I know the summary sucks but I honestly have no idea where I'm going with this. All I know is that the relationships will end up Lucas/Peyton and Nathan/Haley, as it should be. Of course, I'm planning on this being quite a long story, starting when they're 12 and going to about their senior year of college, so there are going to be many ups and downs, twists and turns, and different relationships starting, ending, and starting again. Ideas are always welcome. In fact, I NEED IDEAS.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything One Tree Hill. Not even the box set. I've been borrowing all the seasons from a girl I go to school with.
Scott brothers are 12-years-old
"He shoots…and he scores!" a twelve-year-old Marvin McFaddon screamed from the grass on the side of the Scotts' driveway/basketball court. Lucas ran around with his arms raised as his friends cheered.
A voice yelled from the front door, "Luke! Mom wants you in for lunch."
Lucas sighed as he looked at his little brother, "Tell her I'll be right in."
Nathan yelled again, "Luke! Mom wants you in for lunch now."
Lucas rolled his eyes and said good bye to his friends before running into the house, "God, Nate! Couldn't you have waited, oh, I don't know, five more minutes?? I was in the zone. I had scored 30 points."
Nathan scoffed, "You were the only one playing."
Lucas just looked at him as if that was the most stupid rationalization ever. They entered the kitchen just in time for their mother, Karen, to place two plates of grilled cheese on the counter, "Eat up, boys. We have to go buy new supplies for school."
Dan Scott had fathered the two boys twelve years earlier, but that was the only fathering he had ever done. After he impregnated Karen with twins, he met a hot blonde named Deb and followed her all the way to Vegas where they got married and very possibly might have had children.
When the boys turned three, Karen opened a café with her best friend since high school, Anna Sawyer. Anna, recently divorced from her husband, Larry, and broken up over losing the custody battle for their daughter, Peyton, found the café as solace and used it to keep her mind off of the horror her life had become. Shortly after, Anna moved in with Karen and the boys, not able to be alone.
Nathan instantly warmed to Anna but Lucas was more skeptical. Anna was blonde and young and reminded Lucas too much of Deb for him to get close. He swore to himself that he would hate blondes forever because they had taken away his father. Nathan, on the other hand, loved Anna's hair and had a secret crush. Nathan liked blondes and hated his father.
Two years later a big family moved in next door. Their functional family didn't fit into Tree Hill and most people looked at them as if they were aliens but Karen invited them over for dinner anyway.
The family ended up being a father, Jim James, a mother, Lydia James, and five daughters: Lydia Jr. (15), Rebecca (12), Taylor (9), Gina (7), and Haley (5). They entered the Roe/Scott/Sawyer house in a single-file line, oldest to youngest. Lucas and Haley, sharing a mutual fascination with basketball, ran outside to shoot hoops and Nathan slunk upstairs to his and Lucas' room to color but he was followed by a very intrigued Taylor.
"Hey," she said as she entered the bedroom, "Why are you all alone up here?"
"Luke went outside to play with your sister and I didn't want to stay down there."
"Can I stay with you?" Taylor asked, sweetly.
Nathan nodded meekly.
She patted his head, "I'm Taylor."
He looked up at her, "I'm Nathan."
The next year when Lucas, Nathan, and Haley started kindergarten, L.J. (short for Lydia Jr.) drove them all, including Rebecca, Taylor, and Gina, to school. L.J. dropped off Taylor, Gina, Haley, Nathan, and Lucas at the elementary school and then her and Rebecca headed off to the middle school and high school. Gina, being the bold girl she was, made her way to her second grade classroom, not afraid to walk around aimlessly and alone. Haley and Lucas walked off hand in hand to their kindergarten class, leaving Nathan alone to look out for himself. Taylor almost went off to fourth grade but changed her mind and grabbed Nathan's hand, pulling him after his brother and her sister.
That was how their school careers started: Haley and Lucas: the best of friends, and Nathan idolizing Taylor as the only friend he had. As the years went on things stayed the same.
Three years later the newspapers were filled with stories of the scandal that ripped apart a high class New York family. Because of many infidelities, Victoria Davis divorced her husband, Darren, and took their daughter, Brooke, to small town Tree Hill, North Carolina, where they became significantly the wealthiest family in the area.
Brooke started second grade with Lucas, Nathan, and Haley. She seemed scared and lost, but when Haley tried to befriend her, Brooke said she couldn't be friends with girls because they were no fun. Haley didn't want to give up on the poor Davis girl so she enlisted Lucas to help out, so he did, and Brooke rejected him too, saying she didn't like light-haired boys, they weren't mysterious enough. Haley went home and complained to her sisters about the new girl so Taylor, who was still Nathan's only friend, told him to give Brooke a shot.
He did and Brooke didn't give him any reason why they couldn't be friends.
She smiled as she said, "Yeah, I think I'll like you. I like your eyes. They're pretty. I like the color. Your hair is really soft. I like your shirt. I really think we're going to be good friends. I can't wait until we hang out. It's gonna be so much fun. I wonder if Tree Hill can be as fun as New York. I guess I'll just have to wait and find out," she stopped when she noticed Nathan looking at her oddly, "What? Do I have something on my face?"
He just shook his head, too bemused by her rambling to say anything, and that was the start of their "relationship".
One year after that Anna Sawyer passed away. Her ex-husband came to town for the burial and brought Peyton along. While Nathan was broken up over his first crush's death, Lucas couldn't have cared less, and he noticed Peyton seemed to feel the same way.
He approached her after they buried Anna and everyone had gone back to the café, "So you're Peyton?"
She looked up, her eyes dark, "Who wants to know?"
Lucas laughed at the fire in the blonde girl, "The name's Lucas Scott. Your mom's lived with us for the past eight years."
"She's not my mom," Peyton said coolly, "If she were my mom she would've fought harder for me. If she were my mom she would've called on Christmas and my birthday. If she were my mom she would've left something for me in her Will."
Lucas gave her a weird look and then smirked, "I knew I had it right all along. Blondes suck." And he walked away.
Nathan, overhearing the entire exchange, walked over to Peyton, "I just heard that whole conversation and I just want to say I'm really sorry about him. He doesn't like blondes because our father ran away with one but that still doesn't give him the right to treat you like that on the day of your mother's funeral."
Peyton eyed him for a moment and then said, "If you were really listening in then you would've heard that that woman was not, is not, and will never be my mother." She turned and left him standing there in awe, watching her retreat, her curls bobbing behind her.
Six months later Larry Sawyer died from tumor that paralyzed the entire left side of his body. In his Will, he had left Peyton all of his money but never specified who she should go to if something should happen to him. Luckily, Anna had made it very clear. Peyton had been wrong about what her mother had left for her.
Peyton was to live with Karen.
She moved into Anna's old room and finished fifth grade with the boys and Haley. She spent the summer waking up at dawn to go out and sketch all day and then return before dinner. If Brooke or Haley were over, which was almost every night, Peyton would retreat to her room after the evening meal and lock herself there until it was time to go to bed. She only spoke to Karen and, on occasion, Nathan, but never Lucas.
As the boys finished eating, Peyton entered the house and walked into the kitchen.
"Oh, Peyton, honey, I'm glad you're back early," Karen said to her surrogate daughter, "We're going to get school supplies. You three start sixth grade next week!"
Peyton just nodded solemnly and went up to her room. Karen and Nathan exchanged a glance and Nathan slid out of his seat to follow Peyton upstairs. He knocked on her door and when there was no answer he let himself in. He found Peyton sitting on her bed, looking over an unfamiliar sketch.
"What's that?" Nathan asked, "I've never seen that one before."
Peyton shrugged, "I found it in the closet last night. I think Anna drew it."
Nathan examined the picture again. It was of a woman, maybe 20 or so, holding a baby. The baby's features were very defined but the woman's were smudged and across the top in big, bold letters was written: She Is Unknown.
"It kind of reminds me of you," Nathan blurted and quickly covered his mouth.
Peyton looked up at him, "What the hell is that supposed to mean, Nate?"
"It's nothing. Just that…you live with us so we should know you, just like a baby should know it's mother, but we don't. We don't know you at all."
Peyton just gave him a look.
Nathan continued, "Why don't you ever talk to Luke?"
"Why doesn't he ever talk to me?" she countered.
He only shrugged but couldn't say more before Karen called them down to the car. Lucas had already claimed shot gun so Nathan and Peyton slid into the back. By the time they got home, each kid had enough school supplies to last until college and they were all exhausted.
A week later they started the sixth grade. Taylor, now the oldest, drove the kids to school. She dropped off Gina, Haley, Lucas, Nathan, and Peyton at middle school and drove a quarter of a mile to the high school where she skipped first period French to sneak under the bleachers and smoke with her new boyfriend.
Back at the middle school, Peyton ran off to the art room for her first class, Lucas and Haley went to the gym to shoot some hoops before class started, and Nathan met up with his "girlfriend", Brooke.
Lucas was the only sixth grader as a first string player on the basketball team. Nathan didn't play because he knew his father would have wanted him to. He loved the game but he hated his father. Lucas' coach, Whitey Durham, couldn't deny that the boy had talent, but he had known Dan Scott, and saw parts of him in Lucas, and Whitey knew that couldn't be good.
Nathan found his own talent as a tennis player and made the team, disappointing many older students. For weeks he faced severe bullying but eventually his captain, Chase Adams, a popular eighth grader, made them leave Nathan alone.
Brooke was always following around the seventh and eighth grade cheerleaders, attending to their every need, hoping that maybe they'd give her a spot. Rachel Gatina, the head cheerleader, wanted so much to hate Brooke but after seeing the tricks she could do, knew that Brooke belonged on the squad. By the second week of school, Rachel and Brooke were best friends.
Haley joined the school choir and her voice blew the teacher, Mrs. Durham, out of the water. All of the other students were ecstatic to have Haley singing with them, despite the fact that she was a sixth grader, except for one seventh grade boy, Chris Keller.
Peyton spent all of her free time in the art room experimenting with charcoal, water colors, crayons, markers, etc. For the first few weeks she was always alone but one day she was alarmed by the entrance of a blonde hair, blue eyed boy.
She looked at him oddly and then went back to her drawings. He just stared at her for awhile, waiting for her to look back up. When she didn't he cleared his throat. She still didn't look up.
Finally he spoke, "Hi."
She glanced up at him quickly and then without saying anything, looked back at her picture.
He spoke again, "I'm Derek Sommers."
Peyton grumbled and looked back at him, "Well, Derek Sommers, that's all well and good, but I'm really busy so if you could please leave or be very, very quiet, that would be highly appreciated."
Derek was stunned by her spitfire attitude and quickly left the room.
A week later he went to the art room again, but only for a few seconds, taking the time to drop a drawing in front of Peyton and leave the room. The picture was of a blue weed talking to a pink flower. The speech bubble above the weed said "You're beautiful" and the speech bubble above the flower retaliated, "You sicken me". Written in black letters across the green grass, it said, "See? It hurts". Peyton sighed and threw it in the garbage. She took out a blank sheet of sketch paper and began to draw.
The next day she dropped the picture in front of Derek in the computer lab and walked away. He looked down. The picture had a door that was only open a crack and the pink flower was looking out to where the blue weed was standing. The weed was saying "Why won't you let me in?" and the flower answered "I don't let anyone in".
Please give me any advice on how to make this story better. I want honesty. Real, true, and (if need be) mean honesty. Also, ideas would be greatly appreciated. The second chapter is about half completed but I need a little help for where this should go. I know parts in the middle and I know the end, but I'm not sure how to get there. HELP PLEASE.
So I hope you enjoyed and keep reading!