The words hit the party like a pile of bricks. Everyone looked back and forth between me and Nathan. But no one was as shocked as Nathan, and I felt horrible. At least until he laughed.
"That's cute Hales, but not entirely true is it?" He drilled his baby blues into my brown eyes.
"Nathan, it's true." Before the words were able to leave my mouth Lucas spoke up. When Nathan looked over that direction, everyone nodded their heads. Everyone except Deb and Dan. He took off towards his truck, with me right behind him. I had to make sure he was ok, make sure he understood.
"Nathan, wait." He jumped in his truck, started the engine and waited for me to get there. "Please we need to talk."
"Get in."
"Huh?"
"GET IN!" He yelled, startling me. But I got in nonetheless.
We drove for over an hour before he pulled the truck over to talk. I took a deep breath and tried to start but he cut me off.
"Haley, what's going on?"
"I don't understand it myself. Nathan…" I stared straight ahead, and refused to look at him.
"Hales, I remember."
"Really?"
"Yea, a part of me has always remembered, but it's all meshed together. I know I'm supposed to love you."
"You're supposed to love me?"
"Well yea."
"What exactly do you remember?" I asked looking in his eyes.
"I remember telling you that I love you and sleeping with you." I was thurally confused by this.
"What? You and I are married." I told him, holding up my ring. I still kept it on; I tried to take it off once and just couldn't do it.
"We are not married. I would have remembered that." I refused to listen to this any longer. I got out of the car, and Nathan followed me.
I'm going to be changing the point of view a little so that you can see both sides of the story.
"Haley, I'm sorry." He told her with every being in his heart. She wanted badly for him to tell her that he loved her and mean it. "It's just, I have so many memories going through my head that I just can't sort through."
"We can't keep going around in this circle. You need to talk about…" Before she could continue his phone began to ring. As he picked it up to answer she grabbed it from his hands and turned it off. "You are not interrupting me."
"Haley, that was an important call." He defended himself.
"Oh from your girlfriend? Or your psycho parents?" She placed her hands on her hips and glared at him. It was the sexist look he had ever seen, he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into his body. She fit like a perfect puzzle piece, and they both felt it. He lowered his head to just the right position, making her yearn for him to lower his head just a few centimeters lower. And he did, his moist lips gently touched hers at first. Then more urgently, and his hands traveled up and down her back. She jumped into his arms, and her pushed her up against the truck, their bodies no longer able to be apart. "I love you." She whispered to him as he kissed her neck. As the words left her mouth he looked into her eyes.
"I love you too, Hales." He kissed her once more on the lips and let her down.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'm just so confused."
"Tell me what's so confusing."
"You and me, we fit. This works, but it doesn't make sense."
"Why?"
"I just keep hearing that voice."
"What voice? Nate, talk to me."
"There's a voice that I hear. I heard it so loud for so long, now its faded but I still hear it."
"What's it saying?"
"That I'm not in love, I haven't met the woman of my dreams, and that basketball is what I should be pursuing."
"Why?"
"I just remember when I woke up I kept repeating your name, and Dan was there. So was mom, and they both told me that you and Lucas were together. That I dreamt our love, our wedding, everything. That if I loved anyone it was my long time girlfriend Peyton."
"I…I…"
"I know, I'm lost. I don't know what to think, do or what is real or false."
"Nathan, I want to tell you everything."
"Hales, today I found out that I was a father, and that I'm married. I don't think I can handle anything else." I nodded my head yes, and kissed his check. He slid away from me and got into the truck. They drove the hour back in silence.
