its a bit shorter than usual, just a bit of pointless Naley fluff. Hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think.
PS i own nothing
"Haley James will you marry me?" the question hung in the air between them. She didn't know what to say, she didn't think she could say anything. Her mouth wouldn't work. So instead she just stood there staring at him with her mouth agape. He started to feel nervous waiting for any sort of response. He stood there holding the ring he picked out just for her and she just continued to stare at her.
"Haley please say something." he said quietly.
"Are you sure?" she asked finding her voice.
"Sure about what?" he asked confused.
"Are you sure about wanting this with me?" she asked again finally dropping her eyes to the diamond ring he had produced from his pocket.
"I've never been so sure of anything before." he said quoting her song from a few minutes earlier.
"We've only actually been together a few weeks. I mean that's not long enough to decide to get married." she fretted.
" I disagree. I mean I fell in love with you before we started dating exclusively. And when we got together for real, I was ready to marry you then. If your not ready I understand. But I know I'm ready. I want to wake up next to you when we're eighty. I want our lives together to begin right now. I love you Haley Elizabeth James and that's all I need to know that I am ready to get married to you. Now I'll ask again. Will you marry me?" he asked the emotion shining deep in his blue eyes. She stared into his eyes and saw her future. As corny as that sounded, it was true. She could see exactly what he was describing and she wanted it too.
"Yes." she whispered. He picked her up and spun her around the room in a tight embrace before kissing her tenderly. When he put her down and slid the ring on her finger the tears started falling as she remembered all the nights she lied awake wishing for a moment like this, and now she was getting it. She was getting her own fairy tale moment and she wouldn't give it back for the world.
"Let me see that ring?" Ryan asked as he walked up to the new happily engaged couple. Haley eagerly held her hand out showing Ryan the ring.
"My God. Nathan you have quite phenomenal taste in jewellery." he said gazing lovingly at the ring.
"Its one of my hidden talents." he said shrugging.
"Jeez, first the earrings and then this. You are a jewellery God." he said releasing Haley's hand. She immediately walked over to her mom and dad and hugged them. "Let me see that ring." her mom said snatching her hand and holding it out to admire the ring.
"Wow. That is amazing. Beautiful." Lydia said looking at the simple yet exquisite diamond ring on her daughters hand.
"That must have cost a fortune." Jimmy noted looking at the large diamond.
"The money means nothing. I wanted a diamond that reminded me of Haley. And I found it." he said.
"Well you two go have fun, and let us know when you're ready to go." Lydia said. Nathan took Haley's hand and walked over to the bar where he ordered a beer, and Haley got herself a glass of champagne.
"Haley James?" a female voice called out over the music.
"Ahhhh, Brooke Davis." Haley squealed running over to her friend.
"How are you Haley? What's it like being a big shot in New York?" Brooke asked hugging Haley. "Oh you know. It's great. What's it like being a married mom of two?" Haley asked.
"Exhausting." Brooke said. "I bet. How's Julian? How's the kids I havent seen them since last year." Haley said.
"Oh Austin and Sophia are wonderful, growing like weeds." she said.
"That's wonderful. Where is Julian tonight?" she asked.
"At home. He told me to go out and get a night to myself for a change. So I came here and decided to have a couple drinks by myself." she said.
"Why don't you join me." Haley said.
"Sure. Are you and Dave still together? By the way I didn't like him one bit." she asked.
"Oh no. Dave and I have been over for a while. I'm engaged to him." she said pointing out Nathan at the bar.
"Really. He's hot H James. When did you get engaged?" Brooke asked.
"Tonight. I've been engaged for all of ten minutes." she said smiling.
"Really. You've got to introduce me to the fiancé." she said eagerly.
"Alright. Let's go." she said pulling her over to Nathan.
"Brooke, this is Nathan. Nathan this is Brooke." she introduced the two.
"Nice to meet you Brooke." Nathan said shaking her hand. "You as well. But I better go, don't want to leave Sophia and Austin for too long you know. I miss them." she said walking away.
"Do you want to dance soon to be Mrs Scott?" Nathan asked holding out his hand.
"Yes, Mr Scott." she said taking his hand in hers. He led her onto the dance floor and they swayed to the music of the rest of the horrible karaoke singers.
A little bit later Lydia and Jimmy walked over to find Nathan and Haley.
"Are you ready to go? We're getting a little tired." Lydia said.
"Oh sure. We're ready whenever you are." Haley said lacing her fingers together with Nathans. The followed Jimmy and Lydia out to the car and climbed in. When they arrived at home, Nathan went to his room to wait for Haley to be done in the bathroom, he felt it was weird to wait outside the bathroom door. When he heard the shower stop running he walked over deciding to kiss her goodnight.
"Just wanted to say goodnight." he said when she came out of the bathroom.
"You do realize this is the first night we haven't spent together since we got together." she said sighing.
"I know. But I'm a big boy I can live one night without you by my side. I think." he said whispering, while brushing some wet hair out of her face.
"I'm not sure you can, I guess we'll find out in the morning." she said. Nathan leaned in and kissed her so softly and so tenderly, that she wanted to cry. The kiss was beautiful, and it did nothing for the aching need she had for him. In fact it made her want him even more.
"I love you." he said before kissing her once more and walking towards his room. She smiled and walked into her own room shutting the door behind her at the same time Nathan shut his door.
Jimmy watched from the doorway to his bedroom standing beside his wife.
"That was beautiful wasn't it?" Lydia sighed.
"It was. I'm surprised they ended up going their own ways tonight though. I would have suspected Haley to smuggle him into her bed." Jimmy said surprised.
"Nathan really wants to make a good impression on us, and he wont do anything to sabotage that. Even though I'm sure they haven't spent a night apart." she said.
"Let's go to bed." Jimmy said before turning off the light and climbing into bed.
Haley woke up the next morning, and walked out of her room. She ran into her dad at the bathroom door.
"Oh good morning daddy, just going to wake up Nathan." she said sidestepping him and making her way to Nathan's room.
"Good morning sweetie." Jimmy called to her retreating form. Haley pushed open the door and went to sit on the other side of Nathan's bed.
"Good morning." she whispered leaving a trail of kisses down his cheek and down his neck.
"Morning." he said when he opened his blue eyes to feel her sitting beside him.
"Just came to wake you up, since we have lots to do today." she said her eyes twinkling.
"Oh like what?" he asked.
"Well since we are involuntarily abstinent until Christmas is over, I figured we need to distract ourselves in different ways. Today I'm going to give you the grand tour of Tree Hill, and there's a place that you would like to see I know it." she said. "The grand tour of Tree Hill. Sounds interesting. Where is this place you want to show me?" he asked curious.
"Cant tell. All I can say is you're gonna love it, and before you say anything it was nothing to do with sex." she said climbing off the bed and skipping to her own room. Nathan took that as a cue to get up and get ready, along with the smell of bacon coming from the kitchen. Haley dressed and went downstairs where her mom was frying bacon and flipping pancakes. "Good morning" she greeted her mom.
"Morning baby girl." she greeted her daughter.
"So I have a question. Does dad still have that old basketball laying around?" she asked.
"Probably, I'd go check the garage. He never throws anything away. Why do you need it?" she asked.
"Nathan loves basketball, and I want to show him the river court." she explained.
"That's a nice gesture." Lydia said. Haley stopped talking when Nathan came down the stairs with Jimmy talking basketball. Nathan walked over to Haley and placed his hands on her hips and bent down to kiss her softly.
"I love you." he whispered when he pulled away.
"I love you too." she whispered back. The four sat down to breakfast, and when Haley was finished she stood up.
"I need to go to the garage and find something I'll be right back." she said walking out the door. Nathan continued eating and was consciously aware when Haley came back inside.
"Are you ready to go?" she asked.
"whenever you are." he said standing up and putting his plate in the dishwasher.
They took Lydia's car and drove around.
"So where are we going?" Nathan asked.
"Somewhere I think you'll enjoy." she answered. Haley drove to the river court and stopped the car.
"where are we?" he asked seeing the old basketball court.
"This is the Rivercourt. I spent a lot of time here when I was younger with Ryan." she explained, opening the trunk and pulling out the old basketball.
"You brought a basketball?" he asked.
"Yeah, I thought that I could finally see that basketball skill you think you have." she said tossing him the ball.
"we're going to spend the day here. This place is amazing. Back in New York there are tons of state of the art basketball courts, but this one it feels like home kind of. Here people play for the love of the game not the spectacle." he said not able to explain what he thought about the place.
"I spent a lot of time here trying to figure out how to shoot a free shot." she said smiling at the happy smile on Nathan's face.
"Free throw Haley." he said correcting her.
"Shut up. Anyways I was completely hopeless. I want to see you make one." she said standing back. He took his spot on the faded three point line and shot the ball. The ball sailed through the air shooting through the basketball nothing but net.
"Impressive." she said clapping her hands.
"I know. You try." he said tossing her the ball.
"You've asked for it." she warned standing in front of the basket.
"I did." he said standing back giving her a wide amount of area. She shot the ball and it hit the rim flying off to the side.
"Ugh that was horrible." she said wincing while Nathan ran to get the ball.
"It wasn't that bad." he amended.
"Sure, you just play I'll sit over there and admire my amazing fiancé." she said moving to sit on the faded picnic table.
"Admire away. I know I look pretty hot in these jeans." he said smirking his infamous smirk.
"You do." she said. For the rest of the afternoon they sat at the Rivercourt, Haley watching while Nathan played basketball. They enjoyed the last afternoon of freedom before the rest of Haley's family came for Christmas Eve.