First period ended in success and the boys were back out in the jungle they called the hallway. Nathan and Lucas made their way through the crowd and towards the safety of the fourth floor staircase.

"Damn, the school is packed this year. It's like our school's population just doubled or something which is quite odd seeing as we're a small town and all."

"Nah, the school must've screwed up the student placements and put everyone on the west wing for first period."

Lucas nodded, "What class you got now?"

Looking at his timetable Nathan blurted, " English Lit."

"Aww Mr. Hart" both boys cringed in unison.

"Good luck with that buddy, you might as well bring a pillow now, you're in for a boring ride," Lucas mocked followed by a small push ensued by Nathan.

"What man, I'm just warning you in advance."

"Luke I've had Mr. Hart before, I know what I'm in for."

"Okay, have fun, I got to go meet up with Peyton we have Bio together."

"Cool man. What Happened with your Brooke situation? Is she even back from California?"

"I don't know. I haven't seen or talked to her since her leaving at the beginning of summer. You know when I told her I loved her."

The second bell rang.

"Yeah I know," Nathan shrugged, "Okay I'll see you at lunch, better get to class."

Nathan headed towards the east side of the school with seconds until second period started passing people he knew giving them the usual knuckle butt or the simple nod. Straight ahead was the office and coming out of the office was none other than the new principal. Nathan examined the older authority as he walked passed. He was about 6 feet with a pretty good body structure for an old man, but then again a lot of the older men he's seen including his old man were in pretty good shape. He didn't see much resemblance between the man and his daughter, except for their eye colour, both had the piercing baby blue pigment. The second bell began to ring causing Nathan to rush to class, not wanting to be late twice on the first day even though he was known for his tardiness.

Nathan made it to class a few seconds late, but Mr. Hart was busy talking to another teacher so he managed to slip into a seat before he could be written off as late. As usual all the seats were pretty much taken so he decided to grab a seat by the window. Not that he minded though, he was never much of a front row person. After a couple of minutes the other teacher left and Mr. Hart began to lecture the students on his expectations for the semester. Nathan opened his book bag to grab a notebook. Deb decided to go all out for back to school. Right when Nathan got back from High Flyers, she dragged him to Staples so that he would be prepared for school. She bought the works; binders, pens, notebooks, erasers, pencils, sharpeners, rulers, paper, graph paper, you name it. Nathan let her because she had that proud mom glow all over her and he didn't want to burst her bubble. However, he did have to draw the line when she was about to buy him a technicoloured lunch box, he was 17 not 6. The thought of it made Nathan laugh. Mr. Hart was blabbering useless information that Nathan had already heard time and time again by all the teachers each year, so he decided to doodle in his book. So caught up in his doodling he didn't notice the person who had just stepped into the class.

She walked over to the teacher's desk, talking to him for a bit before facing the class and scanning for an empty seat. As she did so, she noticed him faced down concentrating on the book he was writing in. She walked towards his direction, finally plopping herself in the empty seat beside him.

"Pretty typical don't you think? Hiding all the way at the corner of the class."

Nathan realizing that familiar tone, he looked up. There she was staring back eye-to-eye with him, River Court girl.

He let out a small grin, " I uh was late, these were the only seats left."

She nodded before turning towards the front of the class where Mr. Hart was still lecturing.

Nathan still looking at her, she was in jeans today with a simple orange tank. Her hair was down and she looked ravishing.

"So umm I saw you come with the new principal this morning?"

She turned her body towards him.

"I like to refer to him as dad," she giggled.

"You two don't really look a like."

"Yeah I get that a lot. It seems I look more like my mom which is probably a good thing right?"

Both laughed.

"So you're...?"

"Oh umm I'm half. My dad's Irish and my mom's half Dutch half Filipino. Hence my black hair and blue eyes."

Both smiled.

"That's cool."

"Mmhmm."

"I thought you were only visiting Tree Hill?"

"I was...that night, but umm the reason I was in Tree Hill in the first place was to tell someone I'd be moving here."

"You mean your boyfriend."

"I mean my ex."

Nathan nodded to her response.

"How do you like it here so far?"

"Hmm seeing as my first night here turned out real bad until someone cheered me up and my move which was a day ago. I'd have to say it's not so bad."

Nathan smiled at the words 'someone' knowing she was referring to him, "Yeah what a night that was huh? This is going to sound real dumb of me but I forgot to get your name."

"Yeah I know. I wasn't too keen on giving you my name especially since I only met you that night but umm it's Jill.

Nathan grinned. That's a pretty sexy name for a girl. He liked it 'Jill.'

"Do you remember mine?" he said teasingly.

"Yes in fact I do. How can I forget a name like Nathan? That would just be wrong?"

She caught on to his teasing behaviour and was playing along with him.

Their conversation was cut short though for the lunch bell rang.

Both got up from their seats grabbing their things.

"Lunch time, right?"

"Yup. Did you want to..." before he could invite her to lunch she was already on her way out the door.

"I'll see you later Nathan," with another smile she was gone.

Giving one more glance around the class he thought maybe English Lit won't be boring after all, and with that he left for his locker.