Remind us all of what we could have been
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A/N: Hey! My first One Tree Hill fic, EVER. I really love Nathan and Haley together, so pretty much any story I do of One Tree Hill will focus on them. I do my best with checking for errors. I am awful at punctuation and grammar. I would love a beta to help edit my writing before they are released. So if anyone is interested- please let me know! Thank you!
Summary: Everyone is back to Tree hill after four years. Haley was never pregnant, and went to Stanford, and Nathan went to Duke. They got divorced during college. Everything else is somewhat similar, but it is going to be a Naley story. That is for sure. However, I am not sure if I am going to make Peyton and Lucas together or Lucas and Brooke. So it all depends. Input would be nice on that.
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been
Haley returned to Lucas's house after a long and tiring day. For the past four months she had worked at Tree Hill high as a music teacher. She loved her job because it combined two things she loved. In high school, as well as in college, she had tutored kids and loved the feeling she got from helping them. Also, while she was in high school, she had gone on tour for a brief amount of time and played at the local night club "Trick". While she was in college, she was in a band that preformed locally on weekends, and during the summer traveled all over California.
When she first came back to Tree hill for the interview, she had stayed at Lucas's. His mother, and little sister, had moved out of the country to be with Andy. Lucas at the time was in New York, working on publishing his second novel. That summer had been one of the loneliest times of her life. Then school started, and Lucas came back. He had gotten a job at the University of North Carolina, to teach a writing class. Haley had felt bad at first about staying there, but Lucas assured her he didn't mind, that he enjoyed her company. They were like sister and brother, and always had a great time together.
It was now approaching six months that Haley had been staying at Lucas's, so she was slowly trying to work on moving out. After work, she had spent two hours looking at places, and then went grocery shopping, and by the time she got home she was beat.
Haley walked into the kitchen with some bags, Lucas was in the kitchen when she came in, "Is there anymore bags? I'll go get them," He offered.
He came back in and shut the door behind him, "So you're never going to believe who I got a call from today, take a guess,"
"Uh, I don't know Lindsay,"
Lindsay was Lucas's editor, and worked in New York, her father owned the company that had published his book. They had also dated for a short amount of time, but they agreed it would be better to be friends due to their professionally relationship.
Lucas shook his head, "No we typically talk over e-mail, or web-cam. The internet is more of our thing, take another guess,"
Haley wasn't sure. It couldn't be Nathan, Lucas and him talked all the time, but Lucas never talked to Haley about him, and vice versa. It was just easier that way, for both of them.
"Who?" She asked. Giving up on the whole guessing game.
"Brooke, she wants us to pick her up at the airport,"
"What? I'll go change, and then we can go get some dinner, and go pick her up together! I can't wait to see her again!"
Mean while Brooke was on the plane, next to her best friend Peyton Sawyer, flying into North Carolina. A week ago, Brooke had come to visit her best friend, and some how both of them were now flying back to Tree Hill.
Brooke had sat in silence most of the way watching a movie, but she just had so much on her mind.
"Peyton, I am staying in Tree Hill,"
Peyton was shocked, "What? I mean how? With the company in New York and everything?"
"Well, I don't have a company anymore, but I am about five million dollars richer then before I had it,"
"WHAT? Brooke! That was your dream!"
Brooke shook her head, "Yeah it was, but I just feel like I sold out. The magazine and all the other commercial stuff. Victoria really took the whole thing over, I just felt like the face behind it. Going to parties, giving interviews, I just wasn't happy with it,"
"So you sold it to Victoria? Well what are you going to do now?"
"Well I actually talked to Lucas about all of this about a month ago when I was in New York, and I sort of bought Trick. The only problem is, I sure do know how to plan a party, and get people there, I am just some what lacking in the music area. Getting live music, making killer play lists, and I sort of have this huge empty space, that maybe you could open your own record label, you know,"
Peyton smiled, it sounded wonderful. At her job now she felt like she had no say over anything. All she saw was little to no talent pretty faces getting record deals. She loved trick, and finding and working with bands and singers, it sounded like a great idea.
"Wow Brooke, I mean are you sure,"
"I am positive. I've thought about this a lot, and I just think it will be for the best,"
Peyton loved the idea of returning to Tree Hill. It was home and she had missed it a lot. Though for a while she had tried to escape it, it really was time to go back. There was someone she missed there for sure.
Lucas and Haley had dinner and still got to the airport a bit early, so they decided to go the bar and have a cocktail to pass some time. On the tv at the bar, a basketball game was on. "Nathan Scott," Haley heard the name and it caught her attention. Her ex-husband. She had gone to Stanford, and he went to Duke. She didn't come back any of the summers, and Nathan got fed up with it, and they divorced. It wasn't what Haley wanted to happen. She loved Nathan, and probably always would. Everything had just happened so young, them getting married and moving in together. Going to Stanford was her dream, and going to Duke and playing college basketball was Nathan's, she didn't see why they couldn't have it both ways. Nathan didn't see it that way and her sophomore year of college, they filed for divorce. To be honest, they hadn't spoken much since then. Haley hated to admit it, but she hadn't really moved on since then. There had been no one else.
Haley looked up at the screen, and saw Nathan's face. He looked the same as she remembered, just a little bit older. His beautiful blue eyes that she loved to stare into in the morning, and his dark smooth hair that she would run her fingers through. Looking at him made her heart hurt, and made he realize how much she missed him. Lucas looked at her, and knew what she was thinking, but decided not to say anything.
They finished their drinks and payed the bill and walked over towards arrivals.
"What is her flight number?" Haley asked. She noticed there were no flights from New York City coming in for another hour.
Lucas gave it to her, and she noticed it matched a flight coming in from Los Angeles.
"That is weird, it seems that her flight is coming in from-" Just as she was about to finish, Brooke as well as Peyton came walking towards them.
Brooke ran up to Lucas and gave him a hug. While Peyton and Haley hugged. Then when it ended, Peyton went up to Lucas a little nervous. Well more then a little nervous, completely flustered. The last time they had seen each other, had been when she turned down his proposal and he left the next morning without saying bye.
Lucas gave her a big hug, "It is good to see you again Peyton,"
"I guess there is a twenty minute delay on the baggage," Peyton said, "So maybe we should go get a drink,"
"Lucas and I just did that, but I could for another glass of wine," Haley said.
Lucas nodded, "Yeah, that would be good,"
All four of them sat down, and ordered, but when it was Brooke's turn, she just wanted a bottle of water.
"You didn't want a drink Brooke, that isn't like you," Peyton teased her.
"Well, I can't exactly drink right now,"
Everyone just kind of looked at her, waiting for more explanation.
"I'm pregnant,"
Confess to me
Every secret moment
Every stolen promise you've believed