Chapter 1

"Good morning! Rise and shine buttercup!" shouted the happy brunette girl as she skipped into her bedroom that she shared with her best friend.

"Oh gosh Brooke, it's eight in the morning, can't a girl sleep?" Haley exclaimed overly tired and annoyed at her friend's bubbly voice.

"Haley James- who ever you are today; today is a great in Tree Hill City, you know why?" asked Brooke Davis more excited then ever.

"I'll tell you why, its Valentine's Day Haley! We get to be romantic and be with the men we love."

"Correction, you get to be with the man you love, I get to sit at home and eat cookie dough because the man I love won't even look in my direction anymore," shouted Haley, clearly awake.

Brooke's excitement faded fast away when she heard the broken words of her best friend. Haley had come back in June and now it was February and Nathan was still giving her the cold shoulder. Even worst, he had filed for divorce and was waiting for Haley to sign the papers.

"He'll come around Hales, I know it," Brooke stated, rubbing her friends shoulders.

"Really Brooke?" she said holding up the divorce papers. "Do men who plan on 'coming around' file for a divorce? I don't think so Brooke," Haley began to say with tears in her eyes, her voice began to crack.

"It's done Brooke; I hurt him so badly that he doesn't want anything to do with me anymore."

It had been eight months; Haley knew things weren't ever going to get back to normal with them. Haley threw the papers back on her dresser and dropped back into bed, pulling the sheets over her face.

"50, 51, 52, 53," Nathan's counting got interrupted when he heard the gym door slam. He put the bar bell up and wiped the sweat that formed around his neck and face and turned to meet the eyes of his brother.

"What do you want?" Nathan asked Lucas coldly.

"It's a gym and last time I checked it said Whitey Durham on it, not Nathan Scott," Lucas responded calmly.

Lucas began to work out next to this brother but was soon interrupted by his cell phone.

"Hello?" he asked. "Mhm, I'll be there around 7 babe, love you too."

Nathan looked over at Lucas with questioning eyes. Nathan knew that it was Brooke but the single life was taking over and in Nathan's eyes, having a partner was not necessary anymore cause all they did was hurt you in the end.

"She's got something big planned tonight, I'm actually kinda scared to see what it is," Lucas said chuckling.

"What's tonight?" Nathan asked completely lost.

"Its February 14th today Nate, its Valentine's Day."

Nathan looked at his brother; he couldn't help but wonder what Haley's plans were for tonight. Clearly she wouldn't be able to stay at the apartment since Brooke and Lucas were going to be there. Nathan's thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of Lucas' cell phone again.

"Dude what are you a doctor or something?" Nathan asked jokingly.

It was Brooke again, cancelling their plans at the apartment. She had just found out that Tric was hosting a Valentine's Day party and Peyton had gotten all sorts of musicians that sing love songs to come in. She had gotten Haley to agree to go so she decided it would be fun if they all went and were together.

"What was that about?" Nathan asked.

"Tric is having a Valentine's Day party; Brooke wants to go to that instead. You should come, man."

"Nah, it's going to be all couply and gross, not my kind of thing" he told Lucas.

"Dude come on, I'm sure it's not going to be all couples and besides, maybe you'll meet someone cute," Lucas said, hardly believing that those words had just come out of his mouth.

Nathan was shocked by the words that had just come out of Lucas' mouth but Lucas didn't mean then the way they seemed. That 'cute girl' he was talking about was none other then Nathan's wife, Haley James Scott.

"Count me in man, besides the only thing on tonight will probably be those lovey dovey movies. At least Tric has the bar," he told his brother as they gave one another knuckles.

Nathan left the gym as Lucas got a text message from Brooke saying 'operation get tutor wife completed…hbu?"

Lucas smiled as he texted back, 'done'. His brother and best friend would one day thank them for this.