Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed. I am really sorry that it keeps taking so long. My classes are just a lot harder this year then they were last year. But from now on I promise that I am going to update at least once a week. No more of this 2 -3 week stuff.
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Chapter 12
The next morning LeeAnn woke up to find that they were both still in the rocking chair. Guess Nathan wasn't the only one who was tired she thought.
"Hey monster man its time to get up." LeeAnn whispered gently lifting him from her lap.
Nathan immediately shot his arms out and wrapped them around her. "Please don't leave me."
"Nathan what makes you think that I would leave you?"
"I was really bad and Daddy always leaves me all alone when I'm bad." He said looking up at her.
"Oh hunny your not a bad boy you just did a bad thing." LeeAnn said hugging him close and placing a kiss on the top of his head. "And I'm not going to leave you because we have a lot to do today."
"Oh are we going to the park." Nathan asked excited.
"Nope you're still grounded but since you have the day off from school I thought that we would get some food from the Café and then we have to pick up Haley and Lucas. However there will be no TV or Computer for you got it."
"Yes LeeAnn."
"I'm not trying to be a big meany Nathan but I can't just let you get away with what you did."
"I know. And I am going to apologize to Lucas again and to Haley too." Nathan said matter of factly.
"Good I think that is a very good idea."
The two arrived at the Café to find Haley and Lucas already sitting at a booth.
"Go ahead Nathan I am going to go order."
"Hi guys." Nathan said sitting down.
"What do you want Nathan." Haley asked angrily.
"I wanted to apologize to you, both of you." Nathan said looking down.
"Mom says that you should look people in the eye when you apologize." Lucas said with his arms crossed.
Nathan looked up at both of them.
"Lucas I am really sorry that I ran into you. I didn't think that you would get hurt bad. And Haley I'm sorry that I yelled at you. I just didn't want to look like a cry baby but I know that you were just trying to be my friend and help."
"But why did you have to score that basket." Lucas asked finally.
"Daddy said that if I didn't make at least 20 points then I couldn't go on the weekends anymore."
"Your daddy is really mean." Haley spoke up.
"I know. So can we all still be friends." Nathan asked hopefully.
"You're not my best friend anymore but I guess that we can be friends." Lucas said.
"Wait who's your best friend." Nathan asked surprised.
"Haley." Lucas smiled.
"So then Lucas is your best friend too." Nathan asked Haley sadly.
"Why can't we all be best friends?" Haley asked innocently.
"Yeah that sounds good and Jake, Brooke, and Peyton can be our best friends too." Lucas said excited.
"Just as long as no one is mad at me anymore." Nathan smiled.
"We can forgive you this time." Haley said giving him a hug.
LeeAnn came back over with their food.
"So did you guys all settle things?" She asked.
"OH yes LeeAnn all six of us are going to be best friends."
"Six of you?" LeeAnn asked confused.
"Yeah Me, Haley, Nathan, Brooke, Jake, and Peyton." Lucas said matter of factly.
"Well I think that's a good idea." LeeAnn said as they all started to eat.
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It was a couple of weeks later and the kids had all fallen back into their usual routine. Well except for Lucas of course. Since he had crouches it was a lot harder for him to get around.
However Nathan had decided that since it was his fault that he would help his cousin. This meant that he would carry his library books, his lunchbox, and his backpack. LeeAnn was very happy that Nathan had decided that he was going to do all this for Lucas.
It was the beginning of the month that Haley was supposed to be staying with them and LeeAnn couldn't decided if she was excited to have her little sister or if she was just too tired for it all. However her and Tim had gotten much closer in the last couple of weeks and he had offered to take them to the park once a week so that LeeAnn could get other things done.
LeeAnn was shaken out of her thoughts when she heard a knock on the door.
"Hi sweetie." Mrs. James said hugging her daughter.
"Hey mom how are you." LeeAnn asked.
"Good we actually got everyone packed and ready on time for once."
"That's good."
"LeeAnn you look exhausted are you sure that you can take Haley."
"Mom of course I can take her and its not like we have any other choice you can't take her with you, she would miss way to much school."
"I supposed that your right but you just call if it gets to be too much and I will come home in a heartbeat. I don't want you wearing yourself out."
"LeeAnn." Haley said running down the hallway with Mr. James behind her.
"Hey bub." LeeAnn said picking her up into a hug. "Do you have all your stuff that you need?"
"Yup." Haley said getting down and running into Nathan's room.
"He's still asleep so be quiet." LeeAnn called after her.
"Ok Squeak here is Haley's suite case and Mr. Waffles of course." Mr. James said.
"Thanks daddy now you two head out and have a great trip with the rest of the gang. Tell them all that I miss them and we will have to have dinner sometime soon."
"Can do." Mrs. James said giving her oldest daughter a hug goodbye.
As soon as LeeAnn closed the door she heard Nathan scream and her sister Shriek.
"What is going on in there?" LeeAnn asked as she saw Haley run out of the room.
"You told me he was sleeping." Haley yelled at her sister.
"I thought he was." LeeAnn said confused as to why it would matter. Just then she saw Nathan run out trying to get his shirt on.
"OH no please tell me you didn't open the door to Nathan changing." LeeAnn asked worried of what the answer would be.
"Yes and I have a question for you." Haley said with her hands on her hips.
"And what is that." LeeAnn asked mimicking Haley's move.
"Why does Nathan have a tail?"
Oh my god LeeAnn thought what the hell am I going to say to this.
"I don't have a tail." Nathan said confused.
"Yes you do." Haley said matter of factly.
"Haley hunny what you saw isn't a tail." LeeAnn said turning red.
"Well then what was it?" Haley asked confused.
"Ummm it's an umm well." LeeAnn started to say.
"It's a wanger." Nathan said like it was the most natural thing in the world.
"A what." Haley asked.
"Well sweetie you know how mom says that you have a woohoo."
"Uh huh."
"Well Nathan has a wanger." LeeAnn said trying to make sense of it all.
"But why doesn't Nathan have a woohoo like me." Haley asked pointing to her crotch.
"Because I'm a boy duh." Nathan said like it would solve everything.
Haley just looked at the two of them completely confused.
"Haley hunny why don't I talk to you about it when you're a little older." LeeAnn said hoping that Haley would be ok with that. This was def not a conversation that she wanted to be having with them. Oh god what the hell am I going to do when they start asking about sex.
"Yeah I guess." Haley said still really confused.
"Ok so what did you guys want to do today?" LeeAnn asked glad that the conversation was over with.
"Can we go to the beach?" Haley asked
"Haley it's still a little too cold to be swimming."
"Well can we go and build sand castles." Nathan asked.
"Sure that should be fine. Lets just get our beach stuff and we will head down."
When they got to the beach LeeAnn was surprised to see that there were a lot of kids there.
"Ok you too make sure that you stay close so that I can see you." LeeAnn said as she laid down a towel. The water might have still been to cold to swim in but she could definitely work on her tan. "Actually wait first you both need sunscreen I don't want any burnt kids coming back to my house."
LeeAnn was just relaxing and keeping an eye on the kids when a shadow loomed over her. LeeAnn put her hand up to shield her face so that she could see the person.
"Tim you scared me." LeeAnn said relieved to see that was him and not Chris or Dan.
"Sorry I just figured I would come over and say hi. I can leave if you just want to be alone." Tim said
"No its fine I just wasn't expecting to see you. So how have you been I haven't seen you in a couple of days?" LeeAnn said scooting over to make room on her towel.
"Good you know just really busy with school and stuff."
"What are you going to school for."
"Well coaching actually." Tim said smiling.
"I was hoping you would say that you are so good with the kids."
"Yeah well you're not so bad with them yourself. So how did you end up at the beach all by yourself?"
"What are you talking about I'm not all by myself." LeeAnn said looking up and realizing that she couldn't see Nathan and Haley anymore. "Oh my god where did they go?" LeeAnn asked starting to panic.
"Where did who go?" Tim asked confused.
"Nathan and Haley they had just been over there building a sand castle." LeeAnn said getting up and looking around.
"Oh I saw them over with Nathan's dad when I was walking. That's why I figured you had the day off or something."
"What no, and Dan isn't supposed to be near them it's not the weekend." LeeAnn said getting up and walking towards where Tim had pointed too.
"What do you think your doing?" LeeAnn asked a smirking Dan.
"I'm playing with my son and Haley what does it look like." Dan asked smiling back at the woman who was with him.
"Isn't he just so good with them?" The woman said to LeeAnn.
"Oh yeah just wonderful. SO great in fact that his wife left him and his son now lives with ME because he is nothing more then a HUGE asshole." LeeAnn yelled causing some heads to turn.
"Uh oh LeeAnn that's an awful naughty word." Haley said surprised.
"Nathan and Haley will you too please go over with Tim."
The two kids just shrugged and brought there stuff over to him.
"What the hell are you trying to pull? We both know that your not father of the year. You don't even rank in the top billion."
"Oh now LeeAnn careful your going to hurt my feelings." Dan said snidely.
"You can't hurt feelings that a person doesn't have Dan." LeeAnn said getting ready to walk away.
"Who the hell do you think you are talking to my man that way." The blonde stood and asked.
"OH and who might you be." LeeAnn asked her back just as snotty.
"My name is Jules and I'm his girlfriend."
"Yeah well my name is LeeAnn and I have custody of his son. Now if you'll excuse me I need to get going."
"You're the woman that took Nathan from his father. How can you even look at yourself in the mirror? To take a boy away from his loving father like that." Jules said stepping closer.
"Look lady I don't know who you are but Dan is feeding you a bunch of bull and I suggest that you step away from me before we start a scene." LeeAnn said calmly.
"Sure why not." Jules said turning to walk away and then punching LeeAnn in the face instead.
At first LeeAnn just stood there in shock. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Talk bad about my man again and you'll get another first full." Jules said getting closer to LeeAnn.
"Trust me lady that's the last thing you want to do."
"Oh and why is that. You think you can beat the shit out of me or something."
"Oh I know I could. But I'm not going to hit you back not in front of the kids and def not in front of Dan. There is no way that I am going to give him anything that he can use against me when I fight for full custody." LeeAnn said turning and walking away.
"Oh my gosh are you ok." Tim asked touching the area around her eye.
"Yeah I'm fine it just hurt like hell." LeeAnn said and then looked at Haley. "I know bub another bad word. I'm sorry."
"It's ok." Haley said going back to her bucket.
"LeeAnn always kisses my boo boo's to make them feel better." Nathan said to Tim.
"Oh umm." Tim said as he leaned in and kissed her eyelid.
"All better LeeAnn." Nathan asked with a smile.
"All better." She said looking right at Tim.
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