Hey everyone! Thank you SO much for all the reviews, you guys are way too kind. Anyways, I originally had only one chapter for the 10th but decided to divide it into two parts. Anyways, here's chapter 10a. Hope you enjoy it and don't forget to review. :)
Dedicated to my brother. Thanks for being my best friend and the inspiration behind the whole Haley-Tim relationship. Happy 17th b-day, loser. ;) Love you.
Chapter 10a
"Thanks for the ride, Nate." Haley said when Nathan stopped the car in front of her house.
"You gonna be ok?" he asked worried.
"Stop asking me that. I'm fine." She said smiling.
"Okay, good night then." He said smiling.
"Yeah, see you later." She said and opened the door. She was about to get out when she looked at Nathan one more time.
"Thanks. Not just for the ride. Thanks for everything." She said and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She let her lips linger on Nathan's cheek few seconds longer than needed. "Good night." She said blushing and got out. Nathan reversed and parked the car in front of his own house while grinning.
Haley left the car and walked to her front door with a smile. She started to look for her house keys from her purse when she realized she had left the purse at the club.
"Shit." She cursed when she realized her cell phone was at the club too. She pressed the doorbell and waited for her dad to open the door.
After a few minutes she gave up and tried to find the spare key. She looked from under every rug, vase and furniture on the porch but she couldn't find it. She tried the back door but it wasn't open. She knocked on the door one more time but it was clear there was no one home. She looked at the other side of the yard and smiled.
After dropping off Haley, Nathan went home. He went to the kitchen to get a quick snack. He looked at the fridge and tried to find something to eat.
"Chinese... Cake... Some soup... Don't wanna know what that is... Score! Pizza!" he muttered while taking a few bites from the cold pizza before putting it back in the fridge. He then went upstairs to take a shower.
Had he eaten two minutes longer or even taken two minutes to check the mail or watch some TV, he would have heard the doorbell. Or the knocking after that. And the banging that followed. But since he was a fast eater and didn't care for the mail, he was in the middle of taking a shower when Haley was waiting for someone to open his front door.
Haley was annoyed. She was starting to get sick of standing behind front doors waiting for someone to open them. After waiting for few more minutes she tried the door handle in frustration and to her surprise, it wasn't locked. She cursed herself for not trying it earlier. She opened the door and peaked inside the house.
"Hello? Anyone here? Nathan?" she yelled but no one answered. She looked around and started to wander around. She found herself in the kitchen going through the fridge.
"Let's see what we have here..." she mumbled while looking through it. "Score! Pizza!" she said and took the pizza out. "Eew, someone's already taken a bite." She mumbled but ate some anyways.
She heard some noises upstairs and decided to go there.
"Hello? Nathan?" she asked while taking the last step on the stairs. She saw a door to her left that was open. She peaked in and smiled. There was no doubt that it wasn't Nathan's room with all the basketball trophies and Eminem posters.
"Hello?" she asked one more time before going in. Since she didn't get an answer she went in and started to look around. Haley looked through the room and trophies. She spotted a framed picture of his high school basketball team.
Haley took the picture and went to sit on his bed. She immediately spotted Lucas, Jake and Nathan from the picture. She smiled when she saw Tim making a funny face for the camera. She would've studied it more, if she hadn't been interrupted.
"Whoa! Haley!" Nathan said shocked when he saw her sitting on his bed. Haley lifted his head to look at Nathan who had a towel wrapped around him. Haley blushed a bit and stood up.
"I couldn't get into my house." She said smiling.
"Oh." Nathan said and walked in his room and started to go through his closet.
"I hope you don't mind that I came here. You were just the obvious choice cause you live next door and I know you but I didn't mean to just come in, I did use the doorbell and I knocked like 5 minutes but you were obviously taking a shower so you couldn't-"
"It's fine." Nathan said interrupting Haley's rampage. Haley looked at Nathan with an embarrassed look.
"Where's the bathroom?" she asked quickly.
"Down the hall, to the right." He said grinning. Haley left the room quickly. She found the bathroom and got in. The bath tub was still wet and the air was humid. Haley wiped the mirror and looked at her reflection.
After a minute or two she washed her hands and went back to Nathan's room. Nathan, for Haley's misfortune, was fully clothed and hectically trying to clean his room.
He turned to look at Haley while holding about five pairs of jeans and three shirts. He quickly threw them behind him. A pair of boxers fell from the clothing pile. Nathan quickly kicked them under his bed. Haley smoothly changed her laughter into a cough. They both stared at each other for few seconds.
"So..." they both started at the same time. Such a cliché Haley thought smiling.
"So, you said that you couldn't get into your house?" Nathan said.
"Yeah, I left my purse at the club so I didn't have my keys. My dad was supposed to be at home but I guess he got something to do. Probably something with the She-devil. Something that concerns half of his money, cause that gold digging skank is too lazy to get a fucking job and I swear to god, someday I'm gonna rip her-" Nathan coughed and Haley looked at him embarrassed.
"Anyways, so I couldn't find my keys or my dad so I came here cause I knew you were home." Haley said. "I hope that's ok-"
"Haley, you can come here whenever you want. The door's always open." Nathan said.
"Thanks." She said.
"I mean literally open. The lock's broken." Nathan said.
"Ok." She said laughing and looked around. She saw a neatly wrapped small present on his table.
"Is this...?" she started.
"Oh, yeah. That's for you. You can open it now or later. Whatever." He said with an embarrassed voice. Haley started to open it slowly.
It was a beautiful photo frame that had a picture of Nathan, Haley, Tim, Brooke, Lucas, Jake and Peyton. It was taken by the pool and they were grinning madly. Haley was lying on her stomach, her feet in the air. Brooke and Peyton were sitting next to her while holding a 'Cosmopolitan' and a nail polish. Nathan was standing behind them shirtless and sweaty while holding a basketball. Jake, Lucas and Tim were next to him goofing around.
"Nathan, this is really nice." She said. "The frame is beautiful and the picture's just perfect."
"Your dad gave me the picture."
"Yeah, I remember him taking this picture that one day." She said. She then turned to look at Nathan. "Thank you so much." She said and hugged him. She gave him a small kiss on the cheek. She could feel his breath on her neck and she blushed and took a step back.
"So, do you want anything?" Nathan asked changing the subject. "Something to drink? Food? Vodka?" Nathan asked. Haley laughed out loud.
"I'll just wait till Tim comes back home." She said.
"So, what do you wanna do in the meantime?" Nathan asked. Haley looked at him with a grin.
15 minutes later
"Oh! You did not just do that, girl!"
"Wait, what happened to your lil' guy, Nate? Did I hurt him?"
"Just wait till he gets up again, you're so gonna get it."
"Oh, bring it on! I'm waiting." She said grinning.
"Here he comes!"
"Oh, I'm waiting. Actually starting to get a bit bored- wait, what just happened?" Haley asked confused.
"I killed your guy." Nathan said and put his controller down. Haley pouted while looking at the TV screen that said "Game Over". She threw her controller lazily on the floor. She was sitting next to Nathan on his bed playing Playstation.
"This game sucks." She said smiling a bit.
"Yeah." he said and put the normal channels on again. He looked at screen and laughed. "Is that you?" Haley turned to look at the screen and saw her own face on it.
This is the fabulous life of Haley James.
Nathan laughed out loud. Haley tried to grab the remote control from his hands.
"Give me that... We're so not watching this." Haley said while trying to get it from Nathan's hands. Nathan wouldn't give up the control and actually managed to press the volume loader.
Though Haley James was only fourteen when she started her career, she has been able to make herself a regular in the Hollywood music business.
"Nathan! I'm so not watching this." She said. Nathan held the remote control behind his back so she couldn't get it. Haley looked at him with a grin before tackling him. She tried to tickle him and grab the remote at the same time but only ended up lying on top of him while grabbing his arm trying to get the remote from his hands.
As in all the movies and TV-series, Nathan suddenly realized the position he was in and started to get up. Haley looked at him for a second and then sat up so she wasn't lying on top of him anymore.
She helped Nathan sit up who in turn looked at Haley surprised when she didn't move away from his lap. Haley stayed on his lap, straddling him for few more seconds before getting closer to him and giving him a small, soft kiss on the lips. She then looked at him again.
Nathan stared at Haley in shock. Sure he had been thinking about that moment for the past three weeks but had no idea just how it could be. Haley looked at Nathan and licked her lips. That small movement made Nathan snap out of his thought. He pressed his lips against Haley's and waited for her reaction.
He didn't have to wait long. Haley wrapped her arms around his neck and responded to the kiss. Nathan wrapped his hands tightly around her bringing her closer.
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"Is that Haley's purse?" Brooke asked pointing at a small black purse that was lying by the table they were sitting earlier.
"Yeah, she must've forgotten it here." Tim said.
"I'll take it." Peyton said and grinned at Tim. "Unless you want it."
"Don't think so." Tim shook his head while thinking how gay he would look with it.
"I still can't believe Chris had the nerve to show up here on her birthday." Brooke said.
"And I still can't believe you hit him in front of all those people." Jake said. "But way to go!" he said and high fived him.
"You do realize it's gonna be on the cover of every tabloid?" Lucas asked laughing.
"Yeah, I just hope they got a good shot of Chris getting beat up." Tim said smiling. He's cell phone started to ring.
"Hello?... Wait, calm down... What!... Where?... I'll be right there." Tim shut the phone with shaky hands.
"Is everything alright?" Peyton asked worried.
"Not even close." He said quietly. "We need to go. Now!"
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Nathan and Haley were still kissing each other in the same position on his bed, the only difference was that Haley had just taken Nathan's shirt off. She let her hands wander on his abs, his back, his neck, his hair... But she felt like she needed more skin. She broke the kiss for few seconds to get rid of her own shirt. She revealed the black, satin bra she had gotten from Brooke. Nathan almost swallowed his tongue when he saw it.
"Wow." He said while staring at her.
"Just wait till you see the hot pants." She said grinning.
"The say-what-pants?" He asked not believing his ears. Haley rolled her eyes laughing and kissed him again.
After few more minutes of kissing hungrily Nathan's cell phone started to ring. Both ignored it. Then it started to ring again. They ignored it again. When it rang the third time, Nathan groaned in annoyance and moved Haley off his lap. He reached for the small phone and looked at the caller id.
"It's Tim." He said.
"Don't answer." Haley said smiling. Nathan grinned and shut the whole thing. He turned to look at her with a smirk.
"Now, where was I..." he said grinning while Haley giggled. Nathan leaned on her so he was on top of her while sucking her neck softly.
Nathan couldn't believe the situation he was in. It definitely wasn't the first time he was in bed with someone, but Haley wasn't just someone. She was Haley. His Haley. He had never felt like that towards any girl before but it was the best feeling ever.
Haley was going crazy. She couldn't remember the last time she had felt like that. So into someone, so happy, so free, so... what was the word she was looking for? Oh yes, horny. If someone would've mentioned Chris Keller right then, she would've asked Chris who? Haley started to unbuckle her belt and tried to get her jeans off without success. Nathan looked at her grinning.
"Need some help?" he asked.
"Please?" she whispered in his ear and licked his neck. Nathan shivered and helped her take her jeans off. Nathan was about to start kissing her again when he noticed her hot pants.
"Jesus Christ, what are these?"
"Hot pants." She giggled.
"They don't call them hot for no reason." He mumbled before concentrating on her lips again.
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"Could you drive any slowlier?" Tim snapped from the passenger side. Lucas turned to look at him.
"I'm already driving 20 above the limit." He said.
"Come on, floor it."
"He's going as fast as he can, Tim." Brooke said from the back seat where she was sandwiched between Jake and Peyton.
"Not fast enough! I have to get there now!"
"I know and I'm doing the best I can." He said.
"You should've let me drive." Tim said.
"You're in no condition to drive, Tim." Brooke said from the back seat. Tim turned to glare at her but didn't say anything.
"Everything's gonna be fine, Tim." Peyton said quietly even though she was nothing but sure.
"I hope so." Tim said quietly. "Let's just get there as fast as possible."
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"You ok?" Nathan murmured in Haley's ear. She was lying naked on top of him trying to catch her breath.
"So much more than ok." She whispered smiling. Nathan smiled and pulled the covers on top of them to keep them warm. Not that they actually needed because of sweating so much, but it was a sweet gesture.
"So, what happens now?" It pained Nathan to ask that question but it needed to be done.
"I don't know." Haley said and hugged him tighter.
"So, are we like dating now or..." he asked. Haley decided that this was not the time or place to talk about it.
"You think I'm not into cheap, meaningless sex?" She asked grinning madly. Nathan opened his mouth in shock. Haley laughed when she saw the look on his face. "Kidding!" she said.
"Good." He murmured to her hair.
After listening to Nathan's heart beat for few minutes, Haley started to get up.
"Where are you going?" Nathan asked when Haley sat up.
"We are going." She said while trying to pull him up.
"I don't wanna leave." He said in a baby voice.
"Too bad." She said grinning. "Let's go."
"Nope." He said and wouldn't move a muscle.
"Ok." Haley said. "I'm just gonna have to shower alone then I guess." She had barely finished the sentence when Nathan was already standing by the door looking at her.
"You coming or what?" he said grinning. Haley just giggled while following.
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"Nathan still not answering?" Tim asked.
"It goes straight to the voice mail." Brooke said from the back seat.
"And we have Haley's cell so we can't get a hold of her either." Peyton said.
"Did you try Nathan's house number?" Tim asked.
"Yeah and yours too. No one's answering."
"But don't worry about Haley, she's probably with Nathan." Jake said. Peyton and Brooke both smacked him behind his head.
"Yeah, I can't wait to talk to Nathan about that." Tim said through gritted teeth.
"Haley's fine, don't worry about her. And you said you're ok with them hanging out." Brooke said.
"We're here." Lucas announced. Tim looked at the sign in front of the main doors.
Tree Hill Hospital.
So, how was it? Let me know what you think.
-Fes-