There she sat shoved against a window, loads of bags pilled in the seat next to her staring out the window into the fleeting abyss wondering what this supposedly casual trip would bring. As much as Peyton and Brooke tried to convince her, Haley could not shake the feeling that this trip would turn out be the end of her life as she knew it. There was a feeling in the air that told her change was steadily approaching. The first bad omen she received was when her and Peyton could not get plane tickets and realized the only way to get there was to dive. This drive was no short trip it would take them exactly 43 hours, 18 minutes driving non-stop to make in to Tree Hill, North Carolina in time for their reuion filled weekend.

"How are you doing back there Haley?"Peyton says looking into her reaview miror at haley whom looked half asleep.

"Oh just dandy" she replied while removing her gaze from the window to the front of the car.

"Well we are about..., wait look at this directions I printed off the computer and tell me whats my next turnoff."

"Umm lets see." Haley saysing examing the directions."You next turn off in onto Market Street which will land us in Tree Hill in about 20 minutes."

"Wow isn't this exciting were almost there."

"Yeah just thrilling" haley said giving a very dramatic roll of her eyes.

"Look if you didn't want to do this you could have just said no."

"I wanted to go but now I'm thinking maybe it was a bad idea."

"Why would you say that?"

"I don't know, I just keep getting this strange feeling that something is going to go terribly wrong and there is nothing I can do to stop it."

"Well if thats true that whats the use in worry about something you can't control?"

"I don't know but worring is all I seem to do these days."

"I think that comes with motherhood or at least thats what Karen always told me."

Haley lets out a small laugh and returned to her almost monotinis gaze through her small, backseat window. After a few moments of silence Peyton facial expression turned serious.

"So before we get out of this car we need to get our stories straight."

"Ok so when you say stories do you mean stories or" she makes quote marks in the air with her hands " stories."

"Well if I was talking the truth than I would not be asking this question."

"Are you going to make me go through this again."

"Yes!"

"Alright so after graduation I left for my dream school, Stanford, of course, my parents followed and decided to buy a house out there because they got tired of living out of an R.V."

"And..."

"And I've been in school ever since working on my degree in education because after years of toturing I decided that teaching was my ture passion."

"Ok and I moved out to California to pursue a carer in music production. I currently live in Palo Alto, and have an adorable yet quorkey british, rocker boyfriend named Melvin."

"Well if you get a boyfriend like that than I get one too."

"Alright so what your boyfriend like."

"Lets see he is short, blond haired, green eyed, layed back, education major who spends his time protesting the university's lack or arts fund and huge emphisis on the athletic system."

"Wow you have thoug about this."

"Yeah I figured if I were to have a made up boyfriend he would be nothing like Nathan."

"Well if thats what you wanted you acheve you succeded."

"Oh look we have officaly arrived in Tree Hill." she says looking over at the welcome sign.

"And so it begins."

I know it's been a long time since my last update but between the fasting approaching hoildays, my large Christmas party I put on last weekend, and a heavy workload I have not had much time on my hands. I'm sorry about the length but I wanted this one to be reativily short for story sake. I promise to update soon and next time Naley will be present.