Haley tossed her keys on the table when she ran threw the front door of her house. She looked around and didn't hear any one home, "Hello?" She called throughout the house. She waited, but no answer came, "Finally I'm alone." She knew Peyton was gonna be at cheerleading practice and she didn't know or care where Larry was. She walked up the stairs and straight into Peyton's room. She wanted to find out about this girl.

She glanced around the room and noticed drawings all over the wall. They were amazing, she gasped when she saw one of herself. On one side stood Peyton and a woman she had seen in other pictures, Haley assumed this was her mom. Peyton stood holding her mothers hand and her mom had a single tear falling from her eye. On the other side stood Haley and her mother. Peyton must have been in her room; because that was the only place she had placed a picture. Peyton depictured Haley with the same stony face that she placed on herself and Haley's mom stood glaring with one eyebrow up and her arms wrapped around Haley. In the middle of the four women stood Larry, the string that held them together, with a mixture of fear and happiness on his face. The words underneath read: 'Secrets ruin happy families!'

Haley turned away and saw that Peyton had a walk-in closet and it wasn't filled with clothes, but rather it was filled with albums and records. Haley scanned a few rows and smiled, at least she had good taste in music, she thought to herself.

Haley left Peyton's room and felt twinge of regret for not being nicer to the girl. She was after all her sister. Haley found her way back downstairs and into Larry's office. She sat in his chair and glanced around the room. She sighed and opened his file cabinet. She saw a file titled: 'Legal Papers'. She pulled it out and put it on the desk, opening it. On top of the pile of papers was a copy of her mothers will. She flipped through it because she had a copy as well, next was adoption papers. She knitted her eyebrows and read the document. "Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer is hereby the adopted by Larry and Anna Sawyer," Haley read softly to herself, "Elizabeth Roberts (biological mother) and Unknown (biological father) have decided to give up all rights here after to the child stated above. It is at the request of Ms. Roberts that she be allowed visitations with the permission of Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer agree to the visitations as long as she is supervised by one of them." Haley read it again slightly confused.

"Did you find what you were looking for?" Haley froze and slowly raised her head to look at Larry. He was standing in the doorway, but made his way over to the desk and sat in a chair opposite her.

She bit her lip and closed the file, "Um…sorry." She stood to leave.

"No, feel free. We have no secrets in this family."

She couldn't help but laugh, "Except for you illegitimate daughter."

Larry waited until she stopped laughing, "You were the one and only secret I ever kept."

"Great job, you lasted what? 16 years?" She replied sarcastically.

"I'm not proud of what happened, but it's done and we have to move forward."

"So we should just forget everything?"

"That's a start."

She crossed her arms, "So we forget everything. You, Peyton, and I become one big happy family and forget that I was raised without a father. Forget all the birthdays I wished for you to come get me from the house we lived in." She paused only briefly, "Forget that all the times I cried myself to sleep because I didn't have a whole family, and forget that as a child I would wake up to gun shots ringing through the air? I didn't have a great childhood. My mom worked day and night to get us out of that neighborhood, with absolutely no help from you. And apparently we weren't able to live in Tree Hill because you and your precious family would have to finally deal with me."

He looked taken back by her reactions, "Haley…"

"Just because you felt you needed to be a father to me once in my life, and that was only because of the divorce you were thinking about does not give you the right to ask me to forget the past." Haley walked swiftly passed him, and dodged his arm as he reached out to grab her.

"Please stop running," He called, but she didn't hear anything else because she slammed the door behind herself.

"Did you hear yet?" Brooke said excitedly sitting next to Haley the next day in class.

Haley glanced at her oddly her words not really registering in her mind, "Hear what?"

"Seriously, if we are gonna be friends you have to keep up with the gossip," She said rolling her eyes.

"And if I don't care…"

Brooke raised her eyebrows curiously, "What's wrong tutor girl?"

Haley shook her head, "Nothing."

Brooke lost her concentration on the topic at hand and watched as Nathan took his seat just behind them, "Hey Nathan," Brooke smiled at him.

"Hey," He replied sinking down in his seat.

"Have you met Haley?" Brooke said grinning at Haley when she looked at her with wide eyes, "Of course you have, you're like the one man welcome wagon when it comes to the new girls at school." Brooke winked at him knowingly.

"What's your point?" He asked slightly irritated.

"Point?" She asked buying herself time, "I have no point. Can't wait for your party tomorrow night." She spun back around and smiled sideways at Haley.

"Are you bringing the new girl?" He asked leaning forward in his seat. Haley sat stiff looking forward.

Brooke shrugged and looked at Haley, "Tutor girl?"

She looked back at Nathan and forced her to tear her eyes away to look back at Brooke, "If there's nothing better for me to do." This made Brooke grin even wider and Haley watched as Brooke took in Nathan's expression, somewhat proud of her new friend.

"So now that I have both of ya'lls attention…" Brooke said letting her sentence hang in the air. Haley, Peyton, and Brooke were slowly making their way over to the boy's gym. They were the last ones out of the girls locker room, and at the rate Brooke and Peyton were walking Haley knew that she was not going to make it to class on time.

"You always have our attention, it's like a rule to be your friend or something," Peyton replied.

"Ok miss sour puss, you should turn that frown upside down." Brooke grinned at her best friend amusing herself with the cleverness, "So I was gonna tell Haley this this morning, but I decided to wait til we were all together."

"Just spit it out," Haley said.

"Nathan and Beth broke up last night," She said in an almost sing song voice.

Peyton stopped and grabbed her best friends arm to stop with her, she was doing her best to control her happiness, "Your kidding!" Brooke shook her head, "I thought that he really liked her, hell she almost broke your record."

"That's ridiculous!" Brooke laughed, "She's defiantly not in the running, well not anymore." She turned to a confused Haley, "Beth and Nathan were together for 12 days." She took her arm back and the girls kept walking, "She called me crying her eyes out," Brooke paused and acted like she was crying, "she just couldn't understand why he would do this to her." She sniffled, and Peyton laughed.

"She would."

"That's so mean," Haley said to the two.

Brooke draped an arm around her shoulder, "You better get use to it, because the way I see it, you and Peyton are the only ones who have a chance at beating me. I mean if you can."

Haley shrugged Brooke off, "I'm not involved in your stupid competition."

Peyton chuckled, "She wouldn't be able to hang anyways."

Haley glared straight at Peyton, "I'll date him longer than Brooke, but I'd do it because I actually like him, not because I'm trying to prove that I'm better than my friends."

"What friends?" Peyton shot back. Haley flipped her head around and slammed the gym door behind her.

Brooke watched the interaction and shook her head when Haley disappeared, "What is it about you two?" Peyton shrugged innocently and pulled the gym door open.