Ch. 3 Situations
The weekend passed very quickly for the trio. Saturday they spent the day with Haley, all was going good until Brooke accidently got food on her.
Brooke had been playing with her food and when she flicked her fork, it splattered potato salad all over her. Rachel tried to not laugh but ended up letting some snorts out and Nathan tried smoothing things over to no use.
With a shriek she threw her sweet tea in Brooke's face and Rachel got ready to throw her kool-aid at her and it ended up in Nathan's face when he jumped in front of Haley trying to stop Rachel. "Ok this is enough." Nathan shouted at Brooke and Rachel, he helped Haley up and walked away with her leaving Rachel and Brooke with shocked faces.
Bottom lip trembling, tears started to appear and soon one dropped landing on the stupid potato salad," Oh Brooke I'm sorry, I know you wanted everything to turn out alright." Rachel gathered Brooke in her arms as she started to cry. All of this angered Rachel and every bad thing that happened between them and Nathan started with that Tutor Girl.
There was fire in the red headed eyes, she was out for blood.
As Haley sat in the car while Nathan drove them back to his house to change, she thought back to how easy it was to get him mad at them. She knew better than to think of those two being harmless and innocent.
At first when she started dating him, she didn't mind them that much but Brooke and Rachel's beauty scared her and that hidden fiery behind innocent eyes put her on edge. Rachel just ignored her and pretended she wasn't there for most of the time and Brooke tried being nice for the sake of her friendship with Nathan but Haley just wouldn't budge. Her and Nathan were going good without them and if she could get them permanently out of the picture it would be perfect.
They finally arrived at the house but she was a bit disappointed when she realized it was Gatina's residence and not Scott's. "Why are we here?" her tone was a bit whiny and Nathan tried to ignore it as he replied "Well this is home."
"But this is Rachel's not yours." She crossed her arms looking up at the white mansion; its windows sparkled as if mocking her.
"Yeah, well you see Brooke and me practically live here with her, we even have our own rooms. The only time we go to our own houses is when the parents come back from their trips and we have to see them to reassure them that they are great parents and have our credit cards rewarded in the process."
"The correct way is Brooke and I." she dismissed his reply; Haley was concentrating on the part that all three lived together and that had her blood boiling.
After Rachel finally had her calmed down, Brooke blushed with embarrassment at having cried over something stupid as a food fight. Thankfully Rachel didn't say anything about it and continued picking up their thrash and throwing it away.
She pulled Brooke to her feet and together they walked in silence to Rachel's Denali.
When they pulled up to the house, they noticed Nathan's avalanche in the driveway. Brooke bounced out of the vehicle and dashed to the front door ready to beg for Nathan's forgiveness, Rachel cursed under her breath already anticipating how she was going to be the one to console her crying friend if it ended wrong.
Brooke ran up the stairs and went into Nathan's room to find it empty, she heard giggling coming from her and Rachel's room and figured it was Rachel planning to scare the crap out of her. She ran to the kitchen as fast as she could look under the sink and found silly string. She crept up the stairs as slightly as possible and avoided the creaks in floor and swung the door open" BE SILLIFIED!" she yelled at the top of her lungs only to drop the can and cover her eyes.
Nathan tried to cover a shirt less Haley as Brooke yelled for Rachel. When he looked up there was a petrified looking Brooke and a pissed off Rachel.
"What the hell Nathan that's my bed and our room. For quick lays you use the basement." Rachel really wanted to grab the Tutor Girl's hair and drag her out of the house.
"We-we were just looking for a shirt and we got carried away." He gulped not wanting to face Rachel's wrath.
"Well you could have given her one of yours and not hump her in our room." Brooke's voice cut through him like fire.
Rachel meanwhile had disappeared and came back throwing something at them, it was a t-shirt. "Sorry but I don't think you can fill out any of our shirts." She unabashedly looked at Haley's chest who just glared at her.
Nathan tried begging with his eyes to not start another argument right now as Haley changed into the shirt.
Brooke just stomped her foot and left the room, while Rachel stepped forward" You completely give the word idiot a whole new meaning."
Nathan left with Haley and didn't come back to sleep there. Rachel and Brooke both figured he went back to his own house.
All Sunday Brooke moped around the house and Rachel tried to cheering her up by baking her cookies.
Nathan came back eventually and the girls tip toed around him. There was something in the air that they couldn't explain what it was.
Each one of them was terrified of the unbalance.
Sunday night all the Rachel slept to was hearing Brooke toss and turn in the bed next to hers. It was sad to the red head how Nathan was letting just some girl come between them. They had dated different people and it never made their friendship crash and burn but with Haley it seemed that it was going that way pretty fast.
The next morning it was tense until Rachel started choking on her milk and spurted it out of her nose. Brooke screeched with disgust and Nathan tried patting her back forcefully and avoid laughing. By the end of that little episode and getting everything cleaned up the girls were sharing tentative smiles with him. By the time lunch came around it was like the sand box days and everything was good.
"I wonder when the next blow up will come" Brooke crinkled her face into a frown when she hard Rachel musing out loud.
"What do you mean?"
"Come on Bee you know that he only fights with us because of her" Rachel narrowed her eyes at the tutor who was sitting next to Nathan at the end of the lunch table. Brooke followed her gaze and felt something in her kind of snap, she wanted to dig her manicured nails in Haley's face and leave permanent damage," Let's just bounce", she didn't wait to see if Rachel would follow.
Nathan frowned as he saw his two best friends leave and became furious when he caught Lucas admiring Brooke's backside.
Cheer practice was brutal with Rachel as co-captain, she wanted everything to be down perfect for the upcoming competition and having Peyton shooting back handed remarks about how she was a lousy friend wasn't easy for Brooke. It was even torturous that Haley was in the gym just watching Nathan practice like the dedicated girlfriend that she was.
Whatever Haley had against her was just way over her head and Brooke wanted to settle things once and for all. Ignoring Rachel's questions on where she was going didn't stop her from continuing her battle march towards Haley.
As Brooke was approaching Haley slightly panicked but pushed it aside when she saw Brooke's hesitant smile towards her and smirked on how naïve that girl could be.
"Sup tutor girl!" Haley frowned on this nick name.
"It's H- A- L- E- Y, Haley." She crossed her arms and leaned back on the bleachers.
"Sure, whatever, so I was thinking on making it up to you and Nathan. What's your idea on the perfect date?" Brooke impatiently wiggled from foot to foot like a toddler, Haley's eyes softened a bit but hardened at how Lucas was staring at Brooke and Nathan was glowering at him for it.
"Hmm let me think…. Watching you get run over by a bus?" Brooke's face fell for a moment, she couldn't take this anymore and she didn't have to either. She stepped closer and crouched down to Haley's eye level.
"Listen here James the difference between you and me is that I'm a Davis, over there is a Gatina and you want to keep pushing my buttons I will not hesitate to make sure Nathan does not even bother to share the same breathing space with you and make you look like the scum that is under the basketball team's shoes." Satisfied with seeing Haley's mouth hanging open she strutted off and noticed Lucas heated eyes on her, she blew him a kiss.
Maybe retaliating every time Haley decided to make her and Rachel look like a fool was going to be fun.
Rachel kept taking peeks at her as they drove home and Brooke fussed with the radio." What do I have monkey's on my face?" Rachel just snorted at this exclamation, little B. Davis was planning something and she was sure that it was bound to be fun.
"Oh nothing just wanted to know if I should scold you for flirting with Luke or praise you on the little stunt you pulled back there."
"Well let's just say that James doesn't know on whose turf she is on that's all." They both slowly made their way to the front door chuckling.
Both girls cleaned up and when they started making dinner Nathan came in.
"So what's the menu for tonight?" he tried peeking in the pots but Rachel hit his hands with the spoon.
"It's food and gross you stink go shower." Brooke pushed him towards the stairs and winked at Rachel.
She continued pushing him and when they started ascending the stairs she moved her hands lower to his buns, Nathan jumped and swatted her hands away," Chill out, you definitely need to get laid!" he stuck his tongue out as he ran avoiding Brooke's threats to leave him bald.