Okay so i know starting anew story is the last thing i should be doing right now...but i was in teh christmas mood and since this is only going to be 10 chapters at most its not very long, and ive already got planned onw hats going to happen in ewach chapter so it should be completed prety soon. I guarantee that this is going to be all done by christmas lol...i promise.

So anyways teh forst chapte ris pretty heavy and not veery long, but belive me this is going to be a fun lovging christmas fic lol..

So here we go...

Christmas cookies.

Haley sighed as she looked out of her window at the heavy snow flakes falling, forming a pretty white blanket on the road outside of her house. There once was a time when she would have gotten excited by the fact that god was gracing her with a possible white Christmas. But no happiness was found within her. The only thoughts when she watched the snow bucket down was the reminders of how her life used to be. How happy she was when she had everything she could ever ask for. How unhappy she was now…because the fact still remained that…

This time last year her husband and daughter got killed.

She had to wipe the tear away from her chocolate brown eyes thinking about it. It was the most horrific moment of her life when she received the tragic news on Christmas eve, telling her that her world, her whole world, had skidded on a piece of black ice on the road only 2 blocks from her house, and had had the worse result she could have ever imagined.

Her husband, Mark, he had died instantly in the crash; however young Zoë, her beautiful baby girl who was only 3 at the time tried to fight through it. Haley held her hand the entire journey praying to god that she would be okay, that she would make it. Unfortunately her prayers weren't met, and she had to go through the ordeal of not only losing her first love, her only love she thought, and the love of her life…her daughter. She really did mean the world to her, she was her baby girl, her Zoë, and it only brought heartbreak remembering how excited she was when she thought of Santa coming to give her lots of presents.

Looking around her empty living room, Haley sighed yet again. It was so bare. She hadn't been able to force herself to put decorations up this year. It just wasn't the same without them there too.

Over the pass year she had come to terms with the fact that her family was dead, and she was now alone, however it still hurt thinking about it…especially at this time of year, that's why she decided not to decorate this year.

Although she wasn't entirely alone, she still had her wacky parents, and of course the best friend she could ever ask for, Brooke Davis. Brooke had been her rock over the pass year, and hand on her heart she didn't know what she would have done if she didn't have her supporting her. She even moved out of her boyfriend Luke's house to move in with her for a few months, however after awhile Haley told her to go back, she needed to adjust to living on her own again.

Knock Knock

Haley was brought out of her depressive thoughts by a loud knock on the door. Getting up from her seat on her window seal she scrambled towards the door, not really caring whether she looked stupid answering the door in her Winnie the Pooh pyjamas.

As she reached it she could here a little girl on the other side giggling. Scrunching her nose up with confusing on who the little girl would be, she opened the door wide.

"Daddy I want yama's like the pwetty lady's one's." The little girl giggled as soon as the door had opened. The little girl standing in front of her was just about the most beautiful thing she had ever set eyes on…apart from Zoë of course. And then she felt her heart drop once she heard the deep chuckle she knew only to well, coming from the tall man next to her.

"Haley… is that you?" The man said, his voice filled with surprise and joy.

She couldn't believe her eyes. The man standing in front of her was none other than Nathan Scott. Nathan Scott!!! The boy she had spent her whole teenage years crushing on. He was practically her best friend back when they were kids. Her mother and his mother were like sisters so naturally Nathan and Haley would have grown up with each other. However as soon as college approached them, she moved of to Stanford, whilst he went of to Duke. They hadn't stayed in contact since then.

"N..Nathn what are you doing here?" She asked disbelievingly.

"OOH daddy you know the pwetty lady?" The little girl asked tugging his trouser leg to get his attention off of the lady in front of him.

"Yeah Chloe baby, this is Haley an old friend of mine." He said smiling, whilst bending down and picking up the little girl in his arms. Haley looked good, he thought. Definitely more grown up than the girl he knew before college, however there was one thing that seemed to be missing, her most important feature he thought. The sparkle in her eye. It was gone, and he couldn't help but wonder why.

"How you been Haley?" He asked, getting her out of her gaze.

Haley didn't know what to say. She couldn't just open out her heart right there on her doorstep to a man she hadn't talked to in what must have 7 years.

"Oh me , well I've been good." She said putting on the most false smile she could, hoping Nathan wouldn't notice. But he did! It might have been 7 years but that still didn't mean he couldn't tell whether this women was lying or not. "But what about you? I see you have a daughter here…a very pretty daughter might I add." She said smiling towards the little girl in Nathan's arms.

Deciding not to ask her why she was lying right there and then, Nathan just nodded and introduced Chloe to Haley.
"So Nathan what are you doing here?" She asked still not believing that her former best friend was on her doorstep with a little girl, one week before Christmas.

"Well me and Chloe are new to the neighbourhood, and since we didn't know many people, master chief here.' He nudged Chloe jokingly receiving a giggle from his daughter ' was soo good at making the Christmas cookies, we decided to get to know the neighbours by giving them a Christmas cookie." He said holding out the box filled with Christmas goodies in front of him.

Haley started at the box in front of him and felt like she was going to die. That's what she was doing when she got that knock on the door last year telling her about Zoë and Mark…making Christmas cookies.

"Take a chwistmas twee one haley, I like them ones. There vewy colful." Chole said excitedly, reaching in the box and grabbing one for her.

Haley held back her tears which were threatening to leak through her eyes right then, and took the cookie from the little girl.

"Thanks you very much.' She said quietly. ' If you wouldn't mind though I have to get back, welcome to the neighbor hood Chloe and Nathan.' Looking at Nathan she smiled timidly and said 'I'm glad you're here, we should catch up sometime." And with that she closed the door immediately, leaving a very confused Nathan.

It had all gotten to much for Haley, what with the Christmas cookies as well. Finally giving in she let the tears overtake her and slid down the door with her head in her hands, letting out her pain and despair.

This is not what Christmas should be about!

So tell me what you all think...and remeber that replies equals u/ds...and honest i sware down i have this all planned...i just need to type it all out.

Luvs ya

Jade.x.x.x.xx.xx.