Chris dropped Haley back to her flat after a great night. Haley practically skipped up the stairs to her flat, she expected Brooke to be asleep as it was 3 in the morning, so she quietly turned the key and crept slowly inside as the lights were all off.

"Haley James Wilson."

Haley jumped out her skin "Brooke, you scared the life out of me, what are you doing up so late and what… Wilson?" Haley asked catching her breath.

Brooke switched the lamp on as she sat cross legged on the sofa "Don't interrupt me when I'm tryna be all telly-offy mature like," Brooke said lifting her hand to face Haley, "Wilson, is Chris's surname doofus," She added mockingly "Anyway, mature-ness aside, you have a gift roomie." She squealed clapping her hands in excitement. She pointed to the other side of the room where Haley noticed a big black box with a pretty red ribbon tied around it, she walked towards it and knelt down beside it.

"It's real heavy," Brooke said breaking the silence, "I tried lifting it I thought it might be something designer or really expensive but it's way to heavy to be the new Gucci bag, unless it's packed with goodies." She said jumping up and down in her seat like a child. "Chris is a keeper baby he buys big heavy gifts packed with goodies."

Haley threw a cushion at Brooke, "Shut-up quippy." Haley sat next to the box and slowly tugged at the ribbon. She was a bit hesitant about opening it because there was no note on the outside and she never really was sent gifts. She took a deep breath and pulled the box open and gasped at the sight of it.

"Is that it?" Brooke asked disappointed, "I waited three hours for that." Brooke huffed and walked off to her room "I am going to bed, I am suffering from a severe case of disappointment and I take it back Chris is so lame," she shut the door and went to bed.

Haley was so shocked she didn't know what to do, there was a little red card which said "Pure and simple yet beautiful on the inside and so profound, Happy Birthday xXx."

Flashback

Haley was at the music store she would always go to after school, she loved the sight of all of the instruments but was unable to buy them as all her money was going to college funds, despite her scholarship. She would always go right to the back of the store because the owner hated people touching the instruments, but Haley secretly thought he had become accustomed to her, so he never said anything to her as the store was so large it was hard to hear her from the back. She walked right to the back of the store and would sit at this one key-board which she had absolutely fallen in love with. She would sit there and play and sing for hours sometimes loosing track of time. Then one day she sat and began to play and sing to herself, when she thought she heard a noise from the triangle section, she turned at the speed of light to see if anyone was there and let out a sigh of relief to see no-one. Haley didn't have enough self-confidence to play in front of any-one not even her best friend knew.

She began to play again and sang to herself getting lost in the music.

"What'cha doing?" Said a voice from behind her a couple of minutes later making her jump and blush instantly.

"Daniel! What... when did you get here?"

He grinned, "A little while ago."

"You didn't...." Haley looked around the store and made sure no-one was listening, she moved closer to Daniel and whispered, "Hear me, did you?"

Daniel smiled goofily, "Hear you what? Sing in that beautiful voice of yours, maybe?"

Haley looked down turning extremely red, "This is so embarrassing."

"Oh, come on, you're great." He said nudging her.

"You know you're the first to ever hear me, not even Luke has."

"Well I guess that makes me the luckiest guy on earth." He put his arms around her waist and kissed her neck gently.

"Hales, one question."

"Shoot."

"There are so many more advanced, cooler keyboards here and yet you chose this one."

Haley smiled, "It's perfect," Daniel raised an eyebrow, Haley slapped him playfully across his arm.

"No, I mean, it's simple yet so deep, you don't need all those funky gizmos, it's all about you and the music, pure talent, how it should be, it's pure and simple yet beautiful on the inside and so profound."

End of flashback

Haley sat on her knees reading the note again and again, her birthday was not for another week, and she was guessing the gift came earlier than expected. She looked at the keyboard and ran her hand along it; it was the exact one she had always gone to at the store. She sat for what felt like hours lost in thought just staring at the keyboard.

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Nathan was wide awake and couldn't sleep; he was glad Rachel had finally moved out and got her own room. She didn't like the building he was in and wanted the luxury suite so her daddy paid a little extra for her to have the best room. Nathan didn't care as long as she was away from him he was happy. He lay on his back with his hands under his hands, his thought kept on drifting back to Haley.

Flashback

Nathan was at the music store because he had to collect something for his neighbour's daughter. He asked the shop assistant where the triangles were kept, he pointed him to the direction and Nathan followed the instructions. Right where am I going to find the triangles he thought, stupid Clarisse with her stupid band and her stupid triangle. I mean triangle what a loser. He carried on arguing in his mind when he noticed a blonde girl sitting right at the back of the store; he couldn't make out who she was as a gigantic harp was blocking his view. She started to play, she had the voice of angel, Nathan thought as he tried to catch a glimpse o her. He was on his tiptoes, when all of a sudden he lost his balance and fell into the triangles sending half of them flying. The girl stopped playing and quickly looked his way. Luckily she never saw him but he saw enough of her to realise it was Haley. He stood up brushing the dust off of him and listened to her hypnotised by her music. He stood there mesmerized, but was disturbed when her boyfriend turned up; he wanted to leave but couldn't so he just stood there and listened to their conversation. After they left he went over to the keyboard and smiled, he called over the shop-assistant and asked him to reserve it for him.

"I'd like to buy it later though and I want you to send it on this date," he said handing the shop-assistant a piece of paper, "I'll ring you with the rest of the details, and just make sure no-one else gets this." He handed the shop-assistant a tip and winked then walked off whistling.

End of Flashback

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Haley woke up and pulled open her curtains, the grounds were full of snow, she rubbed her eyes, "What, it's not meant to snow?" She thought out loud, she called for Brooke but there was no answer. She checked her watch and it was 6:50, she was meant to be meeting Nathan for their tutoring session in 10 minutes, "Crap!" She thought out loud as she quickly ran to the bathroom. She came out and found some jeans and a red polo neck top, that she found at the back of her wardrobe, she pulled out her coat and stuck on a hat, scarf and gloves. She ran to the door whilst trying to put her boots on the same time.

Haley reached the park where they were meant to be meeting; "Hey, I'm really sorry," Nathan was sitting on a bench waiting for her outside. "Nathan, it's snowing, we can't work outside!" Haley called out to him as she walked closer to the bench. He sat there grinning from ear to ear at her.

"Why not?"

Haley screwed her face up in confusion, ok this feels really weird she thought, "Is it me or did this snow just appear randomly, coz it was fairly warm yesterday?" She asked as Nathan stood up and walked towards her.

"No, I think it's just you."

Haley rolled her eyes, "Let's go the library."

"O.k." Nathan said grabbing his bag and following her.

Nathan smiled as he watched Haley tread carefully through the snow, trying her best not to slip and letting out a small girlish scream every time she was about to slip. Nathan picked up some snow and rolled it into a ball, "Nathan, I swear if you chuck that at me, I will shove it up your nose and make it come out of your ear." Haley said sternly without turning around.

"Wha…How?"

"Drop!"

Nathan gave in and emptied his hands, grinning his trademark Scott grin. The walk to the library seemed to take forever, they weren't even half way because Haley was adamant on not slipping and she refused to let Nathan carry her.

They stopped to get a coffee because Haley could no longer feel her feet, "Haley you know our hour's going to be up by the time we get there, just let me car…"

"No, we'll just start the hour as soon as we get there you are not carrying me, end of."

They stepped outside and started walking a little further, Nathan was getting bored of watching Haley taking baby steps so he decided to take the risk, he picked up a snowball and chuckled it at Haley.

"SCOTT!" She screamed without turning around "WHAT DID I SAY?!"

He laughed hysterically as Haley stood there hunched and was attempting to turn around, Nathan threw another one but Haley tried to duck and tried to grab some snow to throw at him, Nathan ran towards her trying to get her with another snowball but Haley lost her balance starting to slip, Nathan ran towards her trying to help her but he lost his balance as well, as Haley grabbed his arm, he fell backwards with Haley on top on him.

Nathan lay in the snow; with Haley on top of him he opened his eyes and saw that Haley had her eyes closed. He forced out a laugh, "Don't worry Haley you landed on something soft and hot," He joked.

Haley opened her eyes; her body was on top of Nathan's, somewhere she thought she'd never find herself. Nathan liked the feel of her warm breath on his face as she tried to say something but couldn't, he liked the feel of her body on his, it felt perfect. He stared deep into her eyes grinning from ear to ear.

"Oh, my God," Haley said trying to get up but slipping again on top of Nathan, her lips missed his; she could feel his chest rising and falling against hers. Her heart was beating like crazy. She tried to get up but failed several times.

Nathan grinned, "You know you like it…" He grinned and grinded his pelvis into hers "On-top."

Haley stared at him horrified, "Wha... No," She tried getting up but the feeling of Nathan's body against hers sent electric sparks through her. Haley managed to sit up on top him so she was straddling his waist, as she found it impossible to get up.

Nathan repeated his movement, Haley had to hide the feeling it was giving her, she wanted to heave out a sigh of joy. Nathan grinned as he knew what he was doing to Haley was driving her crazy. The truth was that having her on top of him was sending his body into overdrive.

Haley gained her composure and thought that the fact that she was sitting on top of Nathan should be making him nervous and not her. Haley put her hands on Nathan's chest gesturing for him to stop, his eyes instantly widened. Haley grinned embarrassed for Nathan, as she knew perfectly well why his eyes had widened as she could feel the bulge in his trousers underneath her.

Haley couldn't hold her laughter, "Wow, it's real easy to turn you on."

Nathan looked anywhere but at Haley as he was starting to feel hot in the snow all of a sudden. Haley was about to get up.

"NO!" Nathan shouted grabbing Haley so she couldn't get up.

"What?" Haley asked frustrated, people are looking at us funny," she added as a couple walked by staring at them laying in the snow.

"You can't get up now, you know why." He said through gritted teeth, gesturing downwards with his eyes.

"But, that's not my problem," Haley said confused and starting to feel uncomfortable with this bulge underneath her.

"No Haley you've got to help me out, I can't…" Nathan stopped as a man walked by with his dog, giving them curious looks, "Let's wait for my friend to go away." He said slowly as he gritted his teeth and smiled at the man walking by.

"Well, your friends not gonna go away, with me sitting on it, is it?"

"Shhh! Don't say it so loud!"

"It's not my fault you find me irresistible," Haley mocked as she grinded on him teasingly.

Nathan let out a groan, "Stop it! It's not funny."

"Well I'm tired of sitting on top of you, I'm going." Haley was about to stand up, when Nathan pulled her back on top of him.

"NATHAN!"

"Fine, I'll go on top," he added quickly laughing.

"Yeah like your gonna be able to do that with little Mr Uppity Up playing Jack in the box."

"Little." Nathan repeated. "

"Eww, whatever, let me go."

"Take it back."

"Fine, it's not little, it's microscopic." Haley giggled.

"We could always end this argument with a little show and tell…"

"No thanks keep Jacky in the box… well try to."

"So, you said you were tired of being on-top." Nathan grinned, "You know we can swap positions."

"Yeah, coz I really wanna be underneath you."

"Some girls would kill to."

"I'm not some girls and anyway, you couldn't even if you tried."

"You wanna bet?" Nathan asked raising an eyebrow.

Haley rolled her eyes and muttered "Whatever."

Nathan laughed and pulled Haley onto the ground causing her to scream as she landed in the cold snow, he quickly rolled himself so that he was now on-top of her.

"You were saying." He said laying on top of her.

"Get off of me," she said trying to push him off.

He chuckled at her attempt to push him off. "I never lose a bet James."

"UH! Get off, people are looking at us."

"Let them, we'll just tell them we're making snow angels." He grinned and stared back into her chocolate eyes and moved closer to her, he could feel her breath; he was centimetres away from her lips. Haley stared back up at him, his body was pressed up against hers, she was breathing furiously, she wanted to be angry at him, push him off but she couldn't she moved her head closer to his.

"Haley," he whispered.

"Yeah," she whispered back wanting him to kiss her more than anything.

"Haley," he repeated moving closer.

Her throat was growing dry and her body was feeling emotions she had never felt before. It was milliseconds away now.

"Haley…"

"Nathan, just…"

"Which bra do you think looks more slutty this red one or the black one."

"Huh?"

"I don't want to go in too desperate, you know."

Haley rolled off her bed and fell to the floor; she slowly opened her eyes and saw Brooke standing in front of her holding two bras. Haley massaged her head and looked up at Brooke who had pulled the blinds wide open, the light hurt Haley's eyes, "I was dreaming." Haley said out loud. "Oh gosh, how embarrassing, I was dreaming." She stuffed her head into her pillows.

"Yeah, I think I'll go with the black," Brooke decided finally walking out of the door but sticking her head back in and saying "Oh yeah, Haley, your with Chris you can't keep on saying Nathan's name in your dreams." Haley picked up one of her pillows and threw it in the direction of Brooke, Brooke ducked and added, "Oh you have 20 minutes to go see dream boy by the way, so I'd get your ass up and take a cold shower before hand." She laughed and ran off before Haley could get her hands on anything else to throw at her.

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Haley got ready and was glad it wasn't snowing, she walked to the bench and saw no Nathan, she was glad he wasn't there yet as this gave her time to gain her composure and get all the notes ready.

She sat there reading the notes when someone cleared their throat causing Haley to look up.

"Sorry I'm late; I didn't expect you to be here so quick." Nathan added chucking his bag on the floor and sitting opposite Haley.

Haley gave him a confused look, and smiled "Right, wow your crutches are gone."

"Yeah, wanna get back on the court as soon as I can, so trying not to be too dependant on them."

"Don't be too hard on yourself though, I mean I can't save your life…"

"Yeah I get it, are you gonna hold that against me for the rest of my life." Nathan cut in coldly.

"I was just jok…"

"Yeah whatever, let's get on with the work," Nathan cut in again.

"O.k." Haley said sternly.

They sat for the next hour minutes talking only about the work but mostly working in silence as Nathan tried to work on the questions that Haley had given him to work on. Haley found herself trying to avoid Nathan's gaze ever since she had the dream.

Nathan looked at his watch. "Well, I guess my times up."

Haley was surprised as she was normally the one that would be keeping track on time, but it felt as if Nathan was more eager to leave her this time.

Haley sighed and passed him his book, their hands brushed against one another causing them both to look up into one another's eyes. Nathan looked away and stood up, "I'll catch you tomorrow."

He was about to walk off when Haley found herself calling his name without realising, "Nathan wait."

Nathan stopped not turning around, Haley walked to his side and stepped in front of him, "Is everything ok," she asked hesitantly.

Nathan stared back at her, "Everything's fine, why?"

"Well, this may sound a bit stupid, but I got the feeling that you're angry at me, I mean…"

"Look, this is strictly a work based relationship, so whether we like one another or not has nothing to do with it," Nathan huffed out in frustration "And anyway you have Chris." He muttered.

"What?" Haley asked confused and not hearing the last bit.

"Look, I get you saved my life, and I'm grateful, but I also get that you don't like me so let's drop the nice guy act and be civil when it's time of tutoring, but otherwise we don't need to talk at all."

Haley stared back at him in shock and blinked back her tears, "Fine!" She walked off grabbing her bag and storming off.

Nathan stood there and threw his head back in frustration. Yeah well done you handled that real well jerk, he thought cursing himself all the way back to his room.

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Haley went back to her room, she didn't know why but Nathan's words really got to her. She didn't know what she felt for him. Brooke came home and found Haley sitting in her pyjamas eating ice-cream.

"Oh my gosh, is tutor girl skipping class." Brooke said astonished as she threw her bag in the floor and jumped onto the sofa next to Haley.

Haley stuck out her bottom lip and decided to fill Brooke in on everything that had happened, she couldn't tell Chris and telling Lucas was out of the question. So she felt Brooke was the closest thing she had to a best friend, so she spilt everything out to her. After Haley had explained everything to Brooke, Brooke paused and said, "So let me get this straight you're with Chris but getting presents from Daniel and you're dreaming about Nathan."

Haley sighed and threw her hands in frustration, realising what a mess she was in.

"Wow, you got yourself quite a love spider webby thingy." Brooke added finishing the ice-cream. "But what I don't get is why Daniel sent you that key-board, if you're no longer in contact with him."

"I don't know, it can't have been anyone else." Haley thought as she tried to think back.

"You really turned out to be a tutor-whore." Brooke said cleaning her spoon.

"Brooke! You're meant to be helping me!"

"I know, it's just confusing."

"You think." Haley said as she dug her head into the cushion that lay in front of her.

"Actually, you know what I think…"

"No and I don't want to."

"I think you Miss-Player-James has got a secret admirer, coz Danni boy seemed to heart broken over you to send you something like that so I think there's another guy in the picture…" Brooke gasped, "Oh my gosh Lucas!"

"Ewww, that's like wrong on so many levels, Luke's like my brother."

"Phew!" Brooke said in relief, she stood up to go throw the tub in the kitchen, "I'm telling you James you have a secret-admirer, who somehow knows you love music."

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I know the snow bit was a bit random, it's just been snowing here and i really felt like adding something snowy in ha-ha. but please review... and i will try to update regularly as i have holidays coming up :) X