::AN:: I'm sorry for the wait on this update, I've been super busy with work. However once I find a summer routine I should be able to update faster. I hope you like the chapter please don't forget to review!

Chapter 11

Two hours later, both practices were over, and everyone was happy for that. Haley walked into the locker room and searched around for the locker she had shoved her street clothes into. "Is practice always that bad?" she whispered to Peyton, who was standing right next to her, she didn't want Brooke to hear the comment.

"No, it's usually pretty laid back, but Brooke likes to freak out about the classic. She has this rivalry thing going on with the Bear Creek captain, Claire Young; this is her last chance to beat her so she's taking it very seriously." Peyton explained as she began changing.

Before Haley could say anything else Brooke made an announcement to the entire locker room. "Girls you worked hard today, and to show you how much I appreciate that, you are all invited to use the hot tub and at my house tonight."

Many of the other girls cheered but Haley just looked at Peyton, "What?" The blonde girl said when she noticed Haley's look. "She has a nice house, and a great hot tub." Peyton shrugged her shoulders as she explained the excitement that now existed in the locker room.

"Wow, the life of cheerleaders, I guess I didn't really know what I was getting into." Haley rolled her eyes at her new friend as she began to change.

"So New Girl, are you going to be able to come over?" Brooke asked as she opened her locker.

"Sure, I just don't have a swim suit; they are all still packed away some where." Haley said as she pulled her jeans back on.

"Don't worry about it, I have hundreds of them, and you are more than welcome to borrow one." Brooke offered with a smile. "Are you sure your parents won't care though? You are already late coming home from school because of practice…" The cheery captain trailed off as she rubbed some lotion on her legs.

"My parents are still in Colorado. They won't know that I'm not home." Haley said with a devil-ish smirk.

Brook matched her expression, and giggled a little when she realized the fun they could have. "When are your parents getting here?" Peyton asked figuring that they had wanted Haley to start school as soon as possible in a new place, but that they still had some business to finish up before they joined her.

"They aren't coming out." Haley said while stealing some of Brooke's lotion to use on her arms.

"Why not?" Brooke asked; Haley seemed like the type of girl who did things to impress her parents, and make them happy. She had just figured that's why the girl had such a high GPA.

"I got into some trouble at my last school and my parents wanted to get me as far away from there as fast as they could. But they couldn't leave their jobs, so they just sent me out here. This is where they grew up, so they thought it would be a good place for me to graduate."

Peyton stood up from the bench she had been sitting on while tying her shoes, she stuffed her gym bag inside her locker again and shut it quickly before anything fell out. "So are you living by yourself?" she asked once she'd turned around.

"Yup my parents rented an apartment for me, and told my older brother, who lives in Charlotte, to check up on me every once in awhile." She said with a large, and what she hoped, was a convincing smile as she looked around at the other girls who were listening to her story.

"Where's your apartment?" Brooke asked, she decided to get the topic off Haley's parents when she saw the uncomfortable look in her eyes.

"It's on Plum and 3rd." Haley said with a smile, "It's pretty cute; you guys should come see it."

"Interesting…" Brooke said with an evil smile across her pretty face.

"Uh oh," Haley said out loud, "Why do I not trust that look?" She asked Peyton as they all started to walk out of the locker room.

"Because you are a smart girl." Peyton replied while looping her arm through Haley's.

"What's so interesting?" Haley asked, once she had decided that she wanted to know what Brooke was talking about.

"Well there is a certain Basketball star that lives in the same building." The dark haired girl said with an innocent smile.

"Do you mean…" Haley trialed off, she didn't want to say his name out loud, she might jinx the chances of it being Nathan who lived there.

"Nathan." Brooke stated when she saw that the Scott brothers and some of their teammates were standing in the hall waiting for the girls.

"Hey Brooke." Nathan responded, but he never actually looked at her, almost all of his attention was focused on the girl who was attached to his ex-girlfriend.

"So, I invited the squad over to my house to use the hot tub, you guys are totally welcome to come." Brooke said excitedly as she turned her attention to the other guys that were behind Nathan.

"Sounds good." Lucas said, after there had been a long pause. Everyone had expected Nathan to answer but Lucas noticed that his brother was very distracted by a certain someone.

"Great!" Brooke exclaimed, "Everyone come to my house at 8, and please don't tell too many people about this, if my parents figure out that I had a raging party on a week night, they'll kill me."

"Would they really be okay with it on a weekend, Tigger?" Haley pointed out as she broke her stare from Nathan to look at Brooke.

"Maybe," Brooke shrugged her shoulders, "It would really depend on how trashed the house was when they came home. The only time I've ever seen them get mad is when I invited the wresters and they made a mud pit in the middle of the living room."

"Man, those were some good times…" Tim commented with a faraway look, he was obviously recalling the exact images from the event.

"No it wasn't Tim; I had to use an entire months allowance to pay for the carpet to get replaced. Plus it was just you and the wrestling team that got in the mud pit; it looked like a gay orgy." Brooke argued, and added the last part to embarrass him.

"There were hot chicks in there too!" He yelled in a high pitched little girl voice.

"No there weren't, you just thought that one of those guys was a girl. You kept feeling up that wrestler with the really long hair and man boobs."

"No I didn't, Nathan would you tell her that it was a…" Tim had turned to the side to address his best friend only to find out that he was no longer there. He looked around and noticed that it was just him and Brooke left in the hallway. "Where did everyone go?"

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