Chapter 8
Haley ended up walking all the way home, she was drenched to the bone but it didn't
seem to bother her, she opened her front door and threw her jacket and shoes (which
she'd been holding) on the floor.
"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what happened to you." Brooke said coming out of the kitchen.
Haley was silent, she couldn't believe what had just happened, and she wasn't even sure
what he meant by it, she opened her mouth to say something but burst out crying.
"Hey hey what's wrong darling," Brooke said running towards Haley and hugging her.
"I…I…I just don't know." Haley forced out.
"There, there." Brooke said stroking Haley's hair.
The next morning was a Saturday, which Haley was greatful for because she didn't want
to go into college and felt like complete utter crap. It was 1 o clock and Haley was still in
bed when Brooke stormed in and pulled the duvet off Haley.
Haley jumped up "Broookee what… what happened?" She said rubbing her eyes.
"Oh." Said Brooke giggling because she'd given Haley such a shock, "you better get
ready missy."
"No…why…" Haley said still trying to stay awake.
"Because little-miss-sleepy-head you and me are gonna do some retail therapy." She said
throwing a bag over her shoulder.
"Brooke, I really don't feel like going out…anywhere…and plus I have loads of work to
do and…"
"No… I will not hear these excuses." She said putting her hands to her ears, "you are
coming and that's that, I've picked out an outfit for you." She said pointing towards the
bathroom; you have 20 minutes to get ready."
"Brooke…."
"O.k, O.k maybe that's too less 30 and no more because we have to be out of the house
by 2 now, GET UP." She said grinning and walked out of the room.
Haley knew there was no arguing with Brooke because she always won, so she dragged
her self out of bed and got changed.
Brooke was waiting outside their front door tapping her foot impatiently,
"HAAAAALLLLEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY." She screamed at the top of her lungs.
"I'm here." Said Haley shutting the door behind her.
"Great." Brooke said sweetly. "Oh and what happened to your outfit."
"Brooke, I am not gonna go shopping in a mini skirt and ten inch heel boots, I wanna feel
comfortable even if I do look like crap."
Brooke examined Haley from head to toe "Hmmm, the looks not that bad seeing as thou
you didn't have long to get ready, it's acceptable, now come on!"
Haley rolled her eyes and followed, the previous day had felt like a dream and that's all
she could think about, she could hear Brooke talking but didn't seem to be listening.
"HALEEYYYY." Brooke screamed shaking Haley by the arms "Stop thinking about it."
"I'm not thinking about it." She said defensively.
Brooke raised her eyebrow and carried on walking, Haley followed.
They seemed to be shopping more for Brooke than for Haley, seeing as though Haley had
bought a new pair of jeans a top and some new shoes whilst Brooke however seemed to
have bought the whole shopping centre.
"Brooke, I feel tired do you mind if we sit there for a moment." Haley said beckoning
with her head to a bench.
"Haleyyy, I just need to buy a couple more things." She said widening her eyes and
sticking out her bottom lip.
"A couple." Haley said sarcastically raising the 10 bags of Brookes she had to carry,
because Brooke had so many herself.
"Fine you stay here and I'll be back in ummm half an hour." And with that ran off
leaving all her bags with Haley.
Haley found a bench which was deserted and not many people were nearby so decided to
go and sit there dragging the bags with her. She sat down and took her ipod out and
started listening to it, she looked to her left and saw a starbucks, she'd only worn her
small jacket so was freezing, she decided to carry all the bags to the store and get a hot
chocolate to go. She went back out to find the benches occupied by a couple, doing what
couples do.
Haley groaned and searched for another spot to sit; she walked around and finally found
one. She chucked the bags on the floor and slumped herself on the bench, slowly sipping
the hot chocolate, the scene playing again and again in her mind, she hadn't seen Jay
since and wasn't planning on wanting to see him very soon. The night seemed a bit of a
blur but Haley kept on flashing back to her conversation with Nathan, it was probably the
fullest conversation they had ever had and they had been arguing. She closed her eyes
and wished for it to be a dream; she opened them again and neatly spilt her hot chocolate
from the person in front of her.
"Leave me alone." She said quickly without hearing for what he had to say.
"Haley... please listen… I'm really..."
"I don't wanna hear it Jay just GO!" with that she stood up and was about to walk off
when Jay grabbed her hand causing her to bump into the person who was coming towards
her and spilling hot chocolate all over him. "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, I …" Haley froze
when the person removed there hood.
He was just staring back at her, not saying at word, they both stood there just staring at
each other.
"Nathaaaaan." Screamed a voice from behind Haley, it didn't occur to her that it was a
girl. She walked towards Nathan and kissed him on the cheek, Nathan and Haley's gaze
broke straight away. "Hey baby I wasn't sure you'd be able to make it." Said the girl
hugging him and putting an arm around his waist.
Haley looked at the girl; she'd seen her around but didn't know who she was, and the girl
was about the same height as Haley but was wearing big heels to make up the lack of
height, tight jeans and a bomber jacket. She was pretty a brunette with perfect straight
hair, perfect smile, perfect skin and brown chocolate eyes. She looked Haley up and
down and looked back at Nathan. Who didn't seem to meet Haley's gaze again.
"Oh noo, babe what's happened here, look at you, you got hot chocolate all over you, lets
go clean you up; some people obviously need to start watching where they're going."
And with that shot Haley a killer look and grabbed Nathan's hand and pulled him away
with her.
"EMMA, NATHAN." Screamed some other girl who had just come from the same
direction the brunette had, she wasn't as pretty, she had ginger hair, was very spotty and
wore tracksuit bottoms with a polo t-shirt, she gave the impression by her walk and talk
to be rather "thuggish" "Wait up guys, drop me off…." Her voice trailed off in Haley's
mind, Nathan never turned around he stood there and had put his hood back up with his
hands in his pocket.
Her name's Emma, Haley thought. Emma!