Title – Desired Responses
Author - Eliz
Pairing – N/H, L/B, J/P
Summary – Haley and Nathan are living together in their apartment, after Brooke moved out. The school shooting has already taken place, so everyone's still a little out of whack about that. Everything in their lives seem to going perfectly until Haley comes down with a cold and a light touch of the stomach flu that has been traveling around Tree Hill High or what she thinks is a cold and stomach flu. Now Nathan has to deal with Haley being sick, which is a first, and their wedding which is coming up soon. Then other problems also start coming their way.
Chapter One
"Nate! If you don't hurry up were going to be late!" Haley James Scott yelled to her husband from the front door of their one bedroom apartment.
"Fine… I'm coming geeze… sometimes I forget that I married someone who actually likes school." Nathan responded as he walked into the kitchen/living room.
"Oh you're so funny…" Haley snapped sarcastically as she playfully hit him over the head while he went through the front door.
Nathan looked down at Haley with that smile that made her knees melt everytime he did it. All Haley could do was smile back. Everything had been going so great for them over the past couple of weeks. Haley knowing both of them wanted to treasure every moment of it, just incase things went back to the way they were before, which was one of her biggest fears and was one of the reasons why she hadn't been sleeping so well over the last week, but the main one was that they had been so close to loosing one another she was afraid that if she closed her eyes he'd been gone. Now of course Nathan knew nothing about this, he could tell that she was more tired than usual, but didn't know she kept on having these dreams and waking up so much at night.
"How's Lucas doing?" Nathan asked as they got into the car and began to head towards school. He and Lucas had began to patch up their whole brother relationship again and it was getting back to normal, which was good for everyone's sake, but Nathan knew Lucas would tell Haley things before him and it would always be that way.
"He's getting better; Brooke is really helping him through it." Haley responded as she tried her best to stifle like the 10th yawn this morning.
"Hey are you okay?" Nathan asked getting a little worried about how tired his wife was.
"Oh yea I'm fine. I just didn't sleep very well last night. Are you ready for your test in chemistry today or do you want me to quiz you really quick?" Haley asked, changing the subject as fast as she could. She didn't want to worry Nathan he already had enough going on in his life.
"Yea sure."
Nathan didn't even realize how Haley had changed the subject away from her and on to him as fast as she did. He had a lot on his mind, there was the whole thing with his dad, Keith's death, basketball, his marriage which he was trying just as hard as Haley to keep going down the path they were now, and then Lucas.
Haley quizzed him the rest of the way to school. Since he had his test first period there was no time for him to go to the tutoring center and they study together like usual.
"Tutor Wife!" Brooke yelled as soon as she saw Haley and Nathan walk up towards the school.
"I guess I'll catch you later." Nathan said as he leaned down a little and kissed her on the lips. "I love you."
"Love you too… good luck on your test you'll do fine I know it." Haley said with a smile as Brooke began to walk closer to them.
"Thanks see you later… bye Brooke." Nathan then started heading into the school and towards his first period class.
"Hi old roomie… are you ready for the game on Thursday night?" Brooke asked in her usual cheer.
"Yea Brooke I'm ready." Haley said with an eye roll that Brooke couldn't see.
"That's good because like 2 girls are out with a cold that's going around school. I hope none of us get it though, we just have enough girls to make the routine work, and we can't look anymore." Brooke asked talking almost without taking a break to breath.
"I know…" Haley answered as they began to walk to class together.
"I just hope I'm not coming down with it. I don't have time to be sick. It's probably from lack of sleep." Haley thought to herself as she began to feel a headache coming on.
