"What are you doing in here?" Haley yelled! "Get Out!" she screamed!
"Are you always this feisty in the morning, you know you should save some of that energy for when we're together!" He said running his tongue over his lips and raising his eyebrow in emphasis.
"Get out!" she pointed to the door making sure her towel was covering all of her. How could Lucas be friends with someone like HIM. It just doesn't add up letting her thoughts consume her for only a brief moment.
Just as she was finishing an apple, she grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and glanced out the window once again for the hundredth time. Where was he? He always picked her up, ever since they started dating. He had said, "there's no since you walking when you've got a perfectly fine boyfriend who can give you a 'great ride'." She'd smiled remembering. "Plus it will give me more time to see you." Totally lost in her thoughts before Jason came down to the kitchen interrupting her.
"Ummm….don't you have school or something? I mean if you don't wanna go and decided to take me up on my offer…I'M more than willing to sacrifice you education for something a little more entertaining." He said waiting for a response.
"Umm…yeah…no way in hell." She gave a chuckle…"my ride is just late."
"I think its far from fair to say, your ride is more than late….I don't think its coming." he stated with a know it all pride. "Listen you won't be able to make it to school on time if you walk…just let me take you?" He ordered more than asked as he went to grab his keys. Haley glanced out the window once more, hoping by some chance he would show up just in the nick of time. But she couldn't wait any longer. Where was he? Her stomach started to feel queasy. No call last night, no ride this morning, she didn't want to put two and two together to figure this one out.
Nathan rolled over on his bed and yawned. He literally hated going to school…the only thing that kept him going was Haley, her and basketball. He took a glimpse at his alarm clock. "Oh shit" he said as he ran into the bathroom to take a shower and throw on some clothes before running out the door. "Haley's gonna kill me." He thought. By the time he drove up to Haley's house they would have just enough time to speed off to school and get to their class before the bell. No alone time at all, he cursed himself at the thought. He hadn't seen her almost all weekend and missed her. He sat there for a second ran up to her door, no answer ran upstairs to her bedroom. She must have overslept too he thought. Opened her door, no Haley. Kitchen, living room, no Haley. She must have started walking he thought. He jumped back into his very expensive black truck, hey the Devil came with some perks. He didn't see her the whole way to school. Finally when he drove into the parking lot, he noticed her, he let out a sigh of relief that she was ok. That is until he saw her climbing out of some guys car. What the hell was she doing in some jackass's car? More importantly who was this jackass?
The school day went on so slowly, everything felt like slow motion. Nathan and Haley hadn't crossed paths yet, since Haley took all the advanced classes, they didn't have any classes together. But Nathan always made it a habit to go see her before he had basketball practice and she had to go to the tutoring center. As Nathan started to walk down the hallway towards the door, Luke stepped in his way. "Whitey wants to see you, now." he relayed the message to Nathan. Right as he was about to turn the corner he noticed that same guy walking into the tutoring center.
Once he got to Whitey's office, he knocked on the door. "Hold your horses, I'm on the phone." Whitey called out.
What did Whitey want with him, he'd been playing great and he even stopped hazing Lucas for a while. He wasn't failing any classes either, what did he want? Nathan thought as he sat outside Whitey's office.
Haley sat up in anticipation as she saw the door opening, finally she would get to see Nathan. Her body almost overcame her with the urge to feel him against her. Have his lips so close to hers. And in walked Jason. Her face dropped in disappointment. "Awe…come on, not the same thrill as this morning?" he joked.
"Thrill isn't the word I was looking for" Haley said not bothering to look up.
"Your not one for human kindness, huh? Jab after jab, I'm just not sure how much more of this my heart can take, Miss James." He said looking hurt.
"Your heart or your ego?" She stated more than asked.
"All I wanted to do was see if you wanted a ride to work, being the nice guy that I am all." He said almost kindheartedly, one might actually believe he was sincere if they hadn't spent more than two seconds with the guy.
Whitey opened the door, seeing Nathan straddling one of the schools blue chairs that was leaning up against the wall. "Come back after practice son. I've got a bunch of boys sitting around that need to be doing something productive if we want to win sectionals this year." Whitey told him walking off toward the gym, clipboard under his arm.
After practice Nathan went straight to see Whitey, so he could get to Haley.
"What's up coach." He asked in a rather hurried voice.
"I don't know son, you tell me. What brings you here?" Whitey asked in one of his good listening manners.
"You tell me coach, you're the one that wanted to see me." Nathan replied.
"Scott, I may be loosing my sight, but your loosing your mind. I never asked to see you. You came to my office." Whitey replied.
Nathan's eyes squinting in a questioning look. Lucas, he thought getting angry.
Haley sat there the second time that day, waiting for a no show Nathan. "Alright, she finally said, giving in to Jason's offer of the ride to work. She couldn't be late. Karen deserved better, especially from her. She started to see Nathan's lack of appearance as less of a sign and more of a hint. But why, what had gone wrong. He must have found somebody when he was staying in the hotel at the game. He probably missed her and sought comfort in someone else in a moment of weakness. No, Nathan would never do that to her. He loved her. Didn't he? She thought as she got into the car, her deep thought making her miss, seeing Nathan running out of the school and watching her drive away once again.
A/N-YeAH! Sorry that took me a while, I've had strep throat for the last few days and on top of that my schedules been crazy. But at least I updated. Ok I know I know, there wasn't any Naley in this one, I had planned for there to be originally, but it just didn't pan out right when I was writing it, so I'm very, very sorry! BUT believe me there is TONS OF NALEY to come in the near future, just hang on! I hope you guys liked this one. Review and tell me what you think! As always I love my readers, but I LOVE MY reviewers MORE! lol