"Wake up!" Haley said standing over Nathan's bed.

Nathan woke with a start, "What the hell?"

"You have a test tomorrow, get up. You have to study." she said.

"What?" he asked.

"It's time to wake up." she said sitting on the bed next to him.

"Haley? What are you doing?" he asked as she slid under the covers with him.

"It's time to wake up Nathan." she whispered now only inches from his face. Nathan leaned forward to kiss her, his lips were just about to touch hers when

-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-

Nathan sat up in bed and glanced around, "What the hell was that?"

Brooke was absent-mindedly writing a list of things she needed to finish her project.

Printer paper

Red Marker

Lucas Scott

"Whoa! No I don't." she said to herself crossing his name out with a big x.

"Hey Dorothy." a voice said coming up behind her.

"Jeez Luc- Les. Give me a heart attack." she quickly shoved the notebook into her bag and turned to face him, "What do you need?"

"You."

Brooke blushed, "What?"

"We need to finish our project." he said slowly.

"Oh right. Um after school, today definitely." she said shaking her head, "Wait today?"

Les sighed, "Brooke."

"No you're right, you're right. I'll meet you at the cafe at four okay?" she asked.

"Good." he said giving her shoulder a squeeze before turning to head to his next class.

Brooke sighed watching him leave, and bumped into someone, "Ow! Sorry! Oh hi Peyton." she added softly.

"Hey, Brooke, " she glanced off at the direction Les was disappearing and asked, "It's still Brooke right?"

Brooke laughed nodding, "Of course it is. What did I always tell you?"

"That Brooke Penelope Davis is the most perfect name in the whole world for the most perfect person in the world?" Peyton quoted with one eyebrow raised.

"Exactly." she laughed, "I really like your hair Peyton, I missed the curls."

Peyton nodded, "I did too." Peyton stared at her feet for a few minutes before looking back up to Brooke, "I missed you."

"I missed you." Brooke said softly, "Maybe sometime we could hang out or something?"

"That'd be cool." Peyton nodded.

"I gotta get to calculus." Brooke shrugged.

"Yeah."

Brooke walked away knowing she and Peyton weren't going to hang out. Too much time had passed. They were two completely different people and Brooke didn't have the liberties of going back to the flighty head cheerleader she used to be.

"Hey Jakey." Haley said happily, forgetting the fact that they hadn't hung out in two years. She was just insanely happy and couldn't figure out the reason why. But she didn't care.

"Hey Hales." he said confused, "What's up?"

"Nothing. Something. I don't know." she shrugged giving him the answer she reserved only for him all those years ago.

He grinned, "Why are you so happy?"

"I'm always happy." she said.

"Not like this. Theres only been one time in our entire friendship..." Jake cleared his throat but Haley urged him to go on, "That uh that I've seen you this happy and that was the night of the seventh grade dance where we all decided to go together. I went with Brooke,

Peyton went with Lucas and complained all night, and you went with Nathan, and danced your little Haley shaped heart out."

Haley smiled at the memory, "Yeah."

"So how is your tutoring with Nathan going?"

"Fine."

"Hey." Les said walking up to the two.

"Hi." Haley said grinning at him. Even if he preferred being called Les now, in her heart he'd always be Lucas Eugene Scott, her very best friend.

"What's up man?" Jake asked.

"Coach wanted me to let everyone know practice had been cancelled for tomorrow." he said.

"Good, I'm scheduling a tutoring session for Nathan then."

"He'll be thrilled I'm sure Tutor Girl." Brooke said as she happened to be walking by.

"Oh hush Tigger." Haley said, which made Brooke grin, she hadn't heard that name in so long.

A part of Brooke wanted to stay and see what her old friends were doing, but the other part of her knew she couldn't. So she nodded to them and headed for her english class.

"Do you guys know what happened to Brooke?" Les asked out of the blue.

Haley looked confused, "Nothing happened to Brooke." she added quickly, "She's the same girl she always was. We're all the same."

Les sighed, wondering where the hell Nathan was when he needed him, maybe if Nathan was here Haley wouldn't revert back to her, "Everything is fine. Nothing has changed." slogan.

"Me and Brooke don't really talk." Jake admitted like it was something the other two didn't know.

Les nodded.

Nathan stood in the hallway hiding. He had seen his old friends in the hallway, and any other day he would have gone up to them and tried to have a conversation... figure out what the hell happened two years ago. Make Brooke stand with them for more then two minutes. But today... his eyes drifted to Haley.

He never had any feelings for her when they were best friends. Sure he thought she was cute. He also thought Peyton was cute. Not Brooke though, she was like a younger sister to him. But when he found out during their fight that Haley might have feelings for him... well things started to change.

Not that he admitted it. In fact that's why he got into the fight himself. He yelled at Lucas for saying something to Haley and Peyton then accused him of liking Haley back which turned into... well... he looked at his friends a good ten feet away thinking that it turned

into this.

But things had been different. They had barely spoken in two years until Haley started tutoring him, less than a month ago. And now... well now he was starting to feel... well he wasn't sure what he was starting to feel. Haley would probably have a word for it but yeah right, like he was gonna go up to her and say, "Haley I think I have feelings or something for you. Can you give me a word to describe the feelings themselves?"

The bell rang and the other three headed their own ways while he came out of hiding.

Just when he thought things were getting easier.

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