Chapter 4

The unknown meeting

Nathan was in his parent's driveway playing basketball while he was wanting for Lucas and Brooke to get there with the kids. Nathan had promised Keith and Lily that he would take them to the fair in town.

"Uncle Nathan's here" both kids said as they ran up to Nathan.

"I have been here waiting for you! Are you ready to go and have a day full of fun?" Nathan said ready to start his day with his niece and nephew. Nathan wasn't much for kids but Keith and Lily was a big exception, he really loved these two, and tried to be the best Uncle he could be.

"Hold on you three! You still have to say goodbye to before you just take off!" Lucas said while he was laughing trying to imagine Nathan going to a kid fair!

"Fine!" all three of them said

"I love you two!" Brooke said to her two kids and then kissed them, "Nathan if you did anything please call!" Brooke said as the kids went to Lucas and kissed him.

"Okay Brooke I will, but I have a feeling that you don't have to worry about anything. We'll be fine I promise!" Nathan said

After all the goodbyes, Nathan and the two kids were off for their day of fun.

A couple hours later, Nathan and the kids were walking around and then Lily saw it, a cute little bookstore called "The Bookworm" and asked her Uncle Nathan if they could please go and see it. Nathan finally agreed that they could go in, besides Nathan thought that maybe it was a good idea to go in and see how other books work since he had never been in one.

"Hello and Welcome to "The Bookworm" Mouth said from behind the counter while he was helping some other people.

Peyton saw Nathan and the kids' just stand there and while they were eyeing the place, so she decided to go up and ask them if they needed anything. "Can I help find anything or would you just like to look around?" Peyton said.

"Well actually I think right now we are just going to look around, but thanks anyway!" Nathan said noticing how cute this little store was.

"Okay, well if you need anything just let one of know!" Peyton said.

"Okay we will!" Nathan said

Nathan and the kids decided to start walking around instead standing and blocking the entrance to the store. Lily noticed some of her favorite books and went and walked around, while Keith noticed something else. Nathan noticed that for a small store that it got pretty good business.

"Hi, excuse me I was just wandering if I could help you find anything?" a voice said behind Nathan interrupting his thoughts about the place.

"Um… no we are just looking around, but thank you!" Nathan said as he turned around and noticed a beautiful blonde women looking at him.

"Okay just let me know! Oh and by the way my name is Haley James!"

"Hi, my name is Nathan, just Nathan!" Nathan said

"Oh, well it nice to meet you Nathan!" Haley said a little confused.

" It's nice to meet you to Haley! Can I ask you who owns this store?" Nathan said

"Um… well actually I do!" Haley said proudly

"Oh really, well it's a cute place!" Nathan said not wanting to let her know who he really was. He was sure that she knew about "Scott's Books" and was sure that she wasn't excited about it!

"Thank you, I am really proud of it!" Haley said with a huge smile on her face and Nathan couldn't help but notice how beautiful of a smile she had.

"Well, actually I think I am wrong about not needing help! It looks like my niece over there is looking very interested at the books!" Nathan said

"Great! I love to help people, and besides that your niece is looking at my favorite book!" Haley said laughing which that made Nathan Laugh. They walked over to Lily and Nathan stood there listening to Haley and Lily's conversation. Haley found the perfect book for Lily and she really wanted it so Nathan decided that he would get Lily her book and a basketball or something like that for Keith. At the check out Mouth asked if they were going to come back. With Haley there looking at him Nathan said "Well of course we will, it looks like Lily is already found of this place!"

"See that is why we are not going to go out of business! It's because of our wonderful customers!" Mouth said wanting to make sure that Haley would never have anything to worry about when it came to the store.

"Ya well, you probably know about the new "Scott's Books" opening a couple of blocks away!"

"Scott's Books" my dad…" Lily tried saying before Nathan interrupted her and said "Was thinking about going to the store opening in a few weeks! But Lil that's nothing important to talk about!" Nathan said laughing really not wanting a sweet Haley to find out the truth!

"Well" Haley said laughing, "I hope to see you guys soon!"

"Bye Haley and thank you very much for helping me today, you are so awesome!" Lily said

"Thank you! And we will be back!" Nathan lied, but he did really like this little place! "Good luck with your store and its business!" Nathan said

"Thank you very much Nathan!" Haley said. Then Nathan and the kids left. Nathan was relieved to get out of there, he did really like it just with his book store might being a threat to hers it was just weird. But Haley to him was nice and he really did wish her the best of luck!