Chapter One: Breakaway
The doorbell rings and Haley jumps in surprise. It's 11pm and she is not expecting anyone. She goes to the door and looks out the peep hole and sees a tall handsome blonde man standing at her door. Haley sighs with relief knowing that it is only her best friend Lucas. Lucas and Haley have been best friends for many years. And their relationship has grown since the years after they have left Tree Hill High School.
"What are you doing here so late? You are going to wake up Landon. Plus I thought that you were staying in Charlotte for the weekend with Hannah."
"Yeah, things didn't really go the way that I planed." says Lucas as he walks inside Haley's two bedroom house. Haley leads Lucas into the kitchen and gets two glasses out of the cupboard and walks over to the frig and gets a soda. Lucas continues, "Yeah, me and Hannah kind of broke up…"
"BROKE UP!!!!! You two just started getting serious! Luke, this is the third girlfriend that you have been with since you and Peyton broke up. What is the problem?" yells Haley. And as she sits there looking at her best friend she can't think of anything to help him. She wants to help him but how could she help him if she can't even help herself. Here she is a single mother and hasn't been with anybody since her and Nathan (Her ex and father of Landon) broke up.
"Yea I know what this looks like but it wasn't even my fault. Hannah was cheating on me. And the way that I found out was when she was in the shower her cell phone rang and I picked it up. It was some guy on the other line. So I asked him if he wanted to leave a message. So guess what he tells me."
"What did he say?"
"He says "tell her that I couldn't get the reservations for dinner Monday and that I'll call her later." So I confront her on it and she lies at first then she breaks down and tells the truth that she was sleeping with this guy from work and she never wanted to hurt me" " I don't know what to do Hales, I really though that she was the one this time and that we were really going somewhere."
"I am so sorry Luke. You can crash here as long as you want. So just crash on the couch, okay?" suggest Haley.
"Thanks, you're great, you know that. So night Hales see you in the morning."
"Night Luke and trust me things are going to get better."
"I hope your right Hales."