Summary: Nathan and Haley meet their senior year, and their lives are both changed. A little different than original series, but same storyline, sort of! Please read and review! This is my first fan fiction, by the way!

Nathan was walking towards his locker at Tree Hill High School, with his half-brother Lucas in tow. It was the beginning of their senior year, and it was going to be the best year yet. Nathan had just broken up with his girlfriend, Peyton Sawyer, so he was ready to party it up with his basketball friends and the rest of the cheerleaders.

"Man, Lucas, this is going to be the best year yet! Now that I don't have Peyton tying me down, I can party with whoever I want, whenever I want!"

"Nathan, just remember you'll only get that scholarship to Duke if you keep your grades up. You better get your act together and hope that they overlook your past academic performance." Lucas knew his little brother wanted to go to Duke, and the only way he was going to get a basketball scholarship to Duke was if he got his act together with schoolwork and pulled some better grades.

"Look Luke, try not to rain on my parade! It's the first day of senior year, and you're already riding me about school. Enjoy this moment, because it's only once we're seniors in high school!" Just as Nathan began to thrust his fist in victory, he knocked the books out of a short, honey-blonde girl's arms.

"Whoa, sorry about tha…" Nathan failed to finish his sentence because the girl standing in front of him was so beautiful. She was wearing a pair of jean shorts and a Stanford t-shirt, and her long, honey-blonde hair was in a braid over her shoulder, but Nathan was still captivated by her. "Hi, I'm Nathan Scott." Nathan held out his hand as he cockily smiled.

"Yeah, I know who you are. I'm Haley." Haley got down on one knee to get her books.

"Wow, AP Calculus, AP British Lit, AP Physics, you must be pretty smart." Nathan was impressed that there was someone who actually took all those classes at the same time.

"Yep, I'm going for valedictorian at the end of the school year." Haley did not seem impressed to be standing next to Nathan Scott, basketball extradonaire. Nathan was a little confused.

"Well, um, I hope to see you around, Haley, was it?" Nathan asked as she stood up.

"Yeah, um, sure. I gotta go. See you around." Haley rushed off in the opposite direction.

"Dude, she's a senior and I've never seen her before!" Nathan was amazed that were still senior girls that he had not yet dated or hooked up with at parties.

"Yes, you have little brother. She was in our freshmen English class and she was in your gym class sophomore year. She's been in at least one of my classes every year," Lucas explained.

"How can I not remember her? Well, if she's been in so many of your classes, what's she like?" Nathan was now amazed with the girl he had just met.

"Her name's Haley James. She's a straight-A student, and she's a tutor in the Tutor Center. She also is in the chorus in the musicals, and she volunteers a lot her time at a daycare center for underprivileged kids. She's definitely not your type though. Doesn't party, she's not really into cheerleaders or jocks, and she definitely is not someone you can just have sex with and then never call back. She seems more into relationships." Lucas had obviously paid more attention to his peers than Nathan.

"How do you know all of this stuff?" Nathan was still wondering why he had never seen her before.

"Because, I pay attention, and you don't," Lucas pointed his index finger at his smug little brother.

"Well, I'm going to have to get to know her more."

It was first period of her senior year, and Haley James was as excited as any one of her peers. But her morning of excitement was ruined when she walked into her European History classroom. Why? Because sitting in the front row with his half-brother Lucas next to him and cheerleaders Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer behind the two brothers, was Nathan Scott with a smug little smile on his face.

Nathan Scott was the hottest boy in the senior class at Tree Hill High, sure, Haley would admit that. But he also had a reputation as a heart-breaker, two-timing player. He was known to drink and hook up with random girls at parties, and he didn't have the best track record with school either. His only claim to fame was the fact that he and his brother, Lucas, were the two stars of the Tree Hill Ravens varsity basketball team. They had led the team to a victory in the state championship last year, and it looked like this year was going to be another good year.

But Haley knew how Nathan was all too well. She had heard stories from girls in her classes for four years about how Nathan would tell all sorts of lies to just to hook up with girls, and then leave them in the dust the next day. Haley knew better than to get involved. But here he was, in another one of her classes.

The bell rang as Haley sat down in the back corner. The teacher immediately started speaking, "Hello class, I'm Mr. Miller, and I'll be your European History teacher for the year. Now, don't get too comfortable, you will be changing seats in one moment." Haley was less than relieved; she didn't want to have to sit near Nathan or one of the robot cheerleaders. Lucas, that would be okay, but anything but… "Haley James, behind Nathan Scott." She saw Mr. Miller point to the back of the middle row, right in the seat behind where Nathan had already situated himself. Nathan smiled when he heard Haley's name.

"Hi Haley," Nathan offered as she sat down.

"Don't think you can play me for a fool Nathan; I've heard about all of your tricks." Haley wanted to make this fact clear before he tried anything.

"I'm just being friendly." Nathan was surprised that Haley wasn't taking the bait.

After that, class started and all Haley could think about was how this was going to be a long year.

It was about two weeks into the school year, and Haley was about to leave European History when Mr. Miller called her up to his desk. "Hi Mr. Miller; did you need anything?" Haley was always very courteous when speaking to her teachers.

"Yes, I was actually wondering if you'd be willing to tutor one of the students in our class. He's already behind, and it's only two weeks into the school year. I was wondering if you could help him catch up and keep up with the homework," Mr. Miller smiled at her.

"Um, yeah, I guess. Who is he?" Haley was curious about who was already behind when it was only two weeks into the new school year.

"Nathan Scott. I know you two don't seem to get along, but I was hoping since you've had so much success tutoring others in the past, you could help me out? If he doesn't catch up now, he's never going to."

"Well, I don't know Mr. Miller, I just have so much other stuff going on that…." Haley was interrupted.

"If you did this for me, I could maybe talk to your Calculus teacher about giving you some extra credit. If you helped me of course." Haley thought about this for a moment… Math was never Haley's strong suit, and extra credit could help her boost that A- to an A.

"Well, when you put it that way, I guess I could help him out." Haley did really want the extra credit.

"Thanks, I'll send him to the tutor center tomorrow after school." Mr. Miller smiled at Haley once more out of gratitude.