Chapter One
Hey guys! I know I have been gone for ages and I actually have written updates for my other story "Maybe" but just haven't gotten around to posting them so I will try to do so soon. I know the last thing I should be doing is starting another one but this story just came to me so I hope you like it.
Summary: Freshmen in college, Nathan, Lucas, Brooke, Peyton and Haley are looking forward to their first year at Duke University. But when old problems arise and two former lovers have turned into the most brutal of enemies, it looks like the gang are going to have a little trouble.
Running as fast as she could, Brooke sprinted towards the public pin up board centred in the middle of the Duke campus. Her rich brown hair whipping ferociously in her face as she ran, this one of those rare times in Brooke Davis' life where she didn't care what it looked like. All she cared about was seeing that board. When she finally reached it, she came to a sudden stop and pushed her way past every person in front of the notice board without bothering to notice the dirty looks she was receiving. She even pushed the seniors, who she looked up to as if they were angels at her freshman status. She eagerly searched the board until her eyes landed on the sheet she was looking for and she read the names down the list.
"YES!" Brooke screamed in utter delight and excitement. Without thinking, she snatched the piece of paper off the board and sprinted off in the opposite direction.
Peyton cast her eyes over her new college dorm, nodding her head in approval as she looked around. Since she had gotten here last week, she hadn't really taken the time to appreciate the dorm she'd been assigned. It had a small living room that had recently been fitted with a couch, TV and mini fridge - all the essentials for college life. Coming off the side of the living room was a bathroom and three small bedrooms. One for herself and the other two for her two best friends in the entire world. She couldn't believe their luck that they had all been assigned the same dorm. They had applied for it but none of them thought it would actually happen.
Peyton sat herself down on the couch with a smile on her face. College looked like it might not be so bad after all. Just as Peyton sat down, Haley came out of the bathroom.
"I finally managed to fit all my stuff into the bathroom." Haley said as she sat down next to Peyton. "I should have known to get in there before Brooke, she took practically every shelf!"
Peyton laughed. "Yeah, you're just lucky I'm not big on makeup and hair products or else we'd have a real problem."
Haley smiled, snuggling herself down into the couch. "God, this couch is so comfortable. Did you get this?"
"No, Brooke did." Peyton laughed.
"Oh," Haley said. "Guess she's good for some things!"
At that exact moment, Brooke came flying through the door squealing at the top of her lungs.
"Do you think we spoke to soon?" Peyton said, turning her head to look at Haley. Haley gave her an amused smile back before turning to Brooke.
"What? What is it?"
"We all got in to the cheer squad!" Brooke said in a pitch so high it was almost inaudible. She waved the white sheet of paper in the air before dropping in Peyton's lap.
"Oh, the joy." Peyton said sarcastically.
Completely ignoring Peyton, Brooke went on squealing.
"This is so amazing. I mean, it is rare for freshmen to even get in but all three of us!" She said jumping up and down causing Haley to laugh. "I knew it! They took one look at us and knew that we were just too good to say no to. Or we were too hot to say no too. Or too good AND too hot to say no to!"
Haley and Peyton just laughed at Brooke, not even bothering to try and get a word in before she was finished celebrating.
"Whichever it was, who cares! We are Duke Blue Devils!" Brooke started clapping her hands then proceeded to dance around the living room.
"When does practise start?" Haley asked.
"I don't know, does it day on the sheet?" Brooke asked, looking towards the piece of paper in Peyton's hands. "Oh, shit! I don't think I was supposed to take that."
"What? What do you mean?" Peyton asked. "Where did you get it from?"
"Uhh, from the notice board.." Brooke trailed off.
"Brooke!" Haley said, laughing.
"Sorry!" Brooke exclaimed. "I was too excited and didn't think." The smile returned to Brooke's face before she spoke again. "I'll go put it back."
Brooke grabbed the piece of paper out of Peyton's hands and left the room in the same fashion that she entered it.
"You know, I don't think I'm going to need to drink coffee this year." Haley said. "Brooke's got enough energy for all three of us."
"Yeah," Peyton replied. "Or you'll need three times as much as you usually do just to keep up with her."
Haley's face dropped. "Oh, God."
Peyton laughed at Haley's expression. "Come on, let's walk to the cafeteria. I'm starving and we'll just text Brooke to meet us there."
Haley nodded and the two left the room.
Lucas lay on his mattress in his dorm room, spinning a basketball on his finger. He was yet to set up his bed. As he looked around, he realised he was yet to setup anything. Good start to college, Luke he said to himself. There was a dismantled couch in the living room which he presumed belonged to Nathan. He and his brother had arrived to the college together a few days ago and had taken what they thought to be the two best rooms in the dorm for themselves. There was one spare room and the boys were yet to meet the guy who was supposed to be staying there. Lucas her the sound of the front door clicking and got up off his mattress. Expecting to see Nathan, he grabbed a soft toy basketball off his desk and threw it at the doorway as he entered the living room.
"Woah," said a dark haired guy who had just been hit in the face with the toy basketball. "Is that how you greet everyone when you first meet them or should I get used to entering the place like this?"
Lucas' eyes widened. "Shit, sorry. I thought you were my brother."
"Brother?" The guy asked with his eyebrows raised.
"Yeah," Lucas said. "Uh, we both live in these two rooms here. I'm presuming you're our third guy?"
"Yeah, I guess I am. Nick Stafford." The boy said, dropping the suitcase he was holding in his hand to shake Lucas' hand.
"Lucas Scott." Said shaking Nick's hand. "Sorry again about that."
Nick laughed. "No problem. Would you mind just grabbing that bag for me by the door?"
Lucas saw the black bag waiting in the doorway. "Yeah sure."
"So, I'm sharing a dorm with two brothers. Can't say I was expecting that, should be an interesting year. Hope I don't mix you guys up." Nick said as he dumped his bags in the spare room.
"Huh, I don't think you'll have a problem there." Lucas replied just as Nathan stumbled into the room.
"Where've you been?" Lucas asked.
"Went to find some food." Nathan said, picking up the toy basketball and chucking it at Lucas. "We have absolutely nothing here!"
Nathan then noticed Nick. "Oh, sorry. Hi."
"Hi," Nick replied.
"Right, uhh Nathan this is Nick." Lucas said, introducing them. "He's our third guy."
"Ohh, we've been wondering when you'd show up." Nathan said, shaking his hand. "Good to meet you man, thank god you're not a freak."
Nick laughed. "You know I've got to say, for twins you guys don't really look alike at all."
Lucas and Nathan looked at each other then started laughing.
"We're not twins." Lucas said, causing Nick to frown.
"Long story." Nathan said. "Basically we have two different mom's and one asshole for a dad who clearly didn't pay enough attention in sex ed."
Nick's eyes widened and he nodded. "Right."
"Don't get too freaked out, we're not that strange really." Lucas reassured him. "Wanna take a look around campus?"
"Yeah, sure." Nick replied. "I'll just get changed."
When Nick left the room, Nathan turned to Lucas. "He seems alright."
"Yeah, he does."
"Okay, just gonna change my shirt." Nathan said and walked into his room.
On their way to the cafeteria, Haley got a call from Brooke telling her and Peyton that they had to pick up their cheer uniforms.
"Already?" Peyton asked when Haley hung up the phone.
"Yeah, I know." Haley replied. "Brooke said that practise starts in two days and when she went to give the sheet back Jessica, the head cheerleader, was waiting there and told her to take the uniforms now so we are ready."
"Two days? Gosh, they get into the cheering here."
"Guess so." Haley said.
The two girls made their way over to the girls locker rooms where Brooke was waiting for them with the uniforms in her hand.
Brooke squealed when she saw them. "Here!" She said handing them each one. "Put them on now, that way when we walk to the cafeteria people will know instantly that we are cheerleaders and we'll make a permanent indentation in their minds of how they should treat us."
"Brooke!" Haley reprimanded, although she couldn't help but smile."You know that's not what cheerleading is about."
"I know, I know. But it is definitely a perk!"
The three girls got changed and put their other clothes into Brooke's gym bag before heading off to the cafeteria.
"...yeah and this is the library." Lucas said to Nick, showing him around.
"That's where the library is?" Nathan asked with a confused look on his face. "I could've sworn it was on the other side of campus."
"Clearly some of us get more use out of it than others." Lucas said to Nick.
Nathan just shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever. Down the corridor is the gym, the most important aspect of the school anyway."
"Can't argue with that." Lucas said.
"You're gonna be watching us annihilate all the other varsity teams on that basketball court this year, Nick." Nathan said smugly.
"Watching?" Nick asked. "No way, man. I'm going to be playing."
"You play ball?" Lucas asked.
"Yeah, all through high school." Nick replied.
"Liking you more and more, Nick." Lucas said.
"Come on, let's walk up there then." Nathan said trying to hurry the other two along.
The girls walked out of the locker rooms then exited the door of gym. The cafeteria was between the library and the gym in this corridor.
"All I can say is, we look smoking in these uniforms." Brooke said.
Haley and Peyton had refused to wear the entire outfit, so Brooke settled for the three of them wearing the Blue Devils tops with the black Duke tracksuit pants on the bottom.
Peyton rolled her eyes at Brooke. "Yeah, yeah. Let's just get some food before I faint."
The girls began to talk aimlessly as they made their way to the cafeteria, not really taking in their surroundings.
The three boys, Nathan, Lucas and Nick were walking up the opposite direction of the corridor discussing their high school basketball teams.
"We made it to the semi finals when I was a junior but got beat out by Westlake." Nick was telling the two Scott brothers. "It was pretty disappointing but I had a great time with my team."
"That's too bad man." Nathan replied.
"We actually made it to the state championship last year..." Lucas began to explain but trailed off when he realised who they were about to bump into.
Nathan frowned as Lucas stopped talking and looked to see what had made them stop moving. When he saw the three girls who were standing in front of him, one in particular, laughing aimlessly his eyes went cold and his fists clenched.
Haley, Peyton and Brooke were in fits of laughter as they walked down the corridor, unable to contain their excitement. Peyton looked ahead momentarily to see how close they were to the cafeteria and stopped dead in her tracks. Brooke and Haley stopped with her and looked ahead questioningly. Haley felt her heart stop and the anger rise within her as she saw his face. Standing in a line were Lucas, Nathan and some random guy on the end Haley had never seen before. Haley was standing directly in front of Nathan, barely a foot away, with Brooke and Peyton either side of her.
Haley and Nathan stared at each other with looks of death as the other four awkwardly stood there unsure of what to do. At the same time, Nathan stepped aside as Haley began to push past him without saying a word. Brooke and Peyton gave Lucas and Nick uneasy smiles as they walked after Haley.
"What was that?" Nick asked, looking back after the girls in a state of utter confusion.
Nathan didn't reply, instead he just stormed off into the gym in a stony manner.
"That...was Nathan and Haley being civil." Lucas replied.
"Civil?" Nick asked as if Lucas was crazy.
"Oh yeah, you're lucky that was all that went down." Lucas said. "Trust me, whatever you do – don't get involved in that mess."
Nick nodded.
"But most importantly, if you want to stay on Nathan's good side this year," Lucas said. "Never mention the name Haley James to him. Ever."
Please Review and tell me if you want me to keep going :)
Also, I'm a Lucas/Peyton fan but I really don't mind writing them both with whoever so as this is a Nathan and Haley story could you please tell me who you'd like together! It can be for anyone as well, not just Lucas and Peyton. Thanks guys x.