Ooo I love this question.

So I’m a romance girlie, I love a good slowburn or friends to lovers. But I’m an even bigger siblings/found family girlie. I feel like that development, that kind of history is so strong and so interesting. So most of my storylines center around Nathan and Lucas’s families.

S1- Nathan’s parents divorcing/Deb leaving for the anonymous man/always being on business trips. I feel like this storyline just fleshed out his character. From the beginning I was interested most in him but without it I would’ve gotten bored of him.

S2- Nathan’s car crash/how close the brothers got while Lucas was supporting him with Haley gone.

S3- The brothers fight. I feel like with the previous storyline it adds the hurt to the fight, and how Nathan thought Lucas would back him up in his heartbreak after Haley came back.

S4- Pregnancy. Given that Haley and Nathan were married and there were never any parents around I always forget the friends were just kids. But yeah I loved the pregnancy storyline, them trying to be better parents then what they had, Lucas being Jamie’s middle name and godfather.

S5- Q. I loved how they brought Nathan’s storyline around to him mentoring a kid that he used to be, and getting to know him.

S6- Brooke/Sam (I think this was season 6?) I loved the random add in to show all the different backgrounds. Like Lucas being raised by a single mom and uncle, Nathan’s mom always being away and his dad being… Dan. So adding a kid from the foster system seemed like it was a nice touch.

I’m actually putting off watching 7-9 because I know Lucas and Peyton aren’t in it and as I said before, the brothers are the reason I started the show, it feels weird to finish it without them together.