Welcome to chapter #7! Sorry I haven't been able to update sooner. Just got back to school like a week ago and then I'm studying for exams. Not really studying, more like cramming but I hope I do good, and I promise I will NOT abandon this fic, like I did to my other fic *feels guilty*. I've been OTH deprived but I'm happy that new episodes are returning Jan. 20th.

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All Sorts of Things

Chapter 7

DISCLAIMER: I don't own One Tree Hill nor its characters except for Lance and Ty and possibly more new characters.

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RECAP: "I don't wanna hear it, Nathan," Ty said angrily, "Last night, when you said 'whatever we had meant nothing,' you forgot to think about our friendship." Ty pulled her arm back, spun around, and walked away from Nathan, to her next class.

Nathan just stood, having trouble trying to find words. Haley came running behind him, "Don't worry, I'll talk to her." She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and ran after Ty.

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'Ugh, when will this day ever end?' Ty thought to herself. It was only the second class of the day, and the day seemed extra slow. She sat in English listening to Mr. Kelly lecture something pertaining to poetry. She sat there copying down notes her teacher wrote down on the white board. She lifted up her head only to meet the eyes of Nathan Scott. His eyes were begging her to forgive him. She returned his look with a glare and shifted her gaze back to the white board and continued to copy down notes. Nathan let out a sigh and turned around to face front.

After English, Ty spent her free period in the tutorial center with Haley; she needed somewhere quiet to work.

"I know this isn't any of my business, but do you wanna talk about what Nathan said last night?" Haley asked.

Ty looked up from her notebook, "He told you about that?" Ty asked.

"Yeah, I was wondering if you wanted to talk about it," Haley offered.

Ty bit her lip, "Sure, I guess it's good to have someone of talk to about it."

"How long do you plan to hold this against him?" Haley asked, sighing.

"I really don't know; I guess it depends on mood swings. I know he's sorry, but I guess it's just my gut that's telling me to stay mad at him," Ty said, zoning, "What about you? You must've have gotten to fights with him before."

Haley smiled as she slowly started to remember that time on their first date. "Yeah, we did. It was before people starting saying stuff and he started to worry about his reputation." Haley started to get curious, "What was Nathan like as a kid?"

Ty let out a small chuckle, "You really wanna know?" Haley nodded eagerly. "Okay, I'm just afraid I might say something embarrassing, but hey that doesn't matter."

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Nathan walked up to Haley's locker, to see her taking some books out for her next class.

"Did you talk to her?" Nathan asked.

Haley looked at him, "Yeah I talked to her."

"And?"

"She's not gonna forgive……just yet."

"Did she say why?" Nathan started to get desperate.

"Not exactly, but I wouldn't try talking to her, seeing as you're the one she's mad at," Haley said, as she continued to take and put back books in her locker.

"Where's she now?"

"I pointed her in the direction of Peyton's car because she needed a ride home," Haley said, pointing at the exit.

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The bell continued to ring as Ty walked to exit to get to Peyton's car when a little ad caught her attention.

Drama Club

Introduction meetings @ 3:30 after school, Thursday

No experience needed

'Sure, why not…I'll take another whack at it' Ty thought to herself.

"Ty!" someone shouted. Ty turned around and saw Peyton waving by her car. Ty ran out the school doors and up to Peyton, "Haley told me you need a ride."

"Yeah, thanks."

"No problem, oh yeah, I hope you don't mind if I play some loud music," Peyton said.

"Oh no it's no problem."

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As soon as Ty came home, the phone started to ring. She hesitated to pick it up so she let the machine take it.

"Hello…………," Ty loved Julie's answering machine message. She waited for some to say something, "Ty?" It was Nathan. "I'm sorry, we're not here right now so leave a message after the beep and we'll get back to you as soon as possible." *BEEEEEEP*

Nathan let out a sigh of frustration, "Ty, this is Nathan. Look, I know I said some things last night and I'm sorry. Just please…pick up the phone."

There was a long silence as Ty just looked at the phone. With a shaking hand, she reached for the phone, just as she was about to pick it up, she pulled away. "I'm sorry Nathan," whispered Ty.

Ty looked around, wondering where Julie was, "Julie…I'm home." She walked into the kitchen, then to the fridge only to see a sticky note saying 'Gone out with friends. Here's some money for food or if you want you can cook. Don't burn anything.' Ty chuckled at the last sentence; she looked at the money that Julie had left and thought, 'Haley or Peyton? Haley's probably spending time with Nathan…so no…Peyton it is!'

She went over to the phone and deleted Nathan's message. She picked up the phone and dialed Peyton's number; it rang a little but after Peyton answered, "Hey!"

"Peyton!"

"Ty?" Peyton asked a little startled.

"Yeah hey, I was wondering if you've eaten dinner already," Ty said as she hopped over to the stereo and pushed play. Holiday by The Get Up Kids started to spread throughout the house.

"No I haven't eaten dinner, why?" Peyton suspiciously asked.

"Well I wondering which one is better: pizza or a home cooked meal?" Ty asked, waiting for an opinion.

"I guess pizza that way there's no big mess. Tell me why you're asking me this," Peyton said, curiously.

"Well my cousin Julie is out with friends and I don't wanna call Haley seeing that she might be with Nathan and I'm kinda pissed at Nathan right now, I don't have much conversation with Lucas just yet, and I'm not to familiar with Brooke. So what I'm saying is that, would you like to come over for dinner and discuss the many flaws about Nathan Scott," Ty said.

"Ok…well…sure why not? I'm free tonight; let's discuss the many flaws about Nathan Scott. Besides, I wanna know why you're pissed at him," Peyton laughed, "I'll be over in 10-15 minutes."

"Great! Pepperoni or cheese?" Ty asked.

"Ummm……cheese."

"Great!"

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"So tell me why you're pissed at Nathan. I'm very curious to know," Peyton said, eating a loose piece of cheese hanging off of her pizza.

"He said some things," Ty answered, playing with her food, "The wrong things."

"Like?" Peyton asked, waiting for an example.

"Oh wow, that's a long story but here's the short version: we weren't exactly a couple back then, we dated for like a week before I moved to New York. A week before that he said he loved me and two nights ago he said it meant nothing," Ty said, biting her lip.

"I'm sorry, I know he can be a real ass sometimes," Peyton said putting emphasis on the word "jerk".

"I'll agree with you on that," Ty said, as she stood up to change the track on the stereo.

Peyton got up as well and started looking at the stack of CD's next to the stereo, "You like The Get Up Kids?"

"Yeah, I went to one of their concerts like way back ago, I have some pictures if you wanna see?" Ty asked, pulling out one of her photo albums.

Peyton started to flip through the album, "Oh my gosh…these are awesome!"

"I got more in my room if you wanna see."

"Sure!"

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I'M SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN SO LONG!!! I guess I got a little side tracked. Ok maybe not a little but A LOT! But I finally got this chapter up and gave Ty and Peyton a little more bonding time. So don't think of this as a cliffhanger because it's not supposed to be.