The Pain of Coming Back
Prologue: Its been 4 months since Haley James-Scott decided to purse her music career and leave Nathan behind in Tree Hill. Haley has finished her tour dates with The Wreckers and Chris. Haley had a blast she signed a record deal with Columbia Records and she is busy putting together her first album. However she has decided to first return to Tree Hill to finish her junior year of high school before she works further on the album. She knows that coming back to Tree Hill will be hard, especially when she knows that Nathan is there.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything that belongs to One Tree Hill or anything that associates with Columbia Records or In Touch magazine.
Crazy fans that caught her on tour a few months before, ambushed Haley James Scott at the gas station.
"Haley we love, Haley marry me, Haley, Haley, HALEY!" Her fans cried out as she quickly got into her Mercedes and drove out of the Tree Hill gas station. She flipped her sunglasses back onto her eyes and drove towards the apartment. Haley knew that Nathan would be there, it was round 4:00 he was always home at this hour, either playing video games with Tim or maybe Lucas would be there. She pulled into the parking lot. Her stomach was in knots, she was so unsure what to say to Nathan. They occasionally talked on the phone, but it usually ended in Nathan getting mad and hanging up on her. The last conversation she had with him was when she was making her first live TV interview, the one where Chris mistakenly said that him and Haley were a couple. She hoped that Nathan didn't watch that day because if he did she was unsure if he would even let her in the house. She climbed the stairs and got to the door. She was going to knock but suddenly she froze. She wasn't sure if she could do this. She hadn't really thought up to the moment when she would be only feet away from Nathan. Whether she faced him now or not sooner or later she was going to run into him.
She brought her hand to the door. She slowly started to knock but then her knocks became louder and faster. She stood their breathing heavily and was about to throw up. Suddenly the door swung open, and there he was. Her Nathan Scott, her true love. She wanted to jump on him and give him a passionate kiss, but instead she stood there.
"Hi Nathan." She said with a smile trying to see if he was calm or if he was freaking out as much as she was.
"Did you finally get sick of Chris?" Nathan said with a serious look.
"Nathan! I came all the way back to you and the first thing you ask me about is the one thing I have told you over and over. Nothing went on with me and Chris!" Haley said, disappointed that Nathan had to be so cruel to her after all this time.
"Then why are you here, I would think you would be staying at your new penthouse in New York." Nathan said with no emotion.
"How did you know about that?" Haley asked. She recently bought a penthouse in New York so that way she would be closer to the studio. She wanted to keep it a secret but apparently not.
"It's a thing called a magazine." Nathan said. Haley could tell there was anger in his voice. Nathan walked over and picked up a copy of 'In Touch' magazine. Haley and Chris were on the cover leaving a Jersey restaurant, it was the last stop on the tour. To celebrate Michelle took Chris and Haley out to dinner. However Michelle left early so the paparazzi caught Chris and Haley leaving together.
Haley walked over and took the magazine from Nathan's hand. She opened to the page where the article about her and Chris was.
" New couple Chris Keller and Haley James were spotted earlier last week leaving a popular New Jersey restaurant hand in hand. The waiter inside told In Touch that the couple were often cuddling and kissing each other throughout their dinner. Haley reportedly bought a penthouse near her new beau and also to work on her new upcoming album. Can't wait to see what's going to happen with this hot new couple."
Haley looked towards Nathan. "We're going to believe this trash?" Haley said putting the magazine in the trash.
"Haley pictures are worth a thousand words." Nathan said looking away from Haley and out the window.
"Those pictures mean nothing. Michelle took me and Chris out for dinner to celebrate the end of the tour. Her manager called and needed to see her at once, so she left. Then when me and Chris were leaving he took my hand and lead me through the crowd, that's all." Haley said. She was so sick of trying to defend herself. Nathan tuned her out and continued to look out the window.
"That's it, I don't even know why I came here. I thought maybe we could talk and work through this but I guess your just going to be stubborn about it" Haley said, she started for the door.
Haley grabbed Nathan's attention. "Fine leave, you seem to be so good at that." Nathan said as he walked to the door. She raced down the stairs with tears in her eyes. She never realized how much she hurt Nathan until now. She assumed on the phone he was just ticked off, but she hoped that when he saw her in person he would be forgiving, but she was wrong. As she walked to the car she looked back up to the apartment door to see if Nathan was watching her, however it was shut. She jumped in her car and headed back out onto the road, she was planning on heading over to Lucas's but with what happened to Nathan, she was unsure on how Lucas would react. Instead she drove to her old house and saw her family first.
