(here is the next chapter, hope hte last chap wasnt too cliffy...and from ALL THE OH SO MANY REVIEWS I GOT coughcough it seemed fine...yes and you are probably wondering how and why Austin Burton's brother can live in tree hill and it is because of divorce, the burton parents split ((another reason Austin will be angry....later....)) and anyway, austin stays in BearCreek with his dad and Ryland moved to TreeHill with his mom, hope that helps you and Austin will appear again cuz heee visits him mom and brother.... oh and please still give Ryland a try, he wont be an a ss like his bro! please! oh and R&R! oh and as i begin to type this it is 11:50 pm and i cant really sleep cuz i saw this guy today who looked exactly like JamesLafferty but it obviously wanst him, becuz hes filming OTH at the moment, anyway he looked like him but acted just like Nathan, so in jumps the over protective brother! enjoy!)

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from One Tree Hill (but if the WB doesnt want Lucas Ill take him,)except I am now owning Trinity,Austin,Ryland and any other inframilar characters...like Jessica Smith! oh and Thompson Vincent who is gone now but he was there...!

"So, Austin visits or is going to visit every weekend?" asked Trinity, drinking her pepsi while talking to Ryland in Karen's. Today, instead of taking her usual spot at the counter, she slunk into a back corner, seeing as both Lucas and Haley were working. She was sitting across from Ryland, or Ry, and they were talking like they were old friends.

"Ya, but Bear Creek isn't too far away anyway, and I'll see him when we go to his games there, and when he plays here, like on Friday," Ryland explained fiddling with his napkin. Trinity smiled and relaxed a bit, noticing he was kind of nervous too.

"So are you the basketball type too? Like your brother?" she asked again, searching for a topic. He laughed and then sighed.

"You would think that wouldn't you? But not really, I'm not bad at it but I prefer soccer to basketball, even though not many people know it.." he said, with a small hint of sadness in his voice.

"Really? Let me guess, you were pressured by parent units to play basketball, taking after your brother?" she took a shot, thinking of a situation she knew of, or it was close to it.

"Ya, my dad thinks I will get a scholarship, so it's kind of a big priority now..." he said to her, noticing her nod in an understanding way, "You too?"

"I'm not into the scholarship thing, I only got into basketball in the first place to get attention from my dad and I enjoy it now, I mean, it's like and escape now..." she said finishing her drink, and dropping some change onto the table. He gave up some change too, and they both got up.

"So, you coming to Tree Hill Middle School?" she asked as she walked out with him, both of them slipping back into their rollerblades.

"Yah, I am and I am guessing, well actually hoping, you will be there...maybe I'll even be in your class..." he trailed off again, giving her a big smile. She smiled back at him," And I hope you are in my class too, and maybe you'll be allowed to be on the guy's basketball team, the girl's practice with them alot," She put her hand onto his shoulder and smiled again, winking at him and she headed off back to her house, floating on air.

-...-

Lucas sat behind the counter, watching his sister and her new 'friend', and washing the counter continuously in one place. The guy she was with seemed almost framilar to him, his looks, his attitude and his hair. And Lucas thought about what he saw over and over again, and never came to anything. He sighed and continued to wash, seeing his sister give her 'friend' a wink as he left. He never knew he would be the protective type of guy, but he knew that was Nathan's role more, he knew what to do when that happened.

"You know, I think that spot is washed already..." spoke a voice from behind Lucas, breaking him from his state of mind. He looked up then say Haley, smiling at him in a forgiving way. He just shook his head and moved on with the counter.

"C'mon Luke, we have to talk about this..." she pleaded, getting in his way of the counter. She knew he could talk now, not that he would though. The cafe was pretty empty for a week day afternoon but they both didn't care.

"Talk about what Haley? The fact that you never told me about tutoring Nathan or the fact you were 'cozy' with him this after the party...which one?" he snapped at her, turing around, heading over to the booth to clean up. He looked over the sight, to empty glasses of pop and a couple dollar bills. He picked up both, swerving around his friend who tried talking to him again.

"Both, ok Luke, both!" she replied, watching him put the money into the register and the glasses into the sink behind him. He leaned against the counter and Haley took a seat on one of the stools.

"Alright, go ahead, I'm listening...for now..." said Lucas, looking over his best friend who gave him another forgiving look. She breathed in and out once, then began to talk.

"Luke, I didn't want to tell you about the tutoring with Nathan because I knew this would happen, I knew it would. And you would want me to stop the tutoring, even if he needed it and he does. And what happened at the party just happened...I dont know..luke you should give him a try..." she finished up with, looking Lucas in the eye.

"You know what Hales, I could give him a try, if you want me to...but only if he's willing to give me a try too, not just look at me as his dad's mistake..." he said back to her, obviously not mad at her anymore. She smiled at him and ran behind the counter, giving him a big hug.

"I'll try to talk to him, we have a session tonight...Thanks Luke..."

-...-

When Trinity got home that day, at about 5 her mom was in the kitchen, setting the table. She slipped out of her rollerblades and went into the kitchen, sitting at the table, still smiling.

"What are you so smily about?" asked Deb, smiling back at her.

"Just because of someone..." she said, her eyes floating back to the picture of Ryland printed in her head. Deb rolled her eyes to her daughter and continued cooking at the stove. Trinity watched her family head into the kitchen, taking the normal spots at the kitchen table, and eveyone seemed in a good mood. Across from her Nathan was smiling slightly, for a reason unknown to Trinity but she thought it had to do with Haley. To her left her Dan was telling her mother about the 6 sales he made today. And her mother was happy because she was going on less and less trips from now on.

"So Trinity how was school?" asked her dad, and Trinity's smile weakened. This question was asked every night now, since her fight. She didn't really enjoy the facther father finally did care about her school work but she answered.

"Pretty good," she answered him, as he moved onto Nathan who answered the same and he also said he passed his math test with a 69. Dan looked okay with that mark but Nathan moved back into the conversation saying that he was having another tutoring session that night. Then Trinity realized, that was the reason for his good mood. And of course, the conversation that included the children finished there.

At about 7:45 that night there was a ring at the doorbell and Trinity had beat her brother to the door, laughing at him because he tripped over a chair in the kitchen. She opened to door to see a smiling Haley.

"Hey Haley, kitchen again," said Trinity letting her in, motioning to the kitchen. Then she herself headed back to the living room, deciding to call Ryland. She saw her brother set to work in the kitchen and she heard her parents car leave. Deb and Dan were headed off to some charity basketball game over in Raleigh, so Nathan and Trinity were stuck at home with each other's company. But since Haley was over with Nathan, Trinity was the one left out. She dialed up Ryland's cell phone, one of the only other people her age who had one. She asked him to come over to maybe watch a movie or something. And he did.

"Hey Nathan?" she called into the kitchen, walking to the door, to wait for Ryland.

"Um yah?" he asked looking up from his math book.

"A friends coming over alright?" she said as he nodded and she left him in the kitchen with Haley, and she headed outside to play some basketball until Ryland came over. She was going up and down the court, dribbling madly and taking shots until she heard a voice from behind her

."I see you have a pretty good shot," said Ryland, laughing as he joined her on her driveway.

"And I see you had no trouble finding my house," she said, passing him the ball.

"Well, I had something to look forward too," he replied to her, making a shot and swishing it. She smiled at him and they headed inside, picking out a movie to watch.

"Ok, it's a choice between Pirates of the Caribean or Happy Gilmore..." she said, flipping through the dvds. They both decided on Happy Gilmore, because of Adam Sandler. They sat beside each other on the couch, and laughed through the movie.
-...-

In the kitchen, Nathan noticed his sister walk in with her friend and to his surprise it was a guy. A guy who looked almost framilar to him. Since when did she ask to have a guy over, he thought ignoring his work and keeping his eyes on her, she asked for a friend, not a guy friend! Not a guy friend!

"Um Nathan, you gonna answer the question or what?" asked Haley, waving her hand in front of his face. She noticed his eyes were glued to his sister's friend.

"It's a guy, she didn't ask for a guy to come over, a friend not a guy!" he exclaimed, his eyes not leaving her, and he looked shocked.

"Wait, are you saying all your friends are the same gender as you?" asked Haley, moving away from the math subject. "Ok I get your point but she's only like...13!" he said, still looking in disbelief. Haley shook her head.

"Hey, what do you think is gonna happen, like you said shes 13!" retorted Haley, defending Trinity.

"Haley, she's still my little sister, what if that guys a creep?" he asked her, so sure of himself.

"First of all, you should give him a try before you label him and second of all I recall you being close to Brooke when you were 13, whenever me and Luke were at the cafe you guys seemed to be close in a booth..." she trailed off, giving him a sly smile.

"Fine, I'll give him a try, but if he tries something..." he looked at Haley who gave him another look, "Ok , he wont! 13!"

"Talk about giving someone a try," said Haley starting to bring up Lucas, so she closed her books, "Nathan, I liked what had happened after they party, in the kitchen, I did like it and I hope you did and we both saw how angry Lucas was seeing us and I talked to him and..."

"And what?" asked Nathan, moving a piece of fallen hair behind her ear.

"And he said he's willing to um...give you a try if you do the same..." she trailed off and looked at him willingly, hoping he would.

"Will it make you happy?" he asked, sighing as she nodded.

"Ok, then maybe I'll give him a try..."he said smiling slightly as Haley gave her second big hug out for the day.

-...-

After the movie was over, Trinity sat beside Ryland on the couch and they just talked. She kept sensing eyes on them and when ever she looked over to the kitchen, Nathan's head would turn really fast. She laughed everytime that happened, she liked seeing him in his soon-to-be-overprotective-brother state.

Later though, as Haley was about to leave they both walked into the living room when Nathan finally decided to speak up. When he came in he pretended to cough, getting his sister's attention.

"Can I help you Nath?" she asked, giving him a look.

"Care to introduce me or us?" he said, motioning to Ryland. Suddenly, Trinity leaned over to Ryland and whispered into his ear, "To tell you the truth, I like you, kind of and I don't wanna mess this up for you so no last name right now, alright?" Ryland nodded to her, adjusting his hat, which had a basketball on it.

"Ok, Nathan this is Ryland and Ryland this is my brother Nathan and his friend Haley," said Trinity, as Ry got up to shake her brother's hand and say Hi to Haley. After, when he sat back down with her he seemed kind of less nervous. She smiled at him and they both watched Nathan say his goodbyes to Haley.

"See, he isn't that bad," Haley said to him on her way out, giving him an I-told-you-so kind of look. He nodded at her and kissed her cheek.

"Yah, he was okay..."

(ok thats it for now, WOW! long chappy....longest yet i think! R&R please and tell me what you think of good ol Ryland! R&R! R&R!)