I breathlessly ran into the café, pulling an apron over my head. "Deb, I'm so…"
"I know Haley. Your sorry." She cut me off.
"Oh, you've heard that before?" She laughed, and I took a couple of orders, when Lucas and Brooke walked through the door. They smiled and pulled up seats at the bar.
"Welcome to Karen's café, what can I get for you?" I asked them containing my smile.
"Um, I heard the macaroni and cheese is good here," Brooke said.
"Eww, Brooke it's 10am. Get breakfast or something…Wait…" She smiled, "You are NOT!" I screamed happily. She and Lucas nodded and laughed. I ran around the counter hugging Brooke and then Lucas. They had been trying to get pregnant for about a year now, and they thought it would never be possible. "I'll personally make you whatever you want."
"You can't cook." She said turning up her nose. I scoffed and stepped back behind the counter.
"So boy or girl?" I asked curiously.
"Hales, we're like two days pregnant, we don't know." Lucas said.
"Sorry. I'm just so excited for you." I poured them both a cup of coffee, when the doorbell rang. All three of us glanced up and I was looking into the eyes of a ghost. This man had the same eyes as my Nathan. The same facial features, and the same grin as he looked at his brother.
"Hey Luke." He said, and I hit the ground. I fainted and when I awoke I knew it must have all been a dream.
I woke up in a hospital bed, Luke on one side and Brooke on the other. Both with concerned looks on their faces. My head was pounding and the memories of that morning flooded into my mind, making my head hurt even worse.
"Hales?" Lucas whispered.
"Luke, tell me he's here. Tell me I wasn't dreaming."
"Haley…" He said.
"NO! Lucas tell me." I demanded, the door opened and he stepped in. I closed my eyes and prayed that this was not a sick joke.
"Did she faint again?" Nathan, my Nathan asked Lucas.
"No, I didn't." I just stared at him, and before I knew what I was doing I jumped into his arms holding him as tight as I could. "I never want to lose you again."
"Wow, it's been five years and tutor girl still loves me. She still hasn't found a boyfriend." He kind of stepped back and looked at me funny.
"Nathan, of course I still love you."
"Ok, well I'm gonna go see my parents and I hope you get better." He said kind of hesitant. He walked towards the door.
"Nathan, don't leave me again." I screamed. I tried to jump up but Lucas grabbed me. "Lucas let me go!" Before he would Nathan was gone. I cried like I had cried the day I first lost him. "What's wrong with you? Why didn't you let me go to him?"
"Haley, he doesn't remember. He doesn't remember anything, any of it." He whispered to me.
"What?" I could barely get out.
"I asked the doctor what could be wrong with him, and the doctor said it was a case of extreme amnesia."
"What?"
"Well he remembers only life up to his freshman year of high school. Assumes he date Peyton the whole time and then went off to college."
"But…"
"I know. I'm sorry."
"Kiley…"
"I called my mom and she picked her up from Dan's and is taking her here. WE didn't know how long you'd be out." I fell silent, and didn't speak again for hours. My thoughts ran wild, where had he been. What happened to him? Thank you God for keeping him alive, but why? Why had it taken him so long to come home and find me, find us? What am I supposed to do now? What about Kiley, would he be a good father?