Chapter Ten
"Ouch" she groaned opening her eyes at the sound of Nathan's cell phone.
"Sorry Hales I didn't mean to hit you." Nathan apologised. "I was just trying to reach my phone."
His phone stopped ringing at that moment and she looked around the room in a semi-dazed state.
"Oh my god it was just a dream?" she said with relief.
"Huh?" he asked her quizzically.
"Trust me you don't want to know."
"Hales whatever you were dreaming it obviously upset you. Now I want to know what it was."
Thankfully for Haley he was interrupted from his interrogation by his cell phone beeping at him indicating he had a voicemail.
"Haley." He said warningly.
"Just check your message Nathan then I'll tell you whatever you want to know."
"Fine. But you are going to tell me Haley."
She watched him as he listened to the message. A look of disappointment came across his face as he heard the contents of it. At the end of the message he flipped the phone closed and stood from the bed to start gathering his clothes.
"Looks like our conversation is going to have to wait till another time," he told her. "That was your boyfriend he's on his way over here."
"What?" Haley squeaked the images of her dream replaying in her head. "Right now?" she asked sounding slightly panicked.
"Yeah," Nathan said flatly "which I guess is my cue to leave. Unless you want me to stay?"
"Not this time Nathan." She answered him as she scrambled through her wardrobe for clothes.
"How much longer are we going to keep playing this game Haley?" he asked despondently and she forgot all about getting dressed for Lucas' imminent arrival and turned to look at him.
He sounded almost hurt and she was completely unsure how she should respond. Seeing the forlorn look in his eyes though she felt an overwhelming urge to comfort him and so opened her arms to him. He walked into her embrace and buried his face in her shoulder.
"Nathan what do you want from me?" she asked after several minutes of just standing with her arms wrapped around him in silent comfort.
"Everything." He said simply before bending his head down to hers and capturing her lips in a sweet kiss unlike anything she had ever experienced from him before.
Her response was a little uncertain at first but the gentle pressure of his lips on hers was enough to make her melt. For once their hands did not roam each other's bodies. His hands stayed in place on her back and hers were wound around his neck playing with the hair at the nape of his neck. Eventually a need for oxygen forced them to pull apart and she stood staring into his eyes searching for answers to all the questions that were now buzzing in her head. For once though she was speechless and so she stood just staring up at him unable to formulate a single coherent thought.
Nathan looked at her expectantly but she remained mute and unable to bear her silence any longer he broke it.
"I better get going. Lucas will be here any minute."
Lucas stood outside her house trying to figure out what he wanted to say to her before he went to the door. Sighing with frustration he turned away looking to the house across the street maybe the occupant could help him figure things out. Glancing back toward Haley's house once more he headed across the street and knocked purposefully on the door.
"Hey Mouth, how's things?" he greeted him when the door eventually opened.
"Lucas what are you doing here? I mean I haven't seen you for a while. What brings you here?"
"Uh Mouth can I come in. I need some help."
"Sure Luke. Come in."
He opened the door wider to allow his old friend to enter. As he closed the door behind him he glanced across the street just in time to see Haley letting Nathan out the front door. As he watched they exchanged a tender kiss before Nathan walked away.
"Mouth. What are you doing man?"
"Nothing Luke. I'll be there in a minute."
Mouth walked into the lounge where Lucas was sprawled on the sofa.
"So what's going on with you Luke? You look pretty upset."
"Mouth I've known you since fourth grade so I figure if there's anyone who I can talk to about this shit its you. I can't remember things ever being this fucked up before."
Mouth sat silently waiting for Lucas to continue. Lucas appeared lost in thought for a moment before he heaved a sigh and started to speak again.
"Something happened last night. I don't know why it happened but it did. I slept with Brooke." He finished with a rush.
"You what? Mouth sputtered for the first time in his life at a loss for words. They didn't give him the nickname of Mouth for nothing.
"When did you break up with Haley?"
"That's just it man I haven't. At least I hope we're still together. I was a complete asshole to her last night. Urgh most of the night is a total blur. I can hardly remember anything that happened."
"Ok Luke you're going to have to give me some more info here because I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Basically Hales and I went to this club last night with a few of the guys from school. When we got there I found out Haley was wearing this really short dress that showed off way too much skin. It wasn't like her at all. So I told her so. I don't want other guys looking at my girlfriend that way. Tim was practically drooling and Nathan could hardly take his eyes off her even Jake was having a hard time not staring."
He took a deep breath and continued, "I didn't like it and I made sure she knew it. I could see how hurt she was but I really didn't care."
"Anyway I went to get a drink with Brooke and Peyton and to be honest I can't remember too much after that. I think Brooke and I started dancing. I know I was drinking a lot. I think at one stage I decided I'd had enough but Brooke wanted me to have one more with her so she went and got me another one. Some blue thing but I'm pretty sure it was loaded with vodka."
Lucas was lost in thought for a moment. "The only other thing I can remember is that not long after that drink I started feeling dizzy so Brooke suggested we leave."
"Next thing I knew was this morning when I woke up in her bed."
Mouth was silent for a moment as he digested all this information. He had a pretty good idea of why Lucas was having so much trouble remembering the night before and the mention of the blue drink was the final piece in the jig saw. By the sounds of it Brooke had put the date rape drug Rohypnol in Lucas' drink, hence the need for a blue drink to cover it up.
"Are you sure you actually had sex with her though? Maybe you just passed out."
"We were both naked and there were some used condom packages on the bedside table. So yeah I'm pretty certain that we had sex."
"I just don't know why I did it. I love Haley."
He buried his face in his hands "Oh man how am I going to tell her that I slept with someone else?"
Abruptly getting to his feet he started pacing the floor of the lounge room. "I can't do it," he said decisively. "I can't hurt her like that."
"But Lucas don't you think…"
"No she can't ever find out. You, me and Brooke are the only ones who know and that's the way it's going to stay."
Mouth tried once more to interrupt "Luke I think you should know…"
"Nah man I know what I have to do. Haley is never going to know about this. Thanks so much for listening. You've really helped me work it all out. I gotta go see Hales but we'll talk soon. Thanks. See ya."
He walked out heading purposefully for Haley's front door.
Knocking loudly he waited impatiently for her to answer.
"Hey Hales I'm so sorry about the way I treated you last night."
Haley looked at him uncomprehendingly for a moment. Why isn't he yelling at me for being all over Nathan out on the dance floor?
"Umm that's ok I'm sorry too."
"No Hales you've got nothing to be sorry for. You should be able to dress however you want without me criticising you."
Haley was at a loss she had really thought Lucas was coming here to end things with her and now he was apologising and he hadn't even really done anything that bad. I am such a bad girlfriend.
"Lucas why don't you come in and we can talk and maybe watch a movie or something."
Lucas looked at her gratefully he hadn't expected her to want to see him after everything that had happened last night. Not that she knew all of it of course. But she can never know what really happened last night.
A couple of hours later Lucas and Haley were curled up on the couch together watching a movie when his cell phone rang. Grimacing he pulled it out hoping it wasn't Nathan again. He had called earlier wanting to know what that voicemail he had left on his phone that morning had been all about. Lucas had somehow managed to convince him that it wasn't important and that everything was ok now. Maybe he wasn't as convinced as I thought. Pulling out his phone he looked at the caller ID frowning slightly as he saw an unfamiliar number. Looking down at Haley he saw she had fallen asleep and not wanting to disturb her he eased himself off the sofa away from her and went to the kitchen to answer the call.
"Hello."
"Hey sexy boy. Where are you? I woke up and you weren't here," a sultry voice purred at him.
"Brooke." Lucas said shocked. "Why are you calling me?"
"What do you mean why am I calling you? I'm calling you to tell you to hurry back. We have a lot more things to do together."
"Brooke I can't do that. I don't know what happened last night but it was a mistake."
"A mistake you can't be serious it was perfect."
"Brooke I have a girlfriend and if I'm not mistaken you're going out with my brother. Whatever we did last night it was wrong and it was a mistake."
"Lucas please…"
"No Brooke, I'm sorry ok. But there will be no repeat of last night between us. Goodbye." He said firmly hanging up the phone.
Brooke lay back on her bed in shock. This could not be happening she had finally gotten Lucas last night and the first thing he did was run back to Haley. Picking up her phone again she punched in a number.
"It's me. Things didn't work out the way I hoped. So as of tomorrow we go ahead with the plan."
Giving the other person no chance to reply she hung up angrily. A deep voice from the doorway startled her out of her thoughts.
"What plan would that be Brooke?"
She knew that voice without having to turn around.
"Nathan."
A.N Ok I'm evil I know. I left you with yet another cliffhanger and mislead you a bit with the end of Chapter Nine but I couldn't resist. Hope you don't hate me for it too much. Let me know what you think just like you always do. Chapter Eleven is already to go so if you want to know what happens next send me a review.
