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im kindof unsure what to do with brulian, so if you have any ideas let me know and ill see what i can do.
also sorry i didn't tell youu when i'd be updating, i didn't know tbh. Ive had a busy day today to i didn't know when id start or finish it.
Chapter 20
It was now Monday. The day after the day where things changed for the main 3 couples. School had just finished.
Brucas were just being Brucas, loved up as usual. But Brooke's mind kept going back to Julian, the guy she met yesterday. She tried not to think about him, it was working. Untill Lucas told Haley and Nathan that they saw Clay in Charlseton. Which made Brooke's mind go back to him. She just hopes she never has to see Julian again, atleast that's what her head is saying. Not her heart.
Jeyton were showing off there new romance. Haley and Brooke are dying to know what happened on the date, but Peyton's with Jake all the time. So they've not had a chance to. Brooke wont make that an excuse, she's going to find out. Tonight. She also asked Lucas to talk to Jake too, and of course he said yes.
Naley had grown even stronger after yesterday, when they told eachother about there childhoods. Now he can tell her things and not be scared that she'll leave, because she understands.
Haley and Nathan are walking hand in hand in the mall. Haley felt her phone vibrate in her pocket and see's she just got a text from Brooke.
''Who's that?'' Nathan asked curious.
''Brooke. It says: 'Jeyton talk. NOW!'.'' she reads confused.
That's when Nathan feels his vibrate in his pocket. Just as Haley's about to ask who it's from he beats her to it. ''It's Lucas, 'Call me, Jake's here'.''
''I'll meet you back here in...?'' Nathan asks, he doesn't know how long Brooke will be on the phone for. He knows Lucas wont be to long, Jake doesn't give much detail, about anything.
''I don't know, I'll text you when she's finished.'' Haley answered, not really wanting to talk to Brooke now. She'd rather be with Nathan. But Brooke wont find out about the date unless Haley does at the same time.
''Bye.'' they both said in unison and gave eachother a quick peck on the lips. They both walked away in a different direction, hoping to find a quiet place to talk to there friends.
Just as Haley's walking she bumps into someone, ''Sorry.'' she utters and looks at the guy. He has blond, gold or brown hair, she's not really sure. He has to much gel in his hair to tell. He's also carrying a guitar on his back and wearing an oversized blazer.
''You should be.'' he responded rudely.
''Rude.'' she commented bluntly.
''Clumsy.'' he retorted.
Haley knew she was clumsy, she'd already said sorry. What more can she do? So she just walked away from the jackass.
Nathan's at the pretzel place 'Hot & Twisted' about to call Lucas. Nathan's stomach starts to grumble so he decides to get a pretzel first. He walks upto the counter and asks for one.
''Nathan Scott.'' the guy at the counter said in recognistion.
Nathan doesn't have a clue who this guy is, he see's his name tag which say's 'GARY' on it. Nathan thinks it's genius.
''Gary! How's it going dude?'' he asked cheerfully, hoping this guy thinks he knows who the hell he is.
''You don't know who I am do you?''
''Should I?'' he asks, feeling like an ass.
''I know who you are. Nathan Scott, you're dating Haley James, you're brother's Lucas Scott, Peyton Sawyer is your best friend and you hang out with them with Brooke Davis, Jake Jagielski, Skills Taylor, Bevin Mirskey, Mouth McFadden, Junk Moretti and Fergie Thompson. You're one of the coolest guys in school.'' he informed.
''Woah, you know alot of stuff.'' Nathan chuckled nervously. This guy knew alot about him. It's kinda freaky.
''Nah, I just go to Tree Hill High.'' he shrugged. ''Everyone knows about you.''
''Oh. So can I have my pretzel?'' he asked. He really is hungry, and he needs to find out about Jake's date. He doesn't need a lesson on how popular people are in Tree Hill High, he just wants his pretzel.
''If you can tell me my name.'' he stated. He covered his name tag so Nathan can't see it.
Damn. ''Um, Guss?''
''No.'' he sighed, revealing his name tag. So close! ''See Mr. Nathan Scott, is too popular to talk to us nerds.''
Nathan's now pissed off. 1) This guy wont give him his pretzel. 2) He's implying that Nathan's thinks he's better than everyone else.
Nathan doesn't think that, he just talks to his friends. No one else, Nathan only cared about popularity at Oak Lake. But when he moved here he cares about so much more. Family, friends, Haley. They mean everything to him.
''Wait.'' he objects. ''Just because I'm not good with names like Haley, I can't get my pretzel?'' he tries to understand.
''I just don't see why you get everything so easy.'' he confessed. He'd actually heard Nathan was a really nice guy, he just hates that he gets to be popular after only being here for 2 months.
''Nothings easy dude. I just go to school and hang out with my friends.'' Nathan told him.
Gary sighed, ''Sorry, look here's your pretzel. On the house, but can you do me a favor?''
Nathan took the pretzel and smiled. ''What?''
''Can you set me up with Peyton?''
''Oh, sorry man. I think she's dating Jagielski, well I'm about to find out.'' Nathan then took a bite out of his pretzel so he wouldn't have to give it back.
''Oh.'' Gary sighed. He actually really likes Peyton, she's in his maths class. He just wanted a shot with her. She's always nice to him and she smiles when she see's him.
Nathan felt bad for they guy, ''I'll ask Hales if she knows anyone, I'll let you know.''
''Thanks.'' he grinned.
Nathan began to walk away then turned around, ''I'll let you know in school.''
''Okay.'' he replied.
Haley was sat at the edge of the fountain that's in the middle of the mall. She was just thinking about that guy that was rude to her. If Nathan would've been there, she knows he would of confronted the guy. That's one of the reason's she's falling for Nathan, he always protects her.
She pulled out her phone and dialed Brooke's number, after the first ring she answered. ''Tutor Girl! What took you so long?'' Brooke huffed down the phone.
''I had to go and find somewhere to sit down, then there was a rude guy a-''
Brooke cut her off ''Ok, look. I'm at Peyton's, I'll put you on speaker.''
''Hey Haley.'' Peyton said.
''Hey.'' Haley laughed.
''So, what happened?'' Brooke asked Peyton.
''We went to the beach. We sunbathed, we argued with a surfer, built sandcastles and we kissed.''
''What?'' Brooke shouted.
Haley just smiled ignoring Brooke. ''Are you two together know?''
''Yeah, his exact words were 'I think I like you Peyton Sawyer' so I said 'I think I like you to Jake Jagielski and I think I want you to be my boyfriend' so he said, 'I think I want you to be my girlfriend.' So yeah. It just felt so right today. We were just happy, and it felt awsome'' she squeled through the phone and to Brooke.
''That's so cute P. Sawyer!''
''Yeah, it's great Peyt.'' Haley said, she was so happy that Jake's found someone else. She's also happy that the someone else is one of her best friends.
''So, Tutor Girl. What are you and Hot Shot up to?'' Brooke asked, wanting to know about her favourite couple. Beside her and Lucas of course.
''Lucas wanted him to call him so he's around somewhere. Were at the mall.'' she told them.
''Wow. Nathan Scott shopping, I never thought I'd hear that. He's so into you Hales.'' Peyton commented.
''Were not shopping.'' she laughed, ''We just took a drive and decided to come here.'' she didn't want Nathan to get teased by his best friend because of her, it was her idea to come to the mall.
''Okay Tutor girl, we'll let you get back to your boyfriend.''
''Bye guys.''
''Love you!'' the both shouted as she hung up the phone.
Skills and Bevin, Junk and Anna, Fergie and Lauren and Mouth and Millie are at the rivercourt playing a game of girls vs boys. Mouth of course isn't playing and Bevin is cheering on the side of the court.
''Anna!'' Millie called, indicating for her to pass her the ball.
Anna passed her the ball which Millie then thrown in the net.
''And my gorgeous girlfriend just scored another basket, making the girls win!.'' Mouth said into his fist, his pretend microphone.
Millie skipped over to Mouth and kissed him on the lips sweetly.
''We let you win!'' Junk shouted whilst running over to the bench with the basketball in his hands.
''Yeah, yeah.'' the four girls said while rolling there eyes playfully.
''Of course you did.'' an unfamiliar voice said from behind them.
They turned around and saw four guys and girls stood behind them, they were all glaring at the rivercourt friends. The one that said the comment spoke again. ''Are you guys Ravens?'' he asked.
''I am.'' Bevin said proudly.
Skills went behind Bevin and wrapped his arms around her waist. ''They meant basketball players, baby.'' He whispered in her ear.
''Oh.'' she pouted.
Skills kissed her on the cheek and wrested his chin on her shoulder. His arms still wrapped around her waist. Bevin loved how he could do those simple little things to make her happy again. It just made her love him even more.
''No, why?'' Junk asked.
''We play against them in Charlotte in a few weeks, we just wanted to check out the competition.'' one of the other boys said folding his arms across his chest and looking at them like they're dirt.
''Well all you should know is that there gonna woop your asses.'' Lauren said confidently. None of the girls played basketball at her school, so she's a fan of the Ravens.
''We'll see.'' one of the girls said. ''Were gonna beat you Ravens bitches in cheerleading. Brooke Davis wont beable to think of a good routine in that stupid little head of hers.''
Junk walked round to Anna who looked like she was going to attack her, he loosely held onto her waist. His way of telling her that she shouldn't do it. He did know how much she wanted to, he knows about how she stuck up for Haley and he knows she's do the same for Brooke.
''Brooke's smarter than you think.'' Mouth said. Brooke always sticks up for him, he just wants to do the same back.
''Yeah. Brooke, Haley, Peyton and Me have got a killer routine.'' Bevin said full of confindence. When they were at the river court the girls have been thinking of new ideas. Lauren and Anna have helped to, Millie helped last week too when she was here. The routines great, and the guys don't mind watching.
''Whatever.'' another girl rolled her eyes.
''Where are the Scott's anyway? We wanna know what all the fuss is about.'' the head guy said, getting bored.
''There not here, so just go back to where you came from.'' Fergie said. He didn't like the fact that the girl called Brooke dumb and that these guys wanted to find Nathan and Lucas. These guys looked shifty, he didn't want them to start any trouble with his friends.
''How about we play you? We win you leave.'' the head guy offered.
''and when we win you leave and don't come back.'' Skills said.
''That's unlikely but okay.'' another guy said.
''Only three of you can play, we've only got three players.'' Junk said.
''Okay. Ryan, you sit out.'' he head guy said to the guy named Ryan. Ryan sighed and sat on the bench next to where the other girls had already sat.
''First to ten baskets wins.'' Skills offered.
''Go on Ben!'' the head girl shouted over, the head guy smiled. They figured he was Ben.
''Okay, lets play.'' Ben said
They played the game for half an hour and it was 9-9. Skills had just got the ball, he dribbled it as fast as he could and dunked it in the net. All the rivercourt gang cheered and the girls ran up to there boys.
''Well done, baby!'' Bevin cheered and kissed Skills.
''You're not gonna beat the Ravens!'' Anna sang to the other team.
The other team just walked away sulking and sending the rivercourt gang death glares.
''and don't come back!'' Lauren shouted as they got into there cars and drove away.
Bevin started thinking about how great Skills was in that game. He scored the most baskets and was really fast, he was playing just as good as Jake. So why wasn't he on the team? It's a great opportunity for him, and he could get a basketball scholarship.
Mouth, Millie, Junk, Anna, Fergie, Lauren, Skills and Bevin spent the rest of the night on the rivercourt celebrating there win and looking forward to the fact that Nathan, Lucas and Jake are gonna beat them guys.
Nathan decided to stay at 'Hot & Twisted', he sat down at one of the tables and dialed Lucas' number.
''Hey, little brother.'' Lucas greeted.
''Hey, so whats up?'' he asked impatiently. He does want to know what happened on the date, and he is happy for Jake and Peyton. He's just rather be with Haley right now.
''Hey Nate'' Jake said. Lucas had already put the phone on speaker.
''So what happened?''
''We went to the beach, hung out and made out.'' he laughed at the rhyming. Nathan heard Lucas and Jake give eachother a high five.
''Dude, so not cool. Peyton's my best friend.''
''Sorry man. I'm just happy'' Jake excused.
''I know,'' he sighed ''but just don't talk to me about it.''
''Okay.'' Jake agreed. It is kind of awkward that they're now dating eachothers ex girlfriends.
''Can I go now?'' Nathan moaned. ''I think Hales is waiting, I was waiting for a pretzel for ages before I called.''
''Fine, see you later man.'' Lucas said,
''Bye,'' and with that Nathan hung up the phone. He looked at the screen and saw he'd got a text from Haley when he was on the phone it said:
'Meet me at the fountains.X'
'I'm on my way,x' was his reply.
Haley and Nathan are now in the music store. Nathan was in another part of the store looking for some rap music. Haley saw a poster with a guy on it which looked familiar, it said 'CHRIS KELLER' underneath the photo. She then realised that was the guy who she bumped into earlier. She was surprised that was Chris Keller, she has some of his music on her ipod. She'd never saw what he looked like.
''Well well, if it isn't clumsy girl.'' Chris Keller said whilst walking up to her, ''Like what you see?'' he said referring to the poster and himself.
''No.'' she answered bluntly, ''I was just remembering how rude you are, and I'm deleting you from my ipod when I get home.''
''Chris Kellers sorry, you want me to make it up to you?'' he said huskilly, while checking her out.
Haley felt like she was about to gag, ''You're disgusting.''
''and you're sexy.''
Haley just stormed past him, she's sick of horrible guys like that. Damien's at the top of that list, now Chris Keller was second and that guy at TRIC last month that Clay told to go away. The only guys she can count on are Nathan, Lucas, Jake and the rivercourt boys. She walked round to the rap section, where Nathan was just looking at CD's.
Nathan saw her walking towards him and saw the angry expression on her face. Just as he was about to ask her whats wrong and who he should hurt for making her mad, she spoke. ''Can we leave?''
''Sure.'' he shrugged and place the CD back on the rack.
''You wern't going to buy that were you? If you want to get it, I'll wait.''
''Nah, I've got no money. Besides I've got my own little singer here.'' he took hold of her hand and grinned at her.
They began walking through the music store to get the the exit. ''I can't rap.'' she giggled.
''Yeah but I'd rather listen to you than them.'' he told her honestly. She's got the best voice he's ever heard, he could listen to her sing all day.
That made her heart flutter. She loves how he complements her singing, even though he doesn't like the music she sings.
''Clumsy girl!'' a familiar voice to Haley shouted from behind.
Her and Nathan turned round and saw Chris Keller running towards them, Haley groaned.
''Who is that guy?'' Nathan asked curious.
''You don't wanna know.'' she mumbled as Chris reached them.
''Here.'' Chris said giving her a CD. ''Chris Keller figured since you have me on your ipod, you could have my CD. Chris Keller even signed it.'' he said smugly.
Nathan just wanted to beat the guy. Who does 'Chris Keller' think he is? Why does he know Haley has him on her ipod? And why does he refer to him self in third person? He just glared at Chris the whole time he was speaking.
''I don't want it.'' she said, handing it back to him.
''You know you do.'' he insisted.
''No she doesn't.'' Nathan interjected.
''Whatever.'' Chris rolled his eyes ''See you around, Clumsy girl.''
''In your dreams.'' Nathan spat.
''You bet.'' Chris winked at Haley and walked away.
That was it, Nathan was gonna beat the guy. He wasn't going to flirt with his girl right in front of him. Just as he was about to walk over and punch him, Haley squeezed his hand with both of hers. He looked down at her and saw the pleading look in her eyes.
''Please don't Nathan, I just wanna go home.'' she sighed. She doesn't want Nathan getting into trouble, she likes going to the mall. She doesn't want to get banned from going there.
''Fine,'' he sighed, he really did wanna beat Chris Keller up. But he wouldn't if Haley doesn't want him to. ''lets go.''
They walked back out through the mall, as they were walking they passed a jewelry store. Haley glanced at the selection of necklaces, but something caught her eye and she stopped walking to look at it. The necklace was beautiful, it was just a simple chain with a medium sized star on it. It was hollow with diamonds around the edges. It was simple but elegant, she loved it.
She glanced down at the price, $500 dollars. She saw the name of the store and realised this was one of the most expensive stores in the mall. Sure she has money. She gets alot off her Mom and she works at the cafe but she wasn't going to throw that much money away for a necklace.
Nathan saw her looking at it, $500 dollars is alot of money. He knows she wont spend that much on one thing. Haley's not about material things, so she wont buy it. That's when Nathan wished for a second he was rich again, so he could buy it for her. Karen cooks his food and he doesn't need much money for anything else. He's just got a little money saved for new clothes and essentials. Not enough for that necklace.
That's when he got an idea.
''Wait here a second.'' Nathan said.
''Why?'' Haley asked.
''I um, left my, um, keys at the pretzel place.'' he lied.
''Okay, I'll wait here.''
He leaned down and gave her a quick peck on the lips and ran to the pretzel place, not to find his keys. When he got there he saw Gary wiping tables.
''Gary!'' he greeted in a hurry.
''What's up?'' Gary asked.
''Is there any jobs here?''
''Yeah, why?'' he asked, not thinking that 'Nathan Scott' would want a job here.
''I need one.'' he answered simply.
''Oh. I can give you a trial, tomorrow?''
''Thanks.'' he beamed.
''Why do you need a job anyway?'' he asked, still surprised.
''I'm saving up for a present for Hales.'' Nathan told him ''So can you not tell anyone? I want it to be a surprise.''
''Sure, be here at 4 tomorrow.''
''Thanks again, I've got to go. Later.'' with that Nathan ran back, not giving Gary chance to say anything else.
Nathan smiled as he looked forward to tomorrow for his trial. He really wants this for Haley. He wants to show her show much he cares about her. Now hopefully she'll know. He's just going to hate being apart from her when he's working. But the smile on her face when he gives her the present, it'll be worth it.
Sorry, it was kinda boring. To make it up to you, I'll TRY and update tomorrow, if not itll be monday.
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The next chapter will be a fluffy chapter for all the couples, (except Mouth+Millie), with some Brulian:)