Chapter 4: So This, is the Story, of Two Lovely People, Meeting Again.
"I'm about to lose my mind
You've been gone for so long
I'm running out of time
I need a doctor
Call me a doctor
I need a doctor, doctor
To bring me back to life. . . ." Haley sang while playing the piano.
She was at home waiting for Jamie to come in from school. She sighed and turned back to her paperwork.
"Mom, I'm home!" Jamie said running into the living room.
"Hey Jamie!" Haley said smiling and hugging him before gathering up her music.
"You're playing music again."
"And?"
"You're mad about something." Jamie said sitting down next to his mom on the piano bench.
"And how would you know?"
"I'm my mother's child." Jamie said mimicking Haley.
"I do not sound like that!"
"Yeah you do!" Jamie said laughing as Haley started to tickle him.
"What do you want to do tonight? It's Friday so we can do whatever!" Haley walked into the kitchen, Jamie following her.
"How about-"
"We are definitely NOT watching Nathan Scott highlights again." Haley said.
"Mom!" Jamie groaned, "Why?"
"Because I said so, plus, don't you get tired of him?"
"Nope." Jamie said showing off his pearly white smile.
"No. Movies that's it."
"Fine, we got a new student today, her name's Lillian."
"Cool, Lillian who?"
"Lillian Lee," Jamie said smiling. Haley paused and looked at Jamie.
"Ooh! Am I going to meet her?"
"Mhm. At the play date we set up."
"Were you going to ask me?"
"Not really, she says her dad's on a break so it didn't matter."
"You're so lucky my life revolves around making you happy."
"Me too," Jamie said with his famous smirk, Haley laughed and started to tickle Jamie.
"Nathan!"
"Lil I'm upstairs!"
"Okay! I just want to tell you that we're going to be having company tomorrow, I met this guy who liked bugs and toy cars!" Lily said, she propped herself up on a stool in the kitchen.
"Were you ever going to tell me?" Nathan said walking down the stairs and into the kitchen.
"I just did, duh, keep up Nate! I don't know how they deal with you during practice." She said while eating an apple.
"Well, do you know who his mom or dad is?"
"Yep,"
"You going to tell me who?" She nodded, Nathan looked at her confused.
"It's a surprise, like a real surprise." Lily said smiling.
"Lily-"
"Guess who's here?" Lily said standing up and walking to the living room.
"Who?" Nathan said, following her.
"Me!" Carrie came from the wall separating the rooms.
"Carrie! H- Hi." Nathan said with a surprised look.
"Hey! Lily called me and told me the news so I came as soon as I could." Carrie said hugging him, "You okay?" She started to rub his arm.
"Y-yeah, didn't Lily tell you? Family only." Nathan said, softly shrugging off Carrie's arm.
"I thought I was practically family! But if you want I could go back-"
"No! I just thought she would've told you." Nathan said uncomfortably.
He was in a tank top and jeans and could practically see Carrie undressing him, sure she's seen him topless countless times, but she wouldn't get the point that he didn't want her. Ever since she got the job as a nanny all Carrie has done was make Lily look at her like a mom and Nathan like a wife.
"Well there's another guest room upstairs, I'll get your bags." Nathan started to carry them upstairs.
"So, what's there to do here?" Carrie asked plopping down next to Lily on the couch.
"We could go to the docks, or the beach, or the River court, Karen's Café, or a park! That's where Nathan's going to take me!" Lily said smiling.
"Oh, well I'm going to stay here, maybe tomorrow we'll go and explore some more, I'm a little jetlagged. I'll see you in the morning okay?" Lily nodded as Carrie walked into the direction of the guestroom.
She saw Nathan with her bags and smiled. "This is where I'll be sleeping?" Nathan jumped.
"Yeah, I wish it was a little bit more decorated, but I didn't know there were other people coming."
"Oh no it's fine, you know Nathan I-"
"Um I have to go." Nathan said backing away from Carrie who was getting closer to him.
"Sure fine, whatever." Carrie huffed while walking into the bathroom connected to the guest bedroom.
"Lily, the Mac and Cheese are starting to cool so you'll be able to eat it when we get back okay?"
"Definitely!" Lily said perking up, it was her favorite food, and Nathan had no problem making it.
Probably because it was Haley's favorite food.
Haley slammed the door and walked into Lucas's room.
"Lucas Eugene Scott! I SPECIFICALLY told you to ask where Nathan goes so I don't bump into him, especially with his lovechild!" Haley said sitting down on the bed.
"What are you talking about?" Lucas said getting up from his spot on the bed, dropping the book.
"I just saw Nathan and a surprise guest."
"Who?"
"HIS FREAKIN' DAUGHTER!" Haley yelled.
"What do you mean daughter? Last time I heard he was-"
"I don't want to hear it, just know you're not going to be let off the hook that easy," Haley said walking out his room, "Jamie, LETS GO!" Jamie walked quickly out the door, Lucas groaning and falling back on the bed.
"I should have never allowed them to date in high school." He muttered turning back to his book.
"How could you not have known she was going to be there? Goodness Brooke! Do you know what it's like, meeting your son there when you were lied to about the whole thing?"
"No! I don't get it! Nate, I thought you wanted to see her!" Brooke said fumbling with the pen in her hand while carrying a poster-sized piece of paper.
"Me too! But then, I see James Lucas Scott! My son, the one who I was told was supposedly dead! And Lily, my cousin saying I'm her father, then Carrie comes back into town!" Nathan said quickly, pacing around Brooke's office.
"Wait, I thought you were going to fire that slut." Brooke said dropping the paper on her work desk.
"I was but then this came up. If she sees Haley, she's going to get all clingy."
"So you mean she's going to act more of a whore than she already is?"
"Duh." Nathan said looking at her.
"Sorry." Brooke said, "How did she get here anyways?"
"Lily."
"What? She's not having mommy withdrawals again is she?"
"I hope not, I do want a mom for her, but it's not like Carrie's anything like that, she irks me in a way, and her being here is just going to cause more drama."
"Then fire her now."
"What?"
"Fire her now," Brooke said walking over to Nathan, "You fire her now and she'll leave."
"It's not that easy; remember that time when I told you she accidentally slipped into my bed naked?"
"Oh yeah, whelp! Good luck!"
"Brooke!"
"Whatever, now back to the baby part, what do you mean she told you he was dead?" Brooke said sitting back in her seat as Nathan calmed down.
He looked at her sadly and proceeded to tell the story.
Flashback
"Haley." Nathan stopped pacing and stood in the middle of hotel room; he was in Chicago for a game and had finally been able to reach through to Haley.
"Nathan-"
"No listen, we're going to work this out, and we're going to have the baby-"
"He's gone."
"Wait, w-what?" Nathan inched to his bed; his heart stomach feeling like it disappeared.
"He's gone. I went to the doctor's today and they said the baby would die, HE would die." Haley said her voice breaking.
"Haley, are you sure?"
"I'm pretty sure!" She said angrily, "So just give up the nice act Nathan okay? Just sign the papers because there's no working this out. I'll let our lawyers look at it and then we're done. Okay?"
"Haley-"
"And I'm changing my number so don't even try to come or whatever, it ends here goodbye Nathan." She said, her voice breaking out into sobs as she hung up the phone.
"What?" Nathan sat there dumbfounded as he dropped his phone. That night he was drinking and crying to drown out the sorrow but it wouldn't go away.
End of Flashback
"That's it." Haley took a breath, "After that I changed my numbers and found out later I got the wrong diagnosis. Of course it was too late to tell Nathan that so I didn't try."
"Haley, you know that's wrong." Peyton said looking at her, walking around to fix her desk.
"Yeah well, he had a daughter."
"What? What do you mean he had a daughter? As far as I'm concerned he doesn't."
"Well check again." Haley said getting up, "I have to go, Jamie has a play date tomorrow at this apartment complex, and he says the guy's really cool." Haley said getting off the work chair.
"Haley," She turned around, "Be careful." She nodded and walked out.
"Come on Jamie." Jamie nodded and walked out to the car silently. Haley looked at him confused.
As soon as they got in the house Jamie zoomed for his room.
"She looked even more beautiful then I've seen her." Nathan wrote in his Royal blog.
He went under the name Scott Royal for a blog he decided to post when he was just starting basketball life, deciding if he made it big he wouldn't have any drama.
"I miss her a lot, the way she laughs or when she's reading with her glasses how she absentmindedly bites her pen, her singing in the shower or tripping when I said something too cute it made her blush.
But, this is what I wanted, a lifestyle I can't change, that made people change around me. "
"Nathan, you wanted to talk?" Lily said walking slowly into his room in her pink flower pajamas.
"Yes I did, where do you get off calling me your father Lil? What if your dad was there right now?"
"I'm sorry! It slipped! And I told her that when we were at Karen's Café and-"
"You WHAT? Lillian Bethany Lee, are you CRAZY? You didn't see Haley's face did you? It looked like everything broke inside of her, like the day, the day-"
"You first cheated?" Nathan nodded; he put his head in his hands and felt Lily's little hands on his back rubbing it up and down. "If it makes you feel any better, I know why you love her so much, she has that kind of attitude that makes you feel special or wanted, I've always wanted that."
"But Lil, you didn't have to get it this way, you know that-"
"I know, I know!" Lily said sighing, Nathan was the only close thing she had to a father- She hardly ever got to see her own because he always dropped her somewhere, this time it was Nathan, a guy who could've said no like the others, and treated her like it was his own daughter, probably because he lost his own kid, but either way she wanted to call him dad regardless.
"It felt weird to see Jamie though, he had a personality-"
"Just like yours? That's why he was the only one to come up to me and give me a piece of his candy." Lily said smiling.
"I guess we're going to have to have a talk with him." Nathan said teasingly.
"You betcha!" Lily said smiling and hopping off the bed, "I'm going to ask Nanny Carrie to tuck me in okay? Good night Nathan."
"Night Lil'." He said smiling and watched as she walked out and into her bedroom. Nathan soon got the keys and walked to his car driving to Lucas's house.
"Hello?" Lucas said groaning as he opened the door, "Nate!" Lucas's eyes widened immediately, "What the hell are you doing here? You have a daughter my goodness Nathan-"
"I don't have a daughter. Lily was lying, and as far as I'm concerned it's much worse to know that your half-brother never told him about his son."
"And who is this half-brother?" Lucas said smiling a little bit.
"Hearty, har har." Nathan said walking in.
"Oh come on in, first Haley now Nathan, then they're going to-"
"Luke? Are you okay?" Peyton said walking out in a robe, interrupting Lucas's muttering.
"Hey Peyton." Nathan said smiling.
"Nate! Hey!" Peyton said walking up to hug him, "It's been a LONG time like real long." Peyton said smiling, noticing Lucas's half asleep face and Nathan's now hard face. "Did I miss something?"
"Do you know about my miracle love child?"
"Oh." Peyton said sitting down.
"This is going to be a long night." Lucas mumbled, heading for the coffeemaker.
Sorry I'm so late! I've been very busy with studying and finals and things, I'm a little dazed out right now but I'll be getting on track soon enough!
Enjoy and comment! :)
XoXo,
Cassie :)
P.S. They DON'T Haley doesn't know Jamie's friend and Nathan doesn't know Lily's friend, if you didn't know, so yeah.
Bye!