This is my first fanfic and although I'm not very good at writing I do carefully edit my chapters so hopefully the stories an okish standard. This story is set after series 2 but doesn't stick to series 3 or 4 but does have a few bits of story line from them. Couples will be Naley and very minor Brucas and even less Jeyton I'm afraid.

Summary: Haley returns from tour because of her parent's deaths. It's the middle of the summer before senior year and everyone's away on holiday. Haley wants to win back Nathan but Haley's years going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Karma Police - Radiohead

Haley sat staring across her almost bare apartment, she had been back almost a month but she didn't have much stuff or the money to fill it properly.

It was a lot emptier in many ways then when she had left it to go on tour.

She had a squishy red sofa that she was sitting on and a smallish coffee table that was currently covered in school books that she'd been trying to catch up with, on the work she'd missed from last year.

Although she had been ahead in her previous years after going on tour she was now quite behind. School started again tomorrow and she was going be in her final year.

Too be honest she was dreading it, only Lucas' visit a few hours earlier had made her worry less.

He had been away all summer with his girlfriend Brooke. He had finally admitted to her at the beginning of the summer that he loved her and so she'd asked him to spend the summer with her in California.

Peyton had also been away that summer with her dad. She hadn't spoken to Peyton while she'd been away so she doubted she'd have been asking to hang out with her any way, she knew Peyton had abandonment issues.

Before she had left for tour she'd only really started being friends with Brooke and Peyton and it was more their connection with Lucas that had made them friends in the first place, so she was doubting they were still going to be the best of friends.

It had been great seeing Lucas earlier but painful as it brought up stuff she'd be trying to forget for the last month.

She had not planned on returning from tour after Nathan told her he didn't want her back but one phone call had changed that.

She had just come off stage after finishing her 30 minute set when her tour manager had pulled her over to a corner. He had explained that while she was on stage her sister Vivian had called to say that her parents had been in a road accident and she needed to ring her straight away.

Haley's stomach had dropped; she couldn't believe that they hadn't told her right away that was one of the things she hated about the industry some of the people were only interested in how much money they could make and not real people's feelings.

When she had called her sister and heard her crying down the phone she knew without words they were dead. She had grabbed her small bag and left the tour for good, she left her guitar behind knowing she would never play it or sing again as she now associated her music with losing people she loved.

She had returned to Tree Hill the day before the funeral and had gone to Lucas' to find comfort but Lucas had left with Brooke so she had broken down in Karen's arms instead.

Haley had known if she had called Lucas he would have come back but she wanted him to be happy and she knew Brooke made him happy. Karen and Keith had supported her and gone with her to the funeral which had all passed in a blur to her as her parents deaths hadn't really sunk in.

All the financial assets had been divided between the siblings and Haley had got a size-able amount but couldn't touch it until she went to college. Karen had offered Haley Lucas' room for the summer but Haley knowing she would need somewhere permanent for the next year had re-rented the apartment she had lived in with Nathan before she left for tour.

Haley had got her job back at Karen's café and been working there for the last month, but she made Karen and Keith swear not to tell Deb about her parents as she didn't want Nathan to know.

Deb had not been working since Haley had been back as she was in rehab trying to break her prescription drug addiction.

Karen had kept her word and not told Deb or anyone about Haley's parents until Lucas had returned and that had been why he had rushed straight over to see her the evening before school started. She had been so happy to see him but he had been surprised as she had not cried once even when she had said all about her parents.

The truth was Haley liked to pretend it wasn't true so when she retold Lucas the story it all seemed detached and like she was talking about someone else. She didn't tell anyone but she liked to imagine that they were still alive and out there in their RV and they just couldn't get to a phone to speak to her.

Lucas had then told her about his summer and how great it had been. Haley had been happy for him but couldn't help but feel jealous and wish she had spent her summer with Nathan.

Before Lucas left she had made him promise not to tell Nathan or anyone about her parents dying. She didn't want people to pity her and to pretend to be nice because they felt bad for her.

Lucas had pointed out that he would have to find out at some point and she didn't want to lie to him but Haley was positive it would be better in the long run. Lucas had tried to convince her that people would support her cause they cared for her but Haley had been stubborn and Lucas had given in, hoping that sooner or later she would let some more people in.

At 11pm she had decided it was time for bed and walked into her also sparsely decorated bedroom which only contained a double bed, a wardrobe, a desk and a chair.

As Haley lay in bed she couldn't help but think how big it felt without Nathan next to her, there wasn't a night on tour when she hadn't missed sleeping next to Nathan. She hadn't seen him since she had got back as he had been at high fliers all summer.

She had sent him a letter a while after she had got back just to tell him she had returned and that she was back for good. She had hoped he might have come to see her when he had got back but Lucas had been her only visitor.

She eventually drifted off to sleep still anxious about school the next day and wondering what lay in store for her in the next year.