This chapter is FILLED WITH CRAP! Omgsh! Just read/ sorry for the length, i suppose
Chapter 14: Celebrity. Bye, Bye, Bye.
Lately I've been doing a little thinking 'bout the things that satisfy you
It's making me wonder 'bout the things that you see in me
"Nathan..." Kristin whined, watching him maneuver his crutches into the open door of Karen's Café. They were throwing a 'welcome home' party for him, which he didn't even want to attend, but his agent told him he'd meet him there.
"What?" He sighed, looking back at his fiancé.
"Why do we always have to come HERE. There are other places we could be. The restaurant we lunched at before was nice."
"But Karen's is more personal, and paparazzi free." He informed her. Her smile seemed to fade when he reminded her that they gotten all the way over here, and not one of the reporters showed up. "And this is where I was told to be, I find out about how this will affect my career today." Since Nathan had awoke from his coma the realism that he may not ever play again started to sink in, and as a result he became more and more stubborn and closed off. Smiling wasn't at the top of his priority list anymore.
"Whatever..." She mumbled, glancing over Nathan's head to see if any of his single teammates were still here.
"Nathan! You're early! You ruined the surprise!" Brooke wailed.
"Brooke, it wasn't a surprise, you told me yesterday."
"Yeah, but that was only because I needed you here on time! Now we don't get to yell surprise or throw the confetti!" She pouted.
"Here. I can fix that." Nicole blankly states, walking over to wear Nathan was and standing in front of him. "SURPRISE!" She shouts, fake smile on her face, throwing a handful of confetti up in the air, watching it fall to the floor in front of him.
"OH WOW NICOLE! I am so surprised! Your confetti is so... colorful." He says in an almost bothered tone.
"Thanks. Mock me."
Nathan was bombarded by teammates, family and friends that had packed Karen's to see him. All asking him different questions. "How's the knee?" "You okay, dawg?" "How's the girl?"
He tried to look threw the crowd for his agent, but couldn't find him. He nodded at the crowd, and then wheeled over to where he saw Haley sitting, discussing something heatedly with Nicole.
"It's not a horrible idea." Nicole reasons.
"I know it's not." Haley agrees.
"Well, then what is the problem? I guess I don't understand."
Haley sighs, "I honestly don't understand it either, it's just how it is, honey."
"Whatever mom. I have to go find Hannah, and make sure she isn't still crying about Uncle Lucas leaving."
"Tell her we have cake."
"Will do."
"Thanks." She called to Nicole's retreating figure, she got a hand thrown up in recognition. She spotted Nathan trying to move with his crutches toward her and she smiled warmly at him.
"Hey."
"Hi."
"What was that about?" He asks.
"Oh, nothing really. But tell me, am I going to have to eat that whole cake by myself, or are you going to help me?"
"What kind is it?"
"Vanilla with chocolate frosting, Karen made it."
"Im in." He smirks, and watches as she cuts the cake and puts two pieces on two plates. She laughed when she accidentally got chocolate frosting on her hand. He smiled for the first time in a long time when he saw her try to push her hair back, getting frosting all over her face, and not realizing it. He almost felt guilty for wanting Haley, and shot a glance at Kristin, she was flirting with one of his teammates.
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I hate the way you like to say your man's a celebrity
Baby what's the deal, I thought you wanted me for me
Nicole walks out of Karen's and sees her sister sitting on a bench staring blankly at the street before her.
"Hey." She says softly, sitting down next to her. Hannah rolls her eyes at her and ignores her. "Alright, I'm sorry, how many times do I have to tell you this?"
"A lot." She bites out coldly.
"You know, I am not even going to point out that I'm not the only one that should be apologizing, because I know you are hurting right now. But just get over it, all ready. Uncle Luke is moving. There isn't anything you or I or anyone else can do about. So suck it up, enjoy the time you have left with him. "
Hannah looks over at Nicole and smiles weakly at her. "It's not about Uncle Lucas. Nicole... what the heck is going to happen to our family once dad gets better?"
"'Family?' Oh, Hann. You poor, poor naive little lamb. What we have isn't a family. It's a crazy put-together of assorted people, that are somehow linked to one another." Nicole jokes.
"I'm serious. I've lived all these years without my dad, and until this summer I thought I was okay with it, I had Aunt Tay and Uncle Luke, Kenny, and Chris. And they were great and all, but I learned that a dad is an irreplaceable role in a girl's life. And what about you! I can't leave you to fend off Kristin all by yourself!"
"One, don't worry about me. Two, I think we can get rid of the annoyance formally known as Kristin..." She smiles deviously.
"How..?" She asks slowly, knowing her sister's look.
"Okay, here's my plan.."
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I'm glad that you are having a good time livin' the life that I've laid out for me
Constantly splurging, spending my money on everything you see
"Hey." Lucas smiles at Brooke, who is refilling the punch bowl.
"Hi." She smiles back.
"Brooke..." Lucas says, seriousness laced into his tone.
"Yeah..." She frowns with worry at him.
"What are you going to do once Nathan gets better?"
"Um. Go home?" She replies, confused.
He simply nods and looks back at the crowd pensively.
"Whoa. Don't go all Broody on me here. Why...?"
"Brooke. I'm moving back home..." He says like it's the most obvious thing in the world.
"I know that..."
"Well!" He exclaims.
"Well what? I MUST be missing something here."
"You know what! Never mind!" He growls at her, before tearing out the room. Brooke looks over at Haley and Nathan who had clearly saw the whole thing. Haley shrugged and looked worriedly at her. Nathan simply rolled his eyes.
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It would be different if you had something
Maybe like a J-O-B
You need to get your thing together, yeah
Hannah and Nicole walk back into Karen's side by side, scheming smiles on their faces. They nod at each other before splitting up. Nicole walked over to near the area where Haley and Nathan were and Hannah walked over to where Kristin was re-applying her make-up. They looked back at each other, nodded again as a cue, and Nicole "faints."
"Nicky!" Haley exclaims, running over to her. Hannah restrains a laugh, that was the worst fake faint she had ever seen.
"Oh my god. She is so over-dramatic, always trying to get the in the spotlight. No one cares!" Hannah complains to Kristin, who looks at the scene before them with disgust.
"I know. But HALEY seems to care. I saw her talking 'causally' to Nathan."
"Yeah. That's my mom for you though, she'll probably take him from you. I mean, I love her, but lately all she seems to care about is her reputation, and how good she looks in a magazine and blah, blah, blah." Hannah mentally kicks herself for letting herself say these atrocious things about the one person she loved more than anything else. Kristin glances at Hannah briefly, trying to read her.
"Really...?" She asked, sounding interested.
"Yeah. And Nicole, she is SUCH a snob. I hate her."
"I hate the little princess too."
Deb comes up, right on cue, behind Kristin. "DID YOU JUST SAY YOU HATE NICOLE?" She questions, a malicious stare on her face. Nathan and Haley look over at the three. Nicole opens her eyes, and sits up.
Kristin laughs hollowly, looking around for someone to help her. "What... no, of course not!"
"No, I'm pretty sure that is what she said." Hannah agreed. Kristin panicked. She pointed at Hannah.
"Well, SHE said she was a snob and that she hated her! And you should of heard the horrible things she had said about her mother!"
"KRISTIN, REALLY! Do you honestly expect us to believe that HANNAH could say awful things about her sister or mother? You must be out of your mind!" Deb counters.
"BUT SHE DID!" Kristin cried, staring at Hannah who had plastered a confused, innocent look on her face.
"OH PLEASE!" Nicole cried out, causing everyone to stare at her.
"I thought you fainted!" Haley exclaimed.
"I, uh, feel better, just a fluke. BUT KRISTIN! How could you?" She fired at her, taking the heat off herself.
"I, I..." She stammered, looking at Nathan, who had not said a word yet.
The door to Karen's swung open and revealed Nathan's agent, dressed in the finest Armani suit, finishing his cell phone call, then staring at the tension that had formed throughout the café.
"Um. Hello." He greeted awkwardly as the entire crowd stared at him. "Nathan...? Can we talk? Alone?"
"Uh.. Yeah, let's go outside." He told him slowly, confusion evident in his eyes.
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If you really loved me, you'd try and show me that it ain't even about my name
But you try to use me, you lie to fool me
So it can never be the same
"Nathan. I swear I did all I could man..." He started hesitantly.
"They... their gonna cut me?" Nathan gulped.
"Not cut, trade." He corrected.
"I'm not following...?" Nathan's confusion lines appear on his forehead.
"They are trading you to play with your brother, in Charlotte. Apparently, the Bobcats want you guys together, and even with your knee, they are still going to match your 6.5 mill salary. They hired some top physical therapist to get you back quicker, but..."
"Stay in Tree Hill...?" Nathan asked, disbelievingly.
"Well, where you live, doesn't really concern me, just as long as you can get to practice and games on time. Now, I hate to leave so soon, but I have to meet with the Bobcat's owners, so I will talk to you tomorrow."
"Uh, yeah, thanks."
"Oh! Nate, you DO want to sign, right?"
"Yeah... yeah I do."
"Tremendous! Right, so tomorrow."
"Tomorrow." Nathan replied in shock.
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So now I'm leaving you behind
I've found somebody who can love me for me
And that's all I need, yeah
Nathan had quickly grabbed Kristin and went out to the car. Nicole had asked to stay with Hannah for the night. They drove through the quiet, small town night. Kristin pulled slowly up the driveway, turned off the car, and looked over at her should-be husband.
"Natey..? Are we ever going to get married?"
"I guess." He shrugged. She cried out in frustration.
"Nathan!"
"What!"
"I want to get married!"
"We'll do it sooner or later! I mean, we could do it when we had originally planned to."
"WE ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO DO IT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO!" She shouted.
"Baby, Im too tired for this crap. You know I meant back in LA in September! (Not that we are going to be there anyways.)" He mumbled so she couldn't hear. "I am going to bed, it's been a long, horrible day." He sighed, climbing out the passenger's seat, grabbing his crutches.
"Horrible all right." She rolled her eyes. "What did that guy tell you anyways?"
"My agent?"
"Yes!" She demanded annoyed.
"They traded me."He looked at her confused face "It means I am on the Bobcats now."
"BOBCATS? Who are they?"
"They're from Charlotte."
"Oh no. So you mean we would live HERE!" She asked, disgusted.
"Yeah, I guess so."
"Would we still have the house in LA?"
"No, why would we?"
"BECAUSE! I hate this town. It has no excitement!"
Nathan looked at her for a long time, before finally coming to a decision.
"Kristin...?" He asked softly.
"Yeah?" She asked irritably.
"Get the hell out." He commanded.
"WHAT?"
"Don't even try to act surprised. You flirt with EVERY other guy, you constantly ask me for money, my kids and family HATE you, so I'll tell you again: Leave."
"Babe, it's the meds, you are irrational..." She tried, sure she didn't love him, but 6.5 million a year, that she sure did love.
"No. It's not. You don't love me. I don't love you..."
"This is about HER isn't it!" She shouted.
"HALEY? This has nothing to do with her."
"Sure it doesn't. I'm not stupid. I saw the way you look at her."
"You know what! It does, I won't lie. But it has way more to do with the fact that all you love is yourself and money. So get the hell out of my life, and don't come back."
Ding dong, the witch is gone! Lol
Thanks for reviewing...
RoseRows: He he he. No quitting, he got traded. I had that idea forever. I hope you liked it.
JlsNaley: Kristin is gone. And Nathan is awake. All your wishes come true!
Journeyfan01: Haley moving back is still a ? But Nathan did get rid of the evil fiance, and you WILL see why they chose kids, lol I was wondering when someone would FINALLY wonder that...