A/N- So I have no right starting another story, but I can't resist. So in the tradition of future fictions being super easy and extremely fun to write, this is what it is. I already have one future fiction, but this one is going to be somewhat different.
Summary- Young marriages faced many problems, and both Scott marriages didn't survive. Brooke left Tree Hill and is now back for the divorce she never got. Haley is living with her new boyfriend, Nathan knows that he is losing her and is not sure what to do. When pasts become reality its harder to run away a second time.
Couples- I have an obsession with making my own characters so there is plenty of new ones, but the end result as always be Naley, Brucas, and Jeyton. Check my profile for many opinions about couples and check out my other stories while you're there. Hint Hint.
Quick Background- This is six years since the gang graduated. Seasons one, two, and some of three have gone. The gang ended seasons three with Jake back with Peyton, Haley and Nathan together and pregnant, and Lucas and Brooke together. Everything went perfectly fine. I want to write most of this in. Here's a quick overview of the last six years for each character.
Brooke Davis- One year after graduation, her and Lucas married. Two years after that, she was sick of the small town life, so she got up and moved to New York. She began a small fashion line which has blossomed and is quite successful. She has been dating the same man for two and a half years, Stephan Gordon Mackenzie.
Lucas Scott- One year after graduation, he married his high school sweetheart, Brooke Davis. After two years of marriage one day she got up and left for New York for a new life. After Brooke left, he went to university and got a degree in English and now teaches at Tree Hill High School. He has been dating Katie Laine Morgan for one and a half years.
Peyton Sawyer-Jagielski- Peyton married Jake two years after graduation. She was pregnant at the time with their first son, Peter John- he is now four years old. Shortly after he and Jake got married, she adopted Jenny. Peyton eventually bought Tric from Karen and she continues her love of music. She had her second son, Maxwell Logan one year ago.
Jake Jagielski- Returned for the second semester of senior year with Jenny, who he soon got full custody of. He married Peyton two years after graduation. He now owns the car dealership formally owned by Dan Scott. He has three children, Jenny, Peter, and Maxwell.
Haley James- Haley accidentally became pregnant shortly after getting back together with Nathan senior year. The pair renewed their wedding vows and their daughter, Madison Lynne was born within a year of graduating. Within three years of graduating their marriage became unstable; both trying to work and take care of their daughter became a strain on the marriage. Nathan soon began a three month affair with Katie Morgan- Lucas' current girlfriend. Haley was furious and she divorced him. Haley became a part owner at Karen's Café. She has been Noah Brown for two years and he has been living with her for the last six months.
Nathan Scott- He and Haley renewed their vows shortly after senior year and having their daughter. Three years after graduating from THHS, Nathan had an affair which ended the marriage. He is currently the coach of the Tree Hill Ravens. He dates but hasn't had a serious relationship in awhile.
Not Really In the Story
Karen and Keith Scott- The pair married in the summer the kids graduated. They had a son later that year. Kory James Scott is five years old.
Dan Scott- Dan has had various girlfriends since his divorce from Deb. He is still the mayor of Tree Hill.
Deb Scott-Brown - Deb married Roger Brown. Roger owns a small security business which he runs with his son, Noah Brown. (Noah is Haley's live-in boyfriend.)
Katie Morgan- She is Lucas' current girlfriend. She owns a fairly successful clothing store in Tree Hill. She was Nathan's mistress.
Noah Brown- Noah is Haley's live-in boyfriend. He is also Deb Scott-Brown's stepson. He helps his father run the family business.
Stephan Mackenzie- Stephan has been dating Brooke for two and half years. He is a well-known photographer. He recently proposed to his girlfriend.
The Kids
The Jagielski's
Jennifer Anne (Jenny) is seven years old and in the second grade.
Peter John (Pete) is four years old and just began pre-school.
Maxwell Logan (Max) is one years old and spends the days on Peyton's hip.
The Scott
Madison Lynne (Maddi) is six years old and is in the second grade, she was accelerated a year. She splits her time between both of her parents.
The Other Scott
Kory James is five years old and is in kindergarten.
So here is the actual story
Forwards and Backwards
By: Laura369
Chapter One
Brooke sat on her first class airplane seat twisting the small engagement ring around her finger. The ring itself was gorgeous; it was white gold with three simple stones evenly spread across the band. Her boyfriend of two and a half years had proposed to her three days earlier. This ring brought back many memories of her first marriage to Lucas Scott, the marriage she had never gotten divorced from. She and Lucas had a simple ceremony when they were nineteen years old. Feeling claustrophobic in the small town of Tree Hill, she left her marriage to her high school sweetheart behind and left for New York City. She got everything she dreamed of in the city. She quickly was discovered by a fashion designer who hired to help design for his label. With feelings of comfort she left the company and began her own, becoming quite successful over the last three years after leaving Tree Hill. Her memories of Tree Hill became faded and she moved on from her husband. None of her new friends knew of her past, her marriage especially. Brooke was determined to keep it that way, she had scheduled to take the next five days off to go to Tree Hill and finally get her divorce. Brooke arrived in Tree Hill at one o'clock. Not knowing if Lucas still lived in their house she went to Karen's Café which she assumed his mother still owned. She walked into the quaint café; it looked the same as it was three years ago. That's when she saw her former best friend, Haley James. Haley looked different than she had when Brooke had left. Haley had shoulder length straight hair that was brown, but her forever casual wardrobe was the same.
"Haley," Brooke called lightly. Haley turned her head to face her former friend.
"Brooke!" exclaimed Haley giving her friend a hug, "what are you doing here?"
"Need my divorce," Brooke said point blank.
"Oh," Haley said simply.
"I'm engaged," squealed Brooke waving her ring in Haley's face.
"Oh my god," Haley said, grabbing Brooke's waving hand, "it's gorgeous."
"I know," Brooke said, "but I really need to find Lucas, do you know where he is?"
"I think he is out with Noah," Haley said referring to her boyfriend of two years.
"Noah Brown, as in Deb's stepson," Brooke said raising her perfectly arched eyebrows, "why?"
"Noah and I are kind of dating, actually living together," Haley said almost sheepishly. She and Noah dating had been somewhat controversial. Noah was the son of her ex-mother-in-law's new husband. Nathan was forever mad at her for it and she was forever mad at him for ruining their marriage so they were only nice for the sake of their daughter.
"Oh," Brooke said quietly. "So when will they be back?"
"They are just playing ball at the rivercourt, you can go down their," Haley said.
"Okay," Brooke said, "I think I will do that. I want out of this town forever, and once I have done this I won't have any reason to come back." Brooke picked up her large bag from the table and walked back out the door to her rented SUV. Haley watched the back of her friend leave the café. Brooke had been gone for so long she probably didn't even remember how good of friends she, Haley, and Peyton had once been. She had likely replaced that friendship and saw as no reason to return for a visit.
"Who was that?" asked Katie Morgan returning to the table seeing Haley look at a young woman leave, Lucas' current girlfriend and Nathan's mistress. Haley had forgiven Katie for the affair and only blamed Nathan. Katie hadn't known Nathan was married since she was knew to town and now she was Lucas' girlfriend and Haley still being Lucas' best friend had no reason not to like her. Nathan had been somewhat shafted from the group with Haley dating Noah and Lucas dating Katie creating an awkward situation for himself.
"Brooke Davis," Haley said, not knowing if she knew that Lucas and Brooke weren't divorced.
"Lucas' wife," Katie said bitterly. Lucas for some reason hadn't divorced his wife. Katie did not press the issue knowing that Lucas was sensitive about it. Brooke and Katie had almost friends, meeting shortly before the affair was exposed the pair shared a love for fashion. Their friendship was soon put on hold due to Haley's hate of the girl and Brooke's loyalties to Haley.
"Yeah," Haley said quietly.
Brooke reached the rivercourt in record time. With each turn in the road a old memory was brought to surface; each piece of street, each park, and even some of the houses spurred her memory. Many of the moments took place during high school with the old gang. The fun they had. Parking her car, she sat there for a moment; she looked through her front window and saw two bodies chasing a orange ball around the court. She slowly opened the door of the vehicle and step out and walked to the rivercourt as she had done many times before, years earlier. That's when she saw his face, the face that brought up so many emotions within her, mostly saddest, knowing she had left him behind. Tears began to escape her eyes as she looked at the man who she had first fallen in love with. Brooke loved Stephan but Lucas was her first love and nothing would ever replace that in her heart.
"Lucas," she called in an almost whisper, tears still falling from her eyes. Noah turned and saw Brooke standing outside her vehicle and grabbed the ball from his friend and pointed in the direction of Brooke.
"Man, she's calling you," Noah said, he was breathing hard and sweating everywhere.
"Huh?" Lucas said, turning to look at the woman he was pointing at. "Brooke."
"What?" asked Noah, Lucas' face had gone completely white, his eyes blank and he just stared at the woman.
"Brooke," Lucas said more clearly.
"Oh," Noah mumbled, knowing exactly who Brooke was to Lucas. Noah had met Brooke more than five years ago when his father first married Deb, but he didn't become apart of their group until after he began dating Haley which was after Brooke had left.
"Hey," Lucas said cheerfully. He quickens his pace and met Brooke three quarters of the way across the distance between them. "What are you doing here?"
"I need a divorce," Brooke said.
"What?" Lucas exclaimed. He looked at her up and down, she looked almost the same, still had her long brunette hair, stylish clothes, but she now had a look of age to her, wisdom and she had grown up.
"My boyfriend proposed and I need a divorce," Brooke explained, "sorry to be so blunt."
"Its okay, we should have done this a long time ago," Lucas said shrugging his shoulders.
"Yeah," Brooke said, giving him a small shoulder shrug and half smile.
"Nice to see you, Pretty Girl," Lucas said, trying to ignore the awkwardness and pulled Brooke into a embrace.
"You too, Luke," Brooke replied allowing herself to relax in Lucas' arms.
A/N 2- I know this was pretty short, but it's an introductory chapter. I wanted it up before tomorrow knowing people want their One Tree Hill fix. I already have two stories on the go so this is really stupid to write but whatever. I will update on Saturday for sure, possibly earlier. I want to update As It Comes and Turn Around too so; I'll make a schedule or something. Please review!
-Lauren