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I can't believe I'm doing this, Haley thought. She had gotten out of Chris' car and ran back inside the building where the conference was being held. About ten or so reporters were following her every move. She sat back at the table where she was sitting a few minutes ago. She was so nervous and scared, that she didn't see Chris follow her inside, and watch her like a hawk. For the first time Haley James Scott was sitting in front of the room full of reporters, and this time she wasn't smiling, and she wasn't lying. As she started to speak, it felt like a big weight was being lifted off of her shoulders, and after ten years of hiding from the truth, she was finally facing it.

"Hi, can you all please sit down, and listen carefully?"

The reporters were watching her, and obliged.

"What I'm about to say isn't easy for me, but it should've been done a long time ago," she said, voice shaking and palms sweating, "As you all know, when I was seventeen years old, I fell in love. Not high school, I-love-you-lets-break-up love but real til-death-do-us-part love. It was one of the best and worst times of my life. I was so happy but extremely scared. I knew that I loved him, so I married the man," she paused as she looked over at the reporters, who looked like Christmas had come early. Eyes wide, and lips twitching upwards, they were scribbling fast on their tiny notebooks, happy that the once very private star was finally opening up about her life. They knew it would happen, and truthfully, they had been waiting for it. The young star had always kept to herself so the reporters had never bothered to look into her past. She was a good girl, and they had kept themselves busy with the not-so-good girls. When she started dating Keller, some of their attention had shifted to her. That's when they connected her to Nysnee designer Brooke Davis, who was also from the small town, Tree Hill.

They knew that she was once Nathan Scott's wife but never really paid attention, seeing as both of them pretended that the other barely existed. They loved annoying her at these press junkets asking her about him, knowing very well that the answer to their question would be "no comment" but if they looked closely they would notice how her eyes would light up, and sadness was clearly visible in them. She wanted and missed him but no one knew that because Haley J. would hide behind her million dollar smile, and would pretend that all was right in the world.

Only one person knew what Haley felt about the basketball star, and as he saw her today, he finally realized that no matter how hard he tried, he was losing her. Now that she was about to tell the world what Chris knew all along, he couldn't hold it over her head as blackmail, and that she was finally free to go back to Nathan. She looked like she was finally at peace with herself, as she was sitting there telling the reporters the truth, that she had always been in love with Nathan Scott and that the wedding and engagement was off. She took a deep breath and with a fierce look on her face, she told them about the nine year old Natalie. Some of the reporters gasped, and some were even angry. Chris smirked, knowing what they were thinking, "How had they missed that? Good girl Haley James had a child and they didn't know about it?" The next words out of her mouth shocked them even more.

"And her father is Nathan Scott" Haley said in a surprisingly calm voice.

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Meanwhile, Nathan Scott was lying in a coma, in Tree Hill. He was listening to the TV, and knew that they had just asked Haley about him. His heart was beating fast, but was disappointed when all he got was a commercial about the new Harry Potter movie. What happened? He asked himself. She hadn't answered the question and all of a sudden, he heard a bunch of reporters saying things, before the commercial came on. He lay there. The one thing he hated about being in a coma (besides the obvious reasons) was that he could hear but not reply to whomever was talking. A couple of minutes later, he heard her sad voice again and this time, he couldn't hear Chris at all. As he listened to her words, he realized that she was finally telling the world the truth about her life and about them. His heart gave a big jolt when her heard her say that she wasn't going to be marrying Chris after all. He felt like he was flying, the same feeling he had felt when they had been saying their "I do's". But she kept talking, so Nathan listened to her, wondering what more she had to say. He heard her talking about a girl named Natalie, and Nathan wondered who she could be, and this was relevant to what she was saying. And then he got his answer, in six short words. He had received the biggest shock of his life.

Those were the last six words Nathan Scott heard before waking up from his coma.