Disclaimer: OTH belong to Warner Brother's studios. Al tough, I know two brothers that I would like to own.

Hey! This is my second attempt for an OTH fanfic. Sorry I didn't continue with the first one, but don't worry I'll try to finish it. I just wanted to try something else. In this one, Lucas is not on the team yet, Haley is going to tutor Nathan, but they won't fall that easily for each other. There will be some complications…

Sorry it took me so long to update…..and thank you for your reviews I really appreciate it.

Nothing compares to you

Can't stop staring at the girl

Monday afternoon, after lunch time

Haley's day seemed really long and the fact that everything was going slow motion wasn't helping. She walked to her locker, opened it and took what she needed for her English class. She wasn't in a good mood, the fact that her best friend, who was just going to attend his first basket ball practice, got humiliated by Nathan's heinous crew. She closed her locker in frustration, she hated the fact that Lucas could suffer from these stupid pranks, sure they were just pranks, but she knew that is was personal. Nathan would make sure to make it personal. As she thought about Nathan, she saw the dark-haired guy leaning on his girlfriend by the lockers. He looked so at ease with Peyton, he had a playful smirk on his face. He must say something funny because Peyton slapped him playfully. He bent his head toward the blonde girl and gave her a languorous kiss. As you could see the rule number15 of Tree Hill High School about Public Display of Affection was useless in this establishment, there were too many raging hormones out of control to handle the situation.

Haley started to walk to her English class which meant that she had no other option but to walk in their direction. It was the first time that she felt so uncomfortable on the school grounds. She usually was in her element, but now she felt disoriented. She continued to remain calm, but as she walked passed them Nathan, who had stopped kissing Peyton, stared at her. The two of them stared back at each other and two both their surprise, Haley held his stare. She didn't flinch like she thought she would. She entered the classroom and let herself fall on a chair. She was indeed in a worst mood considering the fact that Nathan was in her class. Usually she wouldn't care, it was the least of her worries, but in these circumstances she couldn't ignore the fact that it bothered her royally. Nathan entered that class with his girlfriend like she was some trophy. Peyton took a seat next to her best friend Brooke; meanwhile Nathan had no seat reserved for him. The only one left was next to Haley's; he strolled as if nothing really disturbed him. He sat down and looked at her with a grin, his traditional and predatory one.

She just ignored him by pretending that he didn't exist.

"You can't just ignore me." whispered Nathan to the brunette sitting next to him. He didn't exactly know why it mattered to him that she was ignoring him, but he felt like he had to talk to her even though she would treat him like dirt. Haley just glanced at him.

"Watch me." answered Haley bitterly. "Because of you my day has been full of crap." continued the girl, her voice a little bit higher than a whisper, so much for her trying to ignore him. She was not referring to their verbal fight, but about the stunt he had pulled on Lucas during lunch time. Of course Lucas acted as if it didn't bother him, but he had to do something to shut this spoiled brat's mouth.

"It was nothing-

"Don't even try to finish your sentence. You know about what I said to you this morning, I meant it, I'm not sorry for it anymore!" said Haley, determined to make him understand that she wanted to have anything to do with him. Nobody around them didn't really bother, except for Peyton that wasn't paying attention to what the teacher was saying because she was too captivated in hearing what was going on between the two of them.

"Mr Hopper, may I go to the bathroom, I don't feel good." asked Haley to the teacher, interrupting him. He looked at his exemplary student and nodded at her. Haley left the classroom as fast as she could. She had to get away from him or else she would go homicidal on him, which couldn't be such a bad thing. Her eyes were beginning to sting, she didn't know why she wanted to cry but the sadness overcame her. She was stuck to tutor him, to endure him for a whole semester. She didn't know if she could tell Lucas. It would shatter him if she told him and he would be furious. But lying to him was another story, and she didn't want to give Nathan the satisfaction of ruining such a long time friend ship.

She went to the bathroom to freshen up and when she got out, she saw a tall figure waiting for her outside of the ladies room. Nathan was what you could consider a plague. Haley walked pass him and made as she didn't see him. He jogged after her and grasped her arm. This was a familiar pose, but Nathan wasn't about to let her go. Haley looked at him, and he saw in her eyes that she had cried.

"It has been four days that I've been acknowledging your existence and I regret letting you get in my way Nathan Scott." said Haley with venom accentuating her tone.

"I don't know-"

"Of course you don't know about what I'm talking about! The fact that I'm tutoring you sure puts you in a nice position to hurt Lucas! I'm not stupid!" exclaimed Haley, angry at Nathan.

"The thought didn't even cross my mind." admitted Nathan, hoping that Haley would buy the lie, which she didn't.

"You expect me to believe that!" said Haley almost laughing in his face. "Look, I'm not some airhead that falls for your BS. You won't manipulate me like you do it with the rest of this entire school. If you open your mouth about me tutoring you I swear that I won't be held responsible for my actions. I mean it"

She hated him, she was repulsed by him. Nathan looked down at her; he was still holding her arm. She felt his hand trailing down to her dainty hand. She ignored the fact that it sent bolts of electricity down her spine. His blue eyes intently met her big chocolate brown eyes. Ice met fire. He got closer to her; she gulped anxiously at the closeness. She backed away form him a little bit. He descended his head to her level.

"I won't tell him." declared Nathan with honesty to the girl before him. She simply nodded at him, and broke the eye contact that they were having. She didn't want him to see something that he wasn't suppose to see, she always believed that the eyes were the window to the soul. She was afraid of what they could reveal to him. And most of all she was afraid of what he could read into them. She turned her back to him and started to walk back to class. When she entered, all the students looked at her, it was most of all for the fact that she had been out of the classroom for about half an hour.

Mr Hopper looked at his student that looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

"Miss James I sent Mr Scott to find you, did you meet him on your way? I must have sent him about 10 minutes ago." asked the teacher to Haley, from his desk. Nathan entered the classroom.

"No I didn't run into him." said Haley.

"I kind of did something-"tried to say Nathan, who got interrupted by the teacher.

"Mr Scott, next time I send you to check up on one of my students I expect you to do it. Miss James I was just worried, you didn't look okay." admitted the man with concern. Who wouldn't be concern to see one his best student with ashen cheeks and a far from joyous face? He knew she was good student, she always was.

"I'm okay Mr Hopper, it was just some-

"It's okay Miss James, you're excused. As for you Nathan Scott, I'd like to have a word with you after class. Go back to your seats." finished Mr Hopper, his gaze going back to his papers.

The two of them did as he said. It didn't matter to Nathan that he got himself into trouble he was used to it. He knew he would have an easy way out, it always happened to him. He would lie, act innocently and he would be off the hook pronto. He glanced at the girl sitting next to him. Haley was pulling her hair in a messy pony tail before putting herself to work. He never noticed it before but she always did that. He looked at her profile; she had a cute nose and a nicely curved pair of lips.

Haley shifted under Nathan's eyes; she knew that he was staring at her and scrutinizing her every move.. She tried to focus on the work that Mr Hopper had assigned on the blackboard, but she couldn't. She felt Nathan's blue eyes stare at her; she didn't feel like a piece of meat but still, that didn't mean that he could look at her like that. She started to tap her pencil on the desk, for pure distraction, plus she needed some inspiration to write her text. She hated the syndrome of the blank piece of paper.

Nathan could sense that he made her nervous. He saw her brows frown in concentration. He saw her quiver under his gaze; he knew the power that he could hold over her just by a single glance at her. She wasn't like an open book, but he could see that he made her nervous and that he was disturbing the balance of her universe. He could tell that she wasn't used to have the attention of the opposite sex, even though she passed the majority of her time with Lucas, Nathan barely considered him being a guy. He hated him so much, he loathed him for trying to steal his spotlight and while he was at it, steal his girlfriend.

The bell rang which made Nathan get out of his reverie. He didn't break his stare toward Haley as he stood up and packed his things.

"I'll see you later?" asked Nathan towering and startling her. Her head just whipped into his direction.

"I don't think so, since I'm going to assist to the basket ball practice, but we both know that I'm not going in there to encourage you." stated Haley in a matter-of-factly manner to the tall young man looking at her intently.

"I'm hurt."

"Good for you." said Haley exiting the classroom before him. Nathan wanted to continue his "talk" with her, but someone pulled him in her direction. Peyton held his arm possessively and kissed him on the cheek. He liked it when she wasn't in a bad mood.

"What do you have in mind after your b-ball practice Nathan?" asked Peyton, her big green eyes staring into his. He didn't which lie to tell her, since he didn't want to tell her that he had a tutoring session.

"I don't know yet." answered Nathan to Peyton, who just nodded at her boyfriend, not knowing why he was so distant with her. They both walked together until they separated the way to go to their respective changing rooms.

I'M still very sorry for the long update.

Happy (late) Christmas and Happy New Year.

R&R plz!

Angel Oscura :)