Chapter One:

The Jerk and Nerd

Haley James was walking down the corridor at Tree Hill on her way to Gym class. God she hated that class, here she is, valedictorian for the last three years and she can't put a stupid ball through a hoop in order to pass her class. Jake and Luc had tried to help her, they even resorted to teaching her granny style but nothing worked. She couldn't get that blasted ball through the hoop. Haley was walking thinking about her problem, not really looking in front of her when she crashed into something hard and muscly. She looked up into a pair of piercing blue eyes who were looking at her haughtily. 'Watch where you're going, this is an expensive jacket'

Haley glared at the guy standing in front of her. 'Well you didn't exactly move out of my way now did you?' the blue eyed god looked surprised, but it was gone so quickly Haley thought she was imagining it. 'Just stay out of my way nerd.' He said and moved on. He went on followed by his possie of spoilt rich kids.

Nathan Scott. Haley really didn't like that guy; he was a cocky, arrogant, sexy – extremely sexy jerk! Ahhh! Haley thought why couldn't there be at least one good looking guy who wasn't a total asshole. Haley moved on and made it to Gym class without anymore mishaps. But all through out class her mind kept wondering back to those blue eyes and kept having thoughts of he-who-is-a-dickhead. Haley sighed, it's a shame.

Haley's day passed as usual ending with her favourite thing ever, tutoring! Of course the fun was taken out of that because the person she was tutoring was none other than Brooke Davis, miss popular and all round bitch! Apart from Nathan Scott, Brooke Davis rated pretty high on Haley's hate list. Now don't take it the wrong way, Haley was by no means a hater or bias about the 'superiors' at Tree Hill high it was just that Brooke Davis was a huge bitch. Not to mention she has been bullying Haley since forever!

'C'mon Brooke, we went over this yesterday, and the day before and the day before that!' Haley was getting very frustrated by this. They had been going over this homework assignment for the past three days and Queen Bitch has still not got it. She has the nerve to blame me Haley thought, when she spent her weekend getting drunk and sleeping around. God must hate me Haley sighed.

'C'mon Tutor Girl, why don't we make a deal okay, you slip me the exam paper and I pay you. It looks like you could do with a decent wardrobe; it's a win win situation.' Haley was staring at Brooke like she had grown another head. 'Excuse me?'

'Oh c'mon virgin Mary, stop being such a nerd and hand the paper over. This is obviously not working' Brooke said in her over-used 'duh' tone. Haley wanted to kill her, like really really kill her. Even if she got caught that would be fine at least she would be rid of Brooke Davis. But in all honesty Haley was really insulted that people even if it was Brooke Davis thought she would stoop so low. Haley shook her head slowly grabbed her bag and said 'Listen Queen Bitch you finish the damn assignment by yourself, I am through with you!' Haley stormed off leaving a very surprised Brooke sitting on the table.

Nathan was shooting hoops in his backyard when he heard a car roll into the drive way. Nathan sighed his dad was home, Yay! 'Hey Nate, how the arm?' Nathan turned and saw his dad Dan Scott watching him with a smirk on his face. Nathan shook his head 'Good dad, oh yeah and I had a great day thanks for asking' he said sarcastically. Dan shook his head and went inside. Nathan sighed why couldn't he just have a normal life.

Nathan had a bad day today. Whitey had been grilling the team at practice today and by team it normally meant Nathan because he was the captain. Then he went into history and failed his test which then led to him failing maths and English as well. Not that Nathan really cared about school but if he didn't maintain a particular average he would get kicked off the basketball team and that was not going to happen. His English teacher sent him to see the tutoring centre, but the tutor he was supposed to have had left early, so Nathan had just come home. Although not before stopping and saying hi to Brooke who he had surprisingly found sitting alone on a table with her history textbook.

As Nathan was thinking about school he remembered his run in with the school nerd. Helen or something he couldn't quite remember her name. He really didn't like her and he got the feeling that it was entirely mutual. To be honest Nathan was quite surprised when she answered back to him in the hall way. Normally they burst into tears or just plain stayed out of his way but this one answered back fighting. Very interesting Nathan thought.

He was brought out of his thoughts by someone jumping on his back. He turned to snap at that person only to find Brooke standing there. Brooke Davis was Nathan best friend, they have known each other since before they could walk and basically grew up together. 'What's up, Brooke?' Brooke smiled and Nathan had to smile at her dimples. She was just too cute, Nathan thought.

'Guess what best friend? You'll never guess so ill just tell you, I have a boy friend!' she said all this in like 10 seconds flat. Nathan froze, a boyfriends normally meant trouble which usually meant Nathan having to beat the shit out of a guy. Nathan looked at Brooke and saw that her smile had vanished. 'Aren't you happy for me?' she asked hesitantly. Nathan saw the fear and disappointment in her eyes and sighed and said 'Of course I'm happy, but please don't tell me I have to hit this one?' he asked. Brooke laughed and said 'don't worry this one is a gentleman and absolutely sexy!' Nathan shook his head and waited when it didn't come he asked 'well… who is it?'

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