Jamie had known all of his life about Tree Hill High, he had been told story's from just about everyone he knew. They told him it would bring him both happiness and sadness, they told him that it would bond the strongest friendships known to man and the most powerful, all consuming romances there ever could ever be. He knew that from the minute he stepped into those halls that his life would change but he had no idea how much...

Monday, 2nd September 2019.

"Mom I gotta go!" Jamie called out to his mom from downstairs. Today was his first day of high school and he wasn't going to risk being late waiting around for his mom to give him a good luck speech. It was then that she ran down the stairs with Lydia, both of their hands hidden behind their backs.

"...can I go..." before Jamie could finish speaking Haley and Lydia were bursting party poppers at him.

"Good luck on your first day James Lucas Scott!" Haley chimed instantly throwing her arms around her not so little anymore baby boy. Jamie couldn't help but laugh, he knew that she would do something like this, she did the same on every important occasion... there was a home video somewhere of her congratulating him on his first tooth.

"Thanks mom... but I really have to go! I think I'm giving Madison a ride"

A simple nod was all that Haley replied with, and as she watched him walk out of the door she thought about her first day at high school. Lucas gave her a ride and pretended to be her fake boyfriend so that the other guys would leave her alone, her heart melted at the thought of it, she hoped that Jamie would do the same for Madison if she ever asked. Looking back down at her seven year old daughter a small tear fell from her eye, she had the most beautiful children in the world... she would never be happier than what she was at that very moment.

"You, Lydia Bob... you promise me you'll be my little girl forever and always?"

"... I promise mommy."

"Oh my god I'm so nervous, Jamie are you nervous? WHY AREN'T YOU NERVOUS!"

Jamie and Madison were in the car on the way to school; Madison hadn't stopped talking from the minute she got in... she wasn't the quiet little girl she was back in little league.

"Well yeah, I guess I'm kinda nervous. Not as much as you though! Relax, its gunna be awesome."

"That's easy for you to say! You're a Scott; you're going to be popular from the minute you walk in that place."

Jamie was a good driver, with both eyes on the road he took his left hand off of the wheel and put it down to the side, gently holding his best friends hand. He smiled as he felt her grip onto it like a safety blanket.

"...not true, my uncle Lucas was invisible for his first year, then hated, and then popular, he was a Scott."

"I guess so."

"Madison, it's cool... and anyway, no matter what happens. I've got your back, you're my girl Mads."

Suddenly it was like all of her nerves disappeared; she looked out of the window and smiled. She knew that Jamie would look after her, that he was telling the truth, that no matter what happened, no matter where they were or who they were friends with, Jamie would be there. As Jamie let go of her hand and placed it back on the steering wheel she pushed her long brown hair behind her ear, relaxing into her seat she now had no worries about what the day would bring.

Chuck Scolnik was walking through the school halls towards his first class, his sunglasses were hiding his self appointed 'gorgeous' eyes and his bag was flung over his right shoulder. He could see the looks he was getting from all the people stood around and he didn't care one bit. He was nervous, how could he not be? But there was nothing that confidence couldn't hide. He wasn't the first person standing outside the classroom, there were a few familiar faces... people he had seen walking around Tree Hill, in the cafe and such but the two people he really wanted to see weren't there. Just as he was scanning the others to see which people were cool enough to speak to a familiar voice called out from behind him.

"YO CHUCK!"

Chuck spun around instantly on his heels, his face lighting up the minute he saw his two best friends.

"Jamie Scott! They let any old riff raff through these gates now huh?" he answered back with laughter.

"I'm surprised that you're here Scolnik! High school isn't exactly the coolest place for a rock star." Replied Jamie winking at Chuck and going in for the standard 'knuckle touch'

"Not a rock star just yet" said Chuck winking back at Jamie and putting his arm over Madison's shoulder. All he could think about was how hot she had gotten this summer.

"Wassup Maddie?" he said smiling at the girl he had known since they were little.

"Hi Chuck" she replied with a giggle in her voice. She got butterflies whenever she spoke to Chuck let alone whenever he touched her. It kind of annoyed her in a way, why did she have to like Chuck Scolnik? If he knew about it he would wind her up for years. She would never tell him.

10 minutes later they were all sat down inside the classroom, their seats not too far away from each other. Jamie couldn't help but stare at the teacher that he somehow recognised.

"How you doing class my name is Mr Jagielski and I'll be your communications teacher for the next five years. So listen I'm going to jump straight into this, you're first assignment is an essay on you. who you are, what you want to do in the future, what makes you the person you are today, it's due in at the end of this week and there will be no excuses for those of you who don't get it in on time is that clear?"

There were several mumbles and head nods from the rest of the class. From what they had seen already Mr Jagielski was going to be strict.

"...Now I don't wanna be the grumpy teacher that you all hate, I have two daughters myself and neither of them would be pleased if they thought I was going to be that guy, but I'm determined to get you guys to be the highest scoring class of this year ok? So as long as you work with me then I'll work with you."

The class didn't seem so afraid anymore. For what it was worth, it was the beginning of the year and at that stage everyone's determined to do well, nobody disagreed with what he was saying from that point.

"... I'm thinking that it's time for everyone to get to know each other... I've told you a little bit about myself, I would like you to pair up with somebody in the class you DONT already know and spend the next ten minutes talking about yourselves, ok? Go."

Everybody shuffled around the class, switching seats randomly with different people. Madison stiffened up when she realised that she wasn't allowed to partner with Jamie or Chuck.

"Man up Madison." She told herself, she wasn't going to be the nervous girl that she always had been.

She removed herself from her seat and looked around the room, spotting someone who didn't have anybody sitting with him yet, she hurried over and sat down in front of him.

"Hi. I'm Madison." She said with a smile on her face.

"Adam, Adam King... it's nice to meet you Madison."

He had one of those cute smiles that all boys knew melted a girl's heart, those half smiles that gave you that funny feeling in your toes. His stare was holding, Madison had no idea what to say from this point.

...

Chuck was sat with a perky redheaded girl he had only been sat with her for five minutes but already he knew that her name was Carly, she wanted to be a cheerleader, she has a hamster called Weeble and she planned on spending the next five years climbing the social ladder of high school. He couldn't work out if she was annoying or annoyingly hot.

"...Oh my god I've just realised you haven't told me anything about yourself, I really never know when to shut up, it would be better if people just told me when to stop, OH MY GOD I'm doing it again... sorry, what's your name cutie?"

Chuck laughed and flipped his fringe, his hair was one of his best features (in his opinion) he liked this girl, she was annoying yeah, but she was pretty... and she had a cute voice.

"I'm Chuck Scolnik... err, I'm a musician? I play guitar, piano, I sing a little and I play basketball. And don't worry about talking too much, it's cute." He winked at Carly and watched as she giggled and blushed, against her red hair it looked good, fiery.

"Well hi Chuck, it's awesome to meet you. Wow you're a musician? I loooove musicians." It was obvious flirting and funnily enough they were both good at it. "Maybe you could play something for me sometime?"

Instantly Chuck thought of two of the people who he loved. Chase Adams and Chris Keller, when it came to girls, Chase would always be the dopey one and Chris would be the guy that played it cool, who got more girls? Chris, obviously. Chuck decided that playing it cool would be the best way to do this.

"Yeah maybe I will..." he said with a cheeky smile on his face.

Carly didn't say anything, just blushed some more and looked down from the floor to his face. This guy was definitely a cutie.

...

Jamie didn't have a clue what to do next, the girl that sat in front of him was completely uninterested, everybody else seemed to be really hitting it off. She was sat there with her headphones in drawing into a sketchbook.

"Um hi, I'm Jamie... Jamie Scott?"

She looked up from whatever she was drawing and looked straight at him with a sarcastic look on her face.

"You're a Scott? Great. I'm Georgia, Georgia King."

Jamie was stunned, he had never played on the Scott name before but he knew that being a Scott got you places in life, all Scott men were great men and everybody knew that.

"Um, sorry what's wrong with that?" he replied feeling rather intimidated by the tiny girl sat in front of him.

"there's nothing wrong with it, just don't think because you're a Scott you're in my good books... as far as I'm concerned you've done nothing to make me like you, give me a reason why I should?"

She was incredible, this was the first girl that Jamie had ever met that wasn't falling at his feet... besides Madison of course. Most guys would get pissed and turn away, but he couldn't take his eyes off of her, she was gorgeous. Her hair was tied into a long messy ponytail and she was wearing this sexy leather jacket. Who was this girl?

"A reason to like me..." he thought about it for a while and then something popped into his head, he didn't know how it was going to go down, whether she would like it or not, but it was worth a shot.

"Because I'm going to make you happy Georgia King."

Her heart stopped beating, without saying a thing she looked straight into Jamie's eyes, he was sat there... hands in his pockets, relaxed as he could be. He was different, she knew it instantly. As she stared her mind went blank, she could have never expected what would happen between the two of them, and she would have never predicted that Jamie Scott would turn out to be the love of her life.

The bell rang to signal the end of the lesson, what seemed like ten minutes had actually been an hour. Jamie shot Georgia a smile and got up from his seat. He made an impression, that was all he could hope to do. He left the room with Madison and Chuck, but all he could think about was her, gorgeous, incredible, moody, stubborn, Georgia King.