NOTE-If you did not read the first part of this story you don't need too. This story is pretty self explanatory as you read it. Everything that will have to do with what happened on the last story will be briefly explain on this one so that you understand what is happening.

SUMMARY- Learning to Live had been their first challenge. Both girls had learned to live with the death of parents and starting their lives all over. Now they are living to learn as they start college and have more obstacles to face. Long distance relationships, living with boyfriends, and much more happening as it all progresses. How will these two sister handle it all?

Intro

The past year had taught the girls how to really live. Ever since their parent's death at their young age nothing had been the same. Attending a private girls school, making friends, and having to get through the lost of their parents. That wasn't what they needed to do, and they finally realized it when they moved to Tree Hill, last year.

After arriving at their cousin Jake's house both girls felt a little more free, for the first time in their lives they were in charge. Tree Hill high school had been the place that changed them. There they grew up and became who they were now.

Both girls had met the guys who they now called the love of their lives.

The only thing was that now they were separated. Haley on one side of the country while her sister lived on the opposite side. The good part of it all was that Brooke had people to be with her, while Haley had no one. Haley was the stronger one so she was glad and happy that Brooke was the on who had more company, but that didn't mean she didn't feel alone. Sometimes she wished she had attended Duke with the rest of them. But Stanford was where her parents had gone and it had been her dream t be there.

Haley and Brooke found more than just love in Tree Hill, there was more than growing up, they had gotten passed the death of their parents. Death was something that no one would and will ever be able to get over, and neither could Brooke and Haley. But being in a different place and meeting all this people had taught them to live with the pain, and both girls had actually learned to live with it.

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Chapter One

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The summer had come to an end just like all things do. Both girls had to take their separate ways, and this would be the first time in their lives were they wouldn't have each other to rely on. Well, at least physically. Everyone that knew Brooke and Haley knew that they were the closest sister you would ever meet, and that nothing ever stood on the way of the sisters.

Brooke had decided to attend school with her boyfriend, the boy she had met when she moved to Tree Hill with her cousin, Jake. Both her and her older sister Haley had moved to Tree Hill to have a regular high school experience as seniors. Lucas was the love her life as she put it so many times. Lucas his brother Nathan, and herself all lived in a little apartment near campus.

The older of the James, Haley, spent the summer with her sister and both Scott boys. After moving to Tree Hill her life had also changed. She along with her sister became part of the cheer squad, after Jake so kindly let the ex-captain, Peyton, watch a tape of them doing a few dances. She couldn't complain, she loved the whole cheering thing, but the thing she liked the most was that she got to see the one guy she wanted to be with all the time. That's right, Nathan. Nathan and Haley had an immediate connection, just like Brooke had with Lucas.

Now sitting on the desk all alone Haley waited for the three people she had been wanting to talk so bad logged on to the computer. All she wanted was to see her little sister, boyfriend, and friend. It had only been two weeks since she had traveled to California to attend Stanford, but she hated that she was going to be away from them. The whole time she had been with them during the summer she had been dreading the moment where she would have to go to California.

"Hey, Hay" Brooke yelled, excited to see her sister on the other side of the screen.

"Hey" she said, equally excited.

"Oh my god, your room is huge, I didn't know dorms could be so big" Brooke pointed out. She had never really seen a dorm. All summer she spent it with her sister, and it's not like she had a boyfriend she had to go visit, her boyfriend actually lived with her.

Haley smiled and showed around a little, "is Nathan there?" she asked.

Brooke shook her head, "they're at practice, but he should be home soon. So tell me, have you made any friends?"

Haley shook her head, "not really, but I have a really cool roommate."

"Really? Show her."

Haley motioned for the girl to come to the camera. Once in front of the camera the girl waved.

Brooke couldn't believe what she was seen, "oh my god, Alice!" she squealed, "you bitches are gonna have so much fun" Brooke told them. She knew how much Alice meant to Haley, and it meant a lot to her to know that her sister had a good friend going to school with her.

"Who are you calling a bitch?"

"Just Haley" Brooke said, turning to see the man who was talking to her, "hello handsome." She stood up and wrapped her arms around him and gave him a quick, yet sweet, loving kiss.

"Hello" he said back, "hey Hales" he waived to the camera, he then turned back to Brooke, who was still facing the opposite way, "I'm gonna go take a shower, I'll see you later."

"Hey, Luke?"

"I'll tell him to come" he said, not needing her to say further more.

"Okay" Brooke said, "so, I love you and all, but I really want to see Lucas, he's been gone all day. Besides, I really don't want to be here when you and Nathan talk, you guys are so mushy and…" she pretended to yawn.

"Shut up and go" Haley yelled, "I love you."

"I love you, too. Let's talk tomorrow, okay?"

"You know it" Haley said. She saw her sister leave the room and waited for the door to open on the other side of her screen. She couldn't wait to see him again, it had been a whole wee, and this was driving her crazy, how was she suppose to go four years like this?

"Hey baby" he said to the camera.

Haley had been so distracted with the fact that she wouldn't be able to make it through four years like this, that she never even realized that he had entered the room. He looked so good in his practice clothes. "Hey" she said.

Nathan could tell that there was something wrong, and he was pretty sure what it was. "I miss you" he told her, "I wish I was there with you."

"I miss you, too" she told him, trying to hold the tears back.

"Don't cry" he begged, "I don't like it when you cry, and I can't be there to hold you."

"I'm sorry" she said, sucking it up. "How was practice" Haley asked trying to change the subject, she needed to get the whole distance thing out of her mind.

"Good, tiring. You know, just like it was over the summer. You?"

"Nathan, I don't play sports" she tried to joke.

"I know, but school, how is it?"

"Great" she tried to sound enthusiastic, "I got my roommate today."

"It better not be a guy" he warned.

"Relax, it's just me" Alice said poking her head.

The tension was thick and Haley hated that, she hated that she had to be so uptight when talking to her boyfriend. "I miss you." Even though she had already said it, she needed to say it again.

"Haley" he warned, "you're just hurting yourself. Why don't you go to bed, I'll call you after I shower, okay?"

She pursed her lips and nodded. It was hard to hold the tears back, but she was doing a great job at it.

"I love you" he told her.

"I love you, too." The tears began to go down her cheek and she wiped it quickly, "I'll talk to you later." Getting a slow nod form him she shut the camera off and walked to her bed. She hated that this was happening, if only she was there, then none of this would be happening.

She crawled up on her bed and grabbed her knees as she let it out, glad that Alice had just gone out to get something, she didn't want her friend to see her this way.

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"Hello there boyfriend."

Brooke had been spending less and less time with Lucas as his practice were getting more intense. It was okay in the summer when she had her sister to keep her busy, but now she had to find ways to not get bored.

Lucas turned to see the girl standing in his room, "hello" he said cheekily. He had nothing but a towel wrapped around his hips and another one on his shoulder as he dried his hair.

Brooke walked closer to him and ripped the towel from his shoulders, "how was practice?"

"Well" he said, walking her towards the bed. Her body kept taking back steps as he took more forward. "it was really, really hard" he exaggerated by rubbing his neck just a bit.

"We can't have that, now can we?" she joked pulling him down to the bed along with herself. His body landing on top of her she began to rub his shoulders and slowly kissing him, "is this better?"

"Much" he said, between kisses.

They kept kissing on his bed like the world depended on it. Brooke loved it when he came back from practice and wanted to be with her, it was pretty much the only time they had to each other. Having to rub his shoulders was something she was willing to do to spend more time with him, but the kissing was just a way to make it more exciting.

"Oh god. Please close the door!" Nathan yelled, as he walked by and saw his brother and girlfriend making out.

"You're just jealous!" Lucas yelled, then got back to his moment with Brooke.

Nathan couldn't admit it to them but he really was. Lucas got to be with the girl he loved all day while he had to wait weeks sometimes months to actually hold Haley. He hated this whole long distance thing, but it was something he had to learn to live with. Duke was his dream school and Stanford was Haley's, he couldn't let her kill her dream because of him, as well as she didn't want him to kill his own.

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After his shower he had called Haley but there was no answer. He thought that she might have gone to sleep, so he didn't bother to keep calling. He knew this whole long distance thing would be hard, but understood that it would be hardest on her since she was all alone. He had his brother and Brooke to keep him company, and he was grateful for them every day.

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A/N-I hope you guys like it. I know it's not much. I know I told those of you who read Learning to Live that the story would have some webcam talks, and sorry for not having so many of them on this chapter.

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