After lunch Haley began walking to her next class. She didn't have the next class with Lucas, which kind of made her feel depressed walking alone. What made it worse was that the fact that Lucas's brother, Nathan, was in her next class. They had been friends when they were in 7th grade, but he had become popular with his looks and his skills and started defending the people who were against her. Lucas still hung out with both her and Nathan, but she honestly felt bad knowing it must be a struggle trying to balance her and Nathan at the same time.

She walked into the classroom. She looked over to where her chair was and noticed Nathan sitting right beside her. Great, she thought to herself. She moved quickly feeling his eyes beat down on her. She sat down and opened her book to where her homework was.

Nathan sat there looking at her out of the corner of his eye. He couldn't help it. He had been living with guilt since he let people say about her and never saying anything about it. He turned to Haley. "Hey, what was the. Umm…

She turned to look at him. He couldn't even speak. Her brown eyes seemed to be looking straight through him. He knew she didn't deserve anything that had happened to her and he knew that he didn't deserve to even speak to her.

"What Nathan"? She asked. She hated talking to him just because she knew who he really was and knew he never really acted the way he did when everyone else was around. It hurt her so much to watch him try to be "Mr. Big shot" in front of everybody.

"Um… what was the homework assignment for last class"? Nathan asked. He knew that wasn't what he wanted to say, but anything else just wouldn't come out.

"What do u care, Nathan. Its not like you did it anyways", she said rolling her eyes and turning to face the front again.

"I know", He replied grinning, "but I need to know so I know what excuse to make up this time".

She turned and looked into his eyes. "Your pathetic", she whispered.

"Attention class". Mr. Crady came into the room holding the same leather briefcase he had for the past two years. "Please pass up your homework so we can get started on our next lesson".

Haley turned to Nathan. "I hope you have a good excuse", she mocked.

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After school Haley Decided to wait for Lucas to get done with practice so she could catch a ride to the cafe. She headed for the gym when-

"Hey Tutorgirl", Brooke said coming up to Halye holding big blue and white pom poms.

"Hey Tigger". Brooke was also one of her friends that was popular and became her friend after dumping Charity on her face. Actually, haley thought, Brooke and Lucas are both popular, but just not with Charity anymore. She went back to 9th grade remembering the pain she felt.

Flashback

She had just got to school and upset because she couldn't find her diary. She kept eveything in that book, she thought. All of her feelings about herseldf and other people. She remembered the last place she had it was in the girls locker room, yesterday. Haley had been so caught up in her thoughts that she hadn't noticed anyone staring at her and giggling. She went to her locker to look one more time.

"Looking for something",a voice called out from behind her.

Haley turned around to see her... DIARY. "Where did you get that from", haley said nearly in tears knowing that Charity probably read it.

"Oh, it was just lying all by itself in the locker room, charity said grinning from ear to ear.

"What did you do", Haley questioned. Haley knew that evil grin all to well. She knew that anytime Charity talked to her was when Charity had done something to her.

"I just made some copies and placed them all around schools as flyers". "I mean, My god, whats the big deal"?.

Haley then turned to look around, finally noticing everyone looking at her while holding a piece of paper and laughing while they read it. Tears began to run down her face as Charity began to read a page of her diary in one of her high pitched, mocking tones.

" I have been wanting to tell Luke and Nathan how much i miss them. They meant so much to me. I wish Charity would just leave me alone.

Charity stopped to look at her and began laughing. "Yeah in your dreams, honey", Charity said. "Nathan doesn't want anything to do with you". She flipped a page and continued.

Today i read about a contest just 2 hours away. It said on the flyer that if you won they gave u a record deal. God! that would be awesome. I have always wanted to be a singer. To be someone.

Charity began laughing hard. Soon everyone was laughing. Haley just stood there not being able to move. She looked around her. She saw Nathan standing there. How could he just stand there and let her do this, she thought. She felt her knees go weak and began to fall. She just knew she was going to hit the floor any minute, but she didn't. She felt someone catch her and put there arms around her to keep her steady. She looked up to see Lucas.

Lucas snatched the diary out of Charity's hand making her jump. "You are the biggest, most heartless, whory person I have ever seen", Luke said staring at her so hard it looked like he would burn a hole through her.

Charity stood there silent. For the first time she didn't have anything to say. She just stood there looking like a young child who just got scolded by her parents. Luke grabbed haley's bag, shut her locker, and helped Haley to his car, while Nathan sat there and did nothing.

End of Flashback

"Earth to Haley", Brooke said. "Are you ok?

Haley looked at her. "Umm... Yeah i'm ok, Sorry just thinking".

" Yeah I could see that", she chuckled. "Are you going to the gym"

"Yeah, I'm gonna go see if Lucas will give me a lift".Haley still felt the pain from what happened two years ago and just thinking about it made her turn white with grief.

"Are you sure your ok", brooke asked once again in concern for her friend.

Haley looked at her. She knew that maybe she should try talking about it, but she really didn't want to. "Yeah, I'm fine. She decided maybe she better not say anything about what was tearing at her. Atleast not for now.