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Every Day I Like You a Little More

DAY TWO

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Haley never thought she would be here, sleeping in the hospital room that belonged to the one guy she never thought she would speak. The jock, the king, and the ass of school. She never though she would ever have anything to do with them, but life always has a way of flipping your world upside down, Haley knew that first handed.

He fluttered his eyes open and saw the girl laying on the couch. Confusion was the first thing that came to him, but was soon brought of out of that when he looked at her. He knew he had seen her around somewhere, but somehow he couldn't name the place. Her brown hair flowed so nicely down her shoulders and the green sweater looked perfect with her skin tone.

Nathan tried to think about the place were he had seen her, but all the thinking was only giving him a headache. Soon he saw her stir a little and he quickly moved his eyes away from her, the last thing he wanted was for her to wake up and see staring at her like a creep. Although if she was there she must have a reason, because he was sure he didn't know her.

She rubbed her eyes and slowly stretched, turning to face him she saw that he was finally awake. All night he had nurses coming in and out of his room, and every single one of them told her that he was still out. Haley didn't expect him to be awake at this time, but here he was, his eyes wide open and now looking straight at her.

His blue eyes were like looking into the ocean, they were making her nervous just by the intense gaze he had on them. She knew he probably wanted answers but she couldn't move her eyes away from his, nor speak to him for that matter.

"Like what you see?" he asked, hoping to bring her out of her gaze. She looked to be so concentrated on him that she couldn't speak. He wasn't going to deny that he thought she was attractive; the girl was actually very pretty, more like beautiful, so the fact that she was somehow checking him out only made his ego inflate more.

Haley shook her head and looked towards the grown and right back up at him, this time she was focused on speaking. "You had an accident." She slowly stood up and walked over to him, they didn't know each other well enough for her to be acting this way, but she needed to know how he was after seen the way he was hit.

"Are you the nurse?" he asked, " 'cause I don't think nurses are suppose to be sleeping in patient's rooms" he added jokingly. He could tell the girl was tense and the only thing he wanted to do was to help her relax.

She shook her head, still nervous to be so close to him. "I'm Haley" she said, pointing to herself as she said it then stretching her hand for him to shake.

Nathan took her hand, but hardly shook it. His body was still too weak for him to move, but he wanted to touch her. Something about her was calling him, something told him that he needed to get to know her, that she was someone who would be an important part of his life. Touching her small hand he felt the electricity running through him.

She shyly let go of his hand and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, "I called the ambulance, I saw it. I saw everything." Flashbacks of what had happened the previous night popped into her head, the way he looked, calling the ambulance, even trying to keep him awake when he didn't response to her voice.

"You're the girl" he said, his voice weak. He had realized who she was, but not completely.

She looked at him confused, "I don't know what you're talking about" she said, shaking her head.

"It's you, you're the girl that was calling my name, the one that told me to wake up."

Haley was shocked that he remembered that, the doctor had said he had received a hard hit to his head. He wasn't suppose to remember her yelling for him to stay awake, for him to come back to life. "You remember that."

He nodded. He wanted to tell her that he thought she was an angel, and angel calling him and asking to follow her to heaven. He didn't believe he would ever be the type to actually go to heaven, but just hearing her calling him made him think that that's where he was going, that's were he was suppose to be.

"Umm… I'm gonna go get the doctor" she said, just as she was about to open the door Emily, another nurse walked in to check on him.

"Hey Hales."

"Hi" Haley said.

"I see you're up" Emily said, excited to see that Nathan had finally woken. They were actually expecting him to be awake a few hours ago but he just never opened his eyes.

Nathan just nodded, but never removed his eyes from Haley, who was now standing by the door.

"I'm gonna go" Haley said, pointing behind her with her thumb. "I'll see ya later."

Nathan gave her a nod. He would wait, he wanted to see her again, and he didn't know why. To be honest he didn't really wanted her to go, but he couldn't very well tell her that while a nurse was examining him.

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Haley walked out of his room and straight to the nurse's station, she had a few questions about Nathan and also needed to talk to Veronica. She touched her hands and couldn't shake the tingles she got when they touch each other.

"Haley, you're up" veronica said looking at the young girl.

Haley gave her a shy nod, "yeah. I just wanted to make sure he was okay."

Veronica gave her a nod, "have you checked on him today?" she asked, not referring to Nathan.

Haley shook her head. "I think I'm gonna go home and change before I do. I know he can't see me, but I still don't want him to know I was wearing the same clothes from yesterday."

Once more Veronica nodded, "I see, you don't want him to think you were off with some boy." She heard Haley let out a chuckle and smiled. "When you come back go talk to doctor Freeman, he needed to talk to you."

"I will" she said, Haley waved bye to her and told her she would be back later. And she walked out of the hospital. This time with no tears but smiles. Nathan was okay and she was part of the reason he had made it to the hospital in enough time.

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After showering and changing she made her way back to the hospital. She had that meeting with Dr. Freeman, but she wanted to check on Nathan before that. She wanted to make sure he was okay. She got in her car and drove to hospital, then se walk straight towards Nathan's room.

"You're back" he said, surprise to see her again.

Haley smiled, "yeah. I wanted to check on you. Umm…" she began to walk over to him, "… is there anything you need? Do you want me to call anyone for you? Do your parents know you're here?" she began to ramble, she was nervous and she knew it. Every time she got nervous she would ramble and this was not going to be the exception. "I know Lucas is your brother, do you want me to call him? 'cause I can do that if you want me to, I really don't mind-"

"Do you always talk this much?" he asked, cutting her off. The girls sure did know how to talk the ear out of someone, but he found her rambling cute. Since when do I find people cute? He asked himself.

Haley shook her head. "I'm sorry. I just… I-"

"You're nervous" he prompted. He smirked as he saw her smile. "Do I know you? You look really familiar."

Haley shook her head. There was actually no way in hell he would know her, they didn't even have the same friends. They only way they could have ever met was if she had ever become friends with Brooke or Lucas, which would never happened. Haley actually didn't understand why Peyton talked to Brooke in the first place, the girl was so stuck up and such a bitch.

Peyton was Haley's friends, they had become friends freshmen year when they were assigned as partners for a music project. They bonded over their passion for music and ever since been great friends. Another one of Haley's great friends is Julian. She actually met Julian when she was nine, he was her neighbors and it was inevitable for them to become friends, especially since not many kids liked to play outside at that age, most of them preferred to play video games and stuff.

"I'm in your English class" she told him, "with Mr. Kelly."

"Really?"

She nodded, "yeah. I actually sit in front of you."

"That's you?" she nodded again, "you're strawberry girl?"

Haley was confused. Is that what everyone knew her as at school? She didn't look like a strawberry, and it's not like she was constantly eating strawberries, so why was he calling her strawberry girl?

"Is that what people call me?" she wondered, a little worried to hear his answer.

Nathan shook his head, "just me."He had always wondered who she was, but never actually taken the time to talk to her or find out who she was. But now, here she was. It was like destiny wanted them to meet, like they were meant to have met no matter what.

"Why?"

"Because your hair… it always smells like strawberries."

"You can smell it?" she asked, her cheeks turning a rosy shade of pink

"I… It's… I'm not like a stalker or something, I… It's just that I can smell it from my desk" he told her. He didn't want to sound like a creep.

"Oh."

The door open and Haley was no longer allowed to talk, Veronica walked in, knowing that that's where Haley would be. "Haley, Dr. Freeman needs you now."

"Okay, I'll be there in a minute" she told her, with that Veronica walked out and Haley turned back to him. "I have to go…"

"Yeah" he said, "I get it. Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah."

"Why do you care?" he didn't ask it in a mean way, but more of a sweet thankful way, in a way he was thankful that someone cared enough to check on him. He was finally awake and not even his family was there to greet him, the only person there was the girl that was sleeping on the small couch in his room, the girl who was now talking to him.

"I know what it's like."

"Why do you have to talk to the doctor? It's not about me, is it?" he asked, worried. The last thing he wanted was for something bad to be happening to him and the doctors not telling him about it.

She shook her head, "no" after a small pause, something took over her and she just told him. "…It's about my dad."

"Is he okay?" Worry was what came form his mouth, and Haley noticed it. She loved that he was concerned, especially since they had only spoken a few times and only really known each other for a few hours.

"I have to go." With that she turned around and walked out the door. She wanted to tell him, something about him inspired her trust, but she couldn't. This was her personal problems and she didn't need to bring anyone into them.

She hated to leave him hanging and wanting to know, but telling someone that your father has been in a coma for over five years wasn't the easies thing to tell. She let out a sigh and walked towards Dr. Freeman's office to see what it was that he wanted to talk about.

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She walked in and saw the dark skinned older man with black hair and black eyes sitting on the chair looking over some paper work. She knew what this was about, she knew the time would eventually come, she just hoped that it wasn't now. All she wanted was a little more time with her father.

"Haley" Dr. Freeman said, "come in, take a seat."

Doing as told Haley waited for him to drop the bomb, the one she had been dreading since she was twelve. "Hi."

"Haley, I know this is scary for you." Dr. Freeman had been on her father's case since he was brought in, and he had always been there for Haley. In his eyes Haley was part of his family, his hospital family anyways but he could no longer protect her.

Tears began to roll down her face. "I'm sorry" she said, she didn't want to make this harder on him than it was going to be.

"Haley, you know that if I could I would keep him longer. I –"

"Please" she begged, "all I need is four days. My birthday's on the fourth, all I need is four days and I can take him home. Please. Please, Dr. Freeman."

"Haley-"

"I've tried everything" she said, tears still rolling down her face, "I can't get into any of the money until I'm eighteen. All I need are four days. Please."

Dr. Freeman hated to be the one to deliver these news to her, but he has to. However something told him to give her the time. He knew he didn't have the power or authority to do so, but he would do anything to make it happen. He had been there for this girl since the beginning of this case and he wasn't going to let her go now, not when she was so close to taking her father home.

"I'll see what I can do-"

"Thank you" she said, running to him and hugging him.

"I can't promise anything, but I will try my best to get you till the fourth."

"That's all I need" she said, wiping the tears from her eyes.

Dr. Freeman smiled at her and told her that she could go, he told her that he would be speaking to the chief in hopes of getting her the four days she needed.

Haley had always wanted to take her father home. They had the money to pay for homecare services. The only problem was that she needed her father to sign the money over to her, the power for her take over the finances. That's why she has to wait until her eighteenth birthday, the day she will be able to get power of all the money and her trust fund.

Jimmy James was a powerful lawyer when Haley was little and way before that, but after his accident all his assets and stocks had been given to Haley. Haley did have a lawyer to take care of all that for her, who just so happened to be her father's partner at 'James and Renolds law'. Michael Renolds had done everything in his power to get Haley the power to take over everything, but legally there was nothing that could be done until she was eighteen. All Haley got was a thousand dollars a month for her own expenses from her trust fund, the only reason she could get this was because Jimmy had added that to her contract of trust. He had asked to give her at least one thousand dollars a month if anything was to happen to her. Also that from his own money and assets that the house and bills be paid, but Nicolette was not included in this bills, so Haley paid her from her own pocket every month.

She knew Nicolette would stay there no matter what, but it wasn't fair to not pay her when she was working her tail off to be there for Haley, being practically Haley's only family. She did have her grandfather on her mother's side, but he was busy most of the time, but he did make a lot of time for his granddaughter when he could.

Four days, that's all she needed, four days and she would be able to do everything possible for her father.

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She wiped her face one more time and sat on the chair next to her father. Taking his hand she began to talk to him. Jimmy was her best friend, the one she told everything to and he couldn't even respond her.

"Hi daddy. Sorry I didn't come back yesterday. I know you probably want to know where I was. There is this boy, his name is Nathan. Umm, he was in an accident" she could feel the tears coming again. "He's better now" she told him, a small smile appearing on her lips. She wanted to tell him more, but she really didn't know how.

Haley took a deep breath and began to tell him about her talk with Dr. Freeman. She told him about the doctor finding out a way to get her more time, and how she would take him home soon. "I love you" she said. "Please wake up."

That's how she ended every talk with him. Those were her words, those were her lost words every time.

She let go his hand and wiped her tears as she walked out of the room, there was one more stop she needed to make before she went home. Nicolette told her that she would have dinner for them and that Haley needed to go home and eat something healthy.

Haley walked through the hall and reached his room, she slowly opened the door and pocked her head in. "Can I come in?" she asked, noticing that he was awake.

Nathan put the magazine down and looked up at her, with a smile on his face he responded. "Yes, of course." He had been waiting for her all day. Nathan had only known her two days and he already wanted more of her.

She walked in and smiled at him, "how are you feeling?" she then looked around and notice that the room looked exactly the same. "Has anyone been here?"

"The nurse" he told her.

"How about your family?"

Nathan shook his head. She couldn't believe what was happening. She spent most of her time with her dad and he couldn't even talk to her, she couldn't understand why no one had visited him. Nathan actually had family, he had his brother and his parents, yet none of them had visited him.

"Do they know you're here?"

He nodded.

"Umm."

"They're busy" he told her. "My mom said she would come as soon as she could, but she did talk to the doctor."

"How about your dad, and your brother?"

Nathan looked at her, he hated that he had to tell a girl he just met about his dysfunctional family. "My dad is an ass, he… well he doesn't really care. All he cares about is basketball."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be, it's not your fault" He told her, "he's always been like that."

Haley was now sitting on a chair next to him. Who knew you could feel so comfortable with someone you just met. "How about Lucas?"

"He has basketball, he said he would come after practice."

"Oh."

Neither one of them spoke for a few minutes, all there was it was silence. The just looked into each other's eyes and were lost. Was it possible to think you were falling for someone you thought was a total ass, and someone who you had somehow just met.

"How is your dad?" he asked, remembering that she had mentioned something about her dad, and that being the reason why she spent so much time at the hospital.

Haley looked down. Without realizing it a tear rolled down her eye. "He's…"

"I'm sorry." Nathan assumed he had passed, or something of the source.

"He's not dead" she said, tears down her cheeks. "He's in a coma. I'm sorry" she said, wiping the tears, "I'm such a girl."

"I hope he get's better."

Haley smiled, he was so sweet. A small sob escape her mouth and she couldn't hold it any longer. "The worse part is that I can't do anything about it. I hate this. I hate that I can't take him home, I hate not having him. I-"

Nathan moved a little closer to her and grabbed her hand. Taking her hand in his he tried to sooth her. "He will make it."

She shook her head.

"He will. Haley, trust me. You're too good for him to be taken from you."

She looked up at him and smiled. "Thank you."

"Anything for a pretty girl like you" he told her with a smirk.

Haley blushed. This was the first day they actually talked and he was already making her feel all gooey inside. She felt like her heart was going to pounce out of her heart, and the only thing she could do was smile.

Nathan felt it too. He had never actually called a girl pretty, and he had never cared about other people's problems, but Haley made him feel different, she made the good side of him rise. He cared about her, even if it was only the first time he talked to her. Now he didn't think he could live with out talking to her.

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