hey guys, sorry i didn't update yesterday! i've been so bad to you lately! but yeah. so i'm having horrible writers block at the moment. don't worry, i know EXACTLY what i want to happen, i just really can't be bothered writing it down. i'll get there. i've just started back at school, and the teachers are piling on the homework. i'm dying here. and i've been back for a day. so maybe expect an update every two nights? sorry if that's horrible, but it's the best i can give. i also need your help? i'll write my question at the bottom so that you can read this first! enjoy :)


49. Rumours

'So wait a minute. You're saying Rachel isn't pregnant?'

Haley nodded. It was that evening, and Nathan was round at the apartment. Peyton had taken Brooke out for a movie. Haley and Nathan were currently sitting in the living room. Haley had told Nathan what she heard in the bathroom.

'So what do we do?' Nathan asked.

Haley shrugged. 'What can we do? Should we confront Lucas? Or confront Rachel?'

'Well Lucas obviously doesn't know about this, so it's probably not a good idea to confront him, he should hear it from Rachel.'

'Exactly!' Haley shrieked, she had an idea. 'What we do, is we make Rachel tell Lucas, without actually telling her to tell them.' Nathan looked at her blankly. 'We need brain food.' Haley decided.

She walked over to the freezer and pulled out a tub of cookie dough ice cream, along with two spoons. She came back over to the sofa, sat down crossed legged, and handed one spoon to Nathan.

He took the spoon and looked at her with a confused look. Haley laughed.

'Ice cream solves everything.' She smiled as she unwrapped the tub.

Haley dived into the ice cream, while Nathan just picked at it. They sat in silence for a while and thought.

'I'VE GOT IT!!' Haley jumped out of her seating. She stood up and paced the room. 'Right, when you're pregnant, you need to have check ups. So obviously, Lucas should be there too. So we need to talk to him, and just casually ask when Rachel's first check up is. And when he says he doesn't know, then we act all shocked and tell him he should find out and insist to go to every single one with her. Even if she refuses, he must go! So then he will ask her when they are and she won't be able to respond!'

Haley smiled at Nathan proudly, who just chuckled. 'Haley James, you are a genius.'

'Do you like that?' Haley asked, her voice husky. She leaned down and nibbled his ear.

Nathan moaned softly. 'Yes, I definitely do.'

'Oh well.' Haley giggled and pulled away.

Nathan face dropped. 'Come here.' He jumped up and picked her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist as he carried her to the bedroom. She stated to leave light kisses down his neck as the tub of ice cream dropped to the floor.

They made it to the bedroom and Nathan gently lay Haley down onto the bed underneath him. He left kisses up her neck and along her jaw line. Haley grabbed his head and crashed her lips with his, loving how he made her feel.

Haley grabbed the hem of Nathan's shirt and pulled it off, only letting their lips part for seconds. Nathan's hand found the buttons on her shirt and he slowly started to unbutton them.

Then Haley stopped. 'Nathan, stop it.' she pushed him off, leaving him lying on the bed confused.

She did the buttons of her shirt back up, breathing heavily. 'I think you should leave.'

'Haley, what did I do?' Nathan got up and held her in his arms.

She leant back and put her hands on his chest. 'Just go, please?'


Brooke came in from her movie and went straight to the bathroom to throw up. She wasn't feeling well at all.

Peyton stood at the door and spoke to Haley. 'She's not doing good hales.'

'I know. But I just don't know how to get through to her. One minute she seems fine, the next she's breaking down.'

'I mean physically hales.' Peyton said quietly. 'We've been out since about 4 o'clock. It's now 11 o'clock, and she hasn't eaten anything. Not one thing! She keeps going to the bathroom to throw up, because her stomach is so empty!'

Haley ran her hands through her hair and sighed. She was stressed enough already.

Peyton noticed this. 'Are you ok Hales?'

'Yeah, sure I'm fine. Look I'll see if she eats anything. I'll see you tomorrow Peyton.'

Haley smiled and closed the door. Her smile faded when she saw a thin, pale-faced Brooke arrive from the bedroom.

'What's up Hales? There's no Nathan.'

Haley sighed and crashed down on the sofa. 'I don't know what happened Brookie. We were chatting, and then we started making out. Then he reached to take off my shirt and my walls went up. I had to ask him to leave.'

'Don't worry about it hales. You are probably just nervous. The last time you had sex it was because you got raped. Then Mark came and knocked your confidence, then Chris happened and ruined everything.'

'But nothing affected me with Damien. We never slept together, but we got clothes off.'

'But Damien never really meant anything to you. You are in love with Nathan, and that's scary for you, because the last time you were in love it got thrown back in your face. Nathan is a good guy, he will understand.'

'Were you in love Brooke?' Haley changed the subject.

'No…yes…I don't know. I could have been, very soon, I was falling fast. I think I was just in love with the idea of finally settling down.'

Haley smiled softly and patted Brooke on the shoulder. 'It'll be ok Brooke.'


'Hey man.' Lucas looked up from his book and saw Nathan. He then saw Haley and added. 'And woman.'

Nathan and Haley smiled and sat down on the bench with their lunches. It was the next day, and it was time to try out Nathan and Haley's plan.

'Whatcha' reading?' Haley pointed to the book.

Lucas flipped it up so Nathan and Haley could see the cover. It was a book on teenage pregnancy. Nathan scoffed, then winced in pain as Haley kicked him under the table.

'You know man, when is Rachel's first doctor's appointment?' he asked, leaning forwards.

'Um…' Lucas thought about it. 'You know, I don't actually know. Maybe she wants to go it alone.'

'Now I know that's a lie.' Haley joined in, getting a glare from Lucas.

'What's that supposed to mean?'

'It means you should be there every step of the way Lucas. It's, she, he, whatever is your baby. Rachel shouldn't do it alone.'

'But wouldn't it be more comfortable for her if I wasn't there?'

'Luke, get a grip. Even though she says she doesn't want you there, she needs the support.' Haley smiled fakely.

'Yeah man, you've got to be there even if she doesn't want you to.' Nathan added.

'Well, ok.' Lucas smiled. 'Oh, here she comes now, I'll ask her.'

Lucas greeted Rachel as Nathan and Haley shared a scheming wink.

'Hey babe.' Rachel sat down and looked towards Nathan and Haley. 'Nathan.' She nodded and him. 'Bitch.' She smirked at Haley.

Haley felt angry bubbling inside her but she flattened it and smiled fakely while squeezing Nathan's hand hard.

'So babe, I was thinking. When is your first doctor's appointment?'

Haley saw Rachel shifting uneasily in her seat. 'What doctors appointment?' she asked sweetly.

'For your baby.' Luca pointed at her stomach.

'Oh that… it's next week but you don't have to come.' She looked to the ground.

'But I want to.' Lucas rubbed her back.

'Well I would rather do it alone…'

'Rachel please, it's my baby too. I really want to come.'

'Yeah Rachel, you shouldn't go through this alone.' Haley touched Rachel's hand, acting concerned.

'Well the thing is Luke…I need to talk to you about the baby.'

'I'll do anything to help.' Lucas smiled.

'Can we talk alone? I don't want you to be mad.'

'It's ok rich, Lucas will tell us anyway.' Nathan smirked as Lucas nodded.

'Sorry to say it Rach but he is my brother.' Lucas said.

'Well…don't freak out. But I lied.'

'About what?'

'I'm not pregnant.'


Brooke carried her lunch tray to where she saw Nathan and Haley sitting. Then she realised Lucas and Rachel were there and she stopped. Where could she sit now? This was great, she had finally managed to come back to school, and now she had no friends.

She suddenly saw Lucas stand up in anger, he was shouting at Rachel. Brooke edged closer, she wanted to know what this was about.

'WHAT!' Lucas screamed.

'I'm not pregnant.'

'How could you do that to me Rachel? Why did you lie to me?' Lucas walked away and Rachel followed.

Brooke sat her tray down at the table and ran after them, she had to here this.

She stood against the wall next to a classroom. Rachel and Lucas were shouting inside.

'Lucas I really liked you! And you wanted me!'

'I did. Maybe I did! But I was falling in love with Brooke and I made a stupid mistake!'

'Then why did you stay with me?'

'I thought you were pregnant Rachel, I had to be there for my child!'

'Whatever. You wanted me!'

'Why did you lie to me Rachel?'

'Because you wanted to get Brooke back! And I wanted you to stay with me?'

'So you lied to me to punish me?'

Brooke gasped. This was too much to take in.

'Of course I lied! How could I know I was pregnant two days after we had had sex!'

'I don't know. I trusted you!'

'Will you please stay with me? I want to be with you Lucas.'

'You've hurt too many people Rachel. You hurt Nathan and Haley, and you hurt me. But most of all you hurt Brooke. And that hurt me more! I never wished for her to be hurting more than I had already hurt her. But then you lied and made me stay with you.'

Brooke ran away, she couldn't listen to anymore. Her mind was reeling and she couldn't think straight. She just had to go home.


'Hurry up Nathan!' Haley whined, as Nathan was finishing his game of NBA on the play station. 'Can't you just quit it?' she stamped her foot in annoyance.

'No I can't Haley. This is an important game, and I'm winning.' He chuckled.

Haley leant over Nathan's sofa and started to leave kisses down his neck and around his collarbone. She smirked into his neck as she felt him twitch. She then started to slide her hands over his shoulders and down his chest and stomach, nibbling on his ear.

'Haley James you don't play fair.' Nathan moaned as he threw the controller to the side. Haley squealed as he pulled her over the back of the sofa and on top of him.

They lay kissing for a few minutes when Nathan's cell rang.

'Leave it…' Haley mumbled into Nathan lips as she continued to kiss him.

But the phone continued to ring. Nathan reached over and grabbed his phone. Haley sucked on his pulse point on his neck.

'Hello? Yes this is he. Already? Yes of course I understand.' Nathan swatted Haley away and stood up, moving over to the other side of his living room.

Haley tried to work out what the conversation was about, but she could never guess.

'Yes I will do that. It's not a problem. I'll come in next week when we can discuss what to do. Thank you.' Nathan hung up the phone.

'Who was that?' Haley asked playfully, raising an eyebrow.


'C'mere hales.' Nathan pulled Haley off the couch and faced her, taking her hands in his. He bit his lip nervously.

'What's wrong Nathan?' Haley asked, squeezing his hands.

'That was the police station. They want us to go in next week.' He said slowly.

'Oh ok, what about? The shooting?' Haley asked innocently.

'No Haley, it's been six weeks.' Nathan watched as his beautiful girlfriend's eyes darkened with sadness and realisation as the truth hit her. He watched the tears form in her eyes and wiped them away with his thumbs.

'Mark is out of jail.'


oooh, cliffhanger there. but it will still be a few more chapters before mark comes back, because they are going into the police station next week.

so, my question. i read this fic once, it had one chapter, and stupid me forgot to story alert it/favourite story it, so now i can't find it. it was about naley. but nathan was engaged to rachel, who was haley's best friend, and lucas and brooke were married. it was haley's birthday, and rachel was so drunk she left. then nathan and haley were drunk, they went to a different bar, then they started kissing after nathan pushed away some guys who were trying to hit on haley. then he took her home, but he stopped the taxi from going to his house, and he went in with her and they got together.

the last line was something like.

'and then i was sleeping with my best friend's fiance'

i really want to find it again, so if anyone knows, could you tell me? cheers! and reviews!