Finding the Only One Tree Hill
By Emily Carol
Disclaimer: I do not own One Tree Hill, just the CDs and DVDs and my obsession with James Lafferty. On the other hand…Jessica, Michelle, Lauren, and Justin are all mine! So don't steal.
AN: So I've never written One Tree Hill fanfiction before, but please don't stop reading right now. I have had some experience previously with Gilmore Girls and Alias but lately have been just writing original fiction, but here's my debut back into fanfiction, I hope you enjoy!
Prologue
One Tree Hill, North Carolina
"Move, move, move," 39-year-old Lucas Scott yelled down the court. It was summer and he was coaching basketball down at the local YMCA as part of a summer camp while on break from his job as English-Lit teacher and head girl's basketball coach at One Tree Hill High School, which went back to session in two weeks.
"How's it going big bro?" Nathan asked as he walked up behind Lucas.
"Not bad," Lucas said as he laughed as one of the first graders went chasing after the ball after she'd dropped it and it began to roll down the court. He loved coaching little kids in the summer; it made him remember why the game was so much fun, because at any age it was still a blast.
"Okay, well I'm heading home, Haley's waiting for me and we're going to TRIC tonight, Justin's playing," Nathan said.
"Come on, try not to sound so disappointed," Lucas teased Nathan. "It's you who supplied the sex gene; the wrong ones just went to the wrong kid. You've got Jessica as your basketball star." A few months before they graduated Duke University, Haley had discovered she was pregnant with twins; luckily she and Nathan had both graduated before she had the babies even though the boy and girl were born about a month and a half early because Haley was too small to carry them to term.
Both of them loved Justin and Jessica, who were now sixteen, to death, but it was always a teasing point in the family that Justin and Jessica needed to trade lives because Justin scorned basketball and was musically talented and Jessica was pretty much tone deaf but was the star of Girl's Varsity Basketball at Tree Hill High.
"Okay, well see you tomorrow at the games," Lucas said. The final games for the basketball camp were that Saturday, the next day actually, and then Lucas and Nathan would each have two weeks before heading back to work at Tree Hill High, Nathan was a gym coach and the head boy's basketball coach.
"No, tonight, dinner, remember?" Nathan reminded Lucas, every few weeks those of their group left in Tree Hill got together for dinner, a tradition that Haley refused to let go of, ever, even when Lucas had his appendix removed, she insisted that they all ate in the hospital cafeteria together that night.
"Got it, see you then."
New York City, New York
"I don't know what I'm going to do with you!" Brooke Davis yelled at her seventeen-year old daughter Lauren Davis.
"You could do nothing, that's what Grandma and Grandpa did with you," Lauren retaliated.
"No, because I don't want you to end up like me," Brooke said.
"Why not? You've got a great life, we live in one of the fanciest apartments, you're an internationally known designer, what could be wrong with this picture?"
"That my seventeen-year-old daughter is out drinking and coming home drunk in the middle of the night!" Brooke yelled.
"So what? You did it when you were my age. Younger in fact," Lauren bit back.
"How do you even know that?" Brooke asked.
"It's obvious," Lauren said. "Plus Grandma told me about it when I spent that week in California with them last summer."
"Just because I did it doesn't mean its right, maybe if I had made better judgments when I was your age I wouldn't be living this life right now, I'd be living a better one," Brooke lectured. She'd never been one for responsibility until a few years ago.
"What could be better than this?" Lauren asked.
"A lot of things," Brooke said.
Brooke had discovered she was pregnant at the beginning of her senior year of college and instead of telling any of her friends, she ran. She ran to New York and finished up her last year of college at NYU, in fashion design, before launching her own fashion line. It had been a hit and she'd been able to live comfortably with Lauren, but she'd never returned home to One Tree Hill. She knew that Nathan and Lucas were teachers at the high school there and she was pretty sure Peyton's recording studio she owned was down there too. She also knew that Peyton had gotten married the year after she left; her parents forwarded her the invitation Peyton had sent to them in an attempt to make contact with Brooke.
Other than that, Brooke knew nothing of life in Tree Hill, and every day she missed it. And then her revelation came upon her, she had to go back. Lauren was going to be a junior, over halfway through her high school career, but Brooke had to get her out of New York, it wasn't good for her.
But would leaving New York be good fro Brooke? Her life was here, her design studios, her fashions.
But Lauren came first, Lauren had always come first.
"That's it," Brooke told her daughter.
"Huh?" Lauren looked her funny.
"We're moving," Brooke said.
"We're WHAT?" Lauren screamed, wondering how her mom could come to such a decision so quickly.
"Well, this has always been in the back of my mind," oh, that's how, "but we're moving back to my hometown. We're going to Tree Hill."
The words were out of Brooke's mouth before she realized that if she went back, it meant a whole lot of questions.
Including the one she didn't want to answer the most; who was Lauren's father?