"Oh my god!" Brooke shrieked as Haley re-played the events of the night before to the girls.

"I can't believe you guys finally got together." Peyton said happily as she leafed through her record collection.

"I was starting to loose hope." Brooke said sadly, shaking her head.

"I thought I was going to have to knock some sense into you too." Peyton laughed. "You know for a smart girl you're pretty dumb when it comes to guys." She said jokingly.

"Yeah I know." Haley said looking up from painting her toenails.

"It's okay Tutor Girl, we still love you." Brooke said as she too did her toes.

"So you finally grew a pair and told Haley that you're in love with her?" Jake said as he passed the ball to Lucas who made a three pointer.

Nathan grabbed the ball and held it in his hands. "Wait so everyone knew I was in love with Haley?" He asked his brother and friends.

"Don't worry we knew Haley loved you too." Lucas said grabbing the ball from his brother and passing it to Jake.

"We were kind of having a running gag about when you two would get together." Skillz said as he stole the ball from Jake and passed it to Nathan who dunk it.

"Great my friends were making fun of me behind my back." That makes me feel so much better."

"Nathan did you know that the whole gang knew we had a thing for each other?" Haley asked later that night as they walked home from Peyton's house.

"Yeah I found that out today from the guys." He said shaking his head

"They were mocking us." She said with a pout.

"It's okay baby, they're just jealous." He said wrapping his arm around her shoulders as they continued on to their current home.

After some silence Haley spoke. "I feel bad living at Karen and Keith's house."

Nathan didn't look at her. " I know. Me too."

Haley walked down the halls of Tree Hill High trying her hardest to ignore the glares, stares and whispers as she passed other students who were crowding around lockers.

She'd heard the constant rumors going around about her and Nathan. Lies about how he wasn't even the father, that she was just trying to trap him. How she was a slut. Sometimes it became too much for her to deal with and late at night she'd cry to herself in her room. She never said anything to Nathan because in a way the rumors were true, he wasn't her babies father, she just didn't want to keep bringing it up. She felt bad for Nathan, all that he'd lost and would probably continue to loose because he was helping to keep her secret.

Haley was at her locker when she felt someone's hands cover her eyes and heard Nathan's voice whisper in her ear, "Hey baby." Which caused a shiver to run down her back.

"Hi Nathan." She said as he took his hands from her face. She continued to pull out the books she needed for her next class without even looking at him.

"Hales, what's wrong?" He asked as he turned her around.

Haley sighed before looking up at him. "Nothing Nate, I'm just…tired." She said as her eyes sadly traveled away from his face to the group of girls on the other side of the hall that were pointing and laughing at her.

Sighing again in frustration she slammed her locker shut and stormed off leaving a confused Nathan in the hall.

"Brooke have you spoken to Haley today?" Nathan asked the cheerleader in science class.

"Nope, why what's wrong?" Brooke asked worriedly.

Nathan just shook his head. "I don't know. I saw her in the halls this morning and she just seemed…I don't know mad." He explained.

"What did you do now Nathan Scott?" Brooke asked pointedly.

"Nothing!" He yelled defensively.

"Sorry…I don't know. I have Health with her next period, I'll see what's up." She promised him.

"Okay, thanks Brooke."
"No problem."