Disclaimer: I do not own any characters except for Aurora Elizabeth Harper.

There stood 16-year-old Aurora Elizabeth Harper. A six foot, 145lbs girl with natural blondish-brown hair that was cut to the middle of her back, a perfect figure, and enchanting green eyes. She stood at a cross road, 'should I leave? Or should I stay?'

She lives in a house, if you could call a three-story mansion a house, in Denmark. She's a super model and brought the house for her parents. 'Aurora,' she thought to myself in the third person, 'you need a real life. One away from your parent that are always out gallivanting on endless trips, from the paparazzi, and from those people you call friends that are just after your money. Face it Aurora you need to go out and make friends with people that don't know about your career, people that will like you for being yourself.'

It was 12 am. She walked into her room and got on her brand new computer and went to Google and typed: Small towns in eastern North America. 148 pages answer to that. She went to page 126 and started to read she came across to interesting little towns one in New Jersey call Port Republic and one in North Carolina called Tree Hill. 'Which do I want to go to?'

She kept reading and decided on Tree Hill. By 3 am she was completely packed. She had emptied her savings, over 5 million dollars, the other 79 million she had made from modeling was in a trust account until she turned 18. 'Well, her I go.'

"Hello?" She spook into the receiver.

"Please hold," the operator said. About 20 seconds later another operated came on. "Number to where please?"

"Tree Hill North Carolina realtors." She checked the clock the clock. 'Its 3:15 am here, so it should be around 8:15 there.

"Please hold," the operator said. "The number you have requested area code 304 293-7400 is being connected.

"Hello?" An American voice answered.

"Yes, my name is," She didn't want anyone to know that she modeled, "Elizabeth Harper. At the time I live in Denmark and was wondering what kind of houses are for sale in Tree Hill, the town that I desire to move to."

"Well there are numerous houses. But we close for the night in about 15 minutes, so if you give me your email then I can send you a list, description, price, and pictures. Is there a high price for any of the properties?"

"Umm... I can go up to a million and a half, although I only need a small house, maybe three bedrooms, kitchen, dining, living, computer, study, 2 small bathrooms and a master one. I will also be needing a pool, although I can put one of those in, and if possible on the water. That's all."

The woman on the other line let out a gasp, but then remembered a property. "We have a beach house with a large yard in the back, including a little garden, you could have a pool built-in. It has three stories; the bottom is a living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry and two bathrooms. On the second story are a study, two bedrooms, and a balcony that over looks the bottom floor. And last but not least is the top floor. It is rather large. There is a master bedroom, master bathroom, and master closet, there is also a breakfast nook, and a pulley, so you can make breakfast and then have it come up to the nook without spilling it."

It sounded like the perfect house, "What are the dimensions of the rooms on the top floor?"

"The bedroom is 36x40, the bathroom is 20x18, the closet is rather large 20x24, and the nook is 12x18."

"How much?"

"It's $1,250,000."

"I'll take it."

"Are you sure? You haven't even seen the house?"

"I'm positive," Aurora had never been more positive then now. "When can I move in?"

"Well today is the 8th, I can have it ready by the 11th, I know its soon but..." Aurora cut her off.

"See you the 11th then?"

"Well, yes."

"Give me your email and we can have pictures and the address sent. By the way my name is Haley James. I'm only her for the summer because of school but my boss will so you the house ok?"

"Thank you Haley, oh yes, when does school start? Because I'm starting my senior year soon."

"How old are you?"

"16, but I turn 17 on the 24th."

"Wow, 17 and buying a house? Where did you get the money from?"

"If I tell you promise not to tell, please? You gotta swear!"

"Ok I swear," Haley answered.

"My real name is Aurora Elizabeth Harper. I'ma super model, and I have had enough of the business. My parents don't care there always out of town so I'm gonna move to Tree Hill. And try to be normal." She said.

"Wow! I won't tell anyone. My parents are always gone too. I understand. Well I gotta go, but I'll stop by on the 12th ok?"

"That sounds great!"

"Well bye Aur-Elizabeth." Haley caught herself before she called her the wrong name.

"Bye Haley," Elizabeth chuckled and hung up the phone. 'Shit today is the 19th! I gotta still get a ticket!' For the next six hours she packed everything, reserved her tickets and got her little dog, a Boston terrier named honey, up to date on her shots. She also got her records from her tutor, birth certificate, and other important papers. Then she got in her limo and was driven to the airport. She only brought enough clothes for a week; everything else was being shipped to Tree Hill.

'So this is New York?' She thought as she made her connection from JFK to the NC airport. She checked her watch it was 9:45 at night on August 10th. She would get to North Carolina about midnight, check into a hotel then meet Haley's boss the next day at her new house. 'I actually did it. I escaped the modeling world! Good Bye Aurora! Hello Liz!' Liz thought as she drifted to sleep.

*Spoilers! *

*Liz meets Haley

*She learns about the group

*Off to Nathan's we go

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