Disclaimer: I do not own one tree hill, and or The characters. They all belong to their rightful owner and I do not claim ownership on anything except the storylines ( except if I am referring to storylines from anything previous to my timeline.)
No harm will be fall on to Naley in the making of this fanfiction.
This story is not for you if any of the following is a trigger.
Teenage drinking, teenaged/premarital sex, ( which if any of that did you probably wouldn't have made it through the first season of one tree hill), divorce, adultery, and or etc.
This is this is also not a next generation story how ever Jamie And his friends will very much be involved, as he was and obtained storylines from season 5 on. He will have a storyline the same as Nathan and Haley and Brooke and Peyton and Lucas, he is a main character in the story as he was when the series came to an end.
But, this is under no circumstances a next generation story!
But, speaking of Jamie...
This story is also not for you if you have a illusion of what Jamie would be like as a teenager based off of his childhood believing he would be the perfect teenager , in this he will very much act like any other 16-year-old boy. He will act out and argue with his pants, anything else everyone else more than likely did once or twice as a teenager.
If you are large fan of Julian, this story is also not for you considering he will not be in it.
Also, This story will focus on the Main core characters that it began with. There will be appearances by many other characters but each Chapter will have Brooke, Nathan, Haley, Peyton, and Lucas. I do mention what happened to other characters but they are not the main focus and if they have a storyline it will be brief.
This story is also set starting the summer Jamie turned 16.
Onto the story.
The sound of the alarm clock echoed through the master bedroom at the home of Nathan and Haley Scott, not that it needed this particular morning. Neither were asleep—nor had they been most of the night.
The miserable excruciating North Carolina July heat made sure of that, it had been nearly record-breaking—well according to all the news stations that were.
"I don't know about you," Nathan told his wife as he hit the large red button on the alarm "but I'm taking me an ice cold shower this morning".
"That's different from every other morning—how exactly"? Haley asked with a small smile.
Over seventeen years of marriage and Haley still had a way of being the only person in the world who could ever make her husband smile before six am.
"Well, you will be in there with me".
Nathan rolled over to face his wife, and without hesitation, he kissed her—morning breath and all. He had planned to just give her a small kiss and then pull her into the bathroom with him, so long as she obliged. But, once his lips met hers he couldn't seem to think about anything besides the convenience of the bed they were already on and the number of clothes that the two already were not wearing.
Haley pulled her husband on top of her, running her fingers through the back of his hair as his hand slowly ran up her thigh and under his overgrown t-shirt that she had worn to bed the previous night.
It wasn't a cold shower—in fact, due to the heat this would be worse than a shower. But, neither could pull themselves away.
"Mommy".
The married couple jumped at the sound of a small voice and separated.
Haley reached over to the side table next to her bed turning on the lamp, thanking God her child had been unable to see anything.
"Lydia," Nathan said rushing over to his daughter who was rubbing her eyes. "Why are you up this early"?
"It's Jules," she told them. "She is sick".
"Jules"? Nathan asked looking at Haley.
"Her imaginary friend" Haley informed him her voice barely above a whisper, just loud enough for him to hear.
Nathan stared at his wife, longer than he should have. He was waiting for the punch line, but when he looked back down at his young child he realized that there wasn't one.
"Come on, Lydia," Haley said swinging her legs up over the edge of the bed and walking to her daughter's side. "Let's go take care of Jules".
Nathan watched as his wife walked out of the room with their daughter, slightly worried and more so confused, but most of all really bummed as he realized he would be showering alone.
It wasn't until an hour later as he poured himself a cup of coffee that he was reunited with his wife as she came down the stairs, fresh out of the shower with nothing but her house robe on—although, her hair and makeup had already been done for the day.
"How is Jules"? Nathan asked as he quickly stirred the creamer in with the dark liquid inside his mug.
"Don't start" Haley told him. "It's just an imaginary friend—Jamie had one, too".
"No, Chester had one" Nathan reminded her.
"What was that thing name Norvall or Orvall or Earl maybe? I can't remember".
"I don't remember either, I tried to block it out," Nathan said with a simple shrug. "But, he was young. A lot younger than she is, she shouldn't still have an imaginary friend Hales".
"I think she just didn't want to take the blame for her accident".
"Her accident"?
"Yeah," Haley said, regretfully wishing she hadn't said anything about it. "She had an accident while she was sleeping last night".
"Hales," Nathan said shaking his head. "She is eight, she should be way past this".
"I know, I know," Haley told him.
"I didn't know about either".
"Well, you have been gone for two months and before that, it was six weeks and before that, it was—".
"I don't need a recap," Nathan said effectively cutting his wife off. "It's not as if I'm out cruising around with the boys I am out making a living for our family".
"I know".
"And after everything Clay has done for us I have been trying to give him as light as a load as possible since Quinn—your sister gave birth. It took them four years to get pregnant and they just had triplets—".
"I was in the room Nathan, I know how many babies they had," Haley said holding her hand up to stop him from continuing on his rant. "I wasn't angry or even upset about you working or being away I was simply saying, you have missed a lot here recently".
"Oh".
Nathan watched as Haley began cooking breakfast, he glanced at the clock knowing he needed to be at the office five minutes ago but he didn't leave.
"What have I missed"? Nathan asked walking up behind his wife, wrapping his arms tightly around her waist. "With the kids and you and the town—".
"Jamie got his tongue pierced".
"What"? Nathan nearly yelled as he stepped back causing his wife to jump. "He-".
"The day he turned sixteen, and that was just the start of summer".
"Did you sign for it"?
"No, he forged your signature. I have grounded him, I told him when he takes it out I will give him his phone back—he didn't have it for six weeks. It didn't seem to faze him so I just gave it back, he doesn't need to be driving around without a phone anyways".
Nathan paused, she couldn't be that naive. That just wasn't Haley, there was no way she didn't think of it.
"Why didn't you just take his car keys"?
"Well, I thought of that" she began, for which Nathan was relieved but stood to wait for the explanation—and boy it better be good. "But, when you're not here and Lydia needs to be picked up or something it's really convenient for him to have his license now".
Well, that did make sense.
"Is that all"? Nathan asked pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Nope," Haley said shaking her head making sure to give the P a loud pop as she said the small word. "He also got a—I think it's called a daith piercing, it's on the inside of his ear".
"How about you tell me what our son hasn't got pierced would that be easier"?
"Just those two things that I know of," Haley said running her fingers through her hair, a trait Nathan had always found cute, but this morning he failed to even notice. "The last three weeks of school he had one of those man buns, but he has since cut. Thank God. He just does things to piss me off, this summer has been a nightmare".
"Suddenly Lydia's problems seem so small".
Haley laughed as she pulled the door to the refrigerator open, and removed the orange juice from inside "I haven't even begun yet" she told her husband. "Speaking of Jamie's tongue if you ever want to find it just look in Madison's throat".
The more his wife spoke, the worse Nathan felt. It was a strange feeling, and he couldn't quite describe it. It was as if, unintentionally, he hadn't realized that somewhere along the line his son had become a teenager.
"Wait—do you think they're having sex"? Nathan whispered, his voice filled with dread as he spoke.
"I don't think so," Haley told him.
"How can you be sure"?
"I put a baby monitor in his duffel bag, beneath all his dirty socks that haven't been touched in over a year. She isn't ready—he is a Scott so of course, he is".
Nathan sat down on the stools resting his elbows on the top of the bar and allowing his head to fall into his hands, there was no turning back. They were in fact—the parents of a teenager.
"Do I need to talk to him"? Nathan asked those dreaded words. "About...sex"?
"No, I actually thought of seeing if Luke would do it. We have a better chance of getting him to open up to anyone—besides us".
"Luke is three thousand miles away".
"Not for long, their plane gets in today at eleven I believe," Haley told him as she sat a small plate in front of them.
"For how long"?
"Permanent," she said. "They are moving back to Tree Hill, I'm more nervous about Brooke returning. After Julian's funeral she went on a week trip with Peyton and Lucas, then that week turned into a month and that month turned into a year. She hasn't even stepped foot into her house since—I just worry how she is going to do".
"When was the last time we even saw Peyton and Lucas"?
"Christmas, six years ago".
Nathan shook his head, that couldn't have been right. But, it was.
Once Peyton and Lucas hit the open road, they never looked back. They called and wrote often, there had even been the regular Skype and FaceTime calls but it was strange the brother he never wanted had become the brother he missed, but these days it was hard to even keep up with his wife.
"When do you leave out again"? Haley asked her husband.
"Not for a couple of weeks"?
"So, you will be here Saturday"?
Nathan nodded.
"Tric is having 80's night—Chase and Chris thought it would be fun, I agreed. Do you want to be the Johnny to my baby"?
Nathan couldn't help but laugh, though he wasn't going to say no. They both knew that.
"I would love to," Nathan said as he stood up. "But, I have to get to work".
Haley reached over grabbing a bagel for him to eat on the ride to his office "don't say I never gave you anything".
A/N that was just the prologue and I hope you enjoyed it.
I like to appeal to my readers, so I am just going to take a little poll if you can leave a review stating whether you prefer Brucas or Leyton please do, that will help me.
I do try to set up each chapter more how an episode was set up, I try to include as much as I can. So, my chapters will be extremely long. But, if there is a storyline you have always wanted to read about tell me about it, I have storylines planned out but like I said I really tried to appeal to my readers.
If you prefer next-generation stories, I do have one in the works it also only has the prologue right now but it's called seven Devils so go to my page and take a read.
But, thanks for reading this chapter I will try to have an update soon.