"Feel about you?" Haley was completely and utterly shocked to see Nathan. This was her chance to tell him how she really felt about him after all of this time.
"Yeah .." Nathan muttered.
"Well .. I .." Haley couldn't manage to get the words out.
"I think I'll just leave you two alone for now." Peyton chuckled as she walked away from the school.
"Alright, listen. I can't hardly believe I'm going to say this, because I honestly never thought I would. But, I'm going to." Haley began.
"Okay, when I first started tutoring you, I didn't see anything in you. I only saw some big jock who was just trying to show off in front of his friends, and well .. you were with Peyton at the time, and so I of course immediately thought of the stereotype of the big jock who's going after the cheerleader."
Nathan had a shy smile on his face.
"And then what happened?" He asked.
"Well, the more I continued tutoring you, I realized that you're not just that jock guy. You have a lot more to you than that and I want to be apart of that. I see so much in you, more than I think anyone ever has. And I want to be with you, help you,and be the girl who made Nathan Scott find himself. And, I guess that's when I realized how much I liked you. So, now you heard it. That's how I feel .. have felt, for a month and a half."
Nathan was speechless, he had never seen a girl who wanted to devote herself so much to him.
"Well, okay. So I'm gonna go now." Haley felt relieved but that feeling came to an end and changed over to embarrassment. Nathan wasn't saying a thing.
"Haley wait .."
She turned around with adrenaline.
Nathan slowly approached her. As he leaned in whole-heartedly, and kissed her.
"I'm sorry." Nathan said quickly, pulling away. "That probably wasn't the best way to um .. reply, but I guess that's how I felt just now."
"Oh, it's okay." Haley smiled.
"Haley, never in my life has any girl ever said such deep and meaningful things to me. Never has any girl ever viewed me the way you just described. And I know this might sound, a little odd coming from me. But that type of girl means more than anything to me because, she's the one that, at the end of the day, I would want to come home to. Because I know that that girl, more than any other girl, is going to love me. And that's all I really would ever want."
Haley smiled, she was charmed.
"So, what exactly does that mean for us Nathan?"
"I .. I don't know really. Because, although I just said like, the most mature things in my life about a girl. I can't ... I'm in high school and I just want to have fun you know?"
Haley was hurt beyond belief. She didn't want Lucas to be right. She didn't want him to know what happened between her and Nathan. He could not be right. But more importantly, her heart couldn't be broken.
"Sorry Haley." Nathan murmured, sort of ashamed.
"I, uh, I gotta go." Haley took off running away from that dark school yard. She was too hurt for words.
