Never Give Up On True Love.

By MingHing

Nathan Scott would not give up. He had to show Haley what it felt like to hurt. Not to hurt, to suffer. Deep dark miserable suffering that he had to go through when she was gone, and he was here. She left him at Tree Hill by himself and went waltzing around the world on a tour with Chris Keller. Why she would do this, he didn't know. Well, maybe he did, but that wasn't the point. The point was to make her suffer. Nathan ran up to his basketball net and dunked the ball in with so much force, that the poll it was connected to, shook wildly. God knows what they could have been doing together on tour. Nathan dribbled his basketball around his car in front of his garage and made another basket. And after three months on tour, she decides that she needs him after all and comes back to him. Did she really think that she could come back and everything would be like it used to be? Beads of perspiration trickled down his back as he dribbled the ball between his legs and jumped in the air and made another shot. The hardest part of this whole mess was that he loved his wife Haley with all of his heart. He aches when he is not around her and he hates when he hurts her. Nathan faked a pass and ran straight up to the net and made another shot. Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't he just wish this whole thing away? He picked up the ball and threw it with all of his might towards the rim of the net. The ball bounced off and came back at Nathan, barely missing him. A baby blue Volkswagen beetle pulled up in Nathan's driveway and Brooke Davis got out. She was wearing an orange wife beater and blue jeans. Nathan picked up the basketball and put it under his arm.

"Hey stranger." Brooke said as she walked up to Nathan.

"Hey Brooke, what are you doing here?" Nathan asked.

"I was walking down the hall to go to my locker and Whitey told me to give this envelope to you. Apparently you left after school so fast that he didn't have a chance to give it to you, not that I really care all that much." Brooke said.

"Um thanks." Nathan said taking the envelope and opening it to reveal 5 detention slips.

"Wow, seems like you have broken a lot of rules lately." Brooke said with her hands on her hips.

"What the hell! God, Whitey makes me so mad." Nathan said. Putting the detention slips back in the envelope.

"Well, if it is any constellation, Haley came home today with like 6 detentions from Whitey. They were for stupid stuff like tying her shoe after the bell rang. She was so angry that she locked herself in our room and won't let me come in." Brooke said.

"Really? Why can't he just leave us alone? We are fine without his help." Nathan told Brooke.

"You are? Well you could have fooled me." Brooke said.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nathan, Haley comes home from school crying everyday because she is miserable without you. She doesn't know that I know this because she hides in the bathroom. She puts up a front around me but I can tell that she is hurting inside."

"Well, it's not my problem. She was the one that left, not me."

"You on the other hand, have this whole 'I've been hurt so I'm going to be a jerk to everyone I know' attitude. And don't you talk me about leaving. She left for 3 months but wait so did you."

"But I never kissed a guy named Chris or did God knows what with him while I was on tour."

"But you did get pretty cozy with Haley's sister Taylor."

"I never did anything with her!"

"Look, we have all made mistakes, but it's better to move on then to dwell on the past. Haley has never done anything else to you before and she is so sorry for what she has done. Nathan, I know how it feels to have someone rip out your heart and then come back to you begging to be forgiven. It's like they are asking you to jump off of a cliff. I know that it's hard but sometimes you just have to jump, hoping that they will catch you. "

"What if they aren't there to catch you?"

"If you really love them, you have to be willing to take that risk."

"I don't want to be hurt again."

"You won't be."

"How do you know? How do you know that she won't just leave me again?"

"I don't. But Nathan, stop punishing your wife."

Brooke walked back to her car and drove away. Nathan walked over to his porch and sat down. The question now was, was he willing to take that risk?