Nathan's phone was ringing before his alarm even went off the next morning. His boss wanted him to cover the stand during the morning shift. And needing any overtime money he could get, he agreed and got ready for work. Trusting that Haley would get Tommy taken care of he agreed and pulled himself out of the bed.
Haley was worried when Nathan didn't show up at his locker before school, and her worry only grew when he wasn't at lunch. She was planning to go see if she could find him when she remembered she had tests in all three of her afternoon classes. When she made it home that afternoon she found her Mom watching a cartoon movie with Tommy.
"Have you heard from Nathan today?" Haley asked her mother, smiling when Tommy pulled himself to his feet before toddling over to her.
"No, why? Did you not see him at school?" Lydia asked pausing the movie and focused her attention on her daughter.
"He wasn't there today," she shrugged, "we got into a fight on Friday night."
"But Karen said you dropped Tommy off this morning," Lydia seemed confused.
"Peyton dropped Tommy off yesterday afternoon, and he fell asleep so I left Nathan a message that he could stay here last night."
"Ah," Lydia nodded, "so what was this fight about?"
"Well he asked me to marry him," Lydia nodded knowing that couldn't be the end of it, "he didn't even let me answer or explain, he just stormed off and ignored me all weekend."
"Okay and what was your answer?" she asked.
"that'd I'd need to think about it," Haley sighed, "and I have and I did some research. All I need to do is have you and Dad sign a form and get marriage license."
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Lydia asked, searching her daughter's eyes.
"Yeah, they're my family now, I need to be with them," she nodded.
"I guess that means I need to talk to Jimmy," she shook her head with a smile, "who'd've figured the baby to get married first?"
"Thanks Mom," Haley grinned, grabbing Tommy, "I'm going to go see if I can find Nathan."
Nathan groaned finally making it through the door of his apartment around ten that night. He drug his feet as he walked to his room. Flopping on the bed, he was shocked to hear the rustle of paper crushing and felt around for the noise maker. Flicking on the bedside lamp, he immediately recognized Haley's handwriting. The note informed him that she was worried, Tommy was missing him and they needed to talk.
He dialed the phone with lazy fingers, but smiled when he was greeted with a yawned sleepily, "Hello?"
"Hey I didn't mean to wake you, but I got your note," he whispered, hoping his voice wasn't too harsh on her sleepy brain.
"Where've you been all day?" she questioned immediately.
"Work, they needed someone to cover and I need the overtime," he yawned this time, "How's Tommy? I miss him."
"He misses you too," she sighed, "but he's good and definitely well behaved."
"Good," Nathan nodded to himself, "so I know I ambushed you the other night."
"No, you just really caught me off guard," she replied, "but I don't want to talk about that now. Come over for breakfast tomorrow?"
"Okay, well I'll let you get back to sleep," he mumbled into the phone.
"Alright I love you Nathan, nothing changes that," she promised.
"I love you too," he smiled to himself, he hadn't destroyed anything yet, "sweet dreams Haley James."
"Haley James-Scott," she murmured as she hung up the phone. She fell asleep with a smile on her face, and not to far away, on her desk to be exact, were two papers, one allowing her to marry and the other making it legally binding. She couldn't wait until breakfast the next morning.