Nathan ran his hands over his short dark brown hair before shooting his brand new basketball into the basketball net at the court he was at. He loved the feel of a brand new basketball, the way it was really firm, the way it bounced perfectly, it made him feel powerful. He watched as the basketball bounced off the rim of the net and into the grass. He sighed to himself. Today was not his day. Actually, he was sure that today was exactly like every other day, except today, he had to practice with a gorgeous girl sitting in the sidelines, and he felt nervous. He looked over to the picnic table where at that moment, Peyton was scribbling away in her sketch book, her golden curls falling in her face. She looked up from her sketchbook and smiled at him, but quickly went back to drawing. They hadn't said much to eachother since they talked in the hall. He assumed she was pretending it didn't happen, he decided not to push his luck.
"Hey gorgeous" Nathan heard a peppy voice say. He whipped around and saw Brooke coming towards him, her chocolatey hair bouncing. She went up to him and kissed him softly on the cheek. He bit his lip and smiled.
"Hey Brooke" he said, kind of weirded out that she had been acting like this around him. Ever since she slept with Chris and Lucas rejected her, she had been hitting on Nathan all the time..not that he really minded. Brooke was hot, sexy and he was defnitely attracted to her. Even though she could be a real bitch sometimes it never hurt to have a hot girl hanging all over him. Not that didn't happen anyways, but Brooke was definitely one of the sexiest girls in Tree Hill. Besides he needed a distraction from Haley, who kept trying to get him back.
"So I was thinking you and me, tonight. date..what do you think?" she asked flirtatiously. Nathan dribbled the ball a few times and looked over at Peyton who hadn't looked up from her sketchbook. It wasn't like anything was happening with Peyton, at least, he was pretty sure she wasn't interested. Their break-up had been bad and she had only treated him like a friend ever since.
"Yeah, sounds good. I'll pick you up around 8, okay?" he said a bit distractedly, shooting the ball at the net, but missing. Brooke got onto her toes and gave Nathan a soft kiss on the lips.
"See you tonight then gorgeous" she said huskily, as Peyton got up and started walking towards her car. Nathan and Brooke both turned to her.
"Peyt, where are you going?" Nathan asked as casually as possible. She turned to him with a blank look on her face.
"Home, I'm not feeling inspired here" she said dully and turned back towards her car. Brooke winked at Nathan and then followed Peyton. They got into Peyton's car and drove away. Nathan took a deep breath and looked around. He dribbled a bit more and then took a shot. It went in.