~Ok, let me just start with, I SUCK! I know I totally do! I am going to get back into writing! I promise! I really love this story, and this is coming from someone who found her own story on here in a search and then got mad that it only went three chapters then I realized it was mine, DUH! No wonder it sounded so good to me, huh? Ok, well I am going to pick up where I left off. If you want to cuss me out for not updating in like, I don't know, literally FOREVER I wouldn't blame you! So here it is, the next chapter!~

Chapter 4- Decisions and Tricks

Previously on~~~

With a sudden confidence boost at the thought of actually kissing Nathan Scott, she sat up and smiled. "Well, why don't you follow through this time?" she said leaning into him slightly.

He grinned, he did not need to be told twice. He leaned into her as she did the same and their lips met in a soft kiss that literally stole each of their breath away with the electric shock that hit them again. As Haley leaned more into Nathan he started to deepen the kiss.

Suddenly they both jumped back at the sound of Brooke's yell, "OH MY GOD!"

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Nathan and Haley pulled apart like they had just been struck by lightning at the sound of Brooke's shriek. They both pushed themselves away from each other a bit more than intended but were so spooked they couldn't think of what else to do but separate and fast.

Brooke suddenly shot up and turned on the lights as fast as she could and grabbed the remote to stop the movie.

Both Nathan and Haley were mentally preparing to get chewed out by Brooke, thinking they just got caught in the act and they both were shaking with nerves.

"Lucas! We cannot watch any more of this movie! This is disgusting and scary! Why would you pick this?!" Brooke exclaimed at almost a shriekingly loud volume. She was still standing so every one's eyes were on her as she had her little outburst.

Lucas then stood up and walked over to her, "Cheery, you weren't even watching it, your head was in my shoulder almost the whole time." He said to her with a chuckle.

Brooke pushed Lucas away from her and gave him a pout, "Lucas, this is not funny! That movie is not acceptable for movie night!" She let out in a huff.

"Come on Brookie, it wasn't that bad. I mean it was pretty bad, but it wasn't the worse movie the guys have picked." Peyton said trying to get Brooke off dramatics.

Brooke ignored Peyton and turned to Lucas again, "Can we please watch something else, Broody?" She said as innocently as she could.

When Lucas hesitated, Brooke turned to Haley and whined to her next, "Haaallleyyyy," she whined in the most drawn out and dramatic way she could manage. "Please agree with me on this, Hales! We need to watch something else, right?"

Haley wasn't sure what to say, she hadn't paid attention for almost the whole movie, she was a bit preoccupied with Nathan, not that she was going to let Brooke know that. Haley thought fast on her feet and joined Brooke.

"I'm completely with Brooke, that movie was gross! Come on guys, let's put something happier on now. Please?" Haley said standing up next to Brooke and wrapping her arm around her shoulders in a side hug.

The next moment Jake and Lucas both let out a loud groan of annoyance. They knew Haley and Brooke teaming together on something meant it would happen, they couldn't even argue it, they learned that a long time ago.

Haley and Brooke giggled at the guy's simultaneous response. "So what do you say Brookie, a few Friends episodes to lighten the mood?" Haley said with a quirk of her eye brow and a smile.

Brooke started to clap her hands and jump up and down, "Yes! Yes! Yes! Hales, you just know me so well!"

Haley, along with the rest of the group, laughed at Brooke's reaction to one of her favorite TV shows to lighten the mood. No one would argue though, they all adored the show.

Haley then turned to look at Nathan who was still just sitting there watching everything happen, his heart rate had just dropped back to a normal rate, he was sure Brooke had just caught him kissing her cousin and he thought he was screwed, and not in the good way.

Haley spoke then catching his attention, "Hey Nate! What do you say to helping me take out all the plates and pizza and then helping me get the Friends DVD's down, I can't reach them and your tall!" She said with a playful grin to him, hoping she played it off as just friendly. Secretly she wanted to just get him out of the room so they could talk about what had happened just seconds before Brooke's little outburst.

Nathan jumped up quickly, "Sure thing Hales! We all know you are too short to reach most things so I am happy to help." He said, sending her his trademark smirk.

"Shut up! Even though its kind of true, shut up." She said lightly smacking his shoulder as he leaned down to grab the plates and cups everywhere around the room as Haley picked up the pizza boxes.

They all laughed at the 'Naley' banter, as Brooke liked to call it. Everyone then got into their own side conversations as Nathan and Haley left the room to back to the kitchen to dispose of the trash in their hands.

Haley made sure to close the theater room door as they walked out so once they reached the kitchen and have thrown away the trash, Haley grabbed Nathans hand and pulled him back up the stairs as fast as she could and rushed them to her room so they could talk before any one got suspicious.

Nathan wasn't expecting to be rushed upstairs, but he wasn't complaining, a few minutes of alone time with Haley had his head getting foggy with excitement. As they reached her room and she pulled him in and closed the door quietly, he took advantage of the situation and turned her around and pushed her gently against the closed door. He leaned into her and pressed his lips into her and kissed her with everything he has in him.

Haley was take back by his sudden attack of the lips, but she wasn't going to complain, his lips on hers felt so right, not including the shock she felt down her spine as their lips touched. She enjoyed every second their kiss went on.

After a few minutes of hard core make out between the two, air started to become an issue and they pulled apart, leaning their foreheads against each other's. Both with their eyes still closed and both smiling wider than either ever had before, they were happy.

It was Haley who opened her eyes and spoke first, "Wow! That isn't why I brought you in here but I am not complaining." She said with a small laugh as she continued to smile. She leaned up and gave him a quick peck kiss on the lips before he laughed a breathy laugh and opened his eyes and pushed back from her body a little bit to get a better look at her.

"We need to talk, Nathan." She said as she looked up into those intense blue eyes she had loved for so long.

"About what, Hales?" he said with a smirk.

"You know what, Nathan! This!" She said as she made a small hand motion between the two of them, which still wasn't much of a distance. "What happened during the movie and what just happened here? What was that Nathan?"

He smiled at her and took one of her hands in his and put it against his chest, right where his heart would be. "You feel that Hales? My heart races when I'm with you, it has since we were six, and it still does now to this day. So what do you want me say Haley? You want me to say this didn't mean anything? If you do, I can't do that, because it wasn't nothing to me."

She looked up at him in such surprise but adoration. She didn't know she could like Nathan any more than she already did, but he just proved that statement wrong. With her hand still over his heart and in his hand, she pushed up on her tip toes and kissed his lips once more softly.

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Brooke and Lucas sat there talking about her new clothing line that only the 6 people at the house tonight knew about her starting.

Peyton and Jake sat behind them making-out heavily. Something Lucas had to keep reminding himself not to look back on, because he did not want to see his cousin and best friend sucking each other's faces off right now, or ever.

After about 5 minutes, Lucas piped up about Nathan and Haley, "What is taking them so long to get the DVD's?"

"They are probably making-out on the kitchen counter right now, you know, the usual." Brooke said very nonchalantly.

Peyton and Jake immediately broke apart at the same time Lucas started to almost choke on the drink he had just sipped.

Brooke burst out laughing at that moment, not being able to control herself, she was holding her stomach she was laughing so hard.

"That is so not funny, Pretty Girl!" Lucas said in a scolding tone.

"Seriously, Brooke, don't say that again! Haley and Nathan? Please!" Jake said with a stern look on his face.

"I was just kidding! Jeez Jakey! Take a chill pill!" She said her laughter subsiding. "They would be cute together, you have to admit. Who knows, your moms have had their wedding planned since they were like 5, maybe it will happen." Brooke said directing her comment to Lucas and Jake.

They both gave her their most unamused looks that they could give her.

"Ok, fine! I'll stop." She took a deep breath looking at Peyton who was giggling at her but also nodding at the possibility of a real Naley relationship happening. They both shrugged at each other. They all sat in silence for another 2 minutes before Brooke stood up in a huff, "I'm going to go find them."

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"I don't want this to be nothing, Nathan. I most definitely want this to be something." She said with a smile on her features which grew when he grinned from ear to ear at her response. "So where do we go from here?" She asked him with concern in her eyes.

"I think we should ease our friends into this, maybe we can just subtly get closer and act more coupley together and then once they all assume we are together, we finally tell them." He said with a sly smirk. "You do want to be together, right?"

Haley smiled at him and nodded her head. "What happens if they start guessing and asking questions?"

"I think we should toy with them, make it seem like nothing is going on and you don't see any changed between us, that way when we finally tell them, they can be as surprised as I was when Brooke scream during the movie." He said with a laugh.

She joined him in her laughter and he pulled her closer to him. "What do you think Hales, am I genius with my idea?" he said with a smirk.

"You're a genius with something!" she replied in her easily sarcastic tone and gave him a quick squeeze, wrapping her arms around him to hold him there for a minute longer.

"Oh, well aren't you funny tonight." He smiled at her as he released her and then lifted her chin up to look him in the eyes, "So, Haley James, will you be my girlfriend?" he said in as cheesy of a way as he could.

She loved is cheesy grin and she gave it right back, "Yes, Nathan Scott, I will be your girlfriend."

They leaned in for one more soft kiss. As soon as they kiss started getting deeper they heard Brooke start yelling and they broke apart.

"HALEY! WHERE ARE YOU WITH MY CHEER UP SHOW?!" Brooke yelled to her from outside the door.

Nathan quickly grabbed the seasons of Friends and opened the door to an annoyed looking Brooke Davis. "Right here Brooke! Jeez do you have yell about everything? I think I am going deaf from your loudness."

Brooke took the DVD's from Nathan and stuck her tongue out at him and skipped back to the theater room.

Nathan stepped back into Haley's room to see her cheeks beat red, he chuckled at her and took her hand in his. "Come on beautiful, let's go back to our friends before we get caught making-out for real." He said as he kissed her cheek and entwined their fingers turning off the light as they made their way down the hall. Letting each other's hand go as soon as they reached the door, as to not raise suspicion from their friends. They sat down where they did before just as Brooke started the first episode on the disk, they sent each other a smirk, knowing how fun their arrangement was going to be. Nathan winked at Haley and she smiled leaning her head on his shoulder and they all began watching the show.

~Ok, there it is! My next chapter! After forever of a wait, I hope all who subscribed still care to read and hopefully read this and enjoy it! Please read and review! After my long time of being gone, I would love the feedback! Love, Dee!~