Author's Note: My first time writing a One Tree Hill fanfic. Might be a little weird because I wrote it a little while ago and I just felt like posting it. Please review! Please?

Summary: When Karen got pregnant with Lucas at eighteen she went to tell Dan, who had some news for her, he went first and told Karen that he wanted to break up because he had just found out that his old girlfriend just gave birth to his child. Then Karen told him that she was pregnant and quickly left town. Now she and Lucas, 16, live in a town about a half hour away from Tree Hill where Karen went back to school to get a degree in business. Her professor, Andy, who lives in Tree Hill, is the exact same as he is was in the second season. Him and Karen felt an instant attraction and started dating. Once he took her out to this cafe that she instantly fell in love with and then found out that it was closing so her and Andy bought it. After she bought the cafe she started bringing Lucas with her. He started hanging out with the guys at River Court and dated Brooke, but then broke up with her because he thought he was in love with Peyton who didn't love him back. (In my story Lucas didn't do anything wrong between them but Brooke still has something against him) Felix and Anna did move to town. Anna is away a boarding school but Felix is at home dating Brooke and thinks Lucas is a horrible guy even though he has no right to think that and is just jumping to conclusions. Keith is younger than Dan, and hasn't seen Karen since she left. He and Karen were good friends and he knows about Lucas even though he never met him or was there for him growing up... Hailey and Lucas are close friends but not best friends. Lucas is best, best friends with Charlie (a girl) who Luke met when she came to work at the cafe. She doesn't know anybody that lives in Tree Hill because she goes to prep school. And Lucas has a girlfriend that he's been going out with for about a year. Her name is Danni. Everybody else is just about the same as they were in the first season. Oh, and Lucas doesn't know that Dan is his father or that Nathan is his brother. Nathan doesn't know he ever even had a brother. Andy has just proposed to Karen and she and Lucas just started moving into the Andy's mansion (which happens to be right across the street from Brooke and Felix and right down the street from Dan and all them.).

Sorry to have the summary be so long but I already had all of that and more mapped out in my head and I just wanted to make sure I didn't forget something and have people confused later.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything but I make up inside my pretty little head.

Rating: Umm... I don't really know. I would think PG-13 for language; violence, maybe; bad spelling (lol); some adult situations? (Even though if there are any they won't be descriptive at all. nothing more than what is on the show). So basically, if you watch the show you can read this.

A/N: This is my first fanfic as you can probably tell so sorry if its not as good as I would like it to be.

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Lucas sat down at the counter of his mom's cafe. He always came in after school to get a cup of coffee and hang out with his best friend, Charlie, like he had for the past two years. Lucas knew that most people, or more like all people who didn't know her like he did, found her intimidating. And she was. She always got her way. And she didn't care what other people thought about her; that was probably what Luke liked about her the most. Lucas had just had a horrible day at school and needed Charlie to cheer him up. That was another thing he liked about her; she could always make him laugh.

"Hey there, Sunshine," Charlie said, noticing the upset look on his face. She could always tell when h was mad or angry about something.

"Hey Charlie," Luke said back with a little laugh.

"So who did what and where can I find them so I can kick their ass?" she asked playfully. Lucas had to laugh. He knew that if he let her, she would probably find a way to get back at every person in his life who had ever caused him trouble.

"I just got into a fight with Peyton," he said, the smile disappearing from his face as quickly as it had come.

"That sucks." Just then a customer walked in. "I'll be right back," she said, not bothering to put on a cheery, McDonald's "We love to see you smile" face. "Yeah, what do you want?" Luke heard her ask the customer and couldn't help smiling. That was his Charlie. They had met about a year ago when his mom first started hiring people to work in the cafe. They had quickly developed a long lasting, close relationship. Just as Charlie went into the back to get what the customer had ordered, Brooke walked in. In the year and a half that he had known her, even the two months that they had been dating, she had never stepped foot in his mom's cafe. He was still a little pissed at her for being such a jerk when they broke up. As he wondered why she would come in to the cafe she sat down next to him.

"Um, hey, Luke," she uttered awkwardly.

"Hey. What are you doing here?" he questioned accusingly. That was one of the things Charlie had taught him; get right to the point. He was always the shy type and Charlie had always been trying to change that. In the two years that he knew her, he guessed, some of her had probably rubbed off on him.

"Ok, Luke, listen. I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry..." she started.

"For what? You mean something that happened over a year ago? Why are you sorry when you never were before?" he interrupted.

"I've dated a lot of guys since we broke up and I've realized that there are a lot of jerks out there. I just don't want to have lost the one guy that was different just because we broke up. I really want to be friends. I just don't want to look back and regret that I lost the one guy that wasn't a dog."

"Just friends, right?" He didn't want anything more. He had a girlfriend that he loved.

"Just friends. I mean I'm still dating Felix and everything; and plus, you are moving here and we are going to have to go to the same school and we are going to have to deal with each other. I think we could be really good friends. Maybe even best friends," she added. He could tell that she really wanted them to be friends; and plus, having one less enemy wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

"Ok. But I'm not sure that we'll ever be best friends. For me, that position is already taken." Brooke didn't know Charlie and if he and Brooke were going to try and have any type of relationship whatsoever, he was pretty sure he didn't want them to meet. Just then Charlie walked back to the counter and gave the man waiting his food.

"Have a nice day," she said putting on a cheesy smile that Luke guessed was meant to look cheesy. As the man walked out the door and headed down the street, she added, "Moron!"

"Nice going, Charlie. And you wonder why you never get any tips," Luke teased as she walked back over to him.

"I hate customers! Why can't they all just learn how to cook!" Charlie stated, quite loudly, obviously starting another rant. "Or maybe they all can cook and they're just too lazy to get off their fat asses to cook for themselves."

Luke tried to keep himself from laughing. "Well that doesn't make sense. If they were lazy, don't you think they would at least keep their fat asses at home instead of coming all the way down here to get something to eat?" Lucas loved playing along when Charlie was in the middle of her rants.

"Oh, shut up, Lucas!" she exclaimed, ending her rant. "I don't even know why you're my best friend."

Luke thought about adding in the fact that if customers had stopped coming, so would her paycheck, but decided it to be lethal. "Because I'm the only one that would ever put up with you." He decided that she most likely wouldn't kill him over that.

"Damn, I hate you Luke!" she yelled in good humor.

"I thought that was why you loved me," Lucas managed to choke out while laughing.

After the laughing died down, Charlie finally notice the girl sitting next to her best friend. "Who the hell is this?" she asked bluntly.

"This is my friend, Brooke," he stated secretly hoping Charlie would just leave it at that. He knew it wasn't possible, but a guy could dream, couldn't he?

"What happened to Danni?" Charlie asked accusingly.

"Nothing happened to Danni. This is Brooke. My friend. Nothing else."

"Then how come I don't know about her?"

"Because she just became my friend."

"So Danni doesn't know about her either." The way she said it was a statement. She didn't need to ask. She already knew the answer.

"No, not yet."

"So you're planning on telling Danni," she once again stated.

"Of course."

"Excuse me," Brooke started talking for the first time since Charlie appeared, "but who's Danni?"

Luke opened his mouth to tell her that she was his girlfriend, but before he could utter the words, Charlie started talking. "Danni is just Lucas' girlfriend. They've only been going out for a year; and they're only madly in love," she said protectively. Luke was Charlie's best friend but Danni was a close second. She talked to her about all of the girl stuff she couldn't talk to Lucas about. She wasn't about to let some slut weasel her way into Lucas' life and ruin his relationship with her second best friend.

"Oh. I didn't know you had a girlfriend Lucas. Maybe me and Felix can double with you guys sometime," Brooke said trying to let Charlie know that she had a boyfriend and she wasn't trying to get in the middle of what sounded like a great relationship. "I have to get going. I'll see you around though. Bye."

"Bye," Lucas said, feeling a little special because Charlie was so protective over him.

"Yeah, bye," Charlie snarled knowing that she wasn't going to like that Brooke girl.