NATHAN: It’s a girl! Brooke. You okay?
BROOKE: Yeah. I’m just so happy for you guys.
NATHAN: You know, when your mom got hurt before you were born, I sat here. I prayed that she’d be okay. And you, too.
JAMIE: Did you cry?
NATHAN: Yeah. I cried.
NATHAN: And they fell in love. And they had a son. And soon…
HALEY: They’ll have a daughter.
NATHAN: Mm-hmm. And they’ll all live happily ever after. I promise.
(flashback)
HALEY: You trying to wake up my parents? That’s their room.
NATHAN: Wait. Haley. Look, I need to apologize, okay?
HALEY: You should buy them in bulk if you’re gonna hand apologies out that often.
NATHAN: Look, will you just… I don’t know how to do this, all right? I’m… I’m not like you.
HALEY: What does that mean?
NATHAN: All right, I screw up a lot. All right? And being around you, I just don’t want to be that guy anymore.
HALEY: Who do you want to be, Nathan?
NATHAN: I want to be somebody who’s good enough to be seen with you.
HALEY: You should have thought of that last night. You know, I keep putting myself out there. And you keep blowing it. And it’s probably a good thing because at this point there’s nothing that you can say or do that’s gonna surprise me.(he kisses her)Except that. You shouldn’t have done that, Nathan.
NATHAN: But I wanted to.
HALEY: Yeah.
NATHAN: I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Jerk. The high-school jerk who fell for the beautiful, sarcastic girl who hated clowns?
HALEY: I like that story. Tell me that story.
NATHAN: Okay. Okay. Um, she was tutoring him. But they both knew it was something more, and so one day, when he had screwed up yet again…
HALEY: A memory, then. Just something to distract me, please.
NATHAN: Okay, okay. How about this? How about this? Did I ever tell you about the high-school clown…
HALEY: Don’t say “clown”!
NATHAN: How you doing, baby?
HALEY: I’m a little panicked. Can you tell me a story?
NATHAN: Uh, story. Got it. What kind of story?
HALEY: Just a story. Any story.
NATHAN: All right, all right. Um…I-I-I-I got nothing.
HALEY: Oh! In the history of the world, any story that’s ever been told.
NATHAN: Okay, I’m sorry. All I can think of is the Three Little Pigs. I don’t know why the Three Little Pigs. I have no idea.
(flashback)
HALEY: Six turnovers? That is not the Nathan Scott I know.
NATHAN: I got worried when I didn’t see you.
HALEY: It’s okay. Everything’s fine.
NATHAN: I need to ask you a question.If I don’t go to Duke…If I don’t play college basketball…I mean, if today is the best it ever gets for me, will that be enough?
HALEY: Of course. Nathan, as long as you’re a good husband and a good father to your son…
NATHAN: What?
HALEY: It’s a boy, Nathan. You’re gonna have a son.
HALEY: Oh, I remember the night I told your dad you were gonna be you. He was gonna have a son.
JAMIE: Remember that, dad?
NATHAN: Yeah. I had six turnovers at the time. You’re not allowed to do that either.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
