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I know some people like dialogue more then thoughts and descriptions (I know I do) but in order for me to put dialogue there i have to first explain what has happened the past 10 years. so soon, you'll have dialogue and confrontation, but for now. this is what you get ;-)
"Wha..." Haley just sat there shocked. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Nathan Scott had gotten in a car accident. Her Nathan. She didn't know what to do so, she ran out of the room and to her car while her fiancee followed her. She was crying and when she realized he was standing behind her, she started appologizing,
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to run out of there, but I didn't know what to do, I'm sorry, I'm --"
" Why are you appologizing, Haley?" He made sure not to call her Hales, because he had made that mistake ones and Haley didn't speak to him for 3 days. She never explained why she was mad, but he could just see it in her eyes. It upset her so much. He knew that it was about Nathan, and he knew of their history together. He didn't know why it meant so much to everyone. He couldn't understand why, to him it was a foolish mistake, but he hadn't told Haley that. He knew that she would get angry. Just as Haley could answer, the press had caught up, and she instantly put her hands up to cover her red, puffy eyes and got inside the car.
Oh great, she thought. This was not something that she wanted to happen. This was supposed to be a simple press conference where she and her soon-to-be husband would announce to the world that they were getting married. This was one of the reasons why she hated the press. If you gave then a reason, they would start snooping around, and she was a reason. A big reason. And Haley was deathly afraid that this would happen. She did not need the paparazzi to start snooping around. She knew that if they started looking, they would find her. And she couldn't let that happen. She had promised her that she would protect her from everything, and she had kept that promise for this long, and intended to keep it that way. Haley loved her, and this would really hurt her. She was all that Haley had, and if Haley lost her too, she didn't know what she would do. Haley knew that eventually the press would find out about her, but she didn't want eventually to be now. And if the press found out, it wouldn't only hurt her and Haley, it would hurt a lot of people, especially Nathan. She didn't even want to think about his reaction. He would never forgive her, and forgiveness was all that Haley needed. She knew that they would never be anything more than friends, so a friendship would be just fine with her. But she had hurt him, and he didn't want anything to do with her. In the beginning, Haley had respected that. She knew that he would be mad. Heck. She would've been angry if he wasn't mad at her, but she told herself that he would come around. Her parents always told her that time heals pain, and she hoped that the same would apply to Nathan. But so far that didn't happen, and this would make it even worse.
As soon as Haley got in the car, she pulled out her cell phone, and quickly dialed Brooke's cell phone number. All she got was voicemail. Haley started panicking. O my gosh, she thought, they must be in the hospital, oh no, that would mean that he was hurt enough to need doctors. That's when she started crying again.
"Haley, what's wrong?" Her fiancee asked. She looked at his sad and concerned face. She loved him so much, but her love for him had never been like her love for Nathan's. She had tried to convince herself so many times that after they got married, all of this would change, and a part of her believed that. But the other part knew that she was kidding herself, but she didn't know what to do. Her biggest fear in life was to end up alone with 5 cats, so when he proposed to her, she accepted. She didn't care that she didn't love him as much as she loved Nathan, but she wanted to feel secure, and he did just that. She felt guilty for feeling the way she did, but she couldn't help it, after all he was one of the reasons why Nathan wasn't talking to her. She knew that, but he had been her friend for over a decade now. And when she was sick or in trouble he was always there for her. She was angry at her old friends for not understanding why she was friends with him. When they all turned their backs on her, he was there. For the first 5 years of their friendship, she had never thought of him as anything more then a friend, but after she realized that Nathan wasn't coming back, she knew that she had to start looking again, and he was right there waiting for her.
" I don't know, Chris," she said, " I just don't know," as she laid back in her seat and wondered if there was someone at Nathan's bedside comforting him. Suddenly, she was scared. She knew that nobody would ever replace Nathan's spot in her life, but would someone replace her's in Nathan's?
More on Nathan's life next chapter. Review please, good or bad.