Hey Guys- sorry for the lack of updates- our DSL decided to stop working for five days! But it'sall okay now and I hope you enjoy Chapter Seven!


Chapter Seven- First Day of My Life

"Haley, this one is hideous," Brooke laughed, holding up a very ugly dress. "You have to try it on."

"Brooke, why would I want to try on an ugly dress? There's not even a point to that." Haley responded, trying to take the dress from Brooke's hands.

"Um, yes there is- so that we can laugh."

"And that's exactly why I'm trying on dresses today- just to make you laugh. Can you concentrate? We need wedding type dresses!"

"Come on, Hales, have a little fun."

"Brooke, I need to find a dress by tomorrow. Maybe if I find a few others to try on here, I'll humor you and try it on. Deal?"

"Deal, Tutor Girl."

"Hey, Hales, I think I found it," Peyton said as she walked over from the other side of the store. She was holding an ivory satin strapless dress with an ice pink sash that tied into a bow in the back. "It's on clearance for only $50.00 and I really think you need to try it on."

"Peyton, it's beautiful." She turned around to Brooke, "Now that is a nice dress."

"Of course, Peyton finds the perfect dress. You're still trying mine on, though." Brooke stated simply as she dragged Haley to the fitting rooms by her hand, Peyton following behind.

"So Brooke, what happened last night with Lucas?" Haley said through the dressing curtain as she changed into Peyton's pick.

"Well before you two start inventing sick scenarios in your minds- we just stayed up all night talking."

"So that's why you were so tired this morning," Peyton joked.

Brooke laughed and hit Peyton on the arm. "We had a lot to sort out, I mean a few weeks ago I thought that he was still in love with you," Brooke said, looking at Peyton. "We're just going to be taking it slow for a little bit."

"Okay, girls," Haley said, "give me your honest opinions." Haley stepped out of the fitting room and Peyton and Brooke had the same reaction: their jaws dropped.

"Oh, Hales, it's perfect," Brooke spoke first, bringing Haley in front of the three way mirror.

"It fits perfectly, it's like it was meant to be," Haley said, turning towards Peyton. "If it wasn't for you, I probably wouldn't have found it. See, I knew there was a reason why we brought you."

"Gee, thanks. You know, Nathan's going to freak out when he sees you in this, he's not going to know what to do."

"Oh no, he's going to know exactly what to do- get her out of it!"

"Brooke!" Haley and Peyton exclaimed at the same time.

"What?" she asked. "It's the truth, at least someone's willing to say it. Speaking of the truth- get out of this dress and buy it so that Peyton and I can go shopping for our dresses!"

Haley laughed. "Does this mean I don't have to try on the nasty one you picked out?"

"Nope, I'm too excited to pick out my own dress now."

"Yeah, aren't you glad she's not selfish?" Peyton joked.

Haley quickly paid for the dress and the three of them started walking to the café where Lucas was waiting for them.

"So, Haley, how's your head doing? Is it prepared for this wedding?" Peyton asked as she linked arms with her.

"Well, my head's fine. It's my stomach that's not completely prepared for some reason. I feel like I've been a nervous wreck this past week."

"Why," Brooke cut in, "have you been sick?"

"Yeah, I've been throwing up basically everyday the past week. I think it's just because I miss Nathan so much."

Brooke shot a skeptical look at Peyton before continuing. "Haley, are you sure there isn't something you want to tell us?"

"Like what?" she asked, not knowing what Brooke was trying to get at.

Brooke stopped her in the middle of the sidewalk and turned around to face her. "Like maybe the fact that your preggers?"

"What! There's no way… Well, of course there's a way, but I can't be. I mean, we're so careful. I'm sure it's just my nerves, I'm just really excited about seeing Nathan. Besides, there's no way we're even remotely ready to have a baby. We're both still in high school! No, there's just no way." Haley concluded.

"You really seem to be convincing yourself just as much as us. You sure you don't want to pick up a pregnancy test just to be sure? I mean, it wouldn't hurt." Peyton asked her.

"No, I just want to go pick out your dresses and then I want to go to bed so that tomorrow I can see my husband. Okay? Please, let's just drop it."

"Okay," Brooke said as they started walking. "It would be really cute if we could find light pink dresses to match your sash!"

"Well, she changed subjects quickly," Peyton said to Haley, which caused the three of them to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Lucas asked as they neared the little corner café where he was sitting waiting for them.

"Oh nothing, Broody, just a little girl talk. Did you miss me?" Brooke asked as Lucas stood up and they began walking ahead of Peyton and Haley.

"You know it, Cheery. Did you have fun dress shopping?"

"Yes, but not as much fun as I could have had with you." Brooke responded suggestively.

"So much for taking it slow," Haley said to Peyton. The two girls laughed as they did their best to catch up to Brooke and Lucas.


The Davis house was quiet considering Brooke's parents were out of town, so the four of them had a nice dinner to themselves.

"So, girls, Lucas and I have been talking and I've decided to move back to Tree Hill- for good." Brooke said as they were all finishing up.

"Brooke, that's great. But what do your parents think?" Peyton asked.

"Well, it will be quite a shock when they get home and I'm not here. If they even notice, that is."

"Wait," Haley cut her off, "you're not even planning on telling them?"

"I've never asked their approval for anything else so there's no need to start now. I think it's Karen that we're worried about. She was okay with me living there before, but we weren't dating then."

"I'll just keep you locked in my room," Lucas told her, reaching for her hand.

"Now, that doesn't sound half bad," Brooke said, leaning towards him.

"Easy you two," Haley said as she stood up to take her plate to the sink. "Just remember that you currently have an audience. Brooke, do you think I could borrow your car to pick up some last minute things? I wouldn't be gone that long, maybe just a half hour."

"Sure, no problem, the keys are hanging right by the front door."

"Hey, Hales, do you think I could come with you?" Peyton asked- shooting her a 'don't leave me here alone with them!' look.

Haley hesitated, not exactly sure that she wanted anyone to come with on this last minute trip. But then again she felt bad leaving Peyton here with the lovebirds. "Sure, no problem."

"So, where are we going?" Peyton asked Haley as they got into Brooke's car.

"The drug store- I need to get a pregnancy test."


Haley stood on the beach, her toes playing in the sand, looking out at the crashing waves of the ocean. "This is it," she said to Lucas. "This is where the ceremony has to be." They had been in Florida for two hours, and as much as it killed Haley to be here and not see Nathan right away, there were important things she had to do first.

It was Friday and she had found a priest to do the ceremony at 2 pm on Sunday. It had taken some convincing considering he was reluctant to agree when they didn't have a place to perform the ceremony. But Haley convinced him it wouldn't take her long because the sooner she found the right place, the sooner she saw Nathan.

"Are you sure, Hales?"

"Yeah, everything here is perfect, Nathan will love it. Let me just make a few phone calls and then we can get going." First she called the priest and arranged to meet him here at 1:30 on Sunday. Next, she called her parents, hoping that they weren't far away and could drive down for the ceremony. They told her that they wouldn't miss it for the world and that they couldn't wait to see their daughter and son-in-law. Last, she called Deb's cell phone. Deb didn't pick up so Haley left a message saying that she really hoped they would come and then told her all of the specifics. Haley knew it would be hard for them, but she really wanted Nathan to have his parents there too.

Haley walked over to Lucas, who had been giving her some privacy, and nodded her head. "I'm all ready, everything should be set for Sunday." She put her arm through his as they started walking back to the car. "So, Brooke, huh?"

Lucas laughed. "I was wondering when you were going to start asking questions."

"Well, I had to get you alone first! So is everything okay now?" Haley had heard Brooke's side of everything, but it wasn't the same as hearing it straight from her best friend.

"Yeah, I think everything's really good right now. I think it will definitely take awhile to get back to where we used to be, but that's okay. We may never get back there, and that would be okay, too. We've both changed in the past year and I think it says a lot that we still want to be together and make it work."

"I know exactly what you mean, because I feel it with Nathan. It's not exactly what we had before, but so far it feels so much better. It feels like we have an even stronger connection, which I'm not giving up for anything in the world."

"Exactly, and I'm just so happy to be back with her. So what about you? I know you're excited to see Nathan, but you've seemed a little preoccupied the past 24 hours."

Haley smiled. Lucas didn't miss anything with her. But she wasn't going to admit to him what had been on her mind. "It's just all this planning. I just want to see Nathan and then actually have the wedding."

"Well, lucky for you because we're going to see him right now," Lucas said as he opened up the passenger side door of the rental car for her.

Haley couldn't help but feel butterflies on the drive over. She couldn't wait to see Nathan's reaction to seeing her. It was a little haunting because it reminded Haley of the fact that Nathan had come to see her and she had seemed so unsure of everything. If only he would of waited until after the show that night- so that she could have talked to him and told him to wait for her. The memory of that night had caused her to cry herself to sleep numerous times. She thought that she had cost herself everything, their whole marriage.

But she shouldn't think about that now, because everything was okay. Nathan knew that she loved him and that she wasn't leaving him again. Haley was so thankful that he had been willing to open up and let her in again. It had always made her feel special to know that he wasn't guarded around her.

Lucas pulled up in front of the High Flyers Arena and turned off the car. It was the middle of the day so they had figured that Nathan would still be at practice. "Do you want me to go in with you?"

"No, I can find him." Haley got out of the car and took a few deep breaths as she walked into the building. She could hear the sounds of drills being yelled out and shoes meeting with the wood of the basketball court, so she followed in that direction.

"Um, Haley?" she heard an unfamiliar voice say behind her.

She turned around to see a tall, attractive man filling up his water bottle. "Do I know you?" she asked.

"Wow, I can't believe this. Oh, sorry," he said, extending his hand to hers. "I'm Nathan's roommate, JR. You know he talked about you all the time, but somewhere in the back of our minds we all just kind of thought he was crazy."

"Well, it's nice to meet you. Listen, do you happen to know where he is? I'm kind of dying to see him."

"Oh yeah, no problem, I'll take you to him." He said as Haley followed him towards the middle of the arena. "We're actually in the middle of afternoon drills, which I'm sure he'll be happy to get out of. It's normally the worst part of the day and we'll do anything to get out of if."

"Like fill up your water bottle?" Haley joked.

JR laughed. "Yeah, well my other excuses were getting a little old. He's right this way. He's going to freak out when he sees you, he hasn't stopped talking about you since we got here."

Haley couldn't help but smile as they started descending the stairs to the basketball court. All the players were out running their drills and she spotted Nathan instantly, putting his all into running back and forth on the court.

She would remember the moment that he first saw her for the rest of their lives. It seemed as if time stopped for only the two of them as he paused in the middle of the court while the other players continued to run their drills around him. The smile that spread over his face was truly genuine and it took every ounce of control in her body not to run straight to him and throw herself into his arms.

Nathan ignored the coach behind him telling him to get back to running drills and started walking to where Haley was still coming down the stairs. As he passed through the other players, he picked up his pace a little and laughed as Haley did the same. They met at the bottom of the stairs and Nathan lifted her into his arms as she wrapped her legs around his waist. They both laughed as they brought their lips together and Haley placed her hands on the back of Nathan's head, bringing him as close to her as possible. She could feel his hand resting on the skin of her lower back and the gentle touch was enough to set her on fire.

Nathan softly pulled back and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "Hales, what are you doing here?"

"I just couldn't take it anymore and had to see you. Lucas is here too, he came with me."

"Yeah, I really don't care about Lucas right now."

Haley laughed and looked past Nathan to the rest of the players, who had now stopped what they were doing to watch the two of them. "Nathan, everyone's looking at us!" she said quietly to him.

"I don't care, let them watch. How long are you here for?"

"As long as you want me to be."

"How does two and a half months sound?" he asked her as he carefully placed her back on the floor, still keeping his arms around her waist to keep her close.

Haley laughed, "Sounds good to me. Listen, can you get out of practice right now?"

"Well, if I can't then I'm just leaving all together because there's no way I'm going to stay here now. There's no way I'll be able to concentrate on anything! Just give me a minute to talk to the coaches." He kissed her forehead before turning around and jogging over to where the coaches were standing.

After talking to them for a few minutes, he jogged back to Haley and led her back up the stairs by the hand. When they were out of the eye of everyone on the court, he turned towards her and pulled her into his arms. "God, you're amazing."

Haley laughed and brought her mouth up to his, slowly deepening the kiss and just enjoying the moment.

Nathan broke the kiss after a few minutes. "Let's get out of here, is Lucas waiting outside?"

"Yeah, he is." Haley placed one last quick kiss on his lips before taking his hand in hers and leading him out to the car. As she climbed into the back seat and cuddled into his chest, she couldn't help but feel that now everything was okay.

As long as they were together, they could face anything that came their way.


This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am
I don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go

And so I thought I'd let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you had just woke up
And you said "this is the first day of my life
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you
But now I don't care I could go anywhere with you
And I'd probably be happy
"

So if you want to be with me
With these things there's no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck
Then waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me

"First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes


Well there it is guys- hope you enjoyed it! I left a little cliffhanger in there with the Haley situation, I just wanted to see what everyone's thoughts on that were. So R&R!

Kylie