Here is a little story we like to call Evermore, and we will get to the reason about that later, but thank you so much for reading. This story was written by two best friends, I'm the Shay half. I am so excited because this whole thing started around three/four years ago when Jen found me randomly to beta her story… this story. She sent me like 2 chapters and we became so close. She stopped writing but we still talked and now we don't go a day without talking. I love her, and always will. We have had our ups and downs but we are together, always and forever. (Jen probably hates how cheesy I'm being.) So then a few months ago or so, we started talking about this story and she asked if I wanted to co-write. I said that's what I was going to ask her and this is it. We are so proud of it and hope you all enjoy it! (Now after reading Jen's note I should include that she is my favorite person in the world and just GETS me like no one else has. I love her for that and she is fabulous. Bow down to her peasant.)
And I'm the Jen part of this author's note. I'm also the reason this story took almost four years to write. I have issues with finishing stories but thanks to Shay (and she went through a lot and when I say a lot I mean like, a shit load of crap a lot) this story saw an ending. She's amazing and I have no idea how she puts up with me but she does. I'm not very good at the whole writing cheesy messages so I'll just say this: I hope you all enjoy this story that Shay and I wrote. We encourage you to leave reviews and comments (it'll make our day!). We're very happy with the outcome and we hope you enjoy it! (I love Shay very much).
Now for the reason behind EVERMORE. I don't remember how but we came upon this word and we just liked the sound of it. Evermore. So then we looked it up and the definition was everything that this story truly meant. Evermore: 1. forever, always. 2. in the future. So read along and see why we think that this story truly encompasses that.
We will try to update on a schedule, two days a week either on Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday!
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Haley James Scott moved to stand at the bottom of the stairs as she shouted up to her eight year old son. "Jamie, come on sweetie or we're going to be late."
"I'm coming." He groaned racing around.
"Don't forget to brush your teeth!" The twenty five year old mother said as she walked towards the kitchen where her best friend sat.
"You know, that boy is so smart he could already be heading to high school." Brooke stated, reaching over to place some grapes on her two year old's height chair.
"Please God no, he would already be so old. It seems like just yesterday I was bringing him home from the hospital with..." She paused biting her lip, moving to cut up an apple for Jamie's lunch.
"Nathan." Brooke finished. "Hales, that was eight years ago. You need to move on and be able to say his name without crying."
"I know" She nearly whispered wiping a tear. "It's just hard forgetting everything we had. He is the father of my child… He's my husband."
Jamie walked into the room, and slid into a seat next to his aunt. He saw his mother crying and asked "You still thinking about dad?"
Haley turned around quickly to smile at Jamie. "It's nothing Jamie; eat your breakfast. Aunt Brooke made it for you."
"Oh no!" He said pushing it away. "If she made it, I don't wanna eat it."
"Quiet you." She laughed nudging him. "It's just cereal."
"Eat up, I don't want you to be late for school."
"Jude don't do that." Brooke said picking up grapes from the floor. "Are you all done?"
"Ya!" He smiled up at his mom.
"Okay then." She smiled picking him up. "We are off for the day. I'm gonna drop him off at daycare then head to work."
"So Jamie" Haley said moving to pack Jamie's lunch as she spoke. "Uncle Lucas is going to pick you up after school."
"I know" He said shoveling another spoon of cereal into his mouth. "He told me last night that we are going to have a boys night while you, Aunt Brooke and Aunt Rachel have a girls night."
Haley laughed and added "Uncle Lucas doesn't know how to keep a secret does he?"
"Nope" Jamie smiled up at his mother.
"Okay eat up so we can get going."
Haley ran a hand through her hair as she looked at the piles of essays she still had to correct. She had gotten to work early in hopes of getting through them all but failed when Mrs. Kimmel, the AP Biology teacher, walked in and talked her ear off. After graduating from college, Haley had become a literature teacher at Tree Hill High. When her first student walked in for class Haley put down her red pen and got up to write notes for the days lesson on the board. Turning around she smiled at Amy Jones, whose head was in a book. She was just like Haley in high school; she was a tutor and the school's geek. Haley just hoped she wasn't going to fall in love with the basketball star; Quentin Fields, get married and have a child before finishing high school and in the end have her heart broken.
She was snapped out of her thoughts when the bell rang. She took the absences and started teaching her class. About halfway through class, there was a knock on the door. Haley motioned to a student to open the door and on the other side of that door was one of her students, Samantha Walker.
"Sorry I'm late." She mumbled as she took a seat in the back of the classroom. Haley watched her as she did so and went back to teaching her class. When the final bell rang, Haley said farewell to her students and took her seat. As her last student walk out, she called Samantha and asked her to stay. Sam walked to Haley's desk and sat on Amy's usual desk.
"What do you want? I have another class to go to." She said coldly to her teacher.
"I'll just write you a note. I want to talk to you about your SA. It was really good, I think you have potential as a writer but if you keep acting the way you do in school I have a feeling you won't be going very far." Haley told her nicely.
"I don't care, I have a life to live not a school to live." She replied before taking her bag and making her way to the door.
"Education is part of your life!" Haley shouted at Samantha who was already far down the hall. She nodded her head and got back to her paperwork.
She was once again interrupted by another knock on her door, but this time, it was Lucas.
"Hey" He said.
She smiled at her best friend and said "Hey, you don't know how to keep your mouth shut don't you?"
He looked away, "I told him I was picking him up and then he asked me why and when he did his little innocent face, I couldn't help it. I had to tell him!" Haley laughed at him and hit him in with a book. She noticed that he was holding a magazine in his left hand.
"What are you doing with a magazine? You thought I was going to bore you?" She asked. He looked at his hand and threw her the magazine.
"Look at that." He told her. She unrolled the magazine and read the title page.
Nathan Scott and Famous Record producer Peyton Sawyer were seen leaving the bar together. Inside for more on this story.
Haley opened the magazine to the right page and started reading the article.
"On March 3rd, Nathan Scott and Peyton Scott were seen in a Bar in Times Square. Sources say they were talking about Scott's contract ending in April and about marriage and babies. Could the two, who has yet to be confirmed that their dating, be planning a marriage or could Sawyer have a bun in the oven?
We all know that Nathan left a small town, Tree Hill, North Carolina to go to New York after agreeing to sign a 5 year contract with the Knicks. Now that this contract is over, Scott has gotten a few offers from the Lakers, the Bobcats and the Sonics, but which will he choose?"
Haley stared ahead of her lost in her thoughts. "Well it'd be pretty hard for the son of a bitch to get married when he still is to me." She said before taking a seat at her desk. "I have papers to grade."
"Okay" Lucas whispered quietly looking down at his friend.
After school, Lucas waited outside Jamie's school for him to come out. He saw him walk out with his three best friends, Chuck, Madison and Andre. Lucas smiled seeing Jamie's smile. Jamie was perfect: he was intelligent, athletic and kind-hearted. He deserved better than Nathan Scott but he felt bad for Nathan. Nathan would never see Jamie like this. He didn't know how amazing his son was. But then again he didn't deserve it.
Jamie waved goodbye to his friends and got into the car with his uncle.
"Are Uncle Skills and Mouth already at home?" He asked.
"Yes, they're babysitting Jude. Let's just hope nothing has been destroyed when we get there." Jamie laughed and buckled his seatbelt.
Halfway home, Jamie looked out the window and saw a young family walking down the street. Jamie sighed and looked at his Uncle Lucas.
"Do you know why my dad chose Basketball over me?"
"Jimmy-Jam, I think know one really knows but him." He told his nephew.
"Do you think that someday he's going to come back for me?" Jamie asked curiously.
"Maybe one day, but your dad made a really big mistake and it's going to take a lot to fix it."
"Breaking my mom's heart and leaving me was his big mistake?" He asked
"Yeah, but it's his lost because he's missing out on the best thing he ever had." Lucas told him sincerely.
"What about that blonde girl that he's always with on TV. Who's she?"
Lucas sighed. "That's Peyton Sawyer, she went to high school with us."
"Isn't that the girl who you saved in the library the day of the shooting?" Jamie asked again.
"I think you know too much for your age. Maybe when you get older, you'll know more." Lucas laughed and pulled over.
Meanwhile, Haley left school and made her way to Rachel's house, to meet her and Brooke, who were probably already going crazy. She put on the radio and Alone started playing. It reminded her of all the time she had spent with Nathan.
Till now, I always got by on my own.
I never really cared until I met you.
And now it chills me to the bone,
How do I get you alone?
Haley was sitting at the docks working in her books waiting for Nathan.
"Breakfast of champions, want some?" Nathan said as he placed the food on the table and taking a seat in front of Haley.
"You're late."
He sat and took out a Cracker Jack box and said "Oh, please let this be a cheat sheet." Instead, he took out a little plastic bracelet and looked at it thinking what to do with it. He looked at Haley and said "It's for you."
"Stop it." she said as she tried to take her hand back. Once Nathan got it on the smirked at her and said "Don't say I never gave you anything."
She sighed and took out her book. "Do you see this book? Because this book is me, I am math."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It's supposed to mean that you can work your whole 'I'm Nathan Scott Mister Big Shot scoring my touchdowns' on somebody else because I don't care."
"I don't even play football." He stated.
"Whatever, the point is, at the end of the day all your bluster and BS don't mean anything to math because math don't care and neither do I."
"Well, does English care because I suck at that too?"
"Please don't waste my time. I'm already taking a huge chance on you because my instincts are screaming that you're full of shit. Let's just get started okay?"
He smirked and nodded. She turned the book towards him and started her lesson. "Page 81..."
I sit back and reminisce; it hurts to think about it all.
We were on top of the world, whoever though that we would fall?
Standing by the phone, alone, ignoring your call.
I feel like spider man, you got me flying off of the wall.
I ain't wanna leave, but still I had to go.
Cause what puts a rainbow without my pot of gold?
And now your beds empty and your pillows cold,
you never realised the love until my love was gone.
"Nathan I know I'm driving you crazy" Haley said to Nathan.
"No you're not" he replied
"Do you think I'm a tease?" she asked
"Stop it"
"Well, what do you think?"
"I think that you're my girlfriend and I like to spend time with you" He told her. She looked at him for a little and looked away unsure.
"Look, I just don't want to push you" He continued.
"You're not." She answered raising her voice a little.
"But I am." She looked at him before he continued "Haley, you got a tattoo for god sakes. And it just freaks me out a little bit because obviously this whole thing about us means a lot to you" He stopped to see her reaction before adding "I just don't want to pressure you and drive you away even though sometimes I can't help it, just like I can't help it that I fell in love with you, cause I did" He looked at her and sigh. Haley put her head down.
"I love you Haley. And it scares me a little bit. There it is."
She looked at him and sighed "Oh wow, there it is." She looked at him again and kissed him passionately. When they finally broke away, she looked at him and said "I love you too" before sharing another passionate kiss.
When I said I could move on and go,
you said I'm weak and it shows,
I couldn't go on without you.
Now I'm sitting in this house alone,
wondering why I left home,
And I'm hoping that you know that...
"Someday, this beach might wash away... the oceans may dry, the sun could dim, but on that day I'll still be loving you. Always and forever. I promise you, Haley." Nathan said.
"I, Haley, take you Nathan, to have and to hold from this day forward. In sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, I promise that I will love and cherish you and will deny all things that come between us. I make this promise for eternity. A promise that I will keep forever, until the end of time, till death do us part"
Till now, I always got by on my own.
I never really cared until I met you.
And now it chills me to the bone,
How do I get you alone?
Nathan was sitting in the kitchen when he got a call.
"Haley" He yelled to her. She came out of the bathroom and asked "What?"
"I'm going to Duke" He said excited.
"I'm pregnant"
"You..." He whispered bewildered
"It's not Brooke, it's me"
"Wha... How long have you known?"
"A few weeks" She replied.
"A few weeks?" He said shocked.
"I'm sorry; I didn't know how to tell you." Nathan looked at her and sat down on a chair.
"Can you talk to me, tell me what you're thinking" She asked rubbing his arm.
"Do you still want to go to Stanford?" He questioned.
"What?"
"Stanford, for college?"
"Ummm... Yeah of course I do but..." Haley started before being interrupted by Nathan's cell phone ringing. He looked at caller ID 'Rachel'.
"I have to go." He said getting up and heading to the door.
"Nathan, Nathan, I'm pregnant. We're pregnant; at least tell me how you feel about that?"
"I feel like you should have told me a few weeks ago. That's how I feel." He said before walking out the door.
You act like you don't need me,
'cause you're scared of being needy.
You want to have your cake and eat it too,
I call that being greedy.
And they say that love costs,
consider this a freebie.
No one said this would be easy.
Either love me or just leave me.
Admit it, we too old for pretending'.
Ain't like our bond is broken,
it just needed some mending.
And when you need a hand,
you know I'll be there to lend it.
What's the point in having time,
if I ain't there to help you spend it.
The whole gang was driving to Honey Grove, Texas to save Mouth when the low fuel light went on and the car stopped on the side of the road.
"Brooke, what's happening?"
"Brooke how long has that light been on?"
"I don't know a while, I thought it was pretty" She defended.
"Brooke" They all growled.
They were all outside the car on the side of the road when Lucas said "That doesn't change the fact that we haven't seen a single car pass by since we've stopped."
"Uh." Brooke mumbled.
"Until Now." He continued.
They all looked at the road and saw a bus coming.
"That's a bus!" Nathan stated.
"No, that's a tour bus." Brooke restated.
"Oh, please let it be the Foo Fighters." Peyton pleaded.
"No, please be Kanye." Pleaded Skills.
The bus stopped and Chris Keller walked out. "Well, well..."
"Stupid Elvis Sandwich!" Haley exclaimed.
When I said I could move on and go,
you said I'm weak and it shows,
I couldn't go on without you.
Now I'm sitting in this house alone,
wondering why I left home,
and I'm hoping that you know that...
Nathan was outside Haley's house throwing rocks at her window. He didn't notice Haley walking up behind him.
"Trying to wake my parents? That's their room" She hissed as she walked past him. Nathan ran to her.
"Wait, Haley, look I need to apologize, okay?" He pleaded
"You should buy 'em in bulk if you're gonna hand apologies out that often."
"Look will you just... I don't know how to do this all right? I'm…I'm not like you."
"What's that suppose to mean?" She asked.
"All right, I screw up a lot and being around you, I just, I don't wanna be that guy anymore."
"Then what do you want to be Nathan?"
"I want to be a guy that's good enough to be seen with you" He told her sincerely.
"You should've thought of that last night. You know I keep... I keep putting myself out there and you keep blowing it and it's probably a good thing because at this point there is nothing that you can say or do that's gonna surprise me!" He interrupted her by pressing his lips against hers.
"Except that…" She said pulling away. "You shouldn't have done that Nathan."
"But I wanted to."
"Yeah." She then leaned in and kissed him again.
Till now, I always got by on my own.
I never really cared until I met you.
And now it chills me to the bone,
How do I get you alone?
How do I get you alone?
I hear the ticking of the clock
I'm lying here, the rooms pitch dark.
I wonder where you are tonight,
No answer on the telephone.
And the night goes buy so very slow
Ohhhh, I hope that it won't end though,
Alone
Nathan walked into his and Haley's bedroom and noticed all the clothes on the floor.
"Did the closet explode?" He asked as he looked at Haley who was trying to zip up her dress.
"How do I look in this?"
"Is there a right answer to that question?" He asked worried he would upset her. Haley got furious and flung a dress to the floor.
"Well, none of my dresses fit me anymore" She said.
"Haley you're pregnant! They're not supposed to fit you!" He assured her.
And I'm hoping that you know that...
Till now, I always got by on my own.
I never really cared until I met you.
And now it chills me to the bone,
How do I get you alone?
Till now, I always got by on my own.
I never really cared until I met you.
And now it chills me to the bone,
How do I get you alone?
How do I get you alone?
"We're here." Jamie said as he jumped on the couch next to Skills.
"Hey Bro, you ready for some NBA live?" He asked
"Always" James replied.
They made their usual teams: Lucas with Jamie and Jude (who helped sometimes) and Skills with Mouth (who wasn't all that good).
Lucas and Jamie were winning by 6 points. There were a couple seconds left on the clock when Jamie makes his player do a 3 pointer with Jude's help. The doorbell interrupted their game and Lucas got up to get the pizza they had ordered.
They all ate peacefully and went back to the living room to watch some sport news. Lucas had gone to put Jude sleep and came back down just in time to hear a surprising report.
"The Charlotte Bobcats are looking for one more player for the next season. It was confirmed that Nathan Scott was recruited. Could he be going back home? More about this shocking news in a few instants"
The four sat in silence before Jamie suggested they should call Haley.
"I think you're right." Lucas agreed.
Haley got to Rachel's house and walked in without bothering to knock. She made her way to Rachel's room screaming to the girls that she had arrived. She saw them sitting on the edge of the bed giving each other manicures.
"Tutor Mom, you're here!" Brooke exclaimed.
"Hey. Seems like you two are having fun?"
"Yeah we were but now that you're here we can start our movie!" Rachel said as she grabbed Haley's hand and dragged her on the floor.
"Who knew you two could be best friends after high school." Brooke stated and they all laughed and remembered what made them bond.
"Haley, help me." Brooke said as she helped a beat up Rachel walk into the back room at Tric.
"Oh my god, what happened to her?" she asked as she helped Brooke with Rachel.
"I don't know, I think she was assaulted, I found her like this outside."
"Wasn't she in L.A.?" Haley asked.
"I guess she came back. This looks really bad Haley."
"It's okay, we're here for her now." Haley stated. Brooke smiled at her and nodded.
Ever since that day, Rachel and Haley had become close and Rachel had developed a close relationship with Jamie.
"Who would have thought." They laughed again and continued watching their movie.
They were interrupted by Haley's cell phone ringing. Looking at Caller ID, she noticed it was Lucas. Worriedly, she answered it.
"Hello."
"Hey Hales, I think you should turn on the TV and put it on the sports channel, there's something important on there."
"Okay" She replied putting the phone under her ear as she changed the tv channel. Haley dropped her phone in shock as she read the headline.
"Local Tree Hill star Nathan Scott's 5 years contract with the New York Knicks finished this season. He was given an offer with the Charlotte Bobcats for three years, making him come back home. It was confirmed earlier today that he accepted this offer saying 'It was going to let him come back home and fix some mistakes he should of fixed a long time ago.' Will he bring with him Famous Record Producer Peyton Sawyer? What about his past in Tree Hill where Sawyer also comes from. And what about Nathan's estranged-wife and his abandoned son?"