Hello all- i'm back with the new and improved first to chapters of looking glass. the next chapter will be up by tomorow. Make sure you read the second chapter! it is extremly important!

"Look, what we did it was fun. But that was it, I'm sorry." He slammed his cell phone shut and walked up the old cement steps that led to the café right off campus. It had become a place to get away, to hide even. Because, no one expected some one like Nathan Scott to hang out in an old place that smelt of espresso and old books, it wasn't him. He was a love 'em leave 'em jock. At least that's what they thought. Nathan had gotten a full scholarship to Boston University two years ago to play ball, his absolute passion. And somewhere in between he had gotten roped into all the hustle and bustle it came with. All the fakeness. So, sometimes he would walk into the old café and be…himself, he didn't have to pretend here. He didn't have to be Nathan Scott, twenty year old basket ball prodigy, he could just be Nathan. He weaved his way through the rows of tables and chairs, until he came to the corner of the old coffee shop. He slumped down in the purple cushioned seat and waited. He waited for an idea, an idea to change. Nathan needed to change, he needed to find a way to escape his bubble of fame and some how shift into reality. But he was scared and Nathan knew that he would never be able to do it himself, he needed help.

"Hi I'm Haley, and I'll be you waitress today." Her voice was strange to Nathan. It sounded as if she was fighting with herself to be cheerful and pleasant…when all she wanted to do was scream. He knew the feeling all to well. "What can I get for you?" The young girl's persistent voice broke Nathan out of his thoughts.

"Black coffee would be great. Thanks." He gave the petite girl an almost sad smile. She nodded.

"Coming right up." And as soon as she had come she was gone, retreating behind the book cases. Nathan looked around the small café and found that there was only one other couple inside, so he couldn't help but wonder why the girl was in such a rush. Although he wasn't complaining with the view he was given. She was beautiful, had curves in all the right places, one could say this girl was flawless. None the less, not three minutes later the girl was back, with an empty brown tray at her side and his black coffee in hand. "Here you go." She threw out a fake smile that took almost all her energy to muster up, she was about to glide off on the balls of her feet when Nathan gingerly grabbed her by the wrist.

It was like a staring contest, both sets of eyes glued to each other's. But there was something different, almost eerie about it. It felt almost, dangerous, forbidden even. Her big beautiful brown eyes were so empty…so lost. While his were foggy with confusion.

"Wait." Nathan choked out, after what seemed like and eternity. The young girl shot him a look of confusion. "I've never seen you here before."

"I- Yea I just moved here."

"Will you sit? Keep me company?" She hesitantly sat in the royal blue lounge flanking his, still wearing her baffled expression. "Have- have things, have you ever woken up one morning and realized that everything was upside down. And you had no clue how to turn them right side up?" Nathan spoke looking forward, as if not acknowledging her presence. However for some reason Nathan almost felt drawn to this girl, and she gave him a feeling that he had never experienced. Trust.

"Yea" the young girl answered distantly, her voice dangerously close to cracking with emotion. "Yea, I have." Nathan glanced at her, noticing her vision glued to the floor, he almost felt guilty for possibly hitting her to close to home.

"Tell me about your self."

"Uh, there's not much to tell." She spoke, not daring to look into his eye, because on some level she knew that he already had some sort of hold on her. And it scared her to death.

"Well start from the beginning. What's your name."

"Haley James and yourself?"

"Nathan Scott." Gosh, she had heard that name before. "Hey, do you go to BU?" His brow furrowed, he had seen her before he was sure of it.

"Nope, not even close." When Nathan shot her a bewildered look, Haley elaborated. "I'm going to go to Franklin High on Eighth Street, in September." She couldn't help but laugh, he thought that she went to collage. What kind of sixteen year old goes to collage?

"High, as in high school?" he asked nearly choking on the steaming liquid. Once again Haley burst out laughing.

"Yup. What you didn't have a thing for me, did you?" Haley joked. Playful banter this is what she needed. And it was something that was long overdue. And once again she could not contain her laughter, as she noticed the look of…being entrapped, flash through his face. She noticed it leave as it was quickly replaced with a smirk, one that probably took years to perfect. "My shift is over." Haley stated simply, as she removed herself from her spot and began to remove the small hunter green apron that she wore around her waist. She took long strides to the counter where she folded the apron and put in a small basket, and just as she was about to walk out the door she stopped and slowly turned around. "Thank you." Haley whispered, ever so gently.

"For what?"

"Helping me forget even if it was only for a little while." And just like that she was out the door.

It had been three weeks since Nathan and Haley's first meeting, and every day after that Nathan had gone into the little coffee shop on the corner of Hunt Street looking for her. Waiting for her. And sometimes she would come, and they would talk just like that first day that they had met. However he never found out what it was that made her so distant, and heartbroken sometimes. Nathan was having trouble pushing down his apparent romantic feelings for Haley. He kept telling himself that this was wrong, that she wasn't even eighteen. Nathan was brought out of his thoughts about the pretty, young waitress by the irritating ring of his cell phone. He jumped off his bed and threw around the cloths on the floor of his dorm until he found it.

"Yell-o" He answered

"Nathan it's dad!" Great.

"Oh, uh-hey. What's up?"

"Oh nothing. Your mother and I are about fifteen minutes away from school. We came up to see your game tonight. It's this wonderful?"

"Oh Yea, wonderful."

"Anyways, you mother wanted to get some lunch with you before tonight. You're probably going to want to celebrate with your team once you win the game." There he goes again. It was always about winning with Dan Scott. He always had to be the best, and in turn Nathan did to.

"Yea, yea ok." Nathan answered before he realized what he was getting himself into.

Once his parents arrived at his dorm Nathan brought them to the little café on Hunt's Street to get some sandwiches. Nathan knew how his parents could be: judgmental, rude, hateful. Nathan would never want to put Haley to that, although he took the risk of eating with his parents there. Haley never worked on Wednesdays.

"Oh, Nathan this is a wonderful little place." Nathan's mother, Deb, exclaimed as she looked over the menu.

"Hello, my name is Haley, and I'll be your waitress today." No. it couldn't be, she never worked today, never. He looked p and low and behold, it was his Haley. "Oh hey Nathan." Haley said as she leaned in to embrace him in a routine hug, something he had started. Nathan happily obliged, he received the shiver that he had grown so accustomed to, up his spine, from the feel of her small hands on his back, and the way her breasts leaned up against his chest ever so gently.

"Hey Haley, this is my mom, and my dad." He silently prayed that they would be polite.

"Nice to meet you both." Haley said and extended her hand. Both of the older Scotts shook it, as they looked her up and down.

"Nathan is this your girl friend?" his mother asked, clearly trying to keep the distaste out of her voice.

"No mom, we're just friends."

"You know Nathan, you shouldn't associate with such low class people. If people in Tree Hill get wind of this- I have a reputation to up hold as do you."

"Dad!"

"What I'm just stating the facts. And I'm sure your mother would agree with me as would everyone else." Dan Scott sneered towards Haley, but she was not going to take this, no chance in hell.

"Are you always this much of an ass or did you put on this act just for me? Because if so, I might just have to spill coffee in you lap. Now we wouldn't want that would we?"

"Why you little bitch-" Dan said getting up from his chair.

"Dad! Hale is my friend! And I don't give a shit about what people in Tree Hill think. " Nathan yelled pointing to the door. His mother smiled at Nathan before she followed suit of her husband and walked out the door. "I'm so sorry Haley, so sorry." Nathan apologized with a bear hug,

"Nathan, it's no problem. I've dealt with worse believe me." She murmured into his chest.

"Tell me, please?" Nathan asked, still holding Haley protectively in his arms.

"I live with my sister, I moved in July…when my parents died. I miss them so, so much" Nathan could start to fell warm tears soaking through his shirt so he held her tighter, if that was even possible, thinking that maybe it would take her pain away. "Its' just horrible- she's always drinking and partying, which leaves me to clean. And then she has the nerve of telling me to leave when her knew boy toy of the week comes over, and call's me when I'm allowed to come home again. That's why I'm working today…Oh god, why am telling you all of this?" Haley exclaimed pulling away from Nathan, turning around and wiping her wet eyes furiously.

"Because I'm your friend." Nathan answered simply as he put his hands on her shoulders, turning her around. She looked at the floor intently. "Because you can trust me."

"Yea" he heard Haley whisper. Haley said looking intently at the floor.

"Come to my game tonight. We can do something after." Haley looked up and him and saw the hope in his eyes.

"Ok" she said meekly. "I guess."

"Good." Nathan said with a wide smile, he looked down at his watch and cursed under his breath.

"I have to go to practice now, but you know where to go later right?" Nathan asked as he made his way to the door. Haley nodded and Nathan gave a wide grin. This is so wrong. They both thought.

Haley waited outside the locker room for Nathan. She was wearing a burnt red fitted polo, frayed denim skirt with a pair of black flip flops. When he came out, he saw Haley looking at a picture of this year's team. His breath caught in his throat, she was beautiful, her makeup was not over done but just right and her blonde hair fell naturally around her shoulders. And the best part of it all was that she didn't even know it. Nathan stealthily ran over to her, turned her and twirled around.

"I'm so proud of you Nate! You did amazing tonight!" Haley said after he put her down.

"Thanks. That means a lot to me Hales." Nathan said sincerely, as he put his arms around her shoulders. "So what do you want to do tonight?"

"Lets so something…fun." She looked up at him, go he was so gorgeous. His hair was short black, his eyes were deep blue, and his lips were so perfect you just wanted to kiss him. Stop! Stop! Stop! Just friends, just friends, just friends. Good Haley.

"everything with you is fun." Nathan did one of those things were he pulled her close to her side, like a deformed hug.

"Oh Scott, you need to work on those lines." She laughed

"Alright, alright. Party?" Nathan asked not quite sure that was her scene.

"Okay, but you have to promise to protect me from all the drunk and horny college guys."

"I wouldn't have it any other way." Nathan whispered into her ear.

So far the night was going great. Nathan and Haley were on the makeshift dance floor of the victory party, his chest pushed against her back and her hips expertly grinding into him. Nathan was about two seconds away from blowing a fuse-

"Haley, do you wanna go for a walk?" he said in her ear. When she nodded Nathan took her hand in his and with drinks in hand let Haley out the door and into the historic streets of Boston.

The couple soon found a comfortable position along a brick wall to stare at the stars. When Nathan saw goose bumps start to appear on Haley's soft skin, he immediately wrapped his arms around her. Nathan looked down at her, she was so beautiful, and he started to subconsciously started to lightly run the pad of his thumb up and down her arm, although this did not go unnoticed by Haley. Deep breaths Haley, you can do it. All of a sudden Nathan used his index finger to mover her head to face him.

"Would you get angry if I kissed you?" Nathan whispered. Haley gingerly shook her head, and as soon as he was given the okay Nathan swooped in and captured her soft lip in his own, never hesitating. Haley removed her arms from Nathan's embrace and maneuvered them to loop around his neck, while Nathan lowered his to grasp her hips. The kiss started out gentle and slow, but it quickly turned around and became heated. Nathan hesitantly let his tongue travel out of his mouth and run over her lower lip, and Haley happily obliged and let him have entrance to her mouth. Their tongues slipped over each other numerous times and Nathan was almost positive that it was the best kiss that he had ever experienced, she wasn't far behind in thought. Haley couldn't take it anymore, Nathan was making her fell things that she had never felt before, and she had had her fair share of experience. She forcefully pushed herself into Nathan to close the space between them, and grind her hips to Nathan. Which in turn led him to groan into her mouth, Nathan moved his left hand from his place on her hip, up to caress her exposed midriff, which soon led to it slowly creeping up to her shirt, until he reached her satin bra. Nathan traced his finger along the edge of it, causing Haley to groan in disagreement from the teasing, and in one swift motion she maneuvered her body so that his hand rested on her breast. Nathan was utterly shocked by Haley's action; although there was no way in hell he was going to stop her. Nathan massaged her breast through her thin satin bra as Haley circled her hips into Nathan's large erection. This went on for about ten more minutes until he realized that he was about an inch from taking her right there on the street.

"Wow." They said in unison as he pulled away. They had no idea what they were getting them selves into.