Authors Note: Hey Guys! I deleted my first two stories, because I got tired, and didn't want to update them because the storylines we're a bit unoriginal. I got the inspiration from this story while watching a few episodes from season 4, and I got a good idea. Hopefully I stay interested in this story.
It's a bit short, but the chapters will get longer as I keep going, I just need to know if youg guys are liking it, or not. So review and let me know what you think.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything One Tree Hill related, I wish I owned James Lafferty, but I don't, unfortunately.
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What is fifteen minutes? Can fifteen minutes change your life?
Can you go from pretty and popular to dark and misunderstood in fifteen minutes?
Will you find the love of your life in fifteen minutes, or maybe even lose the one person you care about the most?
Fifteen years, fifteen months, fifteen days.
Fifteen hours, fifteen minutes, fifteen seconds.
It can make a difference; you just haven't figured it out yet.
We're sitting here in homeroom with people we've gone to school with for the past four years. Some of us are best friends, some of us are enemies, and some of us haven't had the chance to figure out what we are.
We know that that one girl over there is a slut, and the one sitting over there is still a virgin, or that the boy sitting in front of me is jock and that my best friend, Lucas, sitting next to me is a bastard, and we all know that, myself, Haley James, is a nerd.
At least, we think we know. But do we really?
We give each other labels, because we're either too lazy or too ignorant to actually get to know the person. We stick with our own kind just to play it safe, because this place we call high school, is a jungle, and it's easy to get lost. And when you get lost, it's hard to find your way back.
To me, today is just another day at Tree Hill High, and I love it. I love school, I love math, I love being good at something. The thing I love the most about it, is being away from home, being away from the chaos that is my family. Being the youngest of six kids has definitely given me the title of "baby" in the family, but I'm not a baby anymore, I'm a junior in high school, and I would like to be treated like one. Today is just another day at Tree Hill High, but for my best friend, Lucas, it's another day is has to see his half-brother, and be reminded that his father didn't want him.
And I always complain that my mom and my dad are so annoying, and that they are always embarrassing me, but sometimes I have to remind myself that my dad and my mom are still around and that they love me. Luke's father never claimed him, and I think that's why he and I have been such great friends for so long. It's always been just him and his mom Karen, and when I met Luke in the third grade, I realized that his family was so tiny, and my family was so big, that he needed me more. Ever since then, Luke and I have been attached at the hip.
Lucas' half brother Nathan is a jock. A real, arrogant jock. Just like the ones we see in movies and on television. He and Lucas are complete opposites; you'd never guess they were even related. The only thing they have in common is their obvious skill in basketball and piercing blue eyes, obviously things they've both inherited from their father, the spawn of all evil, Dan Scott.
I've never met Dan Scott, and Lucas hasn't either. Three months after Lucas was born, Deborah Lee, Dan's latest girlfriend gave birth to Nathan. Shortly after Nathan was born, Dan skipped out, and hasn't been seen in Tree Hill since. It's probably a good thing, because who knows who else he could've gotten pregnant.
The point is Nathan is a jerk, and the king of THH. His girlfriend Peyton Sawyer is a mess, and absolutely nothing like Nathan, and maybe that's why we get along. Peyton's best friend, Brooke Davis, is the female Nathan Scott, except she's the head cheerleader rather than the head basketball player, and I'm seriously wondering why Peyton would bother with either of them, because they hardly deserve anything but each other because that's all they care about, and then there's just me, and just Lucas, and right now, all we have is each other, and in fifteen minutes everything is going to change, and we don't even know it yet.