Summary: After their best friends die in a car crash Nathan and Haley are the ones chosen to take care of their friends' 1-year old daughter. How do they adjust to new life as parents and living under the same roof with the one person they can't stand: each other.

I started to write Naley fanfiction after 4 years of not writing at all. I just got inspired after I saw the movie Life As We Know It. I thought it would make a good Naley story, however I hadn't really wrote fanfiction for a while so I buried the thought. But then I got inspired to write when I had two days off from work so here it is. I hope that you all like it and if I get reviews (everything is welcomed the good and bad) I will post the first actual chapter tomorrow. So this is the prologue and it's a little short however the first chapter will be much longer.

I try to change the story more suitable for Nathan and Haley, but there are scenes and lines from the movie as well, because some of those are just hilarious.

I don't own One Tree Hill or the movie Life As We Know It.

Prologue

2009

Haley James was tapping her hardwood floors with her red high heels. She let out a frustrated sigh and took yet another look at her watch. It was already half past eight which was just another way of saying that her date was late. Haley was starting to have second thoughts about the date her best friend Sarah had arranged for her. She took the latest issue of Vogue magazine of her glass table in the living room and started to flip through it, although she had already read it.

The minutes went by. It was twenty to nine fifteen to nine, but still there was no one standing outside of her front door. By now Haley was about to call Sarah and give her piece of her mind, but just when she started to look for her phone the doorbell rang.

"Finally", Haley let out and went to the door. She took one last look in the mirror next to the door to make sure that her auburn hair was in place and make up looked good. She took one big breath in and opened the door. There he was the guy who in Sarah's words would be 'the perfect guy to date after being dumbed by your boyfriend of three years'. He was good looking sure and he had the bluest eyes Haley had ever seen. He also had an annoying smirk on his face which was already starting to bug Haley. Who does he think he is? However she had promised Sarah to give him a chance so she decided to push the first impression aside and offered him her hand.

"Hi, you must be Nathan, I'm Haley", Nathan accepted her hand. So this is Haley. Well she is definitely hot, maybe tonight won't suck after all, Nathan thought. He took in her appearance. She was wearing a tight black dress that ended just above her knees. It had a red belt which matcher her red heels.

"Yeah, hi", he let go of her hand and they just stood in the doorway for a few minutes in an awkward silence.

"So, we should get going, we don't want to miss our reservation", Haley suggested and took her purse and jacket from the coat rack.

"Did you drive here or are we taking a cab?" Haley continued as she locked her front door.

"I drove here", Nathan answered shortly. Seriously am I gonna have to do all the talking, Haley thought. "So how long have you known Sarah for?" I guess not.

"Since college, we were roommates on our freshman year", Haley answered as they walked slowly away from her house.

"That's cool."

"And you have known Clay for how long?"

"Me and Clay go way back. We were maybe four or five when we first met."

"Wow, that's a long time. I have known one of my best friend's just as long. I decided to hang with him and his mom since it was just the two of them. I come from a big a family so I guess they needed me more", Haley started rambling. Nathan just nodded his head.

"How many siblings do you have then?"

"Three sisters-"

"That is a big family."

"-and two brothers, twins actually", Haley continued and Nathan's eyes grew wider.

"Six kids? Guess your parents didn't know when to stop", now it was Haley's turn to feel her eyes almost pop out of her head. Seriously, did he just say that? He doesn't even know my parent's and there he goes making comments like that. Haley was just about to let out a comment of her own, but another surprise took her mind off of the rather offensive remark once they reached Nathans vehicle.

"Motorcycle? This is what you decided was the best way to take a girl to a date?" Haley was growing more and more annoyed by this guy and his actions. It was like he didn't have any interest, what so ever, about this date. She had decided to try to make the best of it, even though she wasn't that excited about set ups. This guy however seemed to do the exact opposite. Sarah what were you thinking?

"Well I haven't gotten any complaints about it, until now – I assume?" Nathan gave her his signature smirk and zipped up his leather jacket. Haley couldn't believe he just used his past hook-ups as his defense, what a jerk.

"It's just- it would have been nice to know that you have somewhat inconvenient form of transportation before I did my hair and make-up and put on a dress, I could've put on something comfortable and fitting and-"

"Fine, I'm calling a cab", Nathan was growing more and more frustrated. He just couldn't see what the big deal was. Girls usually loved his motorcycle. Then again Haley didn't seem anything like the girls he was used to dating. He pulled out his cellphone and rolled his eyes.

"I think you should", Haley answered and took a look at the time, "when is our reservation?"

"What reservation?" Now it was Haley's turn to roll her eyes.

"The one you made for tonight." Haley specified.

"I didn't make any reservations. You're the one who talked about reservations 10 minutes ago, I assumed you had made those-"

"But you were supposed to make them; Sarah told me that you said you would take care of it", Haley's patience was now hanging by a thread. Nathan opened up his mouth to defend himself, but his cell phone started ringing. This is just the icing on the cake.

"Hey- you. What's up? Oh really? How about 11 o'clock?" Nathan tried to talk as quiet as he could and he turned away from Haley, who started to tap the ground with her right foot. "You know what why don't we make it to 10:30?"

You know what I take that back, THIS is definitely the moment of the evening. Is this perv seriously making plans with another girl in front of me?

Nathan turned back to her current date and flashed her a smile.

"Sorry, it's just- a sick friend"

"Yeah I'll bet", Haley muttered under her breath, "let me ask you a question, if all you wanted to do tonight was ride on your motorcycle and make appointments with your 'sick friends' why did you even come?"

"You know what I think that you're blowing this out of proportion, it's not like we are married or anything", Nathan answered casually.

"Thank god for that", Haley said and started to walk away from him.

"So the date is cancelled?" Nathan yelled behind her.

"You got that right", Haley yelled back to him before slamming the door behind her. Nathan stood next to his motorcycle for a few seconds before dialing his friend's number.

"Hey, I can be there in fifteen minutes, okay yeah, I'll remember bye", and with that he hopped on to his bike and drove away thinking he would never agree to be set up again.

In her house Haley was dealing with the almost date in her own way. She had kicked her heels off her feet and opened a bottle of wine before calling to the person responsible for this whole mess.

"Sarah, I don't know what in the world you were thinking, but the only way you can make this up to me is if I never have to see him again."

A/N: What did you think?