Chapter 8. Damn you Nathan Scott!

Nathan was watching TV on his bed. He sighed as he changed the channel every two seconds. What was the last time he was this bored? Peyton was with her new 'friend' Haley, his tutor for Christ sakes, doing God knows what and all his friends were busy with their girlfriends or something he wasn't interested in. And if he called Brooke he would sound all clingy and not to mention extremely ridiculous since they weren't friends or anything.

He thought about Peyton's words. "…She thinks she's falling for him!" was playing in his head over and over again. He didn't want to sound so mean to Brooke, but he just hated the fact that she found a guy. If it was a guy she met at some random bar and slept with him for one night in a drunken state, then yeah… He was ok with that. After all, he had done that all the time, before he became a 'boyfriend'. But this was different. She was really falling in love with the guy. Who was he anyway?

That guy would wish he never met Brooke after Nathan was done with him.

Getting angrier by the minute, he heard something very familiar. But not something what was familiar to his house.

Heels clicking.

He could hear the person coming upstairs, and walk into the hallway to his room. He smiled when he knew who it was. Casually Nathan took a seat on the bed and in a deadpan voice he started his count-down. "Five, four, three, two…"

"You fucking idiot! Who the fuck do you think you are!" Brooke was clearly pissed off and for the first time, he had no idea why.

"Hello to you too." He knew his calm reaction and the casually greeting was driving her nuts.

Her eyes narrowed in on him. "You have no idea what you did, do you? You fucking made her suspicious! She was asking me like thousand questions about what was going on between you and me. About how we're both acting weird and all that bullshit! It's your fault by walking away after you heard what Peyton said!"

He got to his feet and walked towards her. She backed away, like he expected, so he took a few more steps till she hit the wall. His intense stare started to bother her. "Say something!"

He answered her question by crushing his mouth on hers. Brooke squealed in surprise and tried to get out of his grip but he was too strong. She pushed his hands on his chest but it was not helping at all. After a few seconds his tongue pressed against her lips begging for entrance. Brooke, who gave in for the briefest moment, used all her power to push him away. This time it worked. The second after she pushed him away she smacked him across the face.

"Damn you, Nathan Scott!"

Nathan rubbed his cheek and smiled. "You have a great punch Brooke, but I think your left hand isn't your best."

That deserved another slap across the face. He had no right to make fun of her punch!

Trying to regain his balance for a few seconds, he smiled in amusement. "Yeah. That one was definitely better than the first one." She raised her hand to give him the third slap but he grabbed her arm before she had the time to actually smack him.

"Such a shame it's so fucking predictable." He said in a cold voice.

"What is this Nathan? This thing going on between you and me?"

He gave her the cocky smile she had seen too many times. "I call it flirting babe."

"You see, that's where you are wrong. You are flirting with me, I am just trying ignore your stupid ways of 'flirting'." She made the air quotes as she sat down on his bed. "I don't get why you like me. We have nothing in common, only the fact that we are both popular, good looking and good in bed. Well, I don't know if you are good in bed but that's what I've heard." Why? Why did she just said that? This was probably making him more cocky than he already was.

And she was right. He grinned like an idiot as he sat down next to her on the bed. Brooke knew he wasn't trying anything again cause he knew she would leave if he did that, so she let him stay that close to her.

"Anyway, I don't understand why you want to get after me while you have a great girlfriend! I know things aren't going very good but that's only because you're not really trying!"

He threw his hands up in defeat. "Don't try that shit on me Brooke, you know that it takes two people to make the relationship work. Peyton is also not really trying to make things better."

"That's only because she knows your relationship is now based on making out and having sex. Don't you want to hold hands in school again and get that weird but familiar feeling in your stomach every time you see her, or even think of her?"

Nathan looked down. He hadn't had that feeling in a long time.

"Yes." He said sheepishly. He felt really guilty now for not trying harder. He was almost ashamed of himself.

"Look Nathan I don't want to sound like a therapist or something but you have to try harder! She's a great girl, she's bitchy on the outside but you should know out of all people that she has a heart of gold." She patted him on his knee as she stood up.

Before leaving, she looked over her shoulder and said, "Think about it."

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Brooke felt great. No, she felt ecstatic. Like she won the lottery or something. She couldn't believe that Nathan really bought the innocent act she gave him earlier. He wasn't any trouble anymore, she just knew that, and that meant that she could forget Nathan (for awhile at least), and focus on Lucas.

She walked into the classroom, giving the teacher a small wave. With a sweet smile and her lips pouting she could practically make everyone drool. That only, if the teacher was a 'he'. And this was her lucky day.

"Miss Davis." She heard her teacher sigh as she walked to her seat in the back of the classroom. She hesitated for a few seconds when she saw Haley sitting alone. Taking a deep sigh, she walked towards the desk and sat down next to her new 'friend'.

"Yes sir?" She said after she and Haley shared a quick smile.

"Please be on time for the next lesson."

"Of course sir, I promise." Promise her ass. She needed her beauty sleep and it wasn't her fault that school started so damn early.

When Mr. Myer started the lesson, Brooke turned around to face Haley. "So Haley, have you decided what you want?"

Haley pretended to think about it, even though she had made her decision a long time ago. After a while she confidently said, "Count me in."

Brooke smiled triumphantly as she brought her hand through her brown hair. "Great! So after school, you and I go to the mall."

"To do what?"

The smile on Brooke's face faded and turned back into her old bitchy face. "Please tell me you're kidding right now."

The girl next to her looked down in embarrassment. "I wish I was." She whispered.

Feeling something Brooke wasn't supposed to feel, she shook her head and placed a hand in comfort on Haley's shoulder. "To go shopping of course! You need some new clothes if you want to be one of us."

Looking down Haley shrugged her shoulders. "But I like my clothes."

"Well, I don't really give a shit about that."

Haley, who was taken back by Brooke's harsh words, blinked a few times before answering, "So we go to the mall."

Brooke nodded her head with fake enthusiasm. God, this girl was really pathetic. She actually felt sorry for her. All innocent and goody goody, this would ruin her hands down. Destroy her. Haley would never forget it after Brooke and Peyton were done with her. But then again, Haley was also quite lucky. She had the opportunity to hang out with the popular people and even be one of them. Of course that was bullshit, because Haley would never ever be one of them. Evil wasn't running through her veins like it did with Brooke. Or with Peyton.

"I feel quite uncomfortable saying this but… I really don't have the money to buy such expensive clothes, like the ones you wear."

"Oh that's no problem, it's all on me." She had the money so she had no problem giving it to this girl for some proper clothes.

Haley smile went wide as she gave Brooke a hug. Brooke, who didn't see this coming, pushed her away quickly before and looked around to see if anyone had witnessed the hug.

"Sorry." She answered when her cheeks turned red.

"That's ok. Rule number one, don't hug in public with popular people. People are going to think that you're weird." She saw Haley's cheeks turn even more red. "If you're one of us, then you're allowed to hug."

"Ok, got it." Haley said while nodding her head.

"Great! Now we pay attention to the lesson cause I have this idea that the teacher is not pleased with us right now." She giggled and soon they both started to laugh.

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"No!" Haley said for the third time.

Brooke, Peyton and Haley all agreed to skip their last class to go shopping. Haley, who of course, never had done this before was now trying some cute skirt and tanktop on but she refused to come out of her changing cubicle.

"Haley! I swear if you don't come out in two seconds Peyton and I are going to make you try on some dark red lingere and then you have to show it outside your cubicle!"

When Haley stepped outside, Brooke and Peyton's eyes went wide from shock. The shy and innocent Tutor Girl was gone and replaced by a new, hot and very sexy girl. Her hair was loose and a little wild, her make-up was 'less-is-more' and the clothes fitted perfectly.

"So… What do you guys think?" She asked a little shy.

Peyton shook her blonde curls and looked again. Was this really the Tutor Girl from two seconds ago? "I-I think you look uhm…"

Haley sighed and looked down. "I look ridiculous don't I?" She was about to turn around but Brooke interrupted her.

"No Haley you look great! I have to admit I'm pretty lost here. You turned into one sexy vixen!" Peyton watched as Haley jumped in delight and then went back to her cubicle, still giggling.

"Brooke I think this turning her into a slut is going to work better than I expected! I think you're going to lose my dear." Peyton whispered amused in Brooke's ear.

Brooke ignored her words and scoffed. "No way I'm going to lose." She whispered back and then focused on the girl they were talking about.

"So Haley, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure Brooke, go ahead."

She hesitated a while before asking "you're Lucas' best friend right?" When she heard Haley say right she continued "so I wanted to know if Lucas said something about me? You know, good things of course. If he said some bad things I don't want to hear it."

She waved it away quickly as Peyton looked at her clearly amused. When Brooke started to ramble she was insecure and that was something Peyton hadn't seen in a while.

Brooke heard Haley laugh and her eyes went dark. Haley wasn't supposed to make fun of her ramble.

"Well Brooke if it makes you happy, yes… He talks about you. A lot."

Brooke's evil smile replaced by a genuine one. Looking over to where Peyton was standing she stuck out her tongue. Peyton who laughed at first mouthed to her 'what are we… Four?'

But this didn't bothered Brooke. Lucas was talking about her a lot and that meant he was interested.

This was going to be better than she ever expected it to.

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