Chris sat staring at his watch and looking out of the window every two seconds, I knew it was too good to be true, a hot girl like her with someone like me! He thought to himself as he stared down the coffees he'd ordered. It was 4.30 and there was no sign of Haley, he sighed and put his head in his hands.
"Been waiting long..." Said a hesitant voice.
Chris looked up, "Oh, no not that long, I just got here actually." He lied.
Haley giggled, "The coffees stone cold, you're lying, rule number one Haley James despises liars."
"I'm sorry; I thought you weren't going to turn up."
"Yeah funny story, my tutee wouldn't let me leave, he told me he was in love with me and couldn't bear to be apart from me."
Chris smiled "You're tutoring already? Impressive, it's the first day in college and you're already helping others."
"Yeah, I did a lot back at high school, it just gives me hope, I mean when I'm tutoring someone, and they get it, and that light goes on, I feel good! I feel worthy, you know..."
Chris smiled as he took in her beauty, she was smart, hot and made sense, he knew he hadn't known her for long but there was just something drawing him to her.
"Hey there, anyone home, I've been asking you the same thing like 5 times and you've been staring at me with this goofy grin of your face." Haley added mockingly copying his look.
Chris didn't realise, he was so lost in her eyes that she's been talking to him for the whole time.
"Yeah definitely."
"You did hear what I just said didn't you?" Haley repeated.
"Yeah." He answered hesitantly.
An evil smile formed at Haley's lips "So where do you want to do it?" She said huskily.
Chris looked taken back "huh?"
"You know," Haley said biting her bottom lip, "I mean my place might be free, I think Brooke might've gone out, there's always the library, there's this really quiet bit I found where no-one disturbs you."
Chris's eyes widened is she talking about what I think she's talking about, he thought, starting to get hot under his T-shirt. He cleared his throat "Wh...Wha...What are you erm talking about?"
Haley burst out laughing "Lie number two, your not doing very well with your note taking are you?"
Chris looked away awkwardly, "I didn't mean to."
"I was talking about our Literature work, seeing as though we're both doing the same thing I thought we could work on it together?"
"Yeah that would be great," he started to feel a little more comfortable in her presence and decided to make sure he listened and didn't daze off.
A little while later a large sundae was out on their table with two spoons. "Wow." Haley said licking her lips.
"There's only one." Chris added.
"Hmmm, I guess we're going to have to share then aren't we Chrissy boy." She teased. "Right I take this section and this section and when we get to about here," Haley pointed with her spoon at the bottom 8th, "you can have it."
Chris laughed and started at the sundae as he started asking Haley 101 questions about herself, he wanted to know everything.
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"Just leave me alone, I told you I'm not after anything serious," Nathan told a girl who was on the verge of tears as she held onto his arm for dear life.
"Nathan please, I love you."
"Yeah, yeah, we spend one night together and you crazy chicks' thing I'm gonna have your kids," Nathan sighed "Look Shan..."
"Sarah!" the girl quickly corrected.
"Yeah, yeah. I've told you before and I'm going to tell you again, Nathan Scott never gets serious with a girl, I'm sorry that's just how it is, I have more important things to focus on."
"Like what?" Sarah sobbed.
"Like basketball, and other things, I'm sorry." He walked off and walked into the nearest café, seriously needing a coffee as the girl had given him the biggest headache possible.
"Hey one coffee make it real strong." He was about to take out his wallet when, when he looked to his right and saw Haley smiling and laughing with some guy Nathan had never seen before. He couldn't see as the guy had his back to him but could see that Haley was having a great time. He started walking closer, and was a table away from them when a girl grabbed his hand.
"Nathan, baby, you never called." Said a slutty blonde with a skirt that was way too short and a top that revealed way too much.
"Yeah, been busy," he tried to pull away.
Haley looked up and saw the person and saw Nathan being smothered by a slutty blonde, she also noticed the cut on his lip and his bruised cheek, and she quickly looked away and decided to ignore him.
"Nathaaaaaan." Called a red headed girl from behind him.
"For Fu…" He turned around and saw the person he was dreading the most "Rachel." His eyes widened, he looked back towards Haley's table and noticed she was having too good of a time to realise him, he quickened his pace. Grabbed Rachel by the arm and left before anyone could notice.
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Over the next few days Haley had started spending a lot of time with Chris, she really enjoyed his company and found him to be a right laugh. He was the one people in college whose presence comforted Haley, and let her be herself.
She sat in the library waiting for her new tutee to arrive; he was half an hour late. Great he's probably one of those arrogant jocks that's gonna sweet talk his way through this whole hour, Haley thought to herself as she starting piling the books in front of her and leant down to pick a book off the floor.
"Sorry, I'm late, some crazy girl wouldn't let me go, and she told me she was in love with me."
"That's ok, grab a sea...." Haley and Nathan's eyes met. "You have got to be kidding me." She quickly stood up knocking the pile of books over and sending them in different directions.
Nathan stood there in total shock, his hand holding his bag strap.
"I must be in the wrong place," Haley quickly took her timetable out, it stated the section and the time clearly and the students initials were NS. Oh my god, she thought.
Nathan didn't know what to do; he'd never been in such an awkward situation. "Erm..."
"I CAN'T TUTOR YOU!" Haley finally let out; her uproar was followed by a thousand "shushes."
"Sorry." She whispered.
"Look..." Nathan started.
"Don't you 'look' me Scott, I'm going to get this sorted, come with me, no stay here, no do whatever, I'm going to the guy in charge," Haley was about to storm off when Nathan grabbed her by the arm.
Haley looked up at him in complete and utter shock, "Look it's an hour, let's just get it over and done with, plus my coach says I need something to fall back on and I decided to take up Business and Law." Haley's mouth fell open.
"You what?"
"Yeah, I just need to some help, you don't even have to talk to me, you can write notes." Nathan pleaded.
"Nathan what do you want?" Haley pulled her arm from his grip.
"You wouldn't understand, no-one else wants to tutor me, they all think I'm gonna flunk."
"But I thought you were majoring in basketball."
"I am, it's just a back up plan, that's all, I mean when my dad bust his knee he found it real hard to find something else, it was only because of my mom's parents that he got a job."
"Yeah well you'll always have your daddy's place won't you?" Haley rolled her eyes not believing the nerve of him.
Nathan clenched his jaw "You don't know the first thing about me and my dad, and plus I can't work with him he's jus..." He paused and took a deep breath, "I need to get away from him, I can't… you don't need to hear this, shit, why am I saying this to you anyway," he cleared his throat, "Will you tutor me or not? I'll understand if you say no…"
"N..."
"But please before you say anything just think about it, you're a tutor your personal interests shouldn't clash with the interest of work with a tutee right?"
Haley stared at the clutter of books on the floor Luke is going to hate me for this, she thought I'm gonna hate me for this.
She let out a deep breath "Fine, but on one condition, you never contact me unless it's urgent and Lucas never finds out about this."
"That's two." Nathan joked trying to lighten up the conversation.
"Whatever." Haley crouched down and started picking up the books, Nathan crouched down to help her, they both picked up the books in silence.
"Right, so do you have your books?" Haley asked.
"Yeah they're all here," Nathan took out all of his books from his bag and placed them on the table.
"That's a start."
"Yeah."
"Right, so let's start with marketing methods first."
"All you need is charisma and a good smile." Nathan joked.
Haley shot him a look "If you want this to be kept civil, I suggest you drop the comedy act and focus."
"Sorry."
"So if we start on this page…." Haley's voice trailed off, she put her hair up and placed a pencil in between to keep it up in the bun. Nathan watched her with anticipation, trying to listen to what she was saying but couldn't take in a word. God this is gonna be hard he thought to himself.
"Right, so if you take out your pencil, you can draw this diagram, which will help you focus on the main areas." Nathan leant forward; his hand was inches away from Haley's cheek.
She instantly flinched back, "What are you doing?"
He leant a little further and pulled the pencil out from her hair, "My pencil." He added.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Haley blushed and quickly went back to talking about the work.
Nathan smiled to himself as he leant back in his chair stretching his arms.
The hour was finally over and Nathan had left leaving an exhausted Haley sitting with her head in her hands in the library.
"This seat taken?"
Haley looked up and smiled with relief, "Hey Chris, I was just coming to find you actually."
"Wow, what do I owe this honor?" He joked, throwing his bag on the floor and taking the seat opposite Haley.
"I need food."
"Difficult student?"
"Something like that."
"C'mon, foods on me." Chris put his arm around Haley, as she rested her head against his chest and stuck out her bottom lip contemplating what to do.
"How about we order a pizza and watch something stupid?"
"I think Brooke has other plans for our flat tonight."
"Oh, well you could always come back to mine, I don't think my roomie's in today either."
"You're on, but first I need to go drop this stuff back home, I'll meet you at your place in about half an hour."
"It's a date," he teased.
"You wish!" Haley stuck out her tongue and walked off in the opposite direction.
Haley decided to take a short cut back to her place which was a bit of a dodgy route; it was fairly dark, but decided to take a chance as it would save her so much time.
She climbed through the whole in the gate and brushed the dust off of her, she started walking and held her bag close to her, it was fairly quiet. She made sure to check behind her every two seconds and quickened here pace, she almost slipped over a piece of glass, which sent her Ipod flying, "SHIT!" she said a little louder than planned. "Now where am I gonna found that?" She got on her knees and gently starting feeling around when she swore she heard someone moaning. She shook her head and thought maybe she was imagining it, then she realised that the moans had become more constant and it sounded like the person was in pain. She walked closer to the sounds and gasped at the sight.
"Oh my gosh, Nathan!"
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Please keep the reviews coming oh and i just realised that the name Chris goes well with the whole Chris Keller stuff, but i assure you he looks nothing like him (LOL sorry to offend the Chris Keller lovers, this guys way hotter - well you know what I mean), it was a total coincidence that they both share the same name. hehe!
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