You Found Me
Summary: Nathan has a daughter. His wife Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer died in child birth, but left a beautiful baby girl with him. Now at 22 years old, he falls for his daughter's pre-school teacher, Haley James. Nathan and Brooke are great friends, Haley and Lucas are great friends. Nathan and Lucas know of each other, but have never met...until now that is. NALEY/BRUCAS.
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters, places, anything like that. Just having fun : )
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Nathan heard the alarm clock go off. It would be time to wake Sawyer up soon. The past four years had been difficult. When they were only seventeen years old, just seniors in high school, Nathan had gotten his girlfriend Peyton pregnant. They both finished high school, and she went into labor the day after graduation. He had been in the dilevery room with her when the baby started to come. They asked him to step out of the room, he saw Peyton's face grow more and more pale. He waited outside.
"How is she?" Nathan jumped out of his seat as soon as the Doctor approached him.
She had suffered an aneurysm giving birth. Here he was about to start college and he had a baby...and Peyton wasn't even around anymore. He decided not to further his education but not for the right reasons. He spent his nights going out, anything to escape it and not let it get to him. Seeing the baby everyday killed him, but it couldn't go on. He knew it. She was beautiful, and four months after she was born, he became devoted to her. Though he hated the idea , he accepted a sales position for his father's company and got his own apartment. When he was working, his mother helped out with the baby. It had worked out well for the first two years. His father then sold the company. He moved away, but left Nathan with a good amount of money, and sticking to what he knew he got another job selling cars, but was promoted to a manager. He bought a house with the money his father had given up and built a good life for Sawyer and himself.
Now, here he was about to bring his daughter to her first day of pre-school.
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Haley woke up to her phone.
"Hello?" She answered. She then realized it wasn't the phone ringing, it was the alarm on it.
She looked at the time, and found she was right, it was time to get up. This was her first time teaching. She had spent the past four years in college working towards her degree. She wanted to get her masters, and teach high school English, but she needed to work for a while and save up some money to do that. It was hard for her to find a job, so she ended up settling with pre-school. It was her first day and to be honest, she was a little nervous. It was going to be a four year old class. In the end, it would end up being fun, and hopefully rewarding.
It was just hard when your best friend is so damn successful. He was a writer. At 22 he all ready had two books published, working on a third, and teaching a class at the local college. It made her feel like she was behind, but she knew Lucas was special and had great talent.
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Brooke let herself into Nathan's home.
Nathan and Sawyer were both at the kitchen table eating.
"Auntie Brooke! Why you here?" Sawyer jumped up, running to her.
"Why are you here," Nathan corrected, smiling rubbing his hand on her head.
"I came to see you go to school! I wouldn't miss it for the world!" Brooke told her.
"Well you came just in time, we're about to leave." Nathan told both girls.
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Brooke and Nathan arrived at the school and walked inside.
"Which room is she in?" Brooke asked.
"202, the left," Nathan told her.
They walked into the room. None of the other children were there yet.
"Oh yay! My first student! What is your name?" The teacher asked.
"Sawyer Scott," The little girl said proudly.
"Well, it's very nice to meet you Sawyer," Haley smiled. "I am Miss Haley."
"Nice to meet you too," Haley smiled. "You must be Sawyer's mom and dad?" She asked.
Brooke laughed, "Oh! No! I love Sawyer very much, but I am just her Aunt. Just wanted to see her on her first day!"
"Oh okay! Well that is great," Haley said.
Nathan was trying to get words out. This woman, his daughter's teacher was beautiful. He needed to get a grip. He needed to stop looking. "I'm Nathan, I am her father,"
"Okay!" Haley went to go shake his hand. He shook it back, god she was gorgeous. "It was nice meeting you. I'll see you later on today!" Haley said.
"Nice meeting you too," Nathan smiled.
His smile was perfect, Haley thought to herself. God, the first father who dropped their kid off she was attracted to, this wasn't a good start.
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Brooke headed to her car as did Nathan.
"Could you have been a little bit more obvious checking 'Miss Haley' out?"
"What? I was not!" Nathan protested.
"You were so checking her out!! Do you have one of those school teacher fantasies! Sick!"
"BROOKE! I was not looking at her!"
"You so were!"
"I don't have time to argue this, I have to get to work. Let it go." He warned.
"Whatever Natie! I'll be by tonight around dinner time. I want to give Sawyer something special for her first day of school."
"See you then," Nathan told her getting in his car, and shutting the door.
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A/N: Just a start. Please let me know what you think, I am all ready working on more!