"What time did Nathan say he was coming round?" Brooke asked from her position on the sofa.
"He should be here any minute now." Haley said, checking her watch.
"You want me to leave? Give you two some time alone?" Brooke teased.
"Would you please behave." Haley scolded, but smiled to let the other brunette know it was lighthearted.
"What? Can you blame me? Haley James finally has a crush on someone." She said, a dreamy look in her eyes.
"Stop it. I do not have a crush on him." Haley whined.
"Hales, I've known you for a long time now and not once have I ever seen you blush because of a hug. Babe, it's okay if you have a crush on him." Brooke said, walking over to stand in front of her shorter brunette friend.
"What if he doesn't like me like that?"
"I see the way this guy looks at you and I know I don't know him, but I know people; and people don't look at each other the way he looks at you if they're 'just friends'. Trust me Hay, he adores you. Besides from the stories you've told me about high school, it sounds like he's been into you since you guys were like twelve."
"You think?" She asked, breaking eye contact.
"I know, and you know I wouldn't lie to you." Brooke said, placing her hands on her friends shoulders, when she nodded.
They were interrupted when there was knock at the door.
"Is that him?" Brooke asked.
"It can't be, how would he have got into the building?" Haley said as she made her way to the front door.
"Maybe someone let him in?" Brooke said eagerly following Haley.
Swinging the door open, Haley was surprised to see that it was Nathan, who was dressed in a pair of navy overalls with what looked like a white wife beater underneath and a tool box under his arm.
"Well look at you." Brooke muttered earning a glare from Haley, "Okay, okay, I'll be in my room." She winked, smiling at a confused Nathan.
"Sorry about her." Haley said, stepping aside to let him in.
"It's fine." He chuckled.
"How did you get in the building?" Haley asked closing the door.
"I passed some guy who held the door open for me." He shrugged, "I think it was the uniform."
"Well you certainly look the part." Haley smirked, taking another moment to sweep her eyes over his body, who knew overalls could be so hot?
"Yeah, I work at Keith's garage on saturday mornings, so I just came straight from there."
"So you didn't dress like this just for me?" She teased, raising an eyebrow at him when he blushed.
"No, sorry." He chuckled.
"I'm deeply hurt." She pouted, placing a hand over her heart.
"Still a drama queen I see?" He teased.
"I am not a drama queen." She argued.
"That's questionable." He laughed, "Now show me this shower of yours." He said, tilting his head slightly.
"When did you become so bossy?" She said, leading the way to the main bathroom as he followed.
"Since I became a teacher." He answered.
"I like it." She said, winking at him over her shoulder, smirking to herself in triumph when he blushed again.
"I'll keep that in mind." He challenged, pleased with himself that he'd caught her off guard, when she blushed ever so slightly.
"Haley." Brooke shouted in a hushed whisper from her bedroom.
"What?" Haley asked as she turned the corner into Brooke's bedroom.
"Look at this." Brooke exclaimed, placing her hands on Haley's shoulders and turning her in the right direction.
"Oh my!" Haley whispered, placing her hand over her chest. The room opposite from Brooke's was the main bathroom where Nathan was working in, his overalls tied around his waist, "is it hot in here?" She puffed, fanning herself with her hand.
"Actually, it is, I turned the thermostat up." Brooke said.
"Seriously?" Haley said, turning to her friend with an arched brow and a knowing smirk.
"What?" she replied innocently, "are you complaining?" she said looking back at Nathan.
"Well no, but-"
"Exactly, so hush," Brooke interrupted, grabbing hold of Haley's shoulders and turning her round before pulling Haley's V neck down and tugging her bra up, ignoring the Look Haley was giving her, "There, now they look even better. Now go offer him a drink." Brooke winked and pushed her towards the bathroom.
Haley rolled her eyes but walked into the bathroom, knocking on the door frame to get Nathan's attention, not missing the way his eyes drifted towards her cleavage quickly before meeting her eyes.
Good job brooke.
"Can I get you a drink or anything?" Haley asked.
"No, I'm good thanks, I think I'm finished anyways." He smiled, before turning back to the shower and turning it on, "There we go all done."
"That was quick." Haley said walking closer to her, stopping next to him.
"Yeah, there wasn't much to do, the only this is is that instead of turing left for hot and right for cold it's now the other way around."
"Oh that's fine, I'll let Brooke know." Haley said, "Thank you again though."
"It's no problem really." He smiled down at her.
"What would you say about me treating you to lunch, you know to say thank you?"
"You don't have to do that, Haley."
"I want to, besides I am starved and I could use the company." She said.
"What about Brooke?"
"I can ask her if she wants to come to if you want?"
"Oh no, it's not that- it's just, uh... you know what I'd love to have lunch with you." He said smiling down at her,"and I know just the place we can go."
"Karen's Cafe?" Haley said turning to raise an eyebrow at Nathan. After heading over to Nathan's so he could shower quickly and change, he drove them to get some food.
"What? Oh, c'mon, my mom's been dying to see you and I know for a fact you can't resist her food." He teased, turning the engine off before jumping out of his car and rushing around to open her door.
"Thank you." She smiled, after he helped her out of the car before leading her into the Cafe.
"Ma?" Nathan shouted into the nearly empty cafe.
"In the kitchen, baby." They heard her shout out.
Nathan turned back to Haley, the blush evident on his face at his mother's term of address, "still a mama's boy, huh?" Haley teased.
Nathan blushed again and lead them both into the kitchen.
"Hey Ma." He said, moving over to her and kissing her on the cheek.
"Hi, baby." She said before turning around, the look of shock evident on her face when she noticed the petite brunette stood by the door, "Haley James." Karen smirked.
"Hi, Karen." Haley said, smiling shyly.
"Well what are you doing all the way over there, get over here." She said, holding her arms open.
Haley smiled shyly again before smiling widely and rushing over to the older woman.
"I've missed you." Haley muttered.
"I missed you too, sweetie."
"Now," Karen said, pulling away, "How dare you move back to Tree Hill and not come see me immediately."
"I know, I'm sorry." Haley said, clasping her hands together.
"To make it up to me, you can come waitress for me again. Nathan tells me that you're currently unemployed and I figured that you could work here until you find something more permanent, and besides I'm short on staff." Karen winked.
"I would love to, thank you." Haley smiled before hugging the older woman again.
"Great you start on Monday." She winked, "Now you two kids go out front and take a seat and I'll bring you some lunch on the house."
"Well I'm never one to say no to free food." Haley smirked before latching onto Nathan's arm and dragging him out front.
...
"So was bringing me here all a ploy to get me to work for your Mom?" Haley teased, as she sat opposite Nathan in one of the booths.
"I swear I didn't know she was gonna do that." He said embarrassed, running a hand over his face.
"It's fine don't worry about it, I could use the money. Besides I need something to do with my time while I look for something else and it means that I'll get to see more of you." She said looking at him through her eyelashes, fighting the smirk when he blushed.
"Yeah, I'll like that." He said, smiling shyly at the pretty brunette.
The moment was interrupted by Karen placing their food down in front of them, "One mac and cheese, with a side order of fries and one cheese burger with extra bacon and onion rings."
"I swear your food gets better ever time, I don't know how I stayed away for so long." Haley said, practically drooling over the food in front of her.
"Thank you, Haley."
"Why don't you come join us, the place isn't busy and I'm sure we have a lot to catch up on." She said.
"I'd love to but I have a doctors appointment in about half an hour so I need to be heading off."
Nathan's head shot up as he heard doctors appointment, "What doctors appointment?" he asked concerned.
"Oh it's just a check up, no need to worry." Karen reassured.
Haley felt her heart flutter slightly at Nathan's concern for his mother, god he was adorable.
"Why don't you come over for dinner tonight, Lucas and his girlfriend will be there, it'll give you a chance to meet her." Karen offered.
"Oh, I've already met Peyton, we met last night."
"Oh of course, I would've liked if Lucas had told me before though, I swear that boy doesn't have a clue what's going on half of the time." Karen dismissed waving her hand.
"I think it's more than half the time." Nathan muttered, stealing one of Haley's fries, earning a slap on the back of the hand from Haley and a slap on the back of his head from Karen.
"Don't be rude about your brother." Karen scolded.
"Yeah and don't steal my food." Haley teased, taking one of his onion rings, smirking as she sank her teeth into it.
"So much violence, maybe bringing you here wasn't the best idea." Nathan said rubbing the back of his head.
Ignoring her son, Karen turned to Haley, "Really though, dinner tonight, six o'clock. I'll get Nathan to pick you up if you want."
"Nathan is sat right here." He said, waving a hand at himself.
"Nathan would love to pick me up wouldn't he." Haley smirked turning to him.
"Of course." He said sincerely, "Why don't you bring, Brooke?"
"That wouldn't be a problem would it?" Haley said, looking up at Karen.
"Of course not, the more the merrier. Brooke's that roommate of yours isn't she?"
"She is." Haley nodded, "And speaking of roommate's I hear that you bagged yourself a hot one." She winked.
"You think Keith's hot?" Nathan blurted in disgust.
"Duh," Haley said, flicking her hair over her shoulder, "I think it's the whole mechanic thing, I like a man in a uniform, one who's not afraid to get his hands dirty." She winked, fighting the laugh that bubbled in her throat when his eyes bulged and his face flushed red at her obvious flirting in front of his mother. Who seemed to be finding his embarrassment amusing.
"Oh Haley dear, you're going to give the poor boy a hernia, you know how easy he is." Karen teased, enjoying her son's discomfort.
Nathan on the other hand wanted the ground to swallow him whole, "Ma." He groaned.
"Oh hush, we're only teasing." Haley said, swatting her hand at him, the smirk still clearly evident on her face, "you can tell me about Keith later, I want lots of juicy details."
"Of course, now I best be off, you two kids behave. I'll see you both later." Karen said, wandering off into the back to get her jacket before leaving.
Haley turned back turned back to Nathan to notice him glaring at her, "You're not still embarrassed at what I said are you?"
"Did you really have to say that in front of my Mom. It's bad enough when you say shit like that when she's not there." He grumped.
"Gosh, when did you become so testy? Relax, I'm just having some fun."
"Do you really that Keith's hot?" He asked, trying to hide the jealousy in his voice, which he knew was something pathetic to be jealous of. Haley picked up on it anyway.
"Yep, I think it's just Scott men in general." She smirked, enjoying his jealousy.
"So you think Dan's hot?" He asked, taking his turn to smirk when he noticed the look of disgust which shot across her face.
"Oh god no." She grimaced, "Ew just forget I ever said anything."
When he carried on smirking, she glared at him, "Eat your food it's getting cold." She grumped.
"It's not going to be awkward for me is it?" Brooke asked from the backseat of Nathan's car, which just pulled up outside his mother's house.
"Why would it be awkward?" Haley asked, unbuckling her seatbelt before turning to face her friend.
"Because Peyton and Lucas are gonna be there, and your mom and her boyfriend; then there's you two who have some weird sexually chemistry going on, so I'm going to be like seventh wheeling." She pouted, not noticing the blush on either Nathan or Haley's faces.
"Relax, you're gonna be fine." Haley reassured, before Nathan got out of the car to open the other two car doors for them.
"It'll be fine, and since when have you not made yourself at home anywhere?" Haley said, reassuring her friend before Nathan opened her's and Brooke's door.
"Such a gentleman." Brooke said impressed, "And a rich gentleman." She said once she looked at the large house in front of them.
"My mom got the house in the divorce and my dad got full ownership of his company, not that my mom owned much of it, it was only something like 25%."
"Well I think your mom lucked out on their divorce settlement." Brooke said, clearly impressed with the home.
"I'm glad you think so." Nathan chuckled before leading the way up the drive.
He opened the door to the house, the familiar smell of his mothers cooking filling their nostrils.
"God, that smells good." Brooke said, practically drooling.
"Wait till you taste it." Haley said.
"Ma? Keith?" Nathan shouted out into the large hallway.
"Well would you look at that. It's not everyday you come home with two gorgeous ladies." Keith said walking out of the living room, Lucas right behind him.
"Puh-lease," Lucas scoffed, "when does he ever come home with one girl, let alone as pretty as these two." He said laughing at his own joke.
When he got close enough, Nathan took the opportunity to shove his brother into the wall.
"Hey." Lucas shouted, clearly caught off guard by his brother.
Ignoring the brothers, Keith rolled his eyes as they continued to bicker and turned to Haley and Brooke, "Haley, how good to see you again." He smiled, taking her into a hug.
"You too, Keith." She smiled back, "This is my roommate Brooke."
"Nice to meet you." Brooke said, waving politely.
"You too," He smiled, "If it weren't for me knowing their mother, I'd think they'd never have been taught manners." He scoffed, taking the jackets off the girls, "Come on in."
"Lucas, stop the childish bickering and go get these two ladies some drinks."
Lucas mockingly saluted before taking off into the kitchen, "We brought dessert, store bought of course." Haley smirked, holding up the tray of baked goods.
"Thank you," Keith smiled, taking the tray off her, "Nathan go take these two into the living room, while I take these to your mother."
Nathan nodded before leading the girls off into the living room, placing his hand on Haley's lower back, something Brooke didn't fail to miss. Smirking when the two of them smiled at each other.
"You have a beautiful home, Karen." Brooke said, still feeling slightly uncomfortable at calling the older woman by her first name, which was something Karen insisted on.
"Thank you dear, but it really is all thanks to boys' father." She winked.
"Dan may be an ass but he does have good taste." Lucas laughed, raising his beer.
"You got that right." Keith said, kissing Karen as he walked past her on his way to his own seat at the table, "Lucky for me he's dumb too, while agreeing to divorce Karen may have been the dumbest thing he's ever done, it all played out well for me." He said, everyone chuckling.
"I think you would've made your way to each other eventually not matter what." Brooke said, "I may not know either of you very well, but I do know true love when I see it." Her eyes casting over to Haley and Nathan who were sat to her right, only Haley noticed though.
"Well, thank you very much." Karen said, winking at Keith from across the table.
"Well enough waiting why don't we dig in." Keith said.
"So, Haley, how do you and Brooke know each other?" Karen asked as she passed the garlic bread around.
"Oh we were college roommates." Haley answered from in between Nathan and Brooke.
"That's sweet, you guys must get on pretty well then considering you still live together."
"I suppose." Brooke teased.
"Actually it didn't start out that way, we spent the first two weeks bickering like you wouldn't believe."
"Really?" Peyton asked shocked.
"Mhmm," Haley nodded, "we clashed because we we're so much alike."
"Too much alike." Brooke corrected, making everyone chuckle.
"How did you end up getting along?" Lucas asked.
"Some guy was harassing Brooke at a party, I stepped in to help and we've been like two peas in a pod since." Haley said, winking at Brooke.
"It's good that you girls stick together, those college boys are trouble." Karen said, sending a pointed look to her sons.
"Nathan's too much of a nerd to get in trouble." Lucas snickered.
"Lucas." Karen warned.
"Puh-lease, I'd rather be a nerd than an asshole." Nathan scoffed.
"Nathan, we have guests."
"Oh don't worry, it's not like I didn't spend most of my life watching these two bite each others head off." Haley said, rolling her eyes.
"How about we spare Brooke?" Keith said, glaring at the boys.
"Oh I really don't mind." Brooke said, winking at them both, causing Peyton and Karen to laugh.
"I'm not the asshole, asshole." Lucas mumbled under his breath.
Lucas yelped suddenly, "don't kick me."
"I didn't kick you." Nathan defended.
"Uh huh." Lucas said, rubbing his shin.
"Nuh-uh."
Karen rolled her eyes ready to split the two up when Peyton abruptly stood up, "Okay, switch seats with me." She said, looking down at Lucas.
"Why do I have to move, he's the one that kicked me."
"I didn't kick you."
"Move." Peyton gritted, pleased with the look of fear that flashed over her boyfriends face.
"Fine." He grumbled, picking up his plate and switching seats with the blonde.
Haley turned to Nathan to find him smirking, which soon left his face when he caught Haley's eye, "What?" He asked innocently when she arched an eyebrow. Ignoring his question she rolled her eyes, she knew them boys all too well.
Brooke rolled her eyes as they sat in an awkward silence in the car, Nathan had just drove her and Haley back from Karen's and they were now just sat in his car waiting for someone to speak up.
"Well as fun as this is, I can hear my bed calling me," Brooke spoke, "Nathan, would you like to play gentleman and walk us hot girls to our door?" She said, knowing that it's what Haley wanted.
"Of course." He chuckled, getting out of the car to open the door for Haley.
"Sure, that's fine, I can get my own." Brooke muttered to herself, as she followed them up to the building.
"I had fun tonight." Haley said, looking up at Nathan as she walked beside him.
"Yeah me too." He said smiling down at her, his eyes briefly looking up, "Oh no." He muttered.
"What's wrong?" Haley asked, noticing him tense up suddenly.
"That guy walking towards us was a guy that I used to be friends with until he set me up on a date with some girl who ditched me half way through to go have sex with him because according to him she said that I looked like I'd be bad in bed, something about me being too much of a nerd. Turns out the whole thing was a joke and the girl next to him is that girl." He said embarrassed.
Haley looked at the couple in disgust before turning back to him, noticing Brooke stood there, glaring at the couple, clearly having heard what Nathan said.
Haley gave Brooke a knowing look before looking at Nathan, "Just go along with us." She said, wrapping her arm around his waist and Brooke doing the same.
"What are you doing?" He looked down confused at the two brunettes, trying to ignore the spark that ran through him at being so close to Haley.
"Just go with it, and let us do all the work." Brooke said picking up his arm and throwing it over her shoulder before telling him to do the same with Haley.
"I still don't get what's going on?" He said, throwing his arm over Haley's shoulder.
Haley shushed him before they started to walk towards the building.
"Nathan Scott is that you?" They heard the guy speak as they neared them.
"Uh yeah, hey. How's it going?" He said, still confused as to what Brooke and Haley were up to.
"Pretty good." The guy said, his eyes gazing over the girls.
"Are you going to introduce us, baby?" Haley said in a sugary sweet tone, running a hand over his chest, trying to ignore just how hard his body was.
"Uh yeah, Haley, Brooke, this is Aaron and Jade."
"Nice to meet you." Brooke said, holding her hand out for them to both shake, while Haley just smiled at them.
"Yeah you too." He said slowly, looking the girls up and down again, earning a harsh elbow in the side from the blonde next you him, "so how do you know Nathan?"
"We're... I guess you could say friends." Haley giggled, "Right Brookie?"
"Something like that." She smirked, winking up at Nathan, the look on his face clearly showing he now knew what was going on.
"So how do you know Nathan?" Haley said turning to the couple, running her hand over Nathan's stomach.
"We really should be going." The girl said, finally speaking up.
"Oh yeah, I suppose. I mean we'd love to stay and chat ourselves but there's something much better we'd rather be doing with our time, right Nathan?" Haley said, a playful tone in her voice.
"Yeah." Nathan smirked, seeing the shocked look on their faces.
"Great well, nice seeing you." Jade said, smiling tightly before dragging her boyfriend off.
"Yeah great meeting you both." Haley said looking over her shoulder to see them both staring back, her hand slipping down into Nathan's back pocket of his jeans. The look of satisfaction coming across her face when Aaron and Jade looked shock.
Nathan blushed when he felt Haley's hand slip to his ass as they walked up to the building, her hand not leaving him until they were inside the building.
"You know you didn't have to do that, right?" Nathan said, still blushing as they all got into the elevator.
"Eh, don't worry about it." Brooke said, waving her hand in dismissal.
"Yeah, it was no problem and you can't say you didn't enjoy the looks on their faces." Haley said, pressing the button for their floor.
"Okay so maybe I did enjoy it a little bit, but you really didn't have to do all that."
"Like I said it was no problem, it was out pleasure, besides we both enjoyed it just as much and we got cop a feel." Haley winked, bumping hips with him, making him blush.
"Well... thank you." He said, looking down, and stuffing his hands into his pockets.
"You're welcome." Brooke smiled, winking at Haley.
Both girls linked arms with Nathan as the elevator stopped at their floor and making their way to their apartment.
"Thank you for inviting me tonight, Nathan, and tell your mom I said thank you." Brooke said, as she went to unlock their door.
"You're welcome and I'll be sure to tell her." Nathan smiled.
"Good, now I'll leave you two to do your thing." She sighed dramatically, walking into their apartment.
"She really is something else." Nathan chuckled, turning to Haley.
"She is. I had a great time tonight, it was nice seeing your mom and Keith."
"Yeah it was fun, I'm sure my mom enjoyed it just as much."
"Yeah, well I'm looking forward to seeing more of her... and more of you." She said, looking through her eye lashes up at him.
"I'm looking forward to it too." He said, a smile taking over her face, "So, I'll see you soon?" He asked hopefully.
"Yeah you will, text me or ring me when you're home... so I know you're safe." She added onto the end.
"I will do. And thank you again for before." He said, taking her into a hug, revelling in how perfectly she fit in his arms.
"You're welcome, and like I said it was my pleasure." Haley said, leaning up and pressing a kiss to his cheek.
Nathan couldn't help but smirk and blush at the same time, feeling a sudden wave of confidence wash over him, he pulled away from her, "But next time you wanna cop a feel all you have to do is ask, no need to go to so much trouble and effort." He winked.
Haley giggle, pushing the door to her apartment open, "I'll keep that in mind." She shouted after him, watching as he walked away, not being able to help the wolf whistle that left her lips as she let her eyes run over his backside.
Nathan turned back and winked, before carrying on towards the elevator.
I know I ended it really similar to the last one, but I didn't know how else to end it. I really hope you all enjoyed, and I'm sorry for the wait. If there's anything that you want to see or if you have any ideas just let me know and thank you all for the previous reviews, I'm glad to see so many of you enjoying this so far.
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