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--Rose
Brooke got off the plane followed by Haley and Natalie. They got their luggage as told and were getting a taxi to their hotel.
Brooke and Haley got in the cab with their things and started to drive toward the hotel.
Brooke looked at Haley and Haley at Brooke, they nodded at each other, reading each others minds.
"Excuse me" Brooke said to the taxi driver "Can you please turn here"
The taxi driver did as Brooke said and they stopped in front of a house that was ever so familiar too both of them.
Brooke and Haley took a deep breathe before stepping out of the taxi, not knowing what would be ahead of them.
The taxi driver got their things out of the car and left.
There was a light on in the living room so Brooke, Haley, and Natalie walked up the steps and knocked on the door.
They looked around before the door opened and couldn't believe that it hadn't changed a bit.
"Brooke? Haley?" Karen said opening the door "What are you doing here?"
"Hi Karen." They both said happily. They missed her.
They exchanged hugs and were sitting in the living room talking for about an hour. Natalie was playing in the driveway with the basketball.
As she was playing, a little girl ran up to her. "Hi." The little girl replied
"Hi." Natalie said "I'm Natalie."
"Hi. I'm Emma" Emma replied "This is my house"
"Oh." Natalie said, concentrating on her shot.
Emma ran to the garage and grabbed another basketball, not one bit worried that there was a stranger playing in her driveway.
"Hi buddy." A voice said from behind Emma and she turned around
"Lucas! Uncle Nate!" Emma said, running up to them as if she hadn't seen them in forever.
"Who's your friend?" Lucas asked
"This is Natalie." Emma said
"Hi." Natalie answered
Lucas and Nathan looked at her and thought there was something strangely familiar about her. They didn't know what though.
Nathan and Lucas stood against the car and watched the girls play basketball for a minute. They couldn't believe how good they were, for five year old girls.
"Well." Karen started "Lucas and Nathan should be home soon, so I don't know….."
Brooke broke in "We better get going." She said to Haley, not wanting to run into Lucas and Nathan.
They said goodbye to Karen and opened the door. Nathan and Lucas were playing basketball with the girls now.
Brooke and Haley stopped and stared, Lucas and Nathan didn't notice them.
"Oh great." Brooke said
"Any ideas?" Haley asked
"Nope." Brooke said
"Oh shoot." Lucas said as soon as he saw the girls standing at the door.
"What do we do?" Nathan asked
"No clue" Lucas said
"Mommy!" Natalie said waving to Haley
"Uh-oh." Brooke said
"Mommy! Mommy! Come here!" Natalie called wanting her mom to throw her the ball.
Haley and Brook figured they were stuck now, they had no choice but walk to the driveway where Lucas and Nathan and the girls were standing.
Brooke and Haley walked toward them, trying not to make eye contact with Nathan or Lucas
"Mommy, this is Emma." Natalie said when Haley and Brooke reached the driveway.
"Hi sweetie." Haley said
"Hi." Emma said to them "And this is my big brother Lucas and Nathan."
Haley and Brooke looked at them "Hi." They said together.
Were you ever in one of those awkward moments, when you see someone and you don't know what to say, whether to hug them, or shake hands, or kiss them? Well this was not that type of conversation…..at all.
"Haley. Is this your daughter?" Nathan asked calmly
"Um yea. Nathan this is Natalie." Haley said
"Is she…..?" Nathan asked, pausing at the end. Haley knew what the question was.
Karen walked outside and before any more words were said she took Emma and Natalie inside.
Lucas, although he wanted so bad to hug his best friend again, realized that Nathan and Haley needed to talk. And so, he figured, did he and Brooke.
He started walking off waved his arm slightly at Brooke, she followed.
"Nathan. Can we not talk about this here?" Haley asked him, not wanting to start an argument in front of anyone.
"Fine." Nathan said "Get in the car"
Haley listened and he drove for a few minutes, before stopping at a place very familiar to both of them.
"Nathan, not here." Haley said, not wanting to bring back old memories.
"Haley, c'mon." he said anyways, getting out of the car
They walked to the Docks and sat at 'their' table,
"So. Is she?" Nathan asked, wanting to get right to the point.
"Nathan, before I tell you anything you have to hear the story." Haley said
"Fine. Tell me the story. I'll listen" he said, upset, but not showing it.
"Nathan, we were young, we decided that you'd go to Duke and I'd go to Stanford. The night before we left for school I got pregnant. I knew how upset you'd be after…." Haley paused for a second, tears in her eyes "After losing our baby boy….so I didn't tell you. Nathan, I know it was stupid. But by the time I realized that I figured it'd be too late" Haley was crying now.
"Haley. It is never too late." Nathan told her, trying as hard as he could to hold back his anger…..and his tears.
It started to rain but Haley just sat there. She didn't know what to say to him.
"Haley, c'mon. Let's get in the car, we're gonna get soaked." Nathan said
But Haley just looked at him.
"Why Nathan?" Haley finally said, standing up from the bench.
"Why what?" he asked, clearly confused.
"Why the hell wouldn't you come after me?" she asked angrily.
"Haley. I tried that once before…." Nathan started
Haley chimed in "And it worked Nathan! It worked! So why wouldn't you come after me?"
"Why wouldn't you come after me?" He yelled back threw the rain
"Because!" Haley started to yell, but then she got quiet, so quiet that Nathan had t strain to hear her "Because I was afraid. I was so scared. I couldn't face you, I was too afraid. And I know now Nathan, that was the stupidest choice I could have ever made. But I thought it was for the best."
"For the best Haley? I spent months…..years actually, trying not to think about you, getting upset and the slightest thing that reminded me of you. And then you come here, and tell me that I have a daughter too?" he asked her
"Nathan. I'm sorry. It wasn't right, I know. But….."
"Are we gonna tell her? Or go back to our normal lives?" he asked
"Normal lives? Nathan my life hasn't been normal since I can remember. Do you know how hard it is to raise a baby….alone? And not just without the babies father, or the mothers husband…..but without your first love, right next to you. I look at Natalie every day and all I see is you, Nathan. It used to scare me too, because there was such a resemblance in everything she did. Do you know how hard it is to watch her, knowing that you aren't here with me?"
"Well who's fault is that Haley?" Nathan asked her
"I know Nathan, I know it is my fault and I shouln't have done that. I know that now. But I have a plane that leaves at 10:00 tomorrow morning so we really can't stay." She told him
"Wait. So let me get this straight. You come to Tree Hill with your daug…..our daughter that I don't know about, tell me about her, and leave the next morning?" Nathan asked
"Nathan. We didn't know we were coming here. We didn't. And we weren't gonna come to see everyone but then we figured we should…..we just didn't know you'd be here."
Then Haley turned and walked away. What had she done?
"Haley, wait!" Nathan called after her through the rain.
But she kept walking.
He ran to her and finally caught up.
She spun around to look him in the face and yell at him but he kissed her. Not a small kiss, but a passionate kiss. Haley surprised herself by accepting it.
She finally broke away. "I can't do this Nathan."
"Haley, I don't know where that came from. I'm sorry." Nathan said truthfully.
"Nathan, I'm leaving in the morning. We can't start something now. Anything." Haley warned him.
"What about Natalie?" Nathan asked
"What about her?"
"Can I meet her?"
"Nathan! Do you understand me? We are leaving tomorrow, t-o-m-m-r-r-o-w!"