I'm Sorry, I'm sorry I forgot to update last week, it was the start of Nano and we had a midnight kick off and I didn't get home till 2 am, then was out again by 10 that morning. Uh I will try and do better I swear. So for my skipped week you will get a double update.

Chapter 25

It wasn't every day that, one found a notice hanging out of a school saying that it was closed. But today was that day, as had come to be the norm in their family; Haley picked up and drove Lilly to school. It seemed useless to them not to, they were both headed to the same place and the whole school already knew they were related so there was no real reason for Lilly to hide that fact. As the two of them walked over to where the rest of the staff and a few students were standing. Haley read the notice on the door and raised an eyebrow.

"A faculty reshuffle? Now? Wouldn't this be better to do on the weekend, not first thing on a Monday morning?" She asked a few of the other teachers around her nodded they too thought that would have been better. As if on cue the doors that were normally open by now, opened and a woman in a tan pant suit walked out, her heels echoed throughout the quiet school; making her presents known to not only teachers but students alike.

"Mr Dervish has retired and as such the school board has appointed me as his replacement, it has come to my attention that, the staff that this establishment has, have become far too relaxed and as such I will be letting the following people go, effective immediately Mrs Jackson, Mr. Long, Miss Elburn, Mr. Falcon, Mr. Granger, Mrs. Gatsby and Mrs. Scott. Also classes will be cancelled today." she walked back inside the school closing the doors behind her, not giving a care about the students and teachers gaping at her retreating form.

"Seeing she just fired all but one of my teachers I'm glad we get the day off." said Lilly, coming over to Haley all her friends were heading off free for a day most of them would tell their parents later, or if they got caught.

"Hales you ok?" she asked Haley nodded and draped her arm over Lilly's shoulder before heading back to her car.

"You would think two English teachers would be enough, now I'll have had three. Not to mention that the only teacher I have left, since the start of the school year is my PE teacher. Sometimes I wish I was home schooled." said Lilly as they pulled out of the middle school car park. Haley nodded still in a little bit of shock. Most of the younger teachers who had been fired, had like her only started at the school this year. It was a last hired first fired situation, unlike Mrs. Gatsby and Mr. Long who had been Haley's teachers as well. They came up to the cafe a short time later both getting out and walking up the stairs. They weren't even in the doors when Karen rushed over to them.

"I just heard Haley what are you going to do?" she asked Haley shrugged she really didn't know. She guessed this would free up her time to record again like Peyton wanted. And she had always loved her music, so maybe this wasn't such a bad thing after all. Walking over she sat in a booth with Lilly who pulled out her assignment, she sighed she had worked long and hard on this and now it was for nothing. She'd have a new English teacher tomorrow, someone who hadn't been there for the last three months, and someone who didn't know the class as well as Haley had come to know them, and someone who would probably take them on a different path all together.

"Looks like this is useless now, Sucks because I put a few things in here that would make you laugh knowing after going through so many incompletes you'd need a laugh." said Lilly, Haley lent over the table and smiled.

"I know, and I'm sorry Lil for you and the rest of your class even the annoying ones. It will be all of you who suffer the most, I wouldn't be surprised if your grades slipped from this." said Haley as Karen came back over.

"So how many teachers did you lose Lilly?" she asked.

"Let see, Haley for English, Mrs. Gatsby for math, Mr. Falcon for science and bio, Mrs. Jackson for art, and music, that leaves me with, PE, although I don't mind PE there are someone people in that class I could really do without." Karen laughed and shook her head; her daughter was too much like her daughter in law at the same age. When she really thought about it they were so much alike if someone didn't know any better they would think Lilly and Haley were sisters not in laws. To prove her point one of the wait staff placed a bowl of fries down in front of them, and a saucer of ketchup on the side. Both Lilly and Haley took a couple of fries before dipping both in the ketchup. Karen went back to work leaving the two most important girls in her life to sit eat and more than likely come up with a nickname for the new principal, of Tree Hill Middle School.

Nathan Scott looked up as his wife walked in the front door, he looked own at his watch and then up to the clock on the wall. Ok so he wasn't going crazy she was home early…too early getting up he walked over and wrapped his arms around her. He smiled for a minute as she sunk down into his embrace; he loved how with just a simple hug could take all the tension out of her shoulders. Well not all but there was something else they could do, something that would require no one turning up at their house in the middle of the day which in Savannah had been alright, but here in Tree Hill well things were different they had more people, family and friends who did pop over without any notice.

"What are you doing home? Is everything alright?" he asked. Haley nodded and walked over to the counter and pulled her self up before pulling him over to stand in front of her wrapping her arms around him she smiled knowing he would jump to the conclusions almost everyone she had talked to in the past hour had. Everyone but Karen, which was rather surprising but Haley wasn't going to dwell on it.

"Ok I know what your going to say it will be the same as every other person's reaction and probably the same as Peyton, Luke and Brooke's when I tell them but let me first say. No it wasn't, for once this wasn't him. I got fired today along with almost every teacher that had been hired at the beginning of the school year. Now before you go rushing off to find Dervish, it wasn't him. We were told he quit but if you ask me. I think he was fired as well. This had nothing to do with Dan. I know in the past everything has always lead back to him. But this time, this is one thing I know he didn't have a hand in" she said Nathan nodded he'd look into because god help his uncle if he did; he thought what had, happened in the past was bad it would be nothing compared to this. Nathan would make sure that Dan would forever end up in a wheel chair if he had anything to do with this. He was getting rather tired of his uncle and his little mind games. They hadn't worked as well as they had when they were teenagers for a while now. However Dan continued with them. Nathan's only hope was that one day, some how Dan would pay for all he had done. He wasn't sure how that would happen but he at least hoped it would.

"You're not going to say anything?" Haley asked shocked that Nathan hadn't flown off the handle.

"I believe you when you say Dan didn't do this. I will check it out myself you know I will but if you say he didn't have anything to do with this then I believe you. What I want to know is what are you going to do now?" Haley hadn't really thought about it. Well not to any great extant she had given it some thought when she was driving Lilly back to the café. But it wasn't till now that she actually really got to wrap her head around it.

"I think I'll let Peyton help me with a new record. I can't promise anything but if anything she will get a hand, and hopefully then she and Lucas can give me a little niece of nephew. One that is actually really related to me, not just my sister's step kids. I love them but I would love to be an aunty." Said Haley Nathan laughed and nodded knowing that Peyton would be over the moon that Haley had finally come around to the idea of recording again. He wasn't so sure she would be thrilled about his wife's other plan's but hey that was up to the two of them.

"Well the boy doesn't get home for a few hours and well Clay is not answering his phone so what would you like to do now?" Nathan asked Haley grinned and wrapped her arms around him tightly before kissing him.

"Spend some time with my sexy husband" she replied Nathan laughed and nodded.

Brooke Davis walked into Karen's around lunch time looking for something to eat and some one to talk to. It had been an extremely quiet day in her store. She had sent Millie off in hunt of some textiles the other day so she was all by herself. If she didn't talk to someone soon she would go crazy. She smiled as she saw Lilly till it hit her what time it was.

"Lilly Scott what the heck are you doing out of school?" She asked walking over to the eleven year old.

"Got cancelled when the stupid wench, who quite clearly fired Principal Dervish, fired all but one my teachers and yes Haley was of them. She went home a while ago, and if Nathan's home I wouldn't go over there right now. He might be in the middle of a hug rant of some kind. I don't know that's what Haley guessed when she left." Brooke nodded she would head over after she closed up for the day, which at this rate was going to be a lot earlier then normal.

"Ok kiddo, where's your mum?" She asked Lilly shrugged, Karen had left a while ago and had left one of the staff in charge of the café and her till she got back Karen more then likely had told her but Lilly hadn't really been listening.

"She's not here, left a bit after Haley did the staff, are out the back having their own lunch since its quiet. Can I help you with anything, just remember there are a few things I can't make or touch in here." Said Lilly Brooke nodded and smiled deciding on one of the premade sandwiches and a plain cup of coffee.

Sitting down on the other side of the counter she sat there talking to Lilly about boys, clothes, things she and Haley used to talk about at that age. When she noticed she'd been gone almost an hour she got up.

"I better head back, make sure you tell your mum that she over works you" said Brooke with a smirk as she winked at Lilly who laughed and waved as Brooke left shaking her head she went back to fixing up the salt shakers. It wasn't long after that she looked up startled when her mother walked in muttering under her breath.

"Uh everything ok?" Lilly asked Karen looked up and smiled nodding she walked over and kissed the top of her daughters head before putting on her apron.

"Yes honey nothing for you to worry about, Brooke come by?" she asked knowing that the young designer always came by at the same time for lunch. Lilly nodded and proceeded to tell her mother what they had talked about and what Brooke had said when she left. Karen chuckled shaking her head; it had been a very Brooke Davis comment.

Peyton Scott looked up as she heard someone knock on the door, grinning as she saw Haley she stood up and walked over to her friend and sister in law giving her a hug before coming back from it, she was about to ask why Haley was here when she saw the don't ask look.

"Gezz Foxy, anyone tell you, that you can portray so much without a word, it's rather freaky" Haley laughed and nodded she walked over to one of the chair's that Peyton had been sitting and plopping down. She spun around a couple of time before looking up at her rather curious sister in law.

"Were you serious about wanting me to record with you?" she asked Peyton nodded and sat down beside her, although Haley had been away for a while there would always be tell signs with her, things that hadn't changed since the time Peyton had met her.

"Ok what's going on?"

"I got fired today, and before you ask; it wasn't Dan, that I am sure of. It has to do with a power tripping wannabe who's clearly taken over the middle school of Tree Hill. The people who lose out are people like Lilly. This will be her third English teacher this year. It's a wonder they actually learn anything. Anyway I was thinking of taking you up on your offer. I don't think it will be anything much, but it will give me something more to do. And with Lilly still in school and Jamie starting grade one next year. I might look into doing some tutoring. I always enjoyed that in Savannah, and while at Stanford." Peyton nodded and grinned, ok so Haley might not think she could come up with something great right now, but they could work on that and as they had no set date on when this record had to be finished by they could take their time and make something that they were both happy with. She knew that might take some time, especially with Haley and just how plain stubborn her friend could be, but hey she had grown up with both Scott boys, and Brooke Davis as a best friend. She would have to be stubborn, not that Peyton would ever tell anyone of them that. But she knew on some level they all knew that.

"Ok so what do you want to do now, I'm sure that seeing you are here Nathan is either busy or got called away to work, I know you pretty well HJS. I know you wouldn't give up time with your hubby just to come see little ol' me" Haley laughed if there was anyone who she couldn't fool when it came to things like that it was Peyton. Then again being married to a Scott herself probably gave her that advantage.

"Not, sure Clay came over and dragged Nathan away to see some kid who apparently is the next big thing. Quinny is busy working, and Brooke has her store so I came to see your lazy but" Peyton laughed and shoved Haley slightly at the dig she had just made it didn't hurt her or anything or even anger her. If it had come from someone else she more then likely would have gotten offended, but coming from Haley she knew it was just to get a rise out of her. Something Haley did just to get a laugh and on some level even though she didn't have to, show that she was still the goofy person Peyton had known back in high school.

"Well get your lazy ass out of my chair and we'll get started" poking her tongue at her sister in law Peyton grinned. Sure it sucked that Haley had gotten fired and this woman whom ever she was, wasn't going to be popular at all wherever she went within Tree Hill but hey if she didn't know that yet she soon would. But for now Peyton was going to enjoy her little some what not really convincing win of getting her super talented sister in law to record again.