I APOLOGIZE DEEPLY for not posting for so long. I'm not the type to keep off updates for almost a month but it happened and I'm extremely sorry! I've been really busy with school because AP exams are coming up so I've been trying to focus. I hope my readers will stay loyal to this story and its journey. Thanks so much for understanding and here is chapter twenty-two!
"I am exhausted!" Haley exclaimed as she plopped onto the big comfy couch.
"Shopping is a sport Tutor Mom!" Brooke said happily as she set down the bags of stuff onto the floor near the couch.
"I'm not a mommy just yet" Haley replies as she rubs her six-month big belly.
Brooke can't help but smile at the sight of her impregnated friend, as cliché as it sounds, she was glowing.
"You're glowing Hales" she smiles widely at her best friend.
"It's just the sweat you see." Haley jokes.
"Seriously, you look so happy." She said as she began to head towards the bags of stuff.
"You know, you didn't have to go get me a bunch of this stuff Brooke…" Haley said feeling guilty about the purchases they made at babies r us.
"I didn't get you the stuff, it's for James silly!" she said referring to the baby names Haley was talking about earlier in the day.
"So you liked James, huh?" Haley grinned as she stood next to Brooke.
"I do like it. James Lucas Scott" Brooke gestured in the air.
"James Lucas? Lucas? It actually sounds nice…" Haley said convincing herself.
"It does!" Brooke said as she wiggled her brows at her.
Haley just shook her head at Brooke's silly notions.
*ring*
"Your phone Hales!" Brooke notified.
Haley waddled over to her phone and saw it was a FaceTime call from Nathan.
"It's Natey." She smiled.
"Well answer it girl!" Brooke replied.
"Hi" Nathan smiled at her.
"Hi baby" she said looking at a sweat-filled Nathan inside of the gym.
"What are you up to?" How are you and the baby doing?" Nathan asked concerned.
"We're ok. I just got done shopping for some stuff with Brooke" she said moving the camera so it'd be in view.
"Hi Nate!" Brooke waved in the background.
"Sounds like fun. How are you feeling?" he questioned.
"Tired. I miss sleeping next to you" she pouted at him.
"Me too." He said defeated.
"Just a few more months though baby" he reassured her.
"I hope you come in time for James' birth" she giggled.
"James?" he asked.
"I want him to be James Lucas Scott" she smiled widely.
"REALLY?!" Lucas said as he quickly got in the frame of the call.
"Haha, yes Luke. He'll be lucky to have an uncle like you"
"Uncle, eh? Has a nice ring to it." He said conceitedly.
"Get out of here and do your suicides!" Nathan scolded.
"So where was I?—" he started. "Oh. Let me see your tummy."
"What?" she said confused at the request.
"I want to see how far along you look. Now hand your phone to Brooke and show off our baby to me" he instructed her.
"Alright…" she said hesitantly as she handed her phone to Brooke.
She twirled around and once she got all the way 360 she could see his teammates looking at her too.
"Nathan!" she said embarrassed to have showed off her baby bump to so many strangers.
"Hales, I'm just showing you and James off to the guys in LA" he smiled.
"Well as sweet as that is you know how easily embarrassed I get!" she said blushing deeply.
Although the quality of the FaceTime call wasn't perfect Haley's beauty never ceased to amaze Nathan.
"You're perfect Hales. There's nothing to be embarrassed about" he answered with a pained look.
Being away from Haley was hard and he knew that going to High Flyers would give him major homesickness. But being away from Tree Hill was one thing, and being away from his pregnant wife was another.
"Don't look too sad Natey" she smiled at him.
"God, I love you angel" he said cheesily.
"BIG TIME IS SUCH A SOFTY WHEN HE'S AROUND HIS WIFE!" some random guy yelled in the background.
"Shut up!" Nathan yelled at his teammate. Haley just laughed at the sight.
"Well I need to go hit the showers now. I'll call you later tonight?" he smirked.
"Yes, please do that." She smiled sweetly.
"I love you babies" he said referring to the baby as well.
"We love you too" she replied with a hand on her tummy.
"I miss her so much Luke" Nathan said as he had a hand leaning on the wall of the shower.
"I miss Hales too, I can't imagine how much you miss her."
"I just hate that I'm missing all of this."
"All of what?" Lucas wondered.
"She's pregnant and I'm not able to be there for her while… while Brooke is" he answered frustrated.
"You—we, made a sacrifice when we decided to go to High Flyers"
"You don't think I don't know that?" He answered annoyed.
"School's gonna be starting for Tree Hill soon too, I can't imagine how much crap Haley is going to get from the teachers. Imagine Whitey's reaction."
"Tree Hill's a small place, I'm sure they've all seen her around town already."
"Yeah but in public places you can't just scold teenagers for getting knocked up, in classroom's when teachers feel all high and mighty they put their noses in everything" he vented.
"Don't worry about it too much Nate."
"Who's going to drive her to school?! I've been giving her rides since we were little"
"Nathan, relax…" Lucas said as he dried his hair with the towel.
"Dude. Seriously, snap out of it" Lucas said smacking him over the shoulder.
Nathan stared at him with wide eyes. He was psyching himself out. High Flyers was only 3 months left, why was he worrying about all of this?
"I'm sorry. It's just that—nevermind it's dumb" he said stopping himself.
"What is it?" Lucas asked concerned.
"What if I don't make it in time for the birth of my child?"
Lucas didn't know how to reply to such a question.
"I mean, we have 3 months left. She has 3 months left. What if I'm just a few days off?" he said worriedly.
"You've got to think positively Nathan. You'll make it in time!" Lucas said to him.
"Well it seems that there are two heart beats…" the doctor said slowly as she moved around Haley's stomach.
"What?" Haley asked shocked knowing what the doctor was implying.
"You're having twins" she smiled at Haley.
Haley turned to Brooke and her jaw dropped.
"I'm having twins?!" Haley said looking at the doctor excitedly.
"Yes, you are!"
"Green or yellow?" Brooke said holding the two pints of paint in her hands.
"Green." Haley replied as she waddled over to the swatch samples.
"Really, I'm liking the yellow"
"My babies, my color." She spat.
"Well gee, this whole hormonal thing is just lovely this afternoon"
"Are you still mad at me for wanting to stop at the drug store to get Ho-Ho's? You know how much I crave them all the time!" haley said on the verge of tears.
Brooke just shook her head in amusement and frustration.
"let's start heading you home Tutor Mom, I'll get the green paint." She said guiding her towards the lines.
Haley stood in the middle of her freshly painted nursery. It was absolutely perfect. The nice light green went well with the ducks in basketball uniforms on one wall and the other with bunnies in ballerina tutu's. The shock of finding out she was having twins was both scary and exciting. And to make things even better one was a girl and the other was a boy. She lucked out big time.
She walked over to the cribs Brooke helped her set up and she went to grab the blanket inside. Suddenly her phone rang and the breaking of the silence startled her.
"Hello?"
"Hi baby."
"It's early, why are you up?" she said looking over to the clock that read 6:45AM
"Why are you up?" he said answering her question with the same question.
"Well, I was awakened by my sudden cravings of cookie dough ice cream; I doubt that's your reason."
"Funny because I'm eating some ice cream right now" he said sarcastically.
"So you never answered me. Why are you up?"
Suddenly the door to the nursery opened and it was Nathan standing in the flesh.
"Nathan!" she said hanging her phone up and quickly running over to him.
"Hey, hey. No running for my wife" he said holding her tight in his arms.
The smell and feel of Haley never got old. And god, how much he missed them both.
"How?" she asked still stunned from his presence.
"I left." He said shrugging his shoulders.
"What?" she asked with her eyes bulging.
"Being with you now is more important than any stupid basketball camp." He said as he kissed her on the forehead.
"Nathan" she said pulling away from him.
"I told you I didn't want you quitting for me." She said frustrated with him.
"I quit for us" he said surprised by her not-so-happy reaction.
"If I wasn't pregnant we both know you'd still be in LA" she said scolding him.
"Hales—come here" he said with his hands on her shoulders.
"You're my wife, you're the mother to my child, you're my everything." He said to her honestly as he looked into her eyes.
"I can't bear to see you lose basketball. You love it so much."
"Not as much as I love you and James" he smiled at her.
"Well I actually need to tell you something" she said happily.
"You see how this nursery is decorated with two sides?" she smiled.
"Yeah…"
"Well, we're having twins baby!" she said excitedly.
"What? You mean. You have two in there" he said referring to her stomach.
"Mhm" she nodded excitedly.
In a swift movement he swept her off of her feet and kissed her passionately as he held her like a baby.
"I'm gonna be a daddy to two children" he smiled widely.
"Indeed you are." She said as her nose was scrunched.
Hand in hand, Nathan and Haley walked around the park like Haley usually did in the crisp early mornings.
"I get on a plane to Tree Hill and another baby appears in your stomach" he teased her.
"Your sperm is magical. You know, we beat the huge odds of having twins, AND to make it even more impossible they're a girl and a boy. The chances are just so low!" she said happily.
"Magical sperm? Remind me not to say that in front of the kids when they're born" he laughed.
"Shut up" she said shoving him.
"Roe! Where's Scott?" the Coach asked frustrated.
"He left sir"
"Where in the hell did he go?!"
"To his family." Lucas answered simply.
"Damn boy. Tell him to come back!"
"I really don't think I can do that. He's decided he wants to spend time with his wife in Tree Hill"
"Doesn't he know how close he was to an assured spot into Duke?" he tried to persuade.
"He does coach. But he wants to be there when his baby is born." Lucas defended.
"Wise man. If that were me I'd choose the game over my baby any day. Glad to see there are still men in the world willing to climb mountains for their wives."
"He's sorry he couldn't stay loyal to the contract" Lucas said referring to the papers they signed when they first got to LA that said they were practically owned by their coach for the six months they were in the city.
"That was just a piece of paper keeping a man away from his family back at home." He said proud of Nathan.
"I wonder the hell Coach Smith is putting Lucas through" he said laughing at the thought.
"Why is that funny to you?" Haley asked as she scarfed down the plate of pancakes.
"Let's just say he's not the happiest man on the planet." He explained as he watched Haley take the bacon from his plate and stuff it in her mouth.
"Hm? How?" she said gulping down a cup of OJ.
"You know that was my bacon" he teased.
"eating for three, now answer me." She said not wanting him to digress.
"Well he made Lucas do extra practice time for calling him Smith instead of Coach Smith one day. It's like he was once in the army. "
"Ouch. That harsh?"
"Yup, and that was just a sneak peek of his scariness."
"Sounds… miserable. No wonder you left" she teased.
"You know I left for you little fatty" he said pinching her nose as she continued to eat.
"I can't breathe" she complained as she had the fork towards her mouth.
Nathan just shook his head at his hungry wife. He looked down to see her growing belly and couldn't help but be in awe by the fact he was having twins.
"Can I name our daughter?" he spat out suddenly.
Haley rose her head from the plate and licked the corners of her mouth slowly. She had no problem with him naming their daughter it just came as a shock that he wanted to.
"Of course." She smiled at him with amazement-filled eyes.
A/N: Kind of short but it was adorable and sweet! I hope you liked it. Please review!