Hello everyone. So last chapter was a bit weird, It was just an idea as normally its guys that do that but i thought i would change it a bit and make it a girl as stuff like that happens too. Maybe Lucas will very slightly (and i mean slightly) redeem himself here.
enjoy
10.
Her desire not to be alone was the only thing that got her to school on Monday morning not that she wanted to talk to anyone she just didn't want the isolated feeling of being on her own.
She was wearing a baggy hoody and loose trousers and if she felt she could have got away with it she would have worn gloves a scarf and a hat to cover all her exposed skin.
She felt sick and the worst thing was she couldn't talk to anyone about it.
She wasn't even sure if she should be feeling this bad, maybe she was over reacting she tried to convince herself as if that would somehow make her feel better.
In health class they had been told all about saying no and that if a guy touched you in places you were uncomfortable with then it was wrong but there had never been any mention of girls forcing them selves on you.
She was trying to convince herself that it wasn't that bad what had happened to her but at the same time she felt awful. She couldn't stop going over in her head how it had been her own fault, she had been drinking and then she had taken herself off on her own, she was an idiot for putting herself in such a vulnerable position.
Plus she couldn't help running the event over in her mind thinking of how she should have been stronger, surely she could have pushed Brooke off she was only an inch taller then her and weighed a few pounds more maybe. She couldn't help but feel she should have done more to help herself.
She was very glad that everyone seemed to be avoiding her she just wanted to be left alone.
Nathan had been hoping to see Haley at the party the night before and talk to her about what had happened between them.
Although he knew Lucas would not be happy if he started dating Haley he just couldn't stop thinking about her, she was unlike any other girl he knew and he wanted her before some other guy realised how great she was.
He had kept an eye out for her at the party and Peyton had said she had brought her but then Peyton had got a text at 11.30 from Haley saying she was feeling unwell and had gone home.
He had been at his locker in the morning when he had first seen her and alarm bells had gone off in his head, she looked ill, her face was pale and she seemed to be slightly hunched over as if to protect herself but there was more then that she was wearing baggy clothes. She didn't normally wear anything too tight but the clothes seemed to suggest she was hiding her body and she kept nervously looking up and down the corridor although she didn't seem to notice him.
He was going to go speak to her but she left for class. He searched for her at lunch and it wasn't until he checked a small court yard at the back of school that he found her sitting at a lunch bench her head in her hands.
He walked over to her slowly and then called over to her which made her jump but when she saw it was him she seemed to relax slightly which pleased him moderately.
Haley had managed to avoid talking to anyone all day and had picked a really quiet place to have lunch knowing that if someone was looking for her they would check the library, her usual hide out.
She had some lunch but she couldn't bare to eat it. She really needed to talk to someone but she couldn't see anyone believing her, even to her it seemed unbelievable.
When Nathan had joined her she wasn't sure if she was happy or not.
He sat down next to her on the bench and had no idea what to say, he wanted to talk about them kissing but he knew that there was something else something more pressing he needed to find out from her first.
"Are you ok?" He asked knowing it sounded lame but he didn't know what else to ask.
"Great." She answered without any feeling. It was weird last night she had been nervous but so excited about seeing him about maybe kissing him again but now that all seemed to have happened a long time ago.
Nathan was confused according to Peyton at the party Haley had seemed fine and had been joking around with them, he guessed something must have happened at the party maybe with Lucas.
"Did something happen at the party last night?" He asked gently, she flinched and that was enough of an answer for him.
"Haley please you can trust me, please tell me what happened." Nathan gently pleaded with her, fear had started to mount in him worried what someone might have done too her, his head going over so many horrible possibilities.
Be brave Haley told herself, her instincts told her to tell him that he would take care of her but finding the words was another matter, she was so good at English but finding words for this was so hard.
"I left Peyton and Jake at the party cause I needed some air so I went for a walk down the beach." Haley started her eyes filling with tears "I know I shouldn't have gone off on my own I was so stupid after everything that had happened and I'd been drinking although not that much." Haley continued getting cross at herself, blaming herself for being in the position in the first place.
"That's what everyone does at parties they take stupid risks ok." He said trying to reassure her all the while so worried what she was going to say next.
He slowly reached out and placed his arm round Haley's shoulder gently holding her again him.
His hand gently rubbed circles on her shoulder which she found slightly soothing.
"I was just sitting there then they came." Haley said stopping she couldn't say any more, she didn't want to think about what Brooke had done to her, she didn't want to see the look of disbelief on Nathan's face.
Nathan waited for her to continue but Haley didn't she just looked down at the ground and fiddled with her hands, the look of anguish on her face broke his heart.
He ran over the options in his head, there was no obvious bruises on her so it seemed to point to one thing, he took a deep breath.
"Did someone touch you Haley?" Nathan said softly, Haley eyes went tightly shut and she started wringing her hands together while her body tensed and she slowly nodded trying to focus on his hand rubbing soothing circles on her back.
"Was it some you knew?" he asked holding her slightly more firmly to him.
Haley made a small confirmatory noise and he felt her shake slightly in his arms. His mind was racing with all the possibilities.
"Please tell me who it was?" He once again gently pleaded. She opened her eyes and turned to look at him with such a sad look in her eyes
"I can't" She said so quietly if she hadn't moved her lips he would have thought he imagined it. The school bell suddenly went off over their heads causing Haley to jump and stand up.
"I should go to class." She squeaked out then hurried off to class.
Nathan sat there a bit longer, worry coursing through his veins, he was pretty sure the reason she couldn't tell him was because it was someone close to her and that only left his with one candidate and he just hoped to god he was wrong.
She wasn't sure if she was happy or not that she hadn't told him. Maybe if the bell hadn't gone off she could have but she was still so unsure about how he would react and she was still sure she was partly to blame, that she should have done more to protect herself.
She didn't know what she was going to do next, knew she couldn't avoid everyone for ever, knew that Brooke would probably go after her again but she just didn't know what she could do.
For the briefest second she considered calling her parents but then Brooke's words came back to her from last night and she knew they would be no help.
It suddenly hit her and she wasn't sure why she hadn't thought of it before, Karen.
She would defiantly believe her, the woman was practically her mother now there was no way she would doubt her.
She had been avoiding Lucas' house lately due to her disagreements with Lucas and because Brooke always seemed to be there but now if Karen was there it seemed like a place of salvation.
These ideas came to her while she was unloading her locker at the end of the day and the thoughts seemed like a kind of salvation to her something she could work towards.
She was just leaving her locker when she nearly walked straight into Lucas. Her heart started beating faster and she couldn't help her eyes darting around to see if Brooke was around, though luckily she couldn't see her.
Lucas couldn't help but notice the look of fear that appeared when she saw him and it only added to his worry. They had been fighting recently but he knew when there was something seriously wrong with Haley and today there was something seriously wrong with her.
He had seen her earlier in the morning and for a second he hadn't recognised her and all day he had worried about her not that he had mentioned it to anyone.
"Hey I wanted to talk to you." Lucas said putting his hand on her shoulder to try and calm her.
"I've really got to go." Haley said looking desperate, she knew any second Brooke could show up and then there would be trouble.
"Hale's please I know that there's something up, something really bad. You can talk to me." He said.
Haley felt anger rise up in her.
"Do you really know me that well Luke, you thought I did all that stuff to Brooke, you though I tried to kill myself. Do you actually know me any more?" Haley said angrily forgetting for a second all the other stuff going on in her head.
"Look we just need to forget these past weeks and move on, I know Brooke wants you to hang out with all of us more often." Lucas said trying to make her feel better.
Haley's anger disappeared again and the fear just at hearing Brooke's name out loud made her feel physically sick.
Lucas noticed the change in her immediately she went from being red in the cheeks in anger to pale as a sheet. He was about to say something else he was suddenly pinned the locker behind him by Nathan.
Nathan had been looking out for her all day, turning over the whole conversation in his head trying to come to a firm conclusion but the only thing he could come back to was that it was Lucas that had touched Haley. He wasn't even sure how bad it was, but a part of him couldn't believe Lucas would do that especially to his best friend, not that they were that close at the moment.
He had decided to talk to his brother after school and see what he had to say, first though he wanted to find Haley to invite her to stay at his so he could look after her.
He made his way over to her locker but paused a way back when he saw Lucas talking to her.
The look of fear on her face confirmed his worst fear, Lucas had done something. She had been talking to him earlier about this stuff and she had looked lost and scared but never when he was with her had she looked afraid.
With out more thought he race down the hall and had Lucas pinned against a locker.
"What the hell did you do to her" Nathan demanded anger radiating off him, luckily the corridor was empty or it would have caused a major scene.
Haley stood at the side of them shocked.
"To who?" Lucas asked in confusion not putting the Haley situation together with Nathan.
"Haley." He hissed. Lucas confused quickly turned to anger.
"What exactly do you think I did?" Lucas challenged.
"Guys please stop." Haley said in the biggest voice she could muster, she couldn't take the two of them fighting on top of everything else.
Nathan let got of Lucas and turned to Haley.
"It wasn't Lucas?" he asked in a gentler voice and Haley shook her head feeling her eyes fill with tears again, she hated this, she felt like she was crying so often now.
"What happened?" Lucas asked his anger also gone his voice full of concern.
"Last night, at the party I…….." Haley stopped as she saw someone walking down the corridor towards them and the urge to be sick was so strong.
"I have to go." Haley said quietly and while the boys turned round to see who was walking down the corridor and who had made Haley stop talking Haley quickly walked off.
"Hey boy's" Brooke said cheerfully, while both the guys looked at her slightly warily.
"Do you know what happened to Haley?" Nathan asked her firmly.
Brooke put on an innocent voice.
"What's happened to Haley?"
"Nothing, don't worry." Nathan replied quickly.
"Oh ok, well I'm in a bit of a hurry I'll see you later." Brooke said smiling at them then heading off in the same direction as Haley, she couldn't take any more chances she needed to get rid of Haley once and for all.
Nathan and Lucas just watched Brooke walk off, both feeling confused, both knowing she fit in some how but not knowing how.
"Lets go get my car and we'll go find Haley ok." Nathan said, unfortunately he was parked at the other side of the school to where Haley had headed off to.
"Yeah she's working today so we'll head there. What has Brooke done?" Lucas asked uncertainty and fear in his voice.
"I don't know." Nathan replied and they headed quickly off to his car.
Brooke never ran but she needed to catch up with Haley, luckily she was in her cheerleading outfit and trainers. She saw Haley walking through the practically empty car park and picked up a largish rock by her foot. She snuck up on Haley and before Haley could do anything she had knocked her on the head causing Haley to fall unconscious on the floor. Brooke smirked in triumph and thanked god that she had parked here this morning, she grabbed Haley's lifeless body and dragged her across to her car.