Chapter 27

Dedicated to Allison. I got the vows from you, from your page. I hope you don't mind. Thanks a lot :)

"Nathan, you don't even open up to me anymore! How in the world is this going to work out?!" She yelled at him angrily.

"Why do you blame everything on me!" He yelled back at her.

James sat leaning against the door, crouched down as he held his knees up to his chest. His eyes were puffy and red, while he sobbed. He tried to calm himself down, as he rocked back and forth, still clutching his knees.

"Well I'm not the one who has feelings for another woman!" Haley said, while tears of rage and sadness filled her eyes.

James immediately stopped as his heart sank. What? No, that wasn't possible. He couldn't. It wasn't true. It just wasn't. Dad couldn't have feelings for anyone except Mom. What happened to them?

So many questions and thoughts raced through his head like speeding cars.

He suddenly found himself getting up. The tears fell from his eyes and onto the carpet.

James walked into the room, desperatly wishing it was all a dream, that he would just wake up and everything would be fine. His parents would be fine.

He fell onto his bed and cried himself to sleep, just wishing that it would all go away.

Nathan laid down on the bed.

Haley watched him for a second before walking over to the bathroom. Her hand covered her forehead.

She remembered before, and how in love she was, how perfect everything was, and was supposed to be.

"Nathan, it's been said that there's one word that will free us from the weight and the pain of life. And that word is love. And I believe that. That doesn't mean that it hasn't been hard, or that it won't be. It just means that I've found stillness and bravery in myself when I'm with you. You make me brave. And I will love you until the end of time. This I vow to you today."

"Last year we sat on the beach and I told you how much I loved you, and how I would always, always protect you. And that day nobody believed that this would work. But I don't think anybody understood the love that I have for you. Because if they did, they would have never doubted us, so I wanted to marry you all over again in front of most of our world. Because today, when I look into your eyes, my love for you only grows. It's even stronger now. My love will never waver. This I vow to you, today, and Always and Forever."

A tear rolled down Haley's cheek, thinking about the day they got married again. She was so happy.

She walked out of the bathroom. Haley looked at Nathan, who was looking hurt as he starred at the wall above him.

"What happened to us?" She said, tears still in her eyes.

He looked up at her.

"I wish I knew, Haley." Nate said. "I wish I knew."

Nathan drove. Not knowing where he was going, he just drove.

What had happened with my life? He thought. I got married too young, had kids too young, and was not ready for any of it. Maybe Haley Should've stayed on tour and never came back.

A car turned into Nathan's lane and he was completely unaware.

Wait, what was am I talking about? I wouldn't have his kids if Haley didn't come ba-.

The light changed to red and the car in front of him put on the brakes.

Nathan suddenly realized and yelled, "Shit!" as he slammed the brakes.

The car stopped inches away from the other car's bumper. Nathan let out a sigh of relief.

His cell phone rang. It was Haley. He needed to clear his head, he couldn't pick it up now.

The light switched to green, and Nathan drove. Just drove

Brooke couldn't sleep. Her stomach hurt and she was nervous. Her head was full of scared thoughts of not being a good wife and mother. She had never been any of them, and neither did her mother, so she was never there for her to teach her about them. She had no clue.

She looked over at Chase who was sleeping with his back facing to her.

But Chase's eyes were open, he was wide awake. He heard Brooke move and turned to her.

Brooke looked into Chase's eyes. "I'm scared Chase, I'm so scared." She said, trying to hide in her voice of how scared she really was.

Chase put her arm around Brooke and tried to comfort her. Brooke tried not to cry, but couldn't help herself and cried into his chest.

"So, I don't know what to do." Nathan said while he was drunk at Rachel's condo, sipping a beer.

"Nathan, I think you should stop drinking. Because you are not staying here tonight..and I think it was really rude to just barge in here, take out a beer from my fridge and start talking to me about Haley and your relationship."

But Nathan ignored her. "The...uh..reason.." He said opening his eyes widely. "that..um..Haley..yeah that's her name..I forgot." He said, laughing.

Rachel looked at him disgusted. She obviously hadn't talked to Haley since Brooke's engagement party and was still angry at her, but she did not want to be hearing about this.

She looked up at him angrily.

"and I..are having.. uhh..problems is because..I..told her that..," He said, taking another sip of his beer, "I uh..had uh...what do you call it? Uh. feelings, I think. For, uhh you." Nathan finished of the beer and looked at Rachel, who had a shocked look on her face.

He leaned into her face and kissed her.

Hey! So how'd you think of the chapter? I want to know what you think, negative, or postive. Do you completely hate this chapter, or love it? This chapter was a long one, but I liked it.