This story is based with a new beginning. so forget the marriage vows, the love triangles, the people who have left, the siblings characters might or may have not had. the storylines that Mark the creator used. forget all of it. this is a new story, based in tree hill, yes. same character names, yes. Same characters, no.

A warn you, the first chapter is quite long, but it explains everything so please don't take a look at it and say oh it's too long for me.

Please Give it a shot. i really worked hard on it. I would love to hear your comments and reviews. ideas are welcomed. thanks

- Amanda. (enojoy you guys.)

A New Beginning

It was the first day back to school. It was their third year in high school, but everything was different this year. No one knew each other, and if anyone had known each other they were either neighbours or were transferred together. You see, Tree Hill High was constructed in the summer, and all students attending High Schools in North Carolina and some even in South Carolina that lived in Tree Hill were transferred to the new local High School. The town figured it would be a lot easier for the residents of Tree Hill to not have to travel to go to school. There were hundreds of school in North and South Carolina area that many Tree Hill residents attended. A lot of parents were pleased with the mayor's decision, but the kids being transferred, not so much.

There were a lot of nervous students like Haley James who was no doubt an honour student but didn't have many friends but she did have her best friend Lucas Scott, and his half brother Nathan Scott. Haley had always had a crush on Nathan, but never bothered telling him, that would cause way too much drama.

But other students, like Brooke Davis walked into Tree Hill High with a smile on her face, with positive attitude and with her best friends Rachel Gattina and Peyton Sawyer by her side.

Lucas and Nathan met Haley at her locker. Haley slammed her locker door to show her frustration.

"Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed…" Lucas said.

"These lockers are way too small." Haley said, "My books don't fit."

"Our books fit fine…" Nathan told her.

Nathan opened Haley's locker and took a look inside. She had a lot of stuff she didn't need. The thing that caught Nathan's eye was a fuzzy blue pocket folder. He took it out of the locker with a dumbfounded expression on his face.

"What the hell is this?" Nathan asked shaking his head.

Haley looked at the guys who were looking at her like she was crazy.

"What?" Haley screamed, she didn't seem to think anything was wrong with it, "it's a homework organiser. I thought it was cute…"

Brooke, Rachel and Peyton walked down the hall in their mini skirts and tank-tops. All the guys watched them like they were goddesses. It was like they were the center of the universe. Haley rolled her eyes when she saw them.

"See now, that's what I hate…" Haley said as she faced the boys who were starring at the girls. She rolled her eyes and hit them.

Nathan and Lucas snapped out of it and saw an angry Haley standing in front of them.

"What?" they both said together.

They had confused looks on their faces. Haley walked off to homeroom with her books close to her. Nathan and Lucas followed her. The bell rang and they took their seats. There was no teacher in the room, so Brooke and Peyton walked over to Rachel who was fixing her hair in the back of the room. Nathan turned around to face Lucas and told him that the redhead that was sitting 2 rows over was really hot. Lucas took a look and nodded. A tall, very handsome man walked into the room, he walked over to the blackboard and wrote "Mr. Williams". He then turned to the class and was about to start the day's lesson when he saw that Brooke and her friends had continued their conversations. He cleared his throat to grab their attention, but there was no reaction.

"Miss Davis…could you and your friends please take your seats so I can teach my class." He finally said.

Brooke looked at the man, and raised her eyebrows; she hadn't realized that the teacher had come in. "How do you know who I am?"

"Because when I worked at NCHS, your sister Mackenzie did the same thing on her first day. And there is a Davis in my classroom. Plus you two look so much alike."

"You taught me sister?" Brooke said with a shocked face.

"Yes I did." Mr. Williams replied.

"That's so cool." Brooke said excitingly

The class was laughing. Brooke couldn't help it, she was a comedian. It just came out naturally. Mr. Williams was being entertained but realized he had a job to do.

"Miss Davis…your seat."

"Right…" Brooke said as she took her seat, "Please continue sir."

Mr. Williams laughed and turned to the blackboard again and wrote "experiences" under his name.

"Alright, now that Miss Davis has taken her seat, we can start today's lesson," he said as he pointed to the word he had just written on the board. "Experiences. Who can give me an example of a new experience for people in this class".

"Having your first kiss…"Rachel shouted out, knowing it wasn't the right answer. I mean, who hasn't had their first kiss when you're a junior.

"Yes, Miss Gattina. I know you meant it as a joke, but it is true. We all know you've done a lot more then kiss, but people your age have not had their first kisses yet believe it or not. So that answer is acceptable Miss Gattina. Good work.

Brooke and Peyton bursted out laughing, as did some other people. Haley just put her head down, she was one of the students that Mr. Williams was talking about, a junior that hadn't even had her first kiss.

"What are you two laughing about Misses Davis and Sawyer?"

"Nothing…" Peyton said.

"No, we are laughing about something. I'm sorry sir. But who hasn't had they're first kiss at our age." Brooke asked.

"Lots of people Ms. Davis." Mr. Williams told her.

"Did you have your first kiss before becoming a junior?" Brooke asked with a serious look on her face.

The class started to laugh as Mr. Williams smirked. Brooke really wanted an answer.

"Miss Davis, is it your mission to comment on everything I say?" he asked her.

"Well, it's my duty as a student sir." Brooke said with a smile.

"Alright, well to answer your question, yes, I had had my first kiss before junior year." Mr. Williams, "Is that all?"

"No…" Brooke said, "Who was she?" Now she was doing it on purpose.

"Okay, that's enough Brooke."

"Sorry sir. I'm just curious." Brooke responded.

The class continued. People were suggesting different experiences but Haley noticed that none of the experiences being said by the students were the one that Mr. Williams wanted to talk about to the class. Haley raised her hand. Mr. Williams looked over to her.

"Yes…Miss…" Mr. Williams said looking down the attendance list.

"James…" Haley said.

"Ah, yes. Miss James." Mr. Williams responded.

"The experience of a new beginning, what I mean is the experience of high school. The experiences that we will chose to have in high school. We all are having a fresh new start. You may have done things you regret at your previous high school. But now your at a new school, barely anyone knows who you are. It's a new beginning. The experiences that we will chose like making new friends, getting involved in different activities like drama club or a sports team." Haley said proudly.

"Very well said Miss James," Mr. Williams stated, he continued, "High School is filled with new experiences…"

"Nice one Hales," Nathan whispered.

Haley smiled and continued listening to Mr. Williams, "What makes experiences worth wild is if you have a list of things you want to accomplish. That's actually a good idea, for homework I want you to find 3 things you would like to accomplish in the next 2 years."

The bell rang and the students got up and left the classroom.

"That was a fun first class eh Hales?" Lucas asked.

"Yeah, looks like I was worried for nothing."

"You only enjoyed it because you got the answer right." Nathan said.

Haley opened her locker, took a look at her schedule and took out her books for that class.

"What do you guys have now?" Haley asked.

"Science." Lucas said

"I've got current events" Nathan replied

"With Rossier?" Haley asked Nathan.

"Yeah."

"Cool. We're in the same class." Haley said closing her locker.

Lucas said bye to them and headed towards the science hallway. The next two periods flew by and before you knew it, it was lunch.

Brooke walked into the cafeteria to find Rachel and Peyton laughing together. Brooke walked over to the table, sat down and pouted.

"What's the matter B. Davis?" Peyton asked.

"Yeah, you don't look your cheery self you look sad." Rachel added.

"That's because I am sad!" Brooke exclaimed, "Jason Vartan hasn't looked at me all day!!"

Rachel rolled her eyes, "Oh my God. What a shame!" she said sarcastically.

"It's not funny. I flipped my hair, bit my lip, and nothing!" Brooke said.

Jason Vartan was Brooke's new crush. He had been captain of the football team at NCHS. One of her friends from NCHS had told her in the summer that he was transferred to Tree Hill High. She had also heard that he was quite a catch from her sister Mack, and she was right. He was gorgeous, he had chocolate wavy hair, beautiful green eyes, and a killer smile that made you get all tingly inside when you saw it. Brooke told the girls that Emily Davidson, (her friend from NCHS) told her that he was on the market as of last week. He dumped his girlfriend, and Brooke couldn't be happier. At that very moment Jason walked into the cafeteria, walked passed the table that Brooke and the girls were sitting at and smiled when he saw his friends. He walked over to them and sat down. Brooke watched him and sighed.

"Brooke? Brooke!" Peyton said waving her hand in front of Brooke's face.

Brooke starred down at her salad and twirled her fork around a tomato. She looked over at Jason again and sighed once more.

"I give up!" Peyton said.

"Brooke!" Rachel yelled.

"Yeah." Brooke replied.

"What was the first thing I taught you about getting a guy!" Rachel asked her.

Brooke shrugged, how was she supposed to remember?

"You have to play hard to get! Guys love things they can't have!"

"Right…"

"You have to act like you aren't interested." Rachel told her.

"But I am interested" Brooke said as she looked over at him again, "very interested."

"You can't make him think that." Peyton said, "we'll help you."

"Yeah. I'm a total natural." Rachel stated.

Brooke and Peyton glared at her. Rachel was probably the easiest girl at school.

"Fine, I give it away too easily. Don't be like me, be like Peyton!" Rachel told Brooke.

"Me?" Peyton said.

"Yeah…I'm going to act like a chick that hasn't had a boyfriend in more then a year. Yeah right." Brooke said sticking her tongue out at Peyton. Peyton looked around and told Brooke to shut up.

"I thought we said we were never going to talk about that in public."

The bell rang, lunch was over. Haley asked the guys what they had next. They all had different classes. Haley arrived to class early. She sat at the first desk in the front row. Only three other students were in the class. A short blond haired woman came into the room, took a look at the students that were in her class and smiled.

"I love it when they give me big classes" she said sarcastically.

The bell rang and almost the whole class arrived. Everyone took their seats and the blond haired woman begin the day's lesson.

"My name is Mrs. Broden. I don't mind if you call me Mrs. B. I will be teaching you science this year. In this class you will learn…" Mrs. Broden was interrupted by 3 girls who claimed to have been lost.

"You will learn to be on time Misses Sawyer, Gattina and Davis."

"Yes Mrs. Broden." They all said together with their heads down to look like they were actually sorry.

Mrs. Broden showed them to their seats and the girls winked at each other, they got away with something else.

"As I was saying…you will be practising different experiments in our lab next door." She told everyone.

"Awesome" screamed a guy from the back. Everyone turned to see who it was. No surprise, it was Adam Andrews, the student that won the science fair last year, as a matter of fact, he had won all the science fairs since the 3rd grade.

"Awesome indeed Mr. Andrews." Now, in the lab we don't have enough equipment for all of you, so you will be partnered up."

Everyone turned to their friends and asked if they wanted to be each other's partners.

"No need for that. I will be pairing you off myself."

Mrs. Broden walked up to student's desks and started pairing people off. Rachel and Peyton were paired up together. They were pretty excited, but looked over at Brooke who was heartbroken. She had been counting on Mrs. Broden to pair her up with one of them. That's what really sucked about groups of 3, there was always someone out of the loop.

"Let's see…Brooke…" Mrs. Broden said.

"Please, don't let me get paired up with a geek with headgear." Brooke said to herself.

"And Haley." She continued.

Brooke looked around to see who Haley was. Haley realized that Brooke didn't know who she was so she gave a little wave. Brooke saw Haley's wave and nodded. Once everyone was paired off, Mrs. Broden assigned a list of questions for the lab partners to answer together. She gave some class time. Brooke walked over to Haley's desk and sat down next to her.

"Hey, I'm Brooke."

"Yeah I know, my sister and your sister are like best friends."

"Which one?"

"Ah…Brittany, her best friend Taylor."

"Oh, you're Tay-Tay's little sister."

"Haley…actually."

"Right… sorry."

"It's okay."

"So about this science homework…"

"I'll give you my number." Brooke said as she took out a piece of paper. She wrote her number down and handed the paper to Haley just as the bell rang.

The rest of the day went by pretty quickly. At the end of the day, there was a pink convertible parked with two impatient blondes waiting. Brooke, Peyton and Rachel ran over to them and shrieked. Brooke and Rachel's sisters had dyed their hair. They looked really different, but really good.

"I didn't think you were actually going to do it sis." Brooke said.

"Meh, I needed a change from that ugly brown mom gave us." Brittany replied.

"I didn't know you were dying your hair too Mel?" Rachel said.

"I wasn't," Melanie told her, "but Brit's turned out so good that I just had to."

"Does mom know?"

"No."

"You're so screwed."

Lucas, Nathan and Haley walked home together. Once they arrived at Lucas's house, they headed for the bedroom, but they were cut off by Lucas's mom. She was cleaning the dishes; she looked like she needed help so they decided to help her. A tall brown haired male walked into the kitchen, his arms full with groceries. Karen, Lucas's mom, went to go help him. She kissed him and started unloading the groceries into the fridge.

"How was school son?" he asked.

"It was really good, Lucas said, "I think I'm going to like it at Tree Hill High."

"Keith, can you help me with this watermelon, it's a little heavy." Karen said.

Keith wasn't Lucas's real father, but his uncle. He was the one who helped Karen raise Lucas, and that's what Karen fell in love with (despite his other amazing qualities) Keith and Karen got married when Lucas was 5, and Keith adopted Lucas as his own son a couple of months before.

Deb, Nathan's mom was living with them until she could find her own way to support both Nathan and herself. She didn't want to take Nathan's real father, Dan's money. The five of them were living happily under the same roof for now.

The girls were listening and dancing to loud music in Brooke's room.

"Can you keep it down in there" they heard Brooke's older, hotter, brother say from the room over.

"No!" they screamed through the door.

The three of them laughed and grabbed a handful of popcorn. The doorbell rang, and someone downstairs got it. They yelled for Brooke to go downstairs because there was someone really special at the door for her. She ran down the stairs, hoping it was her grandparents with presents from France. But it wasn't her grandparents, it was another familiar face that she hadn't seen all summer long. She ran into his arms and gave him a big hug.

"How was your trip?" she asked him.

"So great. There are so many hot babes in Cuba, it's scary. But I really missed you."

"I really missed you too. I'm so glad you're back Chase." Brooke said giving him another hug.

Chase and Brooke had been best friends since before they were even born. Both moms got pregnant around the same time, and they were both really good friends, so even if they didn't like each other, they had to see each other. They also met everyday at Mommy and Me classes. They were 5 days apart, Chase was the older one. He had went on a Caribbean cruise with his older brother and his girlfriend. Chase had called Brooke twice but couldn't call her anymore because it was too expensive, they also had emailed when Chase could, but it wasn't the same as talking in person.

Lucas and Nathan lay on the bed tossing a football to each other as Haley sat on a chair facing them and watched them.

"What was the best part of you day?" Lucas asked.

"Spending time with the best two friends I have." Haley replied.

"Aw, that's sweet." Lucas told her, "Nate?"

Nate was thinking about it, a lot of good stuff happened, "Talking to Rachel Gattina."

"You talked?" Lucas jumped up.

"Yeah, well kinda. She dropped her pen, I picked it up and she said thanks."

"We're so proud Nate." Haley said sarcastically.

"It's going to be an awesome year you guys" Lucas said.

"Yeah, like Mr. Williams said, it's time for new experiences and a new beginning."