Rachel Gatina

Rachel Virginia Gatina (formerly Scott) was a former student of Tree Hill High who joined at the start of her senior year. Initially an antagonist to Brooke Davis, she posed a threat with her captainship of the cheerleading team and her relentless flirtations with Lucas. However, the two eventually formed a close friendship in the second half of senior year. Rachel also had a close friendship with Mouth and Bevin. Rachel was partially to blame for Jimmy's death since she released out the time capsule which caused Jimmy to bring the gun to. After graduating high school, however, Rachel worked for Clothes Over Bros as a model but was eventually let go due to her drug problem. She attempted to repair her life with Brooke and but eventually fled Tree Hill when  told her she wouldn't amount to anything. Two years later, a sober Rachel seemingly reformed her manipulative and promiscuous life, marrying. Her reformation proved ineffective as Rachel returned to her devious ways soon enough and her marriage to Dan eventually ended when it became apparent that she didn't love him and was with him for his money. He then petitioned for divorce, but gave up his wealth, leaving Rachel with nothing.

Background
Rachel was born to wealthy, yet slightly absentee parents who, she has noted, were never particularly strict on her and let her make her own decisions. When Rachel was growing up she was an obese adolescent and developed serious insecurities about herself and the way she looked, which would continue to haunt her long into her teenage life. Deciding that she wasn't happy with the girl she was, she decided to make a change and started by having her stomach stapled and "starving herself" and then treated herself with a various other surgeries. Rachel effectively became a new person and said goodbye to the old her, referring to herself as a different person altogether.

She reinvented herself as one of the popular and the elite, something which came easily given her new attractive looks. She, however, had to reinvent herself several times in many different schools due to the fact that she never stayed in one school for long before either moving or being expelled. She was expelled from four different high schools before attending Tree Hill High For each high school she attended she would put all of her memories of her time there such as photographs and letters into a small box, something she would do for the final time towards the end of her senior year at THHS. At the start of her senior year Rachel and her family moved to Tree Hill.

Season 3
Having arrived in Tree Hill, Rachel chose to flirt with Jacob to get under Brooke's skin and only make Peyton mad.

Relationships
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