The rest of the day was uneventful. Nathan spent the evening thinking about things. What was that with Haley? Was it nothing? Just them getting caught up in a moment? No, Nathan didn't believe that was it. He really liked Haley, but was it mutual? If it was, then they were in a bad spot since Haley was already taken. If it wasn't, then she was just fooling around, not really looking for anything serious with him. Things were bad no matter how you looked at them. Well, Nathan decided to just forget about it for one night and wait to see what would happen at school tomorrow. I mean, she wouldn't just ignore him, would she? They had a project to do.

When Nathan got to their English class that morning, Haley was already in her seat. Unfortunately, so was Lucas. Nathan took his seat quietly, waiting for class to start.

"Following some complaints about the amount of work I'm piling on you," said Mr. Crompton upon coming into the classroom after the bell. "I decided to also give you part of today's class to work on the project. However, I am not giving you this time to goof off and talk to your friends. If the noise level in this room gets to be too loud, I'll go back to my original lesson plan for the day. So it up to you whether you work on this here or at home. Understood?"

Nathan took this opportunity to come up to Haley, "Hey. So I guess we should go back to what we were doing last night… on the project."

"Nathan, this isn't a good idea," Haley whispered fiercely.

"Hales, it's not a big deal. No one was there. For all they know, all we did was work on the project."

"No, Nathan, Lucas does know. I don't know how but he saw something and he's mad. He left me a very angry voicemail last night."

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah… He hasn't talked to me at all today, so I have no idea what he's thinking.'

"Great… Well, do you know how much he saw?"

"No… so we don't tell him anything unless he asks. God, Nathan, this is bad."

"Relax, Haley, it's not like he's going to confront us here. He doesn't exactly talk to me at school."

"Uh, Nate…" Haley said pointing behind him. Nathan turned around and saw Lucas angrily making their way towards them.

"So, you didn't get enough of last night?" Lucas asked. "You have to flirt with each other in front of everybody?"

"Luke, we're not flirting. We're project partners, remember?" Haley replied.

"Oh yeah? Well why were you at her house last night?" Luke said, diverting his attention to Nathan. ""The library not good enough for you?"

"Lucas! You can't tell me who I can see and where I can see them."

"Haley you're my girlfriend and I won't have you running around with people like him. You're acting like some kind of tramp."

"Hey—" Haley began but Nathan interrupted.

"Don't talk to her like that."

"Excuse me? I don't recall this being your business, so why don't you just stay out of it!" Lucas glared at his half-brother.

"Oh yeah? Well when you start accusing of her being trash because she hangs out with me it becomes my business, asshole."

"What did you just call me, jerk?"

"You heard me, loser."

"Moron."

"Little f-"

"Excuse me!" They suddenly heard the voice of Mr. Crompton pop up loud and clear behind them. "Apparently I didn't make myself clear the first time. I did not give you guys this time to goof off."

"Yeah, well we didn't really realize that we were—" Nathan attempted to explain.

"Screaming at the top of your lungs? Well, I certainly did. That is why the time I originally gave you to work on your projects is now over. Everybody go back to your desk and take out a sheet of paper. I will begin my lesson on poetry."

The class grumbled something in response, angrily making their way back to their desks. Obviously no one was very happy with either of the Scott brothers at the moment.

"Alright, class," Mr. Crompton began. "Since you can't seem to be able to work independently, we'll do this as a class. Can anybody tell me what an epic is?"

When no one raised their hand, Mr. Crompton called on Lucas. "Mr. Scott. Since you seem to have so much to say about everything, see if you can answer this: what is an epic?"

"Yeah, Lucas," Nathan said mockingly. "See if you can answer this."

"Mr. Nathan. If I needed help managing my class I would ask for it. Lucas, I'm waiting."

"An epic is where I kick Nathan's ass," Lucas said without batting an eye. "Maybe that'll shut him up."

As soon as he said it, Nathan stood up from his desk and punched Lucas in the face. Next thing you knew, the two were at it again, fighting each other in their English classroom. The class found this fascinated, forming a circle around the two and cheering them on. However, Mr. Crompton found this less than amusing and broke up the fight. Fifteen minutes later both boys were sitting in the principal's office while the secretary called their parents.