Chapter One: Gotta Go There to Find Out
Haley James was a lot of things, popular was not one of them. A girlfriend was not one of them. Haley James was a tutor, a best friend, a daughter, and a sister. Girlfriend, a two syllable word that meant a lot more to her than just something that hung on a guy's arm. Girlfriend, a word that she was now adding to her list of things that she was in her lifetime. Haley James was and as far as she was concerned no longer the girlfriend of Nathan Scott. Now, the story obviously is a long one that goes back longer than worth telling so the sort version? 1: Nathan is Lucas' brother and Lucas is Haley's best friend. 2: Nathan went to Haley for tutoring to get Lucas pissed and ended up dating her. 3: Haley found out his intentions for him beginning to date her and they got in a fight. And lastly, 4: Nathan slept with Taylor James, Haley's older sister while they were fighting and Haley found out (hence the breakup). So now that you know the background on this small town girl's life….the interesting part begins….
Haley parked her car and walked through the crowded hallway like any other day headed for her locker, the next thing she knew….someone, or something, had run into her and she was waking up in the nurse's office with the nurse and Lucas staring down at her. She placed her hand in front of her face to block out the lamp from the light and hurriedly sat up much to her regret for the stabbing pain shredding through her head was enough to tell her she had done something to hurt herself. Lucas sat down next to her and held onto her arm to help stabilize her and she placed her hand to her head.
"Uh….what happened?" Haley looked around the small school clinic in confusion wondering what time it was.
"You ran into someone on the way in this morning and fell. You hit your head pretty hard…." The nurse rushed around the clinic writing notes and grabbing Haley and cup of water, some advil, and an ice pack. She carefully handed it back to Haley before sitting back down and finishing up her notes.
Haley slowly turned facing Lucas, her neck stiff and her hand dropping from her head.
"What time is it? What period?"
"It's second period!" The nurse shouted across the clinic causing Haley to jolt and cover her ears in an effort to stop her headache from getting any worse.
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Haley had been in the nurse's office most of the morning before finally leaving and going home with a throbbing headache. She had Lucas drive her car home for her and she went upstairs and straight to bed in a slient house and silent room. That was one thing she had grown accustomed to since her parents were gone checking on her 5 other misfit siblings that were determined to ruin their lives and take everyone down with them. She felt her phone vibrate and she moaned rolling her eyes and slowly fishing it out of her pocket only to see it was Nathan, but she regrettably answered it anyway.
"What do you want?"
"Um….well to talk to you for starters since I haven't since you stormed out on me that night, and to know where you are. I didn't see you in English or Algebra today…."
"Well did you ever consider that I didn't want to talk to you? And I'm at home thanks for worrying…" She quickly hung up the phone and drifted off to sleep not sure whether to feel good that Nathan was worried about her or still be completely pissed off at him.