Author's Note: Hey, everyone. Thank you all soooo much for the great reviews. I'm glad that I was able to surprise at least some of you, but I'm proud of those that figured it out on their own. Sorry if it sucks, but I'm so tired right now, but I knew you were all waiting so I decided to update. So, you better enjoy it.

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"I'm sorry, what did you just say?"

After Lacy's last confession, the room had been filled with silence, each person having their own fears. Tim was afraid that Lacy had cheated on him with some guy, Lacy was afraid that Tim would break up with her and Nathan was afraid that his entire life was over. If Lacy was carrying his baby, there was no way that he was going to be able to keep that a secret from Haley, and he was scared out of his mind that Haley would never be able to forgive him. If he lost Haley, he didn't know what he would do. Snapping back to reality, deciding that he should wait to see if the kid was even his before he started planning out his future without Haley.

"I said that you might not be the father," Lacy repeated. She whole car ride over, she had been playing this scene out in her head. She knew that Nathan was going to be there, so she decided that it would be best if she just came out and told the truth. It was about time someone around there did.

"That's what I thought," Tim mumbled. Nathan was surprised by the look of pure devastation on his best friend's face. He never really thought about how all of this, him sleeping with Lacy, would affect his buddy. Suddenly, he felt five times worse about this whole situation.

"Tim," Lacy began, reaching forward and putting her hand on his knee. He immediately pushed it away. "Please, Tim, let me explain."

"Who is he?"

"Who?"

"The guy that you cheated with," he clarified, not in the mood to have a long conversation about this right now. He was heartbroken, but he refused to let her see him cry.

"No, Tim," she said, shaking her head frantically. She knew she should have explained the whole thing first. "It wasn't like that."

"Who is he!" he blew up and her. He didn't feel like being played right now. He just wanted to know whose face he had to pound in. Lacy glanced at Nathan for a split second, not long enough for Tim to notice before looking at the ground.

"I don't know," she lied. She felt terrible lying about this, but she didn't want to end any friendships. The last thing she wanted to was to ruin Tim and Nathan's relationship, let alone Nathan and Haley's. "I didn't get his name."

Nathan was more than a little surprised at Lacy's answer. He fully expected her to tell him everything. He watched as tears came to her eyes and he made his decision. He couldn't do this anymore. If she was really pregnant with his child and he didn't take responsibility for it, then he was Dan. It didn't matter if he remained faithful to Haley, married her, have five kids and loved happily ever after. She would still be there with his kid, just like Karen was still there with Luke.

"It was me," he answered suddenly. Both Lacy and Tim wiped their heads around to stare at him in shock. He locked eyes with Lacy and nodded his head softly, apologizing for not saying something sooner. Tim on the other hand, looked at him in confusion.

"What?"

"It's me," he repeated. He sighed, knowing the yelling that was going to come after. "I'm the other guy." Tim sat there, stock still, running the information over in his head. He blinked a few times before standing up to pace the room. Lacy spun around on the table to watch his movements. Nathan, for the first time in his entire life, felt ashamed. He had never seen his friend so pissed before and it was scaring him. If Tim was this mad, when he told Haley he'll be lucky to walk away from this with his balls in tact. "Say some thing, man."

"I don't even know why I'm surprised," Tim replied. That was not the answered Nathan had expected. Tim stopped moving to stare at Nathan. "I mean, this is so typical of you."

"Tim..." Lacy tried, knowing what was going to come next. They've had this conversation before and she didn't want him to have to go through went he went through he first time he told it.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Nathan cut her off. He felt bad for what he did to his friend, but technically he didn't do anything wrong, not to him anyway. And he really didn't see how this was typical.

"You always had to have everything," he answered. He knew now wasn't really the best tome for this talk, but he had to get it off his chest. "You were Nathan Scott and you got everything, while I got nothing."

"Come on..."

"Remember when we were five," he began. "I begged my mom to get me that awesome red bike that I wanted so badly. That was the year my grandpa died, and he promised me that he was going to get me that bike, but my mom didn't believe me." Nathan bowed his head. "So what did you do, you got your dad to buy you the bike and you won't let me ride it, not once."

"I was five..."

"Or when we were in sixth grade," he continued, not interested in hearing anything Nathan had to say. "When I had a crush on Julie Williams. When you found out, you went up to her in front of the entire class and kissed her. You guys went out for the rest of the year." Lacy watched Tim retell his stories and she felt just as bad for him now as she did when she first heard him. "Or how about on my sixteenth, when everyone was supposed to be there to celebrate with me, you sleep with Peyton for the first time and all of a sudden, it's all about you."

"Tim, I'm..."

"You've always taken everything from me," he finally said, saying what this whole thing was really about. His anger faded a bit, turning to sadness as he looked at Lacy. "I finally had something of my own. I loved her and you just had to take her away. Just once, why couldn't you have let me have something?"

"Tim," Lacy whispered, assuming that he was done. She slowly stood up and walked over to him. When he didn't move, she wrapped her arms around his waist. "It wasn't like that."

"She's right," Nathan added. Tim glared at him, but didn't say anything. Taking that as somewhat of a good sign, he stood up. "It wasn't like that at all. When we hooked up, you hadn't even met her yet." Tim looked at him unsurely.

"What do you mean?"

"The night we met," Lacy explained. "At that club. Nathan had come up to me and we were both in a bad place. One thing led to another, and we ended up having sex in his car out in the parking lot."

"So," Tim drew out, thinking everything over in his head. He wanted to make he had everything straight. "You didn't cheat on me?" Lacy kissed him gently on the lips before shaking her head.

"I would never do that." Tim smiled and turned to Nathan, still a little angry at him.

"And you didn't betray me?"

"Not this time, dude," he laughed, patting him on the back. "Seriously, I was a totally dick my entire life, especially to you. I'm kind of trying something new."

"Yeah, okay," Tim nodded. They did their little handshake/hug thing that no girl ever understands, before pulling apart. Suddenly a thought came to Tim. "Wait, you guys slept together at the club?" They both nodded. "You cheated on Haley?" Nathan sighed and nodded again.

"Unfortunately," he muttered. He knew before that it had been a mistake, but given the new information that he had received tonight, this whole thing was starting to look like the biggest mistake that he'll ever make. Lacy rolled her eyes, knowing where this was going.

"How could you do that do her?" he demanded, stepping away from Lacy to approach Nathan. "What the hell where you thinking? She loves you so much and you turn around and hurt her like..."

"Okay," Lacy shouted, stepping in between the two before Tim could throw a punch. "It's really sweet that you care that much about Haley, Tim, it really is, but can you save the protective crap for later?"

"But he..."

"I know what he did," she interrupted him. "I was there, I helped him do it and I feel terrible about it. But my doctor is keeping his office open late so the three of us can go down there and get paternity tests." Tim's eyes widened.

"Tests?" he questioned, starting to panic. "But I didn't study!" Lacy, despite the situation couldn't help but laugh. She shook her head and kissed him in an attempt to calm him down.

"Baby, it's not that kind of test." He let out a breath. "It's to see which one of you is the father. He said that if we do them tonight, then he should have the results by tomorrow afternoon."

"Okay," Tim answered. "We'll take my car." Lacy nodded and they moved to the door. Tim grabbed his jacket and opened the door for his girlfriend. When she was out of the apartment, he turned back to Nathan who hadn't moved from his spot. "For the record, I think you're a jackass. I can't believe that I ever thought you were cool." With that, he was out the door.

Nathan looked around his apartment at all the things that he had set up for tonight. It was supposed to be such a great night. He had cooked Haley's favorite dinner and rented her favorite movie. When they were done both, he was going to ask her to move in with him. It was supposed to be perfect. They were supposed to be together forever. Now, he would be lucky if she even looked at him again. He bent down, blew out the candle and walked out the door.

--OTH--

"The wait is killing me," Haley sighed, dropping her fork onto the empty plate. After ice cream, Lucas had insisted that they head over to the Café to get some of Karen's famous apple pie. The girls were both full from the ice cream, but he made them each have a slice.

"Relax, Hales," Brooke suggested, shoving the last bit of her pie into her mouth. She leaned back and rubbed her tummy, not believing that she just ate so much. She looked at her watch. "He should be calling soon to tell us it's okay to bring you over."

"How much longer?" she complained. Brooke's only answer was a shrug of her shoulders. She turned to Luke who was too busy eating his third piece of pie to answer her. She rolled her eyes at him and turned back to Brooke. "I don't see why I can't just go over now. I mean, I already now what all of this is about."

"You do?" Lucas asked, pie spraying out of his mouth as he talked. Brooke made a grossed out face at him, slapping him in the arm. "Sorry." He swallowed the last bit down before repeating himself. "You do?"

"Come on," she sighed. Did they honestly think that she was that oblivious? "He wasn't exactly the most subtle guy in the world." Brooke nodded her head in agreement.

"Yeah," she added. "We knew he was going to do it a month ago. We were talking about it on the beach the first day of summer." Lucas stuck out his tongue and mimicked her with his hand.

"Well, aren't we Miss Know-It-Alls?" Brooke smiled sweetly at him and gave him the finger. He laughed before looking at Haley. "So, are you going to say yes?"

"Of course," she cheered, her face lighting up at the thought of it. She had been thinking about it ever since their conversation at the beach. She couldn't think of anything that would make her happier right now than to move in with Nathan.

"I see someone's excited," Brooke teased. Pretending to be happy about this whole thing was starting to get harder and harder for her. Sometimes she had to fight the urge to just grab Haley and shake her, telling her that Nathan was just a cheating bastard. She didn't want to see her best friend hurt and she was terrified that this was just going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.

"Are you kidding?" she asked, practically giggling. Brooke's felt her heart squeeze at the sound. Haley James didn't giggle, so Brooke knew it had to be big. "I didn't sleep at all last night, just thinking about it. It's like some kind of fairytale or something, you know."

"Yeah."

"I can't wait any longer," Haley decided, pulling out her cell phone. "I have to see him." Before Brooke or Lucas could stop her, the ringer to Nate's cell was already ringing. After four rings, he finally picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hey, baby," she greeted sweetly. Her smile spread at the sound of his voice.

"Hey, Haley," he greeted, his voice not like she expected it to be. She figured he'd use his sexy voice that he always did when they talked on the phone before a big date. "What's up?"

"I was just calling to ask if it was safe to come over yet." Brooke and Lucas both noticed that her voice went down a few notches on the excitement scale. They shared a worried look. "Are you in a car?"

"I'm sorry, Hales," he explained, sadly. He knew that she was looking forward to this and he hated to hear disappointment in her voice. He just knew it was going to be a million times worse when she found out. "But something's come up. It looks like we won't be having dinner tonight."

"Oh," was all she could say. She saw the looks her best friends were giving her, so she quickly tried to hide her pain. "So, I'll get a rain check than? We'll do it another night?"

"I don't think so," he answered. He would only be kidding himself and getting her hopes up if he told her that they were going to still move in together. He was positive that she was going to break up with him when he told her the truth. "I'm sorry again, but I don't think we should reschedule our date."

"But..."

"I'm sorry, I gotta go." Before she could say anything, he hung up the phone. He felt horrible leaving it like that, but he couldn't stand to hear her voice anymore without breaking down.

Haley looked at her phone, surprised to hear a dial tone. She had no idea what that was about. Just this morning, Nathan was just as excited about tonight as she was and now he was calling the whole thing off. What was that about? Brooke tried to read the look on her face, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Sweetie?" she questioned, waving her hand in front of Haley's face. She gently took the phone out of Haley's hand, causing the girl to look up. "What's wrong?"

"Um, Nathan... he uh, he told me not to come over." Brooke's eyes widened and Lucas raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, he said that something came up and we couldn't do it tonight."

"When are you going to do it?"

"He said never," she answered, looking past Luke and at the wall behind him. She was bust trying to figure out what she did wrong. She knew it had to be something she did, she just didn't know what. "He said we shouldn't do it after all."

"Oh, baby," Brooke sighed, getting out of her chair and walking over to Haley's side of the table. She got down on her knees so she was at eye level with her and pulled Haley into her arms.

"What did I do, Tigger?" Haley asked, starting to cry into her shoulder. Brooke closed her eyes, knowing that Haley only called her Tigger when she was really upset about something.

"You didn't do anything, babe," Brooke assured her. "Nathan's just an idiot." Lucas watched as Haley continued to cry. He let out a sigh, not happy about the situation. Now he was going to have to kick his brother's ass.

--OTH--

That's it. I know it's not the best, you all probably wanted better, but it's soooooo late right now and I'm going insane. I think my eyes have actually turned into squares. Anyway, please tell me what you think. Peace.