Okay fellow OTH enthusiasts, I've started a new story cause it's been circling around in my head for a while now.

In this story, Haley James is a singer/actress and Nathan Scott is a cocky actor/ladies man. Haley has just finished filming her latest movie, a remake of the classic film Dirty Dancing. She wanted to take some time off and just relax, but, her manager and best friend Peyton Sawyer had other ideas. She got Haley an audition for a romance film called, 'Midnight in Brooklyn'. Haley begrudgingly agreed to audition. Nathan, who is adamant in starring in sports movies was tougher to convince. The only reason he agreed to audition was because he was promised a hot co-star. His manager/half-brother, Lucas Scott and of course Lucas's bubbly wife Brooke Scott, formerly Davis, convinced him by reminding him that if he kept only filming sports movies and not other genres his fans, who were mostly girls, would lose interest quickly. 'Women love romance, Nate. We only watch sports movies when we want something from our husband.' Brooke had so dutifully pointed out to him.

This story is set up like someone telling it. I don't mean like it will say 'I did this.' Or 'I did that.' But there will be little parts where someone puts in their two cents. You won't know who this person is till the very last chapter. You'll get more of a feel for what Im say as this story goes on.

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"Nathan and Haley weren't more opposite, her caring, him too cocky to care. Her 'America's Sweetheart', him 'American Player Extraordinaire'. It's a wonder they got past it all, hell with the bickering and fighting I thought one of 'em would end up dead for the first few months. You shoulda seen it, Haley would throw an insult and Nathan would shoot one right back, no hesitation. Sometimes I wonder how they ended up so in love and happy together. But why am I droning on about how their story amazes and confuses the crap outta me when I can just tell you how it went down from beginning to end? It all started with the movie, 'Midnight In Brooklyn"...

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'Cause I've had the time of my life.

No I've never felt this way before.

Yes I swear it is true.

And I owe it all to you.'

Haley James and her co-star Evan Roth swayed to the music, in the crowd of mainly extras.

"Cut!" The director yelled in a proud and yet slightly sad voice.

Haley smiled as the the music began to fade and then all together stop. Evan then reached down and hugged her tightly.

As the extras piled off of the set, the director, Julian Baker, made his way over to his lead actors. "I can't believe it's over you guys. You have made me one proud director." He smiled as he hugged Haley once Evan let her go. Him and Haley were best friends along with Peyton and her fiancé, Jake Jagielski. They all met in college at Stanford and had been inseparable since.

As happy and sad tears ran unchecked down her face, Haley tightened her grip on Julian and said in a shaky voice, "It has been an honor to take part in this movie, Julian. You've truly remade a classic for the new generation."

"Couldn't have done it without you and Evan. You brought Baby and Johnny alive, just like Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze before you!" Julian exclaimed sadly as he pulled back from his hug with Haley, but kept an arm slung around her shoulder. "I'm just sad to see it finished."

"Me too man, but it's time to move on and continue this crazy journey called life." Evan sighed as he put out his hand. "It's been a pleasure to work with you Julian. Give me a call if you ever need someone to fill out a role." Julian took his hand and shook it. "Haley, you were an amazing co-star, I couldn't have asked for better." Even leaned in and planted a kiss on Haley's cheek.

"You either, Evan. Be sure to stay in touch." Haley reminded him.

"Definitely." Evan promised her and then he walked off set and toward his dressing room to change out of his wardrobe and leave the studio.

"Tutor girl!" Haley and Julian looked up to see their curly blonde best friend and Haley's manager Peyton Sawyer stride up to them dressed in a white blouse, navy blue blazer, and matching pencil skirt and stilettos. She held out her arms and engulfed both Haley and Julian into a group hug. "That was fabulous Tutor Girl! And you didn't do too shabby yourself there, Director Dude!"

"Thanks, Peyt!" Haley and Julian both exclaimed simultaneously.

"Alright Hales, so I need to talk to you about something important." Peyton pulls out her iPhone and begins scrolling through her planner. "How's 9:30 today at Karen's Café work for you?"

"Well, considering it's like 6:30 in the morning, and I've just finished filming the last scene of the movie I've been working on for a year, I'd say that I'm free." Haley chuckled at her best friend's business-like attitude.

"Great, see you there, I've got to grab the sample invitations for the wedding." Peyton rushed off in the opposite direction, toward the exit of the studio, still staring at her iPhone.

"I swear, James, that girl can't just let loose and have fun. It's all business all the time." Julian says with his brow furrowed at Peyton's personality.

"Well, there was that one time at Tric when she got wasted and told us just how much Jake liked it when she-"

"Yeah, I meant sober loose like just hanging out and chilling. Not Peyton/Jake sex talk letting loose." Julian grimaced at the thought as Haley laughed.

"You gotta be specific, Baker, you confuse people with your cryptic dude talk." Haley told Julian, still with a slight smirk on her pretty face, framed with honey-blonde waves.

"I'll try to remember that for next time, James." Julian retorted back.

"You better!" Haley called over her shoulder as she walked to her dressing room to change out of wardrobe and head home for a relaxing bath. Her whole body was a bit sore from that last dance number.

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'BEEP BEEP BEEP'

Nathan Scott groaned as he reached his hand out and slapped blindly at his alarm clock trying to find the snooze button. Finally finding it the alarm stopped bringing the room back to a peaceful silence. After he turned over in bed trying to fall back into a peaceful slumber, Nathan felt a slightly too thin arm slide over his hips under the sheets and squeeze his backside, making him wanna shudder, not in a good way either.

'Damn it,' he thought annoyed 'she stayed overnight.' Their deal had been a few rounds of sex and then she'd leave. But apparently she hadn't. Nathan had crashed right after the 'activity' the amount of alcohol he had consumed earlier finally catching up to him, so he hadn't had a chance to made sure that's he was out of his pent house. Cautiously Nathan opened his eyes, hoping that the women he had spent last night with wasn't a complete dog, considering his judgement was pretty impaired by the booze. Thankfully she wasn't a dog, actually in Nathan's opinion she was pretty hot. Well, at least in a fake, cosmetically enhanced type way. She had dark red hair, obviously out of a bottle, big pink lips that were too plump to not be injected with Botox, and her eyebrows were plucked to an unnatural perfection. 'Not to mention the silicone rack..' He thought.

"Hey baby!" She purred seductively, pushing her body closer to his. "Last night was fun..."

Nathan quickly pulled away and clambered out of bed and pulled on his jeans from the night before, not bothering to put on his boxers. "Yeah, WAS being the key word in that sentence. You were supposed to leave last night, that was the plan..." He trailed on either being too drunk to remember or too horny the previous night to care what her name was.

"Rachel. Rachel Gatina." Rachel reminded him.

"Yeah, whatever Roxie get dressed and leave." Nathan demanded gruffly.

"It's Rachel!" She climbed out of the bed and picked up Nathan's dark blue t-shirt, intending to put it on.

"Whatever." Nathan pulled the shirt out of her hand and threw it on the floor.

"If you wanted me naked you coulda just said so Natey..." Rachel flirted, nauseatingly.

"Yeah, no, get out Riley. And don't call me, 'Natey'. "

"It's Rachel!" Rachel huffed as she pulled on her too short skirt and barely there tube top.

"Once, again I don't care." Nathan grumbled as he tossed her black, leather, sky-high 'hooker boots' at her feet.

"You'll regret kicking me out one day Natey!" Rachel confidently declared as she pulled on her boots and picked up her purse that was on The night stand next to Nathan's bed.

"Doubtful," Nathan muttered, "And I said not to call me that, Raini."

"Rachel!" She screeched and then stormed out of the bedroom. Once he heard the elevator ding, open and close, Nathan fell backward onto his bed with a grunt.

"Why is it always the clingy ho-bags?" He wondered aloud, feeling sorry for himself.

His self-pity session was interrupted when his cellphone began to ring. He sat up and pulled it out of his nightstand drawer, while he clicked 'answer'.

"This is Nathan, you better be hot or I'll be pissed." Nathan greeted with his voice still raspy from sleep.

"Well I'm hot, but I'm already taken." The annoying voice of his older half-brother Lucas Scott filled Nathan's ear.

"Yeah, poor Brooke got stuck with the uglier, broodier, more dramatic Scott man." Nathan teases Lucas with a smirk plastered on his face.

"What? Opposed to the dumber, more womanizing, assier Scott man?" Lucas scoffed on the other end of the call.

"Luke, you're pissing me off man. It's like eight o' clock in the morning. To what do I owe the displeasure?" Nathan leaned against the back of his headboard.

"Once your done getting your ugly ass ready, come over to the house. I got an audition to talk to you about." Lucas explained, deliberately not mentioning that it's for a 'chick flick'.

"Sure man, I'll be over soon. Just let me wash the fake skank off of myself." Nathan shuddered.

Chuckling Lucas asked, "As bad as 'Stuffed Bra Brenda'?"

"Worse... She grabbed my bare ass and said, 'Hey baby' with her nasty ass morning breath." Nathan once again involuntarily shuddered at the memory.

"Kinky!" Brooke could be heard giggling. When Nathan and Lucas were talking about Nathan's latest conquest, Brooke made a habit to always listen and come up with a nickname for them. Hence the names, 'Stuffed Bra Brenda' (She had stuffed a double d bra and turned out to barely be an A cup) , 'Samantha Squeaker' (She had a really high voice and kept screaming Nathan's name with it), and 'Ditzy Dana' (She was a blonde who was so dumb she couldn't tell up from down). "What's her name?"

"Umm, Rachel, I think." Nathan offered, not quite sure.

"Alright so, if she squeezes your bare ass like that she's so obviously a ho, so umm... I got it!" Brooke squealed "Rach-ho!"

"Aww, nice one, Cheery!" Lucas congratulated Brooke.

"Yeah Brooke, I have to agree, that was one of your finer ones." Nathan agreed.

"Thank you boys!" Brooke said, and Nathan could just see her mock bowing.

"Alright, well I'll see you guys soon."

"Bye, Nate." Lucas hung up.

Nathan tossed his phone on the mattress and then got up and walked toward the bathroom while pulling his shirt over his head in the process.

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Karen's Café. 9:30 am

"It's about a girl, named Carter Field who moves to Brooklyn to be with her dying, cancer-stricken, father in the hospital. While sitting a picnic table in a local park, she sees a young man keep looking at her and then back down at something in his hands. She goes over to investigate and it turns out he's sketching a picture of her..."

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Lucas and Brooke's house. 9:30 am

"She questions him about it, and he says that she was too beautiful not to be drawn. They hang out all day long until midnight. Which is when they kiss and then agree to meet at the same park the next day, at noon. They once again..."

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Karen's Café

"Spend the day together. And again at midnight, they kiss and agree to meet again. It's basically a romantic coming of age film. That and the script excerpt is all the director is willing to give until all of the roles are cast. So what do you say Tutor Girl?" Peyton asked hopefully over a coffee, or in Haley's case an herbal tea, at Karen's Café.

"I'm saying that I'm not sure, Peyt. I just wanted to take some time off from the movie world and focus on my music. No stress." Haley frowned.

"But, Hales, this could be a great film. Lots of publicity-"

"Like I need more of that!" Haley interrupted her.

Peyton just continued on like she didn't hear Haley's protest. "This could be an Oscar worthy film! I'm not saying that the 'Dirty Dancing' remake was a bad movie, but it wasn't an Oscar worthy film. At least not for you, Haley. You did great, but that movies most likely to be nominated, for a best remake award, or a best director award. With the leading 'Midnight in Brooklyn' female role you're practically guaranteed at least a nomination for best leading actress!" Peyton reasoned.

"Fine." Haley begrudgingly agreed.

"YES!"

"But only because I promised my parents that I'd be there, up in that stage, someday, before they died." Haley's parents had been in an auto-wreck when Haley was nineteen, which was five years ago. When she was fifteen they payed for her to go to a school that specialized in acting and performing, because she swore with all her heart that she'd be accepting an award up on stage one day.

"You won't regret this, Tutor Girl!" Peyton promised as she handed her the excerpt of the script.

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Lucas and Brooke's house

"It'll be a great career opportunity Nate!" Lucas unsuccessfully tried to reason with Nathan.

"No way, no chick flicks." Nathan stated. "I only do sports movies."

"Your fan base, which is ninety percent women, is going to crumble if you keep it up with the sports. Women love romance, Nate. We only watch sports movies when we want something from our husband." Brooke exclaimed, annoyed. When Nathan still wouldn't agree, Brooke finally gave up on the career approach, and moved on to the womanizer in Nathan. "Your co-star will most likely be a hot chick! You'll get to make out with her and probably even film a sex scene!"

"Really?" Nathan skeptically asked.

"God forbid, Nate! Yes!" Lucas exclaimed, thoroughly annoyed.

"Okay, I'll do it." Nathan agreed thinking about being able to make out with a hot actress during the day and then banging another chick later that night.

"Thank you God!" Lucas exclaimed toward the sky. He then shoved the excerpt of the script into Nathan's arms and said, "Now go memorize this. Your audition is next Tuesday at 4:15. I'll text you the place once I talk to the casting director." He pushed Nathan out the door. When he saw Nathan was about to protest he slammed the door in his face. He then turned to Brooke with a frazzled look on his face and said, "This is going to be a long year if he gets the role..."

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"And indeed it was a long and confusing year..."

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Okay, so that's it. I hope you like it so far. And as far as Julian goes, he won't be causing trouble for Brucas, I just like him as a character and thought he could add to the story. He's twenty five, and so is Jake. They were best friends since high school as were Peyton and Haley who are twenty four. Then, Peyton and Jake became Jeyton so the four began to hang out and eventually became best friends. Lucas and Nathan's relationship was that when Nathan was conceived Dan took off signing full parental rights to Deb. Deb and Karen met and became friends so Nathan and Lucas grew up together. Then Brooke and Lucas's met and began dating in high school and got married in college. They went to Duke.

~charmed4ever09