So here is another one. Another one shot for ya... Please read and review!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. Or the song.
Nathan heard a beep from his phone, signaling a new message. He bet it was from one of his friends. They had been begging him to go out with them for months now. He knew he needed to go hang out, but he just didn't feel like it. He hadn't felt like it since... well, since everything happened with her. It was also the last time he felt like he had had a good time doing anything.
After checking his mobile, he was proved correct. It was indeed one of his friends. It was Tim. He ignored the message, not even bothering to really read it.
Soon after that though, his phone blew up with new messages. There were more from Tim, but he wasn't the only one texting him. Jake, Luke, and Clay were also amongst the various messages. They all had one thing in common. They wanted him to meet them at the bar.
He got up from his spot on the couch and tossed his phone there instead. After going to the fridge, he grabbed another beer. Opening it, he took a long gulp, savoring the feeling of the coldness trickling down his throat. He closed his eyes for a moment but that's the moment, his friends decided to text him some more. His phone went off to indicate the incoming texts. There were quite a few of them.
"Alright, alright. I'm comin'." He said angrily, walking back over to the couch. He was just about to either one, turn off his phone for good that night or two, throw it against the far wall and watch it shatter into a million pieces. He knew that would happen too. He remembered his last phone and its untimely demise. He had been so angry he had thrown his phone and watched it do just that.
Instead, he looked at the messages that had come in. He was right. They all said something about coming to the bar and hanging out. One even mentioned her and the idea that she wasn't going out that night. He hoped she wasn't because he guessed he was going out after all.
...
He was actually feeling pretty good. He was out of the house, for once. His friends were right. He needed this. He was feeling like himself which he hadn't felt in quite a while.
He made his way through the crowds of people at the club. The place was definitely crowded that Friday night. The party people were out in full force. He saw quite a few people he recognized and stopped to say hello. He was smiling by the time he made it to his friends in the back of the establishment.
The smile soon faded from his lips when he noticed his friends weren't alone. He walked up to the table anyway.
"Hey Nathan." Lauren Fletcher said, after turning around and almost bumping into him.
"Hey." He greeted the short blonde. He noticed there were more of her friends crowded around the table, talking with his. The idea that all of her friends were out could only mean one thing.
He turned his head over towards the door and that's when he saw her, with the light from both inside and outside shining on her. His hope that she wasn't going to be there tonight had been dashed to pieces.
It seemed as if all the light in the room had gone dark and all he could see was her. He doubted even the stars and moon glistened at that moment in time.
She looked great, she truly did. She never had a problem in that department. In fact the very site of her had his heart racing. He felt like there was a storm within him, his heart. His brain was awash with images of her. In those images were their past.
There was thunder, rain, lightning. Her very image seemed to hit him like a hurricane. He still wanted her but knew he couldn't have her. She was untouchable to him. The blood seemed to boil in his veins as he stood there, dumbfoundedly staring at her from across the room.
...
Nathan couldn't help it. His eyes were drawn to her, almost the whole night. He decided to get himself out of the situation and walked to the bar to get a drink. "Whiskey on ice." He nodded at the bar-tender. He nodded right on back.
He looked around the room waiting for his drink in silence. He could feel her eyes on his back, but he wouldn't give in. He wouldn't look at her.
A minute later, his drink was set in front of him. He took a long sip and that's when it happened. She was directly in his line of vision when he set his cup down on the counter. There wasn't anywhere else to look. She was talking with someone down at the other end of the bar. He guessed she could sense his eyes on her because in that moment her eyes locked on his. She really was beautiful. Her expansive brown eyes sparkled in the lights from the bar. It was hard to look away. It took all of his willpower but he did.
A few minutes seemed to pass but then he felt it. There, beside him was a presence. He just knew it had to be her and a second later, his suspicions were proved correct.
"Hey Nate. I didn't think you would be here tonight." The voice came from beside him. It was her voice, her sweet, sexy voice that would always, without a doubt, send shivers up his spine whenever he heard it.
He knew it was gonna be a long night.
"Well, here I am."
"I'm glad. It's good to see you..." She started. "So, how have you been?"
"Good. You?" He replied, then asked, not really wanting to get into this with her again.
"Fine... I miss you."
"Haley..." He just about groaned out. He still hadn't looked at her.
"I know, I know..." Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her lift her hands in defense. Then she said under her breath, "I shouldn't have broken up with you."
He looked at her then. "What?" He asked incredulously, even though every cell in his body was telling him to put the drink down and walk away from her, like she did to him.
"You heard me. I wish I hadn't broken up with you. We were so good together. We loved each other."
"I can't be hearing this right now." He said, standing up attempting to get himself out of this situation he found himself in.
Haley grabbed onto his arm then, keeping him beside her. "Don't go Nathan. I need you. I have always needed you. I needed time to think before. I don't need that now."
He groaned inwardly. She was saying all the right things to make his heart beat against his chest. All the things that he wished she had said before. Then she said the one thing that he knew he couldn't say no to.
"Take me home, Nathan."
He looked at her then, really looked. He looked over her face and found himself entranced in her expansive brown eyes that he could never say no to. He realized that he didn't want to. He knew this was right. "Your place or mine?"
Okay, that is it! Hope you liked it. Please let me know in a review if you did. One of these chapters I am going to list out all the songs that I have written one shots for. But that day is not today. I'm not sure I love how this turned out but I really just wanted to post something. So maybe in the future I will come back to it and make it longer and put it all the things that I wanted to put into this one but didn't. Let me know what you think! Be sure to guess the name of the song. It's hinted at in there.
