seattle ; sunday ft

[necroslacker]

Haley had been trying to organize a 'Welcome to Spring!' party for a few weeks now. When Sam had told her she just wanted a convenient reason to throw a party, she hadn't denied it but she'd still said she was going to use his house. And Sam, being the oh so dutiful brother, had let her. The party was tonight and Haley had commandeered James,

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[whenshewasnice]

If Nathan had actually talked to Peter more in the last couple of weeks, he might've known this was a bad idea. But, he hadn't. There'd been a lot of semi-mutual avoidance going on. Not a lot of chitchat about the particulars of Natalie's life beyond work. So, if this went badly? It was clearly going to be all Peter's fault.

Or something. It wasn't like Nathan didn't have second thoughts when he got to Sam's house and stopped at the edge of the lawn. He could see the decorating going on and instantly felt wary. He'd been at this house a lot, not even too long ago, but he already felt like he was intruding somehow.

Turning back and going away suddenly seemed like a very real option.

[necroslacker]

It was Haley who came upon the unfamiliar face but Haley being Haley didn't care about that.

"Hiya," she said, carrying a tablecloth under one arm. "You a friend of Sam's I haven't met?"

Well, he did have those friends from the school he'd gone to and all. She knew she didn't know everyone.

[whenshewasnice]

Oh, Haley.

For a second, Nathan wasn't really sure what to say. She was used to weird things by now, he knew, but this was a little... out there, even for Seattle.

"Yeah," he settled on, with a very brief flicker of a lopsided smile, there one second then gone the next. "In a manner of speaking."

[necroslacker]

"He's over on the half pipe if you wanna go say hi," Haley told him and then pressed the tablecloth into his hands. "And when you're done, you can help get the backyard ready."

Haley cared not about the weird stuff. She wanted her party.