A/N: FUNNY STORY...I WAS LIKE, HMM..I'M GOING TO UPDATE 'DAMAGED', AS I WAS LISTENING TO MY NEW:ONE TREE HILL SOUNDTRACK, AND NUMBER 11, 'EVERYBODY'S CHANGING' BY KEANE CAME ON...GUESS WHAT THE TITLE TO CHAPTER 11 IS..I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS ON THE SOUNDTRACK, MIND YOU NUMBER 11! CAN YOU GUESS, LOL?
Chapter 11: Everybody's Changing and I Don't Feel The Same…
Monica had left about a half-hour after Haley left, telling Nathan to call her the next day. Lucas, Jake and Peyton were anxiously awaiting the return of Haley while the Scott twins were arguing about Haley for the second time this month.
"Your girlfriend is a bitch! She made up all that bull about what Haley said, none of it's true, you dumbass!" Brooke screamed.
"Can you calm your ass down, Brooke?" Nathan argued back, too worried about his best friend to even stick up for his girlfriend.
All of a sudden the front door opened, and in walked Haley.
"Where the hell have you been!" Nathan roared walking to his best friend.
"Out," Haley said pushing past Nathan and trying to walk in her bedroom.
"For six hours, Haley?" Brooke argued.
"Listen, I'm a big girl, I don't need all of you looking after me!" Haley said angrily.
"Are you drunk?" Nathan asked, and Haley immediately starting laughing.
"No," Haley got in between giggles, and Nathan starting walking towards her, trying to smell her breath. Haley, knowing what her best friend was doing, tried getting out of his way, and pushing him away from her.
"Don't," Haley said warningly.
"Let me smell your breath," Nathan reprimanded.
Brooke, Lucas, Jake and Peyton all took this as the chance to leave the best friends, who obviously had some issues to deal with, alone.
"I'm staying at Lucas's tonight, Haley," Brooke said, leaving after receiving a nod from Haley.
"I said let me smell your damn breath, Haley," Nathan screamed.
"Stop it Nathan!" Haley screamed, "I'm not drunk! You see, smell my breath!"
Nathan stared at Haley, his best friend before she stormed out of the apartment for the second time that day.
Haley walked through the streets. It was only 7:00, so it was still fairly light out, so she wasn't scared. So, she walked to her old neighborhood, about 10 minutes away. She sat at the bench where she, Brooke, and Peyton all used to watch Nathan, Lucas and Jake all play basketball.
Flashback
Haley, Brooke and Peyton were all sitting on the top bench at the basketball court, as the boys were playing basketball. Their senior prom was yesterday, and it was very emotional for all of them. Jake and Peyton went together, considering they were a couple, Brooke and Lucas went together saying there was "no one else" which everyone knew was an excuse for they really wanted to go together, and Nathan and Haley went together as best friends, thinking it would be the most fun.
Haley, being the most depressed out of all of them brought up how Nathan was going to school in New York to Brooke and Peyton and broke down in tears. To Haley's knowledge, all of them would be going to school together in North Carolina, their home, except Nathan who earned a full-scholarship for basketball at NYU. Little did Haley know, Nathan turned it down, and was going to be going to school with his friends, and little baby sister once the new semester began.
Nathan looked over to his best friend in tears and looked questionably at his sister who was hugging her. She mouthed the words, "College" and "You need to tell her" to him and he smiled.
Nathan walked up the few benches leading to the one his friends were at. When Peyton moved out of the way, Nathan took her spot and Haley immediately smelled him and turned his way and started crying as he put his arms around his best friend, "It's okay Hales," Nathan said.
"No it's not, Nathan!" Haley argued. "It's never going to be the same! We've been best friends for 12 years and we've lived next door to each other, and now you're going to live far away and I won't be able to run next door when I need you!" she sobbed.
"Hales…" Nathan tried.
"And I'm never going to see you again!" she cried.
"Haley, listen to me," Nathan started, "Irejected their scholarship."
"What?" Haley whispered to her best friend.
"I can't go there, Hales," Nathan told her, "I'm going to school with you guys, here, at home."
"Are you dorming?" Haley asked, and when Nathan shook his head no, she jumped on him.
"We'll still live next door to each other! And then, we can move in next to each other and when we get married and have kids, they'll be best friends, too!"
Nathan laughed and hugged his best friend back.
End Flashback
Haley smiled to herself, thinking how they'd lived next door all throughout college, and when they decided to get apartments, they got them right next to each other.
And then a familiar scent went through her nose.
"What are you doing here?" Haley asked.
"How did you know it was me?" Nathan replied.
"I know your smell," Haley replied.
"Then you should stop stealing my cologne, Hales," Nathan said joking.
"How did you know I was here?" Haley asked as Nathan took a seat
"You tend to forget I've been your best friend for years," Nathan replied and when she glanced at him he continued, "When we were younger, you told me whenever you needed to think and wanted me to find you, you'd be here."
Haley nodded her head in recognition, but continued to stay silent.
"What's been going on, Haley?" Nathan wondered.
"Everything's changing, and I don't feel the same anymore," she whispered.
Nathan stared at his best friend and silently told her to continue, "Everything is just getting out of hand. First Chris and Taylor, then I just…I couldn't stop drinking. Nathan, I swear to you, I tried. It's just…I couldn't. I felt as if it was the only way I'd get through whatever it was I was going through. And I let it get out of control, and I land myself in the hospital. I've screwed up a lot. With you, and especially with me," Haley finished.
"And then," Haley began again, "Your girlfriend waltzes in and called me a drunken slut and threatened me to stay away from you. Can you believe that, Nathan? She felt like she'd threaten me, and I swear to God, I wanted to beat the crap out of her," Haley finished.
"Then why did you leave this afternoon?" Nathan questioned.
Haley got up and started pacing in front of her, "Because your girlfriend threatened me and my best friend believed it!"
Nathan stood quiet for a while before he got up and stood in front of Haley, "I think you're jealous."
Haley stared at her best friend and immediately started laughing, "Nathan, in all the years we've been best friends, you have never said anything more ridiculous then that!"
"Think about it Haley," Nathan said walking even closer to his best friend, "You've always been number one and a girl even mentioning that you won't be gives you the worst feeling in the pit of your stomach."
Nathan's POV:
I might be hitting Haley in the place where it hurts the most right now, but I need too. I need to see if she feels something more than friends towards me. I need to see if she knows the feeling how it is…to be in love with your best friend.
Haley's POV:
This conversation is making me think about my conversation with Brooke and Peyton. Did they tell him? Were they right? What the hell am I kidding, of course they're right. But now, my best friend, the one that I'm head over heels in love with, is dating some girl that hates my guts.
"You know what Nathan?" Haley asked. "I'm so not jealous of Monica"
Nathan stared at Haley, his best friend, pacing and rambling, "I can't believe you'd even think that I'd be jealous of your sick little girlfriend slut. I mean you are my best friend. My best friend, Nathan. You should know your girlfriends won't like me, and when they pretend to, it's bullshit."
As Nathan watched Haley come over to him he searched her eyes for something to tell him about what his best friend was feeling. "I'm not jealous of your girlfriend, Nathan. I mean I—"
Nathan cut her off.
By doing something he'd never dreamed of.
He kissed her.
And after about 5 minutes of the best friends doing something the two of them promised and swore they'd never do, Nathan broke apart from Haley and yet again tried to read her eyes. But the only thing he got from her was her mumbling, "Brooke's staying at your apartment tonight."
Nodding his head, Nathan and Haley quickly got in his car, neither knowing how different everything would be after this night. Neither knew how life-changing, and how many emotions and consequences would be brought out. All they knew were, they were best friends, and in some way, the two of them would get through it….together.
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