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Chapter 20: I'm…I'm Getting Married?
Haley ran as far away as she could, she couldn't deal with it anymore, the one time she takes a risk and puts her heart out there she gets hurt, and she hated the feeling.
Her eyes were stinging, and she felt a lump in her throat from all the crying, but the tears just wouldn't stop. She could've taken Nathan's car, but decided against it, thinking that she would get lost again.
She tactfully hid the keys behind the rear tyre, and sent a quick text to Lucas, telling him that she was going back home, back to Tree Hill. She also told him where the keys were, and she hailed a cab and left.
Upon receiving the text message, Lucas leaped up to go after her, but Nathan stopped him, "Don't she's probably gone by now, and trust me she needs her space, I'll talk to her and explain the entire situation with Abi, later on.
Hearing the racket, Brooke and Peyton had come to join the rest of them. "What's going on," Brooke said genuinely concerned.
Nathan was going to explain, but he was interrupted by a deafening squeal that had erupted from the three girls.
"Abigail Scott, is that you" Peyton jumped excitedly and went to hug her, as did Brooke.
"It's been too long, where were you, how are you doing" Brooke questioned, there was a flash of pain in her eyes, but nobody noticed, because they were all so excited.
Once they had calmed down and retaken their position outside Tim's room, Abi felt that I was best to talk now. "Umm Nathan what was that girl's name?" she questioned, she got weird looks from a few people but she had a point.
Nathan as everyone else knew that she was referring to Haley, and he was still beating himself about it, "Haley" he whispered. He could have stopped her and explained but he felt guilty and hurt for so much more.
"Was that Haley James?" Abi asked hesitantly and she noticed everyone's eyes on her. What, Nathan thought, Abi knew Haley, what's going on, how could my little sis know Haley? This is insane.
Nathan nodded after a bit and asked, "How did you know?" his voice was shocked and very quiet.
"Nathan I don't know if it's my place to tell you, clearly the two of you had no idea" she stated and then mentally scolded herself for bringing it up.
"What are you talking about" Nathan said in a stern and strong voice, this time.
But Abi just stayed quiet, "Abi, you can't bring it up and not tell, that isn't fair" Nathan was angry and his voice was slowly getting louder. The gang had an audience, of nurses staring towards them now but Nathan didn't care.
"Nathan I seriously suggest that you wait for dad to tell you" Abi persisted, she was just as stubborn as he was, maybe even more so.
"What, dad, what does he have to do with it?" Nathan was yelling now, this couldn't be good especially if Dan Scott had something to do with it.
"Nathan…" this time it was Lucas to speak, who was trying to calm him down, it really wasn't helping the situation.
"No Lucas, I'm absolutely sick of this" Nathan said, staring at Lucas but the words were meant for Abi. "You are such a bitch sometimes, this is all your fault" Nathan yelled and stormed off to cool down a bit.
After he left, Abi was in tears and she got up and decided that it was best to tell Nathan the truth otherwise he would probably hate her forever, and with Nathan you never knew.
Nathan returned after 20 minutes desperately hoping that Abi had changed her mind, he was scared more than anything now, he may lose Haley, and he didn't want to.
"Nathan" Abi yelled from behind him, she was glad that he returned but Nathan took the yell the wrong way and started yelling at her again.
"Abi I don't believe you, this was all your fault, if you hadn't shown up then Haley would still be here, Tim would probably be okay because we wouldn't have too many distractions, speaking of which why are you even here?" Nathan questioned, Abi was about to speak but he didn't give her a chance.
"You know what Abi, I don't even know why I'm talking to you because clearly you aren't going to tell me, because quite frankly you never do. You always lie or run, but you never open up" Nathan said.
"You fucking hypocrite" Abi yelled back, she was too mad at him to tell him now and she knew her words had stung him because he wasn't one to open up, well at least not before Haley.
"You know what, I can't believe I'm doing this you always lie, you always kept the truth from me, the one person that wanted to help you, I only found out about Jake because I overheard your conversation with dad, otherwise I doubt I would even know." Nathan was hurt more now than mad, but he kept going.
"Nathan-" Abi tried stopping him but he wouldn't and she knew that all too well, she had hurt him but she had her reasons and he clearly wasn't going to listen.
"The next day I wake up, I come into your room because I thought that maybe I could console you or help you out" Nathan said, inhaling deeply, trying to stop the tears from falling. "You were gone, all your stuff was packed and you just left, I even got into a fight because of you and got suspended for two weeks, now I realize it was all for nothing." Nathan harshly said.
Abi was crying now but Nathan didn't care he felt just as bad as her but he couldn't break down, not with everyone watching him.
Nathan continued his rant, "You left Abi, without even saying goodbye, you never called or wrote, mum and dad wouldn't tell me where you were and all I could think about was how hurt you were, especially after going through, through an-" Nathan said but before he could say it she stopped him.
"Nathan please don't" Abi begged, knowing that the others around her had no ides, what they were talking about. Realising her discomfort Nathan nodded at her reassuringly.
Abi nodded back, and this was something they loved, they had this connection and it was great especially when they weren't fighting.
Nathan put aside his feelings and stepped forward to embrace his little sister, and whispered lightly into her ear, "I'm sorry."
She whispered back, "Me too"
After they both were calm again Nathan tried asking her again, how did she know Haley? The suspense was killing him. "Abi, please how do you know Haley?" he begged.
She nodded and said, "Well I was about to tell you but you never gave me a chance and this may answer a few of your other questions as well" she let out a breath and began telling her little story.
"Firstly I'm sorry for leaving like that, but I'll explain later about that" she said and Nathan gave her a knowing smile, he knew it must have been difficult for her but he was there for her.
"Okay can you hurry up already" Brooke said getting impatient, she was so excited – Gossip.
"Brooke" Peyton yelled playfully, but she just laughed it off.
"Anyways, I got a call from dad about a week ago, I hadn't spoken to him in months, mum would still call in to check every now and then, but dad just pretended that I didn't exist" she said her voice full of pain. Nathan held her closer and she got the nerve to continue.
"He told me that he wants me back in Tree Hill," she said and was about to continue, but Lucas interrupted.
"Sorry if you don't mind me asking, where did you go?" Lucas questioned.
"Newport, California, it was amazing, I made all these really great friends and I even learnt to skateboard and surf, I have pictures I'll show you when I get back to the house" she said excitedly and continued with her story…
"Dad said that he was out on a business trip and I couldn't go to the house yet, I presumed because nobody was there, but that was obviously not true" she said and paused before continuing, "He didn't want me there because you didn't know" Abi said.
Nathan was fidgeting with the hem of his shirt and he was getting impatient, "Abs I know what you're doing, you're stalling please can you just get to the point" Nathan said.
"Nathan, trust me you don't want to know, I would rather die than have an arranged marriage" Abi said realising she had let it slip.
Nathan took a while to realise what she was getting at, what a marriage have to do with anything? "Shit, I'm…I'm getting married" he said, "With whom" he looked up at Abi and then realised he already knew the answer, "Haley" he whispered and she nodded.
Before anybody could say anything the doctor returned, "the surgery was successful, with a little physiotherapy he'll be as good as knew, you can see him now" the doctor said, but nobody was really listening they were still shocked at what they had just heard.
Haley got back to an empty house, she ran up to her room and banged the door shut, falling onto her bed she burst into tears again.
She looked down at her phone and realised that she had 18 missed calls, 9 were from Nathan, 5 from Lucas, 1 from her mother and three from an unknown number.
The last thing she wanted was to speak on the phone, but she noticed that she had two text messages, one from Lucas and the other from that unknown number.
She read Lucas's
Hey Haley, how r u doing, I tried calling u but I guess you're not in the mood 2 talk. I just wanted to inform u that Tim's okay and give Nathan a chance, trust me you'll be laughing after u hear what he has 2 say, let's just say that Abi's not who u think she is. Call me
Lucas told her what he felt was appropriate, he didn't want to freak her out by telling her she was getting married.
Haley went to the next message and read it to herself.
Hey baby, guess what? I'm back.
That's all the message read, Haley had no idea who it was from and before she could think about it anymore the door bell rang. Knowing that there was no one at home Haley just pretended that she wasn't there either, but the person at the door was persistent, they kept ringing the bell for over 10 minutes when Haley finally gave in and went to answer the door.
"Hey babe, long time no see" he said.
Well that's all for now, I did this chapter really quickly so some of the sentences may not make sense, apologizing for that now.
A lot happened in this chapter, Abi is Nathan's sister, Nathan finds out about the marriage, Tim is okay and Haley has a surprise visitor
I wonder what happens next, review and find out!