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So I had every intention of uploading this chapter yesterday, but things really didn't work out that way, the whole work and it being a Saturday night thing really got to me. I hope it's a good follow up to the last chapter. Thank you for all the wonderful reviews I've been getting, they are really encouraging!

Chapter 6

"So did you guys see your lives flash before your eyes?" Lucas asked after he had gotten out of his car, which was parked right next to Peyton's. He, Fergie, and Mouth had been following in his car and had seen everything, including the kiss between Nathan and Haley. He also knew first hand what driving with Peyton was like.

"Shut up." Peyton said as she whacked him in the stomach after he put his arm around her shoulders.

"So do the two of you have something you want to share with the group?" Mouth asked, the new 'couple', or whatever they were, who were actually standing pretty close together and Nathan had his arm comfortably around Haley's shoulders. Haley blushed at the comment and stared at the ground, while Nathan glared at his friend. Fortunately for Haley, Brooke decided to take care of the situation.

She walked over to Mouth and hit him in the stomach, much the same way as Peyton had done to Lucas, for the comment he'd just made. "Don't be a jerk." Brooke said in a warning look, she then changed her expression to the cheery one that everyone was used to and said, "Now, walk me to class." She then looped her arm around his and started pulling him towards the entrance of the school. Mouth stumbled away and waved to the group of friends he was leaving behind.

Bevin, Skills, and Fergie had all walked away from the group right after getting out of the car, so it was just the two couples. The bell that let the previous class out rang in the distance prompting the four to walk towards the entrance.

Haley and Peyton had drama together so they talked along the way, leaving Nathan and Lucas to talk as well, or to remain in an awkward silence. For some reason they chose the awkward silence.

Haley noticed that the two weren't talking, which she thought was strange, they were brothers who hung out with the same people, shouldn't they also be friends? She asked herself, she decided to question Peyton about it later, she would surely know what was going on between the two.

The four stopped in front of the class that Haley remembered Mouth showing her that morning, the conversation halted between the two girls as they both turned to say good bye to their boyfriend's/ whatever's, Haley still didn't really know what was going on with her and Nathan.

"Luke and I have PE now, so we'll be back to get you when the class is over." Nathan told Haley, she smiled happily; right now she wanted to see him as much as possible.

"Sounds good," Haley responded then gave him a long hug, 'ok this is all happening way too quickly to be real' she said to herself while she enjoyed the feeling of being in Nathan's arms. They separated and smiled at each other, Haley turned to look at her new blonde friends, who were making out in the middle of the hallway. She and Nathan both laughed at the sight they made, they were definitely horny teenagers. "Come on P. Sawyer, we're going to be late." Haley said to interrupt the moment the two were having as she walked away from everyone and towards the class room.

"Okay, she is fitting in way too well here." Luke said with a smile as his girlfriend was being pulled away by her new friend.

The two guys walked in the direction they'd just come from, only this time they didn't have the two girls to distract them from each other.

"So what's going on between you and Haley?" Lucas asked after he'd gotten sick of the weird silence between them.

"Did you forget that we aren't really talking? We're not friend's anymore Luke." Nathan said.

"Yeah, why is that? You left for High-Flyers this summer and when you got back, you'd turned back into the ass that you were at the beginning of last year, only this time you didn't have the whole basketball team on your side to gang up on me." There was silence again when Nathan decided to not answer the question. "What happened?" Lucas asked more directly.

Nathan stopped walking and looked his brother in the eye, "You happened, more specifically, you and Peyton happened. Did you just forget she was my girlfriend?"

"It's not like you two were still dating when we got together, you guys broke up before you left! And its not like the two of you were some epic romance either, the relationship only lasted a month, and you were hardly ever together." Lucas said trying to defend himself, and his relationship.

"Yeah, I know all that. But she broke up with me, and I just wasn't expecting my brother to hook up with my ex-girlfriend!" Nathan paused, trying to gather his thoughts on the situation. He'd had so much pent up anger for so long that he didn't really know where to begin. This definitely wasn't a conversation that he'd expected to have today. "There's a code man, a friends-code or brothers-code, whatever you want to call it. It's there; it isn't ever talked about because you are just supposed to know it. You aren't supposed to hook up with your brother or friend's ex-girlfriend!"

There was a pause in the conversation while Lucas thought about what he'd just said. "You're right, and I'm sorry about what happened," he paused again trying to figure out how Nathan was going to react to his next statement. "But I'm not breaking up with her, we are together now, and you are just going to have to deal with it. I don't want to loose a brother over this."

"I don't want you to break up with her that would be stupid. You guys have been going out for three times as long as we ever did…" Nathan trailed off; he had just realized the problem with the anger he had towards his brother.

"So what do we do?" Lucas asked. "How are we going to fix this?"

"I don't know."

"Me either."

"Ok since neither of us knows how to fix this, why don't we just call it fixed?" Lucas suggested.

Nathan began walking again, to help him think about the idea. He really didn't want to be mad at his brother any more, he was ready to move on. "Alright, that sounds good to me." He looked at Lucas who had been walking along side of him.

"Okay." Lucas said; he'd really not been expecting this to work itself out in a matter of minutes, but he could go with it.

The two boys walked into the locker room, and noticed that all the guys were already dressed out and in the gym. "Whitey's going to kick our asses for being late." Nathan said as he hurriedly opened his locker and began to change. They must have been too distracted during their argument to notice the final bell ringing for class.

"Yeah, he is." Lucas paused as he too opened his locker, "So what is going on with you and Haley? You two have only known each other for a few hours and already you act like a couple."

"I really don't know man, she just feels right. That's the only way I can explain it, she's perfect." Nathan tried to describe while tying his gym shoes.

"Wow, you aren't even dating her yet and you're already whipped." Lucas laughed, making the comment because of the dopey love-struck smile that was on his brother's face.

"Shut up." Nathan said, pushing him into a wall as they walked towards the gym. "Like you don't do the same thing every time someone says Peyton's name."

"Of course I do, but we are dating, it's expected of me." The older brother said with a laugh.

"Uh huh, no one expected you to paint her toes; you did that of your own free will." Nate countered his brother's excuse, as they walked into the gym.

"Well if it isn't the Scott brothers." Whitey shouted across the large echoing room. The rest of the class was already warming up, and they could tell by the look on Whitey's face that he wasn't going to go easy on them for being late. "Thanks for joining us gentlemen."

"Hey Coach," Nathan said as they both walked towards the older man who was also their basketball coach.

"Do you boys have a pass?" He asked once they were close enough that he could be heard when using a normal voice.

"No, Sir." Lucas responded.

"Well this is going to be fun." Whitey smiled at his two star players, whom he loved to torture. "Mr. Hanks, why don't you take over the rest of the class, while I deal with these two delinquents?" Hanks was the student teacher that usually was in control of the class, so Whitey could use the time to plan the plays he was going to use in the next game.

The rest of the class looked on, some smiled as they continued to stretch. Many of them would enjoy watching some of the most popular boys at school get their asses kicked, while others felt sorry for the brothers, because they too had been at the wrong end of Whitey's wrath.

"Follow me boys." The old, bald man said as he led them over to the pull up bars.

"Oh crap, our arms are going to be dead after this." Nathan said under his breath.

"Alright the first one to stop doing pull-ups has to do twice as many push-ups" Whitey had the biggest grin on his face. "Go!" The two guys jumped up to the bars and began doing as many pull ups as they could.

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So I have a feeling that the whole Nathan Lucas drama thing didn't actually live up to what I was making it out to be. I'm not exactly sure that I liked how this chapter turned out, but please give me your feedback!