Four upset faces, two of them with black eyes, sat in the principal's office wondering how much trouble they were in. My parents are going to kill me for this. Haley thought to herself while they sat in silence. The principal walked around the room, looking at each one of their faces when he began to speak.

"Three of you I could see in here for fighting, in fact, two of you I have seen in here for fighting. But Haley, with straight A's and perfect conduct since you got here, I could've never imagined to see here. You always seemed like such a good girl."

"Things change." She muttered softly so that he wouldn't hear her.

The principal didn't notice that she spoke and continued, "Well, I'm going to have to call all of your parents, and you all have 2 days suspension, except for you." He said looking at Denisse. "You can have an extra day to clean up your face."

Haley and Lucas both laughed as they looked at her. Not only was Denisse's eye black, but her mascara and eye shadow were running down her face.

"Now get out of here, all of you. And if you get into one more fight..." Nobody heard the end his sentence, they were all already out the door.

Nathan walked away in disgust. He couldn't believe he just got the crap beat out of him by Lucas, again!

"You stupid bitch, you've ruined everything." Denisse said, looking at Haley with hateful eyes.

"What are you talking about? I gave you a career. So, how is the clown business going anyway?" Haley replied with a smirk as she walked off.

"You're going to pay Haley James. You're going to pay." Denisse swore to herself.

Meanwhile, as Haley walked away, Lucas caught up with her. "Hey, where are you going?" He said.

"Home, I guess."

"Want me to walk you?"

"Sure."

Most of the time that they walked, it was silent. They just walked along, every once in a while turning to look into each other's eyes. Both were thinking thoughts you shouldn't have about a best friend by the time they got to her house.

As she turned to go inside, Haley said, "Thanks for everything, Luke."

But before she could walk away, he grabbed her into his arms and kissed her. The sun was setting just as he did this and there were a thousand different colors in the sky.

Though she had kissed him back, when they finally stopped, Haley said, "Lucas, I'm sorry. I can't do this. I didn't mean to give you the wrong idea."

"But Haley, everyone knows we're meant to be together."

"I don't want this enough to risk my best friend over it." She lied as she walked into her house without even looking at him. She couldn't then he would've seen the tears in her eyes.

Lucas walked away from Haley's house, again feeling terrible. He wondered if this would ever end.

When Haley got into her house, the angry voice of her father yelled, "What the hell were thinking, getting into a fight?"

Haley just walked past him. She couldn't deal with this right now, any of this. When she got to the kitchen her mother said, "Haley, what's happened to you? I thought you were such a good girl."

Haley hated to hear those words, again. I'm so tired of being the good girl. She thought.

"Mom, you don't even know me anymore." She said as she headed to her room and slammed the door. She wasn't really angry. It was just how she hid her real emotions.

Inside her room, Haley looked out the window. The sky had already turned completely dark. Then she realized how tired she was and laid down in her bed. Within seconds, she was fast asleep. While she slept, she had a dream:

"Ahhh!" Haley screamed as she jumped into Lucas arms.

"Whoa. What is it?"

"It's over there." She said pointing towards the couch. "It's a spider."

"Calm down. I got it." He said, as he put her down and kissed her on the cheek. Then he went off to find a napkin. "Watch it." He said from the next room.

Haley stood there, shaking, as she stared at the big black spider for what seemed like hours. She had been scared to death of spiders since she was a kid.

Lucas walked back into the room and said, "Ok, where is it?"

"There! There!" Haley said frantically as she pointed to the moving mini black monster.

Lucas killed the spider with the napkin and threw it away. As he walked back into the room, Haley said, "My hero!" sarcastically, yet gratefully. Then Lucas put his arms around her and they started kissing.

Then Haley woke up, with her tongue sticking out and a smile on her face. When she realized it was just a dream, she burst into tears. Why had she pushed him away?

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