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Chapter 2:

Upon landing in Tree Hill, Valerie was met with an astonishing sight. Parked right in front of her was a silver Alfa Romeo – 4C Spider.

Her dream car was just parked casually in front of her face as though it was taunting her. Valerie looked sadly at the car, but just as she was going to call a cab, the man responsible for delivering the car asked if she was Valerie Lucretia Scott, asked for I.D, and then handed over the keys, telling her it was from a Mr. Gavin Roe sent from California.

Flabbergasted, Valerie stared at the keys in her hand, to the car, and she wondered how exactly she missed the Californian car plates.

Taking out her phone, Valerie dialed the house number of Roe Manor, California.

"Hello?" answered Gavin Roe.

"Grandpa, I reached Tree Hill. Look Gramps, you didn't have to buy me a car, I have my own money."

"I know you do Val, I wanted to do this for you. When your mother asked us to raise you we signed a contract that explicitly states that me and your grandmother are your guardians until at least college," explained Gavin Roe.

"I never knew that."

Gavin Roe sighed on the other end, "We didn't want you to think your mother didn't want you, but it was a precaution against Dan Scott; now listen, in your new car there is the house keys for Roe House in Tree Hill … I know my daughter, she's going to tell you to get back to the private jet and go to California."

"Yeah, I thought she might, I was planning on staying at a motel-"

"No granddaughter of mine is staying at a motel Valerie Scott!" interrupted Gavin Roe. "IF Karen does tell you to come back, I want you to go to Roe House and live there, on the counter you'll see the Guardian and Ward contract, I want you to mail it immediately to our address in California and I'll send it to our lawyers."

"So that mom doesn't try to control my life in Tree Hill! Gramps, you're a genius," squealed Valerie as she went into her brand new car.

Gavin Roe chuckled in the other end, "Well, one doesn't become rich and successful without planning ahead."

"You know, I'm actually surprised you're doing all this against mom's wishes."

"I love your mother Val, but I never agreed with her having this lie go on for this long. You're sixteen years old, and you've been away from your twin brother for twelve years. She doesn't have a right to hide your existence from the world. Now your grandmother and I promised to protect you, so if you have any problems you call me at once, do you hear me?"

"Yes, Gramps I promise. Bye!"

"Take care."

Dumping her phone onto the passenger seat, Valerie started the engine and began driving, trying to familiarize herself with the roads. She decided to check the River Court first; Luke would always ramble on and on about how he spent most of his time outside of the house in the River Court with his friends, or in Keith Scott's Body Shop.

When Valerie finally arrived at the River Court she found it to be crowded with a lot of people, so she parked her car in a corner where no one would see it and edged her way over, making sure she stayed hidden – she didn't want anyone seeing her just yet.

Valerie gasped when she noticed her brother arrive in a Comet car with a girl with curly blonde hair driving. When he got out of the car he was full of mud and gunk; her eyes narrowed in anger, she knew that someone did something to her twin.

After eavesdropping from the others crowded around her, she found out that her brother and half-brother Nathan where playing a game of basketball since Nathan didn't like the fact that Luke got accepted into the Raven's basketball team.

Valerie rolled her eyes, if Nathan thought he could mess with her brother, then he has got another thing coming, because now that she was in Tree Hill, she was going to look after her twin.

Valerie watched the two of them play it out, and had to muffle her cheers when Luke won the game; she watched as Nathan snapped at the blonde that drove Luke to the court, getting into her car and they drove off somewhere.

Huh, Blondie must be his girlfriend, and by the look on Lucas' face, he was totally crushing on her. Smirking, Valerie went into her car and waited for Lucas to get in her line of sight.

Five minutes later, she recognized him trudging home with his 'Keith Scott's Body Shop' hoodie on, covering his face.

Honking the car horn and scaring the living daylights out of him, she turned off the car lights so he could see the driver, and got out of the car.

"My, My, aren't you a sight for sore eyes," she smirked.

Lucas gaped at her for a moment, unable to believe his eyes, before he gasped out, "Valerie? Val, is that you?"

"Who else would it be brother?"

"Oh my god! Val! I missed you so much!" Lucas ran over and engulfed her in a huge bear hug, not caring that he was full of mud, Valerie hugged him back fervently.

"Look at you, Val you look amazing!" said Lucas as held her out of arms reach, his eyes then flittered over to her brand new car, and his mouth gaped comically, "Gramps got you the car didn't he?"

"Yup," Valerie nodded excitedly, popping the 'p'.

"And you do know that mom is going to kill you right?" said Lucas in slight amusement.

Rolling her eyes, Valerie motioned for her brother to get in the car, "It's not up to her anymore how I live my life. Gramps and Grams gave me their blessing to be here with you. Besides," she looked sideways at her brother while she drove the car to the house, "I had a feeling that you might need me this year."

"You had a feeling …?" said Lucas skeptically, his face doing the whole broody thing he was well-known for.

"Yesss," sang Valerie, teasing him back, "Call it a twin thing Luke."

"Mom is going to make you go back to California Val," said Lucas sadly, his face morphed into a worried look. He loved his mom so much, and he was very close with her, but he hated the fact that she would never let him be closer to his twin sister; he always felt lost and empty without her.

"Don't worry about it bro, I gotta plan," she winked, parking the car, she grunted, "Well, we're here. Let the games begin."

Chuckling, Lucas got out of the car, and took out his house keys, opening the door and letting Valerie in, he shouted out, "Ma! We got a visitor."

"Who is it…?" Karen Roe trailed off as she noticed her daughter standing next to her son. "What are you doing in Tree Hill Valerie?"

"I'm moving back mom," replied Valerie nonchalantly.

"No, you are most definitely not! What is wrong with you?! Dan is here! You know that! It isn't safe for you!" Karen began yelling. Lucas groaned and sat down at the kitchen table, watching the argument occur with sad cerulean eyes.

"Not safe! What the hell mother! You're being crazy! You're so paranoid it's not even funny anymore!" Valerie growled.

"I already have to deal with the fact that my son is on the basketball team with Nathan and in close range with Dan, I cannot deal with you being near him as well," cried out Karen in exasperation.

"I'm sixteen! You already kicked me out of my home, away from my twin brother for twelve years! Well it ends here. I have a job mother, I'm a millionaire, I'm strong, and I can deal with Dan when the time comes."

"Modeling is not a career!"

"Huh, who knew … I wonder what I have been doing since I was thirteen then," said Valerie in a voice filled with sarcasm.

"Don't be smart with me young lady!" shouted Karen.

"Grandpa and Grandma were so proud of me when I got my first shoot at thirteen while you scorned me! They also gave me their blessing to come back to Tree Hill while you try to kick me out. I'm going to ask you once; will you give me your blessing to stay here with my brother, mother?" asked Valerie, already knowing that her mom would say no, but it still hurt.

"NO!" yelled out Karen angrily.

"Fine! Then I'm leaving, I won't forget this mother," Valerie said, slamming the door shut behind her.

"Lucas-"Karen began, turning around to face her son, but he stood up and glared at her angrily.

"No, mom. Just no! I'm going to check on Val," he snapped, closing the door as his mother cried out his name again. Lucas stopped to see Valerie leaning against her car with a smug smile on her face.

"God you're so obvious, I knew you'd follow me out."

"Yeah, well, it wasn't cool what mom did … her behavior. It's just Dan, he makes her crazy," Lucas shrugged, looking for an excuse to defend their mom, but Valerie was beyond caring anymore about Karen, in her opinion, she was a complete hypocrite when it came to Dan Scott.

"Ah, whatever. I told you I had a plan, I knew she would kick me out. But enough about mom, tell me about Blondie and why in god's name are you covered in muck," said Valerie in disgust as she wrinkled her nose.

Laughing, Lucas said, "It's a … it's a long story."

"I have time bro," Valerie smiled as she made herself comfortable.

###THE SCOTT SISTER###

The next day, Valerie decided to scope out Tree Hill High before she enrolled; besides she was hoping to run into her half-brother and mess with him as a revenge for what he did to Luke the other night.

Valerie had already sent out the Guardian and Ward Contract papers to her grandfather last night and she knew it would take until tomorrow for everything to get sorted out legally.

What surprised Valerie however, was the fact that her favorite maid, Lola and chef, Ralph were living in the house with her. Upon arriving last night and seeing them there, she squealed happily as they told her that her grandfather wanted them there to care for the house and her needs, and to look out for her. Lola and Ralph knew Valerie ever since she was four years old when she first moved into California so she was extremely glad to see them again.

Leaving Roe House, Valerie went into her car and made her way to Tree Hill High; besides she also had a meeting with the Principle for enrollment and payment.

Once she parked the car in the parking lot of the school, she noticed that many eyes were on her and her car specifically. Placing her sunglasses atop her golden hair, she walked confidently, ignoring the stares that seemed to be glued on to her person and walked in the direction of the gym, knowing for sure that Nathan Scott would be there.

Hearing the sound of a ball bouncing from the gym, Valerie walked in, observing the cheerleaders working out their routine by the corner and Nathan Scott, the guy she was looking for, playing ball with a shorter guy with shaggy brown hair and eyes.

"You're Valerie!" the guy squeaked, making everyone's eyes snap over to her form. The guy began checking her out with a sly look on his face, pausing at her cleavage that was popping out from her white tube top and her perfectly-shaped ass that looked too tight in her skinny jeans.

Looking at the guy with disinterest on her face she said, "I am, and you are?"

"Tim! Tim Smith," he squeaked yet again, and Valerie could see that Nathan was trying to hide a smirk behind his hand.

"Pleasure," she said dryly, taking a few steps closer, "So, you're the guy that has been telling everyone that we're hooking up?"

"Uh, well … um, not exactly, uh," stuttered Tim.

"Good, cuz believe me, my boyfriend would be reallyyy angry," Valerie smirked, "Don't let me hear you spread around fake rumors, okay?" she snapped, her cerulean eyes glaring at him warningly.

"Yup, yeah of-of course," Tim stuttered, running out of the court with his tail tucked between his legs.

Valerie couldn't help it anymore and burst out into fits of giggles.

"He's been talking nonstop about you for like two years straight, how did you know?" asked Nathan, a smirk on his handsome face.

Looking at her half-brother, Valerie could tell that he wasn't a bad person per say, he was just misguided, and slightly arrogant.

"I hear things," she shrugged, and from the corner of her eyes, she could see that Blondie was glaring at her for talking to her boyfriend and a pretty brunette was torn between amusement, awe and loyalty to the Blondie; Valerie was always good at reading people, it was a gift.

"Hear things? From California?" asked Nathan suspiciously.

"Stalker much? How did you know I live in Cali?"

"Please," Nathan rolled his eyes, "Not much is said about you, other than all the photo shoots and the few interviews, the only thing commonly known about your personal life is that you live in California … besides, you're tanned enough," he smirked.

"Huh, didn't think of that. So," Valerie crossed her arms against her chest, "Heard you lost a match last night," when Nathan's head snapped at her, his face a cross between surprise and a glare, she shrugged, "I told you, I hear things. I know a few people here."

Gritting his teeth, Nathan ground out angrily, "Well, that punk just got lucky! I was going easy on him."

Valerie bristled inwardly, but she didn't let anything show; she took many acting courses and was an aspiring actress.

Smirking, Valerie said, "Punk, huh? Well, it was nice talking to you …" she wasn't about to ruin her gig now.

"Nathan, Nathan Scott," said Nathan in a pleasant tone.

"Well, Nathan, I'll be seeing you," Valerie winked at him, trying not to laugh at the 'caught in the headlight' look he gave her, shocked that a top rated model was winking at him, no matter how popular he was in Tree Hill.

Just as Valerie was about to leave the gym, she remembered the small bit of routine she saw before coming over to talk to Nathan and Tim; raising her voice over to the pretty brunette who she recognized as the captain of the cheerleading squad, she said, "By the way. You should do right, left, clap, diagonal, clap and then starfish. It would make the routine better."

The brunette looked surprised, and after thinking over what Valerie said she gave her a diminutive nod, looking unsure at the advice.

Waving a hand in the air in farewell, Valerie left the gym, feeling a confused stare from the brunette, a jealous and angry glare from Blondie and a still surprised look from Nathan boring into her back.

###THE SCOTT SISTER###

Valerie finished with her meeting with Principal Turner about enrolling herself into Tree Hill High; he asked the regular questions, and was shocked that Luke had a twin sister, but she told him that her mother wanted her to live with her grandparents in California, and that they were her guardians.

Principle Turner called her Grandpa Gavin to make sure that she wasn't lying and that he agreed with having her enrolled, and that was that.

She actually liked Principle Turner, Valerie found him to be a cool guy, and he promised that he wouldn't spread the word about her yet, since she wasn't done having her fun with the two Scotts. She didn't want them knowing who she actually was yet.

Valerie stopped by the mini-market next to Dan Scott Motors to get some chewing gum, and as she was leaving, she noticed Dan Scott himself standing by her car and examining it in awe.

She noticed he was her father due to the giant picture of his face next to his sign. Upon nearing him, Valerie put her acting classes to good use, she was not about to let the fact that this was the first time seeing her father to intimidate her.

"Excuse me? Can I help you?" asked Valerie politely.

Bewildered, Dan stared at Valerie in shock. "Is this your car?"

"Why yes it is. Had it transported with me from Cali," Valerie smiled, knowing that Dan was itching to have her become a regular customer of his; hah, fat chance of that happening.

"Yes, I noticed it from your plate license. You have good taste…"

"Valerie," said Valerie briskly, shaking his offered hand. Up close, she could see that she had a few similarities from him, like her cheekbones and nose.

"Dan Scott," he smiled pleasantly, taking his hand back.

"I noticed from your sign," Valerie laughed, causing Dan to chuckle slightly.

"Yes, well … if you need a new car or a friend is interested or anything, feel free to come over to Dan Scott Motors anytime," said Dan in his best business voice, truth is, the girl made him slightly nervous, she was very intimidating for a teenager.

"I'll see that I do, it was a pleasure meeting you," Valerie smiled, getting into her car and watching Dan Scott enter his store with a scrutinizing look before driving away.

Entering to go into his office, Dan noticed one of his workers, Paul staring at Valerie with star-struck eyes and a gaping jaw.

"Paul don't you have work to do?" Dan snapped, torn between annoyance and amusement. Yes, Valerie was a pretty girl, but he was married with … a son and she was a teenager, he would never cross that line.

"Mr. Scott," Paul jumped startled, before running towards him and blurting out, "How was it? How did her hands feel like when she shook your hand?"

"You know Valerie?" asked a bewildered Dan.

"You mean you don't know?" Paul squeaked in disbelief. "Nearly everyone knows about her, she's a famous model, one of the top ranked ones."

"What?" gasped Dan. "But she doesn't look older than seventeen…"

"She's sixteen actually, just turned sixteen," Paul corrected looking a tad bit insulted, "And she started modeling at the age of thirteen – wait here a sec, I'll show you the magazine that just came out."

Dan watched as Paul ran over to his desk and took out a Vogue magazine from his drawer. He handed it over to Dan and said, "That's the latest photo shoot she had last week, it just came out yesterday."

Dan opened the magazine before flipping over to the correct page, gaping at the pictures of the young lady he had just met in the sexiest lingerie he had ever seen. Handing it back to Paul, he gruffly said, "Get back to work! I don't want to see you daydreaming anymore," before locking himself in the office trying to burn the images of the teenager he had just met out of his mind – something about her made him very nervous.

###THE SCOTT SISTER###

That night, Valerie left Roe House and made her way back to Tree Hill High to watch Lucas' first match as a Raven. She was so excited for her twin, and she couldn't wait to see the looks on Dan and Nathan's face when they see her cheering for Lucas.

As she was entering the gym, she ran into Blondie and the pretty brunette, giving them an offhanded smile, she went to walk past them until Blondie spoke up in a spiteful tone.

"Stay away from my boyfriend!"

Turning around slowly, Valerie stared at Blondie unimpressed, "Excuse me?"

"You heard me; I said stay away from Nathan!" Blondie snapped. The pretty brunette merely stayed by her side, not saying a word – probably there for moral support; Valerie inwardly scoffed.

"And what makes you think that I want him?" asked Valerie snidely, raising one delicately plucked eyebrow.

"I saw you, we- we saw you in the gym this morning!" snapped Blondie, hazel eyes narrowed.

"Uh, yeah, talking! If you can't trust your own boyfriend when he is just talking with a girl honey, then you guys have relationship problems," said Valerie in a matter-of-fact tone; she noticed that the pretty brunette seemed to agree slightly, but kept her mouth shut.

"Who the hell do you think you are?! I don't care if your some famous model, you can't just come in here and try to steal my boyfriend and then tell me to my face that we should break up," yelled Blondie.

Alright, Valerie had enough playing around, god knows what her brother saw in her.

"Listen up Blondie," said Valerie, ignoring the slight bristling Blondie made when she called her that, "I never said you should break up, I merely said that if you can't trust him then you have deep problems. Secondly, I have a boyfriend, and if you were listening when I spoke with that Tim guy, then you would know, and thirdly I don't want Nathan, in fact, if he were the only guy left in the world I still wouldn't want him."

Ughh, so not into incest, thank you very much.

Blondie looked surprised at Valerie's outburst; Valerie didn't think they would be good friends, first impressions meant a lot to her, and Blondie didn't give her a good one.

"Then why are you here?" asked the pretty brunette.

"That, is none of your business. I'd say it was a pleasure talking to you girls, but really it wasn't," said Valerie sarcastically as she turned her back on them and headed off to the gym, leaving behind two flabbergasted cheerleaders.

Valerie walks into the gym in time to see Lucas and Nathan walk out almost side by side from the back. The players were staring to warm up and Valerie recognized Dan Scott walk onto the bleachers to sit behind Keith –oh my god, Uncle Keith; unlike Karen, Keith doted on Valerie whenever they saw each other and it had been three years since she last saw him.

Valerie smirked to herself as she walked over to Keith just in time to hear Dan say, "Keith! Hey. Finally came to see your nephew play, huh, big brother?"

"Well I hope not," said Valerie making her presence known; Dan looked at her slightly surprised and Keith's eyes widened in shock, that was proof that her mother thought she listened to her and left to Cali as she didn't inform uncle Keith that she was in Tree Hill.

"Valerie?" gasped Keith, standing up from his seat and staring at Valerie with the shocked look still etched on his face.

"Yup, it's me, no, you're not seeing a ghost … you gonna give me a hug?" asked Valerie teasingly, opening her arms wide.

"Val! I missed you so much!" Keith grabbed Valerie into a huge hug and spun her around slightly. "What are you doing here?"

"Uh, to see Luke play, duh…" said Valerie in an obvious tone.

Keith gave Valerie an 'I'm not joking' look, "I meant from California, and you know that so stop acting cute."

Before Valerie could say anything, Dan interrupted from behind them, having had enough of being confused, "Keith how do you know Valerie?"

"How do you know Valerie?" demanded Keith, going all-protective uncle mode; it seemed he had forgotten that Dan was behind him, distracted with the arrival of Valerie.

"Oh," chirped Valerie innocently, "I ran into Mr. Scott by Dan Scott Motors."

"We're going to have a talk about this later young lady," muttered Keith, but Valerie's attention was on the girl besides him who wouldn't stop with her incessant staring.

"You're that model, Valerie," she squeaked.

"Yes, and you are?" asked Valerie.

"Oh, I completely forgot, Valerie this is Luke's best friend, Haley," said Keith quickly.

"Well any friend of Lucas is a friend of mine, nice to meet you Haley," smiled Valerie.

"How do you know Lucas?" asked Dan pleasantly, though there was a slight undertone to it that sounded more like a demand.

Keith gave Valerie a warning look, but Valerie merely winked at him and said in a casual voice, "Oh, me and Luke go way back. Way, way, way back," inwardly laughing at the inside joke and by the look on Keith's face so was he. But Dan didn't look appeased at the vague answer.

Valerie cheered wildly from the bleachers when Lucas shoots a basket, and at that moment, Dan yelled out, "Son!" making Lucas look over.

Glaring at Dan, she knew he did it on purpose.

Nathan and another guy battle for control of the ball during the toss off. The ball goes flying.

"Come on Nathan," muttered Dan.

Lucas goes to catch the ball and narrowly missed hitting Blondie with it. Valerie rolled her eyes as they traded innuendoes. Lucas runs back to the game, leaving Blondie surprised, and from the corner of her eyes, Valerie noticed Dan was staring intently at her brother.

"Let's see some game," cheered Keith from besides her.

"You're such a dork," sniggered Valerie.

"You never seemed to mind when I used to cheer for your games Val," Keith teased her and Valerie stuck her tongue out at him; from behind them, Dan was watching the whole display in confusion.

An opponent had the ball and Lucas was unable to stop the opposing team from scoring a basket.

"Hey which side are you on!" Valerie heard Nathan yell at Luke.

Valerie groaned as Lucas went to shoot the ball and missed again; Keith and Haley winced as he tried and missed yet again, and Valerie saw from the corner of her eyes a grin spreading out on Dan's face and she wanted nothing more than to punch it from his face.

After Lucas missed the third time, Nathan grabbed the ball and shoots it in; Dan began clapping and cheering for Nathan.

Time out starts and Valerie buried her head in her hands, "Luke isn't having a good game, I know him, he's nervous."

"I know Val, hopefully next game he won't be nervous anymore," said Keith soothingly.

Valerie looked into the pitch to see Nathan and Blondie making out. Yuck! As they separate, Blondie shoots her a smug smirk; is she for real? Ugh, incest much!

Finally the game was over, Valerie didn't think she could have taken any more of it, going down to the gym, she noticed Dan clap Nathan proudly on the back and as she was nearing them, they both turned to stare at her. But Valerie's whole attention was on the brooding boy behind them.

"LUKE!" she shouted out, and Lucas snapped his head upwards.

Upon seeing his twin sister there, he beamed all traces of sadness gone from his face and he shouted back sounding incredulous, "VAL! Oh my god, you came!"

Valerie ran over to him, ignoring the shocked looks coming from Dan, Nathan, Blondie and the pretty brunette and jumped into his arms, squealing and giggling as he began spinning her around.

"Of course I came, I wouldn't miss your first game for the world," at the reminder of the game, Lucas became sad again, "Hey, listen it was just nerves! It's your first game! We played loads of times together and you were awesome, besides you played amazingly last night."

"How would you know," Lucas mumbled.

"Uh, I was there, you dork," Valerie beamed making Lucas smile as Keith and Haley came over; Keith looked happy at the sight of the siblings together again, and Haley looked slightly confused.

"Uh, Luke who is she? You've never mentioned a Valerie to me before," said Haley.

"Uh, well, this is, um, Val?" asked Lucas desperately, he was tired of all the charades and pretending she didn't exist and to be honest so did she.

"Don't! Val, Luke, don't do it," said Keith, shaking his head. At that moment, Dan, Nathan, Blondie and the pretty brunette edged closer to them.

"Are you telling me that you're dating a famous model? Yeah right," scoffed Nathan rudely, but if he was looking to insult Luke, he was sadly mistaken because at that moment both siblings yelled out, "EWWW!"

"Yeah that's nasty, don't talk like that," said Valerie, wrinkling her nose in disgust.

"Valerie Lucretia! Don't you dare say anything!" pleaded Keith.

"What is going on here, Keith?" snapped Dan.

Valerie looked at Keith with saddened eyes, "I'm tired of pretending. Damnit! It's been twelve years, I'm done and mother can go to hell for all I care! You know she kicked me out of the house last night because I came back home! Told me to take the private jet back to Cali."

"She didn't tell me anything Val, I promise, if I knew-"Keith began, a look of horror on his face.

"What would you have done? You always listen to her! You haven't even visited me in three years!" said Valerie, crossing her arms tightly and leaning into Lucas' arms.

Blondie scoffed at that and Valerie rolled her eyes, whore.

"What are you talking about? Keith, how do you know her," snapped Dan, not like being confused.

Lucas and Valerie didn't say anything; they stared at Keith and waited, and after examining the twin's faces, he knew that they were right, they couldn't keep them apart any longer or this secret, and so Keith nodded.

"Ahhhh! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I love you Uncle Keith," squealed Valerie, jumping into Keith's arms and giving him a hug.

"Uncle Keith?" uttered Dan and Nathan in shocked unison.

"Whoops, I forgot you two were still here," said Valerie sheepishly placing a manicured hand over her mouth.

Lucas snorted and said, "No you didn't!"

"Hush you," Valerie smirked. Looking at the two Scotts and the two cheerleaders, Valerie inwardly smirked, she couldn't wait for the fireworks, and she said, "My real name is Valerie Lucretia Scott, and this punk," said Valerie, pointing at Luke and glaring at Nathan, "Is my twin brother."

There was silence in the gym as Dan, Nathan, Haley, Blondie and the pretty brunette stared at them in shock and disbelief, trying to process what Valerie just said.

"What? No! What?" stuttered Nathan, his eyes widening as he stared at Valerie, Lucas and then Dan.

"What are you playing at?!" demanded Dan, "This isn't funny, I never had a daughter, hell, I never had twins."

"Wait," the pretty brunette spoke up, "You both have the same eye color."

"Umm, twins here duh," said Valerie perkily.

"Dan, Lucas is one minute older than Valerie, they are twins," said Keith solemnly.

Dan couldn't believe it. No! When he went to visit Karen when Luke was born, he left immediately after the doctor announced it was a boy, he didn't know they were twins so he left immediately afterwards.

"So, sorry Blondie, but I'm not interested in Nathan, I'm not into incest," snapped Valerie.

"What?" Nathan gaped.

Blondie looked so contrite and guilty, "I'm so, so sorr-"

"Save it," Valerie interrupted her, "I don't want to hear anything out of you, you already gave me a horrible first impression, let's not push it."

"Um, we should go to Karen's and discuss this," said Keith to Lucas and Valerie.

Lucas nodded and went to leave with Keith and Haley, but at that moment Valerie's phone began ringing and she squealed excitedly.

"You guys go ahead. I'd rather not see mother anyways," answering her phone, she said, "Hey, baby! I miss you…"leaving the gym and leaving behind four flabbergasted people.