Author's Notes

I recently got around to watching the entire One Tree Hill series and I loved it. However, one thing that I found to be disturbing was Season 3 Haley's return and the story angle they took. After the pain and suffering she caused Nathan in Season 2, it seemed like everyone (except Payton) was on her side telling Nathan to forgive her and move on. Lucas was even acting like Nathan was at fault for not accepting her apology and forgive her as soon as she came back which I found ridiculous.

The dialogues seem to be focused on how Nathan was the one who was pushing her away and that he wasn't supportive of her music dreams and that was why she had to make the choice of leaving him. Quite often, she says that she never gave up on them which is contradicting to Season 2. Nathan was the one who was pushing for her music career to the point of willing to sacrifice his own dreams for her. And she was the one who ended their relationship when he went after her saying he will do whatever he wants to save their marriage and she says that she rushed into it too soon. She also tells Lucas that her life was on the road.

So I found it difficult to accept the way they took Season 3 return of Haley and the relationship of Naley. I understand the writers wanting a quick Naley fix but I thought it should not have been that easy for her to return back to the life she abandoned. Therefore, my imagination went in a different angle of how Season 3 Naley goes and Haley earns her right of the love of Nathan after going through some of the pain he had to go through.

I also thought the whole Brooke/Lucas angle was a waste and unnecessary. We knew it was going to be Lucas/Peyton in the end. And having Brooke suffer through another betrayal felt too mean and Lucas became worse because he ended up making the same mistakes he did in Season 1. So I decided that the Brooke/Lucas in Season 2 ending never happened and during the summer before Season 3, Lucas and Peyton were growing close to the start of relationship. Also, Brooke did live it up as she pretended she did during the summer instead of writing letters for Lucas. So she comes back having moved on from Lucas.

Finally, I decide to change Rachel's intro from how they did it in the show. Now that there's no Brucas, there's no need for Rachel having a thing for Lucas. Instead, she has a thing for Nathan like she did in Season 4 only in my story, in Season 3 itself. So she's going to be the one creating chaos in Season 3 for Naley. And those who are fan of Chris Keller, be warned. He is not going to have a good time in this story.

Hope you'll like my view and story. Please review and give your feedback. Right now I have some foundation for how I want to take the story but I may need assistance with ideas for some of the episode fillers.

This story will focus mainly on Naley related events. Other stories will happen as it did in the episode. No changes in them.

Finally, this story will start with Episode 3 of Season 3. First two episode would happen as it did. Only difference was that none of Brooke/Lucas conversation happens except for casual greeting and friendly banter.