Author Note: Thank you all for the great reviews, it's very encouraging to right more when you read how into the story people are. P.S, to the guest reviewer who did not like that girl eyeing Nathan, there is literally nothing in the works with that nameless character. First and last time you'll read about her. That was just showing you a little insight into the world Jack sees towards his brothers. Other then that, hope you enjoy the next chapter.

Chapter 15

General POV

The next couple days had gone about as smooth as they could have for everyone in Tree Hill. Haley and Nathan were living in a happy bliss, enjoying living together so far. Lucas, Peyton, and Brooke had already started work towards the surprise party they were throwing with the help from some of there friends who knew.

Dan was still recovering, although he'd yet to meet Jack yet. Deb and Keith had come to the conclusion that a bomb like that would do more damage then good, so he was kept in the dark until he was fully healthy.

Keith was slowly building a relationship with his newest nephew, and often found himself in Whitey's gym watching as Jack trained. They'd have a chat every so often for about 10 minutes a day before Keith would take off.

He was still giving Jack his space, slowly working towards a relationship.

The boys had done the same. Nathan and Jack shared the one class, but they worked hard at it together, and soon found it easy talking to one another. They didn't see each other much out of class, not with Jack's heavy schedule and the fact that they hung out in different groups.

Haley had pleaded that after a week it'd been enough. She hated seeing Jack eat alone and spend most of his time in that stupid gym. Everyone had agreed that he needed time to accept his new surroundings, but it didn't mean they banished him to a gym all alone.

Lucas had invited him to the river court for the first time where he was formally introduced to the guys there. He didn't stay for long, explaining that he had a lot of work to do.

Speaking of, that's exactly what Lucas found himself doing at the very moment when he walked into the half decorated space they decided to throw Haley and Nathan's surprise party at.

The place had been for sale, and he'd contacted the owner about renting it for a night, and after a generous fee, he'd accepted. Now it was on him to fix it up best he could for the party.

"Wow Brooke, place is looking awesome." Lucas stared in wonder at the work she had done.

Brooke stood triumphantly on stage. "You sound surprised. You wanted the best, and that's exactly what we're going to throw."

"Well it looks great."

"Please don't encourage her," Peyton walked by, carrying a heavy box. "Her ego can't get any bigger."

"You just cost yourself a free makeover!"

Peyton stuck her tongue out before leading Lucas towards a massive board she had just finished. It was empty, besides the border Peyton had colored in.

"Brooke thought it'd be cool to take pictures during the night and then when it's done, post them all over the board," Peyton explained. "Think of it as reminder they can take home of a kick ass night."

"Very nice." Lucas knew he was in safe hands with the two best friends in charge. Though he was curious at the seat Mouth was currently occupying. "And what's that?"

Skills caught sight of his friend and called him over. "Your girl thought it'd be cool to spin a person, instead of a bottle."

"Whatever works," Lucas smiled, watching as Mouth spun around.

"Lucas!"

Lucas turned to see his mom walking towards them. She was a little in awe of the place as she took a moment to take in the work they'd all done.

"Wow," She admired. "This place is looking amazing."

"Team effort," Lucas said. "So what's up?"

"Nothing," Karen answered simply. "I had some time and wanted to see if you kids needed help, but clearly you have it under control."

Lucas nodded. "Well it's not easy, but it'll be worth it."

"Speaking of work," Karen continued, motioning towards the clock. "Isn't your break almost over?"

All of them groaned as they noticed there hour lunch was dwindling to and end. Any chance they had they found themselves inside working on the place, and sometimes, they'd contemplated skipping class to do it.

"Thanks for the reminder," Lucas mumbled, giving his mom a pouty look before following the others out the building. "I'll catch you guys at school. Bye mom."

Haley dragged Nathan towards there lockers at the end of the day. She'd been pleading to have a date night, but all Nathan wanted to do was head home and take a nap. His last math class had basically ruined his day.

"Come on please," Haley whined, passing Lucas on the way to their locker. "Hey Luke."

"Hey Hales."

"Haley, I just wanna relax," Nathan complained, leaning against the locker. His eyes lifted pass his wife to rest on his brother. He noticed he was holding something. "What's up?"

"No clue," Lucas mumbled, flashing them a piece of paper with his name on it.

Haley opened her locker to notice she too had one. "I have one too."

"What the hell?" Nathan quickly opened his locker to see he too had an envelope with the name Nathan written across it.

The three turned to Brooke, who was occupying her locker on the other wall to see she had a confused look to. Before either could ask, the four all held the same paper, each wondering what was going on.

"This you P. Sawyer?" Brooke asked, seeing her friend join them.

Peyton eyed the paper, not recognizing it. "Nope, never seen it." Shifting though her locker, low and behold, a paper with her name found it's way inside. "I got one too."

It nearly got to the point where they were a little freaked out before the five noticed Felix walk past each of them in the hall with a smirk plastered over his face. He didn't say anything, but they put two and two together.

"She would open it?" Haley wondered.

"WAIT!" Mouth raced down the halls, seeing his friends holding their envelopes. "Don't open them."

"Why not?" Peyton asked.

Mouth tried to catch his breath. "I don't know, but Felix asked me to tell you to meet at Lucas's moms café after school. He'd explain everything then. But he specifically said not to open them. "

Brooke rolled her eyes. "Hell no."

Peyton knew how much her friend didn't enjoy the futile attempts of Felix's seduction, but she shrugged anyways. "Let's just go. See what he wants."

"He probably wants to sleep with us," Brooke mumbled.

Nathan rolled his eyes. "Well we're guys, so I think we're good."

Haley didn't get date night but she'd settle for this. "I'm in. Let's see what this mystery is."

And just like that, they'd all agreed, even Nathan, to meet Felix after school. As much as some of them had questioning opinions of the guy, they were all pretty curious to know what was the deal.

Normally speaking, you didn't open your locker with a strange envelope on it. So Felix had done his job and got them hooked.

They all just hoped they wouldn't come to regret it.

Jack POV

The heavy sounds of the punches echoed through the gym as Jack continued his daily workouts. Keith had stopped by and had stayed and watched. He never questioned, just told Jack old stories about his life.

Jack didn't mind, he'd grown close to Keith since he'd been in Tree Hill. He'd see the others every now it then, but sometimes he felt like they wanted to just do their own thing. He wasn't broken up about it. He understood they all had their own lives.

Besides, it gave him time to think about things. The strangest, might have been the fact that he didn't hate Tree Hill like he expected to. There wasn't a thing he missed about the city, except Ed and Jen, and even then he'd barely seen them in the past year.

Life was simple here.

"You got a helluva right hook," Keith whistled, watching a few feet away.

When he'd first met Jack, he was quiet and a little broken looking. But after a week here, getting comfortable in his new setting, Keith started to see him relax a little more. Still didn't talk much, but he guessed that was just his personality.

"It's almost there," Jack panted, continuing his attack on the bag.

Keith smiled at his determination. That was something all his nephews shared. Continuing to watch, he noticed the clock above him. He'd promised himself that he wouldn't push, but he wanted to know everything there was to Jack's life.

"You know, I think Tree Hill has a boxing team," Keith remembered something along those lines when he was going to school here. "Might want to look into it."

"Doubt it's for me," Jack panted, throwing another hook. The fighting he'd done the last year was a little less structured then a typical boxing match. Guys went out there to put a hole in the others face. "It's a little more….open."

Keith laughed, a little nervously. "Yeah Luke mentioned the openness once or twice. He also mentioned how you got knocked out from the back."

He remembered all to well. "People don't like losing. Sometimes it pisses them off."

"It piss you off?"

The punching stopped at Jack looked towards Keith. The question was simple. You ever attack anyone like that too? In most cases Jack would have told the person asking to fuck off and get back to it, but this wasn't most cases.

"You hungry? "Keith asked suddenly, changing the subject before he could answer.

"Starving actually," Jack admitted. He hadn't eaten since breakfast, skipping lunch to study up on a test he had next week.

"Good," Keith smiled. "I know this bar, makes the best burger in Tree Hill. You'll love it."

"Yeah sounds good," Jack agreed. He grabbed his bag and headed towards the showers. "Give me 5 minutes, just gonna shower quick."

Keith threw him a wave and left him to it.

Jack could see why both Lucas and Nathan would turn to Keith whenever they needed help. They hadn't spoken about Dan so much, but the little they said, it wasn't all that flattering.

It would have been nice to be able to feel this comfortable with whom his father was, but it didn't really matter in the end. He was 17 going on 18; he wasn't looking for a father. All he needed was a purpose, and he wasn't going to find that from Dan Scott.

General POV

"It's called dare night," Felix explained. He was happy to see everyone had agreed to meet him, especially a specific brunette. "One night, two teams, multiple dares. Those papers you found, those are your dares. There's a dare on each side, each with it's own amount of points. Harder the dare, the more points for your team. But if you want the points, you gotta text a picture of the dare completed to prove to the other team you did it. Simple enough?"

"What do we win?" Mouth asked.

Felix smiled. "You Mouth, get an excuse to stay out till midnight. The rest of you, get a night you'll never forget."

"And what's in it for you?" Lucas asked, sitting across from a guy he truly did not like. "A chance to humiliate us?"

"Yeah what's the point?" Brooke added.

Felix looked between the two, knowing well before that they'd be the hardest to convince. "The point is to be able to do something you normally wouldn't. What's life without a little risk or chance? Now I promise, there isn't anything that would hurt you or someone else. Just a dare to see how far you'd go to win."

Everyone around the table looked back and forth between each other, wondering what to do. Lucas knew he wanted to toss the paper in Felix's face and walk out, but relented. In fact they all did, not knowing why they stayed.

"I'm in," Tim said happily, eyeing his best friend. "Come on Nate, let's do this. Like old times."

Haley could do without the old times of her husbands past, but agreed that they needed come fun. She tossed both hers and Nathan papers onto the pile. "We're in!"

"Screw it, I came all this way," Peyton sighed, throwing her paper in too. "Lets try something daring."

"Yeah I'm in too," Skills added.

"Me too!"

Soon Mouth, Skills, Nathan, Haley, Peyton, and Tim had all thrown in their names, with only Lucas and Brooke still deciding.

The group watched them as they looked back and forth between each other and then tossed their cards in too.

"Yes," Haley smiled, happy her two other friends joined. She really thought they needed this. "Okay so we're all in."

Peyton did a quick count before frowning. "We're nine, how's that work?"

"Guys Vs girls," Felix explained. "You five guys Vs the three girls, plus me. I count as two anyways."

"Yeah two girls," Tim joked, but quickly stopped laughing after seeing everyone's lack of response. "You guys are lame."

"Hey wait a minute," Haley cut in. She was all up for having fun, but she realized someone was missing. She turned to Felix. "What about Jack? Do you not know him? He's Lucas and Nathan's brother. He could be are 5th team member."

Felix's smiled faltered for a second before recovering. "Sorry, never heard of him. Besides, dares are already set for everyone. So we got to start now."

Brooke caught his lie but said nothing. He knew who Jack was; he'd met him outside her house the first day of school. She didn't know why he lied, but she defiantly would remember to find out after this stupid game.

"Its 5 o clock now," Felix passed everyone a card. "That's my number and address on where will meet to declare a winner. Now we have 7 hours, so let's do this."

The two groups headed out of Karen's café in separate directions as they begun there dare night. Little did they know by the end of the night, some of their lives would be changed forever.