Chapter 13

'Well maybe it was a good thing, we didn't go upstairs.' Peyton whispered.

Brooke could only nod as she heard, some kind of an object being thrown across the room.

Soraya carefully opened the door to Haley's room and poked her head in, 'I'm coming in.' She opened the door fully and entered, making sure she closed the door behind her.

'I'm not in the mood to get another lecture about moodiness, so just go downstairs and leave me to my isolation, will ya?' Haley sighed, trying to keep her temper from lashing out.

'Haley, don't be like this, I know that this hurts, hell it hurts me too, but you don't have to be so negative about it.'

'Oh sure, I'll just jump up and down with joy knowing that my half sister fucked Nathan over!'

'Our'

'What?'

'What I mean, Haley, is that she's not just 'my half sister' like you said, but OUR half sister.'

'Well I'm sorry if I'm not too bothered by minor one word errors, Soraya!'

'All is forgiven!' Soraya joked. 'Look Haley Bay, it's really no that big of a deal, it's not like you're going out with him, or anything unless…do you like him?'

'No! Of course I don't!' Haley exclaimed, but she couldn't bring herself to meet Soraya's eyes.

'Then why is it such a big deal?' Soraya asked as signs of frustration were seeping out from her voice.

'Because! Because it just is Soya!'

'That's not a good enough reason Haley. Now tell me what's really bugging you, will ya?'

'Every time I'm going to look at him now, all I'll see is Taylor looking back at me laughing saying 'Ha! I got to him first!'

'Haley! Listen to yourself! 'I got him first? He's not some kind of prize or teddy bear that you got first, you know.'

'I know that! But remember how you felt when you found out that Leon lost his virginity to Lindsey Tyler?'

Soraya's eyes darkened at his name being mentioned for a second before shrugging it off. 'Yes, but we were together at that time!'

'But the thing is Soraya, you weren't together when he actually lost it, you two got together afterwards!'

'That's exactly what I'm trying to say. You two aren't together, so it shouldn't be such a big deal, I mean you say he pisses the hell out of you!'

'Yeah but, I wouldn't wish Taylor on anyone!'

'Neither would I Haley Bay, and because of that I don't think it's fair of you to blame Nathan and give him the cold shoulder.'

'I guess you're right…again, but now things are going to be really awkward.'

'It doesn't have to be Haley, only if you let it be. I mean Taylor's my half sister too and Nathan's becoming a good friend of mine, and I'm not going to let Taylor ruin that and neither should you.'

'You're right, this is what Taylor wants, and we shouldn't let her fuck up our lives anymore than it already is.'

'So are you going to go back downstairs now? In high spirits?' Soraya asked with a little smirk.

'Yes, Taylor's influence is over!' Haley grinned, now in a completely better mood.

'And you're going to talk to Nathan?' Seeing Haley nod, Soraya continued. 'And apologize?'

'What! Why am I apologizing to that idiot? What the hell for?'

(AN: James's are similar to the Scott's in the sense that they cannot stand losing and acknowledging that they're wrong.)

'Well you were a complete bitch to him!' Soraya stated facts.

'He slept with my sister! What d'you expect me to do? Go up to him and say congrats, you lost you virginity to my sister and turned into one of her statistics! Or should I congratulate him on fucking her and scoring on yet another slut huh?' Haley blew off her tirade so loudly that she was probably heard downstairs as well. Still, that wasn't enough to vent out her anger and so she grabbed the nearest object to her, which happened to be an alarm clock and threw it against the wall, narrowly missing Soraya's head.

'Hey watch it! That almost hit my head! Haley, what the fuck are you doing? How on earth is throwing things around going to help your case?'

Haley seemed to finally calm down, because her voice wasn't so loud anymore, it was almost like a child asking her mother a question and it almost broke Soraya's heart. 'It's not fair Soya, Taylor always does this! She waltz into my life for what half a second and in that short amount of time she always turns my life upside down in one way or another! Why? Why does she always do this Soya?'

Soraya sighed before coming to sit next to her, and putting a comforting arm around her. 'And even when she's not here, you let her get to you. That's why. Don't let her break you Haley Bay; remember what you said to me in Montreal, when that whole Lindsey thing happened?'

Haley looked at her trying to recall what she said and failed. 'No, what did I say?'

'You said to me, 'Soya, what she can do, we can do better.''

'So how does that relate to what's going on now?' Haley asked confusion marking her brows.

'Well we'll just have to go round and mess up her life.' Soraya told her,

'Mess it up even worse than she did ours?' Haley asked with an evil glint in her eye.

'Exactly!' Soraya grinned darkly. 'You still gotta talk to Nathan first though, there is no way you can leave things the way they are.'

Haley sighed, 'I'm sorry Soya but I'm not ready to see him, let alone talk to him, I just can't do it right now.'

Now it was Soraya's turn to sigh, she was obviously fed up from trying to convince Haley otherwise. 'Well Nathan's still downstairs, so if you decided to change your mind and talk to him then come on down, okay?' With that said she left the Haley to her thoughts and went to join the others.

Haley picked up the alarm clock she threw and surprisingly it still worked. 'Taylor, why do you do this me!' she thought to herself. 'First Chris and now Nathan?' Who's next Leon, Lucas, or Jake maybe?' Haley continued on her thoughts.

Meanwhile downstairs,Soraya found the others munching on the pizza they ordered. 'Do I get a piece?' she asked them teasingly, knowing they would say yes.

'Yeah, 'course you can' replied Lucas, who had Brooke on his lap. Peyton, who was lying down with her head on Jake's lap pushed the box of pizza to her until Nathan picked it up.

'No you can't have just a piece,' He said, with the pizza box still in his hand and a smirk on his face.

Soraya's smile widened as she replied. 'I can have the whole pizza, right?'

Nathan seemed mildly shocked as he told her. 'I think you're the first and probably only person who got that!'

It's true!' Peyton chimed in, 'and I use to go out with him!'

'Brooke, Luke and I didn't get it either.' Said Jake, playing with Peyton's curls.

Soraya's grin dissipated slightly as she remembered where she picked up that phrase from.

'I want some pizza Leon! Please can I have a piece?' Soraya begged her boyfriend as sweetly as possible.

'Nope. You can't have just a piece.' Leon chuckled at Soraya's attempt of trying to get pizza and smirked at her. When Soraya turned away and pouted, he brought her face back to face his and said. 'You can have the whole pizza.'

Soraya's face brightened as she jumped into Leon's arms and nearly knocked them both off the armchair, 'Thank you.' She said before kissing him deeply, passionately, sensually and straddled his lap, she held his face with both her hands as Leon held her firmly down by her hips.

'Alright! Alright! Get a room already!' Haley called out to him as she was sitting on a couch her feet sprawled over Chris's lap, as he made a disgusted face at the couple.

Soraya reluctantly broke away from the kiss and puffed out 'You're just jealous!' Leon who still held Soraya in his arms gave a quick nod before nibbling Soraya's neck.

'Oh please,' scoffed Sarah, who made a gagging noise. 'Why would we be jealous of you getting groped at by my brother?'

'Soraya? Hello! Earth to Soraya?' Brooke waved a hand in front of her face.

'Oh sorry,' Soraya finally returned to the present. 'What were you saying?'

'Nothing important, we were just wondering how you knew about Nathan's joke.' Brooke told her, and the others waited for an answer.

'Oh, well' Soraya began to stutter. 'You know, I just heard it around and about.' Looking at their disbelieving faces, she was about to speak again, when another voice was heard.

'Our dear friend Leon use to crack that joke nearly every time we had pizza.' The voice belonged to none other than Haley. When she got everyone's attention, she carried on. 'Whenever he ordered pizza and Soraya asked for some he would say 'you can't just have a piece, you can have the whole pizza!'' Everybody nodded to show they understood.

She then turned to Nathan, 'Can I speak to you for a moment—alone?' He raised an eyebrow intrigued and nodded. He looked at Soraya to see if she knew anything about it, but she looked just as stunned as everyone else. 'Let's go out back into the conservatory,' said Haley before she left the room with Nathan at her side.

'So what do you think that's about?' Brooke asked Soraya.

'To be perfectly honest I'm not quite sure, but it's obvious that they need to talk about the whole Taylor thing.'

Peyton joined in the conversation, 'Yeah, I still can't believe the family situation you have!'

'That's only part of our family history, but that's a very long story.' Soraya replied.

'We have time.'' Said Jake with a kind smile encouraging Soraya to go on.

'Yeah, I mean Hales and Nate are probably going to be a while.' Lucas told her.

'I dunno,' Soraya relented, 'I mean I might bore you.'

'Oh stop procrastinating already, and get on with it!' Brooke urged her. 'And yes I do know what procrastinating is, you don't date Broody here without learning a few things!'

'Ah Lucky, still the everlasting bookworm, are we?' Soraya teased.

'Yeah well, not everybody can be a smartass and be an airhead at the same.'

'Hey! I resent that!'

'Not to mention, people can't write up an essay within 10 minutes before the deadline and get an A like you either!'

Everyone looked at Soraya in shock. 'What it's not my fault I got gifted genes is it?'

Brooke kissed her teeth, 'err, look at you Ms Smarty Pants!'

'Don't hate, Brookester!'

'Brookester?' Everybody asked in confusion.

'My new nickname for Brooke, that's her name and she's a star so Brookester! It sounds better than Brookestar.'

'Isn't that cool Pey?' Brooke asked, Peyton just nodded disbelievingly, her Lucas and Jake were all wondering how a girl who got A for writing an essay in 10 minutes and then handing it in as soon as she finished, without checking it, thought of a nickname like Brookester!

'Okay Soraya, why don't you tell us more about your twisted family?' Peyton asked. 'You know, like you were meant to!' Everybody turned to Soraya with keen interests, so she sighed and began to speak. 'Alright! Alright! I'll tell you.'

(AN: I'm going to put each fact in its own paragraph, to make it easy to understand.)

'Well you all know that Haley and I are cousins.' All the others nodded.

'But you don't know how, this is where disaster no.1 begins…our moms are sisters and our dads are brothers.'

'So what your double cousins?' Jake asked.

'That's right. So not only did my dad sleep with his brother's wife, but he slept with his wife's sister. This is why Taylor exists.'

'Wow! That is freaky!' Awed Brooke.

'Exactly. Next point—'

'Hold on, why'd your dad sleep with Haley's mom?' Lucas asked.

'I don't know and frankly I don't even want to! And I sure as hell don't care why they did!' Soraya continued with her family history.

'So anyways, next point, both my parents and Haley's parents are always anywhere and everywhere but at their own homes! So we both havescrewups for parents.'

'Also my mom and I didn't know Taylor was my sister, half at least, until I was like 12! See Taylor was conceived before either mine or Haley's parents were married.'

'Haley's mom was decent and told Haley's dad the truth right from the beginning and so he knew Taylor wasn't his but said that he would forgive her if she gave her away. Haley's mom agreed and got her fostered.

'I cannot say the same for my dad. He chose to take the coward's way out and didn't even bother to tell my mom. About a month before my 13th birthday I found out about Taylor when she came to our doorstep with her birth certificate.

'Naturally my mom blew a fuse. She thought her husband cheated on her with her sister. So she confronted her sister a.k.a Haley's mom. She told her that it happened before either couples got together, so my mom then asked her why she didn't tell her. She replied, I thought your husband already did.'

'So ever since then my mom and dad have never got on. She doesn't trust him, and he thinks of her as a nagging bitch. Therefore I am just an added complication to their already messy lives.'

'That's not true, you and Haley are probably the only good thing that came out of the mess, just like Nathan and Lucas were the only good thing that came out of their mess.' Peyton tried to console her thinking she was upset.

'Thank you honey, that's so sweet! Just so you know I'm not upset about it in fact I constantly piss them both of just to spite them even more.'

'Anyways, going back to them never being around, I know that Haley's parents really do go on business trips. I've seen some of their work.'

'However my parents aren't home because they can't stand the site of each other. They only come home once very six weeks for a weekend. Thank God! I don't think I'll be able to handle them being there 24/7. How sad is that?' Soraya ended with a bittersweet smile.

'Wow! That's a long family story, damn Luke I think they've beaten your family story!' Said an astounded Brooke.

'It's not a competition Brooke.' Lucas answered with a small smile.

'Yes it is!' burst in Soraya. 'My family history is more interesting than yours!' Brooke gave her a hi-5, which she returned.

'Anyways, what's taking Haley and Nathan so long? Shouldn't they have finished their talk by now?' Lucas wondered.

'They'll finish when their good and ready Lucky.' Soraya answered him, with a hint of a grin on her face.

Just then they heard Haley shout something and they all turned their head towards the direction of the conservatory, all wondering how things were going between them.

Meanwhile, Nathan and Haley were in the conservatory, but neither was speaking. They didn't know what to say to each other, so the awkward silence continued.

'So this is awkward.' Nathan stated bluntly.

'Way to state the obvious!' Haley muttered in an undertone, but Nathan heard it anyway.

'As much fun as it is to have our usual arguments, let's just talk about what needs to be said?' Nathan asked tired of the quietness, he was an active person who could never sit still or stand silences.

'Yeah, may as well get it over with.' Haley sighed agreeing with him. 'Okay so basically you slept with my sister and lost your virginity to her.'

'Yeah well I was 15 back then, I didn't know any of this. I didn't even know you then Haley!'

'That's true and I admit I may have overreacted…twice in one day, but I'm PMSing so I'm allowed to!'

'Yeah, I really needed to know that!' Said Nathan sarcastically.

'Nathan I'm trying to explain how I reacted the way I did and your sarcasm isn't really helping here.'

'Alright I'm sorry, continue.'

'Look right ever since Taylor has come into my life, whenever she's around me even for a short period of time, my life goes out of whack. She always manages to get to me and hurt me in one way or another. This time was no different.'

'Okay,' Nathan said to show that he's understood what Haley has said.

'Well ever since Soraya's been here you've heard about Montreal a lot. Well basically you're not the first person I know who's lost her virginity to Taylor.'

'Yeah, you said she did it as a hobby,' Nathan said bitterly.

'I know but I meant not the first person who I know personally, as in someone I see on a regular basis like you. Well basically we may have mentioned him before but Chris—'

'What was he, your boyfriend?' Nathan asked curiously, he had heard the name so many times but had no idea how Haley knew him.

Haley blushed profusely, 'Err-well-umm, yeah, yeah I guess you could say that.'

'Right' Nathan answered looking at Haley uneasily, why was the girl blushing for?

'Anyways, well he lost his virginity to my sister as well and—'

'That's why you freaked out,' Nathan replied, almost knowingly but not quite. 'Because, it was like history all over again when you found I lost it to Taylor, it reminded you of when you found out about Chris losing it to her.'

Haley was quiet for a moment pondering it when she shouted out, 'That's it!' Startling Nathan, she sheepishly smiled at him and said, 'sorry, PMS and all, you know. Well basically you're right; it reminded me of what happened last time.' Although on the inside she wasn't so sure, for some reason it seemed as if she was more hurt when she found out about Nathan then Chris. 'Anyways, it was wrong of me to take my anger out on you and I apologize for that.'

'Apology accepted Soraya—Haley, I mean Haley.'

'Dear god, the confusion has already started!' Haley muttered looking upwards. 'People would do that in Montreal as well, call me Soraya and her Haley, I still don't get why.'

'Anyways, we good now?' Nathan asked her.

'Nope,' Haley muttered. 'Have we ever been good? But we're normal, if that's what you mean.'

'So shall we head back to the others, they're probably wondering whether you've killed me yet?' Nathan joked, and for the first time ever Haley responded by laughing at his joke, instead of ridiculing it like she normally would.

AN: I finished chapter 13! I am back from Germany and have had most of my exams so I finally had time to type up and post my new chapter, you know I was actually going to end the chapter with Soraya telling the others about her family but then I thought It's been ages since I last updated and it would be unfair of me to leave you at cliff-hanger again.

Here goes the personal replies…

xXSherryXx Hi there, thank you for being so understanding, good luck with your revision and GCSEs I wish you all the best! I'm glad you loved the update! It's good to know I'm not going through this pain alone!

Tigger's Tutorgurl Hey there, well nice to see you've finally replied! I'm glad you love this story. Yeah, I wanted Haley to have different sides to her because in a way it represents me, if that makes any sense at all…it will all be revealed in due time, and I loved the whole Taylor mix too because I wanted some similarities between the James and the Scott's. I know this update wasn't soon but I hope you forgive me for that.

Kate I'm glad you think this is a great story but you're going to have to wait awhile for some Naley action, but when it comes I promise you it'll be good.

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Johnny my frequent reviewer its good 2 see you again! I'm thrilled that you love this story and love how I bring out the characters! Recently I just planned the next few chapters and chapter 17 onwards you'll see THE HALEY JAMES as you put it, it was actually one year ago that she was in Montreal but she stayed there for two years, I kind of go them confused in the beginning of this story sorry for the misunderstanding. Oh yeah, Taylor's a slut alright! Sorry I haven't updated soon and yes summer is coming up, today we had a heat-wave! So damn hot!

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