Evan walked into the Scott household, he felt like a traveler returning home, everything was were he remembered it, he heard the sounds of the three younger boys playing. He smiled almost tempted to go and wrestle with them like old times instead he walked up the stairs slowly not knowing what awaited him at the top. As he reached the top step James met him, the two old friends looked each other in the eyes.

"I told her about it all." James said as Evan's felt his heart beat.

"What did she say?" Evan said quickly as James shook his head.

"Nothing, she's been in her room since I told her but Brooke says she's not upset about it." James said as they walked towards her door.

"Can I go talk to her?" Evan asked as James smiled.

"Well I didn't invite you over to have a chit chat." He said sarcastically as the old friends smiled, it was in that second that they felt like old friends again.

"Ok." Evan said as he broke up the moment and walked into Celeste room. As soon as he walked into the room he saw Celeste sitting on her bed, she was reading from a small red journal.

"Hey can I come in?" Evan asked almost in a whisper as Celeste looked up.

"Oh hey." She said as an awkward silence came over them and they stood waiting for the other to say something.

"I'm really sorry about everything that happened Evan." Celeste said as she put the journal down. "But why didn't you tell me? Why did you lie?" Evan sighed and sat down on her bed.

"I didn't know what you would think; I didn't want you to have to choose between James and me." He said as Celeste frowned.

"I would never choose between you and him." Celeste said as she closed the book and set it on her night stand.

"What's that?" Evan said as he sensed that something bigger was bothering her.

"I can't tell you." Celeste said as Evan frowned.

"You know you can tell me anything."

"You know when I moved down here, I got a fresh start." Celeste said as she turned so that she and Evan were sitting side by side. "But that doesn't mean that my life before was picture perfect."

"Celeste I know about your parents." Evan said as Celeste twitched.



"No….its more than that…I don't want your feelings to change." Celeste said as she looked at Evan. "Cause I really like you and if I told you what I've done you might not like me much anymore." She said as Evan took her hands and held them.

"You could tell me you helped OJ get away with murder, and I would still be here, right next to you." He said as he leaned over and gave her a kiss. "Nothing will change the way I feel about you." He said as Celeste took a deep breath.

"When I lived in the city there was this guy that I dated for a few months, his name was Caleb, well eventually I got pregnant." Celeste said softly as she waited for Evan to say something instead he just sat waiting for more. "I was really scared and when I told him, he said that he would get the money to you know kill it." She said as she took a deep breath trying to remain cool. "I told him that I couldn't do that and I went to California with my mom and step dad for a while until I could decide what to do." Celeste said as she started to shake almost.

"What did you do?" Evan asked nervously.

"I told my mom because she hadn't been drinking as much and I thought that she would help me, she took me to the doctor and we decided that I would give the baby up for adoption." She said quietly.

"So did you?" Evan asked.

"When we went back home, I was getting bigger and Caleb didn't want to ruin his reputation and he beat me up in his bedroom one day and I came home and my mom was drinking and told my step dad so then I got it twice as bad, that night my mom died and so did the baby." Celeste said as tears started to fall out of her eyes.

"Celeste." Evan said as he pulled her into his arms, holding her for dear life as she cried. At the sound of her cries, Nathan and Haley came into Celeste room. Both of them took a second to see Evan and Celeste sitting on the bed. They stood for a second watching the two teens, both of them had been stolen of their childhood in exchange for the harshness of evil acts.

"Dad..." Celeste said as she noticed her parents standing at the door, she shifted out of Evan's embrace and stood up. "Hey, I can I talk to my parents alone." Celeste said as looked at Evan. "You go and make things right with James." She said as Evan walked out of the room and Nathan and Haley took his spot. As Celeste started to explain what happened to Nathan and Haley, Evan stepped out of the room, and walked down to the room towards James's room just as he was about to knock, he saw James form the hall window playing basketball. Evan headed towards the backyard trying to come up with a good apology on the way.

"Hey." He said as he caught the ball that had bounced off of the backboard.

'Hey, so how did it go?" James asked as Evan smiled.



"Good I guess, Celeste has been through hell, I feel bad for her." Evan said sincerely as he tossed the ball into the hoop. "But she's got this family to help her through it now."

"Yeah I guess." James said as he dribbled the ball.

"So, I was talking to Ava and Bec and we all wanted to say sorry to you." He said as James dropped the ball and turned towards Evan. "I know that you were only trying to help, I mean I guess I was just mad I mean someone hurt my sisters, you have no idea how that feels…." He said as James sighed.

"Yeah I do." He said "Apology accepted." He said as the two friends joined in a man hug. "Celeste has turned you into a chick dude." He said as they both laughed.

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Later that night after the rest of the house was fast asleep, the worries of the world blank from their minds, Nathan and Haley sat in their bed.

"I just can't believe that she lived through all of that." Haley said

"Yeah you're telling me." Nathan said as he felt his anger rise. "I hate that I missed out on everything." He said as he felt his throat close up and tears form in his eyes. "If I had known I could have saved her life." He said.

"Nathan, don't do that to yourself."

"The boys have all had these great childhoods and they don't even know it, and Celeste has been through adult things since she was 3." Nathan said "I would give anything to take all of this pain away from Celeste." He said as Haley hugged him.

"Well we can't but we can be there for her…trying to make the rest of her life the best it can be." Haley said as Nathan kissed his wife falling in love with her all over again.

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A/n- Sorry it's been so long!! I meant to UD sooner but I got my wisdom teeth taken out and I was out of commission for a good week!!This was going to be one long chapter but I decided to break it up!! So I hope you like all the UD!! Feedback would be amazing!