A/N: Um, longest chapter I have written for this story. Not all of it is mine of course, but I did change some aspects in this chapter. I worked really hard to get this chapter to you all as well and I apologize that it has taken some time to come up with this new update. I apologize.

Also, there are only four chapters left before this season ends. I will also be taking a break from this story for a bit before I add season 5 so I hope that's okay. If not, oh well. I'm not going to change my mind.

"Do you ever wonder how long it takes to change your life? What measure of time is enough to be life altering? Is it four years, like High school? One year, an eight-week rock tour? Can your life change in a month or a week or a single day? We're always in a hurry, to grow up, to go places, to get ahead, but when you're young, one hour can change everything."

Since Peyton's attack a few weeks ago things have been pretty intense for Peyton. She and Derrick her real brother had started to get to know each other and she had a whole band of friends to help her with her problems.

Her emotions had changed every day. She had even been afraid to sleep with the light off, but having Jake and Jenny stay with her had made it all better for her.

Things were slowly starting to return to normal.

In some ways everyone had been haunted by the attack, but with being close friends to everyone they had all started to heal together.

As of right now, Peyton, Jake, Rachel, Mouth, Brooke, Lucas, Nathan and Haley entered their class for the day. It was the last class they had and they had been happy that they got to share this class with each other considering it was the only class they all shared together.

"How are we doing this morning, seniors? Anyone wake up with their clothes on from the night before still drunk, but strangely hung over?" The class laughs. "Anyone? Well I guess that was just me. Actually, last night was UNO night at my house and it was a bloodbath, but I care not to discuss it with you right now," Mr. Karl says as he gets up from his chair to begin teaching his class. "So, we won't. But let me ask you guys a question. Does today's class really matter? Or is it just a 50 minute requirement designed to get you a grade so you can go on to college or a job and the rest of you lives? Anyone?"

Brooke speaks up from her spot near the back.

"If we say yes, can we have the grade and go onto the rest of our lives?"

The class laughs as Mr. Karl chuckles.

"Mouth, using one word, describe how your classmates see you."

Mouth looks around and shrugs his shoulders.

"Um, awesome."

The class cheers.

"Really, okay," Mr. Karl moves over to the chalkboard. "Let's say there are five universal terms that describe everyone in high school. Okay, let's say, jock prom queen, geek, loner, and?"

"Slut," Brooke suggests.

Mr. Karl writes "Friendly" on the chalk board.

"Okay, considering that "awesome" isn't a category, Shelly Simon, describe Mouth in one word."

"I don't really know him, but "nice," I guess."

"Nice. I suppose we could file "nice" under "friendly," but since "friendly" doesn't mean "friendly," that would make Mouth a slut. You have four other choices."

Shelly looks at Mouth and then back up at Mr. Karl.

"Geek, I guess."

"Geek. Join the club Mouth. Okay, class. Nathan, five choices."

"Jock."

"Lucas."

"Jock."

"Brooke."

"Prom Queen."

"Rachel."

"Friendly!" the class yells.

"Hey!"

"Peyton."

"Prom Queen."

Peyton looks up to protest.

"Oh, come on. I am so a loner."

"Right. A loner cheerleader who's dating a jock. No offense, but I'm a loner. You're a prom queen." A girl dressed in black says.

"Like it or not, you are who your classmates see you as. But here's the good news. That's going to change soon. Because pretty soon, you're going into the big wide world and you can erase all those labels," Mr. Karl says as he erases the words on the chalk board to emphasize his point. "Now, for some of you, shedding this image is gonna be a great thing. And for some of you, not such a good thing. But what matters is that you know who you really are, and you know how you want the world to see you. Now, you've all been together for what? For four years? Haley, what's Lucas' middle name?"

"Eugene," Haley replies easily. She winces as soon as she says it. "I'm sorry. I'm so…I'm sorry," she apologizes to Lucas.

"Lucas, what's Glenda's last name?"

"I…I don't know. Sorry."

"Okay, everyone on this side of the room, I want you to write your name on a piece of paper and put it in Nathan's hat, okay? Hurry up." Mr. Karl walks to the other side of the room. "Everyone on this side of the room is going to draw a name, and the name that you draw will be the person that you will spend the rest of the class with. Maybe, we'll find out if 50 minutes can matter. Okay, pass the hat around. Haley, who do you got?"

"Mouth," Haley replies with a smile.

"Rachel?"

"Jake," Rachel replies.

"Peyton?"

"Lucas," Peyton replies.

"Laura?"

"Oh, I have Naria."

"Emma?"

"I've got Zack."

"Brooke?"

"Nathan," Brooke replies with ease. She just wanted this day to end so she could go home to her daughter.

"Okay, here's the deal, everyone can pair up. You can leave the classroom, but not the campus. At the door, you'll find a camera. I want each of you, at the end of the class to take a picture of your partner. This picture represents how you see them. That picture is going into the yearbook for the rest of time. Now for some of you this is an opportunity to reinvent yourselves starting today. Okay, everyone grab a camera and get out of here. Oh, and one more thing. With the camera is a list of instructions. At the end of the class, I want you to tell me what you learned about your partner. You have 50 minutes. Go."

-Changes-

Share something personal.

Lucas and Peyton had decided to walk the halls of Tree Hill High. It was the first time since the attack that they really got to hang out one on one. Hopefully this assignment would be good for them as friends.

"What's the first question say?" Peyton asks.

Lucas looks down at the card.

"Share something personal."

"I see Jenny as my daughter sometimes. I love Jake, Lucas, I really do and I love Jenny so much and I can't think about what would've happened if I didn't have them in my life."

"You see yourself as Jenny's mom, Brooke and I are parents and Nathan and Haley are going to be parents. We're a bunch aren't we?"

Mouth and Haley had ventured onto the roof of the school. Mouth had discovered it with Skills one day.

"Okay, so I guess we have to share something personal," Haley says as she looks up at her friend.

"In class I knew I was going to be either classified as nice or geek. I hate being the nice guy. The little brother, the great friend. Just once, I'd like to be a little dangerous, you know? Not so safe."

Haley gives Mouth and understanding grin.

"I get that. I get that more than you know Mouth."

Brooke had brought Nathan into a nearby class room. She really had no idea what something personal she was going to say, but maybe if Nathan went first then maybe she could say what she really wanted to say.

"I never hated Lucas," Nathan admits. "My anger was always because of my father and Lucas was whom I took it out on. I've always likes Lucas. I admired him. He was my older brother. I had always wanted a brother. What about you?"

"I never wanted any siblings," Brooke jokes. "I debated not telling Lucas about Sophia. That's my something personal. I toyed with the idea of leaving Tree Hill and raising her on my own. I know it sounds selfish, but Lucas hurt me after he and Peyton did what they did. I just I was hurt and for one second I thought about ruining Lucas Scott and that makes me a horrible person."

"Brooke it doesn't make you a bad person for thinking that. It really doesn't. I'm sure we've all thought something bad, but our actions change what we think. Did you run away and raise Sophia on your own?" Brooke shakes her head. "No you didn't. You told Lucas about Sophia and now look at you. You two are married. Actions change it all."

"What turned you into an insightful Nathan?" Brooke asks with a smile.

"My wife," Nathan replies with a grin.

Rachel and Jake decide to take a seat in the library.

"So, we have to share something personal and I don't know what to really say," Rachel admits with a sigh.

"It's okay, I can go," Jake says as he takes a seat. "I was right here when everything changed for me."

"What does that mean?"

"I was sitting in this exact seat the moment I was told I was going to be a father. I was just a kid and then in a blink of the eye I wasn't that kid anymore. Something in me changed and I changed for the better."

-Changes-

Lighten up. Do an impression of a celebrity or famous character.

Jake looks up from the card to Rachel and rolls his eyes before doing his impression.

"Screw you guys. I'm going home."

Rachel shakes her head.

"Cartman, seriously."

Jake shrugs his shoulders.

"I'm not really good at impressions."

Back on the roof Mouth turns to Haley with a serious expression.

"This is gonna be awesome, baby! He's a diaper dandy, a trifecta magician!"

Haley raises an eyebrow.

"It's Dick Vitale. He's a sports announcer. He's really famous."

Peyton and Lucas were now sitting on the floor in the hallway and Peyton was smiling at Lucas' expression.

"You seem somewhat familiar, love. Have I threatened you before? I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."

In the classroom, Nathan turned to Brooke with a laugh.

"I like you. Do you like me? I like sexy time explosion."

On the roof Mouth waits for Haley's impression. Haley was standing and placing hair behind her ear.

"I'm sorry Dawson, I just…I love Pacey."

In the classroom, Brooke was standing in front of Nathan.

"Happy birthday, Mr. President."

In the library Jake and Rachel look around awkwardly.

-Changes-

Admit something that worries you or you are afraid of.

Mouth and Haley were making their way back into the school as Mouth admitted what he was afraid of.

"My feelings for Rachel, I don't think I've ever been in love and I think maybe Rachel is the one I love only I don't know and it scares me."

"Love can be a hard thing Mouth, but what I can tell you is that love is worth a risk and if you think you love Rachel then go for it otherwise you are going to beat yourself over it and wonder what would have happened. Take a risk Mouth, be dangerous."

Brooke and Nathan entered the school gym.

"I've walked into a hundred enemy gyms, thousands of fans screaming at me, taunting me, I never flinched. I'd just take it all and light them up. No fear. But the thought of being a father? It scares the hell out of me.

Brooke and Nathan take a seat on the bleachers.

"When I found out I was pregnant I freaked out. I was scared, but there was a small fraction of a moment where I knew I could do it. Where I knew I could be a mom and that outweighed the thought of me being freaked out and I'd like to think that I'm doing a good job."

Mouth and Haley had ended up in the media center where Mouth constantly worked.

"I love the idea of being a mom, I really do, but I just…I still wanna leave my mark on this world."

"Is that what scares you? Not having a chance to do that?"

Haley nods her head.

"Yeah, a little and clowns. Clowns really scare me."

Rachel stands up from her chair and goes over to the window. She was going to start participating in this assignment.

"I'm afraid that when I grow older and I'm married or doing whatever I will be doing that when it's time for me to start a family that I'll forget my son. I don't want to forget him. I lost him and I'm afraid that one day I'm just going to forget who he was. I'm afraid that I'll lose the memory, the only memories that I have of him."

Brooke lies down on the bleachers and sighs.

"I was worried I wouldn't be enough for anybody. That's what I'm afraid of, not being enough. Not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, not a good mom. I just want to be enough."

Lucas and Peyton stop at Lucas' locker.

"I'm killing two birds with one stone. Something personal and something afraid of," Lucas says as he pulls a stack of papers out of his locker. "This is the first draft of a novel I'm writing. That's the personal part."

"Who knew?" Peyton asks surprised not knowing what else to say.

"No one."

"How come?"

"My first dream was to play professional basketball. I already gave that up. When I found out I was going to be a dad. My dream was to be a good one and I'd like to think that I am. You're holding my next dream. If this thing sucks, it's gonna be kind of hard to find another one."

-Changes-

What do you want to be in ten years?

Jake had moved to stand by the window next to Rachel.

"In ten years I want to be a musician. Hopefully Peyton and I will be married and we have a few kids of our own. What about you?"

"Be an actress or a model. I think I could be good at that, but ten years is a long time. Anything can happen."

Brooke grins at Nathan. She knew where she wanted to be in ten years.

"I want my fashion line to be hugely successful. And I see myself the mother of two instead of a mother of one. Wow. Sophia would be thirteen in ten years. I'd like to have a real relationship with her unlike the one I have with my mother even though she's trying now."

Nathan smiles at his friend. He was happy that things were working out with Brooke and her mom.

"Well, I hope in ten years, Haley's got a bunch of platinum albums, my parents learn how to be good grandparents, and, hopefully, my son or daughter will have a killer crossover dribble."

"Okay, but the question is about you. Where do you plan to be in ten years?" Brooke asks as she sits up.

"I know, but if everybody else's dreams come true then I'll be fine."

"Nate, I think it's great that you take care of Haley and that you're worried about your family, but if you don't start putting yourself first every once in a while and chasing your own dream, then I'm scared you're gonna wake up one day and have to wonder what could've been, like Dan. Don't be haunted like that, Nate."

Lucas and Peyton are walking away from Lucas locker and wandering around the halls again.

"If I don't make it as a writer I can always come back here and coach the Ravens. I mean, Whitey's retiring, my mom's here as is Keith and my brother and sister and besides I love this place. I would want Sophia to grow up here."

"I don't know where I'll be in ten years, but I just hope I'm happy."

Haley looks at Mouth with a smile.

"I've never thought about teaching until now, but I think I could be really happy doing that. When I tutor someone and I watch them get it, like that light goes on it just feels really good."

"I can see you doing that and I can see myself being a sports announcer, hopefully, anyway."

-Changes-

Tell your partner a secret.

Rachel folds her arms across her chest.

"I've never really felt anything with the guys I slept with. When I got my new body, I thought it would change everything. Maybe it did for the boys, not for me."

"Mouth's different though, isn't he?"

Rachel smiles kindly at Jake.

"Yeah he is."

"I want a family with Peyton," Jake admits. "That's what I really want. I think she's my soul mate and I don't want to let her go."

Haley leans back in her chair.

"Sometimes I feel incredibly disconnected. Really uncomfortable in my own skin, or kind of like I don't fit into this world. Like I was born at the wrong time and I don't belong. I just think about my son or daughter and it scares me because I don't ever want him to feel like he doesn't belong. I don't know if my heart could bear that."

"No, he won't feel like that. We've got his back, his family has his back. The kid's not going to have to worry about that."

Brooke stretches her arms above her head.

"I knew my parents never wanted me. I don't like to think about it because then I won't exist, and neither would Sophia, but that's something I've never shared with anybody not even Peyton. I was never wanted."

"I had a small crush on you when we were younger," Nathan admits with a bashful smile. "I think we were eight or nine and all I talked about was Brooke Davis. In my mind I always thought we were going to be together forever, but in reality I like what we have now. I like just being friends and brother and sister in-law or whatever."

Lucas and Peyton make their way into the auditorium.

"I can't whistle," Peyton admits.

Lucas laughs.

"How can you not whistle?"

Peyton tries to whistle, but nothing happens. Lucas laughs.

"That's pathetic."

"I know, right?"

-Changes-

The class had quickly come to an end and everyone needed to get their pictures in.

Nathan was shirtless in his picture with his hands spread out wide in front of a Raven in the gym wall. He was holding two basketballs in either hand.

Brooke: "People think they know Nathan Scott. I know I did, but I discovered something new today. Nathan Scott is a martyr. He's also gonna be a terrific father."

Brooke's picture was her standing vulnerable in front of a board where an overhead was on and words were written with different labels on them. The words looked like they were written on Brooke herself.

Nathan: "Today, I spent an hour with Brooke Davis and I learned something, people are gonna label you. It's how you overcome those labels, that's what matters."

In Mouth's picture, Haley had him put on shades and cross his arms over his chest trying to make him look dangerous.

Haley: "An hour ago, someone called Marvin McFadden nice. He is, but we should've called him dangerous."

In Haley's picture, Mouth had held Haley in his arms as best as he could. Her legs and arms were spread and her head was upside down.

Mouth: "Over the years I've known Haley James, bookworm, Haley James, sarcastic girl, Haley James Scott, Rock Star, and Haley James Scott, mother-to-be. Today, I got reacquainted with just Haley, my good friend. She's getting heavier, too."

In Rachel's picture she was barely even in it and what was, was blurry.

Jake: "I spent the hour with Rachel Gatina and I was surprised to learn that the façade that she puts up is only to not get hurt in the end. I also learned that she really does have a heart and that she isn't perfect. She has flaws just like all of us do."

In Jake's photo he was sitting in a chair with baby dolls surrounded around him. He had a proud smile on his face.

Rachel: "I spent the assignment with Jake Jagielski. I can see why people like him. He understood where I was coming from and I also learned that Jake is the perfect family man material."

In Lucas picture, he was surrounded by books and his hair was messy, but he had a small smile on his face.

Peyton: "50 minutes ago, I called Lucas Scott a jock, but I was wrong. He's more than one simple word. I guess we all are. Anyway, I learned that Lucas is actually a lot like me. Artistic."

In Peyton's picture it looked like Peyton was punching the camera.

Lucas: "I spent the class with Peyton Sawyer. It reminded me what a good friend she is. I also learned that, considering recent history, she's not quite ready for the whole picture thing and I learned that one hour can change everything."