It's finally being posted! After all the videos I've been doing for this one, I thought it was about time I post at least the first chapter! I hope it doesn't disappoint anyone. I do not own anything in this story, besides Lily, everything else belongs to their rightful owners.

Summary - Boy troubles are the least of Lily Scott's problems while going through high school. Her dad obsessing over spots and her parents going through a devorce are high up there, but still not the worst thing. She's stuck in the middle of a war between her two brothers. Lucas and Nathan Scott. Will she have to choose sides, or will her brothers start acting like brothers once they're forced to play on the same team?

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~I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.~

That was a quote written by Maya Angelou, and it could have not stood for the life of Lily-Morgan Scott anymore then it could have. Her life was not simple, and her life was not easy. Not with a father named Dan Scott, a brother named Nathan Scott, and oh yea, another half brother named Lucas Scott. Not that her brother and father really treated Lucas like family, quite the opposite really, since they treated him like the dirt under their shoes.

Not her though.

No, she rebeled against the men in her life. She would join in when Lucas was down at the Rivercourt with his friends and cheer him on. Of course, only when she didn't have to cheer lead for her other brother during his games at the school. Her dad pushed him hard on the basketball stuff, and that was fine with her cause he let him, but since she was his kid? He pushed her hard on the cheer leading stuff. She was to be in her top shape, as much as a five foot nothing could be in any ways.

He would have her uncle Keith video tape her at the game while he taped Nathan so he could tell them both exactly what they were doing wrong. Not like queen bitch, Brooke Davis, didn't do that enough already. She was the smallest on the squad, which made her the best flier, even though it scared the crap out of her. Not that her dad cared about that at all. He wanted her to be the best, and that meant doing what she hated. Flying.

Course cheering for her brother who stole a school bus after winning a game put a damper on things, especially when he and his friend only got to stay on the team because of their dad's power in this town. Sometimes, she really hated her family, but then the next day she would by the river court with Lucas and realize that her whole family wasn't that bad. Taking now for example, she was having the time of her life just watching her half brother play for home. There was no score, no rules, and definitely no flying.

It was just Lucas, herself, and his friends. That was all it needed to be though. There didn't need to be crowds cheering, or anything else like that. "And we have the, quite amazingly good looking, Miss Lily Little Scott, our own Lucas Scott's personal cheerleader. How are you doing this fine morning, Lily?" Mouth, one of her brother's friends, asked her as he held a little micro phone out to her. Him and his friend Jimmy were training to be sporting announcers. They liked practicing during the games the guys had.

Lily laughed as she rested her head on Mouth's shoulder. It was just after cheering practice and she was exhausted. She was also cold, which was why Lucas had given her his lucky sweatshirt to wear while he played. She huddled in close to the clothing that completely swallowed her whole inside of it and smiled up at the boy she was resting her head on. "I'm good, Mouth. How are you two doing?" She told him as she snuggled close to him.

He might have not been as warm as the other guys would have been with their muscles, but she was happy where she was. His shoulder was a nice pillow, and he wasn't bad company to hang out with either. "We're doing good, Lily. Mouth is doing extra good, seeing as he has the beautiful you using him for a pillow today." Jimmy laughed as he nudged his friend. Mouth shot him a look before he looked down at her and blushed like a mad person. Lily didn't think anything of it as she watched her brother play though.

Lucas was talking to the guys about some kid they use to know getting whipped with a towel in the locker room, something she totally didn't need to hear she realized when they mentioned what was hit and what happened to the kid afterward. "Hey, watch it. We got a lady in our presence. Don't we, Little Scott?" Another one of his friends shouted out to her from the court. She just shook her head and laughed at the boys. She gave Jimmy and Mouth a quick flash of a smile before getting up from the bench they were sitting on and skipping over to the boys.

The four on the court laughed at her as she approached them. The Keith's sweatshirt was basically as big as her as she stood up on her feet. Her hair was flying around as her dark blond curls flowed down her shoulders. She knew her blond hair was a reason her dad didn't like her as much as he did Nathan. Her mom might have had blond hair like her too, but hers was darker. Her's was just like Lucas' hair. That upset him, knowing that she looked more like his bastard son then himself and Nathan. "That we do, boys. That we do." She laughed out as she jumped onto her brother's back without warning. "Do I even want to know what you boys are talking about over here?" She asked them as she rested her head on her brother's shoulder.

Unlike her relationship with Nathan, her and Lucas had a lot more in common. They had actual talks for one thing, and fun for another. She liked writing, and so did he. She liked dancing, but no one ever took her seriously about it. It was cheer leading or nothing with her dad. Lucas didn't even know that she liked to dance, she didn't think it was worth it to tell anyone since nothing would come from it. He only knew about her writing since he caught her writing in her notebook all the time.

With Nathan, they didn't really talk much at all. They didn't hang out much either. They didn't even really see each other face to face besides at games, practices, and occasionally dinner when it wasn't take out. She bet that he didn't even know her birthday if it wasn't for her mom, when she was actually home, writing it up on the game board in big bright letters. Her dad probably didn't know anything about her other then her position on the squad and how much of a distraction she was to the other players.

If she had to choose? She wished that Karen, her uncle Keith, and Lucas were her full time family, not her mom, dad, and Nathan. Karen was Lucas' mom, and she acted more like her mom then her actual mom did. She made sure that she was hydrated and properly fed. She even made sure that she had enough sleep. Speaking of sleep, she was just as tired as she was cold. "Luke, can I sleep on you? You're comfy and I'm tired." She said tiredly as she let her eyes close shut. The boys all chuckled at her, but kept quiet enough to not disturb her.

Lucas looked up at her and laughed along with the others. His sister was just too much some times. She might be Nathan's full sister, but they acted as if they were the full siblings and not the half ones. "Sure you can, Lils." He said out softly to her. She mumbled out her thanks to him as she smiled in her sleep. He adjusted her slightly so that she didn't fall off. He motioned for the other guys to be quiet as he carried her over to his tow truck. Mouth hurried ahead of him and opened the door for him. "Thanks, Mouth." He whispered to his friend as he eased his sister into the passenger side of the car. "I'll see you guys later. I gotta drive this one over to Peyton's." He told the cars as he shut the door and jogged around the other side. He hopped inside and soon the two were off out of the park.

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Lucas only knew Peyton Sawyer through his sister. Dan didn't want them to really know each other, but it wasn't rocket science as to why they clicked so much. They both liked the same things, and hated the same person. It also didn't hurt that neither of them were Dan's favorite kid. That role was Nathan's, and his role only. They came up with a half way point. Nathan's girlfriend, Peyton. She might have thought her brothers were both ass's, but she did truly like Lily on some level. They had bonded over their love for the arts.

Lucas carried his sister in his arms up to Peyton's door way. He hadn't wanted to wake her up when they got there. He gave the door a little kick, hoping that for once Peyton wasn't blasting her music so loudly that she didn't hear him. With any hope, seeing as he had seen her driving not even five minutes before, that she hadn't even gone upstairs yet. Thankfully, she hadn't and she was there to open the door. "What is it with her and falling a sleep on you?" Peyton said as she answered the door.

It wasn't a rare thing for Lucas to be carrying his sleeping sister in his arms when she answered the door for them. Lucas shrugged his shoulders before slipping inside to bring Lily up to Peyton's room upstairs to put her down. "She doesn't get sleep any other time of her life." Lucas said back to the blond following them up the stairs. It was true though. He knew it too, and so did she. Dan didn't only push Nathan with basket ball, he pushed Lily just as hard with the cheer leading she did with the Ravens.

Peyton opened the bed room door for him and let them go inside. She pulled back the sheets to her bed and helped him lay her into the bed. He carefully let her head roll onto the pillow. She was still sound asleep as she let go of him and wrapped her fingers around the sheets Peyton pulled on top of her. "Nathans picking her up in twenty minutes. You might want to get out of here before that cause he's always early when it comes to her." She told him as she sat down in his place. She noticed that Lily was still wearing Lucas' sweatshirt and rolled her eyes. "Though you might want to take your sweatshirt. She might have one too, but it's not a hundred sizes bigger then her." She pointed out to him.

Lucas nodded his head slowly, mentally hitting himself for not realizing that himself. He gently helped Peyton lay his sister up enough so she could take the sweatshirt off. She didn't seem to appreciate the movement though. "Go away. I'm tired." Lily mumbled out as she swatted Peyton's hands away as she lifted the clothing over her head. The two teen chuckled softly when she huffed out in relief once she was free from the over sized clothing and could lay back down into the puffy pillows.

Once she was settled, Lucas said his quick awkward good bye to Peyton and kissed his sister's forhead before leaving to get back to the diner to help out his mom. Like she had said to him when he got there, Nathan was there to pick Lily up, and he was early like usual. She called down to him when he knocked, telling him that they were upstairs. She could hear him come upstairs and down the hallway toward her room. She looked up when she heard him in the door way. "She fell a sleep when we got back from practice." She covered for her friend. Though, it wasn't really a lie. She really did technically fall a sleep after practice.

He just rolled his eyes at his sleeping little sister though. It wasn't new that she was sleeping in his girlfriend's bed. It seemed like almost every other time that he came to pick her up? She was fast a sleep and out for the rest of the night. "What is it with this girl and sleeping all the time?" He asked out as he came into the room more. Peyton rolled her eyes at him as moved so he could get her up. "Come on, Lily. Time to wake up." He said out as he laid his sister up.

She protested against him of course. Like she always did, but he got her up after a minute. Not saying that she was happy about it, but soon she was up and walking down the stairs to go start her brother's car for him. She waited for a while, knowing that he was with Peyton, but once twenty minutes went by? She was bored, tired, and thanks to her brother, now cranky. She waited another five minutes before reaching over and honking the horn as loud as she could. She rolled down the window and stuck her head out. "Get out here, Nathanial Scott! Just because you got here early does not mean that you make up the extra time by making out with your girlfriend!" She called out the window to her brother.

She smiled in victory as a frustrated Nathan came jogging out from Peyton's house. He was putting back on his team jacket as he came up to the car. He stopped at her side and glared down at her inside of the car. "So uncalled for." He told her before going around to the other side of the car and jumping inside. She said nothing back to him, only grinned in satisfaction as they started to drive away and head off to their own house.