"Are you sure you have to leave?" Haley whined, still cocooned in the sheets, Sunday afternoon.
"I have to go to work," he sighed sitting on the edge of the bed to tie his shoes, "and you need to go get Tommy from your parents, I'm sure they're tired of him by now."
"Tommy is their grandson, and I'm pretty sure no one could ever be tired of him," she replied crawling on her knees towards him, "I'll miss you."
"Um, I'll miss you too," he smirked placing several kisses on her lips, "one day and you're already addicted," he wagged a finger at her using his other hand to pull hers from the buttons of his shirt.
"What can I say?" she shrugged sitting back, "we'll see you around nine?"
"Possibly 9:30 depending on business," he bent over to kiss her again, "um, love you."
"Love you too," she called as he practically ran to catch the city bus to the mall.
She was struggling with a shoe when the doorbell rang. Still hobbling one foot to get her shoe on she reached the door, "Luke?" she questioned surprised, "why do you have Tommy?"
"Your parents said time was up when I went over there to look for you. Did you just get out of the shower?" Her damp curls were his obvious answer, but he was looking to her face anyway.
"Yeah," she sighed, taking Tommy from him, "did Mom say if he'd had lunch?"
"They were actually finishing up when I got there," he replied, "so, uh, is there a reason you're taking showers at Nathan's?"
"Luke," she sighed, Tommy squirmed his way to the floor and toddled over to his toy basket in the corner, "did you come here to talk about you?"
"Right now I'm asking about you," he returned, pulling a stool up to the counter as she went about making herself a sandwich, "I thought you were going to wait, we used to talk about this and you always said it would be your wedding night."
"You did too," she replied resting her hands on the counter, "and how do you know I didn't wait?"
"Hales, c'mon I know Lydia and Jimmy are a little wacko sometimes, but they wouldn't let you marry a teenage father while you're still teenagers," Lucas sighed exasperated, "and please don't bring up my indiscretions in that department, they aren't exactly pleasant memories."
"I know, Luke, but you can't erase them," she smirked and went back to her sandwich, "you're wrong though."
"About what?"
"About Jimmy and Lydia, they were the witnesses," she held up her left hand, "I did wait Luke."
"Well I guess that'll make my news easier to handle…I'm moving…with Keith…to Charleston."
"Why?" she whispered.
"Because over the past six months, I've become someone I'm not all that proud of, so I'm getting a fresh start. You've got yours, you aren't Lucas's tutor friend anymore…roll with it Hales."
"Promise to call at least once a week?" she walked around the counter hugging him tight.
"Of course, I'll have to check up on you and my nephew, make sure Nate's treating you right," he held her tight, "I'll even come visit, you know Mom would never stop if I didn't."
"I'm going to miss you," she sighed.
"Well I'm not leaving till after the play-offs," he smirked, "but you won't, you'll be busy with Nathan and Tommy. But that's okay Hales, I'll miss you enough for the both of us."
"So Lucas came to see me at work today," Nathan started as they got ready for bed that night, "you okay?"
"Yeah," she sighed, "I just can't believe he's leaning."
"He'll still be around for the next couple of weeks and we can even help him move if you want?" Nathan crawled under the sheets with her snuggling into her side.
"Yeah?" he nodded, "I think I'd like that. So we have to go to school tomorrow."
"Yep," he smiled, placing kisses on her neck, "but that's tomorrow."
"Nathan," she murmured, "Tommy's right next door."
"And he's asleep," Nathan added, "Haley I promise he can sleep through a hurricane."
"But he wakes up some nights," she reminded, "we shouldn't wake him."
"We wont, he only wakes up when he has a nightmare, or some other baby emergency, and that only tends to happen in the early morning hours," throughout their exchange, Nathan had continued nibbling on her neck, and she finally gave up pulling his head to hers roughly.
After dropping Tommy off at her parents, they strolled into the hallway at school, holding hands headed toward her locker, "so I'll see you at lunch?" Haley asked when the reached their destination.
"You'll see me after first period and I'll walk you to second," he smirked wrapping his arms around her from behind, as she was currently nose-deep in her locker.
"Right," she nodded, "hey you've got time between school and practice right?"
"Yeah, 'bout half-an-hour, why?" he placed a kiss on the side of her neck, "you want to test the janitor's closet?"
"No," her hand flew back to his shoulder, "I was hoping you'd come with me to the counseling center to have my paper work done to change my name in the school system."
"Yeah? Cool," he gave another kiss to her neck, just as the warning bell rang, "I would walk you to class, but I've got to go to my locker."
"Love you," she murmured before he got to far, not being a big fan of PDA she really didn't want the whole school to hear.
"Love you too," but he did apparently as he shouted from halfway down the hall, and half the student body turned their eyes on her as she walked the measly ten steps to her first period.
The rest of the year flew by, the Ravens lost that Friday night and were out of the State tournament, even with the loss Nathan and Haley's euphoria bubble was still in tact. As promised when the time came for Lucas to move Nathan and Haley along with Karen and Tommy drove down to Charleston to help him move in.
When news of their marriage spread Brooke and Peyton threw a party while Deb and Dan plotted against them. When Haley's parents left to travel the 'lower 48' they left the newlyweds a large percentage of their own bank account. Deb and Dan were unsuccessful in their anti-matchmaking schemes and the more they tried, the more they fought with each other until they were arguing their own demise instead of Nathan and Haley's.
Nathan was accepted to High Flyers basketball camp that summer and Haley and Tommy stayed in Tree Hill while Nathan was in Florida. When Nathan returned that fall they began a new chapter in their lives, where they focused on basketball and school until both received full scholarships to Duke University. With Lucas right down the road at UNC another new chapter began…