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Haley James woke up and looked around her room. Her clock read 7:00, and as much as she wanted to fall back into her bed and go right back to sleep, she knew that school awaited her. Dragging herself out of bed she started pulling on the outfit she had chosen to wear the night before. It was only a simple pair of jeans, a white thermal T-shirt and a zip up hoodie, but for Haley that was perfect.
After she had done her hair, put on a little bit of makeup, and brushed her teeth Haley headed downstairs to grab a bite to eat.
"Good Morning sweet pea." Her mom said looking over the new paper. Haley quickly grabbed a piece of toast that awaited her on a plate and began to spread some butter on it.
"Morning mom."
"Are you headed to school this early?" Her mother asked.
"Yeah." Haley answered taking a bite of her toast. "I've got a student coming into the tutoring center to review for a Bio test this morning."
Lydia laughed. "Honey, you have to get a better excuse. How about trying the truth, that you just love school so much that you need to be there an hour early."
Haley laughed at her mother's bluntness. "That too, but I really do have a student coming in who needs my help. I'll see you later mom. Love you!"
With that Haley ran out of the house and started walking towards school. What her mother really didn't know was that Haley really didn't like school that much. She enjoyed learning new things but she hated the whole social aspect of school.
To put it bluntly Haley James had no friends. It hadn't always been that way. Lucas Scott, the blonde haired boy who lived down the block from her had been her best friend since she was 6. They had been the out casts, the kids who had never been accepted to the popular crowd, or the crowd that wished they were in the popular crowd. They didn't like the nerds, and in a small town like Tree Hill there weren't many others who they could associate themselves with. So it had always been the two of them side by side ready to face the world together, no matter what.
Haley laughed at her naiveté. She always believed that would be the case, but in the beginning of sophomore year of High School did it all change.
Lucas Scott had an interesting family life. His mother Karen Roe had been going out with her high school sweet heart, Dan Scott for most of her high school career. When she found out she was pregnant after prom, Dan decided to forget about her and their unborn child, and headed off to pursue his basketball dream after receiving a scholarship to play for a college team. Soon after going there he managed to knock up another girl. So he was stuck with two women who were both carrying his child. He decided to forget about Karen and married his college girlfriend, Deb Lee, and chose to use her money to spoil their son Nathan and to further his business endeavors.
Karen on the other hand was left in the dumps. Her parents chose not to support her, and it seemed like Dan wasn't coming back. Dan's brother Keith decided to take on his brothers responsibility of being a parent and became the fatherly figure in Lucas' life.
That worked out fine until Dan moved his family back to town and completely ignored Karen and his other son Lucas. The two half-brothers grew up in the same school system and hated each other. They knew that they shared a father and felt that they needed to compete and bash each other at every opportunity, and Dan didn't do anything to stop it. In fact, he almost encouraged it. That was the main reason behind Lucas' social status. Nathan did whatever he could to make Lucas' life a living hell, and people realized that if they had any connection with Lucas their chance for popularity was shot. But for Haley, that was never the case.
Freshman year of high school had been the worst that they could imagine. They were both having trouble finding a place where they could do things that they really excelled at. They soon found it though. For Haley it was tutoring, and for Lucas it was basketball.
Keith had talked Lucas into trying out for the basketball team because he was really good and it would be a great way for Lucas to be a little more well rounded. Lucas had seen it as an opportunity to out beat his half brother so he accepted the challenge.
For the few first months as a Raven, Lucas and Nathan had been true enemies. Only after they lost their first four games because of the lack of team work did the civil behavior begin. And that's when Lucas had started to change.
Once he and Nathan became civil, they soon forgot their differences and started becoming buddies, and the more Lucas hung out with Nathan and the varsity basketball team, the less time he spent with Haley. At first Haley didn't mind, she was glad that Lucas was finally getting along with his brother and making new friends. But then he started blowing her off completely.
Flashback
Haley sat waiting at the docks on Saturday night. She had been sitting there waiting for Lucas for almost 45 minutes and it was already dark and cold. She was convinced that he was coming. She knew that he had changed lately hanging out with tons of different girls in school and chilling with Nathan and the guys on the weekends, but Haley knew that Lucas didn't lose track of their friendship.
Sure, he had blowing her off a lot recently, but it was understandable he was now the only other sophomore to be on the Varsity basketball team. It was like what Spiderman said, "With great power comes responsibility." Lucas was now this hot shot, and had an image he needed to keep.
Bullshit! Her conscience told her, Haley was supposed to be his best friend, she should have come first.
Just as Haley stood up to leave she saw to people walking down the docks hand in hand. It was Lucas and one of the cheer sluts, Brooke Davis walking hand in hand down the docks.
"Lucas?" Haley asked. She could feel her heart being broken into a million pieces.
Lucas looked up and saw Haley. His face dropped immediately after realizing that he had plans with Haley that he totally forgot about. He excused himself from Brooke and went over to Haley to beg for forgiveness.
"Haley I'm so sorry, I totally forgot. Brooke asked me to come…"
"Whatever Lucas." Haley said turning on her heel to head home. She could finally see the new Lucas Scott, and it wasn't a person she was proud of.
"Haley! Come on! I'm Sorry. Let me make it up to you."
Haley was outraged and turned to look at him. She was outraged, and couldn't control her anger anymore. "Lucas, I don't know if you remember but today you were going to make it up to me! This is the eighth time you've blown me off in the last three weeks. I don't know who you are anymore!" Her tears brimmed her eyes but she willed herself to not cry.
"Haley, what do you mean? Can't you see that I'm finally happy?" Lucas yelled defensively.
"Oh so you're happy being an obnoxious jock who blows off their best friend to work on his social status. God Lucas, I'm sick of it being this way…" She closed her eyes and sighed. "You know what. We had a great ten year friendship, and I'll always remember it. Have a nice life Lucas." She turned around and started walking home.
"Haley! Come on!" Lucas called after her, but Haley didn't turn around because she had tears running down her face.
After that night Lucas had tried to come to her house and apologize, but she had her mother send him away. He tried calling and texting but she ignored it all. She immediately quit her job as a waitress in Karen's Café in order to avoid him. But before doing that she went up to the roof and destroyed the mini golf course that she and Lucas had created. Her intention was to destroy anything left that proved they were ever friends.
Things had changed since then. Haley sunk into a depression, and used her school work as a way to hide from her problems. She stopped dressing up for school, and didn't really attempt to make any new friends. She dyed her blonde hair to a dark chocolate brown, hoping to distinguish herself from the people in the popular crowd who suddenly all wanted to be blonde. She started walking with her head down, and tended to mumble to herself more than she used to. The reason behind that was because now she really had no one to talk to anymore, except for herself.
She still saw Lucas in the halls and around Tree Hill, looking at her with sympathy the sorrow for her evident in his blue eyes. She hated how he looked at her that way, she didn't want his sympathy, he had brought this on himself.
Walking towards school she shook her head free of these sad thoughts. She had lots of other things to worry about, and the last thing she wanted was to have this on her mind.
Walking into the tutoring center she sat with Simeon as they prepared for his upcoming Bio test.
"So now do you understand what the Ribosome does?" Haley asked as she closed the book
"Yeah Haley," he gushed. "You're a life saver."
"Really Simeon, you're smarter than you think, you just need to focus and keep studying harder and you'll do great. I'm sure of it."
Simeon headed out, and Haley was prepared to do the same when the chief of the tutoring staff called her over.
"Haley." She told her handing her a sheet. "This is your new tutee's records and report card. It seems that he needs help in all his classes, but right now you'll only be helping him in English, Math and Science."
Haley looked at the name of her new student, and her face fell. "I'm sorry but I don't think I can tutor this student." She told her boss.
"I'm sorry Haley, but you will have to begin with him. We are lacking on the amount of tutors per students and we know that you re the best and you'll be able to handle it temporarily. Your first meeting is today after school."
Haley cursed to herself. It seemed like she was stuck tutoring Nathan Scott.
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"Man how can it be you're failing anatomy? You have sex all the time, you should know anatomy pretty well." Lucas laughed.
Nathan grumbled.
Nathan had not been doing well at school this year, or last year, or the year before that. But it had finally come to the point that if he didn't shape up his grades, then he wouldn't be allowed to play. And this was a really important year because he really needed to impress the scouts.
"Yeah well now it sucks because instead of my second practice during free period, I'm going to be stuck in the stupid tutoring center. I don't even know where the fuck it is."
Lucas chuckled nervously. He knew where it was and he knew who was there at all times when class wasn't in session. Haley. He missed her so much. If he wasn't such a stubborn ass then they would still be friends right now. He always saw her in the hall and wished that he could go up and talk to her about the latest book that he was reading, because none of his new friends read. He wished that she hadn't destroyed the mini golf course that had held so many of their memories. He hated how every time she saw him in a hallway she would pretend not to notice him, or turn in the opposite direction. But what he hated most of all was that she didn't have friends.
No matter what the situation would have been, Lucas really wished that Haley wasn't alone all the time. He couldn't express the guilt that he felt when he saw her sitting in the library at a table by herself, or running from the lunch room to the tutor center so that she didn't have to deal with finding a table to sit at by herself. He wished so much that she could just find someone who could be her confidant, or someone who would just sit next to her in the lunch room. He knew that no matter how hard he tried Haley would never see him as her friend ever again. But what ate at him at all times that he was the cause to her misery.
"Do you know who your tutor is?" Lucas asked curiously.
"Uhh…Haley James" Nathan read off of the paper Whitey had given him earlier.
Lucas' heart skipped a beat at the sound of her name. It sounded so foreign on his tongue, he missed it.
"She's the best that you're going to get." Lucas said softly.
"Yeah?" Nathan asked with a hopeful note.
"For sure." Lucas assured his brother. "So what are we going to do about this movie thing that the girls have planned for us to go to on Saturday, the Lakers are playing at the same time!" Lucas asked his brother, eager to change the subject.
"Well that depends if me and Peyton will still be broken up by Saturday." Nathan told him as he followed Lucas to the tutoring center.
Lucas was going out with the captain of the cheerleading squad, Brooke Davis, and they had a strong steady relationship.
Nathan on the other hand was more of a player, even though he was going out with Brookes best friend, Peyton Sawyer. Nathan and Peyton had a really rocky relationship and broke up and got back together again weekly. They usually used each other for sex, and their relationship was convenient.
Lucas laughed at his brother. "Man you and Peyton really have to figure things out, what you guys do is totally not normal."
"Tell me about it." Nathan said raising his eyebrows suggestively.
"Eww." Lucas said, trying to get the image out of his head. "I meant the whole breaking up and getting back together part." He stopped walking and stood in front of the tutor center. "This is it. What time is your appointment?"
Nathan looked at his sheet. "It was supposed to start twenty minutes ago."
Lucas sighed. He knew that Haley hated when her students were late because it was rude. He knew that she was probably having a difficult time with this arrangement because she hated Nathan. "I would go in there if I were you and just get this over with. That way by the time the season starts in a month you'll be caught up, and will be able to play." With that Lucas left him on his own.
Nathan walked in and looked at the girl who had just stood up from the table and started filing. He looked her up and down. She had dark hair amd a petite curvy frame. One thing he couldn't tear his eyes away from was her butt. This nerd had a serious ass.
He cleared his throat. "Are you uhh…Haley James?" He asked with a cocky smirk on his face.
"Yes and you are?" Haley asked impatiently. Of course Haley knew who he was, she just didn't want to boost his ego anymore.
'You don't know who I am?" Nathan smirked cockily. "I'm Nathan Scott, starter of the varsity basketball team." Nathan really thought everyone in school worshipped him.
"Well, I don't really care what you start for or end for. And please, do you mind toning down your ego, its taking up the whole room."
Nathan stared incredulously at this girl. She was definitely something else.
"Now you listen to me Nathan Scott. I am going to be your tutor temporarily until they can find you someone else, because honestly I cant stand you."
Nathan stood there with his mouth open.
"Now listen to me, I'm going to be helping you with three subjects, and those are the only three subjects that we'll be talking about. Got it?"
Nathan nodded still not knowing what to say.
"Good. Now we'll start with math…"
But Nathan wasn't paying attention to anything she was saying because he was totally and utterly entranced.
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