Angry Nerd Rock

Disclaimer: I do not own One Tree Hill but I do own Vincent, Tom, Michelle, and Your Best Nightmare.

Haley sat in her room on a Sunday afternoon, staring at the hundreds of pages of information she gathered on J.D. Salinger. "Ughh....other people will copy their reports off the internet in twenty minutes but I have to be cursed with a damn conscious!" She said to herself thinking about all the time she spent working, well other students were out living life. Just then her dad walked into her room looking really upset.

"What the hell is this?" He yelled, throwing Haley's report card onto her desk. Worried, she picked it up to find straight A's.

"Huh?" She replied.

"Don't huh me. This is unacceptable!" He said pointing to the A- in biology.

"You're not honestly going to get pissed over a freakin' A-?

"I don't want to see you slacking off anymore! First you were five minutes late for school that one day and now this!"

Then her mom came to see what all the commotion was.

"Mom, can you please explain to dad that..." Haley started, but her mom cut her off.

"Look Haley, we're not going to take this anymore. You're out of control! No TV for a month!"

"Out of control? What the hell? Other kids' parents would die for these grades! And the last time I watched TV was 3 months ago! I've been so busy with my schoolwork."

"What? Is that a threat? You're unhappy because you're grades didn't kill us?"

"You're being ridiculous!" Haley yelled back at them.

"Don't talk back to us. We're your parents. Show some respect."

"Fuck this!" Haley screamed as she stormed out of the house.

"Hey, get back here..." She heard as she slammed the door shut and walked off. Behind her she heard them arguing over the best way to punish her, "We'll take away her computer privileges...No, we'll make her go to bed at 8:00 pm...No, I got it! Let's confiscate her money..." was the last thing Haley heard as she walked down the sidewalk, outraged. She decided to go to her boyfriend's place, since Nathan could totally relate to the insane parents thing.

When she got to his apartment, no one answered the door so she let herself in. What? She studies a lot. Why wouldn't she know how to pick a lock?

As she dug a way through the piles of clothes, trash, and fast food boxes, Haley heard some noise coming from Nathan's bedroom. When she got to the door, she realized the noises were moaning. She opened the door to find Nathan on top of a half-naked blonde girl. Tears streamed from her eyes when he looked at her. His world fell apart when he saw her face. What have I done? Nathan thought as her sadness went to rage.

"You asshole!" She screamed as she grabbed his baseball bat from the closet and headed for the 500 dollar stereo Nathan had bought just last week.

"Wait! What are you doing?" Nathan yelled as he chased after her.

"I'm evening the score." She said as she shattered his stereo into a thousand pieces and then turned to his plasma TV.

"Haley! Stop! Let me explain!" Nathan said as he watched in horror.

"Save it! There's nothing to explain. You broke my heart. I'm breaking your stuff." She said calmly as she threw the bat into the screen.

Staring at the her work with pride Haley said, "There, your interior makeover is complete" as she headed for the door.

Nathan chased her outside. "Haley wait!"

"Leave me alone. In case you didn't realize what I was trying to say by the broken TV and stereo – we're over Nathan."

"I don't care about the stuff. I'm sorry Haley."

"Yea, so am I." She said and then she was gone.

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She ran until she couldn't anymore...then the tears came. Wind blew through the trees above. Birds chirped happily in their nests. The sun was out and the sky was bright blue but Haley was in hell. Everything she had worked so hard for had fallen apart. "Nothing I do is good enough for them." She whispered to herself as she stopped at the strange place her feet had taken her. In front of her stood the old tree house where Lucas and her used to hang out in when they were young. She took a seat at the base and decided to stay because no one would find her there except–

"Hales?" Lucas jumped down from a branch above and smiled at his best friend, until he noticed how red her face was. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." She said, trying to hide her tears.

"You've always been a bad liar."

"Ok! Fine! Everything's wrong! My parents hate me and I just caught Nathan and he was on top of this whore and he was kissing her and..." She screamed out until she started crying again.

"It's going to be ok, Hales." Lucas said as he put his arms around her and held her close to him.

"No, it's not. I have nothing." Haley said faintly as he felt her cry on his shoulder.

"It will and you've always got me. I'm here for you." He said putting his hand on the back of her head and running fingers through her hair, trying to calm her down.

After a few minutes, Haley looked up into Lucas' eyes. Their blue gaze was the only constant in her life. He had always been there for her to make everything right, but this time was different. This time she had to do something. She had to escape. He couldn't make her problems go away anymore like a band aid on a bruise. The bruise had gotten too big.

Haley looked up at the tree house. "Those were much better times." Lucas said as they both thought back to the days when life was simpler, easier. "Want to do inside?" He asked, hoping a little reminiscing would cheer her up.

"Yea." She said as she climbed the trunk. He followed her and they opened the little door to the dusty room inside. Snooping around, they found, old toys, a shelf full of books and–

"My old electric guitar!" Haley said excitedly as she picked it out of the mess. "I haven't seen this since..."

"...the last day of eighth grade..." Lucas finished her sentence. "...we hid it up here from your parents because they thought being able to play a guitar meant that you're on drugs."

"Yea." Haley laughed.

Lucas felt good to see her smile again. "Hey why don't you play me something?"

"Nawww...I can't play anymore."

"Come on, give it a try."

"Alright, I'll try. But I can't promise anything more." She said doubting that she would remember anything but to her surprise it all came back. She started playing like she had never quit.

"Wow, Hales. Sounds like you still got it."

"You think so?"

"Absolutely." Lucas said as his cell went off. "Hello..." "...ok I'll be there in a minute."

"My mom says I have to come home. Want me to walk you home?"

"Naw..." Haley said, unable to take her fingers off the guitar. "...I think I'll stay here awhile."

"Alright, call me if you need anything." He said as he climbed down. Haley waved goodbye from the window. Just like old times...just me and my guitar. She thought as she began to make up a song and strum along to it.

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Meanwhile Vincent, the drummer of the band, Your Best Nightmare, sat watching in his opinion the poorest imitation of singing he had seen.

"Do we have to listen to this any longer?" He whispered to his band mates sitting next to him.

"Come on, you know we need a new lead singer." Said Tom, the guitarist.

"Yea, but this guy's terrible. Can't you just say "next"? Tell him we'll call him or something."

"You can't treat singers like they're girls you slept with, Vince." Michelle, the bassist added with a laugh.

"Sure, you can and I don't treat all girls like that, just the slutty ones."

"All the girls you're with are slutty."

"Details...Hey, do you hear that?" Vincent said trying to identify the sound.

"What? Him?"

"No, not that pathetic excuse for a singer, that..." Past the sound of the howling auditioner, he could hear an electric guitar, played with skill and a strong voice singing along."

"Now that person can sing."

"I'm going to find them." Vincent said as he stood up.

"Hey! Wait, I'm not finished." The guy auditioning for them said.

"Quit while you're ahead buddy." Vince said as he walked out the door.

He followed the sound to a tree outside the building. What? That can't be right. He thought until he noticed the tree house and the girl playing inside.

"You're all I ever wanted. You're all I ever needed..." Haley sang sadly thinking of her cheating boyfriend.

Whoa....nsync? Maybe she's a little too soft... Vincent thought until...

"...so tell me what to do now when I–I–I hate you're no good cheating asshole whore fucking guts." Haley screamed in rage.

Vincent smiled. She's perfect.

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Hope you like this story. I have a lot of ideas for it. I don't like to put a lot of cussing but I needed to empathize the point. Please Review!!!