Hey, guys. Since today is my birthday I decided to update the second part of chapter 7 already. There's some Brucas in this chapter for all of you Brucas fans. Anyways, thank you all so much for all the great reviews! You guys rock! Hope you enjoy this and please lemme know what you think. Cheers.
Chapter 7b
"Remind me again why we can't tell Haley." Brooke asked from Lucas. They were standing in the kitchen getting her a drink.
"Brooke, I've told you five times already."
"Actually seven. But I need to hear it again." She said.
"We can't tell her because when we were in fifth grade we made a pact that we would never start dating a West." Lucas sighed.
"That's stupid. That was fifth grade. Besides, looks like she's getting along pretty well with Nathan." Brooke said.
"She's just tutoring him." Lucas said angrily.
"Whatever. All I know is that I've never seen Nathan acting like this." Brooke said.
"Like what?" Lucas asked.
"He's actually nice to people. He cares about school and other people's feelings. And the way he looks at Haley." Brooke finished.
"What do you mean?" Lucas asked gripping the counter hard.
"Just the way he looks at her. He really cares about her. All I'm saying is that Haley doesn't seem to mind breaking your little pact. Are you sure she even remembers it?" Brooke asked.
"Of course she does." Lucas said quickly. But really he had no idea. They haven't talked about that since that day in fifth grade.
"Uhhuh." Brooke said not believing him.
"The point is that we can't tell her because she'll get upset. We've been friends forever and it's always been us two against the world. If she finds out I'm dating a West, she'll feel like an outsider and I don't want that. There's so much going on in her life and I don't want to add this into it." He said thinking about the race.
"We can't hide this forever." Brooke said. "I won't hide this forever."
"We'll tell everyone after the race." Lucas then said. It was the perfect timing. The race would be over and hopefully also East and West. There would be only one Tree Hill.
"Really? We'll tell them?" Brooke asked happily.
"Of course." Lucas said and smiled at the happy look on her face.
"I don't know why but I just got really horny." She said grinning and started to drag him upstairs.
"Brooke, we can't." Lucas said laughing. Brooke was dragging him to one of the empty bedrooms.
"Lucas, I haven't kissed you at all tonight. My lips are feeling abandoned." She said grinning.
"Someone might see us." Lucas protested.
"No one's gonna see us. Everyone's at the beach and we'll lock the door." Brooke said while pushing him inside the bedroom. She locked the door and turned to look at him with a huge grin on her face. Lucas was sitting on the bed looking at her.
"You're crazy, you know that, right." Lucas said laughing.
"No! You not telling Haley about us, that's crazy. Me wanting to have some fun with my boyfriend, that's just being horny." Brooke said grinning. She started to slowly walk towards him and each step she took, she unbuttoned one button from her shirt. Lucas gulped when he saw a flash of red bra under the shirt. Brooke just smiled when he saw the lust in his eyes. She sat on Lucas' lap so that she was straddling him. She kissed him on the neck.
"Fasten your seat belt, Mr. Scott. 'Cause you're about to get the ride of your life." She grinned before attacking his lips with her own.
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"...so we paid the bouncer and got in the strip club. It was only after we had gotten inside that we saw that the place was filled with women. At first we were like "hell yeah" but then we saw the huge 'Ladies night' -sign on the wall." Nathan finished and Haley burst out laughing.
"Nice!" Haley laughed.
"So, you got any embarrassing stories to tell me?" Nathan asked and wiggled his eyebrows.
"No, not really."
"Come on..."
"No, I really don't have any." She said.
"There's gotta be something." Nathan said and then noticed that the margarita pint was almost empty. "Come on, let's go get you a refill. And while we do that, you're gonna tell me one embarrassing story."
"I told you already. I really don't have any." She said laughing. They were walking towards the stairs on the second floor.
"There's gotta be-"
"Shhh! Do you hear that?" Haley asked and stopped.
"Hear what?" Nathan asked confused.
"Shhh! Listen!" Haley said and pressed her ear against the door of one of the bedrooms.
"I can't hear anything." Nathan said while looking at Haley.
"Press your ear against the door." Haley whispered.
"No, there's no one there."
"I hear two voices." Haley mumbled ignoring Nathan.
"Come on, let's go.
"A male and a female." She muttered still ignoring him.
"Come on, Haley."
"I think they're having sex!" she said and turned to look at Nathan with a grin. Only Nathan was not standing behind her anymore. He was standing on her other side, ear pressed against the door.
"I told you-" Haley started.
"Shhh!" Nathan whispered loudly. Haley just giggled. After a while the sounds quieted down behind the door.
"Come on, Nate. Let's go." Haley finally said and dragged him away. As soon as they were gone, the door opened and a shirtless Lucas peaked outside.
"Was someone there?" Brooke's voice came behind him.
"I don't know. We should leave before we get caught." Lucas said.
"Oh, we're not done yet, silly." Brooke said grinning. She pulled him back in the room, locked the door and threw him on the bed before he had time to say 'help me'.
"Now, where were we?" she muttered before jumping on the bed.
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"They were definitely having sex." Haley said laughing when they were walking downstairs to the kitchen.
"Totally. What do you wanna drink?" Nathan asked.
"Actually, I don't really feel like getting wasted tonight." Haley said smiling. She had a feeling something would happen tonight and she wanted to stay sober.
"Really? Me neither." Nathan said.
"Yeah, first time for everything, right?"
"Yeah, you want something else to drink?"
"You got any ice tea?"
"Yeah, peach or lemon."
"Peach, no question about it." She said. Nathan took two glasses out and poured some ice tea on them.
"Thanks."
"Hey, you wanna go back to the balcony?" Nathan asked grinning.
"You just wanna find out if they're still having sex in that bedroom." Haley said laughing.
"Who? Me? No..." he said innocently.
"Come on, let's go out on the beach." Haley said and took a hold of his hand. They walked for a while so they got some privacy from the rest of people who were partying on the beach. They sat on the sand near the water.
"What's you favorite food?" Nathan suddenly asked. Haley turned to look at him with a surprised face.
"What? Where did that come from?" she asked and laughed.
"Just wondering."
"Macaroni and cheese, if you must know." Haley said. She burst out laughing when she saw the look on his face.
"It's the food of the gods, alright?" Haley said. Haley could hear Nathan mumbling something about five-year-old gods but she couldn't be sure.
"So, what's yours?" Haley asked. "No wait, lemme guess. Prime rib." She said.
"How did you know?" Nathan asked surprised.
"I'm a psychic." Haley said and winked.
"More like a psycho." Nathan said. Haley burst out laughing when she remembered Lucas saying those exact same words.
"What's so funny?" Nathan asked.
"Nothing, never mind." Haley said and ran her hand through her hair. Nathan stared at her and couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked. Haley turned to look at him and noticed him staring.
"What? Is there something on my face?" she asked and started to rub her face.
"Naw, there's nothing there." He said and smiled.
"Ok..." she said smiling.
"You should know that you look really beautiful tonight." Nathan finally said. It was new to them both. Nathan had never called any girl beautiful. And no guy had never called Haley that.
"What? But-? That's-" she stuttered but then fell silent. "Thanks." She finally said. "You're not looking too bad either." She said and grinned.
"Why, thank you. I had some help with the clothes." He said smiling.
"Actually, me too. See, this isn't my sweatshirt." Haley said playing along.
"Well, it looks very good on you." Nathan said.
"Thank you. And I like the number, 23. I'm thinking about tattooing it above my ass." Haley said and burst out laughing at the thought.
"Nice..." Nathan said picturing the image of his jersey number on Haley's butt.
"Stop picturing my ass!" Haley said and smacked him lightly on the hand. Nathan took a hold of it.
"Much better." He said still holding Haley's hand. "What's your jersey number?" Nathan asked.
"For soccer? 18." Haley said.
"Maybe I'll tattoo that on my ass." Nathan said joking.
"Yeah, I can imagine. 1 on the left cheek and 8 on the right. Very sexy." Haley said sarcastically. They both started laughing.
"I think so too." He just said. Haley looked around and noticed it was pitch black already.
"Wow, it got dark fast." She said and looked at the night sky. Nathan did so too.
"Do you know what that star is?" Nathan asked holding Haley's hand and pointing it at the bright star.
"No, what is it?" Haley asked quietly after a while. The spot on her hand where Nathan was touching seemed to take all her attention.
"I don't know. I thought you might have known." Nathan said. Haley chuckled. "But I'm gonna name it Nathan." He finished smiling. Haley started to laugh.
"You know, you're unbelievable-"
"Thank you."
"-but fairly predictable." Haley said and laughed at the shocked look on his face.
"Predictable? I'm not predictable." Nathan said and faked hurt.
"You are. But it's ok. There's nothing wrong with-"
Haley got cut off by Nathan's lips. On her lips. The kiss was small and sweet. When it was over they both stared at each other with shocked faces. It might have been minutes but in reality only seconds that they stared at each other in shock.
"Was that predictable?" Nathan asked slowly still staring at her.
"Is this?" Haley asked and pulled Nathan closer to her so she could really kiss her. Nathan was too shocked to do anything at first but when he snapped out of his shock, he kissed her hungrily back. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer to him. This time the kiss was longer and more passionate. They only stopped when they were in serious need of air.
"23 and 18. Has a nice ring to it, don't ya think." Nathan said smiling. He was still holding Haley close to him.
"Yeah, it does. But do you know what sounds better than 23 and 18?" Haley paused for a second to let him guess. When he just shrugged his shoulders, she continued. "18 and 23." She said laughing.
"Oh, hell no, girl. Do not start with me." Nathan warned her while laughing.
"Or else?" she asked grinning. Nathan just shrugged and threw Haley over his shoulder and started to walk towards the water. Haley was screaming and laughing and trying her best to get off but Nathan wouldn't let her.
"Nathan! Let me go!" she screamed for the 8th time.
"Nope, not until you say that 23 and 18 sounds better than 18 and 23." He said grinning.
"Never!"
"Ok, then." He said and prepared to throw her in the water.
"No!" she yelled and held onto Nathan.
"Say it." he said.
"Fine! 23 and 18 sounds better than 18 and 23." She finally yelled. Nathan walked a few steps back and lowered Haley on the ground.
"Come on, let's go back." Nathan said and started to walk towards the bonfire where the rest of the party people were. Haley just stared at his back with a devilish grin. Then she sprinted towards him and tried to push him in the water. In which she succeeded. She also tried not to get wet herself. In which she didn't succeed. When Nathan went flying in the water he grabbed Haley with her. They were trying to push each other under the water with bad success because they were both laughing so hard. After a while they got tired and cold.
"I need warm clothes." Nathan said while getting out of the water.
"I need dry clothes." Haley said. They ran quickly back to the house and went into Nathan's bedroom.
"Clothes, clothes, clothes..." Nathan mumbled while pulling out everything he had in the closets.
"I need to get this thing off me." Haley said while trying to take the big, wet sweatshirt off of her. Nathan stopped in his tracks and just stared at Haley who was busy trying to dry her hair. Her jeans were soaked and the small white tank top that Haley had been wearing under the sweatshirt was completely wet so Nathan could see her baby blue bra through the wet fabric.
"Nathan, I need clothes." Haley said turning to face him. Nathan snapped out of his thoughts and gave her a clean pair of black sweatpants and a dark green sweatshirt. Haley stood there for a while holding the clothes and looking at Nathan who just kept staring at her.
"Would you mind...?" Haley finally asked and twirled her finger around as if asking him to turn around.
"Yeah! Sure. Sorry. I'm just gonna..." Nathan stuttered and pointed at the rest of the clothes on the bed and started to fold them and put them back in the closet. Haley looked at him for few seconds and couldn't help but notice how well his soaking shirt fit him. And how much she just wanted to rip it off. Haley blushed at the thought and quickly changed her clothes. When Haley turned around to face Nathan she saw the he wasn't done with changing clothes yet. He had just taken off his jeans and shirt and was in the process of finding dry, clean clothes. He looked on his right and noticed Haley looking at him.
"Like what you see?" He asked smirking. Haley blushed and turned to gather her clothes from the floor.
"I'm just gonna find a place to hang these." Haley mumbled while leaving the room with her wet clothes. She went to the balcony and hung the clothes on the back of the chairs. She walked back to Nathan's room. He (un)fortunately had his clothes already on.
"Disappointed?" Nathan asked while pointing at his clothes. Haley just rolled her eyes. "Come on." Nathan said and took a hold of Haley's hand.
"Where are we going?" Haley asked when they got downstairs.
"Back to the beach. We need to get us some marshmallows." He said and put his arm around her shoulders. They got to the bonfire and sat down close to it. Nathan went to find them a bag of marshmallows and a stick. He then sat down next to Haley, put some marshmallows on the stick and set it close to the fire. They sat there in silence for a while, just staring at the fire.
"Ok, so I gotta ask something from you because I gotta know and if I don't it's just gonna drive me crazy which is stupid because it's just a question but a really important one at least for me and I just really need to-" Nathan silenced Haley's babbling with a kiss.
"You can ask me anything." He said smiling at her. Haley smiled sheepishly.
"Ok, so I just have to know that are we dating now or is this just some kind of one night thing for you?" Haley asked quietly. She bit her lip waiting for the answer.
"Is that what you think of me? That tomorrow I would just act like nothing had happened?" Nathan asked a little bit upset. He leaned back and looked at her with a sad and a disappointed face.
"No, no! I've never really been in this situation before and I just have to know where we stand." Haley quickly said. Nathan smiled, wrapped his arm around her and pulled her closer for a kiss.
"Yeah, I'd say we're dating..." he said and kissed her and then added "...girlfriend." Haley smiled at the word and kissed him again.
"I agree, boyfriend." She said and looked at the fire again. "The marshmallows are on fire." She said and laughed when Nathan quickly jumped up and started to wave the stick back and forth in the air. He then looked at the brown sticky stuff and huffed in annoyance.
"We can't eat these." He said while throwing the stick somewhere behind them. He sat down next to Haley.
"It's ok. We'll get them next time. I didn't even really-" Haley started to say but got cut off by Tim and the rest of his gang.
"Whaddup Scott-man!" he yelled while trying to do a hand shake thing with Nathan.
"Hey, Tim." Nathan said and waived his hand towards the rest of the group.
"Hale-ster! Waddup girl!" Tim yelled.
"How's it going, Tim?" Haley asked and nodded his head to the rest of the guys.
"It's going fantastic!" he yelled. Haley and Nathan looked at each other smiling. Tim was clearly drunk. Then Tim saw what Haley was wearing.
"Is she wearing your clothes?" Tim asked.
"Yeah, so?" Nathan asked.
"So, what are you two, like dating?" Tim asked like it was the funniest thing in the world. Haley had a deja vu from last weekend. She turned to look at Nathan and raised her right eyebrow as if waiting for him to say something. She needed Nathan to do this. Nathan looked between Haley and the group of guys who were eagerly waiting for his response. Then he put his arm around Haley.
"Yeah, we are." He said while looking at Haley who started grinning widely. Then Nathan turned towards the group of guys. "Guys, this is Haley." The guys said their heys. "Haley, these are the guys."
"What's up?" she said and nodded in their direction. Everyone was quiet for a while.
"Well, since we are out of alcohol..." Tim started and left with the rest of the guys.
"Take it easy, Tim." Nathan said.
"Later, Nate." He yelled before disappearing into the house. Nathan turned to look at Haley who was still grinning widely. Haley threw her arms around him and hugged him so hard he almost had trouble breathing.
"Whoa! What was that for?" He asked when Haley finally let go. She started to kiss him in the neck.
"Nothing." She said between kisses.
"No, tell me." Nathan insisted. Haley looked up.
"Do you really want to talk right now?" she asked grinning. Nathan looked at her for a while.
"Not really, no." he said before starting to kiss her back.
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"Are you sure you have to go?" Nathan asked for the 10th time. They were still sitting by the bonfire.
"Yes, I do. I'm working tomorrow and Luke is probably freaking out already. Haven't seen him since we got here." Haley said while starting to get up. Nathan helped her up and they started to walk towards the house. Haley suddenly got nervous. How would Lucas react when he found out that Haley was dating his worst enemy?
They walked inside the house Nathan's arm around Haley. Lucas smiled when he saw Haley but as soon as he saw Nathan next to her, his smile turned into an angry scowl. He then noticed what Haley was wearing. A pair or men's sweats and a sweatshirt that obviously belonged to Nathan. Lucas walked angrily towards them.
"What the fuck is this?"
"Lucas-" Haley tried.
"What are you, dating him now!"
"Luke-"
"And you're wearing his clothes!" he yelled angrily.
"Luke-"
"So, apparently tutoring wasn't enough!"
"Luke-"
"Now you're fucking him too!" he yelled. Up until that point Nathan had kept quiet not wanting to interfere. But now Lucas had gone too far.
"Hey!" he yelled and stepped forward. Haley put her arm on his to stop him.
"Not now, Nathan." She said and turned back to Lucas. "We have to talk." She said.
"About what!" Lucas yelled.
"Let's just get out of here and I'll-"
"You'll what, Haley! Explain everything! Tell me how he's changed and how he is actually a really nice guy!" Lucas said sarcastically.
"Well-"
"I don't wanna hear it!" he yelled and ran he's hand through his hair. "Goddammit, Haley! You have a 4.0 GPA! You can't be this stupid!"
"Luke-"
"Don't you see! He's just messing with you! He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about anyone!"
"That's not true!" Haley yelled. Suddenly her night had gone from the best night ever to a complete disaster.
Lucas stared at her quiet for a while.
"Luke, let's just get out of here and calm down and talk." Haley said quietly.
"No, you stay here with your new boyfriend." He said and the last word with disgust. "I'm gone." He said and left.
"Luke!" Haley started to run after him but someone stopped her.
"Let me." Brooke said and went after Lucas. Haley stood frozen not knowing what to do or say. She saw Brooke trying to calm Lucas down and then them getting into his truck. Lucas looked back at the house and Haley one last time with a nasty face. Then they drove away. Haley quickly wiped the tears that had formed on the corner of her eyes. Nathan came and hugged her from behind.
"You ok?" he whispered in her ear and kissed her on the head. Haley stared at the empty driveway with a sad face.
"No. Not even close." She whispered so quietly Nathan almost didn't hear her.
"Do you want me to take you home?" Haley just sighed and didn't move. "You can stay here too if you want to."
"I should go home." Haley whispered holding back her tears.
"Ok, let's go." Nathan said.
"You should stay. I don't want you to leave your own party." Haley said turning around in his arms. Nathan saw how hard she was trying to hold back her tears and how miserable she looked.
"Don't worry about that. I'll take you." He said.
"Nathan, I don't want you to take me." Haley whispered. Nathan looked at her with a hurt face but didn't say anything. Haley closed her eyes for a second and then opened them with a fresh set of tears.
"I don't want you to take me because I don't want you to see me break down." She whispered.
"Haley-"
"And I don't know how much longer I can hold it together." She finished quietly.
"But how will you get home?" Nathan asked a little bit louder. Peyton, who was standing across the room heard that and turned to look at him.
"Sorry to interrupt but do you need a ride, Haley?" Peyton asked. Haley turned to look at the blonde with a small smile.
"Yeah, if it's not a problem." She said.
"Of course not. I'm gonna go get the car. I'll wait you out front. Take your time. Thanks for the party, Nate." She said and left.
"I should go." Haley said and started to leave. She had walked about 5 steps when she suddenly froze. Then she turned around and ran back to Nathan and hugged him fiercely. Nathan didn't know what to say so he just held her.
"I'm so sorry, Haley." Nathan said feeling guilty. He felt like it was his fault that Lucas was mad at Haley.
"No, it's not your fault, ok!" Haley said and turned to look at him in the eyes. "This is not your fault!" she said.
"If it wasn't for me, you and Lucas would still be talking." Nathan said guiltily.
"But then I wouldn't get to be with you. Lucas will come around. He just needs time." Haley said trying to convince him and also herself.
"Let's hope so." Nathan said and kissed her. Haley kissed him back.
"I gotta go. I don't want Peyton to wait too long." She said and kissed him once more.
"Ok." He said and walked her to the door. "Are you gonna be ok?" he asked concerned.
"Yeah, don't worry. Lucas will come around. G'nite Nate." Haley said and started to walk towards the car that was parked in front of the house.
"I'll call you tomorrow." He said and waved at the girls. Haley sat down on the passenger seat and waved back. Then they drove away. Nathan stayed at the door for a second and looked at the red back lights of the car. Tim came and put his hand on his shoulder.
"That was rough." Tim said talking about the fight between Lucas and Haley.
"You heard them?" Nathan asked. He hadn't realized that they had been that loud.
"Dude, everybody heard them." Tim said. "You ok?" he asked. Nathan looked at Tim and sighed.
"I am if she is." He said.
"You really like her, don't you?" Tim asked looking at Nathan.
"Yeah, I do." Nathan said. He turned to look at Tim and waited for the insults of him dating an East. Tim just looked at him.
"Good for you, buddy." He said and patted him on the shoulder before going back inside.
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"You sure you don't want me to hang out with you?" Peyton asked. They were parked on the street in front of Haley's house. Peyton had tried to cheer Haley up the whole ride there without success.
"I just need some sleep." Haley said and smiled weakly. "Thanks Peyton. For the ride and everything." Haley said and smiled sincerely at the girl.
"Anytime. Good night, Haley. Try to get some sleep." She said.
"Good night." Haley said and got out of the car. "Jake's lucky to have you." Haley said before closing the door.
Haley walked to her front door. She had trouble finding her keys because her hands were shaking so much. The tears were starting to fall down her cheeks. She opened the door and got in quickly. She slammed the door shut and let out a breath she hadn't realized she had been holding. She looked around on the darkness and realized she was alone. She heard nothing but silence. That's when she collapsed. She leaned on the front door and let out a loud sob. She put her hands over her mouth and tried to muffle her sobs. She stayed in that position –back against the door, arms around her knees and hands covering her face- until exhaustion came over and she fell asleep.
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