The Mistake with Devastating Consequences (Chapter 11)

Nathan woke up and sat up in his bed. He missed Haley and her words; "You don't mean for a lot of things to happen, but they do. And I'm sorry but I don't know if I can take it anymore," were still burned in his memory. He had lost a lot of hope that things would ever be the same between them again and then Peyton Sawyer had rubbed salt into his already hopeless heart. He knew that the fact that he was no longer with Haley was entirely his fault and there was not a day that went by where he didn't regret what he did. If only he had stopped to think about what his father had told him that day. He would've realized that there was no way that Haley was capable of doing what his father had accused her of.

Nathan shook his head in shame. He had been such an idiot. Haley cheating was almost as ridiculous a notion as his father telling the truth. But Nathan had believed it. Despite the fact that it was his father's word which let's face it: was not worth much, despite that there were no pictures of Haley with another guy to back up his father's claim, despite that he knew Haley well enough to know that she would never be unfaithful to him, he had believed his father and decided to get back at Haley by fighting fire with fire. Sometimes he was so stupid, he amazed himself.

What he didn't realize at the time was that his father had purposefully set him up. Tamyra had more or less admitted that she had been hired by Dan to seduce Nathan that night when she found him at the club. Even she hadn't planned on getting pregnant she had said. But at this point, it didn't even matter. Haley had made it more than clear that she was done with Nathan and his "mistakes". Without Haley, what did he have left? It still hurt him when he remembered Haley's shocked expression of finding Nathan and the other girl and then later finding out that he had gotten her pregnant.

/Flashback/

There was a knock on Nathan's door and he got up from his desk and opened it. "Hey, Dad," he said. Dan Scott walked into his son's dorm room and looked around. His eyes rested on a picture of Nathan's new girlfriend, Haley James.

"Nathan," his father said flatly. Nathan could instantly feel that there was something his father wanted to get off his chest.

"What brings you here?" Nathan asked. Dan sat down at his son's desk and handed Nathan an envelope.

"I hate to be the one to give you this, but there's something you should know about your girlfriend," he said. Nathan opened the envelope and shot his father a weird look. He pulled out three typed pages. He scanned over them and saw the words "subject met with lover on a weekly basis". It was basically details of how and when Haley met with a guy she was seeing on the side.

"What is this?" he asked. Dan looked at him sympathetically.

"It's pretty self-explanatory, Nathan," Dan replied. Nathan shook his head.

"Do you really expect me to believe that Haley's been cheating on me?" he asked. Dan looked at him. His eyes seemed to on the affirmative. "I can't believe you hired one of your goons to follow her."

"I was protecting the interests of my son and whether you like it or not, that's you. I did what was necessary to reveal her for the devious pretender she is," Dan said. Nathan looked at him skeptically. "Nathan, I have no reason to make this up. Do you think I like that I have to have a girl followed to find out if she really loves my son enough to be faithful to him?"

Haley walked up to Nathan's dorm room and knocked on the door. She felt bad about their argument. The argument had really been about nothing but it was obvious to her that something had set Nathan off. He was upset about something and she hated seeing him so upset. She wanted to help him through whatever had happened. She knocked on the door but there was loud music playing. She smiled as she remembered that Nathan had once told her that he played music when he was studying to block out thoughts of her. She, of course, knew that it was a line, but it still had warmed her heart. So she opened the door knowing it would be unlocked and nearly fell to the floor when he saw Nathan lying in bed curled up to some girl. The girl came to and looked at her. She moved her hands across Nathan's chest. "What?" Nathan asked.

"You have company," the girl said. Nathan opened his eyes and saw Haley standing in the doorway frozen in place.

"Um, I have to go," she said, running out of the doorway. Nathan sighed. Yes, he was angry at her and he had deliberately called her over so she would see them, but he hated to see her devastated look. He got up, got dressed and ran after her. He caught up to her in the parking lot of the dorm building but she ran away.

A week later, Nathan had run into Haley after people had found out that Tamyra was now pregnant and a while after Nathan had explained the whole thing to Lucas who had then told Taylor who had giddily told Haley because at the time, they were still at odds. "Hi," he said. Haley scoffed.

"I don't even know what to say to that," she said, shaking her head miserably.

"Haley, we need to talk," he said. "I have some news."

"What?" she asked. "Did you cheat on me again?" He shook his head.

"Tamyra's pregnant," he blurted out. Haley looked at him in shock.

"You're kidding," she said. He shook his head. "You're not kidding?"

"No, I'm not," he said. Haley raised her right hand and slapped him squarely across the face.

"Bastard!" she exclaimed. He held his face where she'd hit him and then looked at her in disbelief."

"I didn't plan on getting her pregnant," he said. Haley smirked.

"No, you only planned sleeping with her while we were still dating," she said. He looked at her because she had used the past tense.

"We still are," he said. Haley laughed.

"And the hits just keep coming!" she exclaimed.

"Haley…" he started.

"You're insane if you think I'm going to stay with you after this. I trusted you and you went off and slept with some girl whose name you don't even know! I gave you a second chance after you cheated on me the first time and what do you do? You do it again!" Haley exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, Haley. I was trying to get over what was one of the worst nights of my life," he said. Haley shook her head. "I'm sorry I hurt you."

"Forget me. Think about what you've just done to yourself! You made a mistake, yes, but a baby was created because of it and now you've just tied yourself to Tamyra for the rest of your life," she said. He looked at her in misery. "God, why didn't you just come to me with what your father told you? You could've avoided all this and we might even still be together. But now. You've destroyed everything," she said, walking away from him. There was nothing left to say.

/End of Flashback/

While Nathan was remembering the things that had led up to the end of his and Haley's relationship, Tamyra was listening on the outside and her heart broke for him as she heard him cry and call himself an idiot over and over again. "Something needs to be done about this," she told herself.

Tamyra Collins walked up to Nathan's ex-girlfriend, Haley James' dorm room. She knocked on the door and it opened. "Hi. Are you Haley?" she asked. The girl shook her head.

"No, I'm her roommate. What are you doing here?" the girl asked. Tamyra now recognized her as Maria Campbell, the girl from the club that started an argument with Nathan and Peyton.

"I need to talk to Haley," she said. Maria scoffed.

"Maria, it's ok. She can come in," Haley said from inside the room. Maria turned to look at her as if she were nuts, but shrugged and walked past Tamyra. Tamyra walked inside and saw Haley was sitting on her bed with a guitar in her hands. She was strumming it lightly.

"Hi. I'm Tamyra C…" she started but stopped when Haley interrupted her.

"I know who you are," Haley snapped. She put the guitar down on her bed and folded her arms across her chest. "What are you doing here?"

"I need to talk to you," Tamyra said. Haley looked up at her. "About Nathan."

"What about him?" Haley asked.

"He's going through a rough time right now, Haley and it's going to get worse. He needs you," Tamyra said. Haley laughed.

"Why? He as you," Haley replied.

"No, he doesn't. We're not together and you know that," Tamyra said.

"No, you're just having a baby together," Haley said. Tamyra looked down.

"No, we're not," she admitted. Haley looked up at her.

"What are you talking about?" Haley asked.

"I lied, Haley. I made the whole thing up," Taylor replied. Haley looked at her.

"Well, then, you must have a pretty fertile imagination," Haley said, pointing to Tamyra's belly.

"I'm pregnant now, but I wasn't then," she said.

"Hold on. So are you telling me that when you and Nathan slept together, you didn't get pregnant by him?" Haley asked. Tamyra bit her lip. It was time to let it all out.

"We never slept together," she said. Haley's mouth dropped open. "Nathan's father hired me to seduce Nathan that night. I had rhino (date rape drug) with me. I put it in his drink, I brought him to his dorm, he took his shirt off and his jeans off and passed out on the bed. I got undressed and slipped into the bed with him to make it look like we'd slept together," Tamyra admitted. Haley started shaking with anger and confusion.

"So this whole thing was a game?" Haley asked in anger. Tamyra nodded.

"Dan Scott didn't want with you his son. Apparently he was willing to do anything to split you up," she said.

"And you went along with it. Why?" Haley asked. Tamyra bit her lip.

"I didn't want my boyfriend to find out that I was a stripper. I was afraid he'd leave me if he ever did. So the mayor came to me and threatened to reveal the truth if I didn't go along with his plan," Tamyra said.

"So, why are you telling me this now?" Haley asked. "If Dan finds out, your secret will be exposed."

"That boyfriend and I broke up a few weeks after he found out I was pregnant with another guy's child, which is actually his, but that's not why. I saw Nathan a few minutes ago in his room. Now, whether or not you believe me is entirely up to you, but I have grown to care about Nathan in the sense that I don't want to hurt him. I just realized how much not being with you is hurting him," Tamyra said.

"So Nathan never cheated on me?" Haley asked. Tamyra shook her head. "But he planned to. In my opinion, it doesn't really change anything other than Nathan and I were both duped by you and Dan."

"Nathan thought he could cheat on you, Haley. If I hadn't slipped that pill in his drink, it never would've gotten as far as it did. He never would've been able to go through with it but more to the point, he didn't. He only thinks he did and it cost him everything. He really loves you," Tamyra said. Haley started crying. "Are you all right?"

"These are tears of joy," Haley said, through her tears. "Just so you know I hate you for what you've done." Tamyra nodded and started to leave. "But thank you for coming to me and telling me the truth."

"You're welcome," Tamyra said.

"Now all you have to do is admit it to Nathan," Haley said.

"I wrote him a letter and left it on his bedroom door," Tamyra said.

"He's probably fuming right now," Haley said. Then there was a knock on the door.

"Or he's here," Tamyra said, chuckling as Haley went to answer the door and Nathan was looking at her helplessly.

"We need to talk," he said to Haley. Haley nodded. She opened the door to reveal Tamyra.

"Yeah, we do."