I know I'm literally crazy. I really shouldn't be starting ANOTHER fic considering I still have three I didn't finish but I was really inspired to write this and I'm super excited because I've been thinking about this for a while and I couldn't wait any longer so I just had to write it.

Basically it's about Nathan and Haley and their journey together as friends who will obviously eventually become more than friends.

The first few chapters will take place when they're young kids, and then as time goes on in each chapter I'll make them older and eventually they'll be adults and you'll have to see what happens to their friendship.

So, anyway, I hope you like it.

By the way, anyone who is reading 'I Never Told You' the epilogue will be up next weekend. It's really long and I want it to be perfect, so it's taking a while, plus I stopped writing that to write this and yeah. Okay. Enjoy

Four year old Haley James reluctantly let go of her mother's hand and walked into her new pre-school class room. She glanced around the new environment and smiled as she tried to take everything in at once.

Her nostrils flared slightly as she breathed in the scent of a mixture between play-doh and Lysol disinfectant spray.

Her brown eye's widened when her gaze fell upon a large book shelf in the corner of the yellow painted room. She always had a fascination with books.

She would sit in her living room and watch her older brother's and sister read a book they were required to read for elementary school.

On Sunday's she would watch her father flip through the morning paper, or her mother glance at a magazine.

Haley had opened several books, but she would get frustrated because all she saw were a bunch of letters jumbled together which never made any sense. After a minute of failing to decipher the words she'd usually get distracted by the colorful illustrations and make up her own stories to tell her family.

When Haley found out she would be starting pre-school, she couldn't contain her excitement. She wanted to learn how to read, write, hold a crayon, draw pictures, and do everything her siblings learned how to do in school.

Today, on this humid, rainy, September day in Tree Hill, North Carolina, Haley started pre-school for the first time.

She looked around the class room and noticed that the other children her age were crying and wouldn't let go of their mothers and fathers- which confused Haley. It's not like they'd never get to see their families again. Her parents- Lydia and Jimmy James- had explained thoroughly to her this morning that there was nothing to be afraid about. They told her to have fun and make new friends and they'd pick her up at the end of the day.

Haley was not afraid to go to school.

Her sister Taylor, who was seven years old, made fun of her because Haley had packed her backpack a few weeks before school even started.

Haley didn't care though. She was anxious to learn and be a 'big girl'.

Not only was she eager to learn, but she wanted to make new friends. She'd usually play with her siblings and their friends, or the other children on her street, but Haley wanted to make her own friends.

Someone who was her own age.

Haley glanced over to the door where her mother and father were standing, and she waved slightly, with a small smile.

Lydia bit her lip to try and keep her tears at bay. She didn't want to cry but she couldn't help it. Haley was her baby out of her six kids, and this was Haley's first time going to 'school'. Jimmy gave his wife a small kiss on her forehead and whispered something in her ear, which made Lydia smile.

Haley's smile grew bigger when she noticed the interaction between her parents. She had only hoped that one day she could love someone the way her parents loved each other.

Haley continued to take in her surroundings and her eyes lit up when she noticed the box full of toys lying on the small table in the center of the class room.

She immediately rushed over to the box and shuffled through it until she found a doll she liked. It wasn't a Barbie, like the other girls had, but it was more of a plush doll with brown hair that was twisted into braids, and Haley thought she was pretty- despite the fact it looked like it was ten years old and ran over by a truck- the doll had a smile spread across her pale skin, and Haley fell in love with it.

"That doll is ugly. She looks like you." Haley heard a whiny voice say, so she turned her head and saw a tall red headed girl in a sparkly green dress with a large black bow in the middle standing next to her. Haley frowned. She was not used to being treated this way and she couldn't help the tears that started to fall from her eyes.

"You're a cry baby!" The red headed girl patronized Haley, which caused Haley to cry more.

Just then a raven black haired boy came up to the girls and placed his hands on his hips while he glared at the red head. "That wasn't very nice. You should say 'Sorry'" He said firmly.

The red head muttered a bitter, "Hmphh" under her breath and stormed away furiously, while Haley wiped away the small tear from under her eye.

"You really shouldn't cry. You look pretty when you smile." The bold boy said to Haley offering a small smile.

Haley looked up and she felt her heart quicken when she stared into the most piercing blue eyes she had ever seen. It was a weird and wild sensation. Her heart was racing fast like when she would run outside with her siblings. She didn't understand why her heart was beating so fast- she was standing in one spot.

"How do you know?" Haley asked as she raised her eye brows.

The boy shrugged, "I don't know. I saw you by the bookshelf and you smiled. I think you're pretty, but I don't really know what that means. My Dad tells my Mom that she's pretty when she smiles." The boy said simply.

Haley suddenly forgot all about the red-headed girl, and she threw her arms around the boy.

"Well I think you're pretty too." Haley said with a wide smile as she looked to study him a bit more. He had short black hair that was flipped in the front, and he wore what Haley assumed was a basketball jersey (her brothers had ones just like it), but Haley couldn't read what it said.

The boy instantly scrunched his face up in disgust. "Girls don't call boys 'pretty'." He said matter of factly.

"Then what do they say?" Haley asked- her curiosity peaked at it's finest.

"I don't really know." The boy laughed. "But my Dad told me that boys tell girls they are pretty and something with a 'b' but I forgot."

"Beautiful?" Haley asked. She heard her parents use that word a lot.

"Yeah! That!" The boy exclaimed. "What does that mean?"

"I think it means really, really, really, pretty." Haley said in a confident voice.

The boy smiled, "Well I think you're boot-iful."

Haley laughed. "No, it's not 'boot-iful' it's 'beauty-ful."

"Oh." The boy shrugged, feeling a little embarassed he wasn't as smart as a girl.

He quickly shrugged it off, and smiled again. "You're really smart." He complimented.

He didn't know what his cousin Lucas was talking about. Girls didn't have cooties.

"Thanks." Haley said as she felt her cheeks warm a little.

Was she getting sick?

She didn't feel sick... but why was she suddenly feeling like her cheeks were on fire?

"You're welcome." He replied politely.

"So what's your name?" She asked as she watched him rummage through the toy box and pull out two action figures dressed in army attire.

"Nathan Scott. I'm four." He said with a smirk.

"My name is Haley. I'm four, too." She giggled girlishly.

"Cool! I've never had a girl friend before." Nathan said off handedly.

"Neither did I." Haley said quietly, she said as she picked up a Barbie doll from the box of toys.

Just then, another boy came over and tried to grab the doll from Haley and Nathan was about to step in, but Haley took matters in her own hands,

"That's mine!" She huffed and grabbed the doll from the boy's hand and kicked him in the shin, causing Nathan to laugh, but he quickly shut up when he saw Haley glare at him like his mom does whenever he does something wrong.

The boy quickly ran away crying, and Haley crossed her arms defiantly over her chest.

"Wow! You're tough!" Nathan admonished.

"Well I have two brothers and three sisters. We always fight." Haley said as she started to brush her dolls hair.

"That's cool. I don't have any brothers or sisters, but I have a cousin named Lucas and he's really awesome!" Nathan said in a high pitched voice.

Haley smiled, "Maybe one day we can all have a play date!"

"Okay." Nathan agreed.

"Hey Nathan?" Haley asked after a few minutes of playing with their dolls and action figures.

"Yeah?" He replied and looked up from his game.

"Thank you for being my friend. You're my hero!"

Nathan smiled proudly, and grabbed Haley's hand and interlocked his fingers with hers. "Let's promise to always be friends."

"Always?" Haley asked with a dazzling smile.

"And forever!" Nathan beamed.

Okay this chapter was super short but anyone who has read my other stories knows my chapters are usually really long, so I promise the next ones will definitely be longer, but this was just a short prologue so I intended it to be short and to the point.

Please let me know what you think and if I should continue..

If I do continue, the next two chapter will be when Nathan and Haley are in pre-school, and then time will progress in each chapter and eventually they'll end up as adults and you'll have to see what happens to them and their friendship ;)

Thanks for reading!

btw pretty much every chapter will be based on a Taylor Swift song