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Summary: Haley, Brooke, Peyton, Nathan, Luke and Jake are best friends who all grew up together. Nathan and Luke are twins and Jake is their younger brother. Haley and Jake are juniors while the others are seniors. The story starts off the summer before their senior and junior year. They all end up spending the summer at Brooke's family's cabin! What that summer will bring to the group will forever change their lives; mistakes are made, secrets are revealed, friendships are tested while others grow and of course, love is in the summer air. Once the summer is over can they head back to school and remain the friends they have always been? Only time will tell. Couples are Naley, Brucas, and Jeyton. Told in each characters pov.
AN: Hey guys! This is my first fanfic story so I am a little nervous about putting my story out there. I have been reading fanfic stories for about 6 months now and I have been thinking about writing one myself for some time but never had the guts to so until now. I hope you guys like my idea and will stick around to see where I will be taking this story. I appreciate constructive critism and if you guys have any thoughts or concerns please let me know! Anyway I will stop my rambling now! Hope you enjoy and please review, thanks! xoxo
Slow Dancing In A Burning Summer
Prologue
Haley's POV
June 9, 2008
Haley James here, and today is my high school graduation. Sounds exciting right? Wrong. I mean it should be, I did accomplish what I'm been dreaming of since I started high school—becoming valedictorian of Tree Hill High's graduating class of 2008. Don't get me wrong, it's still an honor but I can't help but feel a little despondent in a way. After all these past four years have been the most life changing and heartbreakingly beautiful. Why would I want to walk away from it all. It's the only thing I have ever known.
Anyone ever tell you that the day you graduate high school is the day when all your dreams come true? It's a day when possibilite vast? It's a day that marks the beginning of the rest of your life? Yeah? Me too.
To tell you the truth my dreams came true along time ago. As for the day that started off the beginning of the rest of my life, well that was the day I realized I was in love for the first time. I mean truly in love. I guess it all started two years ago when my friend Brooke decided for all us, Peyton, Nathan, Lucas, Jake and I that we would be spending the summer at her parents cabin.
Destination, Lake Tillery, North Carolina. It was the summer before Brooke, Peyton, Nate and Luke's senior year and she wanted one last hurrah before they all left Jake and I behind to discover the so called "real world" and to offically become college kids. Little did we know then that over the coarse of one summer the friendships we took sixteen years building would be tested in a way none of us ever thought possible. I guess you could say that summer is what tied us all together, in more ways then one. It was kind of like that saying "We'll always have Paris" except in this case it was "We'll always have Lake Tillery." It was a summer where secrets were revealed and mistakes were made. A summer where hearts were broken and tears were shed. A summer that brought love amoung six friends and once we all returned to school that year, things between the six of us had changed; we weren't the same people anymore, therefore our friendships wasn't the same.
Now I can't tell you exactly how everything went down or how everything happened or how everthing turned out, at least not yet. Remember, good things come to those you wait. However, I will give you this: people who are meant to be together always find their way in the end and as for friendships go, you better believe they're worth fighing for, at least the true ones are anyway.
So here's a story about six friends who risked it all for love, faith, and a little bit of hope.
Buckle in, your in for one hell of a ride.
Haley: Distinguished guests, parents and this year's graduating class...