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Walking into the kitchen Peyton Sawyer's eyebrows almost reached her hairline as she spotted her boyfriend. Crouching behind the island.
"What're you doing?"
Almost jumping out of his skin Lucas quickly grabbed her wrist and pulled her down beside him. "Shh!"
Scrunching her brow Peyton whispered. "Why?"
"She'll hear you." The blonde replied, trying to look around into the living room.
"Who?"
Checking to make sure no one else was in the room Lucas turned to look at her. "Haley."
Peyton chuckled at his facial expression. "Are you really that afraid of her?"
"Have you been around her lately?" Lucas asked, his face serious. "She's crazy."
Peyton had just opened her moth to reply when -
"LUCAS!"
Said boys eyes widened and he grabbed his girlfriend's hand and pulled her up.
"What're you doing?" Peyton asked, trying to keep up with him. "Haley jus-"
"I know. But we were busy …" Grabbing their jackets from the hooks in front of the door he shoved Peyton's into her arms. "Making a snowman." He finished, pulling her hat onto her head, slightly covering her eyes in his rush.
"But-"
Peyton was cut off as Lucas pulled her outside, the door slamming shut behind her.
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Bringing her eyebrows together in confusion and slight annoyance as she heard the large front door shut Haley blew a stray strand of hair from her face.
"Have you seen Lucas?" She asked Brooke, who fell down onto the couch beside the smaller girl.
"Nope." Brooke replied, stealing a piece of popcorn from Haley bowl. "How?"
"I just wanted him to get me-" She began but stopped when suddenly a glass was shoved under her nose. "-a glass of water."
Smiling up at her very gorgeous boyfriend Haley happily accepted the drink, the condensation outside of the glass chilling her hands. "Thank you."
"I thought I better do something, seen as Lucas looked as if he was going to have a heart attack any minute." Nathan replied sitting down on her other side, chuckling as she gasped and slapped his arm.
"He did not." Haley protested, shovelling a handful of popcorn into her mouth.
"Sorry to break it to you, Tutor Hoe, but you're kind of a bitch when you can't move." Brooke informed her friend, her mouth opening in shock as a handful of popcorn landed in her hair.
"My hand slipped?"
Shaking her head. "I rest my case."
Groaning, Haley rubbed her eyes. "Have I really been that bad?"
"You had a fit at him earlier when he got you diet soda instead of ordinary." Nathan said, flipping through the TV channels.
"I did not-"
"And when Mouth asked if we wanted to do something today you said, and I quote 'oh, Mouth that'd be great, just let me magically fix my ankle with fairy dust and I'll be right with you.' and a few more words which I don't wish to repeat, I feel dirty just thinking about them." Brooke added.
"Or when Jake suggested that we all go snowboarding you told him exactly where he could shove his board."
Opening and closing her mouth like a goldfish Haley tried to defend herself.
"Oh, and when Luke tried to change the channel, you smacked him over the head with the remote." Nathan.
"It's this medication they have me on." Haley tried to tell them.
"Yesterday, you threw a book at him because he was blocking your view of the TV." Brooke added. "I gotta say, Lucas with a black eye, not attractive." She scrunched one side of her nose up, popping more popcorn in her mouth.
"Fergie and Junk are locked up in their rooms." Nathan said. "They say they wont come out until you're back to normal."
"Skillz-"
"Okay!" Haley exclaimed. "Okay, okay I get it. I'm a bitch." She pouted, turning to Nathan. "Am I really that bad?"
"Yes." Brooke answered for him, mouth full.
"You can hardly move without it hurting." Nathan replied, his tone soft and slightly patronizing, Haley thought. "You're wrists badly swollen-"
"Oh my God. I am." Haley groaned, her head falling back against the couch.
"Sorry slore." Brooke smiled as her smaller friend glared at her. "Okay I'm gonna find Mouth."
"Don't you mean annoy?"
Brooke got up from the couch and quickly snatched the popcorn bowl from Haley's hands before bouncing away. "Whatever Madusa."
Huffing as Brooke skipped out of site Haley turned her face and pushed it into Nathan's chest, ignoring the pain as she pressed against the bruising on her cheek.
"Do you still love me?"
Nathan chuckled, laying his arm on the back of the couch. "Well, after watching you nail Lucas in the face with Moby-Dick, how could I not?"
Haley moaned. "I'm sorry."
"Why? That was the funniest thing I have ever seen. Maybe he found the white whale."
Pulling back to glare at him Haley huffed in annoyance. "I'm being serious!"
Laughing Nathan went to put his arm around her shoulders when he stopped himself.
Noticing her boyfriends actions Haley sighed softly. "You can touch me."
"I know, I just-" He swallowed. "I don't want to hurt you."
Smiling at the lost little boy look on his face Haley ran her knuckles on the side of his neck. "You could never hurt me." Knowing he wasn't full convinced she turned her body slightly toward him, ignoring the protest from her ribs. "I always want you to touch me." She whispered, her bandaged hand softly running over his stomach.
Nathan swallowed, for a whole different reason this time.
"I love it when you touch me here." Her hot breath hit his throat and he closed his eyes as she placed his hand on her thigh. "And here." She slowly moved it up her torso and he made sure not to press down hard, aware of the bruising on her body.
Nathan almost swallowed his tongue as she put his hand on her breast, cupping hers over the top. "And especially here." Her voice was rough and was dripping with sex. "Touch me, Nathan."
At her whispered command Nathan couldn't stop himself and moulded her breast into his hand and she moaned in appreciation.
Groaning low in her throat as he pulled at her nipple Haley nipped and sucked her way up his neck, flicking her tongue at the corner of his jaw, grinning as she heard his breath catch.
Her boy was too easy.
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"So, you enjoying yourself?" Peyton asked, stretching to let the toe of her converse slide against the frozen lake.
Lucas looked at her with a charming grin. "I'm with you, aren't I?"
Rolling her eyes Peyton pressed down onto the ice, testing it's stability. "As flattered as I am by that comment, I meant up here." She gestured around them. "At the cabin."
Lucas nodded. "Yeah. I mean the last time we were up here Haley didn't fall out of the ski lift." He joked, still getting a slightly sick feeling in his gut at the thought that they could have lost her. "And we actually went onto the lake, instead of just staring at it." He teased his girlfriend as she retracted her foot. He added quietly. "And Brad was here."
Peyton stayed quiet, watching his face and seeing the sadness quickly clouding his eyes she asked. "So you really went on it."
Lucas smiled at the memory, looking out across the untouched iciness. "Yeah."
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"Okay so I've decided, on my tombstone I want to have 'Haley James, she fell through the ice, and drowned to her death, because her brother, Brad, is a great big mother fu-'" She let out a small scream as she slipped, grabbing onto the closest thing which happened to be said brother's jacket.
"Nice trip?" Brad smirked as she scowled at him.
"I don't know why you're laughing." Haley said, trying to regain her balance.
"Because watching you almost fall is funny?"
Ignoring him she continued. "Because when I drown-" The boys all chuckled at her melodramatics. "I am coming back to haunt your ass." Hearing a throaty chuckle she announced. "Yours too, Scott."
Nathan grinned, watching his best friend let go of Brad and try to walk further onto the lake. "Bring it, Bambi."
She looked at him with an expression of wonder. "And people ask why I'm friends with you?"
"Hales, you didn't have to come." Lucas told her, finding it hard himself to stay upright on the ice.
She scoffed. "And hear all make fun of me for the next forty years of my life because I didn't? No thanks."
"I wish I bloody didn't." Skillz mumbled, debating on how long it was until the ice cracked beneath their weight.
"C'mon guys!" Brad grinned, voice exuberant as always. "The lake's frozen solid." For effect he jumped up and down.
"Yeah, at the edge." Skillz replied. "The middle? Not so much."
"Wanna bet?" Before anyone could answer he was already off, having no difficulty skating on his Nikes.
"He is going to get his ass drowned." Haley groaned. "An I am going to have to phone my parents to explain." She didn't get to say anymore as her very wobbly legs finally gave in and she landed with a thud on the frozen surface. "That's gonna bruise."
Chuckling Nathan and Lucas helped her back up.
"That's it, I'm going back." Haley announced, about to turn around when someone suddenly grabbed her hand. "Mouth, what're you-ah!"
Mouth laughed as she clutched onto his hand for dear life with both of hers as he easily slid around, pulling her with him.
Lucas laughed at they death threats they could hear Haley screaming at him.
"Nathan!"
Watching his younger brother go to her aid Lucas smirked. He had it bad.
"Watcha smiling at?" Almost jumping out of his skin as a fourteen year old Brad came to stand beside him Lucas punched his shoulder. "Sorry." Brad grinned, very unapologetically.
"Ass."
Chuckling Brad let out a long breath, watching it curl in front of his face in the cold.
"So, you have a good birthday?"
"Awesome." Brad smiled. "Thanks for getting you dad to take us up here, dude."
"Me? Dude, he practically jumped at the chance to do this for you." Lucas replied. "You're like the son he wishes he had." He laughed.
Brad sniggered with the blonde before leaning on his shoulder. "Still, man, thanks."
Lucas smiled in return.
Noticing that this moment was getting slightly too girlish for his liking, Brad quickly pushed Lucas so he fell and skated off, laughing as the blonde chased after him.
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Skipping down the corridor Brooke happily munched on the bowl of popcorn she stole from Haley. "Mouth?!" She called out, turning into his room. "I was thinking we could go sledging. Maybe even take Haley with us." She laughed but stopped dead in her tracks when the person she saw wasn't the one she wanted.
"Mouth's not here." Jake announced after a moment of very awkward silence.
"I kinda guessed." Brooke replied, forcing out a small laugh. "Any idea where he went?" She asked, trying not to stare at his very bare and wet chest.
"He said something about a snowball fight with Junk, Fergie, Tim and Skillz." Jake told her, holding onto the towel wrapped around his waist.
"They probably wanted to get out before Haley killed them."
"Yeah." Jake chuckled, coughing when the silence returned seconds afterwards.
"Okay." Brooke nodded and pointed her thumb over her shoulder. "I'm just gonna-"
"Brooke wait-"
Closing her eyes, damnit, so close. She turned back around. "Yeah?"
"I don't want it to be like this between us."
She shrugged. "Like what?"
Jake sighed. "I told you I had a daughter." He watched her wince slightly. "And that I loved you, and you totally freaked out. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, but I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry."
Brooke nodded, silently wondering which part he was sorry for. "Okay."
Jake nodded. "Okay."
She couldn't help it and let her eyes wander down his body and she felt her cheeks burn.
"I should get dressed." He said quickly, noticing her blushing face.
"Yeah and I should-" turning around she never noticed how close the doorframe was and walked right into it.
Jake took a step forward to help her.
"I'm fine!" She waved her hand behind her, the other covering her face as she quickly made her way out of the room.
He couldn't help it and grinned a little, Brooke Davis.
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"Do you think it's safe?" Lucas whispered, quietly making his way to the living room.
"No screaming." Peyton replied as they turned into the living room. "Or blood."
Lucas' expression become one of revulsion and he decided he would have rather been greeted with blood shed than what he saw.
"And now I see why." The curly blonde added, eyes blinking as on the couch was a very shirtless Nathan Scott on top of a- from what she could see-just about to become topless Haley James.
"My eyes!" Lucas cried, covering his face with his hands.
The couple had the decency to looked embarrassed. Well half of them did.
Haley pushed Nathan's hands from under her shirt, pulling the material down. Nathan however looked pissed at been interrupted. "Nice cock-clocking, Luke."
"Well I wouldn't have had to if you two weren't-" Lucas motioned to them with one hand as the other was still covering his face.
"And we still would be, if-"
"Okay! As much fun as this was." Peyton grabbed Lucas' free hand and pulled him towards the stairs.
"Luke." Haley grabbed onto the bottom of his jumper before he could walk past her.
"Yes?" He asked meekly.
She rolled her eyes. "I'm not going to bite you." She snapped, instantly regretting it. "I know I've being kind of mega-bitch the past two days and I'm really sorry." She told him.
Taking his hand from his face Lucas scrunched his nose when he saw a bra lying on the floor, and since he guessed it wasn't his brothers… "It's fine." He moved his gaze to her face, smiling. "Just promise me you wont throw anymore books at me."
Pursing her lips Haley mulled this over. "I can't promise that but I do promise to not point out that my bra is lying on the floor and you are totally freaked out by it."
She laughed loudly as he gave her the middle finger and quickly walked out of the room, Peyton in tow.
As they sat in silence Nathan looked at his girlfriend, then at said bra, then at her again. "When did that happen?"
Haley shrugged. "I have no idea."
He grinned wolfishly as he leaned back towards her. "Now where were we?"
"I believe you were just about to-" She moaned low in her throat as his hand made it's way back up her shirt.
"I love you." He mumbled against her jaw.
Raking her nails up his back Haley smiled devilishly as his fingers dipped below the waistband of her jeans. "You have no idea."
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Surprised? I am LOL okay so I wrote this chapter all in one night and I wanted to get it posted to please 'scuse any mistakes and I know it's not exactly anything exciting but I just wanted a nice fluffy chapter. Theirs is still three chapters left, I was gonna have Nathan's birthday in this one as well but I decided to put it in the next chapter.
Thank you all so much for the wonderful reviews(: I love you all
AN; just to let everyone know this isn't an update, i just edited a couple of things (: