Chapter Thirteen

Haley and Nathan soon discovered that there was plenty of room for two people in the cupboard. All that was required was the proper seating arrangement.

Haley shifted in her seat on Nathan's lap and smiled at him, "You know suddenly there seems to be a lot of space in here."

"Yeah, loads," Nathan mumbled against her lips before covering them with his own. He brought her even closer to him by bringing his hands down from her face to rest on her lower back. Haley started to play with Nathan's hair, her hands trailing down to his neck. "Ah!" Nathan suddenly yelled, and broke away.

"What's wrong?" Haley asked, worried.

"Cold-cold."

Now, Haley was confused. She thought she had accidentally bitten him or something. "What's cold?" Nathan grimaced, and moved one of Haley's hands from his neck. They both looked at the object on it, and frowned. "Oh. I forgot about that."

"Yeah, me too."

Haley turned the diamond on her engagement ring the other way round so the ring just looked like a normal ring. Except that it was on her engagement finger. Haley worried that this would cause an awkward situation with Nathan, and was about to remind him that she didn't have feelings for Chris, but it turned out she didn't have to.

"May I kiss the bride?"

Haley grinned. "Please do."

Nathan and Haley continued kissing for a while longer, until the huge diamond on the ring scraped Nathan's neck. After apologizing and kissing it better, Haley got up to put the ring in her bucket, which was in the bag containing her change of outfit. When Haley left his lap, Nathan checked his watch and saw it was time for him to go out again. He stood up and told Haley so. "I won't be long."

Haley nodded.

Nathan kissed her quickly, before going out of the cupboard. He made his way to the rope he would have to step over, but failed to see Haley also leaving the cupboard to watch him.

Nathan walked over the rope, and Haley hid behind the pillar beside it. He moved just a little closer in before taking the boomerang out of his jacket. Nathan carefully threw the boomerang, and this time he was successful on the first try. The alarm went off a second before the boomerang came back to Nathan. He caught it in both hands, hopped over the rope and ran back into the cupboard. Once inside he noticed Haley was missing. He ran back out, saw her standing behind the pillar, and pulled her back inside.

"I told you to wait here," Nathan said as he maneuvered them into the hidden part of the cupboard.

"No, you didn't."

"Yes, I –" Nathan stopped as he realized that he hadn't. "Well, I told you last time."

"But I wanted to see you," Haley told him, only speaking slightly louder than a whisper so that he could hear her above the blaring alarm bells.

"It was dangerous; don't do something like that again," Nathan warned, but Haley kept smiling.

"You were worried about me."

Nathan tried to just shrug it off. "Well, if they had found you then they would have ended up finding me too, so it's not that important."

Haley smirked at him, "Okay." Then she leaned forward and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You know, I think there's a way we can block the sound of the alarm out."

"Yeah, how's that?"

"Like this." Haley stood on her tiptoes and kissed him on the mouth, making Nathan forget they were in a cupboard on a very dangerous heist, let alone that there was a very loud alarm going off.

"Hmm," he murmured when she broke away. "That is very effective."

And they resumed kissing, blissfully unaware of the complete chaos the museum guards and Tree Hill Police were in, now that nothing had been stolen this second time too. However, even if they hadn't been kissing, Nathan and Haley would not have been able to hear the telephone ring in the guard's room, and the conversation that followed it.

"Hello?" Mr. Salamone, the head guard answered. "Mr. Mayor!" he exclaimed. "Yes, sir, I know it's loud…Nothing was taken sir…No, I didn't build the alarm…Yes, sir…yes, of course, sir." The Mayor promptly slammed the phone in his ear, and Mr. Salamone realized the best way to end any further problems and give himself a peaceful night's watch. He unlocked the little safe and switched the alarm off. This time he did not reset it.