A/N-I'm back and I apologize for the long wait…been kind of busy since my senior year is winding down, but I have been working on this for awhile. I am also working on an update for Two Worlds Collide, Knowing Me Knowing You and I Need You Now so those will be up sometime this week.

Chapter Five: First Steps

"I don't want to talk about Clay," Quinn states adamantly.

"Oh come on. I'm so out of the loop. I mean two years ago you and David were happily married and now you're divorced and dating."

Quinn sighs and sits down on the couch. Brittany rolls her eyes and sits next to her mother.

"He doesn't know," Quinn whispers.

Brittany shakes her head.

"I figured. You've been through this before though haven't you? I mean everyone in the family knows that David isn't my biological father. They where there when you had to tell him you had a six month old at home."

Quinn smiles at the memory. Brittany had heard this story plenty of times by the family, but the memory was more important than one would think.

Quinn and David were walking through the streets of Tree Hill. They had been going out for over a month and he still didn't know about Brittany. David had just transferred.

"What are our plans this weekend?"

Quinn stops and David turns to her.

"I have things I actually have to do."

"Oh okay…well some other time then."

Quinn sighed when they reached her house. She turns to David and grabs his hand.

"David, before you get invested in us there's something that you have to know."

Quinn opens up her door and sees Haley on the couch reading.

"Where's Brittany?"

"Sleeping…hello David," Haley says with a smile.

David stands around while Quinn walks out of the room. David turns to Haley when Quinn leaves.

"Who's Brittany?"

"You'll see."

Quinn walks back into the room with a baby wrapped in a blanket in her arms. David looked at Quinn in shock.

"This is Brittany…my daughter."

David continues to look at Brittany and clears his throat.

"C-Can I hold her?"

Quinn and Haley looked surprised at David's question, but nonetheless Quinn handed David, Brittany.

"Make sure you support her head," Quinn instructed.

David did as he was told and started rocking Brittany in his arms slowly. Quinn smiled. David looked down at Brittany and smiled. When her eyes started to open, their eyes and locked he was hooked.

"I'm in this. I'm totally in this," David whispers.

Quinn definitely remembers that day. The day she fell in love with David.

"Mom, you're going to have to tell him eventually."

Quinn looks at her daughter and nods her head.

"You're right. I'll tell him tomorrow. Brittany, we eventually need to find a house because we can't stay with my sister forever."

Brittany laughs and nods her head.

"Thank you," Brittany states seriously and out of the blue.

"For what?"

"Everything…In group we talked about a lot of things, but mostly we were asked to be put into our loved one's shoes. I blew that idea off right away, but eventually I did and I realized that I took everything I had for granted. I always forget that you were 16 and yet, you took on this life...you took me and raised me and I treat you like a daughter shouldn't. I'm sorry for that. I love you mom."

Quinn looks at her daughter with tears in her eyes and she quickly wraps her daughter into a hug which Brittany greatly accepts.

"I'm so sorry mom," Brittany whispers into her mother's ear.

"It's okay. You're okay."

Lydia smiled as she leaned against the wall watching as her daughter and grand-daughter finally start to communicate which was what she wanted all along.

Quinn pulls away and wipes the tears from her daughter's face.

"Haley is having some friends of hers over so we're having a family dinner."

"Okay. I met some potentially friends today."

"Um…what kind of friends?"

"Ones with good heads on their shoulders."

Quinn smiles.

"Well I hope that all works for you. I'm sure it will you never had a hard time making friends."

"I just had a hard time trying to choose the right ones," Brittany admits.

Lydia walks into the kitchen and sees Haley sitting down at the counter.

"Haley-bob what's wrong?"

"Have you talked to Vivian, Mark or Justin?"

Lydia sighs and sits down.

"No I haven't, but I would like to see my family all together at some point. I want all my children and grandchildren in one place."

Haley sighs.

"Mom, I don't know if that's going to happen. I mean Vivian has a hectic job and Justin is traveling around. Mark is the only one that could probably make it, but even then he has Nicole and Trevor."

"Try Haley…for me?"

"I'll do my best."

Jamie and Nathan walk into the house and Jamie runs straight to the living room where Brittany is sitting watching TV.

"BRITTANY!" Jamie screams as he jumps next to Brittany.

"What up little man?" Brittany says with a grin.

"I missed you."

"Me too."

Jamie grabs the remote from Brittany's hand and shut off the TV.

"You missed a lot."

Brittany sighs and turns away.

"I know that Jamie and I am really sorry."

"Me too…I have a bunny named Chester. Did you know that?"

Brittany smiles and shakes her head no.

"You would like him. He's really cool even my friend Sam says so."

"Do you know Sam Jamie?"

Jamie nods his head.

"Yeah, Aunt Brooke adopted her. She is so cool and she can skateboard."

"Hey! I can skateboard," Brittany protests.

"Not very good," Jamie mumbles.

Brittany nods her head.

"Yeah, you're right."

"Do you want to go see my bunny Chester?"

"Sure, but only for a few minutes. My mom said that your mom said she is having friends over for dinner."

"Okay."

A/N-So I am not actually sure how many siblings Haley actually has because I don't think the show was very cool on that so I decided to go with the facts that I did know.

Here is the low down on the James Family.

Vivian James-Talley: married w/no kids of her own. She is 39 years old.

Her husband Jeff Talley age 42 has a daughter (Amanda Talley: 17 years old) from a previous relationship.

Mark James: married w/2 kids. He is 37 years old.

His wife is Jenny and their two kids are Nicole (15) and Trevor (12).

Justin James: Single and is 35.

Taylor James: Single and is 33.

Quinn James: Dating Clay and is 31 years old.

Has a daughter (Brittany James: 16 years old).

Haley James-Scott: Married to Nathan. Is 25 years old and has a son (James Scott: 8 years old).