Author's Note: Hey guys! Alright, so got inspired by the though of this story almost being done and wrote another chapter and I couldn't wait to post it. It's kind of bland but the next few chapters will be fun I promise! They'll have to be because we're getting near the end here! FOUR more chapters! Anyways, I hope you like this chapter even though it's boring and dull. As always, please read and review!

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Rating: K+ to T

Finding Our Way Back

Chapter 36 – Friends of Our Past

Over the last few days, ever since she'd had the discussion of wedding plans with Kyla and Karen, Haley had been thinking a lot about the wedding and what they were going to do about the bridesmaids and groomsmen. Lucas had agreed that it would be too much publicity if he invited one of the players from his old team to the wedding. She would often walk around town for a little while or visit their tree, wondering back on all their times together. As she remembered back on their high school days, Haley, more often than not, found herself thinking about Peyton and Brooke. They had become such good friends months before Haley had left town and even then she had pretty much avoided them the last two weeks before that because of all the chaos going on her life right then with the news of her pregnancy. She had been closer with Peyton than Brooke, but they all had formed a close bond and she had missed them terribly. She hated leaving them without saying goodbye or even leaving them a note, but she knew that if she went to say goodbye to them, all three of them would get emotional and they would ask why she was leaving and she wasn't ready to tell them right then. She wondered now where they were and how they were doing.

Haley pulled out a box from the closet and scooted it over to the bed, carefully crouching down and picking it up, placing it on the bed. She then sat down on the bed in front of the box and slowly opened the flaps, being hit with tons of memories by the many pictures inside. She gently lifted a big photo album from the box and set it in her lap, at least in what was the rest of her lap that hadn't yet been taken over by her growing stomach. Haley placed her hand on her belly and rubbed slowly, smiling as she felt the small movements of her child against her hand and from inside. She opened it and was immediately bombarded with photographs of her and Lucas in their freshman year. As she turned the pages, it showed them as sophomores, then as juniors, and finally seniors. Haley's face fell as she noticed that the pictures of her and Lucas had started to diminish at the end of their junior year and had been filled with pictures of her, Peyton, and Brooke. Some were even of her and Nathan and instantly some of her guilt came rushing back, along with her anger at him for reacting the way he did when she told him she was pregnant. She couldn't blame him though. She was the one who had cheated, been unfaithful. Tears stung her eyes as she started to cry.

Even though she felt guilty for what she had done to Nathan, she didn't regret sleeping with Lucas that night. That night had given her two beautiful, wonderful children and she wouldn't give them up for anything. It had also brought her and Lucas together as well, but she wished that Lucas would have confessed his feelings to her five years ago, before she had started dating Nathan. But then that would mean she probably wouldn't have Katie and Derek or be pregnant with another one on the way right now. She sometimes wondered what would have come of her if she hadn't gotten pregnant at eighteen. Would she and Lucas still have gotten together? Would they have even still been friends after that night? For the three months after Lucas had gone to Charleston with Keith, he hadn't even once called her. She hadn't really made an effort either, but she hadn't called him mostly out of guilt. She was still battling the war within her for cheating on Nathan. She had tried to call him that one time to try and tell him about being pregnant, but she had chickened out the minute she heard his voice over the line. She knew he would throw away everything that was going good for him and rush back to be with her, if not for her then for their child, and it would only be out of obligation, if she had told him. She thought he hadn't loved her that way back then. She wondered where they would be now if she had told him she was pregnant that day. Would they already be married, have more kids? Probably, she thought to herself. They were so in love they couldn't keep their hands off each other, which you could obviously tell from the round bump of her stomach.

She looked at the pictures some more, even moving onto another album where they were younger. She laughed at the picture of Lucas' tenth birthday when Haley had smashed a piece of cake in his face. The look on his face was priceless. She turned the page and her smile grew wider as she remembered all those times at the rivercourt sitting on the picnic table with Mouth while she watch Luke and the guys play basketball for hours. The picture was of her, Lucas, Mouth, Skills, Junk, and Fergie all standing together with their arms around each other and smiles on their faces. A tear slid down her cheek as she remembered all their fun times together before Lucas had joined the basketball and both of them had been drawn in to the spotlight of popularity. She then looked at a picture of her, Lucas, Brooke, Peyton, Jake, and Nathan all standing together. Her gaze drifted to another picture in her hands. Peyton had her arms tightly around her from Haley's left side and Brooke was on Haley's right with her arms wrapped around both of the other girls as best she could. They were all laughing. More tears began to slide down her cheeks as she thought back on all their fun times; their talks, the sleepovers, the shopping trips, just hanging out and being girls. It had felt good finally having some girlfriends to talk to and hang out with after having Lucas and the guys at the rivercourt as her friends for over a decade.

Lucas entered the bedroom and concern immediately filled his eyes at seeing her crying on their bed. He quickly walked over and sat down beside her, stroking her hair and caressing her cheek with his thumb, "Honey, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" She showed him the three pictures she had been staring at, "I-I miss them. I miss Peyton and Brooke. T-They were my best friends besides you and they were the first real girlfriends I had before Ky…I-I never got to say goodbye to them before I left Tree Hill…" Haley sobbed and he wrapped his arms around her. "Sh…" he stroked her hair and began to rock her, "I've got an idea. Why don't I call around and find everybody and we can organize a little reunion get together. How does that sound?" She nodded against his chest and whispered, "Thank you." "You lie here and rest while I make some phone calls and try to find everyone," Lucas kissed her forehead and moved the box so she could lay down then quietly left the room so she could sleep.

A few hours later, Lucas finally exited the office and went back into the bedroom to check on Haley. He thankfully had been able to get a hold of everybody and they all had agreed that a reunion was in need of happening. Brooke and Peyton had started screaming hysterically at the mention of Haley's name then started crying. They all had agreed to come down the next weekend since it was the only time all of them could take off. Haley was awake and reading a book and when she noticed him standing there staring at her, she smiled. "They're all coming down next weekend," he said as he sat down beside her. She hugged him and kissed his mouth gently, "Thank you for doing this for me."