"There's drumming noise inside my head, it starts when you're around"

-"Drumming Song" by Florence + The Machine

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from One Tree Hill. They all belong to the amazing Mark Schwahn. If only I were so creative.

Chapter 1: Drumming noise

"Haley can you believe it? We are now freshman at Duke!" yelled out my best friend Brooke Davis.

"Calm down Tigger, we don't want to be labeled losers on our first day here do we?" I asked her as I noticed people staring at us

"Hales cool it. We are Brooke Davis and Haley James. Who would ever consider us losers, we are too hot for that!" Brooke exclaims, ever the confident one of this duo.

"Let's just go get settled into our dorm and check out the campus" I reply.

I cannot believe that I finally made it to Duke. All of that hard work in high school and scholarship hunting senior year has gotten me to my dream school and one step closer to my dream job. I AM going to be a world famous award winning, New York Times bestselling author and a journalist on top of that. I love reading and writing about the fantasy world. I could spend my life in books like the Black Dagger Brotherhood and the Sookie Stackhouse novels. I love when authors add an adult twist on the old myths of vampires and werewolves and not that child like quality of those Twilight books. I just sometimes get so caught up in them that I think that they are real.

"Haley! Haven't you heard anything I said?" Brooke yells in my face

"Repeat?" I say because Brooke is used to me daydreaming and being in my own head a lot. She thinks I need to stop doing that because it keeps me from getting a boyfriend.

"I said 'I will take this side of the room since it has a bigger closet'" Brooke rolls her eyes at me.

"Well I don't mind. You brought more clothes than me, anyway." I could really care less about the closet I'm not that fashionable. It's just jeans, t-shirts and my favorite poncho that I have to hide from Brooke.

"Do you think Peyton and Rachel are settled in yet?" I ask Brooke. Peyton Sawyer and Rachel Gatina make up my group of friends. I spent so much time in high school trying to get to Duke that I didn't make any friends except for the ones I entered high school with. Brooke, Rachel and Peyton where all on the Tree Hill high school cheerleading team and they were the most popular girls in school. No one could understand why we were friends. I knew we were friends because we all helped one another through the tough times. We were Brooke and Rachel's family since both of them had parents that gave them money but no love and affection. With Peyton, we held her together when her mother died and her father drowned himself with work.

"They should have. I wonder what they are going to do later. Are we going to go to the Welcome week events?" I ask. I was really interested in trying to meet other freshman. I wasn't going to let college be like high school for me. I will not spend these next four years studying.

"Um no bitches. We are not going to those Welcome Week events. We are too cool for that" Rachel says as her and Peyton enter our dorm room.

"So what are we doing then? Class doesn't start until Monday. We also need to go buy our books, some food, and any other school supplies we need" I tell them.

"Calm down Tutor girl! We will do all of that tomorrow. Nobody does anything on Saturday morning. Tonight we are going to a party I got us all invited to by a basketball player" Rachel says.

"A PARTY? With the basketball team? Good job slut!" Brooke yells. I swear that girl has no inside voice.

"B. Davis stop yelling. We do need our ear drums." Peyton yells at Brooke, which doesn't actually help our ear drums.

"You're yelling too!" Brooke yells childishly.

"Okay ladies let us all use our inside voices. Rach what time does this party start? And what is that noise?" I ask

"What noise?" Peyton asks, while Brooke and Rachel stare at me like I'm crazy.

"I hear a noise, it sounds like drums. Don't you guys hear it?" I look at them confused. The noise is loud and I'm sure they should all hear it.

"No Haley, we don't hear anything" Peyton says while Brooke and Rachel are nodding in agreement

"Maybe my hearing is off or something. So what time does the party start and where is it? I ask Rachel, trying to take their attention away from me.

"It starts at 11 so we have time to get ready. Its almost 5 now. Slut make sure you get Tutor girl dressed. Hales you can't go to the party dressed like a fashionably challenged librarian." Rachel tells me as her and Peyton walk out the room

"We will meet you guys here at 10:30." Peyton says as she leaves.

"YAY! A party. I hope some cheerleaders will be there. I need to get a head start on becoming head cheerleader." Brooke starts looking through her closet. Good thing I organized all of our stuff for an easier and faster unpacking.

"Tutor girl, I think you would look hot in this corset I bought you and skinny jeans with heels" Brooke keeps a stash of clothes in her closet that are my size. She says when we go out this year she will dress me. I just go with it because no one says no to Brooke Davis.

"That's cool. I'm going to go look around campus for a bit. Maybe find something to eat or a cheap grocery store." I'm hungry and we need food bad in our room.

"Okay. Be back by 7 to get ready" Brooke always take hours to get ready and today it will be longer since this is our first college party, as college students anyway.

"Okay I will. You want me to bring you anything?" I ask

"Yeah. A chicken caesar salad is fine" Brooke says. I can tell she is in designer Brooke mode. She is here at Duke to be a fashion designer, Peyton an artist and Rachel just came because her parents are making her. Even though I think she would make a good publicist or manager in the entertainment business. She is the most cutthroat person I have ever met.

"Cool beans. See you in a bit" As I walk into the hallway I still hear that drumming noise, I wonder where it is coming from.

"Luke! Hurry up man. The party is already starting!" I yell to my brother who is still in the bathroom. He knows we have to be at this party since we are the only two freshman starters on the Duke Basketball team.

"Nathan you know what it's like for us around this time of the month" I hate when Luke says that, it makes us sound like a couple of chicks on our period. Just because we get a little angry and high strung around the full moon does not mean he should take forever in the bathroom. Luke and I are fraternal twin werewolves. I roll my eyes as I think that even though it's true. I guess a better term would be shifters that can only change into wolves. Sort of like those wolves from that TV show TrueBlood. We both get irritable around the full moon because we don't have a mate. We need someone to calm down all of the darker emotions that our wolf feels. It gets worse when we are around other wolves besides ourselves.

"Luke I know how you feel, but you don't see me acting like a bitch, do you?" I yell at him. "Man lets go. I need a drink to calm myself down." I feel my wolf getting angry and I need some alcohol to calm it down before I get out of hand.

"Okay. I'm ready. God I will be glad when we find our mates man. I hate being this angry and high strung every month. I feel like a woman on her period" That's how I know we are twins; he would say out loud what I was thinking five minutes ago.

"Let's go. I need some booze" I tell him as we leave our dorm. As we are walking around campus people are already yelling out or name. I smirk cause I know we are legends already and we haven't even stepped foot on the Duke court yet. Everyone knew that when Duke recruited the Scott brothers they were going to win another championship. Nathan and Lucas Scott. We are legends on the basketball court and the basketball world is already talking about whether we will be drafted to the NBA by the same team or split up. No one knows that one of the reasons we are so good is our wolf. But that doesn't mean we suck. Our father, Dan, work us twice as hard in basketball as other kids because of our wolf. He wanted the man to be as good and strong as the wolf. I may hate my father but I am grateful for him working us so hard, we both know that we have a definite career in the NBA. Especially since any injury we get will heal quickly.

"Yes. Booze and chicks my kind of party" I yell to Luke as we make it to the party at Quinton's house. Quinton Fields is a senior and captain of the Duke Blue Devils basketball team. He lives in a townhouse with four other players and this is where I hear all the best parties on campus happen.

"I know right. Let's get drunk. There goes Jake and Julian" Luke yells as he sees our two pack mates and team mates by the beer keg. It's a tradition for every male born into the North Carolina pack to attend Duke. Even though the packs are small and rapidly becoming extinct we still follow the traditions that were established. Every male goes to Duke and either plays basketball or go into some profession that will help the pack flourish in some way. At least that's what has been drilled in my head my whole life, since I'm in line to become the next pack leader after my uncle Keith. He never had any boys so leadership falls to my dad's oldest son, which is either me or Luke. Luke told me he doesn't want to do it, so I will do it.

"What's up guys?" Jake asks when he gets close enough. He also hands us a beer which makes his cool points go up. He knows how we are feeling. I get it ten times worse because of the full moon, since my wolf has recognized itself as an alpha.

"Nothing. Just chilling. Why do they have that annoying drum noise playing over the music?" I ask them. They all look at me like I'm crazy.

"What noise?" They all ask at the same time. I can't believe they don't hear it. I'm about to answer them when I smell this delicious scent. It's like vanilla and rain mixed together. I think I just found my mate!

"Guys, I think I just smelled my mate!" I yell out to Jake, Luke and Julian.

"WHAT? How do you know that?" Luke's is the only question I can make out, amongst them yelling at me.

"The drum noise and the smell. It's the signals that an alpha has found his mate. I have to go find her right now." I tell them as I begin walking in a random direction.

"Wait, Nate!" Julian yells at me and they surround me to stop me from walking away. "What are you going to say to her when you find her? Most likely you won't know this girl so what will you say? 'I'm a werewolf and you're my mate lets fuck and be happy' you need a game plan man!" Julian is the most practical out of all the wolves born in our year.

"Okay that's true. I do need a game plan. Can I at least find her first?" I can't argue with that. I don't want to scare her, but if someone is touching my mate I will stake my claim.

"Yeah. We will help you find her, but you can't approach her until you calm down" Lucas says.

We begin to walk around the party and I let my wolf's sense of smell take over, that's the only way I will find her is through scent. We go into the kitchen and I see a group of girls standing and talking to one another. They are all hot but as I walk past them I smell that delicious scent again. I pull the guys aside to let them know. As I look at them they have a dazed look on their faces.

"I think I just found my mate" They all say at the same time. What are the odds that we would all find our mates together?

"Guys there are four of us and four of them we need to just figure out which one belongs to each of us. So we will each walk up to one of them and ask them to dance. I will take the short one with the brownish blonde hair, she's so sexy." I tell them something inside me knows that she is my mate.

I look up and see these four hot guys walk into the kitchen. One of them has the most piercing blue eyes I have seen in my life. I see him turn to his friends and begin to confer with them. All of the guys have this dazed look on their face like they have been struck by something.

"Who are those hot guys right there" I hear Brooke whisper. I guess she does have an inside voice.

"Those are the Scott brothers, Nathan and Lucas, and their friends Jacob Jagielski and Julian Baker. All of them are freshman on the Duke Basketball team." Rachel knows everything about the basketball team, that's why Brooke calls her 'slut'.

"Well all four of them are gorgeous but the shortest one with the brown hair is so hot" This is the first time I have heard Peyton talk about a guy. She usually tries to act like an ice queen about them.

"I don't know about you P. Sawyer but that blonde is sexy!" Brooke picks out the one who has the same eyes as the black haired one. "Wait don't look they are coming over here" Peyton says and ducks her head. I hear footsteps approaching us.

A/N

Hello! This is my first fanfic so please be kind and take a minute to review and let me know what could be changed or what you like. I would love to hear from readers. I am also open to adding suggestions into the story. Each chapter will be a song title, I think music adds to the feel of any story.

Soundtrack for this chapter

1. Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song (actually put the thought for this story in my head)

2. Florence + The Machine- Cosmic Love (lends its name to the title)

I don't own the characters or the lyrics used in any chapter.