Chapter 10- the wedding
"Hey Brooke are you ready to go?" Haley yelled from the bathroom as she was putting on her last earring.
"Yah, I just need to find my last shoe and....found it!! Ok I'm ready."
"Ok good let's get this over with."
Brooke made her way to the door and was suddenly stopped by Haley.
"Brooke wait! Before we go I just need to apologize to you for last night."
"I was wondering when you I was going to hear those magic words."
"Yah, I was really out of line, it's just that I'm stressed about seeing Lucas, and the whole Nathan thing, and I don't know, I just really miss my dog too." Haley said rambling.
"Yah, I understand but there's something I have to tell you..."
"Oh no Brooke don't worry about it, I promise I will never let my frustration out on you again. If I do I promise you can take me out on the street and kick my $$."
"Ok and I'll be sure to do that but..."
"really Brooke can we just leave it alone, I promise I'll make it up to you when we get back, ok?"
"Ok but..."
"Come on Brooke let's go!!" Haley grabbed on to her arm and pulled her out of the room before she could say anything.
"Oh my God Brooke, we are so late! As if it isn't embarrassing enough that I am actually going to this thing but now I am going to embarrass myself even more by walking in during the middle of the service I mean swear, I must have been a horrible person in my previous life because the way my life is going now, I bet you anything I am being punished by the karma Gods or something like that..."
"Haley will you stop worrying. Everything is going to be alright, I promise." Brooke said trying to calm Haley down.
"I hope you're right, because we're here." Haley and Brooke stepped in front of the church staring at the church entrance.
"Ok so this is what we're going to do, we're going to walk in quietly and just sit down in the back row alright, nothing too obvious. You're going to get through this, I promise."
"Okay let's do this." Brooke and Haley walked up to the front door and made their way into the church without being notice. The ceremony was just at that part where the minister had asked the best man for the rings.
"Brooke, I think I am going crazy." Haley whispered to Brooke as she was looking at the ceremony in progress.
"What are you talking about?"
"The best man, I swear if I didn't know better, I would have sworn that that was Nathan. Crazy, huh?" Haley said with a chuckle.
Just then Brooke zeroed in on the best man to confirm Haley's craziness but she couldn't. Sure enough it was Nathan. She saw him at the bar the other night with Lucas and hoped that it was just a coincidence but it wasn't. Nathan and Lucas were friends, cousins, brothers or something big enough to make Lucas want him as a best man. Brooke didn't know what to say, should she tell her that it was Nathan or not? She would find out soon enough at the reception. So maybe it was better that she didn't say anything to avoid her having a nervous breakdown in front of Lucas' and Peyton's family. So there was her decision.
"Yah, Haley, that is pretty crazy." Brooke let out a nervous chuckle and they continued to watch the ceremony anxiously waiting for it to be over.
At the reception...
"How long do you think we need to stay here?" Haley asked anxiously waiting for the Bride and groom to make their entrance so that she can say her part to Lucas and finally have this day be over with.
"I say about an hour or 'til after dinner and dessert, I mean we might as well get some free food out of this, ya know?"
"Yah, especially considering it's coming out Lucas' pocket, yah after dessert sounds good to me."
Just then the members of the wedding of the wedding started to make their way to the front of the reception hall. First were mother and father of the bride, then of the groom, then the best men came down the aisle each with a bridesmaid on their arm. Haley was sitting in front of the entrance seeing a very clear view of all the people that were involved in the wedding. And then she saw him. The guy she could have sworn was Nathan in the middle of the wedding was definitely Nathan. She stared at him in shock, hoping that he didn't notice her but at the same time, hoping to God that he would notice her and sure enough he did. He couldn't understand why Haley would be at Lucas' wedding. He knew what he did to Haley and he felt terrible which made him unable to look Haley in the eyes at the moment. He just continued walking down the aisle, trying not to look at Haley's shocked expression.
"And now I would like to introduce to you all for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Scott." Said the DJ as Lucas and Peyton were the last to enter the reception.
"Brooke what should I do? Should I say something to him? Should I just ignore him, Should I just-"
"Haley breathe!" Brooke said trying to calm her down. "Maybe you should just wait for him to come to you. On second thought-"
"Haley?" Haley heard from behind her. Haley tried to collect her self before she turned around.
"Nathan! You know we seriously need to stop meeting like this." Haley said with a cheerful voice and a forced smile on her face.
"Would you like to dance, so we can talk?" Nathan asked holding out her hand for her to take.
"Sure why not?" Haley said with the fakeness of cheerfulness still plastered all over her voice and face.
Nathan lead Haley to the dance floor as a slow song was playing. When they reached the floor, Nathan wrapped his arms around Haley's waist and Haley brought her arms around his neck.
"So what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?"
Nathan was confused at Haley's behavior, he was sure that she would give him a piece of her mind for not calling her after that night. "Um... I just wanted to apologize for not calling you after that night."
"Oh please don't worry about it, it's not like we were together or you're my boyfriend or anything. You don't owe me anything."
"But I do, I mean I told you a lot of things about how maybe this was fate that brought us together and I meant every word of it. It's just after that kiss, I felt something, and it scared me."
Haley's cheerfulness suddenly started to fade as she started to listen to what he was saying. "What do you mean, Nathan?"
"I mean, I don't know what I mean. It's just when I went home that night I started to think about you and the future. That's not something I usually do. Usually with a girl for me, it's all about the moment but with you, I started to think about other things like where I would take you on our date or our date 2, 3 months, even a year from now. I'm not used to feeling that I don't know girl like."
"girl like?" Haley asked confused as to his description of himself.
"yah you know how girls are when they find someone they like. They start to say 'oh he's the one, I can really see a future with him, our children will be so cute.' You know those kind of things." Nathan said mocking the emotions that a woman go through when they first meet a guy.
"So are you telling me that you think our children will be cute." Haley said still trying to understand what he meant.
"No, well kind of, but no, I'm not that girly, I'm just saying, I think about you a lot." Nathan explained trying to make sense to himself what he just confessed.
"So why didn't you call?"
"I don't know, I guess I was just afraid that you didn't feel the same way that maybe it was one sided."
"But Nathan, I kissed you, I thought that told you how I felt."
"it did, but I guess I just wanted to make sure that it really was fate that brought us together and it wasn't being forced." Nathan looked in her eyes. "Seeing you today proves that this is fate and I want to be with you."
"I want to be with you too." Nathan smiled and leaned in to kiss Haley. Haley kissed him back but then stopped abruptly. "Speaking of fate, and you and I both being here makes me wonder why you are here?"
"Lucas is my half brother. Why are you here?"
"You're Lucas' brother, oh my God, why didn't I realize that sooner, well if I knew your last name I guess I would have known which does bring me to the conclusion that you are Nathan Scott, 2nd son of t devil himself Dan Scott."
Nathan chuckled at her bluntness. "I'm guessing you have met my father. Which makes me ask my question again. Why are you here?"
"Well I guess you could say I am Lucas' ex fiancé. It was a bad experience, I prefer not to go through it again." Haley said.
"oh, so you are the famous Haley James." Nathan said remembering Lucas talking about her a couple of times.
"Oh so you have heard about me? What has Lucas told you about me?"
"Nothing much, I mean we really aren't that close, I'm just best man by technicality and it seemed like the right thing to do I guess. I do know however know that you broke off your engagement to Lucas because he cheated on you with none other than the current Mrs. Lucas Scott. Which brings me to ask, why would you come to their wedding?"
"I figured it would be a good way to move on, to show Lucas that I'm not heart broken over what had happened. And to hopefully make him regret him ever cheating on me by knocking him out with this dress." Haley said with a smile and a light chuckle.
"Well if it makes you feel better, I don't know if you knocked Lucas' socks off but you definitely have an effect on mine." Both Haley and Nathan laughed at his confession. "Hey how bout we get out of here, this party's getting kind of old."
"Yah, ok. Let me just go tell Brooke. I'm sure she'll be happy that I am in a good mood now." Haley said as she smiled in Nathan's direction and Nathan smiled back.
Haley was looking around the reception for Brooke when she finally spotted her in the corner of the room sitting on some guys lap. Haley then noticed that Brooke was kissing him. It was Jake. Haley smiled knowing that Brooke would be well taken care of so she just left and said to herself that she'll call her later on.
"Well Brooke seems to be a little preoccupied, so she'll be alright."
Nathan laughed, "I'm guessing she found out Jake was here."
"yah" With that both of them headed off to Nathan' hotel room.
"So this is your hotel room?" Haley said as she sat down on the bed.
"yes it is, do you like?"
"I do, I really do." Haley smiled in his direction.
"So what do you think we should do?" Nathan asked as he sat down next to Haley.
"Oh I don't know maybe we should kiss." Haley said as she leaned over to Nathan and kissed him passionately.
"We could do that." Nathan said in between kisses.
"Or you know we can always talk." Haley said still kissing him.
"We could do that...because... I really do think....you look beautiful....tonight." Nathan said again in between kisses.
"Oh you are so sweet. That kind of makes me think of something else we could do."
"What would that be?" Nathan said as he stopped kissing Haley and looked in her eyes.
Haley smiled at Nathan and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. "You could make love to me."
Nathan looked at her shocked at what he just said but couldn't resist the offer. There was something about her that made him weak and he couldn't resist it. He leaned in to kiss her and leaned her down on the bed. "You know, I promise you that this will be more than a moment."
"It better be." Haley said and then continued kissing him leaving all rational out of it and making love to a man she barely knew but felt like she knew her whole entire life.