Chapter One

Haley's POV

Haley nervously stood staring at the school on her first day. She hated that she had to transfer in the middle of her junior year but her father's company had transferred him to Tree Hill so here she was. Finally she got up the nerve to enter the school. When she did all conversations stopped abruptly. She looked around for a second before her eyes landed on a tall dark haired guy with gorgeous blue eyes. She stood there for a couple of seconds, eyes locked with his, before a tall good looking blonde guy took pity on her and came up to her, from beside the guy.

"Hey. You must be new. Don't worry about them, we're a small town and don't get a lot of new people. I'm Lucas Scott, by the way."

"Thanks. I'm Haley James. Could you tell me where the office is? I have to go get my schedule."

"Sure. I'll take you there. It's actually on my way to class."

With that they made their way to the office getting to know each other along the way.

"Well here we are. I'll talk to you at lunch. Just look for me and come sit with me," with that Lucas took off to continue to his class.

"Thanks Lucas," she yelled to his retreating back.

It took her about 10 minutes to get registered, get her schedule and for someone to show her where her first class was. By that time she was late for first period.

When she entered the room, once again all conversations stopped. She ignored it this time and walked up to the teacher handing her a piece of paper, "Hi. I'm supposed to be in this class."

"You must be Haley James then. Okay, you can have a seat in the back corner beside Miss Davis. Miss Davis, please raise your hand."

When a beautiful brunette girl in the back raised her hand with a big smile Haley shyly made her way to her seat.

"Hi. I'm Brooke Davis," the brunette said giving her another big smile.

"Haley James."

"So, Haley James. Where are you from?" Brooke asked her happily.

"Well, Brooke Davis, I'm from New York City actually."

"Really? Tell me all about it. I love New York. I've always wanted to go there." Brooke said happily.

They chatted happily becoming fast friends until the bell rang.

"Haley, you should totally come sit with me at lunch. You can meet all of my friends and my boyfriend. Oh, and you should join the cheerleading squad too. I can tell we're going to become the best of friends." Brooke said as she gathered up her books.

"Well I would but I already told someone else I'd sit with them at lunch. And as for cheerleading I don't think so. I have to be the klutziest person on the planet. Plus, I heard you guys have a tutor center here so I thought I'd drop by there after school and see if they need any help."

"Well you can tutor and cheer. Just think about it. So who are you sitting with at lunch?"

"Um, Lucas Scott?"

"That's great. Broody is my boyfriend so you can just look for either one of us at lunch."

"Broody?"

"Yeah. Sorry, Lucas. Broody's just his nickname. So I'll see you then," Brooke said walking off to her next class.

The rest of the morning flew by quickly and soon it was lunch. As she was approaching the cafeteria she could see Brooke waiting for her by the entrance.

"Hey Tutor Girl. Figured I'd wait for you and show you where we sit."

"Tutor Girl?"

"Yeah, you're new nickname. Don't you like it?" Brooke asked with a little pout.

"Nope. It's great. Thanks Tigger."

"Tigger?" Brooke asked happily.

"Yeah. Tigger. Cause you're always so happy and bouncy." Haley said linking her arm through Brooke's and dragging her to the cafeteria line.

Once they had finished getting their food Brooke led Haley outside to a table out on the lawn. Haley could tell that Lucas was already sitting there along with two other guys and two other girls. One of the guys was the one from this morning. The other guy had shaggy brown hair and brown eyes.

"Hey everyone. I'd like you to meet Haley James. Haley this is P. Sawyer, her boyfriend, Jake Jagelski, Lucas' brother Nathan Scott, his girlfriend Rachel Gattina, and of course you're already met Broody," Brooke introduced pointing to everyone in turn.

"Hey. Nice to meet you all. So is you're name really P?" Haley asked a blonde girl with short curly hair.

"No. It's actually Peyton. Brooke just has little nicknames for everyone and tends to forget not everyone knows them," the blonde replied with a smile.

"I know. I've already been given one." Haley said sitting down in between Peyton and Brooke, who had sat down beside Lucas.

"Shut up Tutor Girl. You know you love me."

"Tutor Girl?" the busty red head that Brooke had introduced as Rachel asked her snottily.

"Yeah. Tutor Girl. I'm thinking of seeing if the school needs any more tutors," Haley said ignoring the snotty tone.

"And she's going to going the cheerleading squad," Brooke added happily.

"What? Her?" Rachel asked in the same snotty tone, looking Haley over in disgust.

"Yes her." Brooke replied shortly.

Haley had actually decided not to join the squad but after Rachel's comments she decided that she was going to do it to spite her. She had a spare period right after lunch and decided that she could tutor then.

They spent the rest of lunch getting to know each other, with Rachel throwing catty comments towards Haley every once in a while. As soon as the warning bell rang they scattered towards their next class, Peyton and Jake taking Haley to the tutor center as it was on the way to their next class

"Can I help you?" a teacher asked coming up towards Haley as soon as she entered. Haley assumed that the teacher was in charge of the tutor center.

"Yeah, actually. I'm new here and was wondering if you needed any more tutors this semester. I was a tutor at my last school and wanted to continue here."

"Okay well give me you're name and let me have a look at your transcripts. Just sit down for a couple of minutes and I'll get back to you."

After the Haley had given the teacher her name he walked into his office and typed up her information on his computer.

"Okay. Everything looks good. I'm sorry to tell you that we don't have any students available right now that need tutors but the next one that comes in is your."

Just then the door opened and someone walked in.

"Can I help you?" the teacher asked him.

"Yeah, I need a tutor."