Love Runs Deep (Seth Clearwater x Reader)

The Get Together

Friday couldn't come soon enough. I had a Hamlet essay due on Wednesday, and on Thursday Angela asked me to photograph and write a "very informative 300-word vignette" about the softball team's first week of practice for the yearbook.

I got everything done in time. I struggled with the Hamlet essay but I was able to finish it at 2 am on Tuesday, well technically Wednesday, and I went to softball practice on Thursday. Siobhan offered a few tidbits about the upcoming season and I got a team picture for the yearbook with a few fun candids for the newspaper. I drafted a "very informative 300-word vignette", well technically 308 words. I emailed it to Angela and Friday morning I got a text saying everything was all good and ready to publish.

I sat with the girls at lunch again, I mean what do you expect? Side note, Tala was sporting a pale pink hijab, a loose baby blue button up with red floral stitching, and flowy pale pink pants, absolutely immaculate.

"We're all going to see Miss Congeniality 2 tonight, want to come?" Maria asked me during lunch. Siobhan and Tala looked at me, waiting for my response.

"I'm so sorry, I have to go to a get-together on the Quileute reservation tonight." I said with a small frown.

"That's too bad!" Tala exclaimed, then she looked back and forth at Siobhan and Maria. "Are you free Saturday?"

"Yeah, unless Angela recruits me for some yearbook piece, newspaper feature, or photo-op." I mentioned, then Tala whipped out and began to type at the speed of light.

"Don't worry, I've handled that." Tala said with a confident smile. "Also auditions for Into The Woods start Monday, just a head's up."

"I got to ask Tala, where do you get all of these beautiful outfits?" I asked, staring at the red stitching.

"Oh, I have a lot of hijabs that I'll base my look around. I wore these pants last Tuesday, the blue shirt is vintage, from my mom, and Maria did the embroidery." Tala said, gesturing to each item of clothing.

"She's my muse!" Maria said, her voice was light and dreamy, she reached towards Tala for a side hug.

When school let out I met Bella at the school exit.

"Um, Charlie is picking you up to take you to the reservation." Bella said. I looked across the parking lot to see Charlie leaning against his cop car, staring off into space. Bella walked over to the red truck, and Charlie waved me over when he saw me. I walked across the parking lot, and when I made it to his car, I climbed into the passenger seat.

"Do you like Reba?" He asked as he popped a CD into the car's radio.

"Ummmm, I'm open to new music." I said with a shrug. Charlie smiled, but of course a Charlie smile simply meant you saw his mustache move, and turned the volume up. The drive was only like 25 minutes, and I knew we reached the reservation when we began to drive by small houses in the thick pine tree forest.

"We're here, now they know you're coming, and it's just the Clearwaters, Sam and his fiancée, and the Blacks." Charlie said. He pulled up a few hundred yards away from a small, wooden house, one floor and a small attic, with faded grayish blue paint and flat shingles.

Just as Charlie and I stepped out of the car, the door opened. A tall, Native American girl with short, black hair that brushes against her sharp jaw, opened the door, scowled at whatever was inside the house, slammed it and then looked at me. Then her jaw dropped and she began to smile.

"Y/n?" The girl asked, she seemed both excited and surprised. I recognized her, it was Leah Clearwater.

"Leah!" I exclaimed excitedly as I ran up to her. When we were a foot apart I gave her a tight squeeze and she hugged me back. I heard Charlie walk up behind me.