A/N - Thanks again for the reviews and favourite-ing. I'm playing around with a few ideas for this and my other fic that's currently on here, and another few ideas. But…I do have deadlines coming up in the next few weeks, but after that it's pretty much holiday time until September. So if you read, please take two minutes to reply with a review, just to motivate me into writing? Thanks.

If you review, include your favourite Tree Hill moment…a classic Naley/Leyton/Brucas moment or a bit of Brulian maybe? Or even Jeyton? And I'll get as many in the next few chapters as I can.

Chapter Three - Just Haley James

Walking through Tree Hill on game days was always inspiring, although the few wins the team had this season meant that support had sort of fallen. Of course, the arrival of cameras changed all that. It was always as if it was a State Championship game, banners and flags outside houses and cars hammering their horns as they drove past the school. That's the magic of the movies I guess.

The walk home took me about thirty minutes, but was the only time I truly had to myself. I used to spend as little time at home as possible, but it was Sam that made me really realise how lucky I was. I had mom and dad, my older brother was at college, and my older sister lived ten minutes away with her boyfriend and my niece Louise. As much as my family annoyed the hell out of me, they were all around and for that I was not only lucky but grateful.

As I approached the house, there was a car in the drive that I immediately recognised as Haley's. I tapped on the window and she rolled it down, "Have you been waiting long?" I asked, hoping my slow wander home hadn't held her back.

"No, been here about five minutes. The boys are in the gym preparing for tonight. I just wanted to drop by and let you know that I think that was a really great thing that you did for Sam."

Shrugging my shoulders, I gestured for her to follow me into the house, "It was nothing," I said, "I mean you put your job on the line for her, and the stuff she writes is awesome. It's really her doing me a favour."

Haley sat down at the kitchen table and I sat opposite her. Somehow it wasn't weird having a teacher in the house, "And I'm sorry about this morning. Dixon," she paused, trying to find exactly the right word.

"Seems like a bit of a dick?" I finished for her. I took her laughter as a yes.

"I think when he knows exactly what you want to do, he might come round to the idea. Just don't let him think he's going to sleep with you," she warned me.

Sighing, I pulled a notebook out of my bag, "Do you mind if I ask you a few things? I want to look back on what Lucas wrote about in Ravens, and how you all came back together. And now with the movie, how it all impacts on our senior year. It's like, when we sophomores the book came out and suddenly we became a part of history. And everyone wanted to be like Brooke, or Peyton, or you. And have an epic love story…" I trailed off.

"You can all do great things," Haley assured me, "But yeah, ask away," she looked down at her watch, "I'm all yours until I have to go pick up my boys."

I took my cell phone out of my pocket and began recording, "What do you think would've happened if you didn't marry Nathan? If you hadn't gone out at all."

Sighing, she rested her elbow on the table and her head on her fist, "This feels like I'm back in therapy!" She laughed, "I think most important of all, I wouldn't have Jamie. And I can't imagine my life without him. I think it's easy to say a lot of what if's though. It's like, what if Keith didn't take Whitey to the River Court and what if Lucas never got on the team? Then none of these great things would be happening. Would Brooke have started her clothing line? Would I have gone on tour? A lot of things would be different, and some really bad stuff maybe wouldn't have happened, but we wouldn't have all had our chances to be great."

"You know, if you're gonna do music again. Nothing like a movie for some easy PR," I suggested, "They did get someone that can sing to play you in the movie, right?"

She shrugged her shoulders, "I hope so. But about the music thing, I really don't know. Nathan's getting back into basketball and Jamie is my priority."

It was actually difficult to think what else I could ask her, especially because she was my teacher. I knew there was a line that I couldn't really cross. "Did you think when you got pregnant, and with neither you or Nathan going to Duke that the rest of your lives were slipping away?" I asked, "That sounded pretty awful, didn't it?" She shook her head and smiled at me, "What I mean is, did you have a plan?"

She nodded, "Yeah. I mean, doesn't everybody? Every year, when school started, Lucas and I would write predictions for the year. But if I had done one then for the next five years, it probably would've been to fall in love, and have a great job doing something I love."

"So Haley James got all her dreams, but just pretty much all before she finished high school?"

Today I spent thirty minutes with my teacher, Mrs James-Scott. But for those fifteen minutes I wasn't talking to her as my teacher. I wasn't talking to Haley James, tutor girl. Or Haley James, rock star. I spoke to Haley James Scott: wife, mother, teacher, song-writer. Haley James Scott has achieved many things. Many things that around the halls of Tree Hill High, students dream of.

The students of Tree Hill High are making their own history, but does this graduating class have their own Haley James Scott? There are aspiring rock stars, there's kids that want to teach after college, there's some that will just be grateful to get in to college. But we can all learn from Haley James Scott - and not just in her class - but for everything that she stands for. Her portrayal in Ravens shows her as a quite probably a typical teen. She wasn't the party girl, she was studious, hardworking. She made mistakes. She struggled, she fought and won back her husband. She had the whole world ahead of her, college, teaching, but she was blessed with her son. And she still achieved her dream of teaching?

If there is only one thing that I can learn from Mrs James-Scott, it is that in whatever you dream, never give up. Fight for it, fight for it until you have it.

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