Nathan Scott sighed as he looked at the clock once again. How boring can Biology class be?. Man he was bored. He glanced around the room, no absolutely no hot girls in an entire room or better in entire Tree Hill. He was snapped out of his thoughts, seeing her standing in front of him. His heart nearly stopped as he stared at those big brown eyes. He almost looked happy. No hot girls except for one that is. He wanted to talk to her but he knew the moment would be lost. She would leave again. And he would be mad. This was something he was obviously getting good at.

"Wh- What are you doing here?" he questioned, eyeing her intensely.

"I need you to sign that it's for Mr. Hershfield he's taking us to the planetarium " she eyed the paper that was in front of him crossing her arms over her chest.

"Oh yeah sure" He signed the paper and handed it to her.

She smiled sweetly as she took it from him.

"Thank you"

As Haley moved to a few other tables he noticed Lucas take her hand. Nathan watched this interaction. He knew they were friends, how he would love to be the one to comfort her. She would walk right into his arms and snuggle her head into the crook of his neck.

He could feel the muscles around his heart tighten as he thought of holding her tightly. She was sweet, polite and most of all things she was pure. He simply wanted to run to her and hold her and make the tears and pain go away, but he didn't deserve that. He didn't deserve any of that with how he's been acting lately. The whole town had heard his story, his loss, moving to Tree Hill wasn't the problem Dan was being the son of the freaking mayor was. Ever since he moved here his dad been talking about the basketball team, hell that's the only thing he talks about. He never even mentioned Nathan's mom. All he said was that he should act like a man and get over it.

Soon the bell rang, Nathan quickly got up ignoring everyone around him..

"Hey Nathan" he heard someone say his name. Damn why couldn't people just leave him alone.

"Hi I'm Lucas"

"It's Davis, Brooke Davis and you are totally fine" said the girl with the chocolate brown hair and hazel eyes.

Both Lucas and Nathan looked really uncomfortable, but at the same time, looked like they were about to burst out laughing.

"Hi I'm Nathan Scott"

Brooke looked up at Lucas "A Scott huh? Well well looks like you have some competition Luke. Bye Lucas and Nathan I'll see you in your dreams" she said teasingly walking away.

"Should I know what she's talking about? Nathan prompted, pivoting so he could raise an eyebrow questioningly.

"Don't worry about it no one ever does" Lucas said with his voice small with uncertainty quickly covering up whatever he actually wanted to say.

"Ouch!" he heard a small voice "Man it would have hurt less to walk into a wall"

She collapsed against him and sighed as she felt his arms come around her, holding her close. Relaxing against him, she felt the slow, steady rise and fall of his chest. He was in trance by the beauty of this girl who had just stumbled upon him feeling two small hands against his chest. He was mesmerized by her eyes andher long honey blonde hair which looked soft and shiny caressing her beautiful face.

Her eyes opening slowly to find a beautiful raven haired boy smirking at her, as he held her tight by her waist stopping her from falling any further. She quickly let her hands slide against her body as she noticed the intimate position they were in. The feeling of disappointment washed through Nathan as he felt the skin of his chest get colder as she withdrawed her hands so he slowly let his grip loosen on her as she moved back.

"Sorry" he said.

"Sorry it was my fault I wasn't looking" She could feel the tears welling up, but she refused to cry, her voice was full of emotion.

Nathan furrowed his brow with confusion as he saw the tears in her eyes. "What's wrong?" He whispered but she was already gone she walked right past him not even glancing back Nathan stood there watching her petite body fading away.

"Haley wait!" Lucas spoke loudly.

"What did I do" Nathan asked Lucas..

"Nothing that's Haley James she's my best friend" Nathan looked at him with confusion. "Uhm.. Sorry Nathan it's kind of a long story but uhm.. Welcome to Tree Hill I gotta go I'll talk to you later" Nathan nodded as he saw the blonde haired guy retreat.

Nathan was lying on his bed feeling his heart still pounding loudly because of the earlier encounter with Haley. It had been amazing and strange. Nathan rubbed his temples. So her name is Haley James, Nathan thought. He felt a shock run through him as he remembered the moment when their eyes locked. And then he suddenly realized the actual look she had on her face. She was hurt.