Chapter 1- Really Just the Introduction

Disclaimer- I unfortunately do not own any One Tree Hill characters, or actors, or script ideas of blahblahblah, you get the idea. Actually I don't really own that much!

Background: OK, Nathan and Haley are together, Jake has sung in Karen's Café so everyone knows about Emma, but Lucas hasn't chosen between Brooke and Peyton yet. Karen is in Italy, Deb is running the café, Deb kicked Dan out of the house, and he and Nathan did go golfing.

It hurt her when he wasn't around. All Haley wanted was to always be safe and sung in his arms, when she got that scrunched-up happy feeling in her stomach. The feeling that she wasn't sure about, but left her wondering if it was love. She knew he was troubled, and his family life was one big soap opera that she did not like to watch, but it didn't matter to her. All that mattered was that when she was with him she was more Happy that she'd ever been in her whole life.

"Hales! Earth to Haley! Good morning."

"What? Oh morning Nathan. You're late." She tried to act stern and in diffident.

"I know, but I brought coffee and doughnuts to make up for it." Nathan smiled that half smile that always got her.

Haley couldn't take it anymore. Giving in, she jumped up and gave her boyfriend a kiss and a big hug.

"Hey kiddo!" Nathan replied, breaking away gently. "What was that for?"

"Good morning. You were late so I was trying to make you pay, but damnit, when you smile, I lose it, you know that."

"Oh, so Miss Haley James couldn't resist my charms, could she?"

"No." Haley looked at the ground embarrassed, with a hint of a blush just beginning to show on her cheeks.

"And she thought she could deny me the pleasure of this?" Nathan moved forward as if to capture Haley's lips in another kiss, but instead started to tickle her.

"Nathan stop! Ahh you know ." Haley was squirming and laughing to hard to finish her sentence.

"I what? Know that you are so very ticklish all over? Yup!"

Finally relenting, Nathan let up and helped Haley back to her feet. Pulling her into a hug, he whispered, "Good thing you kissed me earlier, or I would be dying right about now, you look so beautiful this morning."

Haley turned bright red, but before she could say anything, Nathan stopped her voice by wrapping his arms around her waist, and kissing her ardently.

Haley moved her hands up to Nathan's neck, standing on her tiptoes to deepen the kiss, and just barely managed to intensify the kiss. Uttering a soft moan of discontent at their height difference, Haley tried to stand up taller, but realized too late that as always when she kissed Nathan she was limp in his arms.

Noticing this, Nathan broke away and sat Haley down at the picnic table. "So Math, what's on the agenda for today?" he asked, smiling as the remnants of her blush faded away. He loved it when she blushed.

With a huff of disappointment at Nathan's breaking the kiss and trying to catch her breath Haley replied, "Oh, so Mr. Bigshot finally remembered why I woke up an hour earlier than normal people this morning."

"Yup, it was all so you could see me." Nathan's cockiness was accentuated in all of his features. Dodging Haley's punch, he pulled his physics textbook out of his bookbag, and got out a blank piece of paper and a pen, ready for their morning tutoring session.

Haley bent toward Nathan and began to explain inertia. The two heads bent towards each other, one auburn and one dark brown made a very framable picture against the water behind them, a little bubble into which no hurt could enter.

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Meanwhile, on the other side of Tree Hill, Lucas was just waking up, carefree for one moment before he remembered he had to make a decision, and just hope that it was the right one. With Brooke he felt so different, free and reckless, but with Peyton he felt understood. He didn't know who to talk to about it. Haley had already made it clear that she did not like Brooke very much, and he would have talked to her more, except that now she was with Nathan, he wasn't sure if he could really talk to her about stuff any more. He sighed, pulled on some clothes, and headed out to school. It was going to be a long day.

OK, review, and tell me what you think! If you like, I will continue, and create the drama that is needed. If not, my story will fade into oblivion, and it won't really matter! ~DizzyLizzy