OKAY! Thank You SO much for the reviews...I really LOVE reading them lol... and without further delay.. here is chapter 14... read and enjoy...

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own One Tree Hill... I wish I did though...can you imagine the Naley love that there'd be...! AH :D:D

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Chapter Fourteen: Sit Back And Watch The World Disappear

She sat on her front porch, the cold bitter wind cutting her face as she closed her eyes and listened to the sound of it blowing in her ears. It was so loud and harsh that it made tears flood her eyes and fall into her lap, as she kept her body completely still, not wanting to make a single move, in fear she would fall apart.

"You ready to go?" A voice whispered gently from behind her. She opened her eyes to see a blurry image behind her, and as she wiped away her tears she saw her mother. Standing there with a devastated look on her face. Haley wiped away more tears and nodded her head, sanding to get into her car and begin her new life, away from anything that would remind her of Tree Hill.

"Where are you going?" A voice asked from the end of the driveway. She looked up to see Nathan, dressed up, with Lucas and Brooke standing a little way behind him, all ready for grad. And though they were so neatly and gorgeously dressed, she could see their tear stained faces.

"Away from you people." Haley snapped as she tried to rush to the car, that seemed at that moment to be so far away. Nathan rushed up to her, standing too close to her for comfort, as Lucas, feeling too guilty to have the right to even look at her, stayed at th e end of the driveway with Brooke, who was standing a great distance from him.

"You're not going to grad?" Nathan asked her, his heart breaking as he saw the continuous tears in her eyes.

"NO!" She yelled, her mother was already in the car, and her father was putting the remaining bags in the trunk, neither of them daring to interfere in the conversation. "How can you actually go?" She said with a disgusted, yet unbelieving tone in her voice.

"It's graduation Haley... why wouldn't I?"

"Because! We have no right!" She screamed, her tears becoming greater as she let all of her anger and betrayal flood out.

"Why?" Nathan had no idea what she was talking about, why would they have no right to go to their own grad, they didn't do anything. "Haley, I know you're hurting, so am I, don't get me wrong, but how does what happened take away our right for our own graduation?" Nathan leaned closer to Haley, moving his hand up her arm.

But Haley shot back quicker, her anger flaming out of her face. "Because! I know I have no right! Because Faith can't! Why should we be able to go on in our lives, take such a big step when she can't? It's not fair!" Haley screamed at him, once again he stepped closer to her, wanting so bad to comfort her.

"I know, it's not, but Im here Hales..." Nathan laid a comforting hand on her arm again, and this time Brooke and Lucas walked towards her, wanting to be a part of it too. But Haley stared at them in disgust, tears blinding her eyes again as she remembered the pain that they had caused her. She couldn't believe all of this was happening to her at once. First her boyfriend cheats on her, then she finds out its was with one of her best friends, then... she finds our that Nathan, who said he loved her, had kept it from her, he betrayed her and then... wow.. Faith died. All in the course of five. Small. Minutes.

"Don't TOUCH me!" Haley screamed, pushing Nathan away. Nathan stepped bad sadly, shooting a look at Lucas, as if to say, this is all your fault!

"Where are you going to go?" Brooke asked quietly from behind the boys as Lucas stepped to Nathan's side. Haley glanced back at her, and saw that she too was crying, but Haley felt no pity on her, she just kept thinking about how Brooke brought it on herself.

"Im not sure... I need to get away from this place." Haley whispered, finally finding the strength to calm down a little, and for some reason she felt terrible for being so mean to them, but she felt like she needed to be angry for a while... because she was always such a push around... she needed to stand up for herself for once.

"You weren't even going to say goodbye?" Nathan asked her, his body aching from having to stand so far away from her, and she could see it. It hurt her too, he was her best friend, ever since they were kids and she would never thought that the day she left Tree Hill, she would be leaving it without him. But so much had happened in the past few months, nothing was as it should've been.

"No... but since you're here... There's something I have to say... to all of you." She exhaled deeply as she faced them all, getting ready to speak. She had so many emotions running through her right now, she was almost afraid what she would let herself say, she felt bad for it already.

"Haley! We need to get going!" Her mother called from the car, wanting to save her daughter from the pain she was facing from this confrontation. Her parents just watched her sadly, they had never seen their daughter act upon so much hate in their lives, and they never wanted to see it again, but they also knew that she needed to handle it by herself this time.

"Just a second!" She called back. She turned to Brooke, whose makeup was running as she cried, her head down and hair covering her face. "Brooke..." She started, once again letting out a deep, long sigh of stress as she stared at the three people in front of her. "I know how you feel about Lucas, and I know that they all say you stopped it. And you always said that you didn't want to be like Peyton, or any of the other girls you used to hang around with. And I just want you to know, that no matter if you tried to stop it or not... you still let it start in the beginning... you went to his house, you got in his car...and I can't forgive you for that." Haley began to cry and her voice went high and squeaky as she spoke. And Brooke cried with her, her back shaking as Haley's words of truth cut through her.

Nathan went over and stood next to Brooke, pulling him into his arms to comfort her as she sobbed. He couldn't believe the side of Haley he was seeing. It wasn't the Haley he knew. He knew that she was hurting, but to be so cruel and show so much hate... it made him wonder where the Haley that he fell in love with really was.

Haley turned to Nathan, a little upset that he'd take Brooke side, but she also felt that stabbing her in the back seemed to be this week's group activity. "Nate..." Haley cried. This was hurting her so much that she could barely even say his name. "Nathan... deep down, you'll always be my best friend, but I can't wait for you to grow up, with everything that happened with Faith, it showed me that I just don't have time to...and I can't trust you anymore, I don't know what else to say to you. But I have to say... I miss you already.." She bit her lip as she felt herself giving in, to her's and Nathan connection. She let her head fall into her hands as she cried hard, her whole body shaking. She had never pictured herself without Nathan, no matter if it was his friendship or his love... but whatever it was, she needed it, and she wasn't sure if she could face the world without it. Nathan was aching as he heard her say that she was actually giving up.

"Luke..." She said finally, after a long dreadful pause. "All I can say is... I was really falling for you." Lucas breathed sharply as he finally heard her admit her feelings for him, and he knew it was hard for her to do after seeing herself with Nathan for so long, it was scary for her to see herself with anyone else... and now when she finally does, Lucas threw it away. It hurt Nathan a little though, because no matter what happened he always thought he held Haley's future, that they'd be together, but to hear that his own brother was on the verge of taking that away from him, taking Haley's heart from him... It scared him a little. Haley stomped away from them painfully, and as Nathan watched her car disappear down the road it hit him, she really was starting her future without him, that all their plans were gone down the drain. They wouldn't go to grad together, or prom, or university. They were on their own. And Nathan knew that she wasn't the Haley he fell for in third grade, she was gone... because that Haley, died...when Faith died... and she'd be buried with her too.

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Alrite... I know a little bit angst... but we needed one after the last one... or course... so review please.. I really hope you liked it...:D

Michelley P.