Chapter 1: It's been 37 days, since you turned, and walked away.
Haley wrote the first line of her new song in her song notebook she had gotten from Nathan as an anniversary gift.
She sighed and got up closing the notebook.
Once a day she was going to write a line in her notebook, making one whole song by the end of the page.
Haley looked in the mirror at her slightly bigger stomach. She sighed and sat down on the bed.
"Haley I - what are you doing?" Peyton said stifling a laugh.
Haley was huffing trying to put on her shoes, but her belly kept making her bounce right back up.
"Don't laugh at me." She said frustratingly.
"I'm not it's just- nah I definitely am." She said chuckling.
"I just want to take a jog!" Haley groaned tying the other shoe and she sat back up panting.
"Mhm, you sure it's not to drown your sorrows in a box of Twinkies from Wal-Mart?"
"Gasp! I'm mad you'd even think that!"
"Right, come on Jenny and I are on our way to the Farmer's Market."
"Why do I have to go?" Haley groaned.
"Because with all the junk you've been eating you need to inhale some vegan stuff. Come on!" Peyton said dragging Haley off the bed.
"No!"
"I'll get you a burger!" Peyton sung.
"Why are you still here?" Peyton laughed and ran downstairs with Jenny.
"What do you think Nathan's doing?" Brooke asked her head on his chest. Lucas looked down at her.
"I don't know. But the last time Haley left him was in high school. And we all know that story." Brooke sighed and leaned more into Lucas.
"I wish we could take his pain away."
"Why? He cheated on her."
"I know, but something tells me he didn't want to. Plus, Haley could've stopped it too!" Brooke said getting up.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to make a call." Brooke said turning on her heel to the kitchen. Lucas chuckled and sat back in the couch to watch Seinfeld.
"You said I'd get a burger." Haley said groaning.
"I never said it was a meat one." Peyton said chuckling.
"A burger's a burger." Haley shrugged and took a bite of her veggie burger.
"I have a question for you anyways."
"What?" Haley asked; her mouth stuffed.
"Could this over eating be because of a certain someone?"
Haley knew what she was talking about.
"Peyton, I'm PREGNANT don't you see this baby bump?"
"Haley Bob James Scott, you know that's not what I meant."
"It's Haley Bob JAMES. And don't say my last name you know how much I hate it." She said rolling her eyes.
"Whatever, so spill." Peyton said getting closer to her.
"I DON'T miss him. " Haley said taking one of her sweet potato fries. "Ew what is this anyway?"
"Stuff for the baby to be healthy, you know NATHAN'S SON?" Peyton said chuckling.
"Watch when you have a kid." Haley said muttering.
"Whatever!" Peyton said in her California accent.
"No, California! I'm annoyed enough." Haley said putting her head down on the table.
"Duh, you miss Nathan." Peyton said emphasizing once again.
"You and Brooke are always going to say that huh?"
"Always and forever!" Peyton and Jenny said laughing and high-fiving Jenny.
Haley sighed again and shook her head laughing a bit.
I wish he wasn't such an ass. Maybe I'd still be there. Haley thought taking up another sweet potato fry.
"I really need to get new friends." Haley muttered.
Nathan walked into his house again, seeing all the boxes he had packed.
He was going to move out and into an apartment he found closer to the basketball court, reason being the house had too many memories of Haley, and he wanted to be able to exercise his game on the court.
"Nathan?" He heard a man say; he turned around and saw David.
"Hey man." Nathan said giving him a handshake.
"You ready?"
"I don't think I'll ever be."
"It's been a month, if you wanted her you should've gotten to her."
"I know David, I just, I don't know." Nathan said rubbing his chin.
He recently just grew a goatee; he's trying to use the opposite of whatever Haley disliked, so he could get her out of his head. But it just made it worse.
And he couldn't pick up girls the way he used to, word got around about how much of an ass he was, so he mostly just stayed in and read books.
Something Haley always loved doing.
"Well we got to hurry, I have a family dinner. Nathan, you'll always find your love, you just have to be determined enough to find it." Nathan nodded and walked upstairs cleaning out the trash.
He went into the bathroom to see a bag he knew was Haley's.
"Haley must've forgotten this." He said chuckling. As he picked it up something fell out of the bag, so he bent down and picked it up.
The box read, Ready One Pregnancy Test.
Nathan immediately dropped it in the trash only to see the actual test on the counter.
It was. . . . Positive?
This is what Haley wanted to talk to me about? I'm such a jackass! Nathan thought banging his head on the ceramic tile wall.
"Ow!" He said groaning and holding his head, searching for Band-Aids in the cabinets.
"Nathan you okay up there?"
"Yeah, just a little bump," He yelled back.
"Okay, I got to go home; I'll see you tomorrow morning?" David yelled.
"Yeah!" as soon as he heard the door close he muttered some curse words and started to tend to his cut, chuckling at when Haley had cut herself chopping tomatoes and kept knocking over everything in order to get to the sink.
They ended up getting pizza that night.
Just as Nathan was about to dial he got a phone call, and he immediately picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Tutor husband." Nathan chuckled.
"Hi Brooke,"
"Don't hi me; you should be fighting for your girl right now!"
"I'm in the middle of a season!"
"Bullcrap! The Nathan I know would be on a plane right now! Look, I don't know if what you did was exactly true but if it is I'd be fighting my ass to get here."
"I know! I just have one question."
"What?"
"Is Haley pregnant?"
"He knows I'm PREGNANT!" Haley said screaming at Brooke, repeating the fact for the 50th time.
"I'm sorry! He said he found the test while he was cleaning out the house."
"What do you mean cleaning out? Don't tell me he's moving." Brooke shrugged. "Well is he going to call?"
"I think so, tutor girl he misses you, A LOT."
"Well he could've called all this time if he did." Haley said sitting down across from Brooke.
"Yeah, but he didn't know you were pregnant! And do you think you'd even give him a chance to speak?"
"He was too much of an ASS to listen! And I don't know!" Brooke looked at her. "Okay no but still!"
"I'm sorry he didn't know you were pregnant, but you did as much fault as he did!"
"So you're saying I did something?"
"Well-"
"Because, I have every right to not go back,"
"Haley! Stop being Nathan for one second can you please?" Brooke said frustrated. "You and him are always accusing and never listening to what the other has to say! Truthfully, you guys are a perfect fit, both of you are just too damn stubborn to listen!" Brooke said storming out of Haley's room.
Haley sighed.
Am I really like that? Like HIM?
Just like that her phone rang.
"Hello?" Haley said breathlessly.
"Haley?"
"Nathan."
"Hi."
"Hello."
"So. . . . You're pregnant?"
"Yeah. . . ."
"What're we going to do about-"
"Nathan, don't start."
"What? I just want to know-"
"No, I just got screamed at Brooke about you and - just don't."
"Haley, I just want to know what we're going to do about the baby. I want to be in the baby's life, even if I can't be in yours."
"It's too late for that. Nathan, don't come here and don't even call me back."
"But Haley-"
"As far as I know, as soon as you sign those papers, we're done."
"Haley you know that's not fair-"
"Well you had enough chances didn't you? I don't want you and as far as I'm concerned, this baby won't want you either." Haley said coldly, hanging up the phone.
Nathan put down the phone.
Haley was right, he did have chances, and he broke all of them. He didn't deserve to be with Haley or his unborn child.
He walked out of his apartment and drove to one of his friend's houses.
Haley sat in the bed, crying her eyes out.
"Hey you want- What's wrong?"
"Why did I act so stupid?"
"What do you mean?" Lucas asked sitting down.
"Nathan wanted to be in this little man's life, and I kicked him straight out."
"Haley-"
"I know, but he did wrong! He doesn't deserve any chances!"
"Yeah he did do wrong, but so did you." Haley looked up at him, sniffling.
"I know. Brooke told me." Haley said stuffily
"What do you think about it?"
"I know, but it doesn't mean I didn't support him."
"But he didn't know that. Nathan just wants to do what he thought you'd be comfortable doing. You don't know how much times he used to call and how annoyed Brooke was with me because he didn't know how to satisfy you, how he was supposed to go about trying to find things you like. He loves you so much Haley, but he feels like you don't want him."
"It doesn't mean he should've cheated!"
"It doesn't mean you shouldn't have left." Haley sighed.
"I hate it when you're right." Haley said cracking a smile.
"I know." Lucas said chuckling and hugging Haley.
"I hope little Jamie here isn't as stubborn as me or as clueless as his father." Haley said chuckling.
"You're naming him Jamie?"
"No, James Lucas Scott." Haley said looking at him "I want you and Brooke to be remembered for this." Haley said smiling.
"I'm so touched." Lucas said fake crying, Haley laughing.
"Thank you, for being the best friend/ brother-in-law." Haley said.
"No prob Hales, but I won't be your brother in law anymore remember? Just the brother of yo baby daddy." Haley chuckled.
"Right; I told him to sign the papers. It's really happening Luke, I never thought I'd actually be getting a divorce! Look at my parents; they were together till the death of them! I wish I had a love like they did you know? I thought Nathan and I had that, I was terribly mistaken."
"Haley, nobody has the same kind of love, with love comes trying to make it work, no matter how annoyed you may get. Didn't you say you love Nathan's face every time he won a game? When he made a shot? Or when he made you laugh? And I remember Nathan saying he loved your smile when you got a good grade on an essay, or when he cooked and cleaned the whole day after your day at college and work because you were too stubborn to be a housewife."
"And his surprises after he won a game. Making this little guy in here,"
"Okay too much info," He said, Haley chuckled. "All I'm saying is you guys smile a lot. You guys had that love we all thought would last and never let go. But guess what got in the way?"
"Us?"
"Other things too, but love doesn't care about that. It cares about the two people it brought together; those things are just there to fill voids in our lives we were taught to know. Don't ever give up Hales."
"Yeah, I know." Haley said bundling up under the covers.
"I got to go; Brooke has a surprise for me." Lucas said winking.
"Gross!" Haley said playfully slapping Lucas on the shoulder.
"Night Hales. You sure you'll be okay?"
"Will I ever?" Lucas chuckled and kissed Haley on the head, closing her door.
"What're we going to do baby?" Haley said rubbing her belly. "You better not wake me up or kick me. Night, James Lucas Scott." Haley said smiling and lying down, turning off the light.
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