"Okay everyone," Jake announced to his construction crew, "I just heard from Tyler that the owners of the property need this done in about six weeks, so that means we are really going to have to work harder on this one. Which means longer hours."
There was groaning from the employees.
"I know it sucks," Jake continued, "But it's only until the project is finished. Then we can all go back to working normal hours. So let's get back to work."
Jake and his crew went back to working on the construction of a building.
Nathan lay his on his bed, his arms behind his head on his pillow. He was still thinking about what Brooke had told him.
"Think about when all this started Nate." She had said. "Think about when things started to change between you and Haley."
Since leaving Brooke's store, this was all Nathan had been doing. Thinking. He had thought about his mom's advice and now he thought about Brooke's. yet, he still could not remember ever being so afraid of anything that would affect Haley so much that she would feel like she couldn't share her feelings with him.
Nathan sat up on the end of the bed. Wait a minute…he thought. He remembered something Brooke had said.
"But you were afraid of something pretty big recently weren't you?" She had said.
It was starting to make sense now. He had been afraid of having another baby until he'd talked to his mom. The baby…no, that couldn't be it.
"She would tell me if she were pregnant." Nathan tried convincing himself. But then he remembered the conversation that had started this whole thing between him and Haley. He had told her that he didn't want to have another baby, when in fact he did want another baby but was too scared about the risks.
"But if she thought I didn't want another baby…"
Nathan stood up and began pacing the floor. he tossed a hacky sack back and forth from hand to hadn. He did this often when he was worried or frustrated. And he was definitely frustrated right now.
How could he have been such an idiot all this time? Haley was pregnant and afraid to tell him because of what he had told her. That had to be it. Nathan turned around and threw the bag of bean at his reflection in the mirror attached to Haley's dresser. When the sack fell, it knocked a bottle of perfume over and the perfume bottle knocked the lid off of Haley's porcelain, heart shaped keepsake box.
Nathan walked over to clean up his mess. He stood the Haiku bottle up. And as he was about to replace the lid on the dish, he was distracted by what he saw inside. He left the lid on the dresser and instead picked up the small sonogram photo. As he stared at the black and white picture of his son or daughter, Nathan finally understood what had been keeping Haley so quiet.
