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"So that's it?" Brooke asked irritated watching Haley throw things into the back of her car, "You're leaving again?"
She stopped what she was doing and rolled her eyes at her friend, shaking her head, "No, I'm not running away." She sighed and leaned against her old car, "I'm going back to Tree Hill. I explained this to you, all of you." She was frustrated, because no one seemed to listen to her when she spoke.
"But I don't get why? First Peyton and now you." She whined.
"Look, there are like a million things I need to take care of before college and I can't spend the summer lying on the beach pining away after Nathan Scott." She made a face as if she had just tasted something bitter.
"Why not? We all are…and what stuff do you have to take care of?" She crossed her arms and looked at her threw suspicious eyes.
Again Haley responded with an eye roll, "I need to get everything together for school. I have to be at freshman orientation and I have to make sure that I have everything ready for my dorm room…all while recording a CD and doing my music stuff."
"Is Stanford really that demanding?" Brooke asked not hiding the annoyance in her voice.
Haley bit her lip, she still hadn't told them that she wasn't going to Stanford, "Oh you know…" She waved her off trying to change the subject, "Plus you are gonna be back in Tree Hill as soon as the guys leave for basketball camp in a few weeks."
"Then why can't you just stay a little longer?"
"Because I have to get my stuff together."
"Well I'm sure Nathan thinks it's because of him," Brooke tried to throw bate out to her.
Haley bit her lip and then laughed it off, "I've been here for a few weeks, Nathan knows exactly how I feel." She raised her eyebrows and grinned, "So I'll see you in a few days."
"Ok," Brooke pouted, "If you have to."
Haley winked and squeezed her hand, "I do, tell the boys I said bye."
"You should wait til they get back," Brooke suggested hopeful.
Haley jingled her keys, "Nope." Before she sunk into her seat she smiled at Brooke, "When is your orientation?"
"I am going the same weekend as Luc and Nathan…I think it's the last weekend of July. Then they stay for practice and I come home til school starts."
"We'll hang out soon, I promise." Haley pulled out of the driveway and sped off down the street. She pulled to the stop sign and pulled out her phone. She noticed a text that must have just appeared. She pressed the button marked read, 'Bye. I'll miss you.' She grinned at the message, and glanced up at the name 'Nathan's Cell'.
She dialed a number and waited for the phone to be answered, "Office of Admission, how may I help you?"
"Hi. My name is Haley James and I'm an incoming freshman." She introduced herself, "I need to sign up for an orientation."
"Sure, just let me pull your file," She paused and listened to the woman type in a few things on her computer, "We only have a couple of openings. What date did you have in mind?"
"Do you still have the last weekend of July open?" Haley asked crossing her fingers for luck.
"You must have some kind of luck, because we just had someone change their time just five minutes ago."
"Really?" She asked laughing happily, "Do you think my luck can continue?"
"What else can I do for you?"
"I want to room with Brooke Davis for orientation," Haley bit her lip hopping she didn't sound like a stalker.
"I'm gonna need you to pick my lotto numbers for the night…" She said laughing, "You are some kinda lucky." Haley let out her breath and grinned, "Ok Ms. James, I have everything set up for you."
"Thank you so much. Have a great day." Haley clicked the phone off and turned up the radio full blast.
Nathan looked around the campus, although he had been here for almost a week he looked at things he had yet to see. The basketball coach seemed to have them locked up in the gym with little time at the end of the night for anything except for sleep. He felt someone lean over and sat frozen in his seat, "Hey there handsome. I head you were gonna be the star of the team, and I want to date the star."
He let a smirk linger on his lips as he felt her arms wrap around his neck, "I'm not sure the star is available." He said to the girl.
"No?" She whispered seductively, "What can I do to change your mind?"
"Haley!" He ran threw the door of her house screaming her name. She was packing a few things while dancing to the radio, "Haley," He said trying to catch his breath. He had come back to town for only a day before camp started and his mother told him Haley was also leaving the next day for school. She had given him space and they hadn't spoken in a few weeks. She spun around and smiled at him, tilting her head just so, "You can't leave."
She knitted her eyebrows and reached over turning down the volume on the radio, "Nathan," She said like she didn't believe it was him, "Is everything ok?"
He shook his head and sat next to her on the couch, "No, we can't leave like this." She searched his eyes waiting for him to continue, "We might not see each other for years and I can't let you move to California without telling you…"
She contemplated telling him that she wasn't going to California, but stopped herself, "Tell me what?" He bit his lip and looked away from her so she grabbed his hand, "Nathan, you can tell me anything, you know that right?"
He nodded looking back into her eyes, "Of course…" He hesitated so she patiently waited, "You have to tell me something." She watched his eyes urgently searching her eyes.
"What?"
"The one thing I've been waiting to hear since I saw you walk into the beach house. You looked so fresh and amazing," He touched her face and she leaned into the touch closing her eyes, "Do you remember when we talked that night?"
She gulped hard and let her eyes flutter open scared of what she would see, but his eyes were kind and hurt, "I'll never forget it."
"Me neither…" He took a deep breath, "I need to hear it. I told you what I needed to hear that day on the beach and you were too scared to tell me, but if you can't tell me now I don't think we'll make it."
She knitted her eyebrows confused, "Hear what? I'll tell you anything." She said almost desperate.
He looked deep in her eyes; "You left that day because you needed to find something in yourself and that you wouldn't be able to find it here…"
"Oh…" She looked down and breathed audibly out, "Nathan," She started looking up at him, he tried to speak but she stopped him placing her finger on his lips, "First let me tell you how much I love you, and the day I left I was at one of my lowest points, but I saw an out. I saw an opening to become someone new, meet new people, I mean lets face it I had no one," She looked up and gulped, "I had my friends but without you I had no one, at least that's how I felt…" She paused and he placed a hand over hers, "Sorry…I just really don't know…"
"Hales, take your time," He urged, she noticed his urgency; she knew he needed to hear this, as much as she needed to say it aloud.
"Nathan I found myself out there," She said with a tear falling, he with drew his hand and looked downward, "Wait…you don't…"
"It's ok. I understand," He began to stand she reached for him but he was out of her grasp.
"Wait," She cried desperately, but he didn't want her to see his tears welling up so he ignored her and walked to her front door. She scrambled to her feet and ran after him. He was opening his door, "Nathan!" She yelled and he paused and looked at her, his eyes blood shot from holding his tears back, "Don't leave me," She said reaching for him and crying, "That's what I should have said to you when you woke up from the accident, don't leave me please don't leave me." She laid her head against his chest sobbing and he wrapped his arms around her holding her tight.
"I'm sorry…" He gulped back his tears hard, and kissed the top of her head, "So much shouldn't have happened…but what you said…you and I will just…just not work." She pulled her head back, her eyes narrow searching his eyes for truth, "I…"
"Really?" She asked knitting her eyebrows, tears still falling from her eyes.
He looked upwards trying to be strong, "Hales…"
"You have a right to say how you feel, but this is it."
"What?" He asked now searching her eyes.
"You and I are going to hear each other out…and neither of us is allowed to run away. Neither of us deserves this emotional roller coaster we have been on for the last two years."
"Hales…"
She pulled farther away, "No!" She demanded, "Your at least gonna let me finish what I was saying."
"I heard…"
"No you didn't," She accused.
"How are we going to get through this conversation if you won't even let me talk?" He asked crossing his arms and she followed his lead.
"So as I was saying before you stood up and ran out here," She said her voice more cold and unsure, "Is I found myself out there, but what I found in myself is that I want to be with you. You are the love of my life and I came home to win you back. The only thing I regret about leaving is leaving you. Nathan Scott I am so head over heels for you I'm standing in my yard professing my love for you. I'm falling so hard I only applied to one college because I was sure that I wouldn't want to be away from you ever again. I love you, and if you walk away I'm sure I will eventually be able to pick myself up, I don't want to but I will…because…because that's what I do. So there you go, my whole story…I…" He stood staring at her, and cut her off by leaning down and kissing her hard on the lips.
She returned his kiss with a frantic need to be in his arms, when he pulled away he stared longingly in her eyes, "Thank you." She searched his eyes confused, "That's all I ever wanted to hear you say…because I am madly in love with you."
He reached up and smoothed her hair down and gently pulled her onto his lap, "Your doing a good job all on your own," He leaned in and kissed her deeply on the lips. When they pulled away, she pushed her sunglasses to the top of her head and smiled at him, he ran a finger down her cheek, "Are you sure about this?"
"About what?" She asked him, but didn't let him answer, "Being with you is the one thing I can honestly say is where I need to be."
"But…"
She placed a finger on his lips, "But nothing," She stopped, "I get that basketball comes first right now…I can live with that, but Nathan I love you and I'm here to support you."
He shook his head feeling the warmth fill his heart, "Nothing comes before you Hales. Nothing," He looked deeply into her eyes emphasizing the words.
She leaned in and kissed him again, "Do you remember that day I asked you about soul mates in Greece?"
"Yea…" He said raising an eyebrow.
"I don't think my dad and your mom were soul mates." She said surely.
"Ok…I'm not really sure where you're headed with this."
"Just listen," She replied and he couldn't help but laugh, "So I have decided that our parents weren't soul mates. My mom was my dad's soul mate, and I think that either your dad or someone else was your mom's soul mate. So getting to my point…" She said pointedly at him, "Remember I said that there had to be a reason that the two got together because everyone's lives are written before they are born?" He nodded listening intently, "Well I know the reason."
She stood up and he followed suit, "Are you going to share this revelation?" He asked intrigued.
"I'm not sure your ready…" She said teasingly.
He tickled her side, laughing with her, "Oh I'm ready."
She stopped suddenly and turned to face him, "They were together to bring us together and make us realize that we are soul mates…our love was written in the stars before we were even born."
He placed a hand under her chin, "I love you Mrs. Scott."
"I love you Mr. Scott," She said taking in a deep kiss, when she pulled away they both whispered, "Always and forever."
