Chapter 13(Haley)

A Sorta Fairytale

I felt Lucas' strong arms around me as he pulled me towards his warm body. We were back on his bed, sharing kisses and whispered declarations of a love that would last forever. He kissed his way down my neck and I shivered at the way his lips made me feel. One of his broad hands stroked up my leg and his thumb traced a circle on the skin of my thigh. With a smile on his face, he broke our kiss and looked down at me. Being looked at with such love and adoration was a bit unnerving. What if I couldn't live up to being the person he thought I was?

Lucas leaned down again and placed a quick kiss on my lips, "Stop worrying, Haley."

"How did you know I was worrying?"

"You got that look. The one you get when you're thinking about something."

I laughed, "You, mister, should not know that look yet."

"Just because we've only been dating for about thirty minutes doesn't take away the fact that we've been friends our whole lives…Trust me I know your looks."

I smirked at him, "So we're dating?"

Lucas smirked back at me, "Well let's see…I just kind of assumed with making love last night and then declaring love this morning."

I laughed and pulled him down to kiss me again. When we pulled away, I said, "Well you assumed right. I'm your girlfriend whether you like it or not."

He brushed a stray piece of hair out of my face, "Well, it's a good thing I like it, then."

He leaned down to kiss me again and I pulled him down and deepened the kiss. One of his hands drifted down and began pulling up the T-shirt I was wearing. He stroked my stomach and my hipbone with his fingers and I felt warmth spread throughout my whole body. I broke away from his lips and kissed down and back up his neck. When I reached the spot right below his jaw line, I felt goosebumps spread across his skin and he let out a soft moan. I smiled to myself, I'd found his spot. He lifted his head and then captured my lips with his own for a really passionate kiss. Now it was my turn to groan. I could live off this.

Suddenly Lucas' door to the outside burst open. I barely had time to register it before none other than Brooke Davis walked into the room.

"Alright Broody, time to….." Lucas rolled off me so I saw Brooke's eyes take in the whole scene and an incredulous smile spread across her face. She smirked as she finished her sentence, "get up."

I reached down and pulled the sheets up to cover my body seeing as how I was just wearing a big T-shirt and my underwear. "Uhh…Brooke, kinda not dressed here."

She waved her hand and dismissed my objection, "Please Tutor Girl, I wear less than that at the beach." She held out a hand and pointed at each of us with one finger, "You…and you. Together. That was unexpected, but sorta perfect."

She tilted her head and looked at Lucas like he had some explaining to do but Lucas looked just as dumbfounded as I felt.

When it was clear that no explanation was coming Brooke leaned out the door and yelled, "Peyton! Get in here Tutor Girl and Broody are having sex!"

"What?" I heard Peyton yell back.

"Brooke!" Lucas and I yelled at the same time.

Brooke turned back to us and said, "Really Broody, we've been over here trying to cheer you up all this time and all you really needed was a little tutoring?"

I looked at Lucas skeptically, "They've been over here, cheering you up?"

He shrugged, "Well, when you put it that way, no. But they have been trying to cheer me up." He smiled, sheepishly, "I've been kinda down lately."

Brooke said, "Yeah…Peyton's getting the cake out of the car, she should be in, in just a second. I don't know what's taking so long." She leaned out the door and shouted, "Peeeeeyton! Hurry up! Sex is taking place!"

Lucas and I shouted, "Brooke!" again but she didn't seem fazed. She just crossed her arms and smiled at both of us.

I looked at Lucas, "Cake?"

"Well, yeah. Saturday is cake day."

"Cake day?"

Brooke chimed in, "Well, Fridays we bake cookies. Saturday is cake day."

I'm sure I looked really confused but just then Peyton came staggering up to the door carrying what looked like a birthday cake.

"Jesus, Brooke…You totally could've helped me. Now what were you screaming about Chex Mix?"

Brooke smiled and just pointed towards Lucas and I on the bed. I saw Peyton's mouth drop open but then she smiled in a totally happy way and said, "Finally."

I gestured for her to come in, "Welcome to my most embarrassing nightmare, Peyton. Please come in."

"No, Haley. It's ok. Come on, Brooke, let's go. Give them their privacy." With that Peyton started tugging on Brooke's arm.

Brooke put on a pouty face, "Buuuuut Peyton. Cake Day…Dirty details"

I held up my hand to stop them, "Wait you guys, if I'm going to endure all this embarrassment. I'm at least going to get cake out of it."

Brooke squealed and clapped her and launched herself to sitting at the end of the bed. Peyton rolled her eyes and brought the cake and the forks she had in her hand and sat on the end of the bed too.

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All in all I have to say, hanging out with Brooke and Peyton wasn't as bad as I imagined it to be. We all sat around eating cake and laughing and joking. It was also nice to be close to Lucas this way. We sat really close together and he fed me with his fork. So far, we hadn't had time to just be a couple around other people and it was nice. I asked what was up with cake day and Lucas informed me that these two girls had taken it on themselves to keep him cheered up when he was kind of down about me. I smiled at both of them, that was a really nice thing to do. I might have to rethink what I believed about Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer. I'd always just thought of them as the popular girls and me as just Haley. Now I saw that they were just girls, like me. Just as I thought that, Brooke tossed a little piece of cake at Peyton and then Peyton proceeded to smear icing on Brooke's arm. I smiled again…well…maybe not just like me.

After a few minutes of eating in comfortable silence Peyton leaned forward, "So…Haley does this mean you've broken up with Nathan?"

"I knew it!" Brooke crowed.

Peyton blushed a deep red and she smacked Brooke's arm but Brooke wasn't going to be silenced. "You like Nathan, again! You like Nathan!"

Peyton leapt on Brooke and they rolled off the bed, wrestling. "Brooke, be quiet!"

Brooke just kept singing over and over, "You like Nathan." Even when Peyton managed to get her hand over Brooke's mouth you could still hear it, muffled.

Lucas leaned up to the edge of the bed, "You do, Peyton?"

Peyton's face was still red, "Well….I mean he seems to have changed a lot. Don't you think?" Then Peyton yelped and snatched her hand away from Brooke's mouth, "Jesus! You bit me!"

Brooke smiled, "I told you. You like Nathan but no…Peyton wouldn't listen would she? Nobody listens to Brooke anymore." She looked up at Peyton still holding her hand to her body, "Oh chill, Blondie, I didn't even break the skin. Boys have gotten much worse from me and haven't complained."

With that Peyton rolled off Brooke and stood up. "Well…I gotta go see him. He's probably really torn up about all this."

I sat up, quickly. "Umm, Peyton I haven't actually told him."

Peyton edged towards the door, "Well…maybe it should come from a friend. Then he, you know, in case he needs comforting. Don't you all think that's the best way? I mean if he's upset…"

"Just go get your man, Blondie!" Brooke shouted from the floor.

Peyton smiled at her and then at us and she slid through the door. Brooke leapt to her feet and grabbed her purse, "Alright you two lovebirds…I'm gonna go. I'm so going to wait by the phone for dirty details from P. Sawyer." With that she flounced out the door.

Lucas and I sat on the bed in post Brooke shock. After a few minutes Lucas smiled and pulled me back to lying down with him. "Now where were we?" I squealed at his hands danced up and down my body, pulling me closer than I would've ever thought possible.

The next morning Lucas came over to walk with me to school. I met him at the door and pulled him into a long kiss good morning. I felt him smile against my lips, "Well good morning to you too, sweetie. Ready to go?"

I sighed, "Do we have to go to school?"

Lucas gasped and felt my forehead and then reached down to my wrist and felt my pulse, "Haley James…do you feel violently ill?"

I smacked his hand away, "Haha…very funny. Let's just go." We started walking, hand in hand down the sidewalk to Tree Hill High.

When we were almost there, Lucas nudged me with one shoulder, "What's bothering you, Hales?"

I shrugged, "I guess its Nathan. He was really great to me; I hope I didn't hurt his feelings. Like what if he's really broken up about it?"

I heard Lucas chuckle next to me, "Um…I don't think that's a problem."

I looked up and saw Peyton and Nathan walking in from the parking lot, holding hands. When Nathan saw me he stopped short, kissed Peyton's hand, and then walked over to me.

"Hey, Haley."

I smiled, "Hey."

He shuffled his feet, "Look…I have realized that Peyton is the one for me. I don't regret us happening because you showed me how to be a better guy and now I can be the guy for Peyton that I always should've been. The guy that she deserves. Are we cool? I mean we can be friends, can't we?"

I smiled, this was going a lot easier than I'd originally thought, and "Of course we can be friends, Nate."

He smiled a big goofy grin and walked with Lucas I back over to Peyton. Once there he immediately looped an arm around her waist and she smiled up at him.

"Hey, Haley." Peyton said and waved at me. I smiled and gave a small wave back to her.

"Hey."

Just then Brooke walked up, "Aww look at all the cute couples. I really am a genius…Feel free to call me Cupid from now one."

I looked at her, "Brooke, these are basically the opposite couples of what you intended."

Brooke shook her head, "No need to shower me with praise, Haley. Seeing you crazy kids happy is enough reward for me."

I laughed and so did everyone else. Then suddenly I stopped, "Wait, did you just call me 'Haley'"

Everyone looked at Brooke, she shrugged. "Well duh, that's your name isn't it? For someone who's called Tutor Girl…jeez, try and keep up Haley."

With that everyone laughed again and we all, as a group walked into school together. Brooke and Peyton cracked jokes at each other and included me too. Lucas and Nathan started trading basketball tips and I smiled. In what world would I be on my way to becoming friends with Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer? And in what world would my best friend Lucas Scott be my boyfriend? And in what world would Lucas and Nathan finally talk to each other without punches being thrown?

As we all split up to go to our separate classes, Lucas kissed my cheek, Peyton and Brooke shouted, "See you at lunch, Haley." And Nathan waved bye to me.

What world could all of this be taking place in? I smiled, in a perfect world. Then the bell rang and it was time to go to Algebra. I sighed, well…maybe not a perfect world but…you get the idea.

The End

*A/N:Well this has been a really fun story to write, I hope you all have enjoyed reading it as well. Again, thanks for all of you who reviewed and read.*