Hey guys, I'm back with an update. I'm currently suffering from a huge hangover so I apologize for any typos etc. Thank you so much for all the reviews. They are the reason I'm out of bed and updating. Anyways, enjoy the story and don't forget to review. Oh, and don't drink. Don't ever drink.
Chapter 2
It was 10.30 am when Tim and Nathan woke up in Tim's basement. They TV was still on and they were holding the controllers.
"Dude, wake up." Tim said and shook Nathan a bit.
"What time is it?" Nathan asked with a sleepy voice when he woke up.
"It's 10.30." Tim said.
"So early..." he said but got up anyways. They went to find something from the kitchen. Haley was sitting on the kitchen stool her back towards them. She was typing something on her lap top while talking on her cell phone and eating a bagel.
"No, listen to me, mom. Jason said he sent the contract to you and you should sign it, not me... Because I'm still a minor... He also said that we should discuss the next fall... Mom, I don't think I can handle another tour in the same year... Ok, talk to you later... I will... Love you, too. Bye."
"Trouble in paradise?" Tim asked after Haley put her phone back on the table. Haley turned to look at Tim and Nathan.
"Why, did you lose your 'My Little Pony' –collection?"
"I hate you."
"Good morning to you too, idiot. Mom said hi." Haley said to Tim. She turned to look at Nathan. "Nathan, right?" Nathan nodded and Haley continued. "You know, we do have three guest rooms in this house. No need to sleep on the couch." She said grinning. Nathan grinned back.
"So, what are you boys up to today?" Haley asked.
"Nothing that concerns you, bitch."
"Ouch." Haley said and held her heart while faking hurt.
"Probably some basketball at my house." Nathan said.
"You live close?"
"Next door." Nathan said smiling.
"Alright, neighbour." Haley said and high-fived him. Tim looked at Nathan and Haley with a suspicious look. Haley's cell phone started to ring. She looked at the called id and sighed in frustration.
"Hi Jack... No, you gotta talk to my mom... No, I'm not coming back, I just frigging got here!... Call my mom!" Haley yelled and ended the call. "Moron." She said while putting the phone back to the table.
"You should just go back to LA. No one wants you here." Tim said annoyed. Haley just laughed and patted Tim on his head.
"No need to be so sweet, Timmy. It's just me." Haley said and started to leave.
"Don't call me Timmy!" he yelled after her but she was gone already. "God, she annoys me!" Tim said and started to find something to eat.
"Why do you two hate each other so much? She seems cool and you're my best friend so you gotta be cool." Nathan said laughing.
"We just don't get along." Tim said and made them breakfast. After they ate they decided to go play some basketball on Nathan's basketball court.
Haley left the kitchen and went to her room to change into something more comfortable. She took her guitar, sunglasses, cell phone, some paper and pen and decided to go outside. She went to the backyard and sat on the porch swing and started to play a song she had been working on while writing down some words and phrases that came to her head.
Haley didn't know how long she had been playing, she always lost the track of time, but sometime after noon she got interrupted by Tim.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Haley James the rock star working on her new album." Haley looked up from her papers and guitar and saw Tim standing there next to Nathan while holding a basketball in his hands. They were both shirtless and sweaty. While the sight of a sweaty Tim grossed Haley out, the sweat only made Nathan look sexier. Haley shook her head a bit and tried to concentrate on Tim.
"What do you want, loser?" Haley asked finally.
"Nothing from you."
"Good. Beat it." Haley said and turned her attention back to her guitar. Tim grinned at himself and looked at Haley.
"It's my house." Tim said.
"No, it's our dad's house. Speaking of which, where the hell is he?"
"Gone. And so should you." Tim said and walked past her. Nathan followed him into the kitchen.
"Dude, that was rude." Nathan said when he took a coke from the fridge.
"Dude, stay out of this." Tim snapped and opened his can of soda. Nathan looked at him surprised. Tim never snapped at him.
"You ready for second game?" Tim asked when they finished their cokes.
"Yeah, sure." Nathan said a bit tired. They started to walk towards the back door again. When they opened it, they didn't see Haley. Her guitar and notepad were on the swing but she was nowhere to be seen, until they looked towards the pool.
"What the fuck..." Tim mumbled when he started to walk towards the pool. He followed Tim until they got to the edge of the pool. Haley was swimming laps not noticing that they were standing on the edge. Suddenly Nathan didn't feel tired at all.
"Haley!" Tim yelled. Haley stopped swimming and looked at him irritated.
"What!"
"What are you doing!"
"Trying to catch butterflies, what the fuck does it look like I'm doing, retard!" Haley snapped.
"That's my swimming pool."
"It's dad's swimming pool. We already went through this."
"Well, I want you out of it!"
"Or else?" Haley asked and threw some water on him.
"That's it! Out!" Tim said and pointed at the ladders at the end of the pool. Haley rolled her eyes and laughed.
"Don't think so, Dim." She said and started to swim slowly. Nathan could see that Tim was starting to lose it so he decided to help him out a bit.
"Haley, if I were you, I'd probably get out." Nathan said smiling a bit.
"Why's that?" she said without stopping.
"He had sex with a girl in there." Nathan said. Haley stopped swimming and turned to look at him.
"You serious?"
"Dead." He said grinning.
"Nope, I don't believe you. And you wanna know why? Because no girl would have sex with him." Haley said.
"Well, actually he was imagining that he was having sex with someone while he was in there." Nathan said.
"Eew! Eew! Eew! Eew! Eew!" Haley yelled while swimming towards the end of the pool as fast as she could.
"What the hell, man?" Tim asked from Nathan. "You're supposed to be on my side."
"You wanted her out of the pool, right?" Nathan asked and turned to look at Haley who was out of the water now. She was wearing normal black bikinis that weren't even that revealing but nevertheless sexy in Nathan's mind.
"Whatever." Tim said and started to walk towards the basketball court. Nathan stood by the pool not moving. Haley turned to look at him.
"Hand me the towel?" Nathan blinked and turned to grab the towel that was behind him. He handed the towel to her but let his hands stay on it a little bit longer than necessary. Haley turned to look at him in the eyes and found herself staring at the brightest pair of blue eyes she'd ever seen.
"Nate! You coming!" Tim yelled when he realized that his friend wasn't following. Haley quickly took the towel and wrapped it around herself. Nathan coughed and mumbled something before running after Tim. Haley looked after him and sighed. She went to sit on her beach towel that was on the grass by the pool where her stuff was.
She laid down on her back and put her sunglasses on. Suddenly her cell phone started to ring. She checked the caller id but didn't recognize the number.
"Hello?" Haley didn't hear anything except breathing. "Hello?" she asked again. Haley ended the call and concentrated on getting tanned again.
Few minutes later her cell phone rang again.
"Hello?" she answered. Again only breathing. Haley sighed in frustration and ended the call. About five seconds later it rang again. Haley sat up and answered the phone angrily.
"Listen to me you asshole! I don't know where you got this number but if you call me one more time, I will call the fucking cops, got it!" Haley yelled. There was a short silence.
"Umh, you gave this number to me." A voice said from the other end.
"Brooke?" Haley asked recognizing the voice.
"Yeah, do you always answer your phone like that?" she asked joking. Haley laughed at the phone.
"Sorry, I though you were someone else. So, what's up?" Haley asked changing the subject.
"Nothing, Peyton and I were just wondering what you were doing?"
"The only thing you can do on a Sunday morning in the middle of the summer." Haley said smiling. "Get a tan." Brooke started laughing. "You guys should come here." Haley said.
"You alone?"
"Dim and Nathan are playing ball next door."
"Alright, we'll be there soon."
"See you then."
"Bye, Haley." Haley turned the phone off and laid back. About 15 minutes later Peyton and Brooke came holding towels.
"What's up?" Brooke said and sat down next to her. Haley took her sunglasses off and smiled at the girls. Peyton and Brooke took their shirts and shorts off revealing bikinis and sat down next to her.
"Nothing, just trying to get a tan." Haley said. Brooke and Peyton looked at her pale skin.
"Yeah, you could really use some." Brooke said laughing.
"Yeah, tell me about it. I haven't really gotten time till now." Haley said.
"We called Jake who's Peyton's boyfriend and Lucas, who is my boyfriend and told them to come here too. Remember them from last night? But don't worry, they won't interrupt our girl talk, they will just come and play with Tim and Nathan." Brooke said.
"Yeah, that's cool."
"So, tell us something." Brooke said excited.
"Tell you what?"
"Anything. Gossip about celebrities, dirty rumors, anything." Brooke said grinning. Haley rolled her eyes and laughed.
"I don't really know anything." She said smiling.
"Oh, don't give us that." Brooke said grinning.
"I really don't know and even if I did, my lips would be sealed." Haley said smiling.
"So, you are our age, right. So you must be a senior." Peyton said changing the subject.
"Yeah, but it doesn't really matter."
"Home-schooled?" Peyton asked.
"Since 8th grade." Haley said and tried to hide her sadness.
"That must suck." Brooke said.
"Yeah, I guess." She said and closed her eyes and laid back to let them know she didn't want to talk about it. Brooke and Peyton looked at each other and simultaneously decided to drop the subject.
"So do you have a lot of famous friends?" Brooke asked with her eyes gleaming.
"Do I smell a gold-digger?" Peyton asked laughing. Brooke hit Peyton lightly.
"I am perfectly happy with Lucas, thank you very much. But if he decides to suddenly get rich and famous, I wouldn't mind." Brooke said.
"Well, good to know." Lucas said from behind Brooke. Brooke turned around and kissed Lucas. Peyton did the same with Jake.
"You both remember Haley, right?" Peyton asked from the boys. Then she turned to Haley. "Jake and Lucas, in case you forgot."
"Nice to meet you again."
"You too, so we're gonna go play ball." Lucas said and kissed Brooke again. "Behave." He said and smiled when Brooke giggled. The guys went to play and girls stayed and tanned while gossiping about everything possible.
About 45 minutes later the guys came from Nathan's yard to where the girls were lying.
"How was the game?" Peyton asked after Jake gave her a kiss.
"Good."
"Eew, you're all sweaty." Brooke said when Lucas laid down next to her.
"Just the way you like it." He said.
"Eew, guys. Please, other people within 20 feet." Nathan said disgusted.
"You guys hungry?" Peyton asked.
"Always." Haley said smiling.
"Wanna order pizza?" Brooke asked while taking her cell phone out. Everyone agreed and Brooke called them the pizzas. Nathan and Tim sat down on the grass also. They all stayed quiet for a while.
"Tim, where's dad?" Haley asked directly from him. Tim thought about saying something mean but was too tired.
"In Barbados."
"Great." Haley muttered annoyed that her dad hadn't called and put her sunglasses on. "Why the hell didn't he let me know?"
"Because everything is about you?" He asked annoyed. Haley looked at him with a matching face.
"No, because it would've been nice to know so I wouldn't have come a week too fucking early." She said.
"Well, what's stopping you from leaving, bitch?"
"Mom deserves a vacation and I'm not gonna be the one to ruin it." she said. Tim stayed quiet for a while.
"How's she doing?" Tim asked nonchalantly.
"She's good." Haley said.
"Good." Tim said. Haley's cell phone rang again. She looked at the caller id and saw that it was the stalker's number.
"Shit..." she mumbled. She decided that she didn't want to answer it in front of her friends.
"Listen, guys. I should go back inside." She said and got up with her cell phone on her hand.
"What? But the pizzas are not even here yet." Nathan said while staring at Haley's body.
"That's ok, I'm not that hungry. See you guys later." She said and practically ran inside the house. Once she was inside she answered the phone.
"Hello?" she asked but heard only the breathing. "Listen to me, you jerk. I'm really starting to get sick of this." Haley said and listened but didn't hear anything except the breathing. "One more call and I will call the cops, asshole." Haley said and hung up.
"Are you alright?" Brooke asked behind Haley. Haley turned around and saw Brooke and Peyton holding her stuff.
"Yeah, just great." She said.
"You forgot your stuff." Peyton said while handing her stuff to her.
"Thanks." She said quietly.
"What was that about?" Brooke asked while trying to read Haley's face.
"Nothing." She mumbled.
"That was obvi-" Brooke said but got cut off by the doorbell.
"That must be the pizza guy." Haley said relieved and started towards the front door. She set her stuff on the floor and took her wallet out before opening the front door.
"Two cheese pizzas and one pepp-" he stopped in mid air when he saw who was standing in front of him. "Hey! You're that singer!" he said. Haley tried to give him the money. The guy didn't even notice that.
"Haley something! You got cheated by that dude, right? Yeah, it was on ET on MTV. James! That was your last name, James. Haley James. I can't believe you're here and I'm here and you're in bikinis and I have no camera-"
"Listen, do you want the money or not?" Haley asked annoyed and hurt by the mention of her cheating son-of-a-bitch ex-boyfriend.
"Yeah, sure. It's 5,50. Celebrity discount." He said and winked. Haley gave him a ten and took the pizzas from his hand.
"So, what are you doing here?" he asked. Haley thought of slamming the door to his face and let him make his own conclusions but she knew that it would've been on the cover of US Magazine the next week if she would've done it.
"Visiting my brother." She said and slammed the door shut. "God!" she yelled annoyed once the door was closed.
"You ok?" Brooke asked. Haley turned to look at her and Peyton who were looking at her with worried looks.
"Yeah, I'm good." She said and smiled. "Here are your pizzas." She said and gave them to Peyton.
"You know, you should come back outside and eat with us." Peyton said.
"I'll pass." She said. "I gotta call my mom. Besides, my face feels like it might sun burn soon." Haley said and went to the patio to get her guitar and notepad. Brooke and Peyton followed her.
"You sure? We can diss Tim together." Brooke suggested smiling. Haley smiled and looked at the guys who still sitting by the pool.
"Naw, maybe some other time." She said and took her guitar and went back inside.
She went to her room with her stuff and turned the TV on only to find herself staring at the cover of her latest album.
"...her new album "What's Mine Is Yours" hit number one in the charts. But other things are not going so well for her. As Star magazine reported, apparently Miss James caught her boyfriend of two years, Chris Keller, in bed with his tour manager. We have not been able to get in touch with Keller or James but we did catch Miss James in an airport in North Carolina where she was reported to go visit her family. James's and Keller's tour had just ended. They were an incredible duo and their tour was a huge success. Who knows what will happe-"
Haley turned the TV off and sighed in sadness while wondering how the hell she would get over the bastard named Chris Keller. She looked outside the window at the 6 people and realized that they had become her best friends in less than a day. She sighed at the thought.
"Pathetic."
So, how was it? Hopefully not as bad as I feel like. :)
-Fes-