"Haley…Haley wake UP" Brooke whined, throwing the covers off of Haley. She rolled over and curled up into a ball.

"Brooke…it's Saturday, why do we have to be up so early?"

"Because it's Holiday season!" Brooke giggled.

November had flown by and now it was December in Tree Hill, North Carolina. Brooke and Lucas were still going out, now very close to their one month anniversary. Haley and Nathan weren't together just yet, but tight friends. They were still working on their relationship. Of course, they were both madly in love with each other…they were just stalling.

"I don't care" Haley whined. "I wanna sleep"

"The boys are coming over to help us decorate…including Nathan" Brooke poked Haley.

"He can't see me like this!" Haley shot out of bed. "I'll be in the shower"

"I'll be making hot cocoa" Brooke shook her head. Haley was so self conscious when it came to Nathan and how she looked whenever he was around. She thought it was cute that Haley cared that much. She herself couldn't wait to see Lucas, though. She hadn't seen him in a couple days because he was absorbed in Midterm studying…so was she, of course.

"Hey babe" Lucas came up from behind and kissed Brooke's cheek.

"Lucas!" Brooke laughed and turned around to kiss him. "I didn't see you come in!"

"We snuck in" Nathan laughed. "Where's Haley?"

"I don't know I haven't seen her since last night" Brooke giggled softly to herself. She loved messing with Nathan.

"What!" Nathan said.

"Kidding…she's in the shower…HALEY YOUR HUSBANDS HERE!" Brooke shrieked. She knew perfectly well that it would make both Nathan and Haley extremely uncomfortable to hear "husband", but she figured it was good for them.

"Brooke" Lucas chastised softly. "You know how uncomfortable that makes them" he whispered.

"I don't care" Brooke giggled, her hazel-green eyes twinkling with laughter. "Its fun" Lucas shook his head and kissed her hair.

"What are you making?" Lucas asked.

"Hot cocoa for you guys" Brooke smiled.

"Aw we have a Susie homemaker on our hands" Nathan teased, getting back at Brooke for the husband comment.

"Shut up…my hot cocoa is famous among those have had it, so don't mock or you wont get any" Brooke teased back, lifting the cup for Lucas to take a sip.

"Mm that is good" Lucas said. "Can I have this cup?"

"Oh yeah…made especially for my baby with EXTRA marshmallows" Brooke said, sticking her tongue out at Nathan when she gave him his cup, which had one marshmallow in it.

"You know Brooke you and I fight like brother and sister" Nathan laughed.

"Yeah, you two do" Haley said, padding out to the living room with her wet hair in curls. "If I didn't know any better, I would say you two are related- dark hair, green eyes, spoiled as hell" Nathan and Brooke stuck their tongues out at Haley as she chuckled to herself and got herself a cup of hot cocoa.

"You like?" Brooke asked.

"Yeah, its good…I admit it" Nathan said.

"See!" Brooke giggled. Lucas laughed and pulled her closer to him. She buried her head in his chest just for the heck of it doing it…and because his cologne smelt good.

"So what are we doing today?" Lucas asked.

"We're decorating!" Brooke said. "The Christmas tree and the house and we're putting up lights and all of that fun stuff" she said. Brooke really did love Christmastime- it was the one time there was a slight chance that her parents would come home.

"So basically that means me and Nate are doing the boring stuff like hanging up the lights and you and Hales are decorating the tree?" Lucas asked.

"Yup…wow, you know me well, Scott" Brooke said, kissing him. "And if you do a good job, there's more of that"

"Well then Nate, lets get to it" Lucas said, putting his cup on the side table.

"I'll go get the ornaments!" Brooke said, running to the room to get them. "I love this season so much" she said, coming back out with two full boxes of ornaments.

"Lets start" Haley said, digging through the boxes to find the first ornament. She always put the reindeers on first when she was little and Brooke always put the snowmen on first.

"I'll go first with the snowmen" Brooke said, hanging her favorite one on the tree. "This marks the beginning of Christmas for me!" Brooke said. Lucas couldn't help but stare at her the entire time. It was something about the weather, something about the season, something about the fires and the snow and the hot chocolate and the ornaments and the trees and the lights that seemed to change Brooke completely.

Meanwhile…

Peyton drove along slowly to Brooke's house. She was going to help decorate the Christmas tree. A smile spread across her face when she remembered how much Brooke loved Christmas. Her cell phone rang, jolting her out of her thoughts.

"Hello?"

"Peyton…hi"

"Jake!"

"Hey…how are you?"

"Good, how are you? Where are you?"

"I'm on my way to Tree Hill"

"Do you have Jenny?"

"Yeah"

"Where's Nikki?"

"In jail" Peyton could hear the smile in his voice.

"That's great, Jake!" Peyton said. "Please come to Nathan and Haley's old apartment when you get here if you get here today"

"I won't be in Tree Hill by today, probably by tomorrow night"

"Ok well give me a call when you get here, ok?"

"Of course…hey Peyt?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you"

"I love you too, Jake"

"So did you enjoy your dinner?" Nathan asked Haley as they left the restaurant.

"Yeah it was really good" Haley smiled. "I loved it"

"Good" Nathan smiled, opening the door for Haley. "Do you wanna go home now or what?"

"Um sure" Haley said, getting into the BMW. "That'd be fine" he could sense the disappointment in her voice as he watched her. He couldn't take his eyes off of her- she looked so beautiful.

"Look, Haley"

"Hmm?" she looked up.

"When I was hanging up the lights this morning I realized that I wanna spend every holiday season and Christmas with you, and I knew then that if I didn't say this that you might slip away and never come back" Nathan took her hand in his and kissed her softly, something he hadn't done in months. "Haley James Scott, I love you…will you please do me the honor of being my wife-again?"

"Nathan…I don't know what to say"

"Please say yes"

"Oh who am I kidding…of course! But we still have work on our relationship and trust issues"

"Definitely" Nathan said, kissing her again. "I've been wanting to do that for so long"

"Oh…me too"

A/N: I know, I know-it's a short chapter…and not much happened but I'm trying to get chapters up so that you guys will have a bunch of stuff to read before I leave for three weeks! Lol. Hope you like the romance in this chapter, I decided to opt for the more cheesy fluffy storyline this chapter just cause holiday season gives you a warm tingly feeling and what the heck you cant make people mad at each other during holiday season. Lol ok my rant is over, please review:-D