It can't be you!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the characters you have never seen before.
Summary: Haley's world is turned upside down when her past become her present.
Pairings: Naley - Brucas - Jeyton.
Rating: PG-13 (that's just for mild swearing). Could get higher in later chapters. But I'll warn you before hand.
A.N: The internet bill came today so basically I thought I was a dead girl, but me being the sweet and innocent girl I am, I got away with it.... by blaming it on my sister. Who isn't in the county to deny the claim. LOL. Ok I'm officially evil.... I kinda like it...
The girls came out of the bathroom ten minutes later. Cassidy and Anna had grins plastered on their faces but Haley, Brooke and Peyton were trying to hide the fact that this situation was so screwy. Not only for Haley and Nate but for Brooke and Lucas as well. Anna and Cass sat back in their seats while the other girls stood staring at the occupants of theirs. "Oh hey there you are, we thought you guys had fallen in." Jake said trying to lighten the mood. "Ha ha, very funny. Now get the hell off my seat Jygalski." Peyton retorted smugly. At the same time all three boys got up from there seats to let the girls sit back down.
Haley didn't dare look Nathan in the eyes in fear she would get lost in them like she had many times before. Haley stood near Brooke but moved back towards her seat when the boys got up. The brunette smiled at him gratefully, finally getting a full glimpse of him. 'If it was even possible he had gotten taller. The man was a giant'. Haley could smell his cologne as he shuffled past her. It was intoxicating. Being around him again made her stomach do cartwheels and Haley hated that he still had this effect on her after so many years.
Haley was just ignoring him. Even though he had done the exact same thing to her at the café. It still hurt. And the worse thing was Nathan didn't know why it hurt. He was over Haley James.... Wasn't he? Nathan's head was spinning out of control with all the thoughts and questions he was asking himself. He quickly snapped out of his daze when hearing Brooke's voice. "Hey we should head off" she said to her friends. "Yeah" Haley jumped at the chance to get as far away from 'him' as possible. "You three can have the table since were finished" Brooke said as calmly as she could. "OR..." Anna started her sentence while ignoring Brooke and Haley's glares; she was determined to finish it. ".. you three could just skip food and dive into the wonderful land of alcohol... With us, were going clubbin". Haley was silently praying, 'please lord...let them say no. pleeeeaaaassseee!' a minute passed and everybody was silent. Lucas looked at Brooke who was blatantly ignoring him finding something across the room to look at.
Nathan looked at Haley's small form sitting at the table. He could see her cringe at hearing Anna's proposal. She didn't want to be near him. 'I guess nothing has changed' Nate thought to himself. But she couldn't run from him now. This wasn't Tree Hill. She was just gonna have to deal with it.. He wasn't going to turn down a night out on the town because of her. And there was nothing in the world Nathan loved to do better than to piss her right off.
"Hey sounds like fun" everybody looked up at Nathan in shock. Lucas would have thought that Nate would rather have dinner with Dan than see Haley all night. But Lucas should have stopped being so presumptuous, because his brother was harder to figure out than a 'Dawson's Creek' episode. From the corner of his eye Nathan saw Haley's head snap up in shock.
Brooke looked at Nathan and knew exactly what he was up too. And she was the only one. "Oh I'm sure you three boys have something better to do than to come out with us! We wouldn't want to ruin your evening." she smiled sweetly at Nathan. Again everything was silent in the group. Lucas saw right through Brooke. She hadn't even looked at him since she came out of the bathroom. She just pretended that he wasn't there but he was and Lucas wanted his presence to be acknowledged by her. "Actually, Anna that sounds great... we didn't have anything on tonight so don't you worry" Luke directed the latter of his sentence to Brooke. Haley and Brooke exchanged looks while getting up from their seats. "Ok so I guess we sorted that one." Nathan chimed in smirking at Haley.
All the guys had gone to get the coats in the cloakroom leaving two very angry brunettes. "Anna, what the hell are you doing?" Brooke yelled at her, furious that she now had to spend her night out with Lucas. When not receiving an answer Brooke looked at Haley pleading for help but Haley just shrugged her shoulders in defeat. 'What was Nate playing at?' Haley thought. "Oh come on ladies. This'll be fun. What's the worst that could happen?" Anna said trying to console her friends which didn't work to well.
The whole group, which now consisted of Haley, Brooke, Peyton, Anna, Cassidy, Shawn, Mick, Leo, Nathan, Lucas and Jake, gathered outside the restaurant. "So is this club in walking distance or will we take our cars?" Lucas questioned Brooke trying to get a conversation started. "No, we got to take a cab. There is no way in hell I'm walking all the way there in these shoes." Brooke said pointing to her feet laughing with Lucas. She quickly stopped when she realized who she was laughing with. Noticing Brooke had suddenly tensed up; Lucas looked to his brother for help. "Well we got our cars and I'm pretty sure we could fit everybody in." Nathan said. "Ok well who's going with whom" Peyton asked not knowing how this would be sorted without bloodshed. "Well I donno. You girls sort it out and we'll bring the cars around" Nathan said gesturing to Jake and Luke.
As soon as the three boys left, the girls huddled in a circle leaving the other guys to amuse themselves. "I have dibs on Jake's car and shotgun" Peyton jumped straight into the talk, shouting. Cassidy just looked at her friend and laughed. "How come you get first dibs?" Peyton glared at the dark haired girl with a smirk. "Because I'm quicker at dibbing than you are. So there." Peyton finished her not so mature line by sticking out her tongue. "Oh my god! Peyton how old are you." Haley said laughing.
Once the three guys were out of sight of the girls, Luke gave Nathan a punch in the arm. "What was that for?" Nathan shouted at his brother. "How about 'sounds like fun'..." Lucas imitated Nathan, "...man what are you up too?" Luke looked at Nathan sternly. "I'm up to nothing" he said putting his hands up in defense. Jake looked on as they started to bicker between them. "You know, you two..." Jake said while opening his car door. "... you're both idiots." The Scott brothers looked at their friend drive off leaving them both in silence to think.
When Nathan pulled up to the front of the restaurant a minute or two after Lucas, he was shocked to see only Haley waiting for him. 'The others must have left her with no choice', Nathan thought to himself before leaning over and opening the passenger door of his car to let her in. Haley smiled at him while buckling herself in. "So where is this place?" Nathan said with a harsher tone than he had intended, which wiped the smile off of her face. She just stared at him, at his blank expression. With an equally cold tone Haley gave him directions to the club and they were off.
The first few minutes in the car were hell for Nathan. Haley James was sitting right next to him but he couldn't look at her. He was afraid that she would see past all his walls that he had put up and that she had learned to break down. Nathan gripped the steering wheel tighter making his knuckles turn white.
Haley couldn't stand the silence any longer. "So, how's the basketball going?" she said hoping he wouldn't continue to ignore her. Nathan stole a quick glance at her before he answered. "Ah good." Nathan answered nodding his head. "What about you?" Haley looked at him confused. "I don't play basketball" she said laughing. "No ... I mean yeah I know..." Nathan sniggered at her. ".. I meant what have you been up too?" "Oohh. You mean other than my basketball career?.." Haley had finally broken the ice between them. ".. I just finished my exams a week ago. So, no more studying for another couple of months. Thank God." Haley turned to Nathan and smiled. "How long are you staying in New York?" she asked noticing the change in Nathan's expression. "And how did I know that was coming..." Nathan spit at her. "...you know what, when you get out of this car you don't have to speak to me again. Ok?" Haley frowned but didn't answer him. It was like he was looking for a fight or something.
When they came up to the club and Nathan found a parking around the back. He switched off the engine and turned to the brunette next to him with a scowl n his face. "How did you manage to get stuck with me then?" Haley just gawked at him. "God Nathan I didn't get the short straw! I asked them all if I could get a ride with you alone... because I stupidly thought we could talk, but if you want to be a jerk, be a jerk." Haley yelled at him before reaching for the door handle and getting out slamming the door.
Nathan sat in his car stunned at what Haley had just said. He jumped out of his car and locked it up before running to catch up with her. When he reached her, he caught her by the arm and turned her around to face him. "What about" Haley was stunned at the sudden closeness between them. "Huh?" Haley looked at the man in front of her, confused. Nathan could feel her squirm but he wasn't going to let her get away from him that easy. "What did you want to talk about?" he asked her again. Haley looked at the ground beneath her feet not answering him. Nathan was growing impatient. "Haley?... what about?" Haley looked up into his dark brown eyes. "I don't know." "Oh come on Haley. That's bullshit and you know it."
Haley could feel Nathan loosen his grip on her arm. She knew she could just pull away from him and walk away, but something was holding her back. She couldn't break herself from his eyes. "I just wanted to see how you were." Nathan shook his head a bit. "You could have done that with other people in the car." He simply stated. "Ok I wanted you to stop ignoring me and I wanted to talk about us." Haley tried again. Nathan couldn't take his eyes off of hers. "Is there an 'us'" he whispered to her because he didn't fully trust his voice at this point. Haley let her eyes fall to the ground once again. Haley's voice was shaky. "No...yes.. look I don't kn..." Haley was cut off when Nathan's mouth crashed onto hers. Haley stood there for a second stunned before responding to his kiss. Nathan had let her arm go and circled her waist with his, locking his hands together behind her back. Nathan stroked his tongue on Haley's bottom lip asking full access to her mouth which Haley readily granted. Haley threw her arms around Nathan's neck and stood on the tips of her toes so she could deepen the kiss. Nathan was so much taller than her. Their kiss was getting more and more passionate as Nathan backed Haley up against the side of the building.
The two were interrupted when Haley's phone started to ring. "Leave it." Nathan mumbled between kisses. But Haley pulled her phone out of her pocket not breaking contact with Nathan. Nathan felt her arm leave his neck so he pulled away. He watched as Haley looked at the screen and then pressed the cancel button. "Who was that?" Nathan asked watching her face. "No one" she said in such a murky tone it was hard for Nathan to believe her. "We better go in." Nathan observed the brunette as she walked away from him like nothing had happened. All Nathan could do was watch as Haley walked away from him... again.
Ok. So what do you think? Yes? No? Please review. If there was anything that you didn't understand tell me, some of the stuff I used in this chapter people from other countries might not get. Be back soon.
