"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?"
"This has got to be a joke…" Nathan looked at her with shock.
She took a deep breath and her expression never changed, she was being completely serious with him.
"Answer me Nathan, me or basketball?"
"This isn't fair, you making me choose like this! This isn't fair!" he shouted at her.
"You're the one who applied in the first place! You want to leave me!" she retorted.
"Goddamnit Haley I do NOT want to leave you, now will you get that through that thick skull of yours?!" he said growing more angry with her words.
"I thought it'd be an easy question, that hands down you'd say 'you Haley' with no thought at all… but I was wrong." She said looking away from him.
"I applied to see if I was good enough…"
"Yeah, tell yourself that…" she said as she began walking downstairs with her purse and phone.
"Where are you going?" he shouted at her.
She remained silent as she continued.
"Haley, don't ignore me!" he exclaimed as she ignored him.
He saw her nearing the door and he quickly went in front of it.
"Get out of my way Nathan." She said with anger-filled eyes.
"I won't until you tell me where in the world you're going"
"Away from you." She said bluntly.
"Why are you doing this to me? Let's just talk this out." He said to her.
"I can't, I've said everything I've wanted to say so please. Just let me go…" she said as she pushed on his arm to get out of the way.
"No… NO!" he cried as he grabbed onto her.
Nathan's large arms were no match for her tiny self and she began feeling weak at his touch.
"Nathan, stop it, please just let me leave. We need some time apart."
"Fine, then I'll go… you stay inside the house" he said knowing that if she was in the house that they'd have to come to terms eventually.
"This is more your house than mine Nathan," she said as she looked over at the picture of Deb, Dan, and himself.
"We're both just overreacting ok? Let's just cool down and think things over."
She sat on the couch defeated. There was no choice but to stay.
"Let's go to bed." He said to her quietly.
"I'm gonna stay down here tonight" she said looking away from him.
"Hales…"
"I'm fine, I just need some time alone."
"Goodnight… I love you."
No response came from her that night.
That morning Nathan woke up alone, it was a feeling he was not used to. For years now he's been waking up to Haley next to him, even before they were boyfriend-girlfriend. Smelling her hair, looking into her big brown eyes, laughing at the way her mouth is opened when she sleeps. But today, it was empty. He looked over at his side table and saw the High Flyers letter. He looked over the words and even after reading them a thousand times he still could not fathom that he got accepted.
Congratulations Mr. Scott you have been accepted into the six month elite basketball camp!
Shaking away from his thoughts he heard a gentle knock on the door. He looked over to see a sleepy Haley. Quickly he shoved the letter away and began to speak.
"Hey baby" he smiled at her gently.
"Hi…" she said shyly.
God, again with her adorableness.
"Did you sleep well last night?"
She shook her head no.
"Me neither…" he said as he opened the blanket to signal for her to get next to him.
Slowly she approached the bed and climbed in next to him. Her body fit perfectly with his and this comfort was just so familiar.
"Are you mad at me?" she practically whispered.
"No, I could never be mad at you." He said as he ran his fingers through her hair.
"I really don't want you to go Nathan, I know you'll make it big even without this camp"
"We can't decide that for sure Haley…"
She sighed deeply.
"Fine, I'm done with this argument." She said completely defeated.
"Hey, hey look at me" he said holding her chin.
She quickly teared up at the thought of him leaving her.
"No matter where I am in this world, I'll always love you, remember that." She shook her head as she sobbed.
So he's choosing High Flyers over me…
"Lucas, I'm sorry! That was the past, I was extremely drunk I don't even remember any of it!" Brooke pleaded to Lucas.
"Well those words just make it all disappear, doesn't it? No! I didn't think so" he said to her sarcastically.
"I can't do anything about it! If you can't forgive me for what I did in the past then I'm done here" she said walking away from him.
"Brooke wait…" he said as he grabbed onto her arm as she was about to exit his room.
"What?" she let out angrily.
"I forgive you, ok? It's… hard, for me to see such a thing. Especially with one of my best friends" he said to her in a defeated manner.
"I'm really sorry Luke…"
"I'm worried about how Haley's taking this." Lucas said concerned for his friend.
"Right? She's probably devastated, I feel terrible" Brooke said shaking her head in frustration.
"I don't know who to feel more bad for, Nathan because I punched him or Haley because she's probably been crying all night"
"I love you always and forever" he said as he kissed her exposed back.
After not sleeping next to him last night she was trying to make up for time lost. As much as she wanted to convince him not to leave she knew it was useless. His mind was made up and this was his dream he was chasing after. This was a fight that she could not win.
"Remember that time we were 6 and I made you help me color in all my color books that one summer afternoon?"
"Yes! I was so mad at you because I wanted to play basketball with Lucas and you didn't let me leave your room"
she giggled at his good memory.
"Hey! Those pages needed to get colored" she replied.
"Yeah, yeah, sure princess" he laughed.
"Or that day you were teaching me how to swim and I got so mad when you pretended to let go of me and I started yelling at you"
Nathan starts hysterically laughing. "You were so upset you didn't talk to me for the rest of the day"
"Of course I was upset!"
"Well you learned how to swim, didn't you?" he said with a cunning smile.
"I guess" she sighed heavily.
"What's wrong?" he asked sensing her sudden change of mood.
"If this is the best it ever gets for us, will that be ok with you?" she questioned him.
"Of course, any time with you is worth it" he said as he rested his chin on her shoulder, looking at her contemplative expression.
"Do you mean that?"
"I do, I mean it." He said reassuring her.
She turned to look straight into his eyes. Trying to find something, anything to take her mind off of her terrible thoughts of him leaving. But nothing was keeping her mind off of this topic. She couldn't help but grow angry with him, but at the same time she didn't want to start another pointless fight with him.
~Fast Forward~
"YES! Finals are finally over!" Brooke chanted excitedly through the halls.
"How do you think you did Tigger?" Haley said happily to Brooke.
"You know… like C average work?" she said with a confused look.
"And you hubby?" she smiled at him.
"Well… I don't have the greatest tutor but I managed to do B work I think" he smirked at her.
"Very funny. And what about you Luke?" she asked the zoned out Lucas.
"…Luke?" she said as she shoved him a bit.
"Oh, oh. Sorry! I was thinking about what I needed to pack for High Flyers!" he said ruining the mood.
Haley has been avoiding this topic all month long. Whenever Nathan tried to bring it up she'd change the subject and things were still unclear whether he was deciding to go or not.
"Lucas…" Brooke said wanting him to shut up. She knew this High Flyers things was stirring up trouble in the Scott residence.
Nathan looked at Haley awkwardly and then away. He didn't know how to tell her that he wanted to go without her getting mad. Was he being selfish? Or was this just him chasing his lifelong dream?
"Well…" brooke started to break the tension.
"Me and Hales are going to go to the ladies room, we'll meet you two in the parking lot!" she said grabbing her hand and towards the bathroom.
"I didn't need to go to the bathroom…" Haley said confused.
"I know but I need to! Do you have a tampon?"
"No… I'm not on my period this week."
"What, we usually have it the same time."
"I haven't had it for awhile… I've missed again" she said without question.
"WHAT? How long has it been since your last period?"
"Like… 2-ish months? You know my periods are really irregular!" she told Brooke.
"Are you sure…?"
"Yeah, I'm positive." She smiled at Brooke innocently.
"Ok Tutor Girl… if that's what you say…"
"Why? Should I be worried about something?" she said cluelessly.
"What if—no… that can't be possible"
"What?! What?!" she said wanting to know.
"Haley, what if you're pregnant?"
"I-I can't be…"
"Well why not?"
"We only had sex once…" she admitted embarrassed.
"One time is enough to get pregnant Haley! Did he not use protection?"
"No, I mean… I didn't even question it."
"So you're on the pill?"
She shook her head no.
"Oh my God Haley… what were you thinking?!"
"I wasn't thinking! God. Brooke… what if I am pregnant?!"
"We need to find out first and then we can worry."
"Nathan's going to be furious…" she said pacing.
"You haven't talked to Haley about High Flyers yet?" Lucas asked Nathan.
"I-I couldn't… whenever I tried she'd change the subject. Luke, she really doesn't want me to go"
"But she'll understand, she's Haley."
"I know, but… there's just something about it it that makes it seem like she's desperate for me to stay."
"Why do you think that?"
"The first time we talked about it we got into this huge fight, and she almost left the house because of how upset she was with me."
"Really? That doesn't sound like Haley…"
"I know, it surprised me too. But she told me flat out that she wants me to stay."
"Well, what do you want Nate?"
"I wanna go." He said quickly.
"Then you should."
"But I can't."
"Haley will forgive you Nate."
"I don't know man…"
"Oh, here they are now" Lucas said pointing at the girls.
"You two took long" Nathan said as he put an arm around Haley.
"Yeah, well baby me and Brooke are going to go get some food."
"We can all go together." Nathan suggested.
"But I feel like I haven't been spending much times with Hales lately, lemme have her for an afternoon?" Brooke said cutely.
Nathan looked over at Lucas.
"Boys night?" he asked.
"Sure thing, we'll see you two later then?" Lucas replied.
"Yup yup! Ok Hales, let's go!"
Brooke and Haley walk into the waiting room of the doctor's office.
"Hi! I'm Brooke Davis and I just made an appointment for my friend Haley James Scott"
"Oh yes, of course. You ladies just take a seat" the receptionist said sweetly.
"Congratulations Mrs. Scott, you're pregnant!" the doctor announced as she walked in.
Haley looked over at Brooke with a worried look.
"You're about two and a half months along, you're almost through your first trimester" she smiled.
"I-I'm only sixteen…" she said quietly to herself.
"Haley, calm down" Brooke comforted her.
"Nathan's going to be so upset" she said with her palms on her forehead.
"I'll give you two some privacy" the doctor said exiting the room.
"Wait! The baby, does the baby need anything?" Haley asked worriedly.
"Prenatal vitamins are always recommended." She smiled at her.
"Ok."
"Mrs. Scott, you'll be fine"
"I hope so…" Haley replied.
"How are you gonna tell her man?" Lucas asked as they shot around the River Court.
"Tonight, departure is tomorrow night, right?"
"Yeah. So you're going for sure?" Lucas raised a brow at him.
"I guess so, yes."
"Sweet!" Lucas said high-fiving him.
"This is going to be the best summer ever!"
"I hope so…" Nathan replied.
"Hales? Halesss?" Nathan yelled as he entered the house.
All the lights were off so he assumed she was sleeping.
He walked up the stairs and into their bedroom.
"Haley?" he said walking to find a sleeping beauty.
He smiled at the sight.
"I'll just tell you tomorrow morning then" he said as he kissed her forehead.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I know it's kind of short, sorry! Please tell me what you're thinking by reviewing. Thanks so much, Camille! And remember to check out my other story "Please Don't Leave Me"!