A/N: Thanks for the reviews!!! This is my take on Dan & Karen's first kiss!!!

A gentle kiss that scorches the senses. Hands flutter weakly, eyelids tremble lightly. Dark hair whispers softly in the breeze.

Masculine hands settle lightly onto her slender satiny shoulders, skin lightly tanned from the Indian summer, Tree Hill was experiencing.

Eyes hazed over with a light mixture of desire and innocence.

Karen stepped back from Dan. I've only known him 4 weeks and he's already kissed me. He said he needed a tutor for English, I've seen his work, it is pretty bad and yet…………

His monogrammed basketball jersey was flung over one shoulder and held in place by his duffel bag strap. "Karen I-"

"I need to go, I have somewhere else to be right now." Waving lightly, she jogged lightly away from him.

"My first kiss and it had to be from him. The king of all arrogance." Karen muttered to herself, trying to rationalize what was happening. I can't actually be developing feelings for his royal highness… rolling her eyes at the last two words.

Walking out to the riverside court, she sat on the bleachers, looking out at the water. Searching for wisdom, for answers to her baffling questions.

Dan shot a flawless three-pointer, his mind partly on the game and mostly consumed with thoughts about his kiss with Karen.

I've been with so many girls, this one is different, I can't really be having feelings for the bookworm……scoffing at the last few words.

I wanted to get in her pants, but she's not that way, so I settled for her being my tutor. I thought I'd accepted that we could only be friends at most, and yet I kissed her and it felt so good…………..

His eyes had a glazed faraway look in them, as a pass caught him in the chest. Dan picked it up off the ground, smiled his cocky grin and shot a beautiful three-pointer.

"Focus Scott, get your head out of the clouds." Whitey's gravelly voice stroked his competitive ego.

Karen stared out her bedroom window as the rain poured down. Thoughts and questions whirled through her mind.

A knock on the door, broke her line of thought.

"Honey, you have a visitor." Her mom's soft voice traveled through the flickering shadows of her room.

"Coming." Karen blew out her candles and flew out her door.

Dan Scott stood at the bottom of the stairs.

"Why are you here?" her soft voice asked him, her eyes darting around, looking for her parents.

"They left for a movie." Dan read her mind.

Karen's eyes widened in surprise…….her parents never had left her alone with a man before.

"Come here." Dan held out his hand.

Reluctantly, Karen walked down the stairs tentatively. Clasping the banister tightly, so that her knuckles were white.

Dan tenderly took her hand off the banister and led her through the living room where her parents had left a fire burning in the fireplace.

Sitting on the couch, he pulled her down next to him. "I want to talk about what happened today?" his affectionate tone got her attention.

Swallowing nervously, Karen looked at him.

A/N: My version of their first kiss. Plz R&R!!! Updates soon!!!!