Dislaimer: I don't own anything affiliated with One Tree Hill or the song I'll Stand By You, I also do not own any of the songs that I used last chapter, I forgot about that. I also do not own You'll Ask For Me by Tyler Hilton

Its OTH NIGHT! But apparently now I have to do more studying now because my teacher just sent out an email saying all this new stuff that is going to be on our test tomorrow. I hate school. Who wants to torture people into memorizing what happens between fifteen different revolutions, where they are, who the leaders are, and what type of revolt they were...ughh

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Tess-Yes Nathan the hero :) I love protective Nate and either you find out this chapter or next. Yes he would! URGGHHHHH its on tonight! I love Joy she is my like idol her and Sophia! Shantel is pretty great too!

Jodie-Yes, but everything Nathan is sexy ;) BALEY! I love Baley and Paley they are far more superior to Breyton although I love them too! NALEY IS ALWAYS ENDGAME! Brathan would have been great friends but they never showed it. I wish I had a guy like Nathan in my life. I would watch but I am boycotting the CW after this because of what they do to OTH, they don't promote it, each season tehy keep it on a tightrope and then when they do decided to end it they dont even give it a full season...dont get me started. Chris and Quinn would be awesome together! So I thought that was extremely dumb of Quinn to confront the drug dealer like that though what did she think was going to happen. Sometimes I forget that about Sara and David because they never mention about it. I feel bad for Quinn because he needs to do whats best for the both of them. And aghhh the moose! Hahaha your so funny, another GG mention, wow go all out with the words and caps Jodie! You wild child. Haha your too funny, love you too :) Love the essay

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Ash-Chill your pants dude! Oh well thats a bummer. That choice is up to you, whatever you want her to...kinda made up...okay sure they did ;) Yes they do wait did I say they were only together for three months...forgot about that. Yeah mhhmmmm sure. MOUSE!

Don't Hold It All Inside

Their was a light knock at the door the next morning. I walked over and opened the door to see Nathan. I walked outside of Lucas's room shutting the door behind me.

"So my guess you didn't sleep at all last night right?" He asked.

"I didn't, I locked the door and the windows but still tossed and turned all night."

"Alright so go grab the book you are reading because you are always reading a book and meet me in the den." He paused "but you probably don't want to go into your room so tell me where it is and I will meet you in the den."

"Its on top of my bookshelf." I said wondering what he was up to but I walked down to the den anyway.

I stood in the doorway not knowing were to stand, Nathan came into the room and handed me my book before sitting on the couch. He turned on a basketball game and muted it before placing his feet on the coffee table and angling his back into the corner of the couch so he sat on an angle.

"Alright c'mere" He said directioning me to put my head on his chest and placing my feet up on the couch. "Now just relax okay, because you are safe right now, now read or sleep or do whatever you want to do but relax okay, I'm not going to let anything happen to you." He finished his sentence with a kiss to the crown of my head.

I flipped through my book, finding my bookmark and beginning to read. A half hour later I felt Nathan's hand running up and down my arm as my eyes slowly began to close.

When I woke up later, Nathan's hand still was running along my arm gently, I turned around slightly to see him now reading my book. "What are you doing?"

"Well I figured if you were reading it it had to be good, so I read the first page and didn't put it down after. But don't worry I didn't move your bookmark. So um how are you feeling?"

I stood up. "Fine you know I was attacked last night, and have this lovely cast to remind me of it, I can't walk around without feeling like Derek is going just pop out of no where, and my brother told me I am going to be an aunt."

"What?"

"Lucas apparently knocked up his ex girlfriend, but well she is a slut and we don't know if the baby is even his. He is going to go talk to here today."

"Looks like were in the same boat"

"Well at least Julian isn't an ass unlike Nikki, so what time is Brooke meeting up with Julian or your parents, I promised her I would be there."

"I left before she even woke up and she would understand if you didn't go Hales"

"I promised her I would be there and I'm going to be."

He took a deep breath "And about the Derek thing, you need to just remember he is in jail right now waiting for a trial."

"Nathan you don't get it, I didn't tell you everything." I paused playing with my hands. "They night my parents died, I wasn't going to see Derek...they were. The night before Derek had tried to attack me, luckily Lucas was home and stopped him, I begged Lucas not to tell my parents because Derek was drunk and had gotten out of control. That was all I thought it was, I didn't realize how serious it was at the time, but the next night he told them. When they went out and when they got hit they were going to Derek's house to tell his parents what happened. It was all my fault, if I hadn't let Damien come over, or if I told them right away the next morning everything would have been different." I said as my voice became shaky.

"Haley its not your fault" Nathan approached me about to hug me before I pushed him away

"Don't I know you mean well trying to protect me, but I told you last night that I needed a break to think and I don't know whats going on with us right now, but you being here is making this harder. I know you don't get why I need a break but I can't be in another relationship with someone like Derek."

"Hales even if we are on a break, I still care for you, I love you, and I am still going to be there for you no matter what. But just know, even though I have been with a lot of girls your the only one who really knows the real me Haley, your the only person that I am really me around. And you know that song you are always listening to 'You'll Ask For Me' by that Chris guy, well I memorized the lyrics did you? 'Hope you let your intuition precede my reputation cause I have one. Well I am what you see I am not what they say but if I turned out to be could you love me anyway?' Did you listen to the lyrics because I did. I have a reputation but that doesn't mean that is who I truly am."

"Nathan"

"I am going to prove to you that love is enough. Now if you want me to go for you to think" He said pausing when I nodded meekly "then I will go, but not before I say, I'm the guy for you Haley James and I am going to fight like hell until you realize that because I love you." He kissed my cheek before walking out of the room leaving me to my thoughts.

"Hey Hales" Lucas said quietly walking into the room.

"Whats up?"

"Well Nikki scheduled a doctors appointment for a half hour from now, but if you..."

"Lucas I will be fine, Keith didn't go to work today so he could stay home if I needed him. Thank you for trying to protect me right now but go and find out okay."

"Thank you for being their for me Hales" He said hugging me.

"Hey we face things together, its the way it always was and always will be, I will always be here for you because your my little brother and I love you."

"I love you too Haley Bob, and can we not tell Keith and Karen unless I find out that she is actually pregnant."

"Sure"

"I'm sorry that you had to go through everything with Derek and now I am putting you through more junk with Nikki."

"Do you blame yourself for me meeting Derek?"

"I introduced you two at the basketball party, you wouldn't have met if it wasn't for me."

"Luke, we were dating before that party, I just didn't tell anyone because I didn't know if it was going to work out. I didn't want another Owen scenario." Owen and I had been dating and he hung out around the house a lot, so my family got to know him very well, like he was part of the family, but then a month later it turned out that all he wanted was up my skirt and well that was the end of that relationship. "I wanted to see if Derek was a good guy before I told you guys and let Mom and Dad meet him. Its not your fault, its not your fault Derek and I started dating, its not your fault I trusted him, and its not your fault they died, its mine."

"Is that what you think? That people blame you for their deaths?" I turned around "Haley no one thinks that, no one blames you. Its not your fault, they would have been on that road one way or another."

"How could I not think it Lucas, it is my fault, they were on the road because I broke one of the biggest rules they had, no guests over unless they were home, and if I didn't he wouldn't have tried to...to...to rape me and then they would have been driving to his house. It is all my fault don't you get that!" I shouted at him before beginning to leave the room.

"Haley...I don't blame you it was an acci..."

"Lucas you have to get to that appointment. You wouldn't want to be late to find out if your going to be a dad would you?" I reminded him wiping my tears not wanting to hear that word because it wasn't an accident that they were on the road that night.

"She's five weeks along, its not mine." Lucas said walking into the house as I let out a sigh of relief.
He sat down next to me and groaned. "What is it?"

"Nicki also said that she wanted me back, she missed me and she would consider since she is attending college in a few months that if I wanted to be with her she would consider transferring it UNC." He ran his fingers through his hair.

"Are you kidding me?" I asked in all seriousness.

"No, why would I..."

"Because you can't seriously consider being with her again, she's a slut, she's a bitch, she cheated on you while you were together, and what exactly did she say to you when you told her that our parents died and you needed her. 'Sorry I'm busy, I have cheer leading practice, and thats a total bummer.' Plus she's a moron." I got up from my seat "And you would be a moron too if you got back with her. Tell Keith I went to Brooke's"

"Don't you mean Nath..." He said as I slammed the door. I took in the fresh air before beginning to walk towards Brooke and Nathan's house.

"Hey" I said when Brooke answered the door, she looked severally disheveled.

"Hi"

"So did you tell him?" I asked slowly. She nodded before leading me up to her room. We both sat on her bed. "So what did you say."

"Well I went to his house this morning because his mom is out of town again and I just flat out said 'I'm Pregnant' he was shocked and it was quiet for a long long time but then he told me everything was going to be okay, that he loved me no matter what, and would respect my choice in the matter. He told me he would love to have this baby with me even though it would be hard but that it was a part of us and we made it out of love but he would understand if I didn't want to have this baby. I told him that I was going to have this baby and we are going to face this together. We don't know what we are going to do yet but we did decide that we aren't just going to get married because we are pregnant, we do want to eventually get married and we have even talked about it before but we don't want to be those people that just get married because they are pregnant. And he is coming over to talk to my parents with us."

"Brooke thats great, I am happy that you guys talked it all out."

Her phone beeped and she looked at it. "He's here." We got up but before we could walk out the door Nathan walked in "Brooke do you have my...Haley?"

"No I don't have your Haley dufus." She said as he blushed. Nathan Scott was embarrassed. "I have to go let Julian in and get mom and dad, Hales meet me in the dining room." Brooke quickly walked out of the room.

"She uh...she is telling your parents so...yeah." Things weren't even awkward it was just a weird feeling that filled the room, that we should be together but everything was keeping us apart.

"Oh, well did she not want me there or did she just forget to ask."

"She didn't think you would want to considering..."

"I told her I would be their for her no matter what and when she has to face them I will definitely be there."

"Life always has a way of figuring out how to surprise you." I said quietly.

"You got that right." Nathan said running his fingers through his hair. "Well I guess we should..." He said suggesting to the door.

"Yeah" I whispered walking out and down the stairs.

"What do you want that is so important." Dan said as Nathan and I sat down at the table across from Brooke and Julian who were holding hands under the table, Dan and Deb sat at each end.

"Well...I...I have something to tell you."

"Could you just get on with it, I have things to do today."

"Okay...well...I'm pregnant." She said slowly before looking down.

"Brooke how could you do this?" Dan said as Deb shook her head.

"Do you think I wanted to get pregnant, do you think that that was my goal for myself. Do you think that I'm not scared as hell to be a mom and to raise this baby because I am. I don't know the first thing about babies but what I do know is that I will love this baby, my baby unconditionally. I will not set standards for it to live up to. No matter what I will love it because it is mine, it is my baby. I've tried to make you proud of me. Every decision I've made, every success, every failure, I've wondered what you will think of me. But I'm done doing that because I am no longer going to try to live up to your standards I am going to live to be happy. I am going to be myself and only hope that you love me for me."

Dan started chuckling "So are you telling me that you are going to try to raise this baby?"

"Yes I am, whats so funny about that?"

"You couldn't boil water if I told you to and now you are going to try to raise another human being. Listen Brooke your being unreasonable. I will write to a check for five thousand dollars right now to go have an abortion and buy yourself something pretty afterwards." Dan said pulling out a pen.

"You two are a bunch of soul sucking terrible excuses for human beings because when your daughter tells you that she is going to have a baby you laugh at her and offer to pay for an abortion! She is your daughter, you should stand by her no matter what. You know who shouldn't have been parents, you two! But that means Nathan and Brooke wouldn't be here so I could never go against that choice, but you two aren't fit to be parents. You don't care about your children at all and they were forced to grow up a lot quicker than they should have. Nathan practically raised Brooke, not you! You have no right to tell her that she will be an unfit parent because she will definitely be better than you. Brooke is going to be an amazing mother, and if you can't see that I don't know what is wrong with you. When I look at you I just see cowards, you are both pathetic and you obviously were meant for each other! You are both filthy rotten money...money whores!" I said standing up from the table and walking outside.

A short minute later Brooke followed me out.

"Sorry for going off on your parents, I was supposed to be here to support you but only made things worse. If you want me to leave I understand."

"Are you kidding me Hales? You said to them everything I have been wanting to say for sixteen years and I love you for sticking up for me."

"Brookie" I said hugging her.

"Do you really think I am going to be a good mom?"

"Brooke, you are going to be a great mom Brooke, I have seen the way you are around Lily and if you ever need a babysitter I will be there. I meant it when I said I will always be their for you. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of us. This baby was sent here for a reason Brooke you have to believe that. Just don't let them take your spirit and your energy because it is what makes you you. Its what I love about you. It is your life and stand up for it, its all up to you. The ball is in your hands."

"What if they kick me out Haley? And what if Julian's mom wants us to get rid of the baby too. I can't do this on my own"

" I am here for you, so are Julian, Nathan, Lucas and Peyton will be too when you tell them. It is all going to work out Brooke you just have to have hope. Don't think of that right now, Your parents aren't the best people and they were never really parents to you but I do believe that deep down inside the love you and maybe they will want to start all over with this baby and be great grandparents." I suggested as we looked at each other and both started laughing.

"Cause this is really a laugh fest and all" Nathan said walking out.

"Sorry" I said as we composed ourselves.

"I just came out to tell you that Mom and Dad just told Julian how irresponsible he was and he is about to blow up at them and I thought you would want to hear."

We all rushed inside to hear the beginning of Julian's rant.

"My father always made me feel like I wasn't good enough. Any time I had any success he would remind me of my failures. I see that in Nathan. And I see that in Brooke. She's so talented and good-hearted and beautiful, but she carries around this feeling that she's not good enough. And she has you two to thank you for that. Good work. I love your daughter. I'm in love with her. And one of these days she is going to marry me when she does I want you to understand something: you're either gonna learn to be nice to her, or you're not gonna be in her life. Nice talking two the both of you. Feels like I've known you all my life." And with that Julian kissed Brooke forehead, whispered "Call me" And walked out the door.

"Well he is rude." Dan scoffed getting up and leaving the room.

"Brooke can I talk to you, alone?" Deb said.

"Whatever you have to say, you can say in front of Nathan and Haley because they got me her."

"Fine then...I am your mother and I love you but I can't say I agree with your choice in the matter. Your life will change drastically and I don't think you even know the start of what will happen and whats going to happen when you are given that baby. But needless to say, you will always have a home here, but you can't expect your father and I to watch the child or pay for anything. It will also share a room with you. I don't want you seeing or talking to that boy again."

"You can't do that, you can't control that, he is the man I love and we are having a baby together, you are going to need to get over that."

"Fine then. But under no circumstances is Julian to be over hear anymore while we are not here. And he is not to spend the night. If you want to do that I will not allow it in my house."

"Whats going to happen Mom? I'll get pregnant. Oops I think your a little late I cant get pregnanter."

"Don't speak that way to me Brooke I am your mother":

"So now your my mother but you before you couldn't' care less about where I was or who I was with."

"Brooklyn Penelope Scott stop talking back to me and listen. Julian can not move in, but you are free to live wherever. Things are going to be hard Brooke and this is your responsibility now." She said before getting up from the table and walking out.

"Only our parents are weird enough to set rules after I get pregnant, yet before they couldn't care less." She said shaking her head. "I am actually going to go take a nap, I think I will tell Peyton, and Lucas another day, this drained me. But thank you Hales, I couldn't ask for a better friend."

"Me either Brookie, and call me if you need anything okay." I said as she hugged me once more.

"I know and thanks big brother, just you being their helps." Brooke said before heading up the stairs.

"So I...I guess I will be going then."

"Haley..."

"Nathan please don't do this I mean its just I need time, so much has been going on I haven't had any at all, just please please leave me alone for a little bit okay." I said before walking out of the house and heading home.