A.N Time for the story to continue. A review I received from Hesfadedme inspired a line in this chapter. Hope you like it. Sorry for the shortness of the chapters but it just keeps things sharper at least in my opinion anyway. I have also changed the format around slightly. Hopefully it will make it easier to read.
Disclaimer: I have no ownership of movie referred to in this chapter. It is used purely for entertainment purposes.
Giving In To Desires
Chapter Eight.
Haley pushed herself off the couch creating some distance between her and Nathan. He glanced at her quizzically but continued his conversation with Tim.
"Yeah alright man I'll have to check with Brooke but I can't imagine her saying no to a night out. What time do you want us to meet you there?"
Looking at her again he could see a look of anger on her face and immediately wrapped up his conversation with Tim.
"I'll see you there. Talk to you later." Hanging up he turned his attention to Haley.
"Hales what's going on?"
"That phone call" she sputtered furiously "whoever sent that note, decided to follow it up with a phone call. They were actually taunting me. Can you believe it?" she added vehemently.
"Who was taunting you Hales? Did they sound familiar?"
"Of course not" she spat "they disguised their voice. This is ridiculous. What do they think this is? Some teenage horror movie? Actually yeah why don't we make our own movie?" she continued to rant.
"We could call it 'I know who you did last night'. Sounds like a hit to me." She ended sarcastically.
Looking up at him she saw that he appeared confused by her attitude. Well I guess after this morning's waterworks he probably expected more of the same. But now they've just pissed me off and they're going to find out why it's not a good idea to piss off Haley James. I'm not about to let them walk all over me. She turned to him with an evil smile on her lips.
"I'm going to show them," she told him fiercely. "They're in for a rude shock if they think they can do this to me."
Feeling a lot more confident about things she changed the subject as if her blackmailer was no longer of any importance to her "so what did Tim want?"
His response was interrupted by the sound of her cell phone ringing once more. She looked at it with distaste "now what do they want?"
She was about to pick it up but he grabbed it before she could. "What?" he barked in way of greeting.
She watched him talking wanting to know if they would dare threaten him too.
"Huh? Ummm. I answered Haley's phone because…" his voice trailed off as he madly searched his head for a plausible excuse to give Haley's boyfriend for answering her phone.
Looking at her slightly panicked, he mouthed, "It's Lucas".
She looked at him askance then quickly took the phone from him. "Hey baby" she forced cheeriness into her tone.
"Hales why did Nathan answer your phone?" Lucas asked and his voice sounded slightly petulant to Haley's ears.
She looked down at her feet her mind a complete blank, no idea what she should tell him. Suddenly seeing Nathan's leg move into her line of vision beside her bare foot she blurted out "Oh he just came around to work on some biology."
Looking up at Nathan she saw his shoulders shaking with silent laughter. Realising how her explanation must have sounded to him she rushed on. "We have a project we're working on together."
"Oh" came Lucas' slightly relieved sounding response "whats's your project about?"
Once again Haley's mind went blank and she blurted the first thing that came into her head "Ummm we're exploring the human reproductive system."
Nathan's laughter became more audible upon hearing her explanation and Haley prayed that Lucas would not hear and question her about it. But either Lucas didn't hear or he simply wasn't interested in the source of his brother's mirth because he asked no questions of Haley.
"Well in that case I'll make this quick. I had a call from Tim before and he wants to know if we want to go to a club tonight. He's got fake ID's but I told him I didn't think you'd be interested."
Haley cut him off abruptly "Lucas you really need to get it through your head that you're my boyfriend not my big brother.Stop trying to protect me. I think going to the club sounds like fun. I could do with a night out."
"Oh well if you're sure" was Lucas' slightly surprised response.
"Positive" she added brightly.
"Ok then well I'll pick you up around 7."
" Sounds good.
Well Nathan and I have a lot of work to do so we'll probably be busy all day. I'll see you tonight," and hung up unaware that she had forgotten her usual platitude of love that she always added on to the end of their conversations.
"Looks like we have the day to ourselves," she said with a mischievous smile "Any thoughts on what we should do to pass the time?"
Needless to say they had no trouble finding activities to entertain themselves for the next few hours and by the time 4:00pm rolled around they were both spent. Moving back to the sofa from their place on the floor they curled up together Nathan pulling the throw rug from the back of the sofa to cover them. Looking down at Haley he could see she was struggling to keep her eyes open. As he continued to watch she gave up the fight and closed them falling asleep almost instantly. Watching her as she slept cocooned in his arms he couldn't help but wish that it were always like this. This was the first time since he and Haley had started their arrangement that he had actually stayed around long enough for her to fall asleep and he liked it. He lay awake for the next half hour or so just watching her sleep before eventually drifting off himself. Haley woke over an hour later feeling very contented she opened her eyes and was surprised to find herself in the lounge room rather than her room. Feeling the warmth of a naked body at her back and the steady rise and fall of their chest as they breathed she had to quell a momentary sense of panic, until her mind cleared and she remembered the events of the day. It felt strange to be lying there with Nathan like that. She had always told herself that their relationship was only sexual with a certain degree of friendship that had developed since they had started their arrangement but the events of today were making her question that assessment. She knew Nathan wanted their relationship to be more and had for some time now but she had always told herself that it would never work. But the way he had come racing over earlier when she had needed him and had obviously been so upset made her question her beliefs about them. Not to mention that it felt incredible to be lying there with him. Forcibly shaking her head to rid herself of such thoughts she looked at her phone and saw that it was after 5:30 already. Shit I better move or I won't be ready when Lucas gets here. She tried to slide out from under his arm seeing no reason to wake him yet but he unconsciously tightened it around her "Haley" he grumbled without waking up.
She smiled to herself in silent acknowledgement that even in his sleep he wanted to keep her close. She wiggled around a little still trying to get out from under his arm.
"Surely you know that wiggling that gorgeous little ass of yours up against me like that is just asking for trouble," he growled huskily in her ear alerting her to the fact that he was awake.
"Hey can't blame a girl for trying." She told him mischievously."But I was actually just trying to get up from the sofa."
"Where exactly are you planning to go?" he asked.
"Thought I could use a shower," she responded "I worked up a bit of a sweat this afternoon. Want to join me?" she asked flirtatiously.
"Would I ever say no to an offer like that?"
Clad only in a towel Haley kissed him goodbye an hour later. "Thanks for today Nathan. You really helped take my mind off things."
"Glad I could be of assistance" he smirked at her "but seriously Hales are you going to be ok?"
"Yeah" she answered, "I'll be fine. I'm not going to let them get to me. We'll figure out who's behind it and they'll get what's coming to them."
Her voice had hardened slightly as she made the statement and he silently vowed to himself never to get on her wrong side. He had a feeling that she could definitely take care of herself when the need arose.
"Ok I'll see you at the club."
"See you there." She watched as he walked to his car and drove away. She headed to her room to dress knowing that Lucas would soon arrive.
Walking into the club with Lucas' arm around her she immediately felt Nathan's eyes on her. Looking up she drank in the sight of him hungrily. He looked good, the t-shirt he wore moulded to his muscled chest and the jeans showed off his ass perfectly. Brooke was nowhere in sight and she abstractly wondered where she was. Looking around she spotted Brooke and Peyton deep in conversation at the bar as they waited to be served. Jake, Tim and Theresa stood with Nathan the three guys nursing beers. Taking Lucas' hand she pulled him in their direction.
"Hey guys" Lucas greeted them as Haley shrugged off the coat she had been wearing when Lucas arrived to pick her up.
Hearing a collective gasp from all four of the guys she smiled secretly to herself. The other dress she had borrowed from Brooke as a possibility for her date was obviously having the desired effect.
"Fuck Haley. I never knew you could look like that," Tim commented with his mouth hanging open.
"Gee thanks Tim you really know how to make a girl feel good," Haley told him sarcastically.
Turning deliberately to Nathan "What do you think Nathan? Am I up to standard?"
Nathan struggled to tear his gaze away from the short red dress that was hugging her every curve. "Yeah you look good Hales," he said forcing himself to sound casual.
Turning to look at Lucas wanting to see his reaction to the dress, she was shocked to see what looked like disappointment in his gaze.
"Is something wrong?" she asked him uncomfortably, slightly hurt by the look in his eye.
He leaned in to speak in her ear so that only she would hear "Since when do you dress like that?" he bit out angrily.
"What do you mean?" she asked some of her confidence fading away as he continued to glare at her.
"Nothing" he said and stalked away to get a drink.
Brooke had been standing at the bar watching the whole interaction and had been slightly miffed seeing the way Nathan had looked at Haley, almost like he wanted to devour her. Seeing Lucas' response though bought a smile to her face. So he's finally seeing her for the slut she really is she thought maliciously. Oh Lucas you don't know the half of it. But you will if I have anything to do with it. THAT BITCH IS GOING DOWN.
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