So here it is! Chapter 1!

"Nathan! Pick up your clothes please! I don't want to have to clean this whole place up again by myself!" Haley James Scott yelled across their apartment to her husband.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Nathan asked his wife as he walked into the living room.

Great, here we go again. Haley thought to herself. She was used to this. Nathan of course was drunk and it was only 8 o'clock. This had been happening ever since she got home from her tour with Chris Keller. The truth was she didn't love him anymore and he didn't love her. The only reason that she wasn't divorcing him was because they had a commitment and she wanted to try and find a way to love him again.

"It doesn't mean anything Nathan, I'm just saying you should know better." Haley sighed and told him.

"Whatever, I'm going out with Tim." Nathan said and he walked out the door.

Haley just walked into the kitchen and fell to the floor crying. She couldn't figure out why this had to happen to her. She knew she hurt Nathan when she left but he understood that it was her dream and she would eventually have a family so this was her only chance.

Chris Keller asked her to go on a summer tour with him and she reluctantly agreed. She only agreed after Nathan ensured her he was fine with it. She decided to go but only for the summer because she couldn't miss any school. Chris couldn't have been nicer about it.

When she finally came home all of her friends greeted her with open arms, well except Peyton, but that was because of a lot of things. Nathan was so excited to see her and she was thrilled to finally be home with him and be a married couple. Things changed very fast. Soon he started drinking, and going out all the time. Anytime she could she stayed over at Brooke's, Lucas's or she would stay with Jake and help him with Jenny.

Haley finally pulled herself together and got her phone and called her best friend.

"Brooke, please come over. I need your help." Haley said to her best friend Brooke Davis.

"I'll be right their tutor girl." Brooke said and hung up the phone. Brooke couldn't be more sympathetic for Haley. She knew her situation and she understood where she was coming from. She didn't understand what happened with Nathan but she would have her best friend's back no matter what.

Haley did a quick speed round of cleaning up and remembered how she and Brooke met.

FLASHBACK

"Lucas, shut up! Seriously!" Haley said to her best friend Lucas Scott and punched him in the arm.

"Ow! And Haley I'm sorry but I can't! This is hilarious. I don't understand how you fell into the pond in my back yard." Lucas said to her still laughing.

"It wasn't my fault! The pond ya know, just appeared in front of me."

"Sure it did." They kept laughing when all of a sudden a guy got knocked into Haley who fell to the ground and hit her head.

"Oh my god Haley are you okay?" Lucas asked her.

"Yeah, ow." Haley said grabbing her head.

The girl who's locker Haley fell next to walked over to Haley and Lucas.

"Are you okay?" The girl asked her.

"Yeah but my head is bleeding. I think I need to go to the nurse." Haley told them.

"By the way I'm Brooke Davis." Brooke told the two.

"Uh Haley, I hate to break it to you but I don't think the nurse is going to be able to give you stitches." Lucas told her. "You need to go to the hospital."

"And how am I going to get there? You don't have a car, I don't have a car, and there is NO WAY an ambulance is going to take me." Haley responded.

"I have a car! I'll drive you!" Brooke spoke up.

"Um ok." Haley told Brooke and they sped off to her car.

"Uh bye?" Lucas said and walked away.

END OF FLASHBACK

Haley laughed at that weird way how her and Brooke had become friends. She didn't care though, as long as she had her as a friend.

Right then Brooke came through the door and walked over to her friend who was sitting on the couch.

"What's wrong tutor girl?" The brunette asked her. Haley just gave her a look, which showed that they pretty much had this routine rehearsed.

"Nathan again?" Brooke spoke up again to which Haley just gave her another look. "Alright, alright. I get it, it's Nathan.. again."

Brooke was used to this by now. She knew how hard Haley tried to make things work with Nathan but it just wasn't working. Nathan was a partier who returned to his old ways once Haley came back. Brooke wanted more for her best friend, she even had someone good in mind.

"Brooke, what am I going to do?" Haley asked her friend. Haley was sick of deciding on her own. She just wanted someone to decide for her, someone else to call the shots for once in her life.

"Honestly Haley. Your not happy with him. He's not a good person to be around, there's only so much you guys can take of each other before it explodes. With Nathan... when he's like this, he needs help. You need to get out before he hurts you."

It felt weird for Brooke to say this. Normally she wouldn't think Nathan would be the aggressive, violent guy. Especially towards Haley. He loved her so much and would do anything to protect her.. at least he USED to.. key word.. USED.

"Your right, I will as soon as I can. But can we do something else tonight? I don't want to keep talking about Nathan." Haley pleaded with her friend.

"Of course tutor girl. I brought The Notebook, Titanic, and Grease but I also brought all of the Saw movies in case we got sick of that lovey-dovey junk." Brooke laughed and held up the movies.

"Let's just watch scary. I don't want any love stories tonight, and I definitely don't want to cry anymore. Let's skip the first Saw though there isn't much blood or guts, the second one is good though. Lots and lots of blood." Haley told her friend.

Haley was so sick of love stories. Life really did not turn out that way. Although she was pretty sure things like human torture traps didn't really happen in her everyday life. She also needed to tell her best friend a secret she has been keeping.

"Your scaring me a little." Brooke told her friend while she put the movie in.

"Good." Haley turned to her and smiled.

Throughout the movies the girls were talking casually and they were on the fourth movie when Haley turned to Brooke.

"I have to tell you something." Both girls said in unison. This normally happened with them. They were so close they always were thinking the same thing.

"You first." Haley told Brooke.

"Ok, well you see..I sorta kinda think I am love with Jake." Brooke told her friend and did a small smile.

"Sorta kinda?" Haley asked.

"Ok, fine. Totally in love." Brooke told her best friend. "We have been getting really close lately and I have been helping with Jenny a lot and I don't know we just really get each other. Ya know?"

"I totally know." Haley told her friend. Haley smiled to herself. Good for Brooke Haley thought. She deserved a good guy and Jake was a great guy. Sure he had a daughter but he loved her with all his heart and he was a great dad. He was their best friend and it was only a matter of time before he and Brooke got together.

"Yeah but there is no way he feels the same." Brooke frowned. Brooke had started like Jake about a few months ago when he had an emergency with Jenny and he called Brooke the hospital to be with him. Of course Jenny was okay but ever since then they had been getting really close. She didn't want to risk their friendship though so this was the first time she had ever spoken of it.

"I happen to know for a fact that he feels the same. Go tell him now!" Haley told her friend.

"But what about what you had to say?" Brooke questioned.

"I'll tell you tomorrow! Go! Go!" Haley pushed.

With that Brooke ran out the door and yelled a thank you to Haley. Haley really needed to get what she had to say off her chest but Brooke was really the only person she trusted with her secrets, well other than Lucas and Jake but she DEFINITELY was not going to tell them.

"Well Haley James Scott, looks like were going back to Haley Bob James." Haley said to herself and smiled.

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