HJS-NS-23- Hey guys sorry for such a long wait but finals are coming which means I have to write a bunch of papers. Anyways we made this chapter especially long just for making you wait.
After this there is only 1 chapter left and then the epilogue. It's so sad to see the ending of this story coming but with all great things it must end sometime. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter and we hope you all love and review this chapter.
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Haley and Nathan arrived to their old flat, which was now the home of another James-Scott couple: Brooke and Lucas.
Haley and Nathan had discussed for the last two days the godmother and godfather issues until they found the perfect solution.
Nathan pushed the stroller while Haley knocked on the door.
"Come in!" They heard Brooke shout from inside.
Haley opened the door and both her and Nathan stayed with their mouths open looking around the living room.
It was so different then the way they left it. Nathan had moved out about a week and a half ago and it was like he had never seen the place.
"Well…" He said impressed. "I guess this place has just been Brooked. " He said closing the door.
"Yeah… I guess." Said Haley bursting into laugher. Nathan followed her and started to laugh too.
"I love your laugh so much…." said Nathan kissing her softly but quickly.
"Stop you two!" Said Brooke walking out of the kitchen covered with flour. "No PDA in front of my beautiful nephew and niece you understand." She added trying to stay serious.
"Yeah mom!" Said Nathan smiling. He could remember the party organized by Brooke so well.
"Sorry if I don't hug you guys, but I'm just waiting for Luke to be done in the bathroom and…" She said showing the mess she was.
"No problem," said Haley to her sister "but how did all that happen?" She asked curiously pointing to her sister.
"Oh I knew you were coming so I baked a cake!" She said proudly.
"You baked what?" Asked Nathan with surprise. "Did you already bake one before?"
"Nope." She said seriously. "It's going to be my first." She added proudly.
"God help us." Haley whispered still smiling at her sister.
"Totally," Nathan whispered back doing his best to contain his laugher.
"What?" Asked Brooke confused.
"Nothing!" Said both Nathan and Haley together.
"Okay…" Said Brooke frowning. Lucas came out of the bathroom a few seconds later. "I'll be back in 5 minutes," said Brooke running past Lucas straight into the bathroom.
"Right!" Said Haley with sarcasm. She knew that her sister was going to take forever like always.
Lucas hugged Haley and Nathan before turning his full attention to the babies.
"How are the most beautiful babies in the world doing?" He asked smiling. "Gosh you're lucky you look like your mother…" He said looking at Nathan from the corner of his eyes.
"Very funny Luke!" Said Nathan punching his cousins' shoulder. "My kids look a bit like me!" He said pouting.
"Of course they do!" Said Haley gently taking his hand and kissing it. "They've got your fantastic blue eyes and Kelsey already has your black hair."
"See!" Said Nathan proudly putting his arm around Haley's waist.
Lucas burst into laugher. "I give up!" He put his hands in the air like he was surrendering.
About 50 minutes later Brooke walked in the living room and sat on Lucas' lap. They were all sitting and drinking sodas.
"So…anyone want a piece of cake?" Asked Brooke to the three others.
"No thanks!" They all said together a bit too fast.
They all expected Brooke to be hurt but something else happened. She burst into laughter.
"I can't blame you guys!" She said still laughing. "I'll give it a try tonight and if it's not bad I'll tell you."
They all agreed to that.
"So…" Said Haley taking her husband's hand. "We needed to see you because we had something to tell you about our babies."
"Yeah…." Said Brooke frowning with curiosity.
"Well…we want you to be Daniel's godmother," said Haley looking at her sister.
"Ohmygosh!" Said Brooke putting her hand on top of her mouth while her eyes filled up with tears. "I…I…Don't know what to say!!" She added jumping up and hugging her sister tightly.
"Wow! Brooke James speechless?" Said Lucas looking at Brooke and Haley hugging. "That's a first!! Please Haley tell me how you do it!" He added laughing.
"Stop it!" Said Brooke in pretend hurt. She turned her attention back to Haley. "Thank you so much lil sis! I know I haven't been a good sister or daughter, but I'm going to be a kickass godmother!" She said with a bright smile.
"I know you will!" Said Haley with a smile. "As long as you don't say kick ass in front of the kids." She added joking.
"Right...sorry." Said Brooke with tears of joy falling down her cheeks. "You don't know what it means to me." Added Brooke her voice shivering with emotion.
"I know what it means Brooke…because it means the same for me." Said Haley really emotional too, as tears started to fall down her cheeks also. The two sisters stayed there hugging and crying in each other's arms.
The scene was really emotional and Nathan was doing his best to try to contain the tears filling up his eyes. He was so happy to have his family back. My family…My Haley he thought.
After a little while the girls took their places back and Haley looked at Nathan to encourage him to talk.
Nathan cleared his throat. "And we want you to be Kelsey's godfather." He said to Lucas getting his attention. "You've always been like a brother to me Luke and I know that my little girl is going to be safe with you as a godfather."
Lucas looked at Nathan speechless for a second or two. Nathan had never expressed his feelings that clearly before. Haley really made him another man.
"I would be honored." Said Lucas standing up and forcing his cousin into a bear hug. "You're…you're my brother." He said to Nathan. "You've always been my brother at heart Nate."
The emotion was very high and Lucas wanted to bring back the lighter atmosphere and decided to joke.
"I can even do the Brooke version if you want." He said to Nathan winking.
"Totally!!" Said Nathan laughing.
"Ohmygosh Nathan!! It's like the best news ever!!" Said Lucas with a girly voice jumping around making circles with his arms. "I'm like totally speechless!! And god knows I LOVE to talk!!"
Nathan, Haley and Lucas burst into laugher.
"You're so not getting any tonight!" Said Brooke in pretend pain looking down pouting.
"Aww…pretty girl!" Said Lucas kneeling down. "You know how much I love you right?"
"Well…you're lucky I love you too." She added with a bright smile kissing his nose.
"I'm so getting some tonight…" He said to her proudly.
"I guess…. Gosh you're too sexy and that's a problem!!" she said laughing.
They chated a little while more and Nathan and Haley finally decided to make their way home.
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Haley was walking back to the flat with Nathan and the babies. As expected the announcement of Brooke being Daniel's Godmother and Lucas being Kelsey's godfather had been as emotional as she thought it would be. There was not a dry eye in the flat and even if Nathan was about to deny it, he fought the tears as hard as the others.
Haley and Nathan made a habit to take a long walk with the babies almost everyday; at least when the weather was on their side and so was the case today.
"You were as emotional as us girls!" Said Haley laughing while they were finally making it back to their apartments building.
"No I wasn't…" Said Nathan stubbornly, pushing the babies stroller.
"Right…" Said Haley looking at him out of the corner of her eyes. "Well…too bad you don't want to be honest." She added pretending to be disappointed. "Honesty could have paid." She sighed. "Never mind..."
Nathan frowned and looked at her. "What do you mean by paid?" He asked curiously.
Haley laughed. It's working she thought with amusement. Brooke is such a good teacher! "Well…maybe... I dunno…" She said shrugging.
"Getting laid?" Asked Nathan honestly stopping for a second.
Haley looked at him with a pretended offended face. After a while she winked. "Oh yeah…" She said taking the stroller from Nathan and starting to walk again leaving him there with his mouth agape.
Nathan ran after her. "Yeah…you're right," He finally admitted. "But you've got to admit that it was a really emotional moment right?"
"Of course it was!" Said Haley giving him back the stroller. She stood on her tiptoes and kissed him gently. "You are so getting lucky tonight!" She added.
They both busted into laugher. They were about to go in the building when Damien parked his car.
Nows my chance. Thought Damien running to them. "Haley!" He shouted arriving beside her.
Haley rolled her eyes, she wanted to pass through, but Nathan blocked her with the stroller.
"What do you think you're doing?" She whispered to him.
"You always said that people deserve a second chance." Said Nathan nicely. "It's time to prove what you're saying. It doesn't cost too much to listen to him right." Added Nathan calmly.
Haley sighed with anger. "You're so not gonna get laid tonight." She said out of arguments.
"We'll see about that..." said Nathan Who would try to change her mind later with pleasure. Nathan went up with the stroller leaving Haley with Damien downstairs.
Haley crossed her arms on her chest defensively and stared down stubbornly.
"Your babies are beautiful." Said Damien sincerely with a sad smile. Haley kept staring down. "I missed you and…and I'm so sorry." He added his voice full of emotion.
Haley looked up surprised. She didn't expect to hear so much emotion in his voice. She stared at him without a word.
"If I could go back I wouldn't make the same mistakes or…yeah I would," he said looking deep into her eyes.
"What?" She said finally almost shouting. "Unbelievable!" She added with anger about to open the door.
Damien put his foot in order to block the door, stopping her.
"Because entering in your life saved me!" Said Damien in a pleading tone. "I can face the future now. I…I couldn't see any good coming my way since…since my girlfriend killed herself." He added his voice full of sadness.
Haley stopped trying to get away and looked at him with incredulity.
"In fact I hated Nathan so much because…because he could be me, at least if he had made the same wrong choices." Said Damien with tears falling down his cheeks. "I did…I'm always doing the wrong choices…driving the good things away from me." He added shaking his head.
Haley felt her heart breaking by the second. Every single words of Damien's were hurting her even more. She wanted to say something but she didn't really know what to say.
"And... and I don't know maybe a part of me wanted to take Nathan's place in your life..." Damien shrugged "maybe it was my sick way to correct the past but you made me understand that I should move on." Damien tried to smile but tears slowly continued to fall down his cheeks.
Haley slowly brought her hands to his face and slowly dried his tears.
Damien closed his eyes; it felt so good to be in contact with Haley. He took her hands in his before speaking.
"I'm in love with you Haley." He told her seriously "but I miss my friend even more." He smiled at her. "The one that made me believe that if you really want it everything can be forgiven that life can be good and that if you believe enough that everybody can change with the right help."
Haley sighed.
"Please...let me back in your life." Damien pleaded is such a tone that Haley couldn't resist.
"I missed my friend too..." She finally said hugging him. "But don't screw up again." She added trying to ignore the "love you" part.
They made their way up and Haley invited him to come and drink some hot chocolate. They talked for a while and for the first time in his life Damien confided his true feelings about Jen.
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Peyton and Jenny were sitting in the living room of the apartment watching Little Mermaid 2, since Jake had just ran to the store to get ice cream leaving the two blondes alone.
"Pewton?" Jenny asked turning her head away from the TV and looking at Peyton.
"Yea Jen?" Peyton asked stroking the little girls hair in her lap.
"Will you be my Ariel?" Jenny asked naïvely showing Peyton her big brown eyes she inherited from her father.
Peyton felt the breath go out of her lungs as her hand stopped stroking the little girls head. Her heart tightened and she pushed back the tears of joy at the little girls sweet words. She has no idea how happy she made me by asking me that she thought.
"Jenny Bee someday I hope I will be," Peyton told her honestly and gently not wanting to tell the little girl she already felt she was, but it was up to her daddy for her to be Jenny's mom forever.
"Okay," Jenny said turning back to the movie as a smile formed on Peyton's face.
About 10 minutes later the door opened and Jake walked in carrying a handful of grocery bags as Nathan, Haley, Danny and Kelsey followed behind them, the two kids in their stroller.
"Look who I found," Jake said breaking Peyton and Jenny out of their movie trance as the little girl ran to them.
"Aunt Hawey," Jenny shouted running with her short little legs to Haley and wrapping her arms around the older girls legs.
"Jenny bean," Haley said picking her up and hugging her.
"Pewton stop the movie," Jenny screamed so she wouldn't miss any of her movie, waking up the two babies in the stroller. Haley went to put Jenny down, but the little girl wrapped her arms tighter around her neck and she looked pleadingly at her husband and best friend. Nathan grabbed Kelsey as Jake grabbed Daniel both rocking them to quiet the little babies.
"So what's the reason you came over?" Jake questioned with an eyebrow raised knowing that Haley wanted something because lately she had just been spending as much time as she could with her family in their apartment.
"You know me too well Jakey," Haley said mock glaring at him before smiling as Jake just nodded his head in agreement.
"What's up Hales," Peyton said reaching for the little girl in Nathan's arms as he transferred her over before going to stand next to Haley and tickling Jenny who let out a squeal of delight.
"Well there's a reason why our sons middle name is Jacob. Jake we want you to be Daniels godfather. You've been my best friend for so long and you're such a wonderful father to Jenny that if something were to happen to Nathan and I, Daniel would be ok." Haley said rambling nervously.
"I would love to Hales!" Jake said moving Daniel to hold him against his shoulder and giving Haley a side hug.
"Thanks Nathan," Jake said bumping fists as Jenny got tired of being in Haley's arms and started pulling on Nathan's shirt.
"Nafan," She said pouting while holding out her arms.
"Come here," Nathan said opening his arms as the little girl struggled to get out of Haley's arms and into his. When she finally got in his arms she laid her head against his shoulder and stared up at him adoringly sucking on her thumb.
"I guess you've got an effect on both my baby girls," Jake said jokingly.
"You bet I do," Nathan said cockily pulling Haley closer to him.
"And Peyt we want you to be Kelsey's godmother," Nathan added watching Peyton playing with the little girl in her arms.
Snapping her head up at the couple she looked at them in disbelief. "Are…Are you sure?" She questioned.
"Yea of course we are. You've been friends with Nathan for so long and we know you'll take care of Kelsey too. You've already done great with Jenny so far," Haley said smiling warmly at the curly blonde.
"Thank you guys, you have no idea how much this means to me," Peyton said brushing a tear away as she hugged them both.
"Guess what Nafan," Jenny said excitedly.
"What?" Nathan asked exaggerating.
"Peyton's said she wants to be my Ariel!" Jenny said with a huge smile as Haley reached for Kelsey and put her in the stroller and hurried to grab Daniel as Jake numbly passed him looking at Jenny in incredulity, confusion and the color draining from his face before looking at Peyton.
"Well we better be going," Nathan said feeling the awkwardness and seeing that Haley had put the babies in the stroller set Jenny down before giving her a kiss on the cheek as they hurriedly said bye and left closing the door.
Peyton just stood looking at the floor her cheeks a flamed from embarrassment.
"Jen why don't you finish the movie?" Jake said not taking his eyes off Peyton.
"Ok daddy but you have to push play," She told him going to sit on the couch as Jake walked over and pushed play button before clearing his throat and getting Peyton's attention motioning her to their bedroom.
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"That was so awkward," Haley said buckling Kelsey in her car seat as she looked over and saw Nathan doing the same for Daniel.
"I know," Nathan agreed. "Thanks to my beautiful and smart wife gathering our kids so fast," he told her leaning over the two kids to give her a chaste kiss.
The two got into their black SUV and pulled out of the parking spot making their way back to their apartment.
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"Peyton what does Jenny mean you want to be her Ariel someday?" Jake questioned nervously.
"Well you see umm…" Peyton started fiddling with her hands and looking down. "We were watching The Little Mermaid 2 and Jenny asked me if I could be her Arial and I said maybe someday because it's really up to you. I love you Jake and I would love us to be a family, unless of course I am totally wrong about everything and then I'm sorry." Peyton said looking up anxiously to see Jake's response. I hope he's not mad and I wasn't wrong and he does want to be a family she thought nervously.
Jake just looked at her in disbelief. How did I get so lucky? He wondered before walking over to her and kissing her passionately. "God I love you," He whispered pulling away.
"I wasn't wrong to tell Jenny that?" Peyton asked timidly.
"No," Jake said reassuring her. "Someday we will all be a family," he told her rubbing her cheek with the pad of his thumb.