Up Against The Wall

-giggle- obsessive reviews. God love them. Things are about to get a little heated in Tree Hill. Dum dum dumm. Also, what the hell could Friday night actually be? We all know it's not a tutor session.

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"Haley, I don't think I can see the book anymore." Nathan laughed when she looked up at him almost to ask him why, but she could plainly see that the sun had set. "Where's the lights?"

"Not many come around here, so they have to be turned on manually." Haley shrugged, standing up from the table and stretching her arms. Nathan thought he could see a dark spot on some of Haley's exposed skin, but shrugged it off because of the light. "Lucas always turned it on..."

"Well, your useful arn't you?" He said standing from his seat. "C'mon now, we're on a mission."

Haley followed his shadow around the dark court, but she soon found out they were going in small circles. "What makes you think you can find it, when I can't?"

"I just have a good sense of direction like that." He said, but straight after there was a loud bang.

Haley jumped. "What was that?"

"Nothing..." Nathan muttered in a groggy voice. "I think I found it."

Haley let out a sigh of relief as Nathan switched on the river court lights. She never liked darkness that much. She looked at Nathan who had a small bruise on above his eye. "Nice going." She laughed, except Nathan ignored her and looked straight passed her. His Adam's apple moved in a downward motion.

"Haley...?" her eyes widened at the sound of his voice, and slowly turned around to face a confused Lucas. "What's going on?"

"Nothing." The two said in unison, and momentarily stared at each other before back at Lucas.

"It's obviously something..." He muttered placing his basketball on the ground. "So I'll ask again. What's going on?"

"Well-"

"She's tutoring me." Nathan confessed, wiping his now sweaty palms on the back of his shorts. "I suck at Spanish so-"

"Spanish?" Lucas said in disbelief. "You said you were tutoring Brooke?"

"You said you were tutoring Brooke?" Nathan repeated raising his eyebrows. "Couldn't it of been someone less suspicious? Like, Glenda. But Brooke?"

"Shut up." Haley muttered. "Brooke's my friend."

"Since when?" The two Scott brother's said in unison. They both stared at each other for a long moment before Nathan broke the gaze.

"I better be going anyway. See you round, Haley." He said walking passed Lucas for his bag. "Roe." He said softly, next to his ear loud enough for him to hear.

Once he was out of hearing, Lucas started. "What the hell is this, Hales!?" He shouted running his hands through his hair.

"It's a tutoring session." Haley shrugged, taking a step back. "It...it doesn't mean anything, Luke."

"If it didn't mean anything, then why didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell Kaylob?" Maybe because he likes to hit me... Haley thought to herself.

"You two wouldn't of liked it."

"Of course we wouldn't like it! But if you told us, we could of warned you of him."

"He is a good guy, Luke."

He let out a angered grunt and took steps toward Haley in a fast motion, scaring her a lot. She could feel her eyes begin to water as she thought of Lucas doing what Kaylob does to her. "No, he's not Haley! I would of thought you would of known that!"

"Well how do you know anyway!? You've never talked to the guy!" Her voice was cracked, but she was determined to not break down.

"He is the son of Dan Scott! I don't need to talk to the guy."

"Look in the mirror Luke!" Haley screamed back. "Your Dan's son too!"

Haley stared at Lucas' silent reaction. His breath of visible in the cold night, and his eyes were fixated on her in a angry gaze. She opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out. She quickly walked passed him to run away, but he gripped her elbow to stop her.

"We need to sort this out."

Haley stopped and unintentionally relaxed her muscles. Kind of like she usually does when she prepares for Kaylob's beatings. But her heart was beating faster than before, like when Kaylob first attacked her. She remembered his words clearly that night.

"We need to sort this out."

She turned to face him, and he took a deep breath when he saw her tears streaming down her face. "Don't tell Kaylob, p-please..." She begged.

"Hales..."

"Please Luke!" She shouted at him. "You need to keep this a secret! No one can know!"

Lucas picked up his basketball and turned away and walked away from his best friends – his rock. She lost track of time of how long she stayed there, but apparently it was a long time because the lights always automatically shut off at 1am every morning. And they just turned off, and left her with nothing but the darkness to share her sorrows with.

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"Hey boyfriend." Said Brooke linking arms with Lucas. "Have you seen Haley? We need another tutoring session."

"Save it Brooke." Lucas replied back coldly. "I know she isn't tutoring you."

"She told you then?" She replied kinking an eyebrow. "Looks like she took my advice about that bitch then."

"Nathan is such a dick." Lucas said, shocking her a little. She was expecting him to say Kaylob. "I mean, how could she even agree to tutor him in the first place? She knows I hate him, she knows Kaylob hates him," Brooke shuddered at the horrible name. This went unnoticed by Lucas. "how can she just betray us like that?"

She stiffened. "Well, it's not like she's going to go 'sorry Luke, I'm leaving you 'cause your brother's a hottie'. Did you listen to her reason?"

"She didn't give me one," he stated. "she just said don't tell Kaylob."

"Are you going to tell him?" She asked seriously.

"Yes." He said, almost shocked Brooke could ask that. "He deserves the truth."

"Well, the truth hurts." Brooke said. "Don't tell him Luke."

"Why are you suddenly on their side?" He spat back in disgust.

"I'm on no one's side!"

He unlinked their elbows and walked backwards away from his girlfriend. "Except mine, right?"

"Lucas!" Brooke shouted after him. He stopped and looked at her momentarily. Her face when from furious to distressed. "Don't tell Kaylob."

Lucas smiled sarcastically and shook his head in disgust, turning away and making his way towards class as the bell rang.

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"Leave her alone, Kaylob!" Brooke said jabbing her finger into his gut. "I know what you do. How could you do that?"

"She deserves it." He replied coldly, ignoring her hate and looking passed her into the darkness of the night. "I can't believe you bought me."

"Yeah, I sure did, bitch." She replied.

He pursed his lips together. "Who did Haley buy?"

Brooke stiffened. "No one."

He took a big step towards Brooke, instantly scaring her. She instinctively took a step back and found the wall of the alley way. "Who did she buy?"

"She didn't buy anybody, buddy."

He dipped his head so they were at same eye level. "Who else did you buy?" He returned to his normal height when she didn't answer. "Whatever. I know were Haley is, anyway." He stated, starting to walk away from her.

"No!" Brooke shouted. "You can't just do this to her whenever she's somewhere your not!"

"Yes. I can actually." He shrugged, and continued to walk away. He stopped at a pedestrian crossing and sighed.

"Stupid boy-toy auction."

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Who else did Brooke buy? What will happen once Kaylob finds Haley? Did Lucas ever tell Kaylob? dum dum. So many unanswered questions, needing to be answered. Find out next chapter when we rewind from the last scene until six hours earlier... at the auction. Obsessive reviews pls. I know this is a short chapter, but I wanted to leave all the good stuff until the next one. :)