A/N: Some may be upset with what is presented with this chapter, but I promise things will get better. I guarantee it. It will take a little bit though. I do hope you enjoy this chapter because I had a lot of fun writing it and then maybe you can all tell me who Sam and Kelsey seem to be like what couple on One Tree Hill.

As for the order in which the new stories I will be starting, I'm giving it another week before I tell you. Votes in my profile are really low, but votes from reviews are huge…I have to do some tallies and then I have to plan the story…

I'll be working on one of the new stories after I finish writing You Found Me, the sequel to How to Save a Life, which is currently being written as we speak. I want to be almost finished with writing that story until I post it so you have to wait a little bit longer on that.

Enjoy the Chapter.

Chapter Thirty-One: Five Years Later

Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday, graduating high school, saying goodbye. That feeling that you get at 17 or 18 that nobody in the history of the world has ever been this close. Has ever loved as fiercely or laughed as hard or cared as much. Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday and sometimes it feels like someone else's memory.

It had been five years since the class of 2011 had graduated. Most had gone on to college and graduated and are now holding down jobs. Some high school couples have gotten married and are now starting a family, others have broken up and found new love while others have just remained heartbroken and their job is the only thing that mattered. At least that's what it was like for Kelsey Daniels, whose fiancé had left her at the altar on their wedding day.

Now she's one of Tree Hill's finest. Her job was what mattered to her now even though the love she had for Samantha Baker still remained.

Kelsey Daniels has had the same routine for the past three years. She woke up every morning and took a shower. She'd dress in her uniform, put on her badge and her gun and head to Karen's Café to have her morning talk with Brooke. Something Kelsey knew that Brooke appreciated considering Brooke hasn't spoken to her own daughter in a long time.

She'd spend about an hour in Karen's Café before her shift at the police station started. When work was finished, she'd have dinner with the Bakers, spend some time with Aidan, go to her apartment in the Baker garage and pick up the same book she has read over and over. She'd sleep and she'd do it all over again.

Sometimes on the weekends she would spend some time with friends, Ally and Jesse, from her high school basketball team. They were married and are currently expecting their son in four months.

Kelsey sighed as she got up out of bed. She spotted a recently opened piece of mail and smiled as she remembered reading it. In a few days she had something to look forward to, her best friend Spencer Adam's wedding. She also hoped that maybe Sam would finally make the trip back home.

-DG-

In a studio apartment in New York City, two brunettes were lounging about on their couch. The first brunette was sitting on the couch while the second brunette had her head lying on the first brunette's lap while looking at a wedding invitation.

MR. AND MRS. MARVIN MCFADDEN

REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY

AT THE MARRIAGE OF THEIR DAUGHTER

Casey Annabelle McFadden

TO

Spencer Riley Adams

TUESDAY, The FIFTH OF JUNE

AT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING

TREE HILL, NC

"Have you thought about what you are going to do yet, Sam?"

Sam places the invitation on the floor and looks up at her girlfriend.

"No, I haven't been home in three years. It's not going to be a good reunion. I don't want to ruin Casey and Spencer's wedding."

"You know I love you Samantha, but I think it's time you visit home. I'll be here when you get back."

"You're worried about me going home, aren't you?"

"Of course I am. I can't compare to Kelsey Daniels. For heaven's sake you almost married that girl. I didn't think I'd ever get this chance with you."

Sam holds onto her lovers hand and grasps it.

"I still have a few days to figure it out, but until then I think I need to get some writing done," Sam says as she sits up. She hears her lover whine and she smiles.

"If I don't get some writing done then I think my editor might kick my ass," Sam says with a smirk.

"I have on very good authority that your editor loves to kick your ass," Sam's lover says playfully with a small smirk in place.

Sam is almost out of the room before she turns back to her lover.

"Kylie?"

Kylie looks at Sam waiting for what her girlfriend was trying to say.

"I love you, too."

Kylie smiles and watches as her girlfriend goes into her office, hopefully to start her new book.

Ever since high school, Kylie had a huge crush on her teammate, Samantha Baker. She knew that she had wanted Sam as a girlfriend for as long as she could remember in the past five years, but Kelsey Daniels always stood in her way.

Kylie had kissed Sam once in high school, but that hadn't turned out well for her. Kylie was there when Kelsey had proposed on their graduation day and Kylie was there when Sam had transferred to NYU after leaving Kelsey standing at the altar. It took a year before Kylie had made a move on Sam and since then they have been living their lives in New York, nether one of them traveled to Tree Hill. There were too many memories.

Sometimes at night within the last two years, when Kylie was holding a sleeping Sam in her arms, Kylie thought about the family that Sam had left behind. She knew her girlfriend felt bad for not staying in contact with her high school friends or not visiting her family during breaks. But the one thing that broke her heart was that no matter what she did for Sam, she couldn't hold a token to Kelsey Daniels.

Just like in her heart she knew that Sam still loved her and it had nothing to do with Sam saying Kelsey's name in her sleep every night.

-DG-

Brooke Baker looks up from the cash register when she hears the bell above Karen's Café start to ring. Brooke smiles.

"Officer Daniels, come sit and have some coffee."

Kelsey grins and sits at the counter.

"Good morning, Brooke. How are you today?"

"I'm doing fine," Brooke says as she pours Kelsey her coffee.

Kelsey takes a sip and smiles.

"Any word today?" Kelsey asks carefully knowing that anything to do with Sam was a sore subject for Brooke.

Brooke looks at Kelsey sadly.

"You have asked the same question for three years and my answer is always the same. I'm sorry."

Kelsey nods her head.

"It's okay. I just figured with Spencer and Casey's wedding that she might finally show her face, that's all."

"I never understood why she did what she did," Brooke replies. "She loves you and you loved her. I don't get it at all."

"It's simple. She wasn't ready to be my wife. I just wished she would have left before the wedding."

"I think everybody does Kelsey. As I watched my daughter run down that aisle after walking up it, my eyes went to you. You feel to the ground and you wouldn't move and you scared me. It took you a month to come out of your house that you bought with Sam."

"I know Brooke. I sold the house, moved into Sam's bedroom and I'm still not fully recovered and it's been three years. What does that say about me?"

"That you still love her."

"Of course I do. I just don't know what that means yet. But I better get going. I have to go to work."

Brooke grasps Kelsey's hand.

"You be safe, okay? I can't lose you, too."

"I will be," Kelsey replies with a slight smile before she leaves the café.

Brooke sighs and goes back to work.

-DG-

Sam continues to stare at the white screen on her computer. She had been in her office for most of the day and she only managed to write a few words.

Kylie walks into the room and Sam spins around in her chair.

"How's the writing coming?" Kylie asks as she sits down in Sam's lap.

Sam wraps her arms around Kylie.

"I wrote a few words, but then I deleted them because they sucked. I don't know Kylie. I'm stuck."

Kylie places her hands on Sam's cheek.

"Then I think it's time to go to the place that gave you the inspiration that helped you write your first book. Go to the wedding. Who knows, I mean with all the drama of you returning, you might come up with something. Just don't stay too long. I'll be at home waiting for you."

Sam smiles and leans up to place her lips over Kylie's. Sam's hands moved from Kylie's lips to her ass and Kylie moaned as her hips jerked.

Kylie pulls away from the kiss.

"Bedroom. Now!"

-DG-

"Thank you for dinner, Brooke," Kelsey says with a smile. "I always look forward to it."

"You don't need to thank me Kelsey. I love you, so I'm going to cook for you."

Julian grins at his wife and Aidan rolls his eyes at his mother. Kelsey nudged Aidan who shrugs his shoulders.

"Anything serious going on in the city of Tree Hill Kels?" Julian asks as he pushes away his plate. He had eaten enough.

"Nothing really, we haven't had anything big happen in our town since, well you know."

Julian nods his head in understanding while Brooke gathered everyone's finished plates. She didn't want to listen to anything that revolved around Sam. She was hurt enough. She didn't need to be hurt further.

"That's good. We don't need anything like that happening again," Julian comments.

Aidan excuses himself from the table and heads to his room. He had a date with his Xbox. Kelsey notices that Brooke doesn't come back to the table and in fact as she looked around she noticed that Brooke was nowhere to be seen.

"Julian, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"Anytime that Sam is mentioned I've noticed that Brooke and Aidan don't like to be around. How come it's not like that for you?"

"I'm hurt Kelsey, but I know my daughter. I know she'll come home, but only when she's ready. Brooke's hurt because she and Sam were always so close. Aidan is hurt because he didn't have much time to spend with Sam and then she went to college. Sam is my baby girl, my only girl and I love her and I understand her need to have time. I'm hurt, but I don't show it because someone needs to stay strong in the family."

"Is it wrong of me to pray that Sam comes back for the wedding and things will be like before?"

Julian shakes his head.

"No it's not, but you and I both know that it isn't going to be like before."

"I know," Kelsey stands up from the table and sighs. "Tell Brooke, I'll see her in the morning."

"Will do."

Kelsey leaves Julian at the table and heads to her apartment.

-DG-

After showering and getting ready for things the next morning, Kelsey lies down on her bed and grabs the well worn book from her bedside table. Kelsey traces the words on the front of the cover and smiles.

Love and Crime: A story about a cop and her journey to her true love

Samantha Baker

Kelsey flips to chapter one and starts reading the familiar words.