AN: Hi everyone, I know I'm a horrible, horrible person for not updating for sooooo long but I went on holidays

and then moved from London back to Australia so to say that things have been CRAZY is an understatement!!

I do hope to update more frequently from now on! Hope you like this chapter! Please let me know what you think!

Disclaimer: I do not own One Tree Hill or its characters they belong the Mark Schwahn and the CW. Neither do I own the song used for the title of this story it belongs to Gavin De Graw.

Chapter 25

How Can You Be Sure?

When air became an issue Haley pulled back slightly leaning her forehead against his as she fought to control her breathing and slow her rapid heartbeat.

"There is something else I need to tell you……" Haley said quietly.

"What is it?" Nathan asked.

"I….um…" Haley started but was interrupted by the ringing of the house phone.

"Hold that thought." Haley said, after dropping a quick kiss on Nathan's lips she got up and picked up the phone.

"Hello." Haley said

"Hey Rockstar what's up? Brooke said on the other end of the phone.

"Hey Tigger." Haley said rolling her eyes, 'Brooke had to have the worst possible timing ever', Haley thought to herself.

"I thought I'd better ring to check that the apartment was still standing." Brooke told her.

"Yeah it's still standing and yes, before you ask all your clothes and shoes are still here." Haley said knowing that was probably what Brooke really wanted to know.

"I just wanted to make sure. You never know when the maid is gonna take your things and try and sell them on e-bay. I mean look at what happened to Victoria Beckham." Brooke said.

"Um Brooke we don't even have a 'maid'." Haley reminded her with a laugh.

"So not the point Tutorgirl." Brooke told her.

"What is actually the point of this phone call Brooke?" Haley asked slightly amused by her friends rambling, normally it was her doing the rambling.

"Ooh I'm not interrupting anything am I?" Brooke asked.

"Yeah you are actually. Nathan and I were just had wild monkey sex in your bed." Haley said sending Nathan a smirk which he more than happily returned.

Haley held the phone away from her ear as Brooke screeched on the other end of the line.

"Oh My God Tutor Slut, you and Boytoy had sex in my bed?" Brooke said in disbelief.

"Yeah we decided to make the most of having the apartment to our selves and christen every room in the apartment and your room was next on the list." Haley told her with a smirk.

"Haley…..please tell me you're gonna wash my sheets? And just remember the couch hasn't been stain guarded yet." Brooke pleaded.

Deciding Brooke had had enough Haley told her that she was only joking and that there was no way she would ever have sex in Brooke's bed, even if it was payback for when they were roommates in college.

"Anyway getting back to the point of my phone call……" Brooke started.

"That would be good." Haley told her with a grin and mouthed an apology to Nathan for taking so long to which he just smiled back.

"I just got off the phone with P Sawyer and she was telling me that she still hasn't found any office space and I got to thinking about how I have that huge space for my office/ design studio and only use about half of it and thought that you and Peyton could use the extra space. I mean it's big enough that you could even put in a recording studio if you wanted to." Brooke told her.

"You don't have to if you don't want to……" Brooke continued unsure of what Haley's answer would be.

"Brooke I think it's a fantastic idea." Haley told her grabbing the tv remote and turning on the big flat screen tv, flicking till she found a sport station for Nathan to watch.

"I know." Brooke told her cockily.

"You'd really be ok with us putting in a recording studio?" Haley asked waking into the hallway.

"Haley you've seen how much room there is." Brooke reminded her.

"Are you sure this isn't a ploy for you to be near a microphone so you can sing karaoke any time you want?" Haley asked, Brooke loved to sing Karaoke and had been asked to get off stage on more than one occasion so that someone else could have a go.

"Well yes that did cross my mind. I must say I've improved heaps since you last herd me and you never know one day we could record a duet." Brooke told her.

"Um wow. That would be…..um….great Brooke." Haley said not sure what else she could say.

As much as she loved Brooke, the girl just couldn't sing to save herself and Haley was certain that no matter how much practised she did there was no hope of her improving. Yes Brooke Davis was tone deaf, she did however make up for her lack of music ability with enthusiasm. Haley just didn't have the heart to tell her how bad she was.

"Haley I'm joking, well about the duet anyway. Just make sure you dedicate your next album to yours truly." Brooke told her with a laugh.

"Not a problem Tigger." Haley told her.

"Um Peyton also mentioned something else to me while we were on the phone." Brooke said.

"What was that?" Haley asked.

"Haley Elise James you know exactly what I'm talking about." Brooke scolded her.

"Nothing has been confirmed yet." Haley told her

"Don't get me wrong I think it's great. But are you sure it's safe?" Brooke asked her.

"If I do this I promise you that everything will be ok." Haley told her.

"It better be." Brooke told her.

They spoke for a few more minutes and Brooke told her she would be home tomorrow afternoon and that there was a party that they were expected to attend in the evening.

Haley hung up the phone and walked back into the living room to find Nathan engrossed in whatever basketball game was on tv.

"Everything ok?" Nathan asked her as she sat down next to him on the couch.

"Everything's great, Brooke offered half her office space to Peyton and I to use as our office space and there's enough room for us to put in a recording studio." Haley beamed at him.

"That's great." Nathan said slipping his arm around her.

"Yeah Peyton and I have talked for years about starting our own label. This could be just what we need for that to happen." Haley told him as he moved her so that she straddled his lap.

"Brooke also said that we have a party to attend tomorrow night. Would you come with me?" Haley asked.

"Sure I'll brave the screaming masses for you." Nathan told her.

"Awe you're so sweet." Haley told him.

"So...um… hot monkey sex?" Nathan asked her with a smirk. "What is that exactly?"

"Maybe I should show you." Haley said and leaned down to place a kiss on his waiting lips.

"How 'bout that. Coz if you really want to christen every room in the apartment we better get started." Nathan told her with a smirk a few minutes later.

"I like the way you think Mr Scott." Haley said reaching for the hem of her top and pulling it over her head and flinging it somewhere behind her.

"Oh I think that's something we can agree on James." He said fisting a hand in her long curly locks and bringing her lips against his.

Haley's tongue swept into his mouth and swirled around his, while her hands went to his t-shirt, pulling it up so she could feel his skin against hers.

They separated briefly so that Haley could pull his t-shirt over his head and then it went the same way hers had gone.

Nathan tore his mouth away from hers and placed a series of open mouthed kissed down her neck, sucking a biting his way to the point where he pulse was beating rapidly.

"Hey you're gonna give me a love bite." Haley said moving slightly way from him.

"If you have to give me one you could at least do it in a place no one else will see." Haley pouted at him.

"If you insist." Nathan told her his hands going to the clasp of her bra and making quick work of removing the lacy garment.

"How about here?" He asked running his finger down her now bare breast, then lowered his mouth to the spot he'd indicated her only answer was a moan.

Haley stroked her hands across his shoulders and down his chest finally coming to a stop on his belt buckle.

"Do you have a………" Haley asked breathlessly.

"My wallet in the front left pocket." Nathan replied without giving her a chance to finish asking.

"Remind me to write a letter thanking the folks at Durex." Haley said earning a chuckle from Nathan.

A while and a few more love bites later Nathan and Haley were sprawled on the couch, locked together in a tangle on limbs.

"Well that was…..wow." Haley said when she finally got her breath back.

"Hmm….yeah my ears are still ringing." Nathan told her.

"Mine t..…oh shit." Haley said and pushed Nathan off her so quickly he almost fell off the couch.

"It's the oven timer I forgot all about dinner." Haley said grabbing Nathan's t-shirt and raced into the kitchen.

Nathan got up and pulled on his boxers, he could hear Haley muttering and cursing in the kitchen and wandered in to see if he do anything to help.

Haley grabbed the pan of what used to be chicken and now resembled charcoal out of the oven and threw it in the sink, followed quickly by the pot of vegetables that were also burned.

"Everything ok?" Nathan asked from the doorway.

"No. I burned dinner." Haley told him turning around her eyes brown eyes drenched in tears.

"Hey don't cry. It's ok I'm not that hungry anyway." Nathan said walking over and enveloping her in his arms. Haley would have believed him too but for the fact that his stomach chose that exact moment to rumble.

"So I can hear. I just wanted everything to be perfect. And what do I do I end up burning your dinner." Haley told him.

"Hales it doesn't matter. Seriously we'll just order take-out. Besides it's kinda my fault too that dinner got burned." Nathan assured her.

"You're right." Haley said with a sigh, "it is your fault."

"Haha. Where are your take-out menus?" Nathan asked her.

"Um I think there are a couple in the mail I picked up today. Its on the coffee table in the lounge room." Haley told him.

Nathan walked into the other room and saw a pile of letters on the coffee table and was looking through the pile of mail when something fell out of the pile and onto the floor sliding under the couch.

Couching down Nathan put the mail on the table and reached out underneath the couch to pick up what he'd dropped.

"Shit." Haley said when she remembered what was in the pile of mail that Nathan was now looking through and quickly walked into the lounge room.

"What the hell?" Nathan asked when he saw what he'd picked up. It was a photo of him and Haley or it used to be before someone had scratched out her eyes and written WHORE across her.

"Haley what's this?" Nathan asked and turned to see her walking into the room a guilty expression on her face.

"That's what I was going to tell you before." Haley told him.

"I've been getting a few letters like that lovely one you have there lately." She continued.

"And you didn't think to say anything?" Nathan wanted to know.

"I was going to tell you sorry. But I know Victoria has to be behind this. It's just another attempt by her to make me miserable." Haley said.

"How can you be sure Victoria is the one behind it Hales?" Nathan asked, "You need to let the police know so that they can look into it."

"Yeah I know but I just feel like I'm kinda overreacting about the whole situation, it's just a few letters." Haley said.

"Just promise me that you'll go to the police tomorrow Haley." Nathan asked.

"I promise. I'll talk to Matt in the morning." Haley promised.

"Did I not mention that Matt is a cop?" Haley asked when she saw Nathan's confused expression.

"You mean he um carries a gun? Um no it seems that's just another thing you forgot to mention." Nathan mused. 'Great,' He thought her brother is a cop and carries a gun and knows I'm sleeping with his sister.

"Nathan you don't have to worry about Matt, he's a….." Haley told him with a laugh.

"Marshmellow, yeah I've heard that before." Nathan said with a pout.

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Thanks. Laura.

TITLE SONG: How Can You Be Sure? By Radiohead

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