BY MORGAN CUNNINGHAM Page 1 My Magazine team. He was in than Scott, the son that Dan did claim, a relationship although his relationships with both with his editor, his parents are strained at the best of Lindsey Strauss times. Nathan marries Haley in Sea- but conflicted son 1, and renews his vows with her by his feelings in Season 3, and becomes a father to for former love James Lucas “Jamie” Scott in Season Peyton. This 4. In Season 1, he and Lucas start out ultimately leads as enemies, but bond as friends and to Lindsey brothers as the show progresses. Na- leaving him at than is the star player of the Ravens the altar. In the and is named “Most Valuable Player” Season 5 finale, in Season 4. Also, in Season 4, he is he asks either investigated for shaving points. He Brooke, Pey- loses his basketball scholarship to ton or Lindsey Duke University due to his admis- to marry him. sion of point-shaving in two games. At the begin- Basketball has always been his ning of Season 6, it is greatest passion and he sees it as his revealed to be Peyton. “way out”. In Season 5, a fight leaves “One Tree Hill” The two fly to Las Ve- Nathan near-paralyzed and his dreams gas to get married, but shattered, though he later regains feel that it is not ro- the use of his legs and slowly starts about the cast mantic enough. They to make a comeback in basketball. decide to fly home to Nathan starts playing “slam ball” but Tree Hill, and have after being attacked by a rival, Jamie inside secrets! the wedding there. asks him to stop, fearing that Nathan Chad Michael Murray por- Lucas then receives an offer to turn would end up hurt again. He gets ap- trays Lucas Scott. At the beginning, his book An Unkindness of Ravens proval from Haley and Jamie to join a Lucas and Nathan start out as enemies into a movie. He and Julian, an ex- semi-pro team known as the Charles- but bond as friends and as brothers boyfriend of Peyton, become partners ton Chiefs. He briefly competes with as the show progresses. Lucas’s best as far as movie-making decisions go. the team’s lead point guard, a cocky friend is Haley and he has been a The film is later canceled, and Julian player who thinks Nathan’s playing is romantic interest for Peyton Sawyer moves back to Los Angeles. Peyton “outdated”. After this player leaves, and Brooke Davis at the same time. discovers that she is pregnant with Nathan continues on the team without Chad Michael Murray portrays Lucas Lucas’s baby, and they begin expect- much incident. Later, he and Haley Scott. At the beginning, Lucas and ing their first child together. It is contemplate moving. He is eventually Nathan start out as enemies but bond revealed that Peyton has a condition selected to play for the Charlotte Bob- as friends and as brothers as the show called placenta previa, which means cats. In Season 7, Nathan is accused progresses. Lucas’s best friend is that she and the baby could both die of being the father of an unborn child Haley and he has been a romantic in- in delivery. Lucas and Peyton later but later it is discovered that it was all terest for Peyton Sawyer and Brooke marry and have their reception at Tric. a scam. After the accusations Nathan Davis at the same time. Lucas has a In the season finale, Peyton gives and Haley focus mainly only Jamie serious heart condition, hypertrophic birth to their baby daughter Sawyer making him their biggest priority. cardiomyopathy (HCM) which he Brooke Scott. Lucas then takes a road Hilarie Burton portrays Peyton conceals for a long time. Aside from trip with his new wife Peyton and Sawyer, in Season 6 referred to as basketball, his greatest passion is daughter Sawyer, driving off into the Peyton Sawyer Scott, whose two literature and quotes from the books sunset. Season 6 was Chad Michael greatest passions in life are music he reads are used on the show. In Murray’s last season as Lucas Scott. and art; she uses her art to express Season 5, he is a successful writer and portrays Na- the issues that play out in her life. head coach of the Ravens basketball James Lafferty My Magazine Page 2 Brooke Davis is her best friend, and musician who attempts to seduce her. girlfriend to Lucas twice, but their she is also close friends with Haley. Blinding by her passion for music she relationship does not work out either In Season 1, Peyton is a cheerleader follow Keller on tour, leaving Nathan time. In Season 1, Brooke is a popular and dates Nathan Scott, the biggest behind. However, her unexpected girl and captain of the cheerleader basketball star in Tree Hill High. return in Season 3 forces Nathan and squad. Though her life seems perfect, Bethany Joy Galeotti (for- Haley to work through their differ- she is in pain dealing with her distant merly Bethany Joy Lenz) portrays ences. In an attempt to get closer to parents, her friend’s inability to take Haley James Scott, the quintessential her estranged husband, she becomes her seriously, and the betrayal of her girl-next-door who is best friends a Ravens cheerleader for the basket- boyfriend and her best friend. In Sea- with Lucas Scott, wife of Nathan ball team. After various trials and son 2, Brooke starts becoming more Scott, and mother to James Lucas tribulations her and Nathan reunite independent and the girl next door. Scott. Haley grew up with a large and face an unplanned pregnancy. In She runs and wins the high school family but often spent her time by Season 4, Haley tragically gets hit by president title, and stops her partying Lucas and Karen because she felt they a car driven by a loan shark named ways. She leaves Tree Hill in the sea- needed her more in their lives. Work- Dante, whom Nathan goes to for help. son finale to go to California. In Sea- ing as a waitress at Karens Café and Despite earlier complications with son 3, Brooke comes back to finish more importantly as a tutor at Tree her pregnancy, Haley and her unborn her senior year. She creates a clothing Hill High, line, “Clothes Over has presented Bros”. In Season 4, Haley with she isolates herself great oppor- from Lucas and tunities as Peyton after their well as ob- second betrayal (a stacles. Her kiss they shared) and life is thrown tries to realize what for a loop kind of person she is when Lucas’s on her own, as well half brother as what she wants to Nathan Scott do with her life after asks her to high school. Brooke tutor him. reconnects with Pey- Risking her ton mid-season, as relationship well as with Lucas with Lucas, near the end of high Haley agrees school. In Season but on the 5,Clothes Over Bros condition that her best friend is no baby both survive the accident. By is a household name, but despite longer tormented by Nathan and his the end of Season 4, she gives birth Brooke’s success, she is unhappy in friends. This moment changes the to James Lucas Scott. In Season her personal life, so she and Peyton Scott family dynamic forever and 5, as well as balancing the roles of return to Tree Hill where Brooke allows a romance between Nathan wife and mother, Haley is an English turns a now-closed Karen’s Café into and her to flourish. By the end of teacher at Tree Hill High and plans a a Clothes Over Bros store. She then Season 1, she and Nathan marry, and, musical comeback. She tries to help a reveals her desire to have a baby and due to their estrangement in Sea- difficult student. looks after Baby Angie, who is in son 2, they renew their vows by the Sophia Bush portrays Brooke the US for heart surgery. Brooke is end of Season 3. In Season 2, she is Davis. In high school, Brooke is the devastated when the time comes for presented with a one-in-a-life-time beautiful captain of the cheerleading Angie to return to her home country. opportunity to make music with the squad and is Peyton’s best friend but Brooke also deals with her mother’s help of Chris Keller, an arrogant is also very close with Haley. She is prominent force over her company Page 3 My Magazine and their terrible relationship. In who is father to both Nathan and chel, is also the producer of his self- Season 6, she is attacked and robbed Lucas, although he never wanted help talk show about redemption. at her store. She isolates herself again anything to do with the latter. After Barry Corbin portrays Coach Brian from her friends and claims she “fell his marriage to Deb crumbles and she “Whitey” Durham, the Ravens coach down the stairs” to excuse her vis- and Nathan try to rid themselves of for over 35 years, retiring in Season ible wounds. She then buys a gun and him, Dan’s evil comes to the fore- 4. He and Dan never saw eye-to-eye asks Deb to teach her how to use it. front. After Dan finds Deb sleeping and often bickered over their differ- Eventually, she gives up her company with his brother, Keith, a war begins ing opinions on the team.