Okay, so this is my first fanfic EVER. I don't know if anyone will like it, but I figured it's worth a try. If anybody reviews this, I'd definitely write more. I have a bit more done, so I may put it up soon.

Description: This is a Haley story. It is completely AU. It's kind of Haley growing up in Nathan's shoes, but still having some of the lovable Haley in her. Starting out Haley is a 12 year-old trouble maker and you'll get to watch her grow up and maybe fall in love. Pretty much every character will come into the story at some point, some a lot sooner than others. I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1

It was Sunday night and six of the twelve Jameses were sitting in the living room watching Mission Impossible. It's the signature scene with Tom Cruise dangling in the office when of course the phone rings.

"Haley, get that" shouts her mother Lydia.

The youngest child gets up from the floor and rushes to the phone. "Fuck"

"Don't use that language young lady!" shouted her father.

Haley looked at the caller ID for a second longer. Shit. The only thing running through the 12 year-old's mind was a string of expletives. Not again, she thought. She answered the phone, "Hello?.... yes ma'am, just one second…. Mom…. It's Mrs. Malone."

"Damn it, Haley! What did you do this time? Go to your room now, I'll be up there in a minute."

Haley ran to her room in tears. What the hell? Krissy said she wasn't going to tell. Before she could slam the door, Lucas came running in after her. "Who was that?"

Lucas. He was her savior. Of course most of the time his holier than thou attitude pissed her off, he was still her best friend. He was two and a half years older than her and the best brother you could ever ask for… if he hadn't been so perfect. Boy did that piss her off. He was a genius. Literally a genius. He never had to open a book, but that didn't stop him from having straight As. He even skipped the whole 2nd grade and was still the smartest in his class. It pissed her off to no end. He was gorgeous too. Every girl wanted him. It was ridiculous. She didn't have a single friend who didn't have a crush on Lucas at some point. Probably the most annoying thing about him was that he knew all of that and loved to shove it in her face. What she didn't know was the dark secret he had inside that made him act that way sometimes. "Hello, earth to Haley??"

"WHAT?!?" she screamed at him. By this time she was laying on her bed with her head in her pillow. She knew she wasn't mad at Lucas, but he was there right now, so he was who she was going to yell at.

"Stop being a bitch, I'm trying to help you. Who was that?"

She looked up for a second so he could hear her and mumbled, "It was the school."

Lucas looked at her expecting her to explain, but she just put her had back into the pillow. Finally he asked her, "Well what did they want?"

Haley sat up fully now and went off. "How the hell am I supposed to know what they wanted? I answered the phone and they asked for mom. Why the fuck would the principal be calling on a fucking Sunday anyways?"

"Seriously, Hales, you are 12 years old, you really don't need to be talking like that and there is no doubt Dad will be here any minute and will beat your ass if you keep talking like that while he is here."

"Don't tell me what to fucking do. Just leave me alone."

With that, Lucas left looking back at his broken sister. He couldn't help but wonder what trouble she had gotten herself into this time. How could such a little girl cause so much drama. That was something he wondered every day. He loved his little sister to death, but he hated to see who she was right now.

"Haley! Get your fat ass down here."

Haley heard her older sister screaming at her and cried even harder. She hated being called fat. It should have been a breath of fresh air for her though. She was way too skinny. She was five-foot-two and weighed only 70 pounds. The rumor around her all girls school was that she was anorexic and it had been that way since her first day two years ago. Haley composed herself and walked out her door into the hallway. She got to the top of the steps and looked down. She saw her devastatingly gorgeous ass of a sister standing at the bottom with her hands on her hips.

"Mom and Dad are waiting for you in their room."

Haley walked down the stairs to her parent room but Taylor grabbed her by the arm and pulled her in closer whispering in her ear, "If you got your dumbass caught, you better not take me down with you or your life is over."

Haley turned around and pushed her sister into the wall, "Don't fucking touch me, you bitch."

Taylor walked back into the family room and looked at her two brothers. "What is that bitch's problem, she just attacked me?"

Lucas looked up from his conversation with his brother and over at Taylor, "Why do you always have to insult her, Tay? You can never say a nice thing to her. You know you're going to give her a complex."

"She just hit me and you're sticking up for her?"

"Taylor, you're 6 years older than her. I don't really think you need protecting."

"Just because she's little doesn't mean you have to baby her all the time. Obviously she's grown up enough to constantly get herself in trouble."

"TAYLOR…" Lucas started.

"Will you two just shut up?" Nick finally spoke up. "Taylor, sit down. We've gotta figure out what we're going to do about Haley."

"What do you mean, what WE'RE going to do? It's her life she's ruining. Why should I care?" Taylor said not making a move towards the couch.

"Because she's your sister. Now quit being a bitch. She needs some help. I don't know what's going on, but whatever it is, it's not good. Do you know anything that is going on with her?"

"I don't know and I don't care." Taylors phone went off. Saved by the bell, she thought.

"Gotta go." Taylor turned and walked out of the room leaving the boys to talk.

"God, I fucking hate her!" Lucas screamed as Taylor left the room.

"No, you don't and she doesn't hate us either, she's just going through that bitch phase."

"Well, she's been in that bitch phase since she was born. Look, Nick, something is not right and I know it. Haley has been crying herself to sleep every night for the past month. I can't stand to see her in this pain and she won't talk to me. She's always so distant. She's just not her wonderfully bubbly self. What are we going to do?"

"I don't know Luke, but I think it just got bad. Mom and Dad had to call into work tomorrow because they've been asked to go to an emergency meeting at her school. Usually when they go in, one of them leaves work for a few hours, but this time it's both. I don't know how that little girl can cause so much trouble, but this time, I know it's not good."

The boys sat there in silence wondering what if anything they could do for their sister.

Haley stood outside her parents room trying to overhear her parents whispers.

"Haley…." she heard her mother calling her. How the hell did she hear me? Haley wondered.

Haley meekly walked into the room. "Yes ma'am?" Haley said sweetly acting as if

nothing was wrong.

"So, you know that was your principal on the phone. She asked us both to some in tomorrow for a meeting. Do you know why?" her mother asked her.

Haley looked her mother straight in the eye, "No ma'am." Boy had she gotten good at that. Lying was second nature to her now. She felt no guilt and could always keep a straight face.

"Look Haley," her father finally spoke, "Don't feed us that bullshit. You know what you've done. You always do. I think you should just tell us now so that we don't look like complete assholes when we go in there tomorrow and don't know every horrible thing our little daughter has done."

Haley still didn't look at him. She hated him. He was such an asshole. She looked at her mom, "I'm not doing good in English. I failed the Lord of the Flies test because I didn't understand the symbolism of the conch and…" Haley started to fake tears as her mother walked up to her and gave her a hug.

"Quit babying her Lydia. You know damn well she didn't even read that book." He took another swig of his scotch and pulled his wife off his daughter. He held Haley by the shoulders and said, "If there is more, you are in serious trouble young lady. Now go to your room."

Haley walked back to her room thankful that her tears worked once again. Her father was right, she never read that book, but who cares, it's only seventh grade. Technically, she really didn't lie. She really didn't know what her parents would be told tomorrow. She had broken too many rules to count, but failing English was the safest one she could think of.

She groaned when she got to back her room. "Taylor, what do you want?"

Taylor was sitting on Haley's bed painting her toenails. "Just wanted to know if you ratted on me."

"No, I didn't rat on you. I don't even think they know. Mrs. Malone didn't tell them why they're going in tomorrow, but you know that even if they do find out, I'm not you. I'm not going to blame everyone else for what I do wrong. Now get out of my room, I'm tired.

As Taylor walked out she bumped into Nick. He poked his head into his little sister's room, "Hales? Can I come in please?"

"Wow. You are the first person to actually ask that."

"Well, it is your room. So, may I enter?"

"Fine"

Haley climbed into bed. She really was tired. Nick came and sat next to her in her Queen size bed. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

"Fine in Haleyworld means not fine, so quit lying to me. I love you and I'm worried about you. We all are."

"You can't say that. You don't know that. Sure, maybe you and Lucas care, but that's it." A solo tear fell from her eye as she said this. She buried her head into her pillow so that Nick couldn't see it, but that didn't stop him from hearing it in her voice.

"Haley. How could you think that?" Haley didn't answer, instead she pretended to be asleep. "Haley?" Nick wasn't going to give up. He knew she was faking it so he kicked her.

Haley groaned and smacked his chest, "Ow, fucktard, what was that for?"

"For all the years you kicked me in my sleep. Now seriously, talk to me."

"Look, Nick, I'm just really tired right now and tomorrow is going to be a really bad day, I just want to go to sleep."

"Too bad. You are not going to sleep until you talk to me. What is the meeting about tomorrow?" Nick was in no way going to give up.

"I don't know."

"Yes you do. You are such a liar."

Haley sat up pissed as if she had just been called something much worse, "No, I really don't know what tomorrow's deal is about. There are many different reasons as to why the 'rents are going in tomorrow, but I cannot tell you for sure what it is."

"Okay, okay, I believe you. So what did you tell them it was?"

"I told them that it was because I failed an English test."

"Hales, both of them wouldn't have to go in for failing an English test…"

"I know, but I'm kind of failing English altogether." She looked up at Nick in embarrassment. Nick wasn't as smart as Lucas, but he was still brilliant. He was second in his class and would be going to Harvard next year. Haley knew she was always being compared to her perfect brothers, but she just couldn't live up to them, even if she did care.

"How the hell could that happen Haley, you are SO smart." Nick really didn't understand how she could be failing. She was such a smart kid. Hell, she gave him a run for his money.

"It's just really hard." She lied. Sure she went to the most prestigious school in the area, but that didn't mean it was hard. She just didn't care. She didn't want to be her brothers. If she ever showed that she could do it, then they'd always expect her to do well.

"That's crap, Hales. I know you. You can do anything you put your mind to and you know it. You know they'll make you quit all your sports if you don't pass." Nick finally hit a nerve.

"What!? They can't do that! Sports are all I have!"

"Ouch. I'm hurt, Hales." Nick said, feigning a shot to the heart.

The realization that she could lose her getaway in sports made her eyes well with tears. Nick pulled her into hug. He hated seeing his little sister cry, but it seemed like it happened more and more every day. He felt so helpless. She was so broken and he knew that it couldn't just be because of losing sports. There had to be something more that she wasn't telling him. He wanted to ask her more, find out what was really bothering her, but he knew she wouldn't talk to him right now. Instead he just held her until she fell asleep. Once he was sure she was fast asleep he crept back to his own room and tried to sleep, but he knew he couldn't. Not until he knew what was wrong with her. He laid in his bed staring at the ceiling all night trying to think of ways to save his sister from whatever downward spiral she now found herself in.

Haley was sitting in her third period class. It was her favorite class and probably the only one she was passing at this moment. "Life Skills" had to be the easiest class she'd ever heard of and she was happy as hell that it was a requirement. You pretty much just sat there and talked about life and how much it can suck. Being an all-girls school meant that it was full of bitched and this class seemed to unite them all in the pain of just being kids, at least for 45 minutes they were united. But today she couldn't stop staring at the clock on the wall. Her parents' meeting was in 15 minutes. She looked out the window and saw her parents walking into the school. Why were those bastards always early for everything? She stared at the clock for another 30 minutes until a girl came in the room and handed a note to the teacher. The teacher read it and a sad look came across her face. "Haley James, they need you in the office." Haley got up to go to the office but her teacher stopped her, "You'll need to take your things." Haley packed up her things and as she walked out the teacher followed her, "Haley, I'm really sorry."

Haley looked back at her favorite teacher with a tear in her eye, "I'm sorry too." She turned around and walked to the office. She'd gone to the principal's office at least three times a year every year of her life, but she had never been so scared in her life.