"Silly mommy! I's wear the fairy dress"

"Emily, no, you can't wear your Halloween costume" Brooke sighed.

"But I's want to!" Emily whined.

"Emily…" Brooke warned.

"Fines" Emily pouted and threw the dress on the floor.

"Emily Catherine Scott! Pick the dress up and put it on the bed and I don't want to hear you whining again, am I clear?" Brooke said firmly.

"Yes" Emily pouted. "I's sorry mommy"

"Its ok baby" Brooke said. She hated yelling at Emily. "You'll be all itchy in the fairy dress anyway, ok? You can wear your jean skirt, how does that sound?"

"Good" Emily giggled. "Where's are we going?"

"To one of daddy's teammate's wife's birthday party. Whew"

"Poor Brooke…when she says that many things her brain goes OVERLOAD, OVERLOAD" Nathan teased.

"You know what, Nate?" Brooke said, throwing mascara at him.

"What is this?" he said, looking at the round black bottle.

"Mascara"

"Oh…you like put it under your eyes or something?" Nathan asked with a confused expression.

"Nathan you are SUCH a guy" Haley groaned. "It's for your eyelashes"

"Wouldn't you be freaked out if I knew what it was, though?"

"Yeah, I guess" Haley contemplated that.

"Aw Tristan you look so cute!" Brooke giggled when she saw her nephew. Tristan was a splitting image of Nathan to begin with, but with his hair styled like Nathan's and a little tie just like him, he looked like Nathan shrunk down to 3 feet.

"Jeez he looks exactly like you, Nate" Lucas laughed.

"Which one do you wanna wear, pink shirt or purple, Emmy?" Brooke held up two shirts for her.

"Pink, mommy!" Emily giggled. "I's look like a fairy princess"

"Oh god" Lucas rolled his eyes. "Brooke's corrupted my sweet child into a giggle girl"

"Hey!" Brooke said. "She was born a fairy princess, right Emmy?"

"Right"

"Ok are we ready?" Haley asked.

"Yeah I just need to grab some lipstick" Brooke said.

"You both look gorgeous" Nathan informed Haley and Brooke. "Now let's go"

"Fine, fine" Brooke and Haley rolled their eyes and followed Nathan and Lucas out the door with Tristan and Emily following their mothers.

"Mommy I's look like a fairy princess, right?"

"Yes, Emily, you do" Brooke laughed, tickling her daughter.

"Cans I wear some lip gloss?"

"Sure baby" Brooke said, digging through her purse.

"No lip gloss for my three year old, Brooke!" Lucas protested.

"Oh, come on Lucas its just lip gloss" Brooke laughed.

"Fine" Lucas grumbled.

"Silly daddy" Emily giggled, taking the tube from Brooke and playing with it. "It's glittery!"

"Brooke you wear glittery lip gloss?" Haley asked, turning around from the front seat. She had called shotgun and was sitting next to Lucas in the front seat.

"No, it's for Emily" Brooke laughed. "But you have no right to insult me…you stuck me in the back with NATHAN"

"Feel sorry for me, Hales…I got stuck with BROOKE" he glared playfully at her.

"You two fight like brothers and sisters" Lucas said. "Haley, I think we need to teach these kids a lesson"

"Well it's not our fault that you guys have been best friends since like, birth" Brooke rolled her eyes. "Nathan and I just happen to be caught in this whole thing"

"Haha" Lucas said sarcastically, rolling his eyes at Brooke.

"We're here" Haley said. "Now you two, you better behave"

"Ok, Aunt Haley" Emily said.

"Ok mommy" Tristan said.

"Oh I wasn't talking to you guys…" Haley giggled.

"Hey!" Brooke and Nathan exclaimed.

"Come on…" Lucas laughed, opening the door for Brooke and helping her out.

"Andrew, hey!" Lucas greeted his friend warmly.

"Hey" he said. "Where's Nate?"

"I'm right here" Nathan said, tapping Andrew on the shoulder.

"Dude! How are you?"

"Good?"

"How are the missus and the baby?"

"I'm not a baby" Tristan protested.

"We're good" Haley laughed, appearing right behind Nathan with Tristan, Brooke, and Emily.

"Good, good, now we have a party!" Andrew said. He bent down to Emily's height and tickled her. "How are you, sweetie?"

"Good" Emily giggled.

"You look very pretty today"

"Thank yous, yous look goods too"

"My, my, she's quite a charmer!" Andrew laughed. "And Tristan, I hear you're a basketball marvel?"

"Yes" Tristan said shyly.

"Well, that's excellent…come on, come on, lets get something to eat" Andrew ushered them through the doors of the patio out to where the guests were laughing and talking quietly.

"So, Mrs. Scott, I hear you're musically talented" Andrew said to Haley. "I'd like you to introduce you to Bradley Boyce- he has his own recording studio and label and such"

"Oh, hello" he smiled. He was a young man, maybe 26 or 27, and was wearing an expensive looking Ralph Lauren jacket and a Rolex. Haley smiled to herself. "Are you interested in music?"

"Well…" Haley began talking as he listened intently.

"Mommy?" Emily asked.

"Yes sweetie?" Brooke looked down at Emily. She was wishing Mariana a happy birthday and discussing some sort of kitchen counter granite. Like Brooke cared about kitchen counter granite. She had her interior designer deal with that. She was happy to be interrupted.

"Cans I have a sip of wine?"

"Emmy, baby, I think that's illegal" Brooke giggled.

"So?" Emily giggled. "It'll be fun"

"Silly Emmy…three year olds can't drink!" Lucas came up and grabbed his daughter. He threw her over his shoulder, making her giggle and scream in joy.

"Buts I's your princess" Emily pouted, snuggling up to Lucas.

"You little suck up" Brooke tickled Emily.

"My pretty, pretty princess can't be drunk, can she?" Lucas asked.

"Nowa, I guess not" Emily sighed dramatically. "I's going to a ball, byes daddy and mommy" Emily flipped her brown hair over her shoulders and batted her long eyelashes.

"Bye" Brooke laughed.

"She looks exactly like you, Brooke" Mariana observed with a laugh.

"Yeah, that's my girl" Brooke laughed.

"So what did you do?" Nathan asked Haley on the way home from the party. Brooke and Lucas were just going to call the driver when they were ready so Nathan and Haley had taken their car and driven it home.

"I talked to Bradley Boyce…he's an amazing musician and producer and he invited me to record a couple of my songs in the studio!"

"Oh" Nathan's expression changed instantly from content to agitated. "When?"

"Tomorrow night" Haley said. They drove the car into Brooke and Lucas's garage and got out. They walked over to their house and Haley opened the door and turned off the alarm.

"We were supposed to go on a date tomorrow night, remember?"

"Oh Nathan baby I'm sorry, I'll cancel it if you want" Haley said.

"No, no, don't do that Hales…I know how much you love being in the studio"

"You don't look happy about it" Haley observed quietly.

"Don't worry" Nathan said softly. "We can always reschedule"

"I just don't want my music to be a problem again"

"Haley, don't worry about it babe…I'm totally cool with it, ok? I know what you are without music…it's what I am without basketball" Nathan said, putting his hands on her face.

"I know, it's just…its opening old wounds"

"That was then, this is now" Nathan said. "I'm more mature now"

"You sure?"

"Positive"

"Ok…" Haley sighed. "I just…don't wanna be ripped apart from you now that we have Tristan and-"

"Haley, there's nothing that matters more to me than you and Tristan…nothing will change, I promise, ok?"

"Ok" Haley said, smiling.

"Come here" Nathan laughed, pulling her close to him and kissing her. "Anything new you're working on in the studio?"

Nathan had had a private studio built for Haley as a birthday present. It was nothing professional, purely for home purposes and Haley spent a lot of time in there, writing and singing songs and playing them for Nathan. She had repeated over and over again that she didn't want the fame and the fortune she had gotten from the tour. She said her music was going to stay within the house now, but she seemed to have changed her mind. Bradley Boyce's famous studio held too many promises for her future that she couldn't resist. I know it's wrong to go back to where I was when Nathan and I weren't together Haley thought. But it's my life, too…and if I wanna do it, then I'm going to do it.

"No" Haley said. "I'm tweaking a song I wrote a couple months ago"

"What's it called?"

"Halo"

"Ah" Nathan had heard tidbits of Haley's beautiful voice blaring through the studio's stereo various amounts of times. "When do I get to hear it?"

"Soon" Haley said. "Very soon"

"Good…I can't wait" Nathan said, kissing the top of her head.

A/N: Since there seems to be an overbearing demand for Naley, I suppose I'll tune down the Brucas…there is some serious, SERIOUS Naley drama coming right up, I just need time for it to build…REVIEW!