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"I can't do this," Haley said. She was determined to end the relationship. Nathan's accident was a wake up call and she was taking it very hard.
"Do what, Haley?" Chris asked, and unlike Haley he was determined to keep the relationship going. Haley was great for his image. Bad Boy Rocker Chris Keller settles down with Good Girl Haley James. That and the fact that Haley was clueless to the fact that Christ was cheating on her. Not like she would care if she would find out, Chris thought.
"This relationship, Chris! I'm sorry! But I can't and, frankly, I wont. I'm so tired of this lie, Chris, it's ... over." Haley said calmly. What she said was partly true, she just decided to leave out the Nathan/Natalie factor. Natalie was her daughter. Haley's precious angel. (She was also Nathan's but Haley tried to keep that thought out of her mind) Natalie was almost ten, and she kept asking who her father was. Several times, Haley had caught Chris telling her that he was her father, but Nat being the daughter of "Tutor girl" and all, had said the he looked nothing like her, and therefore could not be her father. It was moments like that that made Haley so proud to be a mother, and hoped that Nathan would forgive her for keeping her out of his life.
"Haley, come on, I love you!" Chris said. He needed to say anything to keep Haley from leaving.
"That's a lie, and you know it!" Haley responded. This wasn't working out, but Chris had
to try and persuade her from a different angle.
"What about the press, James?" Chris asked, trying to make her feel ashamed, "What are you going to tell them happened? One second you're telling them you're getting married, the next you're calling it off? They'll have a field day!"
"I'll figure out a way, Chris, don't worry about it, but you and me are through!" It was as if Haley had just woken up, and the past ten years she had been asleep, and someone else had been living her life while she had stood on the sidelines and watched her life get worse and watched herself get farther from the one man she had truly loved.
"I wouldn't say that just yet, James. What about Nat? Do you want the world to find out about her, and her father?" He said, with an evil look.
"What the hell are you talking about, Keller? The only person who knows about her is you, and you are not going to say anything" said Haley with a fierce look on her face.
"Are you sure about that?" replied Chris with a smirk.
"Are you blackmailing me, Keller?" Haley asked trying to keep her emotions from showing.
"I might be. What are you going to do about it?" He asked, knowing well that he had Haley right where he wanted; she was shocked and hopeless, or that's what he thought.