~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Peyton sat putting the finishing touches on her sketch when the phone rang. She jumped up and looked at the caller ID she recognized Jake's number immediately. She walked back to her bed and sat down. She pulled her sketch book back to her lap. She did not start drawing though instead she looked at the phone, and waited for the message.
As Peyton waited she thanked god that she had covered up the web cam. She was not ready to talk to Jake yet. She was not sure if she was going to tell him what happened or not. They were not a couple, but it still felt like she had cheated on him by kissing Luke.
The answering machine picked up and she heard Jake speak. Her heart skipped a beat at the sound of his voice. Jake said "Hey it's just me I had a free minute before I started my homework and decided that it would best be spent talking to you, but I guess you are not there. Not a big deal, just was wondering if you had fun last night, and to tell you that I was thinking about you. If you have time later give me a call or IM me either is fine. If not I will see you in school. Talk to you later hopefully."
Peyton stared at the phone as the tears began to fall again. She did not deserve any of that message. What she deserved was a lot of yelling and I can not believe you did that. She had royally screwed everything up. First and most importantly with Brooke she was still trying to figure out how to fix that. Now on top of that she may have messed up the best chance at a great relationship she had ever had. He was the greatest guy she had known and that included Luke. A single tear fell onto the sketch pad leaving a little bubble next to stupidity.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Nathan was outside shooting hoops when his grandfather came out. He had left the house to escape his family and the tension. His grandfather got the rebound and shot it. It hit the rim and bounced away. Nathan laughed as he grabbed the ball and shot again making it easily.
"You always were a better shot than I ever could have been. Here give me that I'll make this one." Nathan threw Roy the ball. Roy missed again. They both laughed. "Yeah you and your dad did not get your abilities from me. I was never a great athlete. It drove my dad nuts. He was a great baseball player and thought that I should be too. He pushed and pushed. We would practice for hours and I never got better. I was an average player and that was all I was ever going to be. When I saw your dad shot the ball for the first time I saw the talent he had. I figured that it had skipped a generation. So I pushed him hard to be the best player he could be. In some ways I think it was to show my father that I was not the loser he thought I was. I taught your father that he was the best and to stay the best he had to do everything and anything. I did not realize just how much I had messed up until Karen was pregnant and your father chose college over his responsibilities. I did not want them to get married necessary just to step up and take responsibility."
Nathan was still shocked to hear all of this. No one had ever mentioned that there was a family fight about all of this until now. Up until now he had always thought his grandfather had been fine with Dan's decision.
Roy noticed the look on Nathan's face as he picked up the basketball and took a shot. This time it bounced in. "We never told you all of this, I mean the fight between me and your dad, because I never wanted you to think that I did not love you. I am not happy with what your dad did, but I would not change the effects of his decision. If he had of done things different from the beginning we may not have gotten you. Plus I think that Karen and Lucas have made a good life for themselves away from this family's problems. I wish that I could have changed my ways when it still would have mattered Nate. So that your dad did not do the same thing to you as I did to him, but hindsight is 20/20. I am proud of you Nathan. I think you don't hear that enough. You are becoming a great man. I know that it took a lot to stand up to your dad. I also am proud that you are working through all of this nonsense with Lucas. I saw you and him on the court today."
Nathan missed the shot as he turned his head half way through it. "What? You did?"
"Yes I saw my two grandsons playing a game they both loved, and having a good time doing it. No pressure no family fighting just the game and them."
Nathan had gotten the ball and took another shot. He did not know what to say. He had fun this afternoon but he thought his grandfather was reading into it too far.
"I know where part of this change has come from too. Haley." Roy said simply. "Weather you are ready to admit it or not that girl has changed you. I saw it on the court I see it in the way you talk to her. She has done something for this family that years of counseling probably could not do. She got you and Lucas to look past your father's issues and see that each one is a person. You are lucky to have found her. Do your best not to lose her. You don't find girls like that often."
"She is great. We'll see about not losing her. I mess up a lot and have come close a couple of times to losing her already."
"Well it is a good thing she is so great then." Roy winked at Nathan and both laughed. "Well now for the reason I came out here. Haley has done me this huge favor so now I am going to repay her. I asked her not to tell you this and that was not fair to her. Making her keep secrets from you is not the way for you two to last." Roy took a breath, "So just so you know I have been going to the café for years to check up on Karen and Lucas. Like the fight between your father and me I did not tell you this because I did not want you to think that you meant less to me. Now you are older though it is time you realized right from wrong and the way we should act. Just appears that I am a couple of months behind on that you learned it on your own."
Nathan laughed. "No I had lots of help seeing it. Mom, Haley, and well as much as I hate to admit it Lucas did some things that made me see things differently too."
"Lucas?"
"I know weird huh? He has put himself out there a couple of times for me. He was actually part of the reason I did not quit basketball."
"Wait slow down. First you were quitting basketball? Second he stopped you from it after all of the things you did to him?"
Nathan put the ball on his hip and turned toward his grandfather. "Yeah to both. Was not sure if I wanted to play ball anymore had to decide why I was playing. Lucas told me not to let my dad take my talent from me. I was shocked that he would not be throwing a party that I was leaving the team, but he wasn't he said I was supposed to be on the team." Nathan left out that he had lost a bet that said he had to stay on the team.
Roy looked at his grandson struck once again how much he was growing up and changing. Only a couple of months ago he would not have admitted that Lucas had helped him. Now he was giving Lucas almost all the credit.
Nathan waited to see what his grand father was going to say. Instead of talking Roy walked over to him. Nathan thought he was going to take the ball and was shocked senseless when Roy hugged him. He did not know what to do. He could not remember the last time his grandfather had hugged him. It was always more of a hand shake, maybe a half hug, but this was the real thing.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Luke walked into the café. There was no one there except Haley who was working on homework. Luke laughed and said, "Bout time you did your own work and quit cheating off of me."
Haley looked up and laughed. She saw that Luke was still all sweaty from playing ball. She got up and went around the counter and grabbed him a glass of water and handed it to him. Luke looked at her suspiciously. Haley acted like she did not notice and asked, "You hungry?"
"Alright Hales what's up," he asked as he lowered the cup from his lips.
"What do you mean?"
"You never just get me stuff or offer to cook for me unless you want something."
"I do too at least get you stuff."
"Ok you do but normally I have to ask, but you never offer me food. You tell me to figure out how to cook for myself."
"Can't I be nice to you I have not seen you all week."
"No, you can't and aren't, besides lunch all week?"
"That's not what I mean and you know it. We are never alone any more to talk."
"Yesterday?"
"And what happened half way through our talk. We got interrupted by-you know what fine. I give up. I see you all the time, and am not going to be nice to you any more. Cook for yourself. I am not your slave." They both laughed
Luke knew what she meant they used to spend so much time together talking about nothing and everything. He missed that time that is why he made sure to always have Sunday night free now. They closed down the café and then went out and did something just the two of them. "You won't let me cook. You are too afraid that I would burn the café down to let me do it. All over one stupid towel that caught on fire once."
"Once was more than enough to make me realize that you should never be allowed in a kitchen. Although I have wondered a time or two if you did it just so you would never have to cook again."
Luke laughed, "I guess you will never know now will you." He winked at her.
Haley laughed, and asked, "Chicken noodle soup?"
"Sounds good to me, and can I have a grilled cheese and ham sandwich too please?"
"Save it for your fan club Scott. Your charms don't work on me." She went out back and started to cook a couple of sandwiches up.
Luke looked through her stack of books. He found one that he did not recognize and pulled it out. He read the title "The Great Ape Project Equality Beyond Humanity". He smiled leave it to Haley to be trying to save the world in her spare time. He flipped through it while waiting for Haley and his food.
Haley walked back in with a plate full of sandwiches and two bowls of soup. She sat them down. In front of Luke and grabbed them some drink before she went around the counter, and sat down next to him.
Luke finally looked up and said, "Good book," as if he was surprised. "It's no Steinbeck but hey not everyone can be that good."
Haley ignored the sarcastic remark and took the book back. "Yeah there are some great essays in here on apes. There is one about a guy that jumped into the water and pulled a gorilla out. I was amazed."
"You were crying when you read that essay weren't you Hales?"
"No.ok maybe I got teary eyed but some of the stuff they talk about in there makes me so mad, and so sad all at the same time."
"Not my normal style, but I may have to read that one."
"You had better be careful. You start reading some of my books and I will have you caring about the world."
"I do care about the world already."
"Books, basketball, and girls are not the world..oh and brooding"
Luke laughed whole heartedly at this. "Fine you can save the world for our grandchildren."
"Our grandchildren? I did not know you felt that way Luke, but you are skipping a couple of steps here. Like dating, falling in love, engagement, marriage, having children, raising them, our kids getting married, and then having children."
"You are such a jerk." They both laughed but there was something missing in their laugh. They sat quietly after that in their own thoughts eating their food. They both were thinking the same thing. That the whole thing did not sound as absurd as it should have.
Haley finally interrupted the silence, "I forgot something a game of one on one can change peoples' worlds."
Luke was about to take the soup off the spoon when he stopped. He sat there for half a second with the spoon in front of him and his mouth half open. He finally sat the spoon back in the bowl and looked at Haley who was sitting with a big grin on her face and chewing her sandwich. "Ok so I know you know what happened, now I want to know how you know?"
"I was there Luke the whole school was or at least it seemed like they were."
Now Luke was confused he had been sure that she was talking about today, but maybe she meant his and Nathan's first one on one game. That game changed everyone's lives including hers. He was about to go with this, but that grin kept the doubt in his mind.
"Why what are you talking about?" Haley could not help but let a giggle out.
Luke knew for sure now that she was not talking about the night of the bet. "Alright back to the original statement and question. How did you find out already?"
Haley thought about playing dumb but decided that the joke was over. "I saw you two, and why didn't you tell me already you have been here a whole 10- 15 minutes and you have not said a word about it?"
"Point taken. I guess because it was not a big deal we played ball."
"How, why, who started it?"
"Wait a second that was why you were nice to me when I came in." Luke laughed, and said, "Well if I had of known that that was all it took to get you to be nice to me I would have played ball with him before."
"That was not why I was nice to you. I was nice to you because I remembered today why I love you so much and just how great you really are."
"I'm all ears why am I so great?"
Haley just rolled her eyes. She avoided having to answer this by asking questions of her own. "So how did that whole thing happen?"
Luke knew he was not going to get an answer to his question so he answered her. "Not sure why he showed up on the court, but he asked me too play and I said sure. Well that is a lie I know why he was playing ball just not why he chose to do it there. Dan really does suck."
"He told you about last night?
"Not really he just said that Dan brought that woman there while you and he were there."
Haley sat and told Luke most of what happened the night before leaving out the whole bathtub scene and the making out that her and Nathan had been doing.
"You threatened Dan with a golf club." Luke finally said as everything sunk in. He had gotten stuck on the fact that Haley and Nathan were sleeping together when Dan had come. Then he got stuck on the thought of Haley and a golf club. He started to laugh and Haley followed suit.
"Yeah I did." She blushed a little at the memory. "Now it seems a little over dramatic and dumb but hey I was tired and he was trying to break in my house."
"You threatened to call the cops on them and tell them he was trying to do what to you?"
Haley laughed even harder. "I was not going to tell them he tried to do anything I was just going to let them think what they wanted."
Luke laughed so hard at the thought of Haley standing toe to toe with Dan. He was not surprised that Dan had lost the battle. Haley was not someone to mess with. Luke had learned that at a young age.
"I wish I could have been there to see it," he finally managed.
Haley started to laugh again, she finally asked, "So now you know all about my evening how was the party?"
This stopped Luke from laughing immediately.
Haley saw this and asked "That bad huh?"
"If life long friendships being destroyed over a stupid guy is a bad thing than yeah that bad."
"What? Who? Brooke and Peyton?" The light slowly came on in Haley's head. "You are the stupid guy aren't you? What did you do Luke kiss Peyton?" Luke did not answer because though he had not been the doing the kissing he had enjoyed it. "You didn't? Luke that is just wrong on so many levels."
He interrupted her before he got the whole lecture. "I didn't kiss Peyton. She kissed me."
Haley just looked at him in total disbelief. "Wow," is all she could manage to say.
Luke told her everything that happened up to him and Brooke having sex. He had not told her about that yet. He was not sure why he had not told her about him and Brooke yet, but he had not wanted her to know about it. Now he wanted to know weather her and Nathan had been having sex, and he did not want to come out and ask it so he figured telling her about Brooke and him would be a good way to find out. "And then we well we had some umm fun."
"Fun? Luke are you saying that you and Brooke had sex?"
"Yeah that was the just of that mumbo jumbo I just said."
"Wow." Haley got up to refill her drink and give herself time to think about what he had just said.
"Two wows in one day I must be doing something right here."
"You two are having sex?"
"I thought we already established that."
"Are you being careful?"
"What do you mean careful?"
"Protection Luke you live with a walking add for birth control. Are you using birth control?"
"Yes of course we are. Are you and Nathan?"
"I think the question that you should be asking is are me and Nathan having sex?"
"Ok answer that first and then answer mine. Are you and Nathan having sex?"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Peyton sat putting the finishing touches on her sketch when the phone rang. She jumped up and looked at the caller ID she recognized Jake's number immediately. She walked back to her bed and sat down. She pulled her sketch book back to her lap. She did not start drawing though instead she looked at the phone, and waited for the message.
As Peyton waited she thanked god that she had covered up the web cam. She was not ready to talk to Jake yet. She was not sure if she was going to tell him what happened or not. They were not a couple, but it still felt like she had cheated on him by kissing Luke.
The answering machine picked up and she heard Jake speak. Her heart skipped a beat at the sound of his voice. Jake said "Hey it's just me I had a free minute before I started my homework and decided that it would best be spent talking to you, but I guess you are not there. Not a big deal, just was wondering if you had fun last night, and to tell you that I was thinking about you. If you have time later give me a call or IM me either is fine. If not I will see you in school. Talk to you later hopefully."
Peyton stared at the phone as the tears began to fall again. She did not deserve any of that message. What she deserved was a lot of yelling and I can not believe you did that. She had royally screwed everything up. First and most importantly with Brooke she was still trying to figure out how to fix that. Now on top of that she may have messed up the best chance at a great relationship she had ever had. He was the greatest guy she had known and that included Luke. A single tear fell onto the sketch pad leaving a little bubble next to stupidity.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Nathan was outside shooting hoops when his grandfather came out. He had left the house to escape his family and the tension. His grandfather got the rebound and shot it. It hit the rim and bounced away. Nathan laughed as he grabbed the ball and shot again making it easily.
"You always were a better shot than I ever could have been. Here give me that I'll make this one." Nathan threw Roy the ball. Roy missed again. They both laughed. "Yeah you and your dad did not get your abilities from me. I was never a great athlete. It drove my dad nuts. He was a great baseball player and thought that I should be too. He pushed and pushed. We would practice for hours and I never got better. I was an average player and that was all I was ever going to be. When I saw your dad shot the ball for the first time I saw the talent he had. I figured that it had skipped a generation. So I pushed him hard to be the best player he could be. In some ways I think it was to show my father that I was not the loser he thought I was. I taught your father that he was the best and to stay the best he had to do everything and anything. I did not realize just how much I had messed up until Karen was pregnant and your father chose college over his responsibilities. I did not want them to get married necessary just to step up and take responsibility."
Nathan was still shocked to hear all of this. No one had ever mentioned that there was a family fight about all of this until now. Up until now he had always thought his grandfather had been fine with Dan's decision.
Roy noticed the look on Nathan's face as he picked up the basketball and took a shot. This time it bounced in. "We never told you all of this, I mean the fight between me and your dad, because I never wanted you to think that I did not love you. I am not happy with what your dad did, but I would not change the effects of his decision. If he had of done things different from the beginning we may not have gotten you. Plus I think that Karen and Lucas have made a good life for themselves away from this family's problems. I wish that I could have changed my ways when it still would have mattered Nate. So that your dad did not do the same thing to you as I did to him, but hindsight is 20/20. I am proud of you Nathan. I think you don't hear that enough. You are becoming a great man. I know that it took a lot to stand up to your dad. I also am proud that you are working through all of this nonsense with Lucas. I saw you and him on the court today."
Nathan missed the shot as he turned his head half way through it. "What? You did?"
"Yes I saw my two grandsons playing a game they both loved, and having a good time doing it. No pressure no family fighting just the game and them."
Nathan had gotten the ball and took another shot. He did not know what to say. He had fun this afternoon but he thought his grandfather was reading into it too far.
"I know where part of this change has come from too. Haley." Roy said simply. "Weather you are ready to admit it or not that girl has changed you. I saw it on the court I see it in the way you talk to her. She has done something for this family that years of counseling probably could not do. She got you and Lucas to look past your father's issues and see that each one is a person. You are lucky to have found her. Do your best not to lose her. You don't find girls like that often."
"She is great. We'll see about not losing her. I mess up a lot and have come close a couple of times to losing her already."
"Well it is a good thing she is so great then." Roy winked at Nathan and both laughed. "Well now for the reason I came out here. Haley has done me this huge favor so now I am going to repay her. I asked her not to tell you this and that was not fair to her. Making her keep secrets from you is not the way for you two to last." Roy took a breath, "So just so you know I have been going to the café for years to check up on Karen and Lucas. Like the fight between your father and me I did not tell you this because I did not want you to think that you meant less to me. Now you are older though it is time you realized right from wrong and the way we should act. Just appears that I am a couple of months behind on that you learned it on your own."
Nathan laughed. "No I had lots of help seeing it. Mom, Haley, and well as much as I hate to admit it Lucas did some things that made me see things differently too."
"Lucas?"
"I know weird huh? He has put himself out there a couple of times for me. He was actually part of the reason I did not quit basketball."
"Wait slow down. First you were quitting basketball? Second he stopped you from it after all of the things you did to him?"
Nathan put the ball on his hip and turned toward his grandfather. "Yeah to both. Was not sure if I wanted to play ball anymore had to decide why I was playing. Lucas told me not to let my dad take my talent from me. I was shocked that he would not be throwing a party that I was leaving the team, but he wasn't he said I was supposed to be on the team." Nathan left out that he had lost a bet that said he had to stay on the team.
Roy looked at his grandson struck once again how much he was growing up and changing. Only a couple of months ago he would not have admitted that Lucas had helped him. Now he was giving Lucas almost all the credit.
Nathan waited to see what his grand father was going to say. Instead of talking Roy walked over to him. Nathan thought he was going to take the ball and was shocked senseless when Roy hugged him. He did not know what to do. He could not remember the last time his grandfather had hugged him. It was always more of a hand shake, maybe a half hug, but this was the real thing.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Luke walked into the café. There was no one there except Haley who was working on homework. Luke laughed and said, "Bout time you did your own work and quit cheating off of me."
Haley looked up and laughed. She saw that Luke was still all sweaty from playing ball. She got up and went around the counter and grabbed him a glass of water and handed it to him. Luke looked at her suspiciously. Haley acted like she did not notice and asked, "You hungry?"
"Alright Hales what's up," he asked as he lowered the cup from his lips.
"What do you mean?"
"You never just get me stuff or offer to cook for me unless you want something."
"I do too at least get you stuff."
"Ok you do but normally I have to ask, but you never offer me food. You tell me to figure out how to cook for myself."
"Can't I be nice to you I have not seen you all week."
"No, you can't and aren't, besides lunch all week?"
"That's not what I mean and you know it. We are never alone any more to talk."
"Yesterday?"
"And what happened half way through our talk. We got interrupted by-you know what fine. I give up. I see you all the time, and am not going to be nice to you any more. Cook for yourself. I am not your slave." They both laughed
Luke knew what she meant they used to spend so much time together talking about nothing and everything. He missed that time that is why he made sure to always have Sunday night free now. They closed down the café and then went out and did something just the two of them. "You won't let me cook. You are too afraid that I would burn the café down to let me do it. All over one stupid towel that caught on fire once."
"Once was more than enough to make me realize that you should never be allowed in a kitchen. Although I have wondered a time or two if you did it just so you would never have to cook again."
Luke laughed, "I guess you will never know now will you." He winked at her.
Haley laughed, and asked, "Chicken noodle soup?"
"Sounds good to me, and can I have a grilled cheese and ham sandwich too please?"
"Save it for your fan club Scott. Your charms don't work on me." She went out back and started to cook a couple of sandwiches up.
Luke looked through her stack of books. He found one that he did not recognize and pulled it out. He read the title "The Great Ape Project Equality Beyond Humanity". He smiled leave it to Haley to be trying to save the world in her spare time. He flipped through it while waiting for Haley and his food.
Haley walked back in with a plate full of sandwiches and two bowls of soup. She sat them down. In front of Luke and grabbed them some drink before she went around the counter, and sat down next to him.
Luke finally looked up and said, "Good book," as if he was surprised. "It's no Steinbeck but hey not everyone can be that good."
Haley ignored the sarcastic remark and took the book back. "Yeah there are some great essays in here on apes. There is one about a guy that jumped into the water and pulled a gorilla out. I was amazed."
"You were crying when you read that essay weren't you Hales?"
"No.ok maybe I got teary eyed but some of the stuff they talk about in there makes me so mad, and so sad all at the same time."
"Not my normal style, but I may have to read that one."
"You had better be careful. You start reading some of my books and I will have you caring about the world."
"I do care about the world already."
"Books, basketball, and girls are not the world..oh and brooding"
Luke laughed whole heartedly at this. "Fine you can save the world for our grandchildren."
"Our grandchildren? I did not know you felt that way Luke, but you are skipping a couple of steps here. Like dating, falling in love, engagement, marriage, having children, raising them, our kids getting married, and then having children."
"You are such a jerk." They both laughed but there was something missing in their laugh. They sat quietly after that in their own thoughts eating their food. They both were thinking the same thing. That the whole thing did not sound as absurd as it should have.
Haley finally interrupted the silence, "I forgot something a game of one on one can change peoples' worlds."
Luke was about to take the soup off the spoon when he stopped. He sat there for half a second with the spoon in front of him and his mouth half open. He finally sat the spoon back in the bowl and looked at Haley who was sitting with a big grin on her face and chewing her sandwich. "Ok so I know you know what happened, now I want to know how you know?"
"I was there Luke the whole school was or at least it seemed like they were."
Now Luke was confused he had been sure that she was talking about today, but maybe she meant his and Nathan's first one on one game. That game changed everyone's lives including hers. He was about to go with this, but that grin kept the doubt in his mind.
"Why what are you talking about?" Haley could not help but let a giggle out.
Luke knew for sure now that she was not talking about the night of the bet. "Alright back to the original statement and question. How did you find out already?"
Haley thought about playing dumb but decided that the joke was over. "I saw you two, and why didn't you tell me already you have been here a whole 10- 15 minutes and you have not said a word about it?"
"Point taken. I guess because it was not a big deal we played ball."
"How, why, who started it?"
"Wait a second that was why you were nice to me when I came in." Luke laughed, and said, "Well if I had of known that that was all it took to get you to be nice to me I would have played ball with him before."
"That was not why I was nice to you. I was nice to you because I remembered today why I love you so much and just how great you really are."
"I'm all ears why am I so great?"
Haley just rolled her eyes. She avoided having to answer this by asking questions of her own. "So how did that whole thing happen?"
Luke knew he was not going to get an answer to his question so he answered her. "Not sure why he showed up on the court, but he asked me too play and I said sure. Well that is a lie I know why he was playing ball just not why he chose to do it there. Dan really does suck."
"He told you about last night?
"Not really he just said that Dan brought that woman there while you and he were there."
Haley sat and told Luke most of what happened the night before leaving out the whole bathtub scene and the making out that her and Nathan had been doing.
"You threatened Dan with a golf club." Luke finally said as everything sunk in. He had gotten stuck on the fact that Haley and Nathan were sleeping together when Dan had come. Then he got stuck on the thought of Haley and a golf club. He started to laugh and Haley followed suit.
"Yeah I did." She blushed a little at the memory. "Now it seems a little over dramatic and dumb but hey I was tired and he was trying to break in my house."
"You threatened to call the cops on them and tell them he was trying to do what to you?"
Haley laughed even harder. "I was not going to tell them he tried to do anything I was just going to let them think what they wanted."
Luke laughed so hard at the thought of Haley standing toe to toe with Dan. He was not surprised that Dan had lost the battle. Haley was not someone to mess with. Luke had learned that at a young age.
"I wish I could have been there to see it," he finally managed.
Haley started to laugh again, she finally asked, "So now you know all about my evening how was the party?"
This stopped Luke from laughing immediately.
Haley saw this and asked "That bad huh?"
"If life long friendships being destroyed over a stupid guy is a bad thing than yeah that bad."
"What? Who? Brooke and Peyton?" The light slowly came on in Haley's head. "You are the stupid guy aren't you? What did you do Luke kiss Peyton?" Luke did not answer because though he had not been the doing the kissing he had enjoyed it. "You didn't? Luke that is just wrong on so many levels."
He interrupted her before he got the whole lecture. "I didn't kiss Peyton. She kissed me."
Haley just looked at him in total disbelief. "Wow," is all she could manage to say.
Luke told her everything that happened up to him and Brooke having sex. He had not told her about that yet. He was not sure why he had not told her about him and Brooke yet, but he had not wanted her to know about it. Now he wanted to know weather her and Nathan had been having sex, and he did not want to come out and ask it so he figured telling her about Brooke and him would be a good way to find out. "And then we well we had some umm fun."
"Fun? Luke are you saying that you and Brooke had sex?"
"Yeah that was the just of that mumbo jumbo I just said."
"Wow." Haley got up to refill her drink and give herself time to think about what he had just said.
"Two wows in one day I must be doing something right here."
"You two are having sex?"
"I thought we already established that."
"Are you being careful?"
"What do you mean careful?"
"Protection Luke you live with a walking add for birth control. Are you using birth control?"
"Yes of course we are. Are you and Nathan?"
"I think the question that you should be asking is are me and Nathan having sex?"
"Ok answer that first and then answer mine. Are you and Nathan having sex?"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~