My heart has never felt this way before. I'm looking through your eyes.
-Beautiful Eyes by Taylor Swift
In the days following the confrontation with Nathan at my house, Lucas barely left my side. He hated seeing the negative effect that Nathan still had over me. I'm not complaining at the time that Luke and I got to spend together. We actually got to catch up on each other's lives and just be Lucas and Haley for a while.
I had seen Nathan here and there in the hallways at school, in the quad at lunch, and of course in his chemistry class. If Ms. Walker didn't have anything for me to do for her, I worked on my applications for college and scholarships, so she really didn't have me help anybody with chemistry. I kept my distance from Nathan. It wasn't that I hated him. He still hadn't shown me a reason for me to listen to him. Honestly if he had, I don't know what I would've done.
Life pretty much went on normally. Nathan was still dating Peyton; Lucas was still doing badly in English; and I was single. I really hated seeing all of these pretty cheerleaders with their hot boyfriends because it brought up the feeling that I wasn't, and would never be, good enough for anyone. My one real boyfriend totally screwed me over after everything that happened with us and I really didn't feel like I could trust another boy with my heart.
That was until a transfer student, Jordan, came to Tree Hill. Jordan was cute with amazing blue eyes. He was on the baseball team and was in a few of my classes including chemistry with Nathan. His first couple of days, he was really shy like all new kids are, but after the first week, he really started to branch out. The two of us had talked a little, that's how I found out about baseball, but after that first week, he really started to grow on me. I liked coming to school to talk to him which usually involved us engaging in playful banter about which college was the best and what not. I was starting to think that things were finally going to turn around for me after four years.
Chemistry was the best after Jordan moved here. The school that he came from wasn't as far in chemistry as Tree Hill was, so Ms. Walker had me tutor him to get him up to speed. You should've seen Nathan's face when she told Jordan that I would be helping him. He was pissed. Jordan however, couldn't be more excited. I could tell, and I think Nathan could too, that Jordan had developed a small crush on me and was ecstatic about the fact that I would be helping him one-on-one for an hour and a half every day. Unlike what you think, I wasn't going to hold back with Jordan because of Nathan. He didn't have any control over me anymore, so when Jordan started blatantly flirting with me, I flirted right back. It actually felt good to have a little attention from a guy now. Call me crazy, but I think that Jordan would make an amazing boyfriend. Nathan has moved on and now I have too.
After about a week of helping Jordan, we were walking back to his desk, which was coincidentally directly behind Nathan's, when he asked if I wanted to go to dinner and a movie with him later that day. My eyes went straight for his to make sure that he wasn't kidding, then to Nathan where he stood in front of us, completely frozen. I knew that he could hear us, and frankly, I didn't care. I told Jordan that I would love to go out with him. The bell rang and I told Jordan that he could pick me up at seven and gave him my address.
I walked out of the room toward my next class when suddenly someone dragged me across the hall. When I looked up to meet those eyes, I was fuming.
"Nathan! What the hell," I shouted.
"Haley," he said clearly irritated, "Why are you seriously going out with this guy?"
Oh, he has gone way too far this time. I seriously had to gather all the strength in me to not punch him in the face. Does he seriously think that he can tell me who I can and can't date? Last time I checked, he was the one that dumped me.
"Dude, really after all that you've put me through, you really want to tell me that I can't date Jordan. You should have cared this much about me when we were dating." That last part was probably uncalled for, but I couldn't help it now. I was on a roll. "You can date whoever you want, but when a decent guy shows interest in me, you freak out and suddenly you're protective over me again? Not how that one works. Now, go off to your own life like you've been doing for the last four years and leave me the hell alone and quit pretending like you actually still care." With that I stormed off towards my next class. What I didn't see was Nathan give Jordan a death glare as he walked down the hall to catch up to me. Why does Nathan have to choose now to care when I actually found someone?
AN: So I'm pretty sure that you all hate me right now. There are no words to describe why I never updated. It's been a year since I actually gave yall anything to read. If y'all totally hate this chapter, that'll pretty much be the end of this story. It would mean a lot to me if you reviewed. :) -Tay-
