Chapter Four
A.N. It's short, I know an I apologize. This story is just so hard for me to write and the only reason I am continuing it is because everyone loves it so much...I'm trying hard but it's a very hard story to write...I'm also running out of ideas...I have one but I'm not sure if I'll use it...if you have any ideas for the story email me or leave them in a review, I'd appreciate it a lot!
Nathan is waiting in the parking lot of the apartment building when Brooke pulls up, Haley was passed out in the passengers seat. The mild sedative that Dr. Bradbury had prescribed had knocked Haley out within minutes of taking it, so Brooke had called Nathan to have him meet them in the parking lot. He immediately rushes around to Haley's side of the door and opening it he scoops Haley into his arms and allows Brooke to lead the way to the apartment. "I'll be right back," he whispers before disappearing with Haley into the bedroom.
Brooke nods and heads into the kitchen, dropping a plastic bag on the counter in the process. After doing that Brooke pulls the bottle of pills out of her purse along with the list of councilors on it and on the opposite side she begins scribbling instructions for the pills. Then she sets to work pulling things out of the plastic bag as well. From the plastic grocery bag she pulls out a pint of Ben & Jerry's coffee ice cream, a huge bag of skittles, a six pack of Dr. Pepper and two cans of soup, all of them were Haley's favorite.
"Brooke," Lucas enters the apartment and nearly causes Brooke to drop a can of soup on her foot.
"Lucas, what are you doing here?" Brooke stares at him stunned.
"I brought over some of Haley's favorite movies," Lucas holds a bag up, "figured she'd need some sort of entertainment. What are you doing here?"
"I took Haley to the doctor, she was a little uncertain about Nathan taking her, then we stopped at your moms and picked up her prescriptions and some comfort food. But I have a feeling that the next couple of days she's going to sleep, her doctor prescribed her a sedative that pretty much knocked her on her ass."
"I could kill him for doing this," Lucas swears under his breath. "She's so..."
"Broken?" Brooke supplies.
Lucas nods, "yeah."
"Hey Luke," Nathan greets coming out of the bedroom. "Thanks for everything you guys, but would you mind clearing out? I'm beat and Haley's gonna be out for a couple of hours at least."
Luke nods, "sure, I brought some movies over...I figured she'd want something to...you know keep her mind off of everything."
"Thanks Luke."
Brooke nods as well, "I'll call to check in later. I left instructions by the bottle and on the other side is a list of councilors, in case she changes her mind."
"Thanks, for everything," Nathan responds almost automatically, "I'll catch you guys later."
"You going back to class?" Lucas asks once he and Brooke are outside of the apartment."
Brooke shakes her head, "nah. There's no point now. You?"
Lucas shakes his head, "want to head over to the River Court?"
Brooke nods, "sure."
When Brooke and Lucas reach the river side court they find Peyton, Jake and Jenny already there sitting on a picnic blanket, "hey guys!" Jake calls out his greeting as they both emerge from their cars.
"We're having lunch, do you want to join us?" Peyton invites.
"We don't want to intrude," Lucas insists with a shake of his head.
"Nah man," Jake replies, "we've got plenty."
"Hi Jenny," Brooke coos to the baby happily residing in Peyton's arms.
"So Jenny's here," Lucas comments, "that mean you're staying?"
Jake nods, "yeah. We're moving in with Peyton, I'm not going to run from Niki forever. I'm going to start back at school too, your mom and Whitey have both offered to watch her during school. And your mom gave me my old job back."
"Jake that's great," Brooke states, glad to take her mind off Haley even for a couple minutes, but this doesn't last long.
Jake hands Lucas and Brooke each a sandwich while Peyton muses to Brooke, "you weren't in first period today."
"Yeah, I skipped. I stopped over at Tutor-Wife and Nathan's on my way to school and ended up taking Haley to the doctors and running a few errands."
"We need to do something for her," Peyton states picking at the food on her plate and feeding some of it to Jenny.
"Killing Chris comes to mind," Lucas' eyes blaze with hatred.
"No," Peyton shakes her head, "Something not take her mind off of the whole thing. Doing anything to Chris would only make the situation worse."
"Shopping?" Brooke suggests.
Peyton shakes her head again, "something away from Tree Hill. To give her time away from everything."
"Like a road trip?" Jake asks.
"Yeah," Lucas nods, "it sounds like a great idea. But where?"
"I don't know," Peyton shrugs. "But we have to do something, she can't just sit around her apartment all day, it isn't healthy. I mean I know, it just happened, but if we just let her lay around all day it's going to keep going."
"My aunt has a beach house on Sunset Beach," Brooke states, "I bet she would let us use it for a weekend."
"Haley would love that," Lucas responds.
Brooke nods, "I'll call my aunt and set it up. Someone should talk to Nathan about it too."
Lucas nods, "I'll take care of it."
"No!" Haley's scream startles Nathan awake on the couch. Immediately he leaps to his feet and hurries into their bedroom to find Haley thrashing on the bed. Kneeling by the bed Nathan gently places is hand on Haley's shoulder and whispers, "Haley, baby, wake up." When she doesn't responds Nathan raises his voice slightly, "Haley, it's Nathan. You're home. You're safe. It's okay. Just wake up."
"Nate," Haley gasps awake, "Nate." Her eyes focus on Nathan, "it was so...I thought I was there again." With a sight Haley detangles herself from the sheets, "I'm going to take a shower."
"Do you want me to make you something to eat?" Nathan asks, "Brooke brought over a bunch of food. Particularly ice cream and soup."
"I'm fine." Haley shakes her head.
"Lucas brought a bunch of movies, I can set one of them up for you, if you'd rather to that after you get out of the shower."
"Sure," Haley nods, "that's fine."