Chapter Three
Friday, Cold, Snowy weather. Like any other day. Haley James woke up to find her bestfriend still sleeping next to her, After she pulled her hair into a neat tiny bun, she ran to the kitchen, made breakfast and took it to her room. By the time she got in, Brooke just woke up.
"Ohhh...Breakfast in bed" Brooke smiled as she rubbed her eyes.
"Yup, your favourite too" haley put the try down on the bed "Pancakes with chocolate syrup ontop"
"Oh, your so the best!" brooke squealed happily and started to eat. "So you have any plans today?"
"Umm..i sorta am gonna hang out with Nathan" she always thought what brooke would say when she tells her this and now she could finally see the expression on her face.
"Thee nathan Scott?" brooke asked widening her eyes.
"Yup!" haley said with happiness in her voice.
"Haley James going out on a date with Nathan Scott, Wow!" brooke sid while chewing the piece of pancake.
"Not a date!" haley rolled her eyes, for some reason, she knew brooke would think that and thats exactly why she didn't want to tell her in the first place "Just hanging out"
"Riiiiight...You keep saying that honey" she took a sip from her tea. "So, do you want me to pick you an outfit for today?" she jumped hopped happily to Haleys closet and started looking at her clothes.
"Brooke, i don't need to wear anything too..." She kept thinking what to say "Brookish"
"Oh honey, Its nathan scott we're talking about, you have to look amazing tonight"
"Brooke, it's just hanging out, maybe like go to the park or the rivercourt and ya know, its no where serious to get all dressed up for."
"Fine!" brooke huffed angerily and sat back on the bed. "But if he doesnt like what your wearing, don't say i didn't tell you"
"Okay" haley laughed. "Ummm...soo, Are you gonna tell me about yesterday?" she asked.
Brooke's face turned from happy little happy bunny to gloomy sad girl.
"Gee haley, thanks for reminding me" she said rolling her eyes.
"I'm sorry brooke, But you know we're bestfriends and i have the right to know whats wrong with you. Brooke, I'm worried about you"
"Don't Haley, I never told you to worry about me" Brooke said, Her eyes getting watery.
"But i have to brooke! your my bestfriend and you should tell me whats bothering you! i thought we were friends?"
"We are!" she yelled then sighed "Okay, Ummm...My parents are...their spliting" she said as her eyes began to fill up with tears.
Brooke Davis, the only child in the davis's home, Her parents never gave her attention, Well her mother didn't. Her dad? Well he has special timing for Him and brooke to just sit down and talk, She really loved him.
"Oh my god! Brooke i'm so sorry" she held her friends hands.
"They've been fighting for about a month now, Every day i come back from school or your house, i hear screaming and yelling, I can't take it anymore, They told me that their gonna get a divorce, I thought it was for the best even though i love them both so much and i dont want them to"
"Oh brooke, come here.." Haley hugged her friend.
Brooke hugged haley then wiped some tears away.
"The hard part is...I don't know who i'm gonna live with, If my mom and dad gets a divorce, My dad will leave tree hill, and if i'll have to stay with him it means i'll be leaving tree hill too and i don't wanna cuz i've got a really good life here"
"Brooke, You don't know that yet, we'll have to wait and see"
She nodded and grabbed some tissues.
"You suck, you know that?" brooke smiled "Its too early for me to cry"
"Yeah i know i do, cuz in the brooke dictionary, suck always means best!" she smiled.
"You know it!"
"Umm...So do you like want me to cancel on nathan so we can hang out today? i could cancel on it"
"No way are you doing that James!" brooke stood up pointing at her.
"Okay, okay, chill. i wont"
"Good!" brooke squealed happily again.
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After school, Haley and Brooke walked back home, She hasn't seen him today in school at all, She wondered where was he, Or if he got sick and didn't come and if he's alright?
Haley was already ready for as she and nathan calls it 'Hanging out', she sat down on the couch in the living room, just staring at the watch while it goes 'tick' and 'tock', When finally, she heard the door bell.
"Hey!" nathan said as soon as she opened the door.
'Wow, she looks beautiful' he thought to himself, Haley wasn't wearing anything to.. well as she likes to say 'Brookish', Just the normal clothes haley james likes to wear which was a pink happy tree friends tee and a jacket on top with some fit jeans and a scarf wrapped around her neck. But still to nathan anything she wears is simply beautiful on her.
"Hi" she said smiling as she closed the door and both of them walked down the front porch "So, where are we going?" she asked curiously, They never planned a place to go to.
"Oh i just thought maybe we could get some hot chocolate from Karan's cafe for takeout and then i dont know we'll see.."
"Okay, i can use some hot chocolate"
They went to karan's cafe, bought some Hot chocolate and were out once again walking.
"You really didn't have to buy me this, I could've paid" Haley said as she took a sip from her chocolate.
"No, its okay I wanted to anyways" she nodded slowly "Oh, I wanna show you something"
"Oh okay, what is it?" she asked wondering what was he going to show her.
"Its somewhere i wanna show you, Its not too far from here"
They started walking faster to get to the surprise place nathan wanted to show haley, And finally they were there.
"Okay, you can open your eyes now" he said after he made haley promise to close her eyes and not peek when they almost reached there.
She was speechless, He had taken her to a very quiet place, no people in it, they were the only people there, It had such a beautiful view, All you can see is the snow, white clean snow, there were white tree's everywhere and in the middle was a lake...
"Wow, Nathan this view is gorgous, I love the snow surrounding all of the tree's and ground, its just so white and beautiful"
"Every year this lake gets frozen from the cold and snow" he paused and looked at her, She looked at him puzzled and confused, what about if this lake gets frozen every year?
"And i know you haven't skated in a long time" he smiled at her. waiting for her to say something.
She opened her mouth in surprise, Did he just bring me here to skate? A thing i didn't do in long time? This nathan scott was just too sweet. She couldn't believe what he just did for her, where he brought her, She thought he'd forget about the skating thing but instead he brought her to a lovely place where she can skate all she wants...
"And I know we don't have any skates right now" he continued after he saw her expression "But we could always skate with our shoes"
Haley just simply hugged him and he was surprised she did that.
"Thank you nathan" she smiled locking her eyes with his again.
"So, ready to skate with out the skates?" he said turning his eyes to the frozen lake.
"Yes!" she said happily.
The two skated for about two hours, each one of them suffered from falling on their butts or tummy's, it was hard skating with out skates really, in about every second, One of them had to fall.
"Nathan, are you okay?" haley yelled from far, nathan had fallen on his butt once again "I'm coming" she yelled again skating towards nathan.
"Yeah, I'm fine" he said trying to get up, Just as he got up, He saw haley skating fast towards him, She couldn't control it, the ice was just so slippery.
"AHHHHH..." Haley screamed as bumped into nathan and fell on him.
Nathan fell down on his butt again and haley fell on top of him, His face was about inch's away from hers, It was the first time they have ever gotten close to each other like this, It wasn't weird or uncomfortable, they stayed like that for seconds gazing into each others eyes until someone's phone rang, Haley groaned when she thought it was her phone, but it was nathan's..
"Oh sorry" haley finally said after realizing what had happened when she heard his phone ring and got up from him and started cleaning her shirt and jeans from all the ice.
"Its okay" he said and finally got up and picked up his phone.
"Hey dude, where are you?" He heard a familiar voice talking, It was Lucas..
"Luke, whats your problem? i was in a perfect moment with haley and you just blew it!" he whispered not wanting haley to hear.
"Ohhh...your with Miss james! sorry to say but you better come home, dinner's starting any minute now" he hung up.
Nathan turned around to haley and saw her still wiping all the ice on her jeans.
"sorry, that was luke" he got up.
"Its okay" she said 'Wow lucas and Brooke actually do have something in commen' she thought after she remembered the first perfect moment between them, when brooke called and ruined it and now lucas "Its kinda getting late" she said and got out of the frozen lake to grab her bag.
"Yeah, I'll walk you home" he said and she nodded.
They reached Haley's house and were standing exactly infront of the brown front door.
"So Umm...thanks for today i really had fun" she said as she played with her fingers.
"Yeah, I did too"
"And thanks for taking me to skate, I havent done that in such a long time, And i'm really sorry for ya know falling on you"
"For the third time haley, its okay" he laughed "I'm glad you liked the skating"
"I loved it, thanks" she said not knowing what to do next, should she shake his hands? should she wave goodbye? should she just open the front door and get in? instead of any of her thoughts she hugged him. and again another surprised nathan, But in this hug, he smiled and hugged her back...
"Bye" she said and got in after the hug. she laid her head back on the door after she was in the house, closed her eyes, sighed happily and smiled to herself.
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Nathan went home with smiles and happeniss written all over his face, He entered the Scott mansion and saw Lucas watching t.v and he joined him.
"So today went well I see" Lucas said after he saw his brother jump happily on the couch to sit on.
"Yup!" he smiled.
Today went well indeed...
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Haley flopped on her bed and stared outside the window, she looked over at brooke's room and saw the lights open, she grabbed the phone and dialed her number.
"Tell me how the date went, with full details!" Brooke said as soon as she answered the phone.
"Hey brooke" haley said turning her head towards the window to see her bestfriend.
"Don't you 'hey brooke' me, I know something awsome happened on your date, what was it? Did you guys kiss? Please tell me this fairytale story of yours ended with a goodnight kiss"
"Okay first of all brooke, slow down. second, Its not a date its just 'hanging out' and third of all, No it didn't end with a kiss" haley said and kept thinking 'i wish it did though'
"What! No kiss?" brooke screamed and haley shushed her.
"Brooke, i swear i could hear your voice from my room with out the phone, shhh.." haley put her second finer on her lips as a 'shh' sign for brooke to see threw the window.
"Fine" brooke lowered her voice "I can't believe it, this is the first time in history have i heard about a date with out a kiss!" she whispered quickly.
"Because it wasn't a date brooke, it was 'hanging out'"
why can't brooke just believe her already? she got sick and tired of explaining to her about it, But there's no way, because in brooke's dictionary, a girl hanging out with a guy means a 'date' especially the kind of hanging out haley just had with nathan.
"What ever you say" brooke sang "Okay so where'd he take you?"
"Well, we first bought some hot chocolate and then he took me to this frozen lake where we skated"
Brooke opened her mouth in an 'O', all haley could do was laugh when she saw her.
"You went skating! A thing i've been bugging you to do since your..." she paused and looked at haley.
"Its okay brooke, you can say it if you want too"
Brooke sighed "Since your mom died" she said in a low voice.
"Yeah..." haley said as she turned here eyes from brooke's room to a picture of her and her mom when she was younger laying on her drawer table.
"I'm sorry, I know how hard it is on you" brooke said when she saw haley stare at the picture.
"Its okay" She turned her head quickly from the picture to brooke and wiped away her tears and tried to act normal again.
"So...what did you do today?" she asked changing the subject of her mom.
"Umm..not much, more shouting at the house, My mom threw books on my dad today while they were fighting"
"I'm sorry, I wish i could do something to make everything better"
"Yeah, Me too" brooke whispered "anyways, I'm gonna sleep now, gud'night, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite"
"Brooke, that is such an old kiddies line"
"Yeah, well i like it!" she hung up and looked over at her bestfriend once more, wiggled her fingers as a 'goodbye' sign and closed the windows and went to bed.
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Brooke layed on her bed and kept thinking about the 'date' haley and nathan went on, she still couldn't believe he took her skating. Haley never went skating, ever since her mom died she was afraid of going skating again because the last time she ever skated was with her mom and she always wanted to remember her LAST time skating with her mom and no one else, But she skated with nathan, what did that mean? she's totally falling inlove with him. I mean, Haley promised herself never to skate again so she can have a perfect memory of the last person she skated with 'her mom', Even brooke tried to convince haley to skate but she never did, and now Nathan come's out of no where and all of the sudden she skates with him? 'he really is something' brooke thought, If he's gonna make her happier then let it be, he has been the only one brooke has noticed that made haley a happier person, and she liked her that way...
He could be the only one who can change haley's life and turn it into such a fairytale...
He could be the Only one...