Hey guys

okay so i need to quickly do this...the chapter is short and i didn't fit all the things i planned to fit in this chapter but my mum just told me the internet is being cut out in half hour because something is going on with our phone lines or something...i was hardly listening to her. Anyways i have written more of this chapter but there is no way i will be able to finish it so i have stopped it like 3 quarters of a way through of what i have already written to give you guys at least something...my mum said it should be up tomorrow.

so since i haven't u/d in the past couple of days i thought something is better than nothing right?

Thank you girlies so much for all your words

Chapter 16

Nathan swallowed hard when he heard the voice he, oh but recognises way too much.

Just smile and you will get through this with no damage caused.

"Nathan, I am so sorry I am late" Peyton said in a sickly high voice as she sat herself down in the opposite seat to him. The waiter for the table immediately showed up as if he was some high-speed demon or something and took Peyton's coat also handing her the menu. Peyton gave the waiter a small smile to say thanks and then turned her attention back at Nathan.

Nathan sat at the opposite side of the table and inwardly laughed at the irony of the situation. It was just like they were on a date, Peyton was all nicely dressed, he wasn't looking like a scrub either, and she was late, just like it was all those months ago.

GREAT!

Whilst Peyton was looking over at Nathan, she caught him rolling his eyes to himself.

"So err you okay?" She asked trying her best to bring up a conversation; she could tell Nathan was aggravated by the way he was shaking his leg under the table. If she knew one thing about Nathan in all the years she knew him, it would be the fact that when he gets nervous/scared/anxious/or annoyed he would shake his leg like crazy.

He wont be any of those at the end of the night. Peyton thought with a big smirk.

…………….

"Do you think he is okay?" Haley asked for the hundredth time that night. She and her friends were all sitting cross legged on the living room floor eating pepperoni pizza, as watching movies kind of got a bit boring for the girls after a while.

Rachel rolled her eyes and picked up the purple cushion that was in her lap and threw it over at Haley, hitting her in the head just as she was about to take a bite of pizza, causing Haley to bite her tongue.

"Hey!" Haley exclaimed, her eyes widening and her fingers going to touch her tongue to try and soothe it out. "I bite my tongue!" She yelled however her voice came out muffled as she had her hand in her mouth. "Brooooke tell Rachel off" she whined.

Brooke burst out laughing as she watched Haley. She then swatted Rachel on the arm "Hey, Rachel you shouldn't have done that!"

Haley smiled " Ha! Thanks Brooke"

"Yeah, I mean you got all pizza stain on my nice new cushions"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Both Rachel and Brooke screamed as they felt cushions hit them in the head too.

"OH it is SO on!" One of the girls screamed.

…………..

"Peyton what is this?" Nathan blew out. The evening so far had gone alright, it hadn't been dreadful as he had first planned; the two of them had talked about old times and even shared of few laughs. However, all throughout the date they hadn't talked about why she left or even where they now stand. It was doing Nathan's head in. The fact that she had suddenly started stroking his leg with her foot wasn't helping matters either.

Nathan's sudden outburst came to a surprise to Peyton. "Nathan what are you talking about?"

Shaking Peyton's foot of his leg, he threw his Falk onto his plate causing a loud noise and stared at the women opposite him. "What am I talking about Peyton? What am I talking about?" He let out a bitter laugh before picking his Falk up again to play with his food. "I am talking about the fact that you just up and left me like 4 months ago to get MARRIED!!"

"Oh" was all Peyton responded. She then looked down at her plate so that Nathan couldn't see the small smile that appeared on his face.

Great, the plan is working perfectly.

All of a sudden Peyton called the waiter back over to their table, causing Nathan to look up from his food with a perplexed look on his handsome face.

"May I help you? Is everything okay Miss?" The waiter asked.

"Um yes, I was wondering if we could have the bill." Peyton asked smiling widely at the gentlemen. The waiter nodded his head before venturing over to the bar.

Why the hell does she want the bill? Nathan angrily thought. The point of this dinner was for them to talk things through, for him to understand why she left. The point was not for them to finally start talking about it, and then her run scared.

Peyton didn't even have to look at Nathan's face to know what expression he was holding; instead she just grabbed his hand. Nathan was about to pull it away however she stopped him by explaining her motives.

"I don't want to talk about it here; we should go back to one of our apartments and talk"

Nathan was about to flat out refuse her proposition however he was very intrigued to know her reasons, so he slowly nodded his head.

"Your place or mine?" He asked as he pulled his Jacket on.

"Yours"

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9.05pm

9.17pm

9.24pm

9.48pm

Can time go any slower? Haley annoyingly thought as she kept looking at the clock. Is it over yet? Has Nathan fallen for one of her games?

"Haley, just go over there already" Brooke said as she could see Haley looking at the clock from the corner of her eye.

Haley's eyes widened as she sat up straight on the sofa she and Brooke were laying on. "Brooke! I can't just go over there. I mean I cant right?"

"I don't see why not. I would." Rachel called out from the kitchen where she was currently putting the pizza box in the trash.

"But don't you think that is a bit…forward?" Haley asked, seriously thinking the action through in her head. Nathan had said something about her dropping by after his 'date' earlier today in the office…but she thought he might have been joking.

…………flashback………..

"Nathan" Haley gasped as she let a breath of much needed air enter her lungs. "We need to stop" She warned him as she quickly let her eyes scramble over towards the office door, however, her angling her head to look at the door gave Nathan much better access to the side of her neck, which of course he took. Trailing hot wet kisses along the column of her neck, and then travelling downwards towards her collarbone and back up to her much parted lips, Haley couldn't help but get lost in his kisses all over again.

Stumbling her backwards so she was pressed against one of the office doors, Nathan couldn't help smiling against her lips. "Mmm you smell good"

Haley couldn't help the soft giggle that escaped from her lips. "Oh I wonder why that is" She asked referring to the fact that since she spent the night at Nathan's apartment the night before, she had no perfume or anything. Nathan being the silly ass he is, made her wear his aftershave.

Leaning his forehead against hers he whispered "It makes you smell sexy"

Haley widened her eyes in sheer mock believe "What are you saying I didn't smell sexy before?"

Pressing a single kiss to the left side of her neck he responded "No Haley, you will always be sexy in my eyes," He then trailed a kiss up towards her ear lobe "I just find you even sexier when you wear my stuff"

"Is that so?" she smiled as he went to the other side of her neck to leave a long lingering kiss there too.

Pressing both of his arms on the wall either side of Haley's body, he leant back a bit so he could look her in the face. "Well maybe not" He joked before kissing her lips slightly. " I think you are going to have to come by later tonight for me to completely make sure"

"Oh I am, am I?" Haley asked, however Nathan only responded by pressing his lips back onto hers in a hungry manner, his tongue dashing straight into her mouth to met hers.

………End of Flashback………..

"You know what, I think I may just do that" Haley muttered to herself whilst jumping off the sofa and running to her room to collect a few things.