Brooke walked out of the hotel pushing Adam in his stroller with Nathan by her side, it was a nice day in Miami and Brooke wanted to spend some time with her family before Nathan had to leave for his game tonight. They were walking down the street when Brooke stopped dead in her tracks starring ahead of her with wide eyes. Nathan stopped walking when he noticed Brooke wasn't next to him and looked at her.

"Brooke what's wrong?" Nathan asked waving his hand in front of her face.

"Nathan? Brooke?" Nathan's smile dropped from his face as he recognized the voice that was saying his name and turned around.

"Haley?"

"Hi!" She exclaimed wrapping her arms around him and giving him a hug. Nathan patted her back shocked that he was actually standing in front of Haley; it had been years since he had seen her. "Hi Brooke." Haley added remembering that Brooke and Nathan were married, even though she didn't think that they would've lasted this long.

"Hi." Brooke replied finally realizing that Haley was indeed standing in front of her, to be honest Brooke thought she had fallen from the face of the earth seeing as she hadn't heard anything about her in years.

"How have you been?" Haley asked making conversation while eyeing the little boy that was fast asleep in the stroller.

"Good, busy. How about you?" Brooke asked not knowing what to make about the way that Haley was eyeing Nathan.

"Oh I've been doing this and that."

"Oh that's good."

"Yeah, are you going to the game tonight?"

"Yeah."

"Well then maybe I'll see you there."

"Really?"

"Yeah I'm singing the national anthem and then performing during half time." Brooke smiled and wrapped her arm around Nathan's waist silently telling Haley that Nathan was taken and definitely not interested in her. She hated it when the jealous side of her came out, she hated being seen as the jealous wife of the hot basketball player but sometimes she couldn't help it especially now when she was standing in front of her husband's first real love.

Nathan looked down at little Adam who was soundly sleeping and silently chuckled to himself about how much he wished that Luke could be here to see this. In his mind he was picturing Brooke going after Haley and tackling her to the ground, maybe pulling some of her fake hair out of her head and slapping her a couple of times. "Well it was really nice seeing you guys but I have to go get ready for tonight and I hope you guys win Nathan." He politely nodded and watched her walk away and get into the black car. As soon as she was gone Nathan burst into a fit of laughter as they continued down the street.

"What's so funny?"

"The picture in my head."

"What are you talking about?" She asked as they stopped at a café to grab something to eat after a long morning of walking around and shopping.

"I was picturing you kicking her ass while she was talking to you, what was with the possessive arm thing?"

"What possessive arm thing?" Brooke asked trying to act as innocent as possible, she was not about to admit to him that even after all these years of marriage she still thought that she could lose Nathan to Haley or someone else.

"When she was talking about performing tonight at the game you openly put your arm around me, is someone jealous?"

"You don't know how she still feels about you Nathan; you were her first serious relationship." Brooke defended getting a little angry with how casual Nathan was being about the whole situation.

"I don't care how she feels, if you don't remember you have a ring on your ring finger that matches mine that says that you and I are together. You're Mrs. Nathan Scott not her." Nathan replied leaning back in his chair and looking over at Adam who was happily eating some animal crackers. "You have nothing to worry about at all, I'm with you and I'm staying with you."

"It still bothers me."

"I know and it will probably always bother you but just remember that chapter of my life is done and I'm currently enjoying this one." He replied hoping that the point of him being with her would hit home and make her stop turning into a jealous teenage girl every time a girl so much as looked at him.

"You don't understand Nathan, it's easy for you to sit there and laugh at me but you just don't understand." She replied angrily standing up and turned away from Nathan pushing the stroller as she headed back to the hotel. Nathan sat there for a few moments stunned that she had just up and walked away from him; she never walked away from him. He paid the bill for their drinks and headed off to find out why she had chosen this exact moment to walk away from him.

He found her sitting in their hotel room watching Adam sleep sounding starring intensely at the little baby almost trying to remember every little moment he made. He slowly walked over to her and sat on the bed across from her debating whether he should just let her sit there or actually try to talk to her about what had just happened. "I'm sorry." He started out with feeling genuinely sorry unlike all the times he said it to his father or Luke. "You're right I don't understand why you took seeing Haley again as this big deal but I won't understand until you tell me." She tore her gaze away from Adam and looked at him unshed tears in her eyes.

"You'll just think I'm stupid and get mad at me."

"Just talk to me, remember when you could tell me anything?" Brooke looked back at Adam and sighed, this was not how she imagined their time in Miami going; she did not want the first time seeing her husband in weeks to result in them fighting.

"Ever since Luke cheated on with Peyton I've had this fear that I'm going to lose the one I love to my best friend or someone else. I know that it's been forever and that Peyton and I have made up and I've forgiven Luke but the fear still creeps up on me. I know that you love me and that you wouldn't ever do what Luke did but I can't help the nagging voice in the back of my head. It's a real shocker that even after all these years of marriage and all the success that I've had in my life I still have the worst self esteem that I know of." She admitted her gaze now fixated on Adam not wanting Nathan to see the tears that were freely falling from her eyes. Nathan looked at her not really knowing just how much Luke had screwed her over when he broke her heart all those years ago.

Suddenly Nathan felt a rage surge through him over something that had happened almost 8 years ago and he had no clue why he wanted to bash Luke's face in hoping that he would feel a smidgen of the pain that he put Brooke through. Nathan shook his head and got up kneeling in front of Brooke gently grabbing her face so she was looking at him. He sighed when he saw tears rolling down her face and wiped them away with his thumbs as he looked into her eyes starring so intently it sent a shiver down Brooke's spine. "I love you more than anything in the world. You are the number 1 most important person in my life and you will always be my number 1. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon and I promise you that you have nothing to worry about. You and I were destined to be together and after all the flaming hoops we've been through we can make it through anything." She smiled at him and lightly kissed him wrapping her arms around his neck.

"You should get ready you have to be at the arena soon." Nathan groaned and pulled her closer to him wanting her to be as close to him as possible. "I love you." She whispered as he pulled away as one of his teammates knocked on the door telling him that the bus was leaving. Brooke laughed at how their almost perfect moment was ruined and Nathan smiled kissing her temple as he got up and grabbed his duffel bag. "We'll see you at the game." He nodded kissed her one more time and left the room, as soon as the door was shut Brooke fell back on the bed and sobbed letting the memories of all those years ago wash over and consume her. That night when Nathan saw Haley smiling at him like she used to when they were together it finally clicked in his head, she still had feelings for him, and when she looked like she was going to make her way over to him and start talking to him that was Nathan's cue to stop looking at her.

His gaze shifted to Brooke who was sitting right behind the bench with little Adam happily sitting on her knee. She smiled at him and blew him a kiss and he was taken back to high school when she would wink at him before the games when no one was watching and after the talk they had had in the hotel room earlier that day he felt like he was even closer to her and his love for her just become stronger, he knew that he probably sounded like a character from Luke's next book or one of the those guys from all the romance movies that Brooke is always watching but he was telling the truth, he couldn't help but feel like any one of those guys in the movies when she was around looking at him; he had no idea where his train of thought was going but he needed to focus on the game, it was his job after all.

Shaking his head he turned away from Brooke and went on to win the game which was just the icing on the cake for the day. As he walked down the hallway towards his room his thoughts yet again went back to high school and all the things that had happened that all blurred together and it still made Nathan laugh when he thought about what had brought Brooke and him together, he was right when he said that they were destined to be together because in a way she was his guardian angel, always there to look out for him and looking at the ceiling in front of his room he silently thanked the higher powers that had brought them together.