Three days and Haley and Ryan still wasn't talking to each others. Every morning he gave her a ride to school but neither of them spoke. They hung out together with their friends but they never talk to each others. Everybody were surprised that their fight last but nobody made something about it. Nobody dared being between them.

It was the night of the game and Haley was getting ready to go to Peyton's. Holly made her way to her room and sat on her sister's bed. She looked her sister applying her make-up and smiled.

"you are beautiful Haley"

Haley smiled but said nothing. Holly watched the photo on the wall and smiled when she saw one of the two of them. It was last summer, they were at the beach and Matt said he wanted to have a picture of his two favourite sisters just to piss off Crystal once again.

"you know that Ryan wanted to protect you right ?"

"he wanted to protect ? no, he wanted to decide everything in my life but it's over now ! I won't let him do it anymore"

"you know, Jason was like this with me and Max was like this with Crystal... The big brothers are always here for their sisters"

Haley sighed and sat next to her sister.

"I think I'm in love with someone. And he will be here tonight and... I want to see him. Holly, I want to have a chance with him and I don't want my brother breathing over my shoulder."

"you are in love with someone ? who is it ? someone I know ?"

Haley blushed and looked at her picture. She loved him, she was sure of that, he was so confident, so hot and always nice to her. He never hesitated to take her in his arms even when her brothers was here.

"I want to keep it as a secret, you know... I don't want it to be the new scoop of the house"

"okay. You know you can talk to me right ? I'm your big sister and..."

someone knocked on the door and they saw Crystal, leaning against the doorframe, smiling.

"so, your first party huh ? aren't you excited ? and you, evil sis... don't try your little speech on Haley, you know the one you made to me for my first party, 'don't sleep with anybody, don't drink, stay with your brother blah blah blah'. Have fun little sister, that's all I can say"

Holly laughed a little and kissed Haley on the forehead.

"yeah, have fun... but not too much !"

Crystal rolled her eyes and smirked at Haley who laughed watching her sisters.

Haley came in the gym and waved at Brooke and Peyton who was warning-up. She watched the room and found the one she wanted. He was shooting with his brother. She smiled at him when he turned to see her and suddenly she blushed. It wasn't a crush, she was in love with him even if he was Ryan's best friend, even if he was older, he was the one.

Haley walked to the bleachers and sat next to Max, her other brother. He smiled lightly and took her hand and hold it. He was the most sensible between her siblings. She wasn't close to him like he was to Crystal but the love was here. She watched him looking at Ryan, he was proud of him. She didn't know why but Max always protected his little brother.

"so are you excited ? tonight his your first party !"

"I am. I'm so happy too. I will be with my friends and we'll have fun"

Max smiled and once again watched Ryan. It was fascination she read in his eyes. It was like Jason was looking at her when she was having good grades. Pride... she was almost jealous of this but she remembered that when she was a child she gave all her affection to Jason because he was the older, the bigger, the funnier.

Ryan ran toward them and shook Max's hand like always before a big game. He looked at her and finally kissed her forehead... Ryan always said she was his lucky charm and even with their fight, he needed it and he needed her. He went away after that Whitey called him and Haley saw Max's smile. He was rarely smiling, it wasn't somthing he did so she let him smile.

The Ravens won, once again. Haley was walking fast toward her brother and the Scotts. She hugged Ryan and kissed him on the cheek. For a moment, she forgot she was mad at him and he forgot too. After, she jumped in Lucas's arms and laughed when he gave her a big kiss on the cheek.

Nobody except Max noticed Nathan's glare to his brother and Haley and his sudden departure to the locker. Max watched him went away and sighed. He knew that Haley was beautiful, he saw how she grow-up good and he wasn't surprise to see the guys were checking her out but he wouldn't ever think that Nathan Scott could be jealous of Lucas Scott because of Haley.

When Haley noticed that Nathan wasn't here she looked to see him go to the locker's, she called him but he didn't turn around, he just continued until the door was closed and that Haley can't see him anymore. She sighed but Lucas took her one more time in his arms and she forget about Nathan's strange behaviour.

when Haley came in the party, she noticed that a lot of people were already drunk. She made her way to the kitchen and saw Lucas and Peyton talking. They were good friends, they talked about everything. She walked toward them and smiled at some boys who waved at her.

"So this is a party huh ?"

"don't tell me you aren't having fun ?"

Haley looked around her and spotted her brother with a blonde girl, kissing her. she saw him slipping his hand to her ass and sighed. This is why he didn't want her here. He didn't want her to see what he was doing to this girl, how he used her because he wanted to have fun.

"Is he always doing this ?"

"Haley, are you so naive ? your brother is one of the bigger player in the whole school, you never notice this ?"

Brooke, who was just arriving, has a point, she was naive. She believed her brother was a good guy, not someone like...Nathan. Speak of the Devil, she didn't see him at all, maybe he was already in his room with a girl.

"This is so funny how you aways said to Nathan that he was a manwhore and now, you find out it's your brother who are one"

"Brooke, I don't think it's funny. And why did you not tell me this ? and where is Nathan, by the way ? fucking some girl, right ?"

Lucas laughed out loud and Peyton elbowed him.

"what ? I was just thinking that Nathan was, for once, doing nothing bad and was outside and he is still insulted..."

"don't make fun of your brother !"

Haley walked away to find Nathan. Sometimes, it was easier to talk to him because he always understand her. she found him outside, watching the see.

"can I stay with you ? I'm not very into this party thing finally."

He looked at her and smiled. It was good to see her alone. She was always with the girls or with her brothers or worse, with his brother. She stayed near him and put her head on his shoulder.

"I can't believe you all do that every week. It's so... disappointing"

"so you don't like ? I'm hurt, you know that, afterall it's y party."

"why are you outside, alone if it's your party; you should have fun too"

"I wanted to think about some thing but I'm glad you came to join me"

he kissed the top of her head. He had think about her a lot, about his feelings and now he knew he shouldn't go for his best friend's sister, it was wrong. Haley was perfect but he wasn't. He couldn't do that to her. so he decided he should let it go, not think about her like this but just like a little sister nothing more.

Brooke came running and smiled to her friends. She was giggling a lot and Nathan knew that Brooke was drunk, he liked drunk Brooke because she was fun, a lot more fun that usually. She almost fell but Nathan catched her.

"nate, hales... we are going to play a little, come on, it'll be fun !"

"you sure you are okay Brooke ?"

"she is fine Haley, she is just drunk, like always"

"I'm so not drunk, I'm just really excited to play, come on..."

she took their hands and took them to the kitchen. Peyton, Lucas, Ryan, Jake, Tim were waiting for them. She sat next to Tim and Haley sat next to Ryan and Nathan. Brooke started to fill in the glasses with vodka and handed one to each player. Haley smelled her drink and grimaced, Ryan noticed and smiled. She wanted to come to the party, so she would know everything about the headache the day after!

"the first game will be 'I never' even if there is a lot of people here who are already did everything dirty"

she winced at Ryan and he laughed. Haley watched the exchange between the two of them and turned to Nathan who just shrugged.

"I never... slept with my neighbour"

Brooke, Ryan, Lucas and Nathan drank and Haley was suprised.

"wait a second, Brooke... you are my neighbour... and..."

she noticed that Ryan drank too. So they had sex before together... her best friend and her brother had sex... great, this party was so great.

"oh, it's gross, how could you sleep with my brother ? look at him, he is not very hot !"

"hey, I'm hot okay. Whatever, what is done is done"

"I have one !"

everybody looked at Lucas who was smiling. Usually, he didn't play at this game because he tought it was hurtful sometimes but this time he wanted to play, he wanted to have fun.

"I never... had feeling for someone who play to this game now"

Ryan, Brooke, Peyton, Jake and Nathan drank and Haley watched them... it was the moment of truth, she drank too and grimaced once again because of her drink. Ryan watched her with attention. Nathan did it too and didn't know if he should be happy or worried. He looked between Jake and Lucas. Maybe she felt attracted to one of them.

Nobody spoke, everybody was wathing Ryan and Haley. They all knew that she never had a boyfriend because Ryan was scaring all the guys around her and she never implied that she was interrested in someone. Brooke finally, put her drink on the table and smiled to Peyton.

"I want to play to another game now... truth or dare ?"

"no, Brooke because everytime I finished undressed or dressed in a girl"

Lucas laughed at his friend Tim. He was right, everytime they played to this game, Brooke asked to Tim to be naked and Peyton to dress himself in a girl.

"I don't care... I want to play and like Haley is new to this all party thing, she will be the first... Haley, truth or dare ?"

Haley looked at Nathan and Ryan but neither of them said something so she opted for the logical answer.

"truth"

"Tell us for who you had feelings"

Haley gasped. She wasn't ready to tell to the whole school that she was attracted to him. It was too soon, too public. She looked at each people around the table and sighed. They were all waiting an answer, even him.

"okay, it's Lucas."

Lucas opened his eyes big and looked at Nathan who just take his drink and swallowed his vodka. Brooke and Peyton were looking at each others and Ryan watched his sister with astonishment. nathan fixed his eyes into Lucas's and without a word, Lucas understood that Nathan wasn't feeling too well. The dark-haired guy got up and walked toward a blonde girl, he smiled at her and started to talk with her.