Hey everyone and thanks for reviewing. You guys rock:D Anyways, here's chapter 11. I must apologize, it's short and not much happens but I hope you still enjoy. :)

Chapter 11

"Hey Nate."

"What's up Tim." Nathan said bumping fists with Tim while walking on the hallway of the school.

"Nothin'. So, how did last night go? Let me guess, no movie?"

"Yeah, that's what she said first but then right when I was about to tell her, she changed her mind."

"Oh, tough. But you still told her you like her, right?"

"No, are you crazy?"

"You should've told her, man."

"Yeah, well. I didn't." Nathan said irritated and Tim decided to drop the subject.

"So, where are you going?" Tim asked. They'd been walking through the hallways and now they were in front of the main doors.

Nathan turned to look at Tim.

"I gotta run some errands." He said and opened the doors and headed towards the gym parking lot where his car was.

"But we gotta leave for our game in 30 minutes." Tim said.

"Yeah, I know. I'll be back by then." Nathan said.

"You want some company?"

"Naw, I gotta do this alone." Nathan said and Tim stopped walking. "See you in half an hour."

Ever since the previous night when he and Haley had 'officially' become friends, things had been smooth and pleasant. Smooth and pleasant but definitely not normal. Because normal would've meant either yelling and bitching or constant flirting.

Nathan had decided not to tell Haley how he felt because he thought that Haley wanted to only be friends. In reality, friendship was the farthest thing she wanted but she had promised to herself to try that if it was what Nathan wanted. And since Nathan was too good in hiding his feelings, Haley had no idea about his true feelings. The whole thing was so ridiculous that neither suspected anything else.

Nathan drove the main street slowly while looking at the stores around it.

"It's gotta be here somewhere..." he mumbled while looking between the street in front of him and the stores.

"Ha! There!" he said triumphantly and parked the car in front of the store he was looking for. He dug a receipt from his pocket and looked at a logo on it that said 'Tattoos'. He then looked up at the same logo that was on the window of a tattoo parlor.

He opened the door and stepped inside. An old man with a two-week-old beard who had about 50 of his body covered in tattoos, looked up from the porn magazine he was "reading".

"Can I help you?" he asked in a bored voice from Nathan.

"Yeah, I've got a question." Nathan started. "This is the only tattoo parlor in the city, right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"A guy got his tattoo done here and I need to know who he is."

"We don't release customer information, sorry." He said bored and looked down at the magazine again.

"Oh, come on. This is really important. This person... I need to know who he is." Nathan said.

"Why?"

"I just do."

"Then I can't help you."

"Fine, he... This guy tried to... This asshole tried to rape my friend and I wanna find him and break his neck." Nathan said abruptly. The old man put the magazine away.

"Your friend don't remember him?"

"He roofied her so... He left some stuff behind and this is the only thing that can help me find him." Nathan showed him the receipt. The guy took it and looked at it.

"Yeah, that's ours. The date says that it was done here about a month ago. Let me check who was working then." He said and pulled a bunch of papers and started to go through them.

"Joe." He finally said while looking at the old work schedule.

"Can you tell me which tattoo he got?"

"We don't keep that detailed records but according to the receipt, he paid 250 bucks. Usually phrases cost that much." The old man said still looking at the receipt.

"Well, can you call Joe and ask what he remembers about that guy?" Nathan asked.

"Joe tends to disappear whenever he has time off. He has a shift in few days though. I can have him call you when he gets here." He said.

"Yeah, that would be good." Nathan said and wrote down his number for him. Nathan thanked him and started to walk away. He opened the door and was about to walk out when he stopped. He turned to look at the old guy again.

"Look, this girl... she's... she's really important to me." Nathan started not taking his eyes off the old man. "I care about her a lot and I gotta find this guy... But not only do I want to find him, I need to find him. For her sake." Nathan said. For the first time the man looked at him with a softer look.

"I'll do everything I can." He said quietly.

"Thanks." Nathan said and left.

"... so then he tried to do the fade away and did you see me block that one guy with that ugly ass pirate tattoo? I mean how gay can a guy look."

"Yes, Tim. We all saw how awesome you were." Haley said smiling.

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"And yes, the cheerleaders were also marvellous." Haley said laughing when Brooke coughed.

Brooke, Peyton, Haley, Lucas, Nathan, Jake and Tim were all in Karen's café celebrating yet another victorious game.

"So, one more game before state championship game?" Brooke asked to make sure.

"Yep, on Friday against Masonboro." Lucas confirmed.

"Are they good? I mean, of course they're good to get this far but are they better than us?" Peyton asked while stealing fries from Jake's plate.

"They've got a few good freshmen this year and their seniors are very experienced. It's gonna be a tough game." Lucas said.

"But nothing that the T-man can't handle!" Tim said and lifted his hand for a high five but everyone just laughed.

"Get it? T-man as in Tim?"

"Yeah, I got it." Haley said smiling and high fived him. "Good game, Tim."

"Thanks." He said with a smile.

"So, Luke. Mom called me earlier today." Haley said looking at him.

"Yeah? What did she say?"

"She told me to thank you for the flowers." Haley said. "But she also said that you should, and I quote, 'stay the hell away from Quinn because that little devil will only bitch and moan about everything while making you feel nothing but inadequate', end quote." Haley said.

"Roger that." Lucas mumbled a bit sad that he had caused so much drama for Haley's family.

"Hey, it doesn't matter what you do. You know she'll be forever mad at us for not getting married." Haley said and laughed with Lucas.

"You're mom wants you to marry Luke?" Peyton asked while Nathan looked at them with a mixture of amusement and jealousy.

"Yeah, she thinks he's the perfect guy-" Haley started.

"She's a smart woman." Lucas said laughing.

"-but she's also known for occasionally making bad judgements about people." Haley finished laughing.

"Hey! That hurts. Really. Right here." Lucas said holding his hands on top of his heart.

"Oh, quit it. You're still mom's golden boy so quit whining." She said smiling.

"Golden boy, huh." Brooke asked laughing.

"Yep. Our moms used to get together and plan our future wedding." Lucas said.

"Yeah, we waited till they had chosen my wedding dress, the center pieces and the thank you-cards to tell them that we were nothing but best friends and that we would never ever get married." Haley said with a grin.

"You're evil." Peyton said laughing with the rest of them.

"I think they cried for months." Lucas added.

"How old were you?" Jake asked.

"Nine." They both said.

"Talk about enthusiastic mothers. So, you two have known each other for pretty long time?" Tim asked.

"Since we were like seven. Haley's mom used to babysit me a lot." Lucas said.

"So, got any dirty gossip about him?" Brooke asked from Haley while nodding towards Lucas.

"I hope you'd never ask." Haley said with a wide grin.

"Hey! Not fair!" Lucas said.

"What do you wanna know?" Haley asked ignoring Lucas.

"Well, you can start by telling me his middle name." Nathan said while smirking at his brother.

"Hales, don't you dare." Lucas said waving his index finger at Haley.

"It's-"

"If you value our friendship and don't want me to tell them about your first kiss, you shut your mouth." Lucas said half kidding.

"Oh, you wouldn't!"

"What happened?" Peyton asked enthusiastically.

Haley and Lucas kept staring at each other as if daring the other to speak.

"Tell, tell, tell, tell, tell, tell..." Tim chanted under his breath while clapping his hands with a wide grin.

"Oh, what the hell." Haley said and looked at Lucas.

"Yeah, do it!" Tim said.

"Eugene!" Haley yelled.

"Their braces got stuck!" Lucas yelled back.

"What?" Tim asked confused.

"His middle name is Eugene." Haley clarified.

"And Haley's braces got stuck with the other guy's braces." Lucas said.

"You two are such dorks." Nathan said smirking.

"Yeah, no wonder your moms wanted you to hook up. They probably thought you wouldn't find anyone else." Tim said laughing.

"Oh!" Nathan yelled laughing and high fived him while the rest just laughed.

"Hey!" Lucas and Haley said offended at the same time.

"You're just mad 'cause you're not getting any." Lucas said to Tim.

"Yeah!" Haley said and then turned to look at Nathan. "And you're just mad 'cause all you are getting is a few unfinished lap dances." Haley said to Nathan with a smirk.

"Yeah!" Lucas said and then turned to look at Haley confused. "Wait, what?"

"Nothing." She said with a smirk while keeping her eyes on Nathan's.

"Well, nothing would be unfinished if it were up to me." Nathan said smirking back at her.

"Oh, you definitely had something up."

"Well, if you ever want to continue 'upping' things, you know where I live."

"I'll keep that in mind."

"You do that."

Nathan and Haley were still staring at each other with wide smirks while completely ignoring the others. Well, not really ignoring, more like forgetting that they were there.

The sexual tension was so visible that even Haley's blind and 'slightly' schizophrenic Great-Aunt Hilda would've blushed in embarrassment... before accusing her of working for the government and wearing a wire.

Tim and Jake looked at the table and the wall or anything else but Nathan and Haley feeling like if they had looked at them, they would have interrupted something. Brooke and Peyton were grinning knowingly while Lucas just looked at Haley and Nathan confused. Well, not really confused. Even he wasn't stupid enough to believe those two were only friends but it did come as a shock to him in some level at how openly they were flirting.

Brooke looked at the two with a wide grin and decided to break the silence and say what everyone already knew.

"Friends my ass."

"Did you see them? I thought they hated each other!"

"Oh, quit your bitching, Lucas." Brooke said smiling and looked at the road in front of her. They were in Lucas' truck on their way from the café to Brooke's place. "You were the one who wanted them to get along."

"Get along? Yes. But practically have sex in the fucking table right in front of me? Hell no!" Lucas said.

"They were not having sex." Brooke said and paused for a second before continuing with a grin. "Eye-fucking each other? Maybe. But definitely not having sex."

"Brooke!"

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