This story has been on my laptop for a while now, but I wasn't sure whether to post it, but here it is. Naley centric, as usual. Perhaps a bit of Brucas and Jeyton. Please R&R. And have a look at my other stories.
BELIEF: CHAPTER 1
Haley sat silently on the plane, tears falling from her eyes as she looked out the window at her new home; North Carolina.
Her body jerked as the plane finally hit the ground; she quickly wiped her tears as she grabbed her carry on, thanking the stewardess as she walked off the plane and into the airport.
She already missed everyone, her best friends, Jake, Michael and Chris, her boyfriend, Damien and his sister Rachel. But most of all she missed her Mum and Dad.
Making her way to baggage claim she sighed and stood on her own, slowly her bag came round on the carousel and she unsuccessfully attempted to pull it off. Great, she thought, the 'new life' is already off to a great start!
Noticing her failure, the teenage boy next to her grabbed her luggage and sat it down on the floor, whilst looking her up and down, nodding, with a satisfied smirk on his face.
She couldn't believe that he was openly checking her out?! Who was this guy and what made him think it was Ok to do this? Sure he was good looking, standing tall, with a brilliant white smile, dark brown hair and tanned skin. Not sure of what to do, but really wanting to hit him, she mumbled a 'thank you' before trying to turn around.
Of course, he wasn't taking 'no' for an answer, and gently tugged on her arm. "Hi, I'm Felix." He said as if she should be impressed.
She turned fully to him and said, "Hi, I'm Haley; In a relationship, not interested and unimpressed. So basically both physically and emotionally unattainable and unavailable."
She wanted to laugh out loud when she saw his mouth gape open. Obviously he's never been turned down. Turning around again, this time not being stopped, she came face to face with a very happy looking girl. A bit taller than Haley, her dark brown hair down, dressed very well and just about to explode.
"I love you!! I love you!! I love you!!" was all she kept saying whilst hugging Haley.
"Uhm, thank you... Sorry to ask, but do I know you?"
"I'm Brooke! And you're Haley!" she turned to the boy, looking him up and down with her nose raised in the air in disgust, "and that... that thing some people see as a human, is Felix."
"Ok?" Haley said still unsure of who this girl was and what was going on.
"Brooke calm down. Sorry, it's just we aren't used to girls not fawning over Felix." The boy who had just joined the three teens said.
Haley looked towards the tall, muscular, blue eyed, blond and squealed, finally she grinned whilst jumping in the arms of the boy.
"Lucas!" she managed to get out, "God! I haven't seen you since we were... what, 9 years old?!"
"See that's what I don't get," Brooke started, "how you can be best friends and know everything about each other even though you haven't seen each other for 8 years!"
"We are always on the phone to each other... Anyway, Haley-Bub, you're here now." Lucas said, immediately cursing himself for using the nick-name her parents came accustomed to using. He could see the pain in her eyes at the memory of them, and the name, even though she tried to hide it from the group she was standing with.
"Yeah-" She began to reply but was cut off by Brooke.
"We are going to have THE best time, we're going to shop, go to the movies, talk about boys, do make up, go shopping, you can join the cheerleading team, and we can buy you a whole new wardrobe."
"Uhm, yeah? You said go shopping like three times." Haley was getting nervous, back home it was only her and her boy's; best friends, Michael, Jake and Chris, and boyfriend Damien. So apart from shopping every so often with Damien's sister, Rachel, she didn't hang out with girls.
Sensing her discomfort, Lucas stepped in, "Anyway, time for proper introductions; Brooke, Felix, this is my best friend Haley, and Haley these are my close friends Felix and Brooke."
"Well, it's nice to meet you both... Luke, where is Karen and Annie." Haley questioned.
"Annie?!" Brooke asked.
Lucas laughed at the nickname Haley had for his father, Dan. "When we were little, Haley here couldn't say Danny, so whenever she called him it would always be Uncle Annie!"
Karen and Dan, a pair of loved up high school sweet hearts went to college with Lydia and Jimmy James. They met at the small campus nursery where the young parents left their three children whilst in lessons.
Haley and Lucas had bonded straight away, and had been inseparable ever since. However, Nathan, Lucas' younger brother by 3 minutes, strayed away from the pair, and ended up as the most popular player in Tree Hill, both on and off the court.
"They thought you might prefer being picked up by, as they put it 'the young 'ens'... So here we are Buddy. Now let's get you home."
Haley just looked up, and gave a small nod, "yeah please."
20 minutes later and they were walking into the Scott mansion, Haley finally felt a small bit of comfort being in the house she had spent so much of her child hood in. Sighing she looked up, and into the kitchen seeing Karen and 'Annie'.
She let out a squeal as she ran into Dan's arms and was met with a big hug. "Aunt Karen, Uncle Annie!"
"How are you sweetheart?" he asked, still in the hold.
Finally after trying her best to stay calm and reserved she let out a big sob before falling further into her uncle's embrace.
"Aww, Haley-Bub," Karen tried to comfort, whilst squeezing her arm.
Lucas turned to his friends, who were still standing behind him, and whispered, "Come on... uhm... we'll go upstairs to my room and give them some privacy."
They were silent until they arrived up stairs. "What's up with her?" Felix asked, still shocked from the change as the feisty girl in the airport broke down to crying a wreck.
Although Felix had very little knowledge of why Haley would be now living with the Scotts, and why she was downstairs that very moment, crying her heart out, Brooke knew everything. She had come across Lucas, at the River Court, crying whilst sitting at a picnic bench.
"Hey Gorgeous." Brooke purred, when seeing him.
Lucas looked up for the first time since she had arrived, it was then she saw the tears freely rolling down his face. "Oh Lucas... What's the matter?" She became panicked when she heard his response.
"They're dead... They're just gone." She pulled him into a hug, he collapsed into her crying even more, his tears soaking through her t-shirt.
"Who Luke?" She prayed it wouldn't be his parents.
"Lyd and Jimmy. Haley's parents... Oh God, Haley, she's alone now, what is she going to do?"
She knew about Haley, Lucas' best friend from before they had met, she had often been jealous of how Lucas would talk about her; when he did his eyes lit up, a big grin on his face. But this time was different when he spoke of his best friend he was consumed by grief. Seeing him like this, hearing the heart break in his voice, broke her heart.
"Luke listen to me... Haley is not alone, she will never be alone... She has you!" she encouraged. "She'll always have her best friend Lucas, she'll always have you."
He managed a tiny smile at the comforting words she spoke, "She will always have me, always... thank you Brooke." He placed a small kiss on her cheek, pulling her into a hug and muttering that he was going home.
"She's going through some stuff." Brooke supplied Felix with an answer, knowing that Lucas would probably break down if it was left up to him.
Thinking nothing more of it, Felix shrugged and walked into Lucas' room, leaving Luke and Brooke in the hallway.
"Thanks Cheery."
She gave him a big smile, the biggest she could muster, grabbing his hand, squeezing it slightly as she pulled him into his room.
Back downstairs, the two adults watched as the 17 year old young woman in front of them cried and broke down as if a little girl.
"Bub, everything is going to be OK, I promise." Dan tried to sooth, "We're here."
"Dan's right sweetheart, we're here; Dan, Lucas, Nathan and myself."
Sniffing Haley pulled back, wiping her face trying to get rid of the tear tracks. She looked up to the pair and gave a small shrug and tight smile. "Thanks... uhm can I go and sleep, I'm really tired from the journey."
"Yes of course," Karen soothed, "then later we'll have some dinner, just the four of us; Nathan's at his basketball camp, high fliers, for another week. So it's just us oldies, Lucas and you. Now come on and I'll show you your room."
She gave another tight lipped smile, before turning around and following Karen.