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"So how can I ever try to better nobody ever lets me in. I can still see you, this ain't the best view on the outside looking in. I've been a lot of lonely places. I've never been on the outside looking in."
-The Outside by Taylor Swift
My name is Haley James. I'm what you call a geek or a nerd. I always have my nose in a book, not because I'm studying, although that is sometimes the case, but I just love to read. They call me those things because I'm the person who is in all of the advanced courses and who is even put into higher classes because the ones I was taking were too easy. I'm a junior at Tree Hill High, a place you probably haven't heard of. We have a basketball program that I guess is good. Basketball has never made much sense to me although I watch it all the time and all of my brothers play. My best friend Lucas and I don't like to go in the gym to watch. Although Lucas is really good at basketball, he can't play on the school team because of his stupid father. You see, Dan Scott is Lucas' father. He's also the star player's father. Dan chose his other son over Lucas and he always gets ridiculed for being the son that his dad didn't want.
Because he never had a father, Lucas was raised by his mother, Karen and his Uncle Keith and he has turned out to be the nicest, most respectable guy that I know. Dan's other son is the total opposite. Nathan is the most arrogant, self-centered jerk that attends Tree Hill High. Nathan thinks that he owns Tree Hill, but the sad thing is, he doesn't. How do I know this? Well, that's because Nathan, Lucas and I were best friends once upon a time. I know, shocking, but it's true. He's really just putting on a show to get attention from unimportant people. He doesn't know that these people don't really care about him, they just want some of his popularity. Ha, that's funny. Who ever thought that Nathan would actually be popular? Certainly not me or Lucas that's for sure.
You ready for something even more shocking? Well, I bet you would never think that Nathan and I were actually almost an item. Well it was true until popularity took over. That's when nobody thought it was acceptable for a jock to be with a geek. So he dumped me and started dating all the pretty cheerleaders instead. That was about four years ago when I thought my life was normal. Who knew that people change so much because they want people to like them? Even after all this time, it still hurts a little to see Nathan with all of these girls hanging around him.
Oh well, his loss right? At least I'm the only one who knows who the real Nathan Scott is, a guy who still has feelings for the smart, geeky girl he dumped nearly four years ago. You see a lot of things when your looking through the window from the outside at all the things happening in your surroundings.
AN: Hey guys, I just put this story out there on a spur of the moment decision, and I think that I can handle writing this story on my own, but your advice will still help. I will try my hardest to update, but that won't come very easy when school starts again in January, but it would help if you stick with the story. Again if you have any advice, I'm open to constructive critisism. -Tay-