Hey Guys, here's chapter seven. i have to say that it has been one of my favorite chapters to write, so I also hope that its one of your favorites to read.. ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I do not own One Tree Hill or any of the quotes/songs used in this fanfiction.
Chapter Seven : Im Sorry
We built it up,
To watch it fall.
Like we meant nothing at all.
I gave and gave the best of me,
But you couldn't give you what you need.
You walked away,
You stole my life,
Just to find what your looking for.
But no matter how I try,
I can't hate you anymore.
"Haley... just... um... move that one a little more to the left!" Brooke shouted as she directed Haley who was moving a coffee table in Brooke's new living room. Karen had taken all the kids, Natalie included, for the day so that everyone else could help Brooke move in. Haley looked up at Brooke who was just standing there telling everyone else what to do, innocently of course. She gave Brooke a hard look and Brooke bit her lip. "Please?" She squeaked. Haley nodded slightly and moved the coffee table again.
Before Brooke could say anything else Haley got up and threw her arms into the air. "That's it! Im off the job, for a little while at least!" Haley laughed as she cracked open a bottle of water and sat on an empty milk crate which Brooke had place all of her delicate things for the living room in. Brooke continued to arrange things in the living room, and Haley watched her breathlessly as she wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Lucas walked behind Haley and muffled her hair, just like he used to do to her when they were kids. "Hey little sister..." He laughed as he sat next to her.
"Oh my god! Two months! You're not going to let me forget it are ya?" haley complained as she shot an angry, but funny look across at Lucas.
Lucas laughed. "Nathan used to say the same thing..." Lucas said, then he bit his tongue, wondering how Haley would react to the mention of Nathan.
To his surprise, she laughed too. " Yea, until you found out that Dan wasn't your real father, Keith is... so you guys weren't even brothers..."
"Just cousins...we didn't find that out until our last year of highschool, so I still had seventeen years thinking that my father left me..." Lucas finished for her, impressed with how well she was doing and wondering if he should bring up his talk with Nathan, and how he used his feelings towards Dan when he thought that he was his father to try and convince Nathan to come back to Haley and Natalie. But he didn't come back so Lucas just shook it off. "Oh Haley, Brooke, I want you to meet someone!" Lucas said, gesturing towards the man standing behind Haley who had went unnoticed until now.
Haley casually turned to face him, and everything about him suddenly made her get the cold shivers, like she used to in highschool when she'd had a crush on some random guy. He stood with his hand out to her smiling, he was tall, with brown hair and beautiful deep eyes. He smiled nervously as he watched her watch him, he too got a slight shiver as his hand lingered in the air. Brooke and Lucas watched the exchange, in complete surprise.
"Oh.." Haley said as she laughed nervously and reached out to meet his hand with her's. "Im Haley...Scott"
The man blushed as he shook her hand, hesitating to let go. "Im...Jake...Jaglieski"
The both just stayed there smiling in an awkward yet comfortable silence, hands still clenched together.
Brooke stepped between them and offered her hand to Jake, snapping both him and Haley back into reality. "And Im Brooke, Haley's best friend who also needs to talk to Haley in the kitchen!" Brooke laughed as she grabbed Haley's arm and pulled her into the kitchen, pulling a brown envelope off of the counter to follow them to the table.
"Okay, you guys, really umm... hit it off..." Lucas laughed at Jake as he stood up to pat Jake on the shoulder.
"Yea, you could say that." Jake laughed.
Lucas leaned into Jake and whispered. "Watch out, that's my sister..." Jake's eyes shot open as he pulled back to stare at Lucas, searching for a reaction.
Lucas laughed and began to remove some things from a box near the kitchen door.
"Okay! What the hell was that?" Brooke snapped.
"Um, Lucas introduced me to his friend... Jake... is it that hard to understand?" Haley laughed trying to push the feeling she had out of her mind. While she hated Nathan, for everything he did, she didn't really want to let herself get wrapped up with feelings for anyone else.
"Okay, you guys basically had sex out there!" Brooke said, obviously exaggerating.
"Brooke! We shook hands! And why are you getting so upset?" Haley smiled trying to calm her friend.
"This isn't good Haley! You cannot get involved with that guy!" Brooke almost started to cry as she pleaded Haley to stay away.
"We just met Brooke, actually we barely met at all" Haley said painfully, taking a deep breath. "Im not exactly tied down or anything as you can tell by that brown envelope that you're hiding behind your back Brooke..." Haley reached her hand out as she took to envelope from Brooke's grip.
"You can't give up on Nathan."Brooke continued, trying to stop her from signing the papers. Haley opened the envelope and placed the papers on the counter.
"There must have been a problem with them again." Haley said, ignoring Brooke's desperation.
"Haley are you listening to me?" Tears began to roll down Brooke's face as she tried pushing herself around Haley trying to convince her to slow down a little. "Don't give up on him!" She screamed. Lucas and Jake were in the living room and suddenly, as Brooke began to yell, they could hear every word. Jake didn't understand what was going on and knew that it wasn't his business, so he continued unpacking for Brooke, but Lucas couldn't help but listen to every sweet word that came from Brooke's mouth. He made his way back to the kitchen door to shuffle with a few small boxes.
"I DIDN'T!" Haley screamed, as she started to cry too. "He gave up on me!" She yelled as she continued looking for a pen. "God Brooke, do you have a pen?" She cried.
"He just made a mistake..." Brooke began to whisper, but since Lucas was next to the kitchen door, he could still hear her, Jake on the other hand couldn't.
"Brooke please... I need to get this over with." Haley pleaded her as she finally found a loose pen in one of the boxes and made her way back to the counter.
" You'll regret it. Just like I do. Lucas made a mistake a long time ago. And I gave up on him, and I suffered a lot, but you know who suffered more? Mikey! He had to live without his father! Don't do this to Natalie, please. Nathan loves you and he'll come around!" Brooke was crying uncontrollably.
Lucas's heart dropped into his stomach as he heard the words Brooke said. He made his way back toward Jake quietly, and helped him unpack.
Deep down, Haley prayed that Brooke was right, and though her heart was telling her that she was, her mind, and her pride was saying that Nathan was long gone. "Brooke...Thank you for looking out for me like this. I love you for it I really do." Haley smiled through her tears as she sat on the stool, still not glancing down at the divorce papers in front of her. "And you go do what you gotta do!" She continued, nodded toward the living room where Lucas was. "But me? I can't wait for him anymore." Haley's voice shattered as she began to sob. "I can't wait anymore..." She repeated. "It's just too hard."
"Haley!" Brooke said as she watched Haley pick up the paper's and walk out the door. Brooke fell to her knees and started to cry. "Don't make the same mistake!" Brooke shouted after her, wanting desperately for everything to go back to normal.
"She could never truly give up on him." Lucas said, as he kneeled next to Brooke and cupped her face in his hands.
Brooke's sobs softened as she leaned into Lucas, taking in his scent, and the very way he looked at that moment. "Nathan will be back, they always find their way back to each other..." Brooke whispered.
"Yea, they do. People who are meant to be together always find their way in the end." Lucas whispered into her hair as he comforted her. Brooke pulled away and looked up at him, her eyes filled desperately with love.
There was so much she wanted to say to him at that moment, and she knew that things were still going to be really hard for him and really complicated for the kids, and that some times she'd still really hate him for everything, but all that she knew at this moment, and the only thing that was certain was that Lucas was sitting there with eh now. And she needed him. She leaned up and wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him down into her.
Their mouths collided and caught Lucas by complete surprise but the last thing eh was going to do was pull away and question it. It has been five years since he was able to kiss her like this and he was going to hang onto it with everything he had in him.
He pulled her near him as continued to lose themselves in each other. They heard the door slam behind them, and knew that Jake had left, so they fell backwards, Brooke on top of Lucas, on the kitchen floor, losing a little more of themselves with each minute of the progressing night.
The house was quiet when Haley walked in, aware that everyone must have been asleep. She walked upstairs, and into the nursery where she knelt by Natalie's crib. It took her a couple minutes to get her words out, but she soon found what she wanted to say to her daughter, knowing that she wouldn't hear them, let alone understand them.
"Aunt Brooke's right, baby girl, I can't do that to you." Haley began as she realized she was still clenching the divorce papers in her hand. "Im not sure where your Daddy is, or if he'll ever come back. But if he does, I don't want you to hate him for leaving us. He's an amazing man. And he'll be an amazing father, he will come back, I do know that." Haley sniffed a little. But surprised herself at how strong she was able to be in front of her daughter. "And when he does come back, He's going to have a huge part in your life, just like a father should. And baby, Im really sorry, But I can't have him in my life anymore. It's going to be hard, but him, and this whole situation, is just, too far gone ... to get back to how it should be."
Haley rested her head in her hands as she took a deep shaky breath. "I know its going to be hard at time, and you're going to question why your mommy and daddy aren't together, but like I said, he's going to be a great father, he'll realize that soon, but a husband? No matter what his potential was, his chance to be a great one like he used to be, it's gone. Im sorry for having to do this Natalie, but, it's how it has to be." She whispered as she got to her feet, leaned in and kissed Natalie's small forehead.
Haley made her way down stairs and into the kitchen where she placed the now wrinkled papers onto the table. She pulled a pen out of a drawer and took a deep breath as she got ready to sign the papers for the third, and hopefully last time.
She put the pen to the paper and her hand shook as she began to write. Haley...James...Sco... She got ready to write her husband's last name, but first she glanced up to look at Nathan's. Her pen fell out of her hand and rolled across the table and onto the floor as she sat there in complete shock. Nathan had signed the papers, like she knew he would, after all, he was the one who wanted the divorce, not her. But where his name should have bee, could have been, there were too simple, sweet, bitter, painful, words. Not Nathan Scott like she expected. But the words that had stung into her spine making her completely weak as she dropped her head to the table, and clenched her hands into her hair, letting her sobs fill the kitchen. Im Sorry.
Alritey! There it was! i really hope you've liked it... and please review...
Next Chapter:
Nathan's opportunity to be back in his child's life... Will he? AND what role will Jake play in the whole situation now?
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