Chapter 5: Waiting

"Haley, are you sure you're okay?" Brooke asked, in the bedroom, yelling through the washroom door. Haley had been sick all morning, and yet again, she was near the toilet.

"I'm fine, just you should go without me." Haley replied, through the door once again.

Brooke hesitated, "So you're not going to come today? Do you want anything?"

"No, I'll be fine." she called back at her, "Just go or you'll be late, and you can't be late anymore."

"Oh right, okay, so if you need anything give me a call, I'll come back during lunch or something." Brooke said, before saying bye to Haley, and then grabbing her jacket and book bag, before heading out the door.

Haley sighed, as she leaned her back against the wall, sitting close enough to the toilet, so that if she had to be sick again, she could get there on time. She acted like she wasn't sure what was wrong with her, but she had been getting sick more and more lately, and she had a hunch.

Getting up from off the ground, Haley stopped for a second, feeling nauscious again, and then walked over to the door, she unlocked it and walked into her and Brooke's bedroom. Haley headed towards her bedside table and opened up a drawer, taking out a box.

"Where's Hales?" Nathan asked, approaching Brooke, after looking everywhere for his wife.

"She stayed home today. A little bit sicker than yesterday, if you know what I mean." Brooke said, imitating a barfing face, with hand motions and everything.

"Is she okay though?" Nathan asked.

"Yeah she's fine. I'm going to go over there during lunch to go and check on her. If you ask me, it's getting pretty suspicious." she smirked.

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, you're cute little wife has been getting sick more and more lately, and it always starts in the morning. If you catch my drift." Brooke winked.

Nathan still wasn't getting it, "God! You are totally clueless, aren't you?" Brooke exclaimed. "Morning sickness, idiot!"

"Haley's pregnant?" he asked, wide-eyed.

"Don't ask me, I'm not the one that's with her. I don't even know if she's taken a test yet."

Haley carefully read the back of the box, after placing the stick on the counter. "Wait...geez, how are you supposed to wait that long?" she exclaimed, as there was a knock on the door. She put the stick in the garbage, covering it up, and then walked out, hearing a knock again. "COMING!" she exclaimed, as she got to the door, unlocked it, and opened it up.

"Nathan, hey. What are you doing here?" she asked, wondering why he wasn't in school.

"I wanted to ask you something, and make sure you were okay." he said, but it was mostly just to ask her if she was pregnant.

"Yeah I'm fine, what was it that you wanted to ask me?" Haley asked. She had a hunch about what it was, since she guessed that Brooke was getting a little suspicious about her being sick only in the mornings.

"Okay, well. I'm just going to ask it. Are you pregnant?" he asked.

"Honestly, I'm not sure." she said, deciding to come right out with it.

"Well, can't you take one of those tests or something?" he asked, his heart beating faster. Haley could be pregnant? They had just had a scare like this before, but they've been protected ever since, they made sure of it, how could something like this happen?

"I just bought one." she said.

"Well what did it say?" he asked, nervously.

"I don't know, we have to wait." Haley said. Nathan nodded and let out a sigh.

"Hey boyfriend." Brooke smiled, as she sat down beside him at the picnic tables outside.

"Hey." Lucas smiled and gave him a kiss. "So, where are Hales and Nathan?"

"Well Haley might be pregnant, so I think Nathan's over at our place right now with her." Lucas looked at her in disbelief.

"What?"

"You didn't hear me?" Brooke asked, acting like it was no big deal.

Author's Note: It's coming soon, next chapter probably, so just wait and see wink I promise, there won't be much more wait.