Hey guys this is a new story. I know I still have a bunch of stories i haven't updated in a long time, but I wanted to write this. Hope you like it!
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Anne Frank once said that "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
No offense to Ms. Frank, but I'd take Nazi's over my family history any day. She may be all for the whole "people are good on the inside" crap but from what I've experienced, some people are truly evil.
You may ask, "Why are you so cynical?" Basically it's because I live in Tree Hill, North Carolina. When you of small towns in North Carolina, you think romance novels by Nicholas Sparks and seaside cottages where you would spend your lazy summer days. When I think of Tree Hill, drama immediately comes to my mind.
My name is Cassandra Mae Scott, but if you call me Cassandra you might not live to see what happens to you. I go by Casey, not Cassie. My middle name is after Dan and Uncle Keith's mother Mae and I don't know why I was named Cassandra. I'm 5'1 with long blonde hair and the trademark Scott blue eyes. I was once the daughter of Daniel and Debra Scott and still the sister to Lucas and Nathan Scott. I've disowned my parents after all the crap they've put me and my family through. I was born five years after Nathan was and just like my brothers and pretty much every other kid in this town, I wasn't planned. Dan and Deb were only 23 years old and fighting a lot, basically because they got married at 18 and had a kid on way while saying goodbye to their future. So one night, Deb packed her things and left her son and husband to fend for themselves. She was only gone for a month until she found out she was pregnant. Deb knew she couldn't survive on her own, much less raise a kid with minimum wage at a diner, so she went back into her home as if she never left and 8 months later I was born.
My life was pretty ordinary for the first twelve years. Dan owned a successful car dealership where his big ass fake smile was plastered everywhere, Mom traveled a lot of business, and Nathan was practicing day and night to become a big basketball star, mostly due to the hardcore training Dan had put him through since he was in diapers. Everything changed once my half-brother, Lucas, joined the Tree Hill Ravens Varsity Basketball team. Basketball is like a religion to us Scott's, we live by it every single day and once a week we succumb our lives to support it at the High School gym. Don't get me wrong I love basketball and I'm good at it. I'd play if this town realized that girls actually do sports besides cheerleading.
Dan had Lucas right out of high school with his girlfriend Karen Roe; he left her to pursue his dreams as a basketball star only to quit when he couldn't take people telling him what to do. Dan had always instructed us that Lucas wasn't our brother and that he was just some kid with our last name and coincidentally looked like us. I couldn't stand my family even then. With Dan not paying attention to me, Deb always out of town working, and Nathan being Mr. Bad Boy of the town, the person in my family I got along with was my Uncle Keith. Uncle Keith was the father I wish I had. He paid more attention to me then my own family did. He took me to my ballet classes and even came to my recitals that my parents always forgot about. I wasn't as close with him as Lucas was. Dan believed he was some sort of traitor for helping Karen and Lucas.
The first time I met Lucas I was 12 and it was because I was with Keith after dance class. We ate dinner at Karen's Cafe and I met Karen, Lucas, and Haley who were all really nice to me even though I was the daughter of the guy who made their lives hell. I was there when Lucas kicked Nathan's ass at the RiverCourt and joined the Ravens. For the next two years things changed drastically. Lucas became apart of the family, Nathan married Haley, Lucas went through a soap opera like love triangle with Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer, Deb divorced Dan and became a junkie, Dan killed Uncle Keith and went to jail months later out of guilt. During those two years I jumped from both Dan and Deb's houses depending on who could actually take care of me if that's what you call it. I usually spent the night at girl's houses who I danced with. The positive aspect was that I became so close with my brothers.
Things got bad once Dan was in jail for Keith's murder and the judge believed Deb was too unstable for them to grant her custody. Before I was shipped off to a foster home till I was 18, Nathan convinced the judge to let him give him custody. He had just graduated high school, lived with his wife and newborn son and was heading to Maryland to play college basketball. The Judge surprisingly granted Nathan custody since he didn't want me to become one of those kids who get lost in the system and just like that I was in a home that I wanted to be in.
Right now I just moved back to Tree Hill with Nathan, Haley and Jamie, cause they both graduated college a couple months ago. Those four years away from Tree Hill did me wonders. I was actually happy for the first time in Maryland. Once we got back here, it was like the drama was waiting for us. Nathan got into a bar fight that left him paralyzed, but he could recover if he stopped drinking and got off his ass. Lucas is a successful writer of the book about his life in Tree Hill called Unkindness of Ravens and is now coach of the Ravens, Haley is an English teacher at the high school, Brooke is a successful fashion mogul in New York City, and Peyton is in the music business in Los Angeles. I envy both Brooke and Peyton because they got out of Tree Hill successfully and haven't been back since. I wish I could be that lucky and leave without looking back.
So what do you think? I know Casey seems a little dark and depressing, but she's a teenager and plus broodiness is in her DNA! The next chapter will be just like starting off how season 5 did, but a focus on her of course. This chapter was basically about her and what she was doing or thought during the first four seasons of One Tree Hill. So I hope you liked it and Read and Review! Suggestions are awesome!