Wow, let me just say that when I wrote the word 'epilogue' I cried. I mean I've been writing this fic for a year and it's been part of my weekly routine. Sometimes daily as well. (exhales slowly)… so I hope this ending won't disappoint… so here's the final 'chapter' of the story…this goes out to all the readers!

For All You're Worth

Epilogue

He looked down at the piece of paper in his hand. He had gone back to her house five years later only to find that her parents didn't live there anymore. Though the young couple who owned the place now gave Nathan the address where they'd forward the mail that still came for the James family. This address was that of a 'Haley James'. When he heard he couldn't have been more excited and asked for the address politely.

He was away at Durham, while attending Duke, for college. He didn't talk to her for their entire Senior year. He hated it but he knew that she just needed space from him. Besides, everytime he did try she would ignore him. And for those four years at college he hadn't heard from her since they went to different colleges. It killed him, but he kept hope for a day where he could go see her again. Today.

He looked at the number of the apartment building and then the number on the piece of paper. The weather was nice and warm, as it was summer after all, and he couldn't have felt more ready to go see her.

He put the piece of paper in his pocket and knocked on the door as he exhaled nervously, smiling.

"Be quiet!" he heard a voice, followed by a giggle that he could never mistake for someone else's.

The door swung open, and there she was, looking more beautiful and breath-taking than she did in high school. Haley James. The girl that took possession of his heart their Junior year of high school, and has had it ever since.

"Nathan," she said surprised, with a radiant smile. "This is unexpected."

"Yeah I…" he started nervously. Wow, one would have thought that after five years he wouldn't still be in a loss for words when he saw her. "Well I just wanted to…"

"Who is it, Haley?"

Nathan looked to the guy sitting on the couch in the living-room.

"Mommy! Mommy!" a little girl, who looked strikingly similar to Haley, entered the room giggling.

Nathan's heart sank as Haley picked her up.

The guy got up and walked over to the door. "Hey, I'm Jake," he put out his hand for Nathan to shake, "Haley's boyfriend."

Haley laughed, "Ex-boyfriend. Now can you please take Eva and wash her face from my lipstick?"

Jake took the little three year-old from Haley's arms, "That break-up wasn't really official."

"You mean that one that happened around a year ago?" Haley giggled. "Just please wash her face Jake, and make sure she didn't use it on my mirror or anything."

"Will do. Look at you! You're a mess," he turned to the giggling little girl as they exited the living room.

"Sorry about that," Haley turned back to Nathan.

"I guess congratulations are in-order," he tried to smile.

"For what?"

"For her," Nathan pointed towards the hallway that Jake had just disappeared to. "She's really cute. Looks like her mother too."

Haley giggled, "And you'd know. She's my niece. She only calls me 'mommy' because she looks more like me than her own mother, and she hears us joking about it often."

"Oh," Nathan smiled, relieved.

"So, may I ask what you're doing here?" Haley leaned against the door frame. "Or would you like me to start guessing?"

"I wanted to apologize," he said, turning his gaze from the hallway to her eyes. "And I know a long time has passed and we don't know each other after so many years. But I just wanted to tell you that throughout these five years I just… I haven't been with anyone. I mean I went on dates but only firsts because I just couldn't get you out of my head and especially out of my heart. And I just wanted to say that I'm sorry and…"

"Nathan," Haley giggled. "If all you've come here for is to apologize I want you to save it. I forgave you a long time ago."

"You have?" he asked confused.

"Yeah," she nodded. "And I couldn't get you out of my head either. Which was really bad for my dating life too since I couldn't trust anyone. I mean I met Jake our Freshman year of college and I wouldn't date him until our Junior year."

"I guess I scarred you there yet again," Nathan looked down to the floor.

"It's okay," she laughed. "I'm over it. Just imagine how hard it is for me to answer the question 'who was your first love?' though," she giggled.

Nathan looked into her eyes about to apologize again but she spoke first.

"I say you," she smiled. "I mean that's what it was, right? I fell in-love with you through Kyle. And then I fell in-love again… with the same person. Only I didn't know it. I realized that when we started dating, you've really changed. Just like you said that day. But I couldn't forgive you right away. That took me several years."

"You come back here little munchkin!" Jake ran after Eva into the living-room.

Haley laughed and then turned to Nathan. Just then, it started to rain. She smiled, "Do you want to go get something to drink or eat, Nathan?"

"Sure," he smiled back.

"Is it okay if I leave you in charge of Eva for an hour or two, Jake?"

"You do realize it's raining, right?" Jake asked, on the ground, holding Eva tightly to him.

"Yeah," she smiled.

"Sure, let the ex-boyfriend do your chores for you and take care of the most adorable three year-old ever born. You go do your thing. Have her home by midnight, Nathan. I think you two have a lot to catch up on."

"Will do," Nathan smirked looking at Haley. "But how do you know my name?"

"She talks about you," Jake pointed at Haley with a smile. "Now you be good kids."

Haley took a purse and closed the door after her. "I missed you," she looked up at Nathan.

"I missed you too," he smiled as they went into the rain and started walking towards a near-by café.

Let me start off by saying that this ending was NOT what I had planned from the beginning. So if you're disappointed with it, my original ending would've had you guys hunting me to hang me or something. I only changed my mind a lot later in the fic. Also, I know someone has commented about how they don't want a skip of years. BUT, it's the only way it could happen because nothing really cures a broken heart (or at least one that was broken the way Haley's was) but time.

Another thing that I completely forgot to write in the last chapter and it annoyed me that I did: Aundrea was never planning on telling Haley. She was doing it only to mess with Nathan. I tried to fit it in this chapter but it just didn't work out. So I'm just telling you now.

As for my future fics, I have two ideas. I've had them for a long time. Now, I'm a strong believer in writing only one and putting your time and energy into that one. That way you update more frequently and you keep your head focused. So first off I need to choose which one (which is REALLY hard to do. I've been talking to so many of my friends about which one I should do since a long time ago.) One of the fics I want to write scares me to death. There will be things I'm not sure I'd be able to write and I know that I'd just start with a feeling of "ugh, this isn't going to be that good". And the other one I know I can write and it's just something that doesn't make me too insecure about my writing (lol). So that's the case. Also, I want to take a little time off of fanfiction writing because I want to write at least one script or so and I want to make sure I'll have a lot of time to just update for you guys. But I will write another one! I promise. Because I love writing and I love everything about Naley fanfics!

Okay, wow… I just want to thank all the readers because you have NO idea what your reviews or even you just reading means to me. Whether you started reading from the way beginning, a year ago, or you found this fic mid-way and sat there reading it for a few hours (or even days) just to catch up. Really, thank you. You will never know how much all of this meant to me!