Chapter 14: Tell Me Why
A/N: Hey all!The new story is being written as we speak.Thank you for all of the reviews! And still, after 14 chapters, I don't own any of these characters.
"Tutorgirl! You're coming home!" Brooke yelled through the phone.
"Calm down!" Haley said laughing.
"So, how are you feeling?" Brooke asked, concern showing through her voice.
"Okay," Haley whispered looking into the mirror. She still had cuts and bruises, but she was starting to look like herself again.
"You sure? Because if you aren't I'm sure Nathan won't mind beating Keller's ass, again," Brooke said.
Haley giggled.
"Speaking of which, what is going on with Nathan?" Brooke asked.
Haley sighed, "Nothing, Brooke. He's still Nathan, and I'm still Haley. We still hate each other, and that's done."
"Haley…"Brooke started.
"Brooke." Haley said in a firm tone, "Don't start."
"Kay…So, are your mom and dad going to be home when you get back?" Brooke said hoping to clear the air with the change of subject.
"Well, Dad is away on business as usual, but my mom is going into rehab tomorrow," Haley stated.
"That's great, Hales!" Brooke exclaimed and quickly added, "Hales, Lucas is here, I'll call you later. With details," she finished off giggling.
"Bye Brooke," Haley laughed as she put the phone down. She was very happy to see two of her best friends happy and now, together.
"Hey Brooke," Lucas said walking into Brooke's living room catching Brooke giggling and hanging up the phone.
"Boyfriend?" Lucas asked.
"Yeah, he said hi," Brooke said jokingly, then adding, "It was Haley."
Lucas immediately softened at the name of his best friend, "How is she?"
"Hey, I thought I was your girl," Brooke said with a smile to let him know she was joking.
Lucas laughed, and then added softly, "For real."
Brooke sighed, not one hundred percent sure, "She says she's fine," she said shaking her head and closing her eyes, but then adding, "I'm so worried about her, though."
"Yeah." Lucas said thinking of his best friend.
Flashback
"Hey Hales," Lucas said walking into her hospital room the day before.
"Luke, what's up?" Haley greeted her best friend with a hug.
"Nothing, how you doing?" Lucas said looking at his friend, smiling, but can't help but realize how miserable she looks.
"Like I've been beaten up," Haley said stifling back a laugh.
"Haley." Lucas said closing his eyes.
"Joke, Luke, joke. Remember those?" Haley looked at him.
"Yeah. Like the ones me, you and Nate had." Lucas said trying to hit a nerve, which he did.
"Yeah," Haley said quietly.
"Do you ever miss it?" Lucas asked.
"Only every time Nathan and I fight," Haley said.
"You like him, don't you?" Lucas accused.
"Yeah, I do, Luke," Haley confessed.
"Then…"Luke started.
"Why don't I do anything about it?" Haley said looking up at Luke finishing his sentence. Lucas nodded. "Because we hate each other, and he hurt me. No matter how many times we try to tell you guys differently, it's still hate." Haley said, "No matter what, it's not gonna change."
End Flashback
"So, Hot Scott, what did you want to talk about?" Brooke asked.
"Brooke…" Lucas said.
"Lucas…" Brooke mocked.
"So, are we an us?" Lucas asked.
"I think so." Brooke answered.
"Do you want to be?" Lucas questioned her.
"More then anything," Brooke smiled.
And for the first time, Lucas kissed her and it wasn't just full of lust. It was full of love, trust, passion and a future both were excited to face.
Jenny's screaming and crying interrupted a very well sleep that both Peyton and Jake were enduring.
"Peytt." Jake whined.
"What Jake?" Peyton said, being hormonal.
"Can you get her?" Jake asked showing her his puppy dog eyes.
"Fine. But you are getting this baby every damn time he cries!" Peyton screamed loudly.
"So you think it's a boy," Jake asked.
"You're pregnant, Peyton!" Mr. Sawyer exclaimed, walking into Peyton's room.
"Daddy, how did you find out?" Peyton worriedly asked, then silently cursing herself for screaming.
"You guys talk to loud…and who said I was mad?" Mr. Sawyer laughed.
"Daddy." Peyton said sighing with relief.
"Thank God, I thought that one was going to be harder then telling him we got married," Jake said.
"Jake!" Peyton reprimanded.
"You guys are married?" Mr. Sawyer asked.
"Daddy, we were going to tell you…" Peyton started off.
"Jake, I think it's time you started calling me Dad," Mr. Sawyer said going and hugging his new son-in-law.
Peyton started tearing up at her husband and father sharing a moment.
"Peyton, why are you crying?" Jake asked.
"Hormones." Peyton said, and to make matters worse, a scream interrupted.
"Mommy!" Jenny screamed, which made everyone look at each other, and Peyton burst into tears.
"Hey Haley," Nathan said walking into Haley's hospital room.
"Hey." Haley replied, still a little tired from her nap.
"How are you doing?" Nathan asked.
"Why are you here?" Haley asked back.
Nathan looked shocked at how opened she was. He knew she didn't want him to be there, but he couldn't control himself.
"Haley, I want to be with you." Nathan confessed to a wide awake Haley.
"What!" Haley exclaimed.
"I think I love you." Nathan confessed.
"When did you realize that, Nathan? When you called me a slut, or when you told me my rape was an act? Or maybe it's when you realized that I was abused by my jackass of a boyfriend?" Haley demanded.
"Haley…I'm sorry for everything. I really am," Nathan said tearing up, which made Haley soften immediately, "I just…I want us to be an us."
"Nathan, we aren't a couple, we aren't friends…we aren't anything." Haley sadly smiled at him.
Nathan shook his head and left the hospital room.
"I love you, too," Haley whispered to the slammed door.
Larry Sawyer walked into his baby girl's room. His baby had a baby. He knew Jenny wasn't biologically Peyton's, but it was as if Peyton was following her mother's footsteps. Peyton's birth mother wasn't the mother Peyton was raised by. It was a woman named Elizabeth who had a drunken night with Larry and later left Peyton on his and his new wife's doorstep. She took the baby into her arms, and declared Peyton hers. That was a situation his darling daughter didn't know about. She'll find out later.
He smiled as he saw Peyton and Jake with little Jenny in the middle of them, Jake's hand on Peyton's stomach. Smiles on all three. It made him smile. Damnit, he thought when he heard the doorbell ring.
As he opened it, he thought ironic, damnit, and why now?
"Elizabeth. What are you doing here?" Larry said to the birth mother of his daughter.
"To see my daughter." Elizabeth said.
Brooke and Lucas were cuddling on the couch watching A Walk to Remember. Lucas was thinking of how lucky he was to get Brooke, in the ways he wanted, not just hers. Brooke was silently thanking herself to trust Lucas.
Haley was crying in her hospital room, waiting for her mother to come get her. She regretted her decision with Nathan. She loved him, too. Too late, she thought, as her mom walked into the room, helped Haley with her stuff, and they walked out.
Nathan was sitting in his bedroom thinking, I love her, why is she stubborn? He took a drink from his beer and thought bitterly, Better get ready to hate her Monday morning. Then thought, No. Tomorrow. In school. I'm going to let her know that I'm sorry.
In school, Haley couldn't take it anymore. She was getting frustrated with people feeling bad for her. She filled her locker with books and closed her locker as Nathan walked up to her.
"Why do you hate me so much, Haley?" Nathan said leaning against the locker.
"Why do you?" Haley said walking away.
"I don't hate you, Haley. You should no that!" Nathan screamed running after her.
"You wanna know why I hate you!" Haley screamed, "I hate you cause you are an arrogant, cocky, asshole who doesn't care about anybody but himself! What?" Haley screamed as she saw Nathan staring at her.
"Do you ever think we hate each other so much that we're hiding our real feelings? That we really want each other?" Nathan asked.
"Please, Nathan," Haley said walking away.
Nathan turned Haley around quickly and kissed her, with much more passion then the first.
"Nathan! Why do you keep doing that!" Haley screamed pulling away.
"Haley, I need to apologize, ok?" Nathan said to Haley.
"For what this time, Nathan?" Haley argued back.
"Could we just... I don't know how to do this. I'm not like you," Nathan said.
"What does that mean?" Haley said accusingly.
"I screw up a lot, ok? And being around you... I don't want to be that guy anymore," Nathan confessed.
"Well who do you want to be, Nathan?" Haley asked.
"I want to be somebody who's good enough to be seen with you," Nathan said.
"Too late for that, Nathan," Haley said walking away.
"Damnit!" Nathan screamed punching the locker, causing several students to look at him, "WHAT!" he screamed to them.
For The Last Chapter of Accidentally In Love:
Will Larry keep Elizabeth a secret, or tell Peyton?
How will Peyton react?
And finally..
Will Nathan and Haley's hate turn into love?