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 becomes 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.


Nathan stood up from his seat opposite his brother. "I just have to take care of something. Be back in like five minutes." Lucas looked up at Nathan wondering what he was up too. "Yeah, sure." Lucas's phone started to ring a minute later and Lucas glanced around the room apologetically.

"Hello?" Lucas answered. "Hey Luke, its Jake. Agh so ... how are you and Nate doing?" Lucas scrunched up his eyebrows in confusion. Then hearing Peyton mumble something to Jake made everything clear to him. "Jake, put Peyton on the phone."

Lucas suppressed a laugh hearing the phone being passed from Jake to Peyton; Jake wasn't the most subtle person in the world and neither was Peyton for that matter. "Lucas?" Peyton asked trying to act innocent. "Hey Peyton, so what do you want to know."

Peyton took a second to sum up the situation that she found herself in. Tell the truth or tell a lie? She contemplated the question that was swimming around on her head for just a second before she came to her conclusion.

"How is Nathan dealing with the whole Haley situation? Because let me tell you something, she is not taking your little appearance to well." She spit out bluntly. There was a soft snigger on the other end of the line from Lucas before he replied.

"He's drinking in the middle of the day and he has the mood swings of a pregnant woman, so how do you think he is doing?" Lucas finished, he was a little pissed off that Peyton would think that Nathan wouldn't even care about his high school sweetheart coming back into his life. He was met with silence from Peyton.

"Peyt?" he asked not sure if she was even listening. "Um yeah I'm here. I didn't think he would take it that bad... god this is such a mess." A small smile came to Lucas' face as he thought to himself. "Yeah Peyton this is a mess, so why don't we do something about it?" Peyton thought about Lucas' question for a second. "What do you have in mind?"

Nathan reappeared beside Lucas ten minutes later smirking. "So where are we going today?" Nathan asked with a much cheerier voice. Lucas stared at his little brother not knowing what could have changed his mood in such a short time. "I donno. What's up with you?"

"What do you mean?" Nathan retorted playing dumb. Lucas wasn't even going to bother to try to figure his brother out. "Nothing. Want to go get some lunch since we missed breakfast?" Nathan just nodded in response to Lucas' question.

The two brothers sat in a small restaurant, in silence, eating their sandwiches. Nathan knew it was only a matter of time before Lucas brought up Haley and how he was being an asshole towards her. "Nate..." and there it was. Nathan didn't feel like having this conversation so he decided to play it Lucas' way.

"So what's going on with you and Brooke?" Nathan asked interrupting his brother. Lucas' eyes darted from his plate to Nathan. "Nothing, why?" Nathan looked at his brother's reaction at his question and gave himself a pat on the back. Mission accomplished. "It's just you two looked pretty cozy in the club at times."

The edges of Lucas' mouth perked up hearing this. "We were just talking." He averted his eyes back to his sandwich thinking of the smile he got from her as he left them home that night. That beautiful smile.

Nathan stood up pulling Lucas from his thoughts. "I'll just go get our jackets." Nathan headed away from the table to the cloak room, leaving Lucas alone. And at that moment Lucas realized that, the second Brooke was brought into the discussion; he had forgotten his plan to interrogate Nathan about the brunette that was more than likely occupying his mind. But they had somehow switched to another brunette.

Hours later, Haley sat in her room painting her toenails a blue-y green-y colour to match the dress she was wearing that night for her date with Simon... her boyfriend. Haley found that she was trying to keep in mind that Simon was her boyfriend and not Nathan.

And she had to admit to herself that Nathan would probably never be her boyfriend ever again. He was too hard... too complicated. And if you love somebody it should come easy to them.

Haley's thought were interrupted by the knocking on her door. "Yeah?" Haley called out. Haley's door opened to reveal Brooke with a sad expression. "So you're going out tonight... with Simon?... Peyton told me." She said softly, as if not to disturb or upset Haley.

"I am allowed to go out with my boyfriend Brooke." Haley responded knowing exactly where this was going. "Hale's, it's just that... I thought that you and Nathan were going to try to sort things out." She asked, a little wary of Haley's mood.

"Brooke come on, nothing is going to happen with Nathan and I. And you and Peyton are just going to have to get used to that fact." Haley had given up on painting her nails once Brooke had walked in the door.

Brooke sat on the edge of Haley's bed watching her put her nail polish away. "Haley, something could happen, if you just let it. Why are you so dead set against the idea of you two getting back together?" Haley took a deep breath and tried to gather a reasonable answer to Brooke's apparently simple question.

Haley sat in silence for a minute. "Brooke, I'm trying to get ready here." Her words came off more defensive than bitchy. Haley watched as her best friend left her to get ready for a date that she really wasn't in the mood for.

Brooke left Haley to get ready and headed to the living room. She watched as Peyton and Jake hushed as she entered the room. "What's going on?" Brooke asked curiously. "Ok don't be mad at us" Peyton said pointing to Jake and then herself. "Ah excuse me I had nothing to do with this so just keep that little finger pointing at yourself." Jake interrupted laughing. "Why do I have the feeling I'm not going to like what's about to be said." Brooke said.

"Well I though... that maybe... Haley and Nathan might like a little push in the right direction." Peyton explained in a low voice making sure Haley couldn't hear. "No Peyton. No set ups. There is a word for it, its called interference. And it's none of our business." Brooke said waving her arms around in the air emphasizing her answer.

Standing in front of her full length mirror, Haley looked at the reflection staring back at her. She couldn't stop thinking of Brooke's earlier question. The one which she didn't have the answer for. In truth she really didn't know what was stopping her and Nathan getting back together.

"I mean it's been two years. We aren't the same people anymore. We've grown up." Brooke stood at the partly opened door, listening to Haley debating her relationship with Nathan or the lack of her relationship with Nathan. Brooke's whole face dropped at hearing Haley's heartbreaking tone.

Brooke backed away from the door not wanting to let Haley know she had been listening. She walked into the living room and sat opposite Peyton and Jake. Brooke clamped her hands together staring at the couple in front of her. "So what's the plan?" A huge grin appeared on Peyton's face. "Ooohhh boyyyyy!!" Jake said making a quick exit.

"Nate?" Lucas called into his brother's hotel room. "Yeah?" Nathan stood in his room and looked himself over in the full length mirror. He wore jeans with a dress shirt and jacket. Lucas stared at Nathan in confusion. "Where are you going?" Nathan turned to face him. "Out."

Lucas should have known this would have happened. He had to get around this somehow. "Yes, you are going out. With Jake and me!" Nathan stood stunned at Lucas. "Ah no. I'm going out with... with ... Rebecca." He stood proudly at remembering the blonde receptionist's name.

"Come on Nathan. After we go back to school we probably won't get to see him again for a long time. Do you even have reservations?" Lucas tried to persuade him, just hoping that he had forgotten to book in advance. "Shit the reservations. I knew I forgot to do something." Nathan ran his hands through his dark brown hair.

"Don't worry about it. I'll call the restaurant and tell them to have room for a few extra people." Lucas said, quickly noticing his blunder and hoping it would pass right over his bothers head. Which it did and Lucas thanked God for it. Lucas watched Nathan nod and go back to getting ready.

As Lucas left the hotel room, he pulled out his mobile and phoned Peyton's flat. Brooke voice filled the receiver with her chirpy tone. "Hello?" Lucas took a deep breath and gathered all the courage he could to answer her. "Hey its Lucas, we kinda have a problem."

Brooke could help herself from smiling at hearing his voice but she wasn't going to let him know that. "What kind of problem?" She looked back to Haley's room where her and Peyton were. "Nathan is bringing a date." Lucas heard the groan come form Brooke and awaited her reply.

"Well she is bringing Simon. So this just might be what they need... to see that they miss each other and that they cant live without each other... do you think this will work, I mean they haven't had a decent conversation in two years?" Brooke bit her lip realizing how her last sentence could have referred to her situation with Lucas.

"Brooke, this is for there own good, trust me?" Lucas paused for a second wanting to hear her response. But she never did. "Listen I have to go, I'll see you later." Lucas was about to object but he was met with the dial tone. He stared at the phone for a second and then put it back in his pocket. "Well tonight is going to be fun." He thought aloud.


MacDaddy176: Thanks for taking the time to review the story. And I appreciate you calling it awesome. I will have another update hopefully in the next week. Please review again. Sarah :)

Megz: Yes I have decided to continue the story. I am so sorry about the lack of updates but I have so much stuff to do for school. Thank for all the reviews you have submitted to this story, it means a lot when someone reviews a few chapters. So thanks. Sarah.

ilvjameslafferty23: I am really sorry that there isn't any naley in this chapter but the next chapter will have a whole bunch. Thanks a lot for the review. Sarah.

A.N: Hey guys, I am so sorry it's taken so long for an update but here it is and I hope you like it and it is a little longer than usual.

I should have updates on all my stories (including another chapter of this) over the next week or so, as I have a week off to mid-term. Woo hoo.

So please review and tell me what you think of the story so far and please give me any ideas that you have on what you would like to see in upcoming chapters. Slan. Sarah.