Hey, I have no idea how this came about, but it just popped into my head and I had to write it.

This is a sorta continuation to Redemption lol. Not sure if there's going to be something after this.

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On the Bridge

Rachel was sitting in the park just taking everything that had happened in. She couldn't believe that she was actually back in this town after the way she had left things. Despite her life lapse, she was happy with the way everything had turned out. She liked that she was on speaking terms with the Tree Hillers that she had called friends, Brooke and Mouth. She was even happy about the friendship that was forming between her, Haley, and Nathan. Plus, she had to admit their son was pretty cute.

She stood up from the bench and started to walk through the park. She saw a familiar body stood on the bridge that she was headed toward. He was leaning over the rail and looking at the river below. He was exactly the same as she remembered him, even though she never took a big interest in him.

She stood at the end of the bridge thinking about her next move. She could go over there and try to talk to him or she could turn around right now. On one hand, he did look like he could use someone to talk to. On the other hand, they had never really talked before without some mutual friend or acquaintance around.

Rachel sighed in resolution and headed onto the bridge.

"Hi, are you okay?" Rachel asked standing next to him.

Skills looked up to the person who was talking to him. "Oh, hey, Rachel."

"Skills." Rachel said awkwardly. "So…are you okay?"

"Uh, yeah. I'm cool. So what's up with you? Haley told me you were back in town."

"Yeah. I'm okay. Trying to get my life back together, you know."

"Well, you're on the right track. Just keep it up." Skills smiled.

"Thanks."

"I got to go. See you around, Rachel." Skills said before walking past Rachel.

"Hey, wait." Rachel called after him. Skills stopped and turned back to Rachel. "I know we aren't the best of friends, or friends at all, but if you need someone new to talk to you can call me." Rachel fished a piece of pen and a pen out of her bag. She wrote her cell phone number on it and handed the paper to Skills.

"Thanks. Bye, Rachel."

"Bye, Skills.

So that's the end of that. I just had a thought of where to go if you guys want more, but I don't know if I'm going to continue this at the moment.

Tell me what you think.

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