Okay, I know it took awhile for me to update, but initially this chapter was longer. I finished it, but it's so much more fun to watch you squirm (jk), so I'll give you Part A today and Part B tomorrow. Thanks again for the reviews, they mean a lot. I also wrote a pathan one-shot, for all of you who haven't read it yet. I have recently been naming my chapters after the song that they were inspired by, but this entire chapter was inspired by two so I'll name both parts one song.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, but Reagan.

Couples: Jaley, Pathan, and Brucas.

Chapter 4 Part A: Don't give up on me

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She ran quickly, not caring about the people that she was almost knocking down, the only person that she cared about right then was Nathan. As she got closer to the room that the nurse, whom confused her for a mental patient and initially sent her to the wrong ward, set her to, she began running faster and looking frantically for 312. When she finally found it she stopped, right in front of the door. She couldn't go in, she was too horrified. After literally 10 minutes and 23 staring passersby, she finally walked in.

"Hey" She heard Nathan muter, as he opens his eyes to see who came in.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!" Reagan cried as she got closer to Nathan and squeezed his hand.

"Hey, calm down, I'm okay. I promise the doctors say I should be out before Monday." Nathan responds with a calming voice.

"I guess that you still remember that you broke up with me, right?" Reagan said sadly as she lowered her head and let go of his hand.

"Yeah, and I'm sorry about that it's just…"

"That you love that weirdo blonde girl" Reagan finished.

"Her name is Peyton, but yes, I love that weirdo blonde girl." Nathan smiled and picked up Reagan's hand. "But that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy the time we spent together."

"We did have some fun times." Reagan laughed through her tears.

"Mainly in my bedroom." Nathan laughed also.

"Yeah, like when we played basketball on your father's rolling desk chairs with your miniature basketball set."

"I was obviously the champion." Nathan said, blowing on his fingers and than rubbing them on his chest.

"Hey I won once!" She protested hitting him in the arm lightly, so not to hurt him.

They talked for a couple hours before Nathan started falling asleep and Reagan decided it was time to leave. As she walked out, she knew it would be hard and that she would miss him, but hey, there are other basketball players, including one Lucas Scott.

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Haley just stood there, in the same spot, for what she guessed was a while. She didn't know why she was so mad, it's not as if it was her child, or that Jake was her friend. Rather he washer friend or he was just an acquaintance she didn't know, but she did know that this was affecting her more than it should have been. Haley was knocked out of her trance by the ringing of her cell phone.

"Hello?" Haley said, forgetting to look at the caller id.

"Oh my god, Haley, get to the hospital right now!"

"Why? What's up, Lucas?" Haley asked, the color from her face leaving.

"It... It's Nathan" That's all Haley heard before she got lost in her own thoughts. She knew that Lucas was still talking, but all she could think about is how she never got time to get to know Nathan, he was her kind of cousin.

"Haley? Are you there?" Lucas asked loudly, trying to get Haley's attention.

"Um, yeah, I'll be there as soon as I can!" Haley said before hanging up.

Haley than fell back, fortunately there was a bench there. She just sat there for a while, letting the information set in, in which made her jump up and start running towards the hospital; that is until she realized that she had no idea where the hospital was at.

"Hey, watch where you're going!" A girl shouted when Haley ran into her.

Haley then broke down and started crying before falling to her knees in the street. Meanwhile, the girl didn't know what to do, so she just sat beside her and pulled her into a hug.

"Are you okay? I'm sorry I yelled at you, I didn't mean to make you cry." The girl said as she held the crying girl in her arms.

After about a minute, Haley stopped crying, whipped away her tears and stood up. "It's nothing you did, it's just… everything."

"What's wrong? I mean you don't just start crying in the middle of the street… or do you? Wait you're not in one of those colts are you? Wait, did the government send you to see if I did my good deeds for this month because I don't want this to be on my permanent record! My parents didn't send you did they? No, wait, I'm on…" The girl was cut off when Haley burst out laughing.

After seeing the girl's hurt and confused face, Haley stopped laughing. "I'm sorry for laughing, but you were rambling and I was pretty sure that you weren't near finished. And thanks for helping me, my name is Haley."

"My name is Brooke and I ramble when I'm nervous. It's been a problem of mine forever, at least I think, maybe I developed it when I was five. I had…"

"Brooke!" Haley laughed.

"Oh, right sorry. Hey, why don't you tell me why we sat in the middle of street." Brooke said as they sat on a bench a couple few away.

"It's nothing." Haley said quietly.

"Come on, I can keep a secret. Plus, I'm you friend, right?"

"Fine, well my cousin's half brother, is in the hospital." Haley responded sadly.

"So, let me get this straight? Your kinda cousin is in the hospital and you're just sitting here talking to me?" Brooke said, her voice continually getting louder.

"It's actually kind of, kinda isn't a word. And I was going to the hospital until someone ran into me." Haley said, emphasizing someone.

"Whatever, Tutorgirl." Brooke replied.

"Who's Tutorgirl?"

"You are! And I thought you were the tutor. First, going the wrong direction to the hospital, now not being able to recognize your own nickname…"

"Darn, I was going the wrong way. I knew I should have asked where it was." Haley interrupted.

"Well, I can take you to the hospital." Brooke offered.

"Really? Thank god, I hope Lucas won't be mad that I…"

"Lucas? As in Lucas Scott?" Brooke asked.

"Yeah, do you know him?" Haley asked.

"So that means Nathan is in the hospital?" Brooke asked, her face turning pale with the realization.

"Yeah."

"What are you waiting for Tutorgirl? We have to get there!" Brooke replied as she pulled Haley towards the direction of the hospital.

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Lucas had arrived at the hospital 10 minutes ago and after dealing with the crazy nurses, finally got Nathan's room number. As he arrived to room 312, he heard a familiar voice yelling the next hallway down, Dan. He decided to ignore it and opened the door, before walking inside. He saw that Nathan was asleep, so he just sat there for a while. After about 10 minutes he heard Dan yell one final thing, before Lucas could see him walk towards the elevator to what he guessed was out of the hospital.

"Hey, Luke." He heard, causing him to turn towards the door.

"Oh great, you're both here," Lucas sighed, thankfully. "I'll skip asking how you both know each other and get to how you guys got in here. Neither of you are exactly family."

"Broody, Broody, Broody, don't you know anything? I'm Brooke Davis, I can do anything." Brooke said as she and Haley walked to the other side of Nathan's bed.

"Okay guys, no flirting in my hospital room." Nathan said, causing the three of them to look down at him. "Jeez, I was just kidding, don't look at me like that."

"Who's looking at you like what?" A voice by the door asked.

"Hey, Jake, now this is really a party." Brooke said.

"Yeah, but normally Tim would be the one that got a vase thrown at his head." Lucas laughed.

"Hey, it wasn't a vase, it was a lamp." Nathan defended. "A vase is girly, but a lamp, everyone has a lamp. Right, Haley?" Nathan asked causing all of the attention to go to her. Truth was, Nathan was scared; she hadn't said anything since she had entered the room.

"Yeah, Tutorgirl, make Nathan feel better, even though he doesn't have a very strong case." Brooke said, also worried about Haley.

Haley stayed silent, not because of Nathan, but because of all the information she learned in these couple minutes. She noticed that Lucas was staring at Brooke, which made sense to her seeing as the information that Lucas had give to her on her first night and the information that Brooke gave her on there run to the hospital pointed to the same thing, Lucas was in love with Brooke. But what surprised her the most, is that she caught Jake looking at her with the same look that Lucas gave to Brooke: longing.

"Tutorgirl!" Brooke yelled.

"Um, sorry," Haley said, trying to get everyone's eyes off of her. "I'm just… missing my show."

"Oh my god! You're right; I'm missing my show too. How about this, you guys stay here and do you're guy things and me and Tutorgirl will have a girl's day. Yay!" Brooke said jumping up and down.

"Okay, if you're sure…" Lucas said, giving Haley a questioning look.

"We're sure, let's go Brooke." Haley said, this time pulling Brooke out the door.

"Hey, aren't you going to say goodbye? I am in the hospital!" Nathan yelled as well as he could.

"Bye, Nate."

"Bye, Boytoy"

After the girls left, the guys gave each other questioning looks before bursting out laughing.

"God they're crazy!" Jake said.

"Oh yeah but we love them" Lucas laughed.

"Speaking about love…" Jake whispered to Lucas, telling him to look at what both he and Nathan were staring at: Peyton.

"Well we got to go." Lucas said.

"Yeah, we have to…" Jake started.

"Wash our hair" Lucas finished as they walked out and closed the door leaving Nathan and Peyton string at one another.

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That's the end of Part A, but Part B will be up tomorrow, so don't forget to review or I might just start to add subliminal messages.