A/N-I promised a new chapter and here it is. There isn't any dialogue, but I think a look into Brooke and Haley's past would be perfect. It gives you a sense for the characters. Enjoy!


Chapter One: New Starts

September, 2000

Haley James, 23, has had a pretty good life. She's a native of New York and she's been there her whole life.

Growing up the only person that Haley could really turn to was her one and only older sister Quinn. Quinn James was only older than her by a year so they were pretty close, always has been since they were little.

Haley's parents were around most of the time, Lydia and Jimmy James. Lydia was a stay at home mom which was a little weird for some families in New York, but that's what Lydia had decided to do when Quinn was born. Jimmy James works as an investor and makes a pretty good living.

Throughout Haley's child hood she was sometimes shy and she was friendly to most. During her high school career she was a tutor, a famous one at that. She was popular with not so school friendly students at St. Jefferson Preparatory.

During her senior year she met a boy, Miles Ryan, a nice guy who was her friend first. He knew most of her secrets and even some if her most private ones. She told him once that she experimented with girls and he laughed and said it was totally cool with him if she was gay. She hit him and said she wasn't. That was when they had their first kiss.

A few months later, they had sex for the first time. Both Haley and Miles thought it was weird and weren't really interested in trying it again. Haley knew that for sure. She had another gender in mind, pretty much summing up her doubts.

2 months later was when everything changed for Haley James and Miles Ryan. The doctor confirmed her of her pregnancy and to say the least she wasn't pleased neither was Ryan. Eventually they came to terms with the idea and came up with the only option that they agreed on, which was to keep the baby.

At 18 years old Haley James gave birth to Lexie Marie Ryan. Haley had given birth to Lexie a month before Haley was to deliver her valedictorian speech at her graduation.

When senior year ended Haley and Miles talked about what were to happen to Lexie as they did their schooling. Haley would keep Lexie while Miles went to law school and Haley went to NYU to get her teaching degree all the while taking care of her daughter.

Miles would see Lexie as much as he could and that made Haley happy.

The college years went by pretty fast and when Miles told Haley he passed his bars she was so happy for him. Miles now was a corporate lawyer and loves his job.

Haley received a job offer at a school in a small town in North Carolina. She accepted and noticed that she would be working at Tree Hill High in a town called Tree Hill. She had visited there once and she instantly fell in love with it.

It was decided that Haley and Lexie would move to Tree Hill and Miles would come down as often as he could to see his daughter and that a month out of the summer Miles would bring Lexie back to New York with him. They would talk on the phone and Lexie quickly agreed. There wasn't much you could deny with being only 5 years old.

Haley drove past the 'Welcome to Tree Hill' sign and looked into the rearview mirror to see her blonde haired, hazel eyed daughter sleeping in the back seat. Her daughter was her pride and joy. This was a new start, not only for her, but for her daughter as well.


Brooke Penelope Davis was known at Tree Hill High as the popular cheerleader. Others have seen her as the town slut, but what she really was looking for was love, always has been. Brooke's home life is tough. Her parents, Richard and Victoria Davis are never around so they leave their 17 year old daughter alone in a lonely house.

The things that have kept Brooke strong have been her friends, Peyton Sawyer and Nathan and Lucas Scott. She's known Peyton since she was 8 and has known Lucas and Nathan since their freshman year of high school when Nathan started dating Peyton. Currently though, Peyton was dating the other Scott brother.

Brooke's one night stands have ranged from men to women. Peyton was shocked, but still didn't change the fact that Brooke was her best friend it didn't matter that she was bi, straight, gay or purple. She was Brooke Davis, her friend.

The two relationships that Brooke Davis ever really had was during her freshman and junior year of high school. Freshman year was the first time that Brooke Davis had a girlfriend. Her name was Julie and her first love also the woman she lost her virginity to. Only Julie broke her heart when she had to move effectively ending their 7 month relationship. After Julie left Brooke spent most of her sophomore year with one-night stands. During her junior year she and Lucas had a relationship. She loved him and he loved her, but he also loved Peyton. After Brooke found out that Lucas held Peyton in his heart too she let him go and told him to get the girl he loved. He was just lucky Peyton and Nathan weren't dating.

She told herself that finally as senior year rolled around she was going to find love.

As Brooke looked at herself in the mirror she knew that she would turn some heads.

She really had NO idea how right she was.


A/N-I only made Haley have one sister because I think her having 5 is ridiculous especially when we have only seen two in the show and I HATE Taylor so that's why I mentioned Quinn. As for part of Brooke's past, I decided to change a little bit of it and having Brooke had a previous relationship with a girl would really work for this story plus it adds drama later into the story. REVIEW PLEASE!!!