Lies are Kinder

Chapter Twelve.

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.

Haley was home two minutes before there was a knock on the door. Haley listened hard to see if anyone else was home to get it. When she had arrived home she went straight to her room.

Haley heard footsteps in the hallway and the door open. As hard as she tried she couldn't hear who was there or any of the conversation. "Haley, Lucas is here." She heard her brother yell.

The brunette took a deep breath, wiped her face for the thousandth time and plastered a smile on her face before opening her door to see Lucas standing there in front of her.

"Why didn't you tell me you and Nathan kissed?" Lucas blurted out. Haley stood shocked and utterly speechless. She opened her mouth but shut it a second later. "How di..."

"If you two were going to yell about it you should've went inside. I was at the gym." Lucas explained. "Hale's… are you ok?" Lucas watched a smile appeared on the girl in front of him but it was quickly tarnished by another onset of tears.

Lucas pulled Haley into his arms and gave her a tight hug. "Haley, don't cry… It's going to be ok… He doesn't deserve you." Lucas whispered. Haley laughed bitterly at her best friend's last statement.

Lucas pushed her back from him and placed his hands on her shoulders. He looked her square in the face. "Haley, if he is being a jerk about this, trust me he doesn't deserve you, you know that. Ok!" he said firmly to her.

"No Luke I don't know that… and if that's true, then why do I feel like this." She choked out while taking a seat on her bed. Haley grabbed a tissue and wiped her wet face.

Haley glanced at her clock at saw it had been talking for over half an hour. "Lucas, you should go to your game. You're already really late." Haley told him. "I'll just skip it." He said taking a seat beside his best friend.

"Lucas I'm fine. Really, you should go." Haley confirmed, pushing him off the bed and to the door. "I'll call you after the game. K?" Haley smiled at the blond boy in front of her and nodded.

Lucas thudded down the stairs running into John. "What's up with Hale's?" he asked knowing something was up. "Nothing. Why?" Lucas lied, knowing Haley wouldn't want her family to know.

"Lucas?" John said in a warning tone. "John, really it's ok. I'm just going to sort everything out right now." Lucas told him before leaving the small house and heading for the gym.

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Taking a glance around the room, Lucas spotted Nathan sipping on his bottle of water. "Well look who decided to grace us with his presence." Tim muttered to Nathan who sat beside him.

Nathan shot a nasty glare at the blond boy. "You're late." He snipped at him. "Yeah well, you're an asshole." Lucas retorted not even taking a glance at him before heading for whitey's office.

After a few minutes of apologizing and saying it would never happen again, Lucas was allowed to get ready for the next half. He quickly got changed and headed out to the court.

Nathan stayed away from Lucas during half time warm ups. He realized that he must have talked to Haley and that was why he was late. Nathan really didn't want to get in a fight on the court. He was just too tired.

Lucas on the other hand wasn't playing by those rules. During the game he caught the passes that were obviously meant for Nathan. Nathan counted to ten and bit his tongue. There was no way he was falling into that trap.

Brooke sat cheering on the sidelines wondering what on earth was up with Lucas. It was usually Nathan who was annoying Lucas; now it was the other way around.

As the buzzer sounded the team, after congratulating each other made their way to the locker room to change. Brooke caught Lucas' elbow and brought him away from the crowed.

"I know you two don't exactly get along but what was that all about?" she asked gesturing towards to court. Lucas shrugged. "Did Haley say som-" Brooke stopped herself mid sentence realizing her mistake.

Lucas looked at the brunette in front of him curiously. "You knew?" he asked her shocked.

"Why didn't you tell me he kissed her?" Lucas asked getting a little agitated with her silence. Brooke hands shot up defending herself. "Woooaahh. They kissed. Ok, I did not know that. I just, kind of figured something was going on… and in my defense it really wasn't my place to say anything."

"He kissed her." Lucas interjected. Brooke smiled at him. "Lucas come on. You cannot put this all on him; I mean Haley isn't exactly innocent in the whole thing."

Lucas did not like where Brooke was taking this conversation. "Brooke you don't know Haley; she didn't want this." He said condescendingly.

"No. you're right. She didn't want it... but she wants it now. She wants him and you are the only thing in their way." Brooke said calmly before walking off.

Lucas stood on the spot for nearly five minutes trying to figure out what to do. He slowly walked to the locker room and was surprised to see nearly everybody was gone.

Nearly everybody.

Lucas shuffled his way to his locker and opened it leisurely. Seeing him Nathan gathered his stuff and headed for the door not daring to say a word to him.

"You know you don't deserver her, right?" Lucas asked Nathan before he had a chance to leave.

"Man I really don't wanna get into this right now." Nathan mumbled; barely loud enough for Lucas to hear. Nathan started for the door once more.

"Well tough, because I do… I really don't get what she sees in you." Lucas said nearly shouting at Nathan. He turned away from the door and faced Lucas.

"Yeah well you're not supposed to, were related." Nathan said smirking before he had fully grasped what he had said. Lucas stared at Nathan for a minute not saying a word.

Lucas gathered his things together and shoved then into his bag, throwing it over his shoulder. Lucas took three large steps and came face to face with Nathan.

"You break her heart and I'll break your neck." Lucas warned before heading out the door. Nathan stood astonished at how strong Lucas' and Haley's friendship was.

Nathan was pulled from his thoughts when he heard Lucas call out to him. "Haley isn't coming out tonight; she is staying at home. You might want to clear up the mess you made." Lucas informed him, then disappearing from Nathan's sight.

The tall brunette sat on the bench that occupied the lockers. Nathan grabbed his bag and headed for his car. 'This is going to be interesting.' He thought to himself turning on the engine.

Teeheehee. I'm mean.

I know this took me a hell of a long time to get up but I completely stressing. School sucks… if you didn't already know that.

Brittany: Thanks for the review. Even the smallest reviews encourage me to get up off my but and write, so thanks. Sarah.

Sara: I'm sorry this took me so long but I hope you liked it. I actually haven't seen any of the new series. I'm so behind. sigh I've only seen the first series but I have been getting all the gossip from friends. Two channels are repeating the first series so it isn't that bad. The 'toy boy auction' show is on on Saturday and that one has to be one of the best so I'm still breathing. Lol. Thanks for reviewing. Sarah.

Kafia: ok you said I could get the transcripts and download the show but you didn't tell me where. Silly rabbit.