"So Broody, how was the trip to the mountains?" Brooke asked as she watched Lucas arrange paintings on the wall.

"Oh it was good. Hales and I had a great time. I love skiing" Lucas said as he stood back to see what he had done.

"I love skiing too" Brooke squealed. "Have you ever been to Aspen?"

"Only nearly every year since I was little" Luke said turning his attention to Brooke.

"Wow, you know we've never really hung out. I bet we have loads more in common" Brooke smiled.

"I'm sure we do" Lucas said laughing as he took in Brooke's smiling face

"Good, now that you're done with the painting it's bonding time"

"Uh… What?" Lucas asked confused

"Well it's like this, you and Roomie are so tight and you're my best girl's boy. We should totally get to know each other."

"We probably should" Lucas said.

Nathan and Haley are sitting on the sofa with the open nearly empty pizza box between them.

"So Duke huh?"

"Yeah, Duke"

"You play with that Coach Kazeski"

"Coach Krzyzewski you mean?" Nathan asked laughing.

"Kyz… Kres…" Haley tried to say the name

"Coach K" Nathan said smirking

"Yeah him" Haley said rolling her eyes.

"Yeah, I play for him. But how do you even know who he is? I didn't take you for a basketball fan" Nathan asked surprised

"Lucas" Haley said with a laugh. "But don't ask me any more. That's about all I know about the Duke team. Lucas was raving about him. I sorta remembered the name because I could never say it"

"Ahh… you were going for small talk. And I was supposed to talk about him for a bit while you thought up some other topic for us to talk about. And I wrecked it by asking you about your source. You were gonna bluff your way through our basketball conversation weren't you?" Nathan asked mock accusingly

"Guilty as charged" Haley said laughing as she raised her hands.

"So what's next on the conversation agenda?" Nathan asked still smiling

"Well, you didn't give me the chance to think of something. So you're going to have to pick"

"Hmmm… since we really know nothing about each other, anything could be a conversation starter. How about embarrassing moments? That's a classic one"

"It is… but since it's your idea you get to first" Haley said.

"Fine. Let's see. Ok… there was this time in sophomore year. Our season had just started and the seniors were giving us shit as usual. We were in the gym after practice. Our coach had already left and one of the guys Doug decided to have his own version of hazing. So twenty minutes later I find myself standing in the middle of the basketball court with nothing on except my boxers. To make things worse my best friend Tim was there too. That poor bastard didn't event get to keep his underwear on. So we're standing there and Doug decides that we shouldn't just stand there, we should make out. So after a lot of threats from us and him I turned to my buddy, closed my eyes and just went for it. Next thing I know the gym is full of people, people with cameras I might add and Brooke is storming up to me. She starts yelling about how I betrayed her and I just stood there. It was awful" Nathan finished.

Haley just stared at Nathan feeling incredibly sorry for what the guy had had to go through.

"That sounds awful. Was Brooke-" Haley broke off when she suddenly noticed the glint in Nathan's eyes.

"You just made that up didn't you?" she accused him.

"What? Of course not" Nathan tried unsuccessfully to keep a serious face before he cracked up laughing.

"You're such an asshole. Here I was feeling all sorry for you and you just made the whole thing up" Haley said crossing her arms and glaring at him.

"Oh c'mon Haley. The look on your face was priceless. Don't tell me you didn't find that just a little bit funny?"

Haley just kept glaring but a tiny smile slowly crept on her face and then she burst out laughing as well.

"Fine" she sputtered through her laughter, "It was funny. You're a funny guy. A liar… but a funny liar"

"Just for that I guess I'll have to tell you a true story now" Nathan said.

"Oh sure… Like I'll believe you"

"I'm serious, this one's true. Ok… picture this. Junior Year…."

"No way. That is so awesome. I can't believe you actually dropped your pants in the middle of your prom just because of a dare. Now I know how to get you to do anything"

"Oh no, you know my weakness. I guess I'll have to be extra nice to you so you don't take advantage of poor little me" Lucas said grinning as he stretched across the bed he and Brooke were laying on talking.

"Now would I do that?" Brooke asked batting her eyelashes innocently.

"Oh don't give me that look. You're evil and we both know it"

"Now that's not nice at all. Maybe I won't take you to my party tonight as my date after all" Brooke said pouting.

"You're date? And here I thought you were dating the other Scott"

"Oh I am. I just thought as best friend, its part of my duties to keep you entertained. Don't want you running away from Tree Hill before Peyton even shows up"

"True, we wouldn't want that would we?" Lucas said lazily looking Brooke up and down.

"And since I haven't gotten any hysterical calls from Roomie or Boytoy, I'm assuming they're getting along just fine. So that leaves us to entertain ourselves"

"Yes… and I suppose I could do worse than showing up with you" Lucas teased.

Broke stuck her tongue out at Lucas and said, "That just gave me the licence to dress you the way I want"

"What? You're just going to have to work with what I've brought" Lucas said laughing. "And everything I own looks pretty much like this" he said gesturing to his t-shirt and jeans ensemble.

"Oh you poor dear. You do know there are these big buildings called malls that have shops in them. Maybe I should show you"

Lucas looked at Brooke's grinning face and smiled back.

"Maybe you should"

"Great" Brooke yelled getting up from the bed quickly. "Let's go"

"Wait, Brooke… what about the paintings?" Lucas said pointing to the half-finished wall.

"Oh right." Brooke said halting. She looked at the wall and at the paintings that were waiting to be mounted.

"I suppose we could always come back after" she offered

Lucas looked at her and then the paintings and then swallowed his reservations.

"Sure we can. Let's go"

"Is that really true?" Haley said holding in her reaction.

"I swear it is"

Haley started laughing finally.

"Oh my god, that would have been so funny"

"Now it is, at the time it was just so awkward. I wanted to die"

Haley by then was laughing so hard she had tears in her eyes.

"Yeah laugh now. But it's your turn"

"Oh this is hard. Oooh! I thought of one!" she exclaimed

"This was in junior high and there was this dance at school. I was the only one without a date so I didn't go. I was really down and I wanted some comfort. So back then, I'd always go into my sister Taylor's room, get into bed with her and she would hug me and let me vent till I felt better. She was like sixteen."

"Aww, isn't that sweet" Nathan said teasingly

"Shut up. So anyways, I walk into her room, and climb up into her bed, when a pair of arms wraps around me saying 'Hey baby, ready for more?'"

"Ooh Kinky" Nathan joked

Haley just rolled her eyes and continued.

"I was really scared, so I didn't say anything, when suddenly Taylor walks out of her bathroom. She looks down at the bed and was like, 'Mark, what are you doing? That's my little sister!'

At this Nathan starts chuckling.

"So this Mark guy jumps away from me and out of bed. Taylor starts laughing nervously, because Mom and Dad were really strict about her having guys in the house, and she wasn't sure if I'd say anything."

"So did you?" Nathan asked, laughing a little more.

"Nope, she did. The next morning she thought I'd said something, so when my Dad asked her if she had slept well she immediately confessed. Talk about awkward." Haley said, laughing.

"Yeah but how is this embarrassing for you?"

"I'm getting to that. Patience" Haley said

Nathan just muttered something.

"Anyway" Haley drawled. "Taylor gets grounded and stuff but I'm the one who had to suffer the real punishment. I had to get an excruciatingly detailed sex talk… from my Dad"

Nathan started laughing again.

"And that's not it. See this happened while my Mom was out of town so Dad had no idea what to do. He decided the sex talk wasn't enough and took me to a therapist to talk about my experience because he was sure it had been traumatic for me. He then called Luke and told him what happened and asked him to keep an eye on me in case I 'snapped'"

"Shit, are you serious? Your Dad sounds hilarious"

"Yeah hilarious." Haley repeated sarcastically. "When I say he told Lucas everything, I mean everything. For the next few days every time he saw me, he would say 'Hey baby, ready for more?' and this stupid cow Holly heard him one time and before I could even yell at Luke to shut up the whole school thought I was sleeping with him and all his buddies. It was horrible. Lucas finally had to get up at assembly and tell everyone that it was a misunderstanding."

"Ok that sounds bad. And not funny at all. Way to ruin the mood James" Nathan said

"Oh it was funny later. I got my revenge. But that's a whole other story" Haley said grinning.

"Now you got me curious. Start talking"

Haley laughed.

I don't own OTH.

Hope you like the chap. It's a little rough. The story Haley tells about her and Taylor is from the original Unfaithful.

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