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Chapter 1: A Morning in New York City.

The sun shone brightly down on New York City and awoke Brooke Davis, a beautiful 19-year old brunette with a love of guys. It was way too early for her after her hard night of partying with what's-his-name and she still had the hangover to prove it, yet she knew she had a long day ahead of her, preparing to go on vacation with her best friends and roommates Haley James and Peyton Sawyer. Upon remembering this, she hopped out of bed, hoping to go awake them both but when she started to pass through the kitchen she soon realized that Haley and Peyton had both beaten her up. She smelled the delicious aroma from the kitchen and could tell in an instant that it was Haley who was making breakfast today. Years of working in a café had really paid off for her.

"Morning all!" Brooke said with a smile.

"Good Morning Sleepyhead" Haley James replied with a smirk. Haley had always been the more motherly figure of the three, making sure they each "behaved" as well as possible while living up the young adult years of their lives. She was also brunette but wasn't as social as the other two. Sure, she had boyfriends but compared to Brooke, who had a new boyfriend every week, and Peyton, who usually switched guys monthly, her few relationships were nothing. This brunette took a long time to trust a guy and an even longer time to commit to him.

"Good thing you finally got up Brooke, we were getting worried in here!" Peyton Sawyer replied while walking over to pour both her and Brooke coffee. Peyton was definitely the moodiest of them and was a lot deeper and complex than she first appears. She had a love of art and expressed herself well in it.

"Ha ha, very funny Peyt. Like you've never slept till...what time is it guys?" Brooke retorted and questioned.

"Its 12 noon Brooke" Peyton answered while twirling a strand of her naturally curly blonde hair around her index finger, half listening, half drawing.

"Ok, can you guys stop for 2 seconds? We really need to focus on this vacation at hand. We leave tonight and I know I'm packed but I have to take a wild guess I'd say Brooke hasn't started at all, and you miss Peyton are not close to being done. Now, I've taken the liberty of making a list for both of you of things that you absolutely cannot forget." Haley says. "Brooke, you should go shower, because Lord knows you need it after last night and Peyt, please go pack." She finishes with a smile.

"Yes mother." Brooke answers with a grin and heads to the bathroom.

"Ay, Ay Captain James" Peyton jokes and salutes before turning back to her room.

"Wow, what am I ever going to do with them?" Haley thinks out loud. "And more importantly, HOW AM I GOING TO SHARE A ROOM WITH THEM!?!"

Meanwhile, down south a couple states in rural Tree Hill ,South Carolina, four guys were thinking about the same thing—a vacation. They too had booked the cruise and were even busier preparing for it because they didn't have a Haley to keep them organized. It was already 1 in the afternoon and Nathan Scott, Lucas Scott, Jake Jagalaski, and Tim Smith were just lounging around watching their favorite game, basketball.

"Dude" Lucas said to the rest of them, "Think maybe we should just start packing?"

"Yea I guess you are right. I guess I'll go start now, but how hard can it possibly be? It wont take long." Jake responded.

"Keep thinking that buddy," Lucas replied rumpling his golden hair. "I for one am going to go start packing for our week of vacation. A full week stuck on a cruise ship hopefully FULL of gorgeous women."

"Big brother, tell me that is not a dream come true" answered Lucas' little brother Nathan who was the more womanizing of the two. His dark hair and blue eye combination always got plenty of girls to notice him and he loved every minute of their attention.

"You are absolutely right Nate" Tim now piped in. He was always partying and always not coming home on Friday and Saturday nights until about 6 AM. "I'll be in my room packing boys. Call if you need me." With that he turned and walked into his room.

"I'm with Tim on this one." Jake added. "Collage has been so hard recently, I cant wait to have some serious fun. I'm going the same route as Tim so I'll catch you two in a couple hours." Jake smiled that "Oh-I-Think-I'm- Going-To-Melt" smile at the brothers and went to his respective room.

"Well here we are little brother, just the two of us" Lucas said. Lucas was the male equivalent of Peyton. He too was moody and kept a lot inside of him. Much of it had to do with the fact that he didn't have a father growing up. His birth father Dan, Nathan's father too, left when he got Lucas' mother Karen pregnant. A couple months later, he met Nathan's mom Deb, fell in love with her, had a child with her and then decided to stay with her for a long time until they realized their differences and divorced about two years ago. Up until that divorce, Nathan and Lucas did not get along AT ALL. In fact, when Lucas joined the High School basketball team, Nathan was often the ringleader behind the hazing that Lucas went through. With time however, the two soon became close and now shared an apartment with two other former Tree Hill basketball stars Jake and Tim. Jake was the first person to really befriend Lucas on the team and Tim and Nathan had been tight forever so it seemed only fitting that the four would play their college careers at NC State together.

Nathan looked at the clock and gasped "Lucas! Why didn't you tell me I only had 3 hours before the flight leaves! I need to PACK!" With that, he runs out of the common room and into his private bedroom.

Lucas can only shake his head and laugh "Little brothers...What are you going to do?"

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If there is a next time: THE ARRIVAL!