I'm SO sorry this took so long… I was on my trip and we didn't really have a computer with us aside from the ones in the few hotels we were in. So I'm sorry for the long wait… but with me there are barely any like this… I hope you will enjoy this one and you didn't lose interest! So enjoy!!!

For All You're Worth

Chapter 36

The four burst out laughing.

"That's horrible!" Mouth exclaimed.

"Wait, that's not all," Peyton continued. "Then she asks why she's failing the class."

They laughed again.

"You see Haley, that's what you miss with taking AP classes. You don't get to see some of the morons in the on-level classes," Mouth said.

"Haley would get bored of all the pranks on the teachers," Lucas smiled.

"You guys tell me the good ones though," Haley giggled.

Lucas continued looking at her as he smiled.

"What?"

"Nothing, I'm just happy you're honest with us. No lies. Right?"

She nodded, "No lies." She smiled back at him.

"So Nathan," Jayme had just finished her sandwich. "Since there's no school tomorrow because the teachers have to do whatever they have to do," Nathan and Zach laughed, "do you have any plans?"

"I was hoping to do something with Haley but who knows, it's up to her," he replied. "How about you two?"

"What are you planning to do with Haley?" Jayme ignored his question.

"Being nosey again," Zach sing-sang.

"I can't help it," Jayme giggled and then turned back to Nathan. "So?"

"So I'll invite her over to my place and then we're going to have hot sex all through the day. Sound like a good plan to you?" Nathan laughed.

"Do you guys think of anything other than sex?" Jayme questioned.

Nathan and Zach looked at each other, "No."

They laughed.

"That's not the plan if you're wondering. I really have no idea what we'll do. I'm sure we'll think of something when we're together."

"Now will you leave the poor guy alone?" Zach chuckled.

"I'll consider it. So Zach, what are our plans for tomorrow?"

Zach thought for a second, "I'll pick you up in the morning around nine, and we'll go to the Pancake House. Then we'll go rollerblading, stopping somewhere for ice-cream and lunch and then we'll go over to my house or something."

"Damn," Nathan said. "You wake up before nine?"

"Zach! That sounds perfect!" she kissed him.

"How about I do the same with Haley?" Nathan smirked.

"Get your own plans All-Star," Zach smirked right back.

They laughed.

"Speaking of…" Jayme looked at the approaching girl.

"Hey," Haley said her book bag across her shoulders and holding a small binder in her hand.

"Hi girl," Jayme called.

"What's up, Haley?" Zack added.

"Good."

"So what brings you to this side of the quad?" Nathan questioned.

"You," Haley giggled. "Walk me to class."

"I thought you said you didn't want me to walk you to class because it reminds you," Nathan looked at Zach and Jayme, "of you know."

Haley smiled, "Thanks for remembering. Now," she took a step back, "walk me to class."

"You sure?"

"The girl told you to walk her to class!" Jayme urged.

Nathan laughed as he took his bag and got up.

"So about tonight," Haley started as they walked towards her class.

"What about tonight?"

"Can I hang out with my friends?" she asked. "I promise I'll hang out with you all through tomorrow," she added quickly.

"You're asking me if you're allowed?" Nathan laughed.

Haley blushed.

"Frankly, Haley, I don't want you hanging around that Lucas guy. He's a bad influence on you."

Haley smiled as she shoved him playfully. "So we're on for tomorrow?" They stopped walking as they got to her Chemistry class.

"Yeah," Nathan nodded. "You want me to swing by your place?"

"Sounds good."

The bell rang.

"Perfect timing," Haley giggled. "Thanks for walking me to class."

"Yeah, sure."

Haley started towards her class.

"Hey Haley!" he called.

She turned around, "Yeah?"

"Why did you ask me about tonight?"

She shrugged, "Just so you won't get mad, I guess."

Nathan nodded as she turned around and walked into her classroom.

"Oh great," Aundrea sat down. "You look happy."

"Sucks for you," Haley smiled as she copied down her homework.

"Or for you," Aundrea smirked.

"What exactly does that mean?"

"It just means," Aundrea looked straight at Haley, "be careful. After all, this is Nathan Scott you're dealing with."

"You just can't have me happy, can you?"

"I can, I just rather you not."

Haley rolled her eyes. There was nothing Aundrea could do or say to change her state of mind.

Haley opened the door to Karen's Café and was greeted immediately by her friends.

She sat on one of the stools alongside them.

"I love random days that we don't have to go to school. Tomorrow will be awesome!" Peyton exclaimed.

"And what are you going to be doing exactly?" Mouth questioned.

"Sleeping in, of course. And then I'll wake up mid day and draw while listening to my music."

"Don't you do that even when there's school?" Haley questioned.

"Yeah, but then I won't have to feel like I should be doing my homework," she giggled.

"Well I really don't know what I'll be doing," Mouth laughed. "But I don't really care."

"Luke?"

"Basketball at the Rivercourt. How about you, Hales?"

"Umm, Nathan," she whispered.

"Looks like she's already ashamed of him," Lucas joked as they laughed.

"I'm not ashamed of him," Haley defended.

"I hope you learned your lesson from that other one though," Peyton said.

"Meaning?" Haley raised a brow.

"Don't let him call the shots!"

"Always be the one in control!"

"That everything will be equal and shared!"

They all turned to Mouth.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Peyton pointed at Haley. "She is the one that needs to be in control."

"But a relationship doesn't work like that."

"Screw a relationship," Peyton said. "Look Haley, whatever you do-"

"As much as I appreciate all these tips I think I can handle myself. Nathan is a good guy and I know that I should be careful. I've learned that from Kyle's break-up."

They all quieted down.

Haley let out an exasperated sigh.

After a long silence Peyton whispered something in Lucas' ear and he started to laugh as he nodded. Haley and Mouth exchanged glances.

"I'll be right back," Peyton smiled as she went behind the counter and to the back room.

"What is she doing?" Mouth questioned.

"You'll see," Lucas said. "But my money is on me."

"Well mine's on Haley," Peyton yelled from the back room.

"And I'm officially scared," Haley giggled.

"And I'm insulted. Why aren't any of you betting that I'll win?"

"Because you'll lose pretty bad," Lucas joked.

"Unless he'll prove us wrong," they heard Peyton again.

"What are you doing back there?" Haley laughed.

Peyton came back with a chocolate cake on a plate in her hand and started to cut it into pieces as she put them on different plates.

"Who wants to start?" Peyton looked up at her friends.

"Eating cake?" Haley smiled.

Peyton held up her hands, "Without hands."

"Ew," Haley laughed.

"Don't even pretend Hales," Lucas chuckled. "She already knows we did just that when we were younger."

"Yes! Younger, but now! I mean this was what? Ten years ago?"

"Five," Lucas corrected grabbing a piece of cake. "Let's see if you still have it in you, James."

"I'd tie your hair back if I were you," Peyton recommended as she gave Haley a hair-tie.

Haley took it and tied her hair back. "You guys are evil."

Peyton put a cake in front of Haley. "Care to announce this Mouth?"

"Sure," Mouth laughed as he walked behind the counter where Peyton was. "We're here in the ultimate chocolate cake eating contest. Where returning champion… " Mouth stopped and looked at the two, "Who was the 'champion'?"

Lucas groaned and rolled his eyes as he pointed to Haley. Haley smiled, grinning.

Peyton and Mouth laughed. "Where returning champion Haley James is once again taking Lucas Scott's challenge. Who will win? The stakes are high tonight and so are the hopes of these two friends."

"And Scott will win," Lucas chipped in. "Because Haley is a girl-"

"Sexist much?" Peyton looked at her boyfriend with a smile.

"BECAUSE Haley is a girl," Lucas continued. "And teenage girls care about getting fat," Lucas laughed. "Do you know how many calories are in this cake, Haley?"

"As many as I'm going to eat I hope," Haley smiled. "And as many as I'll burn tomorrow working-out," Haley whispered to herself.

They all laughed.

"Ready, set, GO!" Mouth yelled as the two best friends started going at it.

"Whoa," Peyton said.

"It's like they never stopped," Mouth joked.

"Haley," Lucas stopped for a second. "A strand of your hair is loose, it's getting all chocolaty."

Haley stopped and pulled all her hair back only to realize it was all in a perfect ponytail "You are SO dead." They both went back to their cakes.

"Wait," Lucas looked up at Peyton as Haley stopped and looked up as well. "Where did you get this cake from?"

"It was in the bottom cabin in the refrigerator, why?"

"PEYTON! This cake is from last year!"

Haley spit everything back into the plate as she ran for water as Lucas smirked and ate his last piece of cake.

"And Lucas Scott wins using some cheating methods," Mouth declared.

"What?!" Haley came to where Peyton and Mouth were behind the counter, from the back room, as she wiped at her mouth with a napkin.

"He was playing you, Haley," Peyton informed her. "I'm pretty shocked you fell for it."

Haley dropped the napkin and stared at Lucas.

"Anything to win," Lucas stuck out his tongue.

"Well at least my face is clean. You have cake all over your mouth and not to mention your forehead and hair."

Lucas raised his brow, "No I don't."

Haley took some of the cake that was left and smashed it into Lucas' face. "Oh I think you do."

"OH!" Peyton and Mouth called aloud.

"Oh that's pretty much it," Lucas smirked as he jumped over the counter and grabbed Haley. She started to scream.

"Lucas whatever you're about to do, DON'T YOU DARE!"

Lucas held her in his arms and ran to the back room.

"LUCAS EUGENE SCOTT!"

"Eugene?!" Peyton laughed as she and Mouth followed the two best friends.

"Now you're really into it, aren't you?" Lucas looked down at Haley who was trying to kick him.

"I didn't mean to, it slipped," she looked angelically at him. "Now will you be the best best friend ever and just-"

"Drop you?"

"No, I don't really want to break my back," she giggled. "But let me on my feet gently?"

"Maybe you get out that easy with your boyfriends but not with me you're not," Lucas put Haley up against the refrigerator and pinned her to it using his body as he opened the fridge and grabbed for the milk.

"Lucas, what are you doing?"

"You just love playing with cake and milk balloons, don't you?" he smirked as he popped the cap open with his finger.

"LUCAS! DON'T-" it was too late as he already started to pour the milk on her. "Oh damn, we're out," he throw the carton to the floor as he looked back to his best friend.

"You soaked me with milk, dumbass," Haley pushed him off her and grabbed for something in the fridge. "Isn't this your favorite soup, Luke?" she took off the lid and threw the soup at Lucas with a smile.

Lucas grabbed for something random in the fridge and ran after Haley.

"What are you going to do with ham?" Haley giggled as she stopped running from him as she leaned against the counter.

Lucas looked to his hand and laughed as he threw the ham pack to the floor.

"Let's call quits," Lucas walked closer to Haley.

"I wouldn't-" Peyton started.

"Shh," Haley smiled. Lucas looked at her raising his brow.

She reached for the coffee pitcher behind her and threw it at Lucas. "Sure, quits is good. But something is telling me that you're not done."

"You got that right," Lucas smirked as he ran after her and she started screaming once again.

"Coming!" Haley yelled the next morning. She was up until around one trying to get the milk, jelly, ice-cream, potato salad, eggs and tea from her hair. They spent around two hours cleaning everything up and sending Peyton off to buy some of the things they've wasted. They all paid for it of course.

Although it took a long time to clean up and she ended up coming back home pretty disgusting, it was great.

She opened the door and smiled to see her boyfriend.

"Hey," he smiled back.

"Do I smell like anything weird?"

"What?" he laughed.

"Do I?"

"Umm, do you want me to smell you?" he chuckled.

"Sure," Haley giggled.

"Okay," he bent down taking in the scent of her hair and her perfume. He started to get dizzy just from the smell. "You smell just fine."

"Good," she said cheerfully. "So what's the plan? Inside, outside?"

"Outside, it's nice," he looked behind him.

"Yeah, it is," she closed the door behind her as she stepped forward.

"Uh, Haley, you kind of locked yourself outside unless your parents are not at work."

"Of course they are and no I haven't," Haley faced him. "My key is somewhere hidden."

"Okay," he laughed. They started walking. Absentmindedly they went for each others' hands as they interlaced them naturally.

"So did you just walk to my house or did you come with your car?"

"I walked. So how was yesterday?"

"You mean with the friends you didn't allow me to hang with?" Haley laughed.

"I never said anything about Peyton and Mouth, just about my ass of a half brother."

"Well Peyton finds it hilarious you're scared of her."

"You told her that?" he looked at her.

"Well you never told me not to tell her," Haley giggled. "Was I not supposed to say anything?"

"You're something else," Nathan chuckled as they continued walking.

"Well it was great, we got into a pretty huge food fight. I know what you're thinking, very childish. And I agree but we couldn't stop, it started with the cake and then the milk and the coffee and the egg salad and-"

"Egg salad?" Nathan laughed. "Sounds intense."

"You don't even want to know," Haley giggled. "So what about you? What did you do?"

"I went to see my Uncle Cooper, we watched a basketball game, had some beer, and other guy shit like that."

"Right," Haley nodded. "Where are we exactly going?"

"No idea," Nathan said. "Does it matter?"

"I guess not, we have all day so we can get lost and take forever to find our way back," she smiled up at him.

"Wait, you're planning on getting lost in your own neighborhood?"

"Why not?"

He laughed, "Okay."

She looked to the ground as they continued walking. She finally noticed her hand was in his as she smiled to herself. She felt safe with him, she couldn't even explain it.

"So, how about a little game?" Nathan offered.

She nodded as she looked up at him.

"We have to go in the alphabet and name something we see in the letter we are at. So let's say I start, I'll say something in 'A' and you say in 'B' and we continue."

"Okay," Haley laughed. "You start."

"Umm, apple tree," Nathan pointed.

"Book," Haley said.

"Book?" Nathan chuckled.

"Yep," Haley pointed towards a guy that was sitting on a bench reading a book.

"Clothes," Nathan laughed.

"What?! That's too general."

"Did anyone say we can't say general stuff?"

"Well if 'P' is mine I'll say person," she stuck out her tongue. "David."

"Who the hell is David?"

"My neighbor," Haley giggled. "He lives in that house right there," Haley pointed.

"Well I don't think that counts as you can't see David."

"Fine, David's house."

"I guess that counts," Nathan chuckled. "Eyes," he looked into her eyes.

Haley looked at Nathan for a while and she finally tore herself to find something with 'F' "Flag," she said looking at the American flag in someone's house.

"Garden."

"Houses."

"iPod," Nathan looked to some guy who was sitting down listening to his iPod.

"Jelly somewhere in my hair," Haley joked as Nathan's laughed.

"Well I can't see it."

"Whatever," Haley rolled her eyes as she giggled.

"Kids."

"Leaves."

"Nathan," Haley smiled up at him again.

He smiled back at her. "Beautiful."

"You have 'O'."

"Well that's too bad because I wanted to say 'B'."

Haley blushed.

"So do you want to go to that playground?" Nathan offered.

"Why?" Haley giggled.

"For the heck of it."

"Fine," Haley let go of his hand. "But I get the right swing," she started running towards the playground as Nathan laughed and followed.

"What's wrong with the left one?" Nathan questioned when Haley sat down on the right swing.

"Nothing, I just grew up swinging on this one," Haley pushed herself off the ground as she started to swing.

"And what if one of your siblings wanted to use it? You're the youngest, right?"

Haley nodded. "Well they'd yell at me to get off and I'd refuse and then they'd kick me off it, I'd go cry to my parents and they'd buy me ice-cream to cheer me up."

"Nice."

Haley laughed. "Even if one of my siblings were on the right one and no one was one the left, I would refuse to be on the left. I'd just yell at them. They wouldn't give a damn but that didn't stop me."

"I could see you complaining to them and making a big commotion over the right swing."

"Oh do you?" Haley smiled as she stopped swinging her legs and let the swing go slowly back to where it was.

Nathan walked to the left swing and sat down.

"Can I ask you a question, Nathan?"

"You didn't really give me a choice there, did you?" he laughed. "Go ahead."

"Why did you stop hanging out with your friends?"

"Huh? I do hang out with my friends."

"I mean Aundrea, Brooke and umm, Kyle."

"Oh," Nathan said. "They're asses and selfish and I didn't want friends like that."

"Was it anything specific they did?"

Nathan shook his head. He didn't want to lie to her but in a way it wasn't a lie. "Just the behavior I guess."

"Well you hung out with them for quite sometime so out of nowhere you saw they were asses?"

"Not really out of nowhere, it took some self-reflection at first, courtesy of Coop."

"You're Uncle Cooper?"

"Yep. So how about I push you on that swing, James?"

"Okay," she laughed as Nathan got up and went behind her. He got close to her, "I push pretty hard so hold tight so you don't fall," he whispered in her ear as he chuckled.

"Biggest cake would have to be my tenth birthday. My parents were excited I was going into the double digits," Haley laughed. "You?"

"Thirteen, after that I wouldn't let my parents through me a birthday party. I would only allow them to pay for my birthday bashes."

"Nathan's 15th birthday bash! That was the biggest deal in Freshman year, I remember. I also remember not going."

"You were invited if I'm not mistaken."

"Well Lucas wasn't and I decided not to go," Haley giggled.

"Well you missed a lot."

"I bet I did," Haley laughed. "People were wearing sweaters from the party and you gave out free basketballs and everything."

"And a CD mix," Nathan added.

"Well you invited basically everyone in our grade aside from Lucas."

"I know, and it was fun," Nathan smirked.

Haley rolled her eyes. "You two are such asses."

"Us two? What did he do?"

"Pour milk on me," Haley laughed. Haley looked up.

"What's wrong?"

"Did you feel that?"

"What?" Nathan looked up. "Rain? I just did. It can't be anything too bad." Right then it started pouring, "Okay, spoke to soon."

"My house- it's closest," Haley said as she grabbed Nathan's hand and started running out the playground and towards her house.

They were running as fast as they could as they got soaked.

"Nathan," Haley turned around to see he was stopping.

She saw him gazing into her eyes as her heart started beating faster. Was this it? She suddenly felt butterflies in her stomach as her breath caught in her throat.

He leaned down towards her as her heartbeat quickened. The second his lips touched hers she relaxed and let herself get completely lost in his touch and in the kiss.

She felt it. Those fireworks people talked about. She let him slip his tongue into her mouth as their tongues fought for dominance.

The rain only added to the moment. The rain. It will remain their thing until the end of time; she just knew it.

"Maybe you want," Haley said between kisses, "to… go… to… my house?"

"Why?" he said as he continued to kiss her back.

"You're right… I like the… rain."

"And… I like… you… in… the rain."

"God, I can't… stop… kissing you," Haley giggled. It was true. She just wanted to continue it forever; being with him like this, creating their own memory that would last a lifetime.

"Me too," Nathan admitted as they continued kissing not saying another word.

They stayed there, without a care in the world of whether they'd be sick the next week or if they had other plans for the day. All their worries of school and telling her and being vulnerable around him were gone. It was just them, Nathan and Haley, and the rain.

A/N: I hope I didn't ruin that final scene… please review!