"Haley."
"Luke." they both started at the same time.
"You go first, Hales."
"Okay. Luke, this is one of my best friends, Brooke Davis. Brooke, this is my old best friend from Tree Hill, Lucas Scott."
"You totally lied, Tutor Girl. Luke is a hottie!" Brooke said as she extended a hand to shake with Lucas's.
"Brooke! He's like a brother to me. That would be like incest!"
"Nice to meet you too, Pretty Girl. So will you be cheering for me this season too?" It was obvious to anyone watching that these two were instantly attracted to each other.
"You betcha! So who's your friend that keeps staring at Haley?"
"Oh, that's just Nathan."
"Hey Nate. Nate. Nathan." Lucas called to the other man who either just chose to ignore him or he was so busy looking at Haley that he didn't hear Lucas call him.
"What do you want, man?" Nathan asked when he finally realized that Lucas was calling him.
"Just thought you might like to be introduced to the girl that you've been staring at for the past five minutes."
"I haven't been staring at her."
"Deny it all you want, but me and Brooke saw you. You're just lucky that Hales is in her own little world over there." Lucas said while pointing to his long lost best friend.
"My guess is that she is making a list of all the things me, her and Peyt need to do tomorrow. She's the most responsible person I know. Without her I would fall apart."
"That's nothing. Her last summer in Tree Hill, Hales had something planned for everyday. We did one of her favorite things everyday. It was hard to start high school without her."
"When me and Peyton first met Haley it was the day she moved in. She moved into the house between P. Sawyer's and mine's, Hales was totally sad so we invited her over for a girls' night. That was when we became friends."
"I'm glad Haley finally has some girl friends. When she lived in Tree Hill, she only hung out with boys."
"That explains her resistance to shopping. It took me four weeks to convince her to go shopping with me."
"Still the stubborn one? She would never do anything unless she wanted to."
"Okay, well as much as I would love to stay here talking to you, we should probably snap Lover Boy out of his daydream and bring Haley back from HaleyLand."
"Probably should. Nate's been watching Haley for almost 10 minutes now."
"Why
doesn't he just go talk to her?"
"Well back in Tree Hill,
Nathan was a huge player. Had the whole love 'em and leave 'em
thing going. Whenever I talked about Haley I would say that she is
like a little sister and that if any guy hurts her and I find out
about it, they wouldn't be able to walk for a very long time. So
my guess is that he's afraid that I'll kick his ass if her hurts
her. Hey Nate!"
"Yea, Luke?"
"I think it's time I introduce you to the girl you've been staring at."
"Okay, but I haven't been staring."
"Whatever, Nathan, but if you hurt her I'll kick your ass. You know that she is like a sister to me. I never cared about you being a player back in high school, but if you play her like those girls back in high school, I'll carry out the same threats I told you about back in high school." Lucas said before he turned to call his best friend over. "Hey, Hales. Come over here, I want you to meet someone."
"You yelled." Haley said as she walked towards the two boys and her other friend.
"Haley, I would like you to meet my brother, Nathan Scott. Nathan, this is my oldest friend, Haley."
"Nice to meet you,
Nath-. Wait? Did you say 'brother'?"
"Yea. He's only
three months younger than me."
"How? I've known you since you were like born. Why did you never say anything?"
"That's because I didn't know till after you left Tree Hill. Nate and his mom moved there almost right after you left."
"Okay, so I know that I'm the smart one, but I'm confused. How is he three months younger than you?"
"Let me explain this part, Luke. Okay so our dad got Luke's mom pregnant senior year of high school. He left her after graduation and moved onto my mom first semester of college. When my mom got pregnant, Dan married her. He died the summer before freshman year of high school in a car accident. In his will, he requested that my mom and I move back to his hometown and that I play for his old basketball team."
"When I first met Nathan, we didn't know that we were brothers and hated each other. We both liked the same girl, wanted to same spot on the basketball team, not to mention the fact that he was an ass."
'"Haha. Not called for, but true."
"So
how did you guys find out that you are brothers?"
"Uncle
Keith." they said at the same time.
"Uncle Keith! How is he? Still secretly in love with your mom, Lucas?"
"Actually, my mom and him got married two years ago. She's actually pregnant right now. And they are really happy."
"That's so good. I could totally tell that they both loved each other. But what does Uncle Keith have to do with you guys finding out that you are brother?"
"Well, when me and my mom..."
"My mom and I."
"Haley, don't correct him. Let him tell the story. It's just like 'The O.C'."
"Anyways, when we first moved to town, Keith knew who we were right away. He used to come and visit us sometimes. So when he realized that we were going to live in Tree Hill for good and that me and Lucas weren't getting along, he decided to tell us."
"At first, that made us worse off, but Nate and I finally realized that we were stuck with each other. So we became friends and eventually brothers."
"How did Karen deal with all of this? I mean she never liked to talk about Dan. How did she take the fact that he had another son and that Keith knew the entire time?"
"She was mad at first, but then she met Deb and now they are best friends. They even own a nightclub together."
"Brooke. Haley. Chinese food should be here any minute. Should I get plates out for the neighbors?" Peyton asked as she walked out of the girls' condo and into the hall.
"Yeah, Peyt. This is my old best friend, Lucas and his brother that I never knew about, Nathan." Haley said trying to sound mad about the fact that he never told her about his brother. "So yep, set two more plates."
"Okay, first, I didn't know about Nathan when we were close. Second, thanks for the offer for dinner. And third, -"
"Alright, someone else's turn." a tall man with shaggy brown hair said as he walked down the front hallway and out of the front door of Luke and Nathan's condo.
"With what, Jake?"
"With Jenny, Luke. She won't stop crying. I'm her dad, I should be able to make her stop crying."
"Can I try?"
"I'm sorry, but who are you?"
"Oh, I'm Peyton. I am one of Haley's best friends, who is Lucas's old best friend. We live in the condo across the hall. Who are you?"
"I'm Jake Jagielski. I went to high school with Luke and Nate. And this is my daughter, Jenny." he said while nodding his head towards the crying little girl in his arms.
"Okay, so now that you know who I am, do you want my help or not?" she asked trying not to sound annoyed by the fact that Jake didn't trust her, but she couldn't really blame her. If she had kids she defiantly wouldn't let a stranger hold them.
"Yeah, sure." Jake said as he passed Jenny over to Peyton.
As soon as the little girl was in Peyton's arms, she stopped crying. All six people were in shock. The three guys because Jenny never stopped crying that fast and the three girls because kids usually hate Peyton.
