Author's Note: Sorry guys it took me so long to update! I will be doing it more often now. Though I have to go on a trip for a week and I won't be able to update because we have no internet connection there. I can't still type on my laptop though, so I promise a huge update once I am back!

Brooke sighed as she unpacked her suitcase. So many thoughts were flowing through her head, what if they don't like me? I am sure they will like you! What if I have no one to sit with at lunch? C'mon Brooke! Are you serious? You have Nathan. Maybe he doesn't want you here. Brooke frowned at that last thought.

"You, know, it takes 37 muscles to frown but only 22 to smile." A deep voice startled Brooke from behind. She turns and sees Nathan leaning on the frame of her door.

"I guess I will be burning more calories then, won't I?" She laughed.

Nathan's smirk faltered, "What's bothering you?"

She shrugged continuing to unpack, "Nothing." Shed snuck a glance at Nathan, his blue eyes burrowing into hers. "Um, What time should I set my alarm for?" She inwardly praised herself for the change of topic.

He scratched his head, "Well, school starts at 8:20,and Mom's forcing Dan to drive us to school tomorrow. The drives about five minutes. I guess you can figure it out from there?"

Brooke nodded, "Yeah, thanks. Oh, and thanks for showing me around today." She drops the empty suitcase on the ground and pushes it under the bed with her foot.

"Right, no problem. Hey, I have your schedule." He moved from his position at the door and walks lazily into the room and hands her the sheet.

Brooke takes the sheet accidently letting he fingers touch Nathans as she grabs it. The touch sends tingles through her whole body. Get a grip Brooke! "Oh, thanks." She looks the sheet over, "What's the ones that are highlighted and stuff?" There were a rainbow of different colored highlighter marks all over her sheet.

Nathan gave a laughed. "Well, I was talking to my friends at Karen's Café and-"

"Karen's Café?" Brooke looked startled and furrowed her brow, "Isn't that the place with the really good scones, but your dad told us never to go in there?"

Nathan's smile faltered a bit and he wrapped an arm around Brooke, "Ah, so much has happened since you have been gone. But we will talk about this in a few minutes. Anyways, my friends took your schedule and marked all the classes they have with you. "

"Oh. I have a lot of classes with them!" Brooke smiled at the decorated sheet.

"Yeah. On the back is the Key." He says taking the sheet out of her hands and flipping it over. "I am the blue highlighter, because that's my favorite color. Pink is Haley. Green is Jake. Yellow is Peyton, and you don't have any classes with Luke."

"Hmph." Was the only sound Brooke could manage to get out of her mouth.

"Hmph? After all my hard work, all I get is a Hmph?" He laughs.

Brooke gives Nathan a playful push. "What I went to say is, thanks. And, I want to hear about Karen's Café!"

Nathan shifts and decides to sit down Brookes bed pulling Brooke along with him. "I have a step brother. "

"YOU HAVE A WHAT?"

Nathan slams his alarm and without thinking jumps out into the hall way and walks to the bathroom. He rubs his eyes and opens the door. Steam spills out of the bathroom into Nathans face. He quickly shuts the door and waits outside of it. About two minutes pass before Brooke emerges from the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her body and her brown hair all wisped to one shoulder.

She smirks at his surprised expression, "Bathroom's all yours." And with that she was off to her room. Nathan rubbed his eyes again and looked at the spot Brook was just standing.

Brooke climbed into the back seat of the car and took a bite of her bagel as she stared down at the newspaper that she held into her hands. Nathan sat next to her and stared out of the opposite window as Dan pulled up to the school.

"Hey Brooke." Nathan poked Brooke in the side causing her to squirm a bit.

She looked up at his intent eyes, "What?"

He nodded his head out the window, "Time to go."

"Already?" Brooke looked startled. She through down the newspaper and grabbed her bag following Nathan out of the car. "Thanks Dan, for the ride."

Dan nodded, "Have fun at school, Brooke."

Nathan was already out of the car and shaking hands with some guys in lettermen coats. Brooke looked around. The school was pretty big. A new beginning. Brooke sighed contently and pulled out her schedule.

"Hi there." Brooke looked up at a girl with curly blond hair. She had the face of a doll but she sported a plaid skirt and a black t-shirt. She extends her hand and shift her messenger bag to her other side. "I'm Peyton, and from the looks of your schedule, you are Brooke."

Brooke's eyes widened. It must be one of Nathan's friends. Yes, he mentioned Peyton. She was going out with his half brother Lucas. "Hey Peyton." Brooke smiled taking Peyton's hand.

"Would you look at that! You have an accent!" She laughed pulling Brooke over to a picnic table. "I am sure a lot of Tree Hill boys go for that sort of thing." Peyton sat on the table.

"Yeah?" Brooke said with a devilish smile.

Peyton smiled. This was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Brooke stumbled out into the court yard holding a brown paper bag. Today has been the most exhausting day of my life! I had to stand up in every class and introduce myself. Luckily everyone was super nice.

"Hey Brooke!" Brooke's thoughts were interrupted when Jake ran up to her and threw his arm over her shoulders. "I was sent to find you and drag you to our table." He smiled sheepishly. Brooke smiled. So far she had two classes with Jake and they had bonded immediately, though she often noticed that he snuck glances at Haley, another one of Nathan's friends.

"Thanks Jake. I probably would have never found it otherwise." She gave him a genuine smile as they approached the table.

Nathan took in the scene before him. Jake had his arm around Brooke and they both seemed to be laughing. Something inside Nathan made him burn with jealousy. He Jumped up as they approached the table. "Thanks man." He said to Jake and he turned to Brooke.

"Hey Nate." She smiled standing in front of the table.

"Hey Brooke." He said and put his arm around her. "Everyone this is Brooke. She is staying at my house this year. Brooke, this is Skills." He points to the African American basketball player, Skills nods at Brooke and returns to his plate of food.

"This is Tim," He continues pointing to people around the table, "Mouth, Lucas, you know Peyton, Haley, Rachel. The whole gang. Here, sit next to me." He says with a smile and grabs her hand.

I do realize this is ten times shorter than my last update! But I really wanted to update before I left! Please don't attack me!

I am also aware that nothing much happened in this chapter, but I feel like I needed things to be a bit more set up before I could get on with better storyline!

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