Chapter One

"Nathan, come on wake up you're gonna be late!"

Nathan Scott rolled over and looked at up at his girlfriend; Haley James. Man, she was beautiful, even in her pajama's with her air all mussed he couldn't deny how amazing she looked. He was about to tell her so when he glanced over at the clock, it read 8:00. Remembering he had a meeting that morning that started at 9 that would determine weather or not he would move up with the company, all thoughts of Haley were pushed from his mind.

"Shoot! Hales why didn't you wake me up sooner? I'm barely gonna make it to work on time. And my presentation is today to."

"I'm sorry, okay I was just working on stuff for my class and I forgot. You'll still be able to make it in time if you hurry. Here you get dressed and I'll make you breakfast."

With that Haley jumped up off the bed and headed out to the kitchen. Nathan hurried through his shower and had just finished getting dressed when he heard Haley yelp from the kitchen. Abandoning the task of putting on his tie, Nathan ran into the kitchen to see what had happened.

"What did you do?" He asked slightly worried.

"It's nothing." Haley replied. " I just burnt my hand on the frying pan."

Nathan could hold back a smile, Haley was an amazing teacher and violinist, but her cooking skills weren't exactly up to par.

"Here let me look." He said while taking her hand and leading her into the bathroom to get a better look. After fixing the burn Nathan looked at the clock, it now read 8:40.

"Crap, I'm sorry Hales but I got to go or I'll miss my meeting."

"Okay, but I'll see you tonight right?"

Nathan stopped halfway to the door and turned and looked at Haley with a blank stare.

"Tonight?" He asked.

Haley looked at him, the disappointment on her face clear. "Ya you know tonight? The night of my concert? The concert that I've been studying and preparing for, for three years?" Haley exclaimed.

"Oh right that concert!." Nathan said.

"Honestly Nathan how could you forget?"

"I didn't!"

Haley sighed and looked at him with a disbelieving look on her face.

"I didn't. I was just demonstrating some of that charming humor you love about me." Nathan told her trying to cover his tracks.

"I don't exactly find it that funny Nathan."

"I'm sorry baby, I promise I'll be there tonight at 8:00."

"Nathan!"

"What!"

"It starts at 7:30!"

"Right I knew that, just a little more of my humor for you."

Deciding to leave before he got himself into even more hot water, Nathan kissed Haley goo bye and left. Calling out the door "Don't make any dinner plans because I've got a surprise for you after the concert."

Haley watched Nathan leave and then sat down at the table and began to work on her music. Her music was the one thing she had that was hers, no one knew that she liked to sing or write music, not even Nathan. She sighed as she thought of Nathan, she loved him of course, but, sometimes she felt like she didn't even register on his radar most of the time. She felt like she was just some play toy, someone who was just there when he got home from work. But wait! Hadn't he said he had a surprise for her after the concert? Maybe…just maybe this was it. This was the night she had been waiting for… her concert was the perfect night she was finished school and with Nathan possibly getting promotion today it was perfect. Yes, Nathan was defiantly going to propose to her tonight. After all what else could he have meant by a surprise?