Haley James Walked down the halls of Tree hill high with Brooke, It didn't seem different, same people, same faces, But all day all she could do was look for one particular person, Nathan Scott.

What is she doing? she keeps thinking to herself, why on earth is she looking for him? she just met him yesterday and all of the sudden their friends? no...she thought. she can't look for him anymore. How about if he doesnt want to see her or talk to her? what if she see's him and walks up to him and humiliate herself, isnt she a nobody already? there's no need to embarass herself more then she is already.

"So you coming over tonight right?" brooke asked turning the combination of her locker.

"How can i miss movie night?" haley laughed while getting her books from her locker.

"Okay, Can you believe Mr. mitchel actually let me be partners with chris in science class..." brooke kept blabbing and blabbing about how her teacher let her be partners by one of the geeks in school.

She closed her locker door shut and turned around ready to walk, but she stopped when she saw someone, it was him, Nathan scott. he past by her giving her a smile. 'He smiled at me!' she thought. does that mean anything? what is this? whats happening to me? is brooke right? am i falling inlove with Nathan scott? but that can't happen, i don't know him to fall inlove with him..

"Earth to haley.." brooke waved a hand on haley when she noticed haley just staring at all the kids walking down the school hallway.

"oh" she shook her head "sorry, what were you saying?"

"Haley? whats bothering you? i've been talking here about ass Mr. mitchel and all you could do is look at.." brooke turned her head where haley was staring "what were you looking at anyways?"

"Its nothing, sorry i've got alot of things in my mind today, continue" she said with a smile, she hoped brooke wouldn't ask anymore questions because she'll know sooner or later she'll have to spill everything about nathan and she really doesn't need brooke teasing her about it.

"Okay so, I talked to chris today discussing our project for..." And she went on.

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Haley walked home alone, Since brooke had to go see her new partner 'Chris'. It was a lovely day, cold? yes it was. freezing actually. But haley had a warm feeling inside her. it kept her warm, she wondered why was she so happy but couldn't figure out what was the reason, She went to The park she goes to everyday and sat down on a picnic table in the end of the park. she was reading, Suddenly someone came over and stood right infront of her.

"Its freezing cold and your sitting here reading?" The familiar voice asked.

She looked up and to her surprise she saw Nathan Scott standing right infront of her, she couldn't believe it, was nathan scott talking to me? how did he find me here in the first place...

"If its freezing cold why did you come here in the first place?" she asked back smirking waiting for an answer.

"Well, i was on my way home until i saw this beautiful figure sitting alone and thought she might want some company"

Beautiful...

Haley looked at the seat infront of her for nathan to sit on, and he did.

"So what are you reading?" he asked trying to make a good conversation.

"Its a novel called 'The hidden love', Its a really great novel"

"whats it about?"

"Well, Its about A guy and A girl, The guy loves the girl but she doesn't know about his feelings for her and the girl loves the guy too but he doesnt know"

After she explained the novel she was reading, both of them stared at each other quietly, it was a really nice feeling, just each one staring at each other. Their eyes locked, Her staring at his bright blue eyes and him staring at Her Chocolatey eyes. No one said a word. It was a perfect moment until...

"Hello?" Haley answered her ringing phone after it broke the sweet silence between them, she groaned when she saw the address name written 'Cheery'. Brooke always screws perfect moments.

"Hey Hales, where are you?" Brooke said.

"Umm..Penny's Park, why?"

"I just wanted to see if your on your way here, i need to cancel on movie night today" she said in a low voice.

"Brooke, are you okay?" she asked worried

"Yeah, I'm fine. We just can't have movie night today, i'm sorry"

"Its okay Brooke, We could always do it another night"

"okay, Listen i gotta go" But before haley could say bye, Brooke hung up on her.

Haley wondered if brooke was okay, she got worried about her, It wasn't like brooke to hung up on her before she says goodbye or it wasn't like brooke to cancel on movie nights, there's deffinatly something going on, It's probebly the parents, True brooke's a girl who gets everything she wants, anytime she wants them. But there was one thing she never got in her life, She never got good parents...

She looked up at nathan who was still staring at her, Wow was his blue eyes gorgous, 'okay, i should learn how to stop looking at those eyes' she thought.

"Ummm..sorry about that, Brooke just cancelled on a movie night" she said as she dumped her phone back in her bag.

"Movie night huh?"

"Yeah, me and brooke do this everyweek...umm i should get going" she said standing up and threw her bag on her shoulder

"Oh...Okay then i'll walk you home" he stood up infront of her.

Did he just say he'll walk me home? Could this day get any better, first he smiles, then he talks to me and now he wants to walk me home?

"Umm..you really don't have to"

"I know" he paused "But i want to"

She smiled at him and began to walk with him. While they were walking, they past the river court. a place where Nathan and Lucas loves to hang around and play one-on-one basketball.

"You see that?" He pointed at the rivercourt and haley nodded "thats the rivercourt, its where me and Luke like to hang out, kinda like the park you like to hang out in"

"Thats nice, you guys love playing basketball right?" she asked.

"Yeah, Alot actually, We mostly come here in spring or summer like everyday and just play for hours" She nodded slowly "So...what do you do?" he asked "i mean you know i like basketball, what do you like?"

" i Love to do alot of things, but i just don't have the time ya know?"

"Why? I mean most people leave time for doing the things they love"

"Umm..I guess it's because i've got school and when i come back i do homework, Catch up with some reading and then spend time with brooke or my dad."

"Oh...So thats how all of your days go?"

She nodded and they started walking quietly.

"Singing" Haley broke off the silence.

"What?"

"I love to sing, you asked me what i like to do, I love to sing"

"Wow, I never knew you could sing"

"Yeah well, my voice is not that great, but I try sometimes, I don't really sing in public except for this one time, I tried out for this play they did in tree hill last year for singing but I never got in, guess its not that great after all" she said as she remembered how the audition went of last years play.

"Nah, I can feel you've got a great voice" he smiled and she smiled back.

"And i like to Ice skate" she continued "but i never ice skated in years ever since my..."

"Your?"

"Nothing, I just don't ice skate anymore"

"Why?"

"Umm..i guess i dont have the time"

They found their selves standing infront of a brown door, It was haley's house..

"This is your house?" She nodded "So Umm...listen, Maybe you Umm..If your not busy tomorrow after school we could hang out? i mean if you want to"

"Sure, i'd love that" she smiled sweetly.

"Okay..Umm, See you tomorrow then.." he said and left.

After she made sure he was gone from the street she lived in, she jumped up and down infont of her front porch and started dancing and jumping.

"Okay" she sighed, She fixed her hair a bit before entering the house and pulled the door knob open and ran straight to her room.

It was late and time for bed, She Wore her kitty pajama's and jumped in bed, Suddenly she remembered Brooke, She wondered if brooke was okay, She really didn't sound okay on the phone, Then she thought she'll talk to her tomorrow and see what was wrong since its getting to late.

After about an hour, Haley was still in bed staring at the ceiling, she couldnt sleep, All she could think about was nathan, did he really say he wants to hang out with her tomorrow after school? Oh yes he did and to top the happiness of the day, he called her beautiful. a word no one uses for haley exept well brooke. She suddenly heard a knock on her window. She got up and saw Brooke, She hurried and opened it.

"Brooke whats wrong?" She asked worriedly.

"Nothing" she climbed in the room "I just couldn't sleep and thought maybe i could stay here tonight?"

"Of course brooke, you know that window is always open for you" She smiled.

Brooke Got into bed and pulled the covers on her, Haley got in too.

"Brooke?"

"Mmmm?"

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Not really" she turned to look at Haley, Haley noticed tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Brooke what happened?"

"Can we just talk about this tomorrow?"

'Here we go again' Haley thought, She knew brooke to well. If brooke has something or a problem she wouldn't want to talk about she would always want to talk about it tomorrow which means 'Never'.

"Brooke?" she turned her eyes from the ceiling to brooke "I'm always here for you, okay?"

"I know" she said as she closed her eyes.

Haley hugged brooke until she slept...

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Nathan walked in the kitchen holding his I-pod, He opened the fridge and got a bottle of water, He sat on the wooden long chair next to the counter and started changing the song, His mom came in after a few seconds with Bags of grocery, Nathan closed the music and started helping out his mom.

"You went grocery shopping, at night?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

It wasn't like deb to go grocery shopping at night, she was always a morning person, she does all of her work, wether its grocery shopping, cleaning, vaccuming all in the morning.

"Yes well your dad took my car this morning, so i had no choice" She said as she put the eggs she bought in the fridge.

"Ohh..."

"Nathan sweety, will you get me the knife in the second drawer over there? i need to cut these potatoes for dinner" she pointed at the drawer.

"Yeah sure" He got the knife and gave it to his mom.

"Soo..." she started as she cut the potatoes "I umm..was driving today and guess who i saw?"

"Nathan's imaginary ladies?" Lucas laughed entering the kitchen and sat down next to nathan.

"Shut up dude" Nathan hit lucas's arm.

"Who's the imaginary ladies?" Deb tried not to laugh. that name was just too funny..

"Nothing" nathan said quickly and looked at his brother in a i'll-kill-you-if-you-say-that-again kind of look.

"Okay, What ever you say" Deb went over the sink to wash her hands "Anyways, i saw you and Haley James in the park today" She sat infront of the two boys.

"You were with Haley?" lucas asked surprised "In a park?"

Nathans not the guy you see in parks, mostly you see him somewhere near basketball hoops but a park? No way would that be nathan scott.

"Umm..yeah i just, ya know i saw her sit by herself and thought she might need some company, thats all"

"Dude, why don't you just admit already that you like her!" Lucas said annoyed and got out of the kitchen.

"So, Do you?" Deb asked.

She hoped he would like her, Haley was such a sweet nice quiet little girl and she always wished for nathan to have a sweet girl like haley once..

"Mom..." nathan whined, why would he want to tell his mother if he likes the girl or not, he doesnt talk to him mom about these kind of stuff.

"Oh come on nathan, Its just me" she pleaded for nathan to tell her.

"Okay fine, Maybe"

"Well thats good, Did you ask her out yet?"

"Moomm.." he whined more.

"What? i'm just asking"

"Okay, i told her we'd hang out tomorrow after school, thats all. i don't want to rush into things. hell, i don't even know if the girl likes me or not, maybe we should start off as friends first"

"Well, yes thats for the best"

"But then i got Tim..." he sighed.

Tim Smith was nathan's friend, He would always tell nathan which girls to hang out with and would tease him if he hung out with any other girls like the ones you see in the science club or the ones you see at the library or the ones you see at the tutor centre...

"Ohhh, So your afraid of what Tim will say because your gonna be dating haley james huh?" She looked at his expression on his face and knew that it was true "Nathan, Tim he's just a friend, A friend leaves after a couple of years and i'm sure that each of you will go seprate ways next year since each one will go to the collage of his dreams right? But this girl, How about if she's the one Nate? How about if she's the girl you'll be spending your life with? Now you can't let that chance slip away from you. And if you are, your gonna regret it, because you'll be with neither of them, I'm just saying is that haley's a nice girl and you should go for it, Don't think about what Tim wants or what your friends want..Think about what you want."

Did debra scott just say that? did my mom just say that? Okay what happened to the mom who keeps telling me, Don't lose your friends because their important in life? But then again debra was right, every word she said was. He can't slip a chance of knowing haley because of tim who he might not be with him next year or in his future. So what if haley is just Haley james...A nobody? 'She's surely not a nobody to me' he thought, Whatever tim or the other say, its fine. Cuz mom's right, i should be doing things for myself, i should be doing what i want for myself, I never have, and haley is what i want. But how about if she doesnt?

"How about if she doesnt?" he asked softly in a low voice.

"You never know until you try" Deb said and walked out of the kitchen leaving a confused nathan in the kitchen, not knowing what to do..

'I never know until i try' Gee, Mom is right. Maybe i should start talking to her about these stuff more often, Lucas is never a help anyways...

Okay so she is right, But i can't just go to her and be like 'Hey, i'm starting to have feelings for you' that would be so pathetic, Maybe i should just hang out with her, get to know her a little bit more and then..Yeah...And it all starts from tomorrow..

Starts Tomorrow...

Tomorrow is The new beginning, Starts a new page in Nathan Scott's life...