For better or for worse ch 10
A/N: so...I was amused to add some more Brucas in, so we're doing a little bit of a Brucas storyline in this chapter too. And as mentioned there's about a two month time jump, just so things don't get too slow! Enjoy!
10. Love rectangle (without the plus one)
Haley was sitting on her bed, reading a magazine. It was Sunday, and Karen had insisted she take the day off and relax, so Nathan had brought her home and told her to relax upstairs while he made lunch.
She smiled to herself at the though of Nathan. She finally got her chance with him, and it was everything she had wished for and more. She rubbed her protruding belly, she was now 6 months pregnant. She had no clue where the time had gone. Nathan had officially moved into her room with her, and they had started on the nursery, setting up a crib, change table, dresser, and a wooden toy box for the copious amounts of toys and play sets from his aunt Brooke and peyton, and uncle Luke and Jake.
She and Nathan had even picked out names. Megan/Grace Brooke Scott for a girl, Ryan/Ryder lucas Scott for a boy. They were still debating over the first name, and since they wanted to wait to find out the sex, they wouldn't be able to make a permanent choice until Haley had the baby.
She looked down at her phone and smiled noticing she had a text from her mother Lydia, who had sent a photo of herself with her dad Jimmy, and Nathan's parents, with the message: we've finally reached london! How's shacking up going? I showed Deb all the photos from our visit, she's ecstatic about you two! We're planning to come down when the baby comes. Love mum.
She laughed at Deb and Lydia's insanity, they had been planning Nathan and Haley's future since the two were born, saying that they always knew the two were 'destined for each other'. She remembered her parents surprise visit and how ecstatic her mother was.
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Haley had woken up in Nathan's arms, his chest to her back and his arms wrapped around her torso. She smiled as she turned her head slightly to look into his eyes.
"Morning gorgeous" he whispered as he leaned down to place a kiss on her cheek
"Hell of a wake up" she smirked as she turned back to look out the window, the two content in their position.
"Well well" Nathan and Haley both jumped and turned around at the sound of Lydia James' voice.
"Isn't this a sight for sore eyes" Jimmy James added in.
"Deb! I found him, say hi to Deb children" Lydia spoke, trying desperately to hide her amusement and excitement of the situation.
"Mama! What are you doing here!?" Haley jumped out of bed and rushed into her mothers arms, as Nathan stood and shook hands with Jimmy.
"Well we've finally visited all six of our not so little devils and their children. Figured we'd come see you, you know...start with the oldest and finish with the best." Lydia smirked as she hugged her daughter tighter, she had missed her so much these past few months.
Haley felt tears prickle behind her eyes and sniffled, trying to keep a hold on her emotions. Stupid hormones, that was one thing she would be bald to have control over after this pregnancy was over.
"So! I guess we know which parent she loves most lyd" Jimmy James joked from beside his wife. Haley and Lydia laughed as they disentangled from their hug and Haley walked over to her fathers embrace. "I missed you too daddy" she smiled and leaned in to kiss her father cheek, then stood next to Nathan, who placed his arm around her shoulder, pulling her in close.
"So what have I missed? How's the trip?" Haley asked, hoping to distract her parents.
"Oh no you don't young lady. You know how long I've waited for this!" They heard debs voice over the phone. "Whoops, forgot you were there for a second!" Lydia laughed and pulled the phone back up to so Deb could see her son and Nathan and squealed in excitement.
"You know, most parents would be disapproving of seeing their kids in bed together. I think we're the only people who have parents that celebrate." Nathan joked looking down at Haley.
"Well babe, we come from weird families. This kid never had a chance." Haley joked back as Nathan placed his other hand on Haley's small belly.
"Ok! Family conference now! I want to know everything that's happened. Lydia take me to the living room! Dan get over here!" Deb commanded.
...
"So?" Deb spoke. Lydia had set up her iPad to FaceTime Deb and Dan, so they could both see Nathan and Haley.
"So...what?" Nathan provided, enjoying making his and Haley's parents squirm. They'd all waited a long time for this and Nathan and Haley were going to have some fun with them.
"How 'bout you Hun?" Lydia asked her daughter "you got anything to say?"
"I got an A in English Lit." Haley answered
"Haley Bob!" "Nathan Royal!" Both teens winced as their mothers used their middle names. "Don't you dare try and avoid the subject! We've been waiting 16 years, put us out of our misery already!" Lydia screamed in frustration.
"Alright alright! No need to pull out the middle names! We're together, happy!?" Nathan said with a smirk.
The room went silent for a second, both sets of parents soaking in the information . Surprisingly, Dan was the first to speak.
"Ha! I knew it! You owe me fifty bucks Jim!" Dan yelled over the speaker.
"Dammit! You guys couldn't have waited three more months!? I was close to making a hundred!" Jimmy whined "remind me when we reach you Dan." He added glumly.
"Hold on." Haley put her hand up to silence the adults "you guys have been betting on when we'd get together!?" Haley asked. She was shocked, but at the same time, she wasn't exactly surprised.
"How long has this been going on for?" Nathan asked.
"Since you were about 5" Jimmy smirked "well, Dan and I started our bet when you were 5" I had you down for when you were 17, Dan guessed 15."
"Well, Deb and I have been betting on this since you were born. Although I had you down for 13, considering all the stories Deb told me about Nathan." Lydia spoke as she winked at Nathan.
"MUM!" Nathan yelled at the tablet screen as he felt the blush creeping up his cheeks, he groaned and buried his head in Haley's shoulder as she giggled.
"Oh don't worry sweetheart, Haley kept a whole journal on how much she loved you!" Deb supplied.
"MAMA!" Haley yelled, now feeling just as embarrassed as Nathan. Now it was Nathan's turn to chuckle.
"I guess our parents knew us better than we though huh babe?" He spoke
"unbelievable" she muttered and rolled her eyes.
"Well Dan, what do we bet on now?" Jimmy asked his friend.
"Well Deb and I are still betting on when they're getting married, ooh and this baby's gender"
"Seriously! Do you guys not have a life!?" Haley asked, their families were crazy sometimes. "We've been together three months and you guys are already waiting to see when we get married!"
The adults just ignored them
"Alright James, I'm feeling lucky" Dan stated. "200 says the baby's a girl."
Jimmy just chuckled "you're on Scott. You forget of all my seven children, I've got more boys then girls. The odds are in my favour"
Nathan and Haley just groaned as they looked at one another, Nathan placed a kiss on her forehead and leaned his down to his the level of Haley's belly "well kid, this is our crazy family. Good luck."
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Haley was brought out of her reverie by the sound of the front door slamming shut, followed by angry, heavy footsteps heading towards her room. 'Oh dear' Haley thought to herself, there goes her afternoon of relaxing, she knew who those footsteps belonged to...
"I swear to god, he's a dead man!" Brooke Davis burst into the room, her face red with anger.
"What'd Lucas do know Brookie" she smirked, enjoying her fried s dramatics.
Brooke dumped a box on Haley's bed for her to inspect, and paced back and forth at the end of the bed, completely in her own thoughts.
"The man should be drawn and quartered. No quarterings too good for him, he should be eighties, sixteenthed." She spoke
"I dunno, you quarter a guy, he's in four pieces. That's tough to recover from." Haley joked, knowing Brooke wasn't registering what she was saying to her.
"He should be stretched on a rack, iron maiden, strappadoed." Brooke retorted
"Oh my god. Strappadoed?" Haley asked in shock. Lucas must have done something reeeeeally bad to get Brooke this angry.
"When you suspend him in the air with a rope tied to his hands that are tied behind his back!" Brooke yelled at Haley in frustration.
"I know what it is Brooke. And you're kind of scaring me with your knowledge of torte." She added lightheartedly, hoping to diffuse the imminent bomb of rage that was Brooke Davis.
This finally caused Brooke to calm herself down, knowing she needed to breathe in order to talk with Haley. "You're not helping tutor girl." She whined, flopping onto the bed, expelling a massive breath of air.
Haley sat up on her bed, legs crossed, and threw her magazine onto the bedside table. "I'm sorry tigger. I'm all ears, but first you gotta tell me what Lucas did to get you so riled up."
"I was trying to find his Keith Scott auto shop jumper, you know the one I pinched from him when we first started dating?" Haley smiled, remembering how Brooke practically lived in that jumper for the first six months of her and Lucas' relationship, after he gave it to her one night when he waking her home.
"Yeah, but I don't know how the jumper made you so angry?" Haley replied
"Hold on Bob, I'm not finished." Brooke replied "Anyways, I had left it at Luke's a couple nights ago and Karen had washed it and said she put it up somewhere in his cupboard." Brooke sat up and moved to lean on Haley's shoulder and finished her story.
"So he told me I could look for it while he was gone, since he had practice. I couldn't find it in the drawers, and because I'm so damn short I couldn't reach the top properly." Haley giggled at Brooke's remark, but quickly stopped, knowing her friend needed her to be serious. "And I could see it right at the to of the shelf, and I jumped and tried to grab it, but when I did all the stuff underneath it came down too. I was picking it all up and that box had opened" she points to the one she had placed in Haley's bed.
"You took Lucas' stuff? Brooke what is going on!?" Haley was seriously worried now, what did Lucas have in there that had gotten her so angry, then now gotten her so upset!?
"I think he's still in love with peyton." Brooke said, her voice so soft and scared, Haley almost hadn't heard her. Haley sighed, she knew that Lucas and peyton had a slight fling when he first started dating Brooke, but they had all moved past that. Brooke forgave peyton and gave Luke another chance, and peyton realised she was just hiding with Lucas because she was afraid of getting her heart broken with Jake.
Haley shrugged her should, causing Brooke to look up at her. "Brooke what's go you so worked up? What's in the box? You're scarring me sweetie." Haley spoke, the concern evident in her voice.
"You know how Lucas and peyton had dated for about two months when we were 13. Before their little fling?" Haley nodded her head, afraid to speak and derail Brooke.
"He kept it Haley. He kept everything, every drawing she did for him, the photos of them. The letters they wrote. He kept it all." She spoke, detestation clear in her hushed words.
Haley reached for the box and opened it, and sure enough everything was there. Ticket stubs from the concerts Peyton had taken him to. CD's she had given him, mix tapes, everything, it was like a time capsule of their relationship.
"Oh honey." Haley spoke sincerely as she wrapped Brooke up in her arms, who had now begun crying beyond control. "Sweetie, did you try talking to him? Did you ask him why he kept all this stuff?" Haley asked
Brooke just shook her head holding tighter to Haley as she tried to control her sobbing
"I don't know if I want to know the answer." Brooke whispered
Haley pulled back and looked brooke in the eyes "Brooke you've got to talk to him. You know Luke, there's always a good explanation for things. He always tells you the truth, and you both owe it to your relationship to figure this out. I know you love him Brooke, And he loves you." Haley spoke, trying to convince Brooke things weren't as bad as they seem.
"Can I just stay here for a while first? I don't want to face him yet." Brooke asked.
"Of course Brooke" Haley stood up and opened the blanket for Brooke to climb in "you look exhausted, when did you go to sleep?"
"Honestly? I haven't been able to since I found that box last night, I just sat in bed and got all worked up then came here to see you, I knew you'd help" she smiled at her best friend.
"Ok well go to sleep. I'm going to go downstairs and see Nathan, I think the baby's getting a bit hungry" she joked
"Ok, thanks Hales" Brooke whispered, her eyes feeling heavy.
"Sweet dreams tigger" Haley said as she walked out of the room and downstairs to see Nathan.
"Hey. I saw Brooke, everything ok?" He asked as Haley entered the kitchen.
"Not by a long shot. Call your brother, tell him we need to talk."
A/N: two chapters within 24 hours. Crazy I know! I'll have the next one up tomorrow, don't want to leave you guys too long!
Please leave a review and let me know what you think, hope o did the Brucas request justice, don't worry they'll work it out.
Also the baley bit with the torture methods is actually a scene between Rory and Logan in Gilmore girls :)
- maddie