Haley James looked around the baby store. She was buying a gift for her sister's baby shower. She looked down and caressed her flat stomach. She was 25 and she wasn't married. She didn't even have a boyfriend. And she wanted to be a mother so bad. She picked up an extra little outfit for herself. She was always doing it. She was always buying extra baby stuff and putting it in her spare room in her apartment. She'd made a little nursery for her future child she was destined to have.

She was wrapping up the little pink dress she got in her spacious two bedroom apartment and she jumped when her best friend Lucas came in. "So I was thinking of you and I got this." He placed a box in front of her and sat down in the adjacent chair.

Haley was curious when she look up at her best friend of 20 years. She opened the box and grinned when she picked it up. It was pamphlets on insemination. "Peyton and I were talking and she and I came to the conclusion that if you don't like the donors, you can have my sperm." He wanted her to know whose sperm she was getting. And he wasn't even sure she'd go for the insemination. It was just an idea if she wanted a baby really bad.

Haley shook her head. "I'll be fine. Besides, I don't even want kids anymore." Haley said with her head down. She was lying of course but she didn't want her friend to know this.

"Really?" Lucas asked. He walked over to her spare bedroom and opened it up. He saw a whole nursery set up. He looked over at Haley "You have a whole nursery set up. And you're not even pregnant." He was worried about her. She'd been this way since her oldest niece had gotten pregnant. She was only fourteen.

"I know. Okay, I know. But my whole family has had kids so young. Younger than me. And I feel left out. I mean even Taylor is a mother and well, she's a ho-bag, but she's still a mother and I'm not."

"You will be someday." Lucas sat down on the couch beside her. "It's okay."

"By the time Vivian was my age, she had two and one on the way." Haley didn't understand why this was happening to her.

"Vivian was married by the time she was 16, I don't think she's a good role model to follow." Lucas said.

"But still, she's a mom." Haley protested.

Lucas rubbed Haley back and he picked up the pamphlets. "My offer will always be on the table. No matter what, okay?" Haley nodded. "Okay." He kissed her on the forehead and left the apartment.

Haley finished the wrapping and put it on the counter. She went back over to the couch and looked through the pamphlet. All she saw was the big picture on how they do it. She was horrified by what she saw. It was a long needle in the uterus. It looked painful, but she had a feeling she had to do it.

It was Thanksgiving and Haley was joining Lucas and his family. "Hey Luke." Haley said coming in and hugging her friend. She handed him a pie that she baked and grabbed a water from the bar and sat on the couch.

Nathan sat on the couch with her and tried to strike up a conversation with her. "No alcohol?" Haley shook her head. "You are 21 right?"

Haley looked over at him annoyingly. "I'm 25."

Nathan nodded. "You allergic to it?" Haley scoffed and shook her head. "Are you pregnant?"

Haley scoffed. "I wish. Truth is I want to be pregnant. I want to have a baby."

"Then what's the problem? You're boyfriend drawing blanks?"

"I don't have one." Haley said. She took a sip of her water and looked out straight with a melancholy face on. "And even if I did, how many guys would want one at this age. It's not that easy to say to a guy, 'let's make a baby', if you do, it'll send them running."

"So, then do one of those surrogated things."

"I don't have money, besides, if I do, there's no definite chance that it'll happen."

"Lucas?" Haley gagged. "I get it. I feel the same way. And how do you think Peyton feels?"

Haley chuckled and she hit him lightly. "That's mean. Besides, he did offer to give me his sperm. But— I'm thinking about it."

"Why?"

"Because I'd know who it was coming from. It wouldn't be some stranger."

"Okay, this is the worst conversation I've ever had. But doesn't that stuff cost a few thousand dollars?" Nathan asked. He was getting a little bit grossed out. And he stood up in front of her.

"But it's worth it." Haley said. She had a small smile on her face.

"Really?" Nathan questioned. "What if there was a way to get a baby for free."

Haley looked up at him "How is that possible?"

"The traditional way, having sex."

"With who? You?" Nathan nodded. "Ewe!"

"Come on, you get to have a baby and sex at the same time."

Haley rolled her eyes. "That is disgusting you filthy pig." Haley thought it over and sighed. "But if you are offering, and it is free, okay."

"Whoa whoa whoa." Nathan said with his hands up. "If I'm giving you my sperm, you have to do something for me."

"Like what?"

"Taxes." Nathan said. "I hate them and you can do them."

"Okay." Haley said. She got up and they shook hands. She then took his beer from his hand. "No alcohol until I get pregnant."

"What else do I have to do?" Nathan asked. "We'll get some books on the subject and we'll go to see my doctor next week."

"Wait, I just have one more question. If you do get pregnant, you're not gonna like tell a TV reporter or newspaper. I mean I have an image to uphold."

"How so?" Haley asked. She got confused. What image did he have to keep safe?"

"Nathan Scott, point guard for the Bobcats?" He got a little pissed when she still looked confused. "Basketball, my soon to be pregnant friend."

"Hey you two." Lucas said coming in between the two of them. "Thanksgiving dinner is ready." Nathan and Haley just nodded and smiled with their mouths closed. "You two okay?"

"We're fine." Haley said. She has a nervous look on her face but she followed the boys into the dining room.

NEXT CHAPTER:

NATHAN AND HALEY VISIT THE DOCTOR

NATHAN AND HALEY BUY SOME EMBARRASSING BOOKS

HALEY OVULATES AT A BAD TIME

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