted and disappeared into her own room, where Lucas awaited her.
Haley grabbed her stuff from Peyton's room, which was actually open and made her way to room 606. She entered the key card and walked in, and could hear the water running and she figured that Bevin was probably in the shower, she never really knew the girl but how bad could it be.
She saw that the TV was on ESPN, the highlights of the Lakers' match were showing and there were a pair of shorts sprawled across one of the twin beds. The shorts were blue and were patterned with loads of little basketballs. Wow Bevin sure must really love the game Haley thought to herself before plopping onto the other bed and lying down.
The bathroom door opened but Haley had dozed off, and awoke to somebody clearing their throat. "Bevin" Haley said sleepily trying to adjust her eyes when she came face to face with Nathan, clad in nothing but a towel. And Haley realised that the shorts on the bed were actually his boxers.
"Haley what are you doing here?" he said staring at his watch, it was way passed curfew, "Where's Luke?"
"I donno, Brooke said-" but she didn't need to say anymore he understood this was another one of Brooke's plots.
"Well you can't leave now our parents are outside and if we try and leave then we'll be screwed and knowing my dad he won't even give us a chance to explain and considering how exhausted you are why don't you just stay here for tonight and we'll sort out this mess with Brooke tomorrow" he let out trying to process what was happening but he didn't have any control over his mouth it just kept going.
"Okay, thank you Nathan" Haley said getting up to grab her pyjamas from her suitcase and rushing into the toilet.
Upon entering the bathroom Haley let out a huge breath, wow his body is amazing she thought and her mind drifted to the night that they had the sleepover and how everything messed up, so she forced the thoughts out.
She put on her baggy pyjamas and thin light pink tank top, and was contemplating on whether or not she should remove her bra. She usually slept without one and she didn't exactly have many other clothes because she packed lightly but if she went out without one there wouldn't be much left to Nathan's imagination. She decided to remove it because she would never be able to sleep with it on.
After another moment she heard a concerned voice from outside, she had been there for almost a half hour," Haley are you okay" he asked feeling nervous, what if something happened to her.
"No, I'm fine…mmm Nathan could I request a favour please," she asked cautiously, thinking very carefully before speaking.
"Depends, what's the favour" Nathan said back.
"Could you please turn off the lights" she said sheepishly.
"Why, what's wrong" he asked already having a fair idea, he just felt like messing with her.
"Or could I borrow one of your polo tops to sleep in" she asked again hopefully.
Nathan's little idea of the problem was correct and without another word he went to his suitcase and pulled out one of his tee-shirts, knocked on the bathroom door and gave her the top taking a quick glance at her chest, which caused his heart to stop for a second.
She came out a moment later, with his tee-shirt which looked more like a dress on her and got into bed, when suddenly the door burst open.
"Lights were meant to go out 20 minutes ago boys, I hope you're not planning anything naughty" Lydia's voice rang from the door way and she hit the light switch and left.
"Phew" Haley and Nathan both let out a sigh of relief and went back to sleep.
Neither found it easy to fall asleep, and when Haley heard him shuffling she thought she may try her luck, "Nathan, are you awake" she said ever so softly trying not to wake him if he was sleeping.
"Yea" he grunted, "can't sleep"
"Me neither," she paused for a bit before continuing, "I was hoping to talk to you" she said sitting up in bed.
"Go on" he said waiting to hear what she had to say, obviously he had to do with that night's events.
"Firstly, I'm sorry I was a complete idiot, I shouldn't have led you on like that when I wasn't ready," she said and thought for a while before continuing, "but the thing is that night everything was so perfect, Peyton and I didn't have any issues left, Brooke and Lucas were happy we had just had our first victory-" but she was stopped by Nathan.
"So does all of this have a point" Nathan questioned trying hard to block his true feelings out.
"Yea, the point is that I really liked you, I mean I still do but after I rushed into my last relationship that is the last thing I want but I just couldn't help myself that night there was so much heat between us and I was just drawn to you"
"I know what you mean" he mumbled but she never heard him.
"Sorry, what did you say" she asked.
"Oh nothing" he lied.
"Well I would like it if the two of us could at least be friends like the way we used to" Haley asked hopefully.
This bought a smile to Nathan's face even though he wanted to be more than friends he knew that time would solve it all.
"Yea that sounds cool," He said casually, but then added "but are friends allowed to mess around from time to time," which caused Haley to laugh.
"We'll see give it some time" Haley said, finally relaxing again.
"So my new friend, are you going to tell me why you wanted my tee-shirt" he asked jokingly.
"Actually I'm not" Haley laughed back.
"Okay, well I guess that I'm just going to have to respect that" Nathan said and turned to face her, he could see the street lights through the curtains falling on her hair making it shine ecstatically.
After about another of silence Nathan was finally getting sleep when he heard Haley shivering, "Haley are you cold?" he asked with a concerned voice.
"Yea" Haley said back, "I'm freezing".
Nathan stood and tried fiddling with the AC control but he didn't know how to work it. "Come here I have an idea," he said and called her to his bed.
She stood up, her teeth shaking and walked over to him and lay down beside him, they were face to face, in fact it was more like Haley's head being buried in his chest, while he hugged her tightly, rubbing her arms trying to get her warm. Nathan had to hold himself back because the minute she lay in his arms he hardened and he was trying desperately to hold back, and once she settled down he calmed down and they both dozed off.
Nathan awoke the next morning just before 8 and switched off his alarm, he didn't want to wake Haley who lay there in his arms so very peaceful. His blue shirt had ridden up during the night and now he had a full view of what she had tried to hide all night but he fought temptation and pulled the t-shirt down for her, and gently slipped out of bed and into the toilet.
Haley who had awoken, when he leaned over to switch of the alarm had witnessed the entire thing and this bought a smile to her face, she now could be herself without worries around him.
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Haley left for breakfast with a huge smile across her face and on her way, she ran into none other than Jake.
"Good morning" he said waiting for a reply but Nathan had told her to stay away from him and she really didn't want to ruin the relationship that she had with him not now.
"Good morning" she mumbled back and rushed for the lift, but to her dismay he was right behind her.
He stopped her before she could hit the button ad he asked her, "So why had you been avoiding me?" he asked.
"I haven't been avoiding you" she lied.
"I actually like you and thought that maybe we could be friends" Jake said hopefully.
"I'm sorry Jake, I'm sure you're a really nice guy and everything but I just can't" she replied, and got into the lift and went down leaving him by himself.
She found Brooke and engulfed her in this huge bear hug, saying "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you" showing her appreciation. Nathan had witnessed this whole thing and realised that it was about last night, which caused him to smirk very slightly, Haley was happy again.
"You're very welcome tutorgirl, anytime" she said. "So spill, give me all the dirty details," Brooke said enthusiastically.
"Brooke, there aren't any we just talked" Haley said.
"Okay I believe you" Brooke said still grinning because her plan had worked.
The doors flew open and in came one of the other cheerleading teams that were competing, and to Haley's surprise it was none other than the Charleston High girls and she heard a shriek from one of them as they came running her way.
"Oh my god, it's so good to see you" her former best friend Scarlet said and gave Haley a hug, "you look good the cheerleading works for you, you seem like you're glowing" Scarlet said.
"Oh, Nathan and I sorted everything out" Haley said moving away from her own team, so glad to see Scarlet.
"Oh I have to see him, I've heard that he's really hot" Scarlet said excited for her friend.
But Haley looked around and noticed that he was gone, Nathan had noticed something familiar about that girl but just couldn't remember, so he decided to leave and he had to go and see Whitey about practise anyways.
This was going to be a very interesting weekend.
So this is the second part complete…the next chapter is still at the Classics but it may have a different title.
Still to come: What Nathan remembers, Scarlet's reveals something, The competition winners, What happens to Naley, And loads more…
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