Chapter 3: There's Something There
A/N: I don't own any of the characters of One Tree Hill. Thank you to those who replied! The rest of the story will be in a general point of view.
Nathan and Haley sat in the car in complete silence. Nathan concentrated on driving, and Haley stared out the window. Nathan took a quick glance at Haley and realized that she is really beautiful.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Nathan, you were looking at me. What?"
"You look beautiful."
"Oh, please."
"No, I'm serious. You really do look beautiful."
"Thanks, I guess."
"Yeah, just don't get used to it."
The rest of the ride was in complete silence. When Nathan and Haley arrived at the party, they saw Peyton and Jake with some of the basketball players and cheerleaders, and Brooke and Lucas in a heavy make out session in a corner.
"Hey Pey."
"Hey Hales," Peyton said glancing around the room, "Wait. Nathan's here. You're here. And you're both alive! Call the papers!"
"Shut up. It was hell. And it's thanks to you guys that you put me through it."
"Whatever dude. Where you off to?"
"A half hour in a car with Nathan Scott? I need a drink."
"See ya."
Haley went to get her drink and then noticed a deck outside. She went outside, silently praying that it was empty. To her relief, it was. She sat down on the porch swing with her drink and giggled to herself to see there were more drinks right next to her. Haley looked up at the sky and thought, "I really, really, don't want to be here." Haley decided then and there to just stay on the deck for the rest of the night.
Nathan was walking around the party, with a soda in his hand and was extremely bored. Tons of girls were throwing themselves at him, and to the shock of them, and himself, he wasn't interested. He didn't even want to drink. He laughed as Brooke pulled his brother up, probably looking for an empty room. All he wanted to go home, maybe shoot a few hoops with his brother, and go to sleep. He noticed a deck, and decided to go sit out there, noticing the girl on the swing.
"Haley?"
Haley's head snapped up. Nathan Scott was looking down at her waiting for a response. "I am NOT in the mood to deal with Nathan right now. Maybe if I just answer him nicely, he'll go away."
"Nathan? Wow. Thought you'd be inside screwing some slut right about now."
"That totally did NOT work out," Haley thought to herself.
"Yeah. Thought you'd be in there bitching at random people."
"Not tonight."
Nathan laughed.
"So, Mr. Big Basketball Star, what are you doing out here tonight?"
"I can ask you the same question."
"Don't know. Don't really want to be in there."
"Yeah. How sad is this, I don't even want to drink!"
"Wow."
"Yeah."
"Nathan?"
"Yeah."
"Do you ever get sick of it?"
"Sick of what?"
"The popularity. The fame that basketball comes with. The having to look absolutely perfect wherever you go. Basically all in all-"
"Being fake."
"Exactly."
"Hell yeah. I'm not saying you're fake Haley, but, I mean…if anyone ever switched places with us, I'm sure they'd say it wasn't an easy job."
"I know."
"I mean…I love basketball, I love the game, I love the feeling I get when I play it. But when my dad realized I was good in something, he decided to make all of this a contest. Every time I did something wrong, it was, "I taught you AND your brother how to do this. If your brother can, you sure as hell can."
"Wow."
"Yeah. It's gotten to the point that I play just to make him shut his mouth."
"How about your mom?"
"My mom? She tries to get him to back off. All he says is, "Karen! He's a Scott. Scotts play best."
"Wow. Why does she stay with him?"
"Because he's not a bad man all together. He loves my mom, Luke, and even though he doesn't show it, he loves me."
"Oh.."
"Yeah. What's your story?"
"With my parents?"
"Yeah."
"My father is always on business, which I'm starting to wonder if it's business or sleeping with his secretary. And my mother, well lets just say she doesn't know how to close a bottle of vodka if her life depended on it."
"Wow."
Haley nodded, "It's hard though, cause then my dad comes back and they fight, like scream bloody murder, and then she drinks more. He apologizes, goes back on business, and then, yeah, drinks more."
"Are you an only child?"
"No. I have 4 older brothers, and 2 older sisters."
"How old are they?"
"My oldest brother, J.J., is 30, then my sister, Megan is 28, then my brother Christopher, he's 26, then my other brother, Peter, he's 25. Then there's my last brother, Andrew, he's 23, and then my sister Taylor, she's 19, then there's me."
"Full house."
"Yeah…it was great though, I loved it."
"Loved?"
"Yeah. I was always closest to Andrew and Taylor, considering they were the closest to my age. But, being in a full house was always great. They always treated me like glass. Like I was this perfect, fragile person, who never did wrong. Then one by one, they left. Now, J.J. is up in New York, Megan is in California, Christopher's in Florida, Peter's in Ohio, and Taylor is who knows where."
"What about Andrew?"
"He lives in an apartment here in Tree Hill. He doesn't talk to me anymore, though."
"Why?"
"He said some things to me that hurt me."
"Oh."
"Yep."
"Haley?"
"Yeah."
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Yeah."
"Is it true you were raped last year?"
Haley jus looked shocked after being asked that question. She was just staring at Nathan like he had two heads.
"You-You don't have to answer that. I mean…I'm sorry if I offended you in any way it's just that-"
"Yes."
"What?"
"Yes. I was raped last year."
"Oh…My…"
"Yep."
"Who?"
"Remember Jayson Johnson's parties?"
"Yeah."
"Well, we all went to one of those parties, and out of no where Bryan Smith came up to me. He started offering me drinks, and flirting with me. So, I was trying to get away from him because something about him just…it didn't sit right with me. And I'm all, Bryan, get the hell away from me. And he's all, you want this. You know it."
"So, I'm trying to fight him off, and he finally just left. So I go upstairs to try and you know, calm myself down and stuff. So, I'm walking out of the bathroom and all of a sudden someone grabs me and pulls me into this empty room. I start flipping out and stuff and I'm screaming, but he had the music on loud, anyway. Then, he pushes me on the bed, and I'm trying to fight him off but he tied my hands together, and to something… I don't even remember, but I knew it was to keep from fighting. And then he just …he did what he wanted."
By this point, Haley was in tears, and Nathan got up, and awkwardly took Haley into his arms, trying to console her.
"I shouldn't have gone to the bathroom by myself.." Haley got out in between sobs.
"Haley, no matter what you think, none of this is your fault. That guy is an asshole for doing that to you."
"Thank you."
"And I just want to apologize, Haley, for all those times I called you a slut. I believed what I heard, and that was you just went upstairs and slept with a guy you barely knew. I should have known that you weren't like that."
"Nathan, why are you being so nice to me?"
"Because you deserve it."
"You're probably happy I'm here having a breakdown and you are watching it."
"Listen, Haley, I know we don't get along, but that doesn't mean I'm happy you got raped. You don't deserve that."
"Thanks Nathan. You know, you really aren't the person I thought you were."
"Yeah," Nathan said looking intently at her, "same for you."
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"I want all of you! Not just at night, or when you feel like it."
"Take what you can get, Lucas."