"Lucas this is ridiculous." Haley rolled her eyes at her best friend. He looked as though his world had just fallen apart. "She's been going to school for the past 3 months, I would think you'd been over it by now." Haley retorted as she pulled into the high school parking lot. It had been almost two years since Alex entered their lives and she was now enrolled in Tree Hill Elementary as a kindergartner.

"I'm allowed to be upset Haley." The blonde countered. He still hated leaving Alex every morning. Everyone could see that it pained the father more then the daughter every weekday morning.

"Its gotta stop eventually Lucas…what are you gunna do when she goes to college. You won't be able to pick her up at the end of the day." Haley laughed as they entered the high school.

"Look I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, but as far as I know, she can go to college wherever she want…I'm just gunna go with her." Lucas raised a brow causing the brunette to laugh even harder.

"Now your what I call an over protective father. You know you were like this when we were in high school too. If you stayed like that, one you would never really know your brother, and two…I would never be married and extremely happy. You wouldn't want to deprive you little princess or true fairytale happiness" Lucas gave his signature fake laugh and roll of the eyes as Haley smirked in his direction before disappearing into her classroom. Lucas gave a sad laugh and shook his head before entering the room to teach his own English class.

His day passed pretty quickly but instead of going to pick up Alex, Lucas headed home after work. Alex was on a trip today which meant that she wouldn't be home for another two hours or so. After dropping him off Haley drove over to the café, she was in the mood for one of Karen's specialty hot chocolates. The brunette still couldn't figure out how Karen got her hot chocolate to taste the way it did, she just knew that she'd never tasted anything like it. Haley stepped through the door and found her way towards the counter.

"Hey Haley…hot chocolate?" Karen questioned as she gave the brunette a warm smile.

"You got it" Haley responded as she took a seat on a vacant stool. She folded her arms on the counter and rested her head on her forearms. The bells above the door sounded giving the brunette the final push she needed to start her headache.

"Can I help you" Karen's voice rang through Haley's head causing the brunette to cringed. Her kids were getting ruder by the minute and giving her more headaches then normal over the last few weeks. They weren't all bad, but some of them were just plain disrespectful.

"Umm…can I just have two cappuccinos." Haley looked up in confusion. "Actually make that one cappuccino and a hot chocolate." The woman have a warm smile and briefly looked in Haley's direction, immediately turning her head back to face Karen.

"Amy…" Haley was fully alert now as she watched the brunette turn back and face her. "You know, you would think that considering I only saw your face for about two minute I would forget you after two years…apparently not." Haley spat bitterly as she stepped closer to the taller brunette.

"Look Haley…" Amy started.

"Just shut up, I could care less about what you have to say. You dropped off a little girl and just left her with a bunch of strangers. You are no better then her whore of a mother." Her headache was getting worse from the anger but she ignored it.

"Do me a favor and keep the false accusations to yourself. I'm not interested in hearing you call someone a whore." Amy gave a superficial smile as she glared at Haley, fire present in both their eyes.

"Fine she's a pathetic excuse for a mother then….no arguments there…she up and left her three year old daughter and didn't have the guts to do it herself. Then you come back here for God knows what and you should know neither of you are welcome here. So with that obvious knowledge the only reason you would come back is for Alex and once again what blonde bitch can't show her face." Hand on hip, Haley raised a brow.

"Haley, what it going on out here" Karen approached the counter and looked back and forth between the two girls.

"Just so you know, she is here. I tired to get her to come in but she told me that she wouldn't be able to take it so I came in to see what kind of reaction she would get. I tried to tell her to just talk to people, that things would work out and people would be civil. She told me I was wrong and she was right, because you wouldn't even listen to her. You all would chase her out of town with a bat before you let her get half a word out." Amy glared at he brunette across from her before walking towards the door. "Forget the drinks…sorry to be an inconvenience." She didn't bother to face Karen as she spoke and she was gone as soon as the words left her mouth.

"Mind explaining why you just chased my customer out of here and what they hell you two were arguing about?" Karen turned to face the scowling brunette.

"That was Amy." Haley smiled sarcastically at the older woman.

"And who is Amy?"

"The girl Peyton lived with when she left Tree Hill and more importantly the one who brought Alex to Tree Hill and left her here." Haley watched as a shocked expression crossed the woman's face. "Yeah…so guess who's back in town after 6 years."

"Oh God" Karen breathed.

"For some reason I don't really think God's gunna make this situation any better for anyone. I gotta go." "Haley stood up from the counter and shook her head before walking out of the café. Haley was about to get in her car when she spotted Amy standing down the road. But that wasn't what enraged her, it was the curly blonde with her back to Haley that made her blood boil. She watched as Amy nodded her head in her direction. The blonde turned around and for the first time in years Haley was looking into the eyes of Peyton Sawyer. The only difference was that her eyes weren't hazel…Haley could see from a distance that her eyes were burning bright red as she cried. Peyton shook her hand and placed her hand over her mouth as she walked around the car and got into the passenger. Amy bit her bottom lip before getting into the driver's side, and Haley just watched as they drove off down the road.