For better or for worse ch 25

A/N: hey lovely readers! As promised I've u downed a new chapter for my 17th birthday, with five minutes to spare (till mind night)! I'm quite happy with it and I hope you all are too :)

Enjoy!

25. I can't wait any longer!

Four weeks. Almost exactly a month, to the date, since they've graduated. Almost a month since Nathan's been sitting on this secret. Everyone knew, his friends his family, even his son. However, his girlfriend, was the only one who didn't.

Unfortunately on the night Nathan and planned to reveal his surprise, brooke had Called. Ryan was sick and had been throwing up. Unfortunately, he had a viral infection, which meant they had to just let it pass. They had given him some medicine but since he was only five months old, they couldn't give him a strong enough dose to help ease the infection faster.

Nathan walked into the nursery, seeing Haley gently put down Ryan and take her seat once more in the rocking chair. This had become their routine for the past month. They would sleep, eat, and look after a sick Ryan. The baby had been fussy and extremely needy during his period of illness, which had put a damper on Nathan and Haley's very limited alone time.

Nathan was over it. He walked into the nursery, hands behind his back and cam to kneel in front of his girlfriend, who currently had a very glazed over look in her eyes.

"Everything alright babe?" He asked, snapping her from her thoughts. She smiled as her hand caressed his cheek, brushing over the slight stubble that had formed in the past week.

"Just tired" she replied.

Nathan smiled "well, I have something for you" he began

Haley's body perked up at Nathan's words

"Now, before I start I want to say I'm sorry. This isn't how I planned this, I wanted to do this last month on our date but then Ryan got sick and timing hasn't been right. And then it hit me. For us the timings never really been right. We've always had to just dive in and see what happens. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that this whole unplanned thing works out well in the pattern of our relationship" he smirked as he fixed his position so he was holding her hand and kneeling one one knee.

"Haley James, I love you. And I want to spend the rest of my life with you. We don't have to do this soon, we can wait as long as you like but I can't wait any longer to ask you. Will you marry me?" He said as he took out the jewellery box from behind his back, revealing the simple white gold band with a princess cut diamond in the middle. Simple and elegant, just like her

"Yes! Yes, of course!" She whisper yelled, mindful of their sleeping son "and that was as perfect a proposal as any" she said as he slipped the ring onto her finger, before wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him deeply.

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The couple now lay in their bed,not he thin red sheet all that was covering their naked entwined bodies. Haley lay with her leg over Nathan's, snuggled into his left side with her head resting on his chest, while Nathan's hand ran up and down her back.

"You know, I never asked you how you felt about all this" he mentioned breaking their comfortable silence.

"About all what?" She asked

"The sex. I mean, I know you said you were ready for its and I know we've been doing it, but you'd tell me if anything was wrong, yeah? Like if you were uncomfortable, or not...you know...satisfied, or anything" he said, feeling his nerves creep in.

Haley sat up slightly and cupped his cheek

"Yeah, I would tell you if something were wrong. but it's not. Everything that you do, being with you..it's the most amazing feeling" she spoke honestly issuing his cheek.

Nathan smiled "good, I'm glad. I just wanted to make sure"

"Well, in all honesty I have been writing a fair bit about us on my support blog. I hope you don't mind" she blushed

Nathan looked down at her before shaking his head "I don't mind one bit, I think they help you, and I like that you have a whole support system of people that understand parts of what you went through" he told her

"I think they help me" she replied "I like being able to talk to them, sharing my experiences in a safe and understanding environment" she smiled remembering some of the things that were commented when she told the readers that she had lost her virginity to Nathan. They had been so supportive of her and congratulated her on being able to progress with her life, it made her feel a lot happier than she already had been.

Nathan sighed as he continued to trail his fingers up Haley's back

"We need to get ready" he groaned

Haley looked at him confused. "Why?" She asked

"Because I told our parents and friends I was finally going to ask you tonight before Lydia, James, mum and dad all left to Europe next week. Lydia told me to bring you and Ry to dinner at 7 sharp, which means we've got 45 minutes to be ready"

Haley looked up at him, slightly shocked "everyone knew you were going to propose?" She asked him.

Nathan chuckled "well i had to ask our parents for permission, and I needed our friends help to set up our date for me to propose" he explained.

Haley looked at him in awe, admiring how much effort he had gone thing to make this special for her. She leaned in and kissed him passionately.

"Thank you" she whispered as they pulled away "I love that you put so much effort into this for me"

"Always. I love you Haley"

"I love you too Nathan"

A/N: ok! So I know it's short, but this is how I always imagined their proposal to pay out. I was going to put in a chapter before hand about him trying to propose all these different ways kind of like Mike and phoebe in friends but I wanted to keep this short and sweet. Next chapter will be the dinner celebrating with the friends and family, I'll have it up within a couple days. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see coming up and...

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- maddie :)