A/N- So this chapter is going to be my second favorite in the whole entire story. I have the story completely planned out. There is going to be a total of thirteen chapters, so only five more left including this one. After I'm done, I'm going to write a sequel, maybe get some different readers and hopefully keep everyone that is reading now. So here's the next chapter.

Chasing Dreams

Chapter Nine

O' Sweet Holiday

Dylan King was friends with Tia, Serena, Dustin, Danielle, and Chris, but through the whole everyone hates each other drama, Dylan managed to stay friends with all. So when is birthday approached, on the tenth of February he decided to throw the huge party he normally had. In the fifth grade, Dylan was the first person ever to throw a big party. Traditionally, he made his birthday into a Valentine's Day party too, and this year was no exception. Everyone arrived at the party in their best jeans and favorite shirts, with their favorite accessories and best make up and hair. Dylan's friends were the first to arrive, this year they came with coolers and beer. Although most of the people had long ago had their first drinks, Dylan's party was chaperoned and no one brought anything they shouldn't. By eight o' clock the party was in full swing. Since the Nathan and Serena incident on the ski trip, Eric and Serena had broken up and Serena was still after Nathan. "Where is everyone?" asked Dylan looking around the den in his basement, noticing his close friends were missing.

"I think they are in your bedroom," answered Haley, who was playing video games with Peyton.

"Okay, thanks," Dylan answered making his way down the hall to his room.

"I heard Serena say that all she wanted to do tonight was leave the party early, get drunk and high, and come back and go as far as she could with whoever answered the door and she hoped it was Nathan," Brooke piped up, she was shoved between Kendra and Alexis on the tiny, brown couch that sat in front of the TV.

"Well, she is getting with me again," responded Nathan from the other side of the room, "not making that mistake again."

"Good," Peyton turned her head and winked at Nathan while pointing to Haley. "You want her," she whispered so quietly if you couldn't read lips you would have no idea what she was saying.

"Are they planning on leaving early?" asked Dylan as he walked back into the room.

"From what I heard, yes," Brooke said standing up, "they want to get really drunk and high and they can't do that here. Sorry."

"Whatever, it will probably be more fun since the tension is quite obvious," Dylan laughed.

"Sorry about that," Nathan said.

"Whatever," Dylan replied, "nothing we can do about it."

"True," Nathan nodded.

After about an hour of the party, Serena entered the main room, already buzzed, and told everyone that they were leaving and they would be back. They were heading over to the park and they would be back. Tia, Danielle, and Serena all gave Dylan a hug and left. After they left everyone split into smaller groups, Kylie, Kaitlyn, Tara, Megan, Randi, Zach, Andrea, and Mike went to Dylan's room and played with the Weegie Board. Alexis and Carter took over the couch. Peyton, Haley, Shawn, Kady, Kendra, Lucas, Brooke, Nathan, and Eric played pool for awhile and annoyed the board players for awhile before Lucas and Brooke split, and Nathan and Haley split. Lucas and Brooke went to the computer and were talking on msn, while Nathan and Haley mysteriously disappeared into Dylan's younger brother's room.

"So who is that you are talking to?" asked Lucas, he was sitting on the roller chair while Brooke sat on a stool typing.

"My friend, Bevin, we are in gymnastics together," Brooke replied, "she is going to THHS next year too."

"Oh, that's great," Lucas rolled his eyes, looking at the conversation, Bevin seemed a little dumb.

"That's us together at a competition last year," Brooke said, pulling up a picture of the pair. Brooke and Bevin dressed in tight emerald green bodysuits, Brooke's hair pulled back into a tight bun. Bevin had short blondish hair, her bangs held back with a bobby pin.

"She is pretty hot," Lucas joked.

"Hotter than me," Brooke whined.

"Quite possibly," Lucas said sarcastically.

"That's mean," Brooke fake cried.

"You know it," Lucas continued.

Peyton, Eric, Shawn, Kady, and Kendra sat cross legged in a circle playing a game of Crazy Eights. "Look at them," Kady said pointing at Lucas and Brooke, "they are so cute together."

"Yeah, it's a really good thing I made friends with you all this year," Peyton replied, "or I wouldn't have anyone to hang out with."

"Yeah, Peyt," Kendra said nodding her head, she knew what Peyton was talking about, last year when Nathan and Kady were dating, and Alexis and Carter were being a not couple, and Eric and Shawn decided to only friends with each other, she was alone or stuck with people making out, pretending nothing was going on, or being annoying guys, she was basically alone, "I know what your talking about."

"Okay this is a boring conversation," Eric said changing the subject, he was still hung up on Brooke, she didn't know it and he acted normal around him, but she had given him I'm not dating right now line and she was on the verge of dating Lucas and it hurt him, "let's bug the board gamers."

"Okay?" Kady said curiously.

"Like, mess with them, shove things under the door, knock on the window, anything," Eric explained, "I know they are playing with the Weegie Board it will be fun."

"Okay," Peyton said, grabbing some of the things around them, "sounds interesting."

Haley and Nathan sat on the upper bunk of Dylan's brother's bed. They were just talking, a little about everything, music, TV, movie, and family. Haley had explained her large family, all of her sisters. Nathan had explained how his family moved from New York last year just so Nathan could up hold the Scott traditions. He told her about how he didn't even know about Lucas until a month or so before they moved. The door was slightly ajar and they saw Dylan, Peyton, Kady, Eric, Shawn, and Kendra run by messing with everyone in Dylan's room.

Brooke and Lucas stilling sitting beside the computer, not talking to anyone anymore, just listening to music and talking, "So have you ever let a girl paint your nails?" asked Brooke casually.

"Paint my nails?" asked Lucas raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah, paint your nails?' repeated Brooke, "your best friend is a girl."

"Have you met Haley?" Lucas asked. Haley always had short, unpainted nails.

"True," Brooke laughed, thinking about Haley, her simple classic look, "you should let me paint your nails."

"No," Lucas said getting up and running away. Brooke also got up, she went to her purse which was sitting at the bottom of the stairs and extracted a bottle of Revlon, Plum Attraction. Lucas saw what Brooke had gotten from her bag and began to chase her, Brooke jumped and landed in the couch, which Alexis and Carter had abandoned, and Lucas tackled her and pinned her down and grabbed her hand which held the nail polish. Their faces inches apart, Lucas decided to take a risk and kissed Brooke on the lips. Brooke was happily surprised as he pulled away; no one ever was that bold in their grade. She looked at Lucas and kissed him again, as Eric walked into the room.

"What the fuck?" asked Eric, "I thought you didn't want to date?"

"Oh my god," Brooke said pushing off Lucas and getting up, "Eric that was like four months ago and you know just as well as I do, that rarely actually means that."

"Whatever," Eric said, making his way into the next room, where everyone else waited, planning their next attack. "Brooke and Lucas are totally making out in the den," Eric said angrily.

"Finally," Peyton exclaimed, she knew her best friend had been crushing on Lucas for a few months now.

"Yeah, finally," nodded everyone.

"I'm going to tell Haley and Nathan," Eric said, walking down the hall a little.

Haley and Nathan sat in the same position that they had been in twenty minutes before, still talking. They had now moved onto friendship, most of all Lucas.

"So, how do you feel about Brooke and Lucas?" asked Haley.

"I don't really know, like Lucas and I seem okay but do we need that extra thing pulling us together."

"It isn't any different than us being close," Haley said quietly.

"True enough," Nathan said, he was thinking about Haley, he liked her a lot, but he didn't know if he wanted to go out with her, her liked her too much already.

"Nathan," Haley asked, he seemed to be off in another world, "what are you thinking about?"

"Um, you," Nathan said, he was going to do it, he leaned it towards her, then Eric burst into the room.

"You guys," Eric said, completely oblivious to what had been going on in the room, "Lucas and Brooke were like making out."

"What?" Nathan said jumping from the bed.

"Yeah, I walked into them on the couch."

"Really," Haley added. She and Nathan had been so close and Eric ruined it. She and Nathan had been playing this flirting game for too long and it had almost ended then they got interrupted to hear about the end of Lucas and Brooke flirting game.

"Natie," squealed Serena from the upstairs of Dylan's house.

"Now what," Nathan exclaimed leaving the room, and heading up the stairs.

"Nathan," Serena said, "I'm here for you." She flung her arms around Nathan shoulders and Nathan pushed her off.

"Serena, leave."

"But Natie," protested Serena.

"Leave," demanded Nathan, he opened the door and directed her outside.

Everyone hung out downstairs for the rest of the night, the tension in the room could be cut with a knife, Lucas and Brooke sneaking looks at each other, Nathan and Haley doing the same, Kady and Eric looking bitterly at each pair, and everyone else trying to act normal. At eleven, Dylan's parents came downstairs and told everyone it was time to leave, each person got all of their stuff, Lucas decided to walk Brooke home, Nathan doing the same, Carter and Alexis also leaving together. That left Peyton, Eric, Kady, Shawn, and Kendra to walk home together.

All the way to everyone's houses, Kady and Eric complained tremendously about their former and current love interests. Kady and Eric basically ended up walking home together and everyone else together. Lucas and Brooke walked together to her house, where they kissed and she went into her house through the red door. Nathan and Haley reached Haley's house, they had been holding hands the entire way and walked very close together, hips practically touched. As Haley began to let go of Nathan's hand to head to the front steps, he grabbed it firmer and pulled her in and gave her a kiss.

"Wow," Haley said as they pulled apart.

"I know," Nathan said, he had kissed many girls, being the man whore he was, but he enjoyed that kiss far more than any other kiss he had ever had.

"Well, good night," Haley said finally.

"Night Hales," Nathan said quietly as Haley bounded towards her front door.

A/N- I love it. It was super fun to write. The party that is inspired after was our Valentine's Day party. Nothing super exciting happened for me, but it was fun. My cousin had been born the night before and I was in the city all day and that morning I had this metal bar but across the roof of my mouth and I couldn't talk and Noah kept calling me metal mouth and wanted to look at it. It was interesting. Review please.

-Lauren