Disclaimer

One Tree Hill and everything there in belong to The WB, Mark Schwan, The Writers, and the other respective owners that created them. I own nothing but my season one dvd set although you know if James Lafferty wanted to let me own him I would definitely be open to that. lol. I do not own song lyrics that may be inserted for effect nor do I own any quotes that may appear at the beginning or end of chapters unless I have never heard anyone else say it. Some of these quotes could come from other works I have by other account names and I'll credit them as such. That about covers everything I don't own if something else pops up I'll add it

Summary

Afflictions are said to tempt, to try men, putting their faith and patience to the test. His temptation was not internal, but by a real, active, subtle being. It was not self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of obedience on his part. So long as we are in this world exposure to temptation is inevitable, and need ever to be on our watch against them. For these enticements are shameless. Naley.

Author's Note: May 14, 2005

After thinking about this for a while and really turning everything over in my head for a while I've decided a couple things. First off I know I promised that this would be a Naley and I kind of wanted to make it one just for challenge sake but like happens sometimes the fic is really writing itself. It might not take that exact direction. Owing to the fact that I've promised over and over one thing but the story really is developing in another I want to say that nobody lose faith in their ship whether it be Haley/Nathan or Brooke/Nathan. There will be a point in this fic where I'm going to ask you, the reviewers and/or readers, to decide which path the rest of the story takes. Know that this wont happen for a bit though. Just hold tight I promise plenty of both.

Secondly after it being brought to my attention a couple times I realize that I don't really like the end of the last chapter and how it seems a little random. I didn't explain things well. So in an attempt to correct that I'm going to try to unfold the master reason behind Brooke/Nathan and the friend situation with Haley. There's a specific reason behind the way Nathan acts toward Haley and why, even after a divorce, he's with her. Brooke's a key player in this. She's not the stereotypical mistress, other woman, scarlet woman, whatever you want to call them in this fic that I can definitely assure you being my favorite I definitely wouldn't do that to her.

Lastly after reviewing it carefully I jumped into things a little soon. I'll be rewriting slightly, not enough to change the course of the storyline so don't worry about rereading if you don't want to, so as to slow things down. Chapter title's are going to change just because I've found better ones lol. That's probably the least in importance of the changes taken place.

Sorry for the inconvienence to all that are reading or reviewing this. I really do apologize for my rewrite I do this often but usually it takes a bit for my friends to point things out and then it just irritates me until I do it's my curse being fairly meticulous and a tad bit of a perfectionist. Also if you are interested for being a beta reader for this or a fic I have started but not posted, those can be found in my profile, e-mail me or let me know in a review and we'll talk. Again sorry for the hold up and inconvienence. For any further author's notes or minor little notations check back here.

Always,
- Jesica -