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Five Months Later

It had been five months since Haley had learned she was pregnant. Five months since Nathan left Haley to go to High Flyers. Five months since Lucas vowed to help Haley.

Haley was now living at Lucas's house with his mother. Karen had offered to let her move in to save money for the baby and she gladly excepted. Karen and Lucas had been helping Haley through everything. Lucas would go to every doctor appointment with her and always make sure she was okay. Karen had told Haley that when the baby is born she would take care of it during the school days. Brooke and Peyton had also been very helpful for Haley. Brooke started making Haley a lot of pregnancy shirts. Peyton had been a good person for moral support. Peyton and Haley would always talk. You could say Peyton was Haley's therapist. She was very helpful.

Senior Year was starting in 2 days and Haley and Lucas couldn't wait. They were very excited. Although Lucas, Brooke and Peyton were scared for Haley. They knew the beginning of senior year would mean Nathan was coming back from High Flyers. They had tried to avoid the subject with Haley as much as they possibly could, but it was getting harder, because sometimes Haley would hint at the subject.

"So can you wait for senior year?" Haley asked Brooke who was sitting on Haley's bed painting her toes.

"I know, I can't believe I'm that old." Brooke said shocked.

"So Umm.. I have you heard if he's back?" Haley asked no so subtly.

"Honey, honestly I have no clue." Brooke replied full of sadness.

"Since he left, no one has heard from him, not even Lucas." Brooke went back to painting her toes.

"I'm scared to see him Brooke!" Haley blurted out.

"I know," Brooke said looking up.

"Brooke, how am I suppose to hide a bulging belly bump?" Haley said with tears starting to flow down her face.

"Oh honey, come here." Brooke got up and went over to hold Haley.

"Everything is going to be okay. We are going to do our best to hide it. I promise. Even if that means I have to wear pillows to make me look equally fat okay?" Brooke said to Haley and she laughed a little.

"Thanks cheery," Haley said to Brooke.

"No problem Tutor Girl. Now come on, we are going shopping."

"Ugh. Fine" Haley groaned. "But can we get some ice cream along the way?"

Brooke gave her a 'what the hell' look.

"Pregnancy cravings," Haley said.

Brooke grabbed Haley's hand led her outside the room to go shopping.

23

Lucas was at the Rivercourt shooting around. So many things had changed for him in the last couple months. To start he was going to be an uncle. He was also going to be acting like a father to a child that should be his brother. He and Nathan had finally become brothers, but now if Lucas saw Nathan he swore he was going to kill him to what he did to his best friend.

"Hey man," Lucas heard behind him. Lucas couldn't believe his ears. He couldn't believe Nathan had the nerve to show up at the Rivercourt.

"Hey Nate," Lucas said sarcastically and shot the ball through the hoop from the fowl line.

"What do you want "little" brother?" Lucas said sarcastically.

"I wanted to say hey." Nathan said to Lucas.

"Well you know what, you don't get to say hey, not after 5 five months of what you did." Lucas becoming angrier.

"Luke, I'm sorry," was all Nathan could get in before Lucas started yelling at him.

"YOUR SORRY! DO YOU KNOW ALL THE PROBLEMS YOU HAVE CAUSED OVER THE LAST 5 MONTHS!" Lucas started yelling.

"YOU CAUSE A WORTHLES FIGHT WITH YOUR WIFE AND DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO CALL HER. AND NOW YOUR SORRY! YOU KNOW WHAT? FORGET, STAY AWAY FROM HALEY! YOU'VE PUT HER THROUGH ENOUGH!." Just as Lucas said that his phone started ringing. He looked at the ID and it said 'Brooke'.

"Hey Brooke," Lucas said into his phone.

"Hey Lucas, can you come pick Haley up.." Before Brooke could finish Lucas interrupted her.

"Why what's wrong?" Lucas becoming concerned.

"No, nothing. Haley's feet just hurt and I've bought her all the clothes were gonna find in this mall and I want to keep shopping. So can you come pick her up?"

"Yeah, I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Thanks, we're in the food court. Haley wanted ice cream."

"Okay," Lucas laughed. Lucas hung up his phone and said one more thing to Nathan before he left.

"STAY AWAY FROM HER OR I WILL HURT YOU!" With that Lucas turned away went to his car to go pick up Haley.

'This is going to be harder then I thought' Nathan thought to himself.

23

The next couple of days had gone pretty smoothly. There had been no Nathan sightings, but today was the first day of classes, Haley was bound to see him sometime during the day.

Haley was sleeping soundly when Lucas decided to give her a morning call. He went into her room and blasted Backstreet boys music knowing she would have to get up to turn it off. Haley had always been a person to wake up early in the morning, but since she became pregnant she started sleeping later, thinking it was best for the baby.

"Haley wake up!" Lucas yelled over the Backstreet boys music.

"Lucas!!" Haley screamed. She quickly got out of her bed and turned the music off and started chasing Lucas down the stairs. She wasn't as fast as she use to be cause of her belly but she could still catch him if she tried.

"Lucas I'm going to kill you!" Haley screamed through the house. She finally caught up to him when she got to the kitchen were Karen had made pancakes.

"Oh Karen how nice of you, I love chocolate chip pancakes!" Haley said all sappy. "God I hate hormones!"

"It's okay Haley, eat up." Karen said to Haley.

"Morning everyone! Ohh! Pancakes!" Brooke said very chipper walking through the back door.

"Morning Brooke!" Haley and Lucas said to her.

"Hey since you 2 are dressed I'm gonna go get ready," Haley said to them. Haley left the table went to get dressed.

"Have you told her? You know about him being home?" Brooke asked Lucas.

"No, and I'm afraid what he's gonna say when he sees her pregnant." Lucas replied to Brooke.

"Don't worry I'm sure he won't see her pregnant, at least not now," Brooke said to Lucas. Lucas was about to ask how, till Haley walked in. She walked in with a baggy sweatshirt and a pair of jeans on. Under the sweatshirt she was wearing a baggy t-shirt that would only show part of her baby bump, but you could still tell she was pregnant. It was evident though that Haley had gained weight.

"Come one Hales, lets get you to senior year!" Lucas said to Haley. They all got into Brookes Blue bug and headed to School.

The 3 pulled into the Tree Hill High Senior parking lot next to Peyton's car.

"Hey P. Sawyer!" Brooke yelled from the drivers side of her car.

"Hey B. Davis!" Peyton walked over to the 3 at the end of Brookes car.

"God I can't believe we are seniors," Peyton told the group.

Just as the 3 were walking into school the bell rang.

"Well off to my first class," Haley said to the 3. Fortunately for her Lucas was also in her Science class during first block so he would make sure she was okay. It was only her 5 block class that she had none of her friends and was kind of scared to go to.

Lucas and Haley walked into their first block class together and took seats at the back of the classroom.

"So you ready for this Hales?" Lucas asked her.

"Yeah, I'm happy I can finally be a Senior and go to prom. But I don't look to fat right?" Haley asked Lucas.

Just as Haley asked Lucas that Nathan walked into the classroom.

"Oh god," Haley let out.

Nathan saw her in the back of the room with Lucas. The only seat left was in front of Lucas. 'I think the gods hate me' Haley thought to herself. So Nathan walked back there and took his seat. Trying really hard not to look at Haley.

"Hey you okay?" Lucas whispered to Haley.

"No, I think I'm gonna puke." With that Haley shot her hand up in the air.

"Mrs. Smith can I go see the nurse please?" Haley said in panic. The teacher nodded and let Haley go.

"Lucas why don't you go with her," The teacher suggested. All the teachers had been told that Haley was pregnant and that Lucas had been taking care of her since her and Nathan were not on good terms. The principle had told the teachers to let Lucas go with her to make sure she was okay.

Lucas got up and followed Haley out of the classroom. As Haley and Luke were quickly leaving Nathan noticed Haley had gained a lot of weight. 'What happened to Haley?' Nathan thought.

Haley only had morning sickness so she was only at the nurses office for 20 minutes then she had to go back to class. When she got back to class she kept seeing Nathan peek glances back at her. When the bell rang she and Lucas quickly gathered there stuff and let quickly so Nathan couldn't catch up to them. 'This is not good' Nathan thought to himself.

Her next couple of classes had gone smoothly and none of them were with Nathan. It was now lunch time and the sun was really starting to make Haley hot. She decided to take her sweatshirt off when she heard a screeched from behind her.

"Tutor Mom! What are you doing, people are going to see!" Brooke screeched concerned.

"Brooke I'm hot alright. I don't care if people see, meaning the person I don't speak of because I will pass out from heat if I don't take this thing off." Haley explained to Brooke.

"Fine," Brooke groaned. Lucas, Peyton, Brooke and Haley enjoyed there lunch together.

"Haley how was your last couple of classes?" Peyton asked Haley.

"Good, Mr. T congratulated me on the baby. He said I was lucky that I had such a great support system." Haley told the group.

The rest of lunch went smoothly. The group talked about their various classes. Then the 5th period bell rang.

"Haley you okay going to this class alone?" Lucas asked Haley.

"Hey Luke, I'm fine I'm a big girl now. Literally," Haley laughed. With that Haley left to go to her 5th block class which was calculus. As Haley walked into the classroom she noticed Nathan sitting in the back of the room. And this time she knew he could tell he saw the baby bump, because she no longer had her sweatshirt on, she just had the baggy t-shirt. 'Oh crap' Haley thought to herself.

Nathan looked up and noticed Haley, baby bump and all.

"Haley's pregnant?" Nathan whispered to himself. "Oh my god" Nathan said to himself.

Haley took her seat and did her best to try and not look at Nathan's shocked face.

'This is not good' Haley thought to herself.

There's chapter 2. Hope you all liked it. Please Review! The more Reviews I get the quicker I will update.