A/N thanks for the reviews.I'm trying to make it eventful I promise, but
that's the kind of writer I am, it takes me a bit of time to build my focus
and climax n stuff.its coming HOLD ON!!
CONFUSION Chapter 7 Nathan walked into Karen's Café. " Hey mom," he said to Karen. He tried to seem as normal as possible but the frown on his face gave him away.
" What's wrong?" Karen asked with a knowing look.
" Nothing, mom, everything is fine," he said with a weak smile. The best smile he could come up with after seeing Haley with Lucas.
" OK, fine, don't tell me. I'll ask Haley after you talk to her about it." She said with a smirk.
" No, she doesn't know. She should but she doesn't so just drop the subject OK?"
" Nathan, Haley doesn't know but she should? Why don't you enlighten Haley?" she seemed worried. Nathan told Haley everything.
" Look mom. I'm only telling you this so you won't go investigating with Haley. Haley has been tutoring Lucas. It's been a few weeks and I haven't seen her much. When I went to go see her, I saw her with Lucas and, well, I don't know I guess I got a little jealous," he lied to his mother. The look on her face was screaming ' I know your hiding something!' so he gave up and told her everything.
" Aww, Nathan you didn't tell me you liked Haley" she said smiling. Seeing her son's stern face, she stopped and went to go sit by him. "Look, Haley is your best friend. I admit that she knows how you feel about Lucas and she should have been careful. But, you don't control how you feel about someone. If you liked a girl, for whatever reason and Haley told you that she doesn't like her and for you to stop seeing her, would you willingly do it? Or, appreciate the fact that she is telling you who to go out with, even though she is your best friend. Look, how about this, you let her talk to you about it and follow your heart. If your heart says to tell Haley how you feel then go ahead and if your heart says that Haley is making the right decision for herself then tell her. Support her and be there for her. You are still her best friend." Karen finished and rubbed her son's back. Soon she got up and left him to think things over in privacy. Nathan was confused and now that he talked to his mother it was even more so. He liked Haley a lot. He would do anything for her happiness. But could he really let her be happy with another guy. Not just any other guy, but the guy who his father chose over Nathan. Nathan covered his face with his hands. He couldn't go on like this, but he had to wait, he had to wait until Haley came to him. 'Shit! I just had to talk to mom!' he thought.
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Lucas stayed behind to talk to Coach Durham about something. While he was walking out of the gym on his way to his car, he heard a squeaky voice calling his name from behind. He turned to see Brooke and Peyton heading his way. Peyton gave him a weak smirk and Brooke had a provocative smile on her face.
" Hey handsome" Brooke said lightly touching his cheek with her finger. Lucas just smiled and gently brushed her finger off his cheek.
" Uh, Hey, Brooke, Peyton."
" OK, I'm just going to skip right to the point. There is a party tonight, at Tim's."
" Yeah, I know," said Lucas still trying to understand what Brooke was getting at.
" Well, I was wondering if you would like to escort 2 lovely ladies to the party," Brooke replied, referring to Peyton and herself.
" That's a very generous offer ladies but I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline. My apologies, I have a tutoring session tonight." Also known as the celebration Lucas had decided to surprise Haley with, as a " thank you" for helping him.
" Oh, c'mon! Are you telling me you would rather be with that tutor girl than ME?" Brooke says feigning hurt. Brooke was oblivious to anything that didn't have to do with sex, but Peyton could see it. Peyton could see the glee in Lucas' eyes. He liked her. He really liked this girl, Haley. Lucas didn't tell anyone who she was, but Peyton saw them two once or twice at the docks. At first, she denied it. She denied that Lucas was falling for another girl. But now it was right in front of her, Lucas Scott had fallen for Haley James, fallen hard. Lucas' voice brought her back from her thoughts.
" To be quite frank Brooke," he came closer to her and whispered in her ear, " I'd choose her over anyone, even you." He looked over at me, smiled and turned around back to his car, leaving an astonished Brooke and nearly heart-broken Peyton. It hurt Peyton to see that her crush was with someone else, but in a sense she accepted it. Its not like this whole thing she had with Lucas would amount to anything.
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Lucas walked into his house and threw his things to the floor. Dan walked up to him and just stared. It looked as if he wanted Lucas to tell him something. " Well?" Dan asked irritated.
" Uhhh...hi dad" Lucas said with a confused look.
" Lucas, he is on your team now? This is Whitey's doing isn't it?!" Dan almost shouted now waiting for his son's response.
" Dad, dad, chill. Who are you talking about?" he asked coolly, knowing where this was going.
" Nathan, Lucas, Nathan. He's on the team now, isn't he?! You have to watch out for that kid Luke! Do anything you can to ruin his game, anything and everything. He's trouble, you have to treat him like,-" Dan was cut off by his son.
" Like competition?" Lucas finished his father's sentence. " Why don't you just get over it?! You were good, I know and I know I won't be as good as you were. Never, I won't ever be as good as you! That's because I won't trample anyone and anything that comes in my way! I won't be as good as you, dad, because I'm not you, I'm not like you!" Lucas yelled angrily. "Dad, he's your son too. You chose to run from the consequences of your actions. You abandoned your own son! Don't expect me to do everything you have. I am not like you, and I never want to be!" Lucas knew what he had just said was irrelevant, but he had to get this out. That was the way he felt towards his father. He took his keys off the table and stormed out, slamming the door behind him. Dan just stared at the door taking in what his son had said to him.
" God, I really need to see Haley," Lucas said aloud to himself while in his car. He backed out of his drive way and left for Karen's Café, he was going to pick Haley up from there, another surprise.
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Haley walked into Karen's Café to see Nathan with his hands over his face. She went over to him and tapped on his shoulder. " Having a bad day Mr. Scott?" she said giving him a playful pout. Nathan looked up at her. He didn't smile. He didn't yell. He just looked at her. " What is it? Is there like something on my face or something?" Haley said with a slight laugh. That's it, Nathan couldn't take it anymore. He was ready to explode but decided to do this quietly.
" I saw you today with Lucas..." he said as if he had caught her red-handed and she should be ashamed.
Not knowing what exactly to say to that, " Ummm, OK.?"
" Haley, I saw you two, I saw you kiss each other. What's going on, Haley? Have you been lying to me?" Nathan asked surprised at how calmly he was going about this. Haley turned pale. She had been preparing herself to tell Nathan about this all day. She thought she was ready but when it came down to it, she was chicken. Haley sat down beside Nathan and put a hand on top of his. She was silent for a while, contemplating how to say this.
" Nathan.I haven't been lying to you. Actually all this happened today. I was just tutoring him, and he got an 'A' and he was happy and I was happy and I hugged him and before I knew it he kissed me and I didn't even know it before but now I really think I like him, Nate. You don't know him like I do, he really opens up to me, and Nathan if you don't want me to go on with this then I wont. But I really like him and he likes me and.and" Haley rambled. She decided that if she was going to tell Nathan then it would be all at once, without torturing herself, or she wouldn't tell him at all. After seeing Nathan's expression, she regretted not just going with the latter.
Nathan thought about what Haley just told him. Then he remembered what his mom had told him. His heart was screaming ' Tell her! Tell her!' But he couldn't. What if she rejected him. He always thought that there could be something between him and Haley but was never sure. ' Guess you know now' he thought to himself. He couldn't just hand Haley to any old guy. ' If Haley likes him so much, there must be something about him' he thought.
The bells above the door jingled and both Haley and Nathan looked up at the door. It was Lucas.
Lucas smiled at the sight of Haley. He casually strolled over to the table that Nathan and Haley were sitting at. " Hey Haley," he said smiling " Nathan," he gave Nathan one of those head-jerk-nod-things that guys do all the time. To Haley's and Lucas' surprise Nathan was smirking at Lucas.
" Hey, Lucas" returning the nod-thing. 'Good, they're talking, good' thought Haley.
To Lucas, Haley says " What are you doing here, I thought we were meeting at the docks."
" I don't know, I thought I'd pick you up and we would go there together," replied Lucas.
" Oh, you guys have a tutoring session today?" asked Nathan again more calmly then he thought he would say that. Haley looked at Nathan with a face that translated into something like " Its only happening if you approve.please???" Nathan realized Haley really liked this guy and nodded his head slightly as if in approval. Haley smiled.
Lucas didn't say anything but saw the action between Haley and Nathan. He smiled, happy that he had been approved of, not that it mattered.
After a bit Lucas and Haley had left and Nathan decided to go to a movie.
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Nathan walked up to the ticket booth and said "One for 'Paycheck'" through the little hole there and handed the employee the money. It was embarrassing, going to the movies, alone, on a Friday night. Haley was usually with him but not tonight. He figured Haley really liked Lucas to ask for Nathan's "approval". He walked into the theatre and into yet another line, for some popcorn and a soda. The line was huge and consisted mostly of couples holding hands and swapping spit. The thought of couples brought Haley and Lucas to mind, ' Ewwwwwww' he thought about Haley and Lucas kissing 'Yuck!' he thought. He felt a nudge on his back and turned around. He thought he would never see the day that Peyton Sawyer was alone, at the movies, on a Friday night.
" Oh, I'm so sorry. It's this guy in the back somewhere that keeps pushing and its kind of like the domino effect in this line and..." she caught herself rambling to a complete stranger and looked up. Nathan Scott, Lucas' half-brother and newest edition to the Ravens basketball team stood before her.
" I'm sorry," she said quietly.
" Uh, its OK Peyton," Nathan said and she looked up surprised.
" You, uh...." she didn't think that he knew who she was.
" Yeah, I've seen you around. I know who you are, kind of," said Nathan with a laugh. Something fell out of Peyton's hands. Being the gentleman he was, Nathan bent down to pick it up. It was a movie ticket, to 'Paycheck'. Nathan was surprised, it wasn't some boring chick-flick.
" Whoa! I thought cheerleaders only watched movies like ' Legally Blonde' and 'Titanic'" Nathan said teasingly.
Peyton gave him a look." Shut up!" she said but with a laugh.
They got their junk-food and wet into the theatre, they watched the movie together. They had fun and Peyton even asked Nathan if he wanted to check out Tim's party after the movie. They both went to the party, together, almost like a couple. They liked each other and well they had fun together. This left Nathan even more confused than before. He liked Haley a lot, but now it seemed like it's not the end of the world. After spending time with Peyton, Nathan realized there are definitely other fish in the sea. But he liked Haley, but he could get someone else, but that wouldn't be Haley. Nathan decided to leave this situation as is, until tomorrow. Right now he didn't want to get more confused he wanted to have fun. Fun with Peyton.
Hey that's the end for now! Yes there is more Duh! I know this is longer than the rest and I was going to write even more but I'm getting kicked off the computer, so I decided to leave it at this. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!
CONFUSION Chapter 7 Nathan walked into Karen's Café. " Hey mom," he said to Karen. He tried to seem as normal as possible but the frown on his face gave him away.
" What's wrong?" Karen asked with a knowing look.
" Nothing, mom, everything is fine," he said with a weak smile. The best smile he could come up with after seeing Haley with Lucas.
" OK, fine, don't tell me. I'll ask Haley after you talk to her about it." She said with a smirk.
" No, she doesn't know. She should but she doesn't so just drop the subject OK?"
" Nathan, Haley doesn't know but she should? Why don't you enlighten Haley?" she seemed worried. Nathan told Haley everything.
" Look mom. I'm only telling you this so you won't go investigating with Haley. Haley has been tutoring Lucas. It's been a few weeks and I haven't seen her much. When I went to go see her, I saw her with Lucas and, well, I don't know I guess I got a little jealous," he lied to his mother. The look on her face was screaming ' I know your hiding something!' so he gave up and told her everything.
" Aww, Nathan you didn't tell me you liked Haley" she said smiling. Seeing her son's stern face, she stopped and went to go sit by him. "Look, Haley is your best friend. I admit that she knows how you feel about Lucas and she should have been careful. But, you don't control how you feel about someone. If you liked a girl, for whatever reason and Haley told you that she doesn't like her and for you to stop seeing her, would you willingly do it? Or, appreciate the fact that she is telling you who to go out with, even though she is your best friend. Look, how about this, you let her talk to you about it and follow your heart. If your heart says to tell Haley how you feel then go ahead and if your heart says that Haley is making the right decision for herself then tell her. Support her and be there for her. You are still her best friend." Karen finished and rubbed her son's back. Soon she got up and left him to think things over in privacy. Nathan was confused and now that he talked to his mother it was even more so. He liked Haley a lot. He would do anything for her happiness. But could he really let her be happy with another guy. Not just any other guy, but the guy who his father chose over Nathan. Nathan covered his face with his hands. He couldn't go on like this, but he had to wait, he had to wait until Haley came to him. 'Shit! I just had to talk to mom!' he thought.
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Lucas stayed behind to talk to Coach Durham about something. While he was walking out of the gym on his way to his car, he heard a squeaky voice calling his name from behind. He turned to see Brooke and Peyton heading his way. Peyton gave him a weak smirk and Brooke had a provocative smile on her face.
" Hey handsome" Brooke said lightly touching his cheek with her finger. Lucas just smiled and gently brushed her finger off his cheek.
" Uh, Hey, Brooke, Peyton."
" OK, I'm just going to skip right to the point. There is a party tonight, at Tim's."
" Yeah, I know," said Lucas still trying to understand what Brooke was getting at.
" Well, I was wondering if you would like to escort 2 lovely ladies to the party," Brooke replied, referring to Peyton and herself.
" That's a very generous offer ladies but I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline. My apologies, I have a tutoring session tonight." Also known as the celebration Lucas had decided to surprise Haley with, as a " thank you" for helping him.
" Oh, c'mon! Are you telling me you would rather be with that tutor girl than ME?" Brooke says feigning hurt. Brooke was oblivious to anything that didn't have to do with sex, but Peyton could see it. Peyton could see the glee in Lucas' eyes. He liked her. He really liked this girl, Haley. Lucas didn't tell anyone who she was, but Peyton saw them two once or twice at the docks. At first, she denied it. She denied that Lucas was falling for another girl. But now it was right in front of her, Lucas Scott had fallen for Haley James, fallen hard. Lucas' voice brought her back from her thoughts.
" To be quite frank Brooke," he came closer to her and whispered in her ear, " I'd choose her over anyone, even you." He looked over at me, smiled and turned around back to his car, leaving an astonished Brooke and nearly heart-broken Peyton. It hurt Peyton to see that her crush was with someone else, but in a sense she accepted it. Its not like this whole thing she had with Lucas would amount to anything.
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Lucas walked into his house and threw his things to the floor. Dan walked up to him and just stared. It looked as if he wanted Lucas to tell him something. " Well?" Dan asked irritated.
" Uhhh...hi dad" Lucas said with a confused look.
" Lucas, he is on your team now? This is Whitey's doing isn't it?!" Dan almost shouted now waiting for his son's response.
" Dad, dad, chill. Who are you talking about?" he asked coolly, knowing where this was going.
" Nathan, Lucas, Nathan. He's on the team now, isn't he?! You have to watch out for that kid Luke! Do anything you can to ruin his game, anything and everything. He's trouble, you have to treat him like,-" Dan was cut off by his son.
" Like competition?" Lucas finished his father's sentence. " Why don't you just get over it?! You were good, I know and I know I won't be as good as you were. Never, I won't ever be as good as you! That's because I won't trample anyone and anything that comes in my way! I won't be as good as you, dad, because I'm not you, I'm not like you!" Lucas yelled angrily. "Dad, he's your son too. You chose to run from the consequences of your actions. You abandoned your own son! Don't expect me to do everything you have. I am not like you, and I never want to be!" Lucas knew what he had just said was irrelevant, but he had to get this out. That was the way he felt towards his father. He took his keys off the table and stormed out, slamming the door behind him. Dan just stared at the door taking in what his son had said to him.
" God, I really need to see Haley," Lucas said aloud to himself while in his car. He backed out of his drive way and left for Karen's Café, he was going to pick Haley up from there, another surprise.
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Haley walked into Karen's Café to see Nathan with his hands over his face. She went over to him and tapped on his shoulder. " Having a bad day Mr. Scott?" she said giving him a playful pout. Nathan looked up at her. He didn't smile. He didn't yell. He just looked at her. " What is it? Is there like something on my face or something?" Haley said with a slight laugh. That's it, Nathan couldn't take it anymore. He was ready to explode but decided to do this quietly.
" I saw you today with Lucas..." he said as if he had caught her red-handed and she should be ashamed.
Not knowing what exactly to say to that, " Ummm, OK.?"
" Haley, I saw you two, I saw you kiss each other. What's going on, Haley? Have you been lying to me?" Nathan asked surprised at how calmly he was going about this. Haley turned pale. She had been preparing herself to tell Nathan about this all day. She thought she was ready but when it came down to it, she was chicken. Haley sat down beside Nathan and put a hand on top of his. She was silent for a while, contemplating how to say this.
" Nathan.I haven't been lying to you. Actually all this happened today. I was just tutoring him, and he got an 'A' and he was happy and I was happy and I hugged him and before I knew it he kissed me and I didn't even know it before but now I really think I like him, Nate. You don't know him like I do, he really opens up to me, and Nathan if you don't want me to go on with this then I wont. But I really like him and he likes me and.and" Haley rambled. She decided that if she was going to tell Nathan then it would be all at once, without torturing herself, or she wouldn't tell him at all. After seeing Nathan's expression, she regretted not just going with the latter.
Nathan thought about what Haley just told him. Then he remembered what his mom had told him. His heart was screaming ' Tell her! Tell her!' But he couldn't. What if she rejected him. He always thought that there could be something between him and Haley but was never sure. ' Guess you know now' he thought to himself. He couldn't just hand Haley to any old guy. ' If Haley likes him so much, there must be something about him' he thought.
The bells above the door jingled and both Haley and Nathan looked up at the door. It was Lucas.
Lucas smiled at the sight of Haley. He casually strolled over to the table that Nathan and Haley were sitting at. " Hey Haley," he said smiling " Nathan," he gave Nathan one of those head-jerk-nod-things that guys do all the time. To Haley's and Lucas' surprise Nathan was smirking at Lucas.
" Hey, Lucas" returning the nod-thing. 'Good, they're talking, good' thought Haley.
To Lucas, Haley says " What are you doing here, I thought we were meeting at the docks."
" I don't know, I thought I'd pick you up and we would go there together," replied Lucas.
" Oh, you guys have a tutoring session today?" asked Nathan again more calmly then he thought he would say that. Haley looked at Nathan with a face that translated into something like " Its only happening if you approve.please???" Nathan realized Haley really liked this guy and nodded his head slightly as if in approval. Haley smiled.
Lucas didn't say anything but saw the action between Haley and Nathan. He smiled, happy that he had been approved of, not that it mattered.
After a bit Lucas and Haley had left and Nathan decided to go to a movie.
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Nathan walked up to the ticket booth and said "One for 'Paycheck'" through the little hole there and handed the employee the money. It was embarrassing, going to the movies, alone, on a Friday night. Haley was usually with him but not tonight. He figured Haley really liked Lucas to ask for Nathan's "approval". He walked into the theatre and into yet another line, for some popcorn and a soda. The line was huge and consisted mostly of couples holding hands and swapping spit. The thought of couples brought Haley and Lucas to mind, ' Ewwwwwww' he thought about Haley and Lucas kissing 'Yuck!' he thought. He felt a nudge on his back and turned around. He thought he would never see the day that Peyton Sawyer was alone, at the movies, on a Friday night.
" Oh, I'm so sorry. It's this guy in the back somewhere that keeps pushing and its kind of like the domino effect in this line and..." she caught herself rambling to a complete stranger and looked up. Nathan Scott, Lucas' half-brother and newest edition to the Ravens basketball team stood before her.
" I'm sorry," she said quietly.
" Uh, its OK Peyton," Nathan said and she looked up surprised.
" You, uh...." she didn't think that he knew who she was.
" Yeah, I've seen you around. I know who you are, kind of," said Nathan with a laugh. Something fell out of Peyton's hands. Being the gentleman he was, Nathan bent down to pick it up. It was a movie ticket, to 'Paycheck'. Nathan was surprised, it wasn't some boring chick-flick.
" Whoa! I thought cheerleaders only watched movies like ' Legally Blonde' and 'Titanic'" Nathan said teasingly.
Peyton gave him a look." Shut up!" she said but with a laugh.
They got their junk-food and wet into the theatre, they watched the movie together. They had fun and Peyton even asked Nathan if he wanted to check out Tim's party after the movie. They both went to the party, together, almost like a couple. They liked each other and well they had fun together. This left Nathan even more confused than before. He liked Haley a lot, but now it seemed like it's not the end of the world. After spending time with Peyton, Nathan realized there are definitely other fish in the sea. But he liked Haley, but he could get someone else, but that wouldn't be Haley. Nathan decided to leave this situation as is, until tomorrow. Right now he didn't want to get more confused he wanted to have fun. Fun with Peyton.
Hey that's the end for now! Yes there is more Duh! I know this is longer than the rest and I was going to write even more but I'm getting kicked off the computer, so I decided to leave it at this. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!