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HALEY'S POV
 "Hey Haley," someone yelled from behind me. I turned around to see Chris Keller heading towards me with his group of friends.

"Hey Chris, what's up," I said, half interested and half annoyed. Don't get me wrong I liked Chris, but not the same way he liked me. Not that I'm conceited or anything but Chris was in love with me...he had told me himself.

"Are you tutoring later," he asked me.

"Actually, I can't...I have practice and a game today," I said.

"Oh that's cool...see ya around Hales," he said making me cringe. 'Only my friends call me Hales,' I thought as he walked away.

"Haley, there are no practices or games today," Tim said after Chris had walked away.

I shrugged, "Yeah, but he doesn't know that." Everyone laughed at my comment. I noticed Lucas kept looking over at me. I didn't know if he recognized me or not. I had changed some since the last time he saw me. My hair, that was once blonde, was a dark brown color, and of course it was also cut differently. I had lost some weight, and of course, I was more athletic. But one major change was in the clothes I was wearing. I used to dress in frumpy, inexpensive clothes, whereas now my clothes were expensive and a bit more risqué...not in a trashy, slutty way though.

"So, Haley, do you have a last name," Brooke asked me. For a minute, I just stared at her. Brooke and I had never run with the same crowd. She was even the one who nicknamed me Tutorgirl.

"James, Haley James," Tim said, smiling proudly.

"Haley James...you're Haley James. As in the singer/song writer/actress/model Haley James," Brooke exclaimed. I smirked.

"Yeah, that's her," Tim said again proudly, holding onto me. He was literally holding me up. I couldn't speak either. I was just staring at Lucas, who was staring right back at me.

At that moment, I knew...I knew he knew who I was. I could literally feel all the anger I felt towards him reappear.

"Haley...Haley," I heard Tim say, breaking my staring contest with Lucas.

"I gotta go...I'll talk to you later, Tim," I stuttered, I started walking away.

"What is her problem," I heard Brooke say. I stopped and turned back around, facing the Tree Hill gang. I looked over at Tim and saw the fear in his eyes, pleading me not to cause a scene.

"My problem…my problem, my fcking problem," I yelled. Luckily for me everyone else around the school was gone.

"Hales, stop don't do this," I heard Tim say, grabbing my arm. I quickly pulled away from him.

"Do what, Tim," I yelled. He stepped back knowing not to mess with me.

"Listen, I don't know what your problem is, but..." Brooke started, but I stopped her.

"Oh, you want to know what my problem is, okay I'll tell you. Do you remember that girl you used to make fun of, ya know the one you cussed out one day because she called Lucas Scott's phone, even though she was supposedly his best friend, and oh, the thing no one will ever forget the one you nicknamed Tutorgirl," I screamed.

Brooke nodded, "Yeah, but what does she have to do with this. She moved away or died or something."

"Because that girl happens to be me...didn't expect that one did ya," I said in a loud and sarcastic voice, "now if you will excuse me, I have somewhere to be," I turned around and was about to walk away, when a voice stopped me.

"Hales, wait," I heard Lucas say, and I turned back around, facing him...getting in his face.

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"My name is Haley, not Hales, not buddy, HALEY," I yelled. I knew I shouldn't have done that, but when I heard him call me Hales, I couldn't control it.

"Hey that's not fair," he yelled back, causing everyone to turn their attention to our argument.

"No, don't you dare talk about fair," I screamed.

"Like you're the one to talk, I mean how do you think I felt when I found out you left without a goodbye? That hurt me, Haley," he shot back.

"Hurt you…Hurt you? Don't talk about hurting...Lucas...How long did it actually take you to realize I was gone, Luke," I screamed, he lowered his head in shame, "EXACTLY, Three months is a long time, Luke, but then again, why did you finally realize I was gone anyways?" I watched him look at me, thinking of something to say, but I knew he couldn't come up with anything. I really didn't want to be having this conversation with him, so I ran away. I ran until I couldn't run anymore, leaving everyone behind me, shocked and confused. Tim knew not to run after me. He never did, Peyton never did, Jake never did. They all knew I ran to my room, where I held onto a picture of me and someone they didn't know, and cried my eyes out. Don't get me wrong, they tried to run after me, and for the first year, after I moved, someone always did, but I made them stop. I wanted to be alone, but today was different. I couldn't run there and hold on to a picture of the one person that I was angry at.

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General POV

Lucas knew where Haley had been going with the conversation. He only realized she was gone because his mom yelled it out in the middle of a fight they were having. At that moment, he felt like he had been run over by a truck. He started remembering that he hadn't seen her, never talked to her. He realized his life was spinning out of control, that's what his mom had been trying to tell him, that's at they had been fighting about. At that moment he realized she was right. He had lost control of his life, and in the process, he had lost his best friend and didn't even know it.

"Is this seat taken," Lucas asked, as he approached her, he had ran after her and stopped right before she sat down on the beach. Haley shrugged, as he sat down. Haley knew he would run after her. He always did. In LA, everyone just let her be alone, which was good, but some days she just wished someone would come after her and hold her and tell her everything would be okay, like Lucas always did.

"So, Newport, huh," Lucas said, finally breaking the comfortable silence that was between them.

"Yeah, it's great, but it's not Tree Hill," Haley said, then looked over at Lucas, "why did you follow me, Lucas?"

"I always follow you, Haley," Lucas said looking straight into her eyes. Haley looked away, pain filling into her eyes.

"No, you don't Luke..." Haley said, tears running down her cheeks, "you stopped following me a long time ago."

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