Chapter 2

Nathan still hadn't spoken anything and Haley was beginning to get worried. Maybe be he didn't like me? Oh God please don't let it be this, she mentally prayed.

He hasn't been expected this, the girl in front of him was beautiful, she was breathtaking.

She was smaller than him, petite body and sweet face. She was wearing a simple jacket, shirt and a skirt, no make up. She had a long dirty blonde hair, captivating brown eyes, cute nose and pouty lips and she had two small suitcases beside her. That better be my soon-to-be wife, Nathan thought.

Realizing he was still silent, Nathan with a stand hand introduced himself. "Hi! I'm Nathan Scott." He said with a charming smile.

"I'm Haley James."

"It's nice to meet you, Haley."

"Please, come on in." Nathan invited her. She was bendingdown to get her suitcases when he interrupted her. "No, please, I'll get them."

"Thank you." she said politely and walking inside his apartment.

"I didn't know when you would come. I was actually leaving to work." Nathan explained as he closed the front door.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to bother-"

"No no, it's okay. It just that I won't be here to help you unpacking your bagsbut feel free to do anything and make yourself comfortable. Let me show you the rest of the apartment and your room."

Haley followed him and listened to everything as he showed her his place. It was quite nice, but a little messy, just like every bachelor apartment.

"There's some food if you wanna eat anything and here's my cell phone number in case you need to ask me something. If the phone rings, let it go to the answer machine and I think that's all. Do you have any questions?"

"No, I got it everything."

"Alrighty then."

Nathan noted at how she didn't speak much, she seemed really shy, which was fine by Nathan and actually nice, it was something new to him. He checked his watch, he had to go to work.

"okay, I gotta go now. Do you think you'll be okay?"

"Yes, don't worry. I'll be fine." she assured him and smiled.

"I'll see you later."

"Goodbye."

And now Haley was all by herself on the apartment, the first encounter was better than she had imagined. She looked at the card with his phone number on it; she put it in her pockets on her jacket. She didn't want to bother him when he would be on his work.

Haley looked around and saw she had a lot of work to do; she would start unpacking her stuff.

She would make everything to show Nathan that she could be a good wife to him.

"So, how is she?" Lucas asked with curiosity.

"She's alright." Nathan answered vaguely.

"Alright? How was the encounter? Give me more details."

"Gee Lucas, you sound like a girl. What do you want me to say? She arrived, we introduced ourselves, I showed her the place and then I said goodbye to go here to work. That's it."

"And what do you think of her? Are you thinking about actually getting married to her?"

"Will you please shut up? You sound like my mother."

"And by the way, hadn't she called you?

"Not yet, but I'm sure she will."

"What's her name?"

"Haley James."

"It fits with Scott." Lucas chuckled when he saw Nathan's glare at him. "What? It has a nice ring to it."

"Very funny."

"Just be nice to her. I'm sure it's not being easy to her either."

"I am nice. She's a little quiet though, she didn't say much."

"Maybe she's scared. It's all new to her."

"It is to me too."

"I know, but she's from a small town, isn't she? It's different." Lucas pointed out.

"I guess." Nathan shrugged.

"So, when are we going to do the double date?" Lucas asked.

"Never."

Haley was at the kitchen when she heard the phone ringing, she stopped what she was doing to answer it, however she remembered what Nathan had said earlier. She definitely wasn't going to disobey him. She went back to what she was doing.

"Haley, it's me Deb. Please pick up the phone if you are there." She heard the message and walked to the living room to answer the phone.

"Hi Mrs. Scott."

"Hey Haley, oh and you can call me Deb. Is everything okay?"

"Yes, it's fine."

"How did go the encounter with Nathan?"

"It went good, he was leaving to work but he first showed me the house and explained everything." Haley told Deb.

"That's good." Deb said relieved. She was afraid Nathan would be kind of rude or would make some comment that could make Haley feel uncomfortable. She was glad that her son was actually being nice and making an effort.

"I also called to ask if you'd like to go out with me tomorrow. We can shop together and get to know each other a little more."Deb suggested.

"I'd love to."

"Wonderful. I'll pick you up tomorrow."

Later that day, Nathan went home after a stressful day at work. He was tired, all he wanted to do was have a good shower, order some food and go straight to bed.

He hoped that everything had gone good for Haley, he found weird that she hadn't called him all day. He was even going to call her but he forgot.

When he entered into his apartment, he looked around and stopped. Nathan thought something was odd but he couldn't really say what exactly. He examined the room again, paying more attention this time. That's when it hit him. The room was clean and organized. It definitely looked better.

Nathan started to smell something, it smelled good. It was coming from the kitchen, so Nathan headed to there.

And when he walked into the kitchen, he couldn't help but let a smile form on his face. The sight before him warmed his heart.

Haley was in front of the counter finishing preparing the dinner. She was with her back turned to him so she hasn't realized that Nathan there watching her.

"Hey."

Haley jumped a little with the sound but soon recovered and turned around to see him smiling at her, which made her smile back. "Hi."

"I didn't mean to scare you. I was just watching what you were doing."

"I prepared dinner to us. I hope you don't mind."

"Not at all. You didn't have to-"

"No, I don't mind. I managed to make something with what we have here."

"It smells pretty good."

"Thanks."

"Ok, I'm going have shower and I'll be back quickly."

When Nathan came back the table was set and Haley was putting the plates on it. He didn't remember the last time he had eaten on the table, he would usually sit on the couch and eat something while watching TV.

"Hmm, it's delicious"

"Thank you." Haley smiled brightly, happy with what she had heard.

Nathan hasn't expected to be like this, he was actually enjoying her company. Maybe this week wouldn't be that bad after all.