Chapter 1 Coming back home
"Momma!" I heard as I walked into my apartment.
"Hi Jamie. Where is Matt?"
"He is out drunk again." Hearing those word maid my heart sink. For the father of my children he acts as if he is a child himself.
"Were are the others?" I asked.
"Max is in my bed and Paul and Pete are in the crib."
"What would I do with out you?" Then I thought, what would I do with out him? He is only five and yet takes care of his brothers better than the father.
As I woke I could hear the slamming of the door. I was scared of what might happen next since he has been drinking all night. I slowly made my way to him.
"Hey bitch where's my food?" Was the first words that came out of his mouth.
"Matt where have you been? You left the kids all alone again. What kind of father does that!?" I yell
"Hey one of them isn't mine. That smart ass Jamie is someone else's!" He yelled as he slapped me across the face, and pushed me up against the wall. He lend down to kiss me, but I shoved him off. He stepped closer and slapped me again.
"Bitch!" He yelled right before taking off.
"Momma" I heard a soft voice say. I turned and there was Max and Jamie standing there with tears running down their faces.
"Kids pack everything up we're going to go see grandma James." I said touching the broses appearing on my face.
In the car I called my parents.
"Hello mom, I'm coming home."
"Oh sweetie I'm so glad to hear that. You should of called in the last six years to let us know where you were." Lydia James said in a sad tone of voice.
" Mom if I would of told you then you would of told Nathan. I didn't want that."
I pulled into the drive as my parents ran out to greet me. I stepped out of the car and went to the side door. I pulled out Paul and Pete.
"Are they our…" Jimmy James started to ask.
"Yes, This is Paul and Pete. They are two." She said. Jamie came walking around holding Matt's hand.
"This is Matt who is three, and Jamie who is five." I finished up. Jimmy and Lydia stared at their grandchildren. Jamie with his blonde hair and blue eyes. Matt with black hair and brown eyes. Paul brown hair, blue eyes, and last Pete, blond hair brown eyes.
We all walked in the house. Jamie was holding his little basketball, and suddenly it slipped from his hands and rolled into the street. Jamie went running into the street, and I heard the screeching of brakes that made me jerk my head to the road.
"Jamie!" I yelled as the car just barley missed him. I ran out into the street and hugged Jamie.
"Haley?" I heard someone say. I turned around to see that it was him.
"Nathan." I said in almost a whisper.
"Is he yours?"
"Yes."
"Is he mine?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Nathan asked.
"Because they're not." I said pointing at my other three boys.
Everyone went into the house even Nathan. I sat the twins in the play pen and sent Jamie and Max out to the backyard. I sat down on the coach as Nathan sat down In the chair. My parents stayed in the kitchen.
"Haley you should have told me." Nathan started.
"I know but I was scared. I ran away when you asked me to marry you in our junior year, and then I found out I was pregnant. I wanted to come back but then I meat this guy that I thought I could change just like I did to you, but he changed me." I had a hard time spitting that out.
"What's his name? How old is he?" Nathan started asking questions about the son he never knew he had.
"James Lucas James. He is five years old." I got tiered of telling Nathan about him so I went out to the yard and called him in here.
"Jamie come in here. There is someone I want you to meat. Bring Max in with you." I yelled.
Jamie came rushing into the house.
"Who is it mommy? Who do you want me to meet?" Jamie asked excited. He has always loved meeting new people.
"Jamie this is your daddy, Nathan. Matt is not your father, but he is Max, Paul, and Peter's."
"Matt's not my daddy?" Jamie asked with big eyes.
"No, Nathan is." Jamie walked over to Nathan and just looked at him, then he looked back at me. Nathan looked at me.
"Do you want me to pay child support, because I'm not sure I can do that. After you left I went back to my old self and so did Brooke and she abandoned me and our three kids." Nathan said. Jamie looked at me with big sad eyes.
"So another daddy doesn't want me?" He asked as he ran up stars. Nathan just looked at me with a confused face.
"Matt never wanted the kids. He would rather get drunk then watch them. Jamie has grown up way before he should have to. All he wanted was to be a kid again, and have a father that loves him." I said with tears starting to run down my face.
Nathan got up and walked over to me. He was about to wipe the tears away when he saw the broses on my face.
"Haley what happened?"
"Nothing, matt just got a little drunk and slapped me a little so I left."
"Haley."
"No, I'm ok. We should be ok here. I don't think he knows where we went."
"Haley I'm not leaving you here. Come and live in my house. I have three extra rooms and it will be safe there."
"I don't know Nathan."
"Please." He said with pledging eyes, and in that moment I realized he still loved me.
"Ok." I told him.
