Information: Parts of this are from Parent Trap.Most are not. UH, the "date" isn't a copy of their first date, its like a close-to kinda deal.
Chapter 10: The Redo- Date
"Hello, Mr. And Mrs. Scott." Kristin greets as her parents, Nathan, Deb, Dan, Nicole, and Hannah sit down for lunch at a very fancy restaurant.
"Hi." Dan bites back shortly. "So what exactly is the meaning of this little get-together?" He asks, not wasting any of his time.
"We just wanted to meet you, since the wedding is nearing and all. Having our new family together couldn't hurt." Kristin's mother, Janus, smiles.
"Hmm. Couldn't we have just met you at the wedding?" Dan asks rudely. The twins and Deb try to hide their smiles.
"DAD! Come on. Can't this be nice, or do you have to ruin it?" Nathan exclaimed.
"I wish he would..." Nicole mumbles to Hannah.
"Sorry, son." He apologized fakely, flashing the famous Scott smirk. He looked over to Kristin's dad, his name was Frank. He looked like his wife had him on a pretty short leash, he hadn't said a word. He was staring across the table, trying to read the newspaper that a man at the table behind them was reading. Dan was almost happy for him. He didn't have to talk, he was expected to sit there and look good. He looked over at the twins, he deduced didn't really like Kristin. Who would? And he was supposed to sit here and chat with these people? There were so many things better he could be doing. He looked over at Deb, he knew she didn't like his son's fiancé. She had bit)ched about her all night long. He reminded himself to make sure Nathan had her sign a pre-nup. Now, he almost wished he'd marry Haley, again. They weren't horrible together, she wouldn't take his money, and it'd look good if Nathan married the mother of his children. Then again, Kristy, no, Kristin, would be a nice trophy wife.
"Grandpa! Hello...!" Hannah muttered, and she elbowed him.
"Huh..?"
"Get. Us. Out. Of. Here." She grumbled, threw her smile. He looked over at Kristin and Nathan, who had really excited faces on. He had missed something.
"WHAT!" Nicole shouted, standing up, and attracting the attention of the rest of the restaurant.
"Nicky-" Nathan started
"No! Don't Nicky me, DAD! I find out that you are getting married, to someone you met not even three months ago, and now you guys decide to get married this weekend! That's crazy! You don't know her!" She ranted, before storming from the room, and running out of the building, closely followed by Hannah, who merely shook her head at them before running after her sister.
"Well. I think that went well. I guess I'll see you at the wedding." Dan smirked again. "Come on, Deb."
"Goodbye Nathan, Kristin. And it was good meeting you both." She smiled at Janus and Frank.
"Your family hates me." Kristin cried, even though she couldn't care less.
"No, they don't they just need to get used to you, that's all. Trust me, once they see what I see, they will love you!" He reasoned.
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(Later that night)
"You owe me dad. You are going, I don't care what you say."
"I don't owe you for getting married. I'd think you'd be happy for me."
"Oh, right... happy." She mumbles.
"NICOLE AND DAD! Are you coming?" Hannah yells into the kitchen, where they were. "MOM? Let's go people! Move! Move! MOVE!"
"Relax, Hann. We are thirty minutes early." Nicole reasons, walking into the room, followed by a grumpy Nathan.
"I just want tonight to be perfect."
"It's not going to be if I kill you for yelling."
"Dad. Stop acting like a petulant child, you are going." Hannah scolds.
"MOM! Let's go!" She screams up the stairs again.
"I'm coming! Brooke, where are my shoes?" She calls.
"They are mine, and in the closet." Brooke calls back, walking down the stairs, rolling her eyes. "Okay, girls. I finally got your mom up to damn-you-look-hot status, although I was aiming for drop-dead gorgeous."
"Ah.. Thanks Brooke." The girls say.
"No problem. It was fun torturing her again. God, she acts like eye shadow is her worst enemy. I would NOT want to be her makeup artist."
Haley appears at the top of the stairs. She has on a simple black dress, that hugs her body perfectly, strappy black high heels, pastel pink jewelry, and a black clutch. She is trying to rush and get her right high heel on, but failing miserably.
"Where, are, we–" She stutters, before tripping and rolling forward down the stairs, Brooke and the twins laugh hysterically, and Nathan rushes over to help her up.
"Are you okay, Hales?"
"Fine, I'm fine." She laughs. "Where are we going?"
"Can't tell. It's a surprise."
"I hate surprises." Haley mumbles.
"We know! Now, lets go." Hannah directs, leading them out the door.
"Brooke! Do you know where we are going?" Haley whispers, pleadingly, as Brooke tries to close the door behind her.
"Yes! But am I going to tell you? No. So leave. And please don't hate me... It was the girls idea."
"What was? And aren't you coming?"
"Nope. Lucas and I have a date, so leave already!" She replies, closing the door on Haley.
"Damn." She quietly curses to herself. "This should be interesting."
"Mom? You coming?" Nicole asks, hanging out the car window.
"Yeah..."
"Okay! We're here!" Nicole says, getting out of the car.
"The Café? This is your big surprise?"
"Shut up, dad. And no. It's not. This is." She says, handing him a white envelope. "No! Don't open it yet! Give me your car keys. Okay, now, Brooke told us about your first date. So, we decided that it was TOTALLY unfair that Dad screwed it up, like everything he does, and so with Uncle Luke and Brooke's help, we set up another one. Have fun!" She tells them, before they run into Karen's and lock them out. Haley starts to laugh, and Nathan stands there holding the envelope, dumbfounded.
"What is so funny?" He bites. "They set us up! I am engaged you know!"
"I know. But I think it's funny that Nicole thinks you are a screw up!" She giggles, bending over in fits of laughter. Nathan pouts, before joining her in her laughter.
"So.. What does the card say?" She asks, after composing herself.
" 'Convince her to go.' " He smirks. "So, how am I doing?"
"Not well. I haven't heard one single reason why I should go to dinner with a screw up like yourself."
"Well, us screw ups are pretty good looking, we tend to be decent dates, until we screw up that is, and I have a lot of money..."
"That was pathetic. What does the second card say?"
" 'Walk to the docks, and on the way tell each other three things about your favorite daughters.' " He reads.
"Hmm... the egos those two have..." Haley laughs.
"Shall we, Ms. James?" He asks, extending his arm for her to grab.
"We shall, Mr. Scott." She mocks, grabbing his arm.
"So.. You first."
"Okay, so Hannah loves watching Law and Order SVU, and eating junk food, her favorite book is 'Whale Talk,' by Chris Crutcher, and she is an excellent cook." Haley recites easily.
"Um. Okay. So, Nicole likes basketball and getting into trouble, hates history, but loves math... um... and she loves Goo Goo Dolls, Kanye West, and Jason Mraz." Nathan says.
"I see. My feet hurt. Why would Brooke put me in high heels if she knew we would be walking? I hate high heels..." She complains.
"I thought you'd be over that by now."
"What?"
"Let's see, not being able to walk in high heels without falling, complaining about them, and being stubborn about getting dressed up."
"I AM NOT STUBBORN! And you trying wearing high heels..."
"I have never heard another woman complain about dressing up or wearing high heels as much as you."
"I don't care about other women. I care about how badly my feet hurt, and how hideous I look in this dress."
"You look beautiful Haley..." He groaned, walking faster toward the picnic table they sat at during their study sessions.
"Wait for me..!" She exclaims, a little taken back by her ex-husband's compliment.
"I can't find the card..." He starts.
"Because it's in the bag that is in my hand." She giggles. " 'The breakfast of Champions, and a trick or two, open them up to find your next clue.' " She reads.
"What is this, a scavenger hunt now? Give me those..." He grumbles, tearing the Cracker Jack box from her hand.
"Woah. Attitude much...?" She mumbles quietly, watching as he digs his hand into the box, retrieving another white envelope.
" 'Go to Haley's childhood home, and walk into the kitchen. Try not to burn down the house Haley.' "
"It doesn't say that!" Haley exclaims, ripping the card from his hand, "it says Nathan, you jerk! I can cook!" She yells, watching the smirk on his face grow.
"So, why did they have us walk here, if we are going to your old house? And didn't your parent sell it, so that kinda screws everything up."
"No, they wouldn't do that because you are supposed to screw everything up, lets just go check it out, if it involves committing any crimes, we'll bail and get some food elsewhere."
"Deal. Give me the Cracker Jacks, I'm hungry." She hands him back to box, and he stuffs his hand in, as they begin to walk. "Hey. I got a prize.. Maybe it's something good this time..." He opens it up, and pulls out a plastic ring. He tries to put it on himself, but it won't fit on his finger. "Here. You can have it. Now you have like a collection."
"Yeah, just what I always wanted, a collection of Cracker Jack box jewelry. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.." She states sarcastically as he slides the ring onto her finger.
"Well, you should. Look at who you are standing next to." He smugly comments.
They walk to Haley's old house, and are surprised to find a For Sale sign in the front yard, and everything already moved out of the house.
"It's still a crime to go in there, Nathan."
"So... We've committed several crimes together, including trespassing before, so why is this different?"
"Because! We were teenagers!"
"Oh, come on Haley." He groans. "I'm hungry, and if I know Brooke and Lucas, Brooke came up with the idea, and Luke made sure we wouldn't get into trouble for it. It's dark. No one is out, we won't get caught."
"Fine.. But if I end up in jail I am blaming you, Screw Up." She says, following him up the walkway.
"Stop with the screw up thing already!"
"No.. I am having WAY too much fun with it." She giggles as they entered the house. "Whoa. Creepy. I've never seen it so.. Empty or.. Dirty."
"You had 5 brothers and sisters, wasn't it a mess all the time?"
"Good point. I mean, like DIRT dirty, not messy." He nods in understanding as they walk into the kitchen.
There is a bag, a microwave, a cd player, and a blanket sitting on the counter.
" 'Inside is a dinner, made for you, just to win her. Don't screw up, or you will pay, have fun, remembering the old days.' " He reads, then pulls out the second sheet of paper. " 'Heat up the container of food for only TWO minutes, lay down the blanket, light the candle, but keep it away from the blanket so it doesn't start a fire, turn on the cd player, and enjoy! Love, Hannah and Nicole. P.S. Good Job on convincing mom to commit a crime!"
"Those girls!"
"They REALLY think I am going to start a fire!"
"Yeah. So do I. ONLY TWO MINUTES, Nathan." She reminds him, before walking to the living room to lay down the blanket.
"Here we go.. Dinner for two." He says a few minutes later.
"Hannah made this. She loves Fettuccine Alfredo. It's not Macaroni and Cheese, but its really good."
"You are the BIGGEST dork I have ever met. And don't even try to act offended."
"I won't, because I know I am."
A few minutes pass of a comfortable silence.
"So.. What are we going to do about the girls?" He asks.
"I'm not sure. We can't really keep them apart now, can we?"
"No. Not really. And they can't go to two separate schools.."
"Yeah.." She agrees, lost in thought "This is why we came up with the solution we have."
"Is it...? I thought it was because we agreed to never have to see each other again."
"Not we, Nathan." She states.
"I honestly don't remember how it happened at all,"
"You don't remember the day you packed?"
"No... that day I remember perfectly. We were just so young, Haley..."
"Yeah, young.." She said, standing up and taking her plate into the kitchen and began to wash it. Nathan followed her.
"Haley, we should probably talk about it. We may never get the chance to be alone again."
"Oh, you mean why you packed?"
"Yeah. That. We had been fighting for like three months, about stupid stuff, and we both know neither of us really wanted to go to Duke. You wanted to go to NYU and I wanted to go to UCLA, and then we got in that fight and I don't know... It didn't seem worth it anymore."
Haley looked down at her high heels, extremely hurt by his last words. "Right..." She whispered.
"So," He started, clearing his voice. "We could keep them separated and then Nicky could go see you over Christmas break, and Hannah could come with me for Easter break and then they could go to camp together in the summer."
"That works.." She mumbled.
"Good."
"Right. Um. It's getting late, we should get home."
"Yeah..."
That was All! Have a good day. Not sure when the next UD will be, but yeah.. Thanks to all that reviewed. KEEP IT UP!
Katie