Disclaimer: I own nothing One Tree Hill related. This is a pretty dark story completely AU. Read and Review!

Rated: T+ some sexual content, language, and violence in further chapters.

July 3rd 2011

The suitcases were packed, the coolers were filled, and the tents seemed to fill up every inch of space that the two cars had. Haley had come through, and that's all anyone cared about. They finally had somewhere to go. The last year was so stressful they definitely needed this vacation.

Rachel's Denali led the way, filled to the brim with supplies and somewhere in there was Chase, Brooke, Lucas, Nathan and Haley. Peyton's BMW x5 followed closely behind with Jake, Bevin, and Skills sitting just as cramped as the others.

The cars drove on leaving reality and entering its rural surroundings. It had been what seemed like 6 hours when Brooke's whining voice finally chimed in over the movie Luke had playing on his laptop, 'Source Code.'

"Rachel how much longer?" she groaned shifting her position in the seat so she could rest her head on Lucas' arm. He positioned himself as well so she was more comfortable.

Rachel just rolled her eyes, "Don't ask me, I'm just following the GPS, Haley's the one who picked where to go." She then moved the rear view mirror window so she could see Haley, or what she thought was Haley underneath all the sleeping bags in the way back seat.

Haley had to yell to be heard. "You asked me to find a place to camp, I did! We're going to Pickerington don't you remember? It's the town we played when Nate and Luke both got kicked out for fighting players on the other team sophomore year," she said causing Nate to laugh from his seat next to her and Lucas to chime in.

"Oh yeah," He laughed. "That was awesome," Luke continued reaching back to fist pump Nathan. He quickly retreated though when he felt a sharp pain in his ribs.

"What?" he asked Brooke who was pulling her fist back. She glared at him. "It was not awesome. Do you not remember tackling the guy into me causing me to twist my ankle?" she said still bitter about it.

Lucas put his arm around her and brought her closer laying a kiss on her forehead, "I'm sorry I forgot about that. Definitely not awesome," he said before moving his attention back to the movie.

"Of course you forgot, that's when you were with Goldilocks," Brooke mumbled underneath her breath quiet enough for only her to hear.

"Ooh. Ooh! I think we are almost there," Haley said having seen a sign for Pickerington's exit on the highway.

"She's right, GPS says we're about 4 miles from our destination," Rachel said reading the device on her dashboard.

"Thank God." They all muttered. Rachel pulled off the highway and followed the sign to a side road. Passing what seemed like the only gas station for miles she continued down the road about 100 feet before she saw the sign for 'Pickerington Camps and Float Trips.'

She turned onto the pebbled road and drove for another minute or so before reaching their destination.

The campground was huge containing a playground, run down game room, volleyball courts, laundry room facility, 4 different shower houses spread out across the entire property, a baseball field, the main house to check in, and of course down a semi steep hill many small paths covered on each side by tall grasses and weeds there was a rock beach followed by a crystal clear river. The river was only about 30 feet across, leading to another steep, wooded hill.

The group parked next to the main house and got out to stretch.

"Great back in Hicksville," Peyton said arching an eyebrow as she climbed out of her car.

Haley laughed, "You guys I'm not going to hear anymore complaints. You told me to find a spot I found one. Come on…this is going to be fun. Besides inbreeds are always fun to hang out with," she said before starting off toward the office.

"And you would know how?" Nate asked a bit confused earning a puny smack from his girlfriend. He put his hands up in defense. "Just kidding," he said as she started off again. He caught up with her and put his arm around her shoulders as they headed into the office. Peyton and Rachel followed them in while the others waited by the cars.

Walking inside to the air-conditioned building felt amazing. The weather outside was reaching 100 and they were happy to escape the heat already. Nathan immediately went over to the shelves where they had tons and tons of food available to buy while Haley and the girls walked over to the counter.

Ringing the doorbell for the third time the finally heard movement. A back door opened and out walked a little old lady with a cane. When she got closer they noticed a patch around one of her eyes and the other had the worst cataract they couldn't believe she was able to walk straight at all without assistance.

Peyton piped up, the others to busy studying the women's appearance. "Uh…hi we called last week. We have a reservation to camp…I think we are staying 3 days, 2 nights and we will be canoeing tomorrow." She said as the lady grabbed something from underneath the counter before flopping it on top almost crushing Haley's hand.

Haley retreated her hand quickly before speaking up. "I spoke to you on the phone….It should be under the last name James?" she said as the woman finally looked her in the eye…or that's what she assumed she was doing.

"Ah yes..James, we have ya'll on campsite 23…Ya'll have to follow the road and go to the left…Then ya make a right an follow the signs of which campsites are where. Ya'll should be able to find it easily," She croaked in her deep southern accent taking a deep breath after she finished her last sentence.

Now it was Rachel's turn to speak. "Not much business lately? Will there be anyone besides us here this weekend?" she asked putting her hand firmly on her hip as Nathan finally came over to them wrapping his arms around Haley's waist.

The lady took another shaky breath before continuing. "Yes were expecting a few more in the RV section, but they'll only staying tonight. We accept vacancy though so ya never know," she said before grabbing the paper work with her shaky hand. Haley signed off on it and paid before handing the two parking tags to Rachel and Peyton.

"Okay Thank you. What do we do about floating tomorrow?" Haley asked as the others started to head out back into the heat.

"How many canoes ya'll need?" She asked tossing the binder back on the bottom shelf.

Haley quickly looked out into the parking lot and counted everyone before dividing by two. "We will need 5 canoes," she said and the old lady nodded her head.

"They'll be on the beach at 11 tomorrow morning. Ya'll canoe till ya seen a sign then a school bus brings ya'll back. Have a nice one," She said before slowly moving back into the room she had come from.

Haley nodded offering the lady's back a smile before heading out to the parking lot with her friends. They piled back in their cars and drove down the road a little bit before finally parking at the campsite.

The next two hours were spent setting up the tents, making a fire, and eating the sandwiches they had picked up at Karen's Cafe.

Brooke finished putting hers and Luke's sleeping bags on top of their blow up mattress before joining the rest of the group. Bevin and Skills had started a game of Beer Pong against Chase and Jake, Rachel had set a fold out chair by the fire and was reading Cosmopolitan, Nathan was sitting on his own fold out chair, poking at the fire with a long stick while Haley snuggled into his lap, and Luke was handing his burnt marshmallow over to Peyton who had the stuff needed to make Smores on her lap.

Brooke walked over to the cooler and grabbed a beer having to grab an extra few for everyone else who was empty, before going and sitting in the empty chair next to Lucas.

They all sat around for a bit enjoying the silence. Rachel's laugh caused them all to turn and look at her. She looked at them smirking.

"This quiz is great. Jersey Shore quotes. Okay. Okay. Who said, 'I'm like a preying-mantis after I have sex with a guy I will rip their heads off?'" Rachel asked looking around at the group.

"Oh that was Angelina right?" Bevin asked as she shot the ping pong ball into the last cup on their side. Skillz shook his head. "Baby you're lucky you can hit cups cause your Jersey Shore knowledge is whack. The answer is my girl JWOWW not which one of you guys is up next?" He asked shooing Jake and Chase away from the table.

"Yo Luke wanna play?" Nate asked motioning for Haley to sit up for a second so he could move out from underneath her. Lucas agreed and they walked over to the table to play them as Rachel continued quizzing the group on Jersey Shore quotes.

As the night went on more and more people succumbed to their tiredness and walked off to their tent to sleep. Skillz and Bevin had gone on a winning streak and run the table all night, nothing surprising though. Everyone swore the two practiced everyday.

"All right guys I'm gonna hit it. I'll see you in the morning," Nathan said nodding to Luke and ruffling up Brooke's hair before walking over to his tent to join Hales. He couldn't help but here the snore's coming from Skillz and Bevin's tent, and the moans in Rachel and Chases' tent as he made his way over.

He unzipped the tent and climbed in leaving his shoes outside. Haley's back was to him and he took his place molding his body into hers and laying his arm lazily over her waist his other underneath his pillow.

Brooke looked at Lucas and smiled. "Gosh you're too sexy for your own good," she said reaching over and running a hand through his hair. He smirked at her.

"It does help that I have one sexy girlfriend to match," he said putting his hand on her cheek and pulling her in for a kiss. As they let go Brooke moaned into his lips.

"Well Lucas Scott how bout you take your sexy girlfriend to bed, and I'll show you everything else that's sexy about me."

Lucas laughed before standing up and grabbing her hand, the fire had died down so he didn't bother trying to put it out and just let it be. Instead he led the girl of his dreams into their tent to start a new fire of passion and love before succumbing to sleep like the others.

Morning would be there soon. Meaning fire works, water wars, lots of alcohol, and one of the longest nights they could have ever imagined.

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