Authors Note:

hey everyone normally it wont take me so long to update but I have had a lot of things going on, and fan fiction hasn't been working for me today… don't know what is up with it. ok here is the story.

- Rachelle -

Chapter 3

Haley and Jake walked into the gym talking about what songs they were gonna sing the next night at Tric.

"If we are gonna do "Stay With Me", then we're gonna have to get together tomorrow and work on it.. I'm having a hard time getting the notes right at that one part." Said Haley.

"Maybe we shouldn't do that one then, I mean c'mon it's not like we don't have enough songs to fill up the space." Jake told her. He loved having a friend who shared his love of music.

"True, so you want to just go with the flow tomorrow night then?" Haley asked, it's what they had always done, just picked songs they both liked and started singing them.

"You two need to stay away from each others flow." Peyton said grinning as she walked up behind them and put her arm through Jakes.

"Ha-Ha" Haley mocked as she walked off toward the locker room.

When she got into the locker room she took off her shirt and was just getting ready to unbutton her pants when she heard the irritating bell signaling the students the fire alarms had detected something. She had no idea what her best friend had just done.

Brooke knew her best friend would hate her if she ever found out what she had done, but desperate times called for desperate measures, and she had to get Nathan and Haley together in order to get the passion she knew was hidden deep inside of them to come out and show itself. Brooke was great at playing match maker.

Haley came running out of the locker room in just her jeans and bra and saw all the guys from the basketball team and the cheerleaders running out the doors. When everyone made it outside, and everything settled down a little bit, Brooke started calling role to make sure all the cheerleaders were out of the building that she had "set on fire"

"Theresa"

"Here"

"Peyton"

"Here"

"Shannon"

"Here"

"Haley"

"Here, naked, but I'm here." Haley said frustrated at herself that she forgot to grab a shirt while she was running out of the locker room. Brooke turned around and doubled over because of how much she was laughing. wow, this worked out better then I thought! I didn't expect her to just be in a bra.. Damn you are good Brooke.

"Wow, Haley what did you do with your shirt?" Brooke asked in between giggles. Everyone was starting to stare. Haley looked around and saw all the guys from the basketball team including Nathan staring at her, eyeballs nearly hanging out of their eye sockets. Haley gave Brooke a death glare,

"what the hell do you think happened to my shirt?" Haley asked, using all her mental strength to not yell at the top of her lungs. She had never been so embarrassed in her life…except the time she tried to open the wrong locker. At this thought she started to smile, and pretty soon Haley was laughing right along with everyone else. Mean while Coach Durham came pounding through the crowd.

"What in the name of God (I hope this doesn't offend ppl if it does I'm sorry.) is going on here?" He asked, parting the crowd with his arms and walking right up to Brooke. As he reached her she shrunk a little but was still having a hard time keeping a straight face. He turned around as if he hadn't believed what he had seen when he was walking up. Sure enough Haley James the smartest cheerleader they had was standing half naked in the parking lot of the school gym laughing her ass off. He turned back to Brooke, who saw the confused look on the old mans face and doubled over again laughing.

Mean while Nathan was walking toward Haley, when he reached her side he took off his basketball jersey and gave it to her exposing his bare chest. She smiled graciously and (because the coach was yelling at the students to tell him who had set the fire) mouthed the words 'thank you' to him.

"If I don't find out right now who set those alarms off you are ALL in serious trouble. Who did it?" Whitey was yelling at everyone. All the basketball players were looking around at each other finally everyone found who they were all looking for. He looked up,

"What? Oh nu-uh you are not blaming this on me.. Nate man you know I was on the court when the alarms went off…"Tim said, looking alarmed, if he got detention one more time this year his parents were going to kill him. Nathan shook his head in agreement.

"Yeah, coach all of us were accounted for and doing drill at the time of the incident." Nathan said, eyeing the cheerleaders who were all standing around looking clueless, all except his sister, Peyton and Haley.

Brooke smirked, "yeah all of us were accounted for as well coach, all except Haley but she didn't have enough time to do anything we all saw her walk into the locker room, like 30 seconds later the alarms went off."

Whitey turned and looked at Haley, "I know Miss James didn't do it…Alright fine for now whoever did it is off the hook but I will find out who did this." Whitey threatened as he turned and walked off into the gym, everyone knew by tomorrow he wouldn't care anything about this stupid "accident"

Haley looked at Nathan as the students all walked back inside the gym, as one of the cheerleaders was walking by she stopped and put an arm around Nathan's shoulders, "I'll see you tonight sexy." She whispered seductively into his ear as she walked away.

Haley managed to show now anger, or disgust as she watched her walk away.

Nathan turned to Haley and rolled his eyes, "She's so stupid, like I'd be caught hanging out with her at a party. Ruin my wonderful reputation." He smiled that wonderful Scott smile he had that won over any girls heart no matter who she was, including Haley, who smiled as well.

"Really, I mean why hang out with her when you got me?" she asked turning toward the school.

She had no idea those words would twist her life around so much, starting that night.