Thank you SO much to those who have already reviewed the first chapter, and recieved it so well! Definately keeps me wanting to update! By request, I will try to have the story finished before October 5! Please keep up the great reviews!

A Way of Working Out

Chapter 2

Haley was sitting in the back room eating her lunch when Brooke arrived at work.

"So, how was your date?" Brooke asked quietly.

Haley checked to make sure no one was coming, "I had a nice time, but it wasn't a date."

"What happened?"

"We had a couple drinks. We talked. We laughed."

"Talked about what?"

"What we've done since high school, our plans for the future. Relationships."

"Is he seeing anyone?"

"Not anymore. He just got out of a serious relationship. They were even talking marriage. But he said that he didn't see her when he envisioned his future. That he would only be settling, thinking that marriage was the next logical step after college."

"Did you tell him about Lucas?"

"Didn't have to. He already knew, I'm guessing he was at the reunion, although I don't remember seeing him." Haley thought momentarily, she probably hadn't seen him because there'd been a lot going on during that time. "Anyway, he said that was what made him approach me. That he could let himself believe we were only getting together as friends. Although he did ask how serious we are."

"So he's really interested."

"Yeah, I think so."

"What did you tell him?"

"That I love Lucas, but that I don't know where the relationship's going."

"What did Lucas think about you going for drinks with Nathan?"

Haley grimaced, for the second time in her life, she was keeping secrets from her boyfriend, "I didn't tell him. It's not like I'm cheating on him or anything." Then she thought silently, 'Not this time anyway.'

"Not yet you're not. You NEED to tell him. Does he know about your obsession with Nathan?"

"Of course not. I packed all that stuff away when we got together. That's besides the point. We're going to dinner tonight, and I'm going to talk to him about Nathan then. We'll have to see."

"Well, good luck."

"Thanks."

Brooke began to walk away, then turned back to Haley, "If you had to choose, right now at this very moment, who'd you pick?"

"I don't know if I could."

"Just wondering."

Sorry this chapter's so short, but I'm working on the next one, it should be up tonight.