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He pulled out a twenty and placed it in her jar.
"Thank you, sir!" she said from behind him.
Lucas took a deep breath and turned around, "Hey, Hales."
She froze and covered her mouth. She kept opening her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. Tear started to fall down her cheeks, "Lucas…"
"Hey, Hales," he repeated.
She shook her head and walked over to him. She swung her hand back and smacked him in the face.
"Shit!" Lucas said as he rubbed his cheek.
Haley walked off. He was not going to let it end like this. He chased after her. He knew where she was going.
"I'm sorry!" he yelled.
Haley turned around on her heels, "The hell you are!"
"I am so sorry, Haley. Please, just let me talk to you and fix this," Lucas begged as he walked over to her.
She shook her head, "You are the last person that I want to talk to."
"I can explain everything to you."
"I don't need you to," she said as she opened her car door, "I read pretty much every article that you were in. I'm pretty sure that I am all caught up."
He felt like he had been shot in the stomach, there was no getting through to her. "I left because I had to get out of this town and there was no turning back."
"You couldn't tell someone that you were going away?"
"I knew that you and my mom would convince me to stay, Hales. I know that I am a complete asshole for just leaving, but I was a stupid teenager!"
"A stupid teenager that became the head of a company," she mocked.
"I worked my ass off to get there, Haley!"
"It just doesn't make sense to me that you up and leave all of the sudden," Haley hissed.
"There is a lot of stuff that happened and I don't feel like I owe anyone an explanation!" he snapped.
Lucas was getting irritated. He was truly sorry that he had left, but there was a reason that he didn't want people to know about. After all, that is why he left.
"I heard all about your life, Lucas! I heard about the millions of dollars that you were making. I heard about Rachel, the slut from fifth period. By the way, where is the kid?"
Lucas froze. How did she know about that? He paid someone to keep that detail out of the press.
"How…how did you know about that?"
She smirked, "Rachel had a friend named Mouth. Remember him? Well, he and I used to date."
"Then you should know that we lost the fucking baby!" Lucas yelled.
Haley's jaw fell, "What are you talking about?"
Lucas wiped the tears from his eyes, "Rachel lost the baby."
She walked over to him and hugged him. She had never been so angry with someone before in her life, but she felt horrible.
"I'm so sorry," she whispered.
Lucas pushed her off of him gently. She was the only person that ever knew that about him. She was the only person that needed to know. Lucas wiped his eyes with his shirt.
"I'm glad you're back," she said.
He nodded, "feels good to be home."
"Sorry about your brother," she added.
"I'm the one that is supposed to be apologizing to you, not the other way around," Lucas said with a laugh. "Thank you, though. I just feel so bad for Brooke."
"Are you kidding me?" she asked as she raised a brow.
"I know that you hate her, but she's an amazing girl."
"I mean, I feel sorry for her, but she is evil."
He shook his head, "I've been staying with her and she was too good for Nathan. I think that you two could be friends if you wanted too."
Haley scoffed, "What are you smoking?"
"Nothing since high school," Lucas joked.
Haley giggled, "Same old Lucas."
Lucas wrapped his arm around her shoulder, "Come on, let's go get Brooke."
"You must have been hungry!"
What was she talking about? Brooke glanced down to see that she had eaten the whole pack of brownies. She felt her cheeks turn red. Whoops.
"I'm so sorry," Brooke said.
"Don't be embarrassed. They were going to be thrown out anyways," Karen informed her with a smile.
"I just have been craving one of these damn things since yesterday!" Brooke said with a giggle.
"Lucas said that you were sick today…"
"Yeah," she nodded, "I just have been feeling sick the past few days. I think I just have a little bug. I feel better after I throw up though."
"Brooke…"
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Brooke asked.
Karen placed a hand on Brooke's shoulder, "Honey, I think you're pregnant."
Brooke scoffed, "There is no way, Karen."
"You got your period?"
"Yeah, last…" Brooke froze.
Think, Brooke, think. When was your last period. Okay, it was the week before Nathan shipped off to war. So that was…
"Shit!" Brooke yelled.