"Hales I brought you home a breakfast sandwich!" Nathan exclaimed as he entered the house again but there was no answer.

He looked down at his watch '11:46'

"Hm. She must still be sleeping" he said as he paced up the stairs to their bedroom.

"Haley Bobbb" he continued as he was about to approach the room.

The sight of this 5 foot tall girl in a mess of blankets was just too adorable to wake.

"Aww, my little Haley Waley is so tired." Nathan said as he rubbed her back gently.

She groaned slightly with annoyance when he kept talking to her in her sleep.

"I got you food baby" he said as he kissed her on the nose.

"Thanks but I'm gonna sleep all day" Haley said as she plopped her head onto his lap.

"Are you ok?" he said as he felt her forehead and cheeks.

"I'm fine, I'm just exhausted…" she said as she tugged on his shirt for him to come to bed with her.

"Hales I need to study for history, wanna help me study tutor girl?"

"No" she let out flatly.

"Come to bed with me" she pouted.

"I'd love to but I need to study, I'll just be at the desk right over there" he said pointing to the desk on the wall.

"No… bring your books to bed and study" she whined some more.

He gave her a long strict look and finally caved into her pout and puppy dog eyes.

"You're lucky you're so cute" he said as he hopped into bed next to her with his books.

She simply giggled at his remark and cuddled into his side as she looked at the words in the book.

"Why do we study history anyways…?" Nathan complained as he got sick of studying after about an hour.

He looked down at the girl he was talking to and found her sound asleep again.

"Oh Hales…" he said as he fixed the blanket on top of her.

Haley woke up and looked at the digital alarm clock on the side table '5:23 PM'

She couldn't help but groan again after sleeping for so long.

As she continued to toss she realized the warm arm around her waist. She turned to see Nathan sleeping like a baby with books scattered around him. She smiled at the sight.

I mean who wouldn't smile at this, Nathan is gorgeous…

She got up to fix the papers around him and found a note that he had written to her.

"Hales—if I fall asleep on you I'm terribly sorry for not waking up to your adorable sleepy face… Brooke and Lucas are going to be coming over at around 7 for dinner, sorry for not telling you earlier."

Haley was far from upset at the note, in fact she was happy to be spending time with Brooke and Lucas after missing out on breakfast.

She successfully wiggled out of his grip and immediately went to the bathroom to freshen up. After finishing getting ready she walked downstairs and saw the mail in front of the door.

"Junk, junk, magazine, catalogs, ooh… mail for Natey!" she said inspecting the plain letter with 'High Flyers' on the top right corner.

Instead of being nosy she decided to put the letter in the slot labeled "Nathan" next to their phone because this was their system of organizing their letters and bills and such.

What shall I cook…? She contemplated.

"Lucas, please do not even mention High Flyers at dinner!" Brooke protested to her blonde boyfriend.

"Don't worry, I won't." he defended.

"I'm not joking Luke, it's obvious that Nathan is all confused about this and your two-cents just confuses him more!"

"I know, I know, I'm sorry! Now can we just have a civil dinner with our friends?" he said as he pointed at the Scott residence in front of them.

"Fine"

"Shhhhh!" Haley whisper-yelled as she opened the door for Brooke and Lucas.

"What, why?" Lucas said as they stepped into the big house.

"Nathan's sleeping" Haley let out with a cute smile.

"Does he not know it's 7…?"

"He's been studying a lot lately, I didn't wanna wake him; you know I hate waking people up"

"It's true, one time I told Haley to call me at 6:30 on a Saturday morning so I can help her with this church thing and she just never called and did everything herself"

"Funny, because I love waking people up!" Brooke said referring to those memorable times she was found straddling one of her good friends to wake them.

"oh I know that" Haley chuckled.

"Do you really want to start dinner without Nathan?" Lucas questioned.

"Yeah, I don't think he'll be waking any time soon…" Haley laughed.

"Ok, let's dig in!" Brooke said happily.

"So you're laying in bed and Nate's rubbing your feet, then you fart?" Brooke said disgusted with her friend's confession.

"Yes, it was so embarrassing" Haley said as she covered her face with her hands

"What'd he say?"

"'Cute Hales'…I'm not even joking, he actually said that then started laughing at me"

"At least he's supportive!" Lucas chuckled.

"It's just funny because we spent all these years as little kids together and I don't remember ever farting in front of him."

"Marriage brings out the best and worst of people you know?" Brooke smiled at her..

"I know, I'm just so fortunate to have married my best friend" Haley said as she leaned back on the couch.

"Are you two happy?"

"Yeah, well I can only answer for myself but—"

"Hell yes I'm happy" Nathan said cutting Haley's words off.

"Baby, better late than never" Haley said as he kissed her cheek.

"Why didn't you wake me?"

She simply gave him the 'you know why' look and he nodded in agreement.

"Of course, because you're Haley James… Haley James Scott"

"So how are things doing in the bedroom department besides sleeping?" Brooke asked shamelessly.

Haley practically spit her drink out from the words.

"Uhh" Nathan said with his mouth opened awkwardly.

"Non-existent" Haley said as her cheeks quickly turned pink with embarrassment.

"Well why is that?" Lucas chimed in.

Who knew these two would be so spineless today…? Nathan thought.

"I-I don't wanna talk about that…" Haley said as she turned away from their contact.

Nathan was giving both of them the evil eye but he knew this torture was not going to end soon. It wasn't torture for him, but he knew Haley was practically breaking at the seams hearing them pestering her like this.

"Ok, then we'll ask Nate."

"You guys, seriously… stop" He said as he rubbed Haley's back to comfort her.

"Fine… we'll just do something else that'll keep our minds off of the big bad sex question then" Brooke said in defeat as she stood from the couch towards the TV.

"What're you doing?" Haley said as she nestled her head into Nathan's chest.

"Just watch some home videos, I wanna see you and Nate when you were little kids!"

"What about me?!" Lucas whined.

"Eh, you too I guess." She said as she searched through the VHS'

"Ahh! This one" she smiled as she saw the words, 'Haley and Nathan 3-years-old Birthday/Bath'

"Sounds kinky" Brooke said as she sat back on the couch.

"We were three Brooke…" Nathan looked at her in bewilderment

"Whatever" she responded as the tape started playing.

"Haley come on, smile at the camera!" The familiar voice rang through both of their ears.

"But Auntie Deb I don't wanna" she pouted with her puffy blue dress on.

"Haley, you and Nate only turn three once. Come on, smile!" she said as she panned out the video to see all the little kids at the party.

"Only if I get to take a picture with Natey in it" she replied sassily.

"Fine. Nathan come here for a second baby!" she said as she set the camcorder on a tripod.

The three-year-old Nate began running happily towards them.

"I remember this" Haley laughed diabolically.

"Yeah. Me too, I forgot how mean you were to me when we were younger"

"Nathan stand closer to Haley" Deb instructed.

Slowly he approached the puffy blue-dressed girl.

"Come on Natey… I won't hurt you" she smiled slyly as she put and arm around him.

"Ok. One, two, three!" Then Haley pulls down his pants.

"She did not just do that…" Brooke said with her jaw dropped.

"Haley was a mean little girl" nathan said as he shook his head next to a laughing Haley.

"Aww, so classic. That's not the last time you fell for that either."

"I'm so glad your mean streak only lasted until you were 6"

"Yeah now you're a big bully" she said as she stuck her tongue out at him.

"Ok, now let's watch this one" she said pushing in the tape labeled "Nathan Scores"

"This should be interesting" Lucas said as he leaned back with arms up behind his head.

"Scott for the win! Scott for the win! Scott with the winning basket versus Pontiac!" the video practically shouts as the montage plays.

"My baby is sexy when he shoots around" Peyton says on the screen as she kisses him.

Haley just starts shaking her head in amusement.

The video continues playing with impressive jump shots, dunks, and the occasional fade away. Haley was proud to have been married to such an MVP, and Nathan was happy looking back at where he has come since the beginning of his basketball 'career'.

Suddenly the video cuts to another scene that is clearly in a different setting. Nathan is frantically kissing a girl who is clearly topless underneath him and then he starts peeling his shirt off, exposing the contour lines of his back muscles.

"What is this?" Haley said with slight disgust because she had forgotten how much of a man slut he was before they were officially together. She'd remembered the stories he told her from time to time, but seeing it was just overwhelming.

"Nathan, I'll die if anyone finds this…" the brunette girl says as he continues kissing her neck.

"Come on, no one will ever find this… this will be our little secret" he said as she finally sits up to be in view of the shot.

"But Nathan" she whined cutely.

"Brooke Davis, I swear you'll be the death of me" then they continue making out heavily.

Almost simultaneously they all mutter an "Oh my God" with jaws dropped to match their words. Brooke is looking at Lucas apologetically and Nathan is left speechless. How could he have kept this tape? And why did it have to play in front of his friends?

Haley looks at Nathan for a quick second then tears start falling from her eyes. "Hales…" but she quickly runs upstairs to avoid what just happened. "Look Luke… I'm sorry" Nathan said as he approached his infuriated friend. "I'm sor—" but before anymore words could escape his mouth Lucas punches him in the eye.

"Lucas!" Brooke exclaimed as she went to go check on Nathan's eye.

"Yeah, you two go make another sex tape while I sit at home" Lucas said as he slammed the door shut.

"I'm gonna go after him, I'm sorry I can't stay" Brooke said as she hurriedly exited their house.

"Haley…?" Nathan said as he came in with his eye covered with an ice bag.

She laid still at the sound of his voice, but when she got a view of him icing his eye she couldn't help be worried.

"W-what happened?" she questioned him.

"Lucas punched me before they left…" he admitted.

"I wish I was there to see that"

"I'm sorry Hales… about that whole thing" he apologized awkwardly.

"Why would you even keep that?" she cried to him.

"I totally forgot it even existed… you have to believe me Hales"

Haley looked up at him with her now swollen eyes, she swallowed hard at the sight of a hurt and distressed Nathan.

"It's not that I don't believe you Nate, I do, I trust you more than anyone. But I can't change your past… this only makes me feel so insecure." She cried more.

"Don't feel insecure baby… there's no need."

"I know you've slept with tons of girls before me and this only adds on to our sex life problems. Plus it was Brooke. And I just don't want to have to compete with that."

"You don't have to compete with anyone! I only want you, I only need you."

"But I'm not even giving you that…" she sobbed more.

"Hales… we don't need to have sex for me to be happy with you. I love you and I understand that sex is a scary thing for you. And I know your first time was ruined because of my faulty heart." He said as he hugged her.

"Your heart is only flawed physically…" she said as she kissed him.

He grabbed her hand and put it on top of his chest.

"You're the only one to do this to me" he said as his heart beated quicker.

"Nathan… are you ok? You took your meds right?" she looked at him worriedly.

"I'm fine, I'm more than fine now that I know you're happy and not crying." He smiled at her.

She looked away from him and sat back on the bed, she patted at the spot next to her signaling him to sit.

"So… all that stuff you did with Brooke. It's all in the past right?" she asked worriedly.

"Of course it's in the past Hales…" he said as he kissed her on the forehead.

"You're sure…?"

"I'm one hundred percent positive. There's nothing to worry about, I swear."

She quickly got on top of his lap and started giving him sloppy kisses around his face and his neck.

"I love you" she declared as she began taking her shirt off.

"Hales…" he said from shock at what was happening.

"I love you so much baby"

Her thoughts were all over the place, here she was on top of Nathan after seeing his sex tape with Brooke… was she just coping? Or is this what she wanted?

"We don't need to do this Hales." He said with his hand on her cheek.

"But I want you, Nathan, I want you so badly…" she said as she hugged him close to her.

"Are you sure? Or are you just doing this after what you saw on that tape? Because if that's the case then I don't want to Haley" he said to her sternly.

He doesn't want me… he doesn't want anything to do with me…

"Hales. I know your thoughts are all messed up now, but come on baby, just clear your thoughts. Let's talk" he said as he gave her back her shirt.

"Y-you don't want me?"

"What, of course I want you."

"Then why won't you have sex with me?" she cried from hurt and embarrassment.

"Haley…" he started not knowing where his words were headed.

"I-I just don't want you to regret anything we do… I don't want to pressure you, or hurt you"

She was already hurt, and now she was upset with him.

"How many girls were there before me that I don't know about?" she sobbed and filled with betrayal.

"I don't want to answer that"

"Why? Because you think it'll hurt my feelings? Well Nathan it's too late for that! My heart was shattered when I saw you on that tape with Brooke. And I'm trying to look past it because I knew that was in the past. But I fell in love with you years ago, I fell in love with that guy on the tape… so what's the point of anything now? Have I been living from lies? Loving a boy who I didn't know?"

"Hales no! What we have is not a lie!" he said grabbing onto her arms.

"I love you, and you know that…" she cried.

"I do, I know that with all my heart."

"But you don't love me the same way I love you." She added.

He looked at her with shock, letting go of the tiny girl he was holding. He didn't know what to think, or to say. Did she really think that he didn't love her? Why couldn't he say anything?

"It's ok… I understand, we were so young getting married. We were in over our heads."

"Don't say that Hales, we're happy together, I love you and you love me"

"But it's not enough…" she let out.

Why is she saying all of this…? It's breaking my heart…

"I asked you to marry me for a reason, because I believe in us, that our love is stronger than any other, that through thick and thin we'll never give up on each other. I love you Haley and if that's not enough then why'd you say yes to me… why'd you take my hand in marriage?" he said filled with hurt.

"I don't want to hurt you Nathan, that's the last thing I want to do… but baby, I'm hurting so much right now. I need you to give me time to think things over. Everything that's just happened"

"You know… this morning I was actually worried that you'd never have sex with me again, now here we are fighting because I didn't have sex with you" he let out bluntly.

"That's not why I'm upset Nathan…"

"Then what is it? What's making you reconsider our love?" he shouted.

"Me… I can't make you happy, no matter what I do" she cried.

"Hales? What in the world are you talking about? You are my happiness"

"Then why'd you apply to High Flyers?" she spat out at him.

"How do you know about that?" he said with wonder.

"I saw the letter they sent to you, I didn't open it… I'm just assuming only camps like that reply when the player contacts them"

"Hales—"

"Do you want to go?" she said cutting him off.

"I don't know"

"Oh"

"A part of me wants to say 'hell yes I want to go, it's a dream come true' but another part is telling me I'm an idiot for even applying with a wife at home."

"I may be a sure winner against Brooke or any other girl, but basketball… it's been your dream since we were kids" she admitted to him.

"I know that but—"

"But nothing, it's either me or basketball"

"Haley!" He let out with anger.

"Nathan… me or basketball?"

A/N: Hope you enjoyed it! I'd just like to thank all my readers and followers. It means so much to me! Last chapter I got a bunch of reviews and I thank you guys with all my heart. Please review!

Oh, btw! It'd be amazing if you could take a look at my new story "Please Don't Leave Me." s/9107389/1/

It's pretty smutty but the storyline is a good one, I promise you that! So if you could take the time and read it I'd highly appreciate that! Thanks, Camille.