Chapter 1: Moving

"Haley," yelled Lydia James from their spacious and well furnished living room, whilst tapping her foot impatiently as she was already annoyed enough. "Haley Elizabeth James, come down hear right now your father and I need to speak to you."

Usually she would have just ignored her mother but this sounded serious, something was up, but Haley had no idea that the next discussion would completely change her life. Living in a luxurious house in the middle of Charleston, she was never deprived of anything and she was fairly happy with her life even though she didn't have the best relationship with her parents as they chose to ignore her for most of their lives, parties and company events always came first.

Haley entered the living room and she could already feel the ever growing tension between her parents. She sat down on the leather sofa opposite her father and just sat there patiently waiting for him to speak.

"Haley, honey your mother and I…" but he was cut off by his wife

"This isn't my decision Jimmy, if I had my way we could stay here and Haley could still" she started of sternly but abruptly stopped when she witnessed the glare her husband was giving her because she had said too much"

"Okay, I think I shall continue even though I was very rudely disrupted, I have decided that I've had too much of the city and would like a change in atmosphere but my work is still very important and I need to stay close by so we're only moving to Tree Hill," he continued as though this was just a regular conversation he was having with a friend.

"Moving," Haley practically yelled still trying to process what she had just heard, because her life was her in Charleston, she couldn't just leave, she wouldn't. "Bu…but I don't want to leave," she stuttered as she had always been afraid of her father and never really protested or argued with him, but she had to stand up for this I mean it was her life, she should have some say.

"The decision has been made and I will not hear another word, you better start packing, the movers arrive tomorrow at noon," said her father in this strict voice and she wouldn't dare answer back, she just stormed out of the living room and ran upstairs to her room where she fell onto the bed and burst into tears. "Everything will be ok," she kept repeating trying to comfort herself in some way.

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Back in the living room, Jimmy was trying to convince Lydia that the move was important and not just for the reasons that were mentioned to Haley. "Lydia, darling you know very well that she is coming of age, she only has one year of high school left and do you seriously want her to turn out like Taylor," said Jimmy knowing that by mentioning Taylor he had persuaded Lydia that it was the right thing to do, as Taylor was a very delicate issue.

Taylor James was Haley's elder and only sibling who was nothing like her, she was only 2 years older but they had absolutely nothing in common. Taylor was into cheerleading, guys and partying whereas Haley was a quiet and studious girl who preferred to hang out with her friends or have quiet nights at home rather than getting totally wasted practically every night like Taylor.

Taylor had left her house as soon as she had turned 18, she was used to her luxurious life but she knew her father all too well and she was sure that he would cancel her credit card and she would be broke. So she cashed in as much money as possible and left without a word. She skipped town with her boyfriend who was pat of some band, but he provided for her and not just in terms of finance.

Nobody knew where Taylor was, that is apart from Haley, she had kept it from her parents all these years but she still stayed in touch with Taylor because however bad and wrong Taylor was, her younger sis still adored her and admired her for being that person, a person that Haley could never be, she would never be able to disagree or yell at her parents the way Taylor did and she was sort of jealous of Taylor because she had the freedom to choose what to do with her life, something that Haley truly longed for.

"The Scott family is a very wealthy family with an amazing reputation and apparently that so of theirs is quite a catch", Jimmy continued giving Lydia a moment to grieve for her other daughter. "And I personally think that Haley will be very happy there, I mean look at us we had an arranged marriage and we're good, right?" Jimmy questioned sarcastically trying to lighten the mood.

"But, Jim why can't we stay here for the rest of the year and let Haley finish school, I mean leaving also has a great impact on me, it took very long for me to get the social status that I have today, you know", Lydia argued solely thinking about herself rather than her daughter.

"Lydia, honey that is the one thing that we don't have to worry about because socially I can't see anyone turning you down, and Dan and Deb are very popular as well so you should achieve your status in no time at all, they are the ones that threw the party of the year last January to welcome in the New Year at their beach house, do you remember you're the one that told me about it from that weekly magazine that you read?" Jimmy replied, trying to show his wife the positive side of moving and anyways Charleston wasn't far so she could always come back and visit her friends.

"Jimmy, I see where you are going with this and I'm sorry for second guessing you earlier, I really should have just listened to you, but I really think that you could have come up with a better excuse for the move, seriously I'm tired of city life" and they both burst into fits of laughter now seeing how unbelievably lame that excuse was. But they both knew that Haley could only find out about the arrangement when she needed to and Dan and Deb agreed not to tell Nathan either, they decide that they would let the kids get to know each other a bit.

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Haley, still lying on her bed sobbing, and trying to control herself, gradually stopped and started packing her stuff, it was times like these that she wished that she was more like Taylor because she knew that Tay would never let her parents push her around like this, she wouldn't move if she didn't want to, but Haley didn't have the courage that Taylor did to stand up to her parents.

Haley knew that she didn't have a choice and she would be moving whether she liked it or not so she did the one thing that she hated the most, "saying goodbye" to all her friends as well as Chris.

Haley only recently met Chris Keller, and they had been going out for just over a month, she wouldn't call him her ideal man because he was kind of skinny and a bit of a dork but she didn't mind hanging out with him and was sort of comfortable around him. The thing with Haley was that she found t hard to trust people and let them in, because the only affection she received when she was a kid was from her nanny who no longer lived with them anymore, her parents just chose to ignore her most of the time, as they were too busy wrapped up in their own messed up lives.

Chris was a musician a few years older than her, and Haley loved singing so she just kept telling herself that Chris was perfect for her but she was only lying to herself, they hadn't got very far sexually, not that she was waiting for marriage or anything, because she wasn't, she just wanted her first time to be with someone that she loved and that definitely wasn't Chris. Yeah they had made out a couple of times, but Haley tried to avoid it as much as possible because that was one talent he didn't possess, because every time they kissed she felt like she was drowning I his saliva, it was absolutely repulsive.

Chris had tried to push her many times into sleeping with him and Haley had actually considered it for like a second when she knew instantly that if she gave in she would regret it so she just stood her ground. She was getting kind of fed up of the whole thing now and loads of people had told her that she was better than him and he didn't deserve her and she should just dump his sorry ass. Her best friend Scarlet even went as far as saying that he was only with her for her money and that really ticked her off, but now that you think about it she would always pay for everything, Chris would always have some excuse for not paying and she was clearly fed up of it.

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"Hey Chris, its Haley", she spoke through the receiver once she was done sobbing over her future.

"Hey, what's up?" Chris replied.

"Well I have some bad news; my parents have decided that we're moving and I just called to say goodbye."

Haley knew very well that Chris didn't have anything keeping him in Charleston and Tree Hill was right round the corner and she just really didn't want him to follow seeing as she had had enough of him.

"Haley, where to, oh my god I can't believe you didn't tell me earlier, some things never change, huh?" Chris very rudely expressed.

"Well, I only just found out about five minutes ago and I expected you to at least have some sympathy rather than yelling at me," she yelled clearly showing the irritation in her voice.

"Okay, okay calm down I'm sorry but where are you going," Chris asked still very annoyed at the way she just yelled at him.

"We're leaving tomorrow at four in the afternoon, to New York" Haley was clearly lying but she didn't feel guilty about it at all she wanted nothing to do with Chris and she had no other way to break it to them, because how much ever she despised someone Haley hated hurting people.

"So I guess this is over then," Chris asked with a tiny bit of sadness in his voice but it was purely made of anger because he hated being rejected whatever the reason.

No shit jackass, there is no way in hell I would have a long distance relationship with you when I can't stand being near you anymore. "I guess so", Haley replied.

She put the phone down and called all her other friends, cried with Scarlet for a while and finally fell asleep, when suddenly her mobile started ringing and vibrating vigorously in her back pack. She looked at the time and it was 3 am and there could only be one person who would call at this hour – Taylor.

"Haley-Bop" she hears her sister's musty voice calling out her childhood name.

"Hey, Tay do you have any idea what the time is", Haley replied, clearly annoyed at her sister but thankful as well, it had been a while since she had spoken to Taylor and she missed her.

Haley spent a few minutes explaining the situation to Taylor, about how they were moving and that she absolutely hated it because it would mean leaving all her friends behind.

Taylor was slightly surprised but was really exited that Haley finally had the chance to get away from Chris and she was glad for her sister. But she found the reason for the move very peculiar and she warned Haley. "Haley, they are hiding something from you, dad would never leave the city he absolutely loves it, especially for some stinky town that no one has heard of what was the place again?"

"Tree Hill," Haley replied thinking about what her sister had just said, but why would her parents hide anything from her.

Haley and Taylor said their goodbyes and Haley drifted of to sleep just where she left of that was until she was abruptly awoken by the sound of her alarm clock, it was already 9 o'clock, she still had to pack, say goodbye to everyone, oh my god what is she going to do, she doesn't even know anyone in Tree Hill.

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