AN: sorry for the delay on all the stories, I promise the others should be up anytime soon! This chapter was meant to be longer but I wanted to get it up. So here it is, please review!

CHAPTER 3:

She groaned for what seemed like the hundredth time in the last 3 hours, as they walked towards Nathan's room. "Nathannnnn" She whined, begging him, "Please stop. Please!"

"Oh but Hales, I can't... you see my tutor... well she thinks I'm hot." He laughed when she blushed again. "Smoking hot."

She turned to him, mouth agape. "WHAT?!" she shrieked.

He laughed harder when he saw the look of astonishment cover her face. "I said 'not bad on the eyes'... Never did I say hot let alone SMOKING."

"Haley, Haley, Haley... It's ok I know." He said as he lightly held her arm in place, making her stop. He saw a look of panic run across her face and wondered what she was worried about, before he quickly forgot and went back to tormenting her.

While he wondered that she nearly had a panic attack. Oh my god, please don't tell me he knows.

Nathan carried on, "I know, I mean I've known for some time." She gulped wondering what was going to happen next and how she was going to escape his dorm. "It doesn't take a genius to work it out, look at me; of course EVERY girl at college has the hots for me."

She relaxed, silently thanking god that he didn't really know. She looked back at him, panic now gone, laughing at the smirk on his face, ready to carry on their usual banter as if nothing had happened.

"Aw, Natey. They don't have the hots for you...It's just they feel sorry for you." She smiled mischievously as his smirk was quickly wiped of his face.

He quickly composed himself before asking, "Oh really?"

"Ye-" She was cut off as he pushed her up against the corridor wall, tickling her anywhere he could reach, knowing that Haley was extremely ticklish.

"Nate!" She screamed, trying not to laugh, as she became nearly unable to breathe.

Neither heard the door behind them being pulled open with great force, the guy behind it pissed off with level of noise the pair were making.

"Will you two shut up and go get laid somewhere else; all I can hear is your whore shrieking!" He boomed making Nathan and Haley jump away from each other in great surprise.

Nathan swung himself round, facing one of his dorm members. "What the fuck did you just say?!" He walked up to Mike and looked down on the boy.

Mike, now very worried for his safety stuttered, "So-sorry Nathan and uh, uh, Haley... I just didn't know it was you." The confidence he had a moment ago now completely gone as he knew not to mess with Nathan, especially if it had anything to do with Haley. He didn't want to end up like Damien had.

"Maybe next time you should just shut the hell up- " He said, slowly getting closer to the boy.

"Nate...Nate come on." Haley soothed him, trying to pull him down the corridor and to his room. Sure she was shocked and slightly hurt about what Mike had said, although he didn't know it was her she didn't like to be called a whore. But at the same time she needed to get Nathan away from the situation and calm him down.

Nathan pulled his glare away from Mike and looked down on Haley softly. "Come on." He said as he walked them to his room door.

They made it to Nathan's room; he stuffed the key in the door. Opened it and let her go in before he walked in, slamming the door behind him with great force, making Haley jump from her spot on the other side of his bedroom.

"Nate, calm down. He didn't know any better." Haley tried to reason with him although she was pretty sure it was useless.

"Hales come on! You can't be serious! He just called you a WHORE!" He stormed over to his desk and threw his keys onto the side.

She knew he would never hurt her, but when he got into one of these moods she did become slightly scared.

"He's lucky I didn't knock him out! He can't just call you a whore and then be all apologetic." Haley could see he was getting more and more agitated and decided it was time to get properly involved.

She walked up to him, pushing him down to sit on the bed, and then took the place to his left. He put his head down and sighed, he didn't like being this way but no one spoke to Haley like that.

Haley reached with her right arm and soothingly started to rub his scalp and upper neck, massaging out the tension.

"Nate," She whispered, keeping her voice low so he didn't get more worked up, "Just forget it."

Although she knew he had heard her he didn't reply instead he moaned as she massaged him, he leant into her touch and could feel himself calming down. After a couple of minutes she realised what she was doing and pulled away. Nathan by now was nearly completely relaxed and didn't notice the awkwardness of the situation.

He leant back onto the bed and lied down, sighing. "I shouldn't have got so worked up I know." He said his eyes now closed, "I just don't like people talking like that about you...or to you."

Haley could see he was struggling getting the words out and leant back onto the bed next to him. "I know but it was just Mike, I tutored him last month and he's always been really lovely to me."

He made a 'humph' noise and she knew he didn't want to talk about it anymore so quickly changed the subject.

"So Scott, you got me in your room, what were you planning on doing?" she said, only realising how it sounded until after it left her mouth. She could feel the heat cover her body, sure that if she looked in the mirror at that moment in time she would be bright red.

Nathan, his eyes still closed, an air of relaxation about him, gave a low throaty laugh before pulling her in closer to him.

"Oh Hales." He managed to get out still laughing.