Chapter 7: When It Comes To You

Nathan had to admit, he was pretty relieved that Haley wasn't pregnant. His basketball career would be finished, not that it was more important than Haley, but his basketball was his life. That is, until Haley came along. He loved Haley more than anything, and she had always believed in him, she was probably one of the first people to say that she was proud of him, and without pressuring him to do better than he did, like his dad. Sure, Nathan wanted to have kids with Haley, later on in his life, not now. Like Haley said, they were still teenagers, still in high school, at least for now.

He rolled over in his bed and glanced at the picture frame that was protecting the wedding picture of him and Haley. He remembered that day since it was yesterday, one of the happiest days of his life. Even with only two people there, Haley's parents, he still thought it was the greatest wedding anyone could ever have. Because Haley was getting married to him. Still, in the mist of things, he wanted Haley to have the perfect wedding, with her friends and family, and part of him wanted his friends and family to see how much he was in love with this girl. How madly in love he was, and he just loved to show it.

"Bevin! It's right, not left!" Brooke exclaimed, turning Bevin to the right, instead of the left, like she had been doing for about the past half an hour. The cheerleading squad was in the gym, getting in some more time to practice for the big game that was coming up on Friday. Bevin still wasn't getting it, how could a girl not know her rights from her lefts by now? Senior year? Grade 12? Of course, there's the school's standards...then there was Bevin.

"Brooke, can't we just like tell her left and then she'll go the right way!" Peyton pointed out, getting frustrated and annoyed. She had other things to do than stand here and watch Bevin not go the right way, how hard was it to twirl in the right direction?

"No. I've already tried that P. Sawyer, remember twenty minutes ago?" Brooke replied, as she let out a frustrated groan. "Somebody help her!" she exclaimed, giving up. "Tutor girl! You're a tutor, help her!" she said turning to Haley.

Haley let out a sigh, knowing that if she said no, Brooke would just make her do it anyway. Walking over to Bevin, she started to try and show her. "This is your left." she said pointing with her left hand to the left. "And this is your right." she said pointing to the right with her right hand. "There's not much to it really, and I have no idea how to explain it. If you don't get it by now, you're not going to get it."

Bevin turned to the left, "Bevin! Turn to the right!" Brooke exclaimed as Bevin stared at her blankly and then turned, to the right. "YES! Tutor girl, you ARE my savour!" she exclaimed giving Haley a big hug. "Now, remember what Tutor girl here said, and you'll be fine." Brooke got into place along with Haley, Bevin, and the rest of the squad, as she signalled for one girl to turn on the music. As it started, the squad continued to practice.

Lucas smirked as he walked into the gym, seeing the cheerleading squad practicing, and hearing Brooke's yelling raspy voice. Surprised that she hadn't lost her voice by now, he looked behind him, seeing Skills and Nathan coming through the side doors to the gym. They were coming in for some extra practice, not knowing that the girls would be there. Well, Nathan probably knew, and that's probably why he had suggested it.

"Baby!" Bevin exclaimed, noticing Skills walking through the door, she smiled as Skills walked up to her and she hugged him, giving him a kiss.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Haley asked, walking up to Nathan, meeting him halfway. "Not that I'm complaining." she said with a smile, after getting a kiss given to her on the lips by Nathan.

"Well me, Luke, and Skills were planning on practising before the game on Friday, but looks like the practise is cancelled." he said with a laugh, glancing over at the other two guys, who were too involved with their girlfriends to remember what they were coming here to actually do.

"Good, because I want you to help me with something." Haley said.

"Okay. Planning on telling me what it is?"

Lucas gave Brooke a kiss on the lips, wrapping his arms around her. "So pretty girl, practise over?" he asked curiously.

Brooke smiled, and glanced around, seeing the girls already heading over to the bleachers to get ready to leave. "I guess so." she said with a smile as she rested her head on his chest as they walked towards the bleachers. "Ready for the game on Friday?" she asked curiously.

Lucas nodded, lying more to himself than Brooke. Truth was, he was feeling worse and was getting slowed down, guessing it was because of his heart condition. But he couldn't tell Brooke, she'd get to worried. Only Haley knew, and as far as he was concerned, she was enough as he could handle. He knew she was still mad at him for not taking her advice and take the pills again, or quit the team. But Lucas couldn't, either way it was a lose-lose situation, and he wasn't ready to give up basketball.

"Something wrong?" Brooke asked curiously, glancing at him in the eyes concerned. She had noticed Lucas looking a little more pale lately, and when she had been watching him practice, he was slowing down. It just wasn't like Lucas. She had asked Haley, and she said nothing was wrong with him, but she just couldn't help but wonder.

"No, of course not. As long as you're here, everything's fine." Lucas said, forcing a pretty convincing smile on his face as he pulled Brooke closer to them after they had sat down.

"Good." Brooke said, forcing her own smile. She knew when Lucas was lying to her, and this was one of those times.

"So, are you going to tell me what I'm helping you with?" Nathan asked, growing impatient, but he still couldn't help the small laugh escaping from his lips. Haley pulled him into her apartment and picked up two envelopes.

"I want you to open this one." Haley said, handing him the beige one, as she kept the white one.

"You do know this is illegal." Nathan pointed out.

"Not really, I'm asking you to." she said, knowing Nathan still didn't know what this was all about.

Haley had gotten two letters from two colleges this morning, and was afraid to open them. They both were pretty large envelopes, the only difference was the one from Stanford was white and the one from Duke was beige. No matter what happened, she'd probably end up chosing Duke, going away with Nathan to Duke was the best choice she could make. But Stanford was her dream school, ever since she was little.

"Okay." Nathan nodded as he flipped the envelope over, seeing it was from Duke, he glanced up at her. "Are you sure you want me to open this?"

"Yeah. Now on the count of three, we both open the two at the same time." Haley said with a nod, not wanting to back down now. She counted to three and the two ripped open the envelopes. Haley read over the Stanford letter that was placed on top of the brochure to the school. 'We are pleased to inform you that your application to Stanford University has been accepted.' her eyes widened as she read that part. Glancing up at Nathan, she waited to hear what that one said.

Author's note:

Now I know I said coming up quotes, but the chapter would end up being too long lol. But I love long chapters ;) Too bad I can't always write long ones. Anyway, the next one will hopefully involve those coming up sneak peeks ;)