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Okay, I used to be a Quinn/David fan when I started this story, but i just watched 'I and Love and You' episode 7 of season 7. When David only cares about his stupid video room or somethin, now I don't like him:| So I'm really up for Quinn/Clay in this story. (Even though I loved the Clay and Sara in this episode, I cried all the way through!) But if people arn't a fan of that then Quinn and David will still get married. There will be some Quinn and Clay in the chapter though:)

Enjoy!

Chapter 26

''Nathan, a little higher.''

Nathan groaned as he lifted the sign a little higher. Him, Haley, Brooke and Lucas are at the airport waiting for Quinn and David. Brooke and Haley made a sign saying WELCOME HOME QUINN AND DAVID, and of course that's alot to fit on. So it's turned into a banner, Nathan is holding one end and Lucas is holding the other. Everyone is staring at them, most of the guys are laughing at the whipped guys.

''Haaaales.'' Nathan whined.

''Yes my incredibly sexy boyfriend?'' Haley answered sweetly, she knew he was going to moan, she just needs to charm him up a little.

''Never mind.'' he said just as sweetly and turned his attention back to keeping the banner straight.

Ten minutes later and after more of Brooke's whining about making the banner higher, Haley saw Quinn and David making there way through the crowds. Haley screamed and ran towards her. ''QUINNY!'' she jumped on Quinn and gave her a massive hug.

When Haley finally stopped hugging her they walked back to the rest of them. ''Nice banner Scotts.'' David teased.

''Ha ha.'' Lucas said sarcastically, him and Nathan have been getting stupid comments like that for the past ten minutes, he doesn't need more from David.

''I'll get your bag David.'' Nathan said letting go of the banner, he would rather carry bags then hold that stupid banner any longer. Lucas groaned as he rolled it back up, he had to hold that for twenty minutes and all he got was a stupid comment.

Nathan's at Haley's house, he's there all the time now. He practically lives there, he sleeps over most nights. Nathan's just went to the bathroom, as he is walking out of the door, he bumps into someone.

''Who are you and why are you in my house?'' an older woman asked.

''Who are you and why are you in my girlfriends house?'' he asked using fake panic. He knows who she is. Lydia James. After Haley told him about how she was never home he's not liked her. When he said to Haley:

''Hey. It doesn't matter. The only people who need to care about us are you're Dad and siblings, your Mom doesn't. From what I've heard, she doesn't deserve your tears. I wont even try to make a good impression, okay?''

He wasn't kidding, he's not going to try and make a good impression.

''You're Jake, nice to see you again.'' she stook her hand out and put a fake smile on her face.

''No, I'm Nathan. If you bothered to listen to Haley she was going to tell you that, but you don't.'' he said blankly, not shaking her hand.

''Do you know who you're talking to?'' she said disgusted, like he had just spat on her or something. Lydia James wasn't used to being disrespected.

''Yeah, you're Haley's Mom.'' he said blankly, shrugging his sholdours.

''Mom?'' Haley said walking out of her bedroom. She noticed the annoyed looks on both of there faces, which made her worried.

''Hey Haley-Bop.'' Lydia said walking over and hugging her.

''What are you doing here?'' she wasn't expecting her Mom to come home for another month.

''I'm back for Quinn's wedding. Plus I missed you Haley-Bop.''

''I missed you too.'' she whispered. Even though her Mom's never here she still loves her, and misses her everyday. Then she remembered her boyfriend's stood waiting, ''Mom, this is Nathan.''

''Yes, we've met.'' she said snottilly and stormed down the stairs.

Nathan smirked, ''Told you I wouldn't make a good first impression.''

Haley walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his waist, ''You're good at keeping promises Nathan Scott.'' she smiled up at him.

Nathan grinned back down at her, ''Always.''

''and forever.'' she finally brought her lips to his.

Quinn discovered that Haley isn't good at keeping up with the groceries, the only supplies she has in the kitchen is Mac 'n' Cheese, chocolate, and orange juice. Sure Quinn could live off chocolate, but Mom's home and she wouldn't be impressed. Even though it's Lydia's fault anyway.

As Quinn pushed the cart down the aisles, she felt her phone vibrate, she looked at it and saw she had a text from Haley, Can you pick me up some pancake mix please? x Quinn sent a reply saying Sure x and headed for the pancake mix.

She looked through all the brands, trying to find the one that Haley uses.

''You should use that one,'' a man said pointing to a perticular brand ''my friend uses this one and hers are amazing, I've tried but I can't make them better.'' Quinn looked at the guy, he's gorgeous. For a second, he made her wish she wasn't getting married.

''That's what I was looking for,'' she laughed putting it in the cart, ''my sister makes great ones to, she's probly wants to make some more for her boyfriend, he loves them.''

Clay couldn't help but notice she looked a little like Haley, he was just hoping this isn't Taylor, because Haley would kick his ass. He really doesn't want to get on Haley James' bad side.

The guy laughed, ''I'm Clay.'' he stook his hand out.

''Quinn.'' she shook his hand.

Crap, she's getting married. Clay thought, remembering his conversation with Haley on the school bus. That's when he noticed the big rock on her finger. ''Quinn James?''

''Yeah?'' she asked confused, she's not lived in Tree Hill for years, how could this guy know her?

''I think we're talking about the same excellent pancake maker, I'm friends with your sister Haley, she told me about you.'' he explained, laughing at the wierdness of this situation. ''I think she needs some more pancake mix for me, I eat them all the time.''

''Your a Junior?'' she asked confused, this guy looked her age.

''Nope. I coach the Ravens though, I'm really good friends with her and Nathan.''

''Oh, what a small world.'' she laughed. She wanted to hug Haley right now, hopefully now she could see Clay again.

''Yeah, I'll see you Quinn.'' Clay said. At this moment he doesn't care that she's getting married, because he's never felt like this for anyone else before. Haley was right, he does need to find someone, he bets she doesn't think it would be her sister. All of a sudden Clay's in the mood to go to the James' house, not just for pancakes.

''Bye Clay.'' she watched as Clay turned a corner and smiled. She put another pancake mix in her cart, maybe Clay would come around for pancakes more?

''What about this one?''

''Luke, that's like double your size.'' Nathan laughed.

Lucas, Nathan and Jake have been invited to the wedding, now they need a tux. They've been here for an hour already, trying on tuxedos, they're turning into Brooke, they want it to be perfect. Lucas has known Quinn most of his life, she's like a sister to him, he want to look great on her big day. Nathan's dating her sister and he'll be meeting the rest of her family, he needs to make a good impression. Jake just wants to look great for Peyton.

''I'm surprised your invited Jake, Quinn only met you once or twice.'' Lucas said while he fixed his tie.

Jake popped his head out of the changing room, ''What can I say? I'm just so loveable.'' Jake said grinning.

Nathan and Lucas burst out laughing, ''Lovable, yeah that's it.'' Nathan said sarcastically.

''Hey! I am,'' he defended, ''ask Peyton.'' Jake then started wiggling his eyebrows, he then fully went back inside the changing room.

''Eeew! That's my best friend you're talking about!'' Nathan said disgusted.

They just heard Jake laughing from the other side of the curtain.

An hour later, after trying on atleast ten more tuxedo's each, they finally picked the perfect one. The perfect one for them anyway.

''Haley-Bop!'' Quinn shouted walking in the door, ''stop making out with Nathan and help me with these bags!''

Haley walked down the stairs, ''Nathan's not here,'' she said dissapointed, Quinn just put ideas in her head. ''he's buying a suite for your wedding.'' Haley walked to Quinn and grabbed some bags and walked into the kitchen, Quinn followed her. ''Where's David?''

''He went to his friends house in Charleston.'' Quinn said unloading the bags.

Haley started unloading the bags too, ''Thanks for the pancake mix.''

''Why do you need it anyway, even you can't eat that much Hales.'' Quinn joked, putting the milk carton in the fridge.

''Clay and Nathan love my pancakes.'' Haley laughed.

''Clay?'' Quinn asked acting like she didn't know who he was.

''Yeah, he's awesome. If you weren't with David, I'd set you up.'' Haley grinned, thinking of Clay actually being her brother. Well brother in law. Quinn smiled, secretly wishing that would happen, which is a totally new feeling considering she just met the guy. It is wierd that they met at the store, and he happens to be great friends with her sister, and he's single, the day that David's away. Maybe it's just fate?

These couple have months haven't been so good for Quinn and David. When they were visiting his family, she felt so out of place, his family is so different compared to hers. The James' family is so free spirited and loving. The Fletcher family is up tight and boring. Wonder what the Evans family is like..

''Haley-Bop..'' Quinn started.

''What is it Quinny?'' Haley asked concered.

''Will you be my maid of honour?''

''Oh my God! Yes!'' she screamed and hugged her sister.

''I like the sound of that.'' Clay said as he walked in the kitchen smirking.

Haley walked over and hugged Clay, ''Shut up you perv,'' she broke away from the embrace. ''this is my sister Quinn.''

Clay took a seat at the breakfast bar, ''We've met.'' he grinned.

''You have?'' Haley asked confused.

''Yeah, we met when I was buying your stupid pancake mix.'' Quinn teased, playfully shoving Clay, ignoring the spark she felt when they touched, he tried to ignore it too.

''So that's why you're here,'' she said accusingly ''you just want my pancakes. You didn't want to see me.'' she waggled her finger at him.

Clay stood up and hugged Haley, ''Of course I wanted to see you Little James,'' he saw Quinn putting food in the cupboards, ''and you're sister.'' he whispered into her ear.

''I see,'' she grinned, ''You guys want some pancakes?'' she asked Quinn and Clay. They nodded, ''I'll bring it in, go and watch a movie or something. I'll put the rest of the stuff back.''

''Okay, Hales.'' Quinn said walking out of the kitchen, Clay followed her, not before smiling gratefully at Haley before he walked out.

Come over, I need your help. Hurry! x

Nathan looked at the text Haley sent and laughed, what is she up to this time? he wondered. He drove down the Haley's house and walked through the door, he saw Quinn and Clay talking on the couch, he didn't want to disturb so he came straight to the kitchen. He saw Haley making pancakes, looking very determined. He walked around to her and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her cheek. ''Hey baby. Where's your Mom?''

''Hey, she's upstairs in her office, doing work of course. Why?''

He walked around and sat at the breakfast bar, ''I was just wondering if she'd be a snob again, or was she just saving the snobbiness for me?'' he joked.

''She never used to be like that, but now she hangs around with posh people. I never thought she would actually turn into one.'' she sighed.

''I'm sorry baby. Why did you want be to come over anyway?'' he asked trying to change the subject, it's pretty clear Haley doesn't like talking about her Mom.

''You wern't busy were you? Did you get the tux?'' she asked leaning on the other side of the breakfast bar.

''Nope, I just bought it.'' he leaned over and gave her a quick peck. ''You'll like it.''

She raised her eyebrow at him flirtatiously, ''Oh yeah?''

''Yeah,'' he nodded and kissed her again.

''Hales.. pancakes!'' Clay shouted from the living room.

''Shoot,'' Haley muttered and continued making pancakes, which luckilly didn't burn. ''Anyway, I wanted you to come and help. Did you see Quinn and Clay when you walked in, they looked so cute together.''

''Quinn as in your sister Quinn? I mean as in the sister who's getting married?'' he asked confused.

''Yeah, but did you see how loved up Quinn and David were last time? They're not now, Quinn isn't happy with him, she looks happy now. And all she's doing is talking to Clay.''

Nathan thought about it for a second, then decided to go along with it. ''Okay, what's the plan?''

''All you have to do is make an excuse and get me out of the way.'' she grinned.

''So you coach the Ravens?'' Quinn asked, her and Clay are just sat on the coach talking, her and David never do that anymore.

''Assistant Coach.'' he said, not really happy about that fact.

''You do the same stuff though, right?'' she said, trying to make him feel better.

''Nah, I'm just an ass kisser.'' he laughed. ''Eew.'' he said, thinking about how disgusting that sounded.

Quinn just laughed at him, then she saw Haley and Nathan walking in with the pancakes. ''Oh, hey Nate, we didn't hear you come in.'' she said taking a plate from Haley.

''Yeah, I bet.'' he smirked.

Quinn and Clay's cheeks went a whole new colour, they both glared at Nathan. Nathan smirked at them and handed Clay a plate.

''So I heard mommy doesn't like you Nate.'' Clay teased.

''Yeah, she thought he was Jake.'' Quinn said laughing.

Clay burst out laughing, he had to clutch his stomach to try and control it. He looked like a monkey, which caused Haley and Nathan to laugh too.

''Will you kids be quiet, I'm on the phone!'' Lydia shouted from the top of the stairs.

That scared Clay enough to make him stop. ''Yes ma'am.'' Nathan said, he then done an army salute, which made Haley burst into a fit of giggles. She then remembered why they are here in the first place, when Quinn and Clay wern't looking she quickly kicked Nathan's leg.

''Ow.'' he moaned rubbing his leg.

''You okay Nate?'' Clay asked.

Nathan looked at Haley who was glaring at him, ''Just cramp.'' he looked at Haley again who was motioning with her eyes to go upstairs. ''Hales, I left my keys in your room, can you help me look for them?''

Haley finally stopped glaring at him, ''Sure.'' They got up and went upstairs, Haley looked at Quinn and winked at her, Quinn just blushed. She'd never been this nervous around a guy before, not even David.

''So.. you're getting married, huh?'' Clay said awkwardly.

''Yeah.'' she sighed, not really wanting to talk about David.

''You don't sound happy about it.'' Clay stated.

''I'm not.'' she admitted, looking down at the floor.

''Why?'' he prodded.

''In Africa we were like Quinn and David in our own little world, when we came here we were to completely different people. It works for some people, I mean, look at Haley and Nathan. Nathan's a good different for Hales, David's a bad different for me. In Tree Hill I was completely comfortable, but I could tell David wasn't. He didn't like it here, but he's still willing to move here. We came today and he's already gone to another town to see his friend. When I met his family I was so uncomfortable, he didn't notice, he was so happy there. I've lived without Tree Hill for so long, I can't do it again... I'm scared, absolutely terrified of what's going to happen when we get married. We've been in America for two months, what about two years? What's going to happen then?'' tears were forming in her eyes, she couldn't even be bothered to stop them.

Clay really didn't know what to do, he just had to tell her the truth. ''If I were you I wouldn't stick around to find out.''

Quinn looked up at him, tears now sliding down her face. ''What?'' she whispered.

''You're so scared, I can see it. You cover it up infront of Haley because you don't want her to see you weak. You never once said you wanted to talk to him about it, you need to. You know what else you never said?'' he questioned.

Quinn just stared at him, waiting for him to answer, the tears still haven't stopped.

''You never said you loved him.'' he took his hand in hers, as a way to comfort her.

''I do,'' she whispered, ''I really do... it just isn't enough.''

Clay just pulled her into a hug and heald her while she cried, wanting to beat David up when he met him. As he held her, Clay didn't notice Haley and Nathan sat on the stairs listening. Haley didn't know how she felt, her sister couldn't even confide in her. And that hurts. Nathan's just rubbing her back hoping she wont cry, but she looks like she's going to.

''I miss Davis.'' Brooke said. Her and Lucas are walking round the park, they were bored so decided to go for a walk. They ended up here, Brooke's just saw a woman pushing her baby on the swings, all babies make her think about Davis nowadays.

''Me too, even though I hardly ever got to hold him.'' Lucas joked.

''I can't believe we passed.'' she said, ignoring his comment.

''I can, even though everyone else did. Except Fergie and Erica.'' he laughed at the story Fergie told him.

On the Thursday, the day before they had to hand the babies in. Fergie went to the rivercourt, he took baby Katherine with him. He was waiting for the guys to show up and the ball under the bush had popped, and Junk had the new ball. So Fergie decided to use the baby, he thought it would be safe, once it went through the hoop he forgot to catch it. It hit the floor, luckilly it didn't break, but the microchip could feel it. So it got listed as a fail, for harming the baby, which wouldn't make a good parent. Erica was mad, she also had to have detention all week.

''and besides,'' Lucas added, ''you'll be an amazing mom Brooke.''

''Not as good as Bevin.'' she muttered. Bevin and Skills apparantly did nothing wrong, they burped it at the right time, changed it's nappy at the right time and they stopped it from crying everytime. How come she couldn't do that?

Clay and Nathan went home, Quinn tried to cover her tears for Haley's sake. She doesn't want her to see her like that, but Haley noticed them anyway. Even though she heard Clay and Quinns conversation she still noticed them.

''Quinn, you've got to talk to me.'' Haley said, sitting next to Quinn on the couch.

''What about Haley-Bop?'' Quinn asked cheerily.

''Quinn stop. I heard what you said to Clay, I'm sorry, I thought you'd just be flirting or something... You don't have to protect me Quinny, I was there when Vivian cried for two weeks straight when he boyfriend cheated on her, I was there when Micheal brought a girl home that wasn't his girlfriend, I see Dad miss Mom everyday. I just want you to be happy, so don't protect me, I'm your sister, you need to let me in and tell me what your feeling.'' she pleaded.

''I guess you heard what I said to Clay, I'm gonna talk to him when he gets back. I promise.''

''Pinky promise?'' Haley stook her pinky out.

''Pinky promise.'' Quinn agreed and hooped her pinky with Haley's.

''I love you Quinn, I just want you to be happy.'' Haley said whole heartedly.

''I love you to Hales, I will be.'' she pulled Haley into a hug and they both silently cried.

''I'M HOME!'' someone screamed from the doorway.

Haley and Quinn turned to the doorway and saw who it was, ''Taylor.'' they groaned.

DUM, DUM, DUUUUM. TAYLORS BACK.

Please review and let me know what you think about Quinn/Clay. Will she go through with it? It's completely up to you.

YOU CAN DECIDE. WILL QUINN MARRY DAVID? OR WILL SHE NOT? its up to you:)