Howdy, Howdy! So this is a long chapter, YAY! See it pays off to stick with me, I might do short chapters but you do get rewarded with these long chapters. Now this has changed a bit since last time, and for those new people who are going to go on and on about them being Gluten Free. Dudes I write what I know also this is an AU story and I can see Nathan and Haley doing this for their closest friends in Savannah. Oh and I got the Team Right this time :P

Chapter 21

Megan and Tyler Rolling knew, at the very least that, they probably should have called first. They knew how much their friends hated surprises and Jamie was probably still adjusting to life in a new town, away from the only people he had ever known and away from his friends.
They knew for Jamie at least he needed time to get used to this new town, and used to not seeing them every day, although, he did Skype with Susie every week, and today was normally that day, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad. Jamie would be bummed when he found out that his best friend hadn't come online. Well what a better surprise than for her to turn up at his new home.

Tyler and Megan also wanted to see more of Tree Hill, they both felt like they knew it so well. They wanted to be able to put names to faces, yes they had seen plenty of pictures over the years, but knowing people and knowing their faces in old photographs well it just wasn't the same. So unlike the last couple of years where they had spent Tyler's vacation, at the beach, they decided that they would take a road trip up to Tree Hill North Carolina to see their friends that were more like family.
As they entered Megan asked her husband to stop the car. He did so in front if a sign that said welcome to Tree Hill. She wanted to remember this trip, it was something different and it was their first trip outside of Savannah since they had moved back after university. Setting up her camera she rushed over and stood beside her husband and tickled her daughter as the flash went off, after a couple more photos she packed up her tripod and camera as Tyler helped Susie back into her car seat.

"Haley will kill us, but it will be so worth it." Megan said getting back in the car after she had placed her camera equipment, back into the trunk of the car.

"Mummy is Uncle Nathan here too and Jamie?" Susie asked Megan turned around and smiled at her daughter.

"They sure are bub, are you excited to see Jamie in person again instead of through a computer screen?" Susie nodded there were no two people who she loved more than Nathan and Haley, as she didn't know any of her mother's family, and she only knew of an uncle on her dads side thanks to her grandma Haley and Nathan were the only aunt and uncle she had, and she had cried for almost a week straight when they had moved.

Haley rubbed her temples as she sat at her desk; her six grade class were currently quietly working on their book reports. She rather enjoyed this class most of them with the exception of maybe two or three; were good kids, they all knew that she was Lilly's sister in law, at first it has caused a bit of a stir; now however most of them had seen that, during school hours Lilly was treated no differently to them. If she needed to be pulled up by Haley she was; not that she ever would be, Lilly being one of the most well behaved sixth graders and all. It was only out side of school, when they passed them in town that they saw not Mrs. Scott Lilly's teacher but Haley her sister in law, it had been an odd adjustment for most of them, they were used to teachers being parents, but not older sisters. Now the whole school was used to it, it was just like seeing any other teacher with their family.
Well most of the school, the two girls who were currently trying to give not only Haley but the rest of their class a headache seemed to be the expectation to the rule.

"Psst Lilly why don't you get Haley to let us out of work" Kellie asked she thought it would be a perk having Lilly Scott, Mrs. Scott's little sister in class, they could get out of all sorts of things because Haley wouldn't think twice about it because it was Lilly; well that is what she had first thought. But nor Lilly nor Haley had played that game, and sure Kellie was meant to call her Mrs. Scott but she'd heard Lilly call her Haley plenty of time and gotten away with it, so why couldn't she?

Lilly looked up and over her shoulder before frowning at Kellie who was kicking her chair to get her attention, when that hadn't worked she pulled her chair in closer to her desk hopping that would stop her, it hadn't.

"Come on Lil do it" Kellie rolled her eyes as Lilly pulled her chair in she looked up as Haley was looking at her. She smiled sweetly but Haley hadn't fallen for sweet as pie act yet. Pointing down to her desk Haley waited for Kellie to get back to work.

"Is there a problem Miss Lincoln? Are you unable to do the set work? Do you need a tutor?" Haley asked Kellie shrugged and sat back resting her feet on her desk.

"It's boring I thought it would be a perk having Lilly's sister as our teacher you know make it easy, so we could all breeze through the year" Haley laughed and got up she grabbed the book they had read.

"So reading most of the book in class and the work sheets I spent hours making, hours I could have spent with my son or husband, were not enough for you? What about the countless times I have said if you need any help I am willing to sit down with you after school and go through what you need to do? Kellie I think I have been completely fair to you all. I have not shown anyone of you any special treatment and you think just because Miss Scott and my husband have the same parents you were going to have an easy time am I correct?" Haley asked coming up to Kellie's desk and pushing her feet off.

"Well yeah. Mrs Labree makes science easy cos her son is in that class" Haley chuckled and shook her head.

"Ethan Labree is in the eighth grade, nice try I can always get you transferred to Mr. Gambles class because clearly the only reason you are not doing the work is that it is too easy for you, I hear they are studying Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Would you like to do that?" Haley asked Kellie shook her head and sat up looking down at her note book where she had been drawing.

"Didn't think so, first drafts are to be in my desk at the end of the lesson-

"That's ten minutes away!" Kellie cried. Haley smirked and nodded as she turned around.

"It seems you've put your self in a bit if a predicament doesn't it? Anyone who doesn't hand their books in will fail this quarter. And no ripping out pages Miss Lincoln. "

Ten minutes later when Haley had collected all of their note books she watched ad each one of them walked out of the classroom most of them talking about Kellie's little show and how Haley had made her look like a fool.

Shaking her head Haley looked up as Emma one of her quietest students was still standing in from it her.

"How can I help you Emma?" she asked. Emma smiled and handed over her note book.

"I did the best I could but I don't think its good enough but at least I tried right?" she asked Haley nodded.

"That's all I ask Emma, and you would have gotten more done than Kellie so just remember that, and don't worry if you haven't finished it. I won't fail you. I've seen you work too hard over the last month and a half to fail. So don't worry about that. It's people like Kellie and Fay that I was talking to. I'm pretty sure there is a lovely sketch of me waiting in one of their books. Go on or you'll be late for your next class" Emma smile as she walked out. Taking a deep breath Haley was glad she had a free class now. Enough time to grab something for her headache before starting in on these.

Susie Rolling looked out the window of her parent's car. She was starting to get hungry and it had been a couple of hours since they had stopped for morning tea.

"Mummy I'm hungry" Megan looked back and smiled she had been waiting for that.

"As soon as we see a place that we know you can eat at ok sweet pea" Susie nodded and went back to colouring book Megan smiled at her husband who started to slow down to make sure that they didn't miss anything. After ten minutes of driving around they finally pulled up outside of Karen's cafe.

"Why don't Susie and I go in and see while you find a park. I have to take her sugar levels anyway." Megan kissed Tyler as she got out and helped Susie out of her car seat. The two Rolling girls headed inside as Tyler went looking for a place to park.

Megan held the door open for her daughter as Susie skipped in side Megan laughed. Susie was a bundle of energy but if she didn't eat at the right times she could go down hill fast.

"Not so fast miss Q, you know the rules" said Megan walking over to a seat and sitting down she pulled out a small kit from her purse and beckoned her daughter over. Sighing the five year old walked over and held out her finger but looked the other way. Megan laughed and pricked her daughter's finger. Checking her sugar levels she shook her head, they were cutting it very close.

"Ok Miss Smokey, now you can choose whatever you like but I do not want you on a sugar rush. You need some but not as much as your dad would feed you." Both of them looked up as Karen walked over to them.

"What do you have that's yummy that doesn't have gluten and some sugar but not lots cos my auntie will not like you very much if you do and mummy won't be happy either?" Susie asked Karen laughed and nodded, she had started making and selling gluten free foods when one of her staff members had found out that she was a celiac. It was also on one of the nights she had looked after Jamie before he had become angered at her that, she found out that Nathan, Haley and Jamie ate gluten free as well. She had meant to ask them about it but had never gotten around it. Nodding she told the little girl what the Cafe had available for her. Smiling at the shocked look the little girl had, quite clearly used to not having much of a selection

"Could I have the pasta and a milk shake please?" Karen nodded and then looked at Megan; who ordered a Caesar salad and a garden burger both with sparkling water. Karen took down the rest of the order and headed back to the counter smiling as Peyton come into the cafe.

"Whose bright idea was it to bring the builders into Tric today? Mia and I can't hear a thing over them. We actually gave up because even through sound proof walls we could hear them" said Peyton leaning over the counter and pouring herself a cup. She sat down and took a sip of the hot beverage she had been craving for since she left this morning.

"Mine sorry I should haven told you. They'll be gone tomorrow if not get Deb to tell them to come back on the weekend with what we paid these mistakes should never have happened." said Karen as she finished making the chocolate milkshake.

"Um last time I checked, the only people who have the Special Scott shake were Mel, Lilly and Jamie. I know Mel can make her own, and the other two well...ones at school and the other on a day trip with Quinn and Lydia. So what gives?" Peyton asked, the name Jamie caught Megan's attention she tried to listen to the conversation behind her while watching her daughter for any signs that Susie was going down hill.

"Just because it's not on the menu Peyton doesn't mean people can't ask for it. Lilly and Jamie are the only two who ask for it, because as you said Mel can make it herself." said Karen taking the drink over to the little girl whose eyes grew big just looking at the drink. Megan laughed and shook her head; yes her daughter would be bouncing off the walls. Oh well that was better then seeing her little princess sluggish and not doing anything.

Karen walked back to the counter to see Peyton pouring a, to go cup shaking her head she grabbed a chocolate chip muffin that she knew was Mia's favourite.

"For Mia?" she asked Peyton laughed and shook her head.

"No I have to stop at that new coffee house, Mia wants a vanilla double shot, Brooke and I are going to take Hales there on the weekend. Don't look at me like that. If you sold the coffee's they did we wouldn't have to go there" said Peyton poking her tongue at her mother in law.

That afternoon long after Megan, Tyler and Susie left the cafe. Lilly walked in her bag sitting on one shoulder. She yawned widely before flopping down on a bar stool in front of her mother. Her bag dropped to the floor with a thump.

"Fay Irving is the bane of my existence, I swear if looks could kill she would be dead, thanks to her I have a killer headache, to you know go along with my queasy stomach- that Kellie so didn't help with kicking my chair in english- like that was all I needed to feel even worse." said Lilly laying her head on the counter Karen smirked and laughed, normally when her daughter came in after school she got a slice of her favourite cake. However as she hadn't been feeling well that morning Karen, placed a glass of water, two Advil and some crackers in front of her.

"What did she do now?" asked one of the other staff, pretty much everyone who was a regular at the cafe knew that Lilly Scott and Fay Irving weren't friends. Fay's dad was one of Karen's suppliers and way back before they started school Fay and Lilly had been friends. But all that had changed when they started school. Fay had gotten caught up with Kellie and from then on the two girls' hadn't been friends.

"Drew a lovely picture of Haley and I in math, she got it photo copied at lunch and stuck it all around school then said she had seen me do it. She cried foul when Haley stepped in and said I couldn't have drawn it. Shut up real quick when Haley handed over her English notebook with similar drawings in it. She got detention for a month. Although Haley is on all week so sucks to be her. Also she has to rewrite our English assignment. And the more she stuffs around the more time gets added to her month." said Lilly Karen shook her head and walked around to her daughter wrapping an arm around her.

"Well as long as you didn't do anything to get in trouble" she said kissing the top of Lilly's head.

"Oh you mean like be related to a teacher? Then yeah all the time, but anything a teacher or Haley would care about no, not at all, ok I'm gonna head home I have to start on my math home work and hopefully get a nap in before Haley drops my english assignment around so I can start on the good copy. Thanks for the Advil mum; hopefully it will get rid of this headache" Lilly slowly got off the stool, bending down and grabbing her school bag before heading out the door. Almost running into Nathan, the two siblings stopped to talk for a minute before heading their different ways.

"Mum I have a question for you" he said walking over to her. Karen smiled as she looked up at her son. She loved having Nathan back, and how seamless he and Haley made it look like they had been here the whole time.

"Ok go, but if it's that you are moving again I will kidnap Jamie," she said with a smirk on her face. Nathan rolled his eyes.

"No, I was going to ask if next month the 7th could you take Jamie for the night?" Karen nodded she would be happy to spend some time with her grandson and Lilly would love having him over in fact Karen was sure Lilly would make it so her nephew had so much fun he wouldn't want to go home.

"Why do you ask honey?"

"The 6th is our anniversary but Clay and I will be out of town, and well Hales and I have always done something special on the 7th; at first it was out of we couldn't get baby sitter but... Now it's just something we do. Anyway they made a mistake on our marriage certificate and it says the 7th anyway. We were going to get it fixed but forgot then when we found it again we laughed about it and kept it" said Nathan he made a mental note to tell his parents and Lydia some of the better things that had happened to them in the last seven years. Not everything that had happened had been bad, and it seemed that's all their family heard was the bad stuff. So one day when Haley wasn't busy with school work or Jamie, or even with Peyton recording because he knew Brooke and Peyton wouldn't take no for an answer. They would sit down and tell them more of their happier memories.

"Sure, just know your sister is on the look out to beat out Quinn in the coolest aunt stakes. Although from what I hear; what he, is doing today Lydia and Quinn that might be a little hard. But that won't stop your sister; it will just make her more determined." Nathan nodded, Jamie loved being in Tree Hill, yes he missed his friends but, he'd always watched his friends with their grandparents and aunt and uncles knowing he'd never be able to do that. Now he could and he was lapping all the attention up.

"Also do you know where Hales is I went home but she wasn't there,"

"Lilly said she was the teacher on detention," Nathan nodded and headed out he decided to head to the river court to waste sometime between now and when he knew Haley would get home after being on detention for the afternoon.

Pulling onto the court Nathan frowned he knew the car that was in front of his, where did he know it from? Shaking his head he grabbed the ball that sat in the back if the car and walked onto the court. Looking up at the net he remembered the day when he first found out that he had been called up to play for the Sonics.

-Flash back-

Nathan stormed into the apartment he and Haley had been living in since they had arrived in California. A massive grin graced his face, they had been packing up for a while now, having an of campus place meant they didn't have a deadline of the end of week. Their lease wasn't up for another month so they had plenty of time. Nathan found Haley in their small kitchen.

"Hey what are you doing back so soon? Don't tell me you-

"I made it, I'm in the NBA" Nathan said Haley grinned and jumped into his arms wrapping her legs around is waist.

"I knew you could do it baby, I knew it. So where are we going?" Haley asked

"Seattle"

"I have to call Erin-

"Later I just want to spend some time with my wife. We did it Hales, even through all the crap Dan has thrown at us we did it" he said pulling her into a tighter hug then she was already in.

"Baby I'm so proud of you, and your mum and dad would be to sooo proud"

-end-

"Uncle Nathan!" Nathan turned around to find his god daughter looking at him.

"Susie Q what are you doing here?" he asked walking over and picking up the five year old if they thought Jamie was small for his age, that was nothing compared to Susie Rolling she had been a premature baby born the same day as Jamie. Her parents at first had been hurt when they had named Haley and Nathan her god parents but they hadn't been named Jamie's until they found out that Nathan and Haley's friends back in Tree Hill were always going to be his god parents, however seeing that they had not seen them in about a year and a half Megan and Tyler were perfect stand ins.

"Mummy and daddy wanted to surprise you and aunty Haley, daddy has some holidays so we came up here. They were being mushy and I saw you so I came over" Nathan smiled and looked to where she had pointed he saw his friends smirking he winked at Susie and walked over to his car.
Sitting her on the front of his car he pulled as face as he walked around to the driver's side door, opening the door he grabbed the chocolate bar that he had grabbed at home. Opening it he broke it in half and walked back to Susie.

"How much sugar have you had today? Honestly miss chocolate fiend?" he asked Susie laughed.

"I had a milkshake with lunch which was pasta and sauce. Mummy said I needed it cos I was really low" Nathan nodded and handed over the chocolate bar, being her Godparents, and the people she most often had stayed with when Tyler and Megan were out of town, Nathan and Haley had been eating Gluten Free for years, it was more to give their friends peace of mind that they didn't have to worry if she was getting fed food that she couldn't eat. The Scott family didn't mind and found that they preferred it anyway, Nathan found it had been better for him with basketball it gave him longer lasting energy, than most of the other guys who ate all the other crap and came down fast after a hard workout.

"So tell me who did you wanna see more? Me or Aunt Haley?" he asked Susie thought for a minute before taking a bit of her chocolate.

"Jamie; schools no fun with out him. Josh Mason keeps pulling my hair it's annoying, and he tried to kiss me the other day. I don't like cooties, and Jamie doesn't have cooties" she said Nathan chuckled and pulled her into a hug. She and Jamie had grown up together. While Nathan and Haley were at Stanford, Megan and Tyler attended San Francisco State their place had been ten minutes away from Nathan and Haley. They were also great friends with Erin who they had met during their first Christmas in California.

"Susie! Susan Victoria Rolling!" Nathan looked over at the little girl and pulled a face that clearly said they were going to be in trouble soon.

"Come on Susie Q before your parents decide to hang draw and quarter me" he said picking her up and walked around to see his friend looking around franticly for their daughter.

"Looking for someone?" Nathan asked Tyler looked up but took no real notice of who had just spoken to him; he was too worried about his daughter to even notice that the person he was looking for was right in front of him in her uncle's arms.

"My daughter she's five and short for her age she had long honey brown hair and is in a pair of jeans and a bright pink-"

" T-shirt that says Dreamer? I know I bought her the shirt. Ty she's been with me the whole time" said Nathan Tyler stopped his panic for a moment and saw that his daughter was in fact in the arms of her uncle.

"Megs I got her, Nathan I could kill you" resting a hand on his heart Tyler took a look at his friend, Nathan's hair was shorter then the last time he had seen it. But then again the weight that always seemed to be on his friends shoulders wasn't there either. Tyler wasn't sure if he'd ever seen Nathan look so relaxed sure there had been times when he had spent the day with Jamie and Susie but there had always been that weight still sitting on his shoulders now, now it was like looking at a completely different man. If Nathan was this calm and relaxed he couldn't wait to see Haley. As much as he loved the Scott family they always had this habit of looking over their shoulders. Why he didn't know they had never really explained it in full all he knew was it had something to do with Nathan's uncle.

"Well you could kill me, but as you probably don't remember the way to my house, you're going to need me. Also you wouldn't just have Hales to deal with now. You have my parents, my brother and his wife, my little sister and let me tell you she might be eleven but Lilly is a lethal weapon. Then there's Haley's best friend Brooke and her fiancé, a few of our other friends. Tree Hill is not a good place for you to carry out your death threats on me Ty sorry" Tyler laughed and nodded.

"Ok so now you've officially scared the crap out of me, can I go see your wife and son now?" Megan asked Nathan nodded and handed Susie over before all four of them headed off. Haley was going to flip she had mentioned that morning that she had been missing Megan. Now her friend was here Nathan only hopped she wasn't in a foul mood when they arrived.