Well heres the next chapter. Thank you to all those who have been reviewing and reading the story. This is going to be an intense chapter. Its based alot off of the episode when the girls were stuck in the library. I hope you all appreciate these daily updates because once i have tons of work again this wont be happening.

So without here you go, Chapter 5.

Sarah walked into school the next day rejuvenated. Along with her messenger school bag was her gym bag for practice. She felt like this was going to be a great day, even though it had the possibility of turning into hell. But Sarah was thinking positive. Today was going to be a great day.

She figured the coaches had not told the team that she was joining them. As far as she knew she was going to be the first girl to ever play basketball for Tree Hill. She smiled to herself and walked into the school.

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"We so should have thought about this before we made the offer." Said Skills rubbing his temples.

The guys were in the gym office trying to figure out how they were going to tell the team about Sarah joining the team.

"Well they are for sure going to pretend she wasn't there. I mean I did it too when Lucas joined the team. I didn't pass him the ball, blocked his shots. His game totally suffered." Nathan snickered. "Boy was I dumb back then to try and do that, I mean Lucas made the wining shot at the state championship."

"Thanks bro, but seriously what are we going to do about these guys. We better hope that they don't find out till practice because we are so screwed."

The guys all nodded in return. This was going to be a tough day.

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Sarah came to her locker, and there she saw a mad looking Mackenzie.

Shit, thought Sarah. There goes my good day.

When Sarah had made her decision she immediately called Michelle, admitting that once again she was right, and that she had accepted the coaches offer. Then her mom came home and Sarah told her mom, who was equally thrilled. She had totally forgot about Mackenzie. She knew she would be mad. After all she had ditched soccer, and just picked up basketball a few hours later. Mackenzie was not the type to get mad, she was actually too nice at times. But when something interfered with soccer, it was bad.

"Hey Kenz." Sarah said feigning a smile.

No answer. That was a bad sign.

"I'm guessing you heard about basketball then?" Sarah said nervously. Mackenzie nodded in response. "Look Kenz." I said turning to her. "I have been playing basketball all my life. Me and my dad played, that's just what we did together. Of course we did other things together, but basketball was the most special. I was given an opportunity that I would have never dreamed possible. My dad would have been so proud of me. You and I both know that he would have wanted me to do it. I'm sorry if dropping soccer is what led to this, but really I want to do this, for both me and my dad. I hope you can support my decision." She let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding in.

She looked at Mackenzie, who had a blank expression. She was processing the information. Then she broke out a smile. One big toothy smile that Mackenzie was known for.

"Sarah. I'm sorry. But that's awesome. You're going to be on the Tree Hill Ravens!!" She squealed.

I smiled briefly, but then I realized someone may have heard. "Shhh, I don't know if the rest of the team knows."

"Uhh Sarah, a little too late. Michelle was with Riley, who's on the team, when you called her about joining the Ravens. He's probably told the whole team already." She said

Shit. Now my good day was totally ruined. I would get all the stares and silent treatment from the basketball team.

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The members of the Tree Hill Ravens were all sitting at a table out on the quad. Riley Harrisson had been out on a date with Michelle Gold when her friend Sarah Preston had called. She said that Lucas Scott had offered her a spot on the team, and after thinking it over she accepted.

"That can't be true. It's against league rules." Said Ethan, a senior who was on the team for three years now.

"No its not. There's nothing that says the league is only for one gender, I guess they assumed that a team would never be co-ed." Said Ryder, a very preppy senior who was really smart. He was looking at league rules on his computer.

"I am not playing with a girl on the team. That's an insult to all the guys." Said Zeke, a sophomore with a killer crossover. He was one of the few who had made the team in his freshman year. This year he was placed as captain because the coaches thought that he showed true leadership potential.

"Why?" Asked Jackson. Jackson Hughes was new to Tree Hill also. He came in the middle of his Freshman year, and was now a junior. His older sisters all played ball at their high schools in Montana. They all played college ball for their schools. He learned to play with his sisters. They had taught him everything he knew, having a girl on the team wasn't a big deal to him. "She's probably on the team because she's really good. There is no reason that it's insulting at all."

All the guys looked at Jackson.

Jackson shrugged. "All I'm saying is don't flip out till you see her play."

The guys ignored Jack, this was serious. No girl was going to take away their playing time or their positions no matter what.

Landon, a senior shooting guard, and co - captain along with Zeke, spoke up. This is what were going to do. Were going to freeze her out. I don't care how good she is, but we are not passing to that girl. Do not rebound for her, don't pass to her, and when shes on offence defend her like there is no tomorrow. There is no way that this girl is playing on our team. There's no way she's good enough, her daddy probably paid for her to join the team."

The guys snickered. Landon was right; they had to freeze out this girl. Tease her and play with her until she was fed up and quit.

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First period was probably the worst of all first periods that Sarah would ever encounter. The word had gotten out about her joining the Ravens. She knew it the second she walked into class going towards her new seat, when Zeke Peters and Conner Scotch whispered something to each other, then pointed at her and immediately turned their backs.

Great, Sarah thought. They for sure knew. Haley had started class discussing something about the book that they were reading. She hadn't read it of course, so she opened the book and followed along, taking neat and careful notes.

Ten minutes into class Sarah got a note on her desk. She looked up and saw Zeke smirking slightly, looking at his book. Sarah opened the note and read it over.

Don't think you can just walk onto the team with out a fight.

You might as well back out now.

What kind of note was that? Sarah felt both intimidated and felt the need to laugh. She had expected this, and she knew that she was going to have to face the music and play. But this note was just lame. She snorted and rolled her eyes. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Zeke frown. With that he started writing another note to send to Conner. She crumpled the note and put her eyes on her book. Boy, this was really going to be a long day.

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Usually, Sarah Preston would love when the last bell of the day would ring. That is everyday but today.

All day Sarah had put up with the comments, and the pointing and the whispering, and all the guys checking her out from behind. She hated how all these guys were judging her, they hadn't even seen her play yet, they had no right.

After saying good bye to all her friends, Sarah grabbed her stuff and headed towards the gym. She changed quickly and went out to the gym. All the guys were there already shooting around. So she picked up the ball and went to the basket in the corner near the coaches. The guys wouldn't start anything up if the coaches were in sight.

Lucas blew his whistle and suddenly the gym was silent. The cheerleaders weren't there today, so the team had the gym to themselves.

"Everybody listen up!" Lucas said, his voice was full of authority. "For those of you who havent realized, we have a new member to our team. This is Sarah Preston, shes going to be our new shooting guard." A bunch of groans were heard from the people who were shooting guards. Zeke shot her a look that could kill. Sarah wanted to shrink into her skin. This was going to be even worse.

"Ok y'all, here da rules." Said Skills, "Don't think were stupid, we know that you guys are going to freeze her out. So anyone who even tries to freeze her out is running suicides. One set for each time you don't pass to her, or don't treat her like a team mate. Is that clear?" Skills asked in a firm voice.

People grumbled in response.

"Ok! Everyone up and get into lay up lines." Skills yelled, fed up with their behavior.

Everyone stood up and split into two lines, one was the line that shot, the other rebounded the ball. Sarah was hesitant and reluctantly went to the back of the rebounding line. In front of her was the junior, Caleb Goodman, who turned around and frowned. The line was moving fast and Sarah made herself concentrate.

Her turn for the rebound, she quickly retrieved it and passed it to the next person on the line, with a crisp hard pass. And quickly ran to the back of the shooting line. She waited her turn for the ball. A boy named William Neta, passed her the ball using all his strength, so that is would hurt when she caught it. Getting over her jammed finger really fast she took two dribbles and went up for the lay up. It went right in. No one came for her rebound. Playing it off, she took her own rebound and threw it to the guy who was behind her named Austin Adar. Lucas blew his whistle.

"Who was supposed to get that rebound?" Lucas yelled. All was silent, everyone looked at a boy named Daniel, who reluctantly raised his hand. "Well Daniel, you will be the first to run a set of suicides, after practice is over. Now get back to what you're doing."

They finished the lay up drill and went straight to the two-on-three-two-on-one drill. There would be two people on one side of the court, and three people would run down and try and score against the two people who were down there. The person who would took the shot would play defense on the two people who had been the defenders before. The two remaining people would be the defenders to the next team of three.

Unfortunately for Sarah, by luck of the draw, she was placed with Landon and Zeke the two captains, and best players on the team. Going down as a team of three Zeke had the ball. He then passed it to Landon, who took the jump shot and scored. That left Zeke and Sarah alone to be the next defenders. Sarah looked over to Zeke and looked him up and down.

She had never noticed how hot he actually was. He had dark green eyes, and auburn hair. He stood at about 6"5, and had long legs, and very muscular arms. His face was oval and he had a protruding jaw bone that made his face look very masculine. He was clean shaven and at the moment his brow was furrowed in concentration. He soon caught Sarah looking at him and smirked.

Sure he thought she was hot. Her straight brown hair was thrown in a ponytail and was bouncing around. She wore short shorts, which showed her beautifully tanned and muscular long legs. She was only wearing a wife beater with her sports bra underneath, which revealed her broad shoulders and beautifully toned legs. He saw her and scowled. Just because she was hot didn't mean he was going to be nice to her.

The next team of three came running down the court. They smirked thinking that Zeke would be the only one playing defense. Jackson came down the court dribbling, and passed the ball to Ryder, who was positioned near Zeke. Seeing that he couldn't shoot, he passed the ball to William, who was being guarded by Sarah. He went up, getting ready to shoot when suddenly….SLAP! Sarah had completely stuffed William by whacking the ball out of his hands. The coaches whistled, and the boys looked on in amazement. Holy crap, she was good!

Sarah smirked and ran down the court on offense with an embarrassed William playing defense mainly on Zeke. She was open, but Zeke wasn't passing. "Im open!" she yelled.

Zeke just rolled his eyes and shot anyways. He missed. The coaches blew their whistles.

"Isaac Peters!" Ouch full name, Sarah thought. "What the hell do you think youre doing?! Sarah was open the whole time! For that, you're doing two sets of suicides after practice!" Zeke just rolled his eyes in response to Lucas. "Now it's three. If you don't fix your attitude, it will go straight o ten."

Things were still a little rocky when the team had started scrimmaging. No one was passing to her, that was except for Jackson Hughes. He had passed the ball to her twice and each time she took the shot, having it end with a satisfying swish. Though they wouldn't admit it, the team was shocked. The girl was good.

Zeke however wouldn't quit the eye rolling. He had to run ten suicides already, where as the rest of the team only had to run five at most. The coaches were getting fed up.

Lucas blew the whistle. "Zeke! Go sit on the bench. I have had enough."

Zeke had had enough too. "Damn it Coach! What the hell is a girl doing on our team? Is this a joke? Because that's what its starting to look like! No respectable basketball team has a girl on it. Why is she here? Did Daddy buy her way onto the team?" Zeke yelled sneering.

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All the blood had rushed out of Sarahs face. She had expected an out burst, but nothing this serious. How dare they disrespect her and her father. Obviously they didn't know about her father, but still they were crossing the line.

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Lucas was fuming. He hadn't expected this. He looked over to Sarah who was trying to keep it together.

"My dad died this summer dumbass. Never talk about my father or me that way ever!" Sarah was boiling with anger, her face was contorted with pain and fury.

She threw the ball that she was holding with all her might at Zeke's head. The ball had narrowly missed the side of his head. She went grabbed her bag from the bleachers. She was trying to contain her tears, she was not going to cry in front of all these guys. She took her stuff and head out the door, slamming it behind her.

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The gym was silent.

Zeke stood there being swallowed by guilt. He never thought that this would happen. He just wanted her to leave; he didn't want to cause her any pain.

"Are you happy now?!" Lucas roared. Lucas was really mad. "Fifty suicides. All of you!!" Lucas slammed down his clipboard he put his head in his head. This was going to be a lot harder than he thought.

Well there you have it. I hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a review. Im open to all suggestions and questions at this point.