Lucas sat in the office waiting for his Mom to arrive. He was extremely nervous, he had never done anything like that before.
Karen walked into the office only to see her son sitting down sluggishly in a chair.
"Lucas, what on earth?" She asked him.
"Mrs. Scott…" The principal approached her.
"Oh no, please … it's Karen." She had never wanted anyone to call her Mrs. Scott.
"Karen, please step into my office. Lucas wait here, we'll be out in a second." The principal explained.
"Have a seat Mrs., um Karen." He said as they stepped into his office.
"What's going on here?" She asked confused.
"Well, it seems your son has taken the action of hitting another one of our students. Nathan Scott to be more specific."
"Oh, Lord. This must be some mistake, Lucas would never…"
"I did Mom." Lucas appeared at the door, a disappointed look upon his face.
"But, why?" She asked, tears about to fill her eyes. She never expected something like this out of her son.
"That's not important. I shouldn't have done it and I'll take whatever punishment fits the crime." He directed the statement towards the principal.
"Well, certainly. Um, detention for the rest of the week until 5 o'clock and if we decided upon another appropriate punishment, we'll let you know."
Lucas nodded his head, "Okay."
"But today, Karen we ask that you take Lucas home. He's not to finish the school day."
"Of course. Thank you Mister …" Karen looked around the room for some source of identification until she finally found his nameplate on the corner of his desk. "Blackwell."
Back in the cafeteria, Peyton was still at Nathan's side.
"Well at least he didn't draw any blood." She half joked.
"Yeah. Well, that was still embarrassing." Nathan said, looking up at her.
"For who? Lucas should be the one embarrassed. I mean you didn't even hit back, so he looks like an idiot who just randomly punched someone." Peyton was trying to lighten her ex-boyfriends mood.
"Yeah I guess." Nathan cracked a half smile.
"Well, come on let's go get some lunch." She reached for his hand, helping him off the ground.
Brooke came out of the double doors looking for Lucas. She had arrived to lunch late and wasn't aware of the events which had taken place. People began taunting her with her companion selection.
"Nice boyfriend you have there, Brooke." Someone jeered.
Confused, she found the only person she knew who was friends with Lucas.
"Tutor girl!" She said, faking like she was happy to see her.
"What do you want Brooke?" Haley sneered.
"Where's Lucas?" She asked, concerned.
"I don't know, going to find the next person he wants to punch." Haley announced sarcastically, sort of taken aback by the guys in her life.
"Excuse me what?! What are you talking about?"
"Lucas just totally punched out Nathan!" Tim declared, laughing like a 9 year old.
Meanwhile, Nathan and Peyton were in the lunch line trying to pick out something editable. Most of the cafeteria food just looked repulsive these days.
"Well, the Christmas dance is coming up …" Peyton hinted.
"And so, you want me to take you?" Nathan looked up, sort of puzzled. A week ago he couldn't get her to talk to him and now she wanted to go to a dance with him?
"No dumb ass, I want you to take Haley." Peyton slapped him on the arm playfully.
"Oh."
"Come on Nathan, it's the perfect way to get her to forgive you. And, you'd even get to spend some time with her."
Peyton had her points, but Nathan still wasn't sure he was ready for that serious of a relationship. And, he knew that with Haley it would definitely be a committed & serious relationship.
"I don't know Peyton."
"Why not?" Curiosity filled her head.
"Well, who are you gonna go with?" Nathan wanted to know.
"Hah, not with you." Peyton kidded, but was also very serious at the same time.
Nathan just got that look in his eyes. The one he gets when he's trying to play things off like he's cool with them, when he's really not.
"Oh… Nathan, please tell me you don't still have feelings for me?"
Nathan shrugged his shoulders.
"Oh, I thought you had moved on. What about Haley? Don't you like her?" Peyton was confused.
"She's sweet. I know she really likes me, but probably not anymore. What chance do I really have with her?" Nathan didn't want to hear his ex-girlfriends response.
"You have a big chance with her. She likes you and if you really took the time and effort for a good apology, she would forgive you. If you want her, you can have her. But you have to work at it and you would have to be a loyal boyfriend."
"No sure, right I know. It's just that I don't know if I do want her. I mean, she's nice and all but I don't know if I really see anything more than a tutor in her." Nathan was just being honest. But Peyton couldn't help but hurt for Haley hearing him say those words.
"Well, then I guess you just have to decide what you want. But it better not be me." Peyton winked at him as she walked off to sit with Haley and Brooke.
Back at Lucas' house, Karen was giving him a lecture.
"So what did Nathan do that would make you want to hit him?" She raised her eyebrow and looked him deep in the eyes.
"I don't know, he did something to Haley."
"What…?"
"That's the thing, I don't know because no one will tell me."
"So you just decided to hit him?" Karen was very disappointed her in boy.
"I know, it was stupid." Lucas was disappointed too.
"Yes it was. That's why you'll spend your weekend at home with me."
"I guess I deserve that."
"Yeah, you bet you do. And also…" She said as Lucas began making his way to his room.
Lucas turned around to face her.
"I want you to call Haley AND Nathan to apologize."
"Mom, no. I'll call Haley but not …."
"You'll call Haley to apologize for interfering in something that wasn't your business, and you'll call Nathan to apologize for the obvious."
"Mom…" Lucas pleaded with her.
"If you're going to do something that irresponsible and stupid you're going to deal with the consequences."
Lucas shook his head at her and ran off to his room.
After school, Nathan had a tutoring session with Haley, which he decided to skip. He couldn't deal with that right now. He had already hurt her, seeing her and being expected to explain himself was too much pressure. So he went straight to basketball practice instead of missing the half an hour of it like he usually did, for tutoring.
Basketball seemed to rush by. Nathan was just coming out of the locker room when he saw a lone figure standing by the gym doors. Curious, he began making his way to her. It wasn't until about his 10th step there that he realized it was Haley. She turned around slowly, but quick enough to catch his attention so he wouldn't be able to sneak off.
"You missed your session today, so I just thought I'd drop off some papers that you should probably go over." She said.
"Oh thanks." He looked at her nervously.
"Well, see ya." She said, beginning to turn away.
"Haley wait…" She turned around to face the tall guy she had once admired so much.
"Are you just gonna pretend like nothing happened between us?"
"Nothing did happen." She retorted.
"Haley, come on. I didn't mean to hurt you that day, I really didn't." Nathan was sympathetic.
"It's all in the past." She lied.
"No it's not, we still have to work together. I mean you're still my tutor."
"Look, I don't know what you want me to say. I told you that it's all in the past and I came here to give you those papers with no confrontation intended. I didn't say a word about the weekend. Why do you keep trying to talk about it if you want it to be in the past too."
"Because I don't want it to be in the past."
Haley eyed him curiously.
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying that I feel bad for what I said. I feel bad for kissing you because that lead you on, and lead you to think that me and you were going to be a couple or something."
"Look, Nathan. I never thought me and you were going to be a couple. I mean when you kissed me…"
"When I kissed you it felt good." Nathan gave her his honest, meaningful side that she believed no one else got to see.
"What?"
"I just mean that, when I kissed you I didn't expect for it to have this kind of effect on me. I didn't expect to feel anything for you. It was just one of those times when someone is letting words pour out of them about you that you just never expected anyone to have the heart to say. The things you said were so meaningful to me. I just … reacted the way I felt at that moment."
"What effect did it have on you?" Haley couldn't help but crack a smile.
"I…I think, I like you."
Aw, Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm trying to pick up the pace a little bit. But if you have any ideas with anything you think should happen, let me know. Next up you should look for Haley's reaction to Nathan telling her how he feels. Also, you'll find out whether or not Lucas will apologize to Nathan and more Brucas drama.
