A/N: I haven't updated this story for a while, but I got some inspiration so hopefully I'll be able to update more. I hope you enjoy the story…and please read and review!

The bell rang at seven-forty a.m. in the hallways of Tree Hill high school. Kids standing in groups in the hallways dispersed at the ringing, scattering off into their classes. Haley barged through the double doors of the school dressed in black sweatpants and a red long sleeved shirt. Her chocolate brown hair was pulled back into a messy ponytail and she looked like she hadn't slept all weekend – which was a true fact. Bags even darker and larger then usual hung underneath her eyes and she was so tired that any kind of facial expression was too difficult to perform. She caught the end of the bell and rushed down the long, drab hallway finally reaching her first period class.

When Haley entered the classroom everyone's eyes focused directly on her, bringing back flashbacks of when she was in the clinic. She stuck close to the wall unable to move from all the terror piercing her body and just stared at the floor in a trance.

"Ms. James, so nice of you to join us. Take your seat." Mr. Thompson said standing next to the chalkboard taking his focus off of what he was writing and directing it towards Haley.

"Yeah, um sorry." Walking to her seat she stuck close to the wall until she finally reached her seat and sat down at her desk.

Haley felt so out of place, like she didn't belong here. Her heart sunk when she saw Nathan, and butterflies formed in her stomach. While she was walking to her seat he never even looked up, never gave her anything – never even asked if she was all right. She couldn't stand this. Keeping this secret from Nathan was driving her crazy. She loved him so much, more then she could possibly say, and to see him just sit there and not even acknowledge her made Haley want to scream. Her mind began to race with thoughts while she sat admiring the back of his head. Should she tell him? She knew she wasn't going to blurt it out right there in front of the class, maybe afterwards or sometime during the day, or should she not even tell him at all? It wasn't a done deal that she was keeping this baby and over the weekend she had done some serious thinking about her options. Over the weekend Haley had been wrapping her head around three possibilities all of which ensuring pros and cons and each would change her life no matter which one she'd choose. Abortion, adoption or possibly keeping the baby were the options she was left with. Though one of them she was leaning towards more then the other, her mind wasn't made up.

First period class went by extremely slow and most of what her teacher was talking about went in one ear and out the other. She was too tired to pay attention to anything, except the back of Nathan's head, that everything Mr. Thompson was saying sounded like gibberish.

When the bell rang and the students rose from their seats, Haley reached her hand out as to almost stop Nathan from going, but instead was too late and watched him walk out of the room. She swore under her breath and collected her things, following behind her classmates that were anxiously trying to get out of the classroom as fast as they could. In the hallway she saw Lucas and Brooke standing by Brooke's locker talking.

"Hey…Haley, I wanted to talk to you." Lucas said pulling out of his conversation with Brooke and focusing on Haley. He pulled her a few steps away to talk to her in private while Brooke collected her belongings from her locker. "Did you hear anything yet? Isn't the doctor suppose to call today?"

"No, he hasn't called yet and to tell you the truth, I don't really want him to. Lucas this is too much for me, I don't think I can handle this. I mean what seventeen year old can have a baby? Well except Jake but still. Lucas I can't do this." Haley began to burst into tears again drawing attention to herself from people passing by in the hall. Lucas held Haley close to him, and whispered softly into her ear trying to calm her down.

"What are you looking at?" Lucas said angrily to a student who was joking about Haley crying to his friends. When the kid heard Lucas, he immediately apologized and walked in the other direction, away from them . "Let's just find out the results first and then you can decide what you want to do. And Hales, please stop crying, I hate to see you so upset."

Brooke watched from a far suspiciously. She knew they were each other's best friends but lately they seemed to be spending a lot of time together. More then usual. Brooke figured she could do what she does best, snoop, and find out what's going on the hard way since no one was saying anything.

She casually strolled over to the other side of hallway, books held tightly to her chest as she inconspicuously leaned her head forward trying to catch what they were talking about.

As to notice their nosy intruder, they ended their conversation quickly. Haley looked down at her feet then back up at Lucas nervous that Brooke may have heard something.

"H-hey Brooke. What's up?" Haley said irresolutely, scratching the top of her head with her index finger. The dynamics seemed to have changed, everything seemed awkward – talking to friends just didn't feel normal now.

Haley's edginess surprised Brooke. Tutor girl was acting shy. Haley was never shy, yes a little insecure but never shy. And after the uncomfortable minute passed of Lucas and Haley looking in opposite directions to avoid eye contact with Brooke and an explanation, the silence became unbearable for her.

"Yes, that seems to be the common question. And as much as this little game of 'not look at Brooke' is nice and I greatly appreciate it, I know something is wrong. You both know me, and we're all friends here so…. tell me your secret. Plus," Brooke paused leaning in closer to Haley's face, "you know I'll find out sooner or later anyways, so the best thing to do is spill it." Haley swallowed hard. This wasn't good – Brooke was on to her. Must smell blood in the water or something.

Haley's face began to drain its color and she bit her lip as she always does when she's nervous. Her eyes as if a habit, drifted over to Lucas and they both exchanged unsure looks. Brooke stood in between the two, her eyes glancing back and forth then grew angry and stomped her foot in frustration.

"No, don't look at him…you don't look at her – why do you two keep doing that? What are you hiding Haley James?" Picking her out amongst Lucas, her keen instincts told it was Haley that was hiding something, something big, and something no one would tell her.

"What would make you think that I'm not hiding anything? Nothing's wrong, okay? Okay. Good, nice talking to you…let's do it again sometime. Great. Bye Brooke." Pushing her in the opposite direction, Haley tried her best to get rid of her as quickly as possible; but Brooke pulled away and returned back to the spot in between them.

"Hmm I don't know, maybe your sudden urge to get rid of me? This must be serious that you can't even tell me. I'm good at keeping secrets. Remember that one time you broke Peyton's mom's vase that was handed down through each generation, and you blamed it on her dog? Yeah well guess who still doesn't know that. Peyton doesn't." Lucas shook his head laughing silently under his breath at Brooke's story, but also at how cross Haley grew as she told it.

"Yeah Peyton may not know, but now Lucas does. Thanks." She flicked a piece of her hair out of her eye and muttered under her breath, "where's that damn bell."

"So Lucas, you're coming over my house tonight right?" Using her index finger, Brooke stroked Lucas' arm making him fell a little uncomfortable.

"I'd love to but I can't, I have to help –" Before Lucas could finish Brooke immediately filled in his missing line.

"Haley. Right. You have to help her with this secret she's keeping. It won't stay a secret for long James, so when you come to your senses…you know where to find me." Brooke saw some friends of hers walking down the hall and left her little meeting with Lucas and Haley to join them.

Lucas stood behind Haley and placed his hands on her shoulders as the two watched Brooke leave.

"Why when she says that I don't get a good feeling?" Haley asked still staring down the hallway.

"Brooke means what she says. She's a powerful girl, has a lot of connections to things. Don't worry Haley, I wont tell anyone and no one will ever find out until you want them to."

"Well I'm not even sure if there will be something to tell anyone, anyways." Lucas looked at Haley dumbfounded, not sure what she was saying.

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"I'm just saying that I'm not sure if there is a baby in the first place. And even if there is, it's not definite I'm keeping it."

"Whoa, whoa, wait a second Haley – you can't be serious. Abortion?" Haley immediately hushed him and their tones developed into a whisper.

"Do you mind not announcing that to the whole world? I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do. And it's easy for you to pass judgment, especially since you have no idea what I'm going through or what it'll be like to be pregnant…that is, if I am, that I need you to be a supporter, not a parent. What I decide will be my choice, no one else's."

"You're right, I'm not sure what you're going through but I'll be here for you. Hales me and you go way back and I'll support you with whatever you decide to do." Lucas smiled and rubbed the side of her arms and just as Haley began to feel all right again, Nathan and his new girlfriend walked by them.

Nathan shot Haley an evil look as if to rub in her face that they're done with. Peyton, her hand in Nathan's, didn't even notice that Lucas and Haley were standing right there and to make matters worse, Nathan decided to make out in front of her too…twisting the knife deeper into her heart.

Haley's eyes were glued on him the whole time and her heart broke into a thousand little pieces when she saw them kissing. She couldn't believe how cruel he was being trying to emphasize that their relationship meant nothing and that he could do with out her. Haley's eyes began to water and she covered her mouth with her hand as the nausea crept back up.

"Bathroom, now..." She said, huddled over ready to spew at any minute. Lucas rushed her to the closest bathroom though it was hard, as the current of students seemed to be going in one direction; they had to push to get by them quickly.

The bell rang but it was barely audible to from the sound of Haley huddled over the toilet vomiting everything she had eaten. Lucas waited outside the girls' room smiling at some people who found it odd that he was standing outside the girls' bathroom.

When Haley finally emerged she looked worse then he had ever saw her. The bags seemed to have grown larger, her color more pale and an even more exhausted demeanor.

"You okay Hales?" He sprang from a chair outside the bathroom and came to Haley's side.

"No, I'm just sick of this. I guess this is the morning sickness part of this wonderful experience." She sunk down into the chair Lucas was sitting in and ran her fingers through her brown hair.

"Hales it'll get better I promise. And doesn't morning sickness last for like the first couple months?"

"Great. So I should have about two more months of this…that is if I decide to even go through with this."

Lucas shook his head and lifted her chin with his finger. "Look – it's ultimately your decision but Hales, think about abortion. Do you really want to do that? I know a baby is a huge thing but I don't want you to regret anything years from now."

Haley smiled, a sight no one's seen on her face lately. "I wish I had your faith right now. I guess I never noticed how mature you really are, or how lucky I am to have you as my best friend."

"That's me, Lucas Scott…Mr. Maturity."

The bell rang for lunch and Haley and Lucas sat at the lunch table with Brooke, while Peyton and Nathan sat a few tables down from them.

"What a bitch. Who goes after their friend's man? Seriously, I told her not to but she obviously didn't listen." Brooke finally broke the silence at the table along with Haley's stare over at the two lovebirds.

"Brooke, cool the comments please." Lucas said turning away from the direction of Nathan and Peyton and focusing on his lunch.

Brooke rolled her eyes and continued her little investigation, watching Haley like a hawk.

Haley barely touched her food and complained of nausea the whole entire time while Lucas kept insisting she eat something.

"Tutor girl, you don't look so good. Shouldn't you go to the nurse or something?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine. The day's almost over anyways so I'll just stick it out for another two hours until we go home."

Awkward silence and Lucas and Haley shooting looks at each other like they were trying to send a signal for Brooke to leave, though Brooke didn't budge.

A few tables down Nathan and Peyton were trying to make it seem like they didn't notice that their "former" friends were watching them.

Peyton was digging into her food, stuffing her face like she hadn't eaten in months while Nathan looked on astonished.

"Calm down Peyt, the food's not going anywhere…you don't have to eat so fast." Nathan said, looking down at the tray and seeing Peyton's unusual eating habits.

She grabbed a bread stick from her tray and ate it within ten seconds, then moving on to a weird concoction of pasta sprinkled with pepperoni.

Nathan thought it was odd but when he hinted at her eating choices, she became extremely angry with him and so he duly noted that that was a sensitive subject.

"I've just been so hungry lately, I just don't know what it's about." He folded his hands in front of his face and just watched her out of the corner of his eyes while secretly looking over where Haley was.

Truth was he still loved Haley very much. She wasn't like the girls Nathan usually went for, but there was something about her that won his heart. He wracked his head over and over, thinking of ways to apologize, playing images of how he'd like it to go in his head…but there was one problem. Peyton. She was the rebound chick and though he doesn't mean to hurt her, it's something that can't be avoided. He was pissed at Haley so he went to a party, got drunk and had his fun for the night. He asked Peyton to be his girlfriend as a way to piss off Haley – and though it's obviously working, he's getting sick of all this lying.

The bell sounded and lunch was over. All the kids in the lunchroom got up from their tables and headed towards the door to their next classes, but Haley stayed behind watching Nathan thinking maybe this would be a good time to talk to him.

She slyly walked up behind Nathan tapping him on the shoulder. Lucas tried to hold her back but she walked over before he noticed. "Nate…I –"

Nathan turned around, looking down at his ex; quickly picking up at her newly founded appearance. "Oh, hey Haley." He talked and acted like nothing was wrong, that nothing happened between them.

"I-I really need to talk to –"

"C'mon Nate, the bell's going to ring in a minute and we're going to be late for…hey, Haley." Peyton returned from the snack counter holding a bag of chips in her hands, and with out seeing Haley, she unknowingly wrapped her arms around his shoulder and kissed him on the cheek.

"Peyton how could you! I thought you were my friend." Haley screamed at the top of her lungs. She didn't want it to be true - that they were actually a couple - but seeing it up close just made her uncomfortable and betrayed.

She stormed out of the cafeteria; she was too embarrassed to stay. Nathan watched acting like he had no idea why she flipped out like that, and Peyton stood there feeling so awful.

"You're such an ass." Lucas said clutching his fists tightly.

"Haley and I are over…I'm allowed to move on and be with whoever I want." He put an arm around Peyton, but she didn't embrace it, just stood next to him looking down at the ground.

"But her friend man, that's low…. low Peyton." His eyes switching between his brother and friend, but it seemed like only Peyton understood what he meant.

"If you came over her to insult me and make fun of my new relationship then why don't you just leave? Wouldn't want you to be late to class." Nathan now mocking him was really starting to piss Lucas off more then he already was.

"God Nate, if I didn't know something right now I would kick your ass."

"So you are hiding something." Brooke looked over at Lucas, stepping in between the two Scott brothers and seeing their veins bulging, fists tightened and ready to fight, she ignored it, only interested in the secret.

The principal walked into the cafeteria and told them to get to class, which they had no choice but to oblige. Lucas and Nathan gave each other death stares as they walked in opposite directions and once they were out of each other's sight all Lucas wanted to do was find Haley.

Walking through the hallways, Lucas looked through the door of every classroom, at every student's face as they walked by…but no Haley.

"Lucas, are you looking for Haley?" Lucas didn't answer, just kept searching the halls hoping he'd see Haley walk past them or something. "Are you two dating because you're seriously Haley obsessed…well more than usual, but it's kind of freaking me out."

"Brooke she's my friend and she's in troub –" Lucas bit the bottom of his lip knowing he said too much and now he'd get the hundred questions from Brooke.

"Trouble? Tutor girl's in trouble? How…why…what…. come on Luke, spill." She grabbed onto his arm, bouncing like a little child whose mom was going to buy them the toy they really wanted.

"I shouldn't have said anything. Look, Haley's fine she's just going through a tough time – period. No more questions because that's as much as I'm going to say." The hallways cleared and it was only Lucas and Brooke left in the hallway.

"God Haley where are you?" He muttered under his breath still searching for her, but still no luck. Brooke sat down on the bench outside the nurse's office and crossed her legs, bored.

"I say we just go back to my place, we're already cutting class…there's no point of staying here." She grew impatient and with a loud huff, stomped down the hallway towards her class, the tapping of her heals audible until she came to her destination.

It wasn't until the end of the day when Lucas went out to the student parking lot that he saw Haley sitting in her car, crying. He ran over to her, opening the door and got in, trying to comfort her the best he could.

Her eyes were puffy, her face bright red and her eyes were clouded with impending tears. He took her hand in his and stroked the back of it with his finger.

"Have you been out here the whole time? Hales, I was looking for you all over."

Haley sniffled and nodded; her voice was hoarse when she spoke due to screaming while she was in her car. There were tissues scattered all over the place and her steering wheel looked as though it got a good beating. "Nathan's an ass, I told you that all along – he's no good, especially for someone like you. You're too good for him Hales."

"Lucas, I know this is an 'I told you so' okay? You were right all along, I should have listened and I should have stuck to my values because if I did, I wouldn't be in this mess right now. Okay? Is that what you wanted to here?" Another violent outburst was soon to occur, he could tell by the way her tears came quicker and the vein in her neck began to bulge like it did when she got angry.

Lucas sighed and took Haley's hands from the steering wheel before she had the chance to cause more damage. "You are my best friend in the world and I hate it when you're not happy. I'm so sorry you have to go through this, especially over someone like Nathan, but you're not going through this alone. You have me, my mom…Brooke – your baby will have the best clothes of anyone in Tree Hill," He smiled seeing Haley starting to lighten up and find humor in what he was saying too, "and I'll teach the baby how to play basketball – he'll be so good, colleges all over the world will want him to go to their university. You see what I'm getting at? But then again if you want an abortion, which personally I hope you don't choose…or adoption, you have all these people here who'll love him and will take care of him – he'll have the best life."

Haley started crying again, though this time it was happy tears. "You're such a charmer." As Lucas reached into hug Haley, her cell phone began to ring. She looked down at the caller i.d. to see Dr. Phillips name flashing across the screen. She mouthed to Lucas that it was the doctor and then pressed the talk button. "Hello? Fine and you? Yes I'm ready to hear the results. Okay…thank you doctor Phillips." She hung up the phone and sat quietly, just looking down at her cell phone.

Lucas raised one eyebrow waiting to hear the news, but Haley didn't say a word. "So?"

"I-I'm pregnant." She looked at Lucas flashing a fake smile though there was nothing to be happy about and her eyes once again started filling with tears. How was she going to handle a baby…being pregnant? Lucas embraced her in a hug, and when she looked out the window she caught the sight of Nathan and Peyton holding hands while they walked to his car. Her stomach dropped when she saw them kiss, and the crying worsened. She pulled back from Lucas and covered her hand over her mouth. "I think I'm going to be sick…"