AN: Hi, I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone who reviewed the first chapter! I was overwhelmed by the number of reviews I got, and I'm so thankful that people are enjoying this fic. It's actually all written, I wrote it a while ago and it was posted on another board, but I decided to post it here too. Thank you to:

lilmonkeygirl31, jeyton4ever, Doveangel1213, OTHFAN23V, stars,

Naley is L.O.V.E.: yeah I definitely get what you mean about Haley doing drugs or something. I try not to make Haley do anything she wouldn't do on the show or that doesn't fit with her character in this story. I hope you like it!

Cadi Cay: I won't abandon this story, don't worry, it's actually already all written so it's just a matter of remembering to post it. I don't think I'll forget. I'm sorry if the first chapter was a bit rushed, I'm obviously still learning as a writer. Thanks!

DuCksRVeRykOol: I love your username, btw. lol. Yeah, sorry, first chapters all always boring for me, but now that the story is basically set up, there will be stuff happening, don't worry.

Chapter 2

A few days had passed and Nathan and Haley kept meeting after school everyday. And over the corse of those days, they sort of... grew on each other. They ended up talking more about other things than actualy working. They talked about all sorts of things. Nothing like what they had talked about that first day, but just their interests. It turned out that they were quite opposites. As they already knew, both of them liked Greenday, but other than that Nathan was more the hard rock or rap type and Haley the more mellow stuff. She just liked the political aspect of Greenday's music. They were two people, pretty much completely opposite, yet with much to talk about.

Over these few days, Haley had developed... feelings... for Nathan. She couldn't even remember ever having a crush on a guy. It was all weird to her, but it did make sense. Because although they had only known each other for a few days, they really connected. She knew she could not be the only one noticing this...

Nathan tried to concentrate on the problem infront of him... he really was trying. He wanted to get it right. But not so that he could feel good about solving a problem, so that he could see the look on Haley's face when he did it right. She had that cute smile and she got all excited and proud of him and he thought it was adorable. He hadn't even told his best friends about his feelings for Haley. He didn't think they would understand. I mean, you couldn't find anyone more different from him than Haley James. So as far as his friends knew, what was going on after school between them was strictly tutoring. And maybe that's all it actually was.

I mean, it didn't seem like boys played a big part in Haley's life. Nathan always tried to flirt with her and all but she obveously wasn't very flirtatious back. He knew she wasn't really the type to bat her eyelashes and get all ditzy on him, and that was mostly what he liked about her. Although Nathan got a ton of offers from all the bimbos that when to their school, unlike what you'd expect from a guy like him, he wasn't the one night stand type. He had dated Peyton and it was a real relationship. Okay, so they were totally wrong for each other, but the point was that Nathan was infact the boyfriend type. He liked the idea of having a girlfriend. And he could easily imagine Haley as his girlfriend. But what would his friends say? They didn't even know that Haley was his friend. Was she even his friend?

Nathan wasn't able to think straight, so he just scribbled some random number on his paper and gave it to Haley. Haley looked at it, made a face, and gave it back to him.

"Nathan, if that's the best you can do, than I don't think I like you anymore." Oh my gosh, what did I just say? Haley thought. "I mean... I didn't mean... Oh, God." Haley turned bright red and hid her face behind her hands.

Nathan was surprised. If she hadn't started stuttering and getting all embarrassed he probably wouldn't have thought anything of her comment, but now... Nathan couldn't help but laugh at Haley. She was just so adorable when she was embarrassed. And he couldn't help feeling great about himself... even if there was only like one chance in a million that she actualy meant she liked him. He just flashed her his Nathan Scott smirk, brushing it off.

Nathan jumped on the computer once he got home. He wasn't sure if Haley liked him the way he maybe liked her, but he wanted to take a chance. And he knew just the thing to get her to agree to go out with him. Of course there was still the issue of his friends? He was just holding it off untill the last minute but he knew that once his friends met Haley, they would like her. That is, if Haley let them in the way she let Nathan in.

Haley couldn't help think that all this was so odd. It was like: during school, they were total strangers and didn't even say a word to each other, but once they walked through the door to the tutoring center, they were good friends and just talked and talked about... anything at all really. They were complete strangers yet they knew so much about each other. Sure, Haley loved spending time with him, but not just for one hour everyday for tutoring. When would they stop hiding? God, it sounds like we're secret lovers, Haley told herself, this is ridiculous. Maybe she was just making a big deal about this. At this point they had barely even become friends.

AN: OK I know that wasn't too interesting and not much happened and it was kind of short, but I'm setting it up for stuff to happen next time! I promise! Actually this chapter was pretty short, and I'm not that happy w/ it, i dunno, but I'll post the third chapter also so you guys can have that too.