A/N: I am overwhelmed with the support I've received for the last chapter! I have never in my life received that much support for one chapter! So thank you so much.

I know this chapter is short but I wanted to get you an update quickly because of the great support to say thank you, so the next part will be out very soon.

This is dedicated to my drugged up Steph (here's to a speedy recovery!), one of our winners of our couple name game. Well done! From now one Alex and Ally are Allyx !

Chapter 6

Alyssa POV

"Hi," I said slipping into my seat in homeroom and twisting around so I could talk to Danny who was sitting at his desk and Lisa who was sitting on it.

"Hey," Lisa said. "What's eating you?"

"My Dad lied to me again last night," I said frowning.

"Ally, welcome to the real world. Parents lie to children all the time," Danny said.

"Parents might lie to their kids, but my Dad doesn't lie to me," I told him.

"Well I guess your Dad's more of a normal parent than we give him credit for because he just did," Danny said and I scowled.

"It's not just me! He's lying to everyone! He even lied to Brooke and Uncle Luke and Aunt Peyton about where he was last night."

"He lied to Brooke? I was going to suggest you talk to her about it because if anybody knows what's going on with your Dad it's her," Lisa said.

"Exactly! Now you see why I'm so confused!"

"Don't worry Ally. We already know he was meeting some woman, so the worst it could be was he's dating and not ready to tell anybody," Danny said.

"I guess you're right," I said sighing.

"I'm always right," Danny said winking at me and out of the corner of my eye I saw Lisa roll her eyes.

Just then Judson walked past and threw a flyer on the desk.

"What's that?" I asked as Danny picked it up.

"Something about a gig this weekend for a Shane Lawson and Steph Carson over at The RecRoom," he said glancing over the page.

"Never heard of them," Lisa said.

"Me either," I added.

"I think they're new. It says it's an introductory national tour," he continued.

"Anyway, d'you want to go over to Brooke's after school, and no Danny I wasn't asking you," Lisa said giving him a pointed look even though he was still reading over the flyer. "I need to get a dress for a stupid family reunion thing tonight as lame as it will be."

"Sure," I said.

"That's cool, they're starting for Chris Keller in Charlotte next month," he said.

"Really? I love Chris Keller," Lisa said, turning her attention back to Danny.

"Yeah, they have a duet and a new album coming out produced by the same producer as Mia Catalano, a Haley James, and Steph is doing a signing for her CD at –"

"What did you just say?" I said not sure if I had heard correctly.

"Steph has a CD signing at the mall. Why? Did you want to go? Maybe we can go after we go to Brooke's place?" he said looking hopeful.

"You are not invited to Brooke's store!" Lisa said. "It's a woman's clothing store. You hate shopping nearly as much as Ally over here! The only reason she's going is because it's Brookes!"

"But Brooke will be there!" he protested.

"You are ridiculous!" she said in exasperation.

"No! go back! What did you say before that!" I said, my voice getting louder. I was intent on confirming what I thought I'd heard.

"About Chris Keller?" he said looking confused.

"No!" I said reaching over and grabbing the paper out of his hands. I scanned over the whole thing until I came to the two words I'd been looking for. "I can't believe this!"

"Care to share?" Lisa said.

"It's right here! It says 'Haley James'!"

"And…?"

"The name of the woman who emailed my Dad was Haley James! I can't believe I found her!"

Lisa took the paper out of my hands to see for herself, looking sceptical.

"Alls, James is a really common name. This could be anybody!"

I hated to admit it but Lisa was right. Neither Haley or James was a unique name that narrowed down the chances of this being the same girl.

"And plus, I doubt your Dad was dating a top notch record producer from New York," Danny said snorting.

"Why not? Coach Scott is hot," Lisa said casually.

"Lisa! He's my Dad! I don't say stuff like that about your Dad!" I said grossed out. Why did they always have to say something about my Dad that would make me cringe.

"That's because my Dad is forty six and alphabetises his record collection for fun, and your Dad is thirty four and works out in your front drive—shirtless, whenever I come over," she said finishing with a dreamy look on her face. "I'm just saying there's a reason so many girls try out for the girls basketball team! Why do you think I made friends with you in the first place?"

"Ha ha. Hilarious, and he's not thirty four, he's thirty three," I said begrudgingly and Lisa grinned.

"You're not helping your argument," she said be laughed. Even though I knew she probably thought Dad was hot, I knew she was just rubbing it in a little to get on my nerves. Lisa wasn't definitely not one of those boy crazy cheerleaders that roamed the school halls. Strangely enough though, none of them wanted to my friend to get closer to Dad and pretty much chose to hate on me instead.

"Ok, let's get serious," I said.

"Ok, seriously speaking," Lisa started wiggling her eyebrows in a jokey way, but then her face turning completely serious, " I think you want this to be the girl that made plans with your Dad so you're letting yourself think it is but it's not."

"Is it too good to be true?" I asked, sighing.

"Yes," Lisa and Danny both said at the same time.

"I'm sticking to what I told you yesterday. Leave it alone. Coach Scott will tell you when he's ready."

"I hate it when you make sense," I said, flipping around in my seat to face the front as the bell rang and Lisa laughed as she hopped off Danny's desk and walked over to her own.

"So what time are we leaving for Brooke's?" Danny said from behind me and I flipped around just in time to see a rubber fly through the head and hit him on the head that came from a very suspicious looking Lisa, who was looking anywhere but at Danny.

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Nathan POV

I paced the living room a few times, pausing to look in the mirror to check my hair wasn't doing that weird standing up thing when I turned around and yelled for Lyssa.

"No need to yell," she said sounding extremely close by. I turned around and saw her sitting on the couch with my laptop on her lap.

"Sorry," I said. "I didn't notice you there."

"Right," she said rolling her eyes. "What's with you? Going anywhere special?"

"Nope," I said trying to sound casual even though I'm sure my voice gave it away. The last thing I wanted to do was let her know that I was hanging with Brooke because it would seem strange that I wasn't inviting her when she had no plans. I didn't want to tell her my plans for asking Brooke out either in case worst case scenario Brooke turned me down and Lyssa was disappointed after getting her hopes up. There was also a small part of me that was worried that Lyssa wouldn't be happy with me dating.

"Where are you going?" she asked putting the laptop down on the coffee table.

"Over to Mouth's to watch a game," I said, the lie just coming out of my mouth. As much as I hated to say it, I was getting better and better at lying to my daughter. The Haley situation was already dealt with and I wouldn't have to deal with that again and hopefully after tonight Brooke will agree to go out with me and I can fill Lyssa in and there will be no more of a need to lie.

"You're going to Mouth's wearing that?" she said looking me up and down, her eyes gazing over my dark wash jeans and white shirt.

"Yeah," I said, picking up my wallet and opening it, "He might want to do a little interview about the Ravens game."

"Right."

"Get some pizza for dinner. You're not going out tonight are you?," I said putting some money down for her and grabbing my jacket.

"You know normal parents wouldn't ask their sixteen year old if they're going out on a weekday," she said.

"You're right. Then in that case, Alyssa Scott, I ban you from leaving the house tonight, you have school tomorrow," I tried to say in a stern voice.

Sometimes I worried that my parenting style wasn't exactly conventional but Lyssa was a good kid (well when she wanted to be!) and I trusted her.

"Not bad, but we'll work on it," she said smirking. "But I'm home tonight, I have a book report to do."

"Ok, honey. Well be good, and call if you need anything," I told her, taking one more look in mirror before grabbing my keys and cell phone."

"I'm always good!" she yelled after me.

"Yeah right!" I yelled back leaving the house.

Here we go, I thought, putting the keys in the ignition.

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Alyssa POV

As soon as I heard the car leave the driveway I jumped up off the couch and fumbled around for the phone.

"Lisa?"

"Hey Ally," she said.

"Are you busy right now?" I rushed her.

"Yeah," she said. "Remember, the family dinner thing?"

"Oh right. Nevermind. I got to go," I said.

"Wait! Why do you sound like you're about to do something stupid?" she said.

"Gotta go Lisa!" I said before hanging up and dialling again. Even though I called Lisa, I was slightly glad she was busy because she never would have gone with the plan. She was the sensible one in the group, whilst I was the trouble maker and Danny was more often than not my accomplice who got roped into my schemes.

Come on, pick up the stupid phone, I thought waiting. Eventually the ringing stopped.

"Talk to me," Danny said sounding like he was eating something.

"Danny, it's me."

"I know. Nobody else would dare call me in the middle of CSI."

"Right. Get dressed and meet me at mine," I told him going up the stairs to my room.

"Where are we going?" he asked, this time sounding like he had more food in his mouth.

"Just get your ass over here," I said trying to pull my jeans on with one hand. "And bring that flyer from homeroom."

"No way, Ally, what the hell are you planning? We already told you—"

"He left the house looking totally dressed up and wants me to believe he's going over to Mouth's to watch a game!"

"So what exactly are you planning to do?" he said sighing.

"I don't know," I admitted. "But he's obviously going to The RecRoom, to see her again and doesn't want me to know!"

"Ally, this is nuts! First of all we can't just sneak into a nightclub! If we get caught, my Mom will kill me!"

"We're not going to get caught!" I assured him.

"So what happens when we get there?" he asked.

"Well we go, see Dad there, and bust him!" I said switching to speaker phone so I could pull a t-shirt over my head.

"Ally, I love you but this is ridiculous! You sound like a crazy person! How are we supposed to find your Dad in a huge place like that packed with people?"

"Danny, come on! She's the producer, she she'll be around or near the front!"

"Ally. Why can't we just stay home? All your crazy schemes always get us in trouble!"

"I do not have crazy schemes!" I said offended.

"Ally! We got detention for a month last year because you thought it would be fun to steal, or 'borrow' as you like to put it, the trophy the cheerleaders got for their nationals!"

"Oh yeah," I said laughing with the memory. "Boy was Kimberly pissed!"

"Ally!"

"Sorry!" I said. "But this is different! We'll just go in, find Dad with the woman and then leave! Piece of cake!"

"I'm not going to encourage you with this Ally, it's stupid and it's going to end badly."

"Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee….." I whined.

"Take Lisa!" he said.

"I already called her and she has that family thing," I reminded him.

"You called Lisa before you called me?" he said sounding insulted. "You're supposed to be my best friend!"

"Danny, you don't even want to go!"

"Well it would have still been nice to have been asked!"

"I am asking you now and you're saying no!"

"Ally I really don't have time for another one of your terribly thought out plans, where you make it up as you go along. And not to mention Lisa will kill me."

"Fine. I'll go alone."

"Ally, don't be stupid, I can't let you go to a place like The RecRoom on your own! Anything could happen to you!"

"Then come with me," I said in a cute voice.

"Ally…" he said warningly but I could tell he was considering it.

"And when you have your shift at Karen's next week, I'll call from Brooke's and order something so you get to deliver it!"

There was a few seconds silence and I crossed my fingers.

"Fine! But you invite me stay and hang out because it's the end of my shift!"

"Done!"

"But if Lisa asks I only went with you because it would be irresponsible to let you go alone!"

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Brooke POV

"Here you go," the waitress said putting two Mexican beers in front of us.

"I love this place!" I said quickly, "It's so fun and authentic, not like those restaurants that claim to be Mexican but it's really just fast food and the chefs are just Chinese guys in the back."

Nathan just gave me a smile in response and took a sip of his beer, looking like he found something amusing.

"Sorry, I'm babbling aren't I?" I said mentally telling myself to relax. I tended to babble when I was nervous. I had been on edge ever since Peyton told me they had spoken to Nathan about potential feelings for me. Tonight was just me and Nate grabbing a quick dinner while Ally was out. Nothing special. Just two friends eating dinner. What was wrong with me! I had dinner with Nathan minimum four times a week so why was I freaking out now!

"It's ok. It's sweet," he said still smiling, and I was sure I felt myself blush. Good going Brooke.

"Lyssa would have loved it here," I said looking around at the colourful decorations and blaring music, and feeling slightly guilty that we had come here tonight when she wasn't with us even though she'd been going on about trying this place for ages.

"Yeah, but she already made plans with Lisa," Nathan said, "It's ok, we'll come again."

My fingers found my cell phone on the table and I began fumbling around with it to give myself something to do.

"You know Brooke, I actually have something I've been meaning to talk to you about," he said gently.

Oh crap. He knew Peyton told me and wanted to make sure I didn't get the wrong idea that we were anything but friends. Kill me now. I switched on my phone and logged into Facebook to give me something to do. I'm sure if he told me right now that he knew about my feelings and he couldn't return them I would cry despite all these people sitting around us.

"Uh huh?" I said but kept my eyes on my phone.

"Well, I don't know how to say this but—"

"This is why I hate Facebook," I said starting to babble again. "They feel the need to reveal where everybody is twenty-four seven. It totally screws with your privacy."

"Brooke I'm trying to tell you something," he said.

"Like right now the whole world knows Lyssa is at The RecRoom because Facebook checked her in!" I said reading one of the updates which told me where Lisa and Lyssa were going tonight.

"Oh shit Haley!" Nathan let out in a loud voice and attracting some attention.

"Um…no…Brooke," I corrected him. I can't believe after all these years he called me Haley. It slightly hurt to see him get confused over the two of us.

"No, Haley!"

"Er, I'm pretty sure I'm Brooke."

"No! I know you're Brooke. It's Haley, she's back! She's in Tree Hill and she's at The RecRoom," he said taking a few notes out of his wallet and putting them on the table.

"Haley's back?" I said in complete shock.

"Yes, at The RecRoom where you just told me Alyssa is, not at home where I thought!"

"But you knew Lyss was out tonight!"

"No, she's at home! Well she's obviously not at home but—"

"You thought she was at home? But you just said she went out with Lisa?" I said completely confused as he stood and pulled on his jacket and I did the same.

"She didn't go out with Lisa, she's at home!" he said getting flustered and we rushed out the restaurant and into his car.

"Then why did you say—"

"Long story."

So Nathan lied to me about where Lyssa was? And Haley was back? I don't think I've ever been more confused.

"Are you sure Haley's back?" I asked him, trying to figure out if Nathan wasn't just over reacting.

"Yes!"

"How do you know?"

"She told me. Well actually Louise told me," he said reversing out and getting back onto the road. I gripped my seatbelt and pulled it around me, already being able to tell Nathan wasn't planning to stick to any driving rules this trip.

"Who the hell was Louise?" I yelled, holding onto the handle as the car swerved.

"Haley's assistant. But Haley mentioned it," he said.

"What the hell? You spoke to Haley?"

"Yeah yesterday when I went to meet her after she emailed me. But it was the email that mentioned The RecRoom."

"You've been in contact with Haley and you're just thinking of bringing it up now?!" I said starting to yell. " Since when do we keep things from each other and sneak around at 'faculty meetings'?!"

I wasn't going to lie; it hurt like hell that he kept something as big as this from me. I mean Haley was back! I couldn't even process it myself. I had given up on her and really thought we'd seen the back of Haley. Now she was in Tree Hill and talking to Nathan, who she left behind. Did she want Alyssa back too?

My heart started racing as my mind went into overdrive thinking up the worst possible scenarios.

"Is that what you brought me here to tell me?" I asked him.

"No," he said.

"So you weren't going to tell me?" I said not believing what I was hearing. It's one thing not telling me as soon as it happened, but not to plan to tell me at all was another story.

"It was no big deal. I'm sorry Brooke," he said turning to me slightly as he reluctantly stopped at a traffic light.

"No big deal! This is Haley, Nathan! The woman who just disappeared out of thin air! And your acting like its completely normal!"

"I'm really sorry Brooke, but I didn't want to worry all you guys over nothing. She's leaving now. It's done. She just wanted me to sign divorce papers," he said.

Divorce papers? It suddenly dawned on me that they never did that. Haley just left and we never heard from her again. The idea of divorce never even occurred to me. It just wasn't relevant. I can't believe all this time they've still been married!

"Ok. She's leaving," I said trying to think about this calmly. Did she want to see Lyssa?

"Yes, except she's at The RecRoom now where Lyssa is," he said and started the car up again.

"Oh crap," I said, as the situation dawned on me.

"Nate, maybe we should relax slightly. She doesn't know who Ally is, Ally doesn't know who she is. The RecRoom is a huge place, they'd probably never even run into each other," I said. Even though I was panicking probably just as much as Nate, he needed to slow down.

"Or they could run into each other."

"Maybe you should speed up a bit," I told him holding onto the safety handle above in and closing my eyes in preparation.

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A/N: Thanks again for the massive support! Please drop me a review to tell me what you think! I literally live for them!

-Also if anyone is good at making covers let me know

-And if anybody is good at Twitter let me know! I set up an account for my penname to post update's and info about more stories and polls etc but i have no idea what i'm doing. Volunteers to help?

-And (one more sorry!)- I'm still looking for suggestions of people to play Austin, alex and ally. some of you expressed concerns that you dont know much about how they look so here you go:

Ally- Isnt girly, much more comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt and sneakers, although she isnt a complete tomboy, so dont get the wrong image, she just isnt the type to spend hours getting dressed. Brown hair.

Austin- He's the captain of the b-ball team, mr popular, all the girls think he's hot, he's the hot preppy one.

Alex- opposite to Austin. where austin is hot in a preppy polo shirt way Alex is hot in the black t-shirt and messy hair sort of way. he gives the impression he doesnt give a crap about how he looks. gives off a bad boy image.

One minor concern: A couple of you have mentioned how when you get a POV you don't like, such as Alex POV , you just skip it. I really don't recommend this because I never have a POV just as a filler. There's always a reason I put them in which means they have vital info you will miss if you skip it!