A/N: One word...ENJOY!
Chapter 18
"Thanks for dropping me home Peyton." Haley smiled as they entered her house.
"No problem buddy anytime! Thanks for inviting me in." Peyton smiled back.
"Well it's the least thing I can do. Want something to drink?" Haley asked heading towards the kitchen.
"Got any frappuccinos by chance?" Peyton chuckled.
"Yeah right..." Haley snorted.
"Thought so...water is fine." Peyton replied as Haley tossed her a bottle of water. "Thanks."
"So today wasn't such a bad day huh..." Peyton asked as the two girls headed for the living room.
"Yeah...I suppose, considering I spent most of the day out of school." Haley chuckled.
"Well at least one of us got lucky." Peyton said as she sat down on the couch. Haley turned the tv on and started flicking.
"So how was your day with our dear old Nathan anyway?" Peyton asked.
"It was good. He helped me sort my mind out a bit about the whole situation..." Haley responded as she decided to leave the channel on MTV.
"So...How do you feel about it now?" Peyton asked cautiously, hoping it would be okay to talk about it now.
"Well I feel practically the same, hurt." Haley shrugged keeping her eyes glued on the television.
"I see..." Peyton said not knowing what to say at that point.
The two girls sat watching the tv for the next couple minutes in silence until the front door opened.
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Basketball practice had just ended and Nathan stepped out of the gym doors. To his surprise he saw Rachel making out with none other than Chris Ricke at the lockers near by. Nathan's eyes started burning with anger just watching and started heading towards the two, when a hand came out and stopped him.
"Whoa, where do you think you're going man?" Tim asked holding his friend back.
"What do you think! What the hell is he still doing here?" Nathan pointed out.
"I know but not here man. Coach is still here and if he sees you-" Tim started talking to thin air when Nathan broke off his hold. Dammit! he thought as he started going after his friend.
"You got a lot of nerve showing your face around here..." Nathan cursed, breaking the love fest between the couple.
"Nathan.." Rachel said surprised as she wiped her lips.
"Nathan? I'm Chris nice to meet you..." Chris held out his hand and gave a big cocky smirk. Nathan just glared at his hand before taking his glare back to Chris.
"Okay...fine...So can I help you?" Chris Ricked asked wrapping his arm around Rachel.
"Nate we better go..." Tim said interrupting.
"Yeah... why don't you head off with your girlfriend there and leave me with mine..." Chris kept his smirk in place.
"Why don't I take that smirk off your face and shove it up your -"
"Nathan!" Rachel interrupted.
"What the hell you doing with him Rachel? Are you doing this to get back at Haley?" Nathan's voice started to raise.
"Look Nathan. You're the one who broke up with me, this whole jealousy thing is played out."
"Jealousy? You think I'm jealous!"
"Well you sure are acting like it." Rachel said with much attitude putting her hands on her hips.
"You do know I'm with Haley right! And for you to be with this jerkass means only one thing and that you're doing it to get back at Haley. I won't even be surprised if you were the one who called Haley's mom to get here! Tim told me that you heard me telling Lucas about Haley's state." Rachel glared at Tim after hearing that and Tim just stood behind Nathan for protection.
"So...you're Haley's boyfriend..." Chris chuckled.
"Yeah and if I were you I'd stay the hell away from her." Nathan gave him a little shove.
"Hey, hey, no need to get feisty...why won't you tell her that. Maybe she just wants some more of this." Chris grinned at the look on Nathan's face upon hearing that.
"You better watch what you say asshole." Nathan shoved him again.
"I guess I shouldn't say that I wouldn't mind trying her again?" That did it. A second later Chris was laying sprawled on the floor wiping the blood coming out of the side of his lip with Rachel by his side making sure he was okay. Tim stopped Nathan before he could get another punch in. Chris just sat up and put another big grin on his face.
"You stay the f-ck away from her before I kill you next time." Nathan threatened once more before turning around.
"You know she was very feisty in bed. I bet she loved every moment of it." Chris called back as Nathan was about to walk away, obviously thinking he didn't have enough beating yet. Nathan turned back around and jumped on Chris and started pounding hard. Tim with Rachel combined tried to get him off of Chris but to no avail. Finally Lucas and Jake got out of the gym and saw the whole commotion and decided to end it.
"Get the f-ck off me!" Nathan yelled trying to struggle out of the three guy's grasps.
"C'mon baby we better go..." Rachel helped the badly beaten Chris up and threw his arm over her shoulder and tried to help guide him out.
Finally after Chris was gone from their sight the three guys decided to let Nathan go.
"What the hell was that!" Nathan yelled as he pushed Lucas.
"Look Nate I don't think this is the best place for you guys to get it on here too." Jake said holding his arm out, stopping Lucas from lunging at Nathan.
"Whatever." Nathan fan his hand as he turned away from the guys.
"You better stay the hell away from her. You've done enough damage to her." Lucas called back. Once again a comment stopped Nathan in his tracks and turned right back around.
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"Lucas! Haley!" Andy stepped inside the house and started looking around for his kids.
"Dad! In the living room!" Haley called back.
Andy made his way there and saw two girls slouched over on the couch.
"Hey Mr. Scott" Peyton greeted and waved.
"Hey Peyton nice to see you. Haven't seen you here in a while." Andy smiled.
"Yeah... After you banned all parties in the house last year, it was hard finding an excuse to come here more often, unless I dated your son and I don't think that would sit right with Brooke." Peyton chuckled but stopped a second later after seeing Haley's face at the mention of Lucas and Brooke.
"Yeah well...that wild party should stay elsewhere. I'd hate to see any vase,tables or even bones broken again after that." Andy chuckled.
"Oh Tim...I remeber that...After a few drinks and watching jackass upstairs...he thought it would we a cool idea to skateboard down the stairs..." Peyton started laughing at the memory.
"Oh yeah...So anyway what are you girls up to? Hales, honey? You okay?" Andy glanced at Haley noticing the frown on her face.
"Uhh gee... would you look at the time. I better head home before my dad gets worried and calls the cops on me again." Peyton chuckled as she got up from the couch.
"See you tomorrow Haley. And nice to see you again Mr. Scott." Haley just nodded and Andy gave her a smile.
Andy made her way to his daughter and sat in the spot that Peyton was sitting in just a few seconds earlier.
"What's wrong Haley-bop?" Andy asked patting Haley's leg.
"Oh everything is great dad." Haley said with much sarcasm, still keeping her gaze on the television.
"Haley..." Andy said with a more stern voice.
"Nothing dad...why don't you talk to that son of yours instead..." with that Haley got up and made her way up the stairs to her room.
Andy sat alone and turned off the tv and let out a big sigh. So I guess telling you I invited your mom for dinner will be harder than I thought...
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"Damage! If anyone here did any damage to Haley, it's you!" Nathan shoved Lucas back again. This time Lucas retaliated and shoved back.
"Yes! You heard me! Since you made my sister skip school today, which is a very stupid idea by the way, I didn't have any chances of reconciling any difference I have with her!" Lucas yelled back.
"I was trying to help her out!" Nathan raised his voice even louder than Lucas'.
"By making her skip classes! You know what that would do to her attendance record! Haley never skip classes until you came along! What's next? Get her in jail?"
Jake and Tim tried to stay in between the two former bestfriends but things are starting to heat up between the two.
"You know I'd never let something like that happen to Haley and I didn't have to do that if you didn't tell the whole school about what happened to her!"
"I didn't!"
Nathan crossed his arms over his chest. "Oh sorry, you told your girlfriend, who you know is like the gossip queen of the school and you did that after promising Haley you wouldn't say anything to anyone."
Silence.
"Look I messed up okay? I just want to make things right with her again..." Lucas said in a more calm voice.
"So why are you still here? You know if I were you, I'd focus less on me being with Haley and more on fixing your relationship with your her." Lucas held his head down knowing Nathan was right and with that Lucas turned around, leaving the three without saying another word.
A/N: Well it's a very short chapter I know, but atleast I added in some confrontation with Chris and Nathan! And as you can see the fued between Nathan and Lucas are starting to simmer down...I was a little disappointed at the amount of reviews I got...so little! after doing all that writing...so I decided to just leave you off with little writing too! hehe..I know I'm evil...but again I'm just using that excuse to replace my laziness...lol But to show you guys I still love you I updated early! And I know by the time the season 3 dvd comes out and season 4 starts, I probably be more slow on my updates...so I'll try to update as fast as I can before exactly a week from now! I'll try to write a longer chapter next time if you guys just keep those reviews up! I will do some comment thing again though just for you...
AngelLuva : Dude! you gotta update Unfaithful. I'm really diggin' it! lol...And Destiny vs Life, glad things are getting better with Nathan and Haley. That hot and steamy scene at the Grotto! whoa that was crazy! I could never write a scene like that! lol and I read chapter 30 and I got confused but then I noticed afterwards that I never read chapter 29 so I'm reading it now! lol anywho hoped you like this chapter cuz there was some friendship mending and Chris ass kicking too. Yeah bestfriends are always cool..Lucas used to be Haley's bestfriend but well you know what happened to that... so things are starting to get better...at least between Lucas and Nathan...but then again my mind can always change and start to heat things up again...lol ...not really sure how to end this yet but we'll see...
babyxbxgurl : Well hope you liked this chapter, since there was a lot of hurtin' for chris! lol and trust me there will be a lot more hurting for him in future chapters! lol... I really hate the chris in this story but I do love the one on the show..especially the episode with him in Nathan on the ship...hilarious! lol..
anyway I lost interest in wrestling too for a bit..but around the time where they brought DX back I started watching it again. It's still pretty entertaining if I don't say so myself! lol...and we still have both cena and orton in there...much entertainment going on there! lol...
Silent Me : Dude! I tried reading one of your stories and I got totally confused..lol..the whole wedding of steph and ranger...so many characters in the first few scenes i couldn't keep up! I think I gave up in the 4th chapter...lol sorry...but you do have great writing skills! If you do end up deciding to write an OTH fanfic let me know! atleast this time I know all the characters! lol
mary-023 : Well I updated earlier than before! Sorry it's a short chapter though...I got lazy and just wanted to get that out. Atleast Chris got beat up and I started to mend thing down between Lucas and Nathan...so hope you love this chapter too...
JeniRose : ahaha punching Rachel in the nose. Sometimes I feel like doing that too! Even in the real OTH episodes...lol I really don't like her character...as you can probably tell...lol
I love the whole peyton and Haley thing too. Which is the whole reason of me putting them together in this chapter. Plus Peyton has been like a background character for the most part in this story so I wanted to give more character into her this time around.
Reunion between the two boys are getting closer! but you never know things may start to heat up again! depending on my mood...we'll see...lol
What to look for in the next chapter: Dinner At The Scott's! -which will actually be the title for the next chapter. (yes with the whole exclamation thing!) I haven't started writing it yet but that's what it will be about!