A.N. Hello all!! First off, again! You guys are amazing! I'm so glad you all like the new Haley. I will tell you this, she will be a little bit of both, meaning she'll be out of character and in character, if that makes sense.

Second, I just want to say a few words about Heath Ledger. As most of you know he passed away last week Tuesday. It is so sad to see such an AWESOME actor die at such a young age. He had so much to live for and it's so sad to see him gone. He was NO DOUBT one of my absolute FAVORITE actors and it's still so sad to think of not seeing him in anymore movies after the new Batman. This tragedy really hit home for me, (as some of you might know) and I just wanted to say how unfortunate and tragic it was and still is. He will always be missed and remembered. I guess it's true what they say, the good really do die young! We miss you Heath! R.I.P.

Last thing I want to say, OH MY GOSH! Yesterday's episode at the end!!! AMAZING for us Naley fans, huh? But ugh! That stupid preview had to come on and the ONE time they make it a Naley one in forever, they make us sad!!! Not fair I tell you! I can not wait for next week's episode!

Anywho, know that all that is done! ha. On to the next chapter… I don't know how I fell about how this one turned out. But I guess you should tell me and let me know! Thanks everyone! And Enjoy!

Surrender

Chapter 3 – Secrets Never Stay Secrets for Long

It's been about three weeks since Haley moved to Tree Hill, and she was adjusting easily to the town. She had already become good friends with Lucas and Nathan's group of friends consisting of Lucas and Nathan, Brooke, Peyton Sawyer, who was Brooke's best friend, and Jake Jagielski, who took the honor of being Nathan's best friend. Haley almost wanted to ask Jake, when they met, how he put up with all of Nathan's shit over the years, of course she was putting up with his shit now too, but in an entirely different way. But Haley couldn't understand how, Jake and Nathan were pretty much complete opposites. Jake was a sweet, almost shy at times, an all around good guy, while Nathan was and had, well, none of those qualities. The only thing Haley could tell that the two friends had in common was basketball and their love to play the game.

Haley had also been chosen to be on the cheerleading squad, just this past week, with Peyton and Brooke. Haley had a feeling she wasn't the best at the tryouts, but considering she now had it in with the cheerleading captain, Brooke, she wasn't shocked when she made it.

School had been going great for everyone, especially Haley and Lucas, since they learned just two weeks ago when they got back that Haley would be moving up to the junior class since the school she went to back in Honey Grove had been a college prep school, and the classes were sophomore level when being a freshman, therefore she had already completed the requirements for sophomore year in Tree Hill. Now, Lucas, being on the cut off age and already a junior, and Haley would be in the same class, while all their other friends were seniors.

Nathan and Haley had kept to their arrangement for the past three weeks, meeting up whenever they could without anyone around, most of the time. A few times since they started their act Nathan had been quite spontaneous on when and where, sometimes meeting up at his house when Lucas wasn't home, since they didn't really have to worry about his parents since they were pretty much non existent, or meeting up at her house when her parents weren't there and were on business trips which were becoming more often, or other times when they would be hanging out with their friends and Haley would get up to go to the bathroom and then five minutes later find Nathan knocking on the door to come in, not obvious at all to their four friends in the other room. But still no one knew of them, no one knew what they did behind closed doors.

"You're so hot." Nathan purred in her ear as they continued to ride each other on her bed.

Haley groaned in pleasure as she came to her climax and fell to the bed and rolled to the side. "That was amazing."

Nathan smirked and rolled off the other side of the bed, picking up his clothes and putting them back on his body.

Hearing this, Haley rolled over. "Where are you going?" She asked him, seeing him finish off putting all of his clothes on.

"I gotta go." He said simply, slipping on his shoes.

Haley nodded from her laying position on her bed.

Nathan cleared his throat as he went to the door of her bedroom. "Uh you're going to the party later, right?"

Haley nodded again, not saying a word.

"Well, then we'll meet up later." He stated as he opened the door and walked out.

"Bye." Haley whispered back, but he was gone. Haley sighed and got up off the bed. She honestly didn't care if he didn't say anything and just left. He had got what he came for and she didn't expect much else out of him. Plus, she enjoyed what he came for.

She smirked as she got dressed in her clean clothes, then picked up her purse and left her house. She was supposed to meet Brooke and Peyton ten minutes ago, since the three were supposed to get ready for the big party together. Haley had grown to notice that every party they went to was the "big" party, when in reality they were all the same. Anyways, Brooke was going to make her look "hot", supposedly, and Haley couldn't hide the smirk that came back on her face as the words that Nathan spoke most often while they were fooling around under the sheets sang in her head. According to him, she already was hot.

"Haley James! Where have you been?" Brooke screeched as Haley walked into Brooke's bedroom twenty minutes late.

Haley sighed as she flopped down on Brooke's bed. She had gotten to know Brooke a lot over the past three weeks and she had grown to love her, but at times like these, when Brooke got all psycho dictator, she couldn't help wanting to punch her.

"I'm sorry I'm late," Haley began, looking around the room. That's when she noticed a certain curly haired blonde third party not evident in the room. "Wait, Brooke, Peyton's not even here yet."

"Well New Girl, that is because P. Sawyer is probably right now having hot and sweaty sex with a certain cute, brown haired, friend of ours who we like to call Jake, while you were obviously not fooling around with anybody, therefore you have no excuses."

Haley couldn't help to think of how wrong Brooke was on that one, since she was busy with Nathan and Nathan was the reason she was late. But of course she couldn't tell Brooke that.

"Well, since Peyton isn't here yet, we'll just have to start with you!" Brooke exclaimed as she went to get out all of her necessary materials in her bathroom.

"Oh joy!" Haley mumbled as she got up and followed Brooke.

A half hour later Peyton finally graced them with her presence, sporting an inside out top and a gift from Jake on her neck to match.

"Hey girlies! Sorry I'm late." Peyton greeted as she came into Brooke's bedroom and as she did so, she saw a very distraught and annoyed Haley sitting in a chair, back to her, by Brooke's make up mirror.

"How goes it Peyton?" Haley asked turning around in her seat to greet her friend. Getting up, she walked towards Peyton and stood in front of her and put her hands on her hips. "I see you were with Jake." Haley stated, laughing as her friend blushed as she pointed out the obvious hickey on Peyton's neck.

"Yes I was, but let's not talk about me. Hales, you look hot!" Her friend exclaimed as Haley began to blush. Brooke had really gone to town on her today, and it was only for some lame party that was the same as any other party they went to every week. She had straightened Haley's normally wavy hair and put her in short cuffed jean shorts and a simple light pink knit cami under a white quarter sleeve black pinstripe v-neckline and button front closure shirt top with black pumps to match. Of course to make the outfit 'Brooke worthy' Haley unbuttoned the first few buttons leaving a good amount of cleavage for show.

"Why thank you, P. Sawyer!" Brooke called out as she walked into the room. "I see you've been busy, best friend." Brooke smirked as she also saw the visible mark on Peyton's neck.

Putting her hand to her neck, covering it, Peyton stated. "Okay, enough about my 'mark.' I need to get ready; Jake's going to be here to pick me up in a half hour."

Haley had learned that even for the same old house parties, couples still went together. 'It was expected,' Brooke had explained to her once. And Haley always felt weird going to these things because she would ride along with Lucas and Brooke. But Haley decided right then and there, that this was the weekend she wasn't tagging along with her best friends.

"Well, Hales, Lucas is picking us up in 40 so," Brooke stated but then got cut off by Haley.

"Actually, B, I'm going to meet you guys there, I've got somewhere I got to be right now."

She didn't really have anywhere to go right now, but she needed to get out of there and she knew the perfect place she would rather spend the remaining time at. And even though she felt bad ditching her friends like that, she knew that the place she was about to go to would make her feel better. So, grabbing her dirty clothes, she waved good bye to her friends, and was out the door.

"You don't think that New Girl is, like, hooking up with someone behind our backs do you?" Brooke questioned as she began to look through the hair supplies on her desk as Peyton sat down in the chair previously occupied by Haley.

"What makes you say that, B?" Peyton asked curious, as Brooke began to curl her hair.

"I don't know, she seems weird sometimes, especially at parties. Like, she's dancing with us having fun one minute, but the next she disappears and we don't know where she's at."

"Who would've thought that you would actually notice that, you know, with you and Luke sucking face all night?" Peyton teased.

"P. Sawyer!" Brooke exclaimed as she set her curling iron down and slapped her friend's shoulders. Then leaning on the desk, facing Peyton, with her hand resting on the edge and the other on her hip, she said, "I don't know, Peyt, she's the youngest of us, and the most vulnerable. I just don't want her getting into something that's way over her head. And the way she acts sometimes…"

"Brooke," Peyton started as she rested a hand on Brooke's arm, comfortingly. "She'll be fine. She's a big girl. But we're her friends, so why not tonight we keep in eye on her?"

Brooke sighed and nodded her head. "But don't tell Lucas!" She exclaimed quickly. "He would flip a lid if something really was going on!"

Peyton laughed and agreed nodding her head. "Now, you, missy, better start working on my hair before I 'flip a lid'!"

Laughing Brooke picked up the curling iron and began to curl her hair once again.

"Hey Hot Shot!" Someone shouted behind Nathan as he was about to shoot the ball. He had decided to just go home after leaving Haley's, take a shower, get ready, and then go shoot some hoops at the River Court before leaving for the party.

Turning around he saw the honey blonde haired girl walking towards him and he smirked. "Her yourself," He stated as she came to stand in front of him, " hot," putting his hands on her waist and kissing her neck, "shot," then pulling her in for a full blown kiss.

Haley completely got lost in his kiss, she always did, but she never really put much thought into it. He was hot, she was sure any one would completely forget about the world around them when making out with him, right?

Pulling away, but staying tangled in each other, Haley breathed out. "Why did you leave my house before? We could have had a round two." She knew she was supposed to be at Brooke's, but that would have never stopped Nathan, usually nothing could ever stop him.

"I promised Lucas I'd be home before the party." Nathan mumbled leaning back in to capture her lips with his again.

Nathan knew that was not the real reason he left right after the act. Yeah, they never usually stayed long after unless they decided to do it more than once, and they never stayed the night, but he just knew that he needed to get out of there as fast as possible. He didn't really know how to explain it, and he certainly wasn't planning on explaining anything any time soon, especially to Haley.

"Okay," Haley muttered, pulling away from him. "We have to stop. Someone could see us."

"So, let them." Nathan compromised, as he tried to pull Haley back to him.

Giggling, Haley put her hand up to his open mouth and pushed his face away. "Sorry, but you know we can't, we don't want to suffer the consequences of Lucas finding out."

Nathan sighed. "Fine, I'll kiss you later." He stated with a smirk, wriggling his eyebrows at her.

"Oh, you can do much more to me," Haley started as she put her arms around his neck, bringing her mouth to his ear. "Later." She whispered.

With that he pulled her in for one last kiss, both oblivious to the jealous, red head girl who stood close by with her arms crossed.

Someone just found out their little secret.

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