A/N: So even though I didn't reach the goal I was hoping for I was surprised at the amount of reviews I got in just a day. So thanks guys! And for that I'll give you a whole new chapter. Hope you enjoy this one.
Chapter 5a
Sunday flew by quickly in the town of Tree Hill, soon enough it was Monday morning, the first day of school at Tree Hill High.
"Lucas! Hurry up! We'll be late for class!" Haley called to her brother with much anxiety to her voice. It was Haley's first day in her new high school and she wanted to make a good first impression, perfect attendance record like she always had in the past. Unfortunately she has a brother, who she loves to death by the way, but takes as much time getting ready as typical teenage girls would in the morning. Haley sighs once again after having to call her brother's name 3 times already she knew then that she was not going to get him down the stairs any quicker. "Dad! Tell Luke I'll wait for him in the car!" A man's head, that Lucas and Haley equally resembles, emerges from the kitchen and says, "Alright sweety! Have fun on your first day!" He yells back at her before getting back to his cooking. A moping Haley sighs once more and walks out the door.
"Hey Hales!" Haley turns around to see a running Nathan waving his hands at her while his backpack sways from left to right. "Oh. Hey Nate. What's up?" she said squinting at him with her hands over her eyes to shade her face from the sun. Nathan finally slows down to face her with his hands on his hips panting a little bit from the run. He tries to catch his breath before he speaks. "Oh hey…where's Luke?" he asks still trying to breath.
"He's still inside, I swear he's like the girl in the family." She says as they both start to laugh.
"Hey! I heard that!" the tall blonde said as he comes down the porch steps.
"Finally! Geeze..has Brooke really have that much of affect on you? C'mon let's get going don't want to be late!" she says as she swings her hand around motioning Lucas to get in the car.
"Hey, can I ride with you guys, the car won't start on me again."
"Yeah Sure thing Nate, hop in!" Lucas says.
""Thanks!" Nate says as he quickly jumps in the red '93 Volkswagen Jetta.
"See Hales we're not late. We actually still have time to spare. You worry too much." Lucas says with a smirk looking at his sister, who had both hand on her chest all pale like her whole life just past through her eyes.
"Oh. My. GOD! LUKE!" she slaps the shoulder of her brother. "Remind me to never let you drive again! Who do you think your are? Paul Walker from fast and the furious! Geeze you trying to kill us all! You craz-" before she could continue she hears both guys start laughing in amusement as they couldn't keep their laughter back anymore. "Oh you think you're so funny huh…" she looks at both guys, who then looks at each other, "Yup!" the both say at the same time. "Oh well then…Oh my god! look at what Brooke is doing with that dude!" she quickly exclaims. "What! Where!" Luke quickly turns his head to the left almost giving himself a whip lash only to see a waving Brooke with her arms around Peyton heading towards them. He turns back around to a smirking Haley, "made you look! Gosh you are so gullible" she says giving his shoulder a little pat shaking her head before starting to crack up. Nathan start to chuckle a bit until Lucas glares up him. Nathan just puts his hands in the air like he's innocent in all this. "Ha-ha funny…Let's go before we all get late for class." Lucas says as he turns back and opens his door to step out of the vehicle. "Oh now he cares about getting late..." Haley says with her sarcastic voice rolling her eyes.
"Hey sexy!" a smirking Brooke unhooks her arm from her bestfriend and gives her boyfriend a hug. "Hey pretty girl" Lucas stares into his girlfriend's chocolate brown eyes and reaches down to give her a kiss, actually more than just a kiss, more like a whole make-out session. "Whoa! Okay I think I'll leave you two alone…" the curly blonde behind Brooke says as she walks around to the other side of the car to greet the rest of the passengers. "Hey Nate, what's up?" she says to the tall guy who just recently just got out of the car. "Oh hey, Peyton. So where's Jake at?" he asks.
"Well nice to see you too. Didn't know you were into my boyfriend that much." Peyton starts to laugh.
"Ha-ha very funny, just wanted to make sure tat he'd be at the try-outs today." Nathan explains.
"Riiight…." Peyton gives him a wink and has a laugh once more before continuing. "Well he should be on the way, probably making sure everything is fine with Jenny." She responds.
"Oh okay." He says, as he finally glances at Haley who obviously looks uncomfortable being in between the two not knowing what the hell was going on.
"Oh yeah Peyton this is Haley. I believe you guys didn't have the chance to meet last time." Haley smiles at the blonde who smiles back, "Nice to meet you Haley, and here I thought Nathan was making up another girl again." Peyton giggles a bit as she reach out her hand.
"Uhmmm…" Haley chuckles a bit with a confuse looks on her face as she looks at Nathan and then back at Brooke, "Yeah…nice to meet you too…" she takes the hand of the blonde and shake it slightly.
"I guess we better head in before the bells rings." Haley says as she starts to walk toward the school with Nathan and Peyton.
"So are you two done yet? Cause we're heading in now!" Peyton yells back at the couple. Lucas and Brooke finally break their make-out session and quickly catches up with the rest of the group. As they get near the entrance Haley realize that she is now about to enter the life she would've had if she had stayed, the life she probably would've loved, the life she now has back, the life where she could just start out fresh again. They opened the doors and almost immediately she sees a whole bunch of eyes narrowing to the five of them. As they continue walking she sees a bunch of jocks butting knuckles with her brother and Nathan and girls looking at Nathan with those flirtatious eyes. So this is the life my brother has been living, and those girls, I guess Lucas was right about that. She glanced at Nathan as he gives the girls his famous smirk, then all of a sudden she sees this red-head quickly pass by her, bumping her shoulder to give Nathan a hug.
"Hey Natey-poo. I've been waiting for you." She says to him as she gives him a kiss. Nathan was caught completely off guard and just did what came natural and puts his hands on her waist to kiss back until something snapped in him, Haley. He quickly pushed the girl who is by the way wearing the shortest skirt you've ever seen and a top that's barely called a top since it was rolled up to show off her belly.
"Uh hey Rachel." He looks at Haley who just looked at away, then he looks back at Rachel with a surprise look on her face, wondering why her boyfriend had pushed her away.
"What's wrong Natey-poo?" she looks at him and gives him a pout.
"Uhmmm nothing I just… don't we have to go to the gym to see where our homerooms are?" he quickly responded a bit nervously pushing Rachel off of him.
"Yeah, let's go before we really do get late for class" Peyton interrupts, "Jake is probably in there, I want to see him before class starts." So the group starts to head off to the gym. When they looked at their homeroom, they were in alphabetical order. Haley and Peyton are obviously in the same homeroom, since their last names start with 'S'. Nathan looked for his name and saw that Jake was in the same list, he saw Jake's head pop out of the crowd smiling at everyone. Nathan butted fist with Jake and told him they were in the same class together. When Brooke saw she was in the same homeroom with Rachel, Brooke of course started to whine and complain to Lucas about the 'witch' being in her class, but Lucas just reassured her that it would be okay. Finally Lucas found his name and looked down the list of names to see if anything looked familiar to him. He glanced at one of the names and started to chuckle and shake his head…Tim Smith. So afterwards everyone just said their goodbyes and headed off to each responding destinations.
Lucas decided to walk with Haley and Peyton since their homerooms were nearby one another. When Haley and Peyton arrived to their homeroom class Peyton hooked onto Haley's arm and guided them to their seats. Peyton wanted to sit in the back but Haley wanted to sit up close, finally they decided to find a middle ground and sit in the middle. Lucas looked at the girls trying to decide where to sit and just shook his head and smiled, he was glad his sister was fitting right in. Lucas nodded his head at the girls and smiled before heading off to his class.
"So, how do you like Tree Hill so far?" Peyton asks turning towards Haley after saying bye to Lucas.
"Oh I love it, it's home." Haley responds with a smile.
"So what is your story by the way? I mean I know you and Lucas are brother and sister but I mean how'd you get separated in the first place?" Peyton asks trying to make conversation.
"Oh, well when I was 10 and Luke was 11, our parents decided to get a divorce. They agreed that Luke would stay with my dad and I would stay with my mom when she moved to New York. So all this time the only contact Lucas and I had was mostly letters and phone calls, but no matter what we promised each other that we would definitely keep in touch." She explains.
"So you and Lucas must be really tight." She asks
"Yup we're like paper and glue." Haley says giggling a little.
"That's cool always wanted to having that much of a bonding with a sibling, but I guess in a way that's what Brook and I have." Peyton says smiling back "Well anyway, you were born here in Tree Hill right?"
"Yup" Haley responds back
"So that means you knew Nathan way back then, because I know ever since birth those two have been joined by the hips." Peyton chuckled.
"Oh yeah. I've dealt with those two causing so much trouble. And Nathan and I would tease each other back and forth as kids." Haley smiles looking back at the wonderful memories the three of them had.
"So what did you think when you saw Nathan again?" Peyton gives Haley a grin trying to get something out of her.
"Uhmmm…What do you mean?" Haley asks while raising her eyebrows at Peyton curious to what exactly she was thinking.
"Oh c'mon don't tell me you don't think he's a major babe. I'm sure he wasn't the same old Nathan you remember as a kid." If Haley knew how blunt Peyton was she would've avoided this conversation altogether.
"uhmmm…" She quickly looked away from Peyton and looked down at her desk. Wow that was completely off-guard. Haley thought. She was left speechless. Peyton giggled at the now blushing Haley.
"It's okay, we've all felt that way about the great Nathan Lee." She laughed. "And by the way he was looking at you earlier, I bet he probably felt the same way towards you." She smiled, boy she really is straightforward.
"uhmmm huh? What do you mean?" Haley eyes went back to Peyton with interests.
"Well when Rachel went to give him a kiss I knew he wanted to avoid it at all cause since you were there." She explained. Good old observative Peyton.
"Oh I didn't notice." Haley says with a soft shy voice, a little embarrassed, which made Peyton giggle a bit.
"Okay you probably want to change the subject now. So what made you come back anyway?" Peyton asked so she didn't have to embarrass her new friend anymore.
"Oh uhmmm…" before Haley could continue the teacher finally walks into class and gets the whole class' attention.
"Sorry, I'm late everyone but why don't we start the class now shall we…" the teacher continues to speak.
Dodged the bullet by an inch. Haley thought as she listened to her teacher speak.
A/N: Yeah you guys are probably disappointed at this chapter. But this is all I could come up with for now. Been working too much and I guess just can't think straight. I mean I know where I should be heading with this story just not sure how to get there. So just be patient with me. Sorry! If you guys have any suggestions or things I should change just let me know and I'll take it into consideration. I also want to apologize for my lack of 'oomph' in the descriptions. I was never really a literate person, I guess I should've read more as a kid…lol…and too much slang talking with the buddies…so again sorry about that. But please do keep reading and commenting and I promise it'll get better, well at least I'll try to make it better. ) thanks again!