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CHAPTER 6

Students were walking around in the hallway of THH, getting their stuff for the first class of the week. Haley was walking towards her class when Nathan grabbed her hand and pulled her into an empty classroom. Before she had the chance to object his lips descended upon her and like a natural reflex, she got lost in the kiss. But as he began to gain entrance into her mouth, a giggle erupted from her and she pushed him back already missing the closeness of his body.

"We can't do this in here", she wanted to sound stern but her wide smile gave her away.

"We just did" his smile matching that of hers. He wanted to take things further but knowing Haley, he decided to head to class "Okay I'll kiss you later" he gave her a charming smirk and left for class. Haley headed for class too, the smile etched on her face long after he was gone. A month had passed since their first date and Nathan and Haley couldn't be happier with each other. Haley was a little weary of the comments and glares thrown her way from all the females. She remembered the day everyone came to know about their relationship.

She had been so conscious of her appearance that she kept pulling at her outfit. Haley always considered herself an average looking girl and she understood why people were confused that the king of the school had taken an interest in her. However, she expected people to get over it within a couple of days, exactly how they responded when her father was convicted. But as the days went by, the comments kept getting crueller and Haley's patience was wearing thin.

Once when she was at the cafeteria, Rachel decided to make a jab at her. "I heard that sex with fat people was always better" stated Rachel in a disgusted tone "I guess it's true if Nathan's still sticking around".

Despite being the topic of controversies, nobody had ever come outright and said degrading things to her face but Rachel seems to have broken that spell. Haley was about to punch her in the face when Brooke dragged her away. She almost broke down that day but seeing Nathan's face later made it all better for her. The past month was hard but she wouldn't change a thing about it.

She was currently sitting at one of the benches at the parking lot of school, waiting for Nathan, when she heard someone call out to her. "Hey Haley", she turned to see a very hot well built blond haired boy coming her way. She knew him to be one of Nathan's teammates. She was about to return the greeting when she noticed him giving her a once over. "Damn girl you're so fine" he said while openly leering at her breasts.

Haley was about to retort back when her boyfriend beat her to it. "Why don't you try saying that again? I don't think I heard you right the first time", said Nathan who had come up behind her. His voice was low but held a menacing tone which made blondie to stammer a lame excuse of feeding his cat and run away.

A satisfied Haley turned around to face her boyfriend and probably tease him a little about being jealous but she swallowed her words when she noticed his rigid face. She ran her hand along his jaw line and expected him to relax but he didn't.

Ever since her father's news and the arrival of her bike, guys hardly ever asked her out and if they did, they were mostly sleaze-balls but being the star's girlfriend made her the prime target of almost all the male population at school. "Nathan" she called out. He looked at her but he still seemed tense "look you know it's been like this ever since we started dating so there is no point in getting upset about it".

Nathan analysed her clothing and found nothing wrong with it but he couldn't help the words that came out of his mouth next "Maybe you shouldn't wear this top anymore".

"What?" she wasn't expecting him to say that, suddenly a laughable situation turned serious.

"You heard me", his face remained stoic.

"I've worn this top many times Nathan" and nobody tried to hit on her all those times "Besides this is all your fault".

"Me?".

"Yes! All these boys seem to want whatever you have and that includes me"

"So it's all my fault now?".

"No it's not, just like how it's not my fault either". This conversation seems so unreasonable.

"Except for the fact that you're trying to grab attention by dressing like a...", he stopped his words before he got too far. He felt guilty for even thinking of saying such a thing.

"A what Nathan?" she pushed him knowing exactly what it was, her voice sounding hurt. His silence aggravated her even more "I'm really not interested to talk to the ass standing in front of me right now, why don't you tell my boyfriend to come find me later" with that said, she got onto her bike and drove away.

Nathan didn't make a move to stop her since he was too busy composing himself. A lot of guys have hit on het ever since they started dating and they were all testing his patience. He knew it was wrong of him to take his anger out on her but it was like his mouth had a mind of its own. He had never seen her so hurt and he felt ashamed that he was the cause for that. He'd go over to her place later and apologise but first he needed to formulate what to say to her.

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Haley came to a halt at her door, not bothering to park her bike and just left it at side stand on her front porch. She opened the door, threw her bag on the floor and dropped onto the couch. She hadn't felt like crying in a long time and it amazed her how much power Nathan's words had on her. He had never behaved like this to her and she was beginning to feel insecure about their relationship. She had never felt this way about a boy before and if scared her to no extent.

Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she looked around at her living room. The place needed cleaning up and that is exactly what she was going to do to distract herself from her rising panic. Once she was done cleaning up she decided to finish up her English homework. That fact that Nathan still hadn't showed up didn't slip her mind.

She went up to her room and was about to grab her laptop from the table when she realised that her homework was in Nathan's laptop, the very laptop which was lying on her table. He had brought it for her last night since her system crashed. At least he'll come for the laptop if not for me!

She opened up the computer wanting to start working on her assignment but she completely forgot where she had saved the file named Penn rights. She opened the search box and typed up 'pe'. A number of files showed up and she was about to type the rest when a file named Peyton caught her eyes. She knew it was wrong to snoop around but curiosity got the better of her. She opened up the file and the content made her heart literally ache. In the folder were images of Peyton in her closet. A few of them had images of her wearing a towel around her. She seemed to have just come out of the shower but in the next few images, she was topless.

Haley was highly disturbed to see these images but quickly consoled herself saying that he probably saved these while they were dating. The poor clarity of the image shows that the pictures were taken from her webcam. Haley immediately checked the date that these snaps were taken. She breathed a sigh of relief upon realizing that these pictures were taken at a time before they even met. Her relaxed state was short lived since she questioned as to why he hadn't deleted theses photos yet.

Haley had always feared that she won't be able to compete with all those other girls that Nathan had been with and this thought made her sick because it was true. Though they were together for almost a month and a half, they never had sex because she wasn't ready for it. Nathan had assured her several times that it was something he would wait for her to feel comfortable with. She felt like she was living a fairytale with his words until these images shattered all her expectations. She even began to wonder if Nathan had cheated on her while they were together. She couldn't hold onto this thought for long since she had to attend to whoever was knocking on her door.

She waited for a moment to wipe away her tears and compose herself during which the knocking became more persistent. She walked over to her door and opened it, not bothering to look into the peephole. Upon seeing the person on the other side, her eyes began to well up with tears again.

"Haley I'm so sorry?" he was about to start on his apology straight away, not giving her a chance to speak but his words dissipated when he noticed her troubled look and her eyes brimming with tears.

She left the door open and walked over to her room. Nathan was a little confused on what to do but he followed her into her room and shut the door.

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