Hey guys! Sorry for the wait in updating. All I can say is that I hate my school. Anyways, thank you all SO much for all the nice reviews! Kepp them coming, people! This is a rather long chapter so I hope it compensates the wait. :) I tried to write this chapter funny so there are a lot of attempted jokes and all. Let me know if they're funny at all. I can handle criticism!
Chapter 11
"Today's gonna be awesome." Haley said happily to herself.
If she had only known better.
She started to walk happily back towards the house. She looked inside the crooked mailbox and took the newspaper out. She opened the front page and continued walking back to her house. Right when she got to her porch she forgot that the shattered glass was still there and she stepped right on them.
"Auch!" she yelled and quickly opened the front door and stepped outside. "Son of a bitch!" she yelled in pain after few more steps. She turned on the light and sat down on the floor. She looked at the bottom of her feet and saw that they were bleeding. There were two big pieces of glass still stuck on them. She bit her lip and pulled them out.
"Goddammit!" she yelled when she tried to get up but her feet were hurting too much. She managed to walk to the kitchen where she sat down.
"What the hell's the matter with you?" Taylor asked with a tired voice from doorway. She had woken up to Haley's cursing.
"Look! I stepped on glass!" she said and showed her the cuts.
"Nasty cuts." She said while looking closer at Haley's feet.
"They feel nasty too." Haley said.
"Just sit there. I'll get something to clean that up." Taylor said and left. She came back with some liquid that made sure the bacteria died and some small bandages. She cleaned it and bandaged it.
"There. How do they feel?" Taylor asked when she was done. Haley took few steps. They still hurt but at least she could walk.
"They feel much better. Thanks, Tay." She said smiling. Taylor grinned at the nickname. She hadn't heard Haley call her that in way too many years.
"No problem, Haley-bub." She said and winked.
"Do not call me that." Haley said smiling.
"Whatever. Do you still like scrambled eggs?" Taylor suddenly asked.
"Yeah. But I feel like eating pancakes." Haley said.
"Really? I'm in the mood for some cereal." Taylor said. They looked at each other and both grinned at the same time.
"Let's make 'em all!" they said at the same time and started laughing. The morning went well. They gossiped about boys and the upcoming Weast dance and they did eat scrambled eggs, pancakes and cereal. Everything went so well that they totally lost the track of time. Suddenly Haley noticed that it was 7.50 and she hadn't even showered yet.
"Shit!" Haley yelled and ran upstairs. She took the quickest shower in the history of the James family, quickly gathered her books, and changed her clothes while running downstairs.
"Later, Tay." She yelled and ran to her car. She turned the engine on and put it on gear. She was supposed to reverse but accidentally drove forward. She heard the front lights hit the garage wall hard.
"Fuck!" she yelled but didn't get out of the car. She put it on reverse and pressed gas. She heard the familiar sound of her side mirror smashing against the garage door.
"Goddammit!" she screamed but kept on reversing. No time to get up. She finally turned the car towards the school. She pressed the gas hard and heard the sound of her tires leaving marks on the asphalt. She drove as fast she could. She ran at least 3 red lights and two STOP-signs when she heard the sound of a siren. Haley checked her back mirror and saw the flashing lights of the police car behind her.
"Motherfucking sonofabitch!" she screamed but pulled over the side of the road. Haley got her license and registration ready for the cop and even opened the window. She looked at the back mirror and saw that the cop took his time getting out of the car, slamming the door shut and adjusting his belt before starting to slowly walk towards Haley's car.
"Could you be anymore slow?" Haley mumbled in annoyance. It was almost like the cop had heard her because right that moment he turned around and walked back to his car. He checked his hair from his side mirror before starting to walk towards Haley's car. By that time Haley's hand was already out of the window with the needed documents.
"G'morning, lady. What's the rush?" he asked smiling. Haley just forced a smile and handed the papers to the cop. He didn't seem to notice them.
"Can I ask why a young, pretty lady as you was speeding like that?" he asked flirting. Haley felt disgusted. The guy had to be at least 50 years old and weigh about 250 pounds. He also had one of those Donald Trump –type hair. You know, the type where you tried to cover your balding head by combing your hair to the front. Disgusting.
"School." Haley managed to say while swallowing the hurl that was starting to rise on her throat.
"You in college?" He asked and winked.
"High school." Haley said and waived the papers a little bit so the cop would see them.
"High school..." he said and smiled. Haley swallowed the hurl back again. "I've always liked them young." He said and winked. Haley tried to smile but just couldn't so she grimaced.
"So, you got a license and a reg-" he didn't have to finish because Haley stuffed the papers in his hands. The cop smirked at her.
"Aren't you quick... I like quickies..." he said and grinned widely. Haley could see that he was missing two teeth. She swallowed again.
"Speaking of quick. I gotta be that to make it to school on time." Haley said. The cop smiled and checked her papers.
"It all looks good." He said. Haley turned to look at him and noticed that his eyes weren't on her license and registration anymore. They were firmly looking at her boobs.
"Good, that means that I can go?" Haley asked.
"Yeah, but why would you want to, pretty girl?" He said and was about to touch her on her hair when Haley had enough. She took a firm grip of his hand before it came anywhere near her wet hair and glared at him.
"Listen to me, you asshole. I'm having a shitty morning and probably even a shittier day. I'm already late, my feet are killing me and I forgot to make lunch. So why don't you just write the fucking ticket and get your greasy, fat ass out of my way." She said between her teeth. The cop immediately took his hand off.
"You know, I was gonna let you off with a warning but now I changed my mind." He said and wrote the ticket to Haley.
"Whatever, loser." Haley said and sighed in anger. The cop looked at her in anger.
"And that's another ticket for insulting authorities." He said and handed another ticket to her.
"Are we done, officer?" Haley asked the last word in a sarcastic voice.
"Yes, we are but I would suggest-" he didn't have time to finish his sentence because Haley had already snatched her documents from his hand and sped off leaving him alone on the side of the road.
"Damn teenagers..." he muttered while walking back towards his car. He noticed the small plastic box that he had purchased earlier on his passenger seat. He opened it and grinned widely again.
"Mmmmm, donuts..."
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Haley drove as fast as she could (which was pretty damn fast) and parked her car on the invalid spot (or whatever you call them) because she didn't have time to find a parking spot on the already crowded parking lot. Besides, invalid spots were bigger so she had less of a chance on screwing up the parking.
She ran inside the school to her locker as fast as she could. She cursed loudly when the locker didn't open at the first try. She tried again. Still no luck. She tried the third time. Still no luck.
"Son of a bitch!" she screamed and hit it with her fist. The door flew open. Haley stared at the open locker then quickly grabbed her algebra book and ran towards the class. She pushed the door open so hard it slammed against the wall. The whole class turned to look at her, including Jake who was also in the class. The teacher glared at Haley angrily.
"How nice of you to join us, miss James. Care to explain why you're 15 minutes late?" the teacher asked. Haley looked at him annoyed.
"I got pulled over." She said and sighed annoyed.
"Oh is that so? Well, I'm afraid I can't let you join us anymore. You know my policy of being late without a proper explanation." He said.
"Oh, come on Mr. Green. I'm always on time." Haley said frustrated.
"Not today, Miss James. Please, leave the room." He said and pointed at the door.
"This is so fucking unfair!" she said loudly.
"Do not raise your voice at me, young lady. And watch the language. Now, I ask again: please leave this room or I'll be forced to call the principal."
"You've gotta be fucking kidding me." Haley muttered but everyone heard it.
"And that'll be 2 hours of detention."
"What!" Haley asked angry.
"Today." He said and grinned.
"This is so retarded" Haley yelled. She had tons of homework, she had to test drive the car and not to even mention buy a dress, get ready and actually go to the dance that started at eight.
"Make that 4 hours." He said. Haley glared at him and stormed off the room. She slammed the door shut. She went back to her locker. It opened at the first try. She put her book there and headed towards the gym. She had P.E.
"At least I'm not late..." she muttered and hoped for her day to get better. And Haley was right about the being late part. Their P.E teacher decided that they would play volleyball that day.
He divided the whole group into teams of four and of course Haley didn't get to be on the same team with Jake, Peyton or even Tim. Instead she was on the same team with Nick, the captain of the math club who was busy calculating their average hits per minute which shouldn't have been that hard because it was a zero. Then there was the badass black girl, Tally, who lived in the trailer park with her older sister and her boyfriend. Or was it Tally's boyfriend and her sister? Or her boyfriend's sister? Who knows, but when Haley asked if she wanted to serve, she told Haley to "Fuck off, you bitch." The last and definitely the least one was Tina, the 95-pound anorectic senior who would've broken her bones had she tried to catch a ball. So instead she went on a 6-mile run and even managed to come back before the end of the period.
So, needless to say, Haley's P.E. class was pure hell. After that she took a quick shower and then noticed that her towel was missing. After about 3 packs of Kleenex's Haley found herself late again. She ran to her history class and made it just in time. The only free chair was next to Tim's so she sat down there.
"What's up, Hales." Tim asked. "Had a fun P.E class?" he said laughing. Haley snatched the pencil from his hand and threw it at him.
"Morning, ladies and gentlemen. Since it's Friday and everyone's excited about Weast dance tonight, I'm gonna spread the joy. Pop quiz!" Haley went pale. She hadn't had time to do any homework for her history class because of talking with Taylor whole night. She got the quiz in front of her and stared at the multiple choice sheet in depression.
Tim looked at her in confusion. Usually Haley was the first one done with the quiz and now she hadn't even picked up her pencil.
After the history class Haley made her way over to library. It was her free period before lunch. She headed to the back of the library and sat down. She put her backpack on the table and took her books out. She was determined to study for the rest of the classes. After about 10 minutes of studying three freshmen who were former Wests, two girls and a guy, came to sit behind her. Haley's back was towards them so they didn't see her. And Haley didn't see them either. But she definitely heard them.
"Oh my god, sis! Did you see what Emilie 'Skank' Christensen was wearing today?" the other girl asked in a high voice. Haley sighed. She hated dumb blondes.
"Yellow belt and pink shoes. Jesus, what a wreck." The girl said and then continued. "And what about that whore from East. What's her name... You know, the one with the mono."
"Courtney Spears?" the other girl asked.
"Yeah, that's the one! Who would even kiss her is beyond my understanding."
"Among many other things." Haley muttered to herself and tried to concentrate on her homework. You can only guess if she was able to do that.
"Stacyyyy..." the other girl whined.
"What is it, Daisy?" Stacy and Daisy... God, their parents must have hated them. Haley thought.
"I'm hungry." Daisy whined.
"We just ate last night. Remember, if we wanna be cheerleaders we both have to lose 5 pounds. Now, drink some more water." Stacy said. Haley rolled her eyes. There was about 15 seconds of silence which Haley thanked the higher powers for.
"Stacyyyy..." Haley was starting to get really annoyed with Daisy's voice.
"What?"
"Stop making out with Jason."
"He's my boyfriend, loser."
"Well, you're making me feel incomfortable." Incomfortable? You frigging kidding me! Haley thought.
"Too bad. I hate that English teacher we have. Jason, can you believe the retard had the nerve to give us both detention?"
"Didn't you both call her and that Maria girl a 'bitch' and a 'skanky ho' in front of the whole class?" Jason asked.
"Yeah. So? That's beside the point. Oh, by the way. Did you see that new girl?"
"Delinda Dermott?" Daisy asked.
"Wait, is she the one from Pennsylvania? The junior?" Jason asked.
"Uhhuh." Both of the girls said.
"She's a definite double D." Jason said grinning. Haley heard a smack.
"Ouch, my arm. Why did you hit me?" Jason whined.
"I don't want you checking other girls out, idiot."
"I was talking about her initial letters." He said.
"Oh."
"And her boobs."
whack
"Ouch!"
"Haha!"
"Stop hitting me!"
"Stop giving me reasons to hit you!" Haley's hands were in a fist. She was sick and tired or listening to the trio.
"Did you see Peyton Sawyer today?" Daisy asked.
"Yeah, she's dating that guy from East, Jake something." Stacy said. Haley bid her lip from screaming. Jake and Peyton were her friends.
"She's got a great ass." Jason said.
whack
"Ouch! Quit being a bitch!" Jason said loudly. Half of the library 'shhhh-ed' but the two girls gasped.
"Did you just call me a bitch?"
"Did you just call my sister a bitch?"
"I think he called me a bitch. What do you think, Daisy?" Stacy said in an angry tone.
"Yes, I believe so too, Stacy."
"I'm sorry, babe. I didn't mean to."
"Yeah, right. Come on, Daisy. We're leaving." Haley grinned widely. Finally.
"Oh, come one, babe. Don't go. You know you're the hottest girl in the school."
"Really?"
"Uhhuh and you know it." Jason said. Haley huffed in annoyance when she heard that the girls weren't going anywhere. There were few wonderful seconds of silence.
"Eeeww..." Again Daisy whining. "Guys, stop making out. That's gross."
Haley closed her eyes and gripped the pencil so hard her knuckles were white.
"Come on, Stacy. You know I hate it when you two make out. It's just so gross with your hands all over each other. And besides, you promised you would gossip with me. And we haven't done that in a while and I think you're really- Eew, I just saw a tongue! Quit it, you guys!"
"Fine, fine, fine." Stacy said. Haley could hear Jason muttering something about urges.
"Did you see Scott's new girl?" Daisy asked. That got Haley's attention.
"That brunette? Was it Hallie or something." Stacy said.
"I think it's Haley." Jason said. Haley smiled a little. Maybe he's not totally retarded. "Her boobs rock." Or maybe he is.
whack
"What did I say about checking out other girls?"
"Babe, chill. You know your boobs are the best." Haley didn't like the direction the conversation was heading.
"Anyways, I heard she's also dating Lucas Scott. Nathan's brother." Daisy said.
"Step-brother." Stacy corrected. Half-brother, you retards.
"But I thought they were just friends." Stacy continued.
"Could you be just friends with Lucas Scott? Come on, sis. He's fine..." Daisy said.
"I think Nathan's cuter." Stacy said. Haley let out an angry sigh. She was still gripping the pencil. She could almost feel smoke coming out of her ears.
"He's way too good for her. I mean, the girl's an East. And also his tutor."
"I bet he'll dump her sorry ass as soon he's done with the semester."
"I don't know, girls. I talked to Greg who knows Jack who's in the same English class with Tim Smith who we all know is Nathan's best friend and Tim said that Haley's different from the rest of his girls." Jason said.
"Yeah, different by not having sex with him." Stacy said. By now Haley was shaking with anger.
"How do you know they haven't had sex yet?"
"Please, would they still be together if they had?" Stacy said. That was the final straw. Everything after that seemed to happen in a blur.
snap
The pencil in Haley's hand snapped in half. She let a loud, long scream (AN: if you've seen the movie 'Lola rennt' 'Run Lola Run' in English you'll know what I mean ).
The whole library turned to look at her. Stacy, Daisy and Jason looked at her with a mixture of being scared and thinking she's crazy. Haley got up, gathered her books as fast as she could and left the library. Some people could've sworn they heard her mumble something about the 'intensity of studying'.
Haley splashed some water on her face. She was in the girls' bathroom staring at herself in the mirror. Her face was pale and her lips were trembling. Haley slapped herself lightly in the cheek.
"Come on, girl. Get it together." She mumbled. She heard the bell rang. Haley thanked god that it was finally lunch. Nothing could go wrong at lunch. Then she remembered that she didn't have any lunch with her. She sighed and left the bathroom. She went to her locker to get her wallet and then headed towards the cafeteria. She waited in the line for over 10 minutes and then finally got to the table where her friends were sitting. And Nathan. Sweet, young Nathan.
"Hey, haven't seen you all day!" he said and kissed her. Haley sat on his lap and wrapped her arms around him. She gave him a deep, passionate kiss. Tim was starting to cough uncomfortably next to them.
"What was that for?" Nathan asked surprised.
"I'm having a horrible day." Haley said and rested her head on his shoulder. Nathan hugged her. Haley saw a couple of freshmen standing by their table. They were looking at Haley and whispering about something. They had obviously heard about her little outburst in the library. Haley gave them the finger and a death glare. The freshmen looked at her scared and ran away. Nathan looked at her confused.
"What was that about?" he asked.
"Nothing." Haley said and took a big sip from her water bottle.
"Did you hear that some chick went crazy in the library?" Tim asked laughing. Haley choked on her water. Nathan tapped her on the back.
"You ok?" he asked concerned. "You seem stressed."
"Like I said, I'm just having a bad day."
"Lucas still not talking to you?" Peyton asked. Haley turned to look at the group in front of her. Peyton and Jake were sitting next to each other and Tim was sitting next to Nathan.
"Oh yeah, that's right. You don't know yet." Haley said while taking a bite from the bagel she bought.
"Know about what?"
"Lucas and I made up." Haley said grinning happily.
"Really? That's awesome!" Nathan said.
"High-five, chica!" Tim yelled and held his hand up in the air. Haley and the rest of the table looked at Tim with a funny face.
"Tim, just say- Ah, never mind. High-five!" Haley said happily and high-fived Tim.
"What happened?" Nathan asked.
"Well, after talking the whole night with my sister, we fell asle-" Haley got cut off by Jake.
"Wait! Your sister's back? Which one?" Jake asked confused.
"Guess." Haley said smiling.
"Vivian?" Jake asked. Haley shook her head and smiled.
"Quinn?" Haley shook her head again and this time she was grinning. Jake stared at her for a second. Then he dropped the sandwich he was holding.
"Taylor's back?" Jake asked shocked. "Taylor?"
"Uhhuh." Haley said and took a bite from Jake's sandwich. Jake just stared at her.
"Taylor?" he asked again. Haley started to laugh at the look on his face.
"Who's Taylor?" Peyton asked.
"She's Haley's sister." Tim answered like it was a big mystery. Peyton just smacked him in the head. Haley explained what had happened with Taylor and Lucas.
"So, in the past 12 hours Taylor, of all the people, has come back and you and Lucas are friends again?" Jake summed it up.
"Yep." Haley said.
"And you're complaining that you have a bad day?" Peyton asked laughing. Haley's face turned into a scowl.
"I saw you at algebra today. You were late and got detention." Jake said.
"Yeah, but that was nothing compared to the rest of the stuff that I've been through today." Haley said.
"Like what?" Peyton asked.
"Ok, so last night and early this morning was awesome but everything since that has been nothing but hell. Except for this lunch which is probably the highlight of my day if the rest of the day is anything like the beginning." Haley said.
"What happened?" Nathan asked. Haley was about to start talking when the bell rang.
"To make it short, I've gotten two tickets from a cop today, got kicked out of class, got 4 hours of detention, sucked at P.E.,-" at that remark Tim, Peyton and Jake started to laugh. Haley glared at them but continued "-failed a pop quiz and made a whole room of people think I'm crazy." Haley finished and got up. The others were still sitting.
"What?" Tim then asked.
"Ah, no time. I'll explain everything later. See ya later guys." Haley said and headed towards her locker. Jake ran after her.
"Sorry about your day." Jake said.
"Thanks. Have you seen Lucas?" Haley asked.
"Not since second period. He said something about skipping the rest of the day." Jake said while walking towards their lockers.
"Well, he better meet me later." Haley said.
"What for?" Nathan asked from behind her.
"Rac-, umh, just school stuff." Haley quickly corrected. Jake looked at Haley quickly. Haley stared at him back.
"Ok." Nathan said.
"I can't believe I have four hours of detention today. This totally sucks." Haley said while opening her locker. Jake was opening his at the same time.
"Well, you kinda had it coming." Jake mumbled. Haley gasped loudly and turned to look at him with a shocked expression. Nathan looked at them while trying to hold his laugh.
"What did you say!" Haley asked.
"Well, you did say 'fuck' twice." Jake said and closed his locker.
"Whatever." Haley said. She turned to look at her locker one more time.
"Shit, I can't find my Spanish book." Haley said. "I must've left it accidentally home."
"We barely even use the book. It probably won't matter." Nathan said. Haley nodded and looked at the clock on the wall. "We gotta go." Haley said to Nathan. The she turned to look Jake again. "See you later." Haley said and started to walk towards her and Nathan's Spanish class.
"Yeah, bye. Enjoy your detention!" Jake said laughing. Haley showed him the finger without turning around.
"Today sucks!" Haley said while walking towards Spanish class with Nathan. Nathan wrapped his free arm around Haley's shoulders.
"But tonight's the Weast and that's gonna be fun." Nathan said.
"I hate dances. I hate dancing." Haley muttered.
"Who said we were going to dance?" Nathan asked while winking at Haley. Haley laughed at him.
"But I still don't even have a dress." Haley said.
"We'll get you one today." Nathan said.
"I've got detention, remember." Haley said.
"Well, then you're just going to have to come naked." Nathan said smirking.
"You'd allow the whole school to see me naked? Geez, could you be more romantic?" Haley asked laughing.
"Oh, we'd never make it to school." Nathan said and winked.
"You dirty lil'-" Haley got cut off by the bell.
"Good morning class." The teacher said.
"Let's hope we don't need books today." Haley whispered in Nathan's ear.
"Take your books out. We're gonna do some reading today." The teacher said. Haley just groaned out loud while Nathan patted her on the back smiling apologetically.
The rest of the classes didn't go any better. Apparently she had forgotten books from the rest of the classes too. She got into a fight with her chemistry teacher and almost got kicked out of economics class. She was also getting sick of freshmen staring at her and whispering about her. Apparently her library incident had become quite a legend.
Haley ran to her locker, late again, and opened it with such speed she barely had time to blink. She took a few books out and started her way towards the tutoring center. She made inside the class right when the bell rang. Nathan was sitting by the table looking impatient.
"I'm sorry I'm late, baby." She said and sat down on his lap to give him a long kiss.
"It's ok." He muttered and continued to make out.
"We're not gonna study today, just so you know." Haley said grinning between kisses. Nathan smirked and pulled her closer while wrapping his arms around her waist. Haley started to play with the hair on his neck while Nathan lifted the hem of her shirt a little bit so he could draw small circles on the small of her back. Just when things were starting to get interesting, they heard a cough from the corner of the room.
Haley jumped up in surprise and noticed that it was Mrs. White, the English teacher in her late twenties who had the sense of humor of an 80-year-old.
"That is an inappropriate way to behave on school grounds." She said with her nose high in the air.
"I'll show you inappropriate." Nathan muttered while opening his backpack. Haley disguised her laugh as a cough.
"I'll be spending this seventh period here with you so don't even try any of that." She said and glared at them both. Haley and Nathan sighed and sat down. The tutoring was as platonic as possible even though every now and then they snuck a few quick kisses when she had her back turned on them. It was the slowest period of the whole day and all Haley wanted to do was go home, crawl under her blankets and sleep.
Nathan swore silently his bad luck. All he wanted to do was forget about everything and focus on Haley's mouth. Her tongue. Her lips, hands, hair, breasts- Nathan snapped out of his fantasies when Mrs. White announced that they had one minute left so they could start packing their things.
"So, you got detention now?" Nathan asked.
"Yep, like I said: today sucks..." Haley mumbled while packing her stuff.
"Well, it will get better, I promise. I'll pick you up at eight. You get off from detention at six, right?" Nathan asked while walking Haley to her locker.
"Yeah, I got a run a few errands after that. Like find a frigging dress!" Haley said.
"If it's that much trouble, we don't have to go." Nathan said. Haley turned to look at him. She felt instantly guilty. She knew how much Nathan wanted to go to this dance and all she did was whine and complain.
"No, no. We'll go. I'll find a dress." Haley said while opening her locker. Nathan looked at her.
"You sure? Because we can totally skip it and have our own lil' party." Nathan said and winked. Haley grinned while pulling all of her books out of her locker.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Besides, how bad can it be?" Haley asked. She got a sudden feeling to knock the wood.
"Ok, I'll pick you up at eight then." He said and kissed before heading towards the parking lot. Haley looked after him and back to her locker. She then remembered that she had promised to Lucas that they'd test drive the new car after school. She quickly took her cell phone out of her pocket and looked around to make sure there were no teachers around. It was forbidden to use a cell phone inside school premises. When she didn't see any teachers she called Lucas.
"Hello?" Lucas answered the phone sounding a little bit out of breath.
"Hey, it's me." Haley said. When he didn't say anything she continued. "Haley."
"Haley! Hi! What's up!" Lucas asked quickly.
"Nothing... Are you ok? You sound weird."
"Weird? No, I'm totally ok. Totally fine. Totally normal." Lucas said. Haley laughed at the phone.
"Ok, whatever you say. Listen, I can't make it to Keith's after school." Haley said.
"Ok." Lucas said. Haley looked at the phone with a weird look on her face.
"I've got detention." She said.
"Ok." He said like it was no big deal.
"You sure you ok?" Haley asked when Lucas didn't even ask why she got detention.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Lucas said.
"Do you wanna meet me at Keith's tomorrow morning so we can test it then? The race is not till the evening."
"Yeah, sounds cool." Lucas said.
"Ok, gotta go now." Haley said.
"Bye." Lucas said and hung up. Haley looked at the phone with a weird look on her face. Something was definitely going on with Lucas. She didn't know how long she stood there but apparently it was too long because suddenly Mrs. White snatched the phone from her hands.
"Hey!" Haley yelled in annoyance.
"Cell phones are forbidden." She simply said with a smug look on her face.
"But I wasn't even using it!" Haley lied. She hoped Mrs. White hadn't seen her using it.
"Which is why you will get it back already on Monday." She said.
"That's not fair!" Haley said angrily.
"You broke the rules, miss James. It has consequences." She said and left with Haley's cell phone.
Haley looked at Mrs. White's back with a shocked face. She didn't think of herself as materialistic but come on, how was she, or anyone who was living in the 21st century, supposed to survive a weekend without their cell phone. As soon as Mrs. White had disappeared into the teacher's room, Haley's face turned from shock into anger.
"Goddammit!" she screamed and slammed her locker door shut as hard as she could. The whole corridor turned to look at her.
"What!" she yelled at them angrily and gave them the death glare. Within seconds the whole corridor turned back to their own lockers and groups of friends.
Haley huffed in annoyance, grabbed her backpack and started to walk towards room 1001, the room where her detention was. She noticed that people got out of her way when she walked. She smiled in satisfaction. Haley opened the door to room 1001 and wanted to slash her wrists the minute she stepped in.
Daisy and Stacy were sitting there giving each other manicures. They turned to look at Haley with scared faces. At that moment Haley was ready to sprint and not care about the consequences but right that moment Mr. Kim, the unfortunate teacher who had been assigned to supervise the misbehaved students on a Friday, came inside the class room.
"Good, you're all here." He said. "Some of you will be here till 4 pm and the rest till 6. I'm gonna be in my office which is opposite from this room so don't even try to leave early. I suggest you use this time wisely and do your homework." He said glaring at the blonde twins who were in the middle of applying second layer of blood red nail polish on their nails.
"If you have no questions, I'll let you back to your homework." He said and left the room. Haley looked around the class trying to decide where to sit. She didn't know anyone. Most of the students there were caught smoking weed. Haley could smell it the minute she opened the door. Then there was Tally, the badass girl from her P.E. class who lived with her boyfriend's sister or sister's boyfriend or who the hell knew. Or cared. Then there were the blonde twins.
Haley sighed thinking about her options. She hated the smell of weed because it gave her the worst headache so sitting by the pod squad was out of the options. She had to choose between badass Tally or the motormouth twins. So, in worst case scenario she would either get stabbed or she would slash her own wrists. She chose the latter and sat down behind the twins. The twins looked at each other with panicked looks. But then they turned back to more important things, like their nails.
Haley took her books out and started to do her homework. And by the end of her 4-hour detention she had been able to do most of them even though the twins were trying their best to annoy her with their gossip about nails, hair, makeup, the cutest guys in the school, the break up of yet another Hollywood couple and what a hottie that one guy, Danny, from Real World Austin was and how the twins would be so much better for him than that Melinda girl. Haley could only thank for her iPod and slap herself for not thinking about using that at the library.
Haley ran to her car, cursed loudly and broke her other side mirror, again, when she noticed the parking ticket on the windshield. She got in her car and drove home. She slowed down to the speed limit when she noticed the familiar fat cop standing by some girls' car while obviously flirting to the disgusted girls. Haley laughed and showed him the finger while driving by. She got to her house few minutes later and ran upstairs to take a shower.
She got out of the shower, wrapped a towel around herself and went to sit on her bed.
"Hey, Hales. Where you been?" Taylor said when coming in her room. She sat down on the bed next to her.
"Detention." She said.
"Wow, aren't you quite the badass these days." Taylor said laughing. Haley sighed quietly.
"Taylor, I need your help." She then said. Taylor turned to look at her with a shocked look on her face. Never had Haley been the one to ask for help.
"Whatever you need." She said.
"I need to be pretty." Haley said and sighed.
"But you are. Did someone tell you you're not? Was it Nathan? Cause if it was I'm gonna-"
"Nobody said nothing." Haley said and then sighed. "We have a dance tonight. I'm going with Nathan." Taylor squealed in happiness and clapped her hands together loudly.
"What time is he picking you up?" Taylor asked.
"At eight." Haley said. Taylor looked at the clock on Haley's wall and jumped up from the bed.
"Eight! It's 6.30 already! Get up, sister!" Taylor said pulled her up. "We have work to do."
Taylor dragged Haley to her old room and opened her closet. She had kept all her old homecoming and prom dresses there. She laid down 3 options.
"This pink one here is both innocent and sweet. It's halter neck and shows no cleavage whatsoever." Taylor started while holding the pink dress in the air.
"Then why do you have it?"
"It was freshman year, alright?"
"Whatever."
"Anyway, this pink dress says 'Hi, I'm Haley! I'm a tutor and I have a 4.0 GPA.'" Taylor said in a high voice.
"You do realize that I am a tutor and I do have a 4.0 GPA?"
"Whatever. Wear this dress and be known as the innocent, sweet Haley for the rest of your life. Now, this white one here is sexy and not too much slutty but definitely skanky."
"Now, that's your style."
"Shut up. If you want guys to drool over you and think of you when they're doing nice to themselves, wear this."
"Eew."
"Actually, I think I'm gonna wear it myself."
"By all means."
"Ooh, I can still fit into this."
"Yeah, whatever."
"And I still look hot in it. I knew I haven't gained any weight. Hah, Vivian was wrong!"
"Taylor, let's focus here."
"Oh, yeah. And the last but definitely not the least, or the cheapest by the way, is this black dress here. This beauty here shows a little bit of cleavage but not too much. Actually, not enough for my taste. See, I think that a perfect dress should flatter all your body parts and our best body parts are definitely our boo-"
"Taylor."
"Anyways, this dress doesn't show so much cleavage. See the sexiness is the back part. Like you see, it's a very low cut. But not too low, so you don't have to worry about ass cleavage."
"It's very pretty."
"I know it is. And you would look so good in it."
"I don't know, it looks like it could fall off any second."
"That's what I was worried about back then but even I didn't manage to fall out of it even though at the end of the night I kinda even tried."
"What did you do, put a lock on it?"
"Very funny. And no, I didn't have a lock on it. The dress is just perfect. It fits perfectly. And you will look perfect in it."
"You think I should wear this?" Haley asked.
"Oh, honey. You already know you're gonna wear this." Taylor said and handed the beautiful dress to Haley. Haley just stood there holding the silky dress on her hands.
"Let's go. I still gotta do your hair, make up and nails." Taylor said and dragged her to the large bathroom.
"And find me shoes." Haley piped.
"You don't have dress shoes?" Haley shook her head. "Jesus, could you be more of a tomboy?"
"I wear sports bras more often than normal bras."
"Apparently you can." She said. "You hungry?" she suddenly asked.
"Starving."
"I'm gonna order some pizza." She said and ordered them quickly a big cheese pizza.
"Now make me pretty." Haley said when Taylor hung up the phone.
"Yes, ma'am." Taylor saluted and started to do Haley's nails. About 20 minutes later she moved over to work on her hair. Sometime between hair and nails, the pizza arrived. By 7.40 pm they were finishing Haley's make-up and 10 minutes later they were going through Taylor's closet again, this time looking for shoes. Few minutes before eight Taylor was helping Haley with the dress.
"I'm stuck."
"That's where your arm is supposed to go."
"Is this backwards?"
"No, but it's inside out. Lemme take it off."
"Watch the hair."
"Lift you arms."
"Watch the hair, watch the hair."
"Now, move your neck."
"Watch the hair, Taylor..."
"Now lift your chin."
"Watch the goddamn hair!"
"Your hair is fine!"
"Good. Hair matters."
"Ok, I got the dress off."
"It's way too complicated."
"No, it's not. As long as you, or Nathan for that matter, are not planning on taking it off tonight."
"Shut up."
"Put your hands up so I can slip this dress on you."
"You're still wearing that white slutty dress. Looks good on you, by the way."
"Why, thank you. Now turn around so I can zip you up."
"There's a zipper?"
"Yep, a small one."
"Really?"
"Uhhuh."
"Where?"
"Kinda on the side, now turn around."
"Thanks for helping me, Tay."
"No problem, baby sis." Taylor said smiling and zipped her dress. They both turned to look at the mirror in front of them.
"Look at us." Taylor said. "All sexy and pretty."
"Too bad we can't wear these normally." Haley said.
"Someone has to get married soon."
"I bet Quinn's the first one." Haley said.
"She still dating that stock market guy?"
"Brandon? Yep. Three years and engaged." Haley said.
"Wow. But I think the first one to get married is Matt and what's his girlfriend."
"Sheila. But they've been only going out for like 6 months."
"Just think about Matt. The longest relationship he's had is 3 weeks. This has to be serious."
"Whatever, I'm sticking with Quinn." Haley said.
"You wanna make it interesting?" Taylor asked grinning.
"How much?" Haley asked also grinning.
"30 bucks."
"Make it 50." Haley said. "And another 50 if they set up a date before the end of this year."
"You got it." Taylor said and shook Haley's hand. Right that moment the doorbell rang.
"Doesn't he know we keep the door always unlocked?" Taylor said.
"I'm not ready yet!" Haley said with a panicked voice.
"Yes, you are."
"Shoes. Shoes! Where are my shoes!" Haley was looking all over the room. Taylor took a hold of her shoulders and shook her.
"They're in your hands. Calm down. Now put them on while I go and open the door and meet your boyfriend. Just breathe deep and look yourself in the mirror before coming down. You look hot, sister." Taylor said and smiled. She closed the door, walked downstairs and opened the front door. Nathan stared at Taylor and her white dress.
"You're not Haley." Nathan said with a confused voice.
"Ten points for Nathan." She said and extended her hand. "I'm Taylor, Haley's-"
"Sister, I know." Nathan said.
"Come on in, Nathan." Taylor said and let him in.
"So, you're Taylor. Haley has told me so much-" Nathan started but got cut off by Taylor.
"Listen to me, Scott." Taylor started in a calm, angry voice. Kind of like the one Haley had when she talked to Lucas and Nathan after finding them wrestling on Nathan's basketball court.
"Haley is my baby sister, my best friend and the most important person in my life. I would do anything for her. Anything. So if you were to hurt her I would, for example, hunt you down, chop off your balls and then to really torture you. So, I'm warning you, don't mess with her heart." Taylor said.
"I won't." He said. Right that moment they heard a door open and close upstairs. They turned to look at the top of the stairs. Haley took a deep breath and a shaky step down. She tried to keep her eyes glued on her feet to make sure she didn't trip but once she saw Nathan looking all handsome in his tux, she couldn't help but stare at him.
Nathan knew it sounded corny when he thought that he had never seen anything more beautiful in his life. But it didn't make it a lie.
"You look very beautiful." Nathan managed to say after Haley gave him a small kiss.
"You're not looking too bad either." Haley said smiling. All nervous feelings had vanished once she had seen Nathan.
"How did you have time?" Nathan asked.
"Taylor did it all. This is actually her old dress."
"Well, it looks very good on you." Nathan said.
"And it better stay on her the whole night." Taylor said and smiled sweetly. When Haley looked away for a second Taylor's face turned into a glare. She looked directly at Nathan and mouthed 'I'm warning you'. Nathan just gulped and turned to look at Haley again.
"Well, handsome. Shall we go?" Haley asked and linked arms with him.
"Sure, you got everything you need?" Nathan asked.
"Yep, let's go." She said holding a small purse on her other hand.
"This way, gorgeous." He said and opened the door for her.
"Bye Taylor, see you later. And thanks for everything." Haley said and waived before leaving.
"Have fun, babe." She said and watched them leave. She then quickly ran into the kitchen and came back with her small digital camera.
"Wait!" she yelled just before they got to Nathan's car. "One picture." She said and came to the front yard.
"God, no pictures." Haley said.
"Oh, come on. One quick picture. Smile!" she said and took a picture. Taylor stared at the camera screen and smiled. "It's perfect." She said. "Now everyone owes me 25 bucks." Taylor said grinning.
"What?" Haley asked confused.
"The whole family made a bet 2 years ago that the person who gets a picture with you wearing a dress gets 25 bucks from everyone else." Taylor said grinning. Haley opened her mouth in anger.
"I want 50!"
"25!"
"35 and I won't tell them about you driving over the neighbor's pet hamster!"
"It was an accident!"
"But you were drunk."
"I had two margaritas!"
"And a bottle of Scotch. So, 35."
"Deal."
"Deal. See you later, Taylor."
"Bye, Hales." Taylor said and went back to the house grinning happily while holding the precious camera firmly in her hands.
"Ok, let's go, baby." Nathan said and opened the passenger side door for her.
"Tonight is gonna be so awesome!" Haley said happily.
If she had only known better.
So, how was it (I know I sound like a guy after having sex with a girl but I really need to know):) Let me know what you think about it!
-Fes-