First Person Point of View.

We layed their talking for a few hours. We both seemed disappointed when the nurse came in to tell her that visiting hours were over. We both sat up as she began to get up. She looked at me and said, "I'll be back tomorrow, I promise."

I smiled at her and replied, "I'll be waiting." I watched her walk out the door and turn into the hallway. I slowly layed back down, thinking about what has happened today.

I turned on the television and began to flip through the channels, I got to a news channel and there was a story about the Ravens. "Tree Hill Ravens have one yet another game, they've got a few more games before hitting the play-offs but coach Whitey Durham has got some high hopes for the coming play-offs. This will be the last chance for some of Tree Hill's best players, let's see if they can win a state championship this year. This is John Lasaraso from Tree Hill News."

I sat there remembering playing with all the guys that I considered brothers and one that was an actual brother. I sat up, slid my feet over the edge of the bed, and stood up. I walked out of my room, and up to the nurses' station. I looked at the name tag that the nurse sitting there was wearing. The name tag read, "Anna Fritz."

She looked up at me and with a soft voice asked, "Can I help you?" I knew what I wanted to ask her but for some reason I just couldn't speak, "Mr. Scott, is something wrong."

I began to speak it took a minute but I had it now, "No nothing is wrong. I just wanted to know if I could speak to my doctor about when I can leave and other things like that."

"Well your doctor went home for the night, but he should be back in around 8 tomorrow morning, Ill make sure that you are the first one he sees when he gets in okay?" She said smoothly with no pauses.

"Okay, thank you." I turned around and walked back into my room. I sat down on the edge of my bed. I just sat there staring blankly at the wall. This room was very dull, maybe if they had Peyton come in here and design it, it would be better.

I put my legs back onto the bed, and just layed there staring at the ceiling. What else was there to do? I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep. The next thing I knew I was being awoken to the voices of people outside my door. It sounded like Haley and the doctor.

"How is Nathan doing? Honestly, I don't want that whole 'he'll be fine' bullcrap." Haley was saying to the doctor.

"He's making excellent progress, I know that you were scared that he wouldn't make it, but he has, he seems like the type of guy to fight for something." The doctor said calmly to a panicky Haley.

The door slowly opened, I turned my head so that they wouldn't realize that I was listening. "Mr. Scott?" I slowly turned my head so that I was looking at the doctor and Haley standing behind him. "I'm Dr. Hall; the nurse said that you had some questions for me."

"Yes. I wanna know when I can go home, and if I'll be able to play in basketball for the playoffs, I know it's a little soon worrying about basketball but it's important to me. Almost as much as Haley is to me." I said smiling slightly at Haley standing behind the doctor she returned the smile.

"Well, I think that we will start you off slow. You were in a coma for 3 months, first you have to worry about getting your walking down again before you start running full courts. But you can probably go home in about a day or two. Then you can start going back to school in about a week. Just take it easy, we don't want you to relapse. When you go back to school, I just want you to ease back into it. The first few days just go for about a half a day. Then slowly start moving into a full day again," the doctor said turning towards Haley, "You are going to have to help him, get back into the program. It's going to be a difficult path, but from what I've seen Nathan; you have a lot of people who love you. I think you will be just fine. I will leave you guys to talk."

"Thank you, doctor." I said, as the doctor turned around to walk out the door.

"It's my job." He said as he closed the door quietly.

"You're coming home!" Haley said excitedly. She walked over and hugged me. I hugged her back and finally since yesterday, I felt that life was going to be great.

"So what if I told you, that we might have a welcome home party waiting for you?" Haley asked me.

"Well, I think that sounds like a great idea, I've only seen you, Luke, and my mom." I told her.

"You haven't seen your dad? I've seen him here a few times since you woke up." She said looking deep into my eyes.

"Well he never came in, I'll give him a call later, maybe he'll tell me why he didn't come in," I said leaning to kiss her lips. We fell onto my hospital bed and once again just laid there.