Brooke quickly runs into Haley's room and jumps on her best friend's bed. Haley's hair is a mess and she slowly opens her eyes and sees a blurry version of Brooke.
"What do you want?" Haley yawns and throws a pillow over her head.
"Answers!" Brooke squeals excitedly. "How was it?"
"How was what?" Haley plays cool, mumbling behind her pillow.
"You and basketball twerp? I did a fabulous job, didn't I?" Brooke smiles, sitting on top of her best friend.
"Wait…you arrange this?" Haley throws the pillow across the room.
"Oh! Pillow throwing and everything, that dramatic huh?" Brooke taps Haley's tummy with Joy.
"Pillow this!" Haley throws the pillow at Brooke's face.
"My flat iron hair! What was that for?" Brooke's voice got huskier, if that's possible.
"Ah, hello, some best friend didn't tell her best friend that she set her up!" Haley's voice got higher.
"Well! I put a bet that that best friend is going to tell her best friend that she enjoyed it. Didn't you enjoy it best friend?" Brooke clinches her teeth.
Haley stayed silent.
"Hm, I guess somebody needs to owe her best friend a huge thank you and a blouse from her closet" Brooke said as a matter of fact.
"What about a half thank you and no blouse?" Haley halved smiles.
"What's wrong?" Brooke pouts.
Part of Haley has feelings for Lucas and the other part is that she's falling for Nathan. And the other part, Brooke likes Lucas also. Talk about dilemma!
"I don't really like Nathan. I kind of do and I kind of don't" Haley's forehead cringes.
"Well, you're in luck that your best friend is such a smarty in these type of situations! You just got to spend more time with him! How about another date tonight? On me!" Brooke jumps around joyously.
"Let me guess, the special Brooke edition version ten of the party-drunk-have all the fun-sex-escapades set up?" Haley smirks.
"That's the one!" Brooke warmly hugs her best friend from behind.
"I think I'm going to be sick!" Haley rolls her eyes.
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"So how was the date?" Peyton snares.
"It was good…" Nathan answers truthfully.
It was good and that's the truth but he didn't want to tell Peyton that. He didn't want to give her that satisfaction. But he has to.
"I know! I watched it on tape! Seeing Haley falls for you was absolutely heart wrenching" Peyton's eyes grow wider.
"Look…Peyton, she's just a girl that happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, can't you just let her go?" Nathan asks.
More like a plea.
"Let her go? Wrong place at the wrong time? Am I hearing this, Nathan? Don't you forget what you did, Nate" Peyton circles Nathan.
"I know what I did. And I don't need you on my tail every second reminding me about it" Nathan glares at her.
"Well then do your job and don't question me" Peyton's clinches her teeth.
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"Do you see Lucas anywhere?" Brooke scans the hallway, while Haley gets some book from her lockers.
"Nope" Haley answers nonchalantly.
"You're not even looking! What's up with you two?" Brooke looks at Haley weirdly.
"Nothing is up" Haley slams her locker as they head to their first class.
"Are you still mad that me and Lucas didn't find you quickly at that frat party?" Brooke locks arm with Haley.
"Why would I be mad? I was locked in with "basketball twerp"" Haley did the air quote thing.
"How come I feel like you're saying it to mock me? Say that with more love cause you know you like basketball jerk" Brooke smirks, holding onto Haley's arm more tightly.
"I didn't say I like him. I said I kind of like him. See the difference Brooke?" Haley stares at her best friend.
"You know, I really don't. Oh! Look!!! Speaking of the devil" Brooke smiles happily.
"Hi Haley" Nathan said deliciously with a smile.
"Hello" Haley said, softly.
"Ahem" Brooke patiently waits for Nathan's greeting.
"Oh! Brooke! I didn't see you…how are you doing?" Nathan's voice got annoyed.
"If that's your way of saying thank you, no thanks! And I guess no date tonight" Brooke jokingly pulls Haley away from Nathan.
"Wait, wait, a date? As in, with Haley?" Nathan's eyes sparkle.
"No with a bunch of your benchwarmers! No! Of course with Haley, one of the best school's cheerleaders! Well…next to me, of course" Brooke winks.
"You're okay," Nathan stated seriously.
"Nice one, mister. You're lucky that my best friend likes you" Brooke elbows Haley.
"Brooke!" Haley shouted.
"What?! It's the truth" Brooke winks.
Haley blows out a gigantic sigh.
"Lucas!" Brooke calls out, running to him and dragged him over.
"What do you want, Brooke?" Lucas questions irritated.
"Good question and my next question is, would you be my date for tonight?" Brooke asks with such enthusiasm.
"For what?" Lucas's eyebrow raises, while looking at Haley, seeing if she gave any vibe of jealousy.
Haley did but she had a good way of hiding it.
"Another good question, well I just set up Nathan and Haley for a second date and I would like to double date with them. You know, me and you, with them two hot pockets" Brooke smiles.
The other three wasn't smiling so much.
She went on a second date with him, Lucas thought. Jealous anyone?
"Sure" Lucas said with no hesitation.
"Great! This is going to be so much fun, you guys!" Brooke grabs Haley's arm as they walked to class.
Lucas turns toward the other direction to go to his class, seeing as the girls left. He didn't want to face Nathan. No, wait, too late.
"Hold up" Nathan's voice got a little deeper.
"What do you want?" Lucas turns around with his hands in his pockets.
"Are you really going on the date with Brooke or you're just going on the date so you can spy on me with Haley?" Nathan said, protectively.
"Insecure, are ya?" Lucas smirks.
"You want that smart mouth to look like an upside down frown?" Nathan lays down the law.
"A threat? Wow, Nathan Scott's insecurities shoot it's all time high" Lucas didn't hold back.
"I'm insecure? How about you? You're going on a date with some girl you don't even care about to spy on somebody else that doesn't even look at you" Nathan shoot back.
"You're all wrong because…I-I-I do like Brooke. She's pretty and-and-and captain of the cheerleading squad" Lucas tries to think about the qualities he like in Brooke but he's stumped.
"You like sluts, I see" Nathan coughs.
"What about you? Isn't hoes your thing?" Lucas stares at Nathan, ready to punch him.
"Are you saying Haley's a hoe?" Nathan tries to guilt trip him.
"Well, if she's planning on making you her boyfriend, she will be sooner or later" Lucas gives him the death stare. "And that's a shame, I tell you, she's real classy. Too bad she has bad taste in boys"
"You better shut your little mouth up or else!" Nathan walks up to Lucas, and pushing his face up to him.
"Or else what?" Lucas clinches his teeth.
"Let me remind you, Haley is my date, not any ordinary date, she's my dog. You know a bitch. No, no, let me translate this better so you-wanna-be-English-literature-philosopher understand, a wretch" Nathan smiles slyly. "I will torture her until she's ready for her funeral, you get that, big shot?"
Technically, Nathan means all of that because he has to pay his dues to Peyton but in actuality, all the things he saying about Haley breaks his heart.
"You forget something, big shot, my date is Brooke so I don't give a damn about what you're going to do to yours but thanks for sharing a glimpse of tonight's program. I can't wait for the big opening" Lucas smiles as he walks away satisfied.
Satisfied indeed. Nathan is absolutely heated.
As Nathan sees Lucas walk away, he punches the locker to let out some fire. An "ouch" comes out from the locker. Somebody was in the locker overhearing everything that just happened. Nathan quickly opens up the locker and there sit a guy with a camera.
"Tim, what are you doing in there?" Nathan questions, pulling Tim's shirt to drag him out of that hole.
"Peyton, rings a bell?" Tim said as a matter of fact.
"It's like she's constantly watching me" Nathan blows out a sigh.
"What did you do, Nate?" Tim questions, seriously.
"Do your job, and you and I will be okay" Nathan reassures.
"I didn't do anything. I was at the wrong place at the wrong time when some macho thug comes grabbing you into a big limousine" Tim reminds Nathan.
"Don't ever mention that again, you got it?" Nathan twists Tim's arm.
"Well I have to mention this, Peyton is waiting for you" Tim, uncomfortably said.
"For what? I just saw her in the morning" Nathan said annoyingly.
"I'm just the camera man. I don't question. I film and try not to get killed" Tim stated seriously.
"Give me the damn tape" Nathan takes out his hand as Tim gives him the tape.
Nathan untwists Tim's arm and heads toward the exit.
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"Here's the tape" Nathan hands over the tape to Peyton and walks away.
"Why, the sad face?" Peyton whimpers in a very evilly fashion.
"Not sad, more like tired" Nathan answers quickly.
"Well, load up on caffeine cause boss is waiting impatiently to see tonight's show" Peyton smiles devilishly.
"Well, I don't know how much of a show it's going to be because I have two guest stars. They are Haley's friends" Nathan's forehead cringes.
"I don't care. I better like what I watch this time Nathan or else things can get real ugly. You got that?" Peyton demands as her eyes become really dark and demonic.
"That tape I just gave you was just a glimpse to tonight's grand opening" Nathan winks.
"Good. I can't wait to watch the live feed tonight." Peyton smirks.