Cute :) love Naley!

Great update, this series is definitely a favorite :)

Get the heck outta town, Grace! When did you come back to writing? Thank god for some old school NH goodness, given our current crap fest on screen. Ppl want a s9 of this sinking ship? No thanks, just no.

Hope you're doing well, missy!

AW! That was so good!

Ah, how much I loved that!

Wow. I love that you brought in the Nathan from season one, before Haley. He was so tense then, always winning, always getting the girl, big house, had everything, and yet you never saw him truly happy. That smirk hid so much. Then Haley comes along and Nathan is litterally smiling like a kid. And beyond. He's finally at peace and finally truly happy.

It's like the story said. Every win was never enough. The true won game, the one that was enough and more than that, was getting Haley, loving her, and being loved back. Even though it's not always easy, can be painful, and they have had their issues, he is his most complete and at ease with her.

Oh and I love the little touches of character. Clumsy Haley, falling off the bed, lol. His nicknames for her, the bobcat one, how cute and right to what he would be playing as. How Haley wanted to be called a tiger.

I loved all the banter and the physical affection. Show, take note, you can do little things like this and bring us more into the NH story. But off the point for a minute, anyways, you showed all that so well and every scene really.

And you took us through the whole cycle of it, by giving us that tense never satisfied Nathan at the beginning, and ending with the one who yes is flirty and fun, but also, so emotional, so in tune to his emotions now, knowing he acts kind of silly, and he doesn't care. He's that much in love. He adores Haley and if anyone wants to make little of that, let them be the fool.

He has won everything with her. Nights he stays awake are no longer because he's restless and lonely. They're because he's so filled in his heart.

Beautiful. Wonderfully done.

And oh how I love Nathan centered writing, lol.

I love that you captured Lucas and who he really is. I think sometimes the show went off in other directions with him and sort of forgot his heart. But like you put in your story, Lucas is the ultimate writer, the guy who was always reading and spending time in the old bookstore. But when it comes time to write he sits with the empty page because he has yet to write from his complete heart. And he needs to because Lucas has so much of it, always looking out for everyone else.

I love that you included NH and Lucas's love for Haley maybe even seemingly feeling beyond friendship...for a moment. Of course though he allows that feeling to go and is happy for his brother and his best friend working to have the kind of love they do have.

I'm not the big fan of the Peyton Lucas story. But I liked how you wrote it and how you said Peyton was, because I agree. Comparing her to the Comet was perfect, instead of the car. She's that always moving figure that Lucas is running to catch up to, like in season one when they were at Dan's house and he wanted to give her all his love and she just wanted to have a fun time, because she wasn't ready for that. You hit it right on the mark because Peyton is that free spirit and Lucas is that intense person who loves everyone, and yet has such a hard time finding that ultimate love for himself because it's almost like he's appeasing everyone all the time. It takes so much for him to narrow in and realize what he wants and fight to get it.

Nathan, once it was Haley, boom, he stuck right with her and made it irresistible for her to leave him. You had the feeling he would never give up. Lucas, when his heart was hitting at damage, he went to Brooke, and then to Nikki, etc...because I think he was so afraid of feeling that way he did with Peyton again. Of being rejected again. And because he didn't want to hurt her.

And everything you wrote made me think of that, how Peyton was the right one, but like in his writing that morning, it took him so long to figure it out. And to get rid of what he wrote...and begin from scratch again.

And I like the ending. It's kind of open. Nothing definite, and yet a lot of solid direction to where this will lead.

Excellent writing.

Naww I love it! :D:D

Excelent! I LOVE IT specialy Haleys POV, that was so cute

Please, write more S1 Naley, thatd be awesome, yove got talent thats for sure!

Gosh that was adorable. The tree part had me laugh out loud for real. :]

love it please pursue the whole nathan haley sections insanely well written and intriguing

this is good!

Wonderful chapter! You write Nathan's POV so beautifully! I really hope you write more Naley fics from his POV. Your characterization of him is spot-on.

Well, hello, blank page. We meet again.

You have no many times I have said that.

Or atleast, the voice in the back of my head has.

Anyway, great start.

Continue pwease (:

Terrific start! I loved the part about Lucas pondering his feelings for Haley. I always thought they might have some sort of relationship that went beyond the platonic realm. I hope you update soon! :)

Good story. I love the ending sentence even though I'm a Leyton fan. Keep writing!