Chapter 1
Lucas
Lucas had his eyes closed as he thought about the last 4 years and how things had gone so wrong, yet so right. Sure Peyton and Brooke said they forgived him, but he knew neither really got past it. In their senior year Peyton and Lucas decided they were better off as bestfriends. While Brooke and he had tried at it again, she never completely trusted him again, so they broke it off. Albeit after a rather heated arguement the night of graduation. They had not talked since.
The one thing that came to a shock to the small town was that Nathan and Hailey had gotten divorced. Sure they always say that getting married at such a young age these days you will never last. Although not many would admit it, most believed that the young couple would have lasted.
From the small tidbits he had heard, Lucas picked up that Jake and Peyton had gotten together since highschool. His mom and Keith dod not work out. She had instead married her college professor. Deb and Karen were still parteners in the business'. Deb had not remarried after Dan and her split. Lucas did not really know what happened to Dan, and quite frankly did not really care.
Nathan
Nathan was in much the same posistion as Lucas they thought of the same things, except that Nathan thought more of what had happened between him and Hailey. No one besides the two know what happened the day that every thing came to an end. Hell Nathan did not praticularly remember it. It was mostly foggy. He remembered thing being thrown and yelling, but that was the extent of it.
The boys were thrown out of their trance like states as the bus suddenly violently coughed and sputtered coming to a lurching halt. Both boys stood together. Lucas spoke first asking, "What happened?" The bus driver Mark answered, "I have no clue, but I think the engine blew, we called a tow service." Nathan asked the next question, "Um, where exactly are we?" Not realizing the impact his answer would have he answered, "Some small ass town called, Tree Hill."