Haley awoke with the sun beaming down on her. Her eyes widened as she took in her surroundings and she reached her arm up to sooth her neck, funny how sleeping on a floor can hurt like that. It wasn't soon after that she realized she wasn't at Chris' but was on Nathan's bedroom floor with said husbands arm draped across her body. It was also then that she realized that indeed they were on the floor together, but they were also under a sheet…naked.
'Shit.' Haley thought to herself, thoughts of the previous night flooding her brain. She smiled slightly at the thought but instantly regretted it as she felt a searing pain across her head. Haley unintentionally groaned loudly as she tried to shut out the light and grasp her head, she was definitely hung over.
"Go back to sleep Hales." Nathan whined as he stirred from his sleep, awakening slowly.
"Uh, Nathan?" Haley questioned carefully, not quite knowing what his response to last nights activities would be.
"Haley?" Nathan asked confused, now fully awake and pulling back from his wife.
"Morning" Haley said meekly.
"What the hell?" Nathan stated as he stood up, the sheet fell from his body and for once in his life he was quick to cover up.
"I…I don't know. Um. Last night. We uh…um." Haley stuttered as she also stood up, grasping the sheet close to her body as she searched for her own clothing.
"Yea, I know. I was there." Nathan bit back, his tone more harsh then he intended.
"I know. Sorry." Haley apologized, still looking for her clothes. Nathan noticed she was having trouble and cursed himself for not being able to keep a clean room.
"Here wear these." Nathan offered, holding out a pair of shorts and a sweater.
"Thanks." Haley accepted as she quickly changed into the clothes.
"Yea. Uhh." Nathan paused not quite knowing how to handle the situation, plus Haley looked hot in his clothes. His shorts were much too big for her as she had to hold them up with her hand and he was reminded of all the times she had worn his sweaters while they were together and happy.
"Yea. I'm just…gonna go." Haley muttered quickly as she made for the door.
"Wait. Haley." Nathan stopped her.
"Yea?" Haley questioned, avoiding looking at him.
"Last night…it shouldn't have happened. I mean-" Nathan tried to explain, crushing Haley's heart in the process.
"No. I get it." Haley stopped him from continuing. She looked up into his sad and broken eyes before turning and leaving his room, refusing to let her tears fall. As right as Nathan was, she wished different, but it hurt all the same.
Haley made her way outside and down the road, continuing all the way to the river court where she finally allowed herself to breakdown. She sat by the rivers edge and let out heart wrenching sobs, eventually using up what little energy she had and fell asleep.
She awoke hours later to Chris squatting beside her and poking her with a stick.((I crack up at the visual this provides everytime!))
"Stop it." Haley groaned as she swatted him away.
"Haley, what the hell are you doing?" Chris asked, holding out his hand to help her up.
"I was sleeping." She stated as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
"By the river. On the ground. Being attacked by mosquitoes?" Chris prodded, waving away the bugs.
"Chris, I'm really not in the mood." Haley stressed, moving slowly across the park while holding her head.
"Rough night?" Chris half joked.
"Something like that. Please tell me you have some sort of hangover cure at your house." Haley whined as they made their way home.
"I see. And how much did you drink last night?"
"Uh, cough two, beers." Haley fake coughed, bringing her hand to her mouth.
"How many was that? I didn't quite catch the amount due to your horrible cough. You should probably get that looked at." Chris bit back sarcastically.
"Ugh. I said two beers. I only drank two and yes, have a killer hangover."
"I thought we fixed the whole cheap drunk thing while we were on the tour."
"Yes well I didn't drink then have sex while on the tour now did I?"
"You coulda." Chris playfully suggested.
"Chris!" Haley scorned.
"Right okay. So you and Nate had the crazy drunken wild monkey sex. And now?"
"And now, he feels it was a mistake." Haley told him, ignoring the sex comment.
"Well was it?" He asked sincerely.
"As amazing as it would be if it wasn't. Nathan's right. We were both drunk and let our past cloud our judgment. I just, wish he would let me back in." Haley admitted as Chris draped his arm across her shoulders and brought her closer to him. Haley sighed as she let her head rest on his shoulder as they continued on their way home.
