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"So, I guess the two of you got along well last night." Joey just smiled. Haley had to beg Joe to take her home. She gave them as much time as possible but Brooke left after meeting some hot guy and Lucas got into a fight with Nathan. The only one who didn't leave her alone was Nathan. And that did not help. At all.

He wanted to talk and Haley just wasn't in the mood. All she really wanted to do was talk to Joey. He asked multiple times if it was alright that he was basically ditching her to talk to Peyton, but each time Haley just brushed it off and eventually just left the two of them alone.

After a couple of minutes, Haley was ready to leave. After a couple of hours, Joey finally drove them home.

Now they were lying on Peyton's bed discussing how much he liked her.

"She sort of looks like Christine. Don't you think?" Christine. Haley hadn't thought about her in a while. They used to be such good friends in middle school. Not that she thought about it, Haley hadn't really thought about any of her old friends in a long time. Now all the memories came rushing back.

"God. I haven't seen anyone in forever! What's going on with Christine anyway?"

"Pregnant." Christine? Pregnant? It was weird to think about. She still thought of Christine as the fourteen year old girl who would only eat ice cream out of a cone, never a bowl.

"No way!"

"Yup." Haley could hardly believe it. She decided to change the subject with someone else.

"Well what about Timothy?" Timothy was Christine's on-again-off-again boyfriend. The vicious circle finally ended when Timothy admitted that he was gay.

"Pretty good." Joey grinned. Whenever Joey grinned, it meant something was up.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah. He's the one that got her pregnant." They both burst out laughing.

"No way!" Guess that ended the whole 'gay' faze.

"Yup."

"Okay, what about…" she tried to think of anyone else they hadn't talked about yet. "Ben?" Ah Ben. Ben was her first boyfriend. He was the boyfriend that every little girl gets in second or third grade. The one where you call each other boyfriend and girlfriends when talking to your friends, but you never actually go anywhere near them. They broke up after about two days.

"Hang on." And with that, Joey left the bed and gone to his bag.

The last time Haley saw Ben they were fourteen. He was weird and a little bit slimy. He was the guy who had a new girlfriend every week. He even dated girls that were in high school, and according to Joe he had lost his virginity before he was thirteen. If anyone got a girl pregnant, Haley would have thought it was Ben.

When Joey came back, he had a digital camera. He turned it on and started looking through pictures.

"What is that?" Haley was shocked to see Joey with any type of electronic device at all. He still even refused to get an ipod. Heaven forbid anything gets in the way of his precious cd collection. He just carried around a booklet that held fifty cds and his walkman. That was all he needed. He was a simple kind of guy.

"This, Haley dear, is called a ca-ma-ra." That sent Haley into a laughing fit. "You see, you point it at someone and then press this button," he demonstrated as he talked, pointing the camera at her. "And then light comes out and look," he turned the camera around and showed her the picture. It was horrible, but Haley didn't care. She wanted to know why he had a camera. A picture of Ben?

"Here. Look at this one." He flipped through a few more pictures and then showed her one. It was a picture of two guys sitting at a table in some kind of club.

"Who's that?" Joey just laughed.

"That one," he pointed to the guy on the left, "is Ben."

"That's Ben?" The guy Joey was pointing to looked clean, not a word she ever really associated with him. He had short, black hair that was neatly spiked up. He was skinny and smiling at the camera. His face was clear and his eyes lit up as he smiled. Joey noticed her astonishment.

"Yup. That's Ben, alright. When was the last time you saw him, anyway?"

"Before he looked like that!" Joey just laughed, an idea sparking in his head.

"He's gonna be in a town nearby. His band's putting on a concert."

"He's in a band?" Haley almost couldn't believe the transformation. Could three years really do that to a guy?

"Yup. Plays bass."

"Wow. A lot sure has changed." Has a lot changed? Or has he just started taking more showers?

"Hey, I promised him I'd go watch his band play. Wanna come?" Go to a concert? Get away from Nathan? See an old friend? Of course!

"Sure. Anything to get out of this town."