Summary- All it took for her to fall for him was a few weeks. Who knew you could be crazy in love in such a short time, not Haley James. She knew him from school, he was the popular jock who every girl wanted, and she was the nerd who no one really knew existed. Their worlds would have never collided if she hadn't been out that cold lonely night.

Every Day I Like You a Little More

DAY ONE

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Just like every other Friday in the small town of Tree Hill everyone was a the gymnasium of the local high school. The Tree Hill were going places and they were going fast. Tree Hill is a small town, but their basketball team is anything but small. The boys had been shinning and beating pretty much every school in the state, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that most of them would make it to the NBA. There was one player in particular, Nathan Scott, everyone knew he would be the big time shot of the town.

The game was over and most of the people would leave immediately, traffic usually got pretty bad after a game. Everyone but the players, they would stay until the end and be the last ones to leave, this night was not going to be the exception.

"Nice game, Nate" Jake, one of the guys on the team, and one of Nathan's good friends told him as they walked out towards their cars.

Nathan gave him a nod and a fist bump and walked towards his car. The game was the only thing that cleared his mind, the only thing that freed him from the craziness that was his house.

"Can I catch a ride, super start?"

Nathan let out a groan, the last thing he needed now was the slut of the school wanting to spend time with him. "Not now, Rachel." With those words he jumped in his car and road off.

All he wanted was to go home and sleep. Even though home wasn't the best place to be it was the one please he could go to get away from all the drama that was high school, and the one place Rachel would never go looking for him.

The last thing he remembered was thinking about basketball and how great it would be when he finally got out of this town, when he finally made it to the NBA. After that it all went white, blank, nothing.

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Haley James was probably the only person who hadn't attended the game. She hated basketball, but more than that, she hated the people that went to her school. She did have her friends, but a side from them most people were crazy with drama. All they cared about was the cars they drove, or the brand of clothes, or if you were rich or not.

She wasn't one of them and never would. She could be, she had the money and she wasn't bad looking, she just chose to stay away from that life style. All she wanted was to make her father proud, Jimmy James.

Jimmy was the only person Haley had in life. Her mother had passed when she was four and all she had left was her father, the one person she loved more than anything and anyone, the person she told all her secrets to, well aside from her nanny Nicolette.

She was driving slow down the roads of Tree Hill, it was cold and the road were practically ice. It was the worse January they'd had since who knows when. She concentrated and made sure that she knew what she was doing, she didn't want to hit a person.

All the sudden she saw a car fly next to her. Someone's in a hurry, she thought. But the spit second it took her to think she saw the car battling to brake and sliding on the slick road. It wasn't fast enough that they reacted, she had seen it all. The car driving passed her, the other car crossing the light, and the first car hitting it with such impact that it sent the other car flying towards the pole of the light.

Shocked at what she had just seen she stopped her car, she knew she wasn't going to get anywhere driving on the slippery road. She got out of her car and began to run. Being the clumsy person that she was she tried to maintain her balance and be as careful as possible. R

Almost reaching the spot of the accident the first care began to reverse, she could se the silver car skidding just a bit, but then it began to drive forward. That was the last time she saw the silver car. Yes, the car drove of leaving whoever was in the blue car unable to move.

Reaching the car she looked inside and saw the boy. His head on the steering wheel and his body laying with no motion. What do I do, what do I do? Haley asked herself over and over again. Hearing him groan she walked over to the car, the small flames on the back were getting bigger and she could feel the heat. Not wanting to think anymore she undid his seatbelt, she knew it was the wrong thing to do but she couldn't leave him in the car to burn. She slowly pulled him out and dragged him away from the car, never did she think that the body would be so heavy.

Finally having time to breath she pulled out her phone, she dialed 911 and looked at the boy. Now she knew who it was, it was none other than Nathan Scott, Tree Hill High's bad boy and Mr. popularity. She was shaking from what she had just seen, and the cuts all over him weren't helping. The blood pouring from his head and his chest was driving her insane. She couldn't concentrate, she couldn't even breath.

"911, what's your emergency"

She let out a breath, "I need and ambulance" she said, her hand shaking almost dropping her phone.

"Miss, I need you to calm down-"

"There is blood, there is lots of blood. I don't think he's breathing, please hurry, please" she begged, now tears coming from her eyes. It was amazing to her that she was crying over someone she had never spoken to.

"where are you located"

She looked around like a crazy person trying to find something, her phone tight on her hear as she was knelt down with his head on her lap. "Ummm… I… I don't know… Main Street and Hill Drive. Please Hurry, I don't think he's breathing."

"Someone's on their way. I need you to try talk to him, has he made any movement?"

Haley nodded remembering when he groaned inside the car, "yeah." She turned to his face and put the phone down next to her on speaker. Slapping his face a few times softly she try and talked to him. "Nathan, wake up, please, wake up." Nothing.

The lady on the line was trying her best to keep her calm. She told Haley what to do and slowly walked her through every step slowly. Haley had finally gotten him to talk, well to groan anyways, but it was something.

When the ambulance finally got there they loaded him up and took him to the hospital, Haley followed close behind, there was no way she would be able to leave him alone now. Maybe he didn't know who she was, but she had been through the whole accident thing before, and seen anyone the way she saw him always crushed her.

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Nathan had been wheeled in to the Operation Room as soon as the ambulance had arrived, nurses and medical staff running to get all the things they needed for him to get into surgery.

Haley parked her car and ran towards the emergency room. She ran straight to the nurse's station and asked for information. "I need some… I…" except she couldn't really form the words, she knew what she wanted to say, the words just didn't want to come out.

"Haley, honey, what's wrong?" one of the nurses, Veronica asked. Veronica knew Haley pretty well, the poor girl had spent enough time in the hospital for most of the nurses to know her and actually really like her.

"I… he…"

"Take a deep breath" Veronica said, rubbing the young girl's back.

"The boy" she said, a few tears running down her face. Why am I crying? She asked herself. There really was no reason for her to cry. First, she didn't really know the guy, and it wasn't like it was her fault. The accident happened before her eyes, but it wasn't her who caused it, she wasn't even involved.

"… how is he?"

"What boy, honey?"

"Nathan, he was brought here. He had a car accident."

Veronica realized what it was that Haley was talking about, the boy that had been wheeled in a couple of minutes ago. There wasn't much she could say about the situation, she wasn't his nurse and he had just been admitted. "I don't know anything, but I'll tell you as soon as I do."

Haley nodded. All she wanted was for the boy to be okay, the boy she had hopped to save. She stood up and looked over to Veronica, "I'm gonna go see him, can you come tell me when you know anything about Nathan."

Veronica just nodded. She knew it was against the la for her to tell anyone about the accident, anyone that wasn't his family, but Haley was practically her family. Haley had spent every holiday there with them, every Christmas, every birthday, every celebration she was there.

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"Haley?" seen as the girl looked over at her, Veronica continued, "he's out."

"Can I see him?"

Veronica shook her head, "but I can probably get you in there, just promise to not tell anyone."

Haley nodded. It felt like it had been hours since he had been taken in, and it probably had been she just was doing other things to help the time go faster. She looked over to the man on the bed and let go his hand, standing up she placed a soft kiss on his forehead, "I'll be back later" she said. With those words she walked out of the room following Veronica to Nathan's room.

Walking down the hall towards his room Veronica started explaining a few things to Haley, she wanted her to know what was going on. "I have to tell you. He's actually sleeping now, he's on sedatives. But he is okay, he has a three broken ribs, he had a small concoction, and hi broke his left arm. It's not much but he still has to be monitored."

Haley nodded, she knew practically every medical term ever. "Have you called his family?"

She shook her head, "we weren't able to get a hold of anyone."

Haley smiled at Veronica for letting her go into Nathan's room. She walked inside and saw the boy she had seen with blood everywhere in the bed. She slowly walked over to him and sat on the chair next to him. Having experience in hospitals she knew how much it sucked to be stuck in a room all alone with no one visiting you.

She saw him wined and move a few times, but his eyes never opened. He never woke up, a few nurses came and checked on him every once in a while but didn't say anything about her being in there, they were all very close to her. Not having anything else to say Haley eventually fell asleep, she just didn't expect to actually fall asleep in his room on the small couch next to his bed.

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A/N- This is a new story guys, I know I have one up already and I also have one that I'm writing, but this one just came to me and I had to write it. Tell me what you think, if I get enough reviews I'll continue.