Chapter One

Isabelle Evens walked down the street towards the basketball court at the local park with her best friend Jordan Lucas Scott in New York City. She still could hardly believe that she had become best friends with the most popular singer Haley James son. But she figured it was fate.

"Hey Bella why don't we head over to the café later," Jordan suggested.

Isabelle nodded. The café by her apartment one of their main hang out spots beside the basketball court. They would hang out with the gang, which consisted of Jaden, Alexandra, Nick, Simon, and Martin. When they reached the court they found Jaden and Alexandra sitting on the bleachers talking while Nick and Martin were playing basketball with one of their friends Simon. Isabelle joined Jaden and Alexandra on the bleachers as they watched the guys play basketball and chat about random things.

"Me and Jordan were thinking of heading over to the café later. You in?" She asked her friends.

Alexandra and Jaden both agreed. Isabelle gazed over at the four that were on the basketball. She watched them as the moved across the court. She loved to watch basketball games and what she loved even more was playing them.

"Hey Alex you wanna go play one on one?" Isabelle asked.

Alex shrugged. She loved basketball too but what she loved more was watching the boys play. She could stare at Martin playing all day. It was no secret that she had a huge crush on him.

"Maybe later," replied Alex with an apologetic apology.

Isabelle waved it off. She knew about Alex's crush on Martin.

"No problem Alex."

"Yeah. We know you wanna watch Martin play," teased Jaden.

Alex playfully glared at them. Isabelle and Jaden knew she was just kidding because she knew what Jaden had said was true. A few minutes and a lot of gossip later Nick, Simon, Martin, and Jordan came over to them. Jordan passed the ball to Nick since it was his.

"Ready with go to the café?" Jordan asked the gang.

Every nodded and they were soon off to the café by Isabelle's house. A few moments later they were at the café and went over to there table that they always sat at. Alex stood up.

"Everyone want their usual?" Alex asked.

Everyone nodded. Martin got up and offered to help her. Alex thanked him and they went over to get their orders.

"So when are we going to get those two together?" Jaden asked.

Everyone laughed. It was so obvious to the whole group that Alex liked Martin and Martin liked Alex. They were just going to have to put them together.

"I don't know. Maybe we can play matchmaker," Simon suggested.

Isabelle thought the idea over and nodded in agreement.

"Me and Jaden will take on Alex while you three take on Martin. With our combined forces we'll be able to get them together sooner or later."

The conversation was quickly dropped when Alex and Martin came over to the table placing everyone's orders on the table. Alex was the first one to notice the sudden drop of what they were talking about.

"Were you guys talking about us?" Alex asked.

She was very observant and was took notice of everything. You couldn't get anything past her.

Isabelle slung on arm around Jordan's shoulder.

"Nah. Jordan was just telling us that he was gay and didn't want you all to know."

Jordan removed her arm from around her and playfully hit her in the shoulder while playfully glaring at her.

"I am not gay."

Isabelle patted him on his shoulder.

"Of course your not," She told him then turned and mouthed the words, 'Yes he is' to the rest of the gang but of course Jordan saw since she wasn't hiding it from him.

"I'm not," He mumbled taking a sip of his nice coffee.

Isabelle looked up when a group of kids came in. She had never saw them before but she could tell they were from North Carolina because one of them had a Tree Hill jersey. Her parents were from there and moved up here after her birth. One of the guys in the group caught her attention. He was her height with a similar blonde hair that was slightly spiked. He had similar features and his eyes were deep blue that had depths. He reminded her of someone she used to dream about when she was a kid. There was something about him that was familiar and she was going to find out what it was.

Lucas and Brooke moved the rest of their things into the apartment they were renting for the summer. Nathan's apartment was next to theirs while Peyton and Jake's was next to the café down the block. Cody and his friends had gone down to it to get some coffee for everyone.

"What do you think of the apartment?" Lucas asked his wife.

Brooke looked around taking in every corner and every detail of the apartment.

"I think it's nice. It's a great neighborhood."

Lucas nodded agreement as he followed her outside to see if Nathan needed any help. When they got outside Lucas looked right and thought he saw Haley go into the apartment on the other side of them. He shook the idea away thinking he just wanted to see her that's why he saw her. He followed Brooke next door and found that Nathan was done already and needed no help. Soon Peyton and Jake joined them.

"Wanna go down to the café for some caffeine?" Lucas asked.

Every nodded. As they left Lucas couldn't get the shaking feeling that he was being stared at. But when he turned to look at the apartment he thought he had seen Haley go in a curtain dropped and he hoped what he was seeing was real. And if it was he didn't know what he would do.

A/N: I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in like forever but this is my junior year and I like have sooo much work it's not even funny. Then add that I have to start looking at colleges and just got a job I have little to no time to write. I'm sorry and I'll do everything I can to get chapters out.