Lucas was sick of practice. He loved playing but between Whitey's yelling and the assholes on the team he was fed up. He decided to skip practice, go the the children's shelter and take a few of the kids to the river court to play basketball. The cheerleaders were practicing with the team today.

Lucas knew Haley had joined and this would be her first time practicing with the basketball team. He would not see her since he was ditching practice. He just didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.

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"Hey sexy" Jake said as he walked up to Brooke in the hallway. She ignored him.

"Uh oh, silent treatment. What did I do?" Brooke remained quiet walking as if he was invisible. "Come on Brooke, I've been a good boy."

Brooke scoffed.

"Okay I give up." Jake said amused and curious. Brooke was cute when she was angry.

"Not even 30 seconds ago you were flirting with that slut Samantha and now you have the nerve to come talk to me."

"Aww you're jealous." Jake smiled lightly pinching her cheek.

Brooke swatted his hand away from her face. "Has anyone told you that you have a big-"

Jake interrupts her. "Yeah!" Jake smiles.

"Ego." Brooke finishes smiling.

"Well, that too." Brooke rolled her eyes. "Come on Davis, you know you are the only girl for me." He smiled wrapping his arm around her waist.

"Whatever." Brooke said playfully pushing him away.

"See you at practice." Jake said kissing her neck.

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Haley walked into the gym ready for practice. Being a cheerleader wasn't hard at all. Haley knew she was a kick ass cheerleader. Not only did she look good in the uniform she also had talent. She had surprised everyone but herself with how good she was. Only problem was that she didn't see Lucas. Haley knew it had nothing to do with her. She wasn't that self-absorbed. She just wanted to see him. She couldn't win the bet if she never saw Lucas. She wasn't going to lose. No way in hell.

The cheerleaders started a routine while the boys practiced. After they finished
Practicing that routine Brooke decided to talk to the squad. They all knew it was about the senior class trip being before the cheerleading tournament.

" We all know that our tournament is coming up."

" Yeah Brooke." Bevin said unenthusiastic.

" But for the senior girls our class trip is going to be before." Brooke paused for a second then decided to cut to the chase. " No partying on the trip."

"What?" Theresa said calmly.

" No partying on the trip. Brooke repeated.

"Brooke are you losing your mind?" Bevin asked concerned.

"No!" Brooke yelled.

"Brooke is right. We can't win the competition with half of our squad getting over hangovers." Kristina said. She was obviously sucking up to Brooke.

"Brooke you're just being paranoid. We won't lose just because we had a little fun." Haley reasoned.

She knew Brooke just wanted to win. She tried crazy methods but she hated losing.

"Haley's right, I'm over reacting." Brooke smiled show how transparent she was sometimes. "We're gonna cut practice short today."

"Thank God." Theresa and Bevin said in unison.

"See ya!" Brooke said leaving first, she was excited to go shopping before Jake got out of practice. Everyone else was on their way out when Kandace told Haley she need
to speak to her for a second.

"Meet you at the car." Theresa said to Haley as she left.

"James you are better than I thought." Kandace admitted.

" I know." Haley smirked.

"I know about your bet with Brooke. I think it's a interesting bet."

"You want in on it Brooke already told me."

"I'll give you my Dolce and Gabbana fashion show tickets for next month." Kandace offered.

"And?" Haley asked wanting something else besides fashion show tickets.

Those things could be boring sometimes. "I'll help you get Nathan." Kandace smiled.

"Really?" Haley asked.

"It might be a little complicated." Kandace said.

" Okay. What is the catch."?

" There really isn't a catch more like a condition." she said.

"What is it?" Haley asked.

"It happens at my party in 3 weeks. Kristina will be the one to walk in on the two
of you.

" How is this gonna help my chances with Nathan?" she said skeptical.

" Kristina will walk in on you and Lucas, the first person she's going to
tell is Nathan, he'll get jealous and think he is stealing you from Lucas. Kandace explained.

Haley knew Kandace was getting something out of this. But what?
She didn't care. "Okay, Kandace, no problem." she said nonchalantly.

"Great." Kandace smirked. Her plan was gonna go off with out a hitch.

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" So you mean to tell me that Kandace offered to help you steal her best friend's guy?" Theresa asked Haley in disbelief as they pulled into Haley's driveway.

"Yes" Haley as the got out the car.

"Haley that is such bullshit." she said bluntly as they walked in the house.

" I know Theresa but I can't see how I'm gonna lose in all this." They both sat down on the couch while Haley turned on the television.

Theresa sighed. " I don't know, maybe you won't lose but somebody is going to and I doubt it will be Kandace or Kristina.

"Still I can't let that stop me from finishing this thing with Lucas." Haley wasn't worried the way Theresa was.

"Don't you think this is getting a little out of hand Hales?" Theresa asked uncertain if all of this was really necessary.

"Sort of, I can handle it Theresa." Haley smiled.

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" I'm throwing a party at my house tonight." Nathan said to Jake. They were the only two left in the gym still shooting hoops.

"Since when?" Jake asked. Nathan only had parties at the beach house and this was short notice.

"My parents decided to be spontaneous and just left for some city in Mexico." Nathan informed his best friend.

"Fine with me, I was going to take Brooke out tonight but we'll just hang at your party instead."

"You and Davis getting serious?" Nathan was a little curious. Jake just hooked up with chicks. He didn't take them out.

" I don't know." Jake said honestly unsure.

"Whatever, call everybody and tell them about the party." Nathan said as he shot a jumper on his way out the gym.

"Get Jello-shots this time Nate." Jake said as continued to practice.

"Make it harder for Brooke to turn you down huh Jake?" Nathan smirked. Jake playfully threw the basketball at Nathan's head. He just dodged the ball and laughed.