This chapter will be in the perspective of Nathan! Hope this doesn't confuse you, but I thought it was essential to really get his thoughts across in this chapter!

Everything just felt right with Haley and I. We were happier now than we ever were before. Yeah, some hearts had to be broken along the way but being at the place we are now was all worth it. Until disaster hit that night…

6:30 AM

I woke up to the annoying sound of my buzzing alarm, waking up to yet, another empty house. I checked my phone to see if there were any texts or calls. Haley wasn't the clingy type girlfriend so she didn't text me all the time, but when she did it made me smile a whole lot. To my liking, there was indeed a text. "Good morning Natey :)" it read. Since it didn't take me too long to get ready I decided to call her and see how she was doing.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Hales, baby, how are you?" I asked her as I heard her groggy tone.

"I'm still in bed" she said in a whiney voice.

I just laughed at her complaining tone.

"Thinking about me I hope" I said with a smirk on my own face. I could practically feel her smiling on the other line.

"Oh of course sweetie."

"Do you need a ride today?"

"Umm, sure." She said sounding very unsure

"You sure? Not catching a ride with Luke or Brooke or anyone?" I asked making sure she needed the ride.

"Nope, not getting rides with anybody but my Natey" she said in a girly tone.

"Well okay, I'm gonna take a shower now. Get ready soon okay?"

"I will, bye."

"Bye, I love you."

"I love you too."

Six months into this relationship and I still wasn't sick of telling her that I loved her. The funny thing is, that since me and Haley got together her parents have been offering me to stay over more often. It's like they feel obligated to since me and Haley are a couple, but it's nice knowing that they're supportive.

Suddenly I got a call and it wasn't from Haley, but my mom.

"Hey mom" I said as I answered.

"Good morning sweetheart, are you heading to school soon?"

"In about an hour, I was just about to take a shower, why what's up?"

"Well your father and I were just calling to tell you that we'll be coming home tonight, should it be safe to assume that you'll be over Lydia and Jimmy's?"

"Yes, tonight I shall be there, what time are you coming?"

"Around 8 or 9"

"Oh okay, be careful it's going to be pouring tonight" I said making sure she knew that it was going to be raining heavily.

"Thanks for the concern honey, I'll call you later tonight, bye"

"Bye mom, tell dad I said I miss him a little too"

My mom laughed at the comment then hung up.

11:30AM

We were in English and to my dismay Mr. Hanes never decided to change our seating charts. I had to deal with Peyton every single day after the break up and she continued to bother Haley about "stealing" me away from her. But things were getting better, she found herself a new sex toy named Tim and I think her sexual frustrations were taken care of.

"All right class! So this week we'll be finishing our reading of The Great Gatsby" Hanes said in a fake enthusiastic voice.

"Wah, I loved it the third time" I heard Haley tell Lucas.

I tapped on her shoulder.

"You read this book before this year?"

"Yup, about three times" she smiled at me.

"You're such a dork"

"Hmph, but you love this dork so ha." She said as she turned back around.

I just smiled at her sassy comment, she was right, I loved her to death.

"With that being said, we'll be writing eulogies for Gatsby's funeral as if we were a character in the book. You can be whomever you want, Daisy, Tom, Myrtle, anyone! But we won't just be simply writing them alone. This is going to be a partner project and this time you'll get to choose."

Haley turned around and gestured if I wanted to be her partner. I gave her a thumbs-up and we continued listening to Mr. Hanes.

"This isn't simply going to be just any eulogy, but in the eulogy, you'll have to tell a story/memory of the person, like a moment you shared them. The two of you will be telling the story together and we must feel like we've lived that moment. This assignment is due on Monday, please be ready to present." And with that the bell rang.

"A eulogy sounds too depressing for a project" Haley said as she put her arm around my waist as we started walking to her locker.

"Well people die all the time, it's a part of life Hales,"

"Yeah but, I get emotional reading a book and finding out the characters die, imagine if that actually happened in real life for me." She said as she closed her locker door.

"It's ok, it's just Gatsby that died, not me" I teased her.

"That's not funny!" she said as she pushed me.

"What?!" I said as I laughed at her cute attempt to push me.

We went out to the quad to eat, even though it was cold Haley wanted to since she knew people would try and avoid the wind, but she absolutely loved this weather.

"It's gonna rain tonight, I'm excited" she said as she bit her sandwich.

"Yes, oh my parents are coming tonight, I forgot to tell you!"

"Really? Coming by my place first?" she asked as if she already knew the answer to it.

"Of course, as always." I said as I smiled at her.

We became silent and I just smiled as I watched her eat. The silence was nice, a comfortable feeling. She looked so pretty. At that moment I felt so fortunate for everything I had.

"I love you." I said as she was in the middle of biting her sandwich.

"I wub you too" she said with a mouth full of her sandwich.

I laughed at her unladylike qualities.

"Hales."

"Yeah?"

"Why do you like the rain?"

"Because it calms me down"

"But you're always pretty calm baby"

"I know but, I could see that everyone around me is more calm and that makes me happier and calmer so yeah" she said as she wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin.

"I see, I like the rain too." I said as we continued to sit out in the cold air.

6:00 PM

"Natey, babe, we have some time to kill before your parents get here. What shall we do?" she asked me with an innocent look to her face.

I wrapped her up in my arms and started kissing the back of her neck. Her scent was so nice I could just smell her forever. She started giggling when she felt my nose rubbing against her neck. Haley was so adorable I couldn't help but want to kiss her all the time.

"Wahhh, Nathan your nose is tickling me" she said as she wiggled in my arms.

"You asked what I wanted to do, well I just want to eat you up!" I said as I pretended to bite her neck.

"Ha, oh my god, Nathan stop" she said breathless as she was laughing so much.

I pushed her down to her bed and started tickling her sides.

"TICKLE MONSTER!" I said to her as if she was a little girl.

"Oh god no, no tickle monster please!" She pleaded to me.

My fingers were tauntingly above her and I could see her face turning red from all of her laughter.

"But I want to tickle you" I said as I smiled widely at her.

She gave me a sympathetic look on her face.

"If you really want to then fine, I surrender"

"Aww, that's no fun if you aren't fighting back" I said as I put my arms to the side of her as she was still below me.

"Well I'm sorry to disappoint you Natey" she said as she pulled me closer to her face.

"Can you kiss me?" she asked cutely.

"How?" I smiled.

"Sweetly" she replied as she smiled close to my face.

I pecked her on the lips gently and she smiled against my lips. Her arms and hands were wrapped around me and her hands rubbed up and down my back. As the kiss got longer, it got deeper and more passionate. I felt myself push her up higher on the bed adjusting our bodies every once in awhile but not detaching our lips from each other. I pressed my lips harder against her and she didn't seem to oblige but suddenly she pulled away from me.

"I couldn't breathe" she laughed at her lame moment-killer.

In that moment she was incredibly cute and I just wanted to smother her.

We resumed our kissing and this time I got a little carried away. My hands began to have a mind of their own and started going up her shirt. She started to get extremely uncomfortable but I still continued to do it. I kissed her neck and went for her perfectly round breasts.

"Nathan" she said in a frustrated tone.

"What?" I asked her as I continued kissing her.

"Stop it, I'm getting uncomfortable, you're going too far." She said as she sat up.

"Come on, you're being no fun" I said as I started kissing her neck again.

"No, stop" she said as she pushed me away.

I let out a frustrated sigh.

"Ok fine I will." I said as I kept my hands to myself.

"I'm sorry I'm not able to give you what you really want, but I'm just not ready Nate..." She said in an embarrassed tone.

I looked at her and couldn't even look her in the eyes, I felt ashamed for making her feel that way. She was self conscious for "not giving me what I really want" when in fact her being with me was enough.

"What are you talking about? You're everything I want baby" I said as I gave her a kiss on the cheek.

Her face became sour and I could tell she was annoyed with herself.

"It's unfair for me to expect you to not act like this when you're clearly… experienced, it's just- I wish you'd slow it down with me" she said honestly.

"Slow it down? I'm going as slow as I possibly can Hales." I said aggravated at her words.

"I'm not Peyton, Nathan!" she began to yell at me.

"I never said you were! Why are you acting like I'm forcing you to have sex with me? I've just been kissing you but you're clearly taking it the wrong way" I said in a condescending way.

"You were touching my boobs! What do you want me to think?!"

"This fight is stupid Haley!"

"But it's something we need to talk about! I need you to know that I'm not ready Nathan, I'm really not so please don't try and force me into anything, please…" she pleaded.

Her words were killing me. Not the fact that she didn't want sex, but the fact that she thought I was pressuring her, and frankly, no matter what I said she had it in her mind that all I wanted from her was sex. I just wanted this fight to end and have a nice dinner with my parents. But I didn't think she'd let me off this easy.

"I want you to know I love you Hales, and I'll never pressure you into anything, and if my actions seem different from my words then please just remember who I am and who I've been to you your whole life, your best friend. So please Haley, just give me the benefit of the doubt."

She just gave me a forgiving look.

"I'm sorry for going crazy on you," she said as she played with my hair as I sat on her bed.

"It's just, I get nervous and anxious and scared that this whole thing we have will be ruined" she said confessing to me about her worries.

"Haley Bob James, as your boyfriend I want you to know that you are my best friend first, girlfriend second" I said truthfully.

She smiled at my words and I knew she was calm from there.

7:30 PM

"Haley! Nathan! Come help with the groceries kids!" Aunt Lydia screamed to us as she escaped the pouring rain.

Just seconds later Uncle Jimmy came through the door with more bags.

Me and Haley began to unpack the groceries and saw they were getting ready for tonight's steak and potatoes.

"What time are your parents coming Nate?"

"My mom said 8 or 9, so I'm gonna say about 8:30 they'll be here"

"Great! Let's start cooking Jimmy, you kids go have fun"

"Not too much fun!" Uncle Jimmy warned as he gave me a goofy smile.

We went into the living room and sat on the couch in front of the fireplace.

"Hales, ten years from now where do you see yourself?"

I could see her thinking carefully.

"Probably graduate school, and you?"

"Wherever you are."

"Nathan…" she said as her voice trailed off.

"I'm being serious Hales, I'll go wherever you go"

"God I love you so much" she said as she sat on my lap and started kissing me.

"Baby, your parents are in the kitchen" I warned her.

"Ugh, you're right, I wish I could get rid of them" she joked.

8:15 PM

"Well everything is all finished, we just gotta wait for Deb and Dan" Lydia announced to everyone.

"I'm sure they'll be here soon" I reassured them.

We were all sitting in the living room and talking about school and how our relationship was going.

"It's so weird because we all expected it to happen, but now that it's actually happening for what, 6 months now it's just so unreal" Aunt Lydia admitted.

"I remember like it was yesterday when Haley kissed you during your guys' fourth birthday party"

"Yes, now please stop embarrassing me" Haley whined.

We all laughed at her, then suddenly we heard a loud noise coming from outside.

"What was that?" Haley said as she sat up on the couch.

Lydia and Jimmy went to door and told us to stay inside as they checked it out.

"GOD! HALEY CALL 911! CALL 911!" Uncle Jim screamed from outside.

We ran outside to see what was going on.

"PLEASE DON'T DIE!" Aunt Lydia said as she tried to open the wrecked doors to my mom's minivan.

My heart raced at the sight. My mom and dad just got into a car accident.

"PLEASE HELP. M-MY BOYFRIEND'S PARENTS JUST GOT INTO A CAR ACCIDENT. OH GOD. THERE'S BLOOD ALL OVER THEIR SEATS, PLEASE GET HELP!" Haley cried into the phone.

The thoughts in my mind were going haywire. Seeing my mom and dad unconscious and bleeding on the seats. I had no idea what to do.

"PLEASE HELP THEM" I begged Uncle Jim and Aunt Lydia as I frantically tried to pry the crushed doors off of the car.

"Nathan you're gonna hurt yourself!" Haley screamed at me

"MY PARENTS ARE IN HERE HALEY! I'M NOT LETTING THEM DIE LIKE THIS!" I said as I banged on the doors.

"OPEN GODDAMMIT, OPEN!" I said as I fell to my knees.

This was the first moment of my life where I saw all of the ones I loved in such misery and confusion. Aunt Lydia was crying hysterically, Uncle Jimmy was trying to act calm but clearly going to break down any moment, and Haley, she was scared shitless.

The sounds of the sirens neared us and the ambulances finally arrived.

As I saw them cut the doors off of my mom's minivan I knew that whatever they had to say was no good.

The EMT approached me and asked me all of their information and health conditions. This was all happening so quickly I couldn't believe that it was real.

"Son you need to stay focused, what's your mother's date of birth?"

"Uhm. Uhh, it's December, no January, I DON'T REMEMBER" I cried as I began to break down.

"We're going to be taking them to St. Mary's Hospital, it's just 5 minutes away, you can come with us in the ambulances, you can take one person with you."

"Hales, let's go" I said as I grabbed her hand.

"We'll be right behind!" Lydia exclaimed.

As we were in the back of the ambulance with my mom I realized that in any moment she could be gone, that she could be dead right at this second and I wouldn't even know it. "Hales, I should've told them just to come home in the morning when the rain cleared out" I said blaming myself for what just happened.

"Nate… you couldn't have known this was going to happen." She said comforting me.

I looked down to see my mom, broken, bleeding, and bruised and I just couldn't keep my composure.

"God Haley…" I said as I cried into her chest.

She rubbed my back and held me tight.

"I'm here with you baby, please don't cry, please" she said as she teared up.

8:45 PM Deb Scott declared dead, 8:47 PM Dan Scott declared dead.

I didn't know if I stopped crying because I was in such shock or if I just didn't have any tears left in me. My parents were dead… gone, fallen off the surface of the earth.

"They're gone…" I said to Haley.

"They're really gone…"

"Oh baby" she said as she hugged me.

"It's the stupid rain's fault, if the roads weren't so goddamn slippery!" I vented as I cried to Haley.

"Nathan, honey, calm down" she said as she hugged me tighter.

"I'm trying to be strong, but I can't Hales, they're dead" I said as my tears came back.

There weren't many words left to say to me. I could tell she wanted to say more but couldn't find the words to do it. So Haley just comforted me by staying with me the whole night. It was about 10PM when were able to leave the hospital and although it didn't seem all that late my eyes were so tired. The rain cleared and I got into Aunt Lydia's car. The ride to their house was silent. Nothing was heard but sniffling and wiping of tears.

We got to the house and no words were spoken to each other but we all went upstairs. Haley led me to her room and she hugged me again.

"It's okay to cry it out Nate" she said as she looked at me.

And I did, I cried it all out that night… they were gone and I had to accept that my life was going to change forever.

A/N: I hated the fact that I had to kill Deb and Dan, but it was something that HAD to be done! Poor Nathan :c Review!