Lies are Kinder
Chapter Six.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything except the characters that aren't on the show. (Haley's family)
Summary: Haley has trouble over which brother to choose to stand by.
Pairings: Naley – Brucas
Rating: PG 13. Take notice to the rating change.
A.N: I will be bringing Deb Scott into this story a bit.
Nathan was still reeling off his conversation he had with Haley last week before. She had managed to avoided him for a whole week, she was determined. 'God I really don't understand women' Nathan thought to himself as he saw Haley in the hall; she had just turned around and walked the other way. Nathan brushed it off, he needed to get to practice quick or Whity would kick his ass. As soon as he walked into the locker room he was met with a death glare from none other than Lucas. Nathan really didn't need this right now. He had enough on his plate, his dad was hassling him because he wasn't working out enough and he had an English exam on Wednesday. Nathan just ignored Lucas and went straight to Tim who was unusually happy. "What's up with you?" Nathan knew that when Tim had a smile on him the size of the Nile something was up. "The units are away for a week .... So were having a week long party. You in?" Nathan just nodded and in a very fake positive tone said "hell ya" Tim then left Nathan in the locker room to get his training gear on.
Nathan was tying the laces on his trainers when Lucas slammed his locker shut which caught Nathan off guard so he jumped. Nathan looked at is 'brother'. "What the hell is your problem?" he shouted at him. Lucas stared at him. "You're my problem!" The anger and annoyance was growing by the second inside Nathan. "What the hell did I do now?" Nathan asked really wanting to know. He hadn't had any run in's with Lucas on or off the court, so he really didn't have a clue what the boys problem was. "You've got Haley in a funky mood. What did you do to her?" Nathan looked stunned at Lucas. "Look I don't know why she's in a bad mood. But hey I figured you would be doing a little dance with sparklers or something." Nathan spit out in a sarcastic tone. "I'm gonna ignore the dance and sparklers comment and ask why?" Lucas was so close to just decking Nathan right there. Nathan stared at Lucas confused then slowly a smirk appeared on his face. "She didn't tell you, she's not tutoring me anymore. So you got your way congrats." Nathan then just left Lucas to think alone.
That night Nathan sat alone in his room. He told Tim he had to go for a run with his dad in the morning so he couldn't go out tonight. 'It wasn't a complete lie.' I mean his dad would probably get him up at the crack of dawn for a run but really Nathan just didn't want to be around those people tonight. There was only one person he wanted to be around. Nathan inwardly screamed at himself while running his hands through his hair, she shouldn't be occupying his thoughts. 'I should be thinking about...' Nathan scanned his bedroom but stopped when his eyes landed on his schoolbag. '...homework....... God she has really rubbed off on me. Yeah I wish.' Nathan smirked at his own thoughts.
Nathan dumped all his books on his bed wondering what could replace his thoughts of Haley. Nathan picked up his math book and through it on the floor. 'Next' he thought, but one by one all Nathan's books bar one were in a heap on the floor. "It's a sign." Nathan said aloud before jumping over his books. Nathan scurried down the stairs of his house almost knocking into his mom. "And where are you going?" Deb asked. Ever since she was back she and Nathan hadn't had a decent conversation. 'This is my chance' she thought. "I'm going out, be back later." Nathan tried to get past his mother but she was deliberately blocking his way to the door. "'Out' is not an answer Nathan. Where are you going?" Nathan didn't know why but he decided to tell her the truth. "Haley forgot her book I was just going to run it over to her." Nathan said quietly hoping his mom would leave it at that. No such luck. "Haley... she's your tutor?" Nathan looked at his mom not knowing where this line of questioning was going. "Yeah... well no. not anymore." Nathan leaned up against the banister of the stairs thinking that it was going to be awhile before he got out the door.
Nathan looked at his mom she had been silent for at least a minute now. "Why isn't she tutoring you anymore?" Nathan scrunched up his face and shook his head. "Ya got me. She just said that she would find me another tutor then left. I haven't talked to her since." Nathan explained. "Well when was that?" Deb asked. "I week ago... she's been avoiding me." Deb looked at her son; she wanted to know why her son was going after a girl who was eluding him. "Why is she avoiding you? What did you do?" she hoped Nathan hadn't done anything to upset this girl. "I didn't do anything. You tell me why she turns and goes the other direction anytime she see's me? You're a girl." Nathan was getting a little uneasy thinking about the past week. A small smile formed on Deb's face when everything her son had just told her clicked in her mind. She stepped back away from Nathan and put her hand on his shoulder. "Sounds to me like she likes you." Deb watched as her sons eyes lit up. She turned around and started to walk back into the kitchen. "Don't be too late." Nathan watched his mom fade into the kitchen. He tightened his grip around the book in his hand and grabbed his coat before heading out the door. From the kitchen Deb heard the front door close shut and she let a small sigh escape from her mouth. "Teenagers"
"Haley what's wrong? You've been in this funk for a week now." Lucas sat on the couch with Haley while they watched 'The Usual Suspects' on dvd. Haley turned to her best friend and put a phony smile. "Luke nothing is wrong. What are you so uptight about?" Haley quickly tried to turn the subject away from herself. "Why didn't you tell me you're not tutoring Nathan anymore?" Lucas kept his eyes fixed on Haley. Haley quickly scanned through a list of names that would have told Lucas that. The only problem was that besides Haley and Nathan only the teachers knew. "Nathan told you?" she asked wanting to make sure she was right. "Yeah he did. But he thought you would have told me. Why didn't you?" Lucas asked; he wanted to know why his best friend hadn't told him some thing like this. "Well I figured you night think that I done it because of you... and I didn't." Haley spurted out turning her head back to the TV. Lucas knew Haley and he also knew that if he pushed her tonight she would be weird for the next couple of days. And he didn't want that, they had just gotten back on track. "I'm going to head home. I'll call you tomorrow." Haley glanced up at Lucas who was putting on his jacket and a twinge of guilt hit her. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you." Lucas smiled at her. "You're alright. I'll see you tomorrow at school." With that Lucas disappeared out the front door.
Haley hadn't been watching the film she was just sitting in the dark TV room and thinking. 'Why didn't I tell him?' Haley shook her head trying to get an answer but was disturbed by John. John was three years older than Haley and he and Kelly had just come back from college for two weeks. John and Kelly were twins and John loved to rub it in that he was three minutes older than Kelly. He jumped over the back of the sofa and sat opposite Haley on the couch. "One .. two.. three.. four.. five.. six.. seven.. Oswald was a fag" John recited the line before it was said in the movie. "If you're going to do that for the rest of the movie I'm leaving." Haley said trying to sound annoyed but really it was funny the way he could remember all the lines. John just ignored her comment. "Where's Lucas?" John looked at his baby sister; he always could read her, it was a gift or so he said. "Ah he went home... he had stuff to do." Haley lied but only to a certain extent. "Is this about the whole Nathan tutoring thing?" John asked not looking at his sister but at the TV. "How did you know about that?" Haley questioned him. "What... I have ears. You didn't answer my question." Haley got up from her seat. "And I'm not going to. I've got homework to do." John watched as Haley climbed the stairs to her room. "Well I guess it is about the whole Nathan tutoring thing." John said to himself laughing.
When Haley got to her room, she shut the door and put on the radio. There was no way in hell she was going to tell John about everything that had happened. She hadn't even figured it all out yet. Haley picked up her geometry book and sprawled out on her bed going over the very boring theorems she had to learn. 'God... why did I have to start tutoring him?' Haley thought. She had given up on studying about half hour ago. Now she was lying flat on her back listening to the radio, but her mind kept wandering to the Scott brothers.
The film was ending when the door bell rang; John didn't move instead he listened closely to see if anybody was going to answer it. "I'll get it, don't you bother getting up John." His mom said sarcastically. Maria James opened the door to see a tall young boy standing awkwardly on the front step. "Can I help you?" she asked in a sweet voice. "Ah hi Mrs. James, is Haley here?" Nathan said while taking in Haley's mom. She was a little taller than Haley but she had the same hair. "Yeah, come in. She's just upstairs, I'll get her." Nathan nodded at the woman and watched her climb the stairs. Nathan stood in the hall looking at all the pictures on the walls. He stood staring at one; it looked like a family portrait. Nathan pointed his finger at the photo and started to count all the children. 'Seven' Nathan thought as he finished counting. He looked stunned. "Don't worry there's only three of us in the house now." Nathan nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard the voice from behind him. Nathan didn't say anything he was to busy trying not to have a heart attack. "I'm John. Haley's older brother." John was leaning against the door frame of the TV room. Nathan regained his composure and stood up straight trying to look not like a scared little boy. It was enough that he was feeling like one. "Nathan" he said simply. John looked at him and smirked. "Yeah I know. One Scott leaves and another comes around. We can't get rid of you." John said laughing while going back into the TV room.
Again Nathan was left feeling very uncomfortable. He was contemplating making a run for it. Nathan's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Haley's voice. "Nathan?" Nathan turned to look at Haley. She stood at the top of the stairs in shock. 'What is he doing here?' Haley thought staring down at him.
You know what to do. R&R please. It's was a long chapter so I split it into two. The next bit will be up soon.