Disclaimer: One tree hill and it's characters belongs to Mark Schwahn and the WB. Only Isabel and Gerald belong to me.
Summary: My own version of 'lifetime piling up'. Contains spoilers if you haven't seen season 2. This is basically about how things would've been if Dan had married Karen instead of Deb.
So what happened is Dan married Karen, and they're happy. He's not as big a monster
as he is in the show. Karen is a business graduate, she managed to attend college with Dan helping to take care of Lucas. Dan is also a business graduate, he and Karen own most of the clubs and cafes in Tree Hill and neighboring towns.
Keith and Jules are married and happy together as well, they have a daughter named Bettina. Keith's a successful business man and owns Keith Scott Motors. Jules is a housewife.
Deb married another man, Gerald Lennox, who was actually her childhood sweetheart. Gerald knows that Nathan is not his son, but Nathan does not know that Dan is his real father. Deb and Gerald moved to Tree Hill because that's where Gerald does his business deals with Brooke's father. They're co-workers.
Haley, Brooke and Peyton are just as the show has shown.
"Mom! Guess what?" Nathan shouted as he ran in through the door. He bound up the stairs quickly, two at a time.
"What's up, honey?" Deb smiled at her son. "I joined the basketball team!"
The smile quickly fell of Deb's face, but she tried to keep it there, forcing herself to smile. "That's great hon…"
"Yeah I know! How cool is that?" Nathan asked enthusiastically. "Oh well, I gotta run, I'm late for meeting Haley."
Deb watched Nathan quickly rush to his room to get ready to meet his best friend. She sighed to herself, 'what am I going to do?' she thought, 'it seems no matter how I try to shelter Nathan, the fact that Dan is his father and he will be around Dan is unavoidable. That bastard.'
She thought about college, about how she had been drunk, young and stupid. It was a mistake, thinking that he'd care about her. But she could never regret it too much, because in the end, Dan had given her Nathan, her son whom she loved more than anything else.
Her son whom she'd do anything to protect.
Lucas pushed her up against the brick wall, the rough bricks scraping her soft skin. But she didn't care. Peyton pressed herself back towards it, thrilled and disgusted by his touch at the same time. She hated how he made her feel weak, how she let him use her for sex.
There was nothing she could do about it though. She was in love with him, if this was love. She didn't know. She just knew that'd she'd always let him do whatever he wanted, because she couldn't say no.
Lucas' mouth was moving against her neck, his kisses making her body tremble and tingle. She kissed him back, leaving butterfly kisses on his scrawny neck. He unbuttoned her jeans and pushed her further against the brick wall.
"No, Luke, not here, not now." She moaned. Lucas ignored her and began to unzip her jeans. "Lucas! Stop it, I mean it!" She shouted and pushed him away. As she began to button her jeans again, Lucas shouted, "what Peyton? What? You're such a tease! God, if you want to be like that, fine! Get your own ride home."
Peyton watched with tears in her eyes as Lucas went back to the car, threw all her things out and drove off, leaving her standing in the cold.
Nathan jogged through the café doors and in his excitement, accidentally knocked over a girl. A very pretty girl, he noticed as he was helping her up. "I'm sorry, totally my fault." He apologized.
She smiled, giving him the full benefit of her dimples, "it's okay, since you caught me anyway. Want to buy me a drink?" Nathan nodded.
"I'm Isabel." she introduced herself. "Nathan."
"Wow, Nathan- do you always have such a way with words?" She teased. He blushed, this girl was so outgoing! And… cool. Suddenly, something attacked him from behind. "YAHH!" it shrieked. Nathan jumped, he couldn't help it.
"Haley, get off!" He swung her around playfully. After a few desperate swings, Haley did get off. That's when Isabel spoke again, "oh. I'm sorry, I'll leave you to be your girlfriend." She turned to leave, "hey wait! Isabel, it's not like that! This is Haley, my best friend." Nathan introduced. "It's true!" Haley chirped, "we're like brother and sister."
"Oh." Isabel answered, a red blush coloring her cheeks, "God, how stupid do I look?" She giggled nervously. "Nah, you're fine." Nathan answered, hoping he looked as charming as he was trying to sound. "Come on." Isabel pulled him to a booth where they both gave Haley their orders.
A/N: How was it? I'm sorry, I know it's kind of short, but yes. If you loved it, please review! (:
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