Chapter Five

Not Your Average Spin The Bottle

Nathan's apartment was full. He, Haley, and Eliza all sat in front of the television watching the news anxiously waiting for the snowfall to cease. Haley stood up, "I can't watch this anymore," She pushed Lilia back and forth in the stroller.

Eliza stood up, laid a sleeping Reed into his stroller, and looked at her watch. "Damn," She said pushing the stroller into Nathan and Haley's guest bedroom. Looking back at them, she asked, "Okay if I leave him in here to sleep?"

Haley nodded and pushed Lilia into the same room. The way she looked at Lilia made Nathan realize how wonderful of a mother she would be, someday. Their children would have the best qualities of both, Nathan's athleticism and outgoing nature and Haley's intelligence and personable personality. The best of both worlds.

The girls came back into the living room. They sat down on the couch cattycornered from the chair that Nathan was seated in. Eliza had attention deficit disorder to the fullest extent and after two minutes of sitting she was already bored.

She stood up and walked into the kitchen. After rummaging through the trash for a minute she emerged from the kitchen into the living room, empty two liter bottle in hand. She held it up to them and said, "I take it ya'll aren't big drinkers?" Her think southern accent was very present now.

Haley looked at her husband and then back at Eliza, "He is. I'm not."

"I'm not playing a stupid game of "Spin the Bottle", Eliza." Nathan said, watching her sit down at their kitchen table.

"Nathan, how juvenile." She spun the bottle on the top of the table and looked up at the couple. "We are gonna play a good ol' game called, 'Have you ever'."

Nathan jumped over the back of the couch and excitedly rushed into the kitchen to retrieve the shot glasses. He pulled three from the top cabinet and squatted down, searching for the tequila. Once he found it, he showed it to Eliza. She nodded in approval. He took a seat next to her at the table.

An apprehensive Haley got off the couch and came to the table. She slowly sat down and said, "I don't know how to play."

"Well, jeez, Haley don't sound to over excited." Eliza said, running her fingers through her messy hair. "Okay, you spin the bottle and who ever it lands on gets asked a 'have you ever' question. If their answer is no, then they have to take a shot."

Haley nodded, listening very carefully. She looked at the bottle of alcohol and said, "I hate tequila."

"You hate all liquor." Nathan said, knowingly.

"No, I don't, I like those wine coolers." Haley said hitting him on the leg.

"No one really likes tequila Haley." Eliza replied, "People who drink it straight just do it so that they can go ahead and get drunk before everyone else." She looked at Nathan who was nodding in agreement. "'Cause once you have a couple shots, you are three sheets to the wind."

"Okay," Nathan said looking at Haley, "Beginners first."

Haley nervously took the bottle and gave it a spin. She watched it slow down and finally land on Eliza. "Have you ever cheated on a boyfriend?"

Eliza pulled her legs up into her chair and said, "Yeah. During the summer that I was dating Reed's father I cheated on him with his older brother. We used protection and everything, so I knew that he wasn't Reed's father." She looked down at the carpeted floor, "Plus the timing was all wrong."

She looked up and took the bottle, "Okay my turn." She spun the bottle and watched it point in Nathan's direction. Laughing, she asked him, "Have you ever rented porn?"

Haley quickly whipped her head from looking at Eliza to Nathan.

Nathan laughed and said, "Funny story actually." Haley's mouth dropped open. "I rented it and took it to Lucas' to watch because my VCR was broken and I accidentally left the tape over there and his mom found it. She thought it was Lucas'. I still haven't told her the truth."

She couldn't believe that he would do something like that. Well, she could but she couldn't believe that he did do something like that. Well, yeah she could. After she thought about it for a moment, the shock went away.

He put his hand on the bottle and watched it spin. "Eliza, have you ever been so jealous of someone that you almost hated them?"

Eliza began chewing on her thumbnail as she always did when she was nervous. She voluntarily took a shot, knowing that it would help her confess. She filled the shot glass with tequila and said, "Every time I see Brooke and Lucas together with Lilia I get ridiculously jealous because the thing I want the most for Reed is for him to have a dad." She pushed the glass back and forth, "And I know with the situation that I am in with his father..." She looked up at them, "I don't even know where he is." She felt tears swell in her eyes, "I just want so badly for Reed to have a father because I know what it is like not to have parents who are there for you." She took a deep breath and took hold of the bottle, spinning it like there was no tomorrow.

Haley nervously looked at Eliza, who decided to give Haley a question which would be a definite no. "Have you ever bungee jumped?"

She shook her head and took a shot. "Let the fun begin." Haley said.

After an hour or so of fun and games and Haley trying to count how many shots everyone had taken, they game was over. She lost count after her eighth. By that time, Nathan had taken close to six and Eliza had taken around five, not including the several she took just for the hell of it. Haley's eyes were droopy. She looked more tired and worn down than the other two.

Nathan took her by the arm and led her into their bedroom, "Come on Hales, you need to go to sleep." He laid her in the bed and before he could even close the door she was snoring.

"She'll be out cold for a good half a day." Eliza said, looking at her watch. Everything was so blurry she could hardly read the time.

"Yeah," Nathan said, sitting on the couch. Eliza came over and sat next to him. He looked at her. She looked better now to him than she ever had.

She leaned close to him, placing her head on his shoulder. She felt very attracted to him. She always loved guys with dark hair and the fact that he played basketball didn't hurt any either. Without thinking, she kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks for making me feel so welcome in Tree Hill." She stood up and looked out the window. "Wonder what Brooke and Lucas are doing since they don't have Lilia tonight?"

Nathan walked up behind her, the alcohol was taking over. It was making him feel like his old self. He ran his hand down her back, pushed her blonde hair over to one side of her shoulder, and kissed her neck. "Bet they are doing something like this."

Eliza wondered what he was doing, but the liquor and the smell of Polo Blue made her forget everything. She turned around, now facing him and let her lips press against his. She felt her back press against the wooden door and his hands begin to slide up her sweater. There was no going back now.

He picked her up; her long legs wrapped around his waist. The thought of his wife never even crossed his mind. He was the old Nathan now. The devious, sex hungry, star basketball player that he had been for so many years. Everything about Eliza brought that out in him. Her warm skin, her sweet tasting lips, and her toned, tanned body. He wanted her right here, right now.

Laying on the couch, Nathan ran his hands up and down her body. She kissed him passionately and thought, "We are really going to do this." She didn't mind. She missed this feeling. The feeling of such power over men. This always used to happen to her. She hadn't done anything like this since Reed was born.

Nathan's lips on her stomach sent chills down her spin. She pulled off his sweatshirt to reveal his perfect torso. She ran her hand up and down his body. She pointed to his nipple, referring to the ring in it.

He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Spur of the moment type thing."

She winked at him and began where she left off. Neither of them knew what they were doing and the effects that it would have on their lives as well as the lives of their friends. If they didn't tell no one would know. Not even the sleeping Haley one room away.