This chapter gets violent...

Lucas walked away as fast as he could. How could I have not noticed his car? He thought to himself as he looked down at the sidewalk. He knew all along that he would have to wait to tell Haley about his feelings for her. He had just been impatient. Nathan had got there first, in more ways than one and Lucas' would just have to wait for the right chance.

When Lucas got to his house he realized he had left all his stuff in the gym. He had totally forgot about it when he left for Haley's. On his way back to the school, he ran into Peyton. He wasn't really in the mood to talk so he just walked right past her.

"Lucas!" Peyton said loudly.

"Oh, hey Peyton." Lucas said, pretending that he didn't she her.

"Where were you running off to earlier?"

"I was going to Haley's house."

"Why were you in such a hurry?"

"I.........umm...." He didn't think it would be a good idea to tell Peyton what he really meant to say to Haley. "...I just wanted to know what the homework was."

"That's funny that she would know the homework better than you, considering that she was absent today."

"Yea, it really is." He said as he turned around, not wanting to continue this conversation.

Peyton drove away in a fit. She knew exactly why Lucas had ran to Haley's house. It was so obvious. Why hadn't she seen it all along? Maybe Brooke was right about Lucas.

Lucas walked into the gym and found his cell phone on the floor by the bench. He picked it up and headed for the locker room. But on his way there, he decided he should check out who had called him. He looked at his missed calls. There were about four messages from Haley in the last hour. She was probably wondering what the hell was going on at her house. I made such a fool of myself. Then he found the call he had missed at practice. It was also Haley. She had called him first! Though he was still embarrassed about the whole thing, this gave him a slight sense of relief and happiness. It's all going to work out in the end. He thought as he went home.

Lucas got home to find a confused Haley in his room.

"Hey, I've been looking for you all day. Where'd you go? You weren't answering you're phone."

"I had left it at the gym." Lucas replied.

"Yea, I noticed you and Nathan..." No, not him, he's the last person's name I need to hear right now. Lucas thought. "...were still in your uniforms. What was all that about anyway."

"The uniforms?" Lucas said childishly.

"No, whatever happened at my house. Were you there because I called you?"

"Yea, that was it. I just thought maybe you needed me, but Nathan was already there." Great, now I'm the one using his name.

"Oh, well you didn't have to leave in such a rush. Luke, you're my best friend. I know we haven't been hanging out much lately, but I didn't mean to ditch you for him."

"I know."

"Hey, how about I make it up for you. We'll hang out tomorrow. No Nathan, just you and me." Lucas realized he didn't mind hearing Nathan's name so much when the word no was in front of it.

"Sounds good."

"Alright. I have to go now." She said as she walked herself out.

After she left, he turned to his computer screen. It still had Peyton's website on. She was sitting in her room drawing. He remembered how badly he had wanted to be with her at one time, but every time he had tried it just didn't work out. Peyton's just too complicated. He thought to himself as he finally closed her site, though he knew his feelings for her hadn't yet gone away.

The next day at school, Lucas looked forward to hanging out with Haley the whole day. At lunch she appeared at his locker, which was unusual for lately.

"Hey Hales."

"Hey Luke."

"What's up?" Lucas said and turned to see Haley looking the other direction. Then he saw what she was looking at, Nathan with Denisse, one of the blonde cheerleaders. She was looking into his eyes and twirling her hair while he was smiling.

"What does that bitch think she's doing?" Haley said with her eyes still on them.

Then Denisse started to run her hand up and down Nathan's arm. At this, Haley's eyes filled with an anger Lucas had never seen before. Nathan looked in shock as Haley came up to them.

"Hi Haley, hey..." He started to explain, but he was cut off.

"Hey bitch, what the hell do you think you're doing?"

"I was talking to this cute guy, ho. Go away." The blonde said eyeing Nathan and he started to smile until he saw the look on Haley's face.

"He's my boyfriend, slut."

"If he likes you so much, why did he come to me? He must be looking for things he isn't getting elsewhere..." Before she could say anything else, Haley's fist was headed toward her face. Behind her, Haley could hear Lucas running towards her saying,"No Haley!" but it was too late. After she got hit, Denisse screamed out, "Bitch I just got a Botox injection!"

"Well, you won't have to worry about looking too old now!" Haley said with a grin on her face.

Then Denisse grabbed Haley's hair and Haley started slapping her. Both of them fell to the ground and started wrestling.

Meanwhile, Nathan just stood there, watching with a smile on his face. He liked to watch the two of them roll around.

"Aren't you going to help your girlfriend?" Lucas said as he tried to break them up.

"Which one?" Nathan replied and before he knew it he too was watching a fist head towards his face.

In a few minutes, both Haley and Lucas were sitting on top of and punching their opponents while a crowd of people around them started chanting "Fight Fight! Fight! Then the principal appeared.

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