Okay guys, there's a really important note at the end of tonight's chapter. Please take a minute to read it and really think about what I said. Thanks for the thirteen reviews I got on chapter 11, even if some of them were rude. You can't please everyone. Well, here's chapter twelve.

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"Nate," Haley sighs into her phone, a small smile playing on her lips, "you know you can't come over right now. Peyt and Brooke are here. Not to mention your brother and Brooke had an 'adult sleepover'."

—Ugh, Hales, I do NOT need to hear about that crap. That's disgusting—

"Sex is disgusting," she smirks, "or only Lucas and Brooke sex?"

—The latter!—

Haley breaks out into giggles as she hears Nathan gag into the phone.

"Oh, SHUT UP, Haley!"

"BE QUIET!"

Haley's giggling ceases as she hears her roommates shouts.

She begins to whisper into her cellphone, "the tribe has spoken. I have to go."

—Okay... I love you, babe—

"I love you, too." Haley smiles softly. "I'll see you after classes, right?"

—Actually...—

Haley's smile drops immediately, "what?"

—I've got practice and then I'm going out to get some beers with the guys—

Haley immediately feels immensely disappointed, but tries to hide from her voice. "Yeah, no problem. I'll just go shopping or see a movie with the girls."

—You sure? I can skip out on getting beers if you want me to—

"Hey, it's fine!" Haley falsely assures her boyfriends. "No biggie."

—If you say so...—

"And I do!" Haley interrupts him.

—Okay, then I guess I'll just call you later...—

"Great! Bye!"

—O-okay... Bye...—

Haley hurriedly hangs up and flops back onto her bed. "Ugh! Stupid, stupid

clingy-ness!"

She throws her arms over her head. "Get it together, James! You don't get clingy. You are only aloof and distant. After Chris..."

She cuts herself off with another loud groan. "Pathetic. You're a pathetic mess, Haley James."

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"Okay, class," Peyton sketches flowers in her notebook as her art teacher addresses the class, "today we will be using a live model."

She walks over to a wooden stool in the middle of all the students. "A young man was kind enough to volunteer to model for us. C'mon in Mr. Jagielski!"

Peyton's head snaps up when she hears her boyfriend's name being spoke. She sees Jake sauntering into the classroom in nothing but a thin robe.

"No way..." She mutters while shaking her head. The corners of her mouth quirk up a bit at the sight.

"Hello everyone!" Jake exclaims. His eyes land on Peyton and he sends her a quick wink.

"Okay," the teacher walks back to her desk, "Mr. Jagielski, if you'll," she shudders in what looks like the creeps, "remove the robe and 'pose' for the class. "

Jake smirks and drops his robe, revealing nothing but bright purple boxer briefs. He then props one foot up on the stool. He rests an elbow on his knee and his chin on his closed fist.

He then sends a cocky smirk out to the class as if to say, "draw that suckers!"

"My boyfriend..." Thinks Peyton with a silent chuckle as she pulls out her charcoal to draw with.

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"So, Cheery..." Lucas trails off as he sits in the University's courtyard under a tree with his girlfriend.

"Yeah...?" Brooke answers.

"I was thinking—"

"Oh," Brooke cuts Lucas off with a laugh, "that's never good!"

Lucas begins laughing too. "Yeah, yeah. Real funny!

"But as I was saying," he continues in a more serious voice, "summer break is coming up and my family has a vacation home up in California..."

"Yeah?" Brooke pushes when he pauses.

"Do you wanna come for the summer?" Lucas asks her. "Jake's gonna ask Peyton and Nate'll probably ask some chick. And Haley's definitely invited too, she can ask someone to come up if she wants."

Brooke sits in her position leaned up against the tree for a few minutes silently. "You... You're asking me to go away with you?"

"Only if you want to!" Lucas hurriedly tells her.

"Oh, Broody!" Brooke exclaims as she leans in and gives her boyfriend a gentle kiss on the lips. "Of course I will!"

"Great!"

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I know, I know. It was a short, short chapter, and I'm sorry. I just wanted to get a quick chapter out and also let you know that this story will be on a temporary hiatus. I can swear to you that it WILL be finished. I swear that each and every one of my stories will not go unfinished. The thing is that my inspiration has just been running low lately. I've been in a rut just trying to think of something to do with this story. I needed help getting back into the groove of writing this fic so I gave you guys a chance to write some of what YOU wanted to happen and I had it thrown back in my face by a couple of people. And then the 'demanding reviews' thing. First of all I didn't demand reviews. I asked the people who like the story to review it and tell me that they liked it because I'm not gonna continue regularly updating a story that people don't want to give feedback to. I have more than five other stories to be updating and even more that are waiting for another story to be done so I can upload one of the new ones. Some are even sequels. I'm going to update the fics that get the most feedback because I know people like it and want it to be updated. There's no crime against just asking people to tell me that they want this continued. And then there was some controversy about how I paired up the gang. If you don't like the way I paired people up than you shouldn't read the story. It was clearly, in capital letters by the way, written in the summary who the couples would be. I honestly hate that I'm doing this, but I think it's better that I just take a little break from this story. And to the people who decided to leave 'hater' reviews, then maybe you should take a minute and think before you post something. Writing is hard work. It may just seem like typing or writing a few paragraphs, but it takes time. I work hard on every chapter, even if it's short. It takes people hours, days, sometimes even months to write a chapter for YOU to read. And you just rip up their whole story in the span of time it takes to press 'submit'. You may not know it, but it hurts people more than you may think. They're proud of their work and it's very mean of you to ruin that for them with your ignorant comments.

I know, I probably sound like a stuck up, can't-take-criticism (excuse my language) little bitch, but I just felt that it was only fair to the people who actually enjoy reading to explain why I'm putting this Fanfiction on hiatus. I apologize to the people who enjoy this story the way I create it. Fingers crossed that I'll regain my muse for this story before summer is over. For right now between the inspiration loss and the mean reviews, I'm just not really motivated to continue this and I don't think it's fair to leave people in the dark about why there's no updates for a while.

Hopefully you'll see another update alert email in your inbox soon.

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Until next time,

ImpalaChick1967

I love all you guys that encourage me to write this. Thanks for the kind words and for overall just taking the time to give my story a chance and read it