Prologue
Nathan Scott grew up in sunny California, with his favorite cousin Lucas Scott and both their families. Everyday you could find the Scott cousins at the park playing basketball, the game they loved. That was when Nathan played basketball for the fun of it. It all started going downhill when Karen and Keith, Lucas' parents, decided it was a good idea to follow their dream and move to Tree Hill, North Carolina, their hometown, to open the café they always dreamed of, leaving Nathanwith no safety net at the young age of ten. His dad was always hard on him, and Keith and Karen were the only two brave enough to stick it to him.
Nathan hated the way Dan Scott, his father, treated him. He could be described with one word "asshole". It was always basketball this, basketball that. Nathan had no social life, at all. Whenever Nathan wanted to go out with his friends, his father would flat out demand him to stay home and work on his basketball skills. Then the unthinkable happened, Dan Scott died from a heart attack no one saw coming. Nathan never thought his father would die. He was like the indestructible man. Now Nathan could do whatever he wanted and there was no father to stop him. He just didn't know where to start. But Deb Scott, Nathan's mother did she was packing up their mansion and moving them to the middle of nowhere also known as Tree Hill, North Carolina, where Keith, Karen, and Lucas lived. He would be starting his senior year only knowing one person. Little did Nathan know this move would change his life forever.
Haley James had everything. She lived in Tree Hill, North Carolina, was now a senior, and was captain of the cheerleading squad at Tree Hill High. She wasn't the typical cheerleader, she had straight A's, tutored in her free time, and was always friendly, even to people she didn't know. She lived in a house, no where near the size of a mansion, next to her best friend since the age of ten, Lucas Scott. His mother and father, Karen, and Keith, own and run Karen's Café, where Haley was a waitress. Haley was the youngest of six children; all except her had gone off to college or started a family by now.
Her other best friends are, Brooke Davis, also known as Cheery, Bevin, who is not the brightest crayon in the box, Peyton Sawyer, the artsy type, all of which were cheerleaders, also she was friends with Jake Jagelski, Skillz, and Tim Smith, who along with Lucas were on the basketball team, and Mouth. Haley never hated anyone, but she made an exception when it came to Rachel Gatina. Rachel was also on the cheerleading squad, despite her better judgment, and was always looking for a new boy to screw, even if they were taken. Brooke and Lucas had been dating for over a year now, and like Peyton and Jake, and Skillz and Bevin, they just couldn't keep their hands off each other. Haley thought she had what was the perfect boyfriend, a musician trying to find his way, Logan Martin. Bit Haley wasn't about to give up her virginity, she had decided a long time ago she would wait until she was completely sure she loved the person she was with.
She was beyond excited to start her senior year. But this year was going to be different. Her whole world will come crashing down, but someone will be there to pick up the pieces. She just didn't know it yet.