Hey,

It's been a while right? Believe it or not September's been quite a busy year for me as well considering I've started my last year in school and i gotta do my GCSEs...arghhh...runs away, so obviously my schoolwork has had to take more priority then this story...cries...don't worry I'm not abandoning it. However, because I don't know when i'm going to have so much freetime like 2day I wanna post up wot I've dun so far and it's a gud break point 2. I will try n get da rest dun by d end of dis month but I hope this will do for now! Another thing where I've ended off in this chapter has just got me inspired to write more so believe me wen I say I'm gna make tym 2 write d rest of the chapter. Personal replies will be given in the concluding half.

Chapter 15 First Half

The surprise was mainly meant for Haley, but looks like even Soraya was surprised by the unexpected turn of events. Her name was Sarah Matthews. His name was Leon Matthews.

There was silence amongst the now group of nine students in the playground. It wasn't one of those companionable silences either; it was one of those heavy tension filled silences that made everyone hold their breaths in fear that if they released it something terrible would happen.

The born and bred Tree Hill students (excluding Haley) were wondering who these two new people were, it was obvious they knew Haley considering the fact that her name was mentioned, and judging on the look on Soraya's face, although it was shocked it still showed recognition of the two new faces allowing them to safely assume that they were most probably from Montreal.

Soraya's face was a different story entirely, her emotions played across her face like it was a slideshow as it changed so much during such a short space of time. It had sequenced from shock, lost, hurt, and then to anger. It wasn't any mild anger either, it was much deeper then that it even ran ever so close to hatred. However, her eyes had softened ever so slightly when she gazed at the girl. Looking back to the boy, her eyes sharpened once again until the anger completely ceased leaving the girl hurt once again.

Haley, on the other hand was totally happy and excited to see them both once she had broken off from the initial surprise to see both of them. She decided to break the silence by running up to the two new arrivals and gathered them in a mini group hug.

'Oh my God! You're both here! I can't believe it! It's like a dream come true…wait am I dreaming…' Haley trailed off, seriously considering the idea.

The light chestnut haired girl pinched Haley and asked. 'Still think you're dreaming?'

Haley ignored that she had just been pinched and squealed. 'You're really here! Yay! You won't believe how much I've missed you Sarah! And you too, Leon!'

'I missed you too LeeLee!' The girl Sarah replied.

'LeeLee?' All the other the Tree Hillers in the group exclaimed, with mouth's hanging open.

'You want to introduce me and brother dearest to your mateys?' Sarah asked, noticing the group of strangers, looking at them caused her to feel a pang in her heart it had only been 6 hours but she missed her other friends already, still she consoled herself, at least she got to be with her two bestest friends, thinking this she turned to look at Soraya and found her staring at her twin brother Leon through pained eyes. She knew they had broken up, although they had blamed it on long distance, Sarah had a distinct feeling that it ran deeper than that.

'Oh I completely forgot!' Haley slapped her hand against her forehead. 'I did this when Soraya arrived as well!' Haley turned her attention to her cousin only to find her in the same position Sarah had found her in, Haley's eyes narrowed as she too didn't believe that they broke up because they lived in different countries. 'Anyways, guys this is Sarah and Leon Matthews. Sarah, Leon this is…'

'Wait!' Sarah cut her off, 'let me guess who everyone is! Okay so the blonde guy is Lucky Luke right?'

'Lucky Luke?' Brooke asked unbelievingly, whilst Lucas just gaped at her.

'LeeLee and Sora's nickname put together. You're his girlfriend right?' Sarah asked.

'Uh huh,' Brooke answered, for once she was speechless in her life.

'Yeah Sora told me about you, said you guys think alike, and you're Peyton right?' Sarah asked the girl with vivid blond curls.

'Yeah'' Peyton smiled at her hesitantly, not sure how Sarah knew her.

'Please don't look so freaked out, Sora told me about you, nice things, down to earth were her words. Anyways, considering your holding hands with that guy I'd say he was your boyfriend Jakey was it?'

'Jake but you can call me Jakey.' He answered, shrugging his shoulders indifferently.

'So that leaves the bane of Haley's existence, Nathan right?' Sarah asked.

'Yeah, bane of her existence…damn Haley I'm honoured.' Nathan turned towards her.

'Shut up Nathan, I'm not in the mood, maybe when I have nothing better do I'll think about it.'

'I'm hurt James.' He feigned being upset, putting a hand on his heart. 'Right here.'

'Thank goodness for that!' Haley sighed; she really didn't want to have a fight with Nathan when she just met up with her friends after a whole year.

'Dear God, you're going to be like another Leon and Sora!' Sarah rolled her eyes, that wasn't a good sign considering she was going to have to witness a lot of petty arguments followed by lots of making out. Haley was like a sister to her and she didn't want to see her 'sister' making out with anyone.

'Leon, Sarah's picking on me!' Haley whined like a five year old and went to hug Leon and stand next to him.

'Stop picking on her, Sarah.' Leon said playfully and then turned to Haley. 'Haley, you know I love you very much but come on you're going to look like my girlfriend and I can't have that now, can I?'

'Of course not you need to show off your gorgeous edible body so that you can get your girlies!' Haley exclaimed happily, taking a step away from him whilst he checked out the other girls, all whom, by the way, were drooling and in no way hiding it. Nathan was shocked if someone said that to him she would be seething but here she was saying those things herself.

'Definitely.' Leon ran a hand through his chestnut hair and smirked.

Soraya snorted, actually that was the only noise the girl had made in this whole conversation, everybody turned to look at her now. Sarah felt guilty now; she hadn't said a word to her lifelong best friend who she hadn't seen in three weeks. She ran up to Soraya and gave her a big hug.

'You're so quiet I didn't even notice you properly, I'm so sorry for that. Sorry with a cherry on top. I missed you loads and loads Sora!'

Soraya remained quiet as she hugged her best friend back; she was still in a daze from having just seen Leon, it seems he'd moved on completely already looking for girls he could have fun with. It made her furious but even worse it hurt her, then again she really shouldn't have been surprised considering it was him they were talking about, what was she thinking going out with him in the first place?

'Well look who it is,' Leon began. 'For someone who's been insulting me any chance she can get you sure are quiet? Almost as if you're surprised to see me!' He smirked knowing that Soraya had not expected his arrival.

Soraya knew that he was messing with her head as always and she tried to make a good comeback, but she couldn't get the words out of her mouth. Just seeing him again brought out emotions that she had been trying to suppress since she had got to Tree Hill. In fact it was partly due to him that she had even come to the US, she tried to speak again and opened her mouth but the words wouldn't come out and she closed her mouth again.

Leon, seeing this, carried on taunting her. 'What's wrong baby, cat got your tongue?'

Soraya's eyes flashed when he had said the words baby. How dare he call her that after what happened. The nerve of him, she was just about to rant at him for doing this, when she felt it. The hot prickling feeling coming from her eyes, she tried to suppress it but knew it was going to come out, and there was no way she was going to let him see he made her cry, so she did the only thing she could do…she ran.

She ran as fast as her legs could carry her away from there, away from the guy who broke her heart and didn't even give a second thought to all the people staring at her, the tears were trickling heavily down her face, and even though she was starting to tire she ran until she ended up in the girls toilets, she did what all other heart broken girls did, lock themselves in a cubicle and cried her heart out.

Back where the rest of the gang were, a now very angry Sarah, a put out Haley and six bewildered teenagers were standing there once again in silence.

'What was that all about?' asked Haley, no longer cheerfully hyper but very sombre now.

'The hell you do to her Leon?' Sarah rounded on him angrily, 'you told me that there wouldn't be any awkwardness! That's why I let you come with me!'

'Yeah, well she seemed fine with me in our phone conversations, I didn't think she'd choke on me in person!' Leon said dumbstruck.

'Are you calling my cousin a choke?' Haley's defence for her cousin rose up.

'Watch yourself brother!' Sarah sneered at him angrily.

'Okay,' Brooke interrupted in a timid voice but the trio turned to her anyway. 'It's obvious you three need to have a good long talk so me and Peyton will go find Soraya and see how she's doing. The guys will just go get sandwiches from Subway (shop) okay?'

Haley nodded gratefully. Brooke and Peyton left in search of Soraya and the guys headed off to go get food for everyone, leaving two pissed off Newport High girls and one guy who was in deep-neck shit, in his words.

So I hope you have enjoyed the first half of this chapter, please leave a review as they are extremely helpful to help me improve my story. Stay tuned for the last half of chapter 15.

I also just want to give a quick shoutout to johnny to say thank you for giving me that little push I needed to update.